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#20637523 at 2024-03-27 19:45:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25311: Only Q, Follow The Pens on X? Edition

Back channels are important.

Remember this, John Kerry's Daughter Married Son Of Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif. (12)

"In late 2015, early 2016, spying began on the Trump campaign," Nunes said

June 16, 2015 Trump formally announced his candidacy.

October ?, 2015 New Zealand Prime Minister, John key, [[[JK]]], authorizes gcsb to spy on Trump. Warrant is valid for one year. Q3215, Q3595.

March 14, 2016 The US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, is in New Zealand for talks with the Government and spy chiefs. (1)(1a) Q1164

March 14, 2016 Prime Minister John Key has held talks with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

WTF, Key, Clapper and Zarif have a secret meeting in NZ? (13)(Non_FVEY official chan Q3595)

"Mr Clapper's plane is sitting on the military side of the Wellington airport tarmac. Across the other side is the Airbus 340 used to fly the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif on a visit to New Zealand."

November 8, 2016 Donald Trump is elected President of the United States of America.

December 12, 2016 John key suddenly resigns as Prime Minister of New Zealand ("Physical landscape +/- "). He's being blackmailed by (((THEM))), and forced to renew gcsb warrant on Trump. Seeing no way out, he resigns. Q2929

January 20, 2017 Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States on January 20, 2017

January 26, 2017 Former NZ Prime Minister, Helen Clark announced that she would not seek re-election as UNDP Administrator after the completion of her four-year term. (2)

April 19, 2017 Clark left UNDP, and flies to NZ to be part of the following. (2a)

April 23, 2017 Five Eyes spying network holds highly secretive meeting in Queenstown NZ. FBI director James Comey (Q3674; DOJ Gulfstream G550) and CIA director Mike Pompeo both attend. This was the meeting that the scheme to spy on Trump was hatched. (3)(4)

Helen Clark (((Soros))) rigs the 2017 election in favour of her prot?g? Jacinda Ardern (5), they will get her to sign the gcsb warrant. Remember, they are convinced that Mueller will indict Trump.

October 26, 2017, Ardern does indeed become Prime Minister of NZ. "Special votes" (((Soros/Clark))) sway the result in her favour (6). Shortly thereafter she foolishly authorises gcsb to spy on Trump. Evidently she is too young and stupid to know that she's the fall guy.

March 21, 2018 Barack Obama arrives in New Zealand for the first time. (7) Obviously he is here for gcsb intel. Perhaps to blackmail Key. Oddly, he is entertained by Sam Neill, NZ actor (Jurassic Park). Maybe they have something in common?

May 7, 2018 Hillary Clinton visit's New Zealand in May. Obviously she is here for gcsb intel! Perhaps she tries to persuade Adern to renew the warrant when it expires in October/November. (8) Q1320 Q1336

Fast foward:

July 24, 2019 Robert Mueller Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee. As we know it's a flop, and POTUS won't be indicted, as (((Adern/Clark/Soros))) hoped. By now they realise that they're going to be the special guests at a stool kickin' party at Gitmo, and they seek a way out.

August 15, 2019 PM Jacinda Ardern announces $150m Pacific climate funding to help mitigate climate change in the pacific. (9) Details of who gets what are extremely sketchy, but it seems that the nation that gets the most of this "Climate Change" bribe money DOES NOT HAVE an extradition treaty with the United States. (10) Well ain't that interdasting?

#19775553 at 2023-10-21 12:12:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24282: The Sword of Truth Cuts Through the Fog of War Edition

KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
?NEW -Kash Patel highlights the unbelievable connections between three senior Biden intelligence officials-Robert Malley, Ariane Tabatabai, and Maher Bitar-and their associations with Hamas and Iran.

On June 29, 2023,Robert Malleywas placed on unpaid leave from his role as Joe Biden's special envoy to Iran, and his security clearance was suspended due to an ongoing investigation into the potential mishandling of classified materials.

On September 29, 2023, Semafor reported that Malley was involved in funding, supporting, and directing an Iranian intelligence operation to influence the United States and allied governments, as revealed by a collection of Iranian government emails.

These emails suggested that Malley facilitated the placement of an Iranian agent of influence named Ariane Tabatabai in sensitive positions within the U.S. government, initially at the State Department and later at the Pentagon, where she has been serving as Chief of Staff for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations.

On October 16, 2023, Revolver News reported that Maher Bitar, who is Senior Director for Intelligence Programs on Joe Biden's National Security Council, was also an executive director of the "Students for Justice in Palestine" group that reportedly responded to the recent Hamas terror attack on Israel by organizing a "Day of Resistance" in support of Hamas' "historic win" against Israel.

Bitar was photographed wearing a black and white "keffiyeh," a symbol of Palestinian nationalism, and standing in front of a sign that reads, "Divest from Israel Apartheid."

Kash Patel has pointed out that Maher Bitar plays a significant role in determining intelligence prioritization for President Biden, even though there is a photo of him wearing Palestinian attire, calling for the economic and political boycott of Israel.

Robert Malley, who recently had his security clearance suspended by the FBI, installed Ariane Tabatabai at the Department of Defense as the Assistant Chief of Staff for the Special Operations Office.

Do you know what she did in 2014?

"She emailed Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and asked for permission as a U.S. citizen to take a trip on behalf of the US government. This individual is still employed at the DOD."

Unbelievable.

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1715135829491040713

Baker, you should control F the name 'Robert Malley' , in this bread

#19755873 at 2023-10-18 12:58:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24258: Biden Lands in Israel, Meanwhile Embassies in Grave Danger Edition

>>19755248
Old fags will remember that Kerry has ties to Iran and deep state…
Additionally his current wife married into the Heinz family
"In 1990, Teresa Heinz met Senator Kerry at an Earth Day rally. This was the only reported time the two met before Senator Heinz died in a plane crash on April 4, 1991. In 1992, Teresa Heinz met Kerry again, this time at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. "

Hmm…7/10

Kerry's family connection to Iran is no secret, and in the melting pot that is the United States, it is not entirely surprising. What is significant is that as part of the wedding preparations, Kerry went to a dinner party hosted by George Soros at his Manhattan penthouse. He undoubtedly met the best man Mahdi Zarif, and also met his father, Mohammad Javad Zarif,current Iranian Foreign Minister, who acted as the chief negotiator during nuclear talks, across the table from Kerry.

https://www.israel365news.com/299893/nuclear-nepotism-hushed-up-truth-kerrys-personal-iran-connection-middle-east/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Heinz

#19639825 at 2023-09-30 19:14:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24117: AG Ken Paxton: Secretive Texas Court Blocks Prosecution of Voter Fraud Ed

https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2023/09/29/the-city-under-the-capitol-n1730865

The City Under the Capitol

PJ Media, by Richard Fernandez

Posted By: Hazymac, 9/30/2023 3:08:02 PM

More foreign influence peddling is alleged to be ocurring in Washington DC. Anne Applebaum writes, "three Iran experts who have worked closely with Robert Malley, the Biden administration's special envoy on Iran, were members of an influence network formed and guided by Tehran". The Atlantic says: "According to reports by Semafor and Iran International, Iranian foreign-policy bigwigs such as Mohammad Javad Zarif identified think-tank staffers of Iranian origin, sponsored meetings with them, and used the group to coordinate and spread messages helpful to Iran ...." (Snip) This follows reports that "the FBI is investigating whether Egypt's intelligence services might have been involved in the alleged bribery

#18173060 at 2023-01-19 06:47:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22283: ASCENSION Edition

Does this clearly explain something that seemed unexplained?

Guess who's married to John Kerry's daughter?
Did you know that in 2009 the daughter of Secretary of State John Kerry, Dr. Vanessa Bradford Kerry, married an Iranian physician named Dr. Brian Vale Nahed? No mainstream media reported this. Guess who was the best man at the wedding? Mohammad Javad Zarif. So who is Mr. Zarif? Zarif is the current minister of foreign affairs for Iran.
He was Kerry's chief counterpart in the nuclear deal negotiations just concluded. Mean Kerry was dealing with his daughter's father-in-law? Cozy?
Isn't this a lovely picture?

As Front Page Magazine pointed out several months ago, the nuclear talks with Iran were a tragic farce, choreographed and orchestrated by Iran. And unfortunately, we are going to have to live with the consequences. When (not "if") the bomb blows.

Can you say "conflict of interest" ..after of course, "breach of national security" … and "aiding and abetting " one of our principal national enemies?

But then what's new? Even though Muslims make up just 1% of the country, Hillary's top aide is a Muslim, as is Obama. Is it any wonder Obama wants to bring in thousands of young Muslims as refugees even though his security people say they cannot properly vet them? Then too, Obama also spends much time defending Muslims? Not so much defending other minorities, Jews, Blacks, etc.??

#13836603 at 2021-06-05 19:25:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17516 WWG1WGA Edition

UN suspends Iran's General Assembly voting rights

Iran described on Friday the United Nations (UN) decision to suspend Tehran's voting rights in the UN General Assembly due to its failure to pay dues as "shameful and unacceptable".

Recently, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for the application of Article 19 of the UN Charter, which provides for the suspension of the voting rights of any country that fails to pay its dues for the past two years.

Tehran blamed its inability to pay UN contributions arrears (estimated at $16.2 million in February) on US financial sanctions, re-imposed by former President Donald Trump in 2018, which deprive Iran of access to the global financial system.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stated in a message to Guterres, which he posted on Twitter on Thursday, that his country rejects the suspension of its voting rights, adding: "This decision is fundamentally flawed, entirely unacceptable and completely unjustified." Zarif added: "Iran's inability to fulfil its financial obligation toward the United Nations is directly caused by unlawful unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States."

Zarif asserted that Iran's incapacity to pay "falls beyond its will," while urging the UN leadership to "remain true to the purposes and principles" of the UN charter, and to "refrain from any decision that betrays the spirit of sovereign equality of member states and weakens multilateralism."

In a letter sent on 28 May to the president of the UN General Assembly, Guterres stated that five member states are currently prevented from voting under Article 19 of the UN charter, confirming that Iran is required to pay around $16.2 million to regain its voting rights.

On the other hand, the UN secretary-general stressed in his letter, that the UN General Assembly could allow any country banned from voting under Article 19 to regain its voting rights: "If it finds that the concerned member state is incapable of paying due to conditions beyond its control."

In response to a question about Iran's current situation, UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric announced at his daily briefing on Thursday: "We have been in very intense discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran on finding a way for them to pay their dues."

Dujarric explained: "It is not from lack of trying from either our side or from their side, but as you know, the country falls under a number of bilateral sanctions, which makes it a bit challenging."

He added that concerning a member state that falls under the "automatic procedure" stipulated by Article 19, the possibility of regaining its voting rights is decided by the General Assembly member states.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210605-un-suspends-irans-general-assembly-voting-rights/

#13650828 at 2021-05-13 13:04:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17287: They DELETED THE DATABASE Edition.

>>13650816
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/2970836/Zarif-says-wont-run-presidential-elections
Zarif Says Won't Run In Presidential Elections
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif officially announced that he would not run in upcoming presidential elections, hours before his plane landed at Damascus airport.
A number of reformist websites reported that former President Mohammad Khatami, Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the former Supreme Leader Khomeini, failed to persuade Zarif to run in the elections.
During a closed session to discuss the leaked audio on Sunday, Zarif informed the parliament that he does not intend to run in the presidential elections, in an attempt to assert that he does not have electoral goals.
Zarif addressed the Iranian citizens through an Instagram post saying his candidacy for this year's elections is not in the interest of the country and the people.
He said he had made the decision not on the basis of personal interests or for his own convenience, but because "I have reached this conscientious conviction that me running would not be in the best interest of the country and the nation given the perturbations that have been displayed in the past eight years."
Zarif said that the elections will be fateful, explaining that not voting is a choice, "but one that would only lead to the victory of the minority."
He implicitly criticized the pressures he has been subjected to since the Iranian New Year, referring to a television series about Western intelligence services spying on the nuclear negotiating team.
The FM announced his upcoming regional and European tour, pointing out that it is "within the framework of the foreign minister's duties," and is not related to the nuclear negotiations in Vienna aimed at reaching an agreement.
Zarif mocked his opponents, urging them to focus on local issues, the priorities of guarding national interests, and protecting people from US sanctions.

#13572049 at 2021-05-03 18:02:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17188: POTUS T Dubs 2020 Election Results 'THE BIG LIE' Edition

Former Security Adviser: John Kerry Undermined Trump in Unapproved Iran Talks

Former Secretary of State John Kerry repeatedly undercut President Donald Trump's foreign policy towards Iran during unauthorized talks with senior Iranian officials, according to Keith Kellogg, the former chief of staff for the National Security Council under President Donald Trump.

"He did it all the time," Kellogg told Just the News when asked if Kerry sent a conflicting message to Iran. "By just the very fact that he went over there, and the fact that he talked to [Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad] Zarif, sent a very, very strong counter-message to what we were trying to do out there."

"We read cables and we understand what's going on," Kellogg added. "We talked about it in the Oval Office several times. It was not helpful what he was doing, because he was basically countering every message we were putting out there and trying to push them into some type of negotiation."

Trump reimposed tough sanctions on Iran after exiting the multilateral nuclear deal with the Islamist regime. The measures crippled the oil-rich nation in a bid to force Iran to commit to denuclearization.

"I was in there many times when the president would reach out to people like Macron of France, he would reach out to Boris Johnson in U.K., and trying to get them to be an intermediary to talk to the Iranians to get us into some type of discussions. And we always had a pushback," Kellogg said. "Because we had people like Kerry out there talking to Zarif and others."

It appears the Trump administration did nothing to hold Kerry back, causing a headache to Kellogg and others.

"We knew what he was doing and the frustration we had is that it was basically acknowledged by everybody and nobody cared about if one of us has [sic] done that," Kellogg said.

In late 2016, President-elect Trump's incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn came under the scrutiny of the FBI for discussing U.S sanctions against Russia with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The bureau contemplated charging Flynn with an archaic law prohibiting individuals from conducting unauthorized diplomacy.

https://www.ntd.com/former-security-adviser-john-kerry-undermined-trump-in-unapproved-iran-talks_606822.html

#13558337 at 2021-05-01 18:52:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17171: May Day May Day Edition

>>13558329

New evidence emerges contradicting defense of John Kerry over allegations he leaked info about Israeli operations

Audio of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reveals he did not have knowledge about secret Israeli military operations until former Secretary of State John Kerry disclosed details about the operations.

The new detail directly contradicts State Department's defense after the bombshell allegation surfaced this week in the New York Times.
What is the background?

According to leaked audio of Zarif that surfaced last weekend, Kerry disclosed to him that Israel was responsible for more than 200 covert operations against Iranian interests in the Middle East. The New York Times did not provide additional context beyond what Zarif had claimed, aside from the detail that Kerry's admission left Zarif astonished.

"Former Secretary of State John Kerry informed him that Israel had attacked Iranian interests in Syria at least 200 times, to his astonishment, Mr. Zarif said," the Times reported.
What are the new details?

The Washington Free Beacon commissioned a translation of the Zarif audio. They learned Zarif confirmed on the audio that he did not know Israel was responsible for certain military operations against Iranian interests until Kerry disclosed that fact.

From the Free Beacon:

[A]n independent translation of the audiotape commissioned by the Washington Free Beacon shows that Zarif went on to clarify that he had no prior knowledge of these Israeli strikes before Kerry told him.

"Kerry told me that Israel had launched 200 airstrikes against you [Iran]," said Zarif. "You didn't know?" asked his interviewer. "No, no," he replied.

How did Kerry and the State Dept. respond?

Both Kerry and the State Department denied the allegation - but invoked different explanations.

Kerry outright denied having disclosed the sensitive information, while the State Department claimed the information that Kerry allegedly disclosed was not secret, but available publicly.

"I can tell you that this story and these allegations are unequivocally false. This never happened - either when I was Secretary of State or since," Kerry said.

"If you go back and look at press reporting from the time, this certainly was not secret, and governments that were involved were speaking to this publicly on the record," State Department spokesman Ned Price said.

http://www.tathasta.com/2021/05/new-evidence-emerges-contradicting.html

#13552511 at 2021-04-30 22:13:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17163: When The Walls Come Tumbling Down Edition

>>13552476
If true this is huge. People are very afraid. Rouhani and Zarif know all the dirty deeds and they ALL track back to the Obama Admin. Including our stand in illegitimate President.

Revolutionary Guards Raid President and Foreign Minister's Offices.

IranWire sources report that this morning officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

After a short altercation with the security guards of the president's office and the Foreign Ministry, the Guards took a number of documents from the premises.
https://iranwire.com/en/features/9445

#13551224 at 2021-04-30 18:53:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17162: EBAKE

#17157
>>13547196 Found at the Crazy Carnival...4chan
>>13547203 CONCEALING CASUALTIES New Revelations About VAERS; CDC New Mask Guidelines; North Dakota Bans Masks Mandates; 3 Covid Vaccine-Injured Medical Professionals Left Behind
>>13547262 Newly released video of Michigan State Rep Jewell Jones arguing w/ officers while refusing a booking photo at Livingston County Jail
>>13547302 Jimmy Kimmel's Interview with Mike Lindell (video)
>>13547304 @RudyGiuliani The DOJ told my lawyer they secretly went into my iCloud account in 2019
>>13547305 The Clock is 30 minutes Done in 30
>>13547313 Anons with smartphones reporting entry problems for 8Kun
>>13547315 Ghislaine Maxwell's first photo from prison shows unexplained black eye
>>13547337 Cabal trying with lawfare groups to stop AZ Audit
>>13547452 The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public's Trust
>>13547460 Democrat Lawfare groups The Brennan Center, Protect Democracy and The Leadership Conference have signed and sent a letter to the civil rights division of the DOJ asking them to get involved in the Maricopa audit.
Baker change
>>13547512 Iranian FM Zarif says he DID NOT Know About Israel's Covert Military Operations Until Kerry Told Him – New revelations from leaked audio contradict State Dept's defense of Kerry
>>13547527, >>13547589, Eric Trump joint Session ratings Trump in comparison to Biden 11.6
>>13547532 Interview With President Trump - The Dan Bongino Show/Ep. 1509
>>13547546, >>13547767, >>13547776 , >>13547562, >>13547577, Niece of Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb found dead after Pfizer Vaccine
>>13547563, >>13547586, >>13547630, Patrick McHenry, In order to attend Biden's speech, showed proof I'm fully vaccinated. Get there and they hand me this. You can't make it up.
>>13547361, >>13547568, AZ audit, camera 9
>>13547598 The Last Refuge: Three Lawfare Groups Petition Biden DOJ to Shut Down Maricopa County Forensic Audit - Cockroaches Fear the Light
>>13547601, >>13547704, We were talking a few nights ago about what would happen if Q started posting again (32:18)
>>13547603 ep 600.3: dividing the usa: a focus on barr's role w/ gte, buffett, gates, the internet, and microso
>>13547639 Discussing Ivermectin And COVID-19 With 4 Experts! Dr.'s Scheim, Hibberd, Kory, And Juan Chamie (26:06)
>>13547660 Americas frontline doctors can prescribe and send you HCQ
>>13547667, >>13547691, Joint Sessions bills S.1441 to S.1419 – 117th Congress (2021-2022)
>>13547681 Another shooting investigation underway, this one in the Central District, Lake City
>>13547690 The Iran-Kerry Affair: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
>>13547728 Top Kek
>>13547217 Not Kek : FAKE Fan Fiction "up for discussion" Comey Sings Like a Canary after Watching Clinton Hang
>>13547733 FBI breaks into Homer, Alaska house, looking for Nancy Pelosi's laptop. COMMS?
>>13547815, >>13547926, >>13547831, >>13547882, >>13547871, >>13547836, >>13547853, >>13547867, >>13547875, >>13547853, >>13547855, BILL GATES' luxury catamaran visits the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands) (Lots of homeless Africans)
>>13547838, >>13547843, Credit Suisse board member Gottschling to exit after risk management debacle
>>13547863 Chile, a global leader in #vaccination, is considering issuing a "green card"
>>13547899 US lawmaker says she's Covid-positive after 2 doses of Pfizer
>>13547930 Ted Gunderson saying how it is 30 years ago (FBI) (Cap 0:51)
>>13547960 #17157

#13550391 at 2021-04-30 16:18:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17161: God Bless and Have a Wonderful Bread Edition

IranWire sources report that this morning officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

After a short altercation with the security guards of the president's office and the Foreign Ministry, the Guards took a number of documents from the premises.

The raids took place after government spokesman Ali Rabiei had stated that Iran's intelligence ministry was investigating the source of a recently-leaked interview with Zarif.

The IRGC Intelligence Unit is a rival organisation to the Ministry of Intelligence, which is the country's equivalent of the CIA and the FBI.

In the recorded interview, which was leaked to Iran International last weekend, Zarif had told journalist and economist Saeed Leylaz that he believed Iranian diplomacy had been "sacrificed" to the regime's military interests.

He described alleged efforts by former IRGC Quds Force commander Ghasem Soleimani and Russia to sabotage the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and shared new details about the Quds Force's regional operations.

The leak sparked widespread controversy, with various parties calling for Zarif's resignation or impeachment. Zarif has been touring Arab countries since the tape surfaced and was in Kuwait on Thursday.

#13550327 at 2021-04-30 16:06:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17160: World United Under Honorable Service Edition

Ezra A. Cohen Retweeted
Jason Brodsky @JasonMBrodsky·19h
#BREAKING:
@IranWireEnglish reports this morning officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

Revolutionary Guards Raid President and Foreign Minister's Offices
Friday, 30 April 2021

…After a short altercation with the security guards of the president's office and the Foreign Ministry, the Guards took a number of documents from the premises.

The raids took place after government spokesman Ali Rabiei had stated that Iran's intelligence ministry was investigating the source of a recently-leaked interview with Zarif. …

https://twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1387858970405113857
https://iranwire.com/en/features/9445

#13550214 at 2021-04-30 15:50:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17161: God Bless and Have a Wonderful Bread Edition

#13549521 at 2021-04-30 14:18:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17160: World United Under Honorable Service Edition

#13549420 at 2021-04-30 14:08:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17159: Morning Sun Bringing the Heat Edition

>>13549261
>reports this morning officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
holy shit

#13549376 at 2021-04-30 14:03:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17159: Morning Sun Bringing the Heat Edition

https://iranwire.com/en/features/9445
Revolutionary Guards Raid President and Foreign Minister's Offices
IranWire sources report that this morning officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
After a short altercation with the security guards of the president's office and the Foreign Ministry, the Guards took a number of documents from the premises.
The raids took place after government spokesman Ali Rabiei had stated that Iran's intelligence ministry was investigating the source of a recently-leaked interview with Zarif.
The IRGC Intelligence Unit is a rival organisation to the Ministry of Intelligence, which is the country's equivalent of the CIA and the FBI.
In the recorded interview, which was leaked to Iran International last weekend, Zarif had told journalist and economist Saeed Leylaz that he believed Iranian diplomacy had been "sacrificed" to the regime's military interests.
He described alleged efforts by former IRGC Quds Force commander Ghasem Soleimani and Russia to sabotage the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and shared new details about the Quds Force's regional operations.
The leak sparked widespread controversy, with various parties calling for Zarif's resignation or impeachment. Zarif has been touring Arab countries since the tape surfaced and was in Kuwait on Thursday.
The interview was one of 33 conducted by the Presidential Center for Strategic Studies for a planned oral history project. It was set to focus on the achievements of the country's 11th and 12th governments and was in its post-production phase at the time of the leak.
Earlier Thursday, the government announced that the head of the Center, Heshamoddin Ashena, who was overseeing the project, had "resigned" and been replaced by Rabiei.
Ashena took to Twitter to castigate the "professional bandits with political ambitions" he said were involved in sharing the tape, saying it had caused "an informative, methodical and non-confidential programming to be abused politically and in the media… It appears to be a political and security dilemma."
Tehran Prosecutor's Office also confirmed a lawsuit had been filed in connection with the audio file's publication.
Iranian state media reported on Thursday that 15 people involved in the production had been barred from leaving the country while investigations are ongoing.
IranWire will publish a full report soon.

#13549261 at 2021-04-30 13:52:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17159: Morning Sun Bringing the Heat Edition

Whew.

Ezra A. Cohen Retweeted

Jason Brodsky
@JasonMBrodsky
#BREAKING: @IranWireEnglish
reports this morning officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. #ZarifGate #Iran

https://twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1387858970405113857

#13548707 at 2021-04-30 11:59:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17159: Morning Sun Bringing the Heat Edition

#13547972 at 2021-04-30 08:12:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17158: What do you get when Bill Gates, Africans, Canary Islands meet? Edition

NOTABLESAre NOT Endorsements
#17157
>>13547196 Found at the Crazy Carnival...4chan
>>13547203 CONCEALING CASUALTIES New Revelations About VAERS; CDC New Mask Guidelines; North Dakota Bans Masks Mandates; 3 Covid Vaccine-Injured Medical Professionals Left Behind
>>13547262 Newly released video of Michigan State Rep Jewell Jones arguing w/ officers while refusing a booking photo at Livingston County Jail
>>13547302 Jimmy Kimmel's Interview with Mike Lindell (video)
>>13547304 @RudyGiuliani The DOJ told my lawyer they secretly went into my iCloud account in 2019
>>13547305 The Clock is 30 minutes Done in 30
>>13547313 Anons with smartphones reporting entry problems for 8Kun
>>13547315 Ghislaine Maxwell's first photo from prison shows unexplained black eye
>>13547337 Cabal trying with lawfare groups to stop AZ Audit
>>13547452 The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public's Trust
>>13547460 Democrat Lawfare groups The Brennan Center, Protect Democracy and The Leadership Conference have signed and sent a letter to the civil rights division of the DOJ asking them to get involved in the Maricopa audit.
Baker change
>>13547512 Iranian FM Zarif says he DID NOT Know About Israel's Covert Military Operations Until Kerry Told Him – New revelations from leaked audio contradict State Dept's defense of Kerry
>>13547527, >>13547589, Eric Trump joint Session ratings Trump in comparison to Biden 11.6
>>13547532 Interview With President Trump - The Dan Bongino Show/Ep. 1509
>>13547546, >>13547767, >>13547776 , >>13547562, >>13547577, Niece of Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb found dead after Pfizer Vaccine
>>13547563, >>13547586, >>13547630, Patrick McHenry, In order to attend Biden's speech, showed proof I'm fully vaccinated. Get there and they hand me this. You can't make it up.
>>13547361, >>13547568, AZ audit, camera 9
>>13547598 The Last Refuge: Three Lawfare Groups Petition Biden DOJ to Shut Down Maricopa County Forensic Audit - Cockroaches Fear the Light
>>13547601, >>13547704, We were talking a few nights ago about what would happen if Q started posting again (32:18)
>>13547603 ep 600.3: dividing the usa: a focus on barr's role w/ gte, buffett, gates, the internet, and microso
>>13547639 Discussing Ivermectin And COVID-19 With 4 Experts! Dr.'s Scheim, Hibberd, Kory, And Juan Chamie (26:06)
>>13547660 Americas frontline doctors can prescribe and send you HCQ
>>13547667, >>13547691, Joint Sessions bills S.1441 to S.1419 – 117th Congress (2021-2022)
>>13547681 Another shooting investigation underway, this one in the Central District, Lake City
>>13547690 The Iran-Kerry Affair: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
>>13547728 Top Kek
>>13547217 Not Kek : FAKE Fan Fiction "up for discussion" Comey Sings Like a Canary after Watching Clinton Hang
>>13547733 FBI breaks into Homer, Alaska house, looking for Nancy Pelosi's laptop. COMMS?
>>13547815, >>13547926, >>13547831, >>13547882, >>13547871, >>13547836, >>13547853, >>13547867, >>13547875, >>13547853, >>13547855, BILL GATES' luxury catamaran visits the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands) (Lots of homeless Africans)
>>13547838, >>13547843, Credit Suisse board member Gottschling to exit after risk management debacle
>>13547863 Chile, a global leader in #vaccination, is considering issuing a "green card"
>>13547899 US lawmaker says she's Covid-positive after 2 doses of Pfizer
>>13547930 Ted Gunderson saying how it is 30 years ago (FBI) (Cap 0:51)
>>13547960 #17157

#13547960 at 2021-04-30 08:10:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17157: The Federal Power Grab Of 2020 Edition

NOTABLESAre NOT Endorsements

>>13547158

>>13547177 Dough

FINAL

#17157

>>13547196 Found at the Crazy Carnival...4chan
>>13547203 CONCEALING CASUALTIES New Revelations About VAERS; CDC New Mask Guidelines; North Dakota Bans Masks Mandates; 3 Covid Vaccine-Injured Medical Professionals Left Behind
>>13547262 Newly released video of Michigan State Rep Jewell Jones arguing w/ officers while refusing a booking photo at Livingston County Jail
>>13547302 Jimmy Kimmel's Interview with Mike Lindell (video)
>>13547304 @RudyGiuliani The DOJ told my lawyer they secretly went into my iCloud account in 2019
>>13547305 The Clock is 30 minutes Done in 30
>>13547313 Anons with smartphones reporting entry problems for 8Kun
>>13547315 Ghislaine Maxwell's first photo from prison shows unexplained black eye
>>13547337 Cabal trying with lawfare groups to stop AZ Audit
>>13547452 The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public's Trust
>>13547460 Democrat Lawfare groups The Brennan Center, Protect Democracy and The Leadership Conference have signed and sent a letter to the civil rights division of the DOJ asking them to get involved in the Maricopa audit.
Baker change
>>13547512 Iranian FM Zarif says he DID NOT Know About Israel's Covert Military Operations Until Kerry Told Him – New revelations from leaked audio contradict State Dept's defense of Kerry
>>13547527, >>13547589, Eric Trump joint Session ratings Trump in comparison to Biden 11.6
>>13547532 Interview With President Trump - The Dan Bongino Show/Ep. 1509
>>13547546, >>13547767, >>13547776 , >>13547562, >>13547577, Niece of Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb found dead after Pfizer Vaccine
>>13547563, >>13547586, >>13547630, Patrick McHenry, In order to attend Biden's speech, showed proof I'm fully vaccinated. Get there and they hand me this. You can't make it up.
>>13547361, >>13547568, AZ audit, camera 9
>>13547598 The Last Refuge: Three Lawfare Groups Petition Biden DOJ to Shut Down Maricopa County Forensic Audit - Cockroaches Fear the Light
>>13547601, >>13547704, We were talking a few nights ago about what would happen if Q started posting again (32:18)
>>13547603 ep 600.3: dividing the usa: a focus on barr's role w/ gte, buffett, gates, the internet, and microso
>>13547639 Discussing Ivermectin And COVID-19 With 4 Experts! Dr.'s Scheim, Hibberd, Kory, And Juan Chamie (26:06)
>>13547660 Americas frontline doctors can prescribe and send you HCQ
>>13547667, >>13547691, Joint Sessions bills S.1441 to S.1419 – 117th Congress (2021-2022)
>>13547681 Another shooting investigation underway, this one in the Central District, Lake City
>>13547690 The Iran-Kerry Affair: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
>>13547728 Top Kek
>>13547217 Not Kek : FAKE Fan Fiction "up for discussion" Comey Sings Like a Canary after Watching Clinton Hang
>>13547733 FBI breaks into Homer, Alaska house, looking for Nancy Pelosi's laptop. COMMS?
>>13547815, >>13547926, >>13547831, >>13547882, >>13547871, >>13547836, >>13547853, >>13547867, >>13547875, >>13547853, >>13547855, BILL GATES' luxury catamaran visits the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands) (Lots of homeless Africans)
>>13547838, >>13547843, Credit Suisse board member Gottschling to exit after risk management debacle
>>13547863 Chile, a global leader in #vaccination, is considering issuing a "green card"
>>13547899 US lawmaker says she's Covid-positive after 2 doses of Pfizer
>>13547930 Ted Gunderson saying how it is 30 years ago (FBI) (Cap 0:51)
#17157

#13547912 at 2021-04-30 07:43:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17157: The Federal Power Grab Of 2020 Edition

NOTABLESAre NOT Endorsements

>>13547158

>>13547177 Dough

Notables @670

#17157

>>13547196 Found at the Crazy Carnival...4chan
>>13547203 CONCEALING CASUALTIES New Revelations About VAERS; CDC New Mask Guidelines; North Dakota Bans Masks Mandates; 3 Covid Vaccine-Injured Medical Professionals Left Behind
>>13547262 Newly released video of Michigan State Rep Jewell Jones arguing w/ officers while refusing a booking photo at Livingston County Jail
>>13547302 Jimmy Kimmel's Interview with Mike Lindell (video)
>>13547304 @RudyGiuliani The DOJ told my lawyer they secretly went into my iCloud account in 2019
>>13547305 The Clock is 30 minutes Done in 30
>>13547313 Anons with smartphones reporting entry problems for 8Kun
>>13547315 Ghislaine Maxwell's first photo from prison shows unexplained black eye
>>13547337 Cabal trying with lawfare groups to stop AZ Audit
>>13547452 The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public's Trust
>>13547460 Democrat Lawfare groups The Brennan Center, Protect Democracy and The Leadership Conference have signed and sent a letter to the civil rights division of the DOJ asking them to get involved in the Maricopa audit.
Baker change
>>13547512 Iranian FM Zarif says he DID NOT Know About Israel's Covert Military Operations Until Kerry Told Him – New revelations from leaked audio contradict State Dept's defense of Kerry
>>13547527, >>13547589, Eric Trump joint Session ratings Trump in comparison to Biden 11.6
>>13547532 Interview With President Trump - The Dan Bongino Show/Ep. 1509
>>13547546, >>13547767, >>13547776 , >>13547562, >>13547577, Niece of Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb found dead after Pfizer Vaccine
>>13547563, >>13547586, >>13547630, Patrick McHenry, In order to attend Biden's speech, showed proof I'm fully vaccinated. Get there and they hand me this. You can't make it up.
>>13547361, >>13547568, AZ audit, camera 9
>>13547598 The Last Refuge: Three Lawfare Groups Petition Biden DOJ to Shut Down Maricopa County Forensic Audit - Cockroaches Fear the Light
>>13547601, >>13547704, We were talking a few nights ago about what would happen if Q started posting again (32:18)
>>13547603 ep 600.3: dividing the usa: a focus on barr's role w/ gte, buffett, gates, the internet, and microso
>>13547639 Discussing Ivermectin And COVID-19 With 4 Experts! Dr.'s Scheim, Hibberd, Kory, And Juan Chamie (26:06)
>>13547660 Americas frontline doctors can prescribe and send you HCQ
>>13547667, >>13547691, Joint Sessions bills S.1441 to S.1419 – 117th Congress (2021-2022)
>>13547681 Another shooting investigation underway, this one in the Central District, Lake City
>>13547690 The Iran-Kerry Affair: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
>>13547728 Top Kek
>>13547733 FBI breaks into Homer, Alaska house, looking for Nancy Pelosi's laptop. COMMS?
>>13547815, >>13547831, >>13547882, >>13547871, >>13547836, >>13547853, >>13547867, >>13547875, >>13547853, >>13547855, BILL GATES' luxury catamaran visits the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands) (Lots of homeless Africans)
>>13547838, >>13547843, Credit Suisse board member Gottschling to exit after risk management debacle
>>13547863 Chile, a global leader in #vaccination, is considering issuing a "green card"
>>13547899 US lawmaker says she's Covid-positive after 2 doses of Pfizer
#17157

#13547755 at 2021-04-30 06:31:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17157: The Federal Power Grab Of 2020 Edition

NOTABLESAre NOT Endorsements

>>13547158

>>13547177 Dough

Notables @515

#17157

>>13547196 Found at the Crazy Carnival...4chan
>>13547203 CONCEALING CASUALTIES New Revelations About VAERS; CDC New Mask Guidelines; North Dakota Bans Masks Mandates; 3 Covid Vaccine-Injured Medical Professionals Left Behind
>>13547262 Newly released video of Michigan State Rep Jewell Jones arguing w/ officers while refusing a booking photo at Livingston County Jail
>>13547302 Jimmy Kimmel's Interview with Mike Lindell (video)
>>13547304 @RudyGiuliani The DOJ told my lawyer they secretly went into my iCloud account in 2019
>>13547305 The Clock is 30 minutes Done in 30
>>13547313 Anons with smartphones reporting entry problems for 8Kun
>>13547315 Ghislaine Maxwell's first photo from prison shows unexplained black eye
>>13547337 Cabal trying with lawfare groups to stop AZ Audit
>>13547452 The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public's Trust
>>13547460 Democrat Lawfare groups The Brennan Center, Protect Democracy and The Leadership Conference have signed and sent a letter to the civil rights division of the DOJ asking them to get involved in the Maricopa audit.
BAKER CHANGE
>>13547512 Iranian FM Zarif says he DID NOT Know About Israel's Covert Military Operations Until Kerry Told Him – New revelations from leaked audio contradict State Dept's defense of Kerry
>>13547527, >>13547589, Eric Trump joint Session ratings Trump in comparison to Biden 11.6
>>13547532 Interview With President Trump - The Dan Bongino Show/Ep. 1509
>>13547546, >>13547562, >>13547577, Niece of Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb found dead after Pfizer Vaccine
>>13547563, >>13547586,>>13547630, Patrick McHenry, In order to attend Biden's speech, showed proof I'm fully vaccinated. Get there and they hand me this. You can't make it up.
>>13547361, >>13547568, AZ audit, camera 9
>>13547598 The Last Refuge: Three Lawfare Groups Petition Biden DOJ to Shut Down Maricopa County Forensic Audit - Cockroaches Fear the Light
>>13547601, >>13547704, >>13547619 We were talking a few nights ago about what would happen if Q started posting again (32:18)
>>13547603 ep 600.3: dividing the usa: a focus on barr's role w/ gte, buffett, gates, the internet, and microso
>>13547639 Discussing Ivermectin And COVID-19 With 4 Experts! Dr.'s Scheim, Hibberd, Kory, And Juan Chamie (26:06)
>>13547660 Americas frontline doctors can prescribe and send you HCQ
>>13547667, >>13547691, Joint Sessions bills S.1441 to S.1419 – 117th Congress (2021-2022)
>>13547681 Another shooting investigation underway, this one in the Central District, Lake City
>>13547690 The Iran-Kerry Affair: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
>>13547728 top kek
>>13547733 FBI breaks into Homer, Alaska house, looking for Nancy Pelosi's laptop. COMMS?
#17157

#13547710 at 2021-04-30 06:15:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17157: The Federal Power Grab Of 2020 Edition

>>13547690
>IranWire sources report that this morning officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

The Iran-Kerry Affair

#13547690 at 2021-04-30 06:07:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17157: The Federal Power Grab Of 2020 Edition

IRAN

IranWire sources report that this morning officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

https://iranwire.com/en/features/9445

#13547370 at 2021-04-30 05:00:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17157: The Federal Power Grab Of 2020 Edition

>>13546926 (lb)
>>13547022 (lb)

Ezra A Cohen Retwat

#BREAKING: @IranWireEnglish reports this morning officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. #ZarifGate #Iran

https:// twitter.com/jasonmbrodsky/status/1387858970405113857

#13543393 at 2021-04-29 20:09:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17152: Call For Patriots, Clowns on the Ground in Maricopa Town #AZAudit Edition

Iran bans 15 people reportedly involved in Zarif leak from leaving the country

Following the leaked audio of Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran executed travel bans on the 15 people who are reportedly behind the leaks. However, Zarif has kept his position, and expressed remorse in an Instagram post.

On the audio, Zarif makes mention of John Kerry, who was Secretary of State at the time. According to Zarif, Kerry allegedly knew about 200+ Israeli covert operations on Iranian targets in Syria. Kerry denies the allegations.

After the leak, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh acknowledged that the audio was authentic. He told journalists on Monday that the recording was a small part of a seven-hour interview Zarif gave to a well-known economist.

https://saraacarter.com/iran-bans-15-people-reportedly-involved-in-Zarif-leak-from-leaving-the-country/

Iranian Patriots fighting

#13542376 at 2021-04-29 17:28:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17151: CALL TO MEME #SaveTheFilibuster and #StopDCStatehood Edition

#17146
>>13538035 Stanford prof: CDC has sown 'fear and panic,' paved way for 'institutionalization of hypochondria'
>>13538335 Carter Page sues James Comey, Andrew McCabe, the FBI, and others for $75M
>>13538494 Pompeo on Hannity re: Kerry & Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
>>13538531 sources say Bob Kent paid $75,000 for services related to Bob Levinson
>>13538545 @ScottNevins repeated Uncle Tom tweets
>>13538585 Samantha "Crimes Against Humanity" Power back in power
>>13538616 Collated VAERS reporting data and MSM reports Google doc
>>13541951 #17146

Previously Collected Notables
>>13537995 #17144, >>13537946 #17145
>>13534775 #17141, >>13535499 #17142, >>13536286 #17143
>>13532280 #17138, >>13533064 #17139, >>13534103 #17140
>>13530688 #17136/2, >>13530497 #17136/1, >>13531487 #17137
>>13529144 #17134/1, >>13529913 #17135/2, >>13529835 #17135/1
>>13527377 #17132/1, >>13528382 #17133, >>13529147 #17134/2
>>13526775 #17131/2, >>13526706 #17131/1, >>13527590 #17132/2
>>13524285 #17128/1, >>13525117 #17129, >>13525977 #17130
>>13523516 #17127/2, >>13523515 #17127/1, >>13524287 #17128/2
>>13521197 #17124, >>13522205 #17125, >>13522751 #17126
>>13518842 #17121/1, >>13519626 #17122, >>13520398 #17123
>>13517217 #17119, >>13518021 #17120, >>13518845 #17121/2
>>13514647 #17116, >>13515481 #17117, >>13518780 #17118
>>13512020 #17113/1, >>13512829 #17114, >>13513976 #17115
>>13510457 #17111, >>13511195 #17112, >>13512022 #17113/2
>>13508744 #17109/1, >>13509463 #17110/1, >>13509529 #17110/2
>>13507934 #17108/S, >>13507652 #17108, >>13508745 #17109/2
>>13506232 #17105, >>13506176 #17106, >>13506600 #17107
>>13502957 #17102, >>13503476 #17103, >>13506070 #17104
>>13500386 #17099, >>13501150 #17100, >>13502831 #17101

Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com
*Search all posts from QResearch: https://qresear.ch/
>>13320392 Q Research Notables #6

#13541951 at 2021-04-29 16:19:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17150: Reminder All Eyes on #AZAudit Edition

>>13541825
mostly spam
> #17146 >>13537885 TBC

#17146 NOTABLES
>>13538035 Stanford prof: CDC has sown 'fear and panic,' paved way for 'institutionalization of hypochondria'
>>13538335 Carter Page sues James Comey, Andrew McCabe, the FBI, and others for $75M
>>13538494 Pompeo on Hannity re: Kerry & Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
>>13538531 sources say Bob Kent paid $75,000 for services related to Bob Levinson
>>13538545 @ScottNevins repeated Uncle Tom tweets
>>13538585 Samantha "Crimes Against Humanity" Power back in power
>>13538616 Collated VAERS reporting data and MSM reports Google doc

#13540795 at 2021-04-29 13:44:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17149: No Place For Corruption Edition

Shakeup in Iran's presidential office after leaked FM tape

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's president on Thursday replaced the head of a government think tank after a recording of a conversation with the country's foreign minister leaked out this week. The tape, meant for government records, provided a rare glimpse into the theocracy's power struggles and set off a firestorm in Iran.

The conversation took place as an interview with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif by Saeed Leilaz, an economist. The tape was to be kept by the Strategic Studies Center, the think tank associated with Iran's presidency.

In the recording, Zarif offers a blunt appraisal of diplomacy and his constricted role in the Islamic Republic.

Iran's presidency announced Thursday that Hessameddin Ashena, head of the Strategic Studies Center, had resigned and that Cabinet spokesman Ali Rabiei replaces him. Ashena was also reportedly present during the interview with Zarif.

AMIR VAHDAT
Thu, April 29, 2021, 3:50 AM
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's president on Thursday replaced the head of a government think tank after a recording of a conversation with the country's foreign minister leaked out this week. The tape, meant for government records, provided a rare glimpse into the theocracy's power struggles and set off a firestorm in Iran.

The conversation took place as an interview with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif by Saeed Leilaz, an economist. The tape was to be kept by the Strategic Studies Center, the think tank associated with Iran's presidency.

In the recording, Zarif offers a blunt appraisal of diplomacy and his constricted role in the Islamic Republic.

Iran's presidency announced Thursday that Hessameddin Ashena, head of the Strategic Studies Center, had resigned and that Cabinet spokesman Ali Rabiei replaces him. Ashena was also reportedly present during the interview with Zarif.

The audio tape, leaked earlier this week to London-based, Farsi-language news channel Iran International, set off political controversy across Iran ahead of the country's June 18 presidential election. While Zarif has said he does not want to run in the election, some have suggested him as a potential candidate to stand against hard-liners in the vote.

On Wednesday, President Hassan Rouhani, who after eight years in office is restricted by term limits from running in the June election, lashed out over the recording's release. He said the interview was part of a wider project with government officials and also urged for an investigation into how the tape was leaked.

Zarif can be heard saying at various points in the tape that it was not meant for release. The recording runs a total of some seven hours.

Also Thursday, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported, citing an informed source in the judiciary, that 15 people connected to the interview have been banned from leaving the country.

Zarif's leaked remarks included cutting references to the limits of his power and those of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a top commander in Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who was killed in a drone strike in Baghdad.

Earlier this week, Zarif expressed regret over the affair, saying his remarks had been misinterpreted. Rouhani portrayed the breach as intended to derail ongoing talks over the return to Iran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/shakeup-iran-presidential-office-leaked-105002639.html

#13540752 at 2021-04-29 13:39:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17148: Patriots Stand Together Edition

#13538543 at 2021-04-29 05:18:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17147: EBake

Future Proves Past

https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1387423422817447938?s=19

"While Mike Pompeo was secretary of state and advising Donald Trump, Biden climate czar and former Secretary of State John Kerry was acting in the same role - except he was advising Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Pompeo told "Hannity" Tue." https://t.co/BN25IHZNOW

#13538494 at 2021-04-29 05:14:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17146: EBake in the middle of the night

https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1387423422817447938?s=19

"While Mike Pompeo was secretary of state and advising Donald Trump, Biden climate czar and former Secretary of State John Kerry was acting in the same role - except he was advising Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Pompeo told "Hannity" Tue." https://t.co/BN25IHZNOW

Future proves past

#13532655 at 2021-04-28 18:01:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17139: Rudy to introduce Evidence? Edition

FAMILY BUSINESS: John Kerry's Daughter Married Iranian National; Best Man Was Son Of Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs

FAMILY BUSINESS: John Kerry's Daughter Married Iranian National; Best Man Was Son Of Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs

Kerry's daughter Vanessa is married to an Iranian national and physician. His best man at the ceremony was the son of Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Zarif was also and Kerry's chief counterpart in the nuclear deal negotiations. Cozy crew.

Look no further why Kerry hates Israel and has green lighted billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to Iran to build its nuclear arsenal. And don't forget about the millions of dollars paid to Iran in ransoms to get our American hostages back.

KERRY'S DENIAL ON LEAKING TO IRAN DOESN'T ADD UP: "This isn't a lie designed to smear Kerry. There's no good reason to think Zarif is lying to the interviewer. Kerry's reputation is collateral damage in a fight among factions within the Iranian government. We as Americans have very little ability to influence who runs what within the Iranian regime. But we can decide which people can be trusted with secrets within the U.S. government - and John Kerry isn't one of those people."

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/family-business-john-kerrys-daughter-married-iranian-national-best-man-was-son-of-irans-minister-of-foreign-affairs/

#13531679 at 2021-04-28 15:46:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17138: Reminder We have A Governor Recall - Newsom Edition

>>13531589

>While Mike Pompeo was secretary of state and advising Donald Trump, Biden climate czar and former Secretary of State John Kerry was acting in the same role - except he was advising Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif,

#13531589 at 2021-04-28 15:31:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17138: Reminder We have A Governor Recall - Newsom Edition

#13528612 at 2021-04-28 02:38:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17134: Arizona Audit - The Only Way Forward Is The Truth Edition

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/utter-nonsense-blinken-defends-kerry-from-gop-attacks-following-iran-leak-claim/ar-BB1g7p1z

'Utter nonsense': Blinken defends Kerry from GOP attacks following Iran leak claim
Joel Gehrke 3 hrs ago

Secretary of State Antony Blinken dismissed allegations that John Kerry revealed Israeli military secrets to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, rejecting a chorus of criticisms building in the wake of a leaked audio.

"These things were so secret that they were all reported in the press at the time," Blinken told CNN's Jake Tapper during a Tuesday interview. "So it is utter nonsense, and it's really unfortunate that people continue to try and play politics with this."

The controversy stems from a newly surfaced audio recording of Zarif, who can be heard claiming that Kerry notified him that "Israel had launched more than 200 attacks on Iranian forces in Syria." Zarif doesn't say when that conversation took place, but senior Republican lawmakers have construed the comment as a sign that Kerry passed a warning to Iran.

"If true, it is despicable. I think we should have a hearing. I doubt my Democratic colleagues will call a hearing," Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, said Tuesday. "So my Plan B preference would be to have a classified briefing, and let's find out what happened."

JOHN KERRY'S POSSIBLE DEFENSE IN IRAN LEAK UPROAR COULD SHOW HE UNDERMINED TRUMP

#13524997 at 2021-04-27 17:11:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17129: Morning Sun Brings The Heat Edition

ANOTHER LEAKED AUDIO: John Kerry's 2016 Meeting with Syrian "Revolutionaries" Pushing for US Bomb Attacks on Syria

As reported on Monday - In a recently leaked audio, Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said then-Secretary of State John Kerry informed him about Israel's covert operations in Syria.

John Kerry served as Barack Obama's Secretary of State from 2013 - 2017 and currently serves as Biden's special climate envoy.

Zarif said he was shocked by John Kerry's revelation that Israel had attacked Iranian targets in Syria over 200 times.

The leaked audio was obtained by The New York Times and other outlets and the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh effectively confirmed the leaked tape's authenticity.

But this was not an isolated incident for John Kerry.

In 2016, as Secretary of State of the disastrous Obama foreign policy, another John Kerry audio was leaked.

John Kerry was caught on tape telling Syrian revolutionaries, "I lost the argument for use of force in Syria."

Kerry's comments came at a meeting that took place at the Dutch Mission to the United Nations on the sidelines the UN General Assembly'. The audio gives a glimpse into what goes on outside official meetings.

Note that it represents the US narrative and not necessarily the entire true narrative. The audio was improved by Angel North who is not affiliated with CNN or any referrer to this video. The restored audio is posted here in the public interest of the US people.

The audio was originally leaked to the New York Times in late September 2016 which only transcribed parts of it. CNN, was the source here.

CNN has since removed it from their website.

John Kerry was pushing for more US bomb attacks in Syria.

The discussion in the recording occurred only days after the United States and Russia announced a ceasefire agreement in Geneva

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/another-leaked-audio-john-kerrys-2016-meeting-syrian-revolutionaries-pushing-us-bomb-attacks-syria-audio/

#13524971 at 2021-04-27 17:06:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17129: Morning Sun Brings The Heat Edition

Can not wait to see Lurch Kerry call that psycho mad dog Zarif a liar!!
The whole world heard the tape!! Bwaahahaha!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/iran-foreign-minister-Mohammad-Javad-Zarif

#13523972 at 2021-04-27 14:03:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17128: Morning Light, Patriots Fight Edition

John Kerry, Enemy of Israel

W e know now that former secretary of state John Kerry isn't merely a critic of Israel; he is an adversary. In leaked audiotapes obtained by the U.K.-based Iran International, as reported by the New York Times, Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told a supporter that the former secretary of state had informed him about "at least" 200 covert Israeli actions against Iranian interests in Syria. Zarif listened to this information in "astonishment."

A high-ranking American official feels comfortable sharing this information with an autocratic adversary - a government that's murdered hundreds of Americans, regularly kidnapped them, interfered with our elections, and propped up a regime that gasses its people - about the covert actions of a long-time American ally. What else did he tell Zarif?

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/john-kerry-enemy-of-israel/

###
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/admiral-lyons-obama-s-strategy-it-s-anti-american-pro-islamic-it-s-pro

"It's very simple, any thinking American should be able to grasp," said the admiral. "It's anti-American, anti-Western, it's pro-Islamic, it's pro-Iranian, and pro-Muslim Brotherhood!"

#13521808 at 2021-04-27 04:14:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17125: Why Are Dems And Rinos Trying To Stop The AZ Audit? Edition

State Dept. Suggests Kerry Didn't Share Secrets with Iran's Zarif About Israel's Operations in Syria

Former President Barack Obama's Secretary of State, John Kerry, did not share any secret information when he allegedly told his Iranian counterpart about more than 200 Israeli operations in Syria, the U.S. State Department suggested Monday.

In leaked audio first obtained by the London-based Iran International and shared with the New York Times, Iranian Foreign Minister (FM) Mohammad Javad Zarif reportedly claimed that "to his astonishment," Kerry told him about the Israeli operations in Syria.

Some news outlets have described the Israeli operations as "covert" after the audio surfaced Sunday.

Zarif suggested that he had to learn of news about his own country from Kerry, noting that he was often kept in the dark regarding national security matters, "sometimes to his embarrassment," the New York Times reported Sunday.

Iran and Israel are arch enemies.

Asked whether Kerry spoke to Zarif about "Israeli operations in Syria that were not supposed to be discussed," Ned Price, a spokesperson at the State Department, declined to comment on the authenticity and accuracy of the Iranian official's claims.

Price contended that his department does not comment "on reportedly leaked material."

"This is purportedly leaked material. Can't speak to the authenticity, can't speak to the accuracy of it, can't speak to any motives that may be behind its dissemination," he told reporters.

Nevertheless, he added, "I would just make the broad point that if you go back and look at press reporting from the time, this certainly was not secret, and governments that were involved were speaking to this publicly on the record."

Echoing Price, Iranian International noted that the Israeli attacks alluded to by Zarif "were discussed in international media as far back as 2017."

Kerry currently holds a seat on the National Security Council as President Joe Biden's special envoy on climate change. The State Department oversees Kerry's envoy role.

It is unclear from the reporting by Iran International and the New York Times whether Kerry, who continued meeting with the Iranian FM after leaving his post as Secretary of State, allegedly shared the information on Israeli operations with Zarif while he was serving as Obama's top diplomat.

Nevertheless, the spokesperson for State did not challenge the reporter who asked about Kerry Monday and described him as Secretary of State when he allegedly spoke to Zarif.

Fox News also reported Kerry was the Secretary of State when he allegedly shared information about Israel with Iran's foreign minister.

Critics have accused Kerry of colluding with Iranian officials to undermine the Trump administration's foreign policy.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/26/sstate-dept-suggests-kerry-didnt-share-secrets-with-irans-Zarif-about-israels-operations-in-syria/

After their 10 hour investigation since the story broke, they've got all the answers - GTFO

#13520915 at 2021-04-27 02:04:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17124: Arizona's Audit Is America's Audit. It's For America Edition

>>13520578
>Iran
POLITICS
DECEMBER 29, 2016
FAMILY BUSINESS: John Kerry's Daughter Married Iranian National; Best Man Was Son Of Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs

If he weren't a corrupt bureaucrat, John Kerry would have recused himself from all negotiations with Iran and for that matter, Israel. Instead, his leadership has proven an epic disaster of foreign policy for the United States, especially in the Middle East.

But why?

Family and personal wealth before country. That mantra has served Sec. of State John Kerry well during his decades of public service.

Kerry's daughter Vanessa is married to an Iranian national and physician. His best man at the ceremony was the son of Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Zarif was also and Kerry's chief counterpart in the nuclear deal negotiations. Cozy crew.

Look no further why Kerry hates Israel and has green lighted billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to Iran to build its nuclear arsenal. And don't forget about the millions of dollars paid to Iran in ransoms to get our American hostages back.

https://truepundit.com/family-business-john-kerrys-daughter-married-iranian-national-best-man-was-son-of-irans-minister-of-foreign-affairs/

Oct. 9, 2009
When Dr. Vanessa Bradford Kerry and Dr. Brian Vala Nahed were making plans to marry, she received a sketch of a wedding dress done by her father.

"He drew us a sketch of what he thought I should wear on my big day, and until this day, we have no idea what it was," said Dr. Kerry, laughing. "Though my father is a busy man, he has been very generous with time spent helping us plan our wedding. It's really just been the three of us, and we have had a great time putting it all together."

Dr. Kerry's father, John Kerry, has been a senator from Massachusetts since 1984. He is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But given that Ms. Kerry has been without her mother — the late Julia S. Thorne, who died in April 2006 — Senator Kerry has enthusiastically served on his daughter's wedding committee, helping to fill not just his own role, but the one the bride's mother surely would have played.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/fashion/weddings/11KERRY.html

#13519317 at 2021-04-26 22:32:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17122: They Know They Didn't Infected Enough Population, No Comment onJK Edition

https://www.wnd.com/2021/04/iran-foreign-minister-john-kerry-gave-intel-israeli-covert-ops/

Iran foreign minister: John Kerry gave me intel on Israeli covert ops
Mohammad Javad Zarif made disclosure in leaked audio reported by N.Y. Times
Art Moore By Art Moore
Published April 26, 2021 at 4:37pm

#13518585 at 2021-04-26 20:26:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17121: DS Runnin' Outta People To Euthenize, Oops Eh Vaccinate & AZFraud Edition

"We're Not Going to Comment on Leaked Tapes" - Psaki When Asked About Audio of John Kerry Telling Iran About Israel's Covert Ops in Syria

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki shut down a reporter asking about the leaked audio from the New York Times of John Kerry telling Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif about Israel's covert operations in Syria.

So much for transparency!

In a recently leaked audio, Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said then-Secretary of State John Kerry informed him about Israel's covert operations in Syria.

John Kerry served as Barack Obama's Secretary of State from 2013 - 2017 and currently serves as Biden's special climate envoy.

Zarif said he was shocked by John Kerry's revelation that Israel had attacked Iranian targets in Syria over 200 times.

Jen Psaki's response to this blockbuster reveal: "We're not going to comment on leaked tapes."

The leaked audio was obtained by The New York Times and other outlets and the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh effectively confirmed the leaked tape's authenticity.

The Biden regime is refusing to comment on treasonous Kerry.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/not-going-comment-leaked-tapes-psaki-asked-audio-john-kerry-telling-iran-israels-covert-ops-syria-video/

#13518500 at 2021-04-26 20:11:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17121: DS Runnin' Outta People To Euthenize, Oops Eh Vaccinate & AZFraud Edition

Saudi Broadcaster 'Leaks' Context Free Quotes From Iran's Foreign Minister Talk - Should It Be Trusted?

A rather weird leak from Iran appeared yesterday. But even weirder is the reporting about it. From the New York Times:

Iran's Foreign Minister, in Leaked Tape, Says Revolutionary Guards Set Policies

Javad Zarif of course did not say what the headline claims:

In a leaked audiotape that offers a glimpse into the behind-the scenes power struggles of Iranian leaders, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the Revolutionary Guards Corps call the shots, overruling many government decisions and ignoring advice.

In one extraordinary moment on the tape that surfaced Sunday, Mr. Zarif departed from the reverential official line on Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the commander of the Guards' elite Quds Force, the foreign-facing arm of Iran's security apparatus, who was killed by the United States in January 2020.

The general, Mr. Zarif said, undermined him at many steps, working with Russia to sabotage the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers and adopting policies toward Syria's long war that damaged Iran's interests.

If the Revolutionary Guard really 'calls the shots' and was against the nuclear deal why was it signed and sealed?

If Soleimani and/or Russia really wanted to 'sabotage the nuclear deal' why did it come into existence?

Russia by the way would have had no need to 'sabotage' the deal. It simply could have vetoed it during the negotiations or later at the UN Security Council.

"In the Islamic Republic the military field rules," Mr. Zarif said in a three-hour taped conversation that was a part of an oral history project documenting the work of the current administration. "I have sacrificed diplomacy for the military field rather than the field servicing diplomacy."

Well - if your ally Syria is under attack from U.S. backed Al-Qaeda terrorists and your neighbor country Iraq gets overrun by the Islamic State there is little that diplomacy can achieve. Those are issues and moments where the military is needed before diplomacy can take over.

Then comes a paragraph that is typical for the manipulative lying that distinguishes NYT scribbling from real reporting:

The audio was leaked at a critical moment for Iran, as the country is discussing the framework for a possible return to a nuclear deal with the United States and other Western powers. Talks through intermediaries have been taking place in Vienna.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/04/saudi-broadcaster-leaks-context-free-quotes-from-irans-foreign-minister-talk-should-it-be-trusted.html

#13517580 at 2021-04-26 17:25:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17120: HAPPY BIRTHDAY To Our Beloved REAL FLOTUS Edition

LEAKED AUDIO: John Kerry Told Iran's Foreign Minister About Israel's Covert Operations in Syria

In a recently leaked audio, Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said then-Secretary of State John Kerry informed him about Israel's covert operations in Syria.

John Kerry served as Barack Obama's Secretary of State from 2013 - 2017 and currently serves as Biden's special climate envoy.

Zarif said he was shocked by John Kerry's revelation that Israel had attacked Iranian targets in Syria over 200 times.

The leaked audio was obtained by The New York Times and other outlets and the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh effectively confirmed the leaked tape's authenticity.

Fox News reported:

The release of the comments by Zarif set off a firestorm within Iran, where officials carefully mind their words amid a cutthroat political environment that includes the powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, ultimately overseen by the country's supreme leader. Zarif has been suggested as a possible candidate for Iran's June 18 presidential election as well.

Outside of Iran, Zarif's comments could also affect talks in Vienna aimed at finding a way for Tehran and the U.S. to both come into compliance with Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. Already, sabotage targeted Iran's nuclear facility at Natanz during the talks as Tehran has begun enriching a small amount of uranium up to 60% purity, which edges the country closer to weapons-grade levels.

Khatibzadeh called the release of the recording "illegal" and described it as "selectively" edited, though he and others did not offer opinions on how it became public. Zarif, visiting Iraq on Monday after a trip to Qatar, took no questions from journalists after giving a brief statement in Baghdad.

John Kerry previously engaged in shadow diplomacy but nothing will ever happen to this treasonous fixture in the Democrat party.

John Kerry secretly met with foreign officials to salvage Iran's nuclear weapons program while Trump was president.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/leaked-audio-john-kerry-told-irans-foreign-minister-israels-covert-operations-syria/

#13517099 at 2021-04-26 16:06:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17119: Calling all Patriots to the #AZAudit Edition

Iran's foreign minister says John Kerry told him about Israeli covert operations in Syria

Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif claimed in leaked audio that then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry informed him of more than 200 Israeli operations in Syria.

Kerry has previously been accused of colluding with Iranian leaders to undermine the Trump administration. Kerry is now a part of the Biden administration and has a seat on the National Security Council as the special presidential envoy for climate.

Kerry shocked Zarif by revealing that Israel had attacked Iranian targets in Syria more than 200 times, according to leaked audio obtained by The New York Times and other outlets.

Zarif also spoke frankly about his limited power compared to Ayatollah Ali Khameini and the blow the U.S. dealt to Iran by killing Gen. Qassem Soleimani in January 2020.

Kerry faced criticism on Monday over Zarif's claim.

"John Kerry was ratting out Israeli covert operations in Syria directly to the Iranian foreign minister. Let that sink in. Wow," Noah Pollak of the foreign policy-focused Democratic Alliance Group wrote on Twitter.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/iran-foreign-minister-john-kerry-Javad-Zarif-israel

#13475102 at 2021-04-21 01:01:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17068: Comfy Reflection and Hope Edition

>>13475089
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/12/world/middleeast/iran-israel-nuclear-site.html
==After Nuclear Site Blackout, Thunder From Iran, and Silence From U.S.=
The Americans and Israelis have worked together in the past to impede Iran's nuclear ambitions, but the U.S. denies that was the case in the latest sabotage.
The last time the centrifuges crashed at Iran's underground nuclear fuel-production center at Natanz, more than a decade ago, the sabotage was the result of a joint Israeli-American cyberattack intended to slow Tehran's progress toward nuclear weapons and force a diplomatic negotiation.
When they crashed again this weekend, the White House asserted that the United States had no involvement.
The operation raised the question of whether Israel was acting on its own to strike Iran and undermine American diplomacy as the Biden administration seeks to reconstitute a nuclear agreement. Or, alternatively, whether Israel was operating in concert with American interests, carrying out dirty work that would weaken Iran's negotiating position in the talks.
The White House was saying almost nothing in public on Monday about the apparent explosion inside Iran's Natanz facility, below more than 20 feet of reinforced concrete, which destroyed the power supply that keeps the centrifuges spinning at supersonic speeds, enriching uranium.
"The U.S. was not involved in any manner," the White House spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, said Monday. "We have nothing to add on speculation about the causes or the impacts."
White House officials did not comment on whether the United States had been given advance notice of the attack.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, who landed in Israel on Sunday, the morning the attack took place, held two press briefings before he left Israel on Monday and never once uttered the word Iran.
White House and State Department officials said they had no idea whether the Iranians would show up in Vienna again on Wednesday, when the talks were scheduled to resume.
In Tehran, lawmakers asked Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to suspend the talks, saying that Iran should not be engaged in negotiations when it is under attack.
"Talks under pressure have no meaning," said Abbas Moghtadaie, the deputy chairman of Parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, said in a Clubhouse talk on Monday. "This was a message we conveyed very clearly today."
The Biden administration is seeking to revive an agreement, scuttled by President Donald J. Trump three years ago, in which Iran accepted limits on its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, opposed the original agreement and has made no secret of his opposition to resurrecting it.
Mr. Zarif, in a statement broadcast by Iranian state television, said that Israel wanted "to take revenge because of our progress in the way to lift sanctions."
"But we will take our revenge on the Zionists," he continued.

#13309806 at 2021-03-27 18:22:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16861: Barack H. Reminder - Obama vigorously defends the filibuster Edition

Iran & China ink 25-year strategic partnership accord as both nations face US pressure

A cooperation deal between Iran and China covering a quarter of a century has been signed in Tehran, furthering Iran's role in the Chinese global infrastructure initiative. Both nations are being targeted by US sanctions.

The landmark document was signed during a televised ceremony by visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif. The document was described by the Iranian side as "a complete roadmap with strategic political and economic clauses covering trade, economic and transportation cooperation."

The Chinese minister hailed Iran's independence of foreign policy, according to Iranian media, saying that it "is not like some countries that change their position with one phone call."

Wang arrived in Iran on Friday for a series of meetings with top Iranian officials, including President Hassan Rouhani and Ali Larijani, the ex-speaker of the parliament and a senior advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The visit marks the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Tehran and Beijing and is part of a larger tour across the Middle East by the top Chinese diplomat.

The Sino-Iranian Comprehensive Strategic Partnership was first announced in January 2016 during a visit to Tehran by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The agreement is touted as securing Iran's participation in China's Belt and Road initiative, which is aimed at diversifying trade routes between China and its key partners through ambitious infrastructure projects in various countries.

The visit coincided with an incident in the Suez Canal, which is currently blocked by a mammoth container ship that ran across it earlier this week. The waterway is a major trade route, so its unavailability for maritime traffic gives weight to the Chinese trade diversification effort.

China is a major trade partner for Iran. Both countries are also targeted by the US, which accuses them of human rights violations and has slapped them with various sanctions. Iran in particular was subjected to crippling economic sanctions under the administration of US President Donald Trump, who opted for a so-called "maximum pressure campaign" against Tehran, threatening other nations in order to stop them from doing business with Iran.

https://www.rt.com/news/519382-iran-china-strategic-agreement/

#13238871 at 2021-03-16 23:02:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16770: Georgia And Michigan Certifications About To Be Overturned? Edition

Zarif Slams US Meddling in Mideast, Calls on Neighbors to Collaborate for Regional Security

The US sanctions on Iran in response to the country's nuclear program have prevented Iranian people from getting access to humanitarian imports, such as essential medicines for ailments like epilepsy and cancer.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday slammed the US' meddling in the Middle East as well as the US sanctions on Iran during a deadly COVID-19 pandemic.

