Iranian official calls for negotiations with Washington in Iraq

[Butifldrm]

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The Iranian Central Bank confirms its continued contacts with European banks despite Trump's decision

13:18 - 20/05/2018

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Information / Baghdad ..

Iran's central bank continues its contacts with European Central Bank (ECB) banks after US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal, Iran's central bank governor said on Sunday.

"The negotiating process with the European central banks in the future will be clearer to the officials to make decisions," Saif said, adding that "Iran and Europe continue negotiations within the framework of the nuclear agreement, including the subject of banking ties between the two sides."

Saif stressed that "the stability and sustainability of the exchange rate is a priority of the Central Bank of Iran," pointing out that "the exchange rate has gone beyond normal range due to market inflammation because of America and some countries in the region and analysis of the withdrawal Trump of the nuclear agreement."

"In the light of US pressure to re-impose the embargo, the mechanism of controlling exchange rates will meet the economic needs of the country at this time," he said. Ending / 25

http://www.almaalomah.com/2018/05/20/311231/

[nannab]

Thank you Butifldrm.   

[yota691]

URGENT: US announces 12-point strategy against Iran

 

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 one hour ago

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced US policy to confront Iran. 
The new US strategy consists of seven axes to deal with Iran, he said, stressing that economic pressure is the most important aspect of the new strategy toward Iran, stressing that Iran will face the most severe sanctions in history if it continues its policies. 
He added: "The sanctions on Iran ends immediately once the implementation of what is required of them," stressing that there are 12 US demands from Iran, notably the cessation of support for terrorism and withdrawal from Syria. 
He added that those who supported the nuclear agreement claimed that his signature would make the Middle East more stable, but none of this happened. Tehran increased its hostility after the agreement and exploited the money it received to fuel the situation in the Middle East.
Pompeo referred to Iran's continued support for the Iranian Hezbollah militia and its involvement in the Syrian crisis, which led to the marriage and the refuge of millions of Syrians. 
He said that Iran would face the harshest sanctions in history if it decided to return to its nuclear program, adding that there was a difference between the people who are frustrated by corruption and the regime, which is continuing to provide millions of dollars to militias abroad. 
He pointed out that the Iranian regime's handling of the protesters with killing, arrest and torture shows some discontent with the policy. 
He added that the Iranian people is the biggest victim of the Iranian regime, which will not last forever. 
"Once Iran changes its behavior, we will be ready to lift sanctions and normalize trade and political relations with it." 
He said Iran should withdraw from Syria and stop supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Houthis.
He stressed that economic activities with Iran will stop for a long time, and that his country will put the Iranian regime under unprecedented financial pressure, "the Iranian people will determine the course of things."

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[yota691]

US threatens to 'crush' Iran, outlines 12-point list for 'new deal'

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatened Iran with 'unprecedented financial pressure' if it failed to curb its activities

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the Heritage Foundation (AFP)

MEE and agencies

Monday 21 May 2018 14:54 UTC

 

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has outlined 12 conditions required of Iran before any "new deal" will be made with the country, in a speech threatening the "strongest sanctions in history" on the Islamic Republic.

"We will apply unprecedented financial pressure on the Iranian regime," Pompeo said in his first major foreign policy address since moving to the State Department from the CIA.

"The leaders in Tehran will have no doubt about our seriousness."

"The sting of sanctions will only grow more painful if the regime does not change course from the unacceptable and unproductive path it has chosen for itself and the people of Iran," he added in the speech at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank.

"Iran will never again have carte blanche to dominate the Middle East."

Among the 12 points listed by Pompeo, Iran must "withdraw all forces under Iranian command from Syria", "stop uranium enrichment and never pursue plutonium reprocessing", "end support for the Taliban" and "cease harbouring al-Qaeda":

Here is Secretary Pompeo’s list of 12 demands from Iran via @GalloVOApic.twitter.com/3nZ1qM0QUT

— Golnaz Esfandiari (@GEsfandiari) May 21, 2018

Pompeo said if Iran were to abide by the stricter terms, the United States would lift its sanctions.

