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Iran Warns Against ‘Dangerous’ Acts of Piracy Targeting its Oil at Sea
December 10, 2021

An Iranian envoy to the United Nations has issued a stern warning against acts of piracy targeting tankers carrying Iran’s oil cargos at sea, urging the international community to condemn such illegal measures that endanger freedom of navigation.

Zahra Ershadi, deputy permanent representative of Iran to the UN, made the remarks on Wednesday in an address to the UN General Assembly’s meeting on oceans and the law of the sea.

She complained that the coronavirus pandemic and the US imposition of sanctions under the so-called maximum pressure campaign had disrupted freedom of movement for Iranian vessels and affected the provision of the nation’s basic needs such as food, medicine and medical equipment.

“In addition to the previous acts that have been outlawed, stolen Iranian oil and its drivers at sea have been a new development since last year,” she said. “We strongly warn about the continuation of this dangerous policy that exacerbates an already highly intense situation due to such arrogant unilateral policies.”

The Iranian diplomat called on the international community to “condemn these unlawful acts that threaten free trade at sea as well as freedom of seas.”

Late in October, American forces confiscated a tanker that was carrying a cargo of Iranian oil in the strategic Sea of Oman, transferring its consignment of crude to another vessel.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy then staged a maritime operation against the second vessel, landing its helicopters on its deck and navigating the ship towards Iranian waters.

American destroyers and helicopters were dispatched to the scene, but Iranian speed boats and vessels made them flee the area.

Elsewhere in her remarks, Ershadi said that combating illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing should be on the agenda of all countries, recommending protecting endangered coastal ecosystems in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman.

She further warned that the irresponsible construction of artificial islands in the Persian Gulf would unequivocally damage the habitats of rare marine species.

The heavy presence of military fleets from extra-territorial countries has exacerbated not only safety and security, but also maritime pollution, she added.

The Iranian diplomat also warned that escalating tensions among littoral Persian Gulf states would further destabilize the region and severely endanger development and prosperity.

“We urge all relevant states to cooperate in order to protect the environment of this shared body of water and refrain from unilateral acts that might endanger its marine environment,” she said.

Iran, Ershadi added, “reiterates its commitment to rule-based maritime order for securing maritime rights and interests for all as well as ensuring that maritime activities are undertaken smoothly, including based on the international law of the sea.”



Featured image: Iranian naval forces are seen during an operation to foil an attempt by the US to steal a cargo of Iran’s oil in the Sea of Oman, in this photo released on November 3, 2021.

(PressTV)

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Funny, I heard about the US taking the tanker but ya never heard about Iran re-taking the oil. Wouldn't look good to the jingoist MSM, I guess.
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‘US is Utterly Dishonest’: Why Tehran Won’t Accept Partial Removal of Sanctions by Washington
December 22, 2021
By Ekaterina Blinova – Dec 16, 2021

Partial removal of sanctions by the US is not enough to facilitate the revival of the Iranian economy, hurt by the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” policies, say Iran affairs experts, adding that under the new government Tehran is set to protect the country’s national interests more determinedly.

The United States signalled on December 14 that it is fully prepared to lift those sanctions against Iran that are inconsistent with Washington commitments under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). That “would allow Iran to receive the economic benefits of the deal,” remarked Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US ambassador to the United Nations, during a UN Security meeting.

For his part Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi stressed that Washington should lift all sanctions slapped on Tehran and provide guarantees that it would not withdraw from the accords again and it would not abuse the procedures set out in the JCPOA and Resolution 2231.

All anti-Iran sanctions have to be lifted

“The United States is being utterly dishonest,” says Seyed Mohammad Marandi, a professor at Tehran University, who was part of the Iranian delegation that helped to negotiate the 2015 nuclear deal. “All the sanctions are inconsistent with the 2015 nuclear deal. The maximum pressure campaign was targeting innocent women and children. It was an act of war and the objective was to force Iran to accept changes to the nuclear deal.”

The Trump administration unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA in May 2018 despite Tehran observing all the provisions of the nuclear accords. Subsequently, the US slapped sanctions on major spheres of the Iranian economy, including the country’s petroleum industry, under the so-called “maximum pressure” campaign.

“Through the maximum pressure campaign, the United States imposed sanctions under all sorts of different names: missile defence, terrorism, Iran’s regional allies, the nuclear programme, human rights and everything except global warming was included, when all of these sanctions had one objective, and that was to force Iran to appease the United States and the Europeans,” Marandi emphasises.

Although the White House changed the rhetoric, in reality, it is trying to cheat Iran and violate its commitments by lifting only those sanctions that were labelled under the nuclear programme, according to the academic.

Moreover, “the US has a range of sanctions on Iran and President Biden has not removed any since coming to office,” notes Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh from Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.

Even though the partial removal of sanctions sounds like a positive sign, it will not make a big difference to Iran’s access to the global economy, according to Akbarzadeh. He explains that “many international corporations will continue to be reluctant to invest in Iran because of the extreme uncertainty surrounding the future of talks and the prospects of Iran’s entry into the international market.”

“The Iranian leadership is unlikely to see partial sanctions removal as enough to assuage their concerns,” Akbarzadeh believes. “It insists on an unconditional return to that deal, and Washington has been reluctant to ‘give-in’ to that demand.”

According to the professor, this dynamic may hinder the progress of the Vienna talks over the revival of the JCPOA.

US is Not in Strong Position in Vienna Talks
While the US is not present at the table in Vienna, American diplomats are taking part in indirect talks with their Iranian counterparts. Washington does not have an upper hand in the ongoing talks, according to Seyed Mohammad Marandi. “The Iranians see that the United States has huge problems at home,” he notes. “Political, social and economic problems are causing major issues inside the United States. The United States is increasingly losing ground to a rising China and the re-emerging Russia, and Iran and its allies across the region are growing stronger and American allies are growing weaker.”