"[The] US economic war against Iran has consequences, including hurdles in fighting the coronavirus pandemic in Iran," Zarif said during the second International Tehran Dialogue Forum, where he was joined with Turkish and Afghan counterparts, Press TV reported.

According to a report by Human Rights Watch, the US sanctions against Iran, coupled with the steep depreciation of the Iranian currency, the rial, have had "devastating effects on millions of patients" who rely on essential medicines and medical equipment from outside Iran.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also denounced the unilateral sanctions against Iran, expressing support for Washington's restoration of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

"We can achieve peace and prosperity together in our region," he noted.

Afghan Foreign Minister Hanif Atmar also warned about security threats in Afghanistan, warning that the country should not become a breeding ground for terrorists.

During his speech, Zarif also accused the US of spending billions of dollars on its military industry to interfere in the Middle East's affairs. He also called for dialogue among regional nations to prevent outside interference by the US, noting that "Iran is ready to hold talks with all its neighbors" over the region's security.

Iran has long advocated that peace be established in the region without any intervention from foreign forces. Iran's Hormuz Peace Endeavor (HOPE) initiative was disclosed by Iran during the 74th United National General Assembly in 2019. The purpose of the plan is to establish security in the Middle East, including in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the Sea of Oman, with the assistance of all countries in the region.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202103161082363099-Zarif-slams-us-meddling-in-mideast-calls-on-neighbors-to-collaborate-for-regional-security/

#13227490 at 2021-03-15 23:46:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16763: Courage Not Censorship Edition

'Move Fast': Zarif Urges US to Return to Nuclear Deal Before Iran's Upcoming Presidential Election

Tensions between Iran and the US have been running high since former US President Donald Trump withdrew Washington from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal on May 8, 2018.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged the United States to quickly rejoin the Iranian nuclear accord, warning that Iran's June presidential elections could prevent progress in any talks.

"A lame-duck government will not be able to do anything serious. And then we will have a waiting period of almost six months. We will not have a government before September," Zarif said during an online conference with the European Policy Centre think-tank in Brussels, The Times of Israel reported.

"A lot of things can happen between now and September. So, it is advisable for the United States to move fast," Zarif advised.

Iran has repeatedly stated that the US, which pulled out of the nuclear deal, must make the first move to make amends and should not set any preconditions.

"We are ready to go back immediately after the United States goes back to implementation of the deal. That's as simple as that," Zarif noted.

"We don't see any reason for talks; we can go immediately to implementation and then have talks," Zarif said, also noting that "up until now, this administration has done nothing different from the Trump administration."

In February, the Biden administration expressed interest in reviving the nuclear deal, but said it wanted to see changes from Tehran before it lifts the economic sanctions imposed on the Middle Eastern country by the Trump administration. However, Iran has said that it wants sanctions removed as part of the agreement to come to the negotiating table.

In a briefing last month, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said the US and Iran are a "long way" from a return to the 2015 nuclear deal, The Washington Post reported at the time.

Price also added that Biden has been "very clear" that "if Iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the [deal], the United States would do the same, and then we would then use that as a platform to build a longer and a stronger agreement that also addresses other areas of concern."

In 2018, the US abandoned its conciliatory stance on Iran, withdrawing from the JCPOA and implementing hard-line policies against Tehran, prompting Iran to largely abandon its obligations under the accord. In December, Iran passed a law to increase its uranium enrichment and stop UN inspections of its nuclear sites in response to the killing of nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. At the start of January, Iran's atomic energy organization announced that the country had succeeded in enriching uranium at 20 percent at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant.

Iran had also threatened to suspend all Internation Atomic Energy Agency's inspections of the country's nuclear facilities by February 23 if the US sanctions were not lifted by that time. However, after talks with the international watchdog, Tehran agreed to prolong the inspections but in a limited capacity.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202103151082351560-move-fast-Zarif-urges-us-to-return-to-nuclear-deal-before-irans-upcoming-presidential-election/

#13038218 at 2021-02-24 14:51:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16605: The Absolute State Of AMERICA Right Now... Edition

I know this and you know this, moar people need to know this…the great awakening.

REPORT: Former Obama Staff Colluded With Iran to Undermine Trump

Former Obama administration officials, including former Secretary of State John Kerry, went behind President Donald Trump's back in backchannels with Iran, sources told The Washington Times. Some of the architects of the Iran nuclear deal met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after Trump withdrew from the deal.
A slew of former Obama officials, including Kerry, Obama's Middle East advisor Robert Malley, and Obama-era Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, met with Zarif during the Trump years. Kerry, Malley, and Moniz led negotiations in the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in which the U.S. provided sanctions relief and access to tens of billions of dollars in frozen bank accounts in exchange for Iran's promises to limit nuclear enrichment.

Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal in 2018, citing the need for a tougher agreement that also addressed Iran's support for terrorist groups and its destabilizing behavior in the Middle East. Yet a former senior U.S. official told The Washington Times that Zarif met with Democrats like Kerry multiple times in 2017, 2018, and 2019, before the Trump administration halted his visa in 2020.

The former official told the Times that Zarif's meetings aimed "to devise a political strategy to undermine the Trump administration" and to build support for a new version of the Iran deal in case a Democrat returned to the White House in 2021.
Kerry acknowledged meeting with Zarif at least twice in the early years of the Trump administration. He told radio host Hugh Hewitt that there was nothing secret about his meetings with the Iranian minister. Kerry said he intended to find out "what Iran might be willing to do in order to change the dynamic in the Middle East for the better."
The Associated Press reported that Moniz met with Zarif in 2018 and that Iran deal negotiator Wendy Sherman met with the Iranian foreign minister on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, also in 2018. President Joe Biden nominated Sherman to serve as deputy secretary of state.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/02/23/report-former-obama-staff-colluded-with-iran-to-undermine-trump-n1427758

#13034791 at 2021-02-24 01:06:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16601: Oh Ye Of Little Faith, Merely The Battle Is Won Edition

This report about Obama and John Kerry colluding with Iran during DJT's term is why there was a Tiger Williams hit today.

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/21/john-kerry-held-backchannel-talks-iran-Javad-Zarif/

>President Trump in 2019 sought to open a back channel of communication with top Iranian officials and saw the U.N. General Assembly meeting in September as a potential opportunity to defuse escalating tension with Tehran, but the effort failed.

>Two months earlier, however, a different back channel was thriving in New York. Iran's smooth, English-speaking foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, met with Robert Malley, who was President Obama's Middle East adviser, in an apparent bid to undermine the Trump team and lay the groundwork for post-Trump relations.

#13028556 at 2021-02-23 04:55:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16593: Justice Thomas Issues Grave Warning Over State Of US Elections Edition

Obama Officials Reportedly Negotiated With Iran During Trump Term to Spoil Latter's Diplomacy

The administration of former US President Donald Trump depicted a hard-line approach toward Iran, elevating tensions with the Islamic republic to unprecedented levels. In 2018, Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), quickly introducing a severe sanction regime on Iran's banking and oil sales.

Former Obama officials held face-to-face meetings with the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in the middle of worsening US-Iranian relations under the Trump administration to "undermine" the latter's team, The Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing an unnamed former senior US official.

According to the newspaper, the alternative diplomatic channel also served to lay the foundation for a future US administration that made clear its intention to rehabilitate relations with Iran and revive the JCPOA nuclear agreement.

President Obama's Middle East adviser, Robert Malley, along with former Secretary of State John Kerry and former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz reportedly met with Zarif in 2017, 2018 and 2019. All of the US representatives were key US negotiators of the JCPOA.

The report suggested that these ties with "influential liberals" allowed Iran to expect an improvement in US-Iranian relations, bypassing Trump officials and hoping that Democrats would soon return in the White House.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202102231082156850-obama-officials-reportedly-negotiated-with-iran-during-trump-term-to-spoil-latters-diplomacy/

#12995305 at 2021-02-19 04:26:56 (UTC+1)
QRG #16553: Hope this Still Works Edition

Blinken Tells Europeans Biden Ready to Negotiate With Tehran

The United States is ready to begin negotiating with Iran in an attempt to reestablish the 2015 nuclear deal or something like it, Secretary of State Antony Blinken relayed to counterparts Thursday in a video conference call with (E3) - France, Germany, and the U.K.

According to a report by Axios, the U.S. and the E3 stressed that Iran must return to full compliance with commitments under the nuclear deal. Blinken reiterated that if Iran resumes strict compliance with its obligations, the U.S. will do the same, though the U.S. commitments were unspecified.

The allies also asked Iran to halt implementation of the "additional protocol" of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty starting February 23, which would reduce Iran's cooperation with U.N. inspectors, suspending their permission to conduct unannounced visits to Iran's nuclear sites.

Concern was also expressed at Iran's increased production of 20 percent enriched uranium and uranium metal, both violations under the 2015 deal.

In response to the U.S. and E3, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif suggested, "Instead of putting onus on Iran, they must abide by own commitments and demand an end to Trump's legacy of economic terrorism against Iran."

More revealing is the Biden administration's concurrence with European leaders to hold more negotiations on the Iran problem with Russia and China's foreign ministers, according to the conference call.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2021/02/18/iran-deal-part-two-blinken-tells-europeans-biden-ready-negotiate-tehran/

#12876614 at 2021-02-10 04:10:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16436: The 'Correctly Numbered Bread (#16436)' Edition

Canada reportedly reviewing #Iran official recording on flight PS752 being intentionally hit

TORONTO (Sputnik) - Canadian officials are reviewing a secret audio allegedly of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif discussing the possibility that Ukrainian…

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1359351387075837956

#12823965 at 2021-02-04 22:11:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16369: Return Of The Anons Edition

Macron Offers to Be 'Honest Broker' in US-Iran Talks, But Pushes JCPOA Expansion Tehran Rejected

A US State Department spokesperson on Tuesday dispelled rumors that US President Joe Biden's transition team has been engaged in backroom talks on the US returning to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), saying it was "a long way" from considering Iran's proposal to revive the deal.

French President Emmanuel Macron has once again offered his help in patching up relations between Iran and the United States, suggesting he could be an "honest broker" in talks over returning to the 2015 nuclear deal. However, he also said he wants to expand the deal to include the strongly anti-Iranian countries of Israel and Saudi Arabia.

"I will do whatever I can to support any initiative from the US side to re-engage demanding dialogue and I will be here … to try to be an honest broker and a committed broker in this dialogue," Macron said during an online forum at the Atlantic Council think tank on Thursday.

The French president said he believed Iran was "much closer to a nuclear bomb now than they were before" the JCPOA, and that "this is the right timing" to negotiate a wider deal that would include Iran's formidable ballistic missile program as well as other regional partners.

"We have to find a way to involve in this discussion Saudi Arabia and Israel, because they are some of the key partners of the region directly interested by the outcomes with our other friends of the region," Macron added. "It is impossible to fix the situation without being sure that all of these countries are comfortable with this new agenda."

Iran's Position Made Clear

However, Tehran has already spoken out against either revising or expanding the 8-nation JCPOA.

"The JCPOA is a multilateral international agreement that has been endorsed and stabilized by United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231. It is by no means renegotiable, and its parties are also definite and unchangeable," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh said last week.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif noted last week that a mechanism for such an "honest broker" already exists in the JCPOA: EU High Representative Josep Borrell, who is the coordinator of the joint commission that monitors the deal.

Moreover, Macron's proposed expansion of the deal follows the path previously laid out by the Biden administration, and he has previously said Iran must be the first to return to the confines of the deal, making it unlikely Tehran will believe Macron's claim to be an "honest broker."

Iran, the US, the UK, France, Germany, Russia, China, and the European Union signed the agreement in July 2015, providing for the removal of economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for ending its nuclear weapons program and agreeing to strict limits on the quality and quantity of refined uranium it could produce. However, in 2018, then-US President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that Iran was violating the deal and unilaterally pulled the US out of it, reimposing damaging "maximum pressure" economic sanctions.

https://sputniknews.com/world/202102041081982118-macron-offers-to-be-honest-broker-in-us-iran-talks-but-pushes-jcpoa-expansion-tehran-rejected/

#12815023 at 2021-02-04 01:37:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16358: Parler CEO Job Vacancy apply at Evil Inc Amazon Edition

Iran's Foreign Minister Applauds Iraq's Arrest Warrant for Trump Over Soleimani Killing

Tensions between the US and Iran has been high since the US assassinated top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) Quds Force, in Iraq on January 3, 2020.

In a recent statement, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif commended an Iraqi court's decision to order the arrest of former US president Donald Trump for the assassination of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi leader and commander of the Popular Mobilization Committee, who was also assassinated on January 3, 2020, by the US.

"Putting an end to the presence of US forces in the region would be the best response to this terrorist act," Zarif is quoted as saying during a Wednesday meeting with Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs Fuad Hussein in Tehran, PressTV reported.

Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), also applauded the arrest order issued by the Iraqi court for Trump on Wednesday.

"We must not allow the blood of the martyrs Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani to go in vain, and organizers as well as perpetrators of this terrorist crime must be prosecuted and severely punished," Ali Shamkhani said in a meeting with the Iraqi foreign minister in Tehran.

The arrest warrant against Trump was issued by a judge in Baghdad's investigative court on January 7, AP News reported at the time.

Under the Iraqi penal code, those who commit premeditated murder may face the death penalty.

According to the Supreme Judicial Council, the decision to issue the warrant was made "after the judge recorded the statements of the claimants from the family of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis," AP reported.

Relations between Israel and Iran have also been particularly poor after top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed, reportedly by a remote-controlled machine gun, east of Tehran on November 27, 2020.

According to Iran's Supreme National Security Agency, Israeli spy agency Mossad and the People's Mujahedin Organization, an Iranian political-militant organization, were involved in Fakhrizadeh's killing. Israel, however, has not claimed responsibility for Fakhrizadeh's death.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202102031081973701-irans-foreign-minister-applauds-iraqs-arrest-warrant-for-trump-over-soleimani-killing/

#12793253 at 2021-02-01 23:22:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16330: Deep State Entrenched In Myanmar Coup? Edition

Zarif Suggests EU High Representative Borrell 'Choreograph' US-Iran Joint Return to JCPOA

Earlier on Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed Iran would be just "a matter of weeks" away from building an atomic bomb if it further strayed from its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal. However, Tehran has dismissed the claims, saying it is sworn against producing such a weapon.

During an interview aired by CNN on Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif noted that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) contains a solution to the impasse between Tehran and Washington about the latter rejoining the deal and the former returning to its confines.

CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour asked Zarif how he thought the US and Iran could escape the "Mexican standoff" situation as each nation urges the other to return to the deal first.

"There can be a mechanism to basically either synchronize it or coordinate what can be done," Zarif said.

"As you know, JCPOA has a mechanism built into the deal: that is the joint commission. And the joint commission has a coordinator. The coordinator has two hats - it used to be Federica Mogherini, now it is [European Union High Representative] Josep Borrell - he has two hats. One hat is representative of the European Union for foreign defense policy; the other hat is the coordinator of the joint commission. He can put [on] his hat as the coordinator of the joint commission and sort of choreograph the actions that are needed to be taken by the United States and the actions that are needed to be taken by Iran," Zarif said.

https://sputniknews.com/world/202102011081950844-Zarif-suggests-eu-high-representative-borrell-choreograph-us-iran-joint-return-to-jcpoa/

#12716772 at 2021-01-26 06:35:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16234:

>>12716722
Why would I lie.

I could make it any number.

I wrote the Hosts file post.

I also did this

#10355158 at 2020-08-20 09:16:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13251: FIFTH COLUMN Q Edition

…..and frogs to destroy them. 1 of 2

The following post has been updated, it will destroy the deep state.

Back channels are important.

Remember this, John Kerry's Daughter Married Son Of Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif. (12)

"In late 2015, early 2016, spying began on the Trump campaign," Nunes said

June 16, 2015 Trump formally announced his candidacy.

October ?, 2015 New Zealand Prime Minister, John key, [[[JK]]], authorizes gcsb to spy on Trump. Warrant is valid for one year. Q3215, Q3595.

March 14, 2016 The US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, is in New Zealand for talks with the Government and spy chiefs. (1)(1a) Q1164

March 14, 2016 Prime Minister John Key has held talks with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

WTF, Key, Clapper and Zarif have a secret meeting in NZ? (13)(Non_FVEY official chan Q3595)

"Mr Clapper's plane is sitting on the military side of the Wellington airport tarmac. Across the other side is the Airbus 340 used to fly the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif on a visit to New Zealand."

November 8, 2016 Donald Trump is elected President of the United States of America.

December 12, 2016 John key suddenly resigns as Prime Minister of New Zealand ("Physical landscape +/- "). He's being blackmailed by (((THEM))), and forced to renew gcsb warrant on Trump. Seeing no way out, he resigns. Q2929

January 20, 2017 Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States on January 20, 2017

January 26, 2017 Former NZ Prime Minister, Helen Clark announced that she would not seek re-election as UNDP Administrator after the completion of her four-year term. (2)

April 19, 2017 Clark left UNDP, and flies to NZ to be part of the following. (2a)

April 23, 2017 Five Eyes spying network holds highly secretive meeting in Queenstown NZ. FBI director James Comey (Q3674; DOJ Gulfstream G550) and CIA director Mike Pompeo both attend. This was the meeting that the scheme to spy on Trump was hatched. (3)(4)

Helen Clark (((Soros))) rigs the 2017 election in favour of her prot?g? Jacinda Ardern (5), they will get her to sign the gcsb warrant. Remember, they are convinced that Mueller will indict Trump.

October 26, 2017, Ardern does indeed become Prime Minister of NZ. "Special votes" (((Soros/Clark))) sway the result in her favour (6). Shortly thereafter she foolishly authorises gcsb to spy on Trump. Evidently she is too young and stupid to know that she's the fall guy.

March 21, 2018 Barack Obama arrives in New Zealand for the first time. (7) Obviously he is here for gcsb intel. Perhaps to blackmail Key. Oddly, he is entertained by Sam Neill, NZ actor (Jurassic Park). Maybe they have something in common?

May 7, 2018 Hillary Clinton visit's New Zealand in May. Obviously she is here for gcsb intel! Perhaps she tries to persuade Adern to renew the warrant when it expires in October/November. (8) Q1320 Q1336

Fast foward:

July 24, 2019 Robert Mueller Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee. As we know it's a flop, and POTUS won't be indicted, as (((Adern/Clark/Soros))) hoped. By now they realise that they're going to be the special guests at a stool kickin' party at Gitmo, and they seek a way out.

August 15, 2019 PM Jacinda Ardern announces $150m Pacific climate funding to help mitigate climate change in the pacific. (9) Details of who gets what are extremely sketchy, but it seems that the nation that gets the most of this "Climate Change" bribe money DOES NOT HAVE an extradition treaty with the United States. (10) Well ain't that interdasting?

#12312439 at 2021-01-04 19:07:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15717: We Will Have Our Day In Congress Edition

Agreement reached in Gulf dispute with Qatar says Kushner

A breakthrough has been reached in Qatar's three-year-old with Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries and an agreement to end their rift is to be signed in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, a senior Trump administration official said.

"We've had a breakthrough in the Gulf Cooperation Council rift," said the official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity.

The development is the latest in a series of Middle East deals sought by Washington - the others involving Israel and Arab states - aimed at building a united front against Iran. All of the countries involved in the deals are US allies.

The Arab rift with #Qatar intensifies - Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]

The Arab rift with Qatar intensifies - Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, assigned to work on the dispute by US President Donald Trump, helped negotiate the deal and was working the phones on it until the wee hours of Monday morning, the official said. When in December, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said a resolution to the dispute seemed within reach, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a Twitter post said he hoped Gulf reconciliation "contributes to the stability and political and economic development for all peoples of our region."

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt have imposed a diplomatic, trade, and travel embargo on Qatar since mid-2017 accusing it of supporting terrorism. Qatar denies it and says the embargo aims to undermine its sovereignty.

Kushner, joined by Middle East envoy Avi Berkowitz and Brian Hook, a special State Department adviser, were flying to the Saudi Arabian city of al-Ula to attend the ceremony, the official said.

Gulf Arab leaders are expected to gather in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for an annual summit that is expected to announce a deal towards ending the rift.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210104-breaking-agreement-reached-in-gulf-dispute-with-qatar-says-kushner/

#12283306 at 2021-01-02 18:10:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15681: They Knew They Would Stop At Nothing To Stop Us From Winning Edition

'Beware of trap': Iranian FM warns Trump 'Israeli agents' are preparing 'attacks' on US forces in Iraq to spark war against Tehran

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused Israel of plotting false flag attacks on Americans in Iraq in a bid to frame Iran and prompt Washington start an all-out war with Tehran.

Zarif on Saturday tagged Donald Trump on Twitter - the US president's social media of choice - as he repeated the claim of a false flag plot.

New intelligence from Iraq indicate that Israeli agent-provocateurs are plotting attacks against Americans - putting an outgoing Trump in a bind with a fake casus belli.

The foreign minister then warned Trump against falling for the alleged Israeli plot. He said that any hostilities against Tehran will backfire not only for Washington but also for its chief ally in the Middle East.

"Be careful of a trap, [President Trump]. Any fireworks will backfire badly, particularly against your same BFFs," Zarif wrote.

Iran's top diplomat first brought up the topic of an allegedly impending false flag attack earlier this week.

On Thursday, he revealed Tehran had received a tip about such a plan brewing from Iraqi intelligence. While Zarif did not name a culprit behind the alleged plot, the tone of his message suggested that the US itself was actively seeking a pretext for war with Iran. He scolded Trump for flying B-52s and sending "armadas" to the Gulf region "instead of fighting Covid in [the] US."

The already hostile relations between Tehran and Washington have reached a boiling point recently due to the upcoming anniversary of the US assassination of Qassem Soleimani. The late Iranian general and leader of the elite Quds force within the country's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was killed in a drone strike outside Baghdad, Iraq on January 3 last year.

While Iran retaliated shortly after the attack by striking several military installations housing US troops in Iraq, it has repeatedly pledged to extract further revenge on the Americans. Late in December, shortly after a rocket attack on the US embassy in Baghdad, Trump vowed to hold Iran responsible for the potential death of any American in Iraq.

Iran's top officials openly cheered Trump's election defeat in November, with President Hassan Rouhani stating his US counterpart was just days apart from going into the "dustbin of history."

https://www.rt.com/news/511376-israel-iraq-attack-Zarif-trump/

#12281654 at 2021-01-02 15:03:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15679: Globalists Make Traps For Fools, Catch Each Other Edition

Rouhani Warns Trump Will Be Dead in 'Days' as Iran-US Relations Erode
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/rouhani-trump-soleimani-dead/2021/01/01/id/1003940/

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared that President Donald Trump will be dead in a few days during a speech to his Islamic nation's cabinet as the first anniversary of the killing of a general in the country's military approached.

Rouhani's Wednesday speech, excerpts of which were posted in English on the Iranian presidential website, called Qasem Soleimani a martyr and moderate leader with tact.

Soleimani, the leader of Iran's Quds Force - described by military specialists as an unconventional war and clandestine operations unit - was killed in a targeted drone strike on Jan. 3, 2020, that was approved by Trump.

The U.S. Department of Defense blamed Soleimani for hundreds of deaths and injuries to Americans; he was purportedly killed while in neighboring Iraq while actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.

Besides Trump, Rouhani referred to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as the main perpetrators of this crime.

"One of the effects of this stupid and disgraceful act was that Trumpism ended and in a few days, the life of this criminal will end and he will go to the dustbin of history, and we are very happy about this and we believe that the period after Trump will be a better condition for regional and global stability," Rouhani said.

The remarks come as tensions have intensified approaching the anniversary of Soleimani's death; his successor has vowed vengeance, and the U.S. has flown B-52s over the region in an act of deterrence.

Among other signs of escalation:

Iran has told the United Nations nuclear watchdog it plans to enrich uranium to 20% purity, a level it achieved before a 2015 nuclear accord, at its Fordow site buried inside a mountain, the agency said on Friday. The move is the latest of several recent announcements Iran has delivered to the International Atomic Energy Agency pointing to plans to breach the deal, which it started violating in 2019 in retaliation for the Trump administration's withdrawal from the agreement and reimposition of sanctions.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday accused Trump of attempting to fabricate a pretext to attack Iran, and said Tehran would defend itself forcefully. The bomber flights appeared to have been a trigger for his tough remarks.
The Pentagon announced on Thursday that the Nimitz aircraft carrier, which was off the coast of Somalia, would be heading back to its home port. It has previously operated in the Middle East. The move was seen by some U.S. officials as an attempt to reduce tensions in the region.
Washington has also been blaming Iran-backed militia for regular rocket attacks on U.S. facilities in Iraq, including near the embassy. No known Iran-backed groups have claimed responsibility.
Meanwhile, Iran is continuing preparations for events marking the anniversary of Soleimani's killing this Sunday.

#12255368 at 2020-12-31 20:44:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15646: The Mother Of All Protests January 6th In Washington DC Edition

Zarif Says Iran Has Intelligence on US Plot to Fabricate Pretext for War

Last week, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleged that "Iran-backed militias" were responsible for a recent attack on the Baghdad Green Zone, which houses the US Embassy complex. The Islamic Republic and its allies vocally denied the claims, with Tehran suggesting the timing of the attack was "very suspicious."

Iran "will openly and directly defend its people, security and vital interests" amid the US military buildup near its borders, and has received intelligence from Iraq of a "plot to fabricate [a] pretext for war," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has announced.

"Instead of fighting Covid in [the] US, @realDonaldTrump and cohorts waste billions to fly B-52s and send armadas to our region," the Iranian top diplomat wrote.

Zarif did not provide any further details about the evidence Iran had received. He previously taunted US President Donald Trump for posting a photo of unidentified rockets the US claimed pointed to Iran's responsibility for the 20 December rocket attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad, suggesting Trump was using "a worthless photo to recklessly accuse Iran," and recalling the "last time" the US "ruined" the Middle East by invading Iraq on a false pretext.

The 107mm shells posted by Trump bore English-language markings, leading to speculation about their actual origins. China manufactures a 107mm multiple rocket launcher known as the Type 63, with that system exported to dozens of countries around the world over many decades. In Iraq, it has been used by the Iraqi military, Iraqi Kurdistan forces, the Baghdad-allied Popular Mobilization Forces, and Daesh (ISIS)*. The US military is also known to have captured stocks of the weapon following the 2003 invasion of the country.
Spike in Tensions

On Wednesday, USCENTCOM, the command of the Pentagon responsible for US operations in the Middle East, announced the deployment of Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bombers to the region to "underscore the US military's commitment to regional security." The deployment follows the sailing of a US guided missile submarine with as many as 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles onboard through the Hormuz Strait into the Persian Gulf a day after the Baghdad Embassy attack. Israel sent its own missile-armed sub through the Suez Canal as a "message" to Tehran a day later. Iranian officials dismissed the provocations as a "show of defiance and fear."

https://twitter.com/JZarif/status/1344619249214627842

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202012311081620324-Zarif-says-iran-has-intelligence-on-us-plot-to-fabricate-pretext-for-war/

#11895198 at 2020-12-04 01:29:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15184: Everything Is On The Table Edition

Nuclear deal won't be renegotiated, US must respect UN Resolution endorsing accord, Zarif tells Rome forum

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reasserts Iran's position that its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers is not open to renegotiation and that the US has to observe the agreement and the UN resolution that endorses it.

The deal "will never be renegotiated, period," Zarif said on Thursday, addressing the 6th edition of the Rome Mediterranean Dialogues 2020.

Officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the deal was made between the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 group of countries - the US, the UK, France, Russia, and China plus Germany - in Vienna in 2015. It put some restrictions on Iran's nuclear energy program in exchange for sanction relief.

The United States, though, left the deal in 2018 under President Donald Trump, returned the sanctions, and threatened those who would not abide by the economic measures with "secondary sanctions."

US' 'rogue' conduct

In committing the breaches against the historic deal, the Trump administration acted as a "rogue regime," Zarif regretted.

He advised that the US end its "grave breach" of the JCPOA and UN Security Council Resolution 2231 that has endorsed the nuclear deal, because Washington "has walked out of the nuclear agreement, but did not walk out of the United Nations."

"It (the United States) has obligations, responsibilities as a UN member, as a Security Council member. And there's a Security Council Resolution 2231, which the US must observe," the senior diplomat noted.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/12/03/639926/Iran-nuclear-deal-United-States-Trump-Yemen-West-Middle-East-Persian-Gulf-Zarif-Rome-forum

#11863620 at 2020-12-02 00:59:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15143: It's Illegal to Transport Ballots Across State Lines Edition

Saudi Arabia blasts Iran for accusation it played part in killing of nuke chief

After Iranian foreign minister alleges 'conspiracy' between Riyadh and Jerusalem, Saudi minister says Tehran is 'desperate to blame the kingdom for anything negative'

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A senior Saudi minister on Tuesday lashed out at Iran's foreign minister for implying Riyadh played a role in the assassination of leading nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Fakhrizadeh, considered the architect of Iran's nuclear weapons program, was killed on Friday after his car was targeted in a bomb and gun attack on a road outside the capital Tehran, heightening tensions between Iran and its foes.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday said on Instagram that a covert meeting in Saudi Arabia between Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contributed to the assassination, alleging it was a "conspiracy."

"Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif is desperate to blame the kingdom for anything negative that happens in Iran," Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi minister of state for foreign affairs, wrote on Twitter. "Will he blame us for the next earthquake or flood?"

"It is not the policy of Saudi Arabia to engage in assassinations," he added.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/saudi-arabia-blasts-iran-for-accusation-it-played-part-in-killing-of-nuke-chief/

KEK Israel trying to get Saudi Arabia to fight Iran for them!

#11845094 at 2020-11-30 21:01:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15119: Dig Meme Pray or Get Out of the Way Edition

Policy Of Terror: Assassinations Of Nuclear Scientists In Iran

The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is not a one-time event, but it is a part of a string of such attacks on Iran's nuclear scientific program.

This is a result of frequent accusations by Israel, and more recently, by the Trump Administration in the US that Tehran plans to develop a nuclear weapon, rather than what it claims is simply a civilian endeavor to provide cheaper, cleaner energy.

On November 27th, Iran's chief nuclear scientist - Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was shot, and killed east of Tehran.

Iranian officials blame Israel, and it is little doubt who's responsible for the killing.

Iranian Supreme Leader Khameini said the following:

"Mr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed by the oppressive enemies. This rare scientific mind lost his life for his everlasting great scientific work. He lost his life for God and the supreme leader."

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the international community "to end their shameful double standards" and "condemn this act of state terror." He added that the attack showed "serious indications of Israeli role."

Maj. Gen. Hossein Dehghan, Khamenei's military adviser, tweeted Saturday that "Zionists" are seeking to create "all-out war" and vowed to "descend like lightning" on Fakhrizadeh's killers.

President Hassan Rouhani, also among the many Iranian leaders blaming Israel, promised retaliation as well, saying during a cabinet meeting on November 28th:

"The think tanks and the enemies of Iran must know that the Iranian nation and the officials in charge in the country are brave and determined to respond to the murder in time."

The official version is that Fakhrizadeh was traveling with his wife on November 27th in a bulletproof car, alongside three security personnel vehicles, when he heard what sounded like bullets hitting a vehicle, and he exited the car to determine what had happened.

When he exited the vehicle, a remote-controlled machine gun opened fire from a Nissan stopped about 150 meters from Fakhrizadeh's car, Fars News said.

Fakhrizadeh was hit at least three times, according to Fars News. His bodyguard was also shot. Following the gunfire, the Nissan exploded, Fars News reported, adding the attack lasted three minutes.

Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami also said that Fakhrizadeh's car was hit by gunfire, followed by an explosion and more gunfire.

"Based on reports received from members of his security detail, Mr. Fakhrizadeh's vehicle was initially targeted by gunfire, after which a Nissan vehicle laden with explosives was set off in close proximity to them as gunfire, targeting their vehicle, was continuing," Hatami said, according to ISNA.

Seyed Kamal Kharrazi, the head of Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, compared the assassination to the killing of Qasem Soleimani, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

"Undoubtedly, the Islamic Republic of Iran will give a calculated and decisive answer to the criminals who took Martyr Fakhrizadeh," Kharrazi was quoted as saying.

The wider international community and Western media is largely keeping silent and not condemning the killing at all, despite Israel having a lengthy list of assassinating Iranian officials, experts and scientists inside Iran itself.

The death of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, as such, is not an isolated incident.

Compared to the outcry when, for example, Alexei Navalny fell ill and was alleged poisoned. Nobody, actually, died and there was no evidence, and the outcry in the West was massive.

It should be mentioned that newly-elected US President Joe Biden vowed to revive the Iran Nuclear deal which US President Donald Trump unilaterally left in 2018.

https://southfront.org/policy-of-terror-assassinations-of-nuclear-scientists-in-iran/

#11830595 at 2020-11-29 18:54:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15100: Doug Collins is MIA Edition

CABAL wants WAR

Israel Should be Thanked For Iranian Scientist Assassination, Anonymous Israeli Official Tells NYT

Iran's senior nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed on 27 November in a shooting and bombing attack in the town of Absard. No country has claimed responsibility for his killing, but high-ranking Iranian officials have blamed the assault on Israel.

An anonymous Israeli official, who has allegedly been involved in tracking Mohsen Fakhrizadeh for years, has told the New York Times that the world should thank Israel for the assassination of the scientist, described by Tel Aviv as the head of Iran's purported nuclear weapons programme.

Fakhrizadeh, who was a Physics professor at Imam Hussein University and a top researcher at Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, posed a considerable "menace" to the international community, according to the anonymous insider, noting that Israel would continue "to act against the Iranian nuclear programme as necessary", the newspaper reported.

The scientist was assassinated on Friday in a town east of Tehran. According to reports, a barrage of gunfire - during which Fakhrizadeh was fatally wounded - was preceded by a nearby truck exploding.

Though Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described it as an act of "cowardice - with serious indications of Israeli involvement". Furthermore, Iran's President, Hassan Rouhani, pinned the blame for the scientist's death on Tel Aviv.

Terrorists murdered an eminent Iranian scientist today. This cowardice - with serious indications of Israeli role - shows desperate warmongering of perpetrators

Iran calls on int'l community - especially the EU - to end their shameful double standards & condemn this act of state terror.
- Javad Zarif (@JZarif) November 27, 2020

Fire and Bombing Attack

On Friday, Fakhrizadeh was ambushed on a rural road in Absard, when a truck loaded with explosives detonated next to his vehicle. The professor was then reportedly attacked by several gunmen who emerged from a nearby car. Several of Fakhrizadeh's bodyguards were killed as they exchanged fire with the attackers.

The professor had also been wounded and died in hospital shortly afterwards. According to Iranian sources, several of the attackers were also killed, and some of them managed to escape.

According to a report by The Times of Israel, citing anonymous western intelligence source, Fakhrizadeh's killing was the "pinnacle" of Tel Aviv's long-term plan to prevent Iran from producing nuclear weapons.

In spite of Israel's claims, Tehran has repeatedly denied that it has been engaged in atomic weapons construction or had any intention of doing so. The International Atomic Energy Agency has also found no evidence of efforts to build nuclear bombs in the country since 2003.

Fakhrizadeh's killing was described by major Middle Eastern powers as a "terrorist" act, with Iran vowing to avenge his death.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202011291081310835-israel-should-be-thanked-for-iranian-scientist-assassination-anonymous-israeli-official-tells-nyt/

#11819911 at 2020-11-28 18:44:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15087: EBake Edition

Ex-CIA Chief In Twitter Feud With Ted Cruz Over Killing of Iranian Nuclear Scientist

On Friday, a senior Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated in a gun and bomb attack about 175km east of Tehran. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blamed Israel for the attack. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to hold the perpetrators accountable.

Republican Senator for Texas, Ted Cruz, and former Central Intelligence Agency chief from the Obama era, John Brennan, have become embroiled in a war on Twitter over the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi, with the debate starting after Brennan called the killing a "highly reckless" and "criminal act".

"It's bizarre to see a former head of the CIA consistently side with Iranian zealots who chant 'Death to America'. And reflexively condemn Israel," Cruz, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, tweeted, asking whether Joe Biden agreed with Brennan's assessment.

Brennan responded a few hours later, accusing Cruz of "mischaracterizing" his comment.

"Your lawless attitude and simple-minded approach to serious national security matters demonstrate that you are unworthy to represent the good people of Texas," the former spymaster wrote.

After that, Cruz retweeted a tweet by his adviser Omri Ceren, who suggested that the media should be asking if the former CIA director's tweet "constitutes a Logan Act violation...according to the standards articulated over the last four years by John Brennan."

The Cruz-Brennan to-and-fro isn't the first time the men have clashed: Cruz tried to block Brennan's nomination to the post of head of the CIA in 2013, and, since Trump's election in 2016, has attacked the top spy for his "unhinged" claims that Trump's contacts with Russia constituted "treason."

Brennan was embroiled in a scandal last month after the Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe released hand-written notes by the former CIA director related to Hillary Clinton's alleged July 2016 "plan" to cook up a story falsely tying Trump to the Kremlin and alleged "Russian hackers" to distract from the controversy surrounding her private email server. Earlier this month, Brennan called on Vice-President Mike Pence and other members of Trump's cabinet to carry out a palace coup against the President to stop further declassifications that might "threaten our national security interests".

https://sputniknews.com/viral/202011281081304824-ex-cia-chief-in-twitter-feud-with-ted-cruz-over-killing-of-iranian-nuclear-scientist/

#11548710 at 2020-11-09 00:25:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14746: Air Assault! Ready For The Work Week? Edition

Iran's Zarif calls on neighbours to cooperate following Trump's defeat

CAIRO (Reuters) - Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on his country's neighbours to cooperate in achieving common interests, following U.S President Donald Trump's defeat in the presidential election.

"Trump is gone, and we and our neighbours will stay. Betting on foreigners does not bring security, and disappoints.We extend our hands to our neighbours to cooperate in achieving the common interests of our peoples and countries. We call on everyone to embrace dialogue as the only way to end differences and tensions. Together to build a better future for our region," Zarif Tweeted in Arabic late on Sunday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-iran-Zarif-idUSKBN27O0T6

#11198085 at 2020-10-21 23:24:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research Generall #14312: Trust In Yourselves, the Swamp runs Deep Edition

Noose is tightening
from October 8th

U.S. imposes new Iran sanctions that may spook European banks
By Daphne Psaledakis, Arshad Mohammed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday slapped fresh sanctions on Iran's financial sector, targeting 18 banks in an effort to further choke off Iranian revenues as Washington ramps up pressure on Tehran weeks ahead of the U.S. election.

The move freezes any U.S. assets of those blacklisted and generally bars Americans from dealing with them, while extending secondary sanctions to those who do business with them. This means foreign banks risk losing access to the U.S. market and financial system.

The Treasury Department said in a statement the prohibitions did not apply to transactions to sell agricultural commodities, food, medicine or medical devices to Iran, saying it understood the need for humanitarian goods.

However, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused the United States of targeting Iran's ability to pay for basic necessities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"U.S. regime wants to blow up our remaining channels to pay for food & medicine," Zarif said on Twitter. "Conspiring to starve a population is a crime against humanity."

Iranian Central Bank governor Abdolnaser Hemmati dismissed the sanctions as political propaganda and played down their practical impact.

"Rather than having any economic effect, the American move is for U.S. domestic propaganda and political purposes, and shows the falsity of the human rights and humanitarian claims of U.S. leaders," Hemmati said in a statement.

Analysts said the secondary sanctions may further deter European and other foreign banks from working with Iran, even for permitted humanitarian transactions.

"It's like a punch in the face to the Europeans, who have gone out of their way to indicate to the Americans that they view it as being extremely threatening to humanitarian assistance or humanitarian trade going to Iran," said Elizabeth Rosenberg of the Center for a New American Security think tank.

"They also want … to make it very difficult for any future president to be able to unwind these measures and engage in nuclear diplomacy," Rosenberg added, alluding to the possibility that Democratic candidate Joe Biden could defeat Republican President Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 U.S. election.

Biden, who was vice president when the Obama administration negotiated the nuclear accord, has said he would rejoin the deal if Iran first resumed compliance with it.

Tensions between Washington and Tehran have soared since Trump unilaterally withdrew in 2018 from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal struck by his predecessor and began re-imposing U.S. sanctions that had been eased under the accord.

The sanctions Trump has reinstated target everything from oil sales to shipping and financial activities. While they exempt food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies, many foreign banks are already deterred from doing business with the Islamic Republic - including for humanitarian deals.

Washington's latest move targeted what the Treasury described as 18 major Iranian banks, which were designated under authorities including U.S. Executive Order 13902, which allows the Treasury Department to target entire sectors of the Iranian economy.

It named them as Amin Investment Bank, Bank Keshavarzi Iran, Bank Maskan, Bank Refah Kargaran, Bank-e Shahr, Eghtesad Novin Bank, Gharzolhasaneh Resalat Bank, Hekmat Iranian Bank, Iran Zamin Bank, Karafarin Bank, Khavarmianeh Bank, Mehr Iran Credit Union Bank, Pasargad Bank, Saman Bank, Sarmayeh Bank, Tosee Taavon Bank, Tourism Bank and Islamic Regional Cooperation Bank.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa-sanctions-idUSKBN26T35H

Center for a New American Security

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_a_New_American_Security

#10907439 at 2020-10-03 23:15:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13959: Anons Opinions Are Never Moot Edition

'Enough is Enough': Iran's Zarif Calls on World Community to Force Israel to Destroy Its Nukes

Tehran and Tel Aviv have engaged in a years-long debate about one another's nuclear intentions, with Israeli officials accusing the Islamic Republic of trying to build up a nuclear arsenal to attack Israel, and Iran countering by pointing out that the Jewish State is the only nation in the Middle East which actually already has nuclear weapons.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has appealed to the international community to pressure Israel to join the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and eliminate its stockpile of nukes.

"The international community must compel Israel - which has aggression in its very DNA - to promptly accede to the NPT and destroy its nuclear arsenal," Zarif said, speaking in a pre-recorded virtual address to the UN on Friday.

"And given its six decades of deception and clandestine development of nuclear weapons, it must be compelled to submit to the most intrusive inspection regime that law-abiding members of the NPT observe," he added.

Accusing the US, which he dubbed "the world's lone perpetrator of a nuclear attack," of blindly supporting Israel, "the sole possessor of a nuclear arsenal in our region," Zarif complained about Tel Aviv's alleged threats to use nuclear weapons against other nations, "all while crying wolf about proliferation."

The top diplomat also blasted Washington for its own efforts to create new nuclear bombs and lower the threshold for their use, and accused the Trump administration of 'damaging' the NPT with its decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia, and the Iran nuclear deal.

Iranian officials have repeatedly accused Israel and the United States of being 'the two main obstacles' to the four-and-a-half decade old idea of a weapons of mass destruction-free Middle East. Tehran dismantled its own stocks of chemical weapons in the mid-1990s before ratifying the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997 (which Israel has signed but not ratified).

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202010031080656620-enough-is-enough-irans-Zarif-calls-on-world-community-to-force-israel-to-destroy-its-nukes/

#10772915 at 2020-09-24 20:37:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13787: Never Forget Those Behind The Scenes Edition

Lavrov: Iran, Russia reject US attempt to extend arms ban against Tehran

Russia's foreign minister says his country and Iran roundly reject an underway effort by the US to "permanently" extend an arms embargo against the Islamic Republic that will legally expire next month.

"We discussed in detail the situation surrounding the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)," Lavrov said at a joint press conference that followed a meeting with his visiting Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, in Moscow on Thursday Russia's Sputnik news agency reported.

"We stressed that Moscow and Tehran, like the entire international community, categorically reject US ambitions to impose some kind of indefinite arms embargo," the Russian top diplomat added.

The ban on sales of conventional weapons to Iran is set to expire on October 18 under the JCPOA, a nuclear agreement that was signed between Iran and the P5+1 group of states the US, the UK, France, Russia, and China plus Germany in Vienna in 2015.

The US left the deal in 2018, thus losing all of its right to invoke its provisions, including a snapback mechanism that enables re-imposition of the United Nations sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

On Saturday, though, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleged that "virtually all UN sanctions have returned on Iran," including "a permanent extension of the arms embargo." "We will not hesitate to enforce our sanctions, and we expect all UN Member States to fully comply with their obligations under these re-imposed restrictions," he added.

This is while, 13 of the UN Security Council's 15-strong members, including Russia and China, have notified the US that they would not fall into line with the US' snapback bid, reminding that Washington's departure from the JCPOA has caused it to lose its contractual rights.

"We have heard the US statement that, despite the will of the entire international community, they will proceed from the premise that the United Nations Security Council's sanctions against Iran would be restored at Washington's whim. These attempts using illegal means have no prospect of succeeding," Lavrov added.

"We agreed to continue the implementation of major joint investment projects, first and foremost in the sphere of energy, including nuclear power, as well as transportation and industrial cooperation," the Russian foreign minister stressed concerning underway cooperation between Iran and Russia.

He also announced that the Russian-Iranian Joint Economic Commission would be meeting before the end of the year in line with the two countries' common will to expand their relations.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/24/634944/Iran-Russia-United-States-weapons-embargo-nuclear-deal-Lavrov-Zarif

#10740846 at 2020-09-22 06:48:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13746: Diarrhea is more fatal than CV-19 Edition

>>10740742
A Conversation With Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran
308 views-Sep 21, 2020-Council on Foreign Relations

Foreign Minister Zarif discusses Iranian relations with the United States, the future of the
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and prospects for peace in the Middle East.

Speaker
Mohammad Javad Zarif
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iran

Presider
Fareed Zakaria
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN; Member, Board of Directors, Council on Foreign Relations
>Comments are turned off…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLhCCot0pzw

#10739321 at 2020-09-22 03:09:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13744: NIGHT SHIFT RALLY Edition

Iran says it is ready to swap all prisoners with U.S.
Reuters-September 21, 2020

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran is ready for a full prisoner exchange with the United States, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a virtual address to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Monday, amid heightened tension between the longtime foes.

Washington has long demanded that Iran release U.S. citizens including Iranian-American father and son Baquer and Siamak Namazi, who it says are political prisoners.

Tehran denies it holds people for political reasons and has accused many of the foreigners in its jails of espionage. It says Iranians detained in the U.S., mostly for breaking sanctions, are being unjustly held.

"There are Iranians in U.S. prisons who are there only because they refuse to betray their country (Iran). We are prepared to exchange all of them and all those who have been kept in jail," Zarif said.

"I repeat, we can exchange all prisoners. Period."

The two sides have done two prisoner exchanges despite a deterioration in relations in 2018 when U.S. President Donald Trump exited Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with major powers and re-imposed sanctions on Tehran that have crippled its economy.

Washington piled more pressure on Iran at the weekend when it said it had triggered a snapback of U.N. sanctions and slapped new sanctions on Iranian officials on Monday.

Navy veteran Michael White, detained since 2018, returned home in June in return for the United States allowing an Iranian-American physician Majid Taheri to visit Iran. White said he contracted COVID-19 while in detention.

In December 2018, Washington and Tehran worked on a prisoner exchange in which Iran freed U.S. citizen Xiyue Wang, who had been held for three years on spying charges, and the United States freed Iranian Massoud Soleimani, who faced charges of violating U.S. sanctions on Iran.

#10736218 at 2020-09-21 22:28:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13741: POTUS LIVE IN VANDALIA OHIO - WRWY Edition

#13739
>>10735085, >>10735143, >>10735227, >>10735237 planefaggin
>>10735395 Huber twat w/cap
>>10735366 🔴 Watch LIVE: President Trump Holds Campaign Event in Vandalia, OH 9/21/20
>>10735359, >>10735393 BREAKING: Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier Identified As Suspect In Poison Letter Sent To Trump
>>10735337 BAG FOR STRIFE Council sparks panic by telling people to prepare 'grab bag' ready to 'flee home immediately without time to pack'
>>10735326 McConnell Speaks on GOP Effort To Replace RBG vid
>>10735288 Biden "allegiance" for the Keks!
>>10735242 Here is a list of SCOTUS noms that took LESS than 42 days....
>>10735229 Potus: Early voting in MI has started……
>>10735203 A Conversation With Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran vid
>>10735171 BARR: Democrat Hysteria Will Undermine The Very Institutions They Claim To Be Protecting
>>10735052, >>10735064 Potus: Heading to the Great State of OHIO, will be there soon! #MAGA
>>10735039, >>10735121 Herridge twat w/cap
>>10735006 You think they're panicking over #RBG ? Just wait till Roberts resigns soon...
>>10734991 New Flynn w/cap
>>10734987 Corporations Going ALL OUT With Massive Leverage! Debt Expansion Will Create Havoc?
>>10734977 George Soros Ties to WikiLeaks
>>10734953 POTUS delivers remarks before boarding Marine 1 vid
>>10734939, >>10734969 Market Report
>>10734934 U.S. flies B-52 bomber near Russia days after Russians flew pair of supersonic bombers off Alaska
>>10734918 The 'Oxford Black Panther' behind Britain's first black-led political party vows to make white men 'our slaves'
>>10734906, >>10735044 Secretary Pompeo Hosts an Interagency Press Event on Iran Snapback Sanctions vid
>>10734894 Parsons Selected for $69 Million in U.S. Air Force Contracts
>>10734889 US Dow Plummets 509 Points Amid Fears of Pandemic Worsening
>>10734857 FBI Agent Who Uncovered Weiner Laptop with Hillary's Emails says FBI Leadership Told Him to Erase All of His Findings
>>10734844 POTUS LIVE: President Trump Holds Peaceful Protest in Vandalia, OH - 21 September 2020
>>10734838 Struggling Lufthansa to slash MORE jobs on top of previously announced 22,000 cuts
>>10734831, >>10735018 LMPD declares state of emergency ahead of Breonna Taylor decision
>>10734828 NO VOTING RIGHTS or Fed FUNDS FOR THESE DEMOCRAT AREAS
>>10734819 DeSantis declarations
>>10734818 Arizona Senate Race Could Impact Supreme Court Confirmation
>>10734813 Madrid calls for army's help as Spanish capital heads for partial lockdown amid Covid-19 surge
>>10734807 The pidgins life that ended near Grassley farm this wknd hailed from the Sheboygan flying club in Wisconsin I stand corrected it wasn't a "pet" it was a racing pidgin thx to my followers for the info
>>10734805 New York City police officer spied on fellow Tibetans for China, prosecutors charge
>>10734801 New FOIA - Calendar of Sally Yates (January 2017)
>>10734795 An unborn baby's dying wish at Planned Parenthood today... "Fill the seat."
>>10734785 Terrorists beware the US Army
>>10734782 People are beginning to turn on each other....now we here that Andrew Weissmann when asked if Mueller had let the American people down: "Absolutely, yep.".
>>10734781 Former police commander: Immigrants are behind the wave of violent crime blighting Sweden, but the authorities refuse to admit it
>>10734765 Boko Haram kills Nigerian Army's Colonel DC Bako
>>10734763, >>10734811 @USNavy That's a lot of firepower.
>>10734759, >>10734824, >>10734861, >>10734865, >>10734794, >>10735095 Justice Barbara Lagoa deets
>>10734736 Politico: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is scheduled to spend the night in Miami on Friday night the hometown of one BARBARA LAGOA, a candidate for the Supreme Court.
>>10735429 #13739

#13738
baker change
>>10733998 Assange Hearing Day 10-Fairbanks Testifies Trump Ordered Assange Arrest
>>10734011 Archaeologists Claim 27 Egypt Sarcophagi Unopened For 2,500 Years
>>10734013 DoJ news: Chicago Tech Executive Charged with Illegal Export of Computer Equipment to Pakistan
>>10734014, >>10734027 Seven Soros-Linked Groups Behind Left's Push on Student Loans
>>10734031 Trump Signs EO Reinstating Pre-Nuke Deal Iran Sanctions over UN Objections - Sanctions 27 Additional Targets
>>10734035 AG Barr speech at Hillsdale College | The Constitution and the Rule of Law (repost - worth watching)
>>10734040 Violent Mass. Sex Trafficker Sentenced To Prison
>>10734057 Report: COVID pandemic likely 'could have been prevented' if China, WHO acted differently
>>10734077 Judicial Watch Sues State of Illinois for Refusing to Disclose Voter Roll Data in Violation of Federal Law
>>10734101 GOP Lawmakers Introduce "Hold Rioters Accountable Act"
>>10734132 Mueller 'Pitbull' Weissmann Lashes Out at Mueller and Fellow Russia Probe Lawyers in New Book
>>10734141 Rep. Collins to introduce constitutional amendment to prohibit SCOTUS packing
>>10734147 Judicial Watch Sues US Dept. of Transportation for Records of Communication with DC Government Over Black Lives Matter Street Painting
>>10734148, >>10734152 Manhattan Federal Judge orders Post Office to expedite Nov. election mail
>>10734164 Jerusalem court orders extradition of Melbourne teacher Leifer accused of 74 pedo charges
>>10734234 Palestinian security forces detain dozens of supporters of Pres Abbas' rival
>>10734239 US military exercise Valiant Shield Sept. 14-25, Mariana Islands
>>10734243 CDAN reveal mentions Pamela Anderson, George Soros, Julian Assange, others
>>10734262 Track S. 4424: Holding Rioters Accountable Act
>>10734272 LIVE: McConnell, Schumer speeches re: Ginsburg
>>10734302, >>10734409 FBI charges NYPD Officer Baimadajie Angwang as Illegal Agent of China
>>10734309 Navy fires Kai Torkelson, Cdr Norfolk VA Naval Shipyard ("loss of confidence")
>>10734321 US Marshals rescue 35 missing/endangered children age 13-18, Cleveland, OH area; >20% cases referred to Human Trafficking Task Force, Cuyahoga County
>>10734378, >>10734398 China CCP military propaganda used Hollywood footage
>>10734392 POTUS LIVE:Campaign Event in Swanton, OH @ 19:00 EDT (vid)
>>10734394 Allegation: Family of Assange Judge Profits from the Case
>>10734414 Pennsylvania Legislature Preps Federal Lawsuit to Challenge Mail Voting Rulings
>>10734439 Sentenced! Undercover ICE Special Agents intercept NE Texas man preventing his murder, necrophilia, & cannibalism of minor plot
>>10734449 Ivanka Trump and Bill Barr discuss human trafficking (vid)
>>10734480 Biden on TV - Fox
>>10734484 Victor Davis Hanson @ Hillsdale College-The Weird Election Year of 2020 (vid)
>>10734432 US billionaire and Clinton campaign donor Ahmad 'Andy' Khawaja arrested in Lithuania
>>10734498 DoJ: US Taxpayer in Panama Papers Investigation Sentenced to Prison
>>10734510 DoJ: South Korean Jong Woo Son indicted in DC for largest online child sex exploitation market
>>10734540 Sen. Hawley will Only Vote for a Justice Who Understands Roe v. Wade Was 'Wrongly Decided'
>>10734545 More on arrest in Montreal of alleged ricin mailer woman
>>10734491, >>10734547 CDC walks back COVID airborne transmission "posted in error"
>>10734555 Swedish Space Corp. Ceases Assisting Chinese Companies Operate Satellites
>>10734562 China loses access to Swedish-owned satellite trackers in Australia due to 'complex' market
>>10734311, >>10734424, >>10734564 Planefags
>>10734615 #13738

Previously Collected Notables
>>10733900 #13737
>>10731599 #13734, >>10732371 #13735, >>10733172 #13736
>>10729300 #13731, >>10730081 #13732, >>10730847 #13733
>>10726929 #13728, >>10728154 #13729, >>10728489 #13730

Notables Aggregators: https://wearethene.ws & https://qnotables.com

#10735447 at 2020-09-21 21:17:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13740: Rally Comin Up Edition

Global Announcements
>>10708377 Side-by-Side #2 being unpinned by BO; archive ASAP
>>10678016 BO Activated RSS Tripcode Feed https://8kun.top/qresearch/tripcode.xml Follow Q in any RSS Feed Reader
>>10709241 Mega removed Meme Warehouse then Memefarmer resigned. MF recommended >>>/qrmemes/ plus Digital Camo >>10660694
>>10734146 STOP POSTING "IMAGES NOT ATTACHING TO POSTS". EVERYONE KNOWS THIS SINCE 24 HOURS AGO. IT'S RANDOM, IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT, AND DON'T WASTE BREAD RETRYING OR COMPLAINING ABOUT IT.

Notables are NOT endorsements

#13739
>>10735085, >>10735143, >>10735227, >>10735237 planefaggin
>>10735395 Huber twat w/cap
>>10735366 🔴 Watch LIVE: President Trump Holds Campaign Event in Vandalia, OH 9/21/20
>>10735359, >>10735393 BREAKING: Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier Identified As Suspect In Poison Letter Sent To Trump
>>10735337 BAG FOR STRIFE Council sparks panic by telling people to prepare 'grab bag' ready to 'flee home immediately without time to pack'
>>10735326 McConnell Speaks on GOP Effort To Replace RBG vid
>>10735288 Biden "allegiance" for the Keks!
>>10735242 Here is a list of SCOTUS noms that took LESS than 42 days....
>>10735229 Potus: Early voting in MI has started……
>>10735203 A Conversation With Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran vid
>>10735171 BARR: Democrat Hysteria Will Undermine The Very Institutions They Claim To Be Protecting
>>10735052, >>10735064 Potus: Heading to the Great State of OHIO, will be there soon! #MAGA
>>10735039, >>10735121 Herridge twat w/cap
>>10735006 You think they're panicking over #RBG ? Just wait till Roberts resigns soon...
>>10734991 New Flynn w/cap
>>10734987 Corporations Going ALL OUT With Massive Leverage! Debt Expansion Will Create Havoc?
>>10734977 George Soros Ties to WikiLeaks
>>10734953 POTUS delivers remarks before boarding Marine 1 vid
>>10734939, >>10734969 Market Report
>>10734934 U.S. flies B-52 bomber near Russia days after Russians flew pair of supersonic bombers off Alaska
>>10734918 The 'Oxford Black Panther' behind Britain's first black-led political party vows to make white men 'our slaves'
>>10734906, >>10735044 Secretary Pompeo Hosts an Interagency Press Event on Iran Snapback Sanctions vid
>>10734894 Parsons Selected for $69 Million in U.S. Air Force Contracts
>>10734889 US Dow Plummets 509 Points Amid Fears of Pandemic Worsening
>>10734857 FBI Agent Who Uncovered Weiner Laptop with Hillary's Emails says FBI Leadership Told Him to Erase All of His Findings
>>10734844 POTUS LIVE: President Trump Holds Peaceful Protest in Vandalia, OH - 21 September 2020
>>10734838 Struggling Lufthansa to slash MORE jobs on top of previously announced 22,000 cuts
>>10734831, >>10735018 LMPD declares state of emergency ahead of Breonna Taylor decision
>>10734828 NO VOTING RIGHTS or Fed FUNDS FOR THESE DEMOCRAT AREAS
>>10734819 DeSantis declarations
>>10734818 Arizona Senate Race Could Impact Supreme Court Confirmation
>>10734813 Madrid calls for army's help as Spanish capital heads for partial lockdown amid Covid-19 surge
>>10734807 The pidgins life that ended near Grassley farm this wknd hailed from the Sheboygan flying club in Wisconsin I stand corrected it wasn't a "pet" it was a racing pidgin thx to my followers for the info
>>10734805 New York City police officer spied on fellow Tibetans for China, prosecutors charge
>>10734801 New FOIA - Calendar of Sally Yates (January 2017)
>>10734795 An unborn baby's dying wish at Planned Parenthood today... "Fill the seat."
>>10734785 Terrorists beware the US Army
>>10734782 People are beginning to turn on each other....now we here that Andrew Weissmann when asked if Mueller had let the American people down: "Absolutely, yep.".
>>10734781 Former police commander: Immigrants are behind the wave of violent crime blighting Sweden, but the authorities refuse to admit it
>>10734765 Boko Haram kills Nigerian Army's Colonel DC Bako
>>10734763, >>10734811 @USNavy That's a lot of firepower.
>>10734759, >>10734824, >>10734861, >>10734865, >>10734794, >>10735095 Justice Barbara Lagoa deets
>>10734736 Politico: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is scheduled to spend the night in Miami on Friday night the hometown of one BARBARA LAGOA, a candidate for the Supreme Court.
>>10735429 #13739

#10735429 at 2020-09-21 21:15:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13739: DoJ IDs Anarchy Cities

#10735297 at 2020-09-21 21:02:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13739: DoJ IDs Anarchy Cities

>>10735284
Notables

>>10735085, >>10735143, >>10735227, >>10735237 planefaggin
>>10735242 Here is a list of SCOTUS noms that took LESS than 42 days....
>>10735229 Potus: Early voting in MI has started……
>>10735203 A Conversation With Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran vid
>>10735171 BARR: Democrat Hysteria Will Undermine The Very Institutions They Claim To Be Protecting
>>10735052, >>10735064 Potus: Heading to the Great State of OHIO, will be there soon! #MAGA
>>10735039, >>10735121 Herridge twat w/cap
>>10735006 You think they're panicking over #RBG ? Just wait till Roberts resigns soon...
>>10734991 New Flynn w/cap
>>10734987 Corporations Going ALL OUT With Massive Leverage! Debt Expansion Will Create Havoc?
>>10734977 George Soros Ties to WikiLeaks
>>10734953 POTUS delivers remarks before boarding Marine 1 vid
>>10734939, >>10734969 Market Report
>>10734934 U.S. flies B-52 bomber near Russia days after Russians flew pair of supersonic bombers off Alaska
>>10734918 The 'Oxford Black Panther' behind Britain's first black-led political party vows to make white men 'our slaves'
>>10734906, >>10735044 Secretary Pompeo Hosts an Interagency Press Event on Iran Snapback Sanctions vid
>>10734894 Parsons Selected for $69 Million in U.S. Air Force Contracts
>>10734889 US Dow Plummets 509 Points Amid Fears of Pandemic Worsening
>>10734857 FBI Agent Who Uncovered Weiner Laptop with Hillary's Emails says FBI Leadership Told Him to Erase All of His Findings
>>10734844 POTUS LIVE: President Trump Holds Peaceful Protest in Vandalia, OH - 21 September 2020
>>10734838 Struggling Lufthansa to slash MORE jobs on top of previously announced 22,000 cuts
>>10734831, >>10735018 LMPD declares state of emergency ahead of Breonna Taylor decision
>>10734828 NO VOTING RIGHTS or Fed FUNDS FOR THESE DEMOCRAT AREAS
>>10734819 DeSantis declarations
>>10734818 Arizona Senate Race Could Impact Supreme Court Confirmation
>>10734813 Madrid calls for army's help as Spanish capital heads for partial lockdown amid Covid-19 surge
>>10734807 The pidgins life that ended near Grassley farm this wknd hailed from the Sheboygan flying club in Wisconsin I stand corrected it wasn't a "pet" it was a racing pidgin thx to my followers for the info
>>10734805 New York City police officer spied on fellow Tibetans for China, prosecutors charge
>>10734801 New FOIA - Calendar of Sally Yates (January 2017)
>>10734795 An unborn baby's dying wish at Planned Parenthood today... "Fill the seat."
>>10734785 Terrorists beware the US Army
>>10734782 People are beginning to turn on each other....now we here that Andrew Weissmann when asked if Mueller had let the American people down: "Absolutely, yep.".
>>10734781 Former police commander: Immigrants are behind the wave of violent crime blighting Sweden, but the authorities refuse to admit it
>>10734765 Boko Haram kills Nigerian Army's Colonel DC Bako
>>10734763, >>10734811 @USNavy That's a lot of firepower.
>>10734759, >>10734824, >>10734861, >>10734865, >>10734794, >>10735095 Justice Barbara Lagoa deets
>>10734736 Politico: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is scheduled to spend the night in Miami on Friday night the hometown of one BARBARA LAGOA, a candidate for the Supreme Court.
#13739

#10735203 at 2020-09-21 20:52:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13739: DoJ IDs Anarchy Cities

A Conversation With Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran
308 views-Sep 21, 2020-Council on Foreign Relations

Foreign Minister Zarif discusses Iranian relations with the United States, the future of the
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and prospects for peace in the Middle East.

Speaker
Mohammad Javad Zarif
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iran

Presider
Fareed Zakaria
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN; Member, Board of Directors, Council on Foreign Relations
>Comments are turned off…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLhCCot0pzw

#10710643 at 2020-09-19 18:28:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13707: Thank you Harry! Edition

US leaders ruining region, betraying own people to protect Israel: Iran's Zarif

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the US leaders, who have been providing all-out support for Israel, have not only ruined the West Asia region, but also betrayed their own people.

Zarif made the remarks in a Thursday tweet in clear allusion to recent comments by US President Donald Trump, who said during a rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on September 8 that the US was not involved in the Middle East for oil, but because we "want to protect Israel."

Bragging about America's energy independence during the rally, Trump said, "While I'm president, America will remain the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world. We will remain energy independent. It should be for many, many years to come. The fact is, we don't have to be in the Middle East, other than we want to protect Israel. We've been very good to Israel. Other than that, we don't have to be in the Middle East."

Pointing to Trump's remarks, Iran's foreign minister tweeted, the "latest admissions by @realDonaldTrump" clearly showed "where his family's loyalty really rests."

Zarif then recalled Trump's past confession that the United States has spent more than seven trillion dollars on its presence in the Middle East, which is apparently aimed at nothing, but to protect the Zionist regime, asking, "Why SEVEN TRILLION hard-earned US taxpayer dollars & so many American lives have been sacrificed" just to protect Israel?"

Latest admissions by @realDonaldTrump:

-Where his family's loyalty really rests

-Why SEVEN TRILLION hard-earned US taxpayer dollars & so many American lives have been sacrificed.#IsraelFirsters have not just ruined our region-they've betrayed their own people, just for votes. pic.twitter.com/dcpZTucyxP
- Javad Zarif (@JZarif) September 17, 2020

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America has spent $6.4 trillion on wars in the Middle East and Asia since 2001

He then concluded by saying that in their effort to provide unbridled support to Israel, American leaders who put the Tel Aviv regime ahead of all other priorities, "have not just ruined our region," but "they've betrayed their own people, just for votes."

Under its foreign policy, the United States goes to the extremist extent to shield and shore up Israel.

Despite the American regional presence apparently being excused under the "war on terror" terms, the roughly two-decades-old military intervention has witnessed systematic and irreparable weakening of the countries that surround the occupying entity.

The US also provides billions of taxpayer money in military assistance to the occupying regime every year that last year amounted to $3.8 billion. It also casts its veto against almost any United Nations resolutions that could take the regime to task over its continued occupation of Palestinian land and daily acts of fatal aggression against Palestinians. Thanks to Washington's support, Tel Aviv has also unexceptionally evaded accountability over its nuclear program that is known to be the only one in the Middle East with a huge military lean.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/17/634327/Iran-United-States-Israel-Trump-votes-presidential-elections

#10688470 at 2020-09-18 00:56:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13679: POTUS Poised To Win In Landslide ~ WI Ralley! Edition

FM Zarif: US not JCPOA participant anymore, can't return Iran sanctions on 9/20

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says despite recent remarks by the US secretary of state, Washington cannot re-impose the UN sanctions on Tehran on September 20 which is one month after the US demanded activation of a sanctions snapback mechanism inside the Iran nuclear deal because the US is not a party to the agreement anymore.

Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that the US would return to the UN to have the sanctions re-imposed on Iran next week.

The US would also do all it needed to make sure those sanctions are enforced, Pompeo said at a press conference in Washington with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.

On August 20, Pompeo had formally notified the United Nations of Washington's demand for all the UN Security Council sanctions on Iran to be restored, citing what he claimed to be Iranian violations of the nuclear deal. Tehran clinched the deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with six world powers, including the US, in 2015, but Washington left the agreement under President Donald Trump three years later.

