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US officials said on Tuesday that four US B-52 fighter jets would be sent to the Middle East as tensions between Iran and the United States escalated. 
US officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the force would be accompanied by a crew of personnel to command and maintain the aircraft, and said the aircraft had not yet been sent to the Middle East. 
The White House national security adviser, John Bolton, said on Sunday that Trump's management would send a carrier carrier group and bomber force to the Middle East. 
He said the move came in response to worrying "signs and warnings" from Iran and to show that the United States would respond "strongly" to any attack.

Tension mounted on the eve of the anniversary of the US withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. 
Iranian state media have speculated that Iran is resuming part of its nuclear program in response to the US move, but has no intention of withdrawing from the agreement itself.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) described the United States' announcement to send a carrier and bombers to the Middle East to send a message to Tehran as a "psychological war," Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday.

John Bolton, the US national security adviser, said on Sunday that the United States would deploy the Abraham Lincoln attack carrier group and a launchers force to the Middle East to send a message to Iran.

"Bolton's statement is a cynical use of a spent psychological war," Kywan Khosravi, spokesman for the Supreme National Security Council, was quoted as saying.

He said the aircraft carrier had arrived in the Mediterranean for weeks.

US Defense Secretary Patrick Chanahan said on Monday he had agreed to send an aircraft carrier and bombers to the Middle East because of "a serious threat from the Iranian regime."

Shanahan did not give any details on the relevant intelligence.

"This deployment appears to be periodically prepared by the US Navy and Bolton is trying to exploit it," Iran's state-run Press TV reported.

Separately, a military adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the United States "does not want and can not" launch an attack on Iran, the ISNA news agency reported.

Brigadier-General Hussein Dehqan said Washington would have difficulty convincing world opinion and countries in the region to accept a full-scale war on Iran and mobilize resources for such a conflict.

Iranian newspapers and commentators have widely criticized the Washington Declaration as "deceit" and "meaningless words."

Iran said last month it was ready for a US decision to end exemptions granted to some Iranian oil buyers, as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard repeated its threat to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz if it prevented Tehran from using it. About 30 percent of world oil exports pass through the strait.

Bolton or Shanahan did not elaborate on US intelligence on the decision to send the aircraft carrier group, but other US officials told Reuters there were "multiple and credible threats" against US forces on the ground, including in Iraq from Iran and the proxy forces at sea.

US-Iranian tensions escalated after Washington moved on Friday to force Tehran to halt production of low-enriched uranium and expand its only nuclear plant. Washington has stepped up its campaign to halt Iran's ballistic missile program and limit its influence in the region.

Iran's official media said on Monday that Iran would revive part of its nuclear program in response to the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal but did not intend to withdraw from the deal in turn.

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Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said the planned deal with ExxonMobil was not linked to the decision to exempt Iraq from US sanctions against Iran.

Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday that there is no relationship between an initial oil deal close to Iraq's contract with Exxon Mobil, and obtaining exemptions from sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States, according to Reuters.

US President Donald Trump made a decision last year to withdraw from Iran's nuclear deal and reinstate sanctions against Iran, with some countries giving temporary exemptions.

He noted that Iraq is close to signing a $ 53 billion 30-year deal with Exxon Mobil and PetroChina to develop the oil infrastructure in the south under a giant energy project.

According to press reports, yesterday, that the ambassador of Iran in London, he pointed to a deal whereby exempt Iraq to deal with Iran economically, in return for Baghdad signed an oil agreement with Washington.

Iraq currently has a temporary exemption from the United States allowing it to import gas from Iran.


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Rowhani announces that Iran has stopped selling heavy water and enriched uranium

2019-05-08 08:33
Rowhani announces that Iran has stopped selling heavy water and enriched uranium
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President Hassan Rowhani announced that Iran would stop selling heavy water and enriched uranium for 60 days.

Iran will suspend the sale of enriched uranium and heavy water, and it will last 60 days, " the president said in a speech broadcast on Press TV . " Iran will take two more steps if the member states do not come to Tehran and bridge the imbalance between us and them." 

"The Europeans promised us to fill the vacuum of Washington's withdrawal and did not meet their commitments," Rouhani said.
Rowhani said earlier that Tehran had sent five letters to member states on Wednesday to agree on Iran's nuclear program to suspend the implementation of part of the commitments. 

Earlier, the ISNA reported that Rouhani might announce countermeasures to Tehran on Wednesday regarding the US withdrawal last year from a nuclear deal. 

