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Tehran announces receiving the US response to the draft nuclear agreement
 

Baghdad - people  

Tehran announced, on Wednesday, that it had received the US government's response "to the views of the Islamic Republic of Iran to resolve the remaining issues in the sanctions lifting negotiations, through the European coordinator of the talks this afternoon."  

 

  

  

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanaani, said that his country has begun a detailed review of the views of the American side, and that it will announce its views in this regard to the European Coordinator of the negotiations after completing its study, according to what was reported by "RT".  

  

Earlier, the Iranian Foreign Ministry revealed developments in the movement within the framework of the nuclear agreement with Washington, while indicating that the issue of Soleimani's assassination has nothing to do with the negotiations.  

  

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani responded during a press conference carried by "IRNA" agency, followed by "Nass" (August 22, 2022), to the question, "The United States stipulated that Iran abandon revenge for Soleimani's blood in order to activate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action," saying: "The position of the Islamic Republic on Soleimani's assassination is clear, and Iran, the government and people, will never forget the cowardly assassination of Soleimani."    

  

Kanaani added, "This issue will not be subject to reconciliation and settlement, and Iran will use all its capabilities to try the killers of Soleimani and his companions in the International Court of Justice, and this issue has nothing to do with nuclear negotiations."    

  

He stated, "The remaining issues in the negotiations are few, but they are important and must be agreed upon, stressing that we adhere to our principles and will not retreat from our legal rights regarding reviving the nuclear agreement, as long as we welcome the path of negotiations and affirm our desire to revive the agreement without deviating from our red lines."    

  

He continued, "We want an agreement that satisfies the Iranian people and preserves its supreme interests, saying: If Tehran needs to reach an agreement, the Europeans and the United States need it more."    

  

And the Foreign Ministry spokesman added: "We have not received the American response yet, and our response to the European proposal was timely and seriously, considering that it is possible to move to the next stage of negotiations if Washington acts responsibly and takes its decision."    

  

On a separate level, Kanaani said that the ongoing negotiations between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore official relations between the two countries contribute to securing the interests of both sides.    

  


He added, that there are differences in viewpoints and complex issues, but good steps have been taken forward, and that the progress of the negotiations was positive.    

  

Kanaani expressed his belief that the resumption of relations will not happen quickly, and said, "The political will is there, and we have seen the Saudi side take opposite steps, and we should be optimistic about taking a step forward in the course of diplomatic contacts and dialogues."    

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Spinning between Iran and Western countries before resolving the fate of the nuclear agreement
 

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Adviser to the Iranian negotiating team, Mohammad Marandi, said on Wednesday that Europe is on the cusp of winter, and the United States must take into account Europe's situation, and Iran is ready to supply it with gas.  

  

  

  

Marandi said in statements carried by Iranian media, followed by "Nass" (August 24, 2022), that "we have heard allegations that Iran has abandoned removing the name of the Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorism."  

  

He explained, "The removal of the Revolutionary Guards' name from the US terrorist list was not originally a prerequisite in the nuclear negotiations."  

  

Marandi added, "Washington is no longer negotiating from the standpoint of the strong negotiator, and therefore it has promoted its allegations about Iran's concessions."  

  

He added, "Iran wants the nuclear deal, but the United States and Europe need it."

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Saudi, Emirati Concerns Regarding West's Nuclear Deal With Iran: It Disregards Iran's Threat To Region, support Of Terror; Due To U.S. Hesitancy, Iran Is Greatest Winner In Negotiations

August 24, 2022

Amid reports in the global media that Iran and the superpowers, headed by the U.S., are close to renewing the nuclear deal, many articles in the Saudi and Emirati press express concern regarding the emerging agreement. They note that, like the deal of 2015, the renewed one does not address the demand of the Gulf states to restrain Iran's problematic conduct in the region, and does not include firm restrictions on Iran's missile program or the terrorist militias it deploys in Arab countries.  The articles warn that dismissing these concerns will exacerbate the tension and violence in the region and in the world.

The articles also accuse the Biden administration of conducting the negotiations in haste out of a desire to reach an agreement, which can be presented as an achievement to the American voter, before the U.S. Midterm Congressional Elections in November. The Biden administration, they say, was excessively weak and hesitant in the negotiations, whereas Russia and China firmly supported Iran, as a result of which Iran received many concessions and emerged as the big winner in the negotiations.

The concerns regarding the emerging deal, and the criticism against the U.S. for being over-lenient with Iran and ignoring its terror in the region, also found expression in cartoons published in the Gulf press.

This report presents some of these articles and cartoons.

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While Iran prepares a nuclear bomb, U.S. hits it with a feather, saying "Succumb!" (Al-Iqtisadiyya, Saudi Arabia, August 17, 2022)

Senior Saudi Journalist: Agreement's Disregard of Iran's Military Action In Arab States Will Increase Violence In Region And World

Senior Saudi journalist 'Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashed writes in his column in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that the Western eagerness to renew the nuclear deal with Iran, and its disregard of this country's military involvement in Arab countries, is even more worrying than the concessions Iran may receive as part of the deal, such as the lifting of sanctions, the funds it will receive and the release of its prisoners. This disregard, he warns, can increase the tension and violence in the region and may even have global implications: 

"According to the leaked information, the 'comprehensive agreement' between the superpowers and Iran is very similar to the previous agreement, and does not inspire optimism. It includes secret articles that both sides are concealing, but it won't be long before they are exposed by some angry politician or diligent journalist, as happened with the previous agreement, whose secret details amazed many people when they were made public in 2015.

"The Americans and Europeans have been negotiating in Vienna for a year and a half now, and Iran's Supreme Leader [Ali Khamenei] has only several more weeks to decide on the matter, because time is passing. The shadow of Donald Trump and the Republicans looms over the upcoming [Midterm] Congressional Elections in November [2022], and if the Democrats lose the majority in the Congress and Senate, which is likely, it will be harder and perhaps impossible to sign the agreement. In light of this urgency, the marathon of negotiations ceased, and Vienna became a delivery room where [the agreement is being delivered] by C-section. The main issues have mostly been agreed on, and what remains is the details, and that's where the devil lies. No matter what is [eventually] agreed upon, [the resulting deal is] likely to be a disfigured creature, whether or not Iran gives up its [demand] to lift the sanctions from the IRGC, whether or not South Korea transfers the $7 billion [it owes] Iran, and whether or not the Europeans release all the malicious criminals close to the [Iranian] regime.  