In response to Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the nuclear deal, the Islamic Republic started to gradually loosen the JCPOA restrictions on uranium enrichment starting from July 2019. “The Iranian peaceful nuclear programme is developing and it’s a leverage [in the talks],” according to the professor.

It’s the Americans who need the deal right now and the Iranians know that, Marandi notes, adding that Tehran will see “if the Americans will become reasonable enough to do what is good for themselves.”

At the same time, Washington and its European allies have apparently overlooked the damage their policies inflicted on the Iranian economy and the country’s population, the professor highlights, adding that “the issue of compensation is always on the table.”

The new Iranian government led by President Ebrahim Raisi has adopted a more robust approach in protecting Iranian national interests, according to Marandi. Even though the new Iranian government is critical of the JCPOA deal, it will not tear it apart, unlike the US government, but will observe its commitments. At the same time, Tehran will demand “that what has been signed, the JCPOA, be fully respected by the United States and the Europeans,” the professor underscored.

The Vienna negotiations between Iran and other signatories to the 2015 deal, including the UK, France, Germany, Russia, and China resumed in December after a five-month hiatus caused by the election of a new government in Tehran.

At the beginning of this month, the White House voiced its dissatisfaction with proposals by the new Iranian government. According to European diplomats, Tehran has demanded changes to a set of compromises agreed upon a few months ago with the previous Iranian administration. The E3 group of Britain, France and Germany went so far as to accuse the Iranian leadership of “walking back almost all of the difficult compromises crafted after many months of hard work.”

Iran’s chief negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani tweeted on 14 December that the E3 and Washington “persist in their blame game habit, instead of real diplomacy”: “We proposed our ideas early, and worked constructively and flexibly to narrow gaps; diplomacy is a two-way street. If there’s a real will to remedy the culprit’s wrongdoing, the way for a quick good deal will be paved.”


For his part, Iran’s Permanent Representative to the UN Majid Takht Ravanchi told a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday that Iran does not impose any preconditions or new conditions in the negotiations to revive the JCPOA and only wishes to see the restoration of the initial terms of the nuclear accord.

“We call for the full, timely, unconditional and verifiable implementation of the JCPOA. No more, no less,” Ravanchi underscored.


Featured image: At the Vienna Talks, Iran wants all US sanctions to be lifted for proper implementation of the JCPOA. Photo: Al Jazeera

(Sputnik)

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Dishonesty has long been an acceptable resort for the imperial power de jure. This further confirms that Donald Trump is the Avatar of the US ruling class. They do it because they can get away with it. Until one day they can't...
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Post by blindpig » Wed Jan 05, 2022 2:18 pm

General Soleimaní’s Assassination: Between Failed Imperialist Obsession and Deterrence
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on JANUARY 4, 2022
Yoselina Guevara

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Two years ago, on January 3, 2020, in Baghdad, the Americans perpetrated the assassination of the legendary general of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassem Soleimani, also losing his life Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, former deputy chief of the Iraqi Hashd Shaabi.

The reasons that led Washington to commit this crime with total brazenness are many and unjustified. In this respect, not only the deterrent behavior of the Pentagon, but also the characteristics of the former president Donald Trump, obsessive, mediatic and impulsive, become important. The arguments given by the Americans were totally deplorable, with the repetition of an infinite script that we have seen in other cases. By that time the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said that the “elimination” of the general was necessary to prevent an imminent attack, to “save lives”, but he did not provide any evidence to support that claim, and time has proven that there were neither real nor unsubstantiated reasons.

Anti-Iranian obsession

The advisors of former White House chief Donald Trump, at the time of the infamous event, were closely aligned with the Zionist government, inspiring the former president’s anti-Iranian obsession. A leitmotif that did not correspond, then or now, to the US national interest, but reflected Israel’s understandable fears. For the former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the general represented a key player against him. The charismatic General Soleimaní had contributed significantly to the increase of Hezbollah’s military capabilities, adding that the martyr’s contribution was in all areas from the supply of weaponry as well as in all the necessary requirements for the training of fighters in a very short time. Moreover, the General helped Hamas forces in Gaza, and installed Iranian military units in Syria, near the Golan Heights, territory that was largely controlled by Israel.

Therefore, the assassination of the martyr Soleimaní was perfectly within the mentality and practice of the Israeli political and military leadership. But it should be noted that, at the same time, it was part of the customary US actions characterized by the belief that the elimination (physical, moral, political) of a leader can mean the defeat of the enemy. What U.S. imperialism still has not understood and clings to ignore is that this strategy is valid only in the game of chess. Today, we have seen how these criminal actions can be a powerful force for national cohesion against imperial pretensions, and sooner rather than later, forces will align in the continuity of the legacy of those who have sought to do good.

US-Israeli deterrence

A pseudo-rational approach constantly used by the United States in the face of those it considers enemies is “deterrence”. That is to say, to inflict disproportionate reprisals, threatening even worse ones, in the belief that the adversary, being considered weaker, will abandon the game.

Here too, the Americans share with the Israelis an illusion tinged with a certain “orientalism”, not to mention a colonial spirit. In this sense they are driven by the belief that the adversary understands only the language of force, that he is destined to bend as long as the level of violence employed is intolerable. It is a pre-established practice that, in the case of Iran, ranges from economic sanctions to the assassination of General Soleimaní, actions also carried out in other territories with the imposition of criminal blockades on entire peoples as is the case, for example, with Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

Although he is not physically present, Soleimaní continues to be a symbol of struggle, with his example he demonstrated that unity can be forged in diversity, when the objectives and ideals are the same, it is possible to overcome differences, giving priority to what unites rather than what separates.

