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Re: Iran
DIR By: guest5
Date: July 24, 2020, 12:18 pm
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US confirms fighter jet flew close to Iranian passenger plane
for inspection
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> The US military on Thursday confirmed that one of its fighter
jets had flown within a few thousand feet of an Iranian
commercial aircraft over Syria to "inspect it," after Iranian
state media released videos showing apparently shaken and
injured passengers.
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Re: Iran
DIR By: guest5
Date: July 26, 2020, 12:02 am
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Intl. outcry continues after US warplanes' harassment of Iranian
airliner
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> Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen keep up the chorus of international
outcry that has followed two American warplanes’ dangerous and
provocative harassment of a Beirut-bound Iranian airliner over
the Syrian airspace.
>
> Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti “vehemently condemned”
the Thursday incident that saw the warplanes -- enlisted with
the US-led forces, who are illegally deployed to Syria -- flying
precariously close to Mahan Air’s Flight 1152 that had taken off
from Tehran.
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Re: Iran
DIR By: guest5
Date: July 31, 2020, 6:11 pm
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Ayatollah Khamenei rules out any letup in resistance to US
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> "The sanctions are a crime against a nation; even though it
seems to be against the establishment, it is indeed against the
entire nation," he added.
>
> The Leader said surrendering to the enemy is not the way to
lift the sanctions. “The only cure for sanctions is rather
relying on domestic capabilities.”
>
> “Some argue and propagate the idea that if you want to stop
the US from bullying, you need to back off. No sir! A person who
is accustomed to aggression will come forward if you back off.
This is a clear and natural issue. If you accept the US demands,
they will raise new demands,” he noted.
> “What the US wants is that we totally abandon our nuclear
industry, reduce our defensive equipment to one-tenth, and give
up our regional power,” he said.
>
> "Unfortunately, some people, under the influence of the enemy,
say what good nuclear power has for us. Nuclear power is the
definite need for our country in the future. We need at least
20,000 or 30,000 megawatts of nuclear power, which we cannot get
through another means or it is not cost-effective. What should
we do on the day we needed it? Whose door should we knock?
Should we beg from America and Europe to give us electricity or
do enrichment for us? Will they do that? We have to think about
tomorrow. These are not the needs that will be ready in a few
months or two years. It must be prepared in advance and we have
prepared the ground for this."
>
> Ayatollah Khamenei said the principle part of the nuclear
industry has been maintained despite numerous damage Iran
incurred because of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers,
officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
(JCPOA).
>
> 'US, not Iran, will benefit from negotiation'
>
> The Leader pointed to the US call for negotiation with Iran,
and said, “Those who call for talks with Iran seek to negotiate
over these issues. Everyone must pay attention; I have said this
for several times, and I have to repeat it, because some either
fail to understand or pretend they can’t understand.”
>
> “If the enemy talks of negotiation, it means ‘come to the
negotiating table and don’t develop missiles’. If you give in to
their demands … you’d make yourself defenseless; and if you
don’t, you’d have to face the same story: disputes, threats and
sanctions again. This is what negotiation means.”
>
> The Leader said the reason for his opposition to negotiation
with America is that “such negotiations have no use; of course
they benefit from it [but Iran doesn’t].”
>
> “The old guy who is in office in the US apparently took some
propaganda advantages of negotiation with North Korea. He wants
to use it [negotiation with Iran] for his personal gain in
elections and elsewhere,” the Leader noted.
>
> However, Ayatollah Khamenei stressed, the US ruling system
seeks to achieve broader “vital” objectives beyond what the
incumbent president seeks to gain from talks with Iran.
>
> “They say you should abandon your defensive equipment, your
regional power and national might. No man of honor interested in
maintaining the country’s interests would give in to such
demands. This is why I’m opposed to negotiation; moreover, we
are in talks with the entire world, except for the US and the
fake Zionist regime, and there’s no problem with that,” he
added.
>
> Goals of sanctions
>
> Ayatollah Khamenei said the enemies of the Islamic Republic
seek to achieve short-term, mid-term, and long-term goals by
imposing sanctions against the Iranian nation.
>
> In the short-term, they seek to impose so much pressure that
the nation gets weary, exhausted, and disturbed, so much so that
they stand against the establishment, he said.
>
> “You know that last year they said and this year they say
there will be a hot summer – meaning the people should come and
stand against the establishment, but they themselves got the hot
summer,” the Leader said, apparently referring to anti-racism
rallies which have been going on in the US for two months now.
