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49 minutes ago, 6ly410 said:

Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi said on Tuesday that Baghdad has no information "that could constitute a threat to anyone

Blowing up of oil tankers and ships is not a threat? How about the threats that were intercepted that Iran was going to attack US and our interests in the middle east.

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10 hours ago, Artitech said:

I agree with that ! On people dying! My Godson is in Iraq. With the USMC! I take it for granted that people know that on our Service members are there on front line! Strictly speaking about this investment! Go drink yourself to sleep box! Your one piece of work! 

Whoops, didn’t mean to step on your RV dreams an thanks for the compliment because God don’t make no junk. I don’t drink an sleep like a baby. 

Thank your Godson for his service for me, an we will hope he doesn’t get into a war so your precious Dinar will hurry up an RV..... 

You have a great day.

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2019-05-15 BY SOTALIRAQ

The war between America and Iran will erupt and Khamenei will be very dangerous by all political and military standards

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Statement No. (133)

Date 15 May 2019

 

And will eliminate the religious dictatorship of Iran Khamenei in both directions

The trend towards continuing its rejection of US conditions or to comply with US conditions

The sons of our people who are afflicted with the crimes and corruption of sectarian parties and criminal organizations

It is well aware that America will react deterrently to any Iranian attack on it or its allies in the region, while unaware that neither the EU nor China nor Russia is ready to support it in the face of Washington, so there is no choice - despite its radical ideology - Forcing it to sit at the negotiating table and bow to American conditions by making concessions and changing its aggressive policies in the region and the world, and reaching a new nuclear agreement that includes its missile capabilities and its nuclear program beyond 2025. " And its destructive policies by its terrorist militias deployed in the Arab region and the world, thus marking its end in order to ensure peace and stability in it.

2. Iran Khamenei must submit to the conditions of America because Iran is no longer capable of controlling its political positions. It has entered the period of despair imposed by the Trump administration on the impossible demands to change Iran's behavior and its destructive influence in the region and the world.

Iran has lost much of its political, economic and financial capabilities so that it will no longer have enough of it to continue its religious dictatorship and continue its interference with its terrorist means and brutality with the brutality of its militias that outweighed the brutality of Hulaku, Genghis Khan, Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Bahrain, Gaza and Afghanistan.

It is reassuring that the world's patience does not end, and its sectarian militias, which follow the orders of Qasim Soleimani, Larijani and Rohani, and the ministers of the weak government of Adel Abdul Safawiyan, with the parliament of corrupt people under the shoes of Iran's rogue mullahs, And the escalation of its recent threats to close the Strait of Hormuz or to take any action that could ignite the region. at the time

The Iranian people have become increasingly vulnerable as fears mount over Iran's confrontation with Khamenei and America that Iran has already begun hostile acts against a number of oil-laden merchant ships near the ports of Fujairah, which are already subversive, but Iran's mullahs will be stoned in history by the Iranian people. And the courage of its creative pioneers in the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

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https://www.sotaliraq.com/2019/05/15/ستندلع-الحرب-بين-أمريكا-وإيران-خامنئي/

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1 hour ago, DoD said:

Whoops, didn’t mean to step on your RV dreams an thanks for the compliment because God don’t make no junk. I don’t drink an sleep like a baby. 

Thank your Godson for his service for me, an we will hope he doesn’t get into a war so your precious Dinar will hurry up an RV..... 

You have a great day.

I'll attempt to be a peacemaker on this one, @DoD I believe @Artitech was referring to botz in the second half of that message and not you sir. I put that together by reading some other comments before yours and I'm assuming that it wasn't aimed towards you. 

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Baghdad Post Wednesday, 15 May 2019 04:35 PM

 

The terrorist Revolutionary Guard is deploying missiles in Basra to target sensitive installations in the Gulf states and to link the crime with unregulated militias

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Informed sources said that members of the Revolutionary Guards terrorist deployed ballistic missiles and Cruz in Basra to target sensitive installations in the Gulf states .

Reports of the use of Shiite militias in Iraq or the Huthis in Yemen to launch those rockets and carry out terrorist operations and that the Iranian scenario is that these militias are uncontrolled and have nothing to do with them.

NBC News reported that the US military has documented information that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards can fire ballistic missiles and cruise missiles from small boats of its own. 