"In my opinion, [all] these concessions in the agreement are a disgrace, but they are not as dangerous as the dismissal of the concerns regarding Iran's military activity beyond its borders – in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Gaza, Syria and Afghanistan – which will pour oil on the fire. Signing an agreement and lifting the sanctions, while keeping silent about Iran's military activity abroad, will increase the tension and violence in the region. The damage will [also] reach the U.S. and Europe, renew the regional conflict and the international blocs [aligned with one side or the other], and will accelerate the expansion of the Russian and Chinese activity in the region…"[1]

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West signs "nuclear deal" with Iran, while ignoring its terrorists (Al-Iqtisadiyya, Saudi Arabia, August 21, 2022)

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Biden uses "nuclear deal" to scrub Iran clean of involvement in "terror" (Al-Iqtisadiyya, Saudi Arabia, August 5, 2022)

Saudi Daily: The Agreement With Iran Must Meet Gulf Demands, Halt Its Subversive Activity In Region

Similar claims were expressed in the August 21 editorial of the Saudi daily 'Okaz, headlined  "The Agreement with Iran Must Meet Gulf Demands". It said: "Following the leaks about concessions made by Iran in order to advance the negotiations to revive the [2015] nuclear deal, conservative Iranian MPs have concerns about whether all the sanctions that have been imposed on Iran will actually be lifted. While all eyes are on the U.S., to see what its final position will be now that Iran has responded to the EU proposal… it has been leaked that, on the first day [of the deal's approval], three executive orders issued by former U.S. president Donald Trump are to be revoked, which means that sanctions will be lifted from 17 Iranian banks and 150 Iranian institutions, and Iran's $7 billion will be unfrozen.   

"Although the new deal will meet the Western demand to deny Iran nuclear capabilities, it will not satisfy the West's allies in the Gulf as long as it fails to include strict conditions and constraints addressing Iran's actions to destabilize the region, its missile program and the concentrations of its militias in Arab countries. Despite President Joe Biden's promises at the Jeddah summit last month [July 2022], [namely] that the U.S. would not abandon its allies in the Middle East, these allies are interested in an agreement that meets their expectation [to see] a region free of weapons of mass destruction and an Iranian regime that respects the will of the international [community]."[2]

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The world scrutinizes the "nuclear deal" while ignoring Iran's "support of militias" (Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, London, August 8, 2022)

Emirati Analyst: Iran Is Biggest Beneficiary Of America's Excessive Caution In Negotiations

In an August 21, 2022 article on the Saudi website Elaph, Emirati  researcher and political analyst Salem Al-Ketbi complains that the U.S. is negotiating with Iran from a position of weakness and hesitation, so much so that it seems to be begging Iran to return to the 2015 agreement. As a result, he says, Iran has received many concessions and is emerging as the big winner in the negotiations: 

"I don't see a big difference – which justifies the effort invested in the current negotiations – between Iran attaining a nuclear weapon today or tomorrow. Because the threat exists, and Iran's provocative behavior in the region will not change as long as there is a mutual understanding that Iran has this dangerous weapon and can accelerate the pace of its production if and when it is under any kind of external pressure. Therefore, it seems that there is no point at all to this American diplomatic effort to formulate a document that will only postpone the danger and not eliminate it. The whole issue seems pointless, and reflects an [American] desire to achieve a sham political victory that can be sold to the American voter in the hope of saving the Democratic Party candidates in the U.S. Midterm Congressional Elections [in November].

"The biggest winner of all in the negotiations to renew the nuclear agreement is undoubtedly Iran, and this is not based on conjecture but on facts, particularly on the latest condition imposed [by Iran]: that it be compensated, should  any American administration renege on the agreement in the future. This is [actually] a restriction and not a condition, and it effectively protects the agreement from any decision like the one made by former President Trump when he withdrew from the agreement in 2018…

"Iran has made additional important gains. For instance, it gained time during which it accumulated fissile material. Furthermore, its ability to continue the negotiations without making any fundamental concessions to date is a political victory in itself, over and above what it achieved by signing the 2015 agreement. It's true that the international climate contributed to strengthening Iran's position in the negotiations, especially following the outbreak of the Ukraine war and the need – in particular Europe's – to bring the Iranian oil back to the markets, not to mention the strong Chinese and Russian support for Iran during the Vienna negotiations. However, none of this negates [the impact of] America's excessive hesitation and the excessively cautious calculations of the American negotiating team. These calculations stemmed from the reluctance of the Biden administration to increase the pressure on Iran or threaten [to use] force against it. Biden continued to be extra-cautious about waving 'the stick' – so much so that Iran fully understood that the military option against it was not even being considered by the American decision maker.

"No one in our region wants a war to break out or military force to be used against Iran, as long as it is committed to international law. But I am referring to the American negotiation strategies, which cannot succeed if they aren't based on [playing] effective cards, on a resolute and efficient balance between 'the carrot' and 'the stick,' and on a full comprehension of how, when, and how long each approach can be used. From the start [of the negotiations] in Vienna, the American negotiator was practically begging Iran to agree to return to the [prior nuclear] agreement and thereby save the honor of the current [American] administration!..."[3]

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Biden and Obama administrations form the bridge on which Iran and its militias rush to "destroy the region" (Al-Arab, London, August 24, 2022)

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"Middle East waiting for nuclear negotiations with Iran, which will achieve nothing" (Al-Arab, London, August 22, 2022)

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Iranian Foreign Minister: We are committed to our demands, and we will not rush to conclude the nuclear agreement
 

  

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On Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Abdollahian affirmed his country's adherence to its demands in order to obtain guarantees from the United States to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement.  

  Abdollahian said in press statements, reported by Iranian official media, during his visit to Tanzania, which was followed by "Nas" (August 25, 2022), that "his country is committed to its demands to obtain guarantees from the United States to revive the nuclear agreement concluded in 2015, adding:" We are very serious. We are not in a hurry to conclude the agreement.

  

  

The minister added: “Yesterday we received the response of the American side to our written proposals through the European Union coordinator, and we are investigating these responses, and some issues should have been emphasized more,” noting that “the American side must be serious so that we can approach the final stage of negotiations.” ".  

  

  

He continued, "The next step is the meeting of foreign ministers to discuss the nuclear agreement, and we hope that we will reach the final stage."

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Aqil Abbas

  

It appears that America and Iran are close to signing the nuclear agreement, and the last remaining obstacles are on their way to rapid dismantlement.  

