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

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These are the risks of the "nuclear agreement" to the interests of the "Revolutionary Guard" and its future if it remains on the list of terrorism

 

knight rough

01 July 2022

 

 

The "Revolutionary Guard" offers the people an alternative of bread and medicine, more challenge and confrontation

Before the first indirect negotiation sessions between Washington and Tehran were held in Doha, mediated by the "European Union", in a new attempt to revive the "nuclear agreement", the screams of the "Iranian Revolutionary Guards" rose.

Unlike many in Iran who saw in the "Doha negotiations" a golden opportunity for Iran to save itself and its people from unbearable suffering, the IRGC dealt with the event on the grounds that it was an "American trap" set by the "European Union."

The "Tasnim" agency, speaking on behalf of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, did not wait for the Iranian Foreign Ministry's assessment of the negotiating sessions that took place in Doha last Tuesday and Wednesday, but rather quickly announced the "good news": the negotiations failed and ended.

The Iranian negotiating delegation, although it brought to Doha the demands of the "Iranian Revolutionary Guards" that impeded the "aspired progress", did not share those behind the "Tasnim Agency" assessment, with Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani saying that the talks were "intense". And the Iranian negotiator, Ali Bagheri, will continue to communicate with the European Union representative in preparation for the next stage and the continuation of negotiations.

The reasons that lead the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to oppose reviving the Iranians' hope of reviving an agreement that would remove many sanctions are clear, as it is not concerned with what could benefit and harm the Iranian state.

A few months ago, Iran was about to sign the revival of the agreement, after a formula was reached in Vienna that everyone accepted, but the "Iranian Revolutionary Guard" took advantage of the Russian obstruction, after Moscow requested that its relations with Iran be excluded from the Western sanctions that it was subjected to after the start of its invasion. To Ukraine, to blow everything up and turn back the clock.

And the Revolutionary Guards, the direct military arm of the “Islamic Republic Guide” Ali Khamenei, in the event that it is not removed from the list of US sanctions in which the administration of former President Donald Trump included it, will not reap the fruits of reviving the “nuclear agreement”, but will find itself on the sidelines. , while the Iranian state institutions are advancing to the fore.

Since the end of the Iran-Iraq war, the Revolutionary Guard is no longer just a military force auxiliary to the Iranian army and security institutions. Rather, it has become a major economic power in Iran, as it gradually controlled the most productive sectors in the country, and has wide control over ministries and institutions. And the media and factories on their various activities and trade on the diversity of their sources.

Western businessmen who worked in Iran in previous periods assert that any commercial, industrial, real estate or oil agreement they tried to reach would not have been possible without the direct intervention of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Western think tanks estimate, based on many data, that the "Revolutionary Guard" controls more than sixty percent of the Iranian economy, to the extent that it can be considered the actual state, while the official state is "mere vassals."

The Revolutionary Guards sought, in the negotiation rounds in Vienna, to impose its removal from the US sanctions list, but the United States, after studying all aspects of this request, rejected it, and asked to withdraw it from the discussion.

Although the Iranian negotiating team had confided to the decision-making centers that its position would be very weak, if this condition was not met, the administration of President Joe Biden, despite its belief in the necessity of reviving the “nuclear agreement,” refused this, because the Revolutionary Guards’ benefit “Iranian economic and commercial advantages brought about by reviving the agreement will boost revenues that will revert to the benefit of the Quds Force and its “malign activities” in the Middle East, and it will also strengthen the factors of extremism inside Iran against the state, its institutions, and its citizens.

The resumption of negotiations in Doha to revive the "nuclear agreement" did not bring peace and response to the "Iranian Revolutionary Guard", because its leaders were aware that the agreed-upon agenda did not include an item to be removed from the US sanctions list, and therefore the success of the negotiations means, in this case, a major blow It has the potential, in the medium term, to weaken its position inside Iran as well as in the countries it is trying to dominate, through the "Quds Force".

It would not have been possible for Iran to accept the revival of negotiations, according to the framework that European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell brought to Tehran, had the power of the "Iranian Revolutionary Guard" not weakened.

This was expressed by the successive strikes that affected his symbols in the past two months, and which led, among other things, to major changes at the level of his leadership as well as at the level of his intelligence apparatus.

This does not mean that the IRGC has become weak, but those who follow Iranian affairs are now convinced that even among the Iranian hardliners, there are those who believe that saving the Iranian regime requires agreeing to open loopholes in the circle that the IRGC had closed.

The decision-making capitals know this fact, and therefore, they will not leave an opportunity unless they test the development of Iranian negotiating behavior and the extent to which it has overcome the obstacles set by the Revolutionary Guards.

