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Iran says European naval mission in Gulf would be ‘provocative’

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Iran recently seized a British-flagged tanker in the Gulf, further escalating tensions. (File/AFP)

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July 28, 201910:49

Tensions in the region have been escalating due to recent seizure of ships

Iran also announced plans to breach the nuclear agreement

TEHRAN: Iran on Sunday slammed as “provocative” a British proposal for a European-led naval mission to escort tankers in the Gulf, amid soaring tensions over the seizure of ships.
“We heard that they intend to send a European fleet to the Arabian Gulf which naturally carries a hostile message, is provocative and will increase tensions,” government spokesman Ali Rabiei said, quoted by ISNA news agency.

The statements come as the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, told lawmakers on Sunday that Iran will restart activities at the Arak heavy water nuclear reactor, the ISNA news agency reported.
ISNA cited a member of parliament who attended the meeting. Heavy water can be employed in reactors to produce plutonium, a fuel used in nuclear warheads.
In May, Iran announced planned measures to breach the nuclear agreement with major world powers following the US withdrawal from deal and Washington’s reimposition of tough sanctions.
On July 3, President Hassan Rouhani said Tehran would increase its uranium enrichment levels and start to revive its Arak heavy-water reactor after July 7 if the nations in the nuclear pact did not protect trade with Iran promised under the deal but blocked by the US sanctions.

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US officials: Iran test-launched a medium-range missile

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Iran test-launched a medium-range ballistic missile inside its borders, US officials said Friday. (File/ AFP)

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July 26, 201916:23

The test came amid heightened tensions between Iran and the West

A White House spokesman called the test launch an example of Iran “acting out” as a result of intense pressure from US sanctions

WASHINGTON: Iran test-launched a medium-range ballistic missile inside its borders, US officials said Friday, defying Trump administration demands that it curtail the weapon program and demonstrating its intent to further push back against US sanctions.
The test came amid heightened tensions between Iran and the West, mainly over the safety of commercial shipping in the Arabian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.
A White House spokesman called the test launch an example of Iran “acting out” as a result of intense pressure from US economic sanctions.
“You’ve seen their economy teetering on the verge of collapse for a while now. And when they’re backed into a corner, they’re acting out,” said spokesman Hogan Gidley, who also said President Donald Trump wants to begin conversations with Iran’s leaders.
Iran has responded to stepped-up US economic sanctions with a variety of military moves, and the Shahab-3 missile test launch could be considered another signal from Tehran that it will not back down.
The US officials who confirmed the missile launch spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.
Tensions have mounted with Iran over a 2015 nuclear accord it reached with world powers. The deal eased sanctions in exchange for Iran curbing its nuclear program. Trump withdrew the United States from the accord last year, reinstating sanctions on Iran and adding new ones. Iran has openly exceeded the uranium enrichment levels set in the accord to try to pressure Europe into offsetting the economic pain of US sanctions.
Trump insists that Iran must agree to limits on its ballistic missile program, but Iran thus far has refused.
Nations still party to the nuclear deal plan to meet in Vienna on Sunday to see to what extent the agreement can be saved. The European Union said the meeting of officials from China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany will be chaired by the EU.
Behnam Ben Taleblu, an expert on Iranian defense at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the Shahab-3 is a liquid-fueled, medium-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon.
“The Shahab-3 is the backbone of Iran’s class of medium-range ballistic missiles,” he said, adding that Iranian news outlets have previously called it one of the country’s “Israel-hitting” missiles.
It is derived from a North Korean missile called the Nodong-A and can fly 1,150 to 2,000 kilometers, or up to 1,242 miles, depending on the variant.
“Iran’s continued flight-testing has both political and military applications, functioning as a show of resolve against foreign adversaries and to improve the overall reliability of its missile force, which is the largest in the Middle East,” he said. “As Iran continues to escalate in response to the maximum-pressure campaign, Washington should expect more missile launches.”

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Customs data revealed China's continued import of oil from Iran after America re- imposed a ban on Tehran to stop crude sales and "zeroing".

China imported 8.5 million tons in June, or about 209,000 barrels per day, according to Bloomberg.

The data showed that the figure was lower than last May, the lowest since mid-2010, but recent data add to speculation that Beijing may risk being exposed to US sanctions to secure supplies of crude from Tehran.

Focus on China's oil purchases, with President Donald Trump's administration continuing to impose restrictions on companies and individuals who violate the "sanctions".

Bloomberg alleged that the shipments, which reached Chinese ports last June, could be "transactional" according to US officials. End 25 T

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday it would resume its activities at the Arak reactor and warn European countries against sending military supplies to the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran's atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi said Sunday that Tehran would resume its activities at the Arak heavy-water nuclear reactor.

"Iran's enemies know that we have the science and capabilities to produce nuclear energy, but we do not want to produce nuclear weapons," Salehi stressed the need to continue Iran's nuclear activities and generate nuclear energy.

Earlier, Iranian President Hassan Rowhani announced that Tehran would raise uranium enrichment levels and would begin to revive the Arak reactor if the countries in the nuclear deal did not keep trade with Iran.