According to him, the plan, which Rowhani can announce, does not at the moment mean Iran'swithdrawal from the nuclear deal, yet this may be a partial termination of Iran's compliance with its obligations under the agreement

 

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Iranian President Hassan Rowhani said on Wednesday that his country would stop selling enriched uranium and heavy water.

"He has sent letters to the five parties in the nuclear agreement on the new steps that Iran will take within the framework of the agreement and not to get out of it," Rowhani said in a statement. "We will stop selling enriched uranium and heavy water, Nuclear deal 60 days to implement their pledges. "

He added that "the friends of America and its allies also suffer from US unilateral policy as well," noting that "the European parties to the nuclear agreement have taken positive steps, but not enough."Ending / 25

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Iran inches away from nuclear deal amid U.S. sanctions, sets 60-day deadline

 
In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a Cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. Rouhani said Wednesday that it will begin keeping its excess uranium and heavy water from its nuclear program, setting a 60-day deadline for new terms to its nuclear deal with world powers before it will resume higher uranium enrichment. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a Cabinet meeting in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. Rouhani said Wednesday that it will begin keeping its excess ... more >
 
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By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press - Wednesday, May 8, 2019

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran threatened Wednesday to resume higher enrichment of uranium in 60 days if world powers fail to negotiate new terms for its 2015 nuclear deal a year after President Trump withdrew from the accord, raising tensions as a U.S. aircraft carrier and a bomber wing deploy to confront unspecified threats from Tehran.

In a televised address, President Hassan Rouhani also said that Iran would stop exporting excess uranium and heavy water from its nuclear program, two requirements of the deal. He did not elaborate on the degree to which Iran was prepared to enrich uranium, which at high levels of enrichment can be used in nuclear weapons.

Rouhani said Iran wanted to negotiate new terms with remaining partners in the deal, but acknowledged that the situation was dire.

“We felt that the nuclear deal needs a surgery and the painkiller pills of the last year have been ineffective,” Rouhani said. “This surgery is for saving the deal, not destroying it.”

The 2015 deal lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits on its nuclear program. After the U.S. withdrew from the accord it restored crippling sanctions on Iran, exacerbating a severe economic crisis. The Iranian rial, which traded at 32,000 to $1 at the time of the accord, traded Wednesday at 153,500.



Iran notified Britain, Russia, China, the European Union, France and Germany of its decision earlier Wednesday. All were signatories to the nuclear deal and continue to support it. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was to meet Wednesday in Moscow with his Russian counterpart.

“If the five countries join negotiations and help Iran to reach its benefits in the field of oil and banking, Iran will return to its commitments according to the nuclear deal,” Rouhani said.

However, Rouhani warned of a “strong reaction” if European leaders instead sought to impose more sanctions on Iran via the U.N. Security Council. He did not elaborate.

Zarif separately issued his own warning from Moscow.

“After a year of patience, Iran stops measures that (the) US has made impossible to continue,” he tweeted. World powers have “a narrowing window to reverse this.”

Rouhani also said that if the 60 days pass without action, Iran will halt a Chinese-led effort to redesign its Arak heavy water nuclear reactor. Such reactors produce plutonium that can be used in nuclear weapons.

There was no immediate response from the U.S. However, the White House said Sunday it would dispatch an aircraft carrier and a bomber wing to the Persian Gulf over what it described as a new threat from Iran.

Iran reached the deal with world powers in 2015 after years of negotiations, including secret talks between Iran and President Barack Obama’s administration in Oman. Western governments had long feared Iran’s atomic program could allow it to build nuclear weapons. Iran has always maintained its program is for peaceful purposes.

That Iran chooses to keep its excess uranium and heavy water first, rather than abandon the accord in its entirety, shows it still hopes to secure a deal. Under the 2015 deal, Iran can keep a stockpile of no more than 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of low-enriched uranium. That’s compared to the 10,000 kilograms (22,046 pounds) of higher-enriched uranium it once had.

The U.S. last week ended deals allowing Iran to exchange its enriched uranium for unrefined yellowcake uranium with Russia, and to sell its heavy water, which is used as a coolant in nuclear reactors, to Oman. The U.S. also has ended waivers for nations buying Iranian crude oil, a key source of revenue for Iran’s government.

Currently, the accord limits Iran to enriching uranium to 3.67%, which can fuel a commercial nuclear power plant. Weapons-grade uranium needs to be enriched to around 90%. However, once a country enriches uranium to around 20%, scientists say the time needed to reach 90% is halved. Iran has previously enriched to 20%.