The "Doha Round" showed that there has been progress, but it is still weak, as the Iranian negotiator has re-branded issues previously settled by the Vienna negotiations, such as Washington's offering guarantees that it will not tear up, in the event of a change by the US administration, the agreement that will be revived.

The Iranian negotiator realizes, due to the accumulation of experience, that the American approval of this request is prevented by constitutional obstacles, but he is resubmitting it on the basis of “buying time” until the moment when the supporters of the state in Iran are stronger than the supporters of the “Revolutionary Guard.”

What a US official confirmed to Reuters is not included in the context of "argument", "rhetoric" or "argument", when he commented on the outcome of the "Doha Round" by saying: "The Iranians' vague demands and the reopening of previously settled issues are clearly unrelated. The JCPOA shows us that the real discussion that should take place should not be between Iran and the United States, but between Iran and Iran (...)." 

It seems that this Iranian "dream" is not far-fetched, as the parties involved in the negotiations in Tehran, instead of being harsh in evaluating the "Doha Round", deliberately spread optimism for the near future, in a move that many believe aims to inject hopes into the Iranian people who have arrived. To the brink of despair, the popularity of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and those in charge of the regime reached its lowest levels.

The "Iranian Revolutionary Guard" offers the Iranian people an alternative of bread and medicine, more challenge and confrontation.

Like many of the peoples in which the Revolutionary Guard left its traces, through its arms, the Iranians became every time they heard a slogan, beams invaded them... Pain!

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Iranian media: successive explosions at a base belonging to the Revolutionary Guards in Tehran (video)

2022.07.02 - 09:00

 

 

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Iranian media reported hearing successive explosions at a base belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the capital, Tehran.  

 

  

  

The Iranian opposition channel, Der TV, said that "successive explosions shook Friday evening, the Malik al-Ashtar base of the Revolutionary Guards in the east of the capital, Tehran."  

  

There was no official comment from the state media or the Revolutionary Guards regarding the nature of the explosions and the extent of losses in the accident.  

  

In a related context, the opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran announced, on its official website, that its supporters, whom it described as "revolutionaries", carried out the attack on the Malik al-Ashtar base of the Revolutionary Guards in eastern Tehran.  

  

The reformist Iranian website Saham News stated on its Telegram channel that the explosion occurred at the base where forces from the Basij, the military arm of the Revolutionary Guards, are stationed.  

  

Malik al-Ashtar's base in Tehran belongs to the command of the forces of the Muhammad Rasool Allah Corps of the Revolutionary Guards, which is responsible for the security and protection of the capital, Tehran.  

  

  

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Wide controversy in Iran over nuclear negotiations

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 Tehran: Muhammad Salih Seddian 

 

The unannounced visit of the chief Iranian negotiator, Ali Bagheri, to the Russian capital, Moscow, last Saturday, sparked a wave of criticism of various directions within the Iranian scene against the policy of the government of President Ibrahim Raisi's negotiating with Western countries, specifically regarding the performance of negotiations with the United States, as this was not limited to the reformist wing Rather, it is from the hard-line fundamentalist wing, even if the directions of these criticisms differ. 

The start of the talks in the Qatari capital, Doha, was preceded by a very optimistic atmosphere in Iran, which expected to raise obstacles to reviving the agreement through a semi-direct dialogue between Tehran and Washington. This atmosphere was positively reflected on the exchange rate market, as the dollar fell to less than 30 thousand tomans last Thursday. However, with the atmosphere changing and negative reports about the details of the talks being leaked in Doha through the Tasnim News Agency, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, the scene turned, bringing the dollar back to above 32,000 tomans within two days. All of this is taking place, while the latest statistics issued by the "Statis" Center for the Study of Public Opinion indicate that the percentage of Iranians who see an understanding with the West and the revival of the nuclear agreement will save the country's economy has reached 55 percent. Also, the popularity of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi remained below 28%, despite extensive media campaigns to cover his achievements, according to the statistics.

While conservative and hard-line parties welcomed the performance of the negotiating delegation, they launched a scathing attack on the headquarters of the meeting, "Doha", which included the chief Iranian negotiator Ali Bagheri and the American representative for Iranian affairs, Robert Malley. For what you did not get during the era of former US President Donald Trump through soft diplomacy.” He pointed out that "Qatar was an American trap par excellence. This Gulf state, as a broker of American interests in the region, entered the line of negotiations to manipulate Iranian interests, but the negotiating delegation headed by a devout young man performing night prayers stood before them with courage."

The fundamentalist newspaper Kayhan also considered that the Doha talks, which were suspended in less than two days, are a diplomatic achievement that demonstrated the seriousness of the Iranian side against the West. But it launched a scathing attack on the venue for the talks, which is Doha, which it considered a trap set up for Iran by the United States. 