Yoselina Guevara López, Correspondent in Italy

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As Iran honors Qassem Soleimani, Ebrahim Raisi demands that Trump be put on trial

Mobilizations were held across Iran on Monday on the second anniversary of the assassination of major general Qassem Soleimani who was killed in a drone attack sanctioned by then US president Donald Trump

January 04, 2022 by Peoples Dispatch

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A mobilization on the anniversary of the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in his home town of Kerman. Photo: Press Tv

Thousands of Iranians took to the streets on Monday, January 3 to observe the second anniversary of the assassination of major general Qassem Soleimani. The largest procession was taken out in his hometown in Kerman. Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi also addressed the nation on the occasion and demanded a fair trial of former US president Donald Trump and his associates for the assassination.

Calling the assassination a terrorist act which had implications on international peace and security, Iranian ambassador to the UN Security Council, Majid Takht-Ravanchi wrote a letter to the chair of the council asking it to “live up to its charter based responsibilities and hold the United States and the Israeli regime to account for planning, supporting and committing a terrorist act,” Press Tv reported.

Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy chief of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi or PMF) were killed in a US drone strike on January 3, 2020 near the Baghdad airport. The drone strike was sanctioned by then US president Donald Trump. It was later revealed that Israel had aided the act.

The people who gathered to mourn the death of Soleimani also chanted slogans against American imperialism and its allies in the region. Iraqi president Barham Salih also issued a statement paying tribute to Muhandis and Soleimani, citing their “bravery to defeat the most brutal attack that IS embodied with its malicious plans,” Iraqi News Agency reported.

Soleimani and Muhandis had played a leading role in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria between 2015 and 2017. Soleimani was a key figure in Iran’s diplomatic and military engagements in West Asia. He also provided crucial assistance to the Syrian government in its fight against internationally-backed rebel forces.

The Donald Trump administration had justified the assassination calling Soleimani a terrorist. It also claimed that he was responsible for the death of hundreds of US soldiers and was also involved in planning an attack on the US. Iran has rubbished these allegations, pointing out that the US action was due to fear of its rising influence in the region.

The assassination was also part of the so-called ‘maximum pressure campaign’ launched by Trump against Iran following his withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.

Effect of Assassination

Iran responded to Soleimani’s assassination by launching a missile strike on the Ayn al-Asad airbase in al-Anbar in Iraq province where hundreds of US forces were stationed. Though no US soldier was killed, the strike is believed to have been a factor in pushing the US to reconsider its presence in the country.

The attack also led to massive mobilizations across Iraq. These protests demanding the withdrawal of foreign troops led the Iraqi parliament to pass a resolution demanding the same

In the subsequent months, the US was forced to re-deploy many of its soldiers as attacks by Iraqi militia increased. The US had around 5,000 soldiers in Iraq apart from hundreds of other foreign troops in the country. Most of the foreign troops and half of the officially declared number of US troops have already left the country and rest are also under pressure to leave.

Iranian responses

Iran also responded diplomatically with a massive campaign against the presence of foreign troops in the region and demanded their complete withdrawal claiming that there cannot be peace in the region as long as they remain.

It also initiated a trial in the assassination and after initial investigation, issued arrest warrants against Trump and several officials of his administration in June 2020 demanding that Interpol carry out the arrests. Raisi, in his address on Monday called Trump a “murderer and criminal” who must face trial for violating “sovereignty of Iraq and assignation of an entire nation,” Press Tv reported.

In May 2021, Iran alleged that Israel had provided crucial assistance in Soleimani’s assassination which was later confirmed by Israel’s former head of Israeli military intelligence major general Tamir Hayman.

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Post by blindpig » Tue Feb 08, 2022 2:28 pm

Iran affirms that it will not accept an agreement with the US until the blockade ends

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The Iranian official has highlighted the damage that sanctions do to the Iranian economy, so their lifting should be the basis of the agreement. | Photo: agencyajn.com

Published 7 February 2022

The Foreign Ministry spokesman has also stated that he hopes the United States will come to Vienna with concrete proposals that include the lifting of sanctions.

The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamjani, has stated that his nation will not accept any deal that does not include the lifting of sanctions imposed by the United States.

Shamjani has declared this because this Tuesday a new round of negotiations will take place in Vienna, the capital of Austria belonging to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (Jcpoa, for its acronym in English).

“The tasks of the Iranian negotiators were set to carefully continue the eighth round of negotiations. An agreement in which sanctions that represent extreme pressures are not lifted will affect the country's economy, and cannot be the basis," stressed the Persian official.


The spokesman for the Persian Foreign Ministry, Said Jatibzade, also spoke on the matter on Monday and stressed that his part hopes that the US delegation will return to Vienna with concise instructions on how to fulfill its obligations on the lifting of sanctions.

According to the diplomatic service of the European Union (the bloc that will coordinate the process), the participants will continue discussions on the prospect of a possible return of the United States to the Jcpoa and how to guarantee the complete and effective implementation of the agreement by all parties.

The sanctions were imposed by the United States on Iran when the latter nation was presided over by Donald Trump. In 2018, with the same ruler at the helm, Washington decides to leave the pact unilaterally, so it now participates indirectly.

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Lot of folks ain't putting up with the US's duplicity no more, a true signal of Decline.
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Post by blindpig » Tue Mar 01, 2022 2:19 pm

LESSONS FROM IRAN: HOW TO BOUNCE BACK FROM SWIFT EXPULSION
Feb 28, 2022 , 2:17 p.m.