 

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Pentagon confirms preparations for war in the Middle East .. We sent reinforcements suitable for the next stage

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Although we have informed Iraq of the importance of ensuring the security of US forces and the interests and rules of the United States on its territory as well as provide full security for the US Embassy, but we will strengthen the protection of troops and sophisticated weapons that we may need.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hinted during a surprise visit to Baghdad on Friday to meet President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi.

As Pompeo explained that Washington is determined to remove any provocative activities in the Middle East and to punish any Iranian escalation directly or through arms in Iraq or Lebanon or other sites, stressing that there is no choice for Iraq only to support the US position or stand side by side in the face of the States United Nations.

Today, a few hours after the departure of US Secretary of State Iraq, the Pentagon announced the dispatch of 4 nuclear bombers capable of completely wiping out any threat to troops or bases or installations or the US Embassy in Iraq with a full review and satellite surveys of the vicinity of these headquarters, 24 hours.

Which confirms that the decision of war or a strike to restrict Iran and oblige it not to export oil to exert maximum pressure and achieve the most severe results on Tehran has already taken, is the hint of the spokesman for the US Department of Defense CommanderShan Robertson - Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - that the military equipment in Middle East commensurate with the stage and the future.

The United States has sent its Middle East power in a move that has not happened since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. The USS John Stennis, a built-in nuclear reactor, and Abraham Lincoln's aircraft carrier group, boosted it today with nuclear bombers that bomb their targets from the highest point, With a bank set by Washington, it will take a number of influential positions in Iran and in influential countries such as Iraq and Lebanon.

 

 

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Russia blaming US for Iran's withdrawal from some parts of nuclear deal

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Russia's foreign ministry knocked the Trump administration on Wednesday after Iran's government announced that it would cease honoring parts of the 2015 nuclear agreement with the U.S. unless it was protected from U.S. sanctions.

Reuters reported Wednesday that Russia's foreign ministry issued a statement blaming President Trump for "the consequences of unthought-out steps" he had supposedly taken related to Iran after Iran's President Hassan Rouhani announced that his country would resume some uranium enrichment.

“President Putin has repeatedly spoken of the consequences of unthought-out steps regarding Iran and by that I mean the decision taken by Washington [to abandon the Iran deal]," Dmitry Peskov said, according to Reuters. 

"Now we are seeing those consequences are starting to happen,” Peskov reportedly added.

Peskov's statement came hours after Rouhani vowed to resume nuclear enrichment processes unless Russia, China, and three European countries remaining in the agreement with Iran worked together and shielded Iran's economy from damaging U.S. sanctions imposed last year.

Rouhani promised Wednesday that Iran would cease enrichment if a deal was made to block the sanctions' effects from reaching Iran, according to Reuters.

“If the five countries came to the negotiating table and we reached an agreement, and if they could protect our interests in the oil and banking sectors, we will go back to square one,” Rouhani reportedly said.

“The Iranian people and the world should know that today is not the end of the [the Iran deal],” he added, according to Reuters. “These are actions in line with the [agreement].”

The White House did not immediately return a request for comment on Wednesday's announcement.

 

https://thehill.com/policy/international/442645-russia-blaming-us-for-irans-withdrawal-from-some-parts-of-nuclear-deal

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Iran threatens not to comply with nuclear agreement and gives Europe 60 days

Iran threatens not to comply with nuclear agreement and gives Europe 60 days

08 May 2019 3:24 PM
Direct: Iranian President Hassan Rowhani has threatened that his country may end its commitment to two of its own nuclear Convention on the country 's conditions.

The announcement came almost a year after US President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal and reaffirmed economic sanctions against Tehran.

The Iranian president said in a televised address on Wednesday that there was a 60-day deadline for Europe either to take the same position of the US administration or to resume oil trade with Tehran to save the agreement.

 

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The failure to make the final choice would boost Tehran's return to a high level of uranium enrichment.

After US sanctions on oil were applied last November, with eight countries giving exceptions to the purchase of Iranian crude, it ended the move since May 2 to make Washington sanctions applicable to all countries.

"The path chosen today is not the path of war but the path of diplomacy," he said. "But diplomacy is in a new language and a new logic."

The Iranian president pointed out that if Europe did not intensify its efforts to save the nuclear deal and protect the oil sectors and banks from Iranian sanctions, the United States will resume the construction of its nuclear reactor, "Arak", which was closed as part of the 2015 agreement.