  

  

  

  

The public messages sent by the two parties indicate that they are preparing public opinion in their countries for such a signature. Perhaps there is no third country in the region, or even the world, whose public opinion, journalists, politicians and ordinary citizens, followed the course of the US-Iranian conflict over the nuclear file, up and down, like Iraq. In most cases, this follow-up was not accurate in terms of the accuracy of the information and the sobriety of the analyzes. In fact, in many cases, this follow-up was not useful because it was, and still is, feeding the long-term Iraqi illusions. These illusions are delaying the Iraqis taking control of their country and relying on themselves.  

  

The biggest Iraqi delusion in this regard is that resolving the nuclear file between America and Iran will lead to solving some political problems in Iraq, or at the very least, to easing the intensity of the conflict in it and moving towards a political truce in it, given the interdependence of the two files. On the basis of this supposed interdependence, the opposite can also happen through the Iraqi influence on the American position, as many Iraqis assume that Iran, for example, with the help of its armed Iraqi allies, can put pressure on the American negotiating position in Vienna regarding the nuclear file, by targeting the embassy or the American forces in Country.  

  

This way of thinking reflects a usual mixture of deep Iraqi misunderstandings about the workings of international politics in general and the US in particular and their intertwined assumptions, and an exaggerated and false sense of Iraq's importance and influence on the international stage.  

  

The Iranian nuclear file is historically and politically separate from Iraq. Iran started its nuclear program at the end of the fifties during the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, with the help of the United States in the framework of a famous American program at the time called "Atoms for Peace" launched by the administration of President Dwight Eisenhower in 1954. This program was based on a well-known speech by Eisenhower before the United Nations at the end of 1953 The press called him this name.  

  

In this speech, the US President called for transforming the atom from a military and deadly use that threatens humanity, to a peaceful one that contributes to development, development and human progress. This speech came in a broader context linked to global fear and anxiety following the emergence of the nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States after the outbreak of the Cold War. Before the outbreak of this war, the world had gradually awakened to the horrors of the United States’ use of atomic bombs to force Japan to surrender at the end of World War II in August 1945. Even the Americans who rejoiced when the atomic bombs fell on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki gradually discovered after the war the enormous atrocities that cause By using these bombs to take the American popular position to turn against them and their use in the future.  

  

The "Atoms for Peace" program was based on America's supplying dozens of its allies from developing countries with nuclear equipment and expertise, as well as nuclear specialists who would train their counterparts in these countries on how to use these equipment for peaceful purposes such as power generation as well as medical and scientific research.  

  

The program also had a geopolitical dimension that was linked to the developmental strengthening of America's allies in the Cold War and ensuring their progress against the countries of the eastern camp led by the Soviet Union. Through this program, many countries obtained the capabilities of low-grade uranium enrichment suitable for peaceful uses, such as Pakistan, Turkey, Argentina, Brazil and Israel.  

  

Iran was one of these countries, as it signed an agreement with America in this regard in 1957, which led to American-Iranian cooperation in building several nuclear reactors, the work of which took about a decade. In 1970, the Shah Shah Iran signed the International Convention on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, emphasizing the peaceful use of the atom. After the success of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, its spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, halted the Iranian nuclear program as a religious taboo, before Iran resumed this program after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war.  

  

Since the revival of its nuclear program in the eighties, Iran has always asserted in international forums that it is for peaceful purposes, until the Iranian opposition, represented by the People's Mojahedin Organization, leaked, in the summer of 2002, detailed information about Iran's internationally prohibited nuclear activities, including the increase in uranium enrichment rates at a facility The nuclear arsenal built by the United States in the 1960s. Following these leaks, which appeared to be true, a difficult and long confrontation began between Iran and the Atomic Energy Organization, backed by Western insistence on stopping Iranian nuclear activities prohibited by the 1970 agreement.  

  

Iran's cooperation with the international organization was not sincere or complete, as it allowed the latter's inspectors to visit and inspect known facilities, only to discover later that there were secret facilities that Iran had not announced. This discovery prompted the director of the organization, Mohamed ElBaradei, to threaten Iran to transfer its nuclear file to the UN Security Council in the event of continued lack of full cooperation.  

  

In February 2006, the organization decided, by a vote of the overwhelming majority of its members, to submit the file to the Security Council, which at the end of that year passed a unanimous resolution, Resolution 1737, on the basis of a draft resolution submitted by Germany, France and Britain imposing sanctions on Iran for its refusal to halt its nuclear enrichment program. These were the first sanctions against Iran regarding its nuclear file, which remained open to tug-of-war until the conclusion of the 2013 Geneva Agreement between Iran and the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany, or what was known at the time as the P5+1 group. Under this agreement, the freeze on Iranian deposits worth $700 million in Western banks was lifted, in exchange for Iran opening its facilities for international inspection.  

  

This temporary agreement, which stipulated a six-month period, later renewed, paved the way for a final agreement concluded in 2015 before the administration of former US President Donald Trump withdrew from it in 2018. This administration re-imposed US sanctions on Iran and added new ones in the framework of what was known maximum pressure policy. This administration's reservation, which reflects a wide reservation among the Republican Party and the United States' allies in the region, was that the agreement deals only with the Iranian nuclear file and neglects what the administration considers two other important files: Iran's destabilizing behavior in the region and its ballistic missile program. For various reasons, the current administration led by President Joe Biden has decided to negotiate a return to the same agreement, which seems imminent unless a new surprise appears.  

  

Through all of this, Iraq was not present or influential, directly or indirectly, in the international negotiations with Iran regarding its nuclear file. Since 2002, when the world discovered Iran's internationally prohibited nuclear activities, the international decision, led by the West, has been clear and strict: to prevent these activities at any cost, even if military action is required against Iran in the event of the failure of diplomatic efforts and economic sanctions.  

  

This thinking existed even before the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. America considered early on that stopping the Iranian nuclear program with military uses as a strategic goal related to preserving its national security and the security of its allies in the region who are worried about Iran's nuclear ambitions. This strategic goal was not linked to Iraq or to be achieved in Iraq, but the common Iraqi thinking illusions created an imaginary importance for the country in a broader framework related to the lack of serious knowledge of the world among many of the country's politicians and media elites.  

  

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Raghida Dergham

  

Is a bad deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran better than no deal that leads to war and the withholding of any control over the Iranian nuclear program? Or is it worse than the failure to reach a deal between the United States, Britain, Germany, France, China and Russia with Iran, is the acceptance of a bad deal that rewards the regime in Tehran for its nuclear transgressions and subversive blackmails with huge funds that fund Iran’s nuclear, strategic and regional ambitions and agendas?  