"We will track down Iranian operatives and their Hezbollah proxies operating around the world and crush them," Pompeo said.

"Iran will be forced to make a choice: either fight to keep its economy off life support at home or keep squandering precious wealth on fights abroad. It will not have the resources to do both."

President Donald Trump has long said the original 2015 deal with Iran - also signed by Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia - did not go far enough, and now wants the Europeans and others to support his hardline strategy.

"In the strategy we are announcing today, we want the support of our most important allies and partners in the region and around the globe. I don't just mean our friends in Europe," Pompeo said.

The secretary of state also warned European businesses who work with Iran in violation of US sanctions that they will be held "to account".

The re-establishment of the US sanctions is likely to force European companies to choose between investing in Iran or trading with the United States.

The European Union is currently trying to persuade Iran to stay in the 2015 agreement, even without Washington's participation.

On Friday, the European Commission proposed that EU governments make direct money transfers to Iran's central bank to avoid US penalties, a step which would bypass the US financial system.

[yota691]

News on "Iranian consular official delivers himself to US consulate for asylum" Iran responds

The political scene  Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 14:07 pm (639 views)

Baghdad / Sky Press

The General Consulate of Iran in Sulaymaniyah province denied on Wednesday what was circulated on the meeting sites, and some news sites on the request of one of its cadres to resort to the United States of America.

The consulate said in a statement today that "what has been published by some social networking pages and news sites in this aspect is completely false and totally denied."

The statement said that did not ask one of the cadres of the consulate, and its employees to resort to any of the representatives of other countries in the Kurdistan Region.

And circulated pages on the social networks, and some news sites in the territory of Kurdistan News that the consular official in Sulaymaniyah handed himself to the US Consulate for asylum

[Pitcher]

Iran is continuing to deceive the world about its long-range missile program and is also continuing its military build-up in Syria despite a devastating Israeli offensive which destroyed 50 Iranian military sites on May 10, Arutz Sheva reported.

 

At the same time, the Islamist regime in Tehran has set itself on a crash course with the United States after US President Donald J. Trump decided to pull the US out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action, the nuclear deal between six world powers and Iran, and announced he would re-instate biting sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
 

On Wednesday, The New York Times revealed the existence of a new secret underground facility in the remote Iranian desert where Iran is apparently working on the development of long-range ballistic missiles or even intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM’s) capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.

Times reporter Max Fisher wrote that a team of California-based weapon researchers and five other experts had analyzed satellite images which showed “compelling evidence that Iran is developing long-range missile technology.”

Fisher quoted “Michael Elleman, a missile expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies who reviewed the material,”who said there was “circumstantial evidence” the satellite images could show “preliminary steps for developing an ICBM five to 10 years down the road, should Tehran wish to do so.”

The facility is located 40 kilometers from the town Shahrud, which was the site of a missile test-launch in 2013, according to Fisher.

 

The American researchers, reviewing earlier satellite images, discovered the number of buildings at the secret site had increased over time.

 

The team also found “telltale ground scars” in a crater outside the facility which they said were recent and indicated new test-launches.

 

“One appeared in 2016, the other in June 2017,” according to Fisher.

 

The most recent test in 2017 “used a stand estimated to be 370 tons, suggesting the engine powered between 62 and 93 tons of thrust — enough for an intercontinental ballistic missile,” according to the researchers who said the facility is still in use.
 

The Iranians use heavy vehicles in Shahrud which are coming in and out of a huge tunnel indicating they are building “a large subterranean structure” according to the scientists.

They are confident that the absence of fuel tanks indicates Iran is building missile engines that use solid fuel such as ICBM’s.

The new discovery shows Iran has secret facilities related to its missile and nuclear program the world didn’t know about or chose to ignore, observers say.

It is possible that US intelligence knew about the site but was told by the previous administration to hide the information in order not to jeopardize the negotiations about the JCPOA.

 

Under UNSC resolution 2231, which formalized the JCPOA, Iran was “called upon” not to undertake “any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology.”

