Iranian official calls for negotiations with Washington in Iraq

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Iran waving a war reparations card in front of Abadi

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Iran waving a war reparations card in front of Abadi

 

19-08-2018 02:04 PM

 

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The head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian parliament, Hishmatullah Fahat Bishah, stressed that Iraq should pay war compensation to Iran. The statement coincided with a wave of anger in Iran from the position of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi, who confirmed his commitment to US sanctions on Iran, before being forced to retreat under the pressure of parties loyal to it in Iraq. 

In a statement to the ISNA news agency, Beshah said Saturday that war reparations in the relations between the two countries can not be ignored, noting that Iraqi officials have not categorically refused. 

He pointed out that Iraq's production of oil more than the production of Iran, and that "Iraq earns a lot of money from the sale of oil, so it has the ability to meet the debt of compensation. He pays his debt to Kuwait under an international obligation. " 

Last week, reformist MP Mahmoud Sadeghi pointed out that Iraq owes Iran $ 1.1 trillion in damages and losses from the first Gulf War (1980-1988) and the second (1990-1991). 

Observers say the statements are intended to remind Iraqi politicians that Iran is better than them and that they have no right to act contrary to their interests even if they disagree with Iraq's interests, even if it leads to US sanctions if Abbadi defies the sanctions of President Donald Trump's administration. Tehran. 

Iran, through its agents of religious parties, controls the Iraqi scene, and this is explained by the pressures that prompted Abbadi to back down from previous statements that he was committed to implementing sanctions against Iran. 

"We do not sympathize with sanctions or interact with them because they are a strategic mistake, but we are committed to them," Abadi said. 

Abadi is trying to appease Iran and allied parties in the hope of supporting him in continuing to serve as prime minister, but many indications confirm that Tehran is working to prevent him from a second term in the light of accusations against him to appease the United States. 

"We regret his position," Mojtaba al-Husseini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's representative in Iraq, said of his position. "He is expressing his defeat towards America," said Mujtaba al-Husseini, who is not in accord with the Iraqi spirit, which has staged major tournaments in a US-backed advocacy.

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US sanctions confuse Iranian officials

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US sanctions confuse Iranian officials

 

19-08-2018 01:57 PM

 

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday that the new working group on Tehran, set up by the US State Department, was aimed at toppling the Iranian state but would fail. 

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday named Brian Hook as special representative in charge of the working group on Iran to coordinate with President Donald Trump's campaign against the Islamic Republic following Washington's withdrawal from the nuclear deal. 

"65 years ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected government of Dr. Mossadegh, established dictatorship and subjugated the Iranians for 25 years. Now the 'working group' dreams of exercising the same pressure, deception and demagoguery ... it will not happen again. ' 
Hawk said the goal was to impose other countries' respect for economic sanctions on Iran, which the US president re-launched after he pulled out of a nuclear deal signed in 2015 between Tehran and major international powers. 

He explained that this working cell 'determined to undertake a major global effort to change the Iranian regime's behavior'. "We want to work closely with our allies and partners around the world." 

In 1953, the United States helped plan for the overthrow of Prime Minister-elect Mohammad Mossadegh and reinstated Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The Islamic revolution overthrew the Shah in 1979. 

For his part, Chairman of the Islamic Consultative Council, Ali Larijani, that the Americans call for freedom and human rights 'with all insolence' and they impose an economic embargo on countries. 

"The coup d'état that overthrew the national government in Iran on Aug. 19, 1953, was a subtle event in which the United States and Britain played a decisive and decisive role," Larijani was quoted as saying during an open meeting of the Islamic Consultative Council. 

"These two countries, when they carried out this criminal and inhuman act, invoked the existence of communist attempts to control Iran by the Soviet Union," Larijani said. 

Larijani said that the reason for the victory of this military coup against the national government - Mohammed Mossadegh's national government in the process that brought Iran into a decades-long silence of dictatorship - is the lack of people on the scene and, more importantly, the suspension of parliament. Coup and take control of things in the country, according to (IRNA). 

US President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of his country from the nuclear agreement with Iran and announced at the same time the re-imposition of US sanctions on Iran, and entered part of the sanctions came into force on the sixth of this month. 

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected last week's offer to Trump for talks. 

The Iranian riyal has lost about half of its value since April due to reasons, most notably the heavy demand for the dollar among Iranians trying to protect their savings.

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US sanctions push Iran to seek solutions to sell oil

 

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US sanctions push Iran to seek solutions to sell oil

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) - Iran is seeking alternative solutions to market oil and collect revenues after US sanctions come into effect .