  

 

  

The Biden administration believes that a bad deal is better than the worst alternative, which in its view is to drag the United States into a war with Iran to stop its intention to acquire nuclear weapons. This obsession with wars that directly implicates US forces and leads to the loss of their lives is a key element, but not the only one, behind US President Joe Biden and his team's determination to conclude a deal fearing the worst. It now appears that an agreement to revive the JCPOA nuclear agreement is imminent, despite the high voices of opposition to it among the Republicans and from Israel, although it is not yet guaranteed. Instead of panicking whether negotiations fail or succeed, it is necessary to be wise, pragmatic, and rational to begin to consider options.  

  

No one wants a war to stop Iran's march towards acquiring a nuclear bomb. Neither Iran, nor Israel, nor America or Europe, nor China and Russia, nor certainly not the Arab countries in the Gulf and the Levant.  

  

Those who wish for a war between Iran and Israel to curb one or both of them live in the land of dreams and illusions, and the reasons are many, the most prominent of which is the historical truce relationship between the Persians and the Jews, which prevented any direct confrontation between Iran and Israel, and still is. Wars by proxy, as in the Lebanese arena, serve the Iranian and Israeli sides because they avoid direct confrontation and allow the crushing of neither Iranian nor Israeli lives. Those who imagine that Israel is the rescuer from Iranian domination of Lebanon and Syria are delusional because Israel’s interest is limited to neutralizing the Lebanese and Syrian fronts on the Israeli borders with an Iranian commitment to curb “Hezbollah” and its border weapons, and it does not care what Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran do in Lebanon internally. . Neither Israel nor Iran are friends of Lebanon, but together they are enemies.  

  

What happens on the sidelines of the negotiations to revive the nuclear agreement - and it is related to regional issues - falls under the category of the Gentlemen's agreement. Understandings between Iran and Israel, and between Iran and the Arab Gulf states with various American, European and even Russian sponsors.  

  

Despite the high frequency of public Israeli opposition to a "bad deal" - not to the principle of an agreement with Iran - there is a subtle pulse of an Israeli realization that if negotiations fail, Israel will not be able to stop Iran's nuclear program with its own military strikes. A military solution to the Iranian nuclear dilemma requires an effective American participation in the war, and this is what neither the Biden administration nor the American public opinion wants.  

  

What the Israeli political and security leaders are saying is that they will not abide by the agreement if they do not agree to it. This is a kind of disassociation from a "bad agreement", which preserves for Israel the justification for continuing its secret military operations inside Iran, when the need arises. Thus, Israel benefits from the restrictions that the agreement will impose on the Iranian nuclear program, plus its freedom of action with strikes and operations, because it is not a signatory to the agreement between Iran and the P5+1.  

  

This does not fall under the category of "gentlemen's" understandings between Israel and Iran, but may fall under the category of undeclared American-Israeli understandings. The nuclear issue and the control of nuclear facilities and reactors are still a matter of contention today, which may obstruct the agreement unless Iran retracts its insistence on limited supervision and control of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Tehran refuses full scrutiny and opposes strict control mechanisms because it has indeed entered the stage of uranium enrichment at the level of nuclear weapons. As for the Biden administration, it realizes that its concession on this issue is likely to lead to the disruption of the entire agreement in Congress, as well as to serious Israeli opposition, not cosmetic, as it appears now.  

  

Gentlemen's understandings between Israel and Iran are related to the neutralization of the Lebanese-Israeli borders as well as the Syrian-Israeli, and this is what countries in the 5+1 group are trying to foster. How will such an understanding affect the weapons and role of "Hezbollah" in Lebanon? The main idea is for Tehran to ensure that Hezbollah's weapons will not be directed against Israel or used across the border, and that its missiles become domesticated.  

In other words, the resistance against Israel is effectively neutralized by an Iranian decision, while Hezbollah can continue with the eloquence of rhetoric in the language of resistance for consumerist reasons and to extend the power of intimidation with weapons on the Lebanese interior.  

  

There are two opinions: one that considers such an understanding to be in Lebanon's interest because it exempts it from an Iranian-Israeli war hosted by "Hezbollah" in Lebanon, which destroys it and the Lebanese pay the price. The other opinion sees in such understandings a malicious deal that Iran and Israel benefit from, but which seriously harm Lebanon by placing it under Iranian tutelage and the weapon of "Hezbollah".  

  

Then there are the wishes. Wishes that the neutralization of the resistance and the consolidation of the Iranian-Israeli truce would lead to a new atmosphere, especially in light of the demarcation of the Lebanese-Israeli maritime borders and the extraction of oil and gas with Iranian blessing. Hopes that Iranian understandings with the United States and Europe will lead to an automatic taming of Iranian extremist thought, because the Iranian need to implement the project of economic revival will be a priority. Wishes that the involvement of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the global economic system and in partnerships with European companies will have a dimension represented by openness, modernization and distraction with development projects instead of subversive ones.  

  

These are, of course, wishes and not policies, but they are wishes that can be turned into policies if the international, regional and internal parties play their part, away from bidding and from patterns of submission such as herds or burying their heads in the sand. The responsibility for this is American, European, Lebanese, as well as Arab. Iran alone will not reinvent itself, will not give up its expansionist appetite, and will not contain the "Revolutionary Guard" and its authoritarian projects. It needs serious pressure and a carrot and stick equation if it is to curb its ultimate dominance a little.  

  

Iraq, Syria and Lebanon are countries that will not come out from under the Iranian umbrella by a decision of the "Revolutionary Guard" or of the Iranian supreme leadership. Gradually softening hegemony is what the American and European leaders have in mind, but wait... wait so that it does not negatively affect European oil and gas priorities. In fact, Iraq is no longer prominent on the global radars, starting with the American and European radar and ending with the Russian and Chinese radar, which is very comfortable with Iran's hegemony over Iraq, Syria and Lebanon because it is their partner in the autocratic troika.  

  

The question is, why will the United States finance the implementation of Iran's regional and "troika" agenda as a fait accompli when sanctions are lifted and billions of dollars are poured into the mullahs' regime and the "Revolutionary Guard" regime, which at the same time will gain global recognition for its legitimacy and maintain its nuclear capabilities? "It's war, you idiot," it might be said, referring to the obsessive fear of America entering direct wars.  

  

On the other hand, it may be said that the stupidity lies in America's financing of the Iranian nuclear agenda. This is because Iran without money will slow down its nuclear programs and will practically tie its hands due to the scarcity of funds, which has led to the suspension or control of the nuclear program in light of the continuation of sanctions. As for pumping billions of dollars into the regime's hands, it will help accelerate the hidden nuclear program, which will never yield to oversight mechanisms that will expose it.  