In reaction to the notification that was being handed to the UN Secretariat by Pompeo himself, the remaining signatories to the deal, however, maintained that Washington could not initiate the mechanism because it had left the accord.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/17/634345/Iran-United-States-United-Nations-sanctions-Zarif-Pompeo

#10634089 at 2020-09-13 20:32:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13608: Knowledge is power! Edition

Iranian officials killed by coronavirus; confirmed and unconfirmed cases:

Former lawmaker Mohammadreza Rahchamani died on Monday from coronavirus, the official IRNA news agency reported. The 64-year-old was a member of parliament from 1984 to 2000.

Farzad Tazari, a former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has also died from coronavirus, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday. Tazari was the former deputy of the political bureau of the IRGC.

He had also been part of the IRGC intelligence organization, according to Tasnim.

Reza Modarresi, a cleric from Qom, died from coronavirus, the semi-official Khabar Online news agency reported on March 7.

Cleric Ali Hosseini, the head of the Islamic Development Organization in the city of Aliabad-e-Katul in Golestan province, died on March 5, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Friday.

While Mehr did not cite the cause of his death, other Iranian media outlets reported that Hosseini died from coronavirus.

Two other Iranian clerics, Mostafa Amini and Nematollah Javadi Bamiani, have also died from coronavirus, according to unconfirmed reports.

Mousa Torabzadeh, the former prosecutor of Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh, a city in Gilan province, has also died from coronavirus, according to a Telegram channel affiliated with the Iranian judiciary.

Ayatollah Reza Mohammadi Langroudi also died from the virus, state media confirmed on March 7.

Cleric Akbar Dehghan also died from coronavirus on March 5, the semi-official Khabar Online news agency reported. Dehghan headed the Qom seminary interpretation staff.

Ayatollah Mohsen Habibi, a member of the Supreme Council of Tehran's Seminaries, also died from coronavirus, the state-run Rokna news agency confirmed on March 5.

The Iranian judiciary's website, Mizan, reported on March 5 that cleric Ali Khalafi, a deputy to the head of the judiciary, has died.

While Mizan did not cite the cause of death, Iranians online speculated that coronavirus was the cause.

Rasoul Azizi, the head of Gilan's police inspection department, also died, local media reported, without citing the cause of death.

Azizi is also believed to have been infected with coronavirus.

Member of parliament Fatemeh Rahbar died due to coronavirus, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday.

Hossein Sheikholeslam, Iran's former ambassador to Syria and former advisor to current Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, died from coronavirus, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on March 5.

Ahmad Toyserkani, an adviser to the head of the judiciary Ebrahim Raisi, died from coronavirus, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported on March 3.

Mohammad Haj Abolghasemi, an official of the Basij Resistance Force - a paramilitary arm of the IRGC - died on March 3, state media reported, without citing the cause of death.

Several users online, however, including a user who says Abolghasemi was the brother of his sister's husband, said that he died due to coronavirus.

Mohammad MirMohammadi, a member of Iran's Expediency Council, died from coronavirus, state media reported on March 2.

Member of parliament Mohammad Ali Ramazani Dastak died in disputed circumstances on February 29, as officials claimed he died of the "flu" and "chemical injuries" sustained during the war with Iraq but journalists suggested he was another victim of coronavirus.

Reza Pourkhanali, an agriculture ministry official in Gilan province, died from coronavirus, state media reported on February 28.

Hamed Jalali Kashani, a pro-regime activist and an advocate for child marriage, died from coronavirus on February 28, the semi-official YJC news agency reported.

Ahmad Khosravi, another pro-regime activist, also died from coronavirus. News of his death was widely circulated on social media amongst pro-regime users.

Iran's former ambassador to the Vatican Hadi Khosroshahi died on February 27 from coronavirus, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Khosroshahi was a prominent figure in the Qom seminary and was a representative of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the Ministry of Islamic Guidance after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. After two years, he became the ambassador of the Islamic Republic to the Vatican.

#10489766 at 2020-09-01 03:04:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13425: POTUS Goes One-On-One With Laura Edition

Iran And Russia On Their Way To New Level Of Partnership

The coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on the development of global international cooperation. The bilateral partnership between Russia and Iran, which was hardened by restrictive measures, is returning to its normal course. Visits of high-ranking officials are resumed. So, on August 22, the Iranian Defense Minister, Amir Khatami, arrived in Moscow to hold talks with Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu. A few days earlier, on August 18, the head of the Iranian foreign Ministry, Mohammad Javad Zarif, also flew to Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The Iranian delegations were among the first to arrive in Moscow after the lifting of quarantine restrictions, which underlines the paramount importance of restoring the former level of cooperation between the two sides.

Foremost, Russia and Iran resume cooperation in the military sphere. The Iranian security Minister held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu, and also visited the VI International Military-Technical Forum "Army 2020".

"Cooperation between Iran and Russia on defense and military issues is gaining an accelerated pace every day. A new chapter of cooperation between Iran and Russia in the military-technical sphere is on the way," said Qasem Jalali, the Iranian Ambassador to Russia.

Amir Khatami's visit took place before the start of the International Army Games, which started on August 23 in conjunction with the forum, and in which the military forces of Iran participate, among others. The Defense Minister met with officers and soldiers that were sent to Russia to participate in competitions between military police units in the section known as "Guards of order".

The VI Army international games "Army-2020" include 31 international competitions that are held on the territory of 11 countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, India, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, Russia and Uzbekistan, as well as Iran. 90 countries, including NATO member countries, were invited to participate.

The military-technical cooperation between Russia and Iran is increasing as a response to US hostile pressure. A new agreement for the purchase of military weapons to Iran is expected to be signed soon. Firstly, the Tehran's interest is turned to electronic warfare systems, coastal defense systems and S-400 missile system. New contracts for the purchase of such military equipment to Iran will certainly cause further concern from Washington establishment.

https://southfront.org/iran-russia-on-their-way-to-new-level-of-partnership/

#10374234 at 2020-08-21 20:06:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13276: Engage The Target Edition

US Designates 13 Iranians for Alleged Involvement in Assassination in Switzerland, Pompeo Says

In June, AFP reported, citing official correspondence, that Swiss prosecutors were close to closing the case against 14 suspects in the 1990 assassination of prominent Iranian academic and opposition figure Kazem Rajavi.

The United States has designated 13 Iranians for allegedly being involved in an assassination in Switzerland in 1990, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.

"Friday, August 21 marks the annual Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism. To both remember and honor these victims, today the U.S. Department of State is announcing visa restrictions on 14 Iranian individuals for their involvement in gross violations of human rights on behalf of the Iranian regime, the world's leading state sponsor of terror", the statement, published on the US State Department's website, said.

According to the statement, the restrictions also apply to the "immediate family members" of the alleged suspects.

"The United States will continue to pressure Iran to treat its own people with dignity and respect. Iran conducts assassinations and terrorism abroad to spread its reign of terror well beyond its own borders. Today's action includes visa restrictions on 13 officials involved in a brutal and intricately planned assassination carried out in Switzerland in 1990 as part of Iran's ongoing worldwide terrorism campaign", the statement continued.

The US also designated Hojatollah Khodaei Souri, who as "director of Iran's notorious Evin Prison, oversaw an institution synonymous with torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment", the statement added.

Pompeo also stated that Washington is "initiating the restoration of virtually all sanctions on Iran lifted under UN Security Council Resolution 2231" and that the sanctions will go "back into effect in 30 days".

I notified the @UN Secretary-General and the Security Council President that the U.S. is initiating the restoration of virtually all sanctions on Iran lifted under UN Security Council Resolution 2231. Those sanctions will go back into effect in 30 days. America will not appease. pic.twitter.com/NGzffu34a4
- Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) August 21, 2020

Washington has announced plans to trigger the snapback mechanism to re-impose all the UN sanctions against Iran - previously lifted under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - after failing to get the UN Security Council to pass a resolution aiming to indefinitely extend the UN arms embargo on Tehran. The arms embargo is set to expire in October under the terms of the nuclear agreement. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has commented on the matter, saying that Washington's move to trigger snapback sanctions linked to the JCPOA was "illegal".

The JCPOA was signed in 2015 by Iran, China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union, stipulating the removal of international sanctions from Tehran in exchange for it scaling down its nuclear programme. The deal was then sanctified in UNSC Resolution 2231, including a provision on a five-year arms embargo.

The United States unilaterally abandoned the agreement in May of 2018.?

On 24 April 1990, Exiled Iranian opposition figure Kazem Rajavi was shot dead in his car in the village of Coppet, near Geneva, Switzerland.

Swiss prosecutors voiced suspicions that the Iranian authorities were behind the assassination and drafted a list of 13 Iranians suspected of actively taking part.

https://sputniknews.com/world/202008211080239495-us-designates-13-iranians-for-alleged-involvement-in-assassination-in-switzerland/

#10355158 at 2020-08-20 07:16:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13251: FIFTH COLUMN Q Edition

.....and frogs to destroy them. 1 of 2

The following post has been updated, it will destroy the deep state.

Back channels are important.

Remember this, John Kerry's Daughter Married Son Of Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif. (12)

"In late 2015, early 2016, spying began on the Trump campaign," Nunes said

June 16, 2015 Trump formally announced his candidacy.

October ?, 2015 New Zealand Prime Minister, John key, [[[JK]]], authorizes GCSB to spy on Trump. Warrant is valid for one year. Q3215, Q3595.

March 14, 2016 The US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, is in New Zealand for talks with the Government and spy chiefs. (1)(1a) Q1164

March 14, 2016 Prime Minister John Key has held talks with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

WTF, Key, Clapper and Zarif have a secret meeting in NZ? (13)(Non_FVEY official chan Q3595)

"Mr Clapper's plane is sitting on the military side of the Wellington airport tarmac. Across the other side is the Airbus 340 used to fly the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif on a visit to New Zealand."

November 8, 2016 Donald Trump is elected President of the United States of America.

December 12, 2016 John key suddenly resigns as Prime Minister of New Zealand ("Physical landscape +/- "). He's being blackmailed by (((THEM))), and forced to renew GCSB warrant on Trump. Seeing no way out, he resigns. Q2929

January 20, 2017 Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States on January 20, 2017

January 26, 2017 Former NZ Prime Minister, Helen Clark announced that she would not seek re-election as UNDP Administrator after the completion of her four-year term. (2)

April 19, 2017 Clark left UNDP, and flies to NZ to be part of the following. (2a)

April 23, 2017 Five Eyes spying network holds highly secretive meeting in Queenstown NZ. FBI director James Comey (Q3674; DOJ Gulfstream G550) and CIA director Mike Pompeo both attend. This was the meeting that the scheme to spy on Trump was hatched. (3)(4)

Helen Clark (((Soros))) rigs the 2017 election in favour of her prot?g? Jacinda Ardern (5), they will get her to sign the GCSB warrant. Remember, they are convinced that Mueller will indict Trump.

October 26, 2017, Ardern does indeed become Prime Minister of NZ. "Special votes" (((Soros/Clark))) sway the result in her favour (6). Shortly thereafter she foolishly authorises GCSB to spy on Trump. Evidently she is too young and stupid to know that she's the fall guy.

March 21, 2018 Barack Obama arrives in New Zealand for the first time. (7) Obviously he is here for GCSB intel. Perhaps to blackmail Key. Oddly, he is entertained by Sam Neill, NZ actor (Jurassic Park). Maybe they have something in common?

May 7, 2018 Hillary Clinton visit's New Zealand in May. Obviously she is here for GCSB intel! Perhaps she tries to persuade Adern to renew the warrant when it expires in October/November. (8) Q1320 Q1336

Fast foward:

July 24, 2019 Robert Mueller Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee. As we know it's a flop, and POTUS won't be indicted, as (((Adern/Clark/Soros))) hoped. By now they realise that they're going to be the special guests at a stool kickin' party at Gitmo, and they seek a way out.

August 15, 2019 PM Jacinda Ardern announces $150m Pacific climate funding to help mitigate climate change in the pacific. (9) Details of who gets what are extremely sketchy, but it seems that the nation that gets the most of this "Climate Change" bribe money DOES NOT HAVE an extradition treaty with the United States. (10) Well ain't that interdasting?

#10303860 at 2020-08-16 04:18:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13187: The 'He was his brother's brother.' Edition

Zarif Slams US Claims of Seizing Iranian Tankers, Says 'Propaganda Doesn't Deflect' Failure at UN

On Friday, The US Department of Justice confirmed a Thursday report by The Wall Street Journal, that US authorities had "successfully" disrupted a "multi-million dollar fuel shipment" by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), after seizing four oil tankers in international waters carrying alleged Iranian gasoline bound for Venezuela.

Iran's Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on Saturday refuted allegations by the Trump administration about a US seizure of four Iranian oil tankers with fuel bound for Venezuela, saying that the vessels involved in what he described as an act of "piracy" were not Iran-flagged and the fuel on board belonged to Tehran.

"'Pirates of the Caribbean' have their own judges and courts now. Sadly for them, stolen booty wasn't Iran's. Fuel was sold F.O.B. [freight on board] Persian Gulf. Ship and flag weren't ours either," Zarif tweeted, referring to a shipping expression used to indicate when liability and ownership of goods is transferred from a seller to a buyer.

The diplomat added that the "hollow and cheap propaganda" would not cover up the White House's "miserable failure" to pass a United Nation Security Council draft resolution aiming to extend an arms embargo against Iran, set to expire in October.

"Hollow, cheap propaganda doesn't deflect from miserable failure of US diplomatic malpractice at UN," Zarif stated.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008161080183511-Zarif-slams-us-claims-of-seizing-iranian-tankers-says-propaganda-doesnt-deflect-failure-at-un/

#10068769 at 2020-07-25 00:25:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12886: Eyes On The Chinese Consulate In Houston Edition

Ukrainian officials say black box transcript of downed jet proves 'illegal interference' by Iran

Authorities in Ukraine say black box recorders of a Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737 jet that crashed after being hit by two surface-to-air missiles show evidence that the Iranian government illegally interfered with the plane. In a Friday afternoon tweet, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevhenii Yenin said an international team of researchers studying the in-flight recorders in France confirmed that missiles shot from the ground in Iran were responsible for the crash that killed all 178 passengers aboard. "Grateful to all partners who helped bring this moment closer," Yenin wrote. "Black boxes from #PS752 were read out and deciphered successfully. The transcript confirmed the fact of illegal interference with the plane. We are waiting for the Iranian side for the first round of talks next week."

The jet was shot down shortly after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport on Jan. 8 amid a tense five-day stretch following the targeted strike of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. Iranian officials denied responsibility for downing the jetliner in the days after the accident, initially blaming technical problems or the plane's pilots. But Tehran admitted to downing the plane on Jan. 11, and audio leaked from moments following the incident revealed officials in the Middle Eastern nation knew almost immediately of the crash. The shoot-down came in the hours after Iran had launched more than a dozen short-range ballistic missiles at bases housing U.S. forces in Iraq. The barrage of missiles was in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike that killed Soleimani. Iran blames a chain of errors for the downing of the plane.

Last month, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced that the black box would be sent to France, and he also reportedly told Ukraine that Iran was ready to "resolve legal issues and discuss how to compensate the families" of victims but was awaiting a Ukrainian delegation. There has been much hand-wringing over the fate of the black box, with Iran blaming the delay on the coronavirus pandemic, which has hit Iran particularly hard. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his administration was unsatisfied with the limited amount of communication from Iranian officials in the wake of the crash that killed 82 Iranians, 63 Canadian passengers, and 11 Ukrainians.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ukrainian-officials-say-black-box-transcript-of-downed-jet-proves-illegal-interference-by-iran

#10001436 at 2020-07-18 18:33:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12798: [F] The Great [D]eceivers Edition

>>10000882.

Defying U.S., China and Iran Near Trade and Military Partnership
The investment and security pact would vastly extend China's influence in the Middle East, throwing Iran an economic lifeline and creating new flash points with the United States.

The partnership was first proposed by President Xi Jinping of China during a visit to Iran where he met his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, in 2016.Credit…Ebrahim

Iran and China have quietly drafted a sweeping economic and security partnership that would clear the way for billions of dollars of Chinese investments in energy and other sectors, undercutting the Trump administration's efforts to isolate the Iranian government because of its nuclear and military ambitions.

The partnership, detailed in an 18-page proposed agreement obtained by The New York Times, would vastly expand Chinese presence in banking, telecommunications, ports, railways and dozens of other projects. In exchange, China would receive a regular - and, according to an Iranian official and an oil trader, heavily discounted - supply of Iranian oil over the next 25 years.

The document also describes deepening military cooperation, potentially giving China a foothold in a region that has been a strategic preoccupation of the United States for decades. It calls for joint training and exercises, joint research and weapons development and intelligence sharing - all to fight "the lopsided battle with terrorism, drug and human trafficking and cross-border crimes."

The partnership - first proposed by China's leader, Xi Jinping, during a visit to Iran in 2016 - was approved by President Hassan Rouhani's cabinet in June, Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said last week.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/world/asia/china-iran-trade-military-deal.html

(Hope we already had this)

#9845592 at 2020-07-04 00:11:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12600: The 'Rolling On The Haters' Edition

EU says Iran has triggered nuclear deal dispute mechanism

Move could pave way for deal's final collapse; Brussels' top diplomat calls for 'intensive efforts' to solve disagreements 'in good faith by all'

The European Union's top diplomat said Friday that he has received a letter from Iran that triggers a dispute mechanism in the international agreement limiting Tehran's nuclear ambitions, citing concerns that Britain, France and Germany are not living up to their side of the deal.

The accord, which Iran signed with the US, Britain, Germany, France, China and Russia in 2015, has been unraveling since President Donald Trump pulled Washington out in 2018, unleashing sanctions designed to cripple the Islamic Republic's economy.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who is coordinator of the pact known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, said that in the letter Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif seeks redress under "the dispute resolution mechanism, as set out in paragraph 36 of the agreement."

No details about the nature of Iran's "implementation issues" with Britain, France and Germany were provided. The dispute mechanism provides for a period of about one month, which can be prolonged if all parties agree, to resolve any disagreement.

If the sides are unable to solve their dispute, parties can move to consider the agreement nullified, and the UN Security Council may debate renewing sanctions against Tehran.

In a tweet on June 19, Zarif said the three European countries "must stop public face-saving and muster the courage to state publicly what they admit privately: their failure to fulfill even (their) own JCPOA duties due to total impotence in resisting US bullying."

Zarif's letter to Borrell was sent a day after a mysterious fire broke out at the Natanz underground facility where Iran enriches uranium.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/eu-says-iran-has-triggered-nuclear-deal-dispute-mechanism/

#9629054 at 2020-06-16 04:26:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12324: Old Glory stands for Freedom and Equality for All Edition

>>9628838
China's Giant $400 Billion Iran Investment Complicates U.S. Options
Sep 19, 2019,08:40am EDT

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called violent attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure in Abqaiq and Khurais "an act of war," as evidence suggests that Iran is the culprit. This marks the most dangerous escalation between the U.S. and Iran since the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran. However, this confrontation has major implications for the growing U.S. - China strategic rivalry.

Amidst historic U.S. - Iran tensions, Beijing is doubling-down on its strategic partnership with Tehran, ignoring U.S. efforts to isolate the Islamic Republic from global markets. Following an August visit by Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to Beijing, the two countries agreed to update a 25-year program signed in 2016, to include an unprecedented $400 billion of investment in the Iranian economy - sanctions be damned.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2019/09/19/chinas-giant-400-billion-iran-investment-snubs-trump/#1b9f5f8584d1

#9484635 at 2020-06-05 14:24:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12139: High Speed Low Drag Friday Bread Edition

'Your advisers made dumb bet': Iran's Zarif says prisoner swap with US succeeded 'DESPITE' Trump staffers' efforts

The Iranian foreign minister said that people on Trump's team have been steering the US towards more conflict with Tehran, including scrapping the nuclear deal and undermining peaceful gestures, like the recent prisoner swap.

"We achieved humanitarian swap *despite* your subordinates' efforts," Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted to US President Donald Trump.

Trump earlier thanked the Islamic Republic for releasing US Navy veteran Michael White, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2018 for insulting Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and posting a private photo on social media. The US, in return, released Iranian-American researcher Majid Taheri, who served 16 months for violating US sanctions against Tehran.

In his tweet, Trump hinted at reaching a "big deal" with Iran sometime after the US presidential election this fall, which the president feels confident of winning. He was apparently referring to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program. Zarif was quick to remind everyone that the deal began falling apart after Trump himself left the agreement two years ago.

And we had a deal when you entered office. Iran & other JCPOA participants never left the table. Your advisors - most fired by now - made a dumb bet. Up to you to decide *when* you want to fix it.

Zarif did not mention anyone by name, but he had frequently accused Trump's former national security advisor, John Bolton, of steering the president towards greater conflict. A well-known foreign policy hawk, Bolton was dismissed in September 2019.

https://www.rt.com/news/490899-iran-Zarif-prisoner-exchange/

#9280153 at 2020-05-22 21:25:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11877: KEK Resistance Is Futile WW Edition

Canada Condemns Iranian Supreme Leader's Comments About Israel - Foreign Minister

Canada condemns the Iranian Supreme Leader's fiery comments in which he called for violence against Israel, Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said in a statement on Friday.

Earlier this week, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei wrote on Twitter that Tehran would back "any nation or any group anywhere who opposes and fights the Zionist regime," doubling down on Friday calling Israel a "cancerous tumor" that will be "uprooted and destroyed."

"Canada strongly condemns Ayatollah Khameini's call for violence against Israel. This kind of hateful rhetoric only contributes to further destabilizing the region. Canada will always stand up for the people of Israel's right to security & peace & stability in the region," Champagne said via Twitter.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reaffirmed his support for a two-state solution in a conversation with Alternate Israeli Prime Minister Benny Gantz on Tuesday.

The supreme leader also incurred strong backlash through use of the term "final solution" in his post - usually associated with Nazi Germany's efforts to eliminate all Jews. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Khamenei of advocating genocide. Khamenei responded saying that he had called for the elimination of the Israeli government and did not mean the elimination of Jews.

On Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif clarified that Khamenei, in his use of the term "final solution" actually advocated for allowing Palestinians to decide their fate though a referendum.

The Supreme Leader's statement came following the Palestinian Head Authority Mahmoud Abbas' announcement on withdrawal from every agremeent with Israel and the US amid the Israeli plans to extend its sovereignty over parts of West Bank.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202005221079393502-canada-condemns-iranian-supreme-leaders-comments-about-israel—foreign-minister/

Whose your daddy Justin???

#9065015 at 2020-05-07 16:20:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11603: Cruzing the Airwaves For The (BB)OOMs Edition

US and Iran reach rare consensus in Iraq

BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:10 P.M.) - The U.S. and Iran have reached a rare consensus in Iraq after the announcement of the new ministers, including the Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi.

On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed his approval of the new Iraqi government, vowing to support them as they begin their service to the country.

Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif congratulated the new Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi and all Iraqis on forming the new government in the country.

Zarif wrote on Twitter Thursday: "Congratulations to Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, his government, parliament and the Iraqi people, for the first time, for the success in forming a new government."

Zarif stressed that Iran always stands with the Iraqi people and chooses those who manage their affairs.

Al-Kazemi, at dawn today, took the constitutional oath before the House of Representatives, after they voted on members of his government.

Earlier today, the United Nations, Washington and London expressed their support to the formation of the Iraqi government headed by Al-Kazemi.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/us-and-iran-reach-rare-consensus-in-iraq/

#8810483 at 2020-04-16 07:09:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11280: Graveyard Boogie-Woogie Edition

.....and frogs to destroy them. 1 of 2

The following post has been updated, it will destroy the deep state.

Back channels are important.

Remember this, John Kerry's Daughter Married Son Of Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif. (12)

"In late 2015, early 2016, spying began on the Trump campaign," Nunes said

June 16, 2015 Trump formally announced his candidacy.

October ?, 2015 New Zealand Prime Minister, John key, [[[JK]]], authorizes GCSB to spy on Trump. Warrant is valid for one year. Q3215, Q3595.

March 14, 2016 The US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, is in New Zealand for talks with the Government and spy chiefs. (1)(1a) Q1164

March 14, 2016 Prime Minister John Key has held talks with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

WTF, Key, Clapper and Zarif have a secret meeting in NZ? (13)(Non_FVEY official chan Q3595)
"Mr Clapper's plane is sitting on the military side of the Wellington airport tarmac. Across the other side is the Airbus 340 used to fly the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif on a visit to New Zealand."

November 8, 2016 Donald Trump is elected President of the United States of America.

December 12, 2016 John key suddenly resigns as Prime Minister of New Zealand ("Physical landscape +/- "). He's being blackmailed by (((THEM))), and forced to renew GCSB warrant on Trump. Seeing no way out, he resigns. Q2929

January 20, 2017 Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States on January 20, 2017

January 26, 2017 Former NZ Prime Minister, Helen Clark announced that she would not seek re-election as UNDP Administrator after the completion of her four-year term. (2)

April 19, 2017 Clark left UNDP, and flies to NZ to be part of the following. (2a)

April 23, 2017 Five Eyes spying network holds highly secretive meeting in Queenstown NZ. FBI director James Comey (Q3674; DOJ Gulfstream G550) and CIA director Mike Pompeo both attend. This was the meeting that the scheme to spy on Trump was hatched. (3)(4)

Helen Clark (((Soros))) rigs the 2017 election in favour of her prot?g? Jacinda Ardern (5), they will get her to sign the GCSB warrant. Remember, they are convinced that Mueller will indict Trump.

October 26, 2017, Ardern does indeed become Prime Minister of NZ. "Special votes" (((Soros/Clark))) sway the result in her favour (6). Shortly thereafter she foolishly authorises GCSB to spy on Trump. Evidently she is too young and stupid to know that she's the fall guy.

March 21, 2018 Barack Obama arrives in New Zealand for the first time. (7) Obviously he is here for GCSB intel. Perhaps to blackmail Key. Oddly, he is entertained by Sam Neill, NZ actor (Jurassic Park). Maybe they have something in common?

May 7, 2018 Hillary Clinton visit's New Zealand in May. Obviously she is here for GCSB intel! Perhaps she tries to persuade Adern to renew the warrant when it expires in October/November. (8) Q1320 Q1336

Fast foward:

July 24, 2019 Robert Mueller Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee. As we know it's a flop, and POTUS won't be indicted, as (((Adern/Clark/Soros))) hoped. By now they realise that they're going to be the special guests at a stool kickin' party at Gitmo, and they seek a way out.

August 15, 2019 PM Jacinda Ardern announces $150m Pacific climate funding to help mitigate climate change in the pacific. (9) Details of who gets what are extremely sketchy, but it seems that the nation that gets the most of this "Climate Change" bribe money DOES NOT HAVE an extradition treaty with the United States. (10) Well ain't that interdasting?

#8658755 at 2020-04-02 06:49:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General: #11087 Notables Doublin Edition

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has no proxies but it has friends, tweeted Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said that the country or its proxies planned a sneak attack on U.S. targets in Iraq.

"Don't be misled by usual warmongers, AGAIN, @realDonaldTrump: Iran has FRIENDS: No one can have MILLIONS of proxies. Unlike the US - which surreptitiously lies, cheats & assassinates - Iran only acts in self-defence," tweeted Zarif.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-iran-usa/iran-has-no-proxies-as-trump-claims-but-has-friends-foreign-minister-tweets-idUSKBN21K0M3

#8638712 at 2020-03-31 21:01:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11061: Who's Got Our Six? Edition

>>8637077
>>8637678
CFR is in effect a franchise/branch of RIIA for anyone interested
Interdasting to look at the Chatham House Prize given annually and link to Atrocities, Cover Ups or treasonous events.
(they seem to sponsor, legitimatize and reward Traitors)

2013 HRC- Uranium 1?
2016 Iran Deal?- Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif Iran Secretary of State John Kerry
2018 Committee to Protect Journalists ( Khashoggi?) (Assange-protect from talking?)

Chatham House, also known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is a not-for-profit and non-governmental organisation based in London whose mission is to analyse and promote the understanding of major international issues and current affairs. It is the originator of the Chatham House Rule.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House

#8472129 at 2020-03-19 05:19:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10847: Bat Shit Crazy Edition

>>8472099
>>8472083
>>8472051
>>8472043
>>8472007
>>8471982
>>8471971
>>8471954
>>8471877
>>8471941
>>8471913
>>8471921
One final Iran blunder by Obama

By
Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
Jan. 10, 2017 at 8:00 a.m. CST
Secretary of State John Kerry talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in 2014 in Vienna. (Pool photo by Ronald Zak/Associated Press)
Secretary of State John Kerry talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in 2014 in Vienna. (Pool photo by Ronald Zak/Associated Press)
Even for those who support the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in principle, President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry's post-JCPOA serial concessions and excuse-making for the sake of "preserving" the deal have been troubling. First, Congress discovered delivery of cold hard cash as ransom for Americans held in Iran. Then came Kerry's efforts to open up the U.S. banking system so that Iran could get the "benefit" of the deal. Kerry followed up by acting as Tehran's chamber of commerce, trying to cajole businesses to set up in Iran. Coupled with the lack of response to Iran's illegal missile tests, continued support for terrorism, actions to abet genocide in Syria and putrid human rights record, the administration's behavior surely has given both Iran and our Sunni allies the impression that Iran is in the driver's seat.

On Monday, we saw just how lopsided the U.S.-Iran relationship has become. "The 2015 nuclear deal obligated Iran to keep no more than 130 metric tons of heavy water, a material used in the production of weapons-grade plutonium," explains Iran analyst Omri Ceren. "But the Iranians have continued to produce heavy water, and they exceeded the cap in February and November. The violations [are] functionally blackmailing the Obama administration: Either someone would purchase the excess heavy water, allowing Iran to literally profit from violating the deal, or the Iranians would go into formal noncompliance, endangering the deal."

So now the Associated Press has reported: Iran is to receive a huge shipment of natural uranium from Russia to compensate it for exporting tons of reactor coolant, diplomats say, in a move approved by the outgoing U.S. administration and other governments seeking to keep Tehran committed to a landmark nuclear pact. Two senior diplomats said the transfer recently approved by the U.S. and five other world powers that negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran foresees delivery of 116 metric tons (nearly 130 tons) of natural uranium.

Rather than police the deal to ensure compliance, the Obama administration is assisting Iran in violating the JCPOA. Ceren remarks, "That's enough for more than 10 nuclear bombs." We both allow the Iranians to exceed the heavy-water limits in the deal - and then richly compensate them with uranium that can be used for bombs. Our allies would be excused for thinking we are now promoting Iran's interests, not the West's.

In a rare on-the-record comment, Marshall Whitman, a spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, told Right Turn, "There is absolutely no justification to provide further benefits to the Iranian regime as it fails to comply with the nuclear agreement. Instead, it should be pressured to stop its malign behavior and live up to its commitments." That was supposed to be the policy of this administration. 1/1

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/01/10/one-final-iran-blunder-by-obama/

#8424500 at 2020-03-15 14:45:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10785: Bill Gates Camped Out On Palm Beach Edition

They all wearing Evergreen. Spoopy

Iran's death toll from coronavirus reaches 724, says health official

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday that the new coronavirus has killed 113 people in the past 24 hours, raising the country's death toll to 724, a health ministry official tweeted, adding that the number of infected people had reached 13,938.

The new figures were tweeted by Alireza Vahabzadeh, an adviser to Iran's health minister.

To contain the outbreak in Iran, one of the deadliest outside of China, officials have called on people to avoid unnecessary trips and stay at home.

A host of senior officials, politicians, doctors, commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guards and clerics have been infected with the virus. Several of them, including an adviser to Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, have died, according to state media.

Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur told state TV that 4,590 of those infected had recovered.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/irans-death-toll-coronavirus-reaches-104916770.html

#8410881 at 2020-03-14 06:08:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10768: Light That Fire Mofo's Edition

>>8410862
>>8410876
Iranian officials killed by coronavirus; confirmed and unconfirmed cases:

Former lawmaker Mohammadreza Rahchamani died on Monday from coronavirus, the official IRNA news agency reported. The 64-year-old was a member of parliament from 1984 to 2000.

Farzad Tazari, a former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has also died from coronavirus, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday. Tazari was the former deputy of the political bureau of the IRGC.

He had also been part of the IRGC intelligence organization, according to Tasnim.

Reza Modarresi, a cleric from Qom, died from coronavirus, the semi-official Khabar Online news agency reported on March 7.

Cleric Ali Hosseini, the head of the Islamic Development Organization in the city of Aliabad-e-Katul in Golestan province, died on March 5, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Friday.

While Mehr did not cite the cause of his death, other Iranian media outlets reported that Hosseini died from coronavirus.

Two other Iranian clerics, Mostafa Amini and Nematollah Javadi Bamiani, have also died from coronavirus, according to unconfirmed reports.

Mousa Torabzadeh, the former prosecutor of Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh, a city in Gilan province, has also died from coronavirus, according to a Telegram channel affiliated with the Iranian judiciary.

Ayatollah Reza Mohammadi Langroudi also died from the virus, state media confirmed on March 7.

Cleric Akbar Dehghan also died from coronavirus on March 5, the semi-official Khabar Online news agency reported. Dehghan headed the Qom seminary interpretation staff.

Ayatollah Mohsen Habibi, a member of the Supreme Council of Tehran's Seminaries, also died from coronavirus, the state-run Rokna news agency confirmed on March 5.

The Iranian judiciary's website, Mizan, reported on March 5 that cleric Ali Khalafi, a deputy to the head of the judiciary, has died.

While Mizan did not cite the cause of death, Iranians online speculated that coronavirus was the cause.

Rasoul Azizi, the head of Gilan's police inspection department, also died, local media reported, without citing the cause of death.

Azizi is also believed to have been infected with coronavirus.

Member of parliament Fatemeh Rahbar died due to coronavirus, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday.

Hossein Sheikholeslam, Iran's former ambassador to Syria and former advisor to current Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, died from coronavirus, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on March 5.

Ahmad Toyserkani, an adviser to the head of the judiciary Ebrahim Raisi, died from coronavirus, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported on March 3.

Mohammad Haj Abolghasemi, an official of the Basij Resistance Force - a paramilitary arm of the IRGC - died on March 3, state media reported, without citing the cause of death.

Several users online, however, including a user who says Abolghasemi was the brother of his sister's husband, said that he died due to coronavirus.

Mohammad MirMohammadi, a member of Iran's Expediency Council, died from coronavirus, state media reported on March 2.

Member of parliament Mohammad Ali Ramazani Dastak died in disputed circumstances on February 29, as officials claimed he died of the "flu" and "chemical injuries" sustained during the war with Iraq but journalists suggested he was another victim of coronavirus.

Reza Pourkhanali, an agriculture ministry official in Gilan province, died from coronavirus, state media reported on February 28.

Hamed Jalali Kashani, a pro-regime activist and an advocate for child marriage, died from coronavirus on February 28, the semi-official YJC news agency reported.

Ahmad Khosravi, another pro-regime activist, also died from coronavirus. News of his death was widely circulated on social media amongst pro-regime users.

Iran's former ambassador to the Vatican Hadi Khosroshahi died on February 27 from coronavirus, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Khosroshahi was a prominent figure in the Qom seminary and was a representative of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the Ministry of Islamic Guidance after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. After two years, he became the ambassador of the Islamic Republic to the Vatican.

#8407826 at 2020-03-14 00:48:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10764: Absolutely Comfy Edition

>>8407665 ThankQ Baker! Please continue the trend of labeling:
>COVID19 Notable Persons List

Anons, please continue to grow the list. I will be gone for the next several hours. I think there's already been a few that maybe should be added, but I am all out of time for 2day!

< The purpose of this collection is NOT to instill fear, but simply to track higher-profile individuals who have announced positive COVID19 results OR are "ill."

Patriots are absolutely in control, and I TRUST THE MF PLAN!!!

Now, the list…

COVID19 Notable Persons List

[ $ ] = suspected or "illness" reported
[ * ] = removed from list
[ X ] = killed by COVID19 [conf/unconf]

Tom Hanx - Actor
Rita WIlson - Hanx wife
Rudy Gobert - Utah Jazz, Center
Staff - Maria Cantwell, senate, Washington, D.C.
Nadine Dorries - UK Health Minister
Donovan Mitchell - Utah Jazz
Janet Broderick - Matthew Broderick (actor) sister
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau - wife of Canada PM Justin Trudeau
Fabio Wajngarten - Brazil, aide to Jair Bolsonaro
Philip Jansen - BT chief executive
Peter Dutton - Autralia Home Affairs Minister
Horst Seehofer - Germany, (CSU)
Karl Lauterback - Germany, (SPD)
David Sassoli - Italy, Democratic Party
Employee @ Vodafone - "We can confirm that several of our employees in the UK have been in contact with a person visiting the office, who has tested positive for the coronavirus."
Daniele Rugani - Italy, soccer player
Manolo Gabiadini - Italy, soccer player
Omar Collet - Italy, soccer player
Albin Ekdal - Italy, soccer player
Antonio La Gumina - Italy, soccer player
Morten Thorsby - Italy, soccer player
Mikel Arteta - London, soccer manager
Hudson Odoi - England, soccer player

$ Pope Francis - Religious leader - reported "sick" one day after CV outreach
$ Elton John - Singer - reported "pneumonia" after "final tour"
$ Daniel Radcliffe - "fake coronavirus rumor"
$ Queen Elizabeth - "sick" January 23, 2020
$ Gwen Stefani - "cancelled a string of shows due to a mystery illness"
$ "Individual working on Riverdale" - CW teen drama suspended
$ Katie Price - former glamour model - back after "mystery illness"
$ Jorge Ramos - DNC Mmoderator - possibly exposed

<IRAN GETS A SPECIAL LIST>
Ali Asghar Mounesan - Iran Minister of Cultural Heritage
Reza Rahmani - Iran, Minister of Industry
Esmail Najar - Iran. Emergency response org
Mohammad Sadr - Iran, Expediency Council
Zoreh Elahian - Iran, MP
Pirhossein Koolivand, Iran, Emergency medical services
Farideddin Haddad-Adel - son of Gholamali Hadad-Adel, close ally/advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
Masoumeh Aghapour Alishahi - Iran, MP
Mojtaba Zolnour - Iran, chairman of Parliament's national security and foreign affairs cmmte
Masoumeh Ebtekar - Iran, VP for Women and Family affairs
Mostafa PourMohammadi - Iran, former justice minister, advisor to head of judiciary
Iraj Harirchi - Iran, Deputy Minister for Health
Mahmoud Sadeghi - Iran, MP
Eshaq Jahangiri - Iran VP

X Mohammadreza Rahchamani - Iran, former MP (1984-2000)
X Farzad Razari - IRGC, former deputy, former intel
X Reza Modarresi - Iran, Qom cleric
X Ali Hosseini - Iran, head of Islamic Development Organization
X Mostafa Amini - Iran, cleric
X Nematollah Javadi Bamiani - Iran, cleric
X Mousa Torabzadeh - Iran, former prosecutor
X Ayatollah Reza Mohammadi Langroudi - Iran
X Akbar Deghan - Iran, Qom Seminary Interpretation Staff
X Ayatollah Mohsen Habibi - Iran, Supreme Council of Tehran's Seminaries
X Ali Khalafi - Iran, cleric, deputy of the head judiciary
X Rasoul Azizi - Iran, head of Gialn police inspection dept.
X Fatemeh Rahbar - Iran, MP
X Hossein Sheikholeslam - Iran, former ambassador to Syria, fmr advisor to current Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
X Ahmad Toyserkani - Iran, advisor to head of Judiciary Ebrahim Raisi
X Mohammad Haj Abolghasemi - Iran, Basij Resistance Force official
X Mohammad MirMohammadi - Iran, Expediency council
X Alia Ramazani Dastak - Iran
X Reza Pourkhanali - Iran, Agriculture Ministry
X Hamed Jalali Kashani - Iran, pro-regime activist, pro child marriage
X Ahmad Khosravi - Iran, pro-regime
X Hadi Khosroshahi - Iran, FORMER AMBASSADOR TO VATICAN

* Jaír Bolsonaro - President of Brazil

>https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/all-films-concerts-and-more-put-on-hold-over-coronavirus/ *list of events cancelled due to COVID19

#8406913 at 2020-03-13 23:21:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10763: Dubious Pandemics Edition

>>8406874
ThankQ Baker! Please continue the trend of labeling:
>COVID19 Notable Persons List

Anons, this is nuts. What's the death rate for Iranian officials??? kek

Please continue the list! WWG1WGA!

COVID19 Notable Persons List

[ $ ] = suspected or "illness" reported
[ * ] = removed from list
[ X ] = killed by COVID19 [conf/unconf]

Tom Hanx - Actor
Rita WIlson - Hanx wife
Rudy Gobert - Utah Jazz, Center
Staff - Maria Cantwell, senate, Washington, D.C.
Nadine Dorries - UK Health Minister
Donovan Mitchell - Utah Jazz
Janet Broderick - Matthew Broderick (actor) sister
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau - wife of Canada PM Justin Trudeau
Fabio Wajngarten - Brazil, aide to Jair Bolsonaro
Philip Jansen - BT chief executive
Peter Dutton - Autralia Home Affairs Minister
Horst Seehofer - Germany, (CSU)
Karl Lauterback - Germany, (SPD)
David Sassoli - Italy, Democratic Party
Employee @ Vodafone - "We can confirm that several of our employees in the UK have been in contact with a person visiting the office, who has tested positive for the coronavirus."
Daniele Rugani - Italy, soccer player
Manolo Gabiadini - Italy, soccer player
Omar Collet - Italy, soccer player
Albin Ekdal - Italy, soccer player
Antonio La Gumina - Italy, soccer player
Morten Thorsby - Italy, soccer player
Mikel Arteta - London, soccer manager
Hudson Odoi - England, soccer player

$ Pope Francis - Religious leader - reported "sick" one day after CV outreach
$ Elton John - Singer - reported "pneumonia" after "final tour"
$ Daniel Radcliffe - "fake coronavirus rumor"
$ Queen Elizabeth - "sick" January 23, 2020
$ Gwen Stefani - "cancelled a string of shows due to a mystery illness"
$ "Individual working on Riverdale" - CW teen drama suspended
$ Katie Price - former glamour model - back after "mystery illness"
$ Jorge Ramos - DNC Mmoderator - possibly exposed

<IRAN GETS A SPECIAL LIST>
Ali Asghar Mounesan - Iran Minister of Cultural Heritage
Reza Rahmani - Iran, Minister of Industry
Esmail Najar - Iran. Emergency response org
Mohammad Sadr - Iran, Expediency Council
Zoreh Elahian - Iran, MP
Pirhossein Koolivand, Iran, Emergency medical services
Farideddin Haddad-Adel - son of Gholamali Hadad-Adel, close ally/advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
Masoumeh Aghapour Alishahi - Iran, MP
Mojtaba Zolnour - Iran, chairman of Parliament's national security and foreign affairs cmmte
Masoumeh Ebtekar - Iran, VP for Women and Family affairs
Mostafa PourMohammadi - Iran, former justice minister, advisor to head of judiciary
Iraj Harirchi - Iran, Deputy Minister for Health
Mahmoud Sadeghi - Iran, MP
Eshaq Jahangiri - Iran VP

X Mohammadreza Rahchamani - Iran, former MP (1984-2000)
X Farzad Razari - IRGC, former deputy, former intel
X Reza Modarresi - Iran, Qom cleric
X Ali Hosseini - Iran, head of Islamic Development Organization
X Mostafa Amini - Iran, cleric
X Nematollah Javadi Bamiani - Iran, cleric
X Mousa Torabzadeh - Iran, former prosecutor
X Ayatollah Reza Mohammadi Langroudi - Iran
X Akbar Deghan - Iran, Qom Seminary Interpretation Staff
X Ayatollah Mohsen Habibi - Iran, Supreme Council of Tehran's Seminaries
X Ali Khalafi - Iran, cleric, deputy of the head judiciary
X Rasoul Azizi - Iran, head of Gialn police inspection dept.
X Fatemeh Rahbar - Iran, MP
X Hossein Sheikholeslam - Iran, former ambassador to Syria, fmr advisor to current Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
X Ahmad Toyserkani - Iran, advisor to head of Judiciary Ebrahim Raisi
X Mohammad Haj Abolghasemi - Iran, Basij Resistance Force official
X Mohammad MirMohammadi - Iran, Expediency council
X Alia Ramazani Dastak - Iran
X Reza Pourkhanali - Iran, Agriculture Ministry
X Hamed Jalali Kashani - Iran, pro-regime activist, pro child marriage
X Ahmad Khosravi - Iran, pro-regime
X Hadi Khosroshahi - Iran, FORMER AMBASSADOR TO VATICAN

* Jaír Bolsonaro - President of Brazil

>https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/all-films-concerts-and-more-put-on-hold-over-coronavirus/ *list of events cancelled due to COVID19

#8406109 at 2020-03-13 22:15:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10762: We Are The News Edition

>>8406056
Eternal ThankQs to bakers!

Anons, thank you for your contributions! Please keep those updates coming! I'm planning to be busy tonight, and probably won't make it back here much. Any anon available to monitor the list?

COVID19 Notable Persons List

[ $ ] = suspected or "illness" reported
[ * ] = removed from list
[ X ] = killed by COVID19 [conf/unconf]

Tom Hanx - Actor
Rita WIlson - Hanx wife
Rudy Gobert - Utah Jazz, Center
Staff - Maria Cantwell, senate, Washington, D.C.
Nadine Dorries - UK Health Minister
Donovan Mitchell - Utah Jazz
Janet Broderick - Matthew Broderick (actor) sister
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau - wife of Canada PM Justin Trudeau
Fabio Wajngarten - aide to Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil
Philip Jansen - BT chief executive
Peter Dutton - Autralia Home Affairs Minister
Horst Seehofer - Germany, (CSU)
Karl Lauterback - Germany, (SPD)
David Sassoli - Italy, Democratic Party
Employee @ Vodafone - "We can confirm that several of our employees in the UK have been in contact with a person visiting the office, who has tested positive for the coronavirus."

$ Pope Francis - Religious leader - reported "sick" one day after CV outreach
$ Elton John - Singer - reported "pneumonia" after "final tour"
$ Daniel Radcliffe - "fake coronavirus rumor"
$ Queen Elizabeth - "sick" January 23, 2020
$ Gwen Stefani - "cancelled a string of shows due to a mystery illness"
$ "Individual working on Riverdale" - CW teen drama suspended
$ Katie Price - former glamour model - back after "mystery illness"
$ Jorge Ramos - DNC Mmoderator - possibly exposed

<IRAN GETS A SPECIAL LIST>
Ali Asghar Mounesan - Iran Minister of Cultural Heritage
Reza Rahmani - Iran, Minister of Industry
Esmail Najar - Iran. Emergency response org
Mohammad Sadr - Iran, Expediency Council
Zoreh Elahian - Iran, MP
Pirhossein Koolivand, Iran, Emergency medical services
Farideddin Haddad-Adel - son of Gholamali Hadad-Adel, close ally/advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
Masoumeh Aghapour Alishahi - Iran, MP
Mojtaba Zolnour - Iran, chairman of Parliament's national security and foreign affairs cmmte
Masoumeh Ebtekar - Iran, VP for Women and Family affairs
Mostafa PourMohammadi - Iran, former justice minister, advisor to head of judiciary
Iraj Harirchi - Iran, Deputy Minister for Health
Mahmoud Sadeghi - Iran, MP
Eshaq Jahangiri - Iran VP

X Mohammadreza Rahchamani - Iran, former MP (1984-2000)
X Farzad Razari - IRGC, former deputy, former intel
X Reza Modarresi - Iran, Qom cleric
X Ali Hosseini - Iran, head of Islamic Development Organization
X Mostafa Amini - Iran, cleric
X Nematollah Javadi Bamiani - Iran, cleric
X Mousa Torabzadeh - Iran, former prosecutor
X Ayatollah Reza Mohammadi Langroudi - Iran
X Akbar Deghan - Iran, Qom Seminary Interpretation Staff
X Ayatollah Mohsen Habibi - Iran, Supreme Council of Tehran's Seminaries
X Ali Khalafi - Iran, cleric, deputy of the head judiciary
X Rasoul Azizi - Iran, head of Gialn police inspection dept.
X Fatemeh Rahbar - Iran, MP
X Hossein Sheikholeslam - Iran, former ambassador to Syria, fmr advisor to current Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
X Ahmad Toyserkani - Iran, advisor to head of Judiciary Ebrahim Raisi
X Mohammad Haj Abolghasemi - Iran, Basij Resistance Force official
X Mohammad MirMohammadi - Iran, Expediency council
X Alia Ramazani Dastak - Iran
X Reza Pourkhanali - Iran, Agriculture Ministry
X Hamed Jalali Kashani - Iran, pro-regime activist, pro child marriage
X Ahmad Khosravi - Iran, pro-regime
X Hadi Khosroshahi - Iran, FORMER AMBASSADOR TO VATICAN

* Jaír Bolsonaro - President of Brazil

>https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/all-films-concerts-and-more-put-on-hold-over-coronavirus/ *list of events cancelled due to COVID19

#8405647 at 2020-03-13 21:38:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10761: Future Proves Past Once Again Edition

>>8405210 ThankQ baker! Please continue the labeling trend:
>COVID19 Notable Persons List

>>8404717 (pb)
>>8404737 (pb)
ThankQ Anon! That's a lot of Iranfags, but I think I made it thru the list.

Anons, pleaase let me know if something is missing, redundant, or needs to be changed.

COVID19 Notable Persons List

[ $ ] = suspected or "illness" reported
[ * ] = removed from list
[ X ] = killed by COVID19 [conf/unconf]

Tom Hanx - Actor
Rita WIlson - Hanx wife
Rudy Gobert - Utah Jazz, Center
Staff - Maria Cantwell, senate, Washington, D.C.
Nadine Dorries - UK Health Minister
Donovan Mitchell - Utah Jazz
Janet Broderick - Matthew Broderick (actor) sister
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau - wife of Canada PM Justin Trudeau
Fabio Wajngarten - aide to Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil
Philip Jansen - BT chief executive
Peter Dutton - Autralia Home Affairs Minister
Horst Seehofer - Germany, (CSU)
Karl Lauterback - Germany, (SPD)
David Sassoli - Italy, Democratic Party
Employee @ Vodafone - "We can confirm that several of our employees in the UK have been in contact with a person visiting the office, who has tested positive for the coronavirus."

$ Pope Francis - Religious leader - reported "sick" one day after CV outreach
$ Elton John - Singer - reported "pneumonia" after "final tour"
$ Daniel Radcliffe - "fake coronavirus rumor"
$ Queen Elizabeth - "sick" January 23, 2020
$ Gwen Stefani - "cancelled a string of shows due to a mystery illness"
$ "Individual working on Riverdale" - CW teen drama suspended
$ Katie Price - former glamour model - back after "mystery illness"
$ Jorge Ramos - DNC Mmoderator - possibly exposed

<IRAN GETS A SPECIAL LIST>
Ali Asghar Mounesan - Iran Minister of Cultural Heritage
Reza Rahmani - Iran, Minister of Industry
Esmail Najar - Iran. Emergency response org
Mohammad Sadr - Iran, Expediency Council
Zoreh Elahian - Iran, MP
Pirhossein Koolivand, Iran, Emergency medical services
Farideddin Haddad-Adel - son of Gholamali Hadad-Adel, close ally/advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
Masoumeh Aghapour Alishahi - Iran, MP
Mojtaba Zolnour - Iran, chairman of Parliament's national security and foreign affairs cmmte
Masoumeh Ebtekar - Iran, VP for Women and Family affairs
Mostafa PourMohammadi - Iran, former justice minister, advisor to head of judiciary
Iraj Harirchi - Iran, Deputy Minister for Health
Mahmoud Sadeghi - Iran, MP
Eshaq Jahangiri - Iran VP

X Mohammadreza Rahchamani - Iran, former MP (1984-2000)
X Farzad Razari - IRGC, former deputy, former intel
X Reza Modarresi - Iran, Qom cleric
X Ali Hosseini - Iran, head of Islamic Development Organization
X Mostafa Amini - Iran, cleric
X Nematollah Javadi Bamiani - Iran, cleric
X Mousa Torabzadeh - Iran, former prosecutor
X Ayatollah Reza Mohammadi Langroudi - Iran
X Akbar Deghan - Iran, Qom Seminary Interpretation Staff
X Ayatollah Mohsen Habibi - Iran, Supreme Council of Tehran's Seminaries
X Ali Khalafi - Iran, cleric, deputy of the head judiciary
X Rasoul Azizi - Iran, head of Gialn police inspection dept.
X Fatemeh Rahbar - Iran, MP
X Hossein Sheikholeslam - Iran, former ambassador to Syria, fmr advisor to current Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
X Ahmad Toyserkani - Iran, advisor to head of Judiciary Ebrahim Raisi
X Mohammad Haj Abolghasemi - Iran, Basij Resistance Force official
X Mohammad MirMohammadi - Iran, Expediency council
X Alia Ramazani Dastak - Iran
X Reza Pourkhanali - Iran, Agriculture Ministry
X Hamed Jalali Kashani - Iran, pro-regime activist, pro child marriage
X Ahmad Khosravi - Iran, pro-regime
X Hadi Khosroshahi - Iran, FORMER AMBASSADOR TO VATICAN

* Jaír Bolsonaro - President of Brazil

>https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/all-films-concerts-and-more-put-on-hold-over-coronavirus/ *list of events cancelled due to COVID19

#8404737 at 2020-03-13 20:28:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10760: !BOOM! Edition

>>8404717
Officials killed by coronavirus; confirmed and unconfirmed cases:

Former lawmaker Mohammadreza Rahchamani died on Monday from coronavirus, the official IRNA news agency reported. The 64-year-old was a member of parliament from 1984 to 2000.

Farzad Tazari, a former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has also died from coronavirus, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday. Tazari was the former deputy of the political bureau of the IRGC.

He had also been part of the IRGC intelligence organization, according to Tasnim.

Reza Modarresi, a cleric from Qom, died from coronavirus, the semi-official Khabar Online news agency reported on March 7.

Cleric Ali Hosseini, the head of the Islamic Development Organization in the city of Aliabad-e-Katul in Golestan province, died on March 5, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Friday.

While Mehr did not cite the cause of his death, other Iranian media outlets reported that Hosseini died from coronavirus.

Two other Iranian clerics, Mostafa Amini and Nematollah Javadi Bamiani, have also died from coronavirus, according to unconfirmed reports.

Mousa Torabzadeh, the former prosecutor of Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh, a city in Gilan province, has also died from coronavirus, according to a Telegram channel affiliated with the Iranian judiciary.

Ayatollah Reza Mohammadi Langroudi also died from the virus, state media confirmed on March 7.

Cleric Akbar Dehghan also died from coronavirus on March 5, the semi-official Khabar Online news agency reported. Dehghan headed the Qom seminary interpretation staff.

Ayatollah Mohsen Habibi, a member of the Supreme Council of Tehran's Seminaries, also died from coronavirus, the state-run Rokna news agency confirmed on March 5.

The Iranian judiciary's website, Mizan, reported on March 5 that cleric Ali Khalafi, a deputy to the head of the judiciary, has died.

While Mizan did not cite the cause of death, Iranians online speculated that coronavirus was the cause.

Rasoul Azizi, the head of Gilan's police inspection department, also died, local media reported, without citing the cause of death.

Azizi is also believed to have been infected with coronavirus.

Member of parliament Fatemeh Rahbar died due to coronavirus, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday.

Hossein Sheikholeslam, Iran's former ambassador to Syria and former advisor to current Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, died from coronavirus, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on March 5.

Ahmad Toyserkani, an adviser to the head of the judiciary Ebrahim Raisi, died from coronavirus, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported on March 3.

Mohammad Haj Abolghasemi, an official of the Basij Resistance Force - a paramilitary arm of the IRGC - died on March 3, state media reported, without citing the cause of death.

Several users online, however, including a user who says Abolghasemi was the brother of his sister's husband, said that he died due to coronavirus.

Mohammad MirMohammadi, a member of Iran's Expediency Council, died from coronavirus, state media reported on March 2.

Member of parliament Mohammad Ali Ramazani Dastak died in disputed circumstances on February 29, as officials claimed he died of the "flu" and "chemical injuries" sustained during the war with Iraq but journalists suggested he was another victim of coronavirus.

Reza Pourkhanali, an agriculture ministry official in Gilan province, died from coronavirus, state media reported on February 28.

Hamed Jalali Kashani, a pro-regime activist and an advocate for child marriage, died from coronavirus on February 28, the semi-official YJC news agency reported.

Ahmad Khosravi, another pro-regime activist, also died from coronavirus. News of his death was widely circulated on social media amongst pro-regime users.

Iran's former ambassador to the Vatican Hadi Khosroshahi died on February 27 from coronavirus, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Khosroshahi was a prominent figure in the Qom seminary and was a representative of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the Ministry of Islamic Guidance after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. After two years, he became the ambassador of the Islamic Republic to the Vatican.

#8402522 at 2020-03-13 18:06:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10757: Muh Criminal Bracket Memes! Edition

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran said Friday the security forces will clear the streets nationwide within 24 hours so all citizens can be checked for coronavirus - its toughest measure yet to combat the outbreak.

The COVID-19 epidemic in Iran - a nation of more than 80 million people - has now claimed over 500 lives and infected more than 11,000. Since it announced the first deaths last month, Iran has shut schools, postponed events and discouraged travel ahead of Nowrouz, the country's New Year holidays.
But despite those and other measures including the cancellation of the main weekly Friday prayers, the official number of deaths and infections has continued to grow exponentially.

Iran's supreme leader on Thursday ordered the armed forces to lead the battle against the outbreak.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei instructed the security forces to bring their services together and expand efforts to combat the virus.
Acting on those orders, armed forces chief of staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri chaired a meeting on Friday that included Revolutionary Guard commander Hossein Salami and police chief Hossein Ashtari.
Among other top brass at the gathering was Gholamreza Soleimani, who heads the Basij, a volunteer militia loyal to the establishment, as was Defence Minister Amir Hatami.

Bagheri appeared in front of the cameras later to say a newly formed commission had been charged with overseeing the "emptying of shops, streets and roads" within the next 24 hours.
Entire nation to monitored
"During the next 10 days, the entire Iranian nation will be monitored once through cyberspace, by phone and, if necessary, in person, and those suspected of being ill will be fully identified," he said.

It was difficult to estimate on Friday the real extent of the measures announced by the general.
News of the lockdown came as Iran said the novel coronavirus had claimed another 85 lives, its highest single-day toll since the first deaths were announced on February 19.
"Sadly, 85 people infected with the COVID-19 disease have died in the past 24 hours," health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said.
"Across the country, at least 1,289 infected people have been added to the list of confirmed patients."
In all, the ministry says 514 people have been killed by the illness out of 11,364 confirmed cases of infection in Iran.

Several politicians and officials have been infected, with some dying from the illness.
The latest suspected case was Ali Akbar Velayati, who advises Iran's supreme leader on foreign policy.
Velayati fell ill with "mild symptoms" on Wednesday and has been placed in quarantine, according to Tasnim news agency.

Iran on Thursday said it asked the International Monetary Fund for its first loan in decades to combat the coronavirus outbreak.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged the IMF to "stand on the right side of history".

'Right direction'
Zarif also appealed to the United Nations for an end to US sanctions, which he said were "undermining our efforts to fight the COVID-19 epidemic in Iran".
The United States is currently pursuing a policy of "maximum pressure" aimed at crippling the Iranian government's finances.
President Donald Trump launched the campaign in 2018 after unilaterally withdrawing the US from a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers and reimposing sanctions.
In theory, humanitarian items are exempt from the US sanctions, but in reality banks tend to turn down transactions involving Iran to avoid being exposed to potential litigation.
The World Health Organization praised Iran as a delegation of WHO and public health experts left the country after a five-day mission.
"We see that Iran's strategies and priorities to control COVID-19 are evolving in the right direction," said Richard Brennan, WHO regional emergency director.
"But more needs to be done," he said in a statement.
"We agreed on several priority areas for scale-up with the national health authorities, based on informed experiences in China and elsewhere."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-500-dead-iran-to-empty-the-streets-check-all-80-million-people-for-virus/?utm_source=with-500-dead-iran-to-empty-the-streets-check-all-80-million-people-for-virus&utm_medium=desktop-browser&utm_campaign=desktop-notifications

#8338305 at 2020-03-07 04:03:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10675: MBS Arresting Saudi Royals Edition

Adviser to Iran's Foreign Minister Dies of Coronavir

Tehran (AFP) - An adviser to Iran's foreign minister who took part in the 1979 U.S. embassy hostage crisis has died from coronavirus, the official IRNA news agency reported. Hossein Sheikholeslam, "a veteran and revolutionary diplomat" died late Thursday, IRNA said. Iran has been scrambling to contain the rapid spread of coronavirus which so far has infected 3,513 people and killed at least 107 people in the Islamic republic. Six of those who died from coronavirus are politicians or government officials.

Before his death Sheikholeslam was advisor to Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. A former ambassador to Syria, he also served as deputy foreign minister from 1981 to 1997. Sheikholeslam was also one of the students involved in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. That year, and less than nine months after the toppling of the American-backed shah, Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostage. This prompted Washington to sever diplomatic ties with Iran in 1980. The hostages were freed in January 1981, after 444 days in captivity.

The novel coronavirus has also claimed the lives of other high-profile Iranian officials, including Mohammad MirMohammadi of the Expediency Council which advises supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Other deaths linked to the virus include Mohammad Ali Ramezani, an MP from Gilan, one of the worst-hit provinces in the country. Tehran MP Fatemeh Rahbar is currently in a coma after being infected, according to ISNA news agency. Iran has closed schools and universities, suspended major cultural and sporting events and reduced working hours across the country to halt the rapid spread of coronavirus, which has spread to all of its 31 provinces.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2020/03/06/adviser-to-irans-foreign-minister-dies-of-coronavirus/

#8316762 at 2020-03-04 17:44:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10647: WWF Presents Biden Burnie SmackDown Edition

Sergey #Lavrov spoke by phone with Foreign Minister of #Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif. The sides discussed trade and economic cooperation and other issues on the bilateral agenda.

https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1235221361959858176

#8286356 at 2020-02-29 22:19:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10608: Hats Off To Anons Edition

>>8286230

Pompeo clues to your question Re who he was negotiating with in Antarctica can be found on the Christ Church tarmac

Zarif was in NZ when Clapper arrived, he also went on to AUS like Clapper
Zarif traveled to NZ to discuss "sanctions" with John Key

John Key holds talks with Iran foreign minister amid calls for new sanctions
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/77852231/john-key-holds-talks-with-iran-foreign-minister-amid-calls-for-new-sanctions

John Key's resignation at the beginning of December 2016 is significant
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/05/john-key-resigns-new-zealand-prime-minister-to-quit

Key and 44 are close. 44 went to NZ (MAR 2019) to visit Mr. Key

Clapper secret visit to NZ and AU
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-16/us-spy-boss-makes-secretive-visit-to-australia/7251590

FM arrives in Australia after New Zealand visit
https://parstoday.com/en/news/iran-i5443-fm_arrives_in_australia_after_new_zealand_visit

Zarif departs for Australia
Wellington, March 14, IRNA - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif departed New Zealand for Australian capital, Canberra on Monday
https://theiranproject.com/blog/2016/03/14/Zarif-departs-australia/

#8191540 at 2020-02-20 05:18:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10487: Justice Finally Has Momentum Edition

Austrian Foreign Minister meeting
to save JCPOA

https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2020/02/19/2206444/austrian-fm-due-in-iran-to-discuss-jcpoa-report

Austrian FM Due in Iran to Discuss JCPOA: Report

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg plans to travel to Iran on Saturday to hold talks with senior officials of the Islamic Republic on the latest efforts to save the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), local reports said.

Schallenberg will arrive in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Saturday and hold talks with President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, according to Austria's German-language daily newspaper Die Presse.

The trip is in connection with the European Union's efforts to mediate the nuclear dispute between Iran and the US, according to the report.

In remarks last month, Schallenberg had said, "When the belligerents aren't willing to approach the negotiating table, we can bring the negotiating table to them."

In May 2018, US President Donald Trump pulled his country out of the nuclear deal.
Iran and the remaining parties launched talks to save the JCPOA after the US withdrawal, but the three EU parties to the deal - France, Britain and Germany - have failed to ensure Iran's economic interests.

The EU's inaction forced Tehran to stop honoring certain commitments to the nuclear deal.

Iran maintains that the new measures are not designed to harm the JCPOA but to save the accord by creating a balance in the commitments.

#8191408 at 2020-02-20 05:07:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10486: WWG1WGA 17 Edition

Austrian Foreign Minister meeting
to save JCPOA

https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2020/02/19/2206444/austrian-fm-due-in-iran-to-discuss-jcpoa-report

Austrian FM Due in Iran to Discuss JCPOA: Report
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg plans to travel to Iran on Saturday to hold talks with senior officials of the Islamic Republic on the latest efforts to save the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), local reports said.

Schallenberg will arrive in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Saturday and hold talks with President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, according to Austria's German-language daily newspaper Die Presse.

The trip is in connection with the European Union's efforts to mediate the nuclear dispute between Iran and the US, according to the report.

In remarks last month, Schallenberg had said, "When the belligerents aren't willing to approach the negotiating table, we can bring the negotiating table to them."

In May 2018, US President Donald Trump pulled his country out of the nuclear deal.

Iran and the remaining parties launched talks to save the JCPOA after the US withdrawal, but the three EU parties to the deal - France, Britain and Germany - have failed to ensure Iran's economic interests.

The EU's inaction forced Tehran to stop honoring certain commitments to the nuclear deal.

Iran maintains that the new measures are not designed to harm the JCPOA but to save the accord by creating a balance in the commitments.

#8164890 at 2020-02-17 19:06:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10452: It's going to be a very hot [Spring/Summer] Edition

Dem Senator Who Mocked Trump As 'Literal Laughingstock' After Killing Of Soleimani Holds Secret Meeting With Iranian Official, Report Says

The Democratic senator who mocked President Trump after Trump ordered the killing of Iranian general and terror leader Qassem Soleimani, saying Trump had 'made us a literal laughingstock" around the world, held a secret meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during the Munich Security Conference last week, according to a source briefed by the French delegation to the conference.

The Federalist reports that Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, who had mocked Trump in early January, joined other Democratic senators for that secret meeting. What makes Murphy's action particularly hypocritical is that in the past, he has bitterly slammed the idea that senators might interfere with a current administration's foreign policy.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-who-mocked-trump-as-literal-laughingstock-after-killing-of-soleimani-holds-secret-meeting-with-iranian-official-report-says

#8074401 at 2020-02-08 17:55:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10335: "Moment of Silence" Edition

'Free speech only for Americans!' US senators threaten Twitter with sanctions unless it censors Iranian leadership

US senators have demanded that Twitter ban the accounts of two top Iranian officials, or face the wrath of US sanctions, in a thinly veiled threat to naive free speech-believers who might fall out of favor with Washington next.

Despite an Obama-era provision exempting certain internet platforms - including social media - from a raft of sanctions imposed on Iran, the four Republican lawmakers insisted in a joint letter that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif enjoyed no such protection, demanding that Twitter ban them immediately.

"Twitter is aware of these accounts and their links to the Iranian regime," yet "continues to provide [them] Internet-based communications services," the senators said, calling it a "sanctionable offense."

The senators argued that by allowing Iranian officials to share their country's position with the rest of the world, Twitter was providing a "service" in violation of an executive order signed by President Trump last June prohibiting Americans from any exchange with Tehran.

The letter was signed by Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), all of whom have taken a hard line on the Islamic Republic. Twitter has yet to respond to the blatant demand of selective censorship.

The threat follows a concerted campaign across several social media platforms last month to purge dozens of accounts affiliated with sanctioned individuals and entities - including Syrian, Iranian and Venezuelan officials, as well as average citizens in some cases - hardly without any pressure from Washington.

https://www.rt.com/news/480377-twitter-sanctions-iran-censorship/

#7955197 at 2020-01-29 17:48:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10181: Anons Actively Awaiting Burkman Pics! Edition

Iran's regime is fast running out of options

Iran, January 28, 2020-On January 5, the Iranian regime declared it is taking the fifth and final step in reducing its commitments to the 2015 international nuclear deal (JCPOA). The regime officially stated that it would not have any obligations stipulated in the JCPOA. The regime's goal in reducing its commitments was to press the EU to comply with the regime's demands. The regime is in dire need of economic aid to save its economy from complete collapse and to fund its proxies and militias in the region. But rather than making the EU comply with the regime's demands, the regime tightened the noose around its own neck.