>
> Their mid-term goal, he said, is to prevent the country’s
development through sanctions. "They mainly seek to prevent the
country’s scientific development,” he said, citing the
assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists as an example of the
enemy’s efforts to hinder the country’s scientific progress.
>
> Ayatollah Khamenei said the enemy’s long-term goal is to lead
the country and the government into bankruptcy.
>
> “One of the other goals they pursue is to dismantle the
country’s economy; if a country’s economy collapses, it is not
possible to live in that country anymore.”
>
> The enemies also seek to achieve a collateral goal, which is
to cut the Islamic Republic’s ties with the resistance forces in
the region, Ayatollah Khamenei noted. “That’s because they know
the Islamic Republic will keep helping them as much as it can.”
>
> “We have a strategic depth in the region, based on which many
nations and governments are our supporters and interested in
Iran, ready to strive in the service of our goals. The enemies
say you 'should give this up', but even if we do that, they will
not stop there.
>
> "When you are willing to reduce your ability to defend
yourself and destroy your authority in the region; when you are
willing to totally abandon your nuclear industry which is vital
to the country, the enemy will not be satisfied yet and will
demand something new," the Leader said.
>
> However, the Leader added, these dreams will never come true
and as a Persian proverb says, “A camel dreams of cottonseed.”
>
> Goals of sanctions
>
> Ayatollah Khamenei said the enemies of the Islamic Republic
seek to achieve short-term, mid-term, and long-term goals by
imposing sanctions against the Iranian nation.
>
> In the short-term, they seek to impose so much pressure that
the nation gets weary, exhausted, and disturbed, so much so that
they stand against the establishment, he said.
>
> “You know that last year they said and this year they say
there will be a hot summer – meaning the people should come and
stand against the establishment, but they themselves got the hot
summer,” the Leader said, apparently referring to anti-racism
rallies which have been going on in the US for two months now.
>
> Their mid-term goal, he said, is to prevent the country’s
development through sanctions. "They mainly seek to prevent the
country’s scientific development,” he said, citing the
assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists as an example of the
enemy’s efforts to hinder the country’s scientific progress.
>
> Ayatollah Khamenei said the enemy’s long-term goal is to lead
the country and the government into bankruptcy.
>
> “One of the other goals they pursue is to dismantle the
country’s economy; if a country’s economy collapses, it is not
possible to live in that country anymore.”
>
> The enemies also seek to achieve a collateral goal, which is
to cut the Islamic Republic’s ties with the resistance forces in
the region, Ayatollah Khamenei noted. “That’s because they know
the Islamic Republic will keep helping them as much as it can.”
>
> “We have a strategic depth in the region, based on which many
nations and governments are our supporters and interested in
Iran, ready to strive in the service of our goals. The enemies
say you 'should give this up', but even if we do that, they will
not stop there.
>
> "When you are willing to reduce your ability to defend
yourself and destroy your authority in the region; when you are
willing to totally abandon your nuclear industry which is vital
to the country, the enemy will not be satisfied yet and will
demand something new," the Leader said.
>
> However, the Leader added, these dreams will never come true
and as a Persian proverb says, “A camel dreams of cottonseed.”
>
> Disinformation campaign
>
> The Leader further pointed to a disinformation campaign, which
works hand in hand with the sanctions and includes distortion of
the truth and misrepresentation of the realities.
>
> The main purpose of the disinformation campaign is to
undermine the people’s morale, and to offer wrong solutions to
people’s problems, Ayatollah Khamenei added.
>
> The enemies, the Leader said, suggest if Iran wants the
sanctions to be lifted, it must give in to US demands. “This is
the gist of what they say.”
>
> “Some people are influenced [by these insinuations] and
exactly repeat what the enemies want, whether regarding the
country’s weaknesses or its points of progress which they play
down and offer wrong solutions,” the Leader said.
>
> However, this campaign will fail to influence the majority of
the Iranian people, because they have known the enemy and how
biased it is, Ayatollah Khamenei added.
>
> The Leader said the disinformation campaign tries to convince
the Iranian people that the Islamic Republic must succumb to the
US demands.
>
> “If the distortion process fails, so will the sanctions,” the
Leader said. “The arena is the arena of war of wills; when the
process of sanctions is defeated and the will of the Iranian
nation remains the same, it will prevail over the will of the
enemy."