  

It may be said, in addition, in the language of strategic short-sightedness, that liberating Iran from sanctions serves China and Russia, because it is a strategic partner for them, and with them it has comprehensive, long-term, economic and military agreements that are huge. Rather, liberating Iran from the sanctions is a direct benefit to Russia, from which it receives useful rallies for its war in Ukraine, prepares advanced arms deals for it, and intends to operate its own means to jump the Western sanctions imposed on its oil through Iran.  

  

The need for Iranian oil and gas is not alone behind the overwhelming rush of the Biden administration and European governments. It's an old strategy that culminated in the 2015 JCPOA agreement under Democratic President Barack Obama. It is a love story between many in the Democratic Party and in the European Union and between the regime in Tehran and its men. It is also a story of revenge against former Republican President Donald Trump, who tore up the 2015 agreement and put Iran under sanctions that chained it. It's a story of rewarding excesses and acquiescence in blackmail and threats.  

  

But back to the wishes and thinking about what to do in light of the developments that indicate that the nuclear deal is coming, and soon... What the P5+1 countries are interested in includes having "gentlemen's" understandings under which Iran pledges not to endanger Gulf security and international navigation, and not to continue its activities The aim is to undermine stability there, and not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Arab Gulf states.  

  

These countries are opening up to the Islamic Republic of Iran in an attempt to influence its government performance and not its ideology. The Saudi-Iranian talks and the Omani, Qatari and other mediations fall under the category of calm Gulf efforts to control tension, and in the context of hopes that Iran will become less aggressive and extremist and more accepting of coexistence in mutual respect. Therefore, the Arab Gulf states are addressing the Islamic Republic of Iran with a message that is: Keep your religious and ideological message, but separate it from government performance, which is necessary for it to be politically realistic.  

  

What is going on in the minds of the Gulf states is a digression to American and European hopes that the new agreement will lead to a new Iranian regional behavior in the hope that the Islamic Republic will become less “revolutionary” and turn into a normal and modern state.  

  

Wishes or understandings? Wishes or policies? Or are they all deals with deals that each of the parties engages in “for the same end” and for national interests that are by their nature extremely selfish? Let us wait, perhaps among the folds of the "gentlemen's" understandings, something that surprises us and makes us happy, even a little, to enter the season of wishes.  

  

  

  

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An Iranian military vessel captured a U.S. Navy drone, towing it through the waters of the Arabian sea, when a U.S. Navy patrol ship pressured it to release the drone, according to officials.

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The European Union foreign policy chief expressed his hope on Wednesday that the agreement on Iran's nuclear program would be revived. In the coming days,” after receiving “reasonable” responses from Iran and the United States on its proposed text.

"I hope that the EU will not ... We will lose this momentum in the coming days and be able to complete the agreement.” "Obviously there is common ground, and we have an agreement that takes into account what... I think everyone's interests are.

Meanwhile, Iran stressed the need to obtain “closer” guarantees in the text of the understanding proposed by the European Union With the aim of reviving the agreement with the major powers on its nuclear program, according to what its foreign minister confirmed during his visit Russia Wednesday.

"We are studying ways," Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said during a press conference with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov Reaching a strong text and obtaining closer guarantees.” He added, "We received the last text from the American side, and my colleagues continue to study these proposals thoroughly and thoroughly." the speed

The 2015 agreement between Tehran and six international powers (Washington, Paris, London, Moscow, Beijing and Berlin) allowed ) Lifting sanctions against the Islamic Republic in exchange for reducing its nuclear activities and ensuring the peace of its programme. However, the United States withdrew from it in 2018 under its former president, Donald Trump, re-imposing it Sanctions on Iran, which responded by starting to gradually retreat from most of its commitments.

Iran and the powers that are still affiliated with the agreement began to coordinate with the European Union and with the participation of the United States Indirect, discussions to revive it in April 2021 were initially suspended in June. After resuming it in November of the same year, it was suspended again in mid-March 2022. With the remaining points of divergence between Washington and Tehran, despite the achievement of significant progress.

The two sides held indirect talks in Doha in late June that did not achieve a breakthrough. In early August, talks resumed in Vienna again.

After four days of discussions, the European Union announced on August 8 that it had proposed to The two main parties are a "final" settlement formula. Tehran submitted to the European Union its proposals for the text, and Washington responded to them on the 24th of it. Tehran confirmed that it is studying the response before expressing its opinion.

Tehran recently repeated its demand that the International Atomic Energy Agency close the file of Iranian websites suspected of being It witnessed unauthorized activities, before the agreement was fully revived.

The file relates to finding traces of nuclear materials at three sites that Tehran did not claim to have witnessed such activities . The issue raises tension between Tehran and the West and the UN agency on the other hand.

Amir Abdollahian stressed that one of the issues that should be "reinforced in the text" is to "give up... IAEA for its politicized behavior and to focus only on its tasks and the technical responsibility entrusted to it.” .

He stressed that Iran “will not accept, after all parties return to the nuclear agreement, that it be done.” Once again, false accusations are brought against her, or she faces some politicized stances (against her)."

Over the past months, Iran has reiterated its request to end the issue of the sites, especially in the wake of the IAEA's Board of Governors' issuance In June, the International Criminal Court issued a resolution condemning its failure to cooperate with the Director General of the Agency in the case.

Iran criticized this "political" file, and responded to the conservatives' decision to stop working with a number of surveillance cameras belonging to the Agency in some of its facilities.

On Monday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stressed the link between the revival of the nuclear agreement and the closure of the website file.

"Without resolving the issues of guarantees, talking about the agreement is useless," he said.

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Iran sends its final response on the nuclear deal to the United States
 

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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani announced that Tehran sent its views on America's response to the text of the draft agreement on the possible lifting of sanctions.  

  

 

  


The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs added, in a statement followed by "NAS" (September 2, 2022), that "after receiving the American response, the team of experts of the Islamic Republic of Iran carefully studied it, and Iran's responses were formulated, after evaluation at various levels, and they were delivered tonight to the coordinator." ".  

  

Kanaani said: "The text sent is a constructive approach aimed at ending negotiations."  

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How did the United States respond to Tehran's message regarding the nuclear deal?
 

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The United States declared that the latest response provided by Tehran in the framework of talks related to the 2015 nuclear deal was “not constructive,” which limits the possibility of a return to compliance with this landmark agreement.  

