Terroristic in the US, peaceful in Iran?

 

source PressTV 

New Trade Route Helps Russia And Iran Bypass Sanctions — Bloomberg

26 Dec 2022 - Russia and Iran are building a new transcontinental trade route and are rapidly expanding supply chains, having stepped up mutual cargo deliveries across the Caspian Sea, Bloomberg reported, citing tracking data.

The trade corridor that stretches from the Sea of Azov and the mouth of the Don River in Russia to Iranian hubs on the Caspian Sea and ultimately the Indian Ocean has become increasingly busy in recent months, with new routes emerging, according to the report. Ship-tracking data compiled by the news outlet showed hundreds of both Russian and Iranian vessels along rivers that lead to the Caspian Sea.

Iran’s geographical location allows Russia to safely transport goods via the trade corridor through Iranian territory all the way to Asia and India without incurring the risk of Western sanctions.

Source RT (https://t.me/rtnews)

Israel interference in north of Iraq - wayback since the 60s

 23 Dec 2022 

Some has called Israel interference in north of Iraq and their presence a conspiracy theory or just a new phenomenon but actually based of documents Iran could seize from US embassy in Tehran after revolution, it became clear that Israel was present in north of Iraq since 1960s. Barzani family are one of several puppets that Israel has to control Iraq and use it as operarional base to conduct operations in neighbouring countries.

🚩courtesy  @ResistanceTrench

America's conditions for the West to end the unrest in Iran

  Weeks ago in a confidential message, America has announced to the Islamic Republic of Iran that the West will end the unrest in Iran if it accepts the following conditions:

1. End of cooperation with Russia

2. Unconditional injection of Iranian oil and gas into the world market

3. Acceptance of American demands regarding Iran nuclear program 

4. Iran's reconciliation with Saudi Arabia in regional issues

After weeks now it is safe to say that riots are on the way to failure and dying out and Iran managed situation without giving any concessions to west.

courtesy :  @ResistanceTrench

Newly mobilized Russian soldiers are using Iranian-made body armor.

 

Newly mobilized Russian soldiers are using Iranian-made body armor.

For months, the Russian army lacked in its own stocks of Russian-made, due to previous unreported thefts.

Source - https://t.me/LebUpdate

Convoy of Iranian fuel tankers targeted en route to Lebanon

 ⋯ “[Collapse will enable] Lebanon to somehow be rebuilt from the ashes, and freed from the curse of Hezbollah”, said US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Barbara Leaf, on 4 ⁠November.

In a similar strategy, the US is blocking the implementation of a joint Lebanese-Syrian-Jordanian energy project, although it had been proposed by the US to counter last year's plan by Hezbollah to import Iranian fuel.

A Lebanon-bound convoy of Iranian fuel tankers has come under attack on the Iraqi-Syrian border despite holding official and legal permits.

According to reports, two tankers were targeted by an “Israeli drone” after eight of them passed from Iraq’s al-Qa’im border.

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Report: The US and Mikati ‘fooled’ Lebanon into thinking Iranian fuel would be permitted. (The Cradle (https://thecradle.co/Article/news/18027))

Informed sources told Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar that the US has no plans to grant Lebanon sanctions-waivers to import Iranian fuel for its power plants, even if the Iranian fuel is gifted as humanitarian aid.

PM-designate Najib Mikati was allegedly aware of Washington’s true intentions, but decided to play along and “fool the Lebanese ministry of energy and Iranian officials”.

On 26 ⁠September, Minister of Energy Walid Fayyad disclosed a plan (https://t.me/LebUpdate/27546) to power around 8-10 hours of daily electricity with 600,000 tons of fuel gifted by Iran.

IHRC demands answers over police failures at anti-Iran protest

 

19 October 2022

IHRC has written to the head of London’s Metropolitan Police and the city’s mayor demanding answers for the pitiful police response to an orgy of Islamophobic violence unleashed by anti-Iran protestors in London last month.

Hundreds of opponents of the Iranian government descended on sites associated with Tehran unleashing unprovoked violence against premises and people.

