Iraq Files Complaint to UN over Iran Missile Attack

[nannab]

1 hour ago, horsesoldier said:

Then the UN should take their demands for deescalation in the ME to the Iranians. Trump doesn’t give a rats Azz what the UN thinks. 

 

No body does any more the UN has become a joke.

[DoD]

I thought all the UN did was deploy a bunch of rapist and murderers to impoverished countries to rape, murder an steal from the citizens. 
Just another example of wasted money going out of our treasure....

[Laid Back]

“The fact that Washington has control over the financial control file and the value of the dollar,”

 

Go USA

Go UST

Go DFI

[dinarbeleiver]

Companies are pulling out, its now no longer safe for USA or western personnel to be in Iraq (not that it ever was). When trump said “ we should have taken the oil” I think he was right 

[yota691]

Sunday, January 5, 2020 | 03:26 pm

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Iran moves to the Security Council regarding Soleimani's martyrdom

 

Follow-up / .. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, said today, Sunday, that Iran lodged a complaint with the United Nations Security Council regarding the assassination of the Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, in a US air raid near Baghdad airport.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already begun political, legal and international measures, including at the level of the United Nations and the Security Council," Mousavi said at a press conference.

The Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, had confirmed today, Sunday, that the end of the malicious presence of the United States in West Asia had begun.

"America wanted it or not, America has begun the end of the malicious presence of the United States in West Asia," Zarif said in a tweet on his personal page on social media, Twitter.

[yota691]

05-01-2020 05:16 PM

Iraq complains about the US attacks on the Security Council and the United Nations

 

 

Baghdad - news

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry announced today, Sunday, that it submitted a complaint about the American attacks to the UN Security Council and the United Nations.

A State Department statement, received by Al-Akhbariya, stated that it “filed a complaint according to two identical letters to both the President of the Security Council and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, through the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Iraq in New York, about American attacks and attacks against Iraqi military sites, and the assassination of Iraqi and friendly military leaders High-level on the Iraqi soil, which resulted in the martyrdom of the deputy head of the popular crowd, the martyr Jamal Jaafar Muhammad (Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis), with a number of martyrs from the Iraqi leaders and the friend. "

She added, "This is in a serious violation of Iraqi sovereignty and in violation of the conditions for the presence of American forces in Iraq," noting that "Iraq has asked the Security Council to condemn the bombing and assassinations."

[Pitcher]

While you’re complaining try to explain why you invaded Iraq with 125k Iranian trained and backed militias.  Then explain to the UN Security Council why you attacked Our Bases and Embassy.  Explain why Iran is exporting terror all across the ME..

 

Soleimani was not a hero.  He was a Terrorist.  

[3n1]

13 hours ago, Laid Back said:

“The fact that Washington has control over the financial control file and the value of the dollar,”

 

Go USA

Go UST

Go DFI

 

Im thinking might be best for USA / IMF to pull the USD from Iraq and let them get along with their worthless iqd or they could start using their beloved Irans worthless rial all my opinion of course ... we wait   

[Laid Back]

8 hours ago, 3n1 said:

 

Im thinking might be best for USA / IMF to pull the USD from Iraq and let them get along with their worthless iqd or they could start using their beloved Irans worthless rial all my opinion of course ... we wait   

Thanks for your input my friend 3n1,

I don’t think it will be that easy, because oil sales are in US dollars. But the US can bring them back to Chapter Vll sanctions. Also US has control over DFI.

[3n1]

2 minutes ago, Laid Back said:

Thanks for your input my friend 3n1,

I don’t think it will be that easy, because oil sales are in US dollars. But the US can bring them back to Chapter Vll sanctions. Also US has control over DFI.

 

thanks LB an correct oil sales thru opec are done in usd but iraq has large amounts of usd used in daily commerce i was actually just blowing off a little frustrated steam i really want the best for a peaceful iraq and the investors & ( countries ) that have helped iraq this far , I enjoy all your contributions ... all the best

[Laid Back]

38 minutes ago, 3n1 said:

 

thanks LB an correct oil sales thru opec are done in usd but iraq has large amounts of usd used in daily commerce i was actually just blowing off a little frustrated steam i really want the best for a peaceful iraq and the investors & ( countries ) that have helped iraq this far , I enjoy all your contributions ... all the best

Thank you 3n1,

I also enjoy your contributions on this board... All the best my friend.!

[KDuesing]

Lets make sure we got this strait, they can kill us, they can kill Iraqi's, but we cant kill them or theirs gonna be a war.