On the other hand, the reformist journalist and activist in the field of foreign policy, Fatima Kalantari, expressed her opinion about what the political circles consider the failure of the indirect talks in Doha between Iran and the United States to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement, which demanded a brave announcement of the death of the nuclear agreement signed in 2015. Another wave of criticism emerged After Bagheri's unannounced visit to Moscow, among the reformist opposition, which views the Russian role in the negotiations negatively. These parties considered that the visit comes within the framework of presenting a report on the negotiating developments that took place in Doha in the absence of the Russian delegation.

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US imposes new Iran sanctions amid efforts to revive nuclear deal

US measures targeting Iranian petroleum and petrochemical sales come ahead of Joe Biden’s visit to the region next week.

The new sanctions target 'international network of individuals and entities' accused of facilitating sale of Iranian petroleum and petrochemical products [File: Lisi Niesner/Reuters]

By Al Jazeera Staff

Published On 6 Jul 20226 Jul 2022

 

The Biden administration has announced a fresh round of Iran-related sanctions amid continuing diplomatic efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.

The new measures, revealed on Wednesday, target “an international network of individuals and entities” that the Department of the Treasury said facilitated the sale of US-sanctioned Iranian petroleum and petrochemical products to East Asia.

 

The sanctions come days after American and Iranian diplomats held a round of indirect talks in Qatar to try to restore the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the multilateral agreement that saw Iran scale back its nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of sanctions against its economy.

“While the United States is committed to achieving an agreement with Iran that seeks a mutual return to compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, we will continue to use all our authorities to enforce sanctions on the sale of Iranian petroleum and petrochemicals,” Under-secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian Nelson, said in a statement.

Wednesday’s measures were imposed on several individuals and firms based in Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong that the US accused of helping with the “delivery and sale of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Iranian petroleum and petrochemical products from Iranian companies to East Asia”.

The sanctions will freeze the companies’ assets in the United States, cut them off from the US financial system and bar Americans from doing business with them.

The US Department of State also issued its own Iran-related sanctions on Wednesday against entities based Iran, Vietnam, and Singapore.

“The United States has been sincere and steadfast in pursuing a path of meaningful diplomacy to achieve a mutual return to full implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.

“It is Iran that has, to-date, failed to demonstrate a similar commitment to that path. Absent a change in course from Iran, we will continue to use our sanctions authorities to target exports of petroleum, petroleum products, and petrochemical products from Iran.”

Former US President Donald Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and launched a “maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions against Iran. In turn, the Iranian government started escalating its nuclear programme well beyond the limits set by the JCPOA.

President Joe Biden and his top aides say they are committed to reviving the deal through mutual compliance, but they have continued to enforce Trump’s sanctions and added dozens of their own.

As Biden prepares to visit Israel and Saudi Arabia next week, prospects of reviving the Iran deal have been dimming, with US officials warning that the window to salvage an agreement is closing as Tehran acquires irreversibly nuclear expertise.

Several rounds of talks in Vienna, starting in April 2021, failed to secure a return to the JCPOA. The negotiations had been on ice for months until they resumed in Qatar last week.

Tehran has blamed Washington’s refusal to revoke sanctions for the inability to reach a deal so far.

“Agreement is possible only based on mutual understanding & interests,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian wrote on Twitter on Tuesday after a phone call with European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.

“We remain ready to negotiate a strong & durable agreement. US must decide if it wants a deal or insists on sticking to its unilateral demands.”

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

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IAEA: Iran has increased the level of uranium enrichment at the Fordow facility

2022.07.10 - 17:39

 

Baghdad - people  

The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Sunday that Tehran had increased the level of uranium enrichment at the newly modernized Fordow facility using advanced equipment .  

  

  

"The changes have been verified at the facility located under the mountains in the south of the Iranian capital," Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the United Nations atomic agency, said in his latest report.  

Iran announced in January 2021 that it was enriching uranium to 20 percent at Fordow, a level well above the 3.67 percent agreed upon under the 2015 deal.  

Several months later, uranium was enriched to 60 percent at another facility, while making a nuclear bomb required 90 percent enrichment.  

New technologies facilitate uranium enrichment and allow Iran to switch to different levels of enrichment.  

According to the IAEA, this new development comes amid stalled negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement.  

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Iran: We entered the markets to sell our oil (it had not crossed our minds)

 

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The Iranian Oil Ministry said, on Monday, that it "is making great efforts to sell oil, in light of the economic war on the country."

In a clarification message published in the Iranian newspaper "Sharq", the Iranian Oil Ministry explained: "The ministry has never, and will never, sell oil in a way that does not suit the country's interests."

And the Ministry of Oil continued in its message: “In light of the economic war on the country, the Ministry of Oil has made unremitting efforts to sell oil, and this matter has been evident in strengthening the country’s economy in recent months,” adding: “We have achieved a sustainable rise of 40% in oil exports in recent months.” Oil sales in recent months were able to fill the budget deficit of the past year.