The letter condemns the police in failing to protect the Iranian Embassy in Kensington where onlookers were brutally attacked and protestors scaled the building and caused physical damage.

Video footage shows the outnumbered police struggling to contain the hysterical protestors as they hurled missiles at the embassy.

Inexplicably, the protestors were then allowed to march towards Marble Arch where they happened upon a peaceful procession of religious mourners commemorating Arba’een. More violence ensued as the protestors attacked the mourners with sticks, stones and bottles while the police stood by instead of trying to protect the targets of the attack. IHRC received reports of several people attending the Arbaeen procession being assaulted and injured including an elderly man. Several women had their hijabs (headscarves) pulled off.

The protestors then made their way under police escort to the Islamic Centre of England some 3km away in the northwest of the capital attacking the premises and the centre’s attendees. Again, there was very little in the way of a police presence which meant those inside the centre were trapped by the protestors congregating on the pavement outside hurling abuse and missiles, including bottles and cans of alcohol. Neither staff nor members of the public were able to leave the centre until 12am. Several police officers were injured as well as some members of the public.

IHRC’s letter demands to know if the police carried out an appropriate risk assessment prior to the demonstration at the embassy and if so why that was not updated after the violence there. IHRC would also like to know what steps the police have taken to identify the perpetrators of the violence, what they have done to understand that the attacks were motivated by anti-Islamic hate and what steps, if any, they have taken to prevent a recurrence of such violence.

Israel is preparing for war with Iran?

▪️ Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that Iran is weeks away from obtaining the material needed to build a nuclear weapon. He noted that the development of Iranian ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles and other military technology have reached the point where an urgent response is needed.

▪️ In this regard, the Israel Defense Forces exercise will begin on May 29 and will last one month. All units of the armed forces, including reserve formations, will be involved. 

▪️ The purpose of the exercise is to simulate war with Iran and proxy formations in Syria and Lebanon, as well as countering terrorist groups in Israeli territory. The scenario of air strikes against Iranian nuclear and military facilities will also be practiced. 

▪️ Characteristically, in planning a direct confrontation, the Israeli leadership took into account the strict need for direct U.S. involvement and the availability of their advanced weapon systems on Israeli territory. 

▪️ However, Washington is certainly not ready to support the Israelis yet: the Biden administration is in another "advanced" stage of negotiations on the nuclear deal with Iran. At the moment, getting involved in another conflict against the backdrop of confrontation with Russia and China is fraught with consequences in the form of a new round of economic crisis. 

▪️ In order to change the mind of the American government, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz went to Washington. He intends to hold talks on the "Iranian threat" with his American counterpart Floyd Austin and Jake Sullivan, the US president's national security advisor.

🔻 It is unlikely that the White House is now planning to go to war with Iran. Both for the U.S. and for the rest of the world, such a scenario would mean another jump in oil prices, which would have an even greater impact on inflation. 

But the Israeli leadership will try to make the most of the current situation. They will focus on the precariousness of Iran's real positions in order to force the U.S. to abandon the nuclear deal.

The Israelis will try to bluff Iran's tough negotiating position in order to cover the acute socio-economic problems that are already manifesting themselves in the form of nationwide protests in the Islamic republic.

Courtesy : Venessa Beeley 

US proceeding with hybrid war, will be imposed on Iran?

U.S. ANNOUNCES EIGHT WAIVERS FROM IRAN OIL SANCTIONS. CHINA, TURKEY INCLUDED

AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

US State Secretary Mike Pompeo said on November 5 that China, India, Italy, Greece, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey had received waivers that would allow them to continue “temporary” imports of Iranian oil without facing penalties.

“I promise you,” Pompeo said, “that doing business with Iran in defiance of our sanctions will ultimately be a much more painful business decision than pulling out of Iran.”

Pompeo claimed that the US has a broad support for the Trump administration’s approach. He added that “There are more than three” countries in Europe, which didn’t receive waivers. France, Germany and the U.K. as well as Russia and China have worked to preserve the Iran nuclear deal following the US exit.

“There are certain transactions that they can continue to do, whether they’re humanitarian transactions or certain trade in the restricted accounts,” Pompeo said commenting on the approach of the US towards EU states.