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Iran was disconnected from SWIFT to prevent it from receiving funds for its exports and paying the costs of its imports, but the country has managed to stay afloat (Photo: AFP)

The United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and Canada announced on the night of February 27 the disconnection of some Russian banks from the SWIFT financial messaging system . The German government press office clarified that it was referring to the Russian banks affected by the "sanctions", but that other Russian banks would also be disconnected from SWIFT "if necessary". The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that the disconnection of SWIFT "would block Russian exports and imports".

A decision that is framed in the trend, fundamentally from the most technologically advanced Western countries, to turn payment services and monetary relations in general into an integral part of geopolitical pressure in the modern world.

THE POLITICAL USE OF THE DOLLAR HAS ALWAYS BEEN ON THE IMPERIAL AGENDA

Recent history knows examples of individual countries disabling SWIFT services. In 2012, this measure was applied to Iran . In that case, SWIFT's executive body complied with a special UN resolution that was issued under pressure from the United States.

In 1992, the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran, together with Saderat, Melli, Tejarat, Mellat and Sepah banks, became members of the global interbank system SWIFT.

On Saturday March 18, 2012 , with the escalation of "sanctions" against Iran, SWIFT removed all Iranian banks from its international network and blocked Iranian banks from connecting to the network. The action deprived Iran of access to billions of dollars in revenue, and the Iranians had to turn to intermediaries in other countries for their trades, resulting in staggering financial losses and rising costs.

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The story has a precedent of countries expelled from the SWIFT system: Iran (Photo: Reuters)

Three years later, after the approval of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) , most Iranian banks returned to this network, but this was short-lived. With the withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA in 2018 and the imposition of new "sanctions" against Iran, all under the orders of the Trump Administration, specific Iranian banks were added to the blacklist of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and SWIFT was notified to disconnect them from the banking network.

IRAN'S RESPONSE TO THE FINANCIAL BLACKOUT

The disconnection of SWIFT in different periods, added to the dependence on oil export revenues, has made Iran face tough challenges in the economic field, however, it has not managed to put it in complete isolation. The country began to use national currencies, gold in transactions and make barter agreements. At the same time, they proposed to create systems analogous to SWIFT for financial communications with other states. This has particularly served so that Europe can reach agreements with Tehran outside the "sanctions".

One such measure is that of " hawala ", which allows an Iranian company, through third parties, to pay a supplier abroad without the money leaving the country. Very effective, this informal compensation system irritates Washington.

The other measure was the launch of the SEPAM electronic financial messaging system and the attempt to connect this financial messaging system to the Russian messaging system. SEPAM has a similar function to SWIFT and was commissioned by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran by Informatics Services Company to supplant the global banking network controlled by the US dollar.

"The electronic financial messaging system (SEPAM) has been designed and implemented in view of the banking network's need to establish an integrated, centralized and standard infrastructure for messaging in the country, and also with the aim of addressing the pressures derived from the intensification of international sanctions, especially the possible restriction on access to global connection networks such as SWIFT," Seyed Mahmoud Ahmadi, secretary general of the Central Bank of Iran, said in a circular to Iranian banks at the time of the system's launch.

In 2019, Russian Presidential Advisor for International Affairs Yuri Yushkov announced that Iran and Russia would establish a connection between their national financial message transmission systems (Russian Financial Message Transmission System and Iran's SEPAM) without using SWIFT.

"In order to monitor bilateral trade and economic relations, we are evaluating measures such as the use of national currencies and the interconnection of the Russian and Iranian financial messaging systems," Yushakov said of the Iran-Russia financial mechanism.

In this way, the two parties were encouraged to create the conditions so that at least the economic cooperation between Tehran and Moscow would not be seriously damaged as a result of the pressures and "sanctions". In the year of that announcement, 50% of trade between the two countries was based on their national currencies.

COOPERATION AS CONDEMNATION OF SWIFT

"Sanctions" policies have made countries less and less shy about proposals that dispense with the Western-controlled financial system and remove the risk of punishment. For example, switching to payments in their own currencies based on bilateral agreements or using the euro to replace the dollar in some cases. One trend that many expect is that of digital currencies and liquidation in them, regardless of any "sanctions", such as that of the digital yuan.


As far as SWIFT is concerned, it cannot be denied that Iran's disconnection from that network negatively affected the country's economy in the medium term, and is likely to have negative repercussions on Russia in the short and medium term as well. But the reputation of SWIFT, which has become a means of political retaliation, has also suffered.

The risk for the platform itself is that the continuation of the practice of financial isolation of entire states will end up harming the dollar-centric hegemony more, as alternative forms of financial agreements are consolidated.

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Iran demands the United States destroy its chemical weapons

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Kazemi Abadi expressed his satisfaction due to the constructive cooperation of Syria with the body. | Photo: Tehran Times
Published March 10, 2022 (9 hours 49 minutes ago)

Alireza Kazemi Abadi stressed that the US is the only country that has an arsenal of weapons of this type and must destroy them.

During the 99th session of the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the permanent representative of Iran in the entity, Alireza Kazemi Abadi called on the United States (USA) to destroy its arsenal of chemical weapons.

The official stressed that the US is the only country that has an arsenal of weapons of this type and must use its capabilities to destroy them in the shortest time possible under the canons of the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Kazemi Abadi expressed his satisfaction due to the constructive cooperation of Syria with the organization and its activities for the destruction of weapons and production facilities of this type of weapons.


In this sense, the Persian diplomat made special emphasis that the meetings of the Security Council of the United Nations (UN) should not be used to formulate unfounded accusations against Syria.

It is worth remembering that in 2018, US, UK and French forces bombed Syrian areas using as justification the existence of chemical weapons in that territory and an alleged chemical attack against residents of the Duma region, an issue that was denied by the OPCW itself in a report that revealed how terrorists financed by the West wanted to frame the government headed by Bashar al-Assad.