And she indicated that she "entered markets that were unimaginable, in light of the tightening of restrictions on Iran."

 

 

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'Why would I go to Saudi Arabia?'

Iranian Foreign Ministry responds to Biden's article in the "Washington Post"

07.12.2022 - 09:26

 

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The Iranian Foreign Ministry responded to an article by US President Joe Biden in the "Washington Post" newspaper, in which he spoke about the objectives of his upcoming visit to the Middle East, under the title: "Why would I go to Saudi Arabia?"  

  

  

  

In this regard, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said: "Biden's assertion on following and exercising a policy of economic and diplomatic pressure against Iran contradicts his expression of his country's desire to revive the nuclear agreement."  

Kanaani considered these statements "a continuation of the failed maximum pressure policy that began in the Trump administration against Iran," as Biden had seen in his article that "Iran has become isolated, and that his administration will continue to increase diplomatic and economic pressure until Iran returns to compliance with the 2015 nuclear agreement." .  

And the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman added, "The previous US government, with its unilateral withdrawal from the nuclear agreement, has already caused serious damage to the multilateral diplomacy strategy to resolve differences, and the current US government is following the same approach while continuing to exercise economic pressure and the policy of imposing an embargo on Iran." He stressed that "the Middle East region will not be more secure and stable unless America ends its policy of creating division among the countries of the region, stops the flow of weapons to some countries in the region, respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries, abandons the policy of unconditional support for Israel, and ends its policy." in creating a wave of intimidation from Iran...Iranophobia."  

Nasser Kanaani continued: "As long as the United States does not correct its wrong and crisis-causing policies, it is the main responsible for the instability in the West Asian region," pointing to "Biden's ridiculous claims about the role of the United States of America in eliminating the terrorist organization ISIS and curbing terrorism in the region." .  

Kanaani continued: "The statements of former US President Donald Trump and former US Secretary of State Hillarious Clinton regarding the role of this country in establishing ISIS contradict Biden's claims in this area," noting that "the previous US government assassinated the hero of the fight against ISIS and Takfiri terrorism, the martyr. Qassem Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, is the largest American aid to ISIS terrorists.  

He added, "The practical policy of the US government towards the Palestinian issue contradicts Biden's claims about his attempt to establish stability and security in the West Asia region, and the Zionist entity is the largest source of instability and the spread of terrorism in the West Asia region," noting that "the full American support for this entity." It indicates the falsity of his claims about peace."  

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman stressed that "what was mentioned in US President Joe Biden's last article is a unilateral and unrealistic narrative of the US government's policies in the West Asia region. If US officials wish to establish peace, stability and security in the region and the world, it is better for them to understand the facts." The new world should avoid trying to impose American values and unilateralism, and allow the countries of the region to work on the basis of their values, interests and realities to ensure their security and collective interests within the framework of regional cooperation.  

 

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Putin in Tehran next week

political| 10:53 - 12/07/2022

 

 

 

 

Follow-up - Mawazine News
, Head of the Economic Committee of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (the Iranian parliament), Mohammad Reza Pour Ibrahimi, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Tehran next week.

Today, Tuesday, IRNA quoted Pour Ibrahimi, who visited Moscow with the governor of the Central Bank of Iran, as saying that Russia is serious about expanding its economic relations with Iran, adding that planning for this goal will be at the top of Putin's agenda during his meeting with leaders. He added that "American and European sanctions against Russia are increasing Russian interest in economic and commercial dealings with Iran

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Iran currency drops to lowest value ever amid US sanctions

June 12, 2022

 

 

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A street money exchanger poses for a photo without showing his face as he counts foreign banknotes in Ferdowsi street, Tehran's go-to venue for foreign currency exchange, Iran, Sunday, June 12, 2022. Iran's currency Sunday dropped to its lowest value ever as talks to revive the country's tattered nuclear deal with world powers remained deadlocked. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s currency Sunday dropped to its lowest value ever as talks to revive the country’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers remained deadlocked.

Traders in Tehran exchanged the rial at 332,000 to the U.S. dollar, up from 327,500 on Saturday. That marked more than a 4.4% change compared to June 1 when it traded at 318,000 to the dollar.

Iran’s currency was trading at 32,000 rials to the dollar at the time of Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

The rial’s new low came as U.S. sanctions against the country are still in force. Iran’s economy is struggling mightily mostly because of the U.S. pullout from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers that restored sanctions on Iran’s oil and banking sectors. Talks in Vienna to renew the agreement have been deadlocked for months.

In central Tehran, dozens of shop owners took to the streets in protest over the worsening economic situation, after many shut their businesses following a recent rise in business taxes. Police were present in force, but did not intervene.