[Pitcher]

Al Arabiya documentary reveals Hezbollah’s drug trade, money laundering links

 

 

In a deep look into a “thriller” investigation, Al Arabiya’s exclusive documentary “Hezbollah’s Narco Jihad” discusses the involvement of the designated terrorist organization, Hezbollah, in the global drug trade and explains how it uses money laundering to substitute for its fund shortage.

From 2009 to July 2013, an estimated 7,000 people were killed in the Medellin mafia wars in Colombia, as different challengers sought to claim Don Berna’s criminal throne as head of the Oficina de Envigado (the Envigado office), and become the successor to the Medellin Cartel.

 

Until his death in Medellin in 1993, Pablo Escobar was the unchallenged head of the Medellin Cartel.

A former sicario of the Medellin cartel, who is also said to have been Escobar’s most loyal man, told Al Arabiya in its exclusive documentary that: “The cartel of Medellin was too powerful. It had an aircraft fleet of around 140, it had more than 3,000 hit men, and it had a cruel intelligence structure. They bribed people from the State, operated a lot of intelligence matters. It was a totally criminal organization, with a great deal of money, possessing many weapons and an elaborate infrastructure."

 

For two years after Escobar’s death, the Cali Cartel was able to continue operating with the same modus operandi, until the leaders, the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers, were captured in 1995.

Then the Colombian underworld became fragmented, and now drug trafficking syndicates are eluding countering forces with new strategies.

The documentary explains that this meant working with the Italian Mafia in Europe, and tapping into the huge Brazilian and Argentinian markets in South America.

It also meant increased coordination between Colombian organized crime that had migrated to the Middle East, and known Hezbollah associates that had been in the Guajira region of Colombia for the past decade.

ALSO READ: How the Iranian regime allows drug trafficking for foreign currency liquidity 

In October 2008, a joint endeavor by American and Colombian investigators dismantled an international cocaine smuggling and money laundering ring that allegedly directed part of its profits to finance Hezbollah.

As the investigation progressed, the undercover agent got close enough to the cartel to serve as one of its money launderers. The agent laundered some $20 million, enabling the DEA to follow the money and map out much of the cartel’s operations.

The operation broke down before direct terrorism charges were filed.

While some claim the operation ended due to interagency squabbling, many government officials believe that the Obama Administration tamped down the investigation of Hezbollah for fear of jeopardizing the impending nuclear deal with Iran.

Lebanon was the Middle East’s leading producer of illicit drugs in the 1970s and 1980s, with cultivation taking place mostly in the northern Bekaa Valley, according to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) figures.

 

American intelligence analysts believe that for years Hezbollah received as much as $200 million annually from its primary patron, Iran, along with additional aid from Syria.

But that support has diminished, the analysts say, as Iran’s economy buckles under international sanctions over its nuclear program and Syria’s government battles rising popular unrest.

Auditors brought in to scrub the books discovered nearly 200 accounts with links to Hezbollah and their classic signs of money laundering.

ALSO READ: Hezbollah is stronger than ever and closer to Europe than we think

“Hezbollah’s Narco Jihad” takes the audience through the details of the organization’s drug trade and money laundering, reaching up to today’s reality stating that the same networks are still active.

 

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2018/11/28/Al-Arabiya-exclusive-documentary-reveals-Hezbollah-s-drug-trade-money-laundering-scheme.html

 

[Butifldrm]

 

The Speaker of the House of Representatives receives the representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations

 01/06/2020

 

Speaker of the Council of Representatives Mohamed Al-Halbousi received, today, Monday, the representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Mrs. Jenin Blackshart.

The meeting discussed the political developments in the country, the situation in the region, and discussed the issue of forming a government, and emphasizing the need to choose a government booth that meets the requirements of the Iraqi people.

Media office
of the Speaker of the House of Representatives
January 6, 2020

http://ar.parliament.iq/2020/01/06/رئيس-مجلس-النواب-يستقبل-ممثلة-الأمين-ا-3/

[Butifldrm]

Trump Administration Blocks Iran’s Top Diplomat From Addressing the U.N. Security Council

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had sought to give a speech condemning the U.S. assassination of Qassem Suleimani.

BY COLUM LYNCH, ROBBIE GRAMER

 | JANUARY 6, 2020, 3:18 PM

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a meeting at the United Nations Offices in Geneva on Oct. 29, 2019. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

The Trump administration is barring Iran’s top diplomat from entering the United States this week to address the United Nations Security Council about the U.S. assassination of Iran’s top military official in Baghdad, violating the terms of a 1947 headquarters agreement requiring Washington to permit foreign officials into the country to conduct U.N. business, according to three diplomatic sources.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif requested a visa a “few weeks ago” to enter the United States to attend a Jan. 9 Security Council meeting on the importance of upholding the U.N. Charter, according to a diplomatic source familiar with the matter. The Thursday meeting was to provide Tehran’s top diplomat with his first opportunity to directly address the world community since U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the Jan. 3 drone strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, a top Iraqi militia leader, among others.