 

"Europe has pledged to Iran to compensate for the losses caused by the exit of European private companies from the country by introducing alternative small and medium companies and finding new ways, " said Ishaq Jahangiri, the first deputy president of the republic of Iran .

Jahangiri referred to Iran's efforts to find ways to help it continue selling oil and planning the country without considering war or starting negotiations with the US side .

 

Jhangiri stressed that the government is now focusing on the local economy and addressing the issues of the people through the recruitment of internal competencies .

In the context of the effects of US sanctions, Kazim Ghareeb Abadi, Iran's permanent envoy to international organizations in Vienna, said no country could take the share of other members from oil production and exports under any circumstances .

"The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries must distance itself from politics .

 In an effort to minimize the impact of sanctions, Mohammad Reza Borabrahimi Dawrani, chairman of the Islamic Consultative Council's economic committee, said the government's new policies would provide relative stability in the currency market .

He stressed in a statement quoted by the agency "Irna" that the bulk of the new policies of the government in the field of hard currency acceptable to the Islamic Shura Council, and will open a new path in the economy of the country .

He added that the government is responsible for the introduction of 45 billion dollars of foreign currency resulting from non-oil exports of the country and 20 billion dollars surplus from the sale of oil to the secondary market and the demand for currency in the country of 30 billion dollars.

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Iranian official demands Iraq compensation for war

 

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian official on Sunday called on Iraq to compensate Iraq for the war, saying it was a commitment that could not be ignored in the relations between the two countries and that Iraq was capable of paying war reparations and Tehran was counting on it .

The head of the National Security Committee in the Iranian parliament Hishmatullah Pasha said in a press statement today, August 19, 2018 that the compensations constitute an open file in the relations between Iran and Iraq and Baghdad to pay in accordance with Security Council resolution 598, noting that the Iraqi side did not completely reject the payment Compensation, according to the agency "Esna".

He revealed that in the midst of such an atmosphere, there has not been a set of past differences between Iran and Iraq solutions, where the external reasons returned to prevent the removal of some differences and thus harm relations .

"The truth is that the payment of compensation by the Iraqi side is an obligation that can not be condoned in the relations between Iran and Iraq and is considered one of the obligations," he said. Which lies with the Iraqi people .

He continued: Iran and Iraq have made their efforts to run this subject so as not to become a point of disagreement in the relations between the two sides .

http://www.nrttv.com/AR/News.aspx?id=3521&MapID=2

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2018-08-19 BY SOTALIRAQ

 

Iranian official reveals undeclared differences with Iraq and demands compensation for war

 

An Iranian official called on Iraq to compensate the country for the war, saying that it constitutes commitments can not be ignored in the relations between the two countries, and that Iraq is able to pay war compensation and Tehran relies on it.

On the latest developments in the compensation of Iran under the Security Council resolution, Hishmatullah Fahat Bisha, head of the National Security Committee in the Iranian parliament, said in the permission of the Agency "Esna" that the compensations constitute an open file in the relations between Iran and Iraq and Baghdad to pay in accordance with Security Council resolution 598 , Pointing out that the Iraqi side did not completely reject the payment of compensation.

He revealed that in the midst of such an atmosphere, there has not been a set of past differences between Iran and Iraq solutions, where the external reasons returned to prevent the removal of some differences and thus harm relations.

"The truth is that the payment of compensation by the Iraqi side is an obligation that can not be condoned in the relations between Iran and Iraq and is considered one of the obligations," he said. Which lies with the Iraqi people.

He continued: Iran and Iraq have made their efforts to run this subject so as not to become a point of disagreement in the relations between the two sides.

In any case, Iran and Iraq have economic relations that can be used to pay reparations. Of course, there are groups that are mainly influential in Iraq and some foreign players are trying to prevent relations and reconstruction of some economic and trade infrastructure between the two sides so that Iraq does not have the financial capacity to pay Compensation.

Source: ISNA

https://www.sotaliraq.com/2018/08/19/مسؤول-إيراني-يكشف-خلافات-غير-معلنة-مع-2/

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Tehran and Damascus are in the process of signing a strategic economic agreement

 

Iran and Syria are in the process of signing a long-term strategic economic agreement that will contribute to the expansion of economic cooperation between the two countries, Minister of Roads and Urban Reconstruction Amir Amini said.

Amini said on the sidelines of his visit to Damascus on Friday: "took into account the interests of the two countries in the economic agreement in order to benefit each of the energies of the other."

"Syria is on the verge of a new chapter of its reconstruction from the eight-year-old war, and the Iranian private sector can help with the capabilities and expertise it has."