Kazemi Abadi's statements were made in the framework of the 99th session of the Executive Council of the Opaq that takes place at the entity's headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands and began this day and will last until March 10.

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Iran on Ukraine: Opposes war, but Backs Russia’s Red Line Against NATO Expansionism
March 10, 2022
By Zafar Mehdi – Mar 4, 2022

Iran’s call for restraint in the Ukraine conflict also comes amid stronger ties with Russia and mutual security concerns.

As the Ukraine crisis escalates, it would be naive to claim that the Russian military operation in a former Soviet Republic unfolded without any provocation. Even prominent US foreign policy analysts concede events were driven in great part by Kiev’s dangerous drift toward the western military bloc.

But this provocation came less from Kiev than from the US and its NATO allies, which, since 2014, have egged on Ukraine’s confrontational stances toward its Russian neighbor. Today, the world has been split in two: those who support Russia’s military intervention and those who oppose it on a myriad of grounds.

Iran’s position on what looks like a precursor to a new Cold War — wherein western powers use Ukraine as a pawn to challenge Russia’s regional dominance — is defined by political pragmatism and strategic interests.

The developments over the past few months on the Ukrainian border show how the US-led military alliance set the stage for Russia’s military action in its neighborhood, barely six months after NATO’s botched exit from Afghanistan, where millions are now teetering on the brink of death and starvation.

Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, in a 24 February statement, made it abundantly clear when he blamed the simmering crisis in Ukraine on “NATO’s provocative acts” while asserting that war was “not a solution.”

“We do not see resorting to war as a solution,” Iran’s top diplomat asserted. “Establishing a ceasefire and focusing on a political and democratic solution is a necessity.”

NATO expansionism

The remarks outlined Tehran’s stance on the recent turn of events in Ukraine — NATO must stop fanning the flames of war, and Russia and Ukraine must show restraint and not fall into the vicious trap of descending into further violence and potentially widening the conflict.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, Saeed Khatibzadeh, in a separate statement, also referred to the US-led NATO’s “provocations,” while noting that the Eurasia region was on the verge of “entering a pervasive crisis.”

He said Iran calls on the warring parties to “end hostilities” through dialogue, and reiterated the “need to observe international and humanitarian law in military conflicts.”

Iranian government spokesperson, Ali Bahadori Jahromi, also issued a statement in late February, reacting to the developments in Ukraine, and echoed the same concerns of a “growing and provocative trend of NATO’s eastward expansion.”

Notably, Iran’s relations with the western military alliance — which has been overtly complicit in the US “economic terrorism” against the Islamic Republic — have been marked by hostility and bitterness for years.

On Tuesday, in agreement with Moscow’s position, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei blamed the conflict on US policies, while also calling for an end to the war. “The root cause of the Ukraine crisis is the US and the west’s policies,” he said during a televised speech.

“In my opinion, today Ukraine is also the victim of such policy. Today, the Ukraine situation is related to this US policy. The US has dragged Ukraine to this point,” he added.

Iran and Russia’s strategic alignment

At the same time, Tehran’s ties with Moscow have scaled new heights in recent years, partly due to the west’s hard-nosed policies toward the two countries, and partly due to rapidly changing geopolitical and geoeconomic dynamics.

The political transition in Tehran last year – from reformists to conservatives – did not affect these changing equations. In fact, the new Iranian administration, led by former judiciary chief, Ebrahim Raisi, has made regional eastern powers like Russia and China the focus of his foreign policy.

Raisi was one of the first world leaders on Thursday to contact Russian President Vladimir Putin, several hours after the military operation was announced. In their brief conversation, Iran’s president termed NATO’s eastward expansion “a serious threat to the security of independent countries.”

He also expressed hope that the unfolding events would “benefit countries in the region,” suggesting that Iran was not in principle opposed to Russia’s bid to put an end to foreign meddling in Ukraine — where western footprints have alarmingly increased since the February 2014 western-backed unconstitutional takeover — but it was also not in favor of war and bloodshed.

For his part, Putin told his Iranian counterpart that the current situation was “a legitimate response to decades of violations of security treaties and Western efforts to undermine Russia’s security.”

What has brought Iran and Russia closer in recent years are growing hostilities between the two countries and the west. Moscow has presented itself as an all-weather-ally for Iran, passionately advocating Iran’s causes in international forums, in particular the 2015 nuclear deal. The two countries have also found themselves on the same side, as in Syria, resisting forces backed by hostile states.

This friendship was on full display during Raisi’s maiden visit to Moscow last month. In a power-packed speech to Russia’s State Duma, he read the obituary of America’s global hegemony, and indicted NATO for “threatening the interests of independent countries.” The standing ovation from Russian lawmakers demonstrated that the two nations were on the same page.

During the visit, the Iranians and Russians agreed to finalize their long-term strategic agreement, increase their bilateral trade to $10 billion, and work together on developing new nuclear power plants in Iran. They also vowed to cooperate in regional matters, including Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria.

Iran’s independent foreign policy

That, however, doesn’t imply Iran is ready to outsource its foreign policy to Moscow. Iran’s cooperation with Russia is inherently and primarily tied to its strategic interests. In his speech to the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) summit in Doha recently, President Raisi declared his country’s readiness to supply natural gas to the world, including Europe, as Iran has one of the largest natural gas reserves in the world.

He hastened to add that sanctions imposed by “hegemonic powers” on “free nations” have been rendered ineffective, while calling for closer cooperation among gas exporting countries to nullify the impact of sanctions.

Raisi’s remarks arguably displayed an example of statesmanship and a fiercely independent foreign policy — trying to calm tensions in the global energy market while sending a clear and powerful message to arch-foes.