 

It is not the first time Iran was recently caught developing underground sites for its missile and nuclear program.

 

At the end of March the Washington-based Institute For Science And International Security (ISIS) released a report dealing with a secret underground facility in Qusayr in the Qalamoun Mountains in west Syria, near the Lebanese border.

 

The report said “there is reason to believe that Syria, apparently with help from North Korea and Iran, built a new underground nuclear facility in Qusayr.”

 

In fact the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards is controlling the underground nuclear site in the Syrian town.

 

A Hezbollah commander called the Qusayr site “ the atomic factory” which was guarded by “Iranian officers” according to members of the Free Syrian Army.

 

Qusayr was one of the main targets of the IAF during the massive four-hour-during Israeli offensive against Iran in Syria in night of May 10.

 

The Israeli offensive has not deterred Iran, however.
 

The Quds Force of the IRGC and its Shiite allies continue their entrenchment in Syria and are also continuing to encroach on the Israeli border on the Golan Heights ,forcing the IAF to launch new pre-emptive strikes.

 

On Monday, unknown warplanes attacked an Iranian operations center at the headquarters of the Syrian Department of Electronic Warfare near Damascus after a large cargo plane arrived from Tehran.

 

The airstrike also destroyed a number of barracks of Iranian-backed Shiite militias at a state security school in the area.

 

This was followed on Tuesday by reports Shiite militias, including Hezbollah, were suddenly withdrawing from the Daraa and Quneitra provinces in Syria after “intensive reconnaissance flights over the region,” most likely by the IAF.

 

The IDF, using artillery, had earlier prevented Hezbollah from setting up camp near Quneitra once again.

 

Other evidence Iran has no plans to revise its strategy for the Middle East and is not impressed by the actions of the Trump Administration and Israel came from high ranking Iranian officials.
 

US President Hassan Rouhani said “the Iranian nation is not afraid of empty threats” by “the extremists” in Washington and claimed Iran would be “victorious” in a conflict with the US

 

The Iranian Foreign Ministry said Trump’s policy change is an indication of “US officials’ despair and desperation in the face of the Iranian nation,” and said nobody is entitled to tell Iran what polities to adopt in the Middle East, “its own region”.

 

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei predicted Trump would “vanish from history” like his predecessors and that the U.S. would be defeated.

 

Responding to the 12 basic requirements to issued by the Trump Administration in the aftermath of the decision to quit the JCPOA, Khamenei invoked the cat and mouse adventures of Tom and Jerry.

 

“The US has tried various political, economic, military and propaganda undertakings to hit the Islamic Republic but all these plots failed. Like the famous cat in Tom and Jerry they will lose again,” Khamenei said.

 

The Iranian dictator has now threatened to expand its nuclear program beyond the limits of the JCPOA and demands from the Europeans that they facilitate trade via their banks and buy oil in Iran.

 

At the same time Ali Shamkhani the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) vowed Iran would continue to develop missiles and would not stop its support for “Hamas, Islamic Jihad Movement, Hezbollah and the axis of resistance in the region.”

 

Shamkani also said Iran would give “a crushing response” to new “violence by the Zionist regime” and to “US adventurism” in the region.

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/27711/New-evidence-Iran-is-a-huge-threat-to-world-peace

[10 YEARS LATER]

When the Shah of Iran was deposed during the Carter Administration, the Militant Anti-American factions took over. I knew back then Iran was going to be a problem. When they invaded the American Embassy/took USA Citizens hostage for 444 days, it should have been obvious then Iran was going to be a problem ( long term ) if no regime change was in the offing.

 

Almost as soon as R. Reagan finished taking the oath of office ( 1st term ) the Iranians gave back those hostages because ( rightly so ) Reagan they feared ,would unleash the military might against them to retrieve the Hostages. Carter an appeaser and Reagan the no nonsense don't mess with the US.

 

Now we have a similar situation. Obama the appeaser and the Global Apology tour and Interloper in the White House to Trump, the no nonsense don't mess with the US - and He's got every Liberal Socialist & Communist on the planet in fits of rage, apoplectic and their heads revolving 360 like Linda Blair in the Exorcist. 