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Damascus signed with Russia and Iran projects in two trillion Syrian pounds

According to the agreement, private Iranian companies will rebuild at least 30,000 damaged housing units in liberated or liberated areas, adding that these companies will also renovate Syrian historic sites and rebuild its destroyed infrastructure, such as transmission lines, water and electricity lines. in Syria.

He pointed out that the agreement will also deal in the national currency between the two countries instead of foreign currencies, adding that the strategic agreement will be signed during a meeting will be held under the chairmanship of the First Vice President of Iran and the Syrian Prime Minister in the coming days.

Source: IRNA

https://www.sotaliraq.com/2018/08/19/طهران-ودمشق-بصدد-التوقيع-على-اتفاقية-ا/

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Iran lawmakers target Rouhani's finance min. as US sanctions bite

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Iranian lawmakers launched impeachment proceedings against the finance minister on Sunday, ramping up pressure on the president who is already facing attacks from hardliners over his handling of the economy in the face of new US sanctions, Jerusalem Post reported.

A group of 33 MPs signed a motion accusing the minister, Masoud Karbasian, of being unable to manage the economy or form and implement policies.

That was enough votes to force Karbasian to come to parliament to answer questions on his record in the next 10 days.

If lawmakers are unhappy with his answers, they can vote to impeach and sack him - a move they took two weeks ago against Iran’s then minister of cooperatives, labor and social welfare, Ali Rabiei, after questioning his achievements.

President Hassan Rouhani is facing a growing domestic backlash since US President Donald Trump pulled out in May from an international accord that had curbed Iran's nuclear ambitions in return for sanctions relief.

The rial currency has halved in value since April. A number of protests have also broken out since the beginning of the year over high prices and alleged corruption.

Washington imposed sanctions on the acquisition of US dollars by Iran, and Tehran's trade in gold and precious metals this month. The United States has also said it will reimpose sanctions on Iran's oil exports and banking sector on Nov. 4.

Rouhani did not immediately comment on the motion, but defended Karbasian at a cabinet meeting earlier on Sunday, calling the minister's performance acceptable.

Parliament on Aug. 1 summoned Rouhani himself to come and answer questions within the next month, though without the threat of an impeachment vote - the first time lawmakers have taken this measure against him.

In late July, Rouhani appointed a new central bank governor, and accepted the resignation of the government spokesman, in moves seen as concessions to hardline critics.

Iran asked the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Sunday to protect it against the US sanctions on its oil sales. 

 

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/30813/Iran-lawmakers-target-Rouhani-s-finance-min-as-US-sanctions-bite

 

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Al-Abbadi's economic adviser: The special relationship between Iraq and Iran makes it vulnerable to sanctions

 

 

BAGHDAD - The appearance of Mohammed Saleh economic adviser, Prime Minister Haider Abadi, Friday, August 17, 2018 that the US sanctions on Iran will have an impact on Iraq, noting that the Iraqis are particularly sensitive to them, because their country suffered a lot of The siege, which was imposed for 12 years and caused great destruction, continues to this day.

"Any country that worsens its economic situation, its neighbors will be the first to be affected, and there will be no doubt that US sanctions on Iran will have an impact on Iraq," Saleh said in an interview with al-Masalla.

He pointed out that Iraq is not an island or a province, but a neighboring country with which it has economic and cultural ties, and that the Iraqi-Iranian relations are of a special nature. The first is religious tourism, where about three million visitors flow from Iran to Iraq annually, To the important cities such as Karbala, the holy Najaf and Samarra, there is no doubt that the citizen is affected by the level of living and economic situation, which is reflected on the tourist side as well, leaving a negative activity influential.

"He did not announce Iraq's position on US sanctions against Iran, but it was a vision and we are serious in its opposition because the Iraqi people have suffered an unjust siege and it is not right for the people to bear these sanctions," Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Monday (August 13, 2018). "It is not the right of a large and powerful country to impose a blockade on a country," he said, referring to the United States. "Iran remains a neighboring country and we want to resolve all the issues of the dispute," he said. "It is in the interest of Iraq and its people to live in peace, integration and common interests between countries." The prime minister denied he had said Iraq would abide by sanctions against Iran.

The appearance of Mohammed Saleh that "the second axis is that Iran is supplying energy resources to Iraq, and responsible for about 5 to 6 thousand megawatts, by providing Iraq with electricity directly or through the supply of gas, and the matter in which financial transactions are undoubtedly affected and reflected on the status of energy In Iraq and makes it difficult, unless Iraq is looking for an alternative in the short term, medium or long.

He added that "the third axis is the trade relations inherent since the economic embargo on Iraq in 1990, as the Iranian markets open to Iraq with simple consumer goods, such as food, spare and construction."