The American network that the information reached the Pentagon, the US, through several intelligence sources a week ago, which prompted the United States to deploy additional troops.

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2019/05/16 10:38
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How did the Houthis penetrate Saudi territory 800 kilometers deep and were not exposed by arms deals worth hundreds of billions of dollars?

 

BAGHDAD / Al-Masala: Al-Jazeera satellite channel said that the strike of Saudi Aramco facilities by the Houthis, evidence that the goods Trump did not benefit Saudi Arabia. 

Last Tuesday, the Houthis did not hit the border with Najran and did not hit a secondary target, but their planes traveled 800 kilometers deep inside Saudi Arabia and hit the oil pipelines, the lifeline of the kingdom.

The location of the target is of great importance, as it is a basic route for the transfer of Saudi oil from the fields of production in the east to the export ports on the Red Sea in the west through hundreds of kilometers.

The oil pipeline also represents an alternative option for Saudi Arabia to export its oil away from the Strait of Hormuz, which is controlled by Iran and threatens to close it if it is prevented from exporting its oil through it.

The success of the seven planes in cutting this distance without any objections from Saudi air defenses raises questions about the feasibility of the many arms deals concluded by Riyadh over the past years.

Saudi Arabia has already bought sophisticated defense systems from the United States, and has fighter jets worth a thousand dollars each.

According to the Stockholm Institute for Monitoring Military Expenditures, Saudi Arabia is the world's largest arms exporter and ranks first in the Middle East.

Washington's arms exports to Riyadh reached $ 65 billion between 2009 and 2016, according to the US Accountability Office, which monitors public funds.

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In 2017, following the visit of US President Donald Trump, the two sides announced an understanding on $ 110 billion worth of arms deals.

The US State Department later announced that it had begun dealing with $ 14.5 billion in military sales to Saudi Arabia.

The United States accounts for 61 percent of Saudi military needs, while the rest is from Britain, France, Spain, Russia and other countries.

So it seems strange that the Saudi land is so exposed, while hundreds of billions of dollars are spent on sophisticated weapons.

This is not only a loss of deterrence, but also a failure to protect the Saudi home from an armed group bombed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and imposed a strict siege four years ago.

 If Tuesday's invasion confirmed Saudi Arabia's inability to detect and respond to the danger, it means that at the same time, the four years of war did not paralyze the Houthis' ability to attack.

On the political side, the international response was very faint and seemed like a telegram of condolence and sympathy. Even the American president, who sold the Saudis hundreds of billions of weapons, did not call them to express solidarity.

Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo has said what he does not want, saying that America does not want war with Iran, which is accused of supporting the Huthis.

Asked for help 
and came out Saudi cabinet statement Tuesday appears as if it seeks help from the world to say that strikes threaten global energy sources, making an internationally protected affair, even though it is located in Saudi territory depth.

Saudi Arabia later complained to the UN Security Council's Huthi group. It is likely that the Council will take no step in this regard, given the division of major powers according to their interests.

If Saudi Arabia has failed to use its weapons to protect its territory and has not been helped by its American and Western allies, it is unlikely to rely on the paralyzed GCC since mid-2017.

The UAE can not be relied upon to face the threat of vandalism in its territorial waters and is threatened by the Houthis from time to time.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has repeatedly stressed that he will not intervene in a military conflict outside his country and is not prepared to engage in confrontation with Iran.

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http://almasalah.com/ar/news/171081/كيف-اخترق-الحوثيون-الاراضي-السعودية-بعمق-800-كم-ولم-تكشفهم-صفقات-تسليح-بمئات-المليارات-من-الدولارات

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Parliamentary finance calls for protection of Iraqi ports from "imminent war" in the Gulf

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The head of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives, Haitham al-Jubouri, on Wednesday, the Ministry of Transport to take precautionary measures to protect the Iraqi ports and fleet, stressing the need to search for alternative plans in the event of any military collision in the region.

Al-Jubouri said in a statement that "Gulf ports face an uncertain fate. At a time when the countries in the Arabian Gulf region have set their alternative plans in anticipation of the consequences of the imminent military operations, And threaten the entire region. "

He called on the Ministry of Transport to "expedite the rapid precautionary measures to protect Iraqi ports and ensure the safety of the Iraqi navy fleet of ships and vessels belonging to the shipping companies and Iraqi ports for fear of the escalation of conflict in the region."