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Europe would ONLY benefit by having the Mu la lahs REMOVED from Iran AND IMPLEMENTING the Old, er, NEW Silk Road Trade THROUGH Iraq AND Iran. SO Rouhani WILL LIKELY BE LEFT ALL ALONE BY NECESSITY AND DESIGN THEN SUBSEQUENTLY REMOVED WITHIN AND/OR WITHOUT.

 

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Europeans struggle to preserve Iran nuclear accord

 

The world powers struggling to preserve anuclear deal with Iran are facing an increasingly uphill battle, with a new deadline from Tehran on finding a solution to make up for last year’s unilateral US withdrawal from the accord and the increasing economic hardship that has put on mullah regime, AP reported.

After Iran notified Britain, Russia, China, the European Union, France and Germany of its intentions in a letter, Iranian President HassanRouhani said in a televised address Wednesday that the nations have 60 days to come up with a plan to shield his country from the sanctions imposed by US President Donald Trump after he pulled Washington out of the deal.

“If the five countries join negotiations and helpIran to reach its benefits in the field of oil and banking, Iran will return to its commitments according to the nuclear deal,” Rouhani said.

The 2015 deal, intended to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, promised economic incentives in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear activities. Despite efforts so far by the others to keep the deal from collapsing, Iran’s economy has been struggling and its currency has plummeted in value after the re-imposition of US sanctions.

Later Wednesday, Trump issued an executive order announcing new sanctions targeting Iran’s steel, aluminum, copper and iron sectors, which provide foreign currency earnings for Tehran.

Many international corporations are reluctant to risk running afoul of Washington and have severed ties with Iran; a complicated barter-type system set up by the Europeans to allow their businesses to skirt direct financial transactions with Iran — and thus evade possible US sanctions — is not yet finalized.

Iran has continued abiding by the stipulations of the deal, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, but had been expressing increasing frustration with the inability of the Europeans to provide economic relief, culminating with Wednesday’s threat to resume higher enrichment of uranium in 60 days unless new terms are negotiated.

Despite Rouhani’s threatening rhetoric and the now-ticking clock, Europeans were cautiously hoping the Iranian president was not on the verge of breaking the deal but instead seeking to show strength domestically as the economy slumps.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said his office had been in contact with all the others involved in the Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, since the announcement to see what could be done to get Tehran to back down.

“Our opinion is and remains: We want to preserve the agreement, in particular to preventIran from coming into possession of nuclear weapons,” he told reporters. “We don’t need further escalation in the region.”

Similarly, French Defense Minister Florence Parly told BFMTV television that “nothing would be worse than Iran leaving this deal.”

“We absolutely want to keep this agreement alive,” Parly said.

At a meeting with US Secretary of State MikePompeo in London, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt called Iran’s threat “unwelcome” and urged it not to take “further escalatory steps,” while emphasizing Britain was not ready to give up on the JCPOA.

“For as long as Iran keeps its commitments then so, too, will the United Kingdom,” he said.

Hunt said Britain and the US agreed on the need to confront the threat from Iran, but “it’s no secret we have a different approach on how best to achieve that.”

Pompeo was restrained in his own assessment of the letter that Iran sent to the JCPOA group outlining its intentions.

“I think it was intentionally ambiguous,” he said. “We’ll have to wait to see what Iran’s actions actually are. They have made have made a number of statements about actions they have threatened to do in order to get the world to jump.”

In his television address, Rouhani also tried a gambit designed to hit a sore spot for Europe, over the issue of migration and drug-smuggling.

Noting that Iran now cooperates on issues like controlling immigration and targeting Afghan opium and hashish traffickers, he said: “You are obliged... for your own security, for protecting your youths against drugs as well as controlling influx of immigrants.”

There was no immediate response from officials in Europe, which has seen an influx of refugees and migrants from the Middle East in recent years.

China, a key Iranian ally and trading partner, suggested that Washington’s recent decision to deploy an aircraft carrier group and a bomber wing to the Middle East to confront unspecified threats from Tehran had added fuel to the fire.

“We regret that the US has further aggravated the tension on the Iranian nuclear issue,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said. “We call on all parties concerned to exercise restraint, strengthen dialogue and avoid escalating tensions.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov went a step further, saying the situation surrounding the fate of the 2015 nuclear accord has been complicated by “irresponsible behavior” from Washington.