He pointed out that "the Iraqi people want Iranian goods and licenses for the Iraqi taste, and if the trade faltered due to the faltering financial transactions and the economic situation of Iran will leave economic problems and the exchange of markets and customers, and the difference in prices."

He stressed that "the continuation of the embargo on Iran and the escalation of the crisis, made the Iraqi position towards the protection of the national economy, and helps the international community to find a point of peace and stability, instead of the blockade, which is a form of war and is a silent war in the concept of economists.

The legal expert, Tariq Harb, predicted on Sunday, August 12, 2018, that Washington will take into account the circumstances of Iraq and its conditions and will not impose sanctions in the event of violating the sanctions imposed on Iran, stressing that trade between Tehran and Baghdad will continue and will not be affected by the recent sanctions that Imposed by Washington.

The government spokesman, Saad al-Hadithi, said in an interview with the "Masala" that Iraq refuses to resort to sanctions as a means of resolving differences between countries because it harms the people and citizens and is not affected by the regulations in clarifying the position of the Iraqi government to impose US sanctions on Iran, Stressing that the Iraq issue regarding the sanctions on Iran is limited to banking and financial transactions.

 

US sanctions on Iran entered into force on the morning of August 07, 2018, covering a number of sectors of Iran's vital economy and restricting foreign companies' dealings with them in preparation for a ban on its oil.

The analyst of "Masala" political, that the Iraqi position of sanctions against Iran is not "typical" and "complimentary" in the start of the problem, on which the results were built. It distinguishes two contradictory trends between Iran, the big neighbor, which has supported Iraq more than any other country in the war on terror, and links it to the Iraqi people, economic relations, geographical proximity, religious and historical scandals, and international obligations that "can not be compromised, Protection for the Iraqi people, "as stated by Prime Minister Haider Abadi.

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Ya'll I had tyo post this because of the comments from Iraqi citizens

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• (1) - Adib Alabsi

• 8/17/2018 9:04:27 PM

  This is a person who lives in my imagination rather than my work destroyed the Iraqi economy ........ It is believed that this person is behind all the arbitrary and random economic decisions. And the unintentional improprieties that destroyed the Iraqi economy and eliminated the private sector and revived the public sector at the expense of the public sector, which is like the cancerous gland of the Iraqi economy, which stands stumbling block in the way of progress and economic prosperity of Iraq. Marxism and Socialism And the capitalist and after he pointed to the Abbadi several decisions damaged the interests of the corrupt elite and threatened him became confused and afraid and became behind many of the decisions that serve that elite ......

   

• Facebook Facebook logo Keep me logged in Abu Rami

  8/18/2018 4:58:11 AM

  Unfortunately, most of our officials are not neutral and sympathize with neighboring Iran to the degree of readiness to sacrifice the interests of Iraq and its people for them, this logic and position is incorrect and non-patriotic and unfaithful to Iraq, for Iraq's dependence on the import of energy and food and industrial goods from Iran, this is the fault of Iraqi officials and bear the consequences. From these sanctions we have to benefit from the Jordanian experience towards Iraq during our 12-year siege until the days before the war with Iran, where Jordan was the main outlet and the lungs that Iraq breathes in accordance with a balanced Jordanian regime that has revitalized its economy and its To its economic, agricultural, industrial and commercial facilities so that Jordan is the first beneficiary on the one hand and at the same time does not deprive Iraq of something and satisfies the international community at the same time, can you see our officials can do that, this is the challenge today.

  http://almasalah.com/ar/news/147108/المستشار-الاقتصادي-للعبادي-العلاقة-الخاصة-بين-العراق-وإيران-تجعله-يتأثر-بالعقوبات

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French Total to withdraw from Iran

 2018-08-20 10:15:37 

 TEHRAN (Reuters) - France's Total has officially withdrawn from Iran after the United States threatened to impose sanctions on companies operating in the country, Iranian state oil minister Beijing Zangane said on Monday, state television reported.

"Total has formally withdrawn from the contract for the development of phase 11 of the South Pars gas project," Zengne was quoted as saying. "There is an ongoing process to replace another company."

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The body of the crowd orders the closure of all its offices within the cities

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The Popular People's Assembly issued a decree to remove all brigade headquarters from the cities, in particular the restored areas .

According to a document issued by the Office of the Deputy Chairman of the Commission, Jamal Jaafar Al-Ibrahim, the first Saturday, August 18, the latter directed the brigades of the crowd to remove all their headquarters from the cities, especially the areas that have been restored from the recently urged, and stressed that no brigade may open headquarters Or offices or deploying power within cities "outside the cutter of responsibility ".