His oil minister, Javad Ojhi, later repeated the call, saying Iran has the “necessary capacity” to offer gas to regional countries, even Europe.

An opportunity in Vienna?

With Iran offering to be a possible substitute for Russia — at least in the short-term — to prevent the disruption in global energy markets, this gives it some hefty leverage in nuclear talks in Vienna, as they enter the final stretch.

There is already speculation about the possibility of the Ukraine crisis impacting Vienna talks. The complicit role of US-led NATO in pitting Ukraine and Russia against each other, and its failure to rein in Moscow, shows the power center moving from west to east.

Western sanctions against Moscow, also make Russia more reluctant to cooperate with the Europeans and the US over reviving the nuclear deal. This in turn also gives Iran an added advantage in Vienna.

The crisis in Ukraine will only further embolden Tehran in its nuclear ambitions and reinforce decades of distrust and skepticism of pledges by the US. “Western powers’ support of puppet regimes and governments is a mirage, it is not real,” Khamenei insisted during this week’s address.

As Amir-Abdollahian said last Saturday, Iran has made its red lines clear to western parties, and is ready to conclude a “good deal,” provided the other parties show “real (political) will.”

Sources in Vienna told The Cradle on Thursday that in the past few days, the US has been forced to deliver those goods, with only minor — but important — details left to be ironed out.

So the ball is in the west’s court: to make a deal in Vienna and peace in Kiev.

https://orinocotribune.com/iran-on-ukra ... ansionism/

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Post by blindpig » Sun Mar 13, 2022 10:12 pm

Attack on Erbil. 03/13/2022
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March 13, 7:09 am

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Iran strikes at Erbil at night

According to various sources, from 10 to 14 ballistic missiles were launched from the territory of Iran (Tabriz region), which fell near the Erbil airport, where the Americans deployed a military base.
The Iraqi Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that this was not an ordinary shelling from artisanal MLRS, but that it was a full-fledged strike with ballistic missiles (they talk about Fateh-110), which, however, was already obvious in the video footage https://t.me/boris_rozhin/31676


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Fateh-110 is a short range ballistic missile. Already used against the United States during the attack on the Ain al-Assad base.

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Erbil International Airport.

So far, it is known that the building of the Kurdish TV channel Kurdistan 24 received damage.
According to one version, the rockets were aimed at the new building of the US Consulate, which has not yet been put into operation. According to another, at the Mossad facility, as a response to the recent Israeli strike near Damascus, where the Iranians had losses. So far, there is no information about possible casualties and destruction.
The US response has been rather sluggish so far. It is worth remembering that during the attack on the Ain al-Assad base (where the US had more than 110 victims), Iran notified the US in advance through Qatar that it would strike at the American base. I wonder if the hegemon was notified this time or is it possible now without prior notice?

Looking forward to more details.

PS. By the way, if anything, cross-posting materials from LiveJournal to Twitter, despite the blocking, as it turned out, works.

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Iran Confirms Targeting Israeli Intelligence Base In Iraq

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Facilities hit by Iranian ballistic missiles in Erbil City, Iraq, March 13, 2022. | Photo: Twitter/ @RafidFJ

Published 13 March 2022 (4 hours 1 minutes ago)

The operation was in response to an Israeli airstrike on Damascus on March 7, in which two officers of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps were killed.

On Sunday morning, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) hit with missiles an Israeli intelligence base in Iraq's Kurdish regional capital Erbil. The operation was in response to an Israeli airstrike on Syrian capital Damascus on March 7, in which two IRGC officers were killed.

"Following the recent crimes of the Zionist regime and the previous announcement that the crimes and evil acts of this regime will not go unanswered, last night, the strategic center for conspiracy and evil acts of the Zionists was targeted with precision-guided missiles," the IRGC stated.

"Once again, we warn the Zionist regime that the repetition of any evil act will face harsh, decisive and destructive responses. We also assure the great nation of Iran that the security and peace of the Islamic homeland is the red line of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran and they will not allow anyone to threaten or attack it."

Iraqi President Barham Salih said that the attack on Erbil is "a condemned terrorist crime," and all Iraqis must unite behind the security forces, consolidate the state, and combat the terrorists. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi discussed over phone with the regional Prime Minister Masrour Barzani the development of the security situation in the region.


"Our security forces will launch an investigation into the attack, and we will face any harm that would target the security of our cities and the safety of our citizens," al-Kadhimi said.

Earlier in the day, the Kurdish Interior Ministry said in a statement that a total of 12 long-range ballistic missiles were fired at 1:00 a.m. local time from the east outside Iraqi borders towards the new building of the U.S. consulate in Erbil and the surrounding residential areas.

U.S. forces stationed at Erbil's international airport complex have in the past come under fire from rockets and booby-trapped drones by unknown militias.

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Iran’s Support for Venezuela Undermines US Sanctions, Says SOUTHCOM
March 26, 2022
The US Southern Command has admitted that Iran’s support for Cuba and Venezuela has undermined the effects of Washington’s sanctions against these countries.

US General Laura Richardson, head of SOUTHCOM, said on Thursday, March 24 in a session before the US Senate that Iran is expanding its economic and security relations with Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela, which is neutralizing the effects of the sanctions that Washington and its allies impose on these countries.

General Richardson testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee, “Iran has expanded economic and security cooperation with Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia through transfers of fuel, barter, basic food and military assistance, reducing the effects of the United States’ sanctions.”

Iran and Venezuela ignore US sanctions and strengthen ties

Richardson specified that Iran’s support through the exchange of goods has been particularly important in helping the Venezuelan government, led by President Nicolás Maduro, to circumvent sanctions.