After meeting in Moscow with his Iranian counterpart Mohammed Javad Zarif, Lavrov reaffirmed Russia’s support for the deal and blamed the US for undermining it.

“The US is to blame for the situation and it makes it difficult for both Iran to fulfill its obligations and... for the general state of the nuclear non-proliferation regime,” Lavrov said.

Zarif insisted that Iran’s decision to partially withdraw from certain provisions did not violate the agreement, and asserted it was provoked byUS actions toward Iran.

He also said Iran will uphold its obligations if European signatories to the deal uphold theirs.

 

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US imposes new sanctions on Iran as tensions escalate

US imposes new sanctions on Iran as tensions escalate

US President Donald Trump ordered new sanctions on Iran Wednesday, just days after the US dispatched an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the Arabian Gulf over what it described as a new threat from Tehran, AP reported.

The sanctions target Iran’s steel, aluminum, copper and iron sectors, which provide foreign currency earnings for the nation’s sagging economy. The White House said it would continue its “maximum pressure” campaign on the Iranian government until it stops supporting terror groups, ends destabilizing activities in the region, gives up any nuclear weapons efforts and ends any development of ballistic missiles.

“We call on the regime to abandon its nuclear ambitions, change its destructive behavior, respect the rights of its people, and return in good faith to the negotiating table,”Trump said.

The United States, Germany, Britain, France, Russia, China and the European Union signed a deal with Iran in 2015 that lifted international sanctions in exchange for Tehran limiting its nuclear program, including restrictinguranium enrichment for 10 years.

One year ago, Trump pulled out of the agreement, which he called “the worst deal in history.” He said the accord should also have restrained Iran’s ballistic missile program and curbed what his administration considers Tehran’s malign activities in the region. The administration then re-imposed crippling economicsanctions on Iran that had been lifted under the agreement.

The other nations have remained in the deal and have tried to provide Iran with enough economic incentives to keep the agreement alive.

Iran threatened on Wednesday to enrich its uranium stockpile closer to weapons-grade levels in 60 days if world powers fail to negotiate new terms for its 2015 nuclear deal. Iran has stopped its sale of excess uranium and heavy water as a first step — something required under the deal.

In 60 days, if no new deal is in place, Iran said it would increase its enrichment of uranium beyond 3.67%, which is permitted by the accord. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani did not say how far Iran would be willing to enrich, although the head of its nuclear program again reiterated Iran could reach 20% enrichment within four days. Once a country enrichesuranium to around 20%, scientists say the time needed to reach the 90% threshold for weapons-grade uranium is halved.

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US accuses Iran of ‘nuclear blackmail’ as Trump places new sanctions on metal sector

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The Iran Alloy Steel Company's plant in the central Iranian city of Yazd. Trump on Wednesday announced sanctions against Iran's steel and mining sectors. (AFP/File photo)

 

 

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Iran threatens more action if countries did not shield it from sanctions

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered new sanctions on Iran, this time targeting export revenues from its industrial metals sector, and vowed to keep squeezing Tehran unless it “fundamentally alters” its policies.
The announcement was made on the anniversary of Trump’s unilateral withdrawal of the United States from a 2015 landmark deal between Tehran and world powers to curb its nuclear program in exchange for easing some sanctions and hours after Tehran said it would no longer fully comply with the accord.
Tensions were already high between Washington and Tehran when the Trump administration said last weekend that it was deploying a carrier strike group and bombers to the Middle East, in response to what it said were “troubling indications and warnings” from Iran.
Before Trump’s executive order for the sanctions, a senior White House official said Washington would impose more economic curbs on Tehran ‘very soon’ and had warned Europe to stop doing business with Iran.
“Today’s action targets Iran’s revenue from the export of industrial metals — 10 percent of its export economy — and puts other nations on notice that allowing Iranian steel and other metals into your ports will no longer be tolerated,” Trump said in a statement.
“Tehran can expect further actions unless it fundamentally alters its conduct,” Trump said.
The Trump administration says the nuclear deal, negotiated by his predecessor Barack Obama, was flawed as it is not permanent, does not address Iran’s ballistic missile program and does not punish it for waging proxy wars in other Middle East countries.
Leading Democratic lawmakers such as Chris Murphy, the top Democrat on the Senate’s Middle East subcommittee, said Iran’s halting compliance to some parts of the deal was “disastrous news” and accused Republican Trump’s administration of making America much less safe through its policies. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi requested a briefing on Iran for members.
Hours before the fresh US sanctions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced Tehran was reducing curbs to its nuclear program with steps that for now stopped short of violating the 2015 accord. But it threatened more action if countries did not shield it from sanctions.
Tehran halting compliance with some elements of the nuclear deal was “nothing less than nuclear blackmail of Europe,” Tim Morrison, special assistant to the US president and senior director for weapons of mass destruction, told a conference.
“Now is the time for the community of nations to strongly condemn Iran’s nuclear misconduct and increase pressure on the regime to comply with US demands,” Morrison said, adding that Washington was not ‘done’ with sanctions on Iran.
Morrison said the United States would move quickly against any attempt by European countries to undermine Washington’s sanctions pressure on Iran. He advised them against using the so-called Special Purpose Vehicle to facilitate non-dollar trade to circumvent US sanctions.
“If you are a bank, an investor, an insurer or other business in Europe you should know that getting involved in the ... Special Purpose Vehicle is a very poor business decision,” Morrison said.
Spearheaded by national security adviser John Bolton, the Trump administration has taken several unprecedented steps to squeeze Iran such as demanding the world halt all Iranian oil imports and designating Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, which Iran has cast as an American provocation.
“We have made our focus diplomatic isolation and economic pressure and that policy is working,” Brian Hook, Special Envoy for Iran, said in a briefing. Hook said that more nations now, compared with a year ago, were in agreement with the United States on Iran.
Washington’s European allies opposed Trump’s decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal and have failed so far to find ways to blunt the economic impact of new US sanctions.
 