The Iranian government was awaiting word on the visa Monday when a Trump administration official phoned U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to inform him that the United States would not allow Zarif into the country, according to the Washington-based diplomatic source.

The move comes as the United States and Iran engaged in ***-for-tat recriminations over the killing of Suleimani. Trump tweeted over the weekend that if Iran retaliates for Suleimani’s death, it will face U.S. attacks on 52 targets—the number of hostages held by Iran in 1979. “Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have … targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD,” he said. “The USA wants no more threats!”

Tehran, meanwhile, announced Sunday it was ending its commitment to limit enrichment of uranium as part of its 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump pulled out of in 2018 and then followed up by reimposing tough sanctions on Iran. 

But even before the current crisis, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in recent months had sought to restrict the ability of Zarif—a skilled debater who has studied in the United States and has extensive contacts with American journalists—to make his case to the American public during previous visits to the United States.

In July, the United States restricted his movement to a few blocks in Manhattan and Queens, preventing Zarif from making his regular visits to TV studios, universities, and think tanks. Pompeo defended the decision, noting that American diplomats lack freedom to travel in Iran.

The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Iran after the revolution. Iran is permitted to maintain a diplomatic outpost in midtown Manhattan to conduct U.N. business.

On the eve of the U.N. General Assembly debate in September 2019, Pompeo hinted that he might bar the Iranian delegation, led by President Hassan Rouhani and Zarif, from entering the United States, saying that Iran was responsible for carrying out an earlier drone and missile strike on two critical Saudi Arabian oil installations.

“The actions that the Iranian regime took violated the U.N. Charter,” Pompeo said at the time. “If you’re connected to a foreign terrorist organization, it seems to me it would be a reasonable thing to think about whether they ought to be prevented to attend a meeting which is about peace.”

But U.N. legal experts question whether Pompeo has the legal authority to bar the Iranians. And the United States relented and granted the Iranians visas at the time.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/06/trump-administration-blocks-iran-foreign-minister-zarif-addressing-un-security-council/

[Butifldrm]

UN cultural agency chief meets with Iran ambassador amid current tensions

 

ICHHTO / B. Sedighi

Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars Region, in the Islamic Republic of Iran, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018.

    

6 January 2020

Culture and Education

The current tensions across the Middle East and Gulf region and their potential implications for cultural heritage sites were the focus of a meeting on Monday between the head of the UN’s cultural agency, UNESCO, and a senior diplomat from Iran. 

UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay and Iranian Ambassador to the UN agency, Ahmad Jalali, met in Paris against a background of mounting threats between his country and the United States.  

This follows the killing of top Iranian general Qassim Suleimani in an airstrike in Baghdad on Friday carried out by the United States. 

In a tweet at the weekend, US President Donald Trump said he was issuing a warning to Iran that if any retaliatory strikes involved Americans or American assets, then Iranian sites, including those of cultural significance, would be targeted. 

Ms. Azoulay used the meeting to stress the universality of cultural and natural heritage in promoting peace and dialogue between peoples, and which the international community has a duty to protect and preserve for future generations. 

She recalled two UN treaties on protecting cultural heritage, including during conflict, which both countries have ratified. 

The 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict is the first international treaty to address this subject. 

It was adopted in the wake of the widespread destruction of cultural heritage during the Second World War. 

Examples of cultural heritage include monuments and archaeological sites, but also architecture, works of art, books, scientific collections, and other objects of artistic, historical or archaeological interest. 

Under the treaty, countries pledge to spare these items from possible armed conflict through protective measures and even sanctions.  

UNESCO explained that threats can come from fighting but also any resulting occupation. 

“As cultural property reflects the life, history and identity of the community, its preservation helps to rebuild a broken community, re-establish its identity, and link its past with its present and future. In addition, the cultural property of any people contributes to the cultural heritage of humankind. Thus, loss of or damage to such property impoverishes humankind,”  according to information on its website.

The second treaty is the 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. 

The most significant feature of the treaty is that it links “the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural properties” and the need to preserve balance between the two.   