On January 20, Zarif also threatened the West that the regime would exit from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) altogether if Europe does not meet its obligations.

In his interview with DER SPEIGEL on January 24, the Iranian regime's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stated, "The Europeans can't buckle to Trump and then try to act like the strong man against Iran." He also stipulated that Tehran won't rule out negotiations with Washington, even after Qasem Soleimani's death. Zarif had previously stated that he would never perform any major policy without the permission of the Iranian regime's supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

https://english.mojahedin.org/i/iran-jcpoa-npt-Zarif-qasem-soleimani-speigel-negotiation-20200128

#7914995 at 2020-01-26 01:16:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10129: MagaMania is On! Edition

Iran jails person who shot down Ukrainian aircraft

The Iranian man who shot down the Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 passenger plane near Tehran's airport is in prison, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine.

"This was a complicated situation in a complicated time. Others needed much more time. Almost 32 years ago, the US shot down an Iranian passenger plane. As of today, they still haven't issued an official apology. The American officer who was responsible for shooting it down even received a medal. Meanwhile, the Iranian man who shot down the Ukrainian plane is now in prison", Zarif said in a Friday interview with the magazine, answering the question on why it took the Iranian government three days to admit that its own military had shot down the plane.

The foreign minister added that people, indeed, had the right to complain that the information was not immediately disclosed, but it was not the government's fault.

Zarif himself found out the truth more than two days after the plane crash.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iran-jails-person-who-shot-down-ukrainian-aircraft/

#7887894 at 2020-01-23 18:31:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10094: When Potus RT's a Meme You Made! Edition

Tehran open to dialog with all neighbors: Zarif

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reaffirmed Iran's readiness for talks with all its neighbors amid tensions in the Persian Gulf region.

"Iran remains open to dialogue with its neighbors, and we declare our readiness to participate in any complementary work that is in the interest of the region, and we welcome any step that restores hope to its people and brings them stability and prosperity," Zarif said in a tweet in Thursday.

The tweet was in Arabic, which suggests it was addressed to the Persian Gulf littoral Arab countries. It came a day after Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said Riyadh was ready for talks with Tehran "but it is really up to Iran."

The top Saudi diplomat, however, repeated the baseless claims against Iran's role in the region, adding that the precondition for dialog is for the Islamic Republic to accept it "cannot further its regional agenda through violence."

Speaking from the World Economic Forum in Davos, he said he was glad the region has "avoided any escalation" with Iran, and that "many countries" have offered to mediate talks with Tehran.

Meanwhile, the Iranian president's chief of staff, Mahmoud Vaezi, said Wednesday that Tehran and Riyadh should work together to overcome their problems.

"The relations between Iran and its neighbor Saudi Arabia should not become like the relationship between Tehran and the United States … Tehran and Riyadh should work together to resolve their problems," Vaezi said.

At an event in the Indian city of Mumbai on Friday in coordination with All India Association of Industries (AIAI), Zarif also voiced Iran's readiness to hold talks with Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries to promote regional security.

He added that Iran has also presented proposals on ways to establish peace in the Strait of Hormuz.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/23/616886/Iran-FM-Zarif-Persian-Gulf-neighbors-dialogue

#7861173 at 2020-01-20 16:43:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10061: A Week To Remember Edition

Iran will leave pact barring it from getting nukes if complaint over 2015 deal filed with UN - Zarif

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned that the country will ditch the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if EU states file a complaint over its nuclear commitments with the UN Security Council.

"If the Europeans continue their improper behavior or send Iran's file to the Security Council, we will withdraw from the NPT," Zarif said on Monday, as quoted by IRNA.

Last week, France, Germany and Britain formally lodged a complaint that Tehran is violating the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran's nuclear program. The countries now have up to 60 days to resolve the dispute. Otherwise, the issue can be brought before the UN Security Council, which would vote whether to re-impose international sanctions on Iran.

Zarif called the decision to launch the complaint a "political game." The diplomat explained that the country has been scaling down its commitments under the JCPOA in accordance with the mechanisms laid out in the agreement, and had only done so after the US abandoned the deal in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions on Iran.

US President Donald Trump labelled the deal "defective at its core" and accused Iran of secretly violating it. Iran denied this, and multiple reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the time confirmed that the Islamic Republic was complying with the agreement.

Iran began gradually decreasing its commitments under the JCPOA a year later, and repeatedly said that it will return to full compliance once the EU provides some relief from the US sanctions. The country stopped following the deal altogether earlier this month, shortly after a US drone strike in Iraq killed senior Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.

Under the NPT, states that do not have nuclear weapons are banned from acquiring or developing them in the future.

https://www.rt.com/news/478709-Zarif-iran-nuclear-npt/

#7805929 at 2020-01-14 02:12:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9991: Wild Ride. 10k approaches. Edition

>>7805869 lb
>Top Iranian reporter apologizes 'for lying' and quits government TV after plane crash
>
>An anchor for Iran's state-run TV resigned today because of "lies" surrounding Iranian airstrikes that downed a Boeing 737-800 passenger plane above Tehran last week. "Iran State TV's anchor resigns saying, 'It was very hard for me to believe the killing of my countrymen. I apologize for lying to you on TV for 13 years,'" it was reported. Journalists in Iran have struggled to report factually on the events surrounding the recent airstrikes due to the government's strong grasp on media outlets. President Trump demanded the Iranians "turn your internet back on" yesterday after the Iranian government moved to shut off communications to the outside world.
>
>Days later, after a video was released showing a missile striking the Ukrainian airliner, the Iranian government claimed a missile "unintentionally" hit the plane, instantly killing all 176 passengers on board. More than 80 Iranians died as a result of the plane crash. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted that "preliminary conclusions of internal investigation by Armed Forces: Human error at time of crisis caused by US adventurism led to disaster."
>
>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-iranian-reporter-apologizes-for-lying-and-quits-government-tv-after-plane-crash

#7805869 at 2020-01-14 02:05:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9990: 10 To Go Edition

Top Iranian reporter apologizes 'for lying' and quits government TV after plane crash

An anchor for Iran's state-run TV resigned today because of "lies" surrounding Iranian airstrikes that downed a Boeing 737-800 passenger plane above Tehran last week. "Iran State TV's anchor resigns saying, 'It was very hard for me to believe the killing of my countrymen. I apologize for lying to you on TV for 13 years,'" it was reported. Journalists in Iran have struggled to report factually on the events surrounding the recent airstrikes due to the government's strong grasp on media outlets. President Trump demanded the Iranians "turn your internet back on" yesterday after the Iranian government moved to shut off communications to the outside world.

Days later, after a video was released showing a missile striking the Ukrainian airliner, the Iranian government claimed a missile "unintentionally" hit the plane, instantly killing all 176 passengers on board. More than 80 Iranians died as a result of the plane crash. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted that "preliminary conclusions of internal investigation by Armed Forces: Human error at time of crisis caused by US adventurism led to disaster."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-iranian-reporter-apologizes-for-lying-and-quits-government-tv-after-plane-crash

#7785184 at 2020-01-11 20:17:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9964: Learn to Bake! The Dough needs hands! Edition

>>7785126
>>7785176

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/11/us-iran-meet-bid-reach-nuclear-deal-2014119223847825201.html

US and Iran meet in bid to reach nuclear deal
US secretary of State meets his Iranian counterpart in Oman as Obama says there is a big gap in reaching a deal.

9 Nov 2014
US and Iran meet in bid to reach nuclear deal
Kerry (R) and Zarif (L) had two meetings lasting more than five hours in Muscat [EPA]
The United States and Iran held high-level talks in Oman as the deadline for a nuclear deal loomed closer, but President Barack Obama warned there might be no agreement.

US Secretary of State John Kerry met Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in the Gulf sultanate on Sunday, seeking to resolve key disputes that have left the West's negotiations with the Islamic republic close to deadlock.

The two countries are now facing pressure at home over the talks with Obama reiterating in a CBS News interview screened on Sunday that the two sides were still wide apart.

"Are we going to be able to close this final gap so that [Iran] can re-enter the international community, sanctions can be slowly reduced and we have verifiable, lock-tight assurances that they can't develop a nuclear weapon?" Obama asked.

"There's still a big gap. We may not be able to get there," he said.

Kerry and Zarif had two meetings lasting more than five hours in Muscat with former EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, the lead negotiator in the talks, also present.

No statements were made when the meeting broke off for the day but the talks will resume on Monday, officials said.

The meeting in Muscat follows the revelation that Obama reportedly wrote to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to push for a deal, arguing that Tehran and the West have shared regional interests.

This apparent reference to the fight against Islamic State and Levant (ISIL) in Syria and Iraq was played down by Kerry, however, with the US diplomat saying in Beijing on Saturday, "there is no linkage whatsoever" with the nuclear talks.

After Kerry and Zarif meet again on Monday, the political directors of the P5+1 powers - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States plus Germany - will hold talks the following day, also in Muscat.

The main negotiations then move back to Vienna on November 18 for a final push towards the deadline.

An interim accord expires on November 24 but Iran and world powers have for months been unable to hammer out what a comprehensive, long-term accord would look like.

At issue is the number of uranium-enriching centrifuges Iran should be allowed to keep spinning in exchange for sanctions relief and rigorous inspections at its nuclear sites.

The duration of a final settlement between Iran and the P5+1 group also remains contested.

The West is unconvinced by Tehran's denials that it has never sought a nuclear weapon and wants curbs that would put an atomic bomb forever beyond reach.

Iran, however, insists its nuclear programme is for peaceful, civilian energy production only and wants to vastly enhance its uranium enrichment capabilities for this purpose. The country has vowed to do nothing that would roll back its nuclear activities.

#7785176 at 2020-01-11 20:15:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9964: Learn to Bake! The Dough needs hands! Edition

>>7785126
>>7785130
Right at the entrance to the Persian Gulf
Should shake things up a lot with Yemen / Saudi and Iran / Iraq

The guy was a 'key' player in the Hussein Iran Deal

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/region-world-reacts-death-oman-sultan-qaboos-200111132106626.html

'Loss for region': World reacts to death of Oman's Sultan Qaboos
Leaders from across the world pay their respects to Oman's longest-serving leader who ruled for nearly 50 years.

4 hours ago
Under Qaboos's leadership, Oman mediated talks between the warring sides in the continuing Yemen war [Christopher Pike/Reuters]
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Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said, one of the Middle East's longest-serving rulers who maintained the country's neutrality in a volatile region, died on Friday.

The 79-year-old leader's cousin Haitham bin Tariq Al Said was named as his successor in a smooth transition of power in the Gulf state.

Oman has declared a three-day period of mourning and the country's flag will be flown at half-mast for 40 days.

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With his death, the region lost a seasoned leader seen as the father of modern Oman, who balanced ties between two neighbours locked in a regional struggle, Saudi Arabia to the west and Iran to the north, as well as the United States.

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Oman played a crucial role in the negotiations that led to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which has been unravelling following President Donald Trump's 2018 decision to withdraw from it and reimpose crippling economic sanctions on Tehran.

Under Qaboos's leadership, the Sultanate also mediated talks between the warring sides in the continuing war in Yemen.

Here are some of the reactions from leaders from around the world at the announcement of Qaboos's passing:

The United Kingdom
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was "deeply saddened" by the death of Qaboos. "He was an exceptionally wise and respected leader who will be missed enormously," he said.

"I had the pleasure of meeting His Majesty Sultan Qaboos and was struck by his commitment to peace and understanding between nations and between faiths."

Johnson noted that Qaboos left behind "a profound legacy, not only in Oman but across the region too".

Iran
Iran's top diplomat said the death of Sultan Qaboos was a "loss for the region" and expressed hopes that relations between the two nations will grow under his successor.

"We offer our dear neighbour Oman our condolences … [and] we congratulate it for its selection of His Majesty Haitham bin Tariq as sultan, hoping our relations grow as they have before and that the future draws inspiration from the past," Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted in Arabic.

#7760444 at 2020-01-09 08:57:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9932: It's Always Graveyard Shift. Even During the Evening. Edition

Warren, Sanders Hosting Call With Pro-Tehran Lobby Group

Democratic presidential contenders Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) are slated to host a conference call with an Iranian-American advocacy group that has been accused of lobbying on Tehran's behalf. Along with Reps. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) and Barbara Lee (D., Calif.), Sanders and Warren are scheduled to speak Wednesday evening with members of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). The group played a central role in what former Obama national security adviser Ben Rhodes called the administration's pro-Iran Deal "echo chamber," spinning journalists, lawmakers, and citizens. The Democratic candidates' willingness to engage with NIAC-a group that aggressively pushed the accord and has strongly advocated against U.S. sanctions on the Islamic Republic-reflects their desire to see America reenter the nuclear deal, which released up to $150 billion in cash to the regime. Much of that money has gone to fund Iran's regional terror operations, including recent attacks on American personnel stationed in the region.

NIAC has deep ties to Iran's regime, including senior officials like Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Zarif worked closely with NIAC founder Trita Parsi, who, in turn, consulted with the Obama administration. Parsi lobbied Congress against sanctions on Iran in 2013 and met with Obama administration officials at the White House dozens of times leading up to the nuclear deal's signing in 2015. Multiple U.S. officials and senior congressional sources informed the Washington Free Beacon that Parsi helped the White House craft its messaging as it tried to sell the nuclear deal to the public. The NIAC chief met with Rhodes, among other top officials, during multiple visits throughout the Obama era. Rhodes delivered a keynote speech at the 2016 NIAC leadership conference.

NIAC was ordered to pay more than $180,000 in 2013 to the legal defense fund of Hassan Daioleslam, an Iranian-American writer, after a failed defamation lawsuit. Daioleslam had accused NIAC of failing to disclose its clandestine lobbying efforts to undo sanctions on Tehran, the Free Beacon previously reported. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said Parsi's work was "not inconsistent with the idea that he was first and foremost an advocate for the regime." Sanders and Warren both supported the nuclear deal's passage and have been among the sharpest critics in the 2020 field of President Donald Trump's ordered killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/warren-sander-hosting-call-with-pro-tehran-lobby-group/

https://twitter.com/MoveOn/status/1214931013912145920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

#7756164 at 2020-01-08 23:35:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9926: We Are The News! Krugman Going Viral! Edition

Warren, Sanders Hosting Call With Pro-Tehran Lobby Group

Democratic presidential contenders Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) are slated to host a conference call with an Iranian-American advocacy group that has been accused of lobbying on Tehran's behalf.

Along with Reps. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) and Barbara Lee (D., Calif.), Sanders and Warren are scheduled to speak Wednesday evening with members of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). The group played a central role in what former Obama national security adviser Ben Rhodes called the administration's pro-Iran Deal "echo chamber," spinning journalists, lawmakers, and citizens.

The Democratic candidates' willingness to engage with NIAC-a group that aggressively pushed the accord and has strongly advocated against U.S. sanctions on the Islamic Republic-reflects their desire to see America reenter the nuclear deal, which released up to $150 billion in cash to the regime. Much of that money has gone to fund Iran's regional terror operations, including recent attacks on American personnel stationed in the region.

NIAC has deep ties to Iran's regime, including senior officials like Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Zarif worked closely with NIAC founder Trita Parsi, who, in turn, consulted with the Obama administration.

Parsi lobbied Congress against sanctions on Iran in 2013 and met with Obama administration officials at the White House dozens of times leading up to the nuclear deal's signing in 2015. Multiple U.S. officials and senior congressional sources informed the Washington Free Beacon that Parsi helped the White House craft its messaging as it tried to sell the nuclear deal to the public. The NIAC chief met with Rhodes, among other top officials, during multiple visits throughout the Obama era.

Rhodes delivered a keynote speech at the 2016 NIAC leadership conference.

NIAC was ordered to pay more than $180,000 in 2013 to the legal defense fund of Hassan Daioleslam, an Iranian-American writer, after a failed defamation lawsuit. Daioleslam had accused NIAC of failing to disclose its clandestine lobbying efforts to undo sanctions on Tehran, the Free Beacon previously reported. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said Parsi's work was "not inconsistent with the idea that he was first and foremost an advocate for the regime."

Sanders and Warren both supported the nuclear deal's passage, and have been among the sharpest critics in the 2020 field of President Donald Trump's ordered killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/warren-sander-hosting-call-with-pro-tehran-lobby-group/

#7740412 at 2020-01-07 15:37:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9906: "Never Have A Favorite Baker" Edition

US denies visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif for trip to UN Security Council meeting
Visa was necessary for trip to UN Security Council meeting on Thursday
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Vladimir Gerdo/TASS
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
© Vladimir Gerdo/TASS

January 7. / TASS/. The United States refused to issue a visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who was about to leave for Thursday's meeting of the UN Security Council, Reuters news agency reported on Monday.

According to him, this decision followed an increase in tension between the two countries after the commander of the Special Forces of Al-Quds of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Iranian elite units of the Armed Forces) Qasem Soleimani was killed as a result of a US air strike in the Baghdad airport area on January 3. The operation was carried out at the direction of US President Donald Trump, . According to the Pentagon, the strike was defensive, since it was aimed at protecting US troops in Iraq and other countries. Washington blamed Soleimani for allegedly approving a rally outside the US Embassy in Baghdad earlier this week.

On January 3, the Pentagon confirmed that a missile strike near the Baghdad airport killed the head of the Quds Force Qasem Soleimani. The operation was carried out at the direction of US President Donald Trump. According to the Pentagon, the strike was defensive, since it was aimed at protecting US troops in Iraq and other countries. Washington blamed Soleimani for allegedly approving a rally outside the US Embassy in Baghdad earlier this week.

Following the attack, the Supreme National Security Council of Iran vowed to exact "severe revenge" on those involved in Soleimani's killing, blaming the United States for the attack. In a phone call with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blasted the attack as an act of terrorism from the side of the US. He pointed out that Tehran would take international measures to hold Washington responsible for the general's murder.

The situation in the Middle East sharply worsened after the death of Soleimani. Tehran promised the United States a tough response and began to reduce the implementation of its obligations under the nuclear deal.

The actions of the Americans, who have been attacking Shiite groups in Iraq since December 29, have been criticized the Iraqi authorities and raised the question of the legitimacy of the coalition's actions led by Washington. On January 5, the Iraqi parliament adopted a resolution demanding the complete withdrawal of all foreign troops from the country. US President Donald Trump refused to do so, threatening Iraq with "unprecedented sanctions.".

https://tass.com/world/1105977

#7740358 at 2020-01-07 15:25:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9906: "Never Have A Favorite Baker" Edition

U.S. stops Iran foreign minister from meeting UN Security Council

Voice of America
07 Jan 2020, 16:05 GMT+10

WASHINGTON, DC - The United States has denied a visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that would have allowed him to attend a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York on Thursday, a U.S. official said.

Monday's comments by the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, came as tensions escalate between the two countries after the United States killed Iran's most prominent military commander, Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad on Friday.

Under the 1947 U.N. "headquarters agreement," the United States is generally required to allow access to the United Nations for foreign diplomats. But Washington says it can deny visas for "security, terrorism and foreign policy" reasons.

The U.S. State Department declined immediate comment. Iran's mission to the United Nations said: "We have seen the media reports, but we have not received any official communication from either the U.S. or the U.N. regarding Foreign Minister Zarif's visa."

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric declined to comment on the U.S. denial of a visa for Zarif.

Zarif wanted to attend a meeting of the Security Council on Thursday on the topic of upholding the U.N. Charter. The meeting and Zarif's travel had been planned before the latest flare-up in tensions between Washington and Tehran.

The Security Council meeting would have given Zarif a global spotlight to publicly criticize the United States for killing Soleimani.

Iran's U.N. envoy, Majid Takht Ravanchi, has described the killing of Soleimani as "an obvious example of State terrorism and, as a criminal act, constitutes a gross violation of the fundamental principles of international law, including, in particular … the Charter of the United Nations."

Zarif last traveled to New York in September for the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations - after the United States sanctioned him for implementing "the reckless agenda of Iran's Supreme Leader."

The sanctions block any property or interests Zarif has in the United States, but he said he had none.

Zarif also attended U.N. meetings in April and July. During his July visit, Washington imposed tight travel restrictions on Zarif and diplomats at Iran's mission to the United Nations, confining them to a small section of New York City.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke with U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo earlier on Monday. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement the pair discussed events in the Middle East and that Pompeo "expressed his appreciation" for Guterres' diplomatic efforts.

https://www.shanghainews.net/news/263636603/us-stops-iran-foreign-minister-from-meeting-un-security-council

#7739018 at 2020-01-07 07:23:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9904: Late Night Power Shift! Edition

Washington has reportedly refused to issue a visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, even though, as the host of the United Nations headquarters, the US is obliged to allow foreign officials into the country.

According to multiple diplomatic sources, the visa request was filed several weeks ago, before the latest escalation, and would give the top Iranian diplomat a stage to speak out following last Thursday's drone strike assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Qassem Soleimani, along with senior Iraqi militia leaders.

The murder of Soleimani, who played a key role in the fight against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists in Syria and Iraq, has drawn outrage across Iran and Iraq, with Tehran vowing to avenge the assassination, which it called "an act of international terrorism." Washington, meanwhile, insists that Soleimani was the mastermind behind a spate of attacks on American personnel, including at the US Embassy, and says he was plotting new assaults.

This wouldn't be the first time Washington abused its status as the host of the UN headquarters, refusing to issue visas for nearly a dozen members of the Russian delegation to a summit in New York last year.

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https://www.rt.com/newsline/477610-Zarif-denied-visa-un/

#7738403 at 2020-01-07 05:31:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9903: Late Night Shill Chill with Tunes and Filters Edition

Iran's FM Zarif barred from entering US to take part in UNSC meeting

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is being denied a US visa he had requested to enter the United States to participate in the UN Security Council meeting this week, Foreign Policy reports

A Washington-based diplomatic source told the publication on Monday that a Trump administration official phoned UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday to tell him that the United States would not allow Zarif into the country.

Earlier, a diplomatic source said that Iran's mission to the United Nations had not received any official communication regarding the state of Zarif's visa to enter the United States.

Zarif had planned to come to New York to address the Security Council on January 9 on the killing of Iranian top commander Qasem Soleimani.

Last week, Iranian Quds Force Commander Major General Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike ordered by US President Donald Trump at the Baghdad International Airport, with his assassination dramatically escalating tensions in the Middle East.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have pledged that Soleimani's death would not go unavenged, in response to what they consider to be a US crime.

Trump has tweeted that the United States would strike over 50 Iranian targets, including high-level and cultural sites, if Iran retaliates for Soleimani's death.

Tehran announced on Sunday that it would no longer abide by the uranium enrichment limitations agreed upon as part of the 2015 nuclear deal with France, Russia, China, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. Trump pulled out of the deal in 2018.

https://nation.com.pk/07-Jan-2020/iran-s-fm-Zarif-barred-from-entering-us-to-take-part-in-un-security-council-meeting

#7736870 at 2020-01-07 02:40:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9901: Michael Atkinson Diet Edition

U.S. denies Iran's Zarif a visa to attend U.N. - U.S. official

The United States has denied a visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that would have allowed him to attend a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York on Thursday, a U.S. official said. Monday's comments by the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, came as tensions escalate between the two countries after the United States killed Iran's most prominent military commander, Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad on Friday.

Under the 1947 U.N. "headquarters agreement," the United States is generally required to allow access to the United Nations for foreign diplomats. But Washington says it can deny visas for "security, terrorism and foreign policy" reasons.

The U.S. State Department declined immediate comment. Iran's mission to the United Nations said: "We have seen the media reports, but we have not received any official communication from either the U.S. or the U.N. regarding Foreign Minister Zarif's visa."

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric declined to comment on the U.S. denial of a visa for Zarif.

Zarif wanted to attend a meeting of the Security Council on Thursday on the topic of upholding the U.N. Charter. The meeting and Zarif's travel had been planned before the latest flare-up in tensions between Washington and Tehran.

'The Security Council meeting would have given Zarif a global spotlight to publicly criticise the United States for killing Soleimani.

Iran's U.N. envoy, Majid Takht Ravanchi, has described the killing of Soleimani as "an obvious example of State terrorism and, as a criminal act, constitutes a gross violation of the fundamental principles of international law, including, in particular … the Charter of the United Nations."

Zarif last travelled to New York in September for the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations - after the United States sanctioned him for implementing "the reckless agenda of Iran's Supreme Leader."

The sanctions block any property or interests Zarif has in the United States, but he said he had none.

Zarif also attended U.N. meetings in April and July. During his July visit, Washington imposed tight travel restrictions on Zarif and diplomats at Iran's mission to the United Nations, confining them to a small section of New York City.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke with U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo earlier on Monday. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement the pair discussed events in the Middle East and that Pompeo "expressed his appreciation" for Guterres' diplomatic efforts.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-iraq-security-un-Zarif/u-s-denies-irans-Zarif-a-visa-to-attend-u-n-u-s-official-idUKKBN1Z605R

#7734764 at 2020-01-06 22:46:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9898: Believe in American Exceptionalism! Edition

Trump administration denies Iran's top diplomat visa to attend UN meeting: report

President Trump's administration denied Iran's foreign minister a visa to attend a United Nations Security Council meeting as tensions between the U.S. and Iran increase, Foreign Policy reported Monday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was reportedly denied access to the U.S. to address the Security Council at a Thursday meeting, three diplomatic sources told Foreign Policy.
The visa denial was in violation of the 1947 headquarters agreement mandating the U.S. to allow in foreign officials to conduct U.N. business, according to the publication.

Zarif was expected to address the world for the first time after the U.S. conducted a strike killing Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
The foreign minister reportedly filed for a visa a "few weeks ago" to discuss the importance of the U.N. Charter, a diplomatic source familiar with the matter told Foreign Policy.
A Trump administration told U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres Monday that the U.S. would deny Zarif's visa, a Washington-based diplomatic source told the news outlet.
The Hill reached out to the State Department and the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the U.N. for comment. The U.N. declined to comment.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has limited access to the U.S. by Iranian officials, including Zarif, to prevent their ability to bring their message to the U.S. public.
Iran has vowed retaliation against the U.S. for the strike that killed Soleimani last week. President Trump responded by threatening to target 52 sites in Iran if the country retaliates, representing the 52 hostages taken in the 1979 crisis.
Iran also ended its commitment to the nuclear deal that Trump withdrew from in 2018 before imposing sanctions on the country.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/un-treaties/477009-trump-administration-denies-irans-top-diplomat-visa-to

#7730857 at 2020-01-06 13:20:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9893: Ricky Gervais Listening to Bread Edition

Guess What PDJT will target First
World News
January 5, 2020 / 11:21 AM / Updated an hour ago
Iran says no limits on enrichment, stepping further from 2015 deal: TV
Parisa Hafezi

4 Min Read

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran announced on Sunday it would abandon limitations on enriching uranium, taking a further step back from commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with six major powers, but it would continue to cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog.

Iran had been expected to announce its latest stance on the deal this weekend. But its announcement coincided with a major escalation of hostilities with Washington following the U.S. killing of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike on Friday in Baghdad.

State television said Iran would not respect any limits set down in the pact on the country's nuclear work: whether the limit on its number of uranium enrichment centrifuges to its enrichment capacity, the level to which uranium could be enriched, the amount of stockpiled enriched uranium or Iran's nuclear Research and Development activities.
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"Iran will continue its nuclear enrichment with no restrictions …. and based on its technical needs," a government statement cited by television said.

Iran has steadily overstepped the deal's limits on its nuclear activities in response to the United States' withdrawal from the accord in 2018 and Washington's reimposition of sanctions that have crippled Iran's oil trade.

Under the nuclear deal, Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of most international sanctions.

Relations between Tehran and Washington sharply deteriorated after President Donald Trump's withdrawal of the United States from the deal. Iran has criticized European powers for failing to salvage the pact by shielding its economy from U.S. sanctions.

Sunday's statement said Tehran can quickly reverse its steps if U.S. sanctions are removed.

"This step is within JCPOA (deal) & all 5 steps are reversible upon EFFECTIVE implementation of reciprocal obligations," tweeted Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif referencing the acronym that stands for the deal's official name, "The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action."

A European Diplomat, who declined to be named, said the "deal is all but dead," but said that Europe would do everything possible to slow proliferation and "try and save what can be saved."

Mark Fitzpatrick, associate fellow and nuclear non-proliferation expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said Iran's latest step left room for diplomacy.

"They are not saying how far they will push the enrichment or the number of centrifuges they'll operate," Fitzpatrick told Reuters. "I think they have reserved a lot of room for negotiation and for taking further steps if they need to."
'MAXIMUM PRESSURE'

Washington says the "maximum pressure" campaign it started after withdrawing from the nuclear agreement will force Iran to negotiate a more sweeping deal, covering its ballistic missile program and its role in Middle Eastern conflicts. Iran says it will not negotiate a new deal.
FILE PHOTO: The Iranian flag flutters in front the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna, Austria July 10, 2019. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner

Tehran has rejected Western assertions that it has sought to develop nuclear weapons.

Iran has already breached many of the deal's restrictions on its nuclear activities, including on the purity to which it enriches uranium, its stock of enriched uranium, which models of centrifuge it enriches uranium with and where it enriches uranium.

It has, however, not gone far over the purity allowed - the deal sets a limit of 3.67% and Iran has stayed around 4.5% in recent months, well below the 20% it reached before the deal and the roughly 90% that is weapons-grade.

The deal as a whole was designed to increase the time Iran would need to obtain enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb if it wanted one - the main obstacle to producing a nuclear weapon - from around two or three months.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-deal/iran-steps-further-back-from-nuclear-deal-says-no-limits-on-enrichment-tv-idUSKBN1Z40Q3?il=0

#7721929 at 2020-01-05 15:26:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9882: Iran Next, Days After, Kenya. No Coincidences Edition

World
4 Jan, 17:58
US to hit 52 Iranian sites very fast in response to any potential attack, Trump warns
US President noted that the Islamic Republic "will be hit very hard"
Donald Trump AP Photo/Lynne Sladky
Donald Trump
© AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

WASHINGTON, January 5. /TASS/. The United States will hit 52 Iranian sites "very fast and very hard" in response to any potential attack by the Islamic Republic following the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, US President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday.

"Let this serve as a warning that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level and important to Iran and the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, will be hit very fast and very hard. The USA wants no more threats!" Trump wrote.

"Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets" in response to the American operation that killed Soleimani, US President said. "He was already attacking our embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years," Trump noted.

The Pentagon earlier confirmed that a missile strike near the Baghdad airport killed the head of the Quds Force Qasem Soleimani. The operation was carried out at the direction of Donald Trump, the statement said.

Following the attack, the Supreme National Security Council of Iran vowed to exact "severe revenge" on those involved in the killing, blaming the US for the attack. In a telephone call with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blasted the attack as an act of terrorism by the US.

https://tass.com/world/1105739

#7721903 at 2020-01-05 15:23:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9882: Iran Next, Days After, Kenya. No Coincidences Edition

Reaper drone launched from Qatar fired missile that killed Soleimani
Mourners attend on Saturday the funeral procession of Qassem Soleimani, inset, in Karbala. (Reuters)
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January 05, 2020 00:58
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New threats of revenge on US as thousands in Baghdad, Karbala mourn Iranian warlord

LONDON: A drone launched from Qatar fired the missile that killed Iranian warlord Qassem Soleimani, US military sources have revealed.

Soleimani, head of the overseas Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, deputy chief of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, and five others were killed in the strike at Baghdad airport early on Friday.

They were hit by Hellfire R9X Ninja missiles launched by the MQ-9 Reaper drone sent from Al-Udeid military and air base in Qatar, UK media reported.

Two missiles were fired, one for each of the two vehicles carrying Soleimani and Al-Muhandis, and were controlled remotely by operators at the US Air Force base in Creech, Nevada. A second backup drone was also launched from US Central Command headquarters in Qatar, but was not needed.

The "near-silent" Reaper drone has a range of 1,850 km, can fly at a height of 15,000 meters, and is an "armed, multi-mission, medium-altitude, long-endurance" aircraft designed primarily for offensive strikes, according to the US Air Force. "It provides a unique capability to perform strike, coordination and reconnaissance against high-value, fleeting, and time-sensitive targets," it said.
HIGHLIGHT

As Qatar's role in Soleimani's death was revealed, Qatar's foreign minister flew to Tehran for talks with President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

US President Donald Trump is thought to have authorized the strike last Sunday, at the same time as approving F-15 fighter jet attacks on bases in Iraq operated by Iran-backed militias. The operation was planned by the US National Security Agency based on intelligence on Soleimani's movements supplied by informants, electronic intercepts, reconnaissance aircraft, and the security forces of America's regional allies. Soleimani arrived in Baghdad on a private jet from Damascus minutes before the missile strike.

As Qatar's role in Soleimani's death was revealed, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani flew to Tehran for talks with President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

Sheikh Mohammed said the situation in the region was sensitive and concerning, and he called for a peaceful solution leading to de-escalation.

In Baghdad on Saturday, tens of thousands of people took part in a march to mourn Soleimani, as Iran ramped up threats of revenge for his death.

A rocket fell inside the heavily fortified Green Zone near the US Embassy, another hit the nearby Jadriya neighborhood, and two more were fired at the Balad air base north of the city. There were no casualties.

NATO and a separate US-led mission suspended their programs to train Iraqi security and armed forces.

Gholamali Abuhamzeh, a senior commander of the Revolutionary Guards, said Tehran would punish Americans "wherever they are in reach," and threatened attacks on ships in the Arabian Gulf.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1608386/middle-east

#7713895 at 2020-01-04 19:14:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9872: Red Flag Ove the Dome! Rigged for Red!!! Edition

Russian, Chinese top diplomats stress that US strikes in Baghdad violate UN charter

The ministers focused on the consequences of US strikes on the Baghdad airport, which led to casualties, including Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani

MOSCOW, January 4. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Chinese colleague Wang Yi have stressed that US strikes in Baghdad, which killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, violate the UN Charter, the Russian Foreign Ministry informed on the outcomes of the phone call between the Russian and Chinese top diplomats on Saturday.

"[The ministers] focused on the consequences of US strikes on the Baghdad airport, which led to casualties, including Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani," the ministry noted. "The ministers have stressed that the use of force in violation of the UN Charter is unacceptable. They called for all countries to respect the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of other states."

"The ministers have noted that the unlawful act by the USA has exacerbated tensions in the region. In these conditions, Russia and China are interested in alleviating the tensions. Both states will take joint steps with the aim to create the conditions for peaceful regulation of conflict situations," the Russian ministry stated. The top diplomats also agreed to maintain cooperation within the UN Security Council.

On Friday, the Pentagon confirmed that a missile strike near the Baghdad airport killed the head of the Quds Force Qasem Soleimani. The operation was carried out at the direction of US President Donald Trump, the statement said. According to the Pentagon, the strike was defensive, since it was aimed at protecting US troops in Iraq and other countries. Washington blamed Soleimani for allegedly approving a rally outside the US Embassy in Baghdad earlier this week.

Following the attack, the Supreme National Security Council of Iran vowed to exact "severe revenge" on those involved in Soleimani's killing, blaming the United States for the attack. In a phone call with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blasted the attack as an act of terrorism from the side of the US. He pointed out that Tehran would take international measures to hold Washington responsible for the general's murder.

https://tass.com/politics/1105707

#7713461 at 2020-01-04 18:25:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9871: GOP 95% Approval Rating, Deal Edition

>>7713171

Retaliation under way as we speak.
If you have a Twitter account, go to this Tweet

https://twitter.com/EzAsCoWa/status/1213522944602857472

And retweet it so that Mohammad Javad Zarif
Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran knows that Americans fully support the Iranian people and their fight for FREEDOM from the mullahs and the IRGC.

#7707824 at 2020-01-04 01:52:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9864: Q Research - Big On The Sauce Edition

flashback…this is treason…

Some members of the Obama administration have apparently been going around the Trump administration and communicating with leaders in Iran. This is a potential violation of the Logan Act, and certainly a violation of political norms.
The Daily Beast reports:
Team Obama Tells Iran: Don't Escalate, Don't Take Trump's Bait
As the Trump administration sent warplanes and an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf, a small group of former Obama administration officials reached out to their contacts in the Iranian government, including Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Their message to Iran: Don't take Trump's bait. Stay calm.

https://americanlookout.com/report-former-obama-officials-are-talking-to-leaders-in-iran-have-been-doing-so-since-2016/

#7707047 at 2020-01-04 00:45:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9863: Follow The Guide Edition

Jerusalem Post Middle East
Iran's UN Ambassador: US virtually declared war on Iran
Iranian U.N. Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi wrote in a letter that the killing of Soleimani "by any measure, is an obvious example of State terrorism."
By REUTERS JANUARY 4, 2020 02:30
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Majid Takht Ravanchi (L) with Mohammad Javad Zarif (R), Iran's Foreign Minister, in 2015 (photo credit: TASNIM NEWS AGENCY/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)
Majid Takht Ravanchi (L) with Mohammad Javad Zarif (R), Iran's Foreign Minister, in 2015
(photo credit: TASNIM NEWS AGENCY/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)
Iranian U.N. Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi told CNN that the US killing of Qassem Soleimani, the top commander of the elite Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, was tantamount to opening a war against Iran.
"The response for a military action," he said, "is a military action."
Iran told the United Nations Security Council and Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday that it reserves its right to self-defense under international law after the United States killed Soleimani.
Ravanchi wrote in a letter that the killing of Soleimani "by any measure, is an obvious example of State terrorism and, as a criminal act, constitutes a gross violation of the fundamental principles of international law, including, in particular, those stipulated in the Charter of the United Nations."
In a speech to the American people, US President Donald Trump called Soleimani the "number one terrorist anywhere in the world."

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-tells-UN-it-reserves-right-to-self-defense-over-Soleimani-killing-613048

#7705200 at 2020-01-03 21:40:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9860: Van Halen Belts or Bust ! Edition

'Act of international terrorism': Iran vows 'vigorous revenge' on US after Quds Force chief killed in US airstrike

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced a series of US airstrikes that killed the chief of the elite Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, as international terrorism, warning the US of consequences of "rogue adventurism."

In a statement on Soleimani's death, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned that "revenge awaits the criminals who have stained their hands in his blood." He promised that the airstrike will only "double" Tehran's resistance against rivals in the region.

Defense Minister Amir Hatami pledged to exact "a crushing revenge" for the death of Soleimani. "We will take revenge on all those involved and responsible for his assassination," he said.

Mohsen Rezaee, a member of a council that advises Khamenei and a retired major general in the Iran Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), also sent out a tweet on Thursday night vowing swift retaliation for the assassination.

"Martyr [#Qasem Soleimani]... joined his martyred brothers, but we will take vigorous revenge on America," he said.

A number of US airstrikes near Baghdad International Airport earlier on Thursday left Soleimani and several Iraqi militia leaders dead, with two other Iraqi commanders reportedly arrested by US Marines. The Pentagon later confirmed the strikes, stating they were "aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans."

A number of American lawmakers also weighed in, some engaging in sabre-rattling, while others, such as Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), sounded the alarm about the prospect of a "massive regional war."

"If Iran continues to attack America and our allies, they should pay the heaviest of prices, which includes the destruction of their oil refineries,"Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said in a tweet.

An Iranian military spokesman, speaking to the semi-official Fars News agency on condition of anonymity, said the country's top security body had called a meeting to discuss the "criminal attack" that killed the Quds Force commander.

The Quds Force is the IRGC's foreign special operations division, which Soleimani headed up since 1998.

https://www.rt.com/news/477355-iran-international-terrorism-us-strike/

#7705044 at 2020-01-03 21:16:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9860: Van Halen Belts or Bust ! Edition

Report: All Iranian Military Decisions in Latin America Ran Through Soleimani

Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran's external terrorism forces eliminated overnight Friday by a U.S. drone strike, oversaw every military decision taken by Iran in Latin America, according to a report by the Argentine news network Infobae last year.

Soleimani ran the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, the "elite" terrorism unit responsible for, along with Hezbollah, the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) headquarters in Buenos Aires. The attack was the deadliest in the Western Hemisphere prior to September 11, 2001, killing 85 people.

Soleimani took over the Quds Force after that attack, in 1998, and focused much of his legacy on Iran's conquests in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. Most recently, the Pentagon revealed they believed him responsible for organizing the attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad this weekend.

President Donald Trump designated the IRGC a foreign terrorist organization last year.

Infobae revealed that Soleimani personally consulted on all military decisions in Latin America in a report in which it alleged that Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, had offered to send IRGC terrorists to Venezuela to protect socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. At the time of the report, in April, the legitimate president of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, had announced that he had convinced the nation's military to follow him and remove Maduro from power. Zarif's offer, Infobae reported, would add IRGC terrorist units to the army of Cuban communist soldiers that currently keep Maduro in power.

The outlet did not specify if Maduro accepted the offer. Maduro does remain in control of Venezuela, as the nation's defense minister and key generals surfaced after Guaidó's attempted takeover saying they had not defected from Maduro and that the higher levels of the armed forces had eradicated "opposition" elements who chose to obey the legal president of the country.

It did note that Quds Force members could be part of the deal, highlighting Soleimani's power within the organization.

"The military official is a fundamental piece in planning the foreign policy of the Iranian theocractic regime," Infobae said of Soleimani, "so much so that all military decisions in the rest of the world, including in Latin America, go through him."

Eliminating Soleimani now leaves those key Latin American military decisions in the hands of Brigadier General Esmayeel Qaani, once described as an "uncharismatic and a less distinguished military commander" than his former boss Soleimani.

Iran has grown its influence in Latin America exponentially through Venezuela and its colonizing power Cuba. Late dictator Hugo Chávez invited greater ties between Venezuela and Iran during his tenure, regularly meeting with then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Maduro's tenure has seen the rise of Tareck El Aissami, a U.S.-designated "drug kingpin" who currently serves as the manager of the nation's oil and gold natural resources.

"Tareck El Aissami is one of Hezbollah's great bagmen, a sort of huge funder, and the money goes through the networks, and then, as you say, that money comes back through investments," Vanessa Neumann, a leading expert on drug cartels and terrorist groups in Latin America, told Breitbart News in 2018. "[Ground sources] have told me that, based on their perspective, he is a big player on the funding side, rather than the operations side."

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2020/01/03/report-all-iranian-military-decisions-latin-america-ran-through-soleimani/

Above the target…

#7694276 at 2020-01-02 20:56:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9846: We Are Here To Unite and Provide Truth!!! Edition

FAMILY BUSINESS: John Kerry's Secret Talks With Iran After Daughter Married Iranian National; Best Man Was Son Of Iran's Secretary of State

Kerry's family ties to Iran, negotiates the Iran deal, how was this allowed

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Former Secretary of State John Kerry has fielded dozens of private meetings and phone calls in recent months in an effort to meddle with U.S. foreign policy in Iran, as President Trump has dropped $200 billion in sanctions against Iran.

Trump threatened retaliation against Iran over the holidays after Iran-backed protesters tried to overrun the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.

Kerry was the lead negotiator who handed Iran over $150 Billion in U.S. cash for what was then-spun as a Nuclear deal. Trump dissolved the supposed deal but Iran still kept the money, thanks to Kerry and his boss Barack Obama.

If he weren't a corrupt bureaucrat, John Kerry would have recused himself from all negotiations with Iran and for that matter, Israel, especially during his tenure as secretary of state. Instead, his leadership has proven an epic disaster of foreign policy for the United States, especially in the Middle East.

Family and personal wealth before country. That mantra has served Sec. of State John Kerry well during his decades of public service.

Kerry's daughter Vanessa is married to an Iranian national and physician. His best man at the ceremony was the son of Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs - the position comparable to U.S. Sec of State.

https://truepundit.com/family-business-john-kerrys-secret-talks-with-iran-after-daughter-married-iranian-national-best-man-was-son-of-irans-secretary-of-state/

#7664634 at 2019-12-30 20:34:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9807:One ICE T, Hold the Hate! We Si Fi Now! Edition

Iran's FM Zarif urges world to counter US unilateralism

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called for collective cooperation among world countries to counter unilateralism propagated by the US administration across the globe.

Zarif made the remark in a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in the capital Moscow on Monday, adding, "The US government attempts to dictate its intentions to other countries, and Russia and Iran have confronted this approach through the JCPOA (the Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) and other fields."

The JCPOA was reached in Vienna in July 2015 between Iran and the P5+1 group of states, the US, Britain, France, Russia, and China plus Germany. It lifted nuclear-related sanctions against Tehran, which, in turn, voluntarily changed some aspects of its nuclear energy program.

The US, however, left the accord last May and reinstated its unilateral sanctions against Iran. The European deal partners, meanwhile, have bowed to Washington's pressure, failing to honor their contractual obligations to protect Iran's economy in the face of America's "toughest-ever" bans.

"Although most European countries threw their weight behind the JCPOA politically, they failed to adopt practical measures to counter the US sanctions and fulfill their commitments," the top Iranian diplomat said at the joint presser.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/12/30/614964/Iran-Mohammad-Javad-Zarif-US-unilateralism

#7537856 at 2019-12-17 21:32:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9642: Remember, Misspellings Matter Edition

Realpolitik failed miserably, try 'realistic' cooperation in Persian Gulf: Iran FM to neighbors

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has urged regional countries to develop "realistic" neighborly cooperation, instead of relying on "realpolitik" strategies, to guarantee security in the Persian Gulf region.

In a post on his official Twitter account on Tuesday, Zarif reiterated the offer for the Persian Gulf littoral states to join Tehran's peace initiative, known as HOPE, with the aim of enhancing "realistic" cooperation.

HOPE - an acronym for Hormuz Peace Endeavor - was unveiled by President Hassan Rouhani at a September meeting of the UN General Assembly, where he invited all countries affected by tensions in the Persian Gulf region to join a coalition meant to enhance friendship and safeguard the region without relying on outsiders

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/12/17/613927/Zarif-Persian-Gulf-HOPE-realpolitik-tweet

Iran wants to talk?

#7464100 at 2019-12-09 17:16:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9546: FISA Brings Down The House Edition

Iran ready for big prisoner exchange with Washington but 'ball is in US' court' - Zarif

Tehran is open to exchanging more prisoners with the US, but it is now time for Washington to make a move on it, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said, after a recent swap left more room for optimism.

"After getting our hostage back this week, fully ready for comprehensive prisoner exchange," Zarif tweeted on Monday.

The ball is in the US' court.

His words came after a two-person Swiss-brokered prisoner swap with Washington concluded over the weekend. Tehran released a Persian history scholar Xiyue Wang, a naturalized American national who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2017 over espionage charges.

The US, in return, freed Iranian stem-cell researcher Massoud Soleimani who was held after being accused of violating trade sanctions by trying to "smuggle" vials of proteins into Iran.

The successful exchange provided an extremely rare example of a goodwill gesture between the Washington and Tehran, which have been locked in a tense diplomatic conflict since US President Donald Trump had abandoned the 2015 agreement on the Iranian nuclear program last year and re-imposed sanctions on Iran. The swap was met with optimism from both sides, offering some hope that a similar transaction may happen in the future.

Zarif has floated the idea of a larger prisoner exchange in the past. In October, he told reporters that he gave the US officials a list of the names of people Iran would like to see freed. Trump's National Security Advisor, Robert O'Brien, meanwhile, told NPR that the recent swap serves as a good sign for the release of Americans held by Iran.

https://www.rt.com/news/475402-Zarif-us-prisoner-exchange/

#7452730 at 2019-12-08 04:30:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9531:We are at critical mass! Let it Boom! Edition

Saudi minister says Iran 'assassinates diplomats' and 'cultivates terrorist cells'

BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:10 P.M.) - The Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Adel Al-Jubeir, believes that Iran is the first state sponsor of terrorism in the world, stressing that "this is what we have been saying for many, many years."

Al-Jubeir said on Al-Arabiya TV, on the sidelines of the Mediterranean Forum Summit in the Italian capital, Rome: "Iran is a country that assassinates diplomats, storms embassies, cultivates terrorist cells and carries out sabotage in various countries. The work of terrorist organizations."

"Iran threatens the entire region and we can no longer afford its aggressiveness. We support the pressure on Iran," he continued.

Al-Jubeir added that "Iran believes in the principle of exporting the revolution and does not respect the sovereignty of states. We must be tough with Iran and no one is seeking war."

The Iranian file was strongly present at the Mediterranean Forum Summit in Rome, despite the exclusion of Iran and its Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, from participating for the first time.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/saudi-minister-says-iran-assassinates-diplomats-and-cultivates-terrorist-cells/

#7448420 at 2019-12-07 20:20:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9526: ALL HANDS ON DECK! Edition

'Nuke aimed at Iran'? Tehran raises alarm after Israel test-fires mystery rocket in broad daylight

As the world is abuzz with speculation over Israel's shadowy "rocket propulsion system" test, Tehran bluntly claimed that the projectile it fired from a base south of Tel Aviv was actually a nuclear-capable missile aimed at Iran.

"Israel today tested a nuke-missile, aimed at Iran," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif suggested in a tweet posted on Friday evening. He lamented that the West never complains "about the only nuclear arsenal in West Asia," but "has fits of apoplexy over our conventional defensive [rockets]."

The mysterious missile in question was launched earlier in the day, with Israel's military remaining conspicuously tight-lipped about it.

"The defense establishment conducted a test of a rocket propulsion system, from a base in central Israel," read a carefully worded tweet that caused much speculation among informed pundits and the media.

A few minutes ago, the defense establishment conducted a test of a rocket propulsion system, from a base in central Israel. The test was pre-determined and took place according to plan.
- Ministry of Defense (@Israel_MOD) December 6, 2019

Further muddying the water, the Defense Ministry didn't even disclose the location of the "pre-determined" test, but videos and photos that popped up on social media showed a single, long trail of smoke rising from the Palmachim airbase situated south of Tel Aviv.

The military installation is believed to have a launch pad for Israel's secretive Jericho ballistic missiles, which have a range of up to 2,000km. Developed with American assistance, the little-known weapon can be equipped with a sizeable warhead, according to some media reports.

#UPDATE: @haaretzcom editor @avischarf reports the missile was launched from Palmachim Air Base, which is located along the Mediterranean Coast just south of Tel Aviv in central Israel.The airbase is labelled as having a launch pad for tests. This is likely the launch point. pic.twitter.com/Lw07aMKMVB
- ELINT News (@ELINTNews) December 6, 2019

As the plot thickened, Avi Scharf, the editor of the English version of Haaretz newspaper, reported that the Air Force dispatched a telemetry plane, a Hercules cargo aircraft and at least two specially configured Gulfstream G550 aerial surveillance jets "to track and handle it all." The planes "flew all the way out past Crete," he wrote.

To track and handle it all, IAI telemetry plane + at least two Israeli AF g550 aewc/shavit spyplanes + hercs flew all the way out past Crete pic.twitter.com/s9VyBQLVKJ
- avi scharf (@avischarf) December 6, 2019

Zarif's intervention came on the back of a letter that three European nations - the UK, France and Germany - sent to the UN secretary general. The appeal claimed that social media footage captured this year showed that Iran's new Shehab-3 ballistic missile is capable of carrying a nuclear payload - which could violate a UN Security Council resolution endorsing the 2015 nuclear deal.

Tehran rubbished the "unreliable" social media sources, saying it is nevertheless "determined to resolutely continue its activities related to ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles."
https://www.rt.com/news/475258-iran-israel-nuclear-test/

#7440664 at 2019-12-06 18:49:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9516: Happy Saint Nicholas Day to Q, POTUS & All Anons Edition

Europeans will not invoke trigger JCPOA dispute mechanism: China envoy

European parties to the Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), did not invoke a mechanism that could lead to the re-imposition of United Nations sanctions against Tehran, a Chinese envoy says.

Fu Cong, director general of the Department of Arms Control of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, made the remarks while speaking to reporters after a three-hour-long meeting of the Joint Commission on the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal in Vienna on Friday.

"All countries need to refrain from taking actions that further complicate the situation," he said.

"In our view there is an element of automaticity into this and we can't be sure that countries can keep this process under control. It could aggravate tensions," he added.

However, the Chinese diplomat noted that all parties called on Iran to remain in full compliance of the JCPOA.

Representatives from Iran and the five remaining signatories to the landmark nuclear deal – Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China – as well as the European Union attended the Friday meeting to discuss ways to save the accord.

It was the first meeting by the remaining parties to the JCPOA since July. In May 2018, US President Donald Trump unilaterally pulled his country out of the international deal, in defiance of global criticism, and later re-imposed the sanctions that had been lifted against Tehran as part of the agreement.

In response to the move, Tehran has so far rowed back on its nuclear commitments four times in compliance with Articles 26 and 36, but stressed that its retaliatory measures will be reversible as soon as Europe finds practical ways to shield the mutual trade from the sanctions.

However, European members since last month have begun raising the possibility of triggering the JCPOA's "dispute resolution mechanism," which is also known as the trigger mechanism, and whose activation can lead to the return of the UN sanctions on Iran.

Ahead of the Vienna meeting, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif referred to a statement issued by Washington to refute allegations made by European signatories of the JCPOA claiming that Iran's missile activities have violated the deal.

"Brian Hook (US Special Representative for Iran) has given our E3 JCPOA partners a timely reminder, openly admitting that missile testing is NOT prohibited in Security Council Resolution 2231," the foreign minister said in a tweet.

Iran to continue JCPOA commitment cuts until it enjoys economic benefits: Araqchi

Meanwhile, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi said Tehran will continue to scale back its commitments under the nuclear deal until it can receive the accord's economic benefits.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/12/06/613000/JCPOA-Iran-Europe-China-Russia-Fu-Cong-Mikhail-Ulyanov

#7437566 at 2019-12-06 05:01:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9512:Check'em Faggots! Bread # is 17! We Win! Edition

Freeing Iran will probably be an important key to unlocking full extent of Obama's Treason (and of others in his administration). Public uprisings we are hearing about right now in Iran are not a coincidence with all the fuckery we are seeing here in the US.

There is a long history of US involvement and conflicts with Iran. But what has really been going on there has been largely hidden to most of us, kind of like N. Korea. I have a feeling Iran is going to be front and center pretty soon. A limited hangout. Here are a few connections:

1) John Kerry was doing shadow-diplomacy with Iran and others after Trump ended Obama's Iran deal.
2) Kerry's son-In-law is Iranian-American whose family has extensive ties to Iran..
3) It was reported that the best man at his Vanessa Kerry's wedding was the son of Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs. (unsure if this is true, no sauce, George Webb?)
4) An Iranian website reported that shortly after their marriage, the young couple visited those relatives in Iran.
5) In 1986 John Kerry led a committee investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, which involved CIA, drug trafficking and illegally selling weapons to Iran.
6) John Kerry sister's worked in Iran before 1979 revolution.
7) Valerie Jarrett, probably Hussien's handler and who has an extremely spoopy history, was born in Iran.
8) Peter Stzok grew up in Iran. (Now a confirmed spook who worked with Brennan to sabatoge the Trump campaign)
9) Peter Stzok's father (Peter Stzok Sr.) was also involved in Iran-contra. Many Spook families?
10) Ex-Senator Jeff Flake has ties (once did lobbying work in the US for) a Uranium Company that is partially owned by the Iranian Government.

I put together some links to few articles:

https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-iran-payment-cash-20160907-snap-story.html (Sept 2016)

The Obama administration is acknowledging its transfer of $1.7 billion to Iran earlier this year was made entirely in cash, using non-U.S. currency

The money came from a little-known fund administered by the Treasury Department for settling litigation claims. The so-called Judgment Fund is taxpayer money Congress has permanently approved in the event it's needed, allowing the president to bypass direct congressional approval to make a settlement. The U.S. previously paid out $278 million in Iran-related claims by using the fund in 1991.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-may-received-much-33-6-billion-cash-gold-payments-u-s/

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/02/how_deep_was_the_obamairan_relationship.html

https://gellerreport.com/2019/05/obama-treason-iran.html/

https://www.wnd.com/2019/04/judicial-watch-launches-probe-of-john-kerrys-iran-talks/

https://greatamericandaily.com/the-bombshell-iran-connection-obama-tried-to-hide/

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/18/report-obama-protected-hezbollah-drug-ring-to-avoi/

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama-admin-granted-iran-secret-license-access-us/story?id=55689587

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/6/obama-hid-efforts-to-aid-irans-windfall/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrKGTDjvto8

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/4/iranian-revolutionaries-may-soon-be-crushed-if-the/

https://dailycaller.com/2013/03/25/kerry-exposes-iranian-family-tie-and-subjects-family-to-blackmail/

I'll be diggin if you need me.....

#7434003 at 2019-12-05 20:26:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9507: Seething Nancy Panic "Don't mess with me" gone Fredo! Edition

Zarif: EU3's UN letter on Iran missiles aims to hide their 'miserable incompetence'

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says a letter written to the UN chief by three European signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), is aimed at hiding their "miserable incompetence" in fulfilling their commitments under the accord.

Zarif made the remarks in a Thursday tweet in which he said, "Latest E3 letter to UNSG on missiles is a desperate falsehood to cover up their miserable incompetence in fulfilling bare minimum of their own #JCPOA obligations."

Having failed to fulfill their commitments to Iran under the JCPOA, the European signatories to the deal wrote a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, which was circulated on Wednesday, accusing Tehran of possessing "nuclear-capable ballistic missiles" and claiming that the country's latest missile activities are "inconsistent" with a UN resolution that endorsed the accord.

In that letter, UN ambassadors from France, the UK and Germany claimed that "Iran's developments of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles" go against a 2015 UN resolution calling on Tehran not to undertake any activity involving such missiles.

UN Security Council Resolution 2231 endorsed the multilateral nuclear accord, which was signed between Iran and six major world powers - also including the US, Russia, and China.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/12/05/612895/Zarif-jcpoa-un-letter-eu3

#7412767 at 2019-12-02 19:18:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9480: Q Posting on New Board! Glorious! Edition

Zarif: Instead of 'paper promises', Europe must fulfill its human duty toward Iranians

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has taken European countries to task for not fulfilling their promises to counteract the impact of US sanctions against Iran following Washington's withdrawal from Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers, asking Europeans to at least carry out their 'minimal human duty' toward Iranians.

Last year, President Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the US out of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, officially named the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and unleashed the "toughest ever" sanctions against Tehran.

Washington claims the sanctions target the government, but ordinary Iranians are the ones who suffer the most.

In a joint statement on Friday, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden said they would become new shareholders in a non-dollar trade mechanism with Iran, known as INSTEX.

"In light of the continuous European support for the agreement and the ongoing efforts to implement the economic part of it and to facilitate legitimate trade between Europe and Iran, we are now in the process of becoming shareholders of the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) subject to completion of national procedures," their statement said.

Britain, France, and Germany (which are known as E3/EU) had announced the establishment of the system in January. The apparatus is meant to circumvent the sanctions that the United States began re-imposing against Iran last year after leaving a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic and the trio, Russia, and China.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/12/02/612659/Zarif-europe-instex-jcpoa-economic-terrorism

#7335502 at 2019-08-04 11:21:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9386: Shills working Sunday Edition

Iran seizes another foreign oil tanker, state media says

Another foreign oil tanker was seized in the Persian Gulf, Iran's state media said Sunday - the third such ship to be detained by Tehran amid high tensions between Iran and the United States after Washington renewed sanctions on Iran's oil exports.

Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) announced it detained the ship's foreign crew for smuggling 700,000 liters - about 185,000 gallons - of fuel from Iran, according to the semi-official Fars news agency, which cited state television.

Seven sailor's were detained.

No details about who owns the ship or the crew's nationalities were given. The ship was reportedly seized near Farsi Island, a small, barren enclave in the Persian Gulf.

The Trump administration said Wednesday it will sanction Iran's Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, a move likely to ratchet up tensions and narrow the window for dialogue with the Islamic Republic. That decision came after weeks of heated rhetoric and confrontation between the U.S. and Iran, as the Trump administration tries to squeeze the regime economically and isolate it diplomatically. That effort has steadily intensified since Trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement.

Amid the crisis, Washington has boosted its military deployments in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway for oil tankers. It is trying to establish an international maritime force to patrol the region. Britain is trying to create a separate European maritime security force. It remains unclear if NATO will take part.

https://usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/08/04/iran-seizes-foreign-oil-tanker-us-trump-tensions/1914486001/

#7326635 at 2019-08-03 21:40:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9374: Israeli (((MOSSAD))) Is Getting Sloppy Edition

Israel drives US foreign policy on Iran: American writer
"Israel drives US foreign policy" on Iran, says American writer and sociopolitical analyst Walt Peretto in response to the imposition of sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif by the administration of President Donald Trump.

The US Departments of State and Treasury announced the imposition of sanctions on Wednesday against Zarif stating he "acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran."

In June, Trump announced new sanctions against Iran targeting Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and top commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).

"The most recent act by the United States towards Iran is the imposition of economic sanctions against their Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. This threat is likely toothless since Zarif claims to hold no financial assets outside of Iran. The basis of this latest jab thrown by the United States is to target a diplomat who has called for the world to 'look at the realities on the ground' instead of believing the twisted lies and propaganda spewing from Western information outlets that seek to promote and justify war against Iran," Peretto said.

"Zarif has been building a reputation around the world as an articulate and clear voice for truth, and this has brought about a number of retaliatory responses from those who seek to further the globalization agenda to end national sovereignty for all nations in favor of a one world system," he told Press TV.

"Even though these toothless sanctions are coming from the US State Department – Zarif has stated that he believes 'The United States is not serving US interests – it is serving Israeli interests and (those) who have aligned themselves with Israeli interests' naming John Bolton of the US, Netanyahu of Israel, and bin Salmon of the House of Saud," he stated.

"Israel... drives US foreign policy. Israel was the key foreign player behind the 9/11 attacks that fostered the US led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and is now directly and indirectly causing chaos in Syria, Yemen, Libya, the Sudan, and elsewhere. The Western controlled media continues to portray Israel as an ally of the United States and Iran as a threat. If one objectively looks at the realities on the ground–one will clearly see that Israel and its founding families and associates have an economic, political, informational, and academic grip on American society and its foreign policy," he noted.

https:///Detail/2019/08/01/602443/Israel-drives-US-foreign-policy-on-Iran-American-writer

#7293617 at 2019-08-01 16:08:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9332: White Robots Are Raycis Edition

EU 'to work with' Iranian FM Zarif despite US sanctions

The European Union said on Thursday that it regrets the US decision to impose sanctions against Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and vowed to continue working with him.

"We regret this decision," said Carlos Martin Ruiz De Gordejuela, a spokesman for EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini.

"From our side, we will continue to work with Mr Zarif as Iran's most senior diplomat and in view of the importance of maintaining diplomatic channels," AFP quoted Martin as saying.

Zarif, who was a critical figure in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal with world powers, dismissed the sanctions and said they would not affect him.

https://www.rt.com/newsline/465565-eu-iran-Zarif-us/

Blackmail?

#7288730 at 2019-08-01 04:51:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9326: August is Hot! National Preparedness Month! Edition

No, The Other JZ:

US Sanctions Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, Blocks All US Assets

The Trump administration took the bizarre step of imposing financial sanctions on Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif despite indications the man has no wealth or properties to speak of parked in the United States.

The sanctions revealed Wednesday will freeze any assets Zarif has in the United States, or which are controlled by U.S. entities, said the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

The Treasury Department said "all property and interests in property of this individual (Zarif) that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons must be blocked and reported" to the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin alleged Zarif "implements the reckless agenda of Iran's Supreme Leader, and is the regime's primary spokesperson around the world."

"The United States is sending a clear message to the Iranian regime that its recent behavior is completely unacceptable," he added.

Zarif expressed bewilderment at the sanctions, saying he has "no property or interests outside of Iran."

https://www.ibtimes.com/us-sanctions-iranian-foreign-minister-Javad-Zarif-blocks-all-us-assets-2810039

#7288706 at 2019-08-01 04:48:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9325: Are we prepared for voter ID riots? Edition

No, The Other JZ:
US Sanctions Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, Blocks All US Assets
The Trump administration took the bizarre step of imposing financial sanctions on Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif despite indications the man has no wealth or properties to speak of parked in the United States.
The sanctions revealed Wednesday will freeze any assets Zarif has in the United States, or which are controlled by U.S. entities, said the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
The Treasury Department said "all property and interests in property of this individual (Zarif) that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons must be blocked and reported" to the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin alleged Zarif "implements the reckless agenda of Iran's Supreme Leader, and is the regime's primary spokesperson around the world."
"The United States is sending a clear message to the Iranian regime that its recent behavior is completely unacceptable," he added.
Zarif expressed bewilderment at the sanctions, saying he has "no property or interests outside of Iran."

https://www.ibtimes.com/us-sanctions-iranian-foreign-minister-Javad-Zarif-blocks-all-us-assets-2810039

#7281621 at 2019-07-31 21:14:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9316: Because He Knows What's Going To Happen Edition

US:

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/455601-trump-announces-sanctions-on-irans-foreign-minister-amid-rising-tensions

e Trump administration on Wednesday announced additional U.S. sanctions against Iran, this time targeting Tehran's top diplomat.

The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif "because Zarif acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran," according to a department statement.

#7281062 at 2019-07-31 20:29:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9316: Because He Knows What's Going To Happen Edition

US Treasury Sanctions Iran Foreign Minister Zarif

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has lambasted the United States for what he claimed was a policy failure in the Middle East and urged its president to engage in diplomacy.

Zarif has also urged US President Donald Trump to reject the "thirst for Forever War" of his national security adviser, John Bolton, and choose the path of diplomacy, which he said equaled prudence and was not a weakness.

The United States imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif, the US Department of the Treasury said in a news release on Wednesday.

"The following [IRAN-EO13876] entries have been added to [Office of Foreign Assets Control's (OFAC)] [Specially Designated Nationals (SDN)] List: Zarif KHONSARI, Mohammad Javad (a.k.a. Zarif, Mohammad Javad; a.k.a. "Zarif, Javad"), Iran; DOB 08 Jan 1960," the release said.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201907311076421819-us-treasury-sanctions-iran-foreign-minister-Zarif/

#7246194 at 2019-07-29 19:29:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9271: MSM anti-narrative? No Coverage? Anons keep narrative straight! Edition

Zarif: We will not compromise on territorial integrity with anybody

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the foreign ministry will not compromise on the country's territorial integrity with anybody, including with regard to Iran's territorial waters.

Zarif made the remarks while addressing an open session of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) on Monday with regard to the Caspian Sea legal regime and Iran's share of the seabed and its resources.

"When it comes to Iran's territorial integrity and waters, we will stand on ceremony with nobody and will not negotiate with any party about honors Iran has gained during the past 40 years .... The administration is committed to this issue and the Majlis has the final say on it," Iran's top diplomat told lawmakers.

Iran's foreign minister added that following the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Iran's diplomatic apparatus did its best to safeguard Iran's interests in the Caspian Sea, adding, "Although these negotiations have been very difficult, all our efforts were focused on protecting Iran's interests."

"A glance at the history [of Iran] will show that parts of Iran were separated [from the country] under previous [monarchial] dynasties and it was only under the Islamic Republic that despite the imposed war [with Iraq] and tremendous pressures, not a handspan of the country's soil has been lost and this is a great honor for Iran's leadership and people," Zarif noted.

Iran's foreign minister also told lawmakers that necessary guarantees have been taken from other littoral states of the Caspian Sea not to make any decision on the sea's legal regime in the absence of Iran, because "the issue of the Caspian Sea, unlike the issue of Arvand River between Iran and Iraq, is not a bilateral issue ... and is covered by the agreement signed in 1975."