 

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issued US President Donald Trump, executive orders to impose new sanctions on Iran, and affect the new US sanctions on Iran , iron, steel, aluminum and copper sector. 
The White House said Trump's new decree would direct new US sanctions against Iranian manufacturers and metal producers, as well as those trading metals from Iran. 
The decree states that sanctions are directed against manufacturers and mineral producers in the country, as well as against those trading in minerals from Iran, whose assets may be banned in US jurisdictions by a decision of the US Treasury Department. 
A full year has passed since US President Donald H. Trump announced the withdrawal from the nuclear deal signed in 2015 between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain) and Germany.

 

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Iran Sends a Threat, and Europe Scrambles

Some diplomats and experts worry the nuclear deal is on the verge of unraveling.

BY KEITH JOHNSON, ROBBIE GRAMER
 | MAY 8, 2019, 4:00 PM

A portrait of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani with shoe marks over it during a demonstration in support of the Iranian people amid a wave of protests spreading throughout Iran in Paris on Jan. 3, 2018.

A portrait of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani with shoe marks over it during a demonstration in support of the Iranian people amid a wave of protests spreading throughout Iran in Paris on Jan. 3, 2018. LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

A year after the Trump administration walked away from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and reimposed punishing economic sanctions, Tehran’s patience and willingness to keep up its end of the bargain may be finally running out. Iran said Wednesday that it would stop complying with a pair of key provisions of the nuclear accord, setting up a showdown with Washington and the European countries that so far have been willing to toss Tehran a lifeline.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Iran would stop shipping to other countries the enriched uranium and heavy water—two building blocks of a nuclear weapons program—that it still produced, breaking with a pair of promises it made in the 2015 accord, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Some analysts suggested Tehran’s implicit message was at once a plea and a threat to the European and Chinese parties to the nuclear deal: Help us, or we’ll go rogue. “Iran is shifting from strategic patience to strategic action,” said Ellie Geranmayeh, a scholar at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

The initial move was less drastic than many observers feared and didn’t include any immediate steps to churn out more highly enriched uranium that could be the forerunner of a bomb. Still, Iran’s shot across the bow could portend the end of the deal if Europe doesn’t scramble to help save it.

“It could have been much worse. Iran has taken minimum retaliatory measures against U.S. maximum pressure,” said Ali Vaez, the Iran director at the International Crisis Group, a think tank. “The ball is now in the court of the deal’s remaining signatories to choose between challenging U.S. unilateral sanctions [and] witnessing additional Iranian violations leading to eventual unraveling of the deal.”

Ominously, Rouhani said that if economic relief doesn’t arrive in the next two months, Iran will forswear other limits on its ability to further enrich or stockpile enriched uranium, potentially making it easier for the regime to quickly build a nuclear weapon.

“This is the beginning of the end of the JCPOA, I think,” said Richard Nephew, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. “The real problem is that we are now back to the races with a 60-day Iranian clock and doubtless U.S. retaliation with more sanctions to come. So the threat is more from the inevitable escalation than what happened today.”