 

Thanks Pitcher for brining this article over for the ones that are not old enough to remember what some of us here do - remember. 

[dinarham]

Why can't I see Iran as a real threat ?  If they were to shoot off just 1 bomb ,it would be the  their last bomb . Boom! no more Iran , their mountains would be leveled . Same with N Korea . Iran funds and supports terrorism and it's gorilla  tactics  . Sadr has a big issue with Iran as well  . "The enemy of my enemy is my friend

[Synopsis]

Answer:  A Glass Pancake

 

Question: What did most The United States Of America Citizens want to make Iran when the Iranians took the American hostages?

 

Flimsy Carter. And we and the world are still suffering.

[8th ID]

I won’t forget that....and when they let armadejad, or whatever his name was, land in this country and attend the UN General assembly I was furious. He was one of the ring leaders then and we should have arrested him or shot him! But obummer let him land and attend.

[3n1]

1 hour ago, 8th ID said:

I won’t forget that....and when they let armadejad, or whatever his name was, land in this country and attend the UN General assembly I was furious. He was one of the ring leaders then and we should have arrested him or shot him! But obummer let him land and attend.

 

I remember ,  several of the Americans who were held hostage in Tehran in 1979 and 1980 say they recognized Ahmadinejad as one of their captors.

Edited May 25, 2018 by 3n1

[ChuckFinley]

4 hours ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

When the Shah of Iran was deposed during the Carter Administration, the Militant Anti-American factions took over. I knew back then Iran was going to be a problem. When they invaded the American Embassy/took USA Citizens hostage for 444 days, it should have been obvious then Iran was going to be a problem ( long term ) if no regime change was in the offing.

 

Almost as soon as R. Reagan finished taking the oath of office ( 1st term ) the Iranians gave back those hostages because ( rightly so ) Reagan they feared ,would unleash the military might against them to retrieve the Hostages. Carter an appeaser and Reagan the no nonsense don't mess with the US.

 

Now we have a similar situation. Obama the appeaser and the Global Apology tour and Interloper in the White House to Trump, the no nonsense don't mess with the US - and He's got every Liberal Socialist & Communist on the planet in fits of rage, apoplectic and their heads revolving 360 like Linda Blair in the Exorcist. 

 

Thanks Pitcher for brining this article over for the ones that are not old enough to remember what some of us here do - remember. 

Those old enough remember that well. When Reagan took office it was no fooling around.  

[TOMINVEGAS]

And that’s what the people of Oncraq need... a good leader that isn’t smoking the pipe.....

[CSM (R) Thack]

3 hours ago, ChuckFinley said:

Those old enough remember that well. When Reagan took office it was no fooling around.  

So true!!!

[yota691]

GMT 5:50 2018 Friday, May 25 : Last Updated

Because it is linked to the Revolutionary Guards

Washington punishes Iranian airlines

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  A plane belonging to the Iranian company "Mahanair" covered by the new US sanctions

 

 

A plane belonging to the Iranian company "Mahanair" covered by the new US sanctions

 

WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday stepped up sanctions against Iran to target several airlines it says are linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

The US Treasury Department has set up nine people and entities in Iran and Turkey to supply spare parts to Mahan Air, Caspian Air, Mirage Air and Boya Air, and to support its operations.

They described them as "international terrorists" for dealing with the four airlines listed on US sanctions lists.

Treasury Secretary Stephen Menuchin said the support of Iranian airlines "provides the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the Quds Force, with life and helps the Iranian regime transfer weapons, fighters and money to its agents, including Hezbollah and the strengthening of the brutal Assad regime."

"Countries and companies around the world must take note of the risks associated with granting landing rights and providing air services to airlines used by Iran to export terrorism throughout the region," he said.

The sanctions exclude Iran Air, Iran's biggest airline, as well as Asman.