Heavy water can be used in reactors to produce plutonium used in nuclear warheads.

On the other hand, Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabie said that "the decision of European countries to send a military fleet to the region, a provocative action and increases the tension and carries messages of aggression."

Rabie said during a press conference in Tehran that the countries of the region are responsible for ensuring its security, and Iran is the biggest supporter of security in it, as he put it.

This comes at a time when the countries signatories to the Iranian nuclear agreement on Sunday in Vienna, in a new effort to salvage the agreement, which was hit hard by Washington's withdrawal from it.

The Iranian news agency said that the Iranian delegation headed by Abbas Araghchi, Iranian deputy foreign minister for political affairs.

The EU has announced that senior officials from the foreign ministries of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and Iran are expected to participate in the talks.

According to observers, no progress is expected at this meeting, which is organized at the level of political directors, which comes a month after a previous unproductive meeting in the Austrian capital, which witnessed four years ago the signing of the nuclear agreement between Tehran and the great powers.

Tension between Tehran and Washington escalated as a result of the US withdrawal in May 2018, and Washington followed the move by re-imposing harsh sanctions on Iran.

To maintain its commitment to the agreement, Iran insists that European countries - particularly in signing the nuclear deal (Britain, Germany and France) - take action to maintain the agreement.

In response to US sanctions and Europe's inability to comply with the agreement, Iran has begun to disavow some of its obligations under the nuclear deal.

Iran no longer complies with the amount of enriched uranium it is entitled to possess - 300 kilograms - and increased uranium enrichment in its facilities to 3.67 percent.

Source: Agencies

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The joint committee of the nuclear agreement at the level of Iran's political aides, political directors, the "4 + 1" group and the European Union delegate met in Vienna on Sunday.

The meeting, which began at 12:30 pm Vienna time (10:30 GMT), is presided over by Iranian Foreign Policy Assistant Abbas Abbasaji and European Union foreign policy chief Helga Schmid.

The meeting will be held at the level of assistant and general directors for political affairs of Iran and the countries of the "4 + 1" group (Russia, China, Germany, France and Britain) and the European Union delegate in the Austrian capital Vienna.

The former emergency meeting of the Joint Nuclear Agreement Committee was held a month ago at the level of foreign assistants and general managers of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the 4 + 1 countries (Russia, China, Germany, France and Britain) Schmid.

The emergency meeting comes after the second step taken by Iran as part of a halt to some of its obligations under the nuclear deal, which is to cross the enrichment rate from 3.67 to 4.5 percent.

Iran has announced in the first step to stop its commitments that it will not comply with restrictions on the size of the stockpile of enriched uranium and heavy water.

Iran's measures follow a statement issued by Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) on the failure of EU member states to fulfill their obligations under the nuclear deal. End 25 T

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Iran's efforts to reach distant horizons

 
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In mid-January and early February, Iran tested two artificial satellites intended for use in environmental monitoring. The two satellites, named "Bayan" (the message) and the second "Dosti" (the friendship), were launched on two Iranian-made satellites. Both launches failed to place the satellites within their planned orbits. Nevertheless, the United States protested the two launches themselves. The reason for the protest was that the two launch vehicles they were using were based on the same technology as the multi-stage intercontinental ballistic missiles. As early as last June, as expected, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned in a tweet on Twitter that "the two launches will help develop Iran's missile program," as he put it, and then went on:
It is also said that the administration of President Donald Trump has reached the point of reviving a secret program under President Bush aimed at undermining Iran's missile and space program by planting faulty components on the supply chain supplied by Iran's air and space programs.

However, the importance of Iran's space program for national security far exceeds the effects of intercontinental ballistic missiles, because Iran's increasing presence at the outer space, especially when coupled with its growing cyber capabilities, reinforces all its physical strengths. 
 