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/07/29/602164/Iran-Mohammad-Javad-Zarif-territorial-integrity-Caspian-Sea

#7108756 at 2019-07-20 10:44:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9095: Epstein Denied Baal! Edition

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201907181076289509-tehran-has-no-information-on-a-downed-drone-in-the-strait-of-hormuz—iranian-fm/

US President Donald Trump claimed on Thursday that a US warship destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after the aircraft ignored multiple warnings to stand down.

Later on Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told reporters at the UN in New York that Tehran has no information about a drone being downed by the United States.

"We have no information about having lost the drone today", Zarif said.

Trump characterized the alleged actions of an Iranian drone as a hostile and provocative action against vessels operating in international waters, adding that the United States has the right to defend itself, its facilities and interests.

The Pentagon said in a statement that an Iranian drone came within "threatening range" of a US warship in the Strait of Hormuz before being destroyed by American forces in a defensive action.

The situation in the Persian Gulf and adjacent areas has noticeably worsened over the past couple of months as several oil tankers were hit by explosions of undetermined origin. The United States and its allies blamed Iran for the incidents. The Iranian military then reported that it had downed a US drone, saying it had violated Iran airspace.

The United States was reportedly close to undertaking military action against Iran after a US drone was shot down by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), but Trump has repeated that he is open for talks with the Iranian leadership without preconditions.

IRGC Commander Hossein Salami warned on Thursday that Iran's defence strategy would become offensive in the event of an "error on the part of the enemy".

In May 2018, Trump unilaterally withdrew his country from an international nuclear deal with Iran and began reimposing sanctions on the Islamic republic. In June, Tehran announced that it would begin enriching uranium beyond the 3.67 percent level set in the JCPOA, adding that Tehran would continue to gradually abandon its nuclear commitments every 60 days.

Earlier on Thursday, the US Treasury Department imposed new sanctions on five persons and seven entities over alleged links to Iran's nuclear program.

#7087894 at 2019-07-18 22:45:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9069: Put On The Full Armor Of God Edition

Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he was not aware of any downing of an Iranian drone.

"We have no information about losing a drone today," Zarif told reporters at the United Nations before a meeting with Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

Shortly after Trump's claim, Zarif re-tweeted a map originally posted on June 22 that shows the border of Iran and the border of the United States.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/07/18/601277/US-Iran-drone-strait-of-Hormuz

#7087013 at 2019-07-18 21:57:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9068: Find Glory in The Q Kitchen! Edition

To the "nothing is happening" shills from LB.

Today I read :

FBI tracks Michael Madigan
(https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/john-kass/ct-michael-madigan-illinois-kass-20190718-enyw5x3ccfbtbcamdewtwpxzoi-story.html)

Italian cops and FBI agents bust 19 Mafia suspects in joint raids
(https://nypost.com/2019/07/17/italian-cops-and-fbi-agents-bust-19-mafia-suspects-in-joint-raids)

Largest Mafia bust in Ontario history
(https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/largest-mafia-bust-in-ontario-history-15-arrests-35-million-worth-of-homes-seized-1.4513261)

Iran makes 'substantial nuclear offer in return for US lifting sanctions (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/18/iran-nuclear-deal-trump-Mohammad-Javad-Zarif-sanctions)

Google Testimony by Dr. Robert Epstein, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Epstein%20Testimony.pdf

#7084503 at 2019-07-18 19:18:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9065:Aleppo! Symbolism will be their downfall! Edition

Iran Offers Nuclear Deal If US Lifts Sanctions; Oil Tumbles

Who knew Rand Paul could be such an effective negotator.

One day after the Republican senator and son of Ron Paul was reported to be Trump's liaison to negotiate with Iran in hopes of easing tensions, sending the price of oil tumbling, the Guardian report that Iran has offered a deal with the US in which it would "formally and permanently" accept enhanced inspections of its nuclear program, in return for the permanent lifting of US sanctions.

The offer was made by Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on a visit to New York, although for those hoping that the US and Iran will become bffs, don't get your hopes up: as the Guardian notes, the offer is unlikely to be warmly received by the Trump administration, which is currently demanding Iran make a range of sweeping concessions, including cessation of uranium enrichment and support for proxies and allies in the region.

To thise, Zarif countered that his offer was "a substantial move".

"It's not about photo ops. We are interested in substance," he told reporters at the Iranian mission to the UN in New York on Thursday. "There are other substantial moves that can be made."

"If they [the Trump administration] are putting their money where their mouth is, they are going to do it. They don't need a photo op. They don't need a two-page document with a big signature."

In May of 2018, Trump unleashed an oil embargo on Iran, coupled with severe banking sanctions, when the US withdrew the US from the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal with Iran known as the Joint Comprehensive Programme of Action (JCPOA). The ongoing embargo has not only crippled Iran's economy, but triggered a standoff in the Gulf that has escalated dramatically in recent months, with sabotage attacks on foreign tankers, blamed on Iran by the US. In the latest incident on Thursday, Iran said it had seized a foreign-owned vessel suspected of being used for oil smuggling out of Iran.

Zarif dismissed the incident as a routine marine policing matter.

He said: "It's not a tanker. It's a small ship carrying a million litres, not a million barrels, of oil. We do it every other day. These are people who are smuggling our fuel. This is ... one of the things that we do in the Persian Gulf, because of the heavy subsidies that we provide for our own fuel products."

An unexpected moment of diplomatic tenderness emerged when Zarif credited Trump with "prudence" for calling off missile attacks last month in reprisal for the downing of a US surveillance drone, and said that gave him confidence that diplomatic progress is possible.

He said: "I believe we were few minutes away from a war. Prudence prevailed and we're not fighting. So that gives reason for us to be optimists. If we work, if we are serious, then we can find a way forward."

But the reason why today's olive leaf by Iran was notable is that until now, Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei has rebuffed overtures for direct talks with Trump, citing US bad faith over the JCPOA, but Zarif signaled on Thursday that Iran was willing to do a deal that did not necessary involve the US returning to the JCPOA, Tehran's official position until now.

The result: oil prices are tumbling for a fourth day…… as a major source of geopolitical uncertainty now appears to be on its way out… or at least until Trump comments that nothing that Iran has offered is an acceptable basis for negotiation.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-18/iran-offers-nuclear-deal-if-us-lifts-sanctions-oil-tumbles
https://www.dailyfx.com/crude-oil

#7084480 at 2019-07-18 19:17:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9065:Aleppo! Symbolism will be their downfall! Edition

Iran Offers Nuclear Deal If US Lifts Sanctions; Oil Tumbles

Who knew Rand Paul could be such an effective negotator.

One day after the Republican senator and son of Ron Paul was reported to be Trump's liaison to negotiate with Iran in hopes of easing tensions, sending the price of oil tumbling, the Guardian report that Iran has offered a deal with the US in which it would "formally and permanently" accept enhanced inspections of its nuclear program, in return for the permanent lifting of US sanctions.

The offer was made by Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on a visit to New York, although for those hoping that the US and Iran will become bffs, don't get your hopes up: as the Guardian notes, the offer is unlikely to be warmly received by the Trump administration, which is currently demanding Iran make a range of sweeping concessions, including cessation of uranium enrichment and support for proxies and allies in the region.

To thise, Zarif countered that his offer was "a substantial move".

"It's not about photo ops. We are interested in substance," he told reporters at the Iranian mission to the UN in New York on Thursday. "There are other substantial moves that can be made."

"If they [the Trump administration] are putting their money where their mouth is, they are going to do it. They don't need a photo op. They don't need a two-page document with a big signature."

In May of 2018, Trump unleashed an oil embargo on Iran, coupled with severe banking sanctions, when the US withdrew the US from the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal with Iran known as the Joint Comprehensive Programme of Action (JCPOA). The ongoing embargo has not only crippled Iran's economy, but triggered a standoff in the Gulf that has escalated dramatically in recent months, with sabotage attacks on foreign tankers, blamed on Iran by the US. In the latest incident on Thursday, Iran said it had seized a foreign-owned vessel suspected of being used for oil smuggling out of Iran.

Zarif dismissed the incident as a routine marine policing matter.

He said: "It's not a tanker. It's a small ship carrying a million litres, not a million barrels, of oil. We do it every other day. These are people who are smuggling our fuel. This is ... one of the things that we do in the Persian Gulf, because of the heavy subsidies that we provide for our own fuel products."

An unexpected moment of diplomatic tenderness emerged when Zarif credited Trump with "prudence" for calling off missile attacks last month in reprisal for the downing of a US surveillance drone, and said that gave him confidence that diplomatic progress is possible.

He said: "I believe we were few minutes away from a war. Prudence prevailed and we're not fighting. So that gives reason for us to be optimists. If we work, if we are serious, then we can find a way forward."

But the reason why today's olive leaf by Iran was notable is that until now, Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei has rebuffed overtures for direct talks with Trump, citing US bad faith over the JCPOA, but Zarif signaled on Thursday that Iran was willing to do a deal that did not necessary involve the US returning to the JCPOA, Tehran's official position until now.

The result: oil prices are tumbling for a fourth day…

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-18/iran-offers-nuclear-deal-if-us-lifts-sanctions-oil-tumbles

#7084248 at 2019-07-18 19:00:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9064: Salute last remains from WW2 being returned! WWG1WWA! Edition

>>7083764
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/18/iran-nuclear-deal-trump-Mohammad-Javad-Zarif-sanctions

Iran makes 'substantial' nuclear offer in return for US lifting sanctions

#7079948 at 2019-07-18 12:52:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9059: 500 Patriot Bakers Needed Edition

Trump allows Rand Paul to be back channel with Iran

President Trump has tasked Rand Paul with reducing tensions with Iran as Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visits the U.S. this week.

The Kentucky Republican senator pitched the president on being a back channel between the two countries during a round of golf this past weekend, Politico reported Wednesday.

Trump agreed to the idea after months of trying to start negotiations with Iran after his administration pulled out of the nuclear deal and imposed new sanctions on the country.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-allows-rand-paul-to-be-back-channel-with-iran

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rand-paul-handed-iranian-peace-brief-xck9tqjw6

#7049480 at 2019-07-15 17:01:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9020: Coming Into the LIGHT Edition

>>7049461

KERRY/MASSACHUSETTS RICO
*Excerpt from interview*
Talk about that original team that he hired when he was lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. A lot of the people that started with you at that office are now still part of his political strategy team. What was the first task Kerry gave you when you joined at that time, when he was lieutenant governor?
Law enforcement. John had been a prosecutor. He had [been innovative] in the Middlesex district attorney's office. Michael Dukakis gave him vice chairmanship, as lieutenant governor, of the Governor's Anti-Crime Council.
John looked at what was going on in Massachusetts and said, "Let's figure out what we can do to modernize, to bring the state forward. Where are the areas to operate?" Two early assignments he gave me were developing a Racketeer Influenced [and] Corrupt Organizations law, a RICO law, an organized crime law, for Massachusetts, so we can deal with organized crime more comprehensively, including freezing and going after their assets.
That's the same principle we use going after terrorists globally today. Massachusetts didn't have a RICO law, so one of the first things he asked me to do was to help him develop one. We took the laws from all the other states, looked at who had innovated, and what was working, what wasn't, and developed a law and got support, bit by bit.
The other thing that's interesting that he asked me to do is computer crime. We drafted the first comprehensive computer crime law for Massachusetts. ...
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/interviews/winer.html

KERRY/HEINZ FAMILY
Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz have invested millions of U.S. dollars through family trusts in at least 11 offshore tax havens, according to an analysis by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
The revelation comes on the heels of the release of the Panama Papers, a treasure trove of 11.5 million legal and financial records documenting how some of the world's richest and most powerful people have used offshore bank accounts to conceal their wealth and avoid taxes.
https://dailycaller.com/2016/04/25/exclusive-kerry-heinz-family-has-millions-invested-in-offshore-tax-havens/

KERRY/IRAN/Zarif
" A hushed up fact concerning Kerry's personal life, involves his younger daughter from his deceased first wife, Dr. Vanessa Bradford Kerry. Kerry's daughter married Dr. Brian (Behrooz) Vala Nahid, an Iranian-American physician and the son of Nooshin and Reza Vala Nahid of Los Angeles, in October 2009.
The marriage was even announced in the New York Times but oddly enough, no mention was made of the groom's Iranian connection, an irregular occurrence for the paper. It should be noted that after the wedding, the couple went to Iran to visit those relatives. "
"Kerry's family connection to Iran is no secret, and in the melting pot that is the United States, it is not entirely surprising. What is significant is that as part of the wedding preparations, Kerry went to a dinner party hosted by George Soros at his Manhattan penthouse. He undoubtedly met the best man Mahdi Zarif, and also met his father, Mohammad Javad Zarif,current Iranian Foreign Minister, who acted as the chief negotiator during nuclear talks, across the table from Kerry. This revelation was made by former Congressman Allen West on his website on July 28."

https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/46248/nuclear-nepotism-hushed-up-truth-kerrys-personal-iran-connection-middle-east/

Cont.

#7040308 at 2019-07-14 20:24:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9008: The Show Goes On Edition

Netanyahu: IDF the only army ready to fight Iran

Speaking to members of the National Security College at the Prime Minister's Residence, Netanyahu slammed the 2015 nuclear deal, and said that only he was against it.

Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the only army ready to combat Iran is the IDF.

Speaking to members of the National Security College at the Prime Minister's Office, Netanyahu slammed the 2015 nuclear deal, and said that only he was against it at the time.
"The only thing that the terrible nuclear agreement gave is a strong and sweeping rapprochement with major Arab countries," Netanyahu said. "Iran says simply: 'We will destroy you and destroy you first by nuclear weapons.'"

"I had to fight alone to block the nuclear agreement," Netanyahu lamented. "I had to fight against all the powers and against the president of the United States - I went to the American Congress.

"I thought that this agreement would not only pave the way for a nuclear arsenal, but would also give them hundreds of billions of dollars that they would not invest in Iran, but would invest in their empire. Today you can judge whether we were right or not. So first of all, you have to stop it.

"At the moment, the only army in the world to fight Iran - this is the Israeli army."

Netanyahu's comments come as Iran says it is open for talks with the United States as long as it lifts its punishing sanctions on the country.

Washington accused Iran of extortion after it inched past the deal's limit on enrichment levels last week, while still offering to hold talks with Tehran.

Two sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday that the United States has granted a visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to attend a U.N. meeting in New York this week, saying Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had approved the decision.

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Netanyahu-IDF-the-only-army-ready-to-fight-Iran-595649

#7034977 at 2019-07-14 05:53:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9001: Over 9000 Edition

US Naval Coalition in Gulf - a Provocation Too Far

America's top General Joseph Dunford this week announced plans for a US-led naval coalition to patrol the Persian Gulf in order to "protect shipping" from alleged Iranian sabotage.

The move is but the latest in a series of efforts by the Trump administration to mobilize Arab allies into a more aggressive military stance towards Iran. It follows recent visits to the region by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton, both of whom have been urging a more organized military front led by the US to confront Iran.

The latest naval coalition proposed by General Dunford will be charged with escorting oil tankers as they pass through the Strait of Hormuz exiting the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean, and also through the Bab al Mandab entrance to the Red Sea on the Western side of the Arabian Peninsula. The former conduit serves oil supply to Asia, while the latter position between Yemen and Eritrea leads shipping to the Suez Canal on the way to the Mediterranean and Europe. Both narrow sea passages are strategic chokepoints in global oil trade, with some 20-30 per cent of all daily shipped crude passing through them.

The apparently chivalrous motives of the US to "guarantee freedom of navigation" sounds suspiciously like a pretext for Washington to assert crucial military control over international oil trade. That is one paramount reason for objecting to this American proposal.

Secondly, the very idea of sending more military vessels to the Persian Gulf under Pentagon command at this time of incendiary tensions between the US and Iran is a reckless provocation too far.

In the same week that the Pentagon called for a naval coalition, the US and Britain were blaming Iranian forces for trying to block a British oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has dismissed the allegations that its naval vessels interfered in any way with the British tanker. Both London and Washington claimed that a British Royal Navy frigate had to intervene to ward off the Iranian vessels. Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed the accusations as "worthless".

The latest incident follows a string of sabotage attacks against oil tankers in the Persian Gulf by unidentified assailants. The US has blamed Iran. Iran has vehemently denied any involvement. Tehran has countered by saying that tensions are being inflamed by "malicious conspiracies".

One can easily foresee in this already supercharged geopolitical context in the Persian Gulf and the wider region how any additional military forces would be potentially disastrous, either from miscalculation, misunderstanding or more malign motive.

Furthermore, media reports indicate a heightened wariness among some Gulf Arab states about being pushed into confrontation with their neighbor Iran. US policy is recklessly fomenting regional tensions against the better judgement of proximate countries.

The Washington Post reported this week: "The escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf have exposed differences between the United States and its regional allies, in part over how aggressively the Trump administration should confront Iran... With these countries likely to find themselves on the front lines of any military conflict with Iran, some of the smaller states are hesitant to support the more combative stance of the United States and regional heavyweights Saudi Arabia and the UAE."

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/07/12/us-naval-coalition-in-gulf-a-provocation-too-far/

#7032312 at 2019-07-14 01:34:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8998: What city was Epstein arrested in? NYC? Jailed Where? Manhattan? Edition

UK must help immediate release of Iran tanker: Zarif

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on Britain to accelerate efforts meant to release an Iranian oil tanker held in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar since earlier this month.

"The UK government must immediately adopt required measures to end the illegal seizure of the Iranian oil tanker," said Zarif in a phone conversation with his British counterpart Jeremy Hunt on Saturday.

The top Iranian diplomat said that Britain was supposed to continue to defy extra-territorial sanctions imposed by the United States on Iran as a matter of conformity with other members of European Union.

The phone conversation between Iranian and British foreign ministers came 10 days after British naval forces seized the Grace 1 supertanker off the coast of Gibraltar as it was sailing to the east Mediterranean region. Authorities in the British controlled territory said at the time that they had stopped the ship suspecting it was carrying oil to Syria, a destination banned under current EU regulations.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/07/13/600863/Iran-UK-Zarif-Hunt-phone-conversation-tanker-Gibraltar

#7029450 at 2019-07-13 21:00:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8994: Summer Saturdays Edition

UK Promises to Release Detained Iranian Oil Tanker If Given Assurances It Won't Go to Syria

Tensions between the UK and Iran escalated sharply following the 4 July seizure of a supertanker loaded with Iranian oil by Royal Marine commandos off the coast of Gibraltar.

UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Jeremy Hunt has announced that he has spoken to his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif Saturday, telling him that London would release the detained Grace 1 supertanker on one condition.

The UK would "facilitate release if we received guarantees that it would not be going to Syria, following due process in Gibraltar courts," Hunt wrote in a tweet.

1/2 Just spoke to Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif. Constructive call. I reassured him our concern was destination not origin of the oil on Grace One &that UK would facilitate release if we received guarantees that it would not be going to Syria, following due process in Gib courts
- Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) 13 ???? 2019 ?.

2/2 Was told by FM Zarif that Iran wants to resolve issue and is not seeking to escalate. Also spoke to @FabianPicardo who is doing an excellent job co-ordinating issue and shares UK perspective on the way forward.
- Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) 13 ???? 2019 ?.

According to Hunt, during their "constructive" conversation, Zarif told him that Iran was looking to resolve the diplomatic squabble, and "not seeking to escalate."

Iran-UK relations suffered a blow after the Grace 1's seizure off the coast of Gibraltar last week, with British authorities accusing Tehran off attempting to smuggle the oil to war-torn Syria, in controvention of the European Union's anti-Syria sanctions. Tehran slammed the seizure, calling it "a form of piracy," accusing London of parroting Washington's "hostile policies," and claiming that the tanker was not headed for Syria anyway.

On Friday, Gibraltar police said they had released the crew of the Panamanian-flagged vessel without charge, with a probe still underway into the ship's "suspected breach of EU sanction [policy] on Syria."

The tanker incident led to an increase in military tensions between Iran and the UK in the Persian Gulf, with British media reporting Friday that London had decided to send a second warship to the region amid accusations that Iran had made multiple attempts to seize British oil tankers traveling through the waterway. Iranian authorities have denied the claims, although other officials have also threatened that the UK would be 'slapped in the face' for "daring to seize" the Iranian-oil laden tanker.

Foreign Minister Zarif has yet to comment on Saturday's conversation with Hunt. Earlier Saturday, Iranian media reported that Zarif had set off to New York to attended a UN conference, with his visit to the US coming amid escalating tensions with Washington.

Responding to the tanker seizure last week, Zarif said the move set "a dangerous precedent," and doesn't make sense, given that Iran "is neither a member of the EU nor subject to any European oil embargo."

Spain, which does not recognise UK jurisdiction over the waters around Gibraltar, has raised its own concerns over the incident, accusing London of an illegal incursion into Spanish territorial waters, and saying that the UK was tipped off about the tanker by the US.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201907131076236590-hunt-vows-to-facilitate-release-of-detained-oil-tanker-if-hes-guaranteed-it-wont-head-to-syria/

#7005637 at 2019-07-12 04:13:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8963: Watch NYC. Watch CA. Edition

Washington Decides Not to Impose Sanctions on Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif for Now

Last month, US Treasury head Steven Mnuchin announced that Iranian Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif would be targeted with sanctions.

Washington has decided not to impose sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for now, Reuters reported, quoting two sources familiar with the situation.

Washington imposed new "hard-hitting" sanctions on Iran over its alleged "hostile conduct" in June, with US President Donald Trump tying them to the downed US drone incident over the Strait of Hormuz at first, but later revealing that they would have been rolled out eventually anyway. The sanctions targeted Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and those "close to him," as well as 8 senior members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Accorting to a source quoted by Reuters, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had opposed blacklisting Zarif "for the time being." "Cooler heads prevailed. We ... saw it as not necessarily helpful," the source reportedly said.

Meanwhile, last Sunday Pompeo warned Iran of "further isolation and sanctions," following Tehran's recent move to exceed the nuclear deal uranium enrichment limit and its promise to reduce the nation's commitment to the Iran nuclear deal every 60 days if the issue is not resolved. The administration of US President Donald Trump fully withdrew from the 2015 Iran deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) treaty on 8 May 2018 and reimposed sanctions on Iran. The deal provides for the gradual lifting of sanctions imposed on Iran by the United Nations Security Council, the United States and the European Union in exchange for Tehran's guarantee that the country's nuclear program would remain peaceful. A year after Washington's withdrawal, Tehran announced that it would suspend some obligations under the agreement, giving the other nuclear deal signatories - France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, and the European Union - 60 days to save the accord by facilitating oil exports and trade with Iran amid US sanctions.

https://sputniknews.com/world/201907121076220565-washington-decides-not-to-impose-sanctions-on-irans-foreign-minister-Zarif-for-now-report/

#6970059 at 2019-07-09 19:27:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8917: Flynn News Big! Read Up! Edition

Bolton, Netanyahu luring Trump into killing Iran deal: Zarif

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the US national security advisor and Israel's prime minister are using the "delusion" of forcing Iran's uranium enrichment level to "zero" to encourage the US president to destroy a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and other countries.

John Bolton and Benjamin Netanyahu acted on the same delusion in 2005 to devastate a nuclear agreement that had been reached between Iran and Britain, France, and Germany in Vienna a year earlier, Zarif tweeted on Tuesday.

"Bolton & Netanyahu killed Paris agreement between E3 & Iran in '05 by insisting on zero enrichment," he wrote.

Under the accord, the European parties had offered political, trade, and nuclear incentives in exchange for Tehran's voluntary and temporary suspension of its uranium enrichment program.

Zarif also noted how the duo's anti-Iran efforts had backfired despite initially undoing the agreement. "Result? Iran increased its enrichment 100-fold by 2012," the top diplomat noted.

"Now, they've lured [US President] Donald Trump into killing JCPOA with the same delusion," he stated, referring to a subsequent nuclear agreement.

The second deal was reached between the P5+1 group of states - the United States, the UK, France, Russia, and China plus Germany - and Iran in the Austrian capital in July 2015. It is officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

However, the US left the JCPOA last year and reinstated the nuclear-related sanctions that the deal had lifted.

Speaking to Fox News in April, Zarif outlined the role being played by Bolton and Netanyahu to ramp up pressure on the Islamic Republic as part of, what the Iranian top diplomat called, the four-strong B-Team, also comprising Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/07/09/600531/Iran-nuclear-Bolton-Netanyahu-Trump-United-States-Zarif

#6969736 at 2019-07-09 19:05:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8917: Flynn News Big! Read Up! Edition

Netanyahu threatens Iran with Israeli planes that can 'reach everywhere' in the Middle East

As tension mounts over Iran's nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Tehran that Israeli warplanes can strike anywhere in the Middle East, "including Iran and Syria."

"Iran has threatened recently to destroy Israel," Netanyahu said in a video clip posted on Tuesday. "It is worthwhile for them to remember that these planes can reach everywhere in the Middle East, including Iran and Syria."

Netanyahu delivered his stern lecture while standing in front of an F-35 fighter jet at Nevatim Airbase in central Israel. The Israeli Air Force has used its warplanes to strike supposed Iranian and Hezbollah targets in Syria numerous times, most recently pounding the cities of Damascus and Homs at the beginning of July - attacks that left multiple civilians dead. Last year, Israel became the world's first military power to use the next-generation F-35 in a combat operation, reportedly against Iranian targets in Syria.

The Israeli leader's video comes a week after Iranian parliamentarian Mojtaba Zolnour remarked that "if the US attacks us, only half an hour will remain of Israel's lifespan."

The Iranian leadership has stuck with a calmer line, with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stating in May that "there won't be a war" between Iran and the US. Even the usually hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leader, Major General Hossein Salami, said on Monday that "the world knows" Tehran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon.

With tension between the US and Iran at boiling point following an American military buildup in the Persian Gulf and Iran's downing of a US drone late last month, Tehran announced on Monday that it had stepped up its uranium enrichment beyond a cap set by the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, or Iran nuclear deal). Tehran also threatened further increases in refinement if European leaders fail to live up to their trade obligations under the deal.

Shortly before Netanyahu posted his video, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused 'Bibi' of playing a part in scuppering both the 2015 deal and another agreement 10 years earlier, saying the Israeli PM "hasn't learned" from his past dealings with Iran.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/73722/netanyahu-threatens-iran-with-israeli-planes-that-can-reach-everywhere-in-the-middle.html

#6940827 at 2019-07-07 14:21:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8879: Sunday Day Shift Edition

Iran's channels for smuggling oil shut down one after another

Iran, July 7, 2019 - In late April, Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani stated that there are six ways for circumventing U.S. oil sanctions which are completely unknown to the Americans.

A month later in a meeting with journalists, Rouhani claimed the "impact of sanctions is insignificant," and the Iranian government will be "able to decrease the impact of sanctions and lessen the people's problems with their livelihoods."

During his recent visit to New York, mullahs' Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also boasted that Tehran has a Ph.D. in circumventing sanctions!

In July 2017, far before Rouhani and Zarif, the regime's Majlis (parliament) Ali Larijani attempted to play down the potential consequences of the impending sanctions. "Let's not create unreasonable panic. This isn't a catastrophic event. The U.S. has violated [the terms of the deal], but I don't think that it will have much of an impact on Iran," he said.

According to Reuters, the Iranian regime is currently exporting about 300,000 barrels per day, down from around one million two months ago when the U.S. stopped extending oil sanction waivers.

https://english.mojahedin.org/i/irans-channels-smuggling-oil-shut-down-one-another

#6890148 at 2019-07-01 18:50:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8813: Fake Klan March Edition

Iran amasses more enriched uranium than allowed by nuclear deal
DUBAI/VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran announced on Monday it had amassed more low-enriched uranium than permitted under its 2015 deal with major powers, its first major step in violation of the deal since the United States pulled out of it more than a year ago.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which monitors Iran's nuclear program under the deal, confirmed in Vienna that Tehran had breached the limit.

The step could have far-reaching consequences for diplomacy at a time when European countries are trying to pull the United States and Iran back from the brink of war, less than two weeks after Washington aborted air strikes at the last minute.
The Europeans, who opposed last year's decision by President Donald Trump to abandon the nuclear deal signed under his predecessor Barack Obama, had pleaded with Iran to keep within its parameters.

Iran has said it aims to do so but cannot do so indefinitely, as long as sanctions imposed by Trump have deprived it of the benefits it was meant to receive in return for accepting curbs on its nuclear program under the deal.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran had passed the threshold, exactly as it had warned it would: "We have said very transparently what we will do."

The move is a test of European diplomacy after French, British and German officials had promised a strong diplomatic response if Iran fundamentally breached the deal.

Prime Minister Theresa May's office said Britain was urgently considering its next moves along with its partners, and urged Iran to "reverse this step". Her foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said he was "deeply worried" by Iran's announcement.

A European diplomat told Reuters there was a mechanism under the agreement to deal with "any inconsistencies", and it would be up to a joint commission of signatories to decide next steps.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the European countries should "stand behind their commitments" and impose "automatic sanctions" on Iran.
Iran announced in May that it would speed up production of enriched uranium in response to the Trump administration sharply tightening sanctions against it that month. Washington has now effectively ordered all countries to halt purchases of Iranian oil or face sanctions of their own, which Tehran calls "economic war" designed to starve its population.

In the two months since the U.S. sanctions were tightened, the confrontation has taken on a military dimension, with Washington blaming Tehran for attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf region, and Iran shooting down a U.S. drone.

Trump ordered air strikes in retaliation, only to call them off minutes before impact.

The nuclear deal imposes limits both on how much enriched uranium Iran can hold and on how pure its stocks can be, a pair of related thresholds intended to keep Tehran from amassing enough material, in a sufficiently refined state, to make a nuclear bomb.

Zarif said Iran's next move would be to enrich uranium beyond the 3.67% maximum purity allowed under the deal, a threshold Tehran has previously said it would cross on July 7. That could be seen as a bigger breach than Monday's announcement that it holds too much material at a permissible purity.

European officials had held last-ditch talks with Iranian envoys last week in the hope of persuading Tehran not to breach either threshold. Those talks failed, with the Iranians saying European efforts to shield the Islamic Republic from the impact of U.S. sanctions were insufficient.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-iran-usa/iran-amasses-more-enriched-uranium-than-allowed-by-nuclear-deal-idUSKCN1TW1ML?

#6888869 at 2019-07-01 15:53:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8811: QR AM Bake II Edition

Iran amasses more enriched uranium than allowed by nuclear deal

DUBAI/VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran announced on Monday it had amassed more low-enriched uranium than permitted under its 2015 deal with major powers, its first major step in violation of the deal since the United States pulled out of it more than a year ago. The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which monitors Iran's nuclear program under the deal, confirmed in Vienna that Tehran had breached the limit.

The step could have far-reaching consequences for diplomacy at a time when European countries are trying to pull the United States and Iran back from the brink of war, less than two weeks after Washington aborted air strikes at the last minute. The Europeans, who opposed last year's decision by President Donald Trump to abandon the nuclear deal signed under his predecessor Barack Obama, had pleaded with Iran to keep within its parameters.

Iran has said it aims to do so but cannot do so indefinitely, as long as sanctions imposed by Trump have deprived it of the benefits it was meant to receive in return for accepting curbs on its nuclear program under the deal. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran had passed the threshold, exactly as it had warned it would: "We have said very transparently what we will do."

The move is a test of European diplomacy after French, British and German officials had promised a strong diplomatic response if Iran fundamentally breached the deal. Prime Minister Theresa May's office said Britain was urgently considering its next moves along with its partners, and urged Iran to "reverse this step". Her foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said he was "deeply worried" by Iran's announcement. A European diplomat told Reuters there was a mechanism under the agreement to deal with "any inconsistencies", and it would be up to a joint commission of signatories to decide next steps.

"ECONOMIC WAR" Iran announced in May that it would speed up production of enriched uranium in response to the Trump administration sharply tightening sanctions against it that month. Washington has now effectively ordered all countries to halt purchases of Iranian oil or face sanctions of their own, which Tehran calls "economic war" designed to starve its population. In the two months since the U.S. sanctions were tightened, the confrontation has taken on a military dimension, with Washington blaming Tehran for attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf region, and Iran shooting down a U.S. drone. Trump ordered air strikes in retaliation, only to call them off minutes before impact.

The nuclear deal imposes limits both on how much enriched uranium Iran can hold and on how pure its stocks can be, a pair of related thresholds intended to keep Tehran from amassing enough material, in a sufficiently refined state, to make a nuclear bomb. Zarif said Iran's next move would be to enrich uranium slightly beyond the 3.67% maximum purity allowed under the deal, a threshold Tehran has previously said it would cross on July 7. That could be seen as a bigger breach than Monday's announcement that it holds too much material at a permissible purity.

European officials had held last-ditch talks with Iranian envoys last week in the hope of persuading Tehran not to breach either threshold. Those talks failed, with the Iranians saying European efforts to shield the Islamic Republic from the impact of U.S. sanctions were insufficient.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-iran-usa/iran-amasses-more-enriched-uranium-than-allowed-by-nuclear-deal-idUSKCN1TW1ML

#6888716 at 2019-07-01 15:25:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8811: QR AM Bake II Edition

Iranian oil minister: Iran is not ready to talk to the US until sanctions are lifted

Iran is not ready to engage in talks with the United States, an Iranian oil minister told CNBC on Monday.
"If United States and the administration wants to change the environment between the two countries, firstly [it] should leave all sanctions put against Iranian oil and other areas. Then, [the U.S.] will see significant change in the environment and then we can do many things," said Bijan Zanganeh at the OPEC meeting in Vienna.
Tensions between the U.S. and Iran have escalated in recent weeks, following attacks on oil tankers and a U.S. drone near the Strait of Hormuz that the U.S. alleges were executed by Iran.
Iran is not ready to engage in talks with the United States until sanctions are lifted, an Iranian oil minister told CNBC on Monday.

"Iran is not ready to open discussions with United States," said Iranian oil minister Bijan Zanganeh at the OPEC meeting in Vienna to CNBC's Brian Sullivan. "If United States and the administration wants to change the environment between the two countries, firstly [it] should leave all sanctions put against Iranian oil and other areas. Then, [the U.S.] will see significant change in the environment and then we can do many things."

Tensions between the U.S. and Iran have escalated in recent weeks, following attacks on oil tankers and a U.S. drone near the Strait of Hormuz that the U.S. alleges were executed by Iran. Although Iran denies it carried out the tanker attacks and said the drone was in Iranian airspace, last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing new sanctions on Iran in response to the downing of an unmanned U.S. drone.

The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow channel between the borders of Iran and Oman, accounts for approximately 30% of the world's seaborne oil traffic.

When asked if it is safe for tankers in the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz, Zanganeh emphasized that the oil market should be depoliticized.

"I don't know who has done against the ships in Oman but in [the] Iranian side, during the more than 100 years, we secured the market and we repeated it for many times that the market, the oil market, should be depoliticized," said Zanganeh.

"The oil market should be depoliticized for all," he said. "Its not a tool to use against some countries to limit its export and others. Oil is oil."
Oil prices surged on Monday on reports that OPEC+ is set to extend production cuts and the trade truce between the U.S. and China boosted sentiment for the commodity in a weakening global economy. Prices also got a boost on news that Iran breached its nuclear agreement.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Iran breached the limit of its enriched uranium stockpile set in 2015, Reuters reported. Zarif confirmed that Iran had gone over the relevant limit of 300 kg of uranium.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/01/iranian-oil-minister-iran-is-not-ready-to-talk-to-the-us-until-sanctions-are-lifted.html

#6888570 at 2019-07-01 14:58:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8811: QR AM Bake II Edition

Iran just exceeded its uranium stockpile limit - and plans to keep breaking nuke deal terms

Iran has exceeded the limits imposed on its uranium stockpile set by the 2015 nuclear deal.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Monday that Iran has surpassed the 300-kilogram limit established by the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and will continue development that exceeds other limits mandated by the deal, according to Iran's Fars News Agency.

"As far as I know, Iran has exceeded the 300kg limit according to the timeline, and we had also earlier announced this issue and clearly stated which measures we will adopt as our rights based on the nuclear deal," Zarif told reporters in Tehran on Monday.

"The next stage which has been declared pertains to the 3.67% limit which will come into effect in the second phase," Zarif added.

A source told Fars News Agency that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has also confirmed that the stockpile exceeded the limits.

#6854564 at 2019-06-27 14:10:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8767: Master Debaters? I Think Not Edition

Qatar Paid for Congressional Democrats' Doha Trip

Note: This post has been updated to correct the name of the Al Udeid Air Base.

Qatar's Washington embassy paid for six congressional Democrats to visit Doha last December, Al-Monitor reported Friday. U.S. Reps. Ami Bera, D-Calif., Andre Carson, D-Ind., and Dan Kildee, D-Mich., noted the payment in financial disclosure forms.

The office of U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, D-N.J., told Al-Monitor it would amend its disclosure form to include the Qatari payment. U.S. Rep. James Himes, D-Conn., failed to disclose the trip. Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., received an extension until August to file his disclosure. Ben Smith of Buzzfeed, which co-sponsored the Doha Forum first acknowledged the trip in a Dec. 15 tweet.

Speakers at the Doha Forum included President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's son-in-law, and current Turkish Finance Minister Berat Albayrak; Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif; and Mutlaq al-Qahtani, who told the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) last year that Hamas was not a terrorist organization. Al-Qahtani serves as Qatar's counterterrorism envoy.

Carson and Himes sit on the House Intelligence Committee. Bera serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Norcross is on to the House Armed Services Committee.

At the forum, the officials met with Qatar's deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs. Qatar hosts the Al Udeid Air Base, which is home to the forward headquarters of U.S. Central Command and the headquarters of the U.S. Air Force Central Command.

https://www.investigativeproject.org/7959/qatar-paid-for-congressional-democrats-doha-trip

#6839489 at 2019-06-25 18:30:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8747: Russian Warship Is In Havanaâ€™s Harbor Edition

'Dialogue at gunpoint': Bolton says Iran's 'silence' is DEAFENING while it's actually pretty vocal

US National Security Advisor John Bolton has said that defiant Iran stays silent over meaningful talks with Washington, when, in fact, Tehran repeatedly argued that a barrage of threats and sanctions has made talks impossible.

Bolton blamed Iran for avoiding dialogue with the US during his visit to Jerusalem on Tuesday.

As we speak, American diplomatic representatives are surging across the Middle East, seeking a path to peace. In response, Iran's silence has been deafening.

The official insisted that Washington "has held the door open for real negotiations," and all Iran needs to do is to "walk through that open door." Bolton explained that by doing so Iran must fulfill a laundry list of demands put forward by the US, including the one to "completely and verifiably" eliminate its "nuclear weapons program" and end "malignant behavior worldwide."

Iran, meanwhile, has been anything but silent about the prospect of negotiating with the US. The country had consistently maintained that it is ready to talk if Washington refrains from issuing threats and slapping new sanctions on Tehran.

Iran stands ready for dialogue, given that it goes on "equal footing and mutual respect," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in January. The minister often blamed Bolton and other foreign policy hardliners at the White House for pushing President Donald Trump from peaceful solutions towards a more bellicose stance.

The Islamic Republic also made it clear that meaningful talks cannot go in hand with the Trump administration's strategy of applying "maximum pressure" on Iran. On Monday, the US announced plans to blacklist Zarif along with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in retaliation to Iran downing a US drone it claims violated its airspace last week. Tehran responded by saying that sanctions against the nation's top leadership effectively close "the path of diplomacy" and do not create the right atmosphere for talks.

https://www.rt.com/news/462629-bolton-iran-silent-deafening/

#6837936 at 2019-06-25 14:10:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8745: We Are In Ops Mode Edition

Ayatollah Assahola.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani sneered at U.S. President Trump and his White House team on Tuesday, saying they are "afflicted by mental retardation."

The comments by Rouhani came in a live television address and followed the Trump administration's launching of sanctions against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a host of other leaders in the Islamic Republic, AP reports.

Rouhani said the decision meant the "certain failure" of the White House's efforts. He also criticized U.S. officials for wanting to sanction Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.

A baffled Rouhani said: "You sanction the foreign minister simultaneously with a request for talks? The White House is afflicted by mental retardation and does not know what to do."

There was no immediate reaction from Washington early on Tuesday to the personal attack from Iran.

This is not the first time the Iran leadership has launched a smear on Donald Trump.

In 2017, Ali Khamenei called Trump "foul-mouthed", uttering "nonsense," and "suffering from retardation".

"The President of the United States displays nonsense; however, this should not lead us to ignore the mischief of the U.S. regime,"

#6837800 at 2019-06-25 13:34:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8745: We Are In Ops Mode Edition

Iranian President calls White House 'mentally retarded' over recent sanctions

ranian President Hassan Rouhani has stated that the sanctions against Tehran show the US administration's "despair", calling the White House "mentally retarded". Rouhani stressed that the sanctions against the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are futile, because he has no assets abroad.

The statement comes after Iranian diplomats slammed US policy toward the Islamic Republic.

"Imposing useless sanctions on Iran's Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] and the commander of Iran's diplomacy [Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif] is the permanent closure of the path of diplomacy", Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi stated.

The US sanctions targeting top Iranian statesmen come after the downing of a US drone by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps last week. According to Tehran, the UAV and P-8 Poseidon spy plane accompanying it had violated the country's border.

At the same time, the US insists that the aircraft was flying above neutral waters in the Strait of Hormuz.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iranian-president-calls-white-house-mentally-retarded-over-recent-sanctions/

#6818302 at 2019-06-22 21:30:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8720: We have all the cards - LOADED1 Edition

Trump says new sanctions on Iran to start on Monday, dials back rhetoric

DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would impose fresh sanctions on Iran but that he wanted to make a deal to bolster its flagging economy, an apparent move to defuse tensions following the shooting down of an unmanned U.S. drone this week by the Islamic Republic. On Thursday, an Iranian missile destroyed a U.S. Global Hawk surveillance drone, an incident that Washington said happened in international airspace. Trump later said he had called off a military strike to retaliate because it could have killed 150 people. Tehran repeated on Saturday that the drone was shot down over its territory and said it would respond firmly to any U.S. threat.

Speaking in Washington on Saturday before heading to the U.S. presidential retreat at Camp David, Trump indicated the government was taking a diplomatic path to put pressure on Tehran by moving to impose new sanctions. "We will call it 'Let's make Iran great again,'" Trump said. He later wrote on Twitter from Camp David: "We are putting major additional Sanctions on Iran on Monday. I look forward to the day that Sanctions come off Iran, and they become a productive and prosperous nation again."

The Trump administration has sought to use promises of economic revival to solve other thorny foreign policy challenges, including the Israel-Palestinian peace process, with the White House outlining on Saturday a plan to create a global investment fund to lift the Palestinian and neighboring Arab state economies. Both Trump and Tehran have said they are not seeking a war, but Iran has warned of a "crushing" response if attacked. "Regardless of any decision they (U.S. officials) make… we will not allow any of Iran's borders to be violated. Iran will firmly confront any aggression or threat by America," Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi told the semi-official Tasnim news agency on Saturday.

A senior commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards struck a similarly defiant note, in comments quoted by the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). "If the violation is repeated then our response will be repeated," said Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Guards' aerospace division. "It's possible that this infringement of the Americans was carried out by a general or some operators."

Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, published a map on Twitter with detailed coordinates which he said showed the drone was flying over the Islamic Republic's territorial waters. A Pentagon spokeswoman, Commander Rebecca Rebarich, said on Saturday: "We stand by where we said the aircraft was operating in international airspace." Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned a United Arab Emirates envoy on Saturday because the UAE allowed the drone to be launched from a U.S. military base on its territory, the Fars news agency reported. Military sources told Reuters that U.S. forces were getting ready to evacuate contractors from a military base in neighboring Iraq over "potential security threats," without saying what those threats might be. That was denied by Iraqi and U.S. military spokesmen on Saturday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-iran-usa-threat/trump-says-new-sanctions-on-iran-to-start-on-monday-dials-back-rhetoric-idUSKCN1TN054?il=0

#6816749 at 2019-06-22 17:23:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8718: DJT Camp David Consultations HabbeninsEdition

Iran 'executes ex-defence employee accused of spying for US'

Iran has reportedly executed one of its former ministry of defence employees suspected of spying for the US.
Jalal Hajizavar was a contract employee for Tehran's aerospace organisation, according to reports on Saturday.
He left his post nine years ago and was convicted by a military court after an investigation which discovered documents and spying equipment at his home, according to the IRIB news agency.
It claims he was executed at the Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj, west of Tehran.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump says he will impose additional sanctions on Iran in an effort to prevent the country from obtaining nuclear weapons.

The US president, who spoke to reporters at the White House before leaving for Camp David, said: "In some cases we are going slowly, but in other cases we are moving rapidly."
He had earlier considered military action after Iran shot down a US drone, but decided against it at the last minute.
Although he later said on Saturday, that military action "is always on the table" against Iran.

But he also indicated he was open to reversing the escalation, adding he was willing to quickly reach a deal with
Iran, that he said would bolster the country's flagging economy.
He said: "We will call it 'let's make Iran great again'."
Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted a map with detailed coordinates, which he said showed the drone was within the Islamic Republic's territorial waters.

It also revealed two yellow squares on the flight path of the drone which, according to the map, indicate Iranian radio warnings sent to the drone.

Dr Andrew Murrison, the UK's minister of state for the Middle East, will head to Iran on Sunday and demand a de-escalation of tension in the region.
He will also discuss worries over Iran's threat to stop complying with its nuclear deal.

https://news.sky.com/story/iran-executes-ex-defence-employee-accused-of-spying-for-us-reports-11746963

#6815365 at 2019-06-22 15:04:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8716: Emergency Baker Edition

>>6815209
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dianne-feinstein-met-with-iranian-foreign-minister-as-us-iran-feud-escalated

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a top member of the minority party in the upper chamber, met recently with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at a time of escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran.

The two had dinner around the end of last month when Zarif was visiting the U.S., sources told Politico.

Feinstein's team said the dinner was designed to update the senator on the situation between the U.S. and Iran and was "arranged in consultation with the State Department." A State Department official said the agency did not ask the California Democrat to meet with Zarif, but did not deny discussions had taken place.

#6781252 at 2019-06-18 19:11:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8673: Rally Day Full Steam Ahead Edition

Obama Alumni May Be Prodding Iran, Inadvertently, to War

The latest talking point from Democrats is that President Donald Trump is maneuvering the United States into a war with Iran - but ironically, it may be Democrats themselves who are making war more likely by defending the Iranian regime and encouraging it to stand firm against the president.

Last week, former Obama national security aide Ben Rhodes, an architect of the Iran nuclear deal, publicly doubted reports that Iran was sabotaging tankers in the Persian Gulf. (More evidence has since emerged.)

Last month, the Daily Beast reported that several Obama administration alumni were continuing to speak to, and advise, Iranian officials: "As the Trump administration sent warplanes and an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf, a small group of former Obama administration officials reached out to their contacts in the Iranian government, including Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Their message to Iran: Don't take Trump's bait. Stay calm."

And last year, former Secretary of State John Kerry was reported to have told Iranian officials to "wait out" President Trump - not to comply with American pressure to stop funding terror, stop developing ballistic missiles, and return to talks to create a better agreement that stops Iran from getting the bomb.

When Republicans, led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), signed a letter in 2015 to the Iranian regime warning that Obama's talks were circumventing the Constitution and therefore might not be honored by future administrations, Democrats accused them of treason, with Obama himself alleging they were making "common cause" with Tehran.

Now Democrats are undermining Trump's attempt to pressure Iran - not for any constitutional reason, but to preserve Obama's most important (and dubious) foreign policy legacy.

Some may naively believe they are helping to avoid war. If anything, they are likely doing the opposite.

If Iran believes that American threats are not serious, especially about the use of military force as a last resort, it may behave in more aggressive ways, certain the Trump administration will relent.

Analysts at the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) wrote last week: "Iran has escalated its violent activity against the Gulf states - Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) - with the aim of bringing the U.S. into negotiations with it on Iran's own terms: indirect negotiations aimed at lifting the U.S. sanctions on it."

They added that Iran has interpreted "conciliatory U.S. measures," such as negotiations on a prisoner release and a maritime border between Israel and Lebanon, as shows of weakness. The regime has also interpreted - or at least spun publicly - President Trump's recent offers of negotiation as a sign that it is winning.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/06/18/pollak-obama-alumni-may-be-prodding-iran-inadvertently-to-war/

#6773349 at 2019-06-17 20:12:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8663:No "Mursi" for MB Edition

Ex-Iranian Diplomat Claims Israel Behind Oil Tanker Attacks

A former Iranian diplomat claimed that Israel with responsible for Thursday's attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, an Iranian media outlet reported.

Without offering any evidence, Hamid Reza Asefi, who served as Iran's ambassador to France and Foreign Ministry spokesman, claimed the motive behind the attack was "clear."

"I think the directing of such incidents in the region are done by the Zionist regime and this has no hidden dimensions," Asefi told Iran Online in an interview cited by the Tehran Times.

Israel benefits the most from accusations against Iran, Asefi theorized, and therefore "logically the Zionist regime is the agent of this incident."

He added that Israel seeks to drag the Islamic Republic into turmoil with the rest of the world.

Iran denies any involvement in the twin attacks. The country's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, implied Israeli involvement when on Friday he accused the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia of engaging in a plot to "sabotage diplomacy."

Meanwhile Israeli intelligence has joined the U.S. in blaming Iran for the incidents.

Over the weekend, an Israeli TV report cited senior intelligence officials as saying that the Iranians used mines and a torpedo in the attack.

Limpet mines were spotted on one of the ships, leading the U.S. to conclude that Iran was behind the attack. The U.S. military released footage apparently showing Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing one of the unexploded mines. A U.S. official also told CNN that Iranian forces in the Gulf of Oman spotted a U.S. drone hours before the attack and fired a surface-to-air missile at it.
According to the official, the missile missed the drone and fell into the water.

President Donald Trump on Friday called Iran "a nation of terror." He said the attack had "Iran written all over it" and the Islamic Republic "did do it."

"You know they did it because you saw the boat," Trump said. "I guess one of the mines didn't explode and it's probably got essentially Iran written all over it."

"You saw the boat at night, successfully trying to take the mine off - and that was exposed," he said.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that the "unprovoked attacks present a clear threat to international peace and security, a blatant assault on the freedom of navigation and an unacceptable campaign of escalating tension by Iran."

The UK also said it had concluded that Iran was responsible for the attacks.

"Our own assessment leads us to conclude that responsibility for the attacks almost certainly lies with Iran. These latest attacks build on a pattern of destabilizing Iranian behavior and pose a serious danger to the region," British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Friday.

In response, Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador for a dressing down.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday night also accused Iran of carrying out the attacks.

"We won't hesitate to deal with any threat to our people, our sovereignty, our territorial integrity and our vital interests," he said in an interview with Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat.

Iran's mission to the UN issued a statement saying: "The US economic war and terrorism against the Iranian people as well as its massive military presence in the region have been and continue to be the main sources of insecurity and instability in the wider Persian Gulf region and the most significant threat to its peace and security."

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/06/16/ex-iranian-diplomat-says-israel-behind-oil-tanker-attacks/

#6737908 at 2019-06-13 01:38:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8617: The World Doesn't Work That Way Edition

Abe urges Rouhani to avoid escalation of Iran-US tensions

TEHRAN (Kyodo) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday to avoid a further escalation of tensions and an unintended military conflict in the Middle East, as he sought to nudge Tehran toward dialogue as a mediator with the United States.

Speaking after talks with Rouhani at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Abe offered to do whatever Japan can to reduce friction between Iran and the United States. But he added Iran also needs to play a "constructive role" in bringing peace and stability in the region.

"We must avoid an armed clash at any cost. Peace and stability in the Middle East are essential for the prosperity of the region and the world," Abe said alongside Rouhani.

Abe made the comments after he became the first sitting Japanese prime minister to visit Iran since Takeo Fukuda in 1978. Tensions have flared in recent weeks over Iran's nuclear program and Washington's attempt to boost its military presence.

"We won't pursue war with the United States," Rouhani said, while adding that Iran will act resolutely if the situation develops into war.

"We've seen heightened tensions in this region and the U.S. economic war is to blame. So if the economic war ends, we believe stability can be ensured," Rouhani said.

Rouhani welcomed Abe's visit to diffuse tensions, and expressed appreciation and hope for Japan's continued support for an international nuclear deal from which the United States has already withdrawn.

During his visit through Thursday, Abe will also hold a meeting with Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It will be the first time a Japanese prime minister has met with the supreme leader, who ultimately determines the country's policy direction.

The Middle East is a critical area for Japan, which relies heavily on countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Japanese officials say the purpose of Abe's visit is not simply serving as a messenger.

Iran was also a major supplier before the United States ended its sanctions waivers given to Iranian oil buyers, including Japan, in May.

Rouhani disclosed Japan is interested in continuing to buy Iran's oil, adding he is "thankful for (Japan's) wish" to aim for such an environment.

As Abe landed in Iran, Yemen's Houthi rebels that are pro-Iran attacked an airport in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, media reports said, highlighting the escalation of regional tensions.

Earlier in the day, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks in Tehran.

Abe's symbolic visit comes as Washington has left the door open for dialogue despite its abrupt withdrawal last year from the nuclear accord and the reinstating of economic sanctions. Japan is not a member of the deal but has been a supporter.

The trip gives Abe a rare opportunity to raise his diplomatic profile ahead of a Group of 20 summit in Japan on June 28 and 29 before an election for the upper house this summer.

Before making the trip official, Abe secured backing from U.S. President Donald Trump, who was on a state visit to Japan in late May, for his efforts to reach out to Iran.

Abe also spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.

Roughly a year after Trump's decision to leave the international nuclear accord that led to the lifting of economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for its curbing of nuclear activities, Tehran said it was suspending some of its commitments under the deal.

Tehran set a 60-day deadline to negotiate new terms, saying it would keep more enriched uranium than allowed under the agreement initially reached with the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China.

Washington has dispatched an aircraft carrier strike group and bombers to the Persian Gulf, and decided to send additional U.S. troops to the region.

Trump's more aggressive approach to Tehran has prompted a delicate balancing act by Japan, which marks the 90th anniversary of its diplomatic relations with Iran this year.

Since returning to power in 2012, Abe has held seven meetings with Rouhani.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190613/p2g/00m/0in/002000c

#6722530 at 2019-06-11 01:41:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8597: Follow the Yellow Brick Road Edition

Iran has accelerated enrichment of uranium, IAEA says

TEHRAN/VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has followed through on a threat to accelerate its production of enriched uranium, the head of the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Monday, departing from his usual guarded language to say he was worried about increasing tension.

The assessment comes at a time of sharply increased U.S.-Iranian confrontation in recent weeks, a year after Washington abandoned an agreement between Iran and world powers to curb Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of international financial sanctions.

Washington tightened sanctions from the start of May, ordering all countries and companies to halt all imports of Iranian oil or be banished from the global financial system. It has also dispatched extra troops to the region to counter what it describes as Iranian threats.

Iran has responded with a threat to increase its enrichment of uranium, saying it is up to Europeans who still support the nuclear deal to save it by finding ways to ensure Tehran gets the economic benefits it was promised.

IAEA chief Yukiya Amano, whose agency is responsible for monitoring Iranian compliance with the nuclear deal, said Iran was now producing more enriched uranium than before, but it was not clear when it might reach stockpile limits set in the pact.

"Yes, (the) production rate is increasing," he told a news conference when asked if enriched uranium production had accelerated since the agency's last quarterly report, which found Iran compliant with the nuclear deal as of May 20. He declined to quantify the increase.

Iran said last month it was still abiding by the deal but would quadruple its production of enriched uranium - a move that could take it out of compliance if stockpiles rise too far. It demanded European countries do more to shield it from sanctions.

On Monday, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas became the most senior Western official to visit Iran since the new war of words erupted last month between Washington and Tehran.

"The situation in the region here is highly explosive and extremely serious," Maas told a news conference alongside Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif. "A dangerous escalation of existing tensions can also lead to a military escalation."

In his meeting with Maas, President Hassan Rouhani blamed the United States for the soaring tension and called on the European signatories of the deal to "resist the economic war on Iran imposed by America".

"This war … will never be beneficial for any country and the Iranian people will resist these pressures and bullying behaviors," Iran's state TV quoted Rouhani as saying.

Zarif said Iran would cooperate with the European Union to save the deal. "Reducing tension is only possible through stopping the economic war by America," he said. "Those who wage such wars cannot expect to remain safe."

Maas called on Iran to avoid an escalation and stick to its commitments from the nuclear deal. Otherwise, Tehran would risk further isolation on the international stage and more instability in the region, Maas warned in an interview with ZDF television, broadcast shortly after his return to Berlin on Monday evening.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-eu/iran-has-accelerated-enrichment-of-uranium-iaea-says-idUSKCN1TB0IT?il=0

#6722116 at 2019-06-11 00:59:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8597: Follow the Yellow Brick Road Edition

Netanyahu: Iran's Zarif lying, Tehran is the one threatening destruction

PM says Islamic Republic 'accelerating its nuclear program,' warns Israel won't allow it to develop atomic weapons, hours after Iran's FM castigated Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired back at Iran on Monday after its foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, claimed the Israeli leader had threatened to destroy his country and warned that the Islamic Republic would respond to such threats.

"Zarif is once again lying," Netanyahu said in a statement. "Iran is the one openly threatening destruction. The regime's officials threaten the destruction of Israel on a daily basis."

He said Iran was "attempting to establish itself militarily in Syria, and just today it was publicized that it is accelerating its nuclear program.

"I'll say it again: We won't allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons that will endanger us and the entire world," he said.

At a press conference in Tehran alongside visiting German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Zarif had said "Netanyahu stands next to the Dimona [reactor], a nuclear weapons site, and says Iran should be destroyed...Of course, no one can act against our people without receiving a decisive response."

Israel has long maintained an official position of ambiguity with regards to its nuclear capabilities.

According to Iran's Tasnim news agency, which provided an English translation of his remarks, Zarif was referring to comments Netanyahu made in August 2018 during a visit to Israel's secretive nuclear site in Dimona.

At the time Netanyahu warned that those who seek to destroy Israel put themselves in danger of suffering the same fate instead.

The Iranian regime routinely threatens and anticipates the destruction of Israel, and funds and arms anti-Israel terrorist groups in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, frequently refers to Israel as a cancer that must be eradicated, and has set out detailed plans for its elimination.

Israel has repeatedly warned that Iran is seeking a nuclear arsenal in order to destroy it, and Netanyahu has led international opposition to the 2015 P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran.

"Iran has never waged a war against any country and will not do so in future," Zarif said Monday, but warned that "if any country starts a war on Iran, it would definitely not be the one that ends it."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-irans-Zarif-lying-tehran-is-the-one-threatening-destruction/

This old chestnut!

#6711741 at 2019-06-09 19:02:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8583: Lions, Togers, and Domain Seizures Edition

Iran's Zarif Calls for 'Elimination' of Dollar to Stop US 'Economic Terrorism'

Tensions between Iran and the United States have been simmering since Washington decided to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal in May 2018 and reinstated all sanctions against the Islamic Republic, with a stated goal of bringing its oil exports to zero.

Speaking at a high school event in Tehran on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that much of the United States' economic influence would "go away" if countries around the world were to ditch the dollar as the basis for their international trade.

"America's power rests on the dollar; a great part of America's economic power will go away if countries eliminate the dollar from their economic systems", the minister said.

Zarif went on to say that Washington was trying to beef up pressure on Tehran "out of desperation" and slammed the US-led economic war as "economic terrorism".

"It amounts, by definition, to economic terrorism because the United States is putting pressure in terms of what its president calls warfare on normal ordinary Iranians in order to change the policies of their government", he told reporters on the side-lines of the event.

https://sputniknews.com/world/201906091075756703-irans-Zarif-calls-elimination-dollar-stop-us-economic-terrorism/

#6679643 at 2019-06-05 20:36:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8542 D-Day Incoming

Nuclear Nepotism and Kerry's Divided Loyalties

The debate over US President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran is undoubtedly the hottest issue today, with truly apocalyptic repercussions. One of the main overlooked details of the deal has to do with US Secretary of State John Kerry's personal connection to Iran. Being the main negotiator, his personal judgement and integrity is an essential element, and there are reasons to question his judgement.

Every minute aspect of the agreement is of vital importance and, unfortunately, many details have been hidden, even from the senators and congressmen who are expected to vote on the results of the negotiations. A hushed up fact concerning Kerry's personal life, involves his younger daughter from his deceased first wife, Dr. Vanessa Bradford Kerry. Kerry's daughter married Dr. Brian (Behrooz) Vala Nahid, an Iranian-American physician and the son of Nooshin and Reza Vala Nahid of Los Angeles, in October 2009.

'''The marriage was even announced in the New York Times but oddly enough, no mention was made of the groom's Iranian connection''', an irregular occurrence for the paper. It should be noted that after the wedding, the couple went to Iran to visit those relatives.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif stand with Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi, the Vice President of Iran for Atomic Energy and President of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, far left, and U.S Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz, far right, on February 23, 2015, in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo: US Department of State)

This past March, in the midst of tumultuous negotiations with Iran, the secretary made mention of his close Iranian connection when he greeted the Iranian people on the occasion of the traditional New Year (Nowruz) holiday.

"'''I am proud of the Iranian-Americans in my own family, and grateful for how they have enriched my life'''," Kerry said in the official statement. Kerry also said he was "strongly committed to resolving" the differences between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, "to the mutual benefit of both of our people."

Kerry's family connection to Iran is no secret, and in the melting pot that is the United States, it is not entirely surprising. What is significant is that as part of the wedding preparations, Kerry went to a dinner party hosted by George Soros at his Manhattan penthouse. '''He undoubtedly met the best man Mahdi Zarif, and also met his father, Mohammad Javad Zarif,current Iranian Foreign Minister, who acted as the chief negotiator during nuclear talks, across the table from Kerry'''. '''This revelation was made by former Congressman Allen West on his website on July 28'''.

'''On Sunday, Iran's Foreign Ministry "strongly rejected" the claim, calling it a "sheer lie and 'news fabrication," as reported by Fars News Agency''' . "Some media outlets that lack credit [sic] fabricate such news in pursuit of special objectives, including finding more viewer [sic]," the foreign ministry claimed.

'''Though no formal accusations have been made, neither have any inquiries or investigations been conducted'''. The accusation and the refutation stand on their own merits. '''Kerry's close family connection was not mentioned in his confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee'''. '''The FBI vets US government officials involved in national security issues and generally will not grant clearances to individuals who are married to nationals of an enemy nation or having family members living in that country, for fear of divided loyalties'''. The lack of basic oversight and disclosure in this case is disturbing.

While some may find Kerry's close Iranian ties surprising and hushed up, the secretary has a track record of divided loyalties. '''It was revealed in a declaration of assets published on opensecrets.org that that the secretary held shares in Noble Energy that totaled an estimated $500,000 to $1 million'''. Noble Energy is one of the major gas exploration companies involved in the two major Israeli offshore natural gas fields.

'''Kerry's financial involvement raises serious concerns regarding his ties to the Israeli gas market as an American official'''. Approximately eight months ago, '''Israel's antitrust commissioner called on the government to back out of the compromised deal with the energy firm, stating that the contractual agreement violated antitrust laws'''. This endangered the deal, and the gas companies, led by Noble, claimed the new arrangement would damage their expected profits.

#6679436 at 2019-06-05 20:13:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8541: Tremendous Success Edition

>>6679405

A day after Mohammad Javad Zarif announced his resignation on Instagram, the foreign minister of Iran is receiving support from members of parliament amid calls for the president not to accept his decision.

The resignation of Iran's most famous diplomat and the man often seen as the foreign face of Tehran has plunged Iran's highest levels of government and media into a momentary sense of bewilderment and lack of certainty.

It illustrates not only the differences within the regime but also the ability of news organizations in Tehran to gather news with some levels of independence, more than in other totalitarian regimes. The Iranian Students News Agency, for instance, provides a discussion about various "sources" close to Zarif and President Hassan Rouhani's office.

According to the report, there are other diplomats who will resign if Zarif indeed leaves the foreign ministry. Rouhani's chief of staff Mahmous Vaezi even initially denied that the resignation had taken place. ISNA also reported that the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamanei, had a say in Zarif retaining his post.

It was not clear if that meant the leader might step in or if Khamenei wanted to push Zarif out. Meanwhile, up to 150 members of parliament have reportedly signed a letter urging Rouhani to reject the resignation. There are 290 seats in parliament.

Fars News noted that Zarif was displeased by his absence from the meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday. He had not been invited, apparently, or had not received adequate information about the high-level meeting. These were "subtle" and "delicate" matters, Iranian media reported, noting that Zarif and Rouhani had differences of opinion over foreign policy.

There are rumors that Zarif opposed the increasing role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in foreign policy and that he represented a more "moderate" agenda in Iran. But Zarif has also previously tweeted support for the IRGC, so it is not a simple story of hard-liners and moderates.

Zarif had faced criticism and challenges in parliament dating back to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal discussions. He was frequently accused of a variety of misdeeds. A key antagonist was Javad Karim Ghoddousi, who was involved in a series of challenges to the key diplomat's role. Zarif was critiqued for trusting the US, for traveling to France, for paying respects to Kurds, for mentioning corruption at home, and a litany of other issues. But is that what broke him in the end?

Zarif wants the foreign ministry to have more power. His resignation also must be accepted by the president. However, a Telegram channel linked to the IRGC celebrated his resignation, an indication that there are many people who dislike Zarif. The mystery over Zarif's fate will continue to plague Iran even as the regime seeks to boast of its regional influence.

This is a challenge for Tehran because for the last several years, it has shown a united front to the Middle East and the world, seeking to portray the US as flip-flopping on policies. Zarif was a key in that narrative, accusing the US of isolating itself.

In an interview published on Fars News, Zarif indicated that he believed it was important to combine diplomacy with action on the ground.

"When we do that we have success." This appeared to imply that Iran's government should act as one, with the IRGC and other aspects of state power coordinating with the foreign ministry. "We must remove foreign policy from an issue of party or factional struggle. That is a fatal poison for foreign policy and it must not be the subject of partisan [politics]. There must be a trust in foreign policy workers at the national level; without it everything goes awry."

He may have been predicting and articulating the choice he was about to make in resigning. If so, he has become a victim of the factional fighting and attempts to weaken the foreign ministry that he warned about. If not, it means that Zarif is making a ploy out of this resignation to gain more power either in government or parliament.

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Mystery-surrounds-Mohammad-Javad-Zarifs-resignation-581810

#6679405 at 2019-06-05 20:08:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8541: Tremendous Success Edition

>>6678938
Speaking of John Kerry, Obama's Iran deal, and John Kerry's questionable loyalty to the US-It turns out John Kerry's daughter is married to an Iranian who has ties to the main Iranian negotiator that was involved with Obama's US-Iran nuclear deal:

A hushed up fact concerning Kerry's personal life, involves his younger daughter from his deceased first wife, Dr. Vanessa Bradford Kerry. Kerry's daughter married Dr. Brian (Behrooz) Vala Nahid, an Iranian-American physician and the son of Nooshin and Reza Vala Nahid of Los Angeles, in October 2009.

The marriage in 2009 wasn't a secret. What is significant is that as part of the wedding preparations, Kerry went to a dinner party hosted by George Soros at his Manhattan penthouse. He undoubtedly met the best man Mahdi Zarif, and also met his father, Mohammad Javad Zarif, current Iranian Foreign Minister, who acted as the chief negotiator during nuclear talks, across the table from Kerry. This revelation was made by former Congressman Allen West on his website on July 28.

Do you think this prior meeting, at his own daughter's wedding might have some significance? How about the fact that the best man at his daughters wedding happened to be the son of the Iranian Government's Foreign Minister?

It should be noted that after the wedding, the couple went to Iran to visit relatives.

Kerry's close family connection was not mentioned in his confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The FBI vets US government officials involved in national security issues and generally will not grant clearances to individuals who are married to nationals of an enemy nation or having family members living in that country, for fear of divided loyalties.The lack of basic oversight and disclosure in this case is disturbing.

https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/46248/nuclear-nepotism-hushed-up-truth-kerrys-personal-iran-connection-middle-east/

#6639947 at 2019-05-31 23:01:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8490: Enjoying The Show Edition

Report: Obama Administration Alumni Advising Iranian Regime on Dealing with Trump

The Daily Beast reported Friday that former members of President Barack Obama's administration are advising the Iranian regime.