Al-Ibrahim also ordered the brigades to disengage from their parties, factions and others.

http://www.nrttv.com/AR/News.aspx?id=3560&MapID=2

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Economist: Trade will remain with Iran and the private sector will not be affected by sanctions

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"The Iraqi private sector will not be affected by US sanctions against Iran," said Jamil Antoine, an economist. "There are more than 30 unofficial border ports between Iraq and Iran that will be used by traders to bring in goods and exchange dollars in cash."

"The sanctions take two forms on the public and private sectors. There are official countries that are committed to preventing the dollar from trading with Iran," Antoine said in a statement.

"The Iraqi private sector has not been subject to US sanctions, and there are a border with Iran of 1,300 km, with more than 30 unofficial border ports to be used to enter the goods," he said. And can be used for trade with Iran, which caused a rise in the dollar exchange rate, and therefore the private sector is looking for those who serve in Iraq.

http://www.almaalomah.com/2018/08/20/336738/

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1 hour ago, Butifldrm said:

Economist: Trade will remain with Iran and the private sector will not be affected by sanctions

08:51 - 20/08/2018

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Iraq and Iran

Information / Baghdad ..

"The Iraqi private sector will not be affected by US sanctions against Iran," said Jamil Antoine, an economist. "There are more than 30 unofficial border ports between Iraq and Iran that will be used by traders to bring in goods and exchange dollars in cash."

"The sanctions take two forms on the public and private sectors. There are official countries that are committed to preventing the dollar from trading with Iran," Antoine said in a statement.

"The Iraqi private sector has not been subject to US sanctions, and there are a border with Iran of 1,300 km, with more than 30 unofficial border ports to be used to enter the goods," he said. And can be used for trade with Iran, which caused a rise in the dollar exchange rate, and therefore the private sector is looking for those who serve in Iraq.

http://www.almaalomah.com/2018/08/20/336738/

If true... maybe this is what caused the CBI to fall out of IMF compliance regulations yesterday and today.

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Iran tells EU to speed up efforts to save nuclear deal

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 Iran urged Europe on Monday to speed upefforts to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and major powers that U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned in May, saying French oil group Total has formally pulled out a major gas project, Reuters said.
Efforts by the remaining signatories - EU members Britain, France and Germany plus China and Russia - to avoid the agreement’s collapse are struggling as Washington has said any firms dealing with Teheran will be barred from doing business in the United States.
“Europeans and other signatories of the deal have been trying to save the deal ... but the process has been slow. It should be accelerated,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said. “Iran relies mainly on its own capabilities to overcome America’s new sanctions,” he told a news conference broadcast on state TV.
European states have been scrambling to ensure Iran gets enough economic benefits to persuade it to stay in the deal, which Trump said was “deeply flawed”.

 

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/30837/Iran-tells-EU-to-speed-up-efforts-to-save-nuclear-deal

 

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2 hours ago, Pitcher said:

 Iran urged Europe on Monday to speed upefforts to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and major powers that U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned in May, saying French oil group Total has formally pulled out a major gas project, Reuters said.

 

YEPPERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Let's see. June, July, August, yep, three months out and Tehran is feelin' the squeeze and is a squealin'!!!

 

              

 

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.......................................if, The Coast MUST BE Clear Because The FRENCH Are HERE, then the Coast MUST NOT BE Clear No Mo Since The FRENCH Are LEAVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

So, what threat is Rouhani holding over the Europeans if the Europeans DO NOT "speed things up"???!!!

 

Reveal the list of 5 + 1 JCPOA pay off people paid off with the Cargo Plane loads of cash Barry had sent to "secure" the deal???!!! Will Barry AND Scary John Kerry be "listed"???!!!

 

The Israeli Mossad may already have the names and amounts due to their "raid" a while back.

 

So.............................................let the Insanians blow everybody's cover by releasing the names and amounts paid out to "secure" the no longer applicable JCPOA.

 

Looks like Iran is seeing the writing on the wall!!!

 

In The Mean Time..........................................................

 

Go Moola Nova (YEAH AND YEE HAW, BABY, READY WHEN YOU ARE BROTHER (OR SISTER) - LET 'ER BUCK!!!)!!!

   

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Bolton: Iran among four countries attempting to meddle in US election

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an is one of the four countries the US is most concerned about meddling in its upcoming November midterm elections, National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Sunday, according to Jerusalem Post.

Bolton, speaking from Jerusalem in an interview with ABC’S “This Week” program shortly before meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said the other three countries were Russia, China and North Korea.


Bolton said the US was taking steps to try and prevent meddling from each of those countries, though he did not go into specifics.