[yota691]

Iran reveals its "demand" after the US withdrawal from the nuclear agreement

 

 Twilight News    
 one hour ago

A senior Iranian official said on Friday that Tehran wanted European powers to provide it with a "package of economic measures" by the end of this month to compensate for the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal in 2015. 
The official told reporters, before talks in Vienna, with Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia: "We expect to deliver the package by the end of May."

He said Tehran would decide, within a few weeks, whether it would remain in the nuclear deal.

The countries still in the nuclear deal will meet later on Friday for the first time since US President Donald Trump's withdrawal, but diplomats say there is limited possibility of salvaging the deal after Washington pledges to be tougher with Tehran.

The official stressed that if today's meeting does not produce satisfactory results, they will seek a ministerial meeting and then make the decision.

"I may not be personally optimistic, but ... I will do what I can to achieve a result."

European actions would have to ensure that oil exports remained at the current level and that Iran remained able to use the Swift system for international payments.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, which monitors the implementation of the agreement, said on Thursday that Iran remains committed to its terms despite the withdrawal of the United States, but Tehran can be faster and more cooperative in allowing snap inspections.

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[dinarham]

Iran's currency is worth bumpcus . And another 0 to the right side of the decimal point of the Iraq dinar ,that's what the rial is worth .

[normala rashid]

13 hours ago, yota691 said:

Iran reveals its "demand" after the US withdrawal from the nuclear agreement

 

 Twilight News    
 one hour ago

A senior Iranian official said on Friday that Tehran wanted European powers to provide it with a "package of economic measures" by the end of this month to compensate for the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal in 2015. 
The official told reporters, before talks in Vienna, with Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia: "We expect to deliver the package by the end of May."

He said Tehran would decide, within a few weeks, whether it would remain in the nuclear deal.

The countries still in the nuclear deal will meet later on Friday for the first time since US President Donald Trump's withdrawal, but diplomats say there is limited possibility of salvaging the deal after Washington pledges to be tougher with Tehran.

The official stressed that if today's meeting does not produce satisfactory results, they will seek a ministerial meeting and then make the decision.

"I may not be personally optimistic, but ... I will do what I can to achieve a result."

European actions would have to ensure that oil exports remained at the current level and that Iran remained able to use the Swift system for international payments.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, which monitors the implementation of the agreement, said on Thursday that Iran remains committed to its terms despite the withdrawal of the United States, but Tehran can be faster and more cooperative in allowing snap inspections.

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wow demand ... yota how about the iran want iraq pay debt with iqd  22/5 .  do you have the news ? its really iraq paying with iqd ?

Edited May 25, 2018 by normala rashid

[yota691]

 date: 2018 May / May 25 - GMT 12:51

 

 

 

 

IMF: Continue to cooperate with Iran's central bank

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it was continuing to cooperate with Iran's central bank and its governor, Aliullah Saif, despite the US embargo.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Iran was a member of the fund, which would continue to cooperate with it and the governor of Iran's central bank, Aliullah Saif.

The US Treasury Department announced a ban on Iran's central bank governor, Aliullah Seif, on May 15 following US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal and impose a US embargo on Iran within 90 to 180 days.

[yota691]

Climate Shakedown: Iran Demands Their Share of Paris Agreement Climate Cash

Eric Worrall / 5 days ago May 20, 2018

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Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Iran’s deputy environment chief Karim Shafie has warned that Iran’s participation in the Paris Agreement is at risk if they don’t get their climate money.

Is Iran pulling out of Paris Agreement?

By Maryam Qarehgozlou
May 20, 2018

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif signed the Paris Agreement on climate change during a ceremony at the United Nations headquarters in New York, April 22, 2016.

“However, the agreement was brought before the Guardian Council, but the council did not approve it and proposed amendments, so the deal is now being hammered out in agriculture, water and natural resources group of the Majlis,” ISNA quoted Karim Shafie, deputy environment chief for legal affairs, as saying on Saturday.

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As Shafie said, Iran has submitted Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) to the UNFCCC committing to cut the greenhouse gas emissions by 4% percent in 2030. However, subject to termination and non-existence of unfair and brutal sanctions, availability of international resources in the form of financial support and technology transfer, exchange of carbon credits, accessibility of bilateral or multilateral implementation mechanisms, transfer of clean technologies as well as capacity building, Iran has the potential of mitigating greenhouse gas emission up to 12%.