Betsy Woodruff noted (original quotes): As the Trump administration sent warplanes and an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf, a small group of former Obama administration officials reached out to their contacts in the Iranian government, including Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Their message to Iran: Don't take Trump's bait. Stay calm. Conversations between former Obama officials and Iranian government officials have been ongoing since November 2016.

The Obama alumni are also reportedly passing messages from the Iranian regime to congressional Democrats: Three Obama officials who worked closely on the Iran nuclear deal, one of whom is still in touch with Iranian government officials, traveled to Capitol Hill to brief congressional Democrats about the situation. Those former officials said would not say if they passed information from Iranian government officials to members of Congress. Rather, they said they focused on educating members about their experience working with Iranian leaders and how Tehran reacts to economic pressure.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein is already known to have met with Zarif, and was seen with his contact page open on her cell phone. Former Secretary of State John Kerry, who led the negotiations that produced the Iran nuclear deal, is known to be meeting with Zarif as well - which President Donald Trump said earlier this month should have earned him prosecution under the Logan Act.

The Logan Act bars private citizens from conducting official diplomacy. It is rarely enforced, though it was used by former Obama administration officials to investigate former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for conversations he had with a Russian diplomat during the presidential transition. A Republican staffer told Woodruff that Democrats' diplomatic strategy is to "divide and isolate the Trump administration just as the Trump administration was trying to re-establish deterrence with Iran." Some Obama alumni are also thought to be encouraging Iran to stick with the nuclear deal and to wait out the Trump presidency.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/05/31/report-obama-administration-alumni-advising-iranian-regime-on-dealing-with-trump/

Team Obama Tells Iran: Don't Escalate, Don't Take Trump's Bait
https://www.thedailybeast.com/team-obama-tells-iran-dont-escalate-dont-take-trumps-bait

#6605894 at 2019-05-28 03:44:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8446: POTUS Live from the USS Wasp Edition

Iran slams Trump after he asserts he's not seeking regime change

FM Zarif rejects US president's claim Washington is only trying to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons

TEHRAN - Iran hit out at the United States on Monday for "causing tensions" after President Donald Trump said his government was not seeking regime change and that he would welcome talks with Tehran.

The Trump administration was "hurting the Iranian people and causing tension in the region," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on his Twitter account.
"Actions - not words - will show whether or not that's @realDonaldTrump's intent," Zarif added, referencing the US president's Twitter handle.
Zarif also denied Iran was seeking nuclear weapons, after Trump said during a visit to Japan that "we're not looking for regime change (in Iran)... we're looking for no nuclear weapons."

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "long ago said we're not seeking nuclear weapons - by issuing a fatwa (edict) banning them," the foreign minister tweeted.

Khamenei is said to have issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons in 2003 and has reiterated it several times since. However, Israel, the US and other countries have maintained that Tehran sought to develop nuclear weapons well beyond that period.

Iran is locked in a tense standoff with the United States which has beefed up its military presence in the Middle East in response to alleged threats from the Islamic Republic.

On Saturday, Zarif called a deployment of extra US troops to the region "very dangerous and a threat to international peace and security."
It follows a US decision earlier this month to send an aircraft carrier strike force and B-52 bombers in a show of force against what Washington's leaders said they believed was an imminent Iranian plan to attack US assets.

Washington says the latest reinforcements are in response to a "campaign" of recent attacks including a rocket launched into the Green Zone in Baghdad, explosive devices that damaged four tankers near the entrance to the Gulf, and drone strikes by Yemeni rebels on a key Saudi oil pipeline.

Iran has denied any involvement in the attacks.
>https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-slams-trump-after-he-asserts-hes-not-seeking-regime-change/

#6603510 at 2019-05-27 22:09:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8443: "Morning Sun Brings Heat" Edition

Tehran Says Ready for Creating Mechanism for Dialogue With Gulf States

Iran is ready to create a mechanism for dialogue with the Persian Gulf states to reduce existing tensions, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi said on Monday.

Araqchi is currently on an official visit to Kuwait, during which he conveyed a message from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to Kuwaiti top diplomat Sheikh Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah.

"The dialogue with regional states is a basis for the Iranian foreign policy and on this basis Iran is ready to create regional mechanisms for start of the dialogue and constructive cooperation with these countries," Araqchi said, as quoted by the Fars news agency.

He pointed out that the US policy posed a threat to the regional security.

On Sunday, Araqchi started a trip to the Persian Gulf countries, including Oman, Kuwait and Qatar, in an attempt to reduce tensions in the region.

The US-Iranian tensions flared up last year when the United States unilaterally withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran and started reinstating sanctions on the Islamic republic. On May 8, 2019, Iran announced its decision to partially discontinue its obligations under the nuclear agreement.

The United States has in recent weeks stepped up its forces in the Middle East in what US National Security Adviser John Bolton has called a clear and unmistakable message to Iran. The new US deployments in the region include an aircraft carrier strike group, Patriot missiles, B-52 bombers and F-15 fighters, according to the Pentagon.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that Iran does not intend to wage war with the United States, but will continue to resist Washington. Acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan has made similar remarks, saying the United States was not seeking war against Iran.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201905271075396167-iran-ready-create-dialogue-gulf-states/

#6599316 at 2019-05-27 05:47:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8438: Red White and Q. May 27th in USA. The Pre Dawn Edition

>>6599259 24 May, 2019 14:21
Japan's PM Abe mulling visit to Iran - report

https://www.rt.com/newsline/460185-japan-abe-iran-visit/

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering a visit to Iran as early as mid-June, NHK television said on Friday. This would be the first such trip in four decades, as global concern grows about tension between Tehran and Washington.

Japan was a major buyer of Iranian oil for decades before US sanctions. Iran said the visit was unlikely in the near future, Reuters reported.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visited Japan and met the prime minister and Foreign Minister Taro Kono earlier this month.

Abe is likely to discuss his plan for a Tehran visit with US President Donald Trump when the latter visits Japan from Saturday, NHK said. Asked about the state of preparations for such a visit, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga denied the report.

Look like a plan for me
I think PM Abe short his ties and is now free
remember when Kim met POTUS?

#6574395 at 2019-05-24 03:18:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8406: We are Comfy in the Strom Edition

Zarif says ready to connect Pakistan's Gwadar to Iran's Chabahar

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says he is putting forward a "proposal" during his ongoing trip to Islamabad for connecting Pakistan's Gwadar port to its "complementary" port Chabahar in southeastern Iran.

"We believe that Chabahar and Gwadar can complement each other," Zarif said upon arrival in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Thursday.

"We can connect Chabahar and Gwadar, and then through that, connect Gwadar to our entire railroad system, from Iran to the North Corridor, through Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, and also through Azerbaijan, Russia, and through Turkey," he noted.

"I've come here with a proposal for the government of Pakistan for connection between Chabahar and Gwadar.

Pakistan's arch-rival India is trying to develop the port of Chabahar as a way to gain access to the markets of central Asia as well as Afghanistan by bypassing Pakistan. The port is about 72 km from its Pakistani counterpart Gwadar, which is being developed by China.

The strategic Iranian port city created a unique opportunity for India to send its goods to landlocked Afghanistan through a safe new route. It would to the same effect enable Afghan merchants to export their commodities - mainly fruits and vegetables as well as nuts and minerals - to global markets through Chabahar.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/05/24/596744/Iran-Zarif-Pakistan-Chabahar-Gwadar-railroad-port

#6568602 at 2019-05-23 19:43:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8399: Where are the Day-Shift Bakers Edition

US looking for reason to start direct confrontation with Iran, diplomat says

The diplomat said that possibly "provoking Iran into sterner retaliation measures and looking for a reason to engage in direct confrontation" is a very dangerous policy

MOSCOW, May 23. /TASS/. Washington is provoking Tehran to sternly retaliate, trying to look for a reason for direct confrontation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Thursday.

"The United States is escalating the situation by sending aircraft carriers and bombers to the Persian Gulf region. These actions are accompanied by war-mongering statements and groundless and unproven accusations addressed to Iran saying that the country is involved in some sabotaging operations on the adjacent territories and posing threats to American diplomats in the neighboring Iraq," Zakharova pointed out.

"It seems that by adopting sanctions, applying military pressure and resorting to sharp and aggressive rhetoric, Washington is deliberately provoking Iran into sterner retaliation measures and looking for a reason to engage in direct confrontation. This is a very dangerous policy. Not only is it destroying the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program, but also can result in broader destabilization across the whole Middle Eastern Region," the diplomat stressed.

The political confrontation between Iran and the United States led to a sharp exacerbation of the situation in the Persian Gulf Region after Washington made the decision to send a strike navy battleship group led by the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. The US administration underlined that they are not striving for conflict with Iran, but will defend the US interests in the region. Pentagon described the move as the response to the evidence of heightened readiness of Iran to carry out offensives against the US forces and US interests. On Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an interview with CNN that Washington is engaged in dangerous games by expanding its military presence in the Gulf Region.

http://tass.com/politics/1059787

#6535788 at 2019-05-19 15:26:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8357: Morning Bread is Comfy Bread Edition

>>6535702

Eye Ran just a C_A play pen?
Patriots in control?

Lets see….
Could not start war in Syria? Shit
Could not start war in Venezuela? Double Shit
Could not start war in Eye Ran? Strike 3.
No ammo. All Fluff and Fake Newz.
US political system full of cracks?

"There will be no war because neither do we want a war, nor has anyone the idea or illusion it can confront Iran in the region," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Iran's IRNA state news agency before ending a visit to Beijing.

In Tehran, Major General Hossein Salami, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards, said on Saturday that Iran had nothing to fear from the United States, which he said was in decline, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported.

"The U.S. political system is full of cracks. Though impressive-looking, it has osteoporosis. In fact, America's story is like the World Trade Center towers that collapse with a sudden blow," Salami, known for his fiery rhetoric, was quoted as saying. He was referring to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Trump has said publicly he wants to pursue a diplomatic route with Iran after ratcheting pressure on Tehran.

https://news.yahoo.com/no-war-dont-want-war-no-confront-iran-104037178.html

#6514868 at 2019-05-16 20:21:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8331: Many Thursday Habbenings Edition

Iran FM rules out possibility of talks with US

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif rules out any prospect of negotiation with the United States, calling the Washington regime a "bully" trying to force all others into acting illegally.

Zarif made the remarks to the Japanese media on Thursday during a visit to the country, reported the Kyodo News agency, which was represented at the presser.

"No, there is no possibility for negotiations," Zarif said, when asked about whether he would be open to holding bilateral talks aimed at easing tensions between Tehran and Washington.

"This is the first time in history that a bully is telling everybody else, important countries, that 'I'm going to punish you if you observe something that I do not like," he stated.

"Let us assume that a bully is standing in a cross section on the street and telling everybody, 'If you don't pass the red light, I'm going to beat you.' This is exactly what the US is telling them," he exemplified.

The US has been deploying a policy of "maximum pressure" against Iran under President Donald Trump.

Employing the policy, Washington left a multilateral nuclear deal, reached between Iran and the six major powers – the US, UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany, last year.

It then reinstated the sanctions that had been lifted under the accord, and began threatening the countries not abiding by the bans with "secondary sanctions."

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/05/16/596107/Iran-United-States-negotiation-Zarif-nuclear-Japan-European-Union-prisoner-swap

#6437538 at 2019-05-07 16:20:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8232: POTUS Trumps China on Long Beach Terminal Edition

Keep in mind we don't have a UN Ambassador at the moment when you read this

Negar Mortazavi
,The Independent-May 2, 2019

Since President Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal last year, Iran has remained in the deal and abided by its commitments under the agreement. In the face of economic sanctions and mounting pressure from Washington, Tehran has not yet reacted directly and threats from Iranian officials have mostly been in rhetoric. Iranian moderates have tried to rally Europe, a key supporter of the nuclear deal, against Washington to defy economic sanctions. And Iranian hardliners, who have always opposed the nuclear deal and engagement with the West, seem to have been mostly contained until now. But much has changed over the course of the past year and Iran is now signaling that it might shift gears soon.

It is no longer just Iranian hardliners who are vocal against the United States and Europe. Moderates are slowly joining them. And unless there is a breakthrough in the Trump administration's policy towards the country, it's clear Tehran will continue to move further away from the West.

I spoke to the Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at Iran's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York a few days ago. He told me that, although he doesn't think war between Iran and the United States is imminent, "accidents can happen" that then spiral into a military conflict. And it was apparent that he was here in the United States in an effort to prevent that.

I asked Zarif about these "accidents" and he gave the example of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway where most of the world's oil exporters pass through. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) control the Strait of Hormuz on the Iranian side and communicate with ships going through this narrow passageway. A lack of this vital communication can easily lead to conflict. Concern over this was heightened recently by President Trump's designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organization and Iran's retaliation in designating the US Central Command similarly.

Zarif also mentioned the January 2016 incident in the Persian Gulf when two US Navy boats entered Iranian waters and were captured by the IRGC. Back then, Javad Zarif and his American counterpart John Kerry had a direct line of communication following their two years of nuclear negotiations. That direct line let the two top diplomats control the situation, secure the quick release of American sailors, and prevent a potential escalation. But today there is no such line of communication between the Iranian foreign minister and US Secretary of State. So a similar incident in the Persian Gulf could quickly get out of hand.

It was only two months ago that Zarif suddenly resigned in his last attempt to push back against hardliners like IRGC Quds Force Commander Ghassem Soleimani, who controls Iran's military presence in the region and is seen as a shadow foreign minister. Zarif's resignation was not accepted by the President and he was brought back to work in a renewed vote of confidence from the Supreme Leader. Now he looks more confident - but also closer to hardliners in his position.

Read the rest here: https://news.yahoo.com/spoke-iranian-foreign-minister-trump-145558928.html

#6437521 at 2019-05-07 16:16:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8232: POTUS Trumps China on Long Beach Terminal Edition

https://www.rt.com/news/458575-iranian-foreign-minister-bolton-netanyahu/

'US and clients don't feel safe in Middle East because they're despised,' says Iranian FM

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran is not the reason for mounting animosity in the Middle East, but rather hatred for the US, in a scathing tweet directed at the American "B-team."
Zarif wrote on Twitter Tuesday: "If US and clients don't feel safe, it's because they're despised by the people of the region - blaming Iran won't reverse that," along with a series of screenshots from articles about the US deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the region.

#6350373 at 2019-04-28 20:23:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8120: Through Tempest, Storm, And Darkest Night Edition

John Bolton, Iran's foreign minister grapple over regime change in back-to-back interviews

National security adviser John Bolton and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took shots at one another in back-to-back interviews on the topic of regime change in Iran. Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Zarif discussed a group of countries and officials are pushing the United States to spur a conflict with Tehran. Among them, he said, are Bolton, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.

"At least. They want - they have all shown an interest in dragging the United States into a conflict," Zarif said. "I do not believe that President Trump wants to do that, I believe President Trump ran on a campaign promise of not bringing the United States into another war."

Bolton, an Iran hawk, also was a guest on the show and was asked to respond to Zarif's claim that the U.S. is trying to "foment" a conflict between the U.S. and Iran. "It's completely ridiculous. I think what that interview showed was a carefully prepared propaganda script by the Iranians," Bolton said. "This is their effort to try and sow disinformation and the American body politic. The fact is the president's policy on Iran has been clear well before I arrived in the administration. It is to put maximum pressure on the regime to get it to change its behavior. And I think it's working and I think that's what they're worried about."

The U.S. announced this month that it would stop granting exemptions to countries that import Iranian oil. Countries that persist in buying oil from Iran will face U.S. sanctions. The Trump administration also designated Iran's Revolutionary Guard a foreign terrorist organization, escalating tension in the region and leading Iran to label the entire U.S. military as "terrorists."

Zarif told host Chris Wallace these hardball tactics would not succeed. "I believe President Trump's intention to put pressure, the policy of maximum pressure, on Iran in order to bring Iran to its knees so that we would succumb to pressure is doomed to failure," Zarif said.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-bolton-irans-foreign-minister-grapple-over-regime-change-in-back-to-back-interviews

#6346391 at 2019-04-28 14:04:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8115: Baking some Fresh Bread for the Morning Edition

April 28th, 2019

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian foreign minister; National Security Adviser John Bolton; Paul Reed Smith, founder & CEO of PRS Guitars. The panel will be Karl Rove, former George W. Bush White House senior adviser; Donna Brazile, former DNC chair; former Congressman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah; and Juan Williams, Fox News political analyst.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., 2020 presidential candidate; Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.; Sally Yates, former U.S. deputy attorney general fired by President Donald Trump. The panel will be Helene Cooper of The New York Times; Robert Costa of The Washington Post and moderator of PBS' "Washington Week"; former Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla.; and Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): THIS WEEK (ABC): Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.; ABC's Dan Abrams and Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School professor emeritus and author of "The Case Against Impeaching Trump"; and Stephen Moore, Heritage Foundation economist and Trump's likely nominee to the Federal Reserve Board. The panel will be former Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J.; ABC's Matthew Dowd; Meghan McCain, co-host of "The View"; and Democratic strategist Amanda Renteria, chair of Emerge America.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump; Congressman Seth Moulton, D-Mass., 2020 presidential candidate. The panel will be former Mayor Andrew Gillum, D-Tallahassee; former Congresswoman Mia Love, R-Utah; David Urban, former strategist for Donald J. Trump for President; and Kirsten Powers, USA Today columnist.

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): Matthew Albence, acting deputy director for ICE; Dee Margo, mayor of El Paso, Texas; Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas; Jack Staton, acting special agent in charge for ICE Homeland Security Investigations El Paso; Agent Aaron Hull, El Paso sector chief; Couy Griffin, Otero County (N.M.) Commission chairman.

#6345969 at 2019-04-28 12:40:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8114: The Late Graveyard Edition

#6331332 at 2019-04-27 06:08:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8096: Declas Hussein's Birth Certificate Edition

U.S. sanctions Venezuela's foreign minister, Venezuelan judge

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, saying it would pursue those in President Nicolas Maduro's government for corruption as well as officials conducting diplomacy on his behalf. Arreaza and a judge in the Court of Appeals for Caracas, Carol Padilla, were targeted in the latest round of U.S. sanctions against Maduro's government over the crisis in Venezuela, the Treasury Department said.

Washington blames Maduro for the country's economic collapse and for undermining democracy. The Trump administration recognized Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido as the South American nation's interim president and has asked Maduro, a socialist in power since 2013, to step down. "The United States will not stand by and watch as the illegitimate Maduro regime starves the Venezuelan people of their wealth, humanity, and right to democracy," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. "Treasury will continue to target corrupt Maduro insiders, including those tasked with conducting diplomacy and carrying out justice on behalf of this illegitimate regime."

Venezuela's foreign ministry responded by "energetically" rejecting the sanctions, which it called "unilateral and illegal." "With these new measures, the Trump administration is trying to silence Venezuela's voice in the world," the ministry said. In a separate statement, the U.S. Department of State said Friday's designation was "a reminder" that Venezuelan authorities have detained Guaido's top aide, Roberto Marrero, since March and that such actions would have consequences. "If Nicolas Maduro and those aligned with him continue to use imprisonment and intimidation against the legitimate government and people of Venezuela, the United States will respond," the department said, reiterating the U.S. demand for Marrero's release.

Since the United States recognized Guaido in January, Arreaza has been a regular visitor to the United States, specifically the United Nations in New York, where he has lobbied countries to build support for Maduro. He is married to the eldest daughter of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's former president who died in 2013 of cancer. It was not immediately clear whether the sanctions would affect his travel to the U.N.

Arreaza has spoken at U.N. Security Council meetings on Venezuela and held lengthy press conferences. On Thursday he addressed a meeting of the 193-member U.N. General Assembly on multilateralism. He met with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday and discussed the humanitarian situation in the country, a U.N. spokesman said. Arreaza also met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in New York on Wednesday. He is active on Twitter, directly taking on U.S. President Donald Trump and White House national security adviser John Bolton.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sanctions-venezuela/u-s-sanctions-venezuelas-foreign-minister-venezuelan-judge-idUSKCN1S21NR?il=0

#6217110 at 2019-04-18 01:04:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7950: Democrat's Barrometer Just Exploded Edition

>>6217094

Syria's Assad denounces US for blacklisting Iran's IRGC
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has censured the US for blacklisting Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), which has been greatly contributing to his country's fight against terrorists.
In a meeting with visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Damascus on Tuesday, the Syrian leader said the recent designation of the IRGC as "foreign terrorist organization" was yet another "wrong" move by Washington, which could further destabilize the region.
During the meeting, the two sides emphasized that the hostile policies of the US and certain Arab countries cannot prevent Iran and Syria from defending the rights of their nations, the statement added.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/04/16/593559/Iran-Javad-Zarif-Syria-Assad

Syrian Army Uncovers Guided Missiles And Other Weapons In Western Daraa
https://southfront.org/syrian-army-uncovers-guided-missiles-and-other-weapons-in-western-daraa-video-photos/

Iranian Foreign Minister To Brief Turkish President On Meeting With Assad
Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said during a press conference with his Turkish counterpart on April 17 that he will brief Turkey's President Reaccept Tayyip Erdogan on his "long" meeting with the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, which took place a day earlier.
"I will submit a report about this talk to Mr. Erdogan," Zarif told reporters before heading to the Turkish presidential complex where he had a closed-door meeting with the Turkish President.
The Anadolu news agency reported that Zairf stressed during the press conference that Tehran understands Turkey's concerns about the threats posed against the country. The Iranian foreign minister said that the deployment of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) along the Turkish border could address these concerns.
"For us, the Turkish people's peace and security is very important. We enjoy very thorough cooperation on this issue," Zarif added.
https://southfront.org/iranian-foreign-minister-to-brief-turkish-president-on-meeting-with-assad/

Satellite Image: Iskander Ballistic Missile System Deployed At Rusia's Hmeimim Airbase In Syria
A fresh satellite image confirms that Russia continues to keep nuclear-capable Iskander ballistic missile systems at its Hmeimim airbase in Syria.
The system's missiles can be armed with different conventional warheads, including a cluster munitions warhead, a fuel-air explosive enhanced-blast warhead, a high explosive-fragmentation warhead, an earth penetrator for bunker busting and an electromagnetic pulse device for anti-radar missions and even carry nuclear warheads.
https://southfront.org/satellite-image-iskander-ballistic-missile-system-deployed-at-rusias-hmeimim-airbase-in-syria/

Lavrov: Terrorism hotbed in Idleb must be eliminated
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reiterated the need to eliminate the hotbed of terrorism in Idleb province.
During a press conference with Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic in Moscow on Wednesday, Lavrov stressed the need for finding a political solution for the crisis in Syria according to UN resolution no. 2254.
Regarding the situation in Idleb, Lavrov said that the hotbed of terrorism in Idleb must be eliminated, as terrorists cannot remain there.
https://sana.sy/en/?p=163550

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#6198345 at 2019-04-16 14:18:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7926 Feel'n the Bern on Socialism Edition

IRANIAN FM OFFERS TO SEND REVOLUTIONARY GUARD TROOPS TO VENEZUELA
APRIL 16, 2019 08:16

The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif offered to send troops from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to Venezuela to protect President Nicolas Maduro, according to Channel 13 news.

The offer comes in the midst of an economic and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. In January, Juan Guaido declared himself leader of Venezuela in a power struggle with socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

Source:
https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Iranian-FM-offers-to-send-Revolutionary-Guard-troops-to-Venezuela-586980

Moar:
https://davidharrisjr.com/politics/iran-sending-elite-troops-to-venezuela-to-aid-maduro/

https://www.newsweek.com/iran-russia-venezuela-china-military-1390583

Build up of Iran going to Venezuela in the news since Feb 3rd, 2019

#6099983 at 2019-04-08 20:48:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7801: April Sleuths Edition

Iran puts US forces in West Asia region on its terror blacklist

Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has slammed the US government as "supporter of terrorism," designating American forces in West Asia, known as the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), as a "terrorist organization."

In a statement on Monday, the Iranian top security council said the designation came as a "reciprocal measure" against US President Donald Trump's "illegal and unwise" move to blacklist Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization.

Trump said in a statement earlier in the day that the Iranian elite forces' designation "makes crystal clear the risks of conducting business with, or providing support to, the IRGC. If you are doing business with the IRGC, you will be bankrolling terrorism."

The SNSC strongly condemned the "illegal and dangerous" move by the US regime against the IRGC and said, "The Islamic Republic of Iran regards this baseless move as a major threat to regional and international peace and security and a blatant violation of the compelling rules of international law and the United Nations Charter."

It added that CENTCOM has been tasked with implementing terrorist policies of the US government against countries in West Asia, noting that CENTCOM's effort to impose those policies has endangered Iran's national security and the lives of both Iranians and non-Iranians, including through participation of the US in the massacre of the Yemeni people and other civilians in the West Asia region.

Iran's SNSC also warned that the US regime "will be responsible for dangerous consequences" of this adventurist measure."

Earlier in the day, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif proposed that the SNSC should add American forces in West Asia to its list of terrorist groups in the Islamic Republic.

In his letter to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who also chairs the SNSC, Zarif said given overt and covert support of US military forces in the region for terrorist groups and their direct involvement in terrorist acts, the SNSC should designate American forces as terrorists based on a law titled "Countering America's Human Rights Violation and Adventurous and Terrorist Actions" passed by the Iranian Parliament in 2017.

The US has already blacklisted dozens of entities and individuals affiliated with the IRGC, but not the entire force.

Syria condemns US designation of IRGC as 'terrorist' organization

In a related development on Monday, an official source at Syria's Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said Damascus strongly condemned the US government's designation of the IRGC as a 'terrorist' organization, describing it as a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of Iran.

According to Syria's official SANA news agency, the unnamed official added that the US administration's "irresponsible step" was part of the declared war launched by the US against Iran.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/04/08/592928/SNSC-Iran-US-troops-CENTCOM-terrorist-IRGC

#5969065 at 2019-03-29 23:09:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7634: Pathetic and Desperate Attacks On The Movement Edition

>>5964896 lb
>>5968544 lb

Speaking of John Kerry, Obama's Iran deal, and John Kerry's questionable loyalty to the US–It turns out John Kerry's daughter is married to an Iranian who has ties to the main Iranian negotiator that was involved with Obama's US-Iran nuclear deal:

A hushed up fact concerning Kerry's personal life, involves his younger daughter from his deceased first wife, Dr. Vanessa Bradford Kerry. Kerry's daughter married Dr. Brian (Behrooz) Vala Nahid, an Iranian-American physician and the son of Nooshin and Reza Vala Nahid of Los Angeles, in October 2009.

The marriage in 2009 wasn't a secret. What is significant is that as part of the wedding preparations, Kerry went to a dinner party hosted by George Soros at his Manhattan penthouse. He undoubtedly met the best man Mahdi Zarif, and also met his father, Mohammad Javad Zarif, current Iranian Foreign Minister, who acted as the chief negotiator during nuclear talks, across the table from Kerry. This revelation was made by former Congressman Allen West on his website on July 28.

Do you think this prior meeting, at his own daughter's wedding might have some significance? How about the fact that the best man at his daughters wedding happened to be the son of the Iranian Government's Foreign Minister?

It should be noted that after the wedding, the couple went to Iran to visit relatives.

Kerry's close family connection was not mentioned in his confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The FBI vets US government officials involved in national security issues and generally will not grant clearances to individuals who are married to nationals of an enemy nation or having family members living in that country, for fear of divided loyalties.The lack of basic oversight and disclosure in this case is disturbing.

https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/46248/nuclear-nepotism-hushed-up-truth-kerrys-personal-iran-connection-middle-east/

#5612157 at 2019-03-10 21:57:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7177: Lucky Sevens Edition

March 10, 2019

By John Davison and Babak Dehghanpisheh

BAGHDAD/GENEVA (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani's visit to Iraq this week is a strong message to the United States and its regional allies that Iran still dominates Baghdad, a key arena for rising tension between Washington and Tehran.

The first Iranian presidential visit to Iraq since 2013 is also meant to signal to President Donald Trump's administration that Tehran retains its influence in much of the region despite U.S. sanctions.

"Iran and Iraq are neighbors and no country can interfere in their relations," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said after arriving in Baghdad to prepare for the visit.
https://www.oann.com/rouhani-seeks-to-shore-up-irans-influence-on-baghdad-trip/

#5560107 at 2019-03-07 18:47:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7109: APPREHEND Edition

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_nuclear_deal_framework

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The ministers of foreign affairs of France, Germany, the European Union, Iran, the United Kingdom and the United States as well as Chinese and Russian diplomats announcing the framework for a Comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear program (Lausanne, April 2, 2015).
The ministers of foreign affairs of the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, France, China, the European Union and Iran (Lausanne, March 30, 2015).
Federica Mogherini (High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) and Mohammad Javad Zarif (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran) presenting the framework agreement after the multilateral negotiations in Lausanne (April 2, 2015).

The Iran nuclear deal framework was a preliminary framework agreement reached in 2015 between the Islamic Republic of Iran and a group of world powers: the P5+1 (the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council-the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, and China-plus Germany) and the European Union.

Negotiations for a framework deal over the nuclear program of Iran took place between the foreign ministers of the countries at a series of meetings held from March 26 to April 2, 2015 in Lausanne, Switzerland. On April 2 the talks came to a conclusion and a press conference was held by Federica Mogherini (High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) and Mohammad Javad Zarif (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran) to announce that the eight parties had reached an agreement on a framework deal. The parties announced, "Today, we have taken a decisive step: we have reached solutions on key parameters of a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action," which they intended to complete by June 30.[1][2][3][4] Announcing the framework, Foreign Minister Zarif stated: "No agreement has been reached so we do not have any obligation yet. Nobody has obligations now other than obligations that we already undertook under the Joint Plan of Action that we adopted in Geneva in November 2013."[5]

The framework deal was embodied in a document published by the EU's European External Action Service titled Joint Statement by EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif Switzerland,[1] and in a document published by the U.S. Department of State titled Parameters for a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran's Nuclear Program.[6]

On July 14, 2015, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action between Iran and the P5+1 and EU, a comprehensive agreement based on the April 2015 framework, was announced.[7]

On May 8, 2018, United States President Donald Trump announced the United States was withdrawing from the deal.[8]

#5398878 at 2019-02-26 20:54:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6901: Truth v Lies Edition

President Rouhani refuses FM Zarif's resignation: Qassemi

The Iranian Foreign Ministry says President Hassan Rouhani has not accepted Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif's resignation.

"Any interpretation and analysis revolving around the reasons behind the resignation of Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif, except for what he has posted on his Instagram account, are incorrect," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Tuesday.

"As the chief of staff of the Iranian president said today, the resignation has not been accepted," he added.

Late on Monday, the Iranian foreign minister took to his Instagram account to announce his unexpected resignation.

"I am grateful for magnanimity of the dear and courageous people of Iran and the respectable authorities' over the past 67 months," read the post.

In a post on his Instagarm account on Tuesday, the president's Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi said, "In the view of Dr. Rouhani, the Islamic Republic of Iran has only one foreign policy and one foreign minister."

Qassemi further lashed out at "certain circles" for attempting to reap political and factional gains from Zarif's announcement.

The foreign minister has always been doing his utmost to promote the prestige and esteem of Iran's foreign policy, said Qassemi, stressing that the Iranian nation is undoubtedly thankful for Zarif's "effective" efforts to that end.

It is thus unfair to downgrade efforts to safeguard Iran's foreign policy to emotional attitudes, the Iranian spokesperson said, adding that such an approach is against the lofty ideals of the Islamic Revolution, Islamic morals and national interests.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/02/26/589619/Resignation-Zarif-Qassemi-Rouhani

#5394255 at 2019-02-26 15:53:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6895: Live Happenings Edition

The resignation of Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has not been accepted by the country's president, the spokesman for the ministry said a statement.

All interpretations and analysis around the reasons behind the resignation of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, beyond what he posted on his Instagram account, are not accurate and, as the chief of staff of the president of Iran said today, the resignation has not been accepted," spokesman Bahram Qasemi said according to Iranian Fars news.

Spokesman: President Hassan Rouhani Has Not Accepted Foreign Minister Javad Zarif's Resignation pic.twitter.com/97Sz3jAeg5
- Fars News Agency (@EnglishFars) February 26, 2019

Zarif announced resignation from his post in a statement on his Instagram account on Monday.

"I am apologising [to] you for all the shortcomings … in the past years during my time as foreign minister … I thank the Iranian nation and officials," he wrote on his Instagram page jZarif_ir.

https://www.rt.com/news/452476-iran-president-resignation-foreign-minister/

#5393248 at 2019-02-26 14:32:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6894: Another Fine Day Edition

Notables
are not endorsements

Global
>>5389728 Baker Protocol: Do NOT Add Non-Tripcode posts from Q
>>5177229 MEMES ARE IMPORTANT: Memetic Warfare Division is RECRUITING
>>5251148 Board search got its own domain: https://qresear.ch
>>5341422, >>5391966 how to edit Hosts File (DNS)
>>5387705 Democrats want to murder babies. Keep the pressure on.

#6893
>>5392473 Development of "moral A.I." in EU to report homeowners to police for lawbreaking
>>5392598 WSJ article on Cohen hearing and the Dem's Hail Mary play
>>5392611 S&P market behavior in light of US-China trade talks
>>5392774 Russian state TV takes unusual step to list potential US nuclear strike locations
>>5392829 On a 1977 movie, "Scot Free", and the JFK assassination
>>5392887 Aramco CEO says oil industry facing "a crisis of projection"
>>5392959 Maduro shuts down press; US and Mexican embassy personnel escorting journalists
>>5393232 #6893

#6892
New Baker
>>5391852 Reminder - Fusion GPS was hired by PP to 'analyze' undercover videos
>>5391891 CNN - Stripping Federal abortion funding hurts the most vunerable among us
>>5391986 qresear.ch has added all EOs since 1994
>>5391997 Is Cummings outside his authority with the Michael Cohen hearing?
>>5392093 Marine Recruits receiving mandatory lessons on 9/11 events/history
>>5392125 NY legislators will introduce bill to decriminalize consensual sex work
>>5392144, >>5392301 Moar on DNS host files
>>5392188 US-British conservationist faces being hanged in Iran
>>5392218 KJU doesn't like US journalists either - 1 Hour to GTFO
>>5392225, >>5392421 India launches airstrike inside Pakistan
>>5392223, >>5392244 Patton Oswalt/Zippertravel dig
>>5392235, >>5392262, >>5392323 Payseur being smoked out? Supports PDJT?
>>5392280 2 Spas shut down in sex trafficking investigation
>>5392304 MDs explain reasons for late term abortions
>>5392350 Latino Students - the Left are the true racists.
>>5392360 Russia claims - US preparing "Venezuelan invasion"
>>5392368 Muslim shot in Arizona after pledging allegiance to ISIS
>>5392407 "Christian" Professor - abortion is a "moral good"
>>5392441 US sanctions 4 Venezuelan governors for blocking aid
>>5392429 #6892

#6891
>>5390988 current events WW 1-19 anon post
>>5391160, >>5391161, >>5391163 Resignations in the news today
>>5391046 Univision Anchor and Team Detained in Venezuela During Maduro interview
>>5391431, >>5391326 navy returns to flying union jack
>>5391654 #6891

#6890
>>5390279 Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has resigned
>>5390263 last anonymous post by Q was an EO day 12/21/2017
>>5390328, >>5390273 POTUS arrival (video)
>>5390349 keks, POTUS officially in vietnam longer than Da Nang Dick
>>5390315 anons flow charts on thoughts on The Plan and The Cabal/DS
>>5390508 The Trauma Floor article re chaotic AZ FB workplace
>>5390563, >>5390697 DOJ Prevented FBI From Pursuing Gross Negligence Charges Against Clinton
>>5390666, >>5390625, >>5390286 evil trips confirms, some digs on Oswalt
>>5390385, >>5390632 Russian TV lists potential nuclear strike targets in US
>>5390507 digging on Russian TV nuclear strike targets
>>5390586 TESLA/SEC Sparring
>>5390645 On Friday The Debt Ceiling Returns, And The Treasury Runs Out Of Cash 6 Months Later
>>5390808 RBG, NK Cells, and Q posts
>>5390826 Papa D twat on Brennan
>>5390922 #6890

Previously Collected Notables
>>5388638 #6887, >>5389339 #6888, >>5390131 #6889
>>5386310 #6884, >>5387115 #6885, >>5387806 #6886
>>5384041 #6881, >>5384782 #6882, >>5385552 #6883
>>5381642 #6878, >>5382430 #6879, >>5383173 #6880
>>5382285 #6875, >>5380138 #6876, >>5380912 #6877

Notables Archive by BO: https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables Archive at /comms/: >>>/comms/225, >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#5392451 at 2019-02-26 12:46:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6893: The Most Vulnerable Edition

Notables
are not endorsements

Global
>>5389728 Baker Protocol: Do NOT Add Non-Tripcode posts from Q
>>5177229 MEMES ARE IMPORTANT: Memetic Warfare Division is RECRUITING
>>5251148 Board search got its own domain: https://qresear.ch
>>5341422, >>5391966 how to edit Hosts File (DNS)
>>5387705 Democrats want to murder babies. Keep the pressure on.

#6892
New Baker
>>5391852 Reminder - Fusion GPS was hired by PP to 'analyze' undercover videos
>>5391891 CNN - Stripping Federal abortion funding hurts the most vunerable among us
>>5391986 qresear.ch has added all EOs since 1994
>>5391997 Is Cummings outside his authority with the Michael Cohen hearing?
>>5392093 Marine Recruits receiving mandatory lessons on 9/11 events/history
>>5392125 NY legislators will introduce bill to decriminalize consensual sex work
>>5392144, >>5392301 Moar on DNS host files
>>5392188 US-British conservationist faces being hanged in Iran
>>5392218 KJU doesn't like US journalists either - 1 Hour to GTFO
>>5392225, >>5392421 India launches airstrike inside Pakistan
>>5392223, >>5392244 Patton Oswalt/Zippertravel dig
>>5392235, >>5392262, >>5392323 Payseur being smoked out? Supports PDJT?
>>5392280 2 Spas shut down in sex trafficking investigation
>>5392304 MDs explain reasons for late term abortions
>>5392350 Latino Students - the Left are the true racists.
>>5392360 Russia claims - US preparing "Venezuelan invasion"
>>5392368 Muslim shot in Arizona after pledging allegiance to ISIS
>>5392407 "Christian" Professor - abortion is a "moral good"
>>5392441 US sanctions 4 Venezuelan governors for blocking aid
>>5392429 #6892

#6891
>>5390988 current events WW 1-19 anon post
>>5391160, >>5391161, >>5391163 Resignations in the news today
>>5391046 Univision Anchor and Team Detained in Venezuela During Maduro interview
>>5391431, >>5391326 navy returns to flying union jack
>>5391654 #6891

#6890
>>5390279 Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has resigned
>>5390263 last anonymous post by Q was an EO day 12/21/2017
>>5390328, >>5390273 POTUS arrival (video)
>>5390349 keks, POTUS officially in vietnam longer than Da Nang Dick
>>5390315 anons flow charts on thoughts on The Plan and The Cabal/DS
>>5390508 The Trauma Floor article re chaotic AZ FB workplace
>>5390563, >>5390697 DOJ Prevented FBI From Pursuing Gross Negligence Charges Against Clinton
>>5390666, >>5390625, >>5390286 evil trips confirms, some digs on Oswalt
>>5390385, >>5390632 Russian TV lists potential nuclear strike targets in US
>>5390507 digging on Russian TV nuclear strike targets
>>5390586 TESLA/SEC Sparring
>>5390645 On Friday The Debt Ceiling Returns, And The Treasury Runs Out Of Cash 6 Months Later
>>5390808 RBG, NK Cells, and Q posts
>>5390826 Papa D twat on Brennan
>>5390922 #6890

#6889 Baker Change
>>5389454 Tonight's Q News Broadcast
>>5389496 Digs on El Chapo, HSBC, and Comey
>>5389500 anon graphic on the :33 timestamp potus to Q
>>5389501, >>5389656 Highlights if Pakistan terror camps bombings by India at 3.30 am.
>>5389607, >>5389629 Reports are mapped here (India/Pak)
>>5389562 We got 53 YEAs on the senate vote
>>5389682, >>5389707 Sara Silverman and Oswalt pedo skecth
>>5389827 E-4B Nightwatch over France
>>5389810, >>5389833 Jenna Jameson twats Trust The Plan
>>5389861 Sara Sanders pics from AF1 in the sky
>>5389728, >>5389952 Baker on tripcode (tripfag) protocol
>>5390053, >>5389928 Response to anon's question: what we autists are here to do/what we do best
>>5389910 Some Michael Cohen news (Daily Caller) brokered (tried to) a deal w Qatar & Alabama nuclear facil
>>5390131 #6889

Previously Collected Notables
>>5388638 #6887, >>5389339 #6888,
>>5386310 #6884, >>5387115 #6885, >>5387806 #6886
>>5384041 #6881, >>5384782 #6882, >>5385552 #6883
>>5381642 #6878, >>5382430 #6879, >>5383173 #6880
>>5382285 #6875, >>5380138 #6876, >>5380912 #6877

Notables Archive by BO: https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables Archive at /comms/: >>>/comms/225, >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#5391677 at 2019-02-26 09:28:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6892: Good Morning (Evening) Vietnam Edition

Notables
are not endorsements

Global
>>5389728 Baker Protocol: Do NOT Add Non-Tripcode posts from Q
>>5177229 MEMES ARE IMPORTANT: Memetic Warfare Division is RECRUITING
>>5251148 Board search got its own domain: https://qresear.ch
>>5341422 how to edit Hosts File (DNS)
>>5387705 Democrats want to murder babies. Keep the pressure on.

#6891
>>5390988 current events WW 1-19 anon post
>>5391160, >>5391161, >>5391163 Resignations in the news today
>>5391046 Univision Anchor and Team Detained in Venezuela During Maduro interview
>>5391431, >>5391326 navy returns to flying union jack
>>5391654 #6891

#6890
>>5390279 Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has resigned
>>5390263 last anonymous post by Q was an EO day 12/21/2017
>>5390328, >>5390273 POTUS arrival (video)
>>5390349 keks, POTUS officially in vietnam longer than Da Nang Dick
>>5390315 anons flow charts on thoughts on The Plan and The Cabal/DS
>>5390508 The Trauma Floor article re chaotic AZ FB workplace
>>5390563, >>5390697 DOJ Prevented FBI From Pursuing Gross Negligence Charges Against Clinton
>>5390666, >>5390625, >>5390286 evil trips confirms, some digs on Oswalt
>>5390385, >>5390632 Russian TV lists potential nuclear strike targets in US
>>5390507 digging on Russian TV nuclear strike targets
>>5390586 TESLA/SEC Sparring
>>5390645 On Friday The Debt Ceiling Returns, And The Treasury Runs Out Of Cash 6 Months Later
>>5390808 RBG, NK Cells, and Q posts
>>5390826 Papa D twat on Brennan
>>5390922 #6890

#6889 Baker Change
>>5389454 Tonight's Q News Broadcast
>>5389496 Digs on El Chapo, HSBC, and Comey
>>5389500 anon graphic on the :33 timestamp potus to Q
>>5389501, >>5389656 Highlights if Pakistan terror camps bombings by India at 3.30 am.
>>5389607, >>5389629 Reports are mapped here (India/Pak)
>>5389562 We got 53 YEAs on the senate vote
>>5389682, >>5389707 Sara Silverman and Oswalt pedo skecth
>>5389827 E-4B Nightwatch over France
>>5389810, >>5389833 Jenna Jameson twats Trust The Plan
>>5389861 Sara Sanders pics from AF1 in the sky
>>5389728, >>5389952 Baker on tripcode (tripfag) protocol
>>5390053, >>5389928 Response to anon's question: what we autists are here to do/what we do best
>>5389910 Some Michael Cohen news (Daily Caller) brokered (tried to) a deal w Qatar & Alabama nuclear facil
>>5390131 #6889

#6888
>>5388758 Democrats who voted against abortion survivor bill. (graphic)
>>5389133 US Army Tweet: "I got your back"
>>5388965 UN chief urges Russia, US to salvage INF, extend New START.
>>5388888 Kek speaks: It's happening. The wall is coming.
>>5388709 North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Facility: No Indications plutonium production reactor is operating.
>>5388729 Schiff sweating.
>>5389339 #6888

#6887
>>5388206 Dead humpback whale discovered in Brazil's Amazon jungle puzzles researchers.
>>5388290 Historic shift: Populism now as big as social democracy in Europe.
>>5388324 1 US Code 8 definition of a person shall include every infant...born alive at any stage of development
>>5388351 Bernie staffers take shots at HRC and her staff as being "some of the biggest assholes."
>>5388130 Life on board a Trident submarine. (Puget Sound)
>>5388035 Abortion worker tells woman baby will drown in a jar of 'solution' if born alive.
>>5387958 Planned Parenthood kept aborted babies alive to harvest organs, ex-technician says.
>>5387930 200-300 terrorists reportedly killed in Indian airstrike.
>>5388638 #6887

Previously Collected Notables
>>5386310 #6884, >>5387115 #6885, >>5387806 #6886
>>5384041 #6881, >>5384782 #6882, >>5385552 #6883
>>5381642 #6878, >>5382430 #6879, >>5383173 #6880
>>5382285 #6875, >>5380138 #6876, >>5380912 #6877

Notables Archive by BO: https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables Archive at /comms/: >>>/comms/225, >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#5390936 at 2019-02-26 07:23:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6891: NK Ultra Edition

Notables
are not endorsements

Global
>>5389728 Baker Protocol: Do NOT Add Non-Tripcode posts from Q
>>5177229 MEMES ARE IMPORTANT: Memetic Warfare Division is RECRUITING
>>5251148 Board search got its own domain: https://qresear.ch
>>5341422 how to edit Hosts File (DNS)
>>5387705 Democrats want to murder babies. Keep the pressure on.

#6890
>>5390279 Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has resigned
>>5390263 last anonymous post by Q was an EO day 12/21/2017
>>5390328, >>5390273 POTUS arrival (video)
>>5390349 keks, POTUS officially in vietnam longer than Da Nang Dick
>>5390315 anons flow charts on thoughts on The Plan and The Cabal/DS
>>5390508 The Trauma Floor article re chaotic AZ FB workplace
>>5390563, >>5390697 DOJ Prevented FBI From Pursuing Gross Negligence Charges Against Clinton
>>5390666, >>5390625, >>5390286 evil trips confirms, some digs on Oswalt
>>5390385, >>5390632 Russian TV lists potential nuclear strike targets in US
>>5390507 digging on Russian TV nuclear strike targets
>>5390586 TESLA/SEC Sparring
>>5390645 On Friday The Debt Ceiling Returns, And The Treasury Runs Out Of Cash 6 Months Later
>>5390808 RBG, NK Cells, and Q posts
>>5390826 Papa D twat on Brennan
>>5390922 #6890

#6889 Baker Change
>>5389454 Tonight's Q News Broadcast
>>5389496 Digs on El Chapo, HSBC, and Comey
>>5389500 anon graphic on the :33 timestamp potus to Q
>>5389501, >>5389656 Highlights if Pakistan terror camps bombings by India at 3.30 am.
>>5389607, >>5389629 Reports are mapped here (India/Pak)
>>5389562 We got 53 YEAs on the senate vote
>>5389682, >>5389707 Sara Silverman and Oswalt pedo skecth
>>5389827 E-4B Nightwatch over France
>>5389810, >>5389833 Jenna Jameson twats Trust The Plan
>>5389861 Sara Sanders pics from AF1 in the sky
>>5389728, >>5389952 Baker on tripcode (tripfag) protocol
>>5390053, >>5389928 Response to anon's question: what we autists are here to do/what we do best
>>5389910 Some Michael Cohen news (Daily Caller) brokered (tried to) a deal w Qatar & Alabama nuclear facil
>>5390131 #6889

#6888
>>5388758 Democrats who voted against abortion survivor bill. (graphic)
>>5389133 US Army Tweet: "I got your back"
>>5388965 UN chief urges Russia, US to salvage INF, extend New START.
>>5388888 Kek speaks: It's happening. The wall is coming.
>>5388709 North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Facility: No Indications plutonium production reactor is operating.
>>5388729 Schiff sweating.
>>5389339 #6888

#6887
>>5388206 Dead humpback whale discovered in Brazil's Amazon jungle puzzles researchers.
>>5388290 Historic shift: Populism now as big as social democracy in Europe.
>>5388324 1 US Code 8 definition of a person shall include every infant...born alive at any stage of development
>>5388351 Bernie staffers take shots at HRC and her staff as being "some of the biggest assholes."
>>5388130 Life on board a Trident submarine. (Puget Sound)
>>5388035 Abortion worker tells woman baby will drown in a jar of 'solution' if born alive.
>>5387958 Planned Parenthood kept aborted babies alive to harvest organs, ex-technician says.
>>5387930 200-300 terrorists reportedly killed in Indian airstrike.
>>5388638 #6887

#6886
>>5387521 Pompeo Tweet 17 min timestamp.
>>5387262 Dig on Orchards of Asia Day Spa owner Hua Zhang.
>>5387806 #6886

Previously Collected Notables
>>5386310 #6884, >>5387115 #6885
>>5384041 #6881, >>5384782 #6882, >>5385552 #6883
>>5381642 #6878, >>5382430 #6879, >>5383173 #6880
>>5382285 #6875, >>5380138 #6876, >>5380912 #6877

Notables Archive by BO: https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables Archive at /comms/: >>>/comms/225, >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#5390922 at 2019-02-26 07:21:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6890: Frens Bustin Balls and Having Laughs Edition

#6890
>>5390279 Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has resigned
>>5390263 last anonymous post by Q was an EO day 12/21/2017
>>5390328, >>5390273 POTUS arrival (video)
>>5390349 keks, POTUS officially in vietnam longer than Da Nang Dick
>>5390315 anons flow charts on thoughts on The Plan and The Cabal/DS
>>5390508 The Trauma Floor article re chaotic AZ FB workplace
>>5390563, >>5390697 DOJ Prevented FBI From Pursuing Gross Negligence Charges Against Clinton
>>5390666, >>5390625, >>5390286 evil trips confirms, some digs on Oswalt
>>5390385, >>5390632 Russian TV lists potential nuclear strike targets in US
>>5390507 digging on Russian TV nuclear strike targets
>>5390586 TESLA/SEC Sparring
>>5390645 On Friday The Debt Ceiling Returns, And The Treasury Runs Out Of Cash 6 Months Later
>>5390808 RBG, NK Cells, and Q posts
>>5390826 Papa D twat on Brennan

#5390873 at 2019-02-26 07:16:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6890: Frens Bustin Balls and Having Laughs Edition

>>5390835
second time youve posted
if you could just reply to one of the feeds you are reffering to…
i have to post notables again
ill find it myself fam

#6890
>>5390279 Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has resigned
>>5390263 last anonymous post by Q was an EO day 12/21/2017
>>5390328, >>5390273 POTUS arrival (video)
>>5390349 keks, POTUS officially in vietnam longer than Da Nang Dick
>>5390315 anons flow charts on thoughts on The Plan and The Cabal/DS
>>5390508 The Trauma Floor article re chaotic AZ FB workplace
>>5390563, >>5390697 DOJ Prevented FBI From Pursuing Gross Negligence Charges Against Clinton
>>5390666, >>5390625, >>5390286 evil trips confirms, some digs on Oswalt
>>5390385, >>5390632 Russian TV lists potential nuclear strike targets in US
>>5390507 digging on Russian TV nuclear strike targets
>>5390586 TESLA/SEC Sparring
>>5390645 On Friday The Debt Ceiling Returns, And The Treasury Runs Out Of Cash 6 Months Later
>>5390808 RBG, NK Cells, and Q posts

#5390648 at 2019-02-26 06:51:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6890: Frens Bustin Balls and Having Laughs Edition

#6889
>>5390279 Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has resigned
>>5390263 last anonymous post by Q was an EO day 12/21/2017
>>5390328, >>5390273 POTUS arrival (video)
>>5390349 keks, POTUS officially in vietnam longer than Da Nang Dick
>>5390315 anons flow charts on thoughts on The Plan and The Cabal/DS
>>5390508 The Trauma Floor article re chaotic AZ FB workplace
>>5390563 DOJ Prevented FBI From Pursuing Gross Negligence Charges Against Clinton

>>5390385
try to sauce this pls

#5390568 at 2019-02-26 06:43:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6890: Frens Bustin Balls and Having Laughs Edition

#5390485 at 2019-02-26 06:35:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6890: Frens Bustin Balls and Having Laughs Edition

#6889
>>5390279 Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has resigned
>>5390263 last anonymous post by Q was an EO day 12/21/2017
>>5390328 POTUS arrival (video)
>>5390349 POTUS officially in vietnam longer than Da Nang Dick

#5390279 at 2019-02-26 06:16:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6890: Frens Bustin Balls and Having Laughs Edition

BREAKING: Iran's state-run IRNA news agency says Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has resigned. The diplomat was the driving force behind Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

https://apnews.com/08cb7394544947f5aa0459a2fb99fcd7?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

#5390155 at 2019-02-26 06:03:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6889: Save The Babies Edition

Iran's Nuclear Deal Architect Mohammad Javad Zarif Resigns on Instagram, Says Sorry for 'Shortcomings'

https://www.newsweek.com/iran-nuclear-deal-Zarif-resigns-instagram-1343260

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Go's meets the Ayatolla.
Zarif resigns.
well the world is changing.

#5382446 at 2019-02-25 22:50:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6879: Truth Can Always Be Found Edition

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/25/697874630/irans-foreign-minister-announces-sudden-resignation
The foreign minister of Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif, resigned Monday without explanation in a brief message on Instagram.

#5381906 at 2019-02-25 22:15:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6879: Truth Can Always Be Found Edition

http://www.intellinews.com/breaking-news-iranian-foreign-minister-Zarif-quits-156953/

Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif late on February 25 announced his resignation.
In a statement posted on his Instagram page, jZarif_ir, he wrote: "I am apologizing you for all the shortcomings … in the past years during my time as foreign minister … I thank the Iranian nation and officials."
The announcement will heighten fears that Iran is set to walk out of the nuclear deal. Rumours have lately circulated that Zarif, generally seen as very popular with Iranian voters, has long wanted to step down because of the immense pressure he faces both from opponents at home and from Iran's adversaries now that the US has redoubled its sanctions-led economic attack on the Islamic Republic. He has been sounding increasingly angry in recent weeks.

#5380604 at 2019-02-25 20:57:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6877: On the Right Track Edition

Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif announces resignationin in Instagram post

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has unexpectedly announced his resignation in an Instagram post.

"I am grateful for magnanimity of the dear and courageous people of Iran and the respectable authorities' over the past 67 months," read the post published on late Monday local time.

"I sincerely apologize for inability to continue [my] service and all the shortcomings and flaws during [my] tenure," it added.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/02/25/589552/Iran-Foreign-Minister-resigns-Mohammad-Javad-Zarif-Instagram

Iranian FM Zarif Announces His Resignation
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced his resignation Monday, Reuters reported, citing Zarif's Instagram.

"I am apologizing you for all the shortcomings [...] in the past years during my time as foreign minister [...] I thank the Iranian nation and officials", Zarif said as quoted by Reuters.

"Many thanks for the generosity of the dear and brave people of Iran and its authorities over the past 67 months. I sincerely apologize for the inability to continue the service and for all the shortcomings during the service. Be happy and worthy", Zarif wrote in his Instagram blog.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201902251072733502-iran-foreign-minister-resignation/

#5283021 at 2019-02-20 15:29:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6751: Many References Edition

Iran's Rouhani says U.S. sanctions are 'terrorist act'

LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday relations with the United States had rarely been so bad and that sanctions imposed by the Trump administration targeting Tehran's oil and banking sectors amounted to "a terrorist act". Animosity between Washington and Tehran - bitter foes since Iran's 1979 revolution - has intensified since U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from an international nuclear deal with Tehran last May and reimposed sanctions lifted under the accord.

"The struggle between Iran and America is currently at a maximum. America has employed all its power against us," Rouhani was quoted as saying in a cabinet meeting by the state broadcaster IRIB. "The U.S. pressures on firms and banks to halt business with Iran is one hundred percent a terrorist act," he said. Trump has reimposed the sanctions with the aim of slashing Iranian oil sales and choking its economy in order to curb its ballistic missile program and its activities in the Middle East, especially in the conflicts in Syria and Yemen.

HYPOCRISY
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused the United States of hypocrisy for trying to wreck Iran's nuclear program while seeking to sell nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, Tehran's regional rival. "Neither human rights nor the nuclear program are the real concern of the U.S. First a dismembered journalist; now illicit sale of nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia fully expose #USHypocrisy," Zarif said in a tweet. He was referring to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, which triggered international revulusion. His body has not been found.

The CIA has said Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman likely ordered the killing, which Riyadh denies. Trump has stood by the prince, saying weapons sales to Saudi Arabia are an important source of U.S. jobs. U.S. Democratic lawmakers alleged in a report released Tuesday that a proposed transfer of U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia was being fast-tracked around a mandatory approval process.

Unlike the United States, European powers are working to preserve the 2015 international nuclear deal with Iran. But France has said it is ready to reimpose sanctions on Iran if no progress is made in talks over its ballistic missile program. In a clear reaction to French pressure, Rouhani said: "We want a constructive interaction with the world, but the countries that work with us should not have excessive demands. Iran is firm in its stance and will act based on its national interests." Iran has said its missile program is purely defensive.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-rouhani/irans-rouhani-says-u-s-sanctions-are-terrorist-act-idUSKCN1Q90ZO

#5277989 at 2019-02-20 04:38:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6745: Hey There CBS Edition

http://www.irna.ir/en/News/83215925
Beijing, Feb 20, IRNA - No country is able to tarnish Iran-China relations, Iranian Majlis (Parliament) speaker Ali Larijani said.
Larijani made the remarks Wednesday in a meeting with chairman of Iran-China parliamentary friendship group Lee Shoe Young.
Appreciating China hospitality, he said relations between the two countries date back to over 2000 years ago.
Meanwhile, Lee said presence of representatives from all parliamentary commissions in Iran-China friendship group indicates the importance of ties between the two countries.
Larijani is in China upon an official invitation by his Chinese counterpart Li Zhanshu. He was received by Iran's Ambassador Mohammad Keshavarzzadeh and head of Iran-China friendship group, Lee Shoe Young, at Chinese Parliament at Beijing's airport Monday night.
Some Iranian ministers and senior officials, including Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif, Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh, Finance Minister Farhad Dejpasand and Governor of Central Bank Abdolnaser Hemmati are accompanying Larijani in the visit.
Earlier in a meeting with Head of the People's Congress of China Li Zhanshu, Larijani said that the two countries have always had friendly relations in history.

IRAN in CHINA hoping for a bailout ?

#5267497 at 2019-02-19 19:24:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6731: And the Shill Gets a Q BTFO (You) Edition

Suicide Bombings in India and Iran

On the afternoon of 14th February, 2019 a convoy of vehicles along the Indian Jammu Srinagar National Highway carrying Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was targeted by terrorists with a car bomb at Awantipora in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district. Responsibility of the Pulwama attack was attributed to the Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad.

A similar bombing took place in Iran a day earlier. Pulwama attack mirrors a suicide bombing in Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan border province a day earlier which left 27 elite Revolutionary Guards dead and 13 others wounded. A unit of Revolutionary Guards in south-eastern Iran was returning in a bus from the Pakistan border on Wednesday when an explosive-laden car blew up on Khash-Zahedan road, killing all security personnel on board.

According to sources in security agencies, the modus operandi was similar-ramming an explosive-laden vehicle into a bus carrying soldiers. In both cases, the terror outfits that claimed responsibility for the bombings have the same first name - Jaish.

The so-called Jaish ul-Adl terrorist group, which is linked to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the bombing. The terrorist outfit was formed in 2012 by members of the Pakistan-based Jundallah, another terror group dismantled by Iranian intelligence forces in 2010 after its ringleader Abdolmalek Rigi was executed.

By nightfall on the same day India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) released a statement condemning the terror attack in Pulwama attributing it to Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad.

This heinous and despicable act has been perpetrated by Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Pakistan-based and supported terrorist organisation proscribed by the United Nations and other countries. This terror group is led by the international terrorist Masood Azhar, who has been given full freedom by Government of Pakistan to operate and expand his terror infrastructure in territories under the control of Pakistan and to carry out attacks in India and elsewhere with impunity.

We strongly reiterate our appeal to all members of the international community to support the proposal to list terrorists, including JeM Chief Masood Azhar, as a designated terrorist under the 1267 Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council and to ban terrorist organisations operating from territories controlled by Pakistan.

Official sources said that the attack was carried out by one Adil Ahmad Dar alias "Waqas Commando". A resident of Kakapora, he had joined the terror outfit last year. He was also known as "Adil Ahmad Gaadi Takranewala", meaning the one who will crash the vehicle.

However, in contrast to the Indian response the Iranians not only identified the players on the ground but also its state sponsorship and the regimes pulling the string from the background uncovering the geopolitical players involved.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei denounced the attack, saying the spy agencies of certain regional and trans-regional countries certainly had a hand in this crime:

"It is certain that the perpetrators of this crime were linked to spy agencies of certain regional and trans-regional countries and the country's relevant organizations must focus on that and seriously pursue it."

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif raised suspicion about the attack's possible links to an anti-Iran summit co-hosted by the US and Poland, which kicked off in Warsaw on a day earlier. President Hassan Rouhani also described the US and the Israeli regime as the "root causes of terror" in the Middle East region as he condemned the deadly attack on the IRGC forces.

The chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) warned Saudi Arabia and the UAE that they could face retaliatory measures for supporting terrorists on behalf of the US and Israel. General Mohammad Ali Jafari said,

"The patience that the establishment once exercised against conspiracies and reactionary regimes in the region, especially Saudi Arabia and the UAE which carry out these acts on orders from the US and Israel, will be different and we will definitely take reparative measures".
The simultaneous attack on both Iran and India has raised tensions in Asia and certainly brought the focus on terror activities emanating from Pakistani soil. What remains to be seen however is how far two nations would go to uncover and resolve the root cause of the problem.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/suicide-bombings-in-india-and-iran/5668976

#5203837 at 2019-02-16 08:05:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6649: It's All There Edition

Notables
are not endorsements

Global
>>5007229 Attn newfags, this is a free speech board
>>5001807, >>5014751, >>5004327, >>5013936 PP/Abortion: Call reps, Memes 4 SocMed
>>5001844 Let's spread this movement worldwide! (Q, Yellow Vest, FREEDOM)
>>5015737, >>5015808 President's Day, February 18, 2019 - #MAGApride Day
>>5177229 MEMES ARE IMPORTANT: Memetic Warfare Division is RECRUITING

#6648
>>5203123, >>5203515 POTUS briefed by US Army Chief of Engineers after declaring the National Emergency with Red Castle pin visible in pic
>>5203164 Interesting take on POTUS' national emergency declaration
>>5203189, >>5203192, >>5203198 Resignations in the news today
>>5203225 Clintons saw to Kill A Mockingbird tonight
>>5203246 Video: Police Officer Shoots Knife-Wielding ISIS Terrorist
>>5203292 List Of Maryland Priests Accused Of Child Sexual Abuse
>>5203298, >>5203645 Sauce on the AI behind ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com
>>5203317, >>5203460 Baby stem cells use for research
>>5203336 Adm R says China could interfere with Australian elections
>>5203387, >>5203394, >>5203397, >>5203401, >>5203405, >>5203416, >>5203421 Tuesday Feb 12 in Congress
>>5203199, >>5203425 Big U.S. exchanges to sue SEC over 'overreaching' fee experiment
>>5203518 Lieutenant removed as Portland police investigate texts with Patriot Prayer's Joey Gibson
>>5203540, >>5203652 The AI text generator that's too dangerous to make public
>>5203568, >>5203660, >>5203667 Ilhan Omar tweeted Allahu Akbar 13 days after Benghazi
>>5203611, >>5203622, >>5203823 The National Emergency Isn't Just at the Border, It's in Washington D.C.
>>5203733 Hamilton audience members flee theatre in "mass panic" over fears of gunman
>>5203760 CBP stats on Southwest Border Migration FY 2019
>>5203824 #6648

#6647
>>5202381, >>5202398, >>5202435, >>5202509 R.E.M's publisher asks Twitter to remove SOTU video
>>5202389, >>5202377 India blames Pakistan for Kashmir attack, PM Narendra Modi vows "crushing response"
>>5202446, >>5202495 U.S. adviser Bolton promises India support after Kashmir attack
>>5202485 ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com uses AI to generate endless fake faces
>>5202516, >>5202546, >>5202569, >>5202679 Dig on Children Entering the United States Unaccompanied and Potential Sponsors
>>5202539 Info and Video on the brith certificate process
>>5202588 Graphic: Adam Schiff's condo and office near the recent Law Enforcement activity in LA
>>5202655 L.A. Skyscraper Shown Exploding in New ISIS Propaganda Video
>>5202807, >>5202854 CNN still pushing out RBG stock photos
>>5202901 China to Deploy ASAT Laser by 2020
>>5203045 #6647

#6646 Baker Change
>>5201591 International "fake news" committee to demand testimony from tech giants
>>5201646 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has confirmed Tehran's bid to send a satellite into space failed
>>5201709 Iran more destabilising than N Korea: Pompeo
>>5201784 Smollett Update
>>5201795 'Humanitarian Avalanche': Guaido Announces Venezuela Aid Hub Creation in Miami
>>5201955 Aurora shooting side by side
>>5202137 Anon on Q's connection to POTUS
>>5202285 #6646

'Previously Collected Notables
>>5200738 #6644, >>5201537 #6645
>>5198673 #6641, >>5199182 #6642, >>5199975 #6643
>>5196121 #6638, >>5197598 #6639, >>5197666 #6640
>>5193857 #6635, >>5194560 #6636, >>5195402 #6637
>>5191538 #6632, >>5192363 #6633, >>5193130 #6634

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Notables Archive at /comms/: >>>/comms/225, >>>/comms/3207 (#740~#6003)

#5203058 at 2019-02-16 06:05:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6648: Iran -> Edition

Notables
are not endorsements

Global
>>5007229 Attn newfags, this is a free speech board
>>5001807, >>5014751, >>5004327, >>5013936 PP/Abortion: Call reps, Memes 4 SocMed
>>5001844 Let's spread this movement worldwide! (Q, Yellow Vest, FREEDOM)
>>5015737, >>5015808 President's Day, February 18, 2019 - #MAGApride Day
>>5177229 MEMES ARE IMPORTANT: Memetic Warfare Division is RECRUITING

#6647
>>5202381, >>5202398, >>5202435, >>5202509 R.E.M's publisher asks Twitter to remove SOTU video
>>5202389, >>5202377 India blames Pakistan for Kashmir attack, PM Narendra Modi vows "crushing response"
>>5202446, >>5202495 U.S. adviser Bolton promises India support after Kashmir attack
>>5202485 ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com uses AI to generate endless fake faces
>>5202516, >>5202546, >>5202569, >>5202679 Dig on Children Entering the United States Unaccompanied and Potential Sponsors
>>5202588 Graphic: Adam Schiff's condo and office near the recent Law Enforcement activity in LA
>>5202655 L.A. Skyscraper Shown Exploding in New ISIS Propaganda Video
>>5202807, >>5202854 CNN still pushing out RBG stock photos
>>5202901 China to Deploy ASAT Laser by 2020
>>5203045 #6647

#6646 Baker Change
>>5201591 International "fake news" committee to demand testimony from tech giants
>>5201646 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has confirmed Tehran's bid to send a satellite into space failed
>>5201709 Iran more destabilising than N Korea: Pompeo
>>5201784 Smollett Update
>>5201795 'Humanitarian Avalanche': Guaido Announces Venezuela Aid Hub Creation in Miami
>>5201955 Aurora shooting side by side
>>5202137 Anon on Q's connection to POTUS
>>5202285 #6646

#6645
>>5200950 Rep. Meadows tweets on McCabe misleading 60 minutes interviewer
>>5201352 Anon's theory on P-A-I-N (graphic)
>>5200970 Update on the Aurora Illinois shooting
>>5200972 Vatican envoy to France Luigi Ventura in sexual assault probe
>>5201456 Police discovered 3 people dead inside a multi-million-dollar home in a gated Newport Beach community. One behind bars.
>>5201537 #6645

#6644
>>5200161, >>5200182 Chase online access is down
>>5200185 Portland police accused of 'collusion with "right-wing extremists"' after texts surface
>>5200193 [RBG] digs
>>5200451 India and Pakistan Drama
>>5200738 #6644

#6643
>>5199366 Making sure dead voters don't vote: US Announces Memorandum Ensuring Compliance With Voter Registration Requirements
>>5199371, >>5199401 Process re: release of unaccompanied alien children to sponsors in the U.S.
>>5199534 @USMC tweet: "We Can Fit One More Sir!".... (in gitmo)
>>5199612 Southwest Airlines declared "operational emergency" due to unusually high number of aircraft out of service for maintenance
>>5199630 DHS official: Border security bill does not contain 'amnesty' poison pills (Q-linked article from lb)
>>5199614, >>5199673 Kerry currently in Munich - why? Munich Security Conference article from today
>>5199773 Based 3rd grader childanon reminds us the future is secure
>>5199975 #6643

#6642 Baker Change
>>5198511 Networks Kept 'No Collusion' Off Primetime
>>5198675 EB-5 digs
>>5198975 Venezuela opposition to leave Citgo funds, management untouched: envoy
>>5199013 Screencap of article in latest Q post
>>5199061 First lawsuit against Trump Wall Declaration filed
>>5199182 #6642

'Previously Collected Notables
>>5198673 #6641
>>5196121 #6638, >>5197598 #6639, >>5197666 #6640
>>5193857 #6635, >>5194560 #6636, >>5195402 #6637
>>5191538 #6632, >>5192363 #6633, >>5193130 #6634
>>5189264 #6629, >>5190039 #6630, >>5190767 #6631

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#5202303 at 2019-02-16 05:07:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6647: Honor & Respect Edition

Notables
are not endorsements

Global
>>5007229 Attn newfags, this is a free speech board
>>5001807, >>5014751, >>5004327, >>5013936 PP/Abortion: Call reps, Memes 4 SocMed
>>5001844 Let's spread this movement worldwide! (Q, Yellow Vest, FREEDOM)
>>5015737, >>5015808 President's Day, February 18, 2019 - #MAGApride Day
>>5177229 MEMES ARE IMPORTANT: Memetic Warfare Division is RECRUITING

#6646 Baker Change
>>5201591 International "fake news" committee to demand testimony from tech giants
>>5201646 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has confirmed Tehran's bid to send a satellite into space failed
>>5201709 Iran more destabilising than N Korea: Pompeo
>>5201784 Smollett Update
>>5201795 'Humanitarian Avalanche': Guaido Announces Venezuela Aid Hub Creation in Miami
>>5201955 Aurora shooting side by side
>>5202137 Anon on Q's connection to POTUS
>>5202285 #6646

#6645
>>5200950 Rep. Meadows tweets on McCabe misleading 60 minutes interviewer
>>5201352 Anon's theory on P-A-I-N (graphic)
>>5200970 Update on the Aurora Illinois shooting
>>5200972 Vatican envoy to France Luigi Ventura in sexual assault probe
>>5201456 Police discovered 3 people dead inside a multi-million-dollar home in a gated Newport Beach community. One behind bars.
>>5201537 #6645

#6644
>>5200161, >>5200182 Chase online access is down
>>5200185 Portland police accused of 'collusion with "right-wing extremists"' after texts surface
>>5200193 [RBG] digs
>>5200451 India and Pakistan Drama
>>5200738 #6644

#6643
>>5199366 Making sure dead voters don't vote: US Announces Memorandum Ensuring Compliance With Voter Registration Requirements
>>5199371, >>5199401 Process re: release of unaccompanied alien children to sponsors in the U.S.
>>5199534 @USMC tweet: "We Can Fit One More Sir!".... (in gitmo)
>>5199612 Southwest Airlines declared "operational emergency" due to unusually high number of aircraft out of service for maintenance
>>5199630 DHS official: Border security bill does not contain 'amnesty' poison pills (Q-linked article from lb)
>>5199614, >>5199673 Kerry currently in Munich - why? Munich Security Conference article from today
>>5199773 Based 3rd grader childanon reminds us the future is secure
>>5199975 #6643

#6642 Baker Change
>>5198511 Networks Kept 'No Collusion' Off Primetime
>>5198675 EB-5 digs
>>5198975 Venezuela opposition to leave Citgo funds, management untouched: envoy
>>5199013 Screencap of article in latest Q post
>>5199061 First lawsuit against Trump Wall Declaration filed
>>5199182 #6642

#6641
>>5198293 Trump burns Coulter, "I don't know her"
>>5198276 Anon finds resources on how to make money from illegal immigration
>>5198239 AOC facing ethics questions after giving her bf a congressional email acct
>>5198211 Breaking: Maduro orders army to defend Colombian border from US
>>5198168 Haberman tweet
>>5197988 Protesters gather outside Trump hotel in NY over NE
>>5197979 POTUS tweet decode: Bribery, Graft, Conflicts of Interest-> Members of Congress
>>5197970 Mueller recommends Manafort serve at least 19 years in prison
>>5197914 POTUS and Gorka tweet at exactly the same time
>>5197762 , >>5197795, >>5197832 McCabe: 60 Minutes clips & account
>>5197803 , >>5197970 Reports RR will leave the Justice Dept next Friday
>>5197763 Q Proof re RGB and "claiming we stated 'death'"
>>5197747 Presidential Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency
>>5198673 #6641 (corrected)

'Previously Collected Notables
>>5196121 #6638, >>5197598 #6639, >>5197666 #6640
>>5193857 #6635, >>5194560 #6636, >>5195402 #6637
>>5191538 #6632, >>5192363 #6633, >>5193130 #6634
>>5189264 #6629, >>5190039 #6630, >>5190767 #6631

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#5202285 at 2019-02-16 05:06:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6646: Pain Edition

#6646

>>5201591 International "fake news" committee to demand testimony from tech giants
>>5201646 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has confirmed Tehran's bid to send a satellite into space failed
>>5201709 Iran more destabilising than N Korea: Pompeo
>>5201784 Smollett Update
>>5201795 'Humanitarian Avalanche': Guaido Announces Venezuela Aid Hub Creation in Miami
>>5201955 Aurora shooting side by side
>>5202137 Anon on Q's connection to POTUS

#5202214 at 2019-02-16 05:01:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6646: Pain Edition

LAST CALL

#6646

>>5201591 International "fake news" committee to demand testimony from tech giants
>>5201646 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has confirmed Tehran's bid to send a satellite into space failed
>>5201709 Iran more destabilising than N Korea: Pompeo
>>5201784 Smollett Update
>>5201795 'Humanitarian Avalanche': Guaido Announces Venezuela Aid Hub Creation in Miami
>>5201955 Aurora shooting side by side

#5201928 at 2019-02-16 04:43:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6646: Pain Edition

Notables
>>5201591 International "fake news" committee to demand testimony from tech giants
>>5201646 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has confirmed Tehran's bid to send a satellite into space failed
>>5201709 Iran more destabilising than N Korea: Pompeo
>>5201784 Smollett Update
>>5201795 'Humanitarian Avalanche': Guaido Announces Venezuela Aid Hub Creation in Miami

#5201646 at 2019-02-16 04:25:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6646: Pain Edition

https://www.rferl.org/a/Zarif-confirms-failure-second-iran-satellite-launch/29773298.html
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has confirmed in an interview with NBC News that Tehran's bid to send a satellite into space failed in early February, the second such mishap within two months.
Zarif on February 15 said the reasons for the failure were not yet clear, but he suggested authorities will investigate possible sabotage by the United States after a report in The New York Times published on February 13.
Citing current and former U.S. administration officials, The Times reported that the White House has accelerated a secret American program to sabotage Iran's missiles and rockets.
Zarif said Iran has been investigating the causes of the failures but that it was now "looking into the specifics" because of the article in The Times.

Reminder the NY Times offered special guided tours of Iran, and only stopped them in 2018

#5050459 at 2019-02-06 05:55:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6449: Yuge Approval Numbers Edition

U.S. supports 'dictators, butchers and extremists' in Middle East, says Iran

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States supports "dictators, butchers and extremists" in the Middle East, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a Twitter post Wednesday in a response to U.S. President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech.

Tensions have ramped up between Iran and the United States since Trump pulled out of a multilateral nuclear deal last May and reimposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic. "US hostility has led it to support dictators, butchers & extremists, who've only brought ruin to our region," Zarif wrote in the Twitter post.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-eu/tehran-bats-away-eu-criticism-of-iranian-missile-tests-idUSKCN1PU0D2

#4911246 at 2019-01-26 03:25:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6270: Shills Shillin', Anons Chillin' Edition

Iran supports Venezuela in face of US plots: FM Zarif

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic supports the legal government in Venezuela and the country's people in the face of all plots, particularly those hatched by the United States.

The top Iranian diplomat made the remarks in a phone conversation with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza on Friday amid massive protests organized by the US in the Latin American country.

The Iranian and Venezuelan foreign ministers discussed possible avenues for countering the US plots against independent countries, particularly Venezuela, through international channels.

Zarif and Arreaza also exchanged views about ways to strengthen negotiations between the Venezuelan government and the opposition groups and find a political solution to the ongoing conflict between the two sides.

At least 10 countries, including Russia, Turkey and Iran, have expressed their support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and condemned outside interference in Caracas.

China, which has backed Venezuela's sovereignty, said it opposed any outside interference. Bolivia, Mexico and Cuba all supported the Venezuelan president.

Maduro on Friday ordered the closure of Venezuela's embassy and consulates in the US after Washington threw its weight behind opposition leader Juan Guaido, who declared himself interim president earlier this week.

During a lengthy speech at a special session at the Supreme Court, the Venezuelan president censured US President Donald Trump for seeking to orchestrate a coup against his government and backing the self-declared leader.

The US has a long record for "regime change" campaigns in Venezuela and other countries. In 2002, the late Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, was ousted for two days in a US-backed coup which was ultimately defeated.

In 1953, the CIA led a coup against Iran's first democratically-elected government and toppled Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.

Maduro was sworn in for a second term earlier in January, after a vote marred by an opposition boycott and claims of vote-rigging.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/01/25/586784/Zarif-Venezuela-US-plots

#4751677 at 2019-01-14 17:16:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6064: Workweek Beginnings Edition

Dialog must replace war to strengthen region: Iran FM

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says if regional countries want a strong region, they must substitute dialog for war as well as cooperation for arms race.

Zarif made the remarks while addressing a gathering of representatives from hundreds of Iranian and Iraqi companies in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad on Monday.

"In a secure and powerful region, dialog takes the place of war, and cooperation replaces arms race while brotherly relations replace trust in foreigners," Iran's top diplomat said.

Zarif noted that in a strong region, all countries can trust one another and make a better future for themselves, adding, "In this case, bilateral and multilateral relations among countries in this region would be stronger than their relations with other countries."

The Iranian foreign minister stated that in order to achieve this goal, the Islamic Republic of Iran welcomes the expansion of cooperation with all regional countries and knows no limit for the development of relations and cooperation with Iraq.

"The blood of Iranian and Iraqi youths has been spilled in the fight against terrorism and profound ties between the two nations are such that no power is able to draw a wedge between them," Zarif said.

The trade meeting between the economic agents of the two countries' private sectors kicked off on Monday in the presence of the Iranian foreign minister and his accompanying delegation, Iran's Ambassador to Baghdad Iraj Masjedi and six Iraqi ministers.

The meeting was held with the purpose of discussing opportunities for investment in Iraq, the participation of Iran's private sector in the reconstruction of Iraq after the defeat of Daesh terrorists and enhancement of trade cooperation.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/01/14/585775/Zarif-Iraq-trade-Baghdad-lawmakers-dialog

#4566365 at 2019-01-02 18:01:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5824: Matters of National Security Edition

Retired US Colonel: Israel Is Dragging the United States Into World War III

Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired army colonel who now teaches at Washington-area universities, didn't hold back in his critique of where the status quo is leading the United States via its client state, Israel.

Israel is in the process of plunging America into a war with Iran that could destroy what's left of the Middle East and ignite a third world war, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, warned in Washington approximately a week ago.

Wilkerson, a retired army colonel who now teaches at Washington-area universities, didn't hold back in his critique of where the status quo is leading the United States via its client state, Israel.

At the annual Israel lobby conference at the National Press Club, sponsored by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and Institute for Research: Middle East Policy, Wilkerson explained that Israel is headed toward "a massive confrontation with the various powers arrayed against it, a confrontation that will suck America in and perhaps terminate the experiment that is Israel and do irreparable damage to the empire that America has become."

One of the principal antagonists begging for a war with Iran that Wilkerson identified was none other than Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's Russian-born Defense Minister. Wilkerson stated:

Lieberman will speak in April in New York City at the annual conference of the Jerusalem Post. The title is, 'The New War with Iran.' It is clear that he's [at] the forefront of promoting this war.

And nowhere does my concern about such a war focus more acutely at the moment than Syria. As [the] president of France Emmanuel Macron described it recently, 'The current rhetoric of the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Israel is pushing the region toward conflict with Iran.'"

Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's incessant denigrations of Iran, including claiming the greatest danger facing the Jewish state is the Islamic republic - a country he accuses of fanning the flames of anti-Semitism - Wilkerson blew these accusations out of the park using simple logic. He said:

This antisemitism bit, of course, as we've heard today, is almost always a weapon of choice for Israeli politicians under stress hurled, in this case, at the country whose Jewish population - by the way, the largest in the Middle East outside of Turkey and Israel - lives in Iran in reasonable peace."

He continued:

And don't forget that these words were uttered by the man who, as we've heard today, is doing everything he can to expel dark-skinned African refugees largely from Eritrea and Sudan from Israel, where most have come as legitimate refugees."

Wilkerson highlighted the hypocrisy of Netanyahu and his cohorts in more ways than one. For example, Wilkerson referred to Netanyahu's grandiose speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he directly challenged Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif while holding remnants of a drone allegedly downed over Israeli airspace. Israel claimed the drone was Iranian-manufactured. Wilkerson noted that in response, Iran found itself being rescued by Lebanon's Defense Minister, who said he had an Israeli drone over his head virtually 24 hours a day.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/retired-us-colonel-israel-is-dragging-the-united-states-into-world-war-iii/

https://www.mintpressnews.com/retired-us-colonel-israel-is-dragging-the-united-states-into-world-war-iii/

#4454962 at 2018-12-24 21:45:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5680: We are all Patriots. thank you from Q1296 Edition

Iran will not stand by for Europe to fulfill JCPOA commitments: FM Zarif

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Tehran will not stand by for Europeans to fulfill their commitments under a multilateral nuclear agreement signed between Iran and six major world powers in 2015, following the United States' move to pull out from the deal.

"The Europeans are acting slowly in the fulfillment of their commitments under the nuclear agreement (officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or the JCPOA)," Zarif said in an interview with Lebanon-based Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network on Monday, adding, "We will not wait around for them unless they adopt practical steps."

The top Iranian diplomat emphasized that the Islamic Republic has many option to deal with the US withdrawal from the JCPOA and would consider them based on its national interests.

US President Donald Trump withdrew his country in May from the landmark Iran nuclear deal and decided to re-impose unilateral sanctions against Tehran.

Under the deal, reached between Iran and six major powers – the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China – Tehran agreed to put limits on its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of nuclear-related sanctions.

The US administration hoped to get the other parties to the deal with Iran to likewise scrap the deal, but instead, they stressed that not only would they stick to the agreement, but they would also work to sustain it in the face of increased US pressure.

Iran and the 28-nation European Union have been discussing various ways to continue doing business with Iran and bypass US sanctions.

On September 24, Iran and its five partners released a joint statement announcing the setting up of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to facilitate continued trade with Iran, bypass the US financial system, and avoid any impact of America's secondary sanctions.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said in December 10 that the bloc will establish a mechanism to facilitate non-dollar transactions with Iran in the near future in an attempt to circumvent sanctions imposed by the United States against Tehran.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/12/24/583866/Zarif-alMayadeen-EU-JCPOA-Iran

#4404814 at 2018-12-21 05:50:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5615: Military Intelligence, No Such Agency = Key Edition

SYRIA WITHDRAWAL

WTF happened?

Trump informs Netanyahu "days prior".Monday he's out of Syria.

"I spoke with US President Donald Trump [on Monday] and yesterday with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who told me that it was the president's intention to withdraw their forces from Syria and made it clear that they had other ways to express their influence in the arena," Netanyahu said in a statement.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-gives-cautious-backing-to-us-troop-withdrawal-from-syria/

Immediately Netanyahu makes threats.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has blasted the hawkish Israeli premier for openly boasting of the regime's "offensive missiles," saying such a warmonger is in no position to voice "concerns" about Tehran's defensive missile program.

Zarif was reacting Tuesday to Benjamin Netanyahu's comments, who said a day earlier that the regime was developing missiles capable of hitting any target in the Middle East region.
https://www.presstv.com/detail/2018/12/18/583266/israel-netanyahu-missile-middle-east

Israel has bombed Syria's airport in Damacus several times recently all denied by the Assad gov. Israel has been probing the border with Syria trying to find away around the defensive systems.

Russia Syria then change the rules of engagement telling Israel if you bomb a Syrian airport we will bomb one in Israel.

"Russia has informed Israel that there are Russian officers present at every Syrian or Iranian military base and that any strike against Syrian or Iranian objectives would hit Russian forces as well. Putin will not allow his soldiers and officers to be struck down by Israel's direct or indirect bombing".

Moreover, Russia has given Syria the green light - said the source - to strike Israel at any time if and when Tel Aviv's planes launch raids against Syrian military targets or launch long-range missiles without flying over Syria (for fear of the S-300 and to avoid seeing its jets downed over Syria or Lebanon).
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-15/russias-new-rules-engagement-syria

Trump withdraws from Syria and this one move has had the immediate effect of separating who is with Trump and who is against. Countless attacks by MSM and Those on the Hill.

Netanyahu then says Israel will defend itself.

"We will study its timetable, how it will be implemented and - of course - its implications for us. In any case we will take care to maintain the security of Israel and to defend ourselves in this area," Netanyahu said in an English language statement released by his office.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/benjamin-netanyahu-vows-israel-will-defend-itself-after-us-syria-withdrawal

Now the reality is Israel is cornered, Russia has an armada in the Gulf of 15 battleships, it has the S-300 in Syria but many forget the Khmeimim Russian base in Syria has the S-400 operable and it has been for quite sometime.

Make your own conclusions but the facts point in a clear direction.

#4399944 at 2018-12-21 01:07:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5608: Awareness of the Truth Edition

SYRIA WITHDRAWAL

WTF happened?

Trump informs Netanyahu "days prior".Monday he's out of Syria.

"I spoke with US President Donald Trump [on Monday] and yesterday with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who told me that it was the president's intention to withdraw their forces from Syria and made it clear that they had other ways to express their influence in the arena," Netanyahu said in a statement.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-gives-cautious-backing-to-us-troop-withdrawal-from-syria/

Immediately Netanyahu makes threats.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has blasted the hawkish Israeli premier for openly boasting of the regime's "offensive missiles," saying such a warmonger is in no position to voice "concerns" about Tehran's defensive missile program.

Zarif was reacting Tuesday to Benjamin Netanyahu's comments, who said a day earlier that the regime was developing missiles capable of hitting any target in the Middle East region.

https://www.presstv.com/detail/2018/12/18/583266/israel-netanyahu-missile-middle-east

Israel has bombed Syria's airport in Damacus several times recently all denied by the Assad gov. Israel has been probing the border with Syria trying to find away around the defensive systems.

Russia Syria then change the rules of engagement telling Israel if you bomb a Syrian airport we will bomb one in Israel.

"Russia has informed Israel that there are Russian officers present at every Syrian or Iranian military base and that any strike against Syrian or Iranian objectives would hit Russian forces as well. Putin will not allow his soldiers and officers to be struck down by Israel's direct or indirect bombing".

Moreover, Russia has given Syria the green light - said the source - to strike Israel at any time if and when Tel Aviv's planes launch raids against Syrian military targets or launch long-range missiles without flying over Syria (for fear of the S-300 and to avoid seeing its jets downed over Syria or Lebanon).

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-15/russias-new-rules-engagement-syria

Trump withdraws from Syria and this one move has had the immediate effect of separating who is with Trump and who is against. Countless attacks by MSM and Those on the Hill.

Netanyahu then says Israel will defend itself.

"We will study its timetable, how it will be implemented and - of course - its implications for us. In any case we will take care to maintain the security of Israel and to defend ourselves in this area," Netanyahu said in an English language statement released by his office.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/benjamin-netanyahu-vows-israel-will-defend-itself-after-us-syria-withdrawal

Now the reality is Israel is cornered, Russia has an armada in the Gulf of 15 battleships, it has the S-300 in Syria but many forget the Khmeimim Russian base in Syria has the S-400 operable and it has been for quite sometime.

Make your own conclusions but the facts point in a clear direction.

#4393047 at 2018-12-20 18:12:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5600: You Have The Keystone Edition

>>4392946 as requested

SYRIA WITHDRAWAL

WTF happened?

Trump informs Netanyahu "days prior".Monday he's out of Syria.

"I spoke with US President Donald Trump [on Monday] and yesterday with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who told me that it was the president's intention to withdraw their forces from Syria and made it clear that they had other ways to express their influence in the arena," Netanyahu said in a statement.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-gives-cautious-backing-to-us-troop-withdrawal-from-syria/

Immediately Netanyahu makes threats.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has blasted the hawkish Israeli premier for openly boasting of the regime's "offensive missiles," saying such a warmonger is in no position to voice "concerns" about Tehran's defensive missile program.

Zarif was reacting Tuesday to Benjamin Netanyahu's comments, who said a day earlier that the regime was developing missiles capable of hitting any target in the Middle East region.

https://www.presstv.com/detail/2018/12/18/583266/israel-netanyahu-missile-middle-east

Israel has bombed Syria's airport in Damacus several times recently all denied by the Assad gov. Israel has been probing the border with Syria trying to find away around the defensive systems.

Russia Syria then change the rules of engagement telling Israel if you bomb a Syrian airport we will bomb one in Israel.

"Russia has informed Israel that there are Russian officers present at every Syrian or Iranian military base and that any strike against Syrian or Iranian objectives would hit Russian forces as well. Putin will not allow his soldiers and officers to be struck down by Israel's direct or indirect bombing".

Moreover, Russia has given Syria the green light - said the source - to strike Israel at any time if and when Tel Aviv's planes launch raids against Syrian military targets or launch long-range missiles without flying over Syria (for fear of the S-300 and to avoid seeing its jets downed over Syria or Lebanon).

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-15/russias-new-rules-engagement-syria

Trump withdraws from Syria and this one move has had the immediate effect of separating who is with Trump and who is against. Countless attacks by MSM and Those on the Hill.

Netanyahu then says Israel will defend itself.

"We will study its timetable, how it will be implemented and - of course - its implications for us. In any case we will take care to maintain the security of Israel and to defend ourselves in this area," Netanyahu said in an English language statement released by his office.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/benjamin-netanyahu-vows-israel-will-defend-itself-after-us-syria-withdrawal

Now the reality is Israel is cornered, Russia has an armada in the Gulf of 15 battleships, it has the S-300 in Syria but many forget the Khmeimim Russian base in Syria has the S-400 operable and it has been for quite sometime.

Make your own conclusions but the facts point in a clear direction.

#4392521 at 2018-12-20 17:48:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5599: Progressive War Hawk Edition

SYRIA WITHDRAWAL

WTF happened?

Trump informs Netanyahu "days prior".Monday he's out of Syria.

"I spoke with US President Donald Trump [on Monday] and yesterday with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who told me that it was the president's intention to withdraw their forces from Syria and made it clear that they had other ways to express their influence in the arena," Netanyahu said in a statement.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-gives-cautious-backing-to-us-troop-withdrawal-from-syria/

Immediately Netanyahu makes threats.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has blasted the hawkish Israeli premier for openly boasting of the regime's "offensive missiles," saying such a warmonger is in no position to voice "concerns" about Tehran's defensive missile program.
Zarif was reacting Tuesday to Benjamin Netanyahu's comments, who said a day earlier that the regime was developing missiles capable of hitting any target in the Middle East region.
https://www.presstv.com/detail/2018/12/18/583266/israel-netanyahu-missile-middle-east

Israel has bombed Syria's airport in Damacus several times recently all denied by the Assad gov. Israel has been probing the border with Syria trying to find away around the defensive systems.
Russia Syria then change the rules of engagement telling Israel if you bomb a Syrian airport we will bomb one in Israel.

"Russia has informed Israel that there are Russian officers present at every Syrian or Iranian military base and that any strike against Syrian or Iranian objectives would hit Russian forces as well. Putin will not allow his soldiers and officers to be struck down by Israel's direct or indirect bombing".
Moreover, Russia has given Syria the green light - said the source - to strike Israel at any time if and when Tel Aviv's planes launch raids against Syrian military targets or launch long-range missiles without flying over Syria (for fear of the S-300 and to avoid seeing its jets downed over Syria or Lebanon).
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-15/russias-new-rules-engagement-syria

Trump withdraws from Syria and this one move has had the immediate effect of separating who is with Trump and who is against. Countless attacks by MSM and Those on the Hill.

Netanyahu then says Israel will defend itself.
"We will study its timetable, how it will be implemented and - of course - its implications for us. In any case we will take care to maintain the security of Israel and to defend ourselves in this area," Netanyahu said in an English language statement released by his office.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/benjamin-netanyahu-vows-israel-will-defend-itself-after-us-syria-withdrawal

Now the reality is Israel is cornered, Russia has an armada in the Gulf of 15 battleships, it has the S-300 in Syria but many forget the Khmeimim Russian base in Syria has the S-400 operable and it has been for quite sometime.

Make your own conclusions but the facts point in a clear direction.

#4337281 at 2018-12-16 20:37:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5527: Arlington National Cemetary Edition

Global Cooperation 'Under Fire' Due to Lack of Trust - UN Secretary-General

The world is facing unprecedented challenges which cannot be solved by a single state on its own, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, drawing special attention to the problem of trust lacking between people and authorities, as well as states on the global stage.

"The international cooperation is under fire. This is the ultimate paradox of today's world... I believe that behind this paradox there is a huge deficit of trust... Our world is suffering from the bad case of trust deficit disorder. It is a deficit at many levels: trust between people and political institutions, trust among countries, trust in international organizations, namely the United Nations itself," the UN Secretary-General Guterres said on Sunday during the keynote address at the Doha Forum adding that many attempted to benefit from that problem.

He also stressed that the world needed global responses to global challenges more than ever, and the problems couldn't be tackled by a single country independently.

"We face enormous challenges that cannot be solved by any country on its own. Climate change, the defining challenge of our time, migration and refugees, people on the move everywhere, the multiplication of conflicts that are increasingly interlinked and which itself is linked to newer threats of global terrorism and international criminality," Guterres said on the sidelines of the forum.

In addition, the top UN official stressed that the multilateralism and multipolar society alone did not guarantee peace in the world.

"Europe was multipolar 100 years ago. But the frameworks for international cooperation and problem-solving were not there. There were no multilateral institutions in Europe of the pre-WWI and the result was a catastrophic WWI," Guterres indicated.

The UN secretary-general laid special emphasis on preventative measures stating that, given the number of global problems jeopardizing the world's peace and security architecture, the "capacity to prevent" was more important than ever.

The two-day Doha Forum - a global platform for dialogue that brings together leaders in policy from around the world - concluded in the Qatari capital earlier on Sunday. A number of world's prominent politicians and ministers, including Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Kono and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu took part in the event.

https://sputniknews.com/world/201812161070740328-blobal-cooperation-lack-of-trust/

#4325459 at 2018-12-15 21:26:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5512: Majestic Loud and Clear Edition

Iran says missile program defensive, not up for negotiations

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the country's missile program is solely for defensive purposes and is not up for negotiations.

"First of all, Iran's missiles are for defense and we need them for deterrence. We use resources for military expenses far less than any country in the region and that's why we have announced from the very beginning that our missiles are non-negotiable," Zarif said in an interview with the Doha-based Al Jazeera broadcaster on Saturday.

Zarif, who is in Qatar to attend the Doha Forum 2018, made the remarks in response to a question about US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's allegation in a post on his Twitter account on December 1, who claimed that Iran had "just test-fired a medium range ballistic missile" in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231.

Pompeo condemned as "growing" Tehran's "missile testing and missile proliferation," and called on the Islamic Republic to cease these activities.

UN Security Council Resolution 2231 enshrined the 2015 international nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), from which Washington has withdrawn under the pretext, among others, that it should have included Iran's missile program as well.

Under the deal, reached between Iran and six major powers – the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, Tehran agreed to put limits on its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of nuclear-related sanctions.

The Iranian foreign minister rejected the US claims against Tehran and said Washington had explicitly violated Resolution 2231 by pulling out from the JCPOA and was "not in a position to speak about that resolution."

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/12/15/583006/Zarif-missiles-Resolution-2231-Doha-Al-Jazeera-Abdullah-bin-Nasser-bin-Khalifa-Al-Thani

#4183158 at 2018-12-06 19:16:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5327: Logical Thinking Edition

Number of Victims in Car Bomb Blast in Iran Rises to 42 - Reports

The number of those injured in the Thursday morning car bomb blast in southeastern Iran has risen to 42 people, while two others were killed, Isna reported.

An attacker exploded the bomb outside police headquarters in the port city of Chabahar, located in Sistan and Baluchestan province on the border with Pakistan.

The blast injured ten officers and 32 civilians, according to a senior health official quoted by the Iranian news agency Isna. He said many of those wounded had soon been discharged.

According to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, crimes perpetrated by what he called "foreign-backed terrorists" would not go unpunished.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201812061070459024-iran-car-bomb-victims/

#4133587 at 2018-12-03 21:18:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5262: "..yes, the country has to know the TRUTH..." Edition

Halting arms exports to aggressors facilitates Yemen peace: Iran

Iran's Foreign Ministry says halting arms exports to parties involved in the aggression against Yemen will facilitate the achievement of peace in the war-torn country as belligerent sides are heading for renewed UN-brokered peace talks in Sweden.

In a statement on Monday, the ministry offered its support for the forthcoming Yemen peace talks while urging the international community to play a "key and serious" role, including by exerting pressure on the exporters of arms to the aggressors in order to "facilitate the peace process in Yemen."

Reiterating that the Yemeni people must be allowed to decide their country's fate free from the outsiders' interference, the statement said, "There is no way out of the Yemen crisis other than a political solution based on Yemeni-Yemeni talks."

Iran's Foreign Ministry called on all Yemeni sides to have "constructive and responsible" participation in the peace talks with the goal of putting an end to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

It also urged "all the Yemeni sides to take trust-building measures, preparing the ground for achieving a comprehensive agreement to put an end to the suffering of Yemenis and the brutal blockage imposed on them."

The statement pointed to the Islamic Republic's comprehensive four-point peace plan presented at the onset of the brutal aggression on Yemen to resolve the crisis, noting that the four-point plan included an immediate cessation of war, delivery of humanitarian aid, beginning of Yemeni-Yemeni talks, and the establishment of an all-inclusive government in Yemen.

In April 2015, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif submitted a letter on a four-point peace plan for Yemen to the United Nations in an attempt to end the bloodshed in the Arab country.

In a post on his official Twitter account on Friday, Zarif once again assessed the viability of putting an end to the ongoing Saudi-led crisis in Yemen only through the Islamic Republic's four-point plan.

#4129547 at 2018-12-03 16:56:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5257: Open Your Heart And Your Mind Edition

'Surrealism': Iran blasts US claim its missile test violated UN resolution on nuclear deal

Top US and UK officials have accused Tehran of violating a UN Security Council resolution which endorsed an international nuclear deal. Iran hit back, saying the accusation from deal-breaking Washington was surreal.

On Saturday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that the Iranian military has tested an intermediate-range ballistic missile which "has the ability to hit parts of Europe and any location in the Middle East". That, according to Pompeo violates UN Security Council Resolution 2231 which calls on Iran not to undertake any activity related to "ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons" as part of endorsing a nuclear deal with Tehran.

Firing back, the Iranian military said all their missile tests are meant to boost national defense by deterring potential attackers. Yet, they also neither confirmed, nor denied the test. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif doubled down on that. He called Washington's claim "surrealism" and "hypocrisy", considering how it itself has violated it by withdrawing from the nuclear deal.

https://www.rt.com/news/445450-iran-surrealism-us-claim/

#3997839 at 2018-11-22 20:54:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5086: Turkey and Dressing Edition

What you won't hear from US govt: Iran is open to working with Saudi Arabia

Washington's rhetoric regarding Iran paints the picture of an evil nation hellbent on destroying the world. In reality, it appears that Tehran would prefer dialogue with its rivals, which is unacceptable to the US.

Tuesday's White House Statement from President Trump on "Standing with Saudi Arabia" was an outright condemnation of Iran and a total free pass for Saudi Arabia.

Iran is to blame for almost every issue in the Middle East, including the war in Yemen, according to the statement. The US-made and supplied bombs raining down on Yemeni school buses, with some 85,000 children dying in the process, is simply because of Iran. Not only is Iran responsible for the bloodshed in Yemen, Tehran has further helped "dictator Bashar Assad" in Syria kill "millions of his own citizens." The official death toll of the Syrian war is under one million, and certainly the various jihadist groups, including Islamic State (IS), share responsibility for that figure.

"The Iranians" have also killed many Americans and other innocent people throughout the Middle East. Iran not only shouts "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" but it is also considered "the world's leading sponsor of terror."

It is curious enough that firstly, in a statement about Saudi Arabia, the term "world's leading sponsor of terror" is not gifted to the prime sponsors of Al-Qaeda and IS. Secondly, the fact that Trump himself put that term in inverted commas seems to suggest that even he doesn't quite believe that one to be true.

Remember, Saudi Arabia is the country that Trump, before becoming president, once accused of masterminding the 9/11 attacks. I wasn't aware of this until reading the statement, but according to the White House, Saudi Arabia would gladly withdraw from Yemen if the Iranians would agree to leave. That's right, Iran's non-presence in Yemen must be removed in order for Saudi Arabia to cease blowing up children, hospitals, factories, food trucks, schools, agricultural land, strategic ports, and relinquish its complete stranglehold over the country.

If you were naive enough to take the White House statement at face value, you would surely think that Iran has much to answer for. Iran is, after all, public enemy number one and has been for some time. Conversely, Saudi Arabia has been a longstanding ally of the United States, a faithfully serving client state, and it should be protected at all costs especially if there is to be any hope at pushing back against Iran as it yells "Death to America" and "Death to Israel."

But what if Iran was, despite all of its flaws, not interested in fighting a war with Saudi Arabia? What if we dug a little bit deeper and asked ourselves: is there another way of dealing with the "threat" that Iran poses?

In January this year, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote an article that was published in the Financial Times which laid out the country's proposed framework for bringing stability to the Middle East. The article was widely ignored by the rest of the world, even though its implications were potentially life-saving.

"The objective of a strong region - as opposed to a quest for hegemony and the exclusion of other actors - is rooted in recognising the need to respect the interest of all stakeholders," Zarif wrote. "Any domineering effort by one country is not only inappropriate but essentially impossible: those who insist on following that path create instability. The arms race in our region is an instance of this kind of destructive rivalry: siphoning vital resources into the coffers of arms manufacturers has contributed nothing to achieving peace and security. Militarism has only served to fuel disastrous adventurism."

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/444662-iran-open-saudi-arabia/

#3996868 at 2018-11-22 18:48:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5085: Pumpkin Spice Ebake Edition

Iranian, Italian top diplomat discuss European payment mechanism in Rome

Iran and Italy have discussed the Special Vehicle Purpose (SPV), a payment mechanism being devised by Europe to facilitate trade with Iran in the face of US sanctions.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met his Italian counterpart Moavero Milanesi in Rome Thursday to review measures taken by the Europeans to protect the 2015 nuclear deal after the US withdrawal.

"The US has violated not only the JCPOA, but also the UN Security Council Resolution 2231 and now it is urging others to do the same and threatens to punish the countries that respect it," Zarif said, referring to the nuclear deal and the UN resolution which endorsed it.

Zarif is in the Italian capital on an official visit to attend the Mediterranean Dialogues Conference (MED).

The Italian foreign minister said the JCPOA helps promote international peace and security, stressing that Rome will make all-out efforts to help protect it along with other EU countries.

Talks between Iran and the European side come a week after the US special envoy for Iran threatened European banks and firms with fresh sanctions if they apply the SPV.

The SPV is an alternative payment mechanism that can help companies trade with Iran without facing US penalties.

Despite Washington's withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in May and re-imposition of sanctions on Tehran in November, the Europeans have reaffirmed their commitment to the JCPOA, as have Russia and China.

Iran has not left the landmark nuclear deal yet, but stressed that the remaining signatories to the agreement have to work to offset the negative impacts of the US pullout for Iran if they want Tehran to remain in it.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/11/22/580798/Iran-Italy-Europe-payment-mechanism-rome-SPV

#3906101 at 2018-11-15 00:38:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4967: Michael Avenatti Arrested Edition

secret Iranian archive seized by Israeli agents earlier this year indicates that Tehran's nuclear program was more advanced than Western intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency had thought, according to a prominent nuclear expert who examined the documents.

That conclusion in turn suggests that if Iran pulls out of the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal that U.S. President Donald Trump has already abandoned, it has the know-how to build a bomb fairly swiftly, perhaps in a matter of months, said David Albright, a physicist who runs the nonprofit Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, D.C.

Iran would still need to produce weapons-grade uranium. If it restarts its centrifuges, it could have enough in about seven to 12 months, added Albright, who is preparing reports on the archive.

Before the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal mainly negotiated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, that would have taken only two months, but under the accord Iran was required to ship about 97 percent of its nuclear fuel out of the country and dismantle most its centrifuges.

Experts say the revelation that Iran had more advanced capabilities to make nuclear weapons themselves-as opposed to its ability to produce weapons-grade fuel, the main focus of the nuclear pact-is a surprising and troubling finding in the new intelligence.

"The archive is littered with new stuff about the Iranian nuclear weapons program," Albright told Foreign Policy. "It's unbelievable how much is in there." One of his key conclusions from studying the documents was that the Iranians "were further along than Western intelligence agencies realized."

The archive, which is well over 100,000 pages long, covers the period from 1999 to 2003, a decade before negotiations on a nuclear deal began. But the trove of documents demonstrates that Washington and the IAEA were constantly underestimating how close Tehran was to a bomb.

"The U.S. was issuing statements that it would take a year at least, perhaps two years, to build a deliverable weapon. The information in the archive makes it clear they could have done it a lot quicker," said Albright. He added that the French government, which was then saying Iran could achieve a weapon in three months, was much closer in its estimates.

Analysts were still sifting through the archive, said Albright, who is also known for tracking North Korea's nuclear program and for investigating Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs going back to the 1990s. "I don't think even the Israelis have gone through it all," he said. "Every day when they go through it they see something new."

Mossad agents seized the archive in a daring nighttime raid on a warehouse in Tehran at the end of January. In late April, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed some of the content in a speech that was panned as a melodramatic attempt to prod Trump into leaving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the formal name for the Iran nuclear deal. "These files conclusively prove that Iran is brazenly lying when it said it never had a nuclear weapons program," Netanyahu said.

#3899613 at 2018-11-14 16:10:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4959: Stand The Hazard Of The Die Edition

Iran leadership also using the suicide boomerang?

Report: Iran Ready to Teach 'Chronic Sadist' John Bolton 'a Lesson'

President Donald Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton was described by an Iran foreign ministry spokesman on Wednesday as a "chronic sadist" with an anti-Iran grudge who deserves to be taught "a lesson."

Bahram Qassemi delivered his attack after Mr. Bolton said the U.S. will "squeeze" Iran "until the pips squeak" through the tough new round of trade sanctions now in force.

"We think the government is under real pressure and it's our intention to squeeze them very hard," Mr. Bolton said. "As the British say, squeeze them until the pips squeak.

"We are also going to significantly increase the enforcement of sanctions."

The tone and language used by Mr Bolton was decried by the Iranian representative Bahram Qassemi, reports the semi-official Iranian ISNA newsagency.

"Time, history and the Iranian culture have always been able to teach the necessary lessons to scoundrels who make excessive demands and who rave and rant, and [have been able] to easily tame insane, recalcitrant and unruly individuals," Qassemi said in a Wednesday statement.

"The cheap remarks by John Bolton, which indicate his bellicose nature and spiteful personality in dealing with Iranian people, are nothing new and remarkable," he added.

"As he has shown since long ago, he has a long-standing grudge against Iranians. He has abnormal behaviour and suffers from chronic sadism against Iran," Qassemi continued, before decrying the "undiplomatic" language used by Mr. Bolton.

Qassemi delivered a thinly-veiled threat that Iran fully intends to push back and that Mr. Bolton, "will certainly find the chance to understand the capability, vigilance and prudence of the Iranian nation and to get familiar with their history and culture."

This is not the first time the Iranian regime has personally attacked Mr. Bolton.

In April, Iran's top security official Ali Shamkhani, said it was "shameful" that the United States, which he described as a "seemingly superpower country," had appointed a national security adviser who received "a salary from a terrorist sect," referring to Mr. Bolton.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in July also accused him of being affiliated with terrorists, referring to the exiled Mujaheddin-e-Khalq (MEK) Iranian opposition group.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2018/11/14/report-iran-ready-to-teach-chronic-sadist-john-bolton-a-lesson/

#3849654 at 2018-11-11 14:50:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research #4894: Snowy & Shilly Edition

http://www.irna.ir/en/News/83095771
Tehran, Nov 11, IRNA - Former German Minister for Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel on Sunday met Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
I guess Kerry got told to knock it off, so he sent a friend.

https://www.americanprogressaction.org/events/2009/04/29/16772/a-transatlantic-dialogue-on-the-green-new-deal-with-john-kerry-and-sigmar-gabriel/
Senior Fellow Andrew Light, the principle organizer of the program remarked, "It was very encouraging to see Senator Kerry and Minister Gabriel pulling on the same rope on this cluster of important issues.

http://en.mercopress.com/2016/08/29/germany-admits-us-europe-trade-talks-have-failed-growing-fears-of-populism-reactions
"It's our job to make sure that we adequately inform people about the facts of how TTIP will actually work for the people of Europe," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said at a press conference in Brussels last month.

#3731436 at 2018-11-04 22:02:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4739: On The Move Edition

'Watch what we do': Mike Pompeo puts Russia, China on notice over Iran

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday issued a thinly veiled warning to Russia and China putting both countries on notice that it will suffer the consequences if they continue to purchase Iranian oil after U.S. economic sanctions on such exports snap back this week. Washington's top diplomat refused to comment on what specific actions the Trump administration may take against Moscow and Beijing, should both countries decide to continue to do business with Tehran. "Watch what we do" on China and Russia, Mr. Pompeo said during an interview on Fox News Sunday. "Watch the Iranians. That is who really understands the actions we are taking," he added. His comments come a day after Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Moscow would continue to buy Iranian oil, even after U.S. sanctions go back into place on Monday. "We believe we should look for mechanisms that would allow us to continue developing cooperation with our partners, with Iran," Mr. Novak said in an interview with the Financial Times. "We already live in the condition of sanctions. We do not recognize the sanctions introduced unilaterally without the United Nations, we consider those methods illegal per se," he said.

The Trump administration has worked to crush Tehran's oil exports to zero since May, when Mr. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the multilateral deal endorsed by the Obama administration that eased global sanctions in exchange for curbs on Iran's suspect nuclear programs. The move incensed U.S. allies in western Europe, who had begun to make significant investments in Iran, as a result of the Obama-era nuclear pact, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPoA. High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, along with German Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström and Danish Foreign Affairs Ministe Anders Samuelsen held a conference call with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Saturday, to discuss the blowback to the European Union as a result of the reimposition of U.S. sanctions.

"[Ms]. Mogherini and the European ministers once again reiterated their commitment to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and emphasized the efforts to maintain financial channels with Tehran and the continuation of Iran's oil and gas exports," according to reports by Iranian state-run news outlet IRNA. Aside from economic opportunities, Trump White House critics claim Washington's exit from the Iran nuclear deal and the renewal of sanctions would reignite Tehran's nuclear ambitions. On Sunday, Mr. Pompeo affirmed the international community's backing of Mr. Trump's efforts against Iran. "The whole world understands these sanctions are real," he said during an interview of CBS's Face the Nation. When asked whether the administration's efforts would push Iran closer to a nuclear bomb, he replied: "We are confident that will not happen."

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/4/mike-pompeo-warns-russia-china-over-iran-sanctions/

#3693796 at 2018-11-02 02:14:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4690: We Are Talking Directly To This Board Edition

Mossad Assisted Denmark In Thwarting Terror Plot; Iran Slams Allegation As "False Flag"

Mossad has claimed responsibility for tipping off Danish authorities after they thwarted an alleged terror plot by Tehran to assassinate three opposition figures living in Denmark, according to a senior Israeli intelligence official quoted in the Times of Israel.

This comes days after it was revealed this week that a Norwegian citizen of Iranian background was arrested in Sweden on Oct. 21 in connection with the plot and extradited to Denmark. The head of Danish intelligence announced on Tuesday that the assassination was meant to target the leader of the Danish branch of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (ASMLA) which seeks a separate state for ethnic Arabs in Iran's oil-producing southwestern province of Khuzestan.

Israeli officials now say European authorities were tipped off by its elite foreign intelligence service, according to the Times of Israel report: The information about Israel's involvement in the thwarting of the plot was first released to a small number of journalists by a "senior official," but was later confirmed by others. According to Israel, the Mossad gave Denmark the information about the Iranian plot to kill three Iranians suspected of belonging to the anti-regime Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz.

The suspect in custody has denied the charges, which have also been slammed by Tehran as a "false flag attempt" to frame Iran and further tarnish its reputation and global standing. Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif issued the following statement via Twitter on Wednesday: "Mossad's perverse & stubborn planting of false flags (more on this later) only strengthens our resolve to engage constructively with the world," he wrote. Though neither Denmark nor Sweden where the suspect was apprehended would confirm whether they had assistance from Mossad, Danish intelligence chief Finn Borch Andersen said at a press conference, "We are dealing with an Iranian intelligence agency planning an attack on Danish soil," and said further, "Obviously, we can't and won't accept that." However, Iranian FM Zarif followed his tweet alleging a Mossad orchestrated false flag with a chronology of events he said suggests a "Mossad program to kill the JCPOA":

Incredible series of coincidences. Or, a simple chronology of a MOSSAD program to kill the JCPOA? pic.twitter.com/Xg5e0C5DAA - Javad Zarif (@JZarif) November 1, 2018

During another press conference by European authorities involving Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen, he said that Denmark believes the Iranian government was behind the attempted attack, and that the Danish ambassador has been recalled from Iran. Samuelsen also said that Denmark will push for EU-wide sanctions against Iran in light of the attempted assassination. During the conference, Samuelsen also said evidence presented to him by Danish intelligence leaves "no doubt" Iran's government was behind the plan, and said that behavior by Iranian intelligence was not restricted to Denmark, causing alarm across several European nations. At the same time, Samuelsen said that Denmark doesn't want the EU to withdraw from nuclear deal, a pact which is "in our best interests" and yet it wasn't clear how it could co-exist with a new round of EU sanctions against Tehran.

Meanwhile these latest accusations of Iranian assassination plots in Europe follow prior revelations of a separate suspected Iranian plot to target a Paris rally by an opposition group in June, which led to the arrest of a number of Iranians in Europe over the summer. President Trump had referenced the summer incident and others to bolster his case that European countries should follow Washington's lead in pulling out of the 2015 nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions, most of which are set to kick back into effect next week, on November 5th.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-01/mossad-assisted-danes-thwarting-european-terror-plot-iran-slams-allegation-false

#3688251 at 2018-11-01 18:39:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4683: Oprah Big Pimpin' Edition

>>3688224

Mossad false flags only encourage Iran to boost ties with world: Zarif

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Israeli spy agency's "false flags" will fail to hurt Tehran's ties with the world, apparently referring to Mossad's role in a diplomatic row between Iran and Denmark.

In a tweet from Pakistan on Wednesday, Zarif said, "Mossad's perverse & stubborn planting of false flags (more on this later) only strengthens our resolve to engage constructively with the world."

The top Iranian diplomat – who was in Islamabad following his trilateral talks in Istanbul with his Azeri and Turkish opposite numbers – further praised Iran's "solid relations" with its neighbors.

"Solid relations w/neighbors our priority," Zarif said in the tweet, which also carried photos of his meetings in Turkey and Pakistan.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/11/01/578693/Iran-Mossad-Denmark

#3394703 at 2018-10-08 16:46:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4302: Make Liberals Cry Again Edition

Iran's parliament passes bill against funding terrorism
The Iranian parliament has approved a bill aimed at bringing Iran's laws in line with international standards and allowing the country to join the UN convention against the funding of terrorism, or CFT.

A total of 143 lawmakers on October 7 voted in favor of the bill, 120 voted against, and five abstained, local media reported.

The legislation still has to be approved by a top clerical body, the Guardians Council, before it becomes law.

"Neither I nor the president can guarantee that all problems will go away if we join" the CFT convention, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said during the parliamentary debate.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2018/10/irans-parliament-passes-bill-against-funding-terrorism/

#3380895 at 2018-10-07 15:51:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4284: /Ourfag/ LG Got Swag Edition

Iran's Parliament Passes Bill Against Funding Terrorism

The Iranian parliament has approved a bill aimed at bringing Iran's laws in line with international standards and allowing the country to join the UN convention against the funding of terrorism, or CFT.

A total of 143 lawmakers on October 7 voted in favor of the bill, 120 voted against, and five abstained, local media reported.

The legislation still has to be approved by a top clerical body, the Guardians Council, before it becomes law.

"Neither I nor the president can guarantee that all problems will go away if we join" the CFT convention, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said during the parliamentary debate.

"But I guarantee that not joining will provide the U.S. with more excuses to increase our problems," Zarif added.

Hard-liners in parliament have opposed legislation aimed at moving toward compliance with standards set by the international Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-s-parliament-passes-bill-against-funding-terrorism/29530061.html

#3334638 at 2018-10-04 22:14:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4225: Swamp Fighting Back Edition

Iranian FM Zarif to Saudi Arabia: Trump 'Humiliates' You, But We Extend Our Hand

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran is willing to cooperate with Saudi Arabia in order to build a strong Middle East after US President Donald Trump said the Saudi king wouldn't stay in power for two weeks without US support.

Zarif called Trump's words about the importance of the US support for Saudi "humiliating" in a Thursday Twitter post and said that national security cannot be outsourced. "We again extend our hand to our neighbors: let's build a 'strong region', and stop this conceit," Zarif tweeted.

Zarif's comment came after the US president said during a rally in Southaven, Mississippi, that Saudi Arabia's King Salman wouldn't stay in power "for two weeks" without the US and that the kingdom needs to shell out more for US protection.

"We protect Saudi Arabia ... And I love the king, King Salman. But I said, 'King, we're protecting you. You might not be there for two weeks without us; you have to pay for your military,'" Trump said to his supporters, reported Reuters. The US president didn't specify when exactly he said this to the Saudi king.

"I said, king, you have got trillions of dollars. Without us, who knows what's going to happen? [...] With us they are totally safe. But we don't get what we should be getting," he added, cited by PressTV.

Trump's remarks about Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter and one of the leading OPEC countries, followed his criticism of OPEC member states in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September. The US president blamed OPEC for high oil prices.

"We defend many of these nations for nothing, and then they take advantage of us by giving us high oil prices. Not good. We want them to stop raising prices; we want them to start lowering prices," Trump said.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201810051068608364-Zarif-saudi-trump-humiliates-extend-hand/

#3224134 at 2018-09-28 03:28:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4082 #WALKAWAY Edition

Iran Dismisses Netanyahu's UN Remarks on Secret Nuclear Facility

"The world will laugh at Netanyahu's speech," an Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson said, commenting on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claims about Iran having a secret nuclear facility.

Iran dismissed Netanyahu's remarks, which he made during his speech at the UN General Assembly Thursday, according to a report by New York Times.

In his speech, the Israeli prime minister claimed that Iran had a secret facility in Tehran, which it used to store large amounts of equipment and material for a secret nuclear weapons program.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi dismissed the claims, according to a report by Reuters. "The world will only laugh loudly at this type of false, meaningless and unnecessary speech," he said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif similarly dismissed Netanyahu's claims, calling them "an arts and crafts show."

"No arts and craft show will ever obfuscate that Israel is only regime in our region with a secret and undeclared nuclear weapons program - including an *actual atomic arsenal*," he wrote on Twitter.

"Time for Israel to fess up and open its illegal nuclear weapons program to international inspectors," he added.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201809281068407553-iran-dismisses-israeli-nuclear-claims/

#3194011 at 2018-09-26 17:35:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4043: Clowns in the Woodwork Edition

Labour Leader Corbyn Follows Macron, Attacks Trump for Pulling out of Iran and Climate Change Deals

The far-left leader of the UK Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has attacked U.S. President Donald Trump for withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement and the Iran nuclear deal.

Speaking at a party conference in Liverpool, England, on Wednesday, socialist Jeremy Corbyn criticised President Trump for withdrawing from schemes that the U.S. leader believes conflict with his America First agenda or that fail to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

"When President Trump takes the U.S. out of the Paris accords, tries to scrap the Iran nuclear deal, moves the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and pursues aggressive nationalism and trade wars, he is turning his back on international cooperation and even international law," said the pro-Palestinian campaigner who had referred to terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah as "friends" and had appeared on Iranian state television channel Press TV multiple times.

President Trump pulled out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in May, calling it at the time "defective" and a "decaying and rotten structure", citing the Islamic theocratic regime's influence in the Middle East and its support for terror groups like Hezbollah.

The next round of sanctions against Iran are set to go into effect in November; the European Union, however, announced it plans to build a "legal framework" to preserve business with Tehran and bypass those sanctions.

The bloc's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini revealed the plan on Monday, while standing alongside Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, leaving U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "disturbed and indeed deeply disappointed" by the announcement.

Corbyn then took aim at President Trump's "America First posturing... and his decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accords", saying: "We only have one planet, so we must re-engage with countries seeking to walk away from Paris."

Amidst a series of far-leftist policies Corbyn plans to adopt is a pledge to double the number of onshore wind farms and increase offshore mills by sevenfold - power sources that have been criticised as being inefficient, expensive, and a blight on the landscape.

Mr Corbyn's comments at conference follow progressive French President Emmanuel Macron's criticism of Trump at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, where the former Socialist party politician called on world leaders to "stop signing trade agreements with those who don't comply with the Paris agreement" and made his case for globalism, claiming that "nationalism always leads to defeat".

At his UN address on Tuesday, President Trump struck a different tone, in defence of national patriotism, saying: "We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism."

https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/26/socialist-uk-labour-party-leader-attacks-trump-climate-change-iran-deal/

#3142422 at 2018-09-22 21:24:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3977 The Fight Goes On Anon Anon Anon Edition

Tehran has summoned the envoys of three European countries and is accusing them of harboring opposition groups, after an attack at a military parade in the city of Ahvaz claimed over 20 lives and left dozens injured.

"It is not acceptable that these groups are not listed as terrorist organizations by the European Union as long as they have not carried out a terrorist attack in Europe," Bahram Qasemi, Foreign Ministry spokesman, said, as cited by IRNA news agency.
Up to 25 were people killed and more than 50 others injured as gunmen fired indiscriminately at the crowd during a military parade in the southwestern city of Ahvaz.
The attack has been claimed by the 'Patriotic Arab Democratic Movement in Ahwaz' separatist group, which Tehran says is supported by Saudi Arabia.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the country held "regional terror sponsors and their US masters accountable for such attack[s]." Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei later also linked the Ahvaz shooting to the US allies in the region.

https://www.rt.com/news/439139-iran-summons-envoys-uk-denmark-netherlands/

Bad actors in panic ? FF?

#3142360 at 2018-09-22 21:17:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3976 Deadline Schmedline Edition

>>3142334
Tehran has summoned the envoys of three European countries and is accusing them of harboring opposition groups, after an attack at a military parade in the city of Ahvaz claimed over 20 lives and left dozens injured.

"It is not acceptable that these groups are not listed as terrorist organizations by the European Union as long as they have not carried out a terrorist attack in Europe," Bahram Qasemi, Foreign Ministry spokesman, said, as cited by IRNA news agency.
Up to 25 were people killed and more than 50 others injured as gunmen fired indiscriminately at the crowd during a military parade in the southwestern city of Ahvaz.
The attack has been claimed by the 'Patriotic Arab Democratic Movement in Ahwaz' separatist group, which Tehran says is supported by Saudi Arabia.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the country held "regional terror sponsors and their US masters accountable for such attack[s]." Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei later also linked the Ahvaz shooting to the US allies in the region.
https://www.rt.com/news/439139-iran-summons-envoys-uk-denmark-netherlands/

#3117588 at 2018-09-21 04:34:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3945: Diggin' on 2165.png Edition

Trump May Consider Meeting Iran President at UN If Rouhani Asks, Haley Says

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump, who will chair a UN Security Council meeting next week on Iran and other nations with weapons of mass destruction (WMD), would consider accepting an Iranian invitation for a bilateral meeting with President Hassan Rouhani, US Ambassador to UN Nikki Haley said in a briefing on Thursday.

"Certainly, if Rouhani requested a meeting, that would be for the president to decide whether he wants to do that," Haley told reporters.

Haley explained that the agenda for Wednesday's meeting, which was originally intended to focus on Iran's involvement in a number of global hot spots, has since been broadened to focus on multiple WMD nations such as Iran, North Korea and Syria.

Trump will host the UN Security Council on Wednesday, during a week of meetings marking 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. The session begins on Tuesday and runs for nine days.

Previously, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that there was no point in a meeting between Hassan Rouhani and Donald Trump after the latter's decision to leave the nuclear deal with Iran, noting that it would depend on Trump whether Tehran would be ready to sign the new deal with the United States.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201809211068217716-trump-rouhani–un-meeting-possible-consideration/

#3114391 at 2018-09-21 01:38:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3940: VIP Patriot Edition

US cannot seek a new treaty with Iran when it violated the last one - Iranian FM

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has rubbished US calls for a new treaty with Tehran, and blasted the US for violating its obligations by withdrawing from the Iran deal. He said the US "only mocks calls for peace."
"US calls JCPOA 'a personal agreement between two governments', claiming it 'seeks a treaty'. Wrong. It's an int'l accord enshrined in a UN SC res. Plus, US has violated its treaty obligations too & faces 2 suits at ICJ. Apparently, US only mocks calls for peace. #HaveYouNoShame," Zarif tweeted on Thursday……….

https://www.rt.com/news/438943-iran-no-talks-with-us/

#3048632 at 2018-09-16 20:26:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3857: Memecheck Denied

Iran FM Warns of Uranium Enrichment Unless EU Props Up National Economy

The Iranian foreign minister once again called on the European Union to act to compensate Iran for its economic losses at the hands of US sanctions.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned that Tehran could move to increase uranium enrichment if the EU does not take action in regard to Washington's unilateral withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

Known as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the administration of US President Donald Trump in May ditched the treaty signed by the US, China, Iran, Russia and other EU nations and began to re-impose economic sanctions lifted earlier by the Obama administration.

"The Europeans and the other signatories must act in order to compensate for the effects of the US sanctions," Zarif told Der Spiegel on Saturday, once again reiterating Iran's position toward the unilateral action by the White House.

Zarif underscored that Iran does not seek to abandon the deal, but could resort to partial or reduced implementation of the agreement.

Iran's foreign minister rejected the possibility of direct talks with Trump unless Washington returns to the agreement.

Tehran Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, announced Tuesday that his government had notified the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of its plans to build a new facility for producing next-generation centrifuges to enrich uranium, the Washington Post reported.

Salehi pointed out that in doing so, Tehran would not be in violation of the JCPOA. According to the text of the agreement, Tehran is not prohibited from producing centrifuge parts, but cannot put them into operation until 2025. Should the nuclear deal crumble, Iran will order centrifuges to be assembled, he said.

At high enough levels of processing, enriched uranium can be used as a component for a nuclear weapon. Tehran, in repeatedly denying that the nation sought to build and stockpile nuclear weapons, has been observed to have scrupulously followed the letter of the 2015 JCPOA agreement.

The move, however, became a pretext for earlier sanctions against the country by the Trump White House.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201809161068068663-iran-uranium-enrichment-Javad-Zarif/

#3027411 at 2018-09-15 00:58:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3830: The 'Kerry Collusion' Edition

Pompeo slams Kerry for 'inappropriate' meetings with Iran officials

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday lambasted his predecessor, John Kerry, for meetings with Iranian officials in back-channel talks and accused him of "actively undermining" the Trump administration's policy toward Tehran.

"What Secretary Kerry has done is unseemly and unprecedented," Pompeo told a news conference, adding that he "ought not to engage in that kind of behavior. It's inconsistent with what the foreign policy of the United States is, as directed by this president. It is beyond inappropriate."

Pompeo's sharp criticism of Kerry comes a day after President Donald Trump accused the former secretary of state of "illegal" meetings on Iran in a late-night tweet.
…

Kerry, in a radio interview with Fox News as part of a book tour, said he had met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif "three or four times" since the end of his term in January 2017. He has also accused the Trump administration of pursuing a policy of regime change in Iran.
…

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-pompeo/pompeo-slams-kerry-for-inappropriate-meetings-with-iran-officials-idUSKCN1LU2NY

#3017614 at 2018-09-14 05:24:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3818: Bream On Edition

FAMILY BUSINESS: John Kerry's Daughter Married Iranian National; Best Man Was Son Of Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs

If he weren't a corrupt bureaucrat, John Kerry would have recused himself from all negotiations with Iran and for that matter, Israel. Instead, his leadership has proven an epic disaster of foreign policy
for the United States, especially in the Middle East.
But why?
Family and personal wealth before country. That mantra has served Sec. of State John Kerry well during his decades of public service.
Kerry's daughter Vanessa is married to an Iranian national and physician. His best man at the ceremony was the son of

Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs

. Zarif was also and Kerry's chief counterpart in the nuclear deal negotiations. Cozy crew.
Look no further why Kerry hates Israel and has green lighted billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to Iran to build its nuclear arsenal. And don't forget about the millions of dollars paid to Iran in ransoms to get our American hostages back.

https://truepundit.com/family-business-john-kerrys-daughter-married-iranian-national-best-man-was-son-of-irans-minister-of-foreign-affairs/

#3010814 at 2018-09-13 21:17:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3809: While Shills Try To Discredit, Patriots Get Credit Edition

>>3010457

FAMILY BUSINESS: John Kerry's Daughter Married Iranian National; Best Man Was Son Of Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs

If he weren't a corrupt bureaucrat, John Kerry would have recused himself from all negotiations with Iran and for that matter, Israel. Instead, his leadership has proven an epic disaster of foreign policy
for the United States, especially in the Middle East.

But why?

Family and personal wealth before country. That mantra has served Sec. of State John Kerry well during his decades of public service.

Kerry's daughter Vanessa is married to an Iranian national and physician. His best man at the ceremony was the son of Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs
. Zarif was also and Kerry's chief counterpart in the nuclear deal negotiations. Cozy crew.

Look no further why Kerry hates Israel and has green lighted billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to Iran to build its nuclear arsenal. And don't forget about the millions of dollars paid to Iran in ransoms to get our American hostages back.

https://truepundit.com/family-business-john-kerrys-daughter-married-iranian-national-best-man-was-son-of-irans-minister-of-foreign-affairs/

#2978963 at 2018-09-11 20:23:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3769: Bootleg Edition

Iranian FM Blasts White House for Good Ties with Masterminds of 9/11

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lashed out at the US administration for closing its eyes on the reality that the Saudi government played the main role in the 9/11 terrorist attack and then punishing Iran which is the first enemy of terrorist groups.

"17 years after 9/11, Iran - (the) 1st Muslim nation to condemn tragedy, mourn victims and take real action against al-Qaeda and its offshoots including, the ISIS and Nusrah (Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at or the Levant Liberation Board) - has been fined $11bn and its citizens banned from US," Zarif wrote on his twitter page on Tuesday.

He referred to the friendly ties between Washington and Riyadh, and said, "All while White House auctions off foreign policy to terror sponsors (Saudi government) whose citizens perpetrated 9/11."

A large number of Western political activists, lawyers and university professors in a letter in late May dismissed allegations of Iran's involvement in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the US, stressing preparedness to testify in support of the Islamic Republic at the court.

The letter to the Iranian justice and foreign ministries was written after the Southern District Court's ruling "found the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and The Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran" liable for the deaths of more than 1,000 people as a result of the September 11 attacks. Judge George B Daniels of the Southern District Court of New York said that Iran is ordered to pay "$12,500,000 per spouse, $8,500,000 per parent, $8,500,000 per child, and $4,250,000 per sibling" to the families and estates of the deceased. Iran has dismissed the allegations and has merely two days to appeal to the court ruling.

Although the investigation of the attacks on the World Trade Center's twin towers revealed that the two airplanes were hijacked by a group consisting of Saudis, Egyptians, Lebanese and citizens of the UAE. The commission investigating the terror attack failed to find any evidence proving that Iran had helped the terror group.

http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13970620001015

#2847192 at 2018-09-02 18:20:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3599: Ezra Edition

>>2846924
PRIZE WINNER HRC?
The Chatham House Prize is an annual award presented to "the statesperson or organisation deemed by Chatham House members to have made the most significant contribution to the improvement of international relations in the previous year".[40]

List of winners
Year Name Country
2005 President Viktor Yushchenko[40] Ukraine
2006 President Joaquim Chissano[40] Mozambique
2007 Sheikha Mozah Al Missned[40] Qatar
2008 President John Kufuor[40] Ghana
2009 President Lula da Silva[41] Brazil
2010 President Abdullah Gül[42] Turkey
2011 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi[43] Myanmar
2012 President Moncef Marzouki and Rached Ghannouchi[40] Tunisia
2013 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton[44] United States
2014 Co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation Melinda French Gates[45] United States
2015 Médecins Sans Frontières [46] Switzerland
2016 Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif[47] Iran
Secretary of State John Kerry[47] United States
2017 President Juan Manuel Santos[48] Colombia

#2800863 at 2018-08-30 18:19:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3539: Reconcile Edition

Zarif slams Netanyahu for 'shameless' threat of 'nuclear annihilation' against Iran

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has fired back at "warmonger" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for threatening Iran with "atomic annihilation" right from the regime's secretive atomic weapons facility.

Speaking during a ceremony at the Dimona nuclear arms facility in the Negev desert on Wednesday, Netanyahu had claimed that the occupying entity faces threats from near and far.

"Those who threaten to wipe us out put themselves in a similar danger, and in any event will not achieve their goal," he said. "But our enemies know very well what Israel is capable of doing. They are familiar with our policy. Whoever tries to hurt us - we hurt them," said Netanyahu.

Hours later, Zarif took to Twitter to respond to the hawkish Israeli premier's highly aggressive threat, which came on the same day that the world nations were observing the International Day against Nuclear Tests.

"Iran, a country without nuclear weapons, is threatened with atomic annihilation by a warmonger standing next to an actual nuclear weapons factory," tweeted the top Iranian diplomat, describing Netanyahu's statements as "beyond shameless."

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/08/30/572643/Iran-Israel-nuclear

#2742028 at 2018-08-26 13:02:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3463: Ebake

AMERICA IS WAGING 'PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR' AGAINST IRAN - FOREIGN MINISTER

GENEVA - America is waging a psychological war against Iran and its business partners, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday, according to the Tasnim news agency.