US President Donald Trump withdrew in May from the Iranian nuclear agreement, triggering significant economic and domestic political consequences for the Islamic Republic, and Tehran obviously has a clear interest in seeing Trump weakened politically in the US Congress.

 

 

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en

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Minister of Iran 's oil: our facilities are miserable and we can not afford

 

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The French oil and gas giant Total, on Monday, officially informed the Iranian authorities to withdraw from the South Pars gas project, which amounts to investments of billions of dollars, after not received exemption from US sanctions, announced the Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangneh that Iran's oil and gas facilities are in a state of disrepair and need renovation work, which Iran can not afford.

Zangeneh attended the Iranian parliament today to answer questions about safety concerns following a number of fires that have recently erupted in a number of refineries.

"A large part of the oil industry is crumbling, and the necessary modernization has not happened," the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying.

He confirmed the registration of 10 cases a day of the exposure of pipe holes in the facilities of southern Iran, and the life of some refineries up to 80 years, at a useful industrial facility 30 years. "We do not have resources to update them," he said.

Zengeneh said the French oil giant Total has officially withdrawn from a multi-billion dollar project in the South Pars field following the re-imposition of US sanctions on Tehran.

"Total has officially withdrawn from the agreement to develop phase 11 of the South Pars field, and more than two months have passed since it announced it would withdraw from the contract."

Woodman Mackenzie, an energy specialist at Wood Mackenzie in London, told Agence France-Presse that it was unlikely Chinese company CNBCI or the Iranian companies would take the project.

Total is not the only company that has put an end to its activities in Iran. Car and rail companies, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Telekom and French Air Liquefied Gas United State.

 

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[ChuckFinley]

On 7/31/2018 at 8:11 PM, jmartin1145 said:

I say we go for it. At my age, I would volunteer.

I asked to be recalled to active duty. If anything i may find the RV button. Trust me, I know what to due when I see it. 

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Just wait for the civilian unrest starts.

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2 hours ago, ChuckFinley said:

I asked to be recalled to active duty. If anything i may find the RV button. Trust me, I know what to due when I see it. 

Careful, one button is to RV, the other one to fire missels and the writing will be in arabic. To bypass, cut the blue wire and the g#@-+& wire not the b*#@&+ wire as this will cause missiles and RV. 

Ok, go go go.

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Washington offers 11 million barrels of oil reserves for sale

 

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Arab and international Economy News Baghdad The United States has announced plans to offer 11 million barrels of its oil reserves for sale as US economic sanctions against Iran begin. According to a sale notice issued by the US Department of Energy on Monday, high sulfur acid ore will reach the market in October and November. He added that the proposed period for the sale of crude will be from October 1 to November 30. This month, the US government began implementing economic sanctions against Tehran, coinciding with the US withdrawal from Iran's nuclear deal. It is scheduled to start implementation in October next new US sanctions on entities that import oil from Tehran. Views 9   Date Added 21/08/2018

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Washington offers 11 million barrels of oil reserves for sale

 

 21 August 2018 01:17 PM
Direct : The United States announced that it plans to offer 11 million barrels of oil reserves for sale with the start of the implementation of US economic sanctions against Iran.

According to a sale notice issued by the US Department of Energy on Monday, high sulfur acid ore will reach the market in October and November.

He added that the proposed period for the sale of crude will be from October 1 to November 30.

This month, the US government began implementing economic sanctions against Tehran, coinciding with the US withdrawal from Iran's nuclear deal.

It is scheduled to start implementation in November, new US sanctions on entities that import oil from Tehran

 

 

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AUGUST 21, 2018 / 3:35 AM / UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO

Exclusive: Iraq to ask U.S. for exemptions on some Iran sanctions

Ahmed Rasheed, Ahmed Aboulenein

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq’s economy is so closely linked to Iran that Baghdad is going to ask Washington for permission to ignore some U.S. sanctions on its neighbor, Iraqi government and central bank officials said.

An Iraqi worker unloads a truck from Iran, loaded with cosmetics, in Baghdad, Iraq August 17, 2018. REUTERS/Khalid Al-Mousily

U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from an international deal aimed at limiting Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year and reimposed trade sanctions.

Washington has said there will be consequences for countries that do not respect the sanctions.

Baghdad is in a difficult position. Iraq imports crucial supplies from ally Iran but its other major ally is the United States, which provides security assistance and training.

The request would mark an important change in political tactics for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. He initially said Baghdad would respect all the U.S. sanctions but faced heavy criticism from rivals.

The officials told Reuters a delegation will travel to Washington to ask for exemptions in applying the sanctions. They did not say when that trip would take place.