He called on the ministry to "look for alternative plans in the event of any military collision to ensure the continuity of the flow of necessary goods through alternative ports, and transported by road to secure the movement of Iraqi trade and safety and flexibility." Ending 25 h

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After claims .. Legal outlines the steps to declare a state of emergency in Iraq

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Iraq can declare a state of emergency in light of the current situation between the United States and Iran, according to legal expert Tariq Harb on Thursday.

"There are demands for a state of emergency in Iraq because of the current circumstances between America and Iran," Harb said in a statement.

He explained that the Constitution in Article 61 paragraph IX approved the declaration of a state of emergency in Iraq at the request of a joint President of the Republic and the Prime Minister submitted to the Parliament where the Constitution requires the approval of a majority of two-thirds of the deputies present after the quorum was established if we assume that the attendance of 210 deputies, As two-thirds of the audience.

"The duration of the emergency will be 30 days, which will be extended and approved every time, and the Prime Minister will be given the necessary powers to manage the country during this difficult period."

Both Germany and the United States decided on Wednesday to suspend military exercises for Iraqi forces because of tensions in the region.

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Maliki's coalition calls on the Iraqi government not to comply with US threats

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The coalition of state law, led by Nuri al-Maliki, on Thursday, the Iraqi government not to comply with the US threats and statement of its position on the Iranian-American crisis. 
"The US military moves and mobilization in the region is just a powerful show to blackmail Gulf leaders under the pretext of protecting them," MP Mansour al-Baiji said in a statement received by Mawazine News. 
"Trump will not dare to strike the Islamic Republic of Iran or launch a military war because he lives under the mentality of the merchant and businessman, and what he does by sending his military campaigns is to pressure the countries of the region to raise money and blackmail them more."
"The US president is well aware that the war with the Islamic Republic is a losing step for him, so he is conducting military and media reviews in order to fill public opinion and shed light on his military reviews in the region," he said. 
"The sanctions imposed by the United States on the countries that deal with the Islamic Republic is unacceptable, especially since the biggest victim is Iraq," he said, stressing that "the Iraqi government must determine its position and not to comply with US threats as the most affected." A43

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They are honest: America will not attack Iran ... you want as it did in Iraq

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The United States will not attack Iran at present despite the high tension between the two countries," said MP Mohammad al-Baldawi. 
"The United States and its president Trump are currently working to impose economic sanctions on Iran, but they are also sending delegations to negotiate with Iran over its nuclear program," Baldawi told Mawazin News. 
"The administration of the US president wants to form an alliance against Iran, as it did with Iraq when it formed an alliance of 40 countries to attack it," he said, adding that "at this time America will not attack Iran." 
He added that "Trump is looking for his interests in the region, including Iraq," stressing that "Iraq should be a mediator between America and Iran."

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The strategic expert, Wathiq al-Hashemi, said on Thursday that the United States is concerned about Iraq's mediation with Iran because of the multiple foreign loyalties.

Al-Hashemi said in an interview with "New Arab" that "the United States is concerned about the mediation of Iraq because of multiple loyalties to the outside," asserting that "if Baghdad can convince Washington that it does not follow anyone, the dialogue between Iran and the United States under Iraqi auspices, is not impossible "He said.

Hashemi pointed out that "Iran is silent and is currently watching Iraq's efforts to mediate, welcoming these steps, and the largest evidence that it eased the statements of the groups loyal to them inside Iraq, because they tired a lot of the siege."

However, he said, "The United States wants to drag Iran into negotiations, but on American terms, while Tehran is afraid that the conditions will be harsh, so it is waiting for what Iraq or other countries that want to play the mediation will exert on the American side, , Receive and deliver messages. "

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Trump’s Iran moves trigger warnings, demands from Congress

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President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi attend the 38th Annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at the US Capitol, Washington, May 15, 2019. Photo: Evan Vucci / AP
President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi attend the 38th Annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at the US Capitol, Washington, May 15, 2019. Photo: Evan Vucci / AP
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers from both parties in Congress demanded more information on the White House’s claims of rising threats in the Middle East, warning President Donald Trump off a dangerous escalation with Iran.