Since the 1980s
Iran's space program originally originated from its own missile program, which had been in operation since the late 1980s with the help of a North Korean, Chinese, Libyan and Soviet president. During 2003, when reformist leader Mohammad Khatami was serving his second term, Iran's parliament approved the creation of the so-called Supreme Space Council and Iran's space agency as its executive arm, linking the two institutions to the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.
At the beginning of 2005, Iran's space program received a boost during the tenure of hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while the standoff over Iran's nuclear program intensified. By February 2009, during the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of Iran's revolution, Iran successfully launched its first satellite, Omid, using the satellite launch vehicle Safir.
This achievement has been developed within some 12 space-savvy countries with autonomous capabilities to launch their own satellites. Iran has so far managed to use the Safir satellite launch vehicles to place four satellites within its orbit, carrying various equipment and equipment for communications, land imaging and environmental monitoring. Except for these, there were eight failures 
Documented.
In 2010, Iran unveiled a two-stage launch vehicle called the "Semaphor", developed from the "Safir" vehicle with the ability to control four rocket engines instead of one engine (all similar to North Korea's Nodong missile) To about 250 kilograms, more than five times what it had previously put into orbit. 
Since 2016, Iran has made several attempts to launch using the Simburg vehicle, but none has proved successful, including Bayam, which was launched in January. But there are reports that Iran sent a monkey into space in early 2013, bringing it closer to sending a man into space, an achievement that only Russia, the United States and China have so far been able to do. During the same year, Iran also opened a space monitoring center, an important step towards developing its capabilities to monitor and distinguish the various objects, events and activities in space, both natural and man-made.
Arms race
So far, Iran's successes have been concentrated on the low Earth orbit, the heaviest and most space-dense space at 1,200 kilometers above Earth's surface. 
This space is usually used for ground monitoring and for some limited communications systems, and perhaps the months of all this is also the location of the International Space Station. However, Iran is currently aiming to propel a variety of its satellites further beyond this, into the next space with two bands known as the Earth's middle orbit and the equatorial orbit coinciding with the cycle
Earth. 
These satellites, from locations at altitudes of about 20,000 to 35,000 kilometers from the surface of the Earth, will be used for navigation systems such as GPS, the Internet, television and radio broadcasting systems.
As in the case of its nuclear program, Iran has been arguing for its space program on the grounds that it is entirely dedicated to peaceful purposes. However, Iran, a country that has an uneasy sense of the threats it is targeting, is likely to seek the least estimates of dealing with space as a potential future security vulnerability. So it is almost certain to try to weaken and deter the attempts of others to arm space and deny them use to this end.
During that period, Tehran has been monitoring and assessing the offensive efforts of other countries. In June 2018, Trump instructed the Pentagon to establish the so-called "Space Force", a force separate from the Air Force, which would become the sixth type of US military force. 
In response, Russia and China raised objections with an emphasis on keeping space uses purely peaceful. 
Although no wars have taken place in space yet, there is a silent arms race taking place in China and the United States to build those capabilities, and Russia is racing to win.
During 2007, China successfully tested anti-satellite weapons on one of its off-orbit orbital satellites, a satellite dedicated to the air.
This was the first test of this kind since the tests of great powers during the Cold War in the 1980s. In 2018, a defense ministry report warned that China and Russia were recruiting huge capabilities to produce weapons capable of attacking America's artificial satellites and other space capabilities, which could turn space into a battlefield. Thus, these security forms have led other countries to develop counter-space capabilities, whose primary objective is to gain control over this new field.
 
Blocking satellite activity
For its part, Iran has also been working slowly and steadily to improve its capabilities in the field of information gathering, reconnaissance and early warning systems. It has reportedly succeeded so far in using space technology to simulate the positioning of a US aircraft and to block the sight of a US guided spy satellite , And the use of advanced jamming techniques against Western commercial satellites. 
If we are more theoretical, advanced positioning and tracking technology, along with more missile progress, will allow Iran to develop direct missiles from ground or orbit bases, and this is symbolized by ASAT, Targeting satellites, command and control platforms and communications, as well as computers, information collection systems and surveillance and reconnaissance platforms (known as C4ISR), which are increasingly being used by adversaries such as the United States in combined military operations.
Despite a UN ban on nuclear weapons in outer space since 1967, a ban that Iran has signed but has not yet gained, Iran still has the potential to combine its nuclear and outer space ambitions.
This combination may take a picture of armaments in a manner
Is no different from the "partial orbital bombing system" that the Soviet Union worked on, and that would use orbital below-orbit to get hit to any point in the world. Similarly, the nuclear weapon that Iran explodes into space can be used to generate an electromagnetic pulse that paralyzes the electrical and electronic systems existing across the orbit.
It is still too early to talk about Iran's employment or possession of advanced space capabilities such as that of China or Russia. But even if Iran's space doctrine continues to avoid the offensive side, defensive space operations, including means in its possession from now on, such as lasers, , Is sufficient to disrupt and disrupt a wide range of services that the international community is increasingly relying on, including navigation and communications. 
Moreover, instead of hitting space capabilities, countries have the ability to target the other two easy-to-infiltrate space systems - terrestrial control and telemetry capabilities, and radars that provide terrestrial space links.
A recent assessment by an American think tank refutes the argument that Iran is using its space program as a star to develop its intercontinental ballistic missiles. In this sense, the assessment questions Trump's classification of Iran's threat and questions it. But given the rising competition among the nations of the world that have invaded space, the very space, as the height of the strategic heights, will not only increase in Iran's importance, especially under the scarcity it complains and the fragmentation of its deterrence.
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Iran's Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezai pledged that his country would not allow the United States or Britain to control the Strait of Hormuz.

"America and Britain are trying to aggravate the tension in the Gulf and control the security of the Strait of Hormuz and the movement of ships in it, but we will not allow it, and Iran wants to preserve," Rezaei said when he met on Sunday with the official of international relations in the ruling Communist Party of China, Song Tao. On the freedom of maritime navigation. "

"Iran is not seeking war, but we will defend ourselves in the event of any attack," Rezai said, adding that "destabilizing security in the region and provoking any war will harm the economy, security and peace in the whole world."

He pointed out that Iran looks forward to cooperating with its friends in China in the face of US policies, stressing that "America is willing to increase confrontations and tensions."

Rezaie, a former commander-in-chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, said Gulf security was important to Iran and would "respond to any attacks and attempts to hit the region's security."