  

  

  

"We can confirm that we have received Iran's response through the European Union," US State Department spokesman Vidant Patel said, adding, "We are studying it and will respond through the European Union, but unfortunately it is not constructive."  

  

On Wednesday, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell expressed his hope to revive the agreement on Iran's nuclear program "in the coming days."  

  

On August 8, the European Union presented what it called a "final text" to revive the 2015 agreement that US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from.  

  

Iran proposed amendments to it, to which the United States responded through mediators.  

  

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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said earlier Thursday that Tehran sent a new response after the United States' response, according to the official Iranian news agency IRNA.  

Tehran recently repeated its demand that the International Atomic Energy Agency close the file of Iranian sites suspected of having witnessed unauthorized activities, before the agreement is fully revived.  

The file relates to finding traces of nuclear materials at three sites that Tehran did not claim to have witnessed such activities. The issue raises tension between Tehran and the West and the UN agency on the other hand.  

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The US State Department announced today, Friday, the receipt of Iran's response through the European Union regarding a proposal to revive the nuclear agreement, according to CNN.

A State Department spokesman said the United States had "received Iran's response through the European Union."

"We are studying it and will respond to it through the European Union, but unfortunately it is not constructive," he added.

Yesterday, Thursday, Iran announced that it had sent its comment on the US response to the draft revival of the 2015 nuclear agreement, in a move that may bring 16 months of indirect talks between Tehran and Washington closer to its end.
 
 

Official media quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani as saying that Tehran had sent a "constructive" response to US proposals to revive the nuclear deal.

The Iranian Radio and Television Corporation, quoting Kanaani, stated, without giving further details, that "the text sent by (Iran) has a constructive method aimed at concluding the negotiations."

This comes, as the United States informed Iran through mediators from the European Union that the issue of Iran linking the closure of the United Nations investigation into undeclared Iranian nuclear activity, and returning to the 2015 nuclear agreement, may delay the lifting of US sanctions, according to the American Axios website. , Wednesday, August 31, 2022, quoting a US official and an expert at a think tank familiar with the negotiations.
 

The American website indicated that the issue of the International Atomic Energy Agency's investigations has become one of the two remaining obstacles in the negotiations to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement

. A few sites in Iran before the "return to implementation of the agreement" day, 120 days after the signing of the new nuclear agreement.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said again this week that the IAEA's investigation into traces of uranium found in Iran must be closed before returning to the nuclear deal.

And last week, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said that his organization would not close the investigation unless it received answers from Iran.

In early August, European Union, US and Iranian officials sent what they described as the "final text" of a deal aimed at reviving it to curb Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

Since then, Iran and the United States have exchanged responses on sticking points for the full implementation of the nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

The full implementation of the agreement may take months if the parties sign to revive it.
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On Friday, the White House warned about the Iranian nuclear agreement, noting the need not to link the resumption of the agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and verifying whether Tehran has fulfilled its obligations under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.  

  

 

  

"There should be no connection between the resumption of the JCPOA and investigations into Iran's legal obligations under the (nuclear weapons) Treaty," White House spokeswoman Karen-Jean-Pierre told reporters, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency's investigations into the effects of uranium. which were found in three undisclosed Iranian sites.  

  

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Iranian newspaper: Nuclear negotiations postponed until the end of next November
 

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The Iranian newspaper "Arman Emroz" expected that the negotiations will be postponed until the end of next November, specifically after the end of the legislative elections in America, stressing that the negotiations and after the American side's discontent with the Iranian response are threatened with collapse.  

  

And the newspaper noted in its issue issued today (September 3, 2022), which was followed by "Nas", that "many observers believe that the conditions now are very favorable for concluding the agreement. On the one hand, we find the Democrats want to resolve the issue of the nuclear agreement and use it as a trump card in the scheduled legislative elections." In November, because after the election, and if the Republicans win, it becomes very difficult to talk about a deal."  

  

On the other hand, the newspaper adds that the Europeans now also, given the energy crisis they are going through, want to reach an agreement with Tehran before entering the winter season to compensate for the shortage they have in the field of energy from Iranian fuel.  

  

In the same context, the reformist Sharq newspaper considered that Tehran's demand for the United States to provide guarantees is incorrect because American governments are not legally entitled to give human rights and economic guarantees to other countries. The political guarantee, whose life is limited to the current administration, and the incoming administration is not obliged to fulfill it.  

  

Pessimism about Iran's nuclear file continues after Iran presented its "negative" and "illogical" response to the European mediator, and the assurances of US officials that the Iranian response is not encouraging and that negotiations are going backwards.  

  

While reformist newspapers such as "Arman Melli" and "Etimad" expressed their fears about the new stalemate in the negotiations and the possibility of a return to square one, we find fundamentalist newspapers such as "Kayhan" confirming the correctness of Iran's measures and conditions.  

  

"Kayhan" said in its report, today, Saturday, that "Iran's insistence on taking guarantees made the American side consider Iran's response disappointing and unconstructive."  

  

As for "Amroz's homeland", which is close to the Revolutionary Guards, it also defended the Iranian response, despite the Western countries describing it as "negative" and "illogical", and headlined on its front page: "The good response to America's aggression."  

  

The fundamentalist "Jam Jam" newspaper demanded that what it called "the mines of the nuclear agreement" be removed, and one of the mines that the newspaper is talking about is the end of the investigation file carried out by the International Atomic Energy Agency on Iran's suspicious nuclear sites.  

  

In the same context, the reformist newspaper "Ebtikar" criticized this exchange of positions between Iran and the United States through the European mediator, and the moderate "Mardam Salari" called for the start of a round of direct negotiations between Tehran and Washington and an end to indirect negotiations that will not lead to a quick and fruitful agreement. The newspaper reported its main report by saying: "Direct negotiations are the only solution to end the nuclear deal marathon."  

  

Hours after Iran presented its response to the European mediator, a senior official in the Biden administration told POLITICO, "We started reviewing Iran's response regarding the text of the agreement to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The Iranian response is not encouraging, and it seems that we are regressing."  

  

On the other hand, a European diplomat told journalist Stephanie Lichtenstein that Iran's response to reviving the nuclear agreement seemed "negative and illogical." Another informed source told the reporter that Iran's response "doesn't look good at all."

  

 

  

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The Washington Post quoted a US official as saying that the cameras of the two unmanned US ships, which the Iranian army tried to seize, had disappeared before releasing them hours later.

At first, the Iranian forces tried to cover the two unmanned ships with a tarpaulin to deny their capture.