The top leaders in Congress – the so-called Gang of Eight- are to receive a classified briefing from the administration on Thursday. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the White House has resisted a wider presentation for all lawmakers, part of what Democrats say is a pattern of stonewalling. Some Republicans, including Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, sought out their own briefings as the administration called US personnel home from Iraq and sent military might to the Persian Gulf, claiming unspecified threats linked to Iran.

Pelosi said Trump has “no business” moving toward a Middle East confrontation without approval from Congress.

“We have to avoid any war with Iran,” she told fellow Democrats in a meeting, according to a person in the room who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss comments from the private gathering.

On Wednesday, the US ordered all nonessential personnel to leave Iraq, and last week an aircraft carrier group and other resources were shifted to the Persian Gulf region. In public and in private, officials are sticking by the administration’s warnings of serious threats from Iranian-backed forces in the region, yet they reject the idea that the US moves are a prelude to war. Trump himself denied a report Tuesday that the administration had reviewed a plan to send 120,000 troops.

Still, the actions are exposing skepticism in the US and among foreign allies, a legacy of the 2003 invasion of Iraq that was based on false intelligence. US officials have not publicly provided any evidence to back up claims of an increased Iranian threat.

“Congress has not authorized war with Iran, and the administration, if it were contemplating military action with Iran, must come to Congress to seek approval,” said Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He said he had never seen anything like the “non-answers” coming from the administration.

Republicans – and even some Democrats – who have been briefed said the threats are legitimate.

The chairman of Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho, said that based on the information he received he supports the administration actions, including the repositioning of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier to the Gulf.

“The threat is real,” said Democrat Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. But, he said, “The administration is doing a dreadful job of consulting with Congress and keeping the vast majority of members of Congress informed about what’s happening.”

And Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said the information he’s seen shows “by far the single most imminent potential conflict of this significance” in his eight years in Congress. He said, “The intelligence is unmistakable and clear, and it’s backed by observable movement on the ground.”

Still, Romney expressed support for the Senate Democrats’ request for more information in a classified briefing, and Risch said a broader briefing for senators, perhaps next week, was “in the works.”

Romney said it’s “inconceivable” that Trump would start a conflict with Iran. “There’s no appetite for going to war in the Middle East,” he told reporters.

State Department officials said threats in the region were credible and based on intelligence showing Iranian-backed militias had been moving personnel and weaponry as well as stepping up surveillance of US and US-affiliated facilities in Iraq and other parts of the Middle East. The officials were not authorized to comment publicly by name and spoke only on condition of anonymity.

They pushed back against speculation that the decision to bring nonessential personnel home from Iraq was a prelude to military conflict. There is no US desire for war, said one official, who had returned earlier Wednesday from Europe with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Several Democrats pinned the sudden moves in part on national security adviser John Bolton, known for his hawkish views. Some have suggested Pompeo and Bolton don’t see eye-to-eye on the US strategy, and Trump found it necessary to comment on that.

“There is no infighting whatsoever,” he tweeted Wednesday. “All sides, views, and policies are covered,” and he reserves the “decisive and final decision,” he said.

“I’m sure that Iran will want to talk soon,” he said, without elaboration.

Earlier this year, Congress forced Trump into the first veto of his administration over a resolution that passed the House and Senate to halt U.S. involvement in the Saudi-led war against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee said, “The people inside the administration who are trying to start a war know that if they have this conversation in an open and transparent way, there will be very substantial pushback from both parties and both houses of Congress.”

Republican Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, who is a former CIA officer, said the administration’s information on Iran is highly sensitive and by nature cannot be shared with a wide audience.

“When you get such credible intelligence that leads to major decisions like rerouting aircraft carriers, it’s important that the way the information is collected is not damaged,” Hurd said. “You need to protect sources and methods.”

Pelosi warned that the administration cannot rely on the most recent use-of-force authorization approved by Congress nearly 20 years ago for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“They have no business declaring a war without the consent of Congress,” she said.

Since last week, House leaders have been asking for a classified session for lawmakers on the situation with Iran, but Pelosi said the administration indicated it couldn’t come together “that fast.”

An administration official said they have no plans for a wider briefing at this point.

“The bigger problem is, so what if you get a briefing?” said Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who raised broader questions of Trump’s foreign policy. “What does my briefing mean if he comes out and tweets something?”
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Britain says shares same assessment of Iran as the United States

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Britain shares the same assessment as the United States of the heightened threat posed by Iran, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday.