The United States and Britain have already announced their work on separate plans to secure navigation in the Gulf region, especially the Strait of Hormuz, against the backdrop of increasing incidents of oil tankers there.

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Iran's Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezai pledged that his country would not allow the United States or Britain to control the Strait of Hormuz.

"America and Britain are trying to aggravate the tension in the Gulf and control the security of the Strait of Hormuz and the movement of ships in it, but we will not allow it, and Iran wants to preserve," Rezaei said when he met on Sunday with the official of international relations in the ruling Communist Party of China, Song Tao. On the freedom of maritime navigation. "

"Iran is not seeking war, but we will defend ourselves in the event of any attack," Rezai said, adding that "destabilizing security in the region and provoking any war will harm the economy, security and peace in the whole world."

He pointed out that Iran looks forward to cooperating with its friends in China in the face of US policies, stressing that "America is willing to increase confrontations and tensions."

Rezaie, a former commander-in-chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, said Gulf security was important to Iran and would "respond to any attacks and attempts to hit the region's security."

The United States and Britain have already announced their work on separate plans to secure navigation in the Gulf region, especially the Strait of Hormuz, against the backdrop of increasing incidents of oil tankers there.

 

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Iran's efforts to reach distant horizons

 
Kevin Lim and Gill Param    
 

In mid-January and early February, Iran tested two artificial satellites intended for use in environmental monitoring. The two satellites, named "Bayan" (the message) and the second "Dosti" (the friendship), were launched on two Iranian-made satellites. Both launches failed to place the satellites within their planned orbits. Nevertheless, the United States protested the two launches themselves. The reason for the protest was that the two launch vehicles they used were based on the same technology as the multi-stage intercontinental ballistic missiles. As early as last June, as expected, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned in a tweet on Twitter that "the two launches will help develop Iran's missile program," as he put it, and then went on:
It is also said that the administration of President Donald Trump has reached the point of reviving a secret program under President Bush aimed at undermining Iran's missile and space program by planting faulty components on the supply chain supplied by Iran's air and space programs.

However, the importance of Iran's space program for national security far exceeds the effects of intercontinental ballistic missiles, because Iran's increasing presence at the outer space, especially when coupled with its growing cyber capabilities, reinforces all its physical strengths. 
 
Since the 1980s
Iran's space program originally originated from its own missile program, which had been in operation since the late 1980s with the help of a North Korean, Chinese, Libyan and Soviet president. During 2003, when reformist leader Mohammad Khatami was serving his second term, Iran's parliament approved the creation of the so-called Supreme Space Council and Iran's space agency as its executive arm, linking the two institutions to the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.
At the beginning of 2005, Iran's space program received a boost during the tenure of hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while the standoff over Iran's nuclear program intensified. By February 2009, during the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of Iran's revolution, Iran successfully launched its first satellite, Omid, using the satellite launch vehicle Safir.
This achievement has been developed within some 12 space-savvy countries with autonomous capabilities to launch their own satellites. Iran has so far managed to use the Safir satellite launch vehicles to place four satellites within its orbit, carrying various equipment and equipment for communications, land imaging and environmental monitoring. Except for these, there were eight failures 
Documented.
In 2010, Iran unveiled a two-stage launch vehicle called the "Semaphor", developed from the "Safir" vehicle with the ability to control four rocket engines instead of one engine (all similar to North Korea's Nodong missile) To about 250 kilograms, more than five times what it had previously put into orbit. 
Since 2016, Iran has made several attempts to launch using the Simburg vehicle, but none has proved successful, including Bayam, which was launched in January. But there are reports that Iran sent a monkey into space in early 2013, bringing it closer to sending a man into space, an achievement that only Russia, the United States and China have so far been able to do. During the same year, Iran also opened a space monitoring center, an important step towards developing its capabilities to monitor and distinguish the various objects, events and activities in space, both natural and man-made.
Arms race
So far, Iran's successes have been concentrated on the low Earth orbit, the heaviest and most space-dense space at 1,200 kilometers above Earth's surface. 
This space is usually used for ground monitoring and for some limited communications systems, and perhaps the months of all this is also the location of the International Space Station. However, Iran is currently aiming to propel a variety of its satellites further beyond this, into the next space with two bands known as the Earth's middle orbit and the equatorial orbit coinciding with the cycle
Earth. 
These satellites, from locations at altitudes of about 20,000 to 35,000 kilometers from the surface of the Earth, will be used for navigation systems such as GPS, the Internet, television and radio broadcasting systems.
As in the case of its nuclear program, Iran has been arguing for its space program on the grounds that it is entirely dedicated to peaceful purposes. However, Iran, a country that has an uneasy sense of the threats it is targeting, is likely to seek the least estimates of dealing with space as a potential future security vulnerability. So it is almost certain to try to weaken and deter the attempts of others to arm space and deny them use to this end.
During that period, Tehran has been monitoring and assessing the offensive efforts of other countries. In June 2018, Trump instructed the Pentagon to establish the so-called "Space Force", a force separate from the Air Force, which would become the sixth type of US military force. 
In response, Russia and China raised objections with an emphasis on keeping space uses purely peaceful. 
Although no wars have taken place in space yet, there is a silent arms race taking place in China and the United States to build those capabilities, and Russia is racing to win.
During 2007, China successfully tested anti-satellite weapons on one of its off-orbit orbital satellites, a satellite dedicated to the air.
This was the first test of this kind since the tests of great powers during the Cold War in the 1980s. In 2018, a defense ministry report warned that China and Russia were recruiting huge capabilities to produce weapons capable of attacking America's artificial satellites and other space capabilities, which could turn space into a battlefield. Thus, these security forms have led other countries to develop counter-space capabilities, whose primary objective is to gain control over this new field.
 