Furthermore, Pompeo said that there will be a “swift punishment” to countries who defy the US’ anti-Iran sanctions.

Earlier on the same day, the US officially imposed a ban on Iranian oil imports and sanctioned more than 700 Iranian companies and energy producers, and individuals. They target 50 Iranian banks, 200 individuals, and vessels in Iran’s shipping and energy sectors, as well as one airline and 65 of its aircraft.

The newly imposed sanctions marked the second phase of the so-called maximum pressure campaign launched by the Trump adminsitration in order to force Iran to re-shape its foreign and defense policies as well as to overthrow the current Iranian government.

Commenting on the sanctions, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that Iran “will face mounting financial isolation until they fundamentally change their destabilizing behavior.”

Original from : Southfront

Chomsky on North Korea & Iran: Historical Record Shows U.S. Favors Violence Over Diplomacy

Published on 26 Apr 2017 - Over the last month, the Trump administration has escalated tensions between both North Korea and Iran. Vice President Mike Pence has warned North Korea, saying all options are on the table—including preemptive military strikes. Will either of these conflicts escalate to outright war? For more, Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman asked world-renowned linguist, professor and political dissident Noam Chomsky, during a wide-ranging interview Monday night at the First Parish Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Israeli Colonel “Caught with IS Pants Down”

Guess Who is Behind the Islamic State?

This was definitely not supposed to happen. It seems that an Israeli military man with the rank of colonel was “caught with IS pants down.” By that I mean he was captured amid a gaggle of so-called IS–or Islamic State or ISIS or DAESH depending on your preference–terrorists, by soldiers of the Iraqi army. Under interrogation by the Iraqi intelligence he apparently said a lot regarding the role of Netanyahu’s IDF in supporting IS.

In late October an Iranian news agency, quoting a senior Iraqi intelligence officer, reported the capture of an Israeli army colonel, named Yusi Oulen Shahak, reportedly related to the ISIS Golani Battalion operating in Iraq in the Salahuddin front. In a statement to Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency a Commander of the Iraqi Army stated, “The security and popular forces have held captive an Israeli colonel.”

He added that the IDF colonel “had participated in the Takfiri ISIL group’s terrorist operations.” He said the colonel was arrested together with a number of ISIL or IS terrorists, giving the details: “The Israeli colonel’s name is Yusi Oulen Shahak and is ranked colonel in Golani Brigade… with the security and military code of Re34356578765az231434.”

Why Israel?

Ever since the beginning of Russia’s very effective IS bombing of select targets in Syria on September 30, details of the very dirty role of not only Washington, but also NATO member Turkey under President Erdogan, Qatar and other states has come into the sunlight for the first time.

Coverage of more than a decade of conspiracy for Wars in the middle East!

As the same establishment press that sold the public the Iraq WMD lies "breaks" the "news" that Bush and Blair planned the invasion in advance, James shows the documents we've had for a decade telling us the exact same thing. And people wonder why trust in media is at an all-time low...

US Opposes Sale of Russian Anti-Ballistic Missile System to Iran

MILITARY & INTELLIGENCE

23:42 23.02.2015(updated 00:19 24.02.2015)

US State Department spokesperson said that the United States is opposed to Russia selling the Antey-2500 anti-ballistic missile system to Iran following reports that Russia is considering providing Tehran with the advanced system.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The United States is opposed to Russia selling the Antey-2500 anti-ballistic missile system to Iran following reports that Russia is considering providing Tehran with the advanced system, US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said on Monday.

“We’ve seen these reports and once we have more details… we will certainly raise this at the appropriate levels,” Psaki said at a press briefing.

Moscow reportedly previously cancelled a 2010 agreement to sell the S-300 surface-to-air weapons system to Teheran.

“If reports are true that Russia has decided not to sell the S-300 system to Iran we would certainly welcome that, but we would have similar objections to the Antey-2500 system,“ Psaki said.

Iran is considering the purchase of the Antey-2500 system, said Sergei Chemezov, the head of Russian state defense and technology conglomerate Rostec at a weapons expo in the United Arab Emirates on Monday.