Others are more hopeful. “The Iranians made this gesture because they’re not prepared to fully breach the deal, yet they’re still looking for some other way out,” said Suzanne Maloney, an expert on Iran at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank.

The two big questions now are how the United States responds and whether Europe can make good on a year of promises to deliver at least some of the economic benefits Iran was promised under the nuclear deal.

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt condemned Iran’s move during a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who visited London on Wednesday. “Should Iran cease to observe its nuclear commitments, there would, of course, be consequences. For as long as Iran keeps its commitments, then so too will the United Kingdom,” Hunt said.

Pompeo said the United States would hold off on a response to see if Iran actually followed through with the threat. “We’ll have to wait to see what Iran’s actions actually are. They’ve made a number of statements about actions they threatened to do in order to get the world to jump. We’ll see what they actually do. The United States will wait to observe that,” he said at the joint press conference.

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- US President Donald Trump has issued executive orders to impose new sanctions on Iran. 
The US authorities said they were seeking "to deprive Iran of mineral export revenues to finance its nuclear program," noting that "there are sanctions on foreign financial institutions have dealings with the Iranian mining sector."
 
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POSTED ON 2019-05-08 BY SOTALIRAQ

 

Iraqi party: former Prime Minister and Sulaimani are preparing to drop Abdul Mahdi hit

 

 

Iraq's Umma Party leader Mithal al-Alusi said on Tuesday there was a project led by a former prime minister of Iraq and the commander of the Quds Force in Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Qassem Soleimani, to topple the current government headed by Adel Abdul Mahdi.

"The deep state of the deep state foundations and the deep interests of the state, the financial corruption of millions of dollars and influence lies with Adel Abdul Mahdi, as much as possible, and aware that the latter can not be changed through the House of Representatives," Alusi said.

He said that "these people now want a US or Israeli strike in Iraq, after which there is a security breach and then work on mass mobilization, religious and militia, and here the government falls."

"This project is led by one of the former prime ministers, with the blessing and support of the commander of the Iranian Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani," the senior Iraqi politician said.

US officials have said earlier that their country's intelligence had identified "multiple and serious threats" from Iran and its forces primarily against US forces in Iraq, and said there were also concerns about US forces in Syria and neighboring seas.

https://www.sotaliraq.com/2019/05/08/حزب-عراقي-رئيس-وزراء-سابق-وسليماني-يعد/

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Economy News _ Baghdad

US special envoy to Iran, Brian Hawke, said the United States would not grant any other exemptions to allow any country to buy Iranian oil without facing US sanctions.

Noting that the global oil markets have already absorbed the suspension of Iranian oil exports in full as part of the campaign of US President Donald Trump to exert economic pressure on Tehran.


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A parliamentary call for an Iraqi national security meeting to discuss the Iranian-American escalation

BAGHDAD / Al-Maslala: On Thursday, May 9, 2019, MP Ali Al-Badiri called on the Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Adel Abdul Mahdi, to hold a national security meeting to discuss the Iranian-American escalation.

"The time is very critical, especially there are threats and intimidation by the United States of America and by the Islamic Republic of Iran," said al-Badairi, adding that "if there is any clash, Iraq will be the first victim."

He pointed out that "Abd al-Mahdi should give a picture of the whole world, especially Iran and America, about Iraq's position on the conflict that is taking place between them. So far, the picture is vague. The decision maker must know who has the intention to intervene in the conflict. American. "

He pointed out that "Abd al-Mahdi has to hold a security meeting and expanded and be a national security meeting, involving all five parties are the security and the armed forces and foreign intelligence and intelligence, in order to take an important decision to remove Iraq from any danger, and there is a unity in the resolution, and the decision is Iraqi, The message is clear to the American and Iranian side and any other party, so far the two parties feel that there is a fog in Iraq's position. "

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http://almasalah.com/ar/news/170597/دعوة-نيابية-لعقد-اجتماع-أمن-قومي-عراقي-لمناقشة-التصعيد-الايراني--الأمريكي

 
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2019/05/09 12:39
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Russian sources: Iraqi approach to Moscow because of pressure from Washington

MOSCOW, May 9, 2019 (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has plans to head for Russia as a "strong" international ally because of US pressure, Russian news agency RT reported on Thursday (May 9th, 2019).