Meanwhile, police arrested 31 currency and gold traders accused of creating “false demand” in the market, state TV reported without elaborating.

Separately, Iran’s Maha Air spokesman denied owning a Boeing 747 that Argentina seized after it landed Monday in Cordoba, Argentina.

Hossein Zolanvari told the official IRNA news agency that his company sold the Boeing to a Venezuelan company about a year ago.

“Mentioning Mahan Air in connection with the impounded airplane has aimed at political purposes,” he said. He said the plane’s crew also have no connection to Mahan Air.

It wasn’t clear if the plane was on a list of Iranian aircraft subject to U.S. sanctions. Mahan Air has been under U.S. sanctions for its ties to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps, which the State Department has designated a foreign terrorist organization.

Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro visited Iran over the weekend. Both nations are under the U.S. sanctions.

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Iran’s Currency Value is 10 Times Lower Than It Was After 2015 Nuclear Deal

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Corbin Bolies

Media Reporter

Published Jun. 12, 2022 9:33AM ET 

 

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The value of Iran’s currency is now more than 10 times lower than what it was at the time of the 2015 nuclear deal as the country refuses to budge on terms for a new one. It now takes 332,000 rials to match one U.S. dollar, according to the Associated Press, coming 12 days after it only took 318,000 rials to do the same. Both numbers, however, are a far cry away from 2015, when it took 32,000 rials to trade for a U.S. dollar. The impact of U.S. sanctions on Iran following the U.S.’ withdrawal from the deal has crippled Iran’s economy, though talks between both countries have sought to revive it. The country has still cracked down on those who try to manipulate it, arresting 31 gold and currency traders for creating a “false demand” in the marketing.

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Iran raises the rate of uranium enrichment in an underground facility with modern equipment

 Kurdistan24 Erbil   19:29 07/09/2022

       

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ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Saturday that Tehran has increased the level of uranium enrichment at its underground Fordow facility using advanced equipment.

In a confidential report to member states, the agency said the agency had verified that Iran had begun feeding an array of 166 IR-6 centrifuges with uranium hexafluoride gas enriched to up to 5 percent, according to Reuters.

She noted that Iran had told the agency that it intended to use the devices to bring the level of enrichment to 20 percent purity, which is less than 60 percent it produces at other facilities and about 90 percent needed to produce weapons.

Talks between Tehran and the major powers collapsed last March due to Iran's demand for Washington to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the US terrorism list, but the United States refused to do so.

Under the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran scaled back its uranium enrichment activities, a potential route to making nuclear weapons, in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.

Tehran says it wants to have atomic energy for civilian use only.

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Iranian official: We have the ability to make a nuclear bomb

political |   04:12 - 17/07/2022

 

 

 

 

BAGHDAD - Mawazine News
, a high-ranking Iranian official revealed that his country possesses the technical capabilities to manufacture a nuclear bomb, and that it has conducted extensive maneuvers with the aim of striking the Israeli depth in the event that "our sensitive facilities are targeted."
The head of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policies in Iran, Kamal Kharazi, added in an interview with Al-Jazeera channel today, Sunday, that there is no decision in his country to manufacture a nuclear bomb despite the presence of the necessary technical capabilities to do so.
Kharazi said that Israel is in a phase of weakness, and US President Joe Biden's support for it will not bring it back to the fore, and that "targeting our security from neighboring countries will be met with a response to these countries and a direct response to Israel."
Regarding negotiations with Washington on the nuclear program, he said that it is difficult to conduct a direct dialogue with Washington in light of a thick wall of mistrust and American policies.
He also stated that there are no American guarantees regarding the preservation of the nuclear agreement, "and this traps any possible agreement," noting that if the International Atomic Energy Agency was fair and independent, it would have been easy to resolve differences.
He stressed that he does not negotiate with anyone about "our missile program and our regional policies" because that means surrender.
He called for launching a regional dialogue in the presence of important countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Qatar and others, welcoming Saudi statements about extending the hand of friendship to Iran.

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1 hour ago, yota691 said:

Iranian official: We have the ability to make a nuclear bomb

political |   04:12 - 17/07/2022

 

 

 

 

BAGHDAD - Mawazine News
, a high-ranking Iranian official revealed that his country possesses the technical capabilities to manufacture a nuclear bomb, and that it has conducted extensive maneuvers with the aim of striking the Israeli depth in the event that "our sensitive facilities are targeted."
The head of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policies in Iran, Kamal Kharazi, added in an interview with Al-Jazeera channel today, Sunday, that there is no decision in his country to manufacture a nuclear bomb despite the presence of the necessary technical capabilities to do so.
Kharazi said that Israel is in a phase of weakness, and US President Joe Biden's support system" rel="">support for it will not bring it back to the fore, and that "targeting our security from neighboring countries will be met with a response to these countries and a direct response to Israel."
Regarding negotiations with Washington on the nuclear program, he said that it is difficult to conduct a direct dialogue with Washington in light of a thick wall of mistrust and American policies.
He also stated that there are no American guarantees regarding the preservation of the nuclear agreement, "and this traps any possible agreement," noting that if the International Atomic Energy Agency was fair and independent, it would have been easy to resolve differences.
He stressed that he does not negotiate with anyone about "our missile program and our regional policies" because that means surrender.
He called for launching a regional dialogue in the presence of important countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Qatar and others, welcoming Saudi statements about extending the hand of friendship to Iran.