The more advanced Antey-2500 anti-ballistic missile system is capable of shooting down short and medium range ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and aircraft.

Chemezov is on the list of persons covered by the US sanctions against Russia.

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Russia offers Iran latest anti-aircraft missile system

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The head of Russian state defense conglomerate Rostec says Moscow has offered Iran its latest Antey-2500 missile defense systems after a deal to supply less powerful S-300 missiles was scrapped under Western pressure.

Tehran is now considering the offer, Russia’s TASS news agency quoted Sergei Chemezov as saying on Monday. 

“As far as Iran is concerned, we offered Antey-2500 instead of S-300. They are thinking. No decision has been made yet,” Chemezov said.

There was no immediate response to Chemezov's comments from Iran.

Under a contract signed in 2007, Russia was obliged to provide Iran with at least five S-300 defense systems.

However, Moscow refused to deliver the system to Iran under the pretext that it is covered by the fourth round of the United Nations Security Council sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program.

Following Moscow’s failure to deliver the systems, Iran filed a complaint against the Russian arms firm Rosoboronexport with the International Court of Arbitration in Geneva.

The Antey-2500 was developed from the 1980s-generation S-300V system (SA-12A Gladiator and SA-12B Giant). It can engage missiles travelling at 4,500 meters per second, with a range of 2,500 kilometers (1,500 miles), according to the company that makes it, Almaz-Antey.

The S-300 missiles have a 125-mile (200-kilometers) range.

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CIA Planted Nuclear ‘Evidence’ In Iran

False evidence planted by the CIA in Iran in an effort to sabotage peace talks 15 years ago has been exposed in a judicial hearing after an ex-CIA agent, Jeffrey Sterling, leaked classified information. 

The leaked documents which expose the CIA planting nuclear evidence in Iran now bring into question the conclusions reached by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regarding Iran’s atomic program.

The intelligence in question pertains to fake designs of atomic components that were transferred to Iran in February 2000.

Now it turns out the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) could be forced to reassess their earlier conclusions regarding Iran’s atomic program, the publication quoted two anonymous Western diplomats as saying. Part of the IAEA’s suspicions about the alleged Iran’s nuclear weapons program relies on information provided by multiple intelligence agencies.

“This story suggests a possibility that hostile intelligence agencies could decide to plant a ‘smoking gun’ in Iran for the IAEA to find,” Peter Jenkins, the UK’s former envoy to the Vienna-based agency told Bloomberg. “That looks like a big problem.”

In the latest quarterly report, the atomic watchdog said that the team of experts is still concerned about Iran’s nuclear intentions, prompting an immediate reaction from Israel.

“The agency remains concerned about the possible existence in Iran of undisclosed nuclear-related activities involving military-related organizations, including activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile,” it reads.

Whether or not the revealed CIA secret will change this assessment remains to be seen, but Tehran has always insisted that its atomic energy program is peaceful.

“This revelation highlights the dangers of reliance by the IAEA upon evidence concerning Iran provided to it by third party states whose political agendas are antithetical to Iran,” Dan Joyner, a law professor at the University of Alabama told Bloomberg.

In response to the news, the IAEA told the publication that it conducts thorough assessments of the information it receives and uses. The CIA has so far failed to comment.

- See more at: http://yournewswire.com/cia-planted-nuclear-evidence-in-iran/#sthash.xkb7LTjN.dpuf

Both of them are bad guys now!?

Iranian President Rouhani visits Turkey

Published on 9 Jun 2014 | Zeine Khodr reports from Ankara on Rouhani's visit to Turkey

Over $1.6 billion of Iranian assets frozen in Britain & Iran to sue UK over $1bln Shah-era arms deal – report

Iran is to sue a UK firm over $1 billion of weapons that were purchased more than 30 years ago but never delivered. The deal was discontinued following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and now Iran is calling for compensation.

The Iranian government is moving to take a weapons company owned by the UK government to the High Court this summer to settle the 35-year dispute, UK newspaper The Independent reports. The ongoing row was thought to have been settled in 2010 when Iranian negotiators met with the International Military Services (IMS) to iron out the conditions for a final agreement.