“The government plans to ask Washington for a waiver. It’s going to happen soon,” one central bank official said.

An official in Abadi’s office declined to comment.

An official in the U.S. State Department said it was discussing Iran policy with its partners around the world.

“We have given the same message to all countries around the world that the President has said, the United States is fully committed to enforcing all of our sanctions,” the official said.

“Iraq is a friend and important partner of the U.S and we are we are committed to ensuring Iraqi stability and prosperity.”

 

Iraqi officials fear shortages of key items if Baghdad complies with all the sanctions. This could lead to political turmoil at a delicate time in Iraqi politics.

Iraq imports a wide range of goods from Iran including food, agricultural products, home appliances, air conditioners and spare car parts. The goods element of Iranian imports to Iraq was about $6 billion for the 12 months ending March 2018, about 15 percent of Iraq’s total imports for 2017.

There are also energy contracts between the two countries contributing to a volume of trade of $12 billion last year.

The officials said they were asking each ministry to put together a list of imports that are essential for Iraq’s economy. Those items will make up the request for exemptions.

The U.S. sanctions that came into effect earlier this month target Iran’s trade in gold and other precious metals, its purchases of U.S. dollars and its car industry. Other sanctions will come into force in November.

 

EUROS NOT DOLLARS

Abadi has said Iraq will still respect the requirement on U.S. dollar purchases, which is a major part of the sanctions and one of the most awkward for businesses, given energy and other big trade deals.

It means that Iraqi banks and the government cannot pay the Iranian government or Iranian entities in dollars.

The central bank circulated a warning to private banks to abide by the ban on dollar transactions but it will allow transactions in euros, one central bank official said.

Several European countries, including France, Britain and Germany wanted the United States to stick by the international nuclear deal. The EU is working to maintain trade with Iran.

“We were encouraged by the position of European Union states toward Iran in respect to the American sanctions. They keep dealing with Iran in euros so why shouldn’t we?” a second Iraqi central bank official said.

Iraqi workers unload a truck from Iran, loaded with cosmetics, in Baghdad, Iraq August 17, 2018. REUTERS/Khalid Al-Mousily

 

SPARE CAR PARTS

The sanctions are particularly sensitive for companies with U.S. operations. Trump has said that those who do business in Iran will not be able to do business in the United Sates.

But most Iraqi private companies will be relatively unharmed by the sanctions, said a Western diplomat in Baghdad.

“Plenty of Iraqi businesses don’t have U.S. investments, don’t deal in dollars. Those can carry on dealing with Iran without issue,” he said.

It is government and public sector-run energy, construction and car industries, which will take a bigger hit, one Iraqi trade ministry official told Reuters.

“We rely mainly on Iran as a source of construction materials and automobiles, including spare parts, due to low prices and the ease of shipping through many joint border crossings,” he said.

Gunshots fired at U.S. embassy in Turkey

 

COMPLIANCE DIFFICULTIES

Even if the government has committed to complying with some of the sanctions, it may be difficult to enforce.

Local traders may still be happy to deal with Iranian counterparts because the fall of the Iranian rial against the U.S. dollar has made goods cheap and political and economic ties between the two countries are strong.

“It will be mission impossible for the government to prevent Iranian commodities from flowing across more than 1,300 kilometers (808 miles) of joint borders,” said Basim Antwan, a leading Iraqi economic consultant and member of the Iraqi Businessmen Union.

“Iran will use every single option at hand to keep the exports flowing, including the help of allied militia groups to secure what could be called ‘organized smuggling’.”

Abadi is leading a fragile caretaker cabinet while political parties try to negotiate a new governing coalition after a May election in which his bloc came third.

He has managed to balance U.S. and Iranian interests and hopes to stay on as a compromise premier.

But he may have been damaged after declaring he would fully comply with the U.S. sanctions. This could have helped his more pro-Iran rivals, who heavily criticized his decision.

Some Western diplomats say he must now come up with a compromise to balance U.S. and Iranian interests.

“There is a fear that Washington will force Iraq into a ‘you are with us or against us’ situation,” the Western diplomat said. “They should not force Iraq to make that choice.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-iraq-exclusive/exclusive-iraq-to-ask-u-s-for-exemptions-on-some-iran-sanctions-idUSKCN1L60Q7

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President Rohani: We do not trust America at all

Iranian President Hassan Rowhani stressed that Iran has no faith in America at all, and that its allies do not trust it either.

In his speech on Tuesday on the occasion of Defense Industries Day, President Rowhani praised the achievements made by Iran's military industries and expressed his hope that lasting peace will prevail throughout the world.