Among other items, it stipulates that each State Party “undertakes not to take any deliberate measures which might damage directly or indirectly the cultural and natural heritage […] situated on the territory of other States Parties to this Convention.” 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/01/1054831

[Pitcher]

US denies Iran’s Zarif visa ahead of UN Security Council meeting: Foreign Policy

Last July, Zarif was not allowed beyond a six-block radius during his visit to New York City. (Reuters)

The White House is blocking Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif from entering the United States ahead of Thursday’s UN Security Council session and barring him from speaking about the killing of IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani, Foreign Policy reports citing three diplomatic sources.

According to Foreign Policy’s report, Zarif has requested a visa to enter the US several weeks ago to attend a UN Security Council meeting planned for January 9.

“The Iranian government was awaiting word on the visa Monday when a Trump administration official phoned UN Secretary-General António Guterres to inform him that the United States would not allow Zarif into the country,” Foreign Policy said in its report citing one diplomatic source.

Last July, Zarif was not allowed beyond a six-block radius during his visit to New York City, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday, adding that Zarif was only given a US visa as part of the US’s obligation toward the UN- being that it is the host country of the organization’s headquarters.

During that visit, Zarif could only move between the United Nations, the Iranian UN mission, the Iranian UN ambassador’s residence and New York’s John F. Kennedy airport.

According to a UN 1947 agreement, the US is required to allow foreign diplomats entry for access to the UN. However, Washington has said in the past that it holds the right to deny visas for “security, terrorism, and foreign policy” reasons.
 

 

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2020/01/07/Trump-administration-denies-Iran-s-FM-Zarif-visa-ahead-of-UNSC-meeting-FP.html

 

[Pitcher]

I like it.  

[TMills6864]

10 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

I like it.  

I LOVE it!!

 

[DinarThug]

14 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

I like it.  

 

4 minutes ago, TMills6864 said:

I LOVE it!!

Tell The Iranians To Shove It !  
 

 

     
 

Edited January 7, 2020 by DinarThug

[Pitcher]

One of the funniest skits ever on SNL.  

[Pitcher]

Arab SNL version of that skit. 

 

 

[yota691]

06-01-2020 07:35 PM

Saleh assures Blaskhardt on preventing Iraq from turning into an arena for settling conflicts

 

 

Baghdad - news

On Monday, President of the Republic Barham Saleh affirmed that Iraq would not be turned into an arena for settling conflicts.

A statement by the Presidency, received by Al-Akhbaria, stated that, “Saleh, today, received the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Jenin Henness Blaskhart. Conflicts as a national priority and a regional and international imperative. "

He added, "It was also stressed the importance of remedying the current crises by strengthening state institutions and adopting their reform as a popular and national entitlement, and the importance of restraint and dealing wisely with current events were also mentioned."

[DoD]

2 hours ago, yota691 said:

06-01-2020 07:35 PM

Saleh assures Blaskhardt on preventing Iraq from turning into an arena for settling conflicts

 

Hey there President Saleh, where ya been the last few weeks? Need to spend a little less time in Iran or Dubai an check on your country. You had one of your bases attacked a couple weeks ago that killed an American an wounded some US soldiers, last week the US embassy was attacked an suffered a lot of damage.

The only thing you can remember is a US drone killed one of Iran’s top generals an your all butt hurt an don’t want your country to be a battlefield, your pathetic. 

[Butifldrm]

 

01/20/2020 12:55

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China demands an entry visa for the Iranian foreign minister to participate in Security Council meetings

Baghdad / Obelisk: The Chinese Foreign Ministry requested an entry visa for the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on Wednesday, January 8, 2020, in order to participate in the Security Council meetings that will take place against the background of the assassination of Qassem Soleimani.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Shuang stressed in a statement that America should be responsible for its international obligations, considering that the responsibility lies with Washington as the host country for the United Nations meetings represented by its organization.

The Chinese official added that "America should provide appropriate conditions for representatives of other countries to attend the meetings and represent their countries, and issue entry visas in order to participate in these meetings."

On the approval by the Iranian parliament of a draft resolution on the labeling of the "terrorist" against the US military, Shuang stressed that Beijing calls on all parties to adhere to the goals and rules of international law, the United Nations Charter and international controls, saying "Beijing is very concerned about the current situation and developments in the Middle East region," according to International agencies.

Washington had decided not to issue an entry visa to the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in order to participate in the UN Security Council meetings against the background of the assassination of Qassem Soleimani.

 

Obelisk follow-up - agencies

http://almasalah.com/ar/news/185726/الصين-تطالب-بمنح-تأشيرة-دخول-لوزير-الخارجية-الإيراني-للمشاركة-في-اجتماعات-مجلس-الامن