Blocking satellite activity
For its part, Iran has also been working slowly and steadily to improve its capabilities in the field of information gathering, reconnaissance and early warning systems. It has reportedly succeeded so far in using space technology to simulate the positioning of a US aircraft and to block the sight of a US guided spy satellite , And the use of advanced jamming techniques against Western commercial satellites. 
If we are more theoretical, advanced positioning and tracking technology, along with more missile progress, will allow Iran to develop direct missiles from ground or orbit bases, and this is symbolized by ASAT, Targeting satellites, command and control platforms and communications, as well as computers, information collection systems and surveillance and reconnaissance platforms (known as C4ISR), which are increasingly being used by adversaries such as the United States in combined military operations.
Despite a UN ban on nuclear weapons in outer space since 1967, a ban that Iran has signed but has not yet gained, Iran still has the potential to combine its nuclear and outer space ambitions.
This combination may take a picture of armaments in a manner
Is no different from the "partial orbital bombing system" that the Soviet Union worked on, and that would use orbital below-orbit to get hit to any point in the world. Similarly, the nuclear weapon that Iran explodes into space can be used to generate an electromagnetic pulse that paralyzes the electrical and electronic systems existing across the orbit.
It is still too early to talk about Iran's employment or possession of advanced space capabilities such as that of China or Russia. But even if Iran's space doctrine continues to avoid the offensive side, defensive space operations, including means in its possession from now on, such as lasers, , Is sufficient to disrupt and disrupt a wide range of services that the international community is increasingly relying on, including navigation and communications. 
Moreover, instead of hitting space capabilities, countries have the ability to target the other two easy-to-infiltrate space systems - terrestrial control and telemetry capabilities, and radars that provide terrestrial space links.
A recent assessment by an American think tank refutes the argument that Iran is using its space program as a star to develop its intercontinental ballistic missiles. In this sense, the assessment questions Trump's classification of Iran's threat and questions it. But given the rising competition among the nations of the world that have invaded space, the very space, as the height of the strategic heights, will not only increase in Iran's importance, especially under the scarcity it complains and the fragmentation of its deterrence.
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Brian Gelfari, chief financial officer of Britain's BP, said the company had not carried any of its tankers across the Strait of Hormuz since Iran tried to hold one of its ships on July 10.

He added that the oil and gas company does not intend in the near term to run any tanker flying the flag of BP across the strait, which passes a fifth of the world oil.

But pointed out that the company is transporting oil from the region using leased carriers.


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Iran defies sanctions and announces the drilling of 41 oil and gas wells

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Despite US sanctions, Iran announced on Tuesday that it had completed the drilling of 41 oil and gas wells, at sea and land, over the past four months. 
The assistant director of the National Iranian Drilling Company Mohammed al-Khamis, the size of wells dug at 50 thousand and 929 meters, without specifying where. 
He pointed out that the necessary preparations have been completed to begin the drilling of 10 new wells in the field of "Azadkan South", southwestern Iran, ending on 20 March 2020. 
It is worth mentioning that the Iranian National Drilling Company owns 72 land drilling platforms and 3 drilling platforms Freely

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Germany rejects America's demand to be in the Strait of Hormuz

The German Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday, July 30, 2019, that Berlin refused to participate in the US pressure strategy in the Gulf region and the Strait of Hormuz.

"The United States of America has given its allies, including Germany, its vision of protecting navigation in the Gulf and has asked to participate in the mission. The German government has learned about these plans but has not made promises on them," the foreign ministry statement said.

"We are in close contact with France and Britain, but joining the US strategy to increase pressure in the region is not part of our plans," the statement said.

The Foreign Ministry noted that the priority now must be given to reduce tension, and diplomatic efforts, rather than the deployment of additional military forces in the region.

A spokeswoman for the US embassy in Berlin said Tuesday that Washington had asked Germany, France and Britain to help secure the Strait of Hormuz.

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US asks Europe to secure Strait of Hormuz, combat Iran aggression

 

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The US has formally asked Germany to join France and the UK in a mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. The UK sent its Type 45 Destroyer HMS Duncan to the region on July 29. (AFP photo/Crown copyright 2019)

Updated 30 July 2019

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July 30, 201915:30

The comments confirmed by embassy spokesman

The UK sent its Type 45 Destroyer HMS Duncan to the region on July 29

BERLIN: The US has formally asked Germany to join France and Britain in a mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz and to combat Iranian aggression, the US Embassy in Berlin said on Tuesday.