Hunt said he had discussed Iran with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week in London, and again in Brussels on Monday. "As always we work closely with the US," he said on Twitter.

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2019/05/16 18:01
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Allawi: US official told me about rockets in Basra to the Gulf

The leader of the Iraqi coalition Iyad Allawi, said Thursday, May 16, 2019, that the Israeli intelligence provided the United States of America in the form of platforms to launch ballistic missiles directed to the Gulf states, some of them in Basra .

"These platforms are in Gaza, Syria and Basra in Iraq," said Iyad Allawi.

 "A US official told me that the United States decided to send US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to investigate the missile launchers and to talk with Iraqi officials about this situation," he said in a television interview.

 "It is too late for the Iraqi government to take an intermediate position to ease the tension between Iran and the United States," Allawi said.

 He added that "the political system in Iraq is no longer qualified to meet the challenges imposed by the reality of theregion because of foreign influence and the political process based on sectarianism and quotas."

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2019/05/16 15:22
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The sanctions imposed on Iran will not survive

BAGHDAD / Al-Masala: The representative of the victory alliance Nada Shaker Jawdat, confirmed on Thursday, May 16, 2019, that the sanctions imposed on Iran will not survive Iraq, pointing out that it is rejected, as the negative effects of this always borne by peoples.

"Iraq will be greatly affected by the sanctions imposed, especially that the existing tensions will be reflected on Iraq in the presence of entities loyal to Iran inside Iraq, and can do any acts that return to Iraq, which is feared by all in the The current situation ".

"If the war breaks out, US forces, the embassy and any American interests will be among the targets of the Iranian side, which will seriously affect Iraq," she said.

And stressed the need for the Iraqi government to take steps not to leave the decision of the entities loyal to Iran in Iraq, with regard to US interests or bases on the ground in Iraq.

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Sanctions and force

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Sanctions and force

 
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A powerful force stands behind sanctions, protects them and entrenches them, and is above all a symbolic and material symbol of greatness and power.

It is not easy for a country to launch a war of sanctions against another country, which is supported by the nations of the world, fears its power and is quick to meet its call.
The United States is the first world power, it uses it as a weapon threatening its opponents, to highlight its vast potential. The weak countries, even those that have reached prosperity in the economy and weapons, are so far unable to use this powerful weapon.
President Trump of the dollar, the head of the world's dominant state in international finance and trade, has been using the sanctions against North Korea, a country with a long history of international sanctions, over its experiences. Nuclear weapons since 2006, until September 2016, to suffer from a ban on military exports and many goods and technology, a travel ban on officials and elites, and a freeze on their financial assets. 
Iraq has been suffering from the 13-year-old international embargo that resulted from UN resolution 661 of 1990, which imposed severe economic sanctions, depriving citizens of food, medicine and technology, resulting in the death of 1.5 million children as a result of hunger. And lack of medication.
The longest siege in history was Cuba, which lasted about 55 years since the success of the 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro, after the new socialist system nationalized American companies. 
Since the announcement of the penetration of the Qatar News Agency (QNA) website, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt have jointly launched an economic and political boycott of Qatar since 2017.  
In 1966, after the declaration of the white minority, unilateral sanctions were imposed on southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), continuing until 1969, after achieving its political goal, a black majority government came to power.
The United Nations launched an economic blockade of South Africa to put pressure on the Apartheid regime in South Africa, with economic pressures finally succeeding in the installation of a non-racial government in May 1994.
The Arabs have always taken the lion's share of international sanctions. Washington has imposed a series of economic sanctions on Sudan over accusations of its government sponsoring terrorism.
In 1996, Congressional legislation passed economic sanctions on companies dealing with Iran and Libya. In 2013, US lawmakers voted in favor of tough sanctions against Iran. After the United States pulled out of the nuclear deal in 2018, sanctions were gradually restored against Iran after it was lifted in accordance with the 2015 nuclear deal, ending today with sanctions that are "the most severe" including oil exports, shipping, banks, and key sectors of the economy.
If every country can use lethal weapons in its wars, the use of the weapon of sanctions is not, and only the countries that have the power to make the world economy willing can make their decision.
What is needed is the state that has been subject to sanctions for generations and generations, because the development of its society and economy and its people are organized to become a great force. It does not impose resolutions and orders on it. It is a woman herself. She does not accept international sanctions against other nations except in accordance with their interests and goals. This can only be achieved by establishing a solid state in the economy, society, science, and management.
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Iraqi Ambassador to Moscow: We will not allow America to use our territory to attack Iran

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Iraq will not allow the United States to use Iraqi territory to launch attacks against Iran , the Iraqi ambassador to Moscow, Haydar Mansour Hadi, said Thursday .