“By ratifying the Paris agreement, Iran should make commitments which might put the country into significant expenses,” the deputy environment chief said.

There are proponents and opponents of the agreement in Iran, he said, adding, those who are opposing the deal believe that ratifying the deal would carry considerable costs, and the costs should be funded by developed countries or international entities.

On the other hand those who are advocating the deal believe that the deal would help Iran to mitigate environmental pollutants and that “we” can mitigate greenhouse gas emission in sectors which may not carry high costs.

He further suggested that there are some concerns the deal may “act against our national interest” and that’s why “we should proceed with extreme caution”.

“We should be wary of not being forced to make and legally binding commitments which may later result in more sanctions and penalties for us,” he warned.

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Read more: http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/423741/Is-Iran-pulling-out-of-Paris-Agreement

Personally I believe Iran’s ongoing high level support for global terrorism, and the exposure of Iran’s brazen lies about their clandestine nuclear weapons programme are higher priority geopolitical issues than any CO2 emissions cuts the Iranian government was offering. But maybe thats just me.

[nannab]

Wow these people are something else.  Have a good night all.   Yota

[dinarham]

Is iran in a position to demand anything?  They need to understand that there is a lot more peace and profit to be had by aligning themselves with the obvious winner in this shake down  

[yota691]

Iranian parliament holds closed session to discuss economic challenges

May 27, 2018

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Media treasures / Baghdad ..

Iran's Islamic Majlis (parliament) has begun a meeting to discuss economic challenges facing the country in a closed session.

"The Islamic Consultative Assembly began its closed session on Sunday to discuss the economic challenges and reform of the banking system in the country, headed by President Ali Larijani," Mehr news agency reported.

"The meeting will be attended by the Governor of the Central Bank," Wali Allah Saif, "and the Minister of Economy and Executive Director of the banks

[yota691]

“Free Iran 2018 / The Alternative” rally scheduled for June 30th

 

• 5/21/2018

Free Iran Rally, June 30, 2018

Free Iran Rally in Paris, June 30, 2018

In circumstances that protests across Iran – continuing after the Dec/Jan uprising – are rattling the very pillars of the Iranian regime, and political developments in the Middle East and throughout the globe are placing further pressure on Tehran’s mullahs, Iranian exiles from across the globe are gathering in Paris once again for the annual Iranian Resistance gathering.

Continuing its struggle for a free during the past 15 years, the Iranian Resistances seeks to establish a free Iran without any crackdown, torture or execution; based on the separation of church and state where the mullahs’ current rule is replaced by a democratic system based on the ballot box; establishing a non-nuclear Iran, becoming the epicenter of peace and friendship in the Middle East and the world over; the country’s God-given wealth not being wasted on warmongering, but to provide the population’s welfare; and a country in which equality, social justice, progress and protecting the environment will all be realized.

Certain is the fact that the Iranian regime is facing enormous obstacles and challenges both inside the country and on the global stage.

The international community is finally beginning to realize that the appeasement policy must be set aside. Freedom and democracy must be established in Iran, following regime change, in order to obtain peace and tranquility in the region.

Three principles are now proven more than ever before:
- Regime change in Iran is a dire necessity

- Regime change in Iran is at hand

- There is a viable alternative for the Iranian regime

The Dec/Jan uprising has proven that the Iranian people want this regime gone and senior official in Tehran are acknowledging this undeniable reality.

As seen most recently in Kazerun, the Iranian regime has neither the will nor the capacity to provide for the Iranian people’s rightful demands.

After nearly 40 years in power, the time has come for this regime to be set aside.

 

Iranian Resistance Mass Rally

June 30, 2018

Villepinte, Paris, France

[Floridian]

Iran feels a social explosion as US sanctions intensify

May 27, 2018

 

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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian security forces will face unrest that could be exploited by the United States and other enemies after a wave of protests in Iran over economic issues, Iranian judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ijaei said on Sunday. The danger of famine.