 

 

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This is comforting news ( sarcasm )... Could be  designed to frighten governments into giving in to Iranian demands & upset civilians at the breakfast table as they read their morning news 📰.

If this is true, there are a lot of spaghetti spined appeasers and I dare say sympathizers ( a POTUS comes to mind )with the blood of millions should Iran decide to target a major US city, or any city in the world. Israel remains at the top of their list.

New York comes to mind for a whole host of exceptionally good reasons... Washington DC is yet another target rich environment.... London, Paris & Berlin are others. But we're the Great Satan.

I hope this bluff.

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Iran sends an invitation to America regarding the nuclear deal

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2022-07-20 | 04:37

 

 

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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanaani, called on the United States of America to make its decision according to its interests, not the interests of the Zionist entity, regarding the nuclear agreement.

Kanaani said in his press conference, "Iran has its weight in regional issues and plays an important role in Syria, and that our region needs to strengthen friendship and cooperation between the countries of the region more than it needs fake and fake alliances whose heavy costs are paid from the pockets of the countries of the region."

 

 

Kanaani commented on the news of the negotiations between Iran and the 4 + 1 group, saying: "This is an issue that receives serious attention from the media and public opinion. Contrary to what the US side claims regarding the failure of the nuclear negotiations in Doha in Qatar, the Doha negotiations were good."

He added, "We are following up on the issue of resuming negotiations with the European Union Coordinator, Josep Borrell, and we are in constant contact with him," stressing that "the conditions are available to reach an agreement on the nuclear program, and Washington must take the necessary political decision."

 

He pointed out that "the ground is available to reach the nuclear agreement, but it seems that the US administration does not want to pay the price for its return to the agreement," calling on "Washington to take its decision according to its interests and not the interests of the Zionist entity, as well as giving Iran real and verifiable guarantees."

He continued, "Our nuclear capabilities are high, and our program is of a peaceful nature and under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency," stressing that "our basic policy on acquiring nuclear weapons has not changed and we do not seek to acquire a nuclear weapon."

Regarding Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Tehran, he said, "Erdogan came to Tehran to attend the seventh meeting of the summit of the heads of the three countries (Iran, Russia and Turkey), which sponsors peace talks in Syria in the Astana format, and to sign documents and memoranda of bilateral cooperation within the framework of the comprehensive cooperation project. And the long-term relationship between Tehran, which was proposed by Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian, during the visit of his Turkish counterpart Davut Cavusoglu to Tehran, with the aim of strengthening long-term cooperation between the two countries.

In response to a question about the West's allegations about Iran sending drones to Russia, he said, "Washington's allegations about us selling drones to Russia for use in Ukraine come within the framework of its goals and political motives, considering these allegations as lacking in logic."

And he indicated, "Iran's position on the Ukrainian crisis is clear and we will use our capabilities to solve it politically, stressing that Iran has become a center for consultations to solve the crisis."

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British intelligence doubts Iran's desire to reach an agreement on the nuclear file

2022.07.21 - 21:34

 

Baghdad - people   

The head of British intelligence said on Thursday that he doubted that Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, wanted to revive the nuclear deal with major powers.  

  

  

  

"I doubt that Iran's supreme leader wants to go back to the 2015 nuclear deal," Richard Moore, the head of MI6, told the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.  

  

He added, "I also do not think that the Iranians want the nuclear deal talks to end quickly, so they may delay and continue the talks for a future period."  

  

Moore's statements contrast with Iranian statements, which assert that Tehran is seeking to reach a "strong" nuclear agreement that can hold for many years.  

  

Washington revealed last week that Tehran had added demands unrelated to discussions about its nuclear program and had made worrying progress in its uranium enrichment program.  

  

US President Joe Biden said last week that the United States would not wait forever for a response from Iran to return to the 2015 nuclear deal.  

  

Under the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran limited its uranium enrichment program, a pathway that could lead to the acquisition of nuclear weapons, in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions.  

  

Tehran says it seeks atomic energy for civilian purposes only.  

  

The talks made progress that brought those concerned close to reaching an understanding, but they were suspended as of March, with points of disagreement remaining between Tehran and Washington, Sky News Arabia reported.   