At a time of heightened tension between the United States and Iran, Washington has proposed stepping up efforts to safeguard the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf, through which about a fifth of the world's oil passes.

“We’ve formally asked Germany to join France and the UK to help secure the Straits of Hormuz and combat Iranian aggression. Members of the German government have been clear that freedom of navigation should be protected... Our question is, protected by whom,” said an Embassy spokeswoman.

The comments, initially reported by Germany's DPA news agency, were confirmed by an Embassy spokesman.

Ties between Iran and the United States have deteriorated since Washington pulled out of an international nuclear deal with Iran last year and reimposed sanctions on Tehran. Recent attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz have further soured relations.

There is considerable opposition among Germany's Social Democrats (SPD), junior partners in conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition, to getting involved in a US-led mission.

“The German government has already rejected participation in the US military mission, Operation Sentinel, to protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” said Nils Schmid, a foreign affairs spokesman for the SPD parliamentary party.

“It should stay like that. Otherwise, there is a risk of being pulled into a war against Iran on the side of the United States,” he added in an interview with the Stuttgarter Zeitung.

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BP: Our tankers won’t sail through Strait

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Iranian vessels have tried to block a BP-flagged tanker in the Strait. (Reuters)

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July 30, 201922:49

“We will continue to make shipments through there but you won't see any BP-flagged tankers going through in the short term,”

LONDON: BP has not taken any of its oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz since a July 10 attempt by Iran to seize one of its vessels, the British company’s Chief Financial Officer Brian Gilvary said on Tuesday.

The oil and gas company has no current plans to take any of its own vessels through the strait, Gilvary said, adding that BP is shipping oil out of the region using chartered tankers.

“We will continue to make shipments through there but you won't see any BP-flagged tankers going through in the short term,” he said.

Gilvary was speaking as the company reported better than expected second-quarter earnings due to a strong increase in oil and gas production.

Tensions spiked between Iran and Britain this month when Iranian commandos seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important waterway for oil shipments.

That came two weeks after British forces captured an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar suspected of violating EU sanctions on Syria.

Earlier this month, three Iranian vessels tried to block the passage of a BP-operated tanker through the Strait of Hormuz but withdrew after warnings from a British warship.

Washington, which has by far the strongest Western naval contingent in the Gulf, on July 9 proposed stepping up efforts to safeguard the Strait of Hormuz.

The strong increase in oil and gas production helped BP to offset weaker crude prices and refining profit to beat second-quarter profit expectations on Tuesday, lifting its shares.

BP's result contrasts with Total and Norway's Equinor, which both reported sharp earning drops, and builds on a steady recovery following deep cost cuts since the 2014 downturn, project start-ups and last year's $10.5 billion acquisition of BHP's U.S. shale assets.

Shares in BP were up 3 percent in early London trade, compared with a 0.1 percent gain in the broader FTSE index. BP and rival Royal Dutch Shell kept the blue-chip index in positive territory.

“At the midpoint of our five-year plan, BP is right on target,” Chief Executive Bob Dudley said in a statement.

BP’s underlying replacement cost profit, the company’s definition of net income, reached $2.8 billion in the second quarter, exceeding a company-provided forecast of $2.46 billion.

The second-quarter profitwas up from $2.4 billion in the previous quarter.

The results beat expectations for 10 quarters in a row, analysts at Bernstein said.

“Strong volume growth from accretive barrels and seamless execution remains underappreciated,” said Bernstein, which has an “outperform” recommendation on the stock.

The company's operating cash flow recovered to $6.8 billion in the quarter from $5.3 billion inthe previous quarter as a result of a one-off working capital release.

BP’s dividend remained unchanged at 10.25 cents per share.

Gilvary said the company would consider raising the dividend towards the end of the year as proceeds from asset sales come through and debt is reduced.

Second-quarter production rose to 3.8 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, 4 percent higher than a year earlier.

BP said it expects third-quarter 2019 reported production to be less than second-quarter, reflecting maintenance activities and the impact of Hurricane Barry on operations in the Gulf of Mexico.

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  • yota691 changed the title to More than 111 million barrels of Iranian oil are stacked without customers
 
 
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The data from tanker companies shows that more than 111 million barrels of Iranian oil have been piled up in ports without customers in July.

According to figures obtained from Kpler, which tracks oil shipments worldwide, Iran's oil stored in fixed tankers around the Gulf region has reached 56 million barrels, nearly doubling just two months ago.

The figures also show that 55.5 million barrels are also being stored in land facilities in Iran and a large quantity of them in the Dalian and Jinju facilities in China.

The total stockpile of crude oil stands at at least 111 million barrels, just since the US ban on Iranian oil exports came into effect in early May.

Iran previously exported about 2 million barrels a day as a share in the global market, which has now dropped to less than 400 thousand barrels per day.

In terms of figures, China's imports of Iranian oil fell by 60 percent in June compared to the same month last year, following the expiration of the US exemption from sanctions in May.

The administration of President Trump gave eight importers of Iranian oil, a deadline of 180 days last November, to stop their purchases of oil from Iran.