It is noteworthy that the Iranian destroyer Jamaran seized these two ships in the Red Sea, the day before yesterday, Thursday, early September, before releasing them.

The "Washington Post" also wrote that after the seizure of these two ships, the US Navy sent helicopters to the site and they were released after negotiations with the destroyer Jamaran at eight in the morning on Friday, September 2.

This newspaper quoted an unnamed US official as saying that the Iranian forces tried to cover the two unmanned ships with tarpaulins and deny their seizure.

He said that the cameras of these two ships disappeared during the process of capturing and releasing.

The Fifth Fleet of the US Navy in the Sultanate of Oman had confirmed the seizure of two unmanned American exploration ships, without referring to the details of the incident.

On Friday, the Iranian army announced that the destroyer Jamaran, while on a mission in the Red Sea, encountered several reconnaissance ships of a special march and detained two ships and released them after "checking on the safety of navigation."

In this context, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps seized, last Monday, an unmanned American boat and was in the process of transferring it to the coast, but it failed due to the intervention of American helicopters.

According to the announcement by the US Central Command, at approximately 11 pm last Monday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Navy's "support Ship Shahid Baziar" seized this unmanned boat, which had lost contact with the US Fifth Fleet, in international waters and was intending to tow it to the shores of Iran.

According to this report, after seeing this action, the USS Tanderbolt moved toward the IRGC ship. At the same time, the US Fifth Fleet launched a Sikorsky Seahawk helicopter from the combat squadron stationed at the fleet's base in Bahrain.

After these measures, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards ship cut the towing cable and left the area, reversing the transfer of this unmanned boat.

After issuing the Central Command's statement about the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' failure to withdraw and transfer the U.S. boat, the "Nornews" website, which is close to the Iranian National Security Council, wrote that "the swift move taken by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's navy in the field of monitoring and withdrawing the U.S. boat was carried out with the aim of securing freight path and prevent a possible accident.

In conjunction with these events and developments related to the possible revival of the nuclear agreement, the United States is conducting operations in Iraq and Syria in order to counter the efforts of militias loyal to the Iranian regime to establish its presence in the region.

US drones, especially in recent months, have launched several attacks on pro-Iranian militia sites in the region.

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Iran is arming more than 50 cities with a defensive system amid escalating tension with the United States

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Iran has for years accused Israel and the United States of launching cyber attacks

Military officials said on Saturday that Iran has equipped 51 of its cities and towns with civil defense systems and raised the alert level of its air defense forces to thwart any possible foreign attack, amid escalating tension with Israel and the United States.

Iranian media quoted Deputy Defense Minister Brigadier General Mehdi Farhi as saying that the civil defense equipment will enable Iran to "identify and monitor threats using programs that operate around the clock according to the type of threat and danger."

“These days, based on the strength of countries, the form of battles has become more complex,” Farhi said, adding that hybrid forms of warfare, such as electronic, biological and radiological attacks, have replaced classic wars. He did not mention the names of the countries that could threaten Iran.

Meanwhile, Brigadier General Qader Rahimzadeh, the commander of Iran's air defense headquarters, said the readiness of his forces was at the highest level.

"The country's airspace today is the safest for authorized flights and the least safe for potential aggressors," the semi-official Mehr news agency quoted Rahimzadeh as saying.

Iran has accused Israel and the United States for years of launching cyber attacks that have damaged the country's infrastructure. It also accuses Israel of sabotaging its nuclear facilities, which Israel has neither confirmed nor denied.

Military tension between the United States and Iran has also plagued the region for a long time. In the most recent incident, Iran seized two US military drones in the Red Sea on Thursday, even as the two countries continued nuclear talks.

On Tuesday, the US Navy said it had thwarted an attempt by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's naval forces to seize the US Fifth Fleet's drone boat in the Gulf. Iran said the boat was a danger to shipping.

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Maybe it because of LGB policies and the Oil Cartel's...

 

 

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Shana news agency, affiliated with the Iranian Oil Ministry, quoted Oil Minister Javad Oji as saying that the world needs more Iranian oil, and that his country is ready to play a role in supplying it, regardless of political considerations.
 
In a statement issued after the OPEC + meeting, which decided a slight reduction in oil production, Oji said that the current conditions in the market need "careful study", and that cooperation within the oil alliance helps consumers around the world.
 
He added, "We have always declared that we are ready to play our part in the supply of oil and petroleum products and improve energy security in the world by avoiding the politicization of oil and the political use of energy."
 
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Maybe it because of LGB policies and the Oil Cartel's...

 

 

09-05-2022 | 20:47 Source : Reuters
 
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Shana news agency, affiliated with the Iranian Oil Ministry, quoted Oil Minister Javad Oji as saying that the world needs more Iranian oil, and that his country is ready to play a role in supplying it, regardless of political considerations.
 
In a statement issued after the OPEC + meeting, which decided a slight reduction in oil production, Oji said that the current conditions in the market need "careful study", and that cooperation within the oil alliance helps consumers around the world.
 
He added, "We have always declared that we are ready to play our part in the supply of oil and petroleum products and improve energy security in the world by avoiding the politicization of oil and the political use of energy."
 

And we want to blow everything up. 

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Newspaper: America and Iran agreed not to agree

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Newspaper: America and Iran agreed not to agree
 

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The Iranian newspaper, "Ebtikar", said, on Tuesday, that the United States and Iran agreed not to agree on the issues that are disputed between the two countries.  

  

 

  

In its editorial, which was written by Jalal Hosh Shahrah, followed by "Nass" (September 6, 2022), the newspaper considered that the postponement and suspension of negotiations, as demanded by hard-line parties inside Iran, is in the interest of Russia and Israel directly, explaining that Israel does not want the Biden administration to be a reason for this. Iran's return to the international community and its end to its isolation, which is why it is working tirelessly to thwart negotiations and create a kind of mistrust between Tehran and Washington.  

  

On the other hand, Russia believes that Iran's return to the international community may lead to its international isolation, and therefore the Russians will not accept a nuclear agreement if this leads to them becoming isolated from the international community.  

  

He added, that the Russians aim, behind the freezing of negotiations, to achieve two goals: the first is to keep the West, especially European countries, in need of Russian energy and not to compensate for it with Iranian energy, and the second that the Russians want to achieve from freezing the nuclear agreement is for Western countries to realize that Moscow is a strategic and influential player in issues They should reconsider their positions towards Russia's geopolitical and geostrategic interests.  