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Atomic Energy: Iran's nuclear program is advancing rapidly.. Tehran wants guarantees from Washington so that it will not be "bitten twice"

A previous meeting between Grossi (left) and Abdullahian in the Iranian capital (European - Archive)

22/7/2022|Last update: 7/22/202211:02 PM (Mecca)

 

The Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said that Iran's nuclear program is progressing rapidly, and that the agency's monitoring of what is happening there is very limited, while Tehran said it wanted economic guarantees from Washington to revive the Iranian nuclear agreement so that it would not be "bitten twice."

"The bottom line is that for about 5 weeks I had a very limited vision with a rapidly advancing nuclear program," Grossi added in an interview published today, Friday, by the Spanish newspaper "El Pais."

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Western powers warn that Iran is close to being able to speed up building a nuclear bomb, while Iran denies its desire to do so in the first place.

"The agency needs to rebuild a database without which any deal (the Iran nuclear deal) is going to have a very shaky foundation, because if we don't know what's out there, how can we determine how much material we export and how many centrifuges we're going to leave unused?" Grossi said.

And last June, Iran began removing all the surveillance equipment and cameras of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which were placed under the nuclear agreement signed in 2015 with the world powers (the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Russia and China) in order to peacefully monitor the Iranian nuclear program.

 

 

 

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Commenting on Tehran's decision to remove the surveillance equipment, Grossi said last June that it could deal a "fatal blow" to the chances of reviving the agreement, which the United States unilaterally withdrew from in 2018 and re-imposed tough economic sanctions on Tehran.

Iranian caution

On the other hand, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that his country wants to obtain economic guarantees from the United States in order to revive the nuclear agreement, in order not to be "bitten from the hole twice", in reference to Washington's withdrawal from the agreement and its imposition of severe economic sanctions that have evaporated. With it, all the economic benefits included in the 2015 agreement benefit Tehran.

Abdullahian added in an interview with Iranian state television on Thursday evening, "Now at this stage we have a text ready before us (to revive the agreement). We agree with the various parties on 95% of its content."

Iran and the signatory powers to the agreement began talks to revive it in April 2021 in Vienna, with the indirect participation of the United States and the facilitation of the European Union.

Despite achieving great progress in the negotiations, the talks were suspended last March, with points of disagreement remaining between Tehran and Washington that the negotiating parties have not yet been able to bridge the gap.

The main differences between Tehran and Washington are related to Iran's desire to remove organizations linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the US list of terrorist organizations, as well as providing guarantees that future US administrations will not withdraw from the nuclear agreement again.

Doha talks

At the end of last June, the US and Iranian sides held indirect talks in Doha, facilitated by the European Union, which ended without progress.

 

The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs said earlier today, Friday, that Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, affirmed that Qatar seeks to support the parties to the talks to revive the nuclear agreement with the aim of reaching a just solution for all.

The Qatar News Agency (QNA) stated that the Qatari minister received a call from Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Abdullahian, in which they discussed the developments of the nuclear negotiations, noting Doha's affirmation of support for talks to revive the nuclear agreement, taking into account the concerns of all parties.

Source : Al Jazeera + agencies

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Iran may have the ability to construct a nuke, however, there are enough countries out there with the " ability " to Deliver nukes if Iran were ever idiotic enough to " light one off " ANYWHERE in the world.

Iran might believe no one would dare retaliate if such a scenario would occur simply out of fear of escalation. Depending on what individuals may be in power at that time among the Nuclear Powers, the option to take out Iran once and for all could very well be the best option.

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Al-Yasiri: The Iranian nuclear agreement will end the bombing of Iraqi Kurdistan!
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Al-Yasiri: The Iranian nuclear agreement will end the bombing of Iraqi Kurdistan!
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Biden: We have developed a proposal to ensure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon

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2022-08-01 | 08:46

 

 

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US President Joe Biden confirmed today, Monday, that the United States, with "regional partners", has developed a proposal to ensure a mutual return to full implementation of the Joint Plan of Action to ensure that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon.

"Through diplomacy - and in coordination with our regional allies and partners - we have developed a proposal to ensure a mutual return to full implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action to ensure that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon," Biden said in a statement on the occasion of the 10th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

 

 

"We are re-establishing our leadership in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, including seeking to establish the IAEA Additional Protocol as a global standard for both international safeguards and nuclear supply arrangements," he added, as well as "continuing our efforts to limit the spread of sensitive nuclear enrichment and reprocessing technology." .

Biden also renewed the United States' commitment to working towards a world free of nuclear weapons, and expressed his administration's readiness to negotiate "urgently" with Russia on a framework for strategic arms control to replace the New START treaty that expires in 2026.