China's imports of Iranian oil reached 855,000 tons in June. China's imports also fell by 30 percent in the first six months of the year to 11 million tonnes.

The report pointed out that it is not clear how much quantity is stored in China and the amount of consumption.

Kepler says Iran no longer has enough oil tankers to store oil.

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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macaron called on his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rowhani to reduce tensions with the United States amid a diplomatic move around the Strait of Hormuz.

McCron said in a telephone conversation with Rohani that there was a need to create the conditions in a way that would allow defusing the escalation. The Paris mission was to make sure that all parties were open to negotiations, French media quoted the Elysee Palace as saying.

McCron said the French president was working "in consultation with" Britain and Germany and was "continuing" with Russia and China.

McCron is scheduled to discuss the Iranian crisis with Russian President Vladimir Putin when he visits France on Aug. 19.

Paris, in partnership with London and Berlin, is trying to maintain a nuclear deal that was signed by major powers with Iran in 2015 and pulled out of the United States in 2018, despite tensions between Tehran and Washington in the Gulf.

This is the fourth time in two months that the French president has held talks with his Iranian counterpart, and has held several similar talks with his US counterpart, the last of which was last Friday.

Despite attempts to calm the international community calling on Iran to stop its aggressive policy, Tehran insists on showing its strength by threatening the stability and security of the region.

According to a statement issued by the Iranian presidency, Rohani stressed during his contact with his French counterpart that the policies adopted by the United States negatively affect the stability and security of the region and the relations that are taking place in the world arena. He also said that his country is not the party that started the tension in the region.

Recently, tension between the United States and Iran has escalated following Tehran's reduction of some of its obligations under the multilateral nuclear agreement in 2015.

Tehran took the step, a year after the United States pulled out of the deal and imposed tough sanctions on Tehran to force it to renegotiate its nuclear program as well as its missile program.

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Zarif: Tehran is ready to reduce nuclear commitments

Economy | 11:23 - 31/07/2019

 
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said Iran 's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country is ready to reduce the new obligations under the nuclear deal unless Thmha European countries from US sanctions. 
Zarif also said that Iran's oil revenues should be introduced into the mechanism of financial dealings with Europe, "Instex", according to the agency "Fars" Iran. 
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is ready to cut its commitments to its international nuclear deal unless its European partners move to protect it from US sanctions by ensuring its ability to sell oil and earn income, Iran's foreign minister told state television on Wednesday. 
"Under the current circumstances and if no action is taken by the Europeans, we will take the next step [in reducing commitments]," said Mohamed Javad Zarif, adding that its European partners should ensure that Iran can sell its oil and collect revenues.
Iran said it would reduce its commitment to the nuclear agreement in stages and may withdraw from the agreement unless the Europeans find ways to protect its economy from US sanctions.

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Zarif: Tehran is ready to reduce nuclear commitments

Economy | 11:23 - 31/07/2019

 
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said Iran 's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country is ready to reduce the new obligations under the nuclear deal unless Thmha European countries from US sanctions. 
Zarif also said that Iran's oil revenues should be introduced into the mechanism of financial dealings with Europe, "Instex", according to the agency "Fars" Iran. 
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is ready to cut its commitments to its international nuclear deal unless its European partners move to protect it from US sanctions by ensuring its ability to sell oil and earn income, Iran's foreign minister told state television on Wednesday. 
"Under the current circumstances and if no action is taken by the Europeans, we will take the next step [in reducing commitments]," said Mohamed Javad Zarif, adding that its European partners should ensure that Iran can sell its oil and collect revenues.
Iran said it would reduce its commitment to the nuclear agreement in stages and may withdraw from the agreement unless the Europeans find ways to protect its economy from US sanctions.

 

Funny......and cabinet just approved plan to delete zeros.....trumps two or three on his wish list 

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United Nations: Iranian-American tension in Hormuz is a threat to Iraq

Political | 04:21 - 31/07/2019

 
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BAGHDAD ( 
Reuters) - The tensions between Iran and the United States in the Strait of Hormuz pose a threat to Iraq and the Middle East, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special representative to Iraq, Jenin Heinz Blachert, confirmed Wednesday. 
"What is happening now in the Strait of Hormuz, and if things get out of control, will not only be an issue between the United States and Iran, but will affect the entire region, especially Iraq," Blashert said in a statement read by Mawazine News. 
"The impact of a possible escalation of tensions between the United States and Iran could undermine Iraq's progress in post-war recovery over recent years," she said in response to a question about how it affected Iraq.
"As for the Russian security concept of the Gulf region, which is likely to be an option for stabilizing the situation, Hennes Plachart said," Every call, from anyone, for regional stability and security is welcome. "

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The first response to the US sanctions
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday responded to the US Treasury Department's list of sanctions.
"The reason for Washington's sanctions on me is that I am the main spokesman for Iran in the world, is this fact painful?" Zarif said on his Twitter account. 
"These sanctions have no effect on me or on my family, since I have no property or interests outside Iran," he said. 
"Thank you for considering me such a great threat to your agenda." is over
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Washington imposes sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister .. And Sharif: No effect

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States has imposed sanctions on Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, to help him carry out a "reckless agenda" for Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, a US official said, but Zarif played down its significance.