The Iranian government is now pushing for $657 million in compensation.

The court case pertains to an IMS weapons deal struck with the Shah of Iran between 1971 and 1976. As part of the agreement the then Iranian leader paid 650 million pounds ($1 billion) up front for 1,500 state-of-the-art Chieftain battle tanks and 250 repair vehicles. However, complications arose when Shah Pahlavi was deposed in 1979 and the Islamic Republic was created. As a result of the political upheaval only 185 tanks were delivered to Iran, prompting the government to ask for its money back.

London refused to reimburse the funds, forcing Tehran to pursue legal action and take the case to an international court in the Netherlands.

British Ministry of Defence officials told The Independent that they hoped a settlement could be reached with Iran before legal proceedings begin this year. Moreover, a MoD spokesperson told the paper that “no money will paid to Iran while EU sanctions remain in place. Settlement negotiations between International Military Services Ltd and the Iranian regime are ongoing and no agreement has yet been reached.”

If the funds are released they will be held in a trust account with independent trustees along with over $1.6 billion of Iranian assets frozen in Britain.

“EU sanctions will prevent the current Iranian regime from accessing funds resulting from this case and could be released only if sanctions are lifted,” the spokesperson said.

Iran reached a landmark preliminary deal with the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany on November 24 over its nuclear program. As part of the agreement, the US and Brussels have lifted some of the financial restrictions on Iran’s economy after Tehran ceased uranium enrichment to 20 percent. Iran has also pledged to dilute half of the stockpile of the already enriched material.

Diplomats from the P5+1 (US, China, Germany, Britain, France and Russia) are expected to meet with representatives from Iran in February to hammer out the terms for a permanent deal.

"It is our understanding that the first round of comprehensive negotiations will be in New York in mid-February with dates still being confirmed," US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said in an email to Reuters.

While Washington has hailed the initial agreement as a great success, the American government said further negotiations will be complex.

Tehran continues to deny allegations that it was working towards the production of nuclear arms and maintains its atomic program was aimed at civilian ends.

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pic above >> A British made 1970 Chieftain tank belonging to the People's Mujahedeen takes position 26 April 2003. (AFP Photo / Philippe Desmazes)

Dozens die in quake near Iran nuclear plant

Published on 9 Apr 2013 : A powerful earthquake has struck close to Iran's only nuclear power station, killing at least 32 people and injuring 850 more as it devastated small villages, according to state media reports.

Tuesday's 6.3 magnitude quake totally destroyed one village, a Red Crescent official told the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA), but the nearby Bushehr nuclear plant was undamaged, according to a local politician and the Russian company that built it.

Many houses in rural parts of the province are made of mud brick, which can easily crumble in a quake.

     

Opinion: Diplomatic moves pave the way for Easter “Surprise” for Iran

Inspirational speech, a long delayed apology and a Passover gift for Iran.

How to get flight corridors to achieve a surgical strike on Iran’s nuclear ambitions in the immediate future.

On 20 March I received intel from a News Agency insider that the Israeli government are planning an Easter exploit on Iran, that the US was desperately trying to cool things down and planning how best to keep out of it, as was the UK.

Without further verification this would be hard to publish on its own other than as an “insider rumour”,  however as further reaction and results come in from Obama’s visit to Israel, the news stories themselves seem to be verifying it.

Firstly lets look at the nature and the text of Obama’s speech- Essential theme of duality; going beyond, and avoiding mistakes that have attracted criticism in the past (such as his connection of the “holocaust” to the creation of Israel in 2010) to the point of confirming dubious rhetoric that he knows to be false;

“When I consider Israel’s security, I also think about a people who have a living memory of the Holocaust, faced with the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iranian government that has called for Israel’s destruction.”— Obama

Iran, Pakistan press pipeline despite US sanctions threat

Published on 11 Mar 2013 : Iranian and Pakistani leaders inaugurated the construction of a much-delayed section of a $7.5 billion gas pipeline linking the two neighbours Monday, defying the threat of US sanctions.