President Rohani pointed out that the enemies have promoted for four decades the Iranian intimidation project "Iranophobia" although we have never been used to it.

He said Iran had not attacked anyone in the past 40 years, even if it was an aggressor, taking advantage of exceptional opportunities to exploit it, such as retaliation against Iraq (because of its 1980-1988 war on Iran) after the occupation of Saddam Hussein's regime. The Soviet Union, but instead began to recognize the newly established States and worked to support and assist them.

He pointed out that Iran has volunteered to help the peoples of the region in the fight against terrorism, even though terrorism did not directly threaten us, as we dealt with terrorism and played a very prominent role in cleansing the region of terrorists. He hoped that lasting peace would prevail in the region and the world. The enemies must realize that the attack on Iran will cost them a heavy price. "

"Some people mistakenly think that if we increase our defense capabilities, that means going to war, while that means calling for peace," he said.

The Iranian president stressed the need to strengthen deterrent capabilities to see the enemy in his calculations that the aggression against Iran cost him dearly, adding that there are neighboring countries that ostensibly want to preserve their security but at a heavy cost of economic, political and financial, as they buy weapons of the most expensive and can not use and are forced to To recruit foreign advisers who are basically unable to buy weapons without being subject to them, they pay a very high political price.

President Rowhani considered the training aircraft "Kawthar" a national pride of Iran's military industries as a completely national-made aircraft.

He pointed to the difficulty of the possibility of manufacturing aircraft by a state alone and said that it is possible to cooperate with friendly countries to participate in the manufacture of aircraft, for example, Pakistan and Turkey.

President Rohani stressed that we do not trust America at all and Europe does not trust it either, as well as China and many other allies of the United States and even Canada.

"The United States does not attack us militarily because it knows our capabilities," he said, referring to the US Congress's decision not to allow the US government to take military action against Iran for their knowledge of Iran's capabilities and that if they did, they would pay a heavy price.

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An Iraqi delegation intends to go to Washington to demand that it be exempted from its sanctions against Tehran

 

An Iraqi delegation intends to go to Washington to demand that it be exempted from its sanctions against Tehran

 

 

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An official source said Tuesday that Iraq will submit a request to the United States to exempt him from some US sanctions imposed by Washington on Iran. 

The source said that 'a delegation will travel to Washington to seek exemptions in the application of sanctions,'  

adding that 'the Iraqi government is planning to ask Washington to get the exemption,' noting that 'it will happen soon'.

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 2018-08-21 BY SOTALIRAQ

Al-Alusi attacks Iraq's ambassador to Iran: stand with it in the face of US sanctions Rebel against the Iraqi state!

 

On August 21, 2018, the Secretary General of the Iraqi Umma Party attacked the Iraqi ambassador to Iran, Saber al-Moussawi, for saying that Baghdad would not leave Tehran in its ordeal against US sanctions. Greetings.

Al-Alusi said that "the statements of the Iraqi ambassador in Tehran is very flawed and dangerous, and it is wrong to hear such statements from an Iraqi employee and considers a rebellion against the decision of the state," noting that "he has no right to speak on behalf of the Iraqi state, only the policy adopted by the government, The statement is strange and strange. "

"I salute Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for his commitment to international legitimacy and his commitment to the approach to calm the Middle East away from Iranian tendencies that call for the destruction of the Middle East," he said.

"US sanctions against Iran can only be met by Iraq, and anyone who calls for non-compliance confirms that he does not belong to Iraq or is unaware of the seriousness of non-compliance with sanctions against Iraq and the Iraqis."

Iraqi Ambassador to Iran Saber al-Moussawi said Tuesday that Baghdad would not leave Tehran in its ordeal against US sanctions, while noting that the relationship between them was a red line for Iraq.

"The behavior of any country will not affect relations between Iran and Iraq and Baghdad will not let Tehran alone in the circumstances of the embargo," Moussawi was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency. "The relationship between Iraq and Iran is 'vital.' Relationship is one of the red lines of Iraq. "

"The behavior of a country can not affect the relations between Baghdad and Tehran, and we will remain with Tehran in the circumstances of the embargo, certainly, especially as Iran has remained in the hands of Iran," Moussawi said. Side of the Iraqi people in the most difficult circumstances and we can never forget the services provided by Iran to our country. "

The US sanctions on Iran entered into force on Tuesday, August 7, 2018, in what the US president called "the harshest sanctions imposed so far" and that it will be escalated to a new level in November, threatening anyone who cooperates with Tehran in "Loss of business relations with the United States.

https://www.sotaliraq.com/2018/08/21/الآلوسي-يهاجم-سفير-العراق-بايران-وقوف/