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Iran's foreign minister, the US Treasury Department's Foreign Assets Control Office said on its Web site.

On the nature of the sanctions, a US Treasury official said sanctions on Zarif included freezing his assets in the United States and punishing those he financially supports.

A US official confirmed that Washington would continue to exert extreme pressure on Iran while keeping room for diplomacy, noting that the patience of the Trump administration is running out. 

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Commenting on the US decision, Zarif said in a tweet on his Twitter account that the reason for Washington's sanctions on me is that I am the main spokesman for Iran in the world. 
He added that the sanctions imposed by Washington "will not affect me or my family because there are no property or interests outside of Iran."

US Treasury Secretary Stephen Menuchin said on June 24 that Zarif would be included in the black list that week, an unusual public position because the United States usually does not disclose such decisions in advance to prevent its goals from transferring assets outside US jurisdiction.

But the Reuters news agency quoted two sources as saying on Monday that the United States had decided not to impose sanctions at the current stage on Iran's foreign minister after talking about a US intention to include him on the black list.

The two sources said the resolution indicated that Washington might leave the door open to diplomacy.

"The wisdom prevailed, it is not necessarily useful," one source said, declining to be named, adding that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had opposed Zarif's inclusion in the list "at the moment."

Asked by a Treasury Department spokesman why the withdrawal was being made, a senior Trump administration official said the United States was looking at different ways to impose additional sanctions on Tehran. "Zarif is certainly an important figure," he said.

US State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagos commented on the decision that Washington wanted a diplomatic solution and reiterated Trump's comment that he was ready to meet Iran "without preconditions."

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Iraqis linked to Iran use money-laundering scam to beat US sanctions

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A vendor inspects Iranian rials at a currency exchange shop in Baghdad, Iraq August 8, 2018. (Reuters)

Updated 01 August 2019

SUADAD AL-SALHY

August 01, 201900:07

They employ middlemen to buy US dollars and transfer funds out of country

Rate of dollar purchases surged after sanctions imposed, exchange dealers tell Arab News

 

BAGHDAD: Iraqi individuals and companies linked to Iran are smuggling cash out of the country to avoid financial sanctions imposed by the US Treasury.

Despite technically being denied access to US dollars by Iraq’s central bank, they are exploiting the bank’s daily auction of hard currency by employing middlemen to convert Iraqi dinars into dollars. The funds are then transferred out of Iraq using private exchange offices.

“In previous months, the daily release rate of the dollar at the currency auction was between $150 million and $180 million, sometimes up to $200 million. In the past few days it has reached $270 million,” the owner of a large currency exchange and financial transfer office in Baghdad told Arab News.

There is “no noticeable justification” for the sudden increase in dollar purchases, exchange operators said. Traders at Shorja Market, the largest wholesale market in Baghdad, told Arab News the surge in remittances could not be explained by any changes in the market, where there had been a shortage of hard cash since the end of last year.

Daily buying and selling remained weak, they said. One prominent banker told Arab News:

“Traders have nothing to do with this fever; 80 percent of the remittances that were made this week were cash transfers, and will be delivered by hand.”

On July 18, the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed financial sanctions on groups and individuals including two commanders of pro-Iranian paramilitary groups and two former governors supported by Iran. The sanctions were imposed under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, targeting “perpetrators of serious human rights abuses and corruption,”and banned any financial dealings with those named.

In response, the Central Bank of Iraq issued a circular to all Iraqi banks ordering them to freeze the accounts of anyone targeted by sanctions, and prevent their access to funds.

There was a wave of criticism and anger from Iraqi politicians and leaders of armed factions, especially those associated with Iran, who complained of “unilateral sanctions that violate Iraqi sovereignty and target Iran and its allies in Iraq under the pretext of human-rights abuses and corruption.”

The protests were accompanied by heavy pressure on Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and the governor of the central bank to change the policy. Four days later the bank issued a new circular that limited the financial freeze to US dollars only, permitting withdrawal of Iraqi dinars. It was then that the surge in dollar purchases through middlemen began.

Bankers said depositors were withdrawing their funds in Iraqi currency "to avoid attracting the attention of the US Treasury, which monitors the movement of the dollar in Iraq.”

Iraqi security officials, members of parliament and armed faction leaders told Arab News that most politicians and commanders associated with Iran, or who enjoyed its support, were “deeply concerned” as they believed they could be targeted by US Treasury sanctions at any time. This has prompted them to withdraw their money from Iraqi banks and transfer it abroad to “minimize the damage.”

“The sanctions have deeply confused and concerned them,” a senior Iraqi national security official said. “They began to withdraw their money from Iraqi banks and settle their financial assets with the Iraqi government to reduce the damage and avoid having their assets frozen and property seized in the event of sanctions.

“Our information suggests that they transfer most of the money to private companies in Dubai, and use some of it to buy property, both inside and outside Iraq.

“Actually, this is not new. They have been laundering their money for years, but what has happened now is that the sanctions have entangled them and forced them to change how they do it.”

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