Iraq does not want a new destructive war in the region," Press TV quoted Hadi as saying . "Iraq is a sovereign country and we will not allow the United States to use our territory."

"Baghdad can use its close relations with both the United States and Iran to ease tensions between the two sides by saying we want to be part of the solution and not part of the problem," Hadi said.

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi had said earlier that there were signs that things would end well between Iran and the United States without giving further details. Ending / 25 z

 

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Allawi: US official told me about rockets in Basra to the Gulf

The leader of the Iraqi coalition Iyad Allawi, said Thursday, May 16, 2019, that the Israeli intelligence provided the United States of America in the form of platforms to launch ballistic missiles directed to the Gulf states, some of them in Basra .

"These platforms are in Gaza, Syria and Basra in Iraq," said Iyad Allawi.

 "A US official told me that the United States decided to send US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to investigate the missile launchers and to talk with Iraqi officials about this situation," he said in a television interview.

 "It is too late for the Iraqi government to take an intermediate position to ease the tension between Iran and the United States," Allawi said.

 He added that "the political system in Iraq is no longer qualified to meet the challenges imposed by the reality of theregion because of foreign influence and the political process based on sectarianism and quotas."

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Exclusive: Top military leader delivers message at Baghdad meeting as tensions rise

Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent

Thu 16 May 2019 14.17 EDTLast modified on Thu 16 May 2019 19.55 EDT

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Qassem Suleimani (centre), the leader of Iran’s powerful Quds force.  

Qassem Suleimani (centre), the leader of Iran’s powerful Quds force. Photograph: AP

Iran’s most prominent military leader has recently met Iraqi militias in Baghdad and told them to “prepare for proxy war”, the Guardian has learned.

Two senior intelligence sources said that Qassem Suleimani, leader of Iran’s powerful Quds force, summoned the militias under Tehran’s influence three weeks ago, amid a heightened state of tension in the region. The move to mobilise Iran’s regional allies is understood to have triggered fears in the US that Washington’s interests in the Middle East are facing a pressing threat. The UK raised its threat levels for British troops in Iraq on Thursday.

While Suleimani has met regularly with leaders of Iraq’s myriad Shia groups over the past five years, the nature and tone of this gathering was different. “It wasn’t quite a call to arms, but it wasn’t far off,” one source said.

The meeting has led to a frenzy of diplomatic activity between US, British and Iraqi officials who are trying to banish the spectre of clashes between Tehran and Washington and who now fear that Iraq could become an arena for conflict.

 

The gathering partly informed a US decision to evacuate non-essential diplomatic staff from the US embassy in Baghdad and Erbil and to raise the threat status at US bases in Iraq. It also coincided with a perceived separate risk to US interests and those of its allies in the Persian Gulf and led to a heightened threat that more than a decade of proxy conflicts may spill over into a direct clash between Washington and Tehran.

Leaders of all the militia groups that fall under the umbrella of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Units (PMUs) were in attendance at the meeting called by Suleimani, the intelligence sources claimed. One senior figure who learned about the meeting had since met with western officials to express concerns.

As the head of the elite Quds force, Suleimani plays a significant role in the militias’ strategic directions and major operations. Over the past 15 years, he has been Iran’s most influential powerbroker in Iraq and Syria, leading Tehran’s efforts to consolidate its presence in both countries and trying to reshape the region in its favour.

 

The US has become increasingly vocal about the activities of Iranian proxies in the Middle East. Donald Trump this month named Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a western-designated terrorist group financed by Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, as partly responsible for a barrage of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel.

On Sunday, four ships – two of them Saudi oil tankers – were reportedly sabotaged off the UAE coast. The following day, drones launched by Iranian-allied rebels in Yemen attacked two Saudi pipelines. Saudi state media on Thursday called for “surgical strikes” against Iranian targets in response and its senior officials have told Washington that they expect it to act in its interests.