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Biden wants to make sure of 'other options' to ensure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon
 

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The White House said Thursday that US President Joe Biden wants to make sure the United States has "other options available" to ensure that Iran does not have the ability to build nuclear weapons, if efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal fail .  

 

  

He added that "Washington will continue to press for the re-implementation of the agreement, but its patience is not eternal."  

  

"Although Biden has nurtured, encouraged, and pushed the diplomatic path, he has conveyed to the rest of the administration that he wants to ensure that we have other options available to achieve this certain outcome, which is that Iran does not have the ability to produce nuclear weapons," he continued.  

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Media: Biden told Lapid that the nuclear agreement with Iran was 'no longer on the table'
 

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Israeli media said on Thursday that Washington had sent Tel Aviv a message that the new nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers is no longer on the table, and will not be signed in the near future.  

  

 

  

According to the Times of Israel, this message was passed on to Prime Minister Yair Lapid during his recent talks with US President Joe Biden and other US administration officials.  

The newspaper also indicated that this result may prompt Lapid to boast during his upcoming election campaign, especially in the face of opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who has repeatedly attacked the prime minister over this issue.  

The potential nuclear agreement has been a focus of Israel's security and diplomatic discussions over the past year, with Tel Aviv anxiously awaiting the negotiations between Iran and representatives of world powers in Vienna, in addition to exchanging drafts of the agreement between the two parties in recent weeks.  

  

Differences between America and Iran  

The Americans said that the framework of the new nuclear agreement would have obligated Iran not to enrich uranium to a degree of more than 3.76%, and not to reach levels that could produce a nuclear weapon, under the proposed agreement.  

While the Americans made statements during which they said that Iran should give up all its possessions of enriched uranium by 20% and 60% under the agreement as well, which means that hundreds of kilograms of enriched uranium must be removed from Iran, or dissolved.  

The centrifuges for uranium enrichment will also be dismantled and stored on Iranian soil in a warehouse under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, according to the agreement.  

The Americans said that Iran would not be able to process plutonium at all, because it could be used to make weapons, and would also redesign the plutonium reactor in Arak so that it would not be able to produce materials used in the manufacture of nuclear bombs.  

The Americans also pledged to enable the International Atomic Energy Agency to renew its strict monitoring of nuclear facilities inside Iran in the event of signing the agreement, after the Iranians greatly hampered monitoring operations.  

One of the main points of contention in which Israel intervened was the International Atomic Energy Agency's monitoring. Where Iran refused to allow the agency to resume its activities, while the United States insisted on resuming activities after pressure from Tel Aviv.  

  

Fear in Tel Aviv  

It can be said that the potential agreement with Iran has caused a great deal of disagreement and controversy between the United States and Israel, as well as many internal tensions in Tel Aviv.  

Mossad chief David Barnea had warned of the dangers of returning the nuclear agreement at a briefing to defense correspondents two weeks ago.  

Barnea reported that hundreds of billions of dollars would flow to Iran after sanctions were lifted, as well as that the money would be used to strengthen groups surrounding the occupation such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad in Palestine.  

He added that the Iranians would expedite the implementation of the vision of the "Shiite crescent" that extends from their border with Iraq to the Mediterranean, which would strengthen the Houthis in Yemen and the pro-Iranian militias in the region. Barnea added that signing the agreement would constitute a "strategic disaster", and declared that it would not be binding on Israel.  

  

  

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The US Treasury: Sanctions on the Revolutionary Guards over the sale of war rallies to Russia
 

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The US Treasury announced Thursday that the United States will impose a series of sanctions on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and a number of Iranian companies for their involvement in providing Russia with war drones for use in the Russian military operation in Ukraine.  

 

  

  

The ministry said in a statement that the sanctions will primarily target the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the entity listed on the US list of "terrorist organizations" and which is mainly subject to a series of sanctions imposed by Washington because of its role in the Iranian nuclear program.  

 

The statement quoted Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian Nelson as saying, "The United States intends to strictly enforce all of our sanctions against Russia as well as Iran, and to hold accountable those who, like Iran, chose to support Russia in its war of aggression against Ukraine."  

 

In addition to the Revolutionary Guards, US sanctions will target many companies involved in research, development and production of Iranian drones, as well as the Iranian company responsible for transferring these drones to Russia.  

  

The sanctions that Washington intends to impose on these entities stipulate in particular the freezing of all their assets and property in the United States. These sanctions also increase the risks to every company in the world that deals with these entities, as they make these companies vulnerable to US sanctions.  

  

In the face of the difficulties its army is experiencing in its war in Ukraine and the great losses it has incurred in its equipment, in recent weeks Russia has concluded arms deals with both Iran and North Korea, according to Washington.  

  

On Monday, Iran announced that it was considering buying Russian Su-35 fighter jets.  

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Oil prices rise as prospects for reviving nuclear talks fade
 

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Oil prices rose on Monday, after Iran's nuclear talks appeared to have reached a dead end and with the implementation of a Russian oil embargo imminent, and scarce supplies struggled to meet still-strong demand.  

  

  

Brent crude futures rose 88 cents, or 1%, to $93.72 a barrel by 11:00 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose 69 cents, or 0.8%, to 87.48%.  

  

Prices were little changed last week due to the balance between gains from a small supply cut by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies including Russia, a group known as OPEC+, and the ongoing coronavirus-related shutdown in China, the world's largest oil importer.  

  

France, Britain and Germany said Saturday they had "serious doubts" about Iran's intentions to revive the nuclear deal. Failure to revive the 2015 deal will keep Iranian oil off the market, keeping global supplies tight.  

  

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New US sanctions against individuals and entities linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards
 

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On Wednesday, the United States of America imposed sanctions on individuals and entities that it linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, due to “malicious” cyber activities.  

  

  

  

The US Treasury said in a statement, that the sanctions came within the framework of a joint response by several US agencies, including the Ministries of Justice and State, noting that it had imposed sanctions on ten individuals and two entities due to electronic activities.  

  

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards are a powerful faction that controls a commercial empire as well as armed forces and an intelligence service, and Washington accuses it of carrying out a global extremist campaign.  

  

The ransomware encrypts the victims' data. The attackers usually offer the victim the solution in exchange for cryptocurrency payments that can run into hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.  

  

Last week, the US Treasury announced imposing sanctions on an Iranian company for its role in exporting drones to Russia for use in the military operation in Ukraine.  

  

The US Treasury confirmed that it had included in the sanctions list 3 companies and an individual for their role in providing drones to Iranian military entities.  

  

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