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Iran reveals a new development regarding its nuclear program

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2022-08-01 | 16:00

 

 

 

 

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The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Behrouz Kamalvandi, announced the inauguration of hundreds of new and advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium.

Kamalvandi said, according to Iranian television, on Monday evening, that the order was issued this afternoon to launch and pump gas into hundreds of centrifuges consisting of IR1 and advanced IR6.

"These centrifuges we had installed before," he added, noting that the operations of 500 IR6 centrifuges will take 10 to 15 days.

 

 

 

 

 

He stated that this step comes in the context of implementing the law of the strategic initiative to abolish the embargo by safeguarding Iran's interests and reaching the minimum enrichment volume that the country needs, which is 190,000 su (separation unit).

The Iranian official confirmed that the International Atomic Energy Agency was informed of this matter.

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Washington imposes sanctions on Chinese and Emirati companies over cooperation with Iran

2022.08.02 - 10:33

 

Baghdad - people  

The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on Chinese and other companies it said helped sell tens of millions of dollars in Iranian oil and petrochemical products to East Asia as it sought to increase pressure on Tehran to curb its nuclear programme.  

  

 

  

The US Treasury and State Departments imposed sanctions on a total of six companies, including one in the UAE, four in Hong Kong and one in Singapore, in measures announced in separate statements.  

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Iranian MP threatens "enemies" with the possibility of changing the fatwa prohibiting the possession of nuclear weapons

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Baghdad - Mawazine News
, a deputy in the Iranian parliament warned his country's enemies of the consequences of continuing their threats against Tehran, which may amount to moving forward with the development of a nuclear weapon.
Mohammad Reza Sabbaghian said: "If the enemies continue their rudeness and threats, we will ask Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to change his fatwa on acquiring nuclear weapons if this is in the country's interest (...) Then making nuclear weapons will be very easy for Iran's youth," according to media outlets. Iranian.
Iranians refer to the United States, Israel and their allies as "enemies."
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has previously said that his country has never sought to manufacture or use nuclear weapons, which are prohibited by Islamic law, despite its possession of nuclear technology.
"Making and storing nuclear bombs is a mistake, and their use is forbidden... Iran is completely avoiding them even though we have nuclear technology," he was quoted as saying by state television.
Iran has repeatedly denied ever seeking to build a nuclear bomb.
On Monday, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, said that his country is capable of producing a nuclear bomb.
This came in a press statement, during which the Iranian official referred to Iran's nuclear technical capabilities, according to the Iranian "Fars" agency.
Analysts say that such statements come within the framework of pressure on world powers to conclude the nuclear agreement again with Tehran.
Before him, Kamal Kharazi, a senior advisor to the Iranian Supreme Leader, said that his country is "technically capable" of making a nuclear bomb, in statements that came immediately after US President Joe Biden's visit to the Middle East.
Kharazi, who is the head of the Strategic Council for Iranian Foreign Policies, added during an interview with Al-Jazeera that Washington did not provide guarantees regarding the preservation of the 2015 nuclear agreement, warning that "any targeting of our security from neighboring countries will be met with a direct response to these countries and Israel." ".
Iran has repeatedly stressed that it is not enriching uranium for the purpose of developing weapons of mass destruction but only for civilian uses, and has said that it can stop its breach of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers if the United States lifts sanctions and returns to the agreement.
After former US President Donald Trump withdrew in 2018 from the agreement and re-imposed severe sanctions, Tehran declared its non-compliance with the nuclear restrictions imposed by the agreement.
Last March, the outlines of a new agreement were basically agreed upon after 11 months of indirect talks between Tehran and the Biden administration in Vienna, but the talks then collapsed.

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Go ahead and nuke NY city...see what happens.

Iran will be reduced to a smoldering ruin.

 

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Iranian negotiator holds meetings in Vienna on the nuclear file

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2022-08-04 | 08:21

 

 

 

 

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Negotiators in charge of the Iranian nuclear file began informal meetings in Vienna today, Thursday, after a months-long pause to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement.

"The head of the Iranian negotiating delegation, Ali Bagheri Kani, met with the European coordinator for nuclear talks, Enrique Mora, at the Coburg Palace in Vienna," the official IRNA news agency reported.

And she added, "Russia's representative in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, met with Bagheri Kni, who arrived in the Austrian capital today to attend the new round of nuclear talks."

 

 

For the first time since last March, the parties that are still affiliated with this agreement, namely Iran, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom and Germany, meet with the indirect participation of the United States in order to revive the 2015 agreement that would prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

The European Union did not give any information about the duration of these informal meetings, and no press announcement is expected.

The chief Iranian negotiator wrote in a tweet Wednesday on his way to the Austrian capital, "I am heading to Vienna to advance the negotiations (...) The ball is in the court of the United States to show maturity and act responsibly."