“The judicial and security bodies will resolutely confront anyone who wants to undermine the security of the country,” Gholam’s website Mezan Online said. “Telling tensions is part of the American psychological war against Iran.”

“The people want to overthrow the regime,” they said, calling for a change in the country’s ruling tyrannical regime in a move seen by observers as a prelude to a wave of violent social protests that the regime could not put down as it did last December.

He was inspired by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech, in which he outlined the US strategy to stop Iranian expansion in the region and to curb any attempt to revive Iran’s nuclear program.

“The people of four provinces in the country face the threat of starvation,” said Mohamed Naeem Amini Ferd, the head of the Sistan-Baluchistan province, southwest of the country, in a speech to the parliament on Sunday.

“Residents of the provinces of Sistan, Baluchistan, Hormuzgan, Bushehr south, and southern Khorasan face the risk of famine because of poverty,” the MP said.

Authorities in Tehran are fully aware of the approaching explosion of a wave of popular protests, the largest in the country, after the intensification of US sanctions

He added that “75 percent of the population of Sistan and Baluchistan, facing the risk of famine,” noting that the province “ranked lowest in the country in terms of distribution of national income,” noting that “the absence of capital and drought, which continued for 18 years, cut back the food security of the province “He said.

Analysts believe that the authorities in Tehran are fully aware of the approaching explosion of a wave of popular protests, the largest in the country, after the intensification of the sanctions, which led to the mobilization of the security services and the military.

Iran’s pre-emptive warnings to its citizens come as speculation mounts that the United States is ready to push for regime change in Tehran, as US officials urge Iranians to “choose for themselves” the government they want.

“The Iranian people should choose the kind of leadership they want themselves,” Pompeo said on Monday, a day after he set tough measures to tackle Tehran, including what he called “the strongest sanctions in history” against the Islamic Republic.

Pompio’s speech did not explicitly call for regime change in Tehran, but he repeatedly urged the Iranian people not to tolerate their leaders, notably by Rowhani and his foreign minister, Mohammad Jawad Zarif. “Ultimately, the Iranian people will have to choose who leads it,” he said.

Analysts say the harshness of future US sanctions, which vow to isolate Iran from the international economic and financial lifeline, will lead to the outbreak of internal tumors that have emerged in demonstrations in dozens of major cities in Iran in December and January.

Experts consider Bombay’s sharp and offensive tone to be the introduction of a strategy aimed at launching the process of dismantling the regime that was born after the 1979 Islamic revolution that ended US-Iranian relations.

US State Department spokesman Heather Noyert said US policy was “not regime change,” but said Washington was “welcoming” a new era in Tehran.

“If the Iranian people have to choose in the future to show their point of view, it is certainly welcome to do so,” she said. “The Iranian people have long lived under a regime that abused them.”

US President Donald Trump raised the prospect of change when he announced earlier this month his withdrawal from the nuclear deal between the major powers and Iran, and said the Iranians “deserve a nation that will bring justice to their dreams.”

“We have a president who is committed to changing the regime no less than our commitment,” Rudy Giuliani’s private lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Iranian exiles in exile.

This possibility is supported by neoconservative circles, but it remains questionable since the 2003 US intervention in Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein, a move some see as “floundering,” including Trump.

The popular protests, which witnessed dozens of Iranian provinces in December and January last, cracked the pillars of the regime in Tehran, prompting the reformist president to evoke the scenario of the fall of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, after all the indicators to reproduce the scenario again.

Dozens of Iranian provinces saw unrest during the New Year, with authorities killing 25 demonstrators and arresting hundreds, after demonstrators held pictures of the last Iranian shah, warning the regime of its fate.

The Iranian opposition at home refuted the regime’s claims in Tehran about the existence of Western agendas to destabilize the country, prompting the Iranians to demonstrate and demand the overthrow of the government, putting the leader Ali Khamenei in charge of the poverty of the Iranians because of the corruption of his Revolutionary Guards.

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