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US fears that bilateral cooperation among countries will continue to undermine US sanctions.

Venezuela and Iran, two countries united by a common vision of international relations and both victims of coercive measures by the United States and its allies, have had diplomatic ties for more than 70 years. However, these relations became strategic with the arrival of the late Commander Hugo Chávez to the presidency of Venezuela in 1999, who constructed a bridge between the two revolutions—the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela and the Islamic Revolution of Iran.

Iran, Venezuela and Cuba consolidate strategic alliance

Within the framework of the Tehran-Caracas strategic alliance, Iran sent tankers loaded with barrels of gasoline and additives to Venezuela when the country was mired in severe fuel shortages as a result of illegal US coercive measures.

Since the triumph of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, Tehran has maintained with Havana strategic and bilateral cooperation ties in energy, housing, trade, industry, education, agriculture, science and technology, and culture, among other sectors.

The two countries have supported each other in different circumstances and have together condemned the aggressive measures of US imperialism against them.



Featured image: General Laura Richardson, head of the US Southern Command, speaking before the US Senate Arms Committee. Photo: HispanTV

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Post by blindpig » Wed May 04, 2022 1:55 pm

Iran wins as Israel and Turkey test Russia's strength in Ukraine
May 4, 11:08

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Iranian view on the strategic consequences of the US proxy war against Russia on the territory of Ukraine.

Iran wins as Israel and Turkey test Russia's strength in Ukraine

Turkey's closure of airspace to all Russian aircraft came as no surprise to Moscow, which was aware that Ankara and Washington were once again flirting and that Turkish regional politics were actively changing.
Clear evidence of this is that Erdogan is now saying that a "reasonable, sustainable and balanced relationship" with Israel is the only way to effectively defend the Palestinian cause as Ankara's rapprochement with Israel deepens despite extreme tensions over the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
However, Turkey's closure of airspace to Russian aircraft has broader regional implications. Russia has bases in Syria, and although the conflict in that country has died down, it still remains "kinetic", with Turkey scurrying around with a large number of Syrian fighters that Turkey has been training and arming in recent years - at least 20,000 soldiers with a combined command under the banner of the Syrian National Army.

Syria still important

Suffice it to say that Moscow, which had foreseen the inaccessibility of Turkish airspace sooner or later, worked out alternatives. The route through the Caucasus and Iran is one of them. Of course, Moscow and Tehran have coinciding interests in keeping the military balance in Syria intact, although sending some troops from Syria to Ukraine is entirely possible.

In this regard, the role of Iran as a stabilizing force in Syria can only increase. Meanwhile, Erdogan sees a window of opportunity to neatly outflank US and Russian forces in northern Syria and seize the Kurdish autonomous region. Turkey has also brought in hundreds of soldiers, armored vehicles and weapons to reinforce its forces near Idlib, which, if Ankara fails to negotiate with Russia, could come under attack.

Until recently, Moscow and Washington stood in the way of a Turkish offensive to seize Kurdish territory. But now that is a thing of bygone days. Turkey is now in a much better position to cut the Gordian knot that has hampered its plans and forced it to delay a large-scale offensive to achieve ambitions in northern Syria.

A chance for Iran?

These changes in Syria should worry Iran. Equally important, however, is the conflicting relationship between Russia and Israel, which gives Israel the opportunity to attack Iranian interests in Syria.
Iran is well aware that Israeli spies are “attached” to US bases in the region, which not only covers espionage, but also prepares Israel for a future role as a sidekick in CENTCOM, the US military command center that covers operations from Egypt and West Asia (BOA) to central and south Asia.

Last January, the Pentagon announced changes to the Unified Command Plan - moving Israel from EUCOM (European) to CENTCOM, which means a "strategic increase" in Israel's future role in West Asia, while Washington focuses on the Indo-Pacific region.

All things considered, this should be very beneficial for Iran, as it clarifies the limits of Russian-Israeli relations. Israel tried very hard to portray neutrality in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, and even imagined itself as a mediator in the negotiations. But the Biden government is not willing to tolerate this, and has explicitly demanded that the Bennett government behave like a subordinate.

Testing Russian-Israeli Relations

Israelis are realists. That is why Foreign Minister Lapid obediently accused Russia of war crimes in Ukraine. But in the process, Lapid went a little too far when he attacked Russia in Greece in the presence of colleagues from Greece and Cyprus.

“A large and powerful country invades, without any justification, the territory of a smaller and weaker country. Again the earth is saturated with the blood of innocent people. The photos and testimonies coming from Ukraine are horrendous. Russian troops have committed war crimes against defenseless people. I strongly condemn these war crimes."

Lapid, himself a former general and war criminal, may have tried to please the Russophobic "hawks" in Washington as the future Prime Minister of Israel. But he touched very sensitive strings of Russian consciousness. And Moscow's response did not force itself wait.

Not only did the Russian Foreign Ministry summon the Israeli ambassador, two more events immediately followed. First, a transparent hint from Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev, Deputy Center for Reconciliation of Warring Parties and Refugee Movement Control, who revealed that Syrians with a Buk M2E had recently intercepted an Israeli F16 guided missile in Syrian airspace.

This Syrian interception report was a clear warning that Russia could stop turning a blind eye to Israeli strikes on Syria (mostly on targets linked to Iran).

Secondly, Putin himself took the stage and wrote a letter to Bennett demanding that he hand over control of St. Alexander Nevsky of Russia, as Netanyahu promised in a deal two years ago, in exchange for the release of an Israeli American detained by Russia for drug offenses.
This was a bitter pill for Bennett - the transfer of the church in the Old City of Jerusalem to Russia. This church is extremely important to the Russian Orthodox Church and is a place of pilgrimage for Orthodox Russians, which links it to the rise of Russian nationalism.

