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Re: Iran
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
[quote]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.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9mJRMsVUj0
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Re: Iran
By: guest5 Date: July 26, 2020, 12:02 am
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Intl. outcry continues after US warplanes' harassment of Iranian
airliner
[quote]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.[/quote]
HTML https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/07/25/630402/Iran-United-States-harassment-airliner-Mahan-Lebanon-Syria-Yemen
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Re: Iran
By: guest5 Date: July 31, 2020, 6:11 pm
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Ayatollah Khamenei rules out any letup in resistance to US
[quote]"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.”[/quote]
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Re: Iran
By: guest5 Date: August 8, 2020, 1:53 pm
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Trump's Iran policy disastrous, doomed to fail
[quote]"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."[/quote]
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Re: Iran
By: guest5 Date: August 11, 2020, 2:13 pm
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Two Iranians sentenced to 10 years for spying
[quote]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.[/quote]
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Re: Iran
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
[quote]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. [/quote]
[quote]“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.”[/quote]
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Re: Iran
By: guest5 Date: August 14, 2020, 10:54 pm
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U.S. announces seizure of four Iranian ships
[quote]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. [/quote]
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Re: Iran
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
[quote]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.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAH-J3r5lRE
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Re: Iran
By: guest5 Date: August 18, 2020, 8:21 am
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UK's lead role in 1953 Iran coup d'etat exposed
[quote]Unearthed interview of former British spy sheds light on
how the overthrow of PM Mohammed Mossadegh unfolded.[/quote]
[quote]"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.[/quote]
HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/uk-lead-role-1953-iran-coup-exposed-200818072007050.html
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Re: Iran
By: guest5 Date: August 19, 2020, 2:06 pm
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Iran says UAE-Israel deal insults entire region
[quote]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. [/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPwUF8TYSCY
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