"Iraq is living in a state of instability as a result of American pressure on it, especially with regard to the recent tension between Washington and Tehran, although it wants to distance itself from this tension and try not to be a party, but the recent visit of the US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo to Iraq proved that America wants Iraq to be part of any war between them and Iran. "

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America is sending more troops to the region to deter Iran

Discusses the redeployment of Patriot missiles  

 arabic  09/05/2019 - 12:02 published in the Middle East 

America is sending more troops to the region to deter Iran

US officials have confirmed that the United States is preparing to send more troops to the Middle East in response to threats Washington said Iran is making on US military in the region.

The officials, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the media, told the Associated Press on Thursday that Washington is expected to deploy two new bombers in the region, adding that consultations are underway on the possibility of re-deployment batteries Patriot missile systems In the Middle East .

A final decision on Patriot's deployment in the Middle East has yet to be made, and it may depend on whether the United States believes Iran is taking steps to reduce the alleged "risks".

Washington withdrew some Patriot batteries from Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan last year and it is not clear whether these systems will return to the same countries if the resolution is adopted.

The news came days after Washington sent a group of warships led by the Abraham Lincoln carrier with a force of bombers to the region in response to the increased risk posed by Iran and its allies in the region to US military, according to the United States.

US officials have revealed to the media some details of the risks, including that the United States is concerned in particular about Tehran's deployment of missiles on small boats off its coast.

 

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/ar/news/middle-east/519649

 

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2 hours ago, Butifldrm said:

The message is clear to the American and Iranian side and any other party, so far the two parties feel that there is a fog in Iraq's position.

 

  :lmao:     :lmao:     :lmao:

 

  :shakehead:     :shakehead:     :shakehead:

 

:facepalm3:   :facepalm3:   :facepalm3:

 

So, OK, The True The United States Of America Patriot Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo JUST MADE IT VERY CRYSTAL CLEAR TO the Bicraqi Iraqi ON HIS RECENT IMPROMTU UNSCHEDULED VISIT:

  • Iraq IS a Safe, Secure, Stable, AND Sovereign State INDEPENDENT OF ALL OTHER STATES INCLUDING the Insanian Mu la lahs AND Insanian IRGC.
  • The Insanians, to INCLUDE the Insanian IRGC, NOW are to be Ceased AND Desisted FROM ANY INFLUENCES IN ANY Bicraqi Iraqi AFFAIRS OF ANY SORT.
  • The Insanians, to INCLUDE the Insanian IRGC, ARE HAVING THE WRATH OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BEING BROUGHT DOWN ON THEM VIA SPANCTIONS AND OTHERWISE FOR THE CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER OF NEW NUCLEAR WEAPONS CAPABILITY AND USAGE WITH ADVANCED MISSILE DELIVERY SYSTEMS EVEN ON YOU. YOU DO NOT - I REPEAT - YOU DO NOT - WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS IN ANY WAY.

ANY QUESTIONS???!!!

 

(of course, NOT!!!)

 

DISMISSED!!!

 

2 hours ago, Butifldrm said:

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has plans to head for Russia as a "strong" international ally because of US pressure, Russian news agency RT reported on Thursday (May 9th, 2019).

 

  :lmao:     :lmao:     :lmao:

 

  :shakehead:     :shakehead:     :shakehead:

 

:facepalm3:   :facepalm3:   :facepalm3:

 

Tariq Aziz went to Russia DURING Sadam Hussein's Dictatorship AND LOOK WHAT EVENTUALLY HAPPENED TO Tariq Aziz.

 

Tariq Aziz
طارق عزيز
ܡܝܟܐܝܠ ܝܘܚܢܢ
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Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq
In office
July 16, 1979 – April 9, 2003
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
November 11, 1983 – December 19, 1991
President Saddam Hussein
Succeeded by Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf
Member of the Revolutionary Command Council
In office
16 July 1979 – 9 April 2003
Member of the Regional Command of the Iraqi Regional Branch
In office
1 August 1965 – 9 April 2003
Personal details
Born
Mikhail Yuhanna

28 April 1936
Tel KeppeIraq
Died 5 June 2015(aged 79)
NasiriyahIraq
Cause of death Heart attack
Nationality Iraqi
Political party Arab Socialist Ba'ath(until 1966)
Baghdad-based Ba'ath (1966–1982) (Ba'ath – Iraq Region)
Spouse(s) Violet Yusef Nobud
Children 4
Profession Journalist, politician

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Aziz

 

Go Moola Nova!

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