Voice of America immediately reported that "this issue is one of the newest stumbling blocks in the increasingly tense relations between the two countries during the Russian war against Ukraine."

Long term planning

Although Israel's foreign policy is extremely provincial and opportunistic, what distinguishes Iran is its broad strategic reach. Iran is well aware that the dangerous intentions of the West in the Ukrainian crisis.

For Tehran, the “Western strategy to turn Ukraine into a death trap for Russia is clear, in order to free the West for a more active role in the world, especially in the Eastern Hemisphere, removing Russia from the list of important players in the international arena,” as an influential Iranian commentator wrote last week .

It is clear that the most beneficial for Iran would be Russia's success in overcoming the crisis, which could lead to a reshaping of the world order towards greater multipolarity, as opposed to the prevailing Western-led political and financial system.
Apparently, the Biden government is playing for time in negotiations with Iran to lift sanctions. Iran is lured with improbable offers almost daily: Washington can remove the IRGC from the list of terrorists, but not the Quds Force, and so on.

What really matters, however, is that the Biden government's foreign policy is now focused on Russia (Putin, to be exact), and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Washington wants assurances that Iran will want to distance itself from Russia. The specter that haunts the Biden government is the very possibility of two energy superpowers - with an ideological bent towards a just and equal world order with multipolar trade and currency relations - working together that the US will not easily resist.

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https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/9510 - original in English

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Post by blindpig » Tue May 24, 2022 1:24 pm

UN Rapporteur: Human Rights in Iran Severely Affected by US Sanctions
EDITOR2 MAY 23, 2022

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UN Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan speaks at a press conference in Tehran on May 18, 2022. Photo by IRNA.

A top UN human rights official has slammed the United States for its brutal sanctions regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran, asserting that harsh economic sanctions have had a damaging impact on human rights in the country.

Alena Douhan, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Negative Impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights, who is on an official visit to Iran these days, convened a press conference in Tehran on Wednesday afternoon.

Speaking to reporters, Douhan noted that decades of sanctions have wholly affected Iranian people’s lives and have particularly hit the low-income section of the society.

While presenting her assessment of the unilateral coercive measures (UCM) against Iran, the UN official who works under a mandate from the United Nations Human Rights Council, called on Washington to abandon its hard-nosed policy of maximum pressure against Iran and other countries.


Douhan, who arrived in Tehran earlier this month, said she had met with many civil society members, representatives of financial centers, diplomatic community during her visit.

She said she will address her concerns about the legality of US sanctions in her final report, which will be released at a later date.

Douhan’s mission from May 7 to 18 is the first to Iran by a UN special rapporteur.

Before embarking on the trip, the UN official said she hoped to “gather first-hand information on the impact of unilateral coercive measures on the full realization of all human rights” in Iran.

“My visit will aim at covering all walks of life and sectors affected by such measures,” she noted, dismissing speculation in the Western media that she was heading to Iran with a specific agenda.

She told reporters on Wednesday that the US has since the 1970s imposed crippling economic and trade sanctions on Iran and significantly expanded them since the early 2000s.

In May 2018, the former US President Donald Trump, after unilaterally withdrawing his country from the 2015 nuclear deal, reinstated harsh economic sanctions on Iran and slapped new ones in an unprecedented move that was widely decried.

Under the 2015 agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), international sanctions on the Islamic Republic were eased in exchange for Tehran putting limitations on certain aspects of its nuclear activities.

Trump’s sanctions deprived the Islamic Republic of economic dividends under the accord as it barred countries and international firms from working with Iran.

The mercurial real estate tycoon-turned-president’s successor, Joe Biden, who was vice president when the JCPOA was inked in 2015, promised to return his country to the deal. But his administration has failed to honor the commitment, following Trump’s legacy.

According to the UN special rapporteur, the US continues to illegally ban trade and investment in Iran, forcing foreign companies to leave the country for the fear of sanctions.

Douhan’s landmark visit to Iran came amid the stalemate over the nuclear deal, with the US showing reluctance to respond to Iran’s proposals.

Decrying the US decision to abandon the nuclear deal and continue with its sanctions regime, she said the deal was endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2231.

“Applying extraterritorial sanctions on Iranian companies or companies working with Iran … is illegal under international law,” she asserted.

Commenting on Iran’s frozen assets abroad, the UN official said the assets estimated to be around $120 billion need to be unblocked.

“I urge the states that have frozen the assets of Iranian Central Bank to immediately unfreeze Iran’s funds based on international law.”

Douhan began her 11-day visit to Iran on May 7, a day before the fourth anniversary of the US illegal withdrawal from the JCPOA.

Last week, Iran’s top human rights official Kazem Gharibabadi said Douhan’s visit was only aimed at gathering information on the impact of sanctions to hold countries (US) to account.

“Nations hit by sanctions should use all available resources to hold the countries calling for and enforcing unilateral sanctions liable,” Gharibabadi said.

His comments came in response to reports in Western media accusing Iran of exploiting the visit to avoid accountability and “deflect attention” from its alleged human rights violations.

In her Wednesday press conference, Douhan also welcomed Iran’s efforts to support Afghan refugees, displaced by the 20-year US war, despite reeling under sanctions.

“I call on the sanctioning states, particularly the US, to abandon the unilateral sanctions,” she stated.

She also referred to stalled negotiations in Vienna to bring the US back to the JCPOA, urging the JCPOA signatories and the US to resume the negotiations.”

Iran and the P4+1 group of countries – Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia – have held several rounds of sanctions in the Austrian capital since April 2021 to revive the JCPOA.

Iran says its primary goal at the talks is to have the illegal US sanctions removed.

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