>
> Ayatollah Khamenei said the Iranian people are smart and have
taken advantage of the enemy’s sanctions, gaining achievements
against the enemy’s will.
>
> He went on to say that the US’ secondary sanctions led the
Iranian scientists and producers to indigenize what the country
could not provide because of Washington’s bans.
>
> He pointed to the production of the advanced homegrown jet
fighter Kowsar, the spare parts produced inside the country, the
establishment of thousands of knowledge-based companies, the
Persian Gulf Star Refinery built by the IRGC, and the major
energy projects in southern and Western Iran as examples of the
Islamic Republic’s achievements under the sanctions.
>
> “Had they sold us a jet aircraft, we would not have produced
the jet trainer Kowsar inside the country,” he said.
>
> “They [enemies] have admitted that Iran managed to manufacture
so many defensive products at the time of sanctions.”
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Re: Iran
DIR By: guest5
Date: August 8, 2020, 1:53 pm
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Trump's Iran policy disastrous, doomed to fail
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> "Trump has been a failure, Wendy Sherman writes. And for her,
that's a tragedy. For the rest of the world, not so much. In
fact, I think much of the world is probably breathing more
freely because the US has been so unsuccessful in going after
its designated enemies - these independent countries. Of course,
it's a little bit scary that the world is becoming multipolar,
and there's no longer a global hegemon to give the whiplash of
discipline to these various countries. In the long run, though
that may be a good thing—as long as the instability doesn't get
out of control and turn into a war."
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Re: Iran
DIR By: guest5
Date: August 11, 2020, 2:13 pm
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Two Iranians sentenced to 10 years for spying
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> Massud Mossaheb was convicted of spying for Israeli and German
intelligence over his senior role in the Austrian-Iranian
Society.
>
> The other man, Shahram Shirkhani, was accused of working for
UK intelligence.
>
> Five other Iranians have been arrested on charges of espionage
in recent months, a spokesman said.
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Re: Iran
DIR By: guest5
Date: August 12, 2020, 8:09 pm
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Rouhani: US will hopefully face defeat in anti-Iran bid at UNSC
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> President Hassan Rouhani says Iran has “high hopes” that the
US will fail in its push to extend the UN arms embargo on Tehran
and will face isolation at the Security Council, urging
neighboring countries not to let Washington “exploit” them to
advance its own agenda.
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> “We have high hopes that the United States will be defeated
and will witness its own isolation,” he added. “Our position is
clear in all circumstances and if such a resolution is passed
against part of UNSC Resolution 2231, it means a gross violation
of the JCPOA, and those advocating this [violation] and working
to make it happen will be responsible for the consequences.”
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Re: Iran
DIR By: guest5
Date: August 14, 2020, 10:54 pm
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U.S. announces seizure of four Iranian ships
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> The United States has reportedly seized the cargo on four
#Iranian tankers that had been headed to #Venezuela. The State
Department made the announcement on Friday. The U.S. said the
shipment was in defiance of U.S. sanctions.
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Re: Iran
DIR By: guest5
Date: August 17, 2020, 7:43 pm
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Iran VS Isreal: Iranian Commander Says Tehran's Approach to UAE
Will Change After Israel Deal
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> Iran’s approach to the United Arab Emirates will change, the
country’s armed forces chief of staff Major General Mohammad
Bagheri was quoted as saying on Sunday, after a deal between the
Arab state and Tehran’s arch-foe Israel on normalizing ties.
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Re: Iran
DIR By: guest5
Date: August 18, 2020, 8:21 am
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UK's lead role in 1953 Iran coup d'etat exposed
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> Unearthed interview of former British spy sheds light on how
the overthrow of PM Mohammed Mossadegh unfolded.
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> "Even though it has been an open secret for decades, the UK
government has not officially admitted its fundamental role in
the coup. Finding the Darbyshire transcript is like finding the
smoking gun. It is a historic discovery," Taghi Amirani, the
director of Coup 53, was quoted by the Guardian newspaper as
saying.
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/uk-lead-role-1953-iran-coup-exposed-200818072007050.html
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Re: Iran
DIR By: guest5
Date: August 19, 2020, 2:06 pm
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Iran says UAE-Israel deal insults entire region
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> A dispute is emerging between Iran and the United Arab
Emirates over the latter's recent deal with Israel to normalize
relations. Prof. Mohammad Marandi joins Rick Sanchez from Tehran
to share his insights. He says the deal was "carried out under
duress" and constitutes a betrayal the Palestinians and the
broader Arab world.
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