Adding to concerns is a belief that a convoy of Iranian-supplied missiles was last week successfully transported across Iraq’s Anbar province into Syria, where it was transferred safely to Damascus, regional diplomats told the Guardian. The transfer managed to evade US and Israeli intelligence, despite the latter’s interdiction of dozens of alleged missile deliveries in the past three years that have been flown into various Syrian airbases via an airbridge.

Fears of an Iranian-run land corridor emerging from the fight against the Islamic State, in which Shia militia groups played a prominent role, have been central to concerns that postwar Iraq and Syria could be subverted by regional manoeuvrings.

 

The USS Abraham Lincoln which has been dispatched to the Gulf.

 

 The USS Abraham Lincoln, recently dispatched to the Gulf. Photograph: ONOSPHG/AP

That Iran could emerge emboldened from the Isis fight has dominated recent discussions among Donald Trump’s uber-hawks, the national security adviser, John Bolton, and the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, both of whom are central to an escalating US sanctions programme and Washington’s abandonment of an international nuclear deal signed by Tehran and the former US president Barack Obama.

 

The Trump administration has remained wary of the Iraqi militias. Although they jointly led the fight against Isis, such groups were integrated into the Iraqi state structure, and have drawn increasing comparisons with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps. While they include some Sunni, Christian and Yazidi units, they are dominated by Shia groups, the most powerful of whom enjoy the direct patronage of Iran.

The British foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, appeared to align the UK on Thursday with US claims that Tehran’s threat posture had changed. “We share the same assessment of the heightened threat posed by Iran,” he said on Twitter. “As always we work closely with the USA.”

Earlier this week, a British general challenged the Trump administration’s claims that an imminent threat had emerged from Iran, creating a rare public schism between the two countries whose alliance has at times been tested by the erratic nature of Trump’s regional policy.

The UK, though, is understood to have been central to the recent concerns being raised, and efforts to de-escalate a crisis in which the US has imposed a “maximum pressure” strategy on Iran and Iranian officials have vowed to defend their interests, in the face of hardline sanctions and an oil blockade that is biting deep into Tehran’s coffers.

Tehran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Majid Takht-e Ravanchi, told US broadcaster NPR that Iran was not interested in escalating regional tensions but had the “right to defend ourselves.”

The US has ordered a naval battle group and a squadron of B-52 bombers to the region, in response to the perceived increased threat. In Yemen, meanwhile, where a Saudi-led war against Iranian-allied Houthi forces is into its fifth year, early-morning airstrikes killed six people, including four children, a health ministry official said.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Officials from the administration of President Donald Trump will make secret statements about the situation with Iran next week, after lawmakers from the Democratic and Republican parties asked for more information, congressional sources said.

Congressional aides said Foreign Secretary Mike Pompeo, Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Danford and Acting Defense Minister Patrick Shanahan would attend Tuesday's session before the full Senate.
 

Members of Congress have complained for weeks that Trump's administration has not given them enough information about the current tension with Iran, and some Republicans say they have not been briefed on the issue. 

Relations between Washington and Tehran have soured in recent days in the wake of Trump's decision to try to halt Iran's oil exports altogether and boost the US military presence in the Gulf in response to what he said were Iranian threats. 

On the other hand, Senators Bernie Sanders and Chris van Hollen - in a letter to the president - expressed concern about the growing conflict between the administration and Iran.
 

They also expressed their fear that the current administration would lead the country to another war in the Middle East, and that the band would speak with allies and mislead American public opinion. 

The senators warned that the sharp use of sanctions and military positions - following the unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the nuclear deal - could threaten to lift all restrictions on Iran's nuclear program, putting Tehran back on track to possess nuclear capabilities. 

Sanders and Van Hollen described the administration's actions on Iran as inconsistent and counterproductive. The assessments of recent threats to Iran's nuclear activities and Tehran's intentions in turn were illogical and undermined the administration's logic to increase pressure on Iran, they said.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee Elliott Engel, and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Adam Smith, wrote to the secretary of state expressing deep concern over what they considered to be exploitative and politicized intelligence about Iran and other countries. 

The letter said that such information was usually objective, but politicizing it led to deep differences between the foreign and intelligence agencies.
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