"[America's] focus is on a psychological war against Iran and its business partners," Zarif said.

President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers in May and is reimposing sanctions on Tehran. Other parties to the accord are trying to find ways to save the agreement.

Trump's decision to withdraw from the accord has hurt the United States, Zarif said, according to the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA).

https://jpost.com/Breaking-News/America-is-waging-psychological-war-against-Iran-foreign-minister-565795/

#2672912 at 2018-08-20 02:09:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3374 Rand Paul added edition

Zarif keeping Rouhani and Trump apart - again

Iran Sees No Point to Rouhani-Trump Summit After US Withdrawal From JCPOA

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that he saw no point in a meeting between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his US counterpart Donald Trump after the latter's decision to leave the Iranian nuclear deal.

"Not, when the previous huge progress that we made was thrown out ...That [previous deal] was for us the litmus test of whether we can trust the United States or not," Zarif told the CNN broadcaster answering the question whether Rouhani should meet with Trump.

The Iranian foreign minister pointed out that it would depend on Trump whether Iran would be ready to sign the new deal with the United States.

"It depends on President Trump - whether he wants to make us believe that he is a reliable partner ... Now if we spend time with him and he signs another agreement... How long will it last? Until the end of his administration? Until he departs from the place where he put his signature on the agreement?" Zarif said.

He pointed out that years of foreign economic pressure made Iranian people resistant to sanctions, which under any circumstances will hurt the Iranian economy.

"US sanctions have always hurt ... What it's hurting, though, is people who want to buy medicine. People who want to buy food," Zarif added.

The second wave of US reinstated sanctions, that will hurt the oil and gas industry in Iran and its energy sector, as well as the transactions with the Central Bank of Iran, is slated for November.

In May, Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). In addition, Trump announced that the United States would be reinstating sanctions on Iran, previously lifted under the JCPOA in exchange for Tehran maintaining a peaceful nuclear program. This unilateral move has been opposed by other signatories of the JCPOA.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201808201067324313-iran-usa-rouhani-Zarif-jcpoa/

#2385282 at 2018-08-01 05:19:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3006: Voice of Q Edition

Trump: Iran May Speak With US 'Pretty Soon'

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that negotiations with Tehran were imminent, despite silence from the Iranian leaders to his offer for talks.

"I have a feeling they'll be talking to us pretty soon," Trump told a rally in Tampa, Florida, before adding "and maybe not, and that's ok too," Donald Trump was quoted as saying by AFP. Trump also slammed the "horrible, one-sided" Iran nuclear deal which the US president withdrew earlier this year.

On Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the United States can only "blame" itself for terminating dialogue with Iran after withdrawal from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

"Iran & US had 2 yrs of talks. With EU/E3+Russia+China, we produced a unique multilateral accord-the JCPOA. It's been working. US can only blame itself for pulling out & leaving the table. Threats, sanctions & PR stunts won't work. Try respect: for Iranians & for int'l commitments," Zarif said on Twitter.

Trump said Monday that he would have no preconditions for a meeting with the Iranian leadership, including President Hassan Rouhani. However, according to Trump, the Iranian side must first express a desire for such a dialogue.

Later on that day, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CNBC broadcaster commenting on Trump's words that the president will be prepared to sit down with the Iranians if they reduce their malign behavior in the Middle East and agree to enter a new nuclear deal.

In May, Trump announced that his country would exit from the JCPOA, which stipulated the gradual lifting of the anti-Iran sanctions in exchange for Tehran maintaining the peaceful nature of its nuclear program. In addition, Trump decided to reinstate the previously lifted sanctions on Iran. The unilateral move has been opposed by other signatories to the agreement, which remained committed to the deal.
https://sputniknews.com/us/201808011066841690-usa-iran-trump-talks/

#2255697 at 2018-07-23 22:55:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2843: "Satanic Ritual Abuse In Hollywood" Edition

John Bolton backs Trump's Iran threat: 'They will pay a price'
National security adviser doubled down on the tweet, upping pressure on Iran, while Trump's tone was criticised in Europe
Donald Trump plans to make Iran pay a price few countries have ever paid before, according to the US national security adviser, John Bolton, who doubled down on a late-night tweet in which the US president threatened Tehran.

Bolton's statement was designed to show that Trump's unexpectedly belligerent tweet was not a random act, or empty bluster but part of a considered move by the US administration to step up the economic, political and psychological pressure on Iran.

Iran dismissed the US president's threats as psychological warfare designed to appeal to his electoral base ahead of the midterm elections.

But Bolton, a well-known hawk on Iran, told reporters in Washington: "I spoke to the president over the last several days, and President Trump told me that if Iran does anything at all to the negative, they will pay a price few countries have ever paid."

The hostile rhetoric between Washington and Tehran escalated after the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, told the US that it shouldn't "play with the lion's tail".

Late on Sunday, Trump posted a tweet in capital letters warning Rouhani of "unprecedented consequences".

To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2018

His attack sent the Iranian national currency into a tailspin when trading opened on Monday, exacerbating months-old fluctuations that have prompted protests in Tehran's Grand Bazaar.

The rial, which has been rapidly depreciating against the dollar after Trump pulled the US out of the nuclear deal in May, hit a fresh all-time low. On Monday, $1 bought 92,000 rials on the black market, though many exchange bureaux had stopped trading.

The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif responded with a scathing tweet of his own, mimicking Trump's caps-lock message and warning the US president to "BE CAUTIOUS!"
More:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/john-bolton-backs-trump-apos-163732627.html

#1943596 at 2018-06-28 19:21:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2449: Declassify It All Edition

Iranian Foreign Minister: John Bolton Taking a 'Salary' from Terrorists

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/06/27/iranian-foreign-minister-john-bolton-taking-salary-terrorists/

"Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday accused President Donald Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton of being affiliated with terrorists, referring to the exiled Mujaheddin-e-Khalq (MEK) Iranian opposition group."

#1726683 at 2018-06-13 07:49:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2173: Sub Launched Missile Edition

No practical package delivered to Iran by Europeans yet: FM

RNA- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday that Iran has not received any practical package from the Europeans.

'In the latest round of expert talks with the Europeans on the JCPOA held in Tehran last week, all remaining parties to the deal announced their compliance with the it. However, we have not received the necessary practical package from them,' Zarif told reporters upon his arrival in South Africa.
During the Tehran talks, the European sides announced their commitment to taking necessary measures to ensure that Iran would enjoy necessary economic guarantees, he said.
'We have not received necessary practical package but EU member states and our Russian and Chinese colleagues are working on the package,' Zarif said, adding that all are exploring ways of ensuring that they can provide Iran with the benefits envisioned in the deal.
All the measures being taken by Iranian officials are aimed at ensuring that the Iranian nation will receive all benefits that it should get from the nuclear deal.

On ties between Iran and South Africa, Zarif said Iran has always stood by the South African people.
Following the victory of the Islamic Revolution, Iran severed its diplomatic ties with the Apartheid regime but since the victory of the South African people, Tehran established the best relationship with Pretoria, the Iranian foreign minister said.

Zarif said he is scheduled to hold two rounds of talks with his South African counterpart and meet the president of the country tomorrow.

https:// theiranproject.com/blog/2018/06/13/no-practical-package-delivered-to-iran-by-europeans-yet-fm/

#1409873 at 2018-05-14 20:58:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1768 Forever Q!

Zarif: US exit from nuclear deal 'complete disregard for intl. law'

Iran says US President Donald Trump's "unilateral and unlawful" decision to withdraw from a key 2015 nuclear agreement and to re-impose nuclear-related sanctions shows "a complete disregard for international law."

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made the remarks in a letter written to the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on May 10, two days after Trump defied protests and last-minute lobbying by his European partners and unilaterally decided to withdraw from the historic nuclear accord, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and re-impose sanctions on Tehran.

"These acts constitute a complete disregard for international law and the United Nations Charter, undermine the principle of peaceful settlement of disputes, endanger multilateralism and its institutions, indicate a regress to the failed and disastrous era of unilateralism, and encourage intransigence and illegality," Zarif said in the letter published on Monday on the website of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Presstv Reported.

He added that the Islamic Republic has scrupulously implemented its undertakings under the nuclear deal as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly and consistently verified.

"Unlike the Islamic Republic of Iran, ...the United States has consistently failed - since "implementation day", and particularly after the assumption of office by President Trump - to abide by its commitments under the JCPOA," the top Iranian diplomat said.

Since the JCPOA Implementation Day in January 2016, the IAEA has been monitoring Iran's compliance with its nuclear-related commitments under the nuclear deal and has consistently verified the Islamic Republic's compliance.

The UN's nuclear agency on May 1 reiterated that it has "no credible indications of activities in Iran relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device after 2009," citing its assessments from 2015.

In his letter to the UN chief, the Iranian foreign minister pointed to the most significant cases of US non-performance of its commitments which he had cited in 12 official letters to the EU foreign policy chief, in her capacity as coordinator of the JCPOA Joint Commission, and noted that the US "had been persistently violating the terms of the agreement almost from its inception, even preventing other JCPOA participants from fully performing their obligations."

"I urge the United Nations to keep the United States accountable for its unilateral and irresponsible conduct which will detrimentally affect the rule of law, multilateralism, and the very foundations of diplomacy," Zarif pointed out.

A senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Saturday the United States stands to suffer the most after its move to withdraw from the JCPOA.

Ali Akbar Velayati, the Leader's advisor on international affairs, said, "The Islamic Republic of Iran fully protects its independence and will by no means bow to their (Americans') bullying and we have proved this over the past 40 years."

Iran has said it would remain in the JCPOA for now, pending negotiations with the other signatories in the coming weeks before making a final decision on its future role in the agreement.

http:// www.iran-daily.com/News/215062.html

#1409831 at 2018-05-14 20:53:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1768 Forever Q!

Putin reaffirms Russia's commitment to Iran nuclear deal

Russian President Vladimir Putin has underscored Moscow's readiness to remain committed to a landmark nuclear deal Iran signed with major powers in 2015 despite the US move to pull out from the agreement.

Russia's Permanent Representative to the Vienna-based IAEA Mikhail Ulyanov made the comments while speaking to reporters following a meeting between the Russian president and the UN nuclear agency's chief in Sochi on Monday.

"As far as Iran is concerned, the president reaffirmed Russia's readiness to continue fulfilling the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, the nuclear deal) regardless of the United States' decision to withdraw from it," Ulyanov said.

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano, for his part, expressed the IAEA's readiness to act strictly within the scope of its competences, in accordance with its charter and instructions issued by its governing agencies such as the Board of Governors, the Russian envoy added, Presstv Reported.

"The important thing is that Mr. Amano confirmed unequivocally that as of now, Iran continues to fully implement its obligations under the JCPOA," Ulyanov pointed out.

The US president announced on May 8 that Washington was walking away from the JCPOA, which was reached between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the US, Britain, France, Russia and China – plus Germany.

He also said he would reinstate US nuclear sanctions on Iran and impose "the highest level" of economic bans on the Islamic Republic.

Iran has said it would remain in the JCPOA for now, pending negotiations with the other signatories in the coming weeks before making a final decision on its future role in the agreement.

In a letter written to the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on May 10, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the US president's "unilateral and unlawful" decision to withdraw from the JCPOA and to re-impose nuclear-related sanctions shows "a complete disregard for international law."

"These acts constitute a complete disregard for international law and the United Nations Charter, undermine the principle of peaceful settlement of disputes, endanger multilateralism and its institutions, indicate a regress to the failed and disastrous era of unilateralism, and encourage intransigence and illegality," Zarif said in the letter published on Monday on the website of the Iranian Foreign Ministry.

France, Britain resolute on JCPOA preservation

Foreign ministers of France and Britain also on Monday voiced their determination to save the Iranian nuclear deal, despite the US pulling out.

"Our position is one of determination and unity, of will to keep this agreement alive," French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said following talks with his British counterpart Boris Johnson in London.

He added that Washington's exit from "an international agreement does not mean that the international agreement is null and void."

Paris and London are determined to preserve the nuclear accord "as long as Iran respects it," he said, describing the agreement as "win-win."

"Our position is… united with the German position," said the French politician, on the eve of a scheduled meeting between the Iranian, French, British and German foreign ministers in Brussels.

Johnson, for his part, said Britain and France have resolve to "conserve the essence" of the JCPOA.

"Tomorrow in Brussels, we are going to have a conversation about what we can do to help UK firms and help European firms have confidence that they can still do business," he added.

He also stressed that it was "vital that we continue to engage with the US."

At the start of a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif said he wanted "assurances" from the JCPOA's signatories that Iran's interests would be fulfilled.

"The final aim of these negotiations is to seek assurances that the interests of the Iranian nation will be defended," Zarif said.

He was in Moscow after he paid a visit to Beijing on Sunday.

In a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, the Iranian foreign minister said he seeks a "clearer image" of the future of the key nuclear agreement after the US withdrawal.

Zarif expressed hope that with this visit to China and other countries within the next two days, the sides would be able to depict a clearer vision of the nuclear deal's futur

http:// www.iran-daily.com/News/215069.html

#1402056 at 2018-05-14 00:32:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1758: On Guard

Rouhani says Iran may remain part of nuclear accord

DUBAI (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that Iran would remain committed to the 2015 nuclear deal if its interests were protected, while his foreign minister hoped the pact could be redesigned without Washington as a member.

The U.S. withdrawal from the accord on Tuesday was a "violation of morals", Rouhani said in remarks carried by state television.

"If the remaining five countries continue to abide by the agreement, Iran will remain in the deal despite the will of America," he said.

President Donald Trump's pullout has upset European allies, cast uncertainty over global oil supplies and raised the risk of conflict in the Middle East.

It has also highlighted divisions among Iran's political elite.

Rouhani made similarly conciliatory comments on Tuesday, and on Saturday, foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif began a tour of other signatory nations in an attempt to save the deal.

Zarif said in Beijing on Sunday: "We hope that with this visit to China and other countries we will be able to construct a clear future design for the comprehensive agreement."

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Zarif's tour would improve understanding of Iran's position and help Tehran protect its legitimate interests.

"China is willing to maintain communication and coordination with all relevant parties, including Iran, and take an objective, fair and responsible attitude to continue to safeguard the …agreement," Wang said.

Rouhani has said Iran will stay committed to the deal, which China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany also signed, provided those powers ensured Iran was protected from sanctions.

The three European states have recommitted to the agreement, but senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said on Friday that Europe was not to be trusted.

On Sunday, the head of the Assembly of Experts, a group of clerics responsible for choosing Iran's supreme leader, said Rouhani should apologise for not having obtained guarantees from world powers for the agreement.

"It is necessary for the president to honestly and openly apologise to the people over the damages caused by the nuclear accord," Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, a top conservative, said in a statement carried by state media.
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The head of the elite Revolutionary Guards also warned against relying on foreign powers.

"America's exit aims to break the Iranian people's resistance, which is not new … but today's problem is not U.S. sanctions, it's that some officials look towards outside rather than looking at domestic potentials," Guards commander General Mohammad Ali Jafari said, the state news agency IRNA reported.

On Wednesday, Jafari cast doubt on European nations' ability to save the accord.

With the deal opposed by hardliners at home, some analysts say the pragmatic Rouhani may now be a lame duck leader.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was hopeful that the United States and Europe could agree on how to deal with Iran, after Trump threatened to sanction European companies that continue doing business there.

Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Pompeo said the United States was not aiming at Europe when it withdrew from the deal.

"I'm hopeful in the days and weeks ahead we can come up with a deal that really works, that really protects the world from Iranian bad behaviour, not just their nuclear programme, but their missiles and their malign behaviour as well," he said
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White House National Security Adviser John Bolton said sanctions could be imposed on European companies.

It's possible. It depends on the conduct of other governments," Bolton said on CNN's "State of the Union."

https:// uk.reuters.com/article/uk-iran-nuclear-rouhani/rouhani-says-iran-may-remain-part-of-nuclear-accord-idUKKCN1IE0CH

#1397047 at 2018-05-13 15:45:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1751 Revolution is my Name

>>1396997
I agree with >>1397012, Let Mohammad Javad Zarif expose them as he's already threatened to. It'll make the news cycle that way. If not, we CREATE the news cycle.

#1391613 at 2018-05-13 03:15:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1744: Truth Is Logic Edition

>>1391340

Okay lets get bizzay… John Kerry's daughter is married to an Iranian national and physician. His best man at the wedding ceremony was the son of Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Zarif was also and Kerry's chief counterpart in the nuclear deal negotiations and is also the one who is threatening to name names of the western politicians who took bribes.

#1358894 at 2018-05-10 15:34:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1704 POTUS & KJU to Meet in Singapore June 12th Edition

>>1358872
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Monday confirmed media reports that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had met with former US Secretary of State John Kerry in New York two weeks ago to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, but meantime, stressed that the minister has had no meeting with the Trump administration officials.
>they met during the last week of april per this report

#1358882 at 2018-05-10 15:33:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1704 POTUS & KJU to Meet in Singapore June 12th Edition

>>1358839
Iran Confirms Zarif-Kerry Meeting in New York

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Monday confirmed media reports that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had met with former US Secretary of State John Kerry in New York two weeks ago to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, but meantime, stressed that the minister has had no meeting with the Trump administration officials.
"We don't see the US just as Mr. Trump; the United States is not just the current ruling administration and there are many figures who have different views on international and regional issues," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said.

He described Kerry as a political figure somehow aware of issues related to Iran who can leave major influence on the US public opinion, and said, "During the trip (to New York), a meeting was held (between Zarif) with Kerry, although you know that at present, Kerry doesn't hold any government post."

Qassemi said that the nuclear deal was certainly one of the issues raised during the Zarif-Kerry meeting, but meantime underlined that "during the trip no talks and meeting was held with the US officials".

The US media reports said last week that Kerry reportedly met Zarif at the United Nations in New York for a second meeting in as many months amid threats by US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the nuclear agreement by May 12.

According to the Boston Globe, the Obama administration's top diplomat has also met with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeir, French President Emmanuel Macron on two occasions, and spoken on the phone with EU's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in an attempt to save the agreement that he spent years negotiating with other world leaders.

Western media reports claimed last week that Trump has "all but decided" to withdraw from the agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and to allow nuclear-related sanctions on Iran that were suspended under the nuclear deal to snap back into effect.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi warned on Sunday that abrogation of the internationally-accepted 2015 nuclear deal would endanger the non-proliferation mechanism in the world and stir more crises in the region.

"The nuclear deal, before anything else, is a security agreement in area of non-proliferation and any move against it will weaken the non-proliferation mechanism and exacerbate crises in the region and will confront all of us with the two choices of security and insecurity," Araqchi said at a meeting with his Swedish counterpart Annika Soder in Tehran.

He also warned that any attempt to link the nuclear deal with other issues and ignore the US violation of the agreement is a wrong approaches and will further complicate the regional and international situation.

"The nuclear deal is a colossal historical experience and choice and its success in light of collective efforts and support will ensures the interests for entire world," Araqchi said.

http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13970217000956

#1352790 at 2018-05-09 23:49:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1696: Iran Goes Hot Edition

>>1352588

TAKING A LOOK AT THE OTHER GUY

>www.iran-daily.com/News/202615.html
Likhachov will negotiate with Iran's nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, and participate in the operationalization ceremony of new power plants in Bushehr.

Ali Akbar Salehi, born in IRAQ and attended MIT . . . . CIA???

APPOINTED TO POSITION AFTER HUSSEIN BECAME PREZ.

Salehi was born in Karbala, Iraq, on 24 March 1949.[5] He received a bachelor of science degree in physics from the American University of Beirut in 1971 and a PhD in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977

Salehi was involved in an attempt to obtain dual-use technologies from a European supplier, according to David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security

An ISIS (Institute for Science and International Security) report claims the Physics Research Center acted as a front in the late 1980s and early 1990s to obtain illicit nuclear technologies. ISIS claims that, as head of Sharif University, was aware of purchases

His term as foreign minister ended on 15 August 2013 when Mohammad Javad Zarif took the position in the elected President Hassan Rouhani's government.[17] A day after, Rouhani appointed Salehi as head of Atomic Energy Organization for a second time on 16 August 2013.[

#1341444 at 2018-05-08 22:35:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1682: Bye Bye Bye, Bye Bye Iran Edition

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani just CONFIRMED that the Iran Deal was a SHAM

Iran's president is saying there's a "short time" to negotiate with the countries remaining in the nuclear deal, warning his country could start enriching uranium more than ever in the coming weeks.

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Rouhani spoke live on Iranian state television. He says he will be sending Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to countries remaining in the accord.

He says, "I have ordered Iran's atomic organization that whenever it is needed, we will start enriching uranium more than before." He says Iran would start this "in the next weeks."

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/05/08/there-it-is-iranian-president-hassan-rouhani-just-confirmed-that-the-iran-deal-was-a-sham/

#1314471 at 2018-05-06 03:02:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1647: THINGS ARE TRULY HABBEDING Edition

>>1314443
Let me give you a heads up anon.

His daughter married an Iranian physicians ties to the Iranian govt right? Well, the Best Man for the wedding is the SON of the Monster of Foreign Affairs who came out today blasting POTUS!

"Kerry's daughter Vanessa is married to an Iranian national and physician. His best man at the ceremony was the son of Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Zarif was also and Kerry's chief counterpart in the nuclear deal negotiations. Cozy crew."

https:// truepundit.com/family-business-john-kerry-tries-to-save-iran-deal-after-daughter-married-iranian-national-best-man-was-son-of-irans-minister-of-foreign-affairs/

#1309573 at 2018-05-05 18:37:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1642: Welcome Home, CorsiOrphans Edition

>>1309547
Hahahahahaha!!! This motherfuckers son was the BEST MAN at John Kerry's daughters wedding to that Iranian physician!! You can't make this shit up!!

Sauce:

Kerry's daughter Vanessa is married to an Iranian national and physician. His best man at the ceremony was the son of Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Zarif was also and Kerry's chief counterpart in the nuclear deal negotiations. Cozy crew.

https: //truepundit.com/family-business-john-kerry-tries-to-save-iran-deal-after-daughter-married-iranian-national-best-man-was-son-of-irans-minister-of-foreign-affairs/

#1309547 at 2018-05-05 18:32:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1642: Welcome Home, CorsiOrphans Edition

Iran vows not to renegotiate as Trump's key decision on nuclear deal's future looms

ust days before President Trump is expected to make a key decision on the future of the Iran nuclear deal he has repeatedly threatened to scrap, Iran's foreign minister has publicly vowed that the country will not take any part in renegotiating the terms of the 2015 agreement.

"Iran will not renegotiate what was agreed years ago and has been implemented," Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a five-minute English-language video posted on YouTube.

Zarif's speech, delivered directly to the camera as he sat at his desk, is significant because the White House has shown some willingness to preserve the structure of the Iran deal if some of its key terms are modified.

But Zarif rebuked that notion as well as "the response from some Europeans," which he described as "offer[ing] the United States more concessions from our pocket."

TRUMP RESPONDS TO ISRAEL'S BOMBSHELL REVELATIONS ON IRAN

Also on Thursday, a top adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Europe and the U.S. against seeking changes to the deal.

"Even if U.S. allies, especially the Europeans, try to revise the deal…, one of our options will be withdrawing from it," Ali Akbar Velayati told state television, according to Reuters.

The comments rachet up a week already marked by sky-high tensions surrounding the nuclear arrangement.

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed new "dramatic" intelligence which he claimed shows Iran is "brazenly lying" about its nuclear weapons program and shows the country is not complying with the nuclear deal.

Speaking to the Manhattan Institute Wednesday, where she was honored with the Alexander Hamilton Award, United States ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley seemed to suggest that abandoning or significantly altering the Iran deal were the only two options.

#1309537 at 2018-05-05 18:30:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1641: DOWN GOES CORSI! DOWN GOES CORSI! DOWN GOES CORSI!

Iran vows not to renegotiate as Trump's key decision on nuclear deal's future looms
Even as the leaders of Britain, Germany, and France – who are also parties to the Iran deal – work to save the arrangement, Trump has long signaled that the deal's days may be numbered.

ust days before President Trump is expected to make a key decision on the future of the Iran nuclear deal he has repeatedly threatened to scrap, Iran's foreign minister has publicly vowed that the country will not take any part in renegotiating the terms of the 2015 agreement.

"Iran will not renegotiate what was agreed years ago and has been implemented," Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a five-minute English-language video posted on YouTube.

Zarif's speech, delivered directly to the camera as he sat at his desk, is significant because the White House has shown some willingness to preserve the structure of the Iran deal if some of its key terms are modified.

But Zarif rebuked that notion as well as "the response from some Europeans," which he described as "offer[ing] the United States more concessions from our pocket."

http:// www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/04/iran-vows-not-to-renegotiate-as-trumps-key-decision-on-nuclear-deals-future-looms.html

#1304738 at 2018-05-05 03:53:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1635: The World is Connected

>>1304158
Kerry's daughter Vanessa is married to an Iranian national and physician. His best man at the ceremony was the son of Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Zarif was also and Kerry's chief counterpart in the nuclear deal negotiations.
https://truepundit.com/family-business-john-kerrys-daughter-married-iranian-national-best-man-was-son-of-irans-minister-of-foreign-affairs/

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/250078-iran-forced-to-deny-wedding-link-with-kerry

IRAN denies Zariff connected to Kerry's daughters wedding party in 2009.

BAKER ….. NOTABLE with sauce

#1292820 at 2018-05-04 03:45:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1620: PEOPLE have POWER Edition

290

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has slammed Washington for "bullying" other nations against Tehran, and condemned EU states that are dancing to the US tune over the nuclear deal at the expense of Iran.

In a statement published on Thursday on his YouTube channel, Zarif once again lambasted the US for shaking the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The minister reiterated that Iran had never shifted away from the 2015 deal, which has been repeatedly confirmed by the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). However, some other signatories, and the US in particular, failed to show the same commitment to its obligations, according to Zarif.

"In contrast, the US has consistently violated the nuclear agreement, especially by bullying others from doing business with Iran," he said.

The minister added that, while US President Donald Trump is "unhappy" with the JCPOA, "the response from some Europeans has been to offer the United States more concessions from our pocket."

READ MORE: The Iran nuclear deal explained

Indeed, Trump's constant criticism and demands to "fix" the supposed flaws of the 2015 deal did not fully amend the position of its European signatories - the UK, France and Germany - the leaders of which are against scrapping the agreement. But they now want to address"important elements that the deal does not cover," including Iranian ballistic missiles. Tehran argues that any new deal would cover "defensive capabilities and regional influence" among other things that were excluded from the outset of the negotiations in 2015.

"Let me make it clear absolutely and once for all: we will neither outsource our security, nor will we renegotiate or add on to a deal we have already implemented in good faith," Zarif stated.

READ MORE: Rejecting EU attempts to keep Iran deal + staying in Syria = more regime changes on the US mind?

As the deadline looms for Trump to sign the waiver for the JCPOA, which caps Iran's nuclear enrichment capability in exchange for economic sanctions relief, Tehran is still warning the US against pulling out.

"The US is well advised to finally start honoring its commitments, or it, and only it, will have to accept responsibility for the consequences of not doing so," the foreign minister concluded.

Earlier on Thursday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also stood up in defense of the Iran nuclear deal. He warned that, so long as there is no better alternative, the agreement should be preserved.

https://www.rt.com/news/425776-us-bullying-nuclear-deal/

#1284865 at 2018-05-03 12:49:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1610 The End of The Darkness II

Not pallet news, but interdasting:

BREAKING Iranian foreign minister: Iran will not renegotiate nuclear deal dlvr.it/QRcdfL

ANKARA - Iran will not renegotiate a 2015 nuclear deal with major powers, Iran's foreign minister said on Thursday, as a deadline set by US President Donald Trump for Europeans to "fix" the deal loomed.

"Iran will not renegotiate what was agreed years ago and has been implemented … also we will reject any ratification of it," Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a message posted on YouTube.

He said the United States had "consistently violated the nuclear deal, particularly by bullying others to preventing businesses to return to Iran".

Trump will decide on May 12 whether to renew sanctions waivers on Iran.

#1188840 at 2018-04-26 01:14:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1488: Fed EX Edition

Israeli Media Outright Lies About Iranian Admiral's Alleged Threat To US Ships
'Iran's navy commander threatens to sink US ships'
Admiral Ali Fadavi says Americans will land in a 'catastrophic situation,' amid escalating rhetoric over endangered nuclear deal

A top Iranian general has threatened to sink the United States Navy's ships, warning that the US would find itself in a "catastrophic situation" amid an ongoing war of words between the countries over the possibility President Donald Trump's could exit a landmark nuclear deal.

"The actual information that the Americans have about us is much less than what they think they have. When will they figure this out? When it is too late," the Revolutionary Guard Corps's navy commander, Admiral Ali Fadavim, told Iranian television on Saturday.

"They will definitely figure it out when their ships are sunk, or when they find themselves in a catastrophic situation," Fadavi threatened in an interview with IRINN TV, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute.

Trump is threatening to tear up the 2015 agreement aimed at curbing nuclear efforts unless European capitals agree to supplement it with tougher controls on Tehran's missile program and future ability to return to nuclear fuel enrichment.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday warned the US that it would face serious consequences should it pull out of the deal, which Washington says falls short of preventing Iran from producing atomic weapons.

"I am telling those in the White House that if they do not live up to their commitments, the Iranian government will react firmly," Rouhani said in a speech broadcast live on state television, according to Reuters.

"If anyone betrays the deal, they should know that they would face severe consequences," he added.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gives a speech during the Munich Security Conference on February 18, 2018 in Munich, southern Germany. (AFP PHOTO / Thomas KIENZLE)

Iran has been upping the rhetoric, with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warning Saturday that Tehran was ready to "vigorously" resume uranium enrichment if the US ditched the accord.

Zarif told reporters in New York that Iran is not seeking to acquire a nuclear bomb, but that its "probable" response to a US withdrawal would be to restart production of enriched uranium - a key bomb-making ingredient.

Other Iranian officials have threatened withdrawal from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Trump has set a May 12 deadline for the Europeans to "fix" the agreement, which provided for curbs to Iran's nuclear program in exchange for relief from financial sanctions.

On Monday Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that he had agreed with his Chinese counterpart that the two countries would "obstruct" any attempt by Trump to "sabotage" the deal.

___
https:// www.timesofisrael.com/irans-navy-commander-threatens-to-sink-us-ships/

#1178448 at 2018-04-25 07:15:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1474: Quality Over Quantity

INTERNATIONAL
Iran's Foreign Minister: Renegotiating Nuclear Deal Would Damage U.S. Credibility

April 24, 20183:10 AM ET

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tells NPR that renegotiating the 2015 nuclear deal between his country and six world powers would be opening a "Pandora's box" that risks damaging U.S. credibility in future international talks.

In an interview airing Tuesday on Morning Edition, Zarif says he hopes that French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, during their successive visits to the United States this week, will "impress upon President Trump" that the international community "will be much better served if they were to respect the terms of the deal."

"I think the United States doesn't want to send the message to the world that if you negotiate with the United States, the U.S. is going to come back after you had reached an agreement and tell you 'I don't like these parts of the agreement and I want them re-negotiated,' " Zarif tells ME host Steve Inskeep during a conversation recorded Monday evening at the residence of Iran's United Nations ambassador in New York.

In the deal signed nearly three years ago, Iran agreed to curtail its nuclear program in exchange for lifting billions of dollars in international sanctions. U.S. law requires the president to recertify Iran's compliance with the agreement every 90 days, something that Trump has consistently done since taking office, despite his threats to the contrary. The next certification deadline is May 12.

Zarif says if Washington insists on going back on the deal, "Then nobody will be prepared to compromise with the United States."

He accuses the U.S. of not sticking to its end of the bargain and says Trump is "dissuading European companies from engaging in Iran by threatening them with consequences for their cooperation with Iran."

READ MORE: www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/24/605166771/irans-foreign-minister-renegotiating-nuclear-deal-would-damage-u-s-credibility

#1178429 at 2018-04-25 07:10:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1474: Quality Over Quantity

Iran eyeballing SA?

Iran's Foreign Minister Comes To America, Keeping One Eye On Saudi Arabia

April 24, 20185:02 PM ET

When Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif walked into a roomful of reporters in New York on Saturday, he remarked on how his U.S. visit was going.

"Good," he said. "Not as good as the guy who spent $250 million on the trip."

It was a reference to Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who just this month wrapped up a three-week tour of the United States. The Saudi prince traveled from Boston to Silicon Valley in California, and although a final price tag is not known, the trip was reported to be lavish and included meetings to encourage millionaires and billionaires to invest in his kingdom.

Iranian diplomats, by contrast, are preparing for the possibility that the United States might restrict trade even more with Tehran, by withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and reimposing sanctions. If the U.S. decides to pull out, Zarif says, Iran most likely will, too.

MORE: www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/04/24/605243026/irans-foreign-minister-comes-to-america-keeping-one-eye-on-saudi-arabia

#1167338 at 2018-04-24 08:52:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1460: Digging Needed

In an interview with US broadcaster CBS aired on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Iran could consider "resuming at much greater speed" their nuclear activities if the US were to pull out.
The landmark deal reached in Lausanne, Switzerland in April 2015 among China, Russia, France, Great Britain, Germany and the US offered Iran more than $110bn a year in sanctions relief and a return to the global economy in exchange for halting its drive for a nuclear weapon.
Iran had said in the past that it will stay in the deal in case of US withdrawal.
https:// www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/iran-trump-stay-nuclear-deal-face-severe-consequences-180424073800698.html

#1010531 at 2018-04-12 09:41:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1259: —101010101—

TEHRAN, Apr. 10 (MNA) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif condemned chemical attacks on Syria, saying each time the terrorists face failure, the Zionist regime resumes operations to help them survive.
Speaking among reporters, _upon arrival at Brazil's airport_, Zarif said "the Islamic Republic of Iran has a very clear position regarding chemical weapons; we condemn their use by anyone, anywhere and against any country."
"US government seems to be seeking an excuse to intervene in Syria," he stressed.

https:// en.mehrnews.com/news/133274/Zionist-regime-resumes-helping-operations-when-terrorists-face

https:// www.crisisgroup.org/trigger-list/iran-us-trigger-list

#717275 at 2018-03-19 04:06:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #888

>>717121

THIS IS A THREAT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

The Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran has recently/publiclly announced:

"… if the US makes the mistake of exiting the JCPOA, it will definitely be a painful mistake for the Americans."

– Mohammad Javad Zarif

LET ME REPEAT THAT FOR YOU:

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned the United States against the "painful mistake" of pulling out of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Q said IRAN NEXT []

I THINK THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN PEOPLE THINK

https:// www.express.co.uk/news/world/933385/donald-trump-iran-us-nuclear-deal-mike-pompeo

https:// financialtribune.com/articles/national/83782/painful-mistake-for-us-to-quit-jcpoa

#664763 at 2018-03-14 19:32:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #822: Good Job Anons Edition

Iran invites Pakistan to join port project with India

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Iran's foreign minister has wrapped up a trip to Pakistan in which he made a surprise offer to let Islamabad take part in a major port project partly funded by Pakistan's archrival India.

India has helped to expand and develop Iran's Arabian Sea port of Chabahar as part of efforts to set up a trade link to Afghanistan and Central Asia that would bypass Pakistan. But Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Pakistan's Geo TV late Tuesday that Iran was open to participation in the project by Pakistan and China, both of which India views as rivals.

There was no immediate response from India, which has committed up to $500 million for the development of the Chabahar port along with associated roads and rail lines. In November, New Delhi shipped its first cargo of wheat to Afghanistan through the Iranian port.

Zarif, who arrived on Monday, met with senior officials and praised Pakistan for the "timely" sharing of intelligence, which he said allowed Iranian border guards to kill two would-be bombers. The restive area along the border has been the scene of several attacks by armed groups as well as drug smugglers.

http:// abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iranian-tehran-ready-resolve-differences-saudis-53731281

8kun Midnight Riders Posts (10)

#173125 at 2023-10-20 03:15:08 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #899: Time to bring back Tar and Feathering EDITION

Kanekoathegreat (T.me) ?NEW - Kash Patel highlights the unbelievable connections between three senior Biden intelligence officials-Robert Malley, Ariane Tabatabai, and Maher Bitar-and their associations with Hamas and Iran.

On June 29, 2023, Robert Malley was placed on unpaid leave from his role as Joe Biden's special envoy to Iran, and his security clearance was suspended due to an ongoing investigation into the potential mishandling of classified materials.

On September 29, 2023, Semafor reported that Malley was involved in funding, supporting, and directing an Iranian intelligence operation to influence the United States and allied governments, as revealed by a collection of Iranian government emails.

These emails suggested that Malley facilitated the placement of an Iranian agent of influence named Ariane Tabatabai in sensitive positions within the U.S. government, initially at the State Department and later at the Pentagon, where she has been serving as Chief of Staff for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations.

On October 16, 2023, Revolver News reported that Maher Bitar, who is Senior Director for Intelligence Programs on Joe Biden's National Security Council, was also an executive director of the "Students for Justice in Palestine" group that reportedly responded to the recent Hamas terror attack on Israel by organizing a "Day of Resistance" in support of Hamas' "historic win" against Israel.

Bitar was photographed wearing a black and white "keffiyeh," a symbol of Palestinian nationalism, and standing in front of a sign that reads, "Divest from Israel Apartheid."

Kash Patel has pointed out that Maher Bitar plays a significant role in determining intelligence prioritization for President Biden, even though there is a photo of him wearing Palestinian attire, calling for the economic and political boycott of Israel.

Robert Malley, who recently had his security clearance suspended by the FBI, installed Ariane Tabatabai at the Department of Defense as the Assistant Chief of Staff for the Special Operations Office.

Do you know what she did in 2014?

"She emailed Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and asked for permission as a U.S. citizen to take a trip on behalf of the US government. This individual is still employed at the DOD."

Unbelievable.

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1715135829491040713

https://t.me/KanekoaTheGreat/7647

#77874 at 2021-05-01 17:14:58 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #356: The End Wont Be For Everyone Edition

#353
>>77390 New photos show Epstein and Maxwell were VIP guests in Clinton's White House
>>77395 "More than 500 U.S. federally funded scientists have been flagged over their financial ties with China and other foreign adversaries, the National Institutes of Health has revealed."
>>77396 Texas is tied for the lowest (BEST) Capital Gains Tax rates under Biden's Tax plan. But, this is still theft. We will fight & defeat this proposed tax hike!
>>77398, >>77403 Video we should go through, seems there is a lot of Qlues in it...
>>77399 Dan Scavino (Twatt) 6ft 6ft 6ft 6ft... (article from MIT, you are no better 6' away from someone than 60' away)
>>77400, >>77464, >>77468, >>77475, >>77488, >>77490, >>77557 List of Trafficking countries per Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (Evergreen, Hanseatic Unity Chartering, and Cemex musings also)
>>77401, >>77402 Memories of 8Chan: Alice & Wonderland: ButterFly Bred, Flowers/Garden clip from Walt Disney movie.
>>77404 Navy (Twatter) USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (131 & 314) in post (Be the autists we know you are)
>>77406, >>77407 Twatter censors the US ArmyAGAIN
>>77408 USNavy (Twatt) and U.S. 7th Fleet are saddened to hear about Indonesia's lost submarine, KRI Nanggala, and are ready to assist in any way we can. In support of the Indonesian government, the U.S. Navy has deployed a P-8 Poseidon aircraft for airborne search capabilities.
>>77409 U.S. Navy (Twatt) @USNavy Bravo Zulo @Warship_78
>>77411, >>77412 Anons damn good digs on Election, Printing of MILLIONS of ballots: Where are they going??? Trump Vid & Moar.
>>77413 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) "'They will fight against you, but will not overcome you for I am with you and will rescue you,' declares the Lord." Jeremiah 1:19: & Drop #119
>>77435 Space Weather News April 25, 2021 (Earth's Axis has shifted)
>>77436, >>77437 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) Enough popcorn for a movie marathon! Thank you, @KansasGOP - I hope you had a great Convention! Flag of United States #ksgop
>>77438, Sen. Johnson presses Capitol Police about disinformation on Officer Sicknick's death
>>77439 (Twatter) MIL controlled Oscars, putting random numbers on actor's clothing. Real? Or fake and gay?
>>77440 Biden vs Bidon
>>77442 Badass Pastor who BTFO police did it once again, #2x telling police to fuck right off.. he will not be threatened by gestapo. The covid police came after this pastor again, and he chased them off a SECOND time."I do not cooperate with Gestapo!"
>>77443, >>77444, >>77445, >>77446, >>77447, >>77450, >>77451, >>77453, >>77454, >>77455, >>77456, >>77457, >>77458, >>77459, >>77462, Anon "OWL" Dig. Screech Owl = Lilith (Infant eating demon, Adam's first wife FEMALE FORM/Actions) Moloch = Male/Lucifer/Satan. Their child = Baphomet which is Freemason demon god.. and androgynous (why the trans movement is important to [them] & why they are all gay or bisexual.
>>77469 Our Administration's exquisite strike on Qasem Soleimani had a massive impact on Iran and the Middle East. You don't have to take my word for it. Ask ??@JZarif?. President Biden still thinks it was a mistake. #AmericaFirst #AbrahamAccords
>>77470 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) DC statehood isn't about representation. Let's call it what it is: the Left's attempt at an unconstitutional power grab for more seats in Congress. We must never give an inch.
>>77471 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) The threats to the American experiment are real - we need organizations like @azpolicy to defeat them. Thank you @cathiherrod for your leadership in championing American values!
>>77472 It was great to spend time with @JoelCRosenberg. My son, Nick, came to love Israel on his first trip there, as you will hear in this interview.
>>77473 (Twatter) No one cares what celebrity elites have to pontificate about. Stars return to gated mansions, escorted by armed security after they stir up divisiveness.
>>77474 Gov Greg Abbott (Twatt) Texas has next on this. A heartbeat bill is making its way through the Texas legislature. I look forward to signing it. #ProLife
>>77477 Breaking911 (Twatt) Helicopter crashes in Nunavut, Canada; 3 dead
>>77478 CENTCOM (Twatt) Two additional B-52 bombers arrive at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, to support the Afghanistan drawdown.
>>77479 BREAKING: A New Judge Assigned to Democrats' Maricopa County Case - Parties Have 10 Days to File Motions - Audit Continues!
>>77480 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) Just in. Statement from PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP April 26th, 2021 [Doug Ducey of AZ, 1 of the worse Governors in America, is refusing to provide security for the American Patriots who are hand countinng the Rigged 2020 Election Ballots.
>>77481 3 Accused of Bombing Philly Target, Wawas During BLM Riots -
>>77482 Fully open Texas and Florida reporting fewer COVID cases than Democrat-led Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York
>>77484, >>77485 Melania's Birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Eyes on Maricopa/DC Statehood fuckery is a power grab for more seats in Congress.
>>77486 Space Weather News April 26, 2021
>>77492 Mural in Denver International Airport depicting kids with face masks from every country | Painted in 1994
>>77493 Facebook v Apple: The ad tracking row heats up
>>77495 Liberals urged to condemn Iran receiving UN women's rights committee seat
>>77496, >>77502 ILA Union Lawsuit Claims Breach of Master Contract at New U.S. Terminal
>>77497, >>77501, >>77504, >>77505, >>77507, >>77508, >>77509, >>77514, >>77516, >>77518, >>77530, >>77532, >>77535, >>77537, >>77538, >>77539, >>77540, >>77541, >>77542, >>77543, >>77544, >>77545, >>77546, >>77547, >>77548, >>77549>>77551, >>77553, >>77554, >>77555, >>77562 Why is KERRY in the EU? (Q Drop #1359) EXTREMELY RELEVANT! (Narced on Israel strikes on Iran.. TO Iran) (meeting with Iranians for Iran Nuke Deal/Undermine PDJT) (BUN)
>>77506 Thomas Paine (Twatt) FBI Releases Documents On Investigation Into Death Of DNC Staffer Seth Rich
>>77510 JUST IN: Ashli Babbitt's Family Lawyer Drops A Bombshell: 'We're Ready To Fight... A New Lawsuit Will Be Filed Soon Against US Capitol Police'
>>77511 Some call Lin Wood crazy. But ask yourself this. If his claims were false why hasnt he been sued for saying things about people like Drew and John Robert's? This guy got Nic Sandman untold millions of dollars in a defamation case. Me thinks he ain't crazy!
>>77514 Iran's Foreign Minister, in Leaked Tape, Says Revolutionary Guards Set Policies Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, described a rivalry with a powerful and widely revered military leader, Qassim Suleimani.
>>77519 The Suez Canal legal fight
>>77524 VH1 piece on Epstein.. goes on to show the 2002.. Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker actually flew over on Pedo1 (Boeing 727) (Twatter Vidja)
>>77525 As much of the world continues to hunker down, a New Zealand band plays to 50,000 fans
>>77527 Group of Black Chicks get into it (fight.. really sad to see) NSW
>>77528 China/Iran ties to the IRAN DEAL.. what is in it? (Youtube)
>>77533 Matt Gaetz (Twatt) American GREATNESS indeed.. Why the MAGA Movement Needs Matt Gaetz in Congress
>>77558 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) But he totally got 80M votes... [Joe Bidon]
>>77560 Tulsi Gabbard (Twatter) My dear friends and fellow Americans, please, please let us stop the RACIALIZATION of everyone and everything-i.e., racialism. We are all children of God and are therefore family in the truest sense, no matter what our race or ethnicity. This is aloha. This is what our country and world need.
>>77561 Here's an earthly weapon and a heavenly weapon. This country is focused on the wrong one. "In the Woods with Phil" on BlazeTV (Youtube)
>>77563 Breaking - Putin has just signed a decree calling Russian reservists for military training
>>77565 NIH chief says he is not requiring his employees to get vaccine shots
>>77567 America Needs More Manliness, More Boldness, More GRIT | Phil Robertson (Youtbue)
>>77568 Junita Broaddrick (Twatter) Went into a bookstore to ask if they had Trump's book on illegal immigration.........
>>77569 Craigslist Ad: Actors needed for Research Project (maricopa county) Compensation is $125 per 'completed assignment'.. (read)
>>77570 Project Veritas has filed another lawsuit today - this time against @CNN
>>77572 #353

Previously Collected Notables
>>77249 #351, >>77378 #352
>>76682 #347, >>76814 #348, >>76966 #349, >>77080 #350
>>76038 #343, >>76178 #344, >>76296 #345, >>76447 #346
>>75534 #339, >>75639 #340, >>75816 #341, >>75922 #342
>>74806 #335, >>74992 #336, >>75206 #337, >>75397 #338
>>73986 #331, >>74184 #332, >>74389 #333, >>74575 #334
>>73179 #327, >>73377 #328, >>73579 #329, >>73791 #330
>>72375 #323, >>72572 #324, >>72764 #325, >>72978 #326

#77814 at 2021-04-29 05:39:50 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #355: If The People Cannot Be Heard, Might as Well Let Bidon Win Edition

Future Proves Past - Shadow President

https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1387423422817447938?s=19

"While Mike Pompeo was secretary of state and advising Donald Trump, Biden climate czar and former Secretary of State John Kerry was acting in the same role - except he was advising Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Pompeo told "Hannity" Tue." https://t.co/BN25IHZNOW

#77779 at 2021-04-28 21:33:02 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #355: If The People Cannot Be Heard, Might as Well Let Bidon Win Edition

#77574 at 2021-04-27 07:34:02 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #354: Everyone Is Connected Edition

Globals

>>69816 8Kun DNS Registry was erased from router tables WW, please make note of non DNS IP Address (IP 185.165.190.88)
>>59877 /MidnightRiders/ Emergency Regroup Instructions
>>51482 Suspended? Refugee? Looking for Anons & Patriots? New Thread For New Anons
>>68253 How to kill the bot? Easy

Notables are not endorsements

#353
>>77390 New photos show Epstein and Maxwell were VIP guests in Clinton's White House
>>77395 "More than 500 U.S. federally funded scientists have been flagged over their financial ties with China and other foreign adversaries, the National Institutes of Health has revealed."
>>77396 Texas is tied for the lowest (BEST) Capital Gains Tax rates under Biden's Tax plan. But, this is still theft. We will fight & defeat this proposed tax hike!
>>77398, >>77403 Video we should go through, seems there is a lot of Qlues in it...
>>77399 Dan Scavino (Twatt) 6ft 6ft 6ft 6ft... (article from MIT, you are no better 6' away from someone than 60' away)
>>77400, >>77464, >>77468, >>77475, >>77488, >>77490, >>77557 List of Trafficking countries per Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (Evergreen, Hanseatic Unity Chartering, and Cemex musings also)
>>77401, >>77402 Memories of 8Chan: Alice & Wonderland: ButterFly Bred, Flowers/Garden clip from Walt Disney movie.
>>77404 Navy (Twatter) USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (131 & 314) in post (Be the autists we know you are)
>>77406, >>77407 Twatter censors the US ArmyAGAIN
>>77408 USNavy (Twatt) and U.S. 7th Fleet are saddened to hear about Indonesia's lost submarine, KRI Nanggala, and are ready to assist in any way we can. In support of the Indonesian government, the U.S. Navy has deployed a P-8 Poseidon aircraft for airborne search capabilities.
>>77409 U.S. Navy (Twatt) @USNavy Bravo Zulo @Warship_78
>>77411, >>77412 Anons damn good digs on Election, Printing of MILLIONS of ballots: Where are they going??? Trump Vid & Moar.
>>77413 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) "'They will fight against you, but will not overcome you for I am with you and will rescue you,' declares the Lord." Jeremiah 1:19: & Drop #119
>>77435 Space Weather News April 25, 2021 (Earth's Axis has shifted)
>>77436, >>77437 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) Enough popcorn for a movie marathon! Thank you, @KansasGOP - I hope you had a great Convention! Flag of United States #ksgop
>>77438, Sen. Johnson presses Capitol Police about disinformation on Officer Sicknick's death
>>77439 (Twatter) MIL controlled Oscars, putting random numbers on actor's clothing. Real? Or fake and gay?
>>77440 Biden vs Bidon
>>77442 Badass Pastor who BTFO police did it once again, #2x telling police to fuck right off.. he will not be threatened by gestapo. The covid police came after this pastor again, and he chased them off a SECOND time."I do not cooperate with Gestapo!"
>>77443, >>77444, >>77445, >>77446, >>77447, >>77450, >>77451, >>77453, >>77454, >>77455, >>77456, >>77457, >>77458, >>77459, >>77462, Anon "OWL" Dig. Screech Owl = Lilith (Infant eating demon, Adam's first wife FEMALE FORM/Actions) Moloch = Male/Lucifer/Satan. Their child = Baphomet which is Freemason demon god.. and androgynous (why the trans movement is important to [them] & why they are all gay or bisexual.
>>77469 Our Administration's exquisite strike on Qasem Soleimani had a massive impact on Iran and the Middle East. You don't have to take my word for it. Ask ??@JZarif?. President Biden still thinks it was a mistake. #AmericaFirst #AbrahamAccords
>>77470 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) DC statehood isn't about representation. Let's call it what it is: the Left's attempt at an unconstitutional power grab for more seats in Congress. We must never give an inch.
>>77471 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) The threats to the American experiment are real - we need organizations like @azpolicy to defeat them. Thank you @cathiherrod for your leadership in championing American values!
>>77472 It was great to spend time with @JoelCRosenberg. My son, Nick, came to love Israel on his first trip there, as you will hear in this interview.
>>77473 (Twatter) No one cares what celebrity elites have to pontificate about. Stars return to gated mansions, escorted by armed security after they stir up divisiveness.
>>77474 Gov Greg Abbott (Twatt) Texas has next on this. A heartbeat bill is making its way through the Texas legislature. I look forward to signing it. #ProLife
>>77477 Breaking911 (Twatt) Helicopter crashes in Nunavut, Canada; 3 dead
>>77478 CENTCOM (Twatt) Two additional B-52 bombers arrive at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, to support the Afghanistan drawdown.
>>77479 BREAKING: A New Judge Assigned to Democrats' Maricopa County Case - Parties Have 10 Days to File Motions - Audit Continues!
>>77480 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) Just in. Statement from PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP April 26th, 2021 [Doug Ducey of AZ, 1 of the worse Governors in America, is refusing to provide security for the American Patriots who are hand countinng the Rigged 2020 Election Ballots.
>>77481 3 Accused of Bombing Philly Target, Wawas During BLM Riots -
>>77482 Fully open Texas and Florida reporting fewer COVID cases than Democrat-led Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York
>>77484, >>77485 Melania's Birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Eyes on Maricopa/DC Statehood fuckery is a power grab for more seats in Congress.
>>77486 Space Weather News April 26, 2021
>>77492 Mural in Denver International Airport depicting kids with face masks from every country | Painted in 1994
>>77493 Facebook v Apple: The ad tracking row heats up
>>77495 Liberals urged to condemn Iran receiving UN women's rights committee seat
>>77496, >>77502 ILA Union Lawsuit Claims Breach of Master Contract at New U.S. Terminal
>>77497, >>77501, >>77504, >>77505, >>77507, >>77508, >>77509, >>77514, >>77516, >>77518, >>77530, >>77532, >>77535, >>77537, >>77538, >>77539, >>77540, >>77541, >>77542, >>77543, >>77544, >>77545, >>77546, >>77547, >>77548, >>77549>>77551, >>77553, >>77554, >>77555, >>77562 Why is KERRY in the EU? (Q Drop #1359) EXTREMELY RELEVANT! (Narced on Israel strikes on Iran.. TO Iran) (meeting with Iranians for Iran Nuke Deal/Undermine PDJT) (BUN)
>>77506 Thomas Paine (Twatt) FBI Releases Documents On Investigation Into Death Of DNC Staffer Seth Rich
>>77510 JUST IN: Ashli Babbitt's Family Lawyer Drops A Bombshell: 'We're Ready To Fight... A New Lawsuit Will Be Filed Soon Against US Capitol Police'
>>77511 Some call Lin Wood crazy. But ask yourself this. If his claims were false why hasnt he been sued for saying things about people like Drew and John Robert's? This guy got Nic Sandman untold millions of dollars in a defamation case. Me thinks he ain't crazy!
>>77514 Iran's Foreign Minister, in Leaked Tape, Says Revolutionary Guards Set Policies Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, described a rivalry with a powerful and widely revered military leader, Qassim Suleimani.
>>77519 The Suez Canal legal fight
>>77524 VH1 piece on Epstein.. goes on to show the 2002.. Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker actually flew over on Pedo1 (Boeing 727) (Twatter Vidja)
>>77525 As much of the world continues to hunker down, a New Zealand band plays to 50,000 fans
>>77527 Group of Black Chicks get into it (fight.. really sad to see) NSW
>>77528 China/Iran ties to the IRAN DEAL.. what is in it? (Youtube)
>>77533 Matt Gaetz (Twatt) American GREATNESS indeed.. Why the MAGA Movement Needs Matt Gaetz in Congress
>>77558 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) But he totally got 80M votes... [Joe Bidon]
>>77560 Tulsi Gabbard (Twatter) My dear friends and fellow Americans, please, please let us stop the RACIALIZATION of everyone and everything-i.e., racialism. We are all children of God and are therefore family in the truest sense, no matter what our race or ethnicity. This is aloha. This is what our country and world need.
>>77561 Here's an earthly weapon and a heavenly weapon. This country is focused on the wrong one. "In the Woods with Phil" on BlazeTV (Youtube)
>>77563 Breaking - Putin has just signed a decree calling Russian reservists for military training
>>77565 NIH chief says he is not requiring his employees to get vaccine shots
>>77567 America Needs More Manliness, More Boldness, More GRIT | Phil Robertson (Youtbue)
>>77568 Junita Broaddrick (Twatter) Went into a bookstore to ask if they had Trump's book on illegal immigration.........
>>77569 Craigslist Ad: Actors needed for Research Project (maricopa county) Compensation is $125 per 'completed assignment'.. (read)
>>77570 Project Veritas has filed another lawsuit today - this time against @CNN
>>77572 #353

#77572 at 2021-04-27 07:22:10 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #353: AZ Ballot Audit Underway (no MSM coverage) Edition

>>77476

Notables are NOT an endorsement

@ bacon

#353
>>77390 New photos show Epstein and Maxwell were VIP guests in Clinton's White House
>>77395 "More than 500 U.S. federally funded scientists have been flagged over their financial ties with China and other foreign adversaries, the National Institutes of Health has revealed."
>>77396 Texas is tied for the lowest (BEST) Capital Gains Tax rates under Biden's Tax plan. But, this is still theft. We will fight & defeat this proposed tax hike!
>>77398, >>77403 Video we should go through, seems there is a lot of Qlues in it...
>>77399 Dan Scavino (Twatt) 6ft 6ft 6ft 6ft... (article from MIT, you are no better 6' away from someone than 60' away)
>>77400, >>77464, >>77468, >>77475, >>77488, >>77490, >>77557 List of Trafficking countries per Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (Evergreen, Hanseatic Unity Chartering, and Cemex musings also)
>>77401, >>77402 Memories of 8Chan: Alice & Wonderland: ButterFly Bred, Flowers/Garden clip from Walt Disney movie.
>>77404 Navy (Twatter) USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (131 & 314) in post (Be the autists we know you are)
>>77406, >>77407 Twatter censors the US ArmyAGAIN
>>77408 USNavy (Twatt) and U.S. 7th Fleet are saddened to hear about Indonesia's lost submarine, KRI Nanggala, and are ready to assist in any way we can. In support of the Indonesian government, the U.S. Navy has deployed a P-8 Poseidon aircraft for airborne search capabilities.
>>77409 U.S. Navy (Twatt) @USNavy Bravo Zulo @Warship_78
>>77411, >>77412 Anons damn good digs on Election, Printing of MILLIONS of ballots: Where are they going??? Trump Vid & Moar.
>>77413 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) "'They will fight against you, but will not overcome you for I am with you and will rescue you,' declares the Lord." Jeremiah 1:19: & Drop #119
>>77435 Space Weather News April 25, 2021 (Earth's Axis has shifted)
>>77436, >>77437 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) Enough popcorn for a movie marathon! Thank you, @KansasGOP - I hope you had a great Convention! Flag of United States #ksgop
>>77438, Sen. Johnson presses Capitol Police about disinformation on Officer Sicknick's death
>>77439 (Twatter) MIL controlled Oscars, putting random numbers on actor's clothing. Real? Or fake and gay?
>>77440 Biden vs Bidon
>>77442 Badass Pastor who BTFO police did it once again, #2x telling police to fuck right off.. he will not be threatened by gestapo. The covid police came after this pastor again, and he chased them off a SECOND time."I do not cooperate with Gestapo!"
>>77443, >>77444, >>77445, >>77446, >>77447, >>77450, >>77451, >>77453, >>77454, >>77455, >>77456, >>77457, >>77458, >>77459, >>77462, Anon "OWL" Dig. Screech Owl = Lilith (Infant eating demon, Adam's first wife FEMALE FORM/Actions) Moloch = Male/Lucifer/Satan. Their child = Baphomet which is Freemason demon god.. and androgynous (why the trans movement is important to [them] & why they are all gay or bisexual.
>>77469 Our Administration's exquisite strike on Qasem Soleimani had a massive impact on Iran and the Middle East. You don't have to take my word for it. Ask ??@JZarif?. President Biden still thinks it was a mistake. #AmericaFirst #AbrahamAccords
>>77470 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) DC statehood isn't about representation. Let's call it what it is: the Left's attempt at an unconstitutional power grab for more seats in Congress. We must never give an inch.
>>77471 Mike Pompeo (Twatt) The threats to the American experiment are real - we need organizations like @azpolicy to defeat them. Thank you @cathiherrod for your leadership in championing American values!
>>77472 It was great to spend time with @JoelCRosenberg. My son, Nick, came to love Israel on his first trip there, as you will hear in this interview.
>>77473 (Twatter) No one cares what celebrity elites have to pontificate about. Stars return to gated mansions, escorted by armed security after they stir up divisiveness.
>>77474 Gov Greg Abbott (Twatt) Texas has next on this. A heartbeat bill is making its way through the Texas legislature. I look forward to signing it. #ProLife
>>77477 Breaking911 (Twatt) Helicopter crashes in Nunavut, Canada; 3 dead
>>77478 CENTCOM (Twatt) Two additional B-52 bombers arrive at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, to support the Afghanistan drawdown.
>>77479 BREAKING: A New Judge Assigned to Democrats' Maricopa County Case - Parties Have 10 Days to File Motions - Audit Continues!
>>77480 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) Just in. Statement from PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP April 26th, 2021 [Doug Ducey of AZ, 1 of the worse Governors in America, is refusing to provide security for the American Patriots who are hand countinng the Rigged 2020 Election Ballots.
>>77481 3 Accused of Bombing Philly Target, Wawas During BLM Riots -
>>77482 Fully open Texas and Florida reporting fewer COVID cases than Democrat-led Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York
>>77484, >>77485 Melania's Birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Eyes on Maricopa/DC Statehood fuckery is a power grab for more seats in Congress.
>>77486 Space Weather News April 26, 2021
>>77492 Mural in Denver International Airport depicting kids with face masks from every country | Painted in 1994
>>77493 Facebook v Apple: The ad tracking row heats up
>>77495 Liberals urged to condemn Iran receiving UN women's rights committee seat
>>77496, >>77502 ILA Union Lawsuit Claims Breach of Master Contract at New U.S. Terminal
>>77497, >>77501, >>77504, >>77505, >>77507, >>77508, >>77509, >>77514, >>77516, >>77518, >>77530, >>77532, >>77535, >>77537, >>77538, >>77539, >>77540, >>77541, >>77542, >>77543, >>77544, >>77545, >>77546, >>77547, >>77548, >>77549>>77551, >>77553, >>77554, >>77555, >>77562 Why is KERRY in the EU? (Q Drop #1359) EXTREMELY RELEVANT! (Snitched on Israel strikes on Iran.. TO Iran) (meeting with Iranians for Iran Nuke Deal/Undermine PDJT) (BUN)
>>77506 Thomas Paine (Twatt) FBI Releases Documents On Investigation Into Death Of DNC Staffer Seth Rich
>>77510 JUST IN: Ashli Babbitt's Family Lawyer Drops A Bombshell: 'We're Ready To Fight... A New Lawsuit Will Be Filed Soon Against US Capitol Police'
>>77511 Some call Lin Wood crazy. But ask yourself this. If his claims were false why hasnt he been sued for saying things about people like Drew and John Robert's? This guy got Nic Sandman untold millions of dollars in a defamation case. Me thinks he ain't crazy!
>>77514 Iran's Foreign Minister, in Leaked Tape, Says Revolutionary Guards Set Policies Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, described a rivalry with a powerful and widely revered military leader, Qassim Suleimani.
>>77519 The Suez Canal legal fight
>>77524 VH1 piece on Epstein.. goes on to show the 2002.. Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker actually flew over on Pedo1 (Boeing 727) (Twatter Vidja)
>>77525 As much of the world continues to hunker down, a New Zealand band plays to 50,000 fans
>>77527 Group of Black Chicks get into it (fight.. really sad to see) NSW
>>77528 China/Iran ties to the IRAN DEAL.. what is in it? (Youtube)
>>77533 Matt Gaetz (Twatt) American GREATNESS indeed.. Why the MAGA Movement Needs Matt Gaetz in Congress
>>77558 Jenna Ellis (Twatter) But he totally got 80M votes... [Joe Bidon]
>>77560 Tulsi Gabbard (Twatter) My dear friends and fellow Americans, please, please let us stop the RACIALIZATION of everyone and everything-i.e., racialism. We are all children of God and are therefore family in the truest sense, no matter what our race or ethnicity. This is aloha. This is what our country and world need.
>>77561 Here's an earthly weapon and a heavenly weapon. This country is focused on the wrong one. "In the Woods with Phil" on BlazeTV (Youtube)
>>77563 Breaking - Putin has just signed a decree calling Russian reservists for military training
>>77565 NIH chief says he is not requiring his employees to get vaccine shots
>>77567 America Needs More Manliness, More Boldness, More GRIT | Phil Robertson (Youtbue)
>>77568 Junita Broaddrick (Twatter) Went into a bookstore to ask if they had Trump's book on illegal immigration.........
>>77569 Craigslist Ad: Actors needed for Research Project (maricopa county) Compensation is $125 per 'completed assignment'.. (read)
>>77570 Project Veritas has filed another lawsuit today - this time against @CNN
>>77571 A Nashville police officer fatally shot a man during a traffic stop in the city's Bordeaux neighborhood on April 24, 2021, after the man charged the officer with two butcher knives.

#77535 at 2021-04-27 04:13:37 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #353: AZ Ballot Audit Underway (no MSM coverage) Edition

Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry allegedly informed Iran that Israel had carried out at least 200 covert strikes against Iranian targets, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif revealed in a leaked recording.

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1386856106325118982

#77518 at 2021-04-27 03:09:37 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #353: AZ Ballot Audit Underway (no MSM coverage) Edition

The coming clash: Why Iran will divide Europe from the United States
Europe must salvage the nuclear deal with Iran and step-up robust diplomacy with Teran on regional issues

Policy recommendations
European governments and the EU should safeguard the JCPOA and vigorously plan for contingencies should the US continue to backtrack on the nuclear deal. This should primarily focus on legal, political, and economic measures that can ringfence European companies from the enforcement of US secondary sanctions.
Europe should also pursue the political openings created by the nuclear deal to engage in tough diplomacy with Iran on non-nuclear issues. The most promising areas for tangible, albeit incremental, progress include: freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf, reducing the violence in conflicts in Yemen and Syria, and lowering tensions in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The EU should facilitate dialogue with regional powers with the aim of creating greater transparency over ballistic missile capacities in the Middle East.
European countries and the EU should further nurture the channels they have developed with the Iranian leadership to help counterbalance the impact of Donald Trump's polarising narratives on regional developments.
Introduction
Donald Trump is not easy to get along with. On many global security issues, Europeans take very different approaches than the new American president. But perhaps nowhere is the difference more profound than on the question of Iran. Given the president's harsh rhetoric and his recent efforts to put that talk into practice, a transatlantic clash on the issue seems almost inevitable. European countries should prepare now to minimise the damage and preserve their strategic interests on non-proliferation and the pursuit of stability in the Middle East.
Trump wants to shift US policy on Iran towards aggressive containment and away from the diplomatic openings created by his predecessor. The primary focus of this shift is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the JCPOA), a multilateral nuclear accord to limit Iran's nuclear programme which Trump has called an "embarrassment" and "disastrous".[1] The US president has also consistently condemned Iran as a "fanatical regime" and "rogue nation", placed expansive travel restrictions on Iranian nationals, and urged other nations to isolate the country.[2] His administration has unambiguously sided with Iran's regional rival, Saudi Arabia, in addressing the conflicts in the Middle East.[3]
In October, the White House released a revised US strategy towards Iran, with a heavy focus on "neutralizing" Iran's "destabilizing influence and constraining its aggression" in the region.[4] Trump also decided to 'decertify' Iranian compliance with the JCPOA, meaning that he will not attest to Congress that Iran is abiding by the terms of the deal. In response, the heads of state and government of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom released a rare joint statement expressing concern at Trump's policy.[5] The process surrounding the nuclear deal has already strained transatlantic ties and, as the European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini warned, reduced the credibility of the US as a partner for future European policy on Iran.[6]
The current trajectory not only endangers European non-proliferation goals, but it also heightens the risk of a nuclear arms race and further military escalation in Europe's backyard. Direct or indirect confrontation between American- and Iranian-backed forces across the Middle East will further fuel the regional conflicts, particularly in Iraq and Syria, that have already imposed heavy costs on Europe.
European leaders do share many of the concerns of the US with regard to Iran. But they take a strikingly different approach from the Trump administration to dealing with Iran. They consistently voice unanimous support for the JCPOA and broadly favour similar multilateral engagement to address outstanding areas of grievance with Iran.[7] European leaders have warned that ditching the nuclear deal, as Trump has threatened to do, would make it much harder to resolve other disagreements with Iran.[8] Moreover, some European officials privately say that isolating and excluding Iran from the international community may cause more hardline elements of the Iranian leadership to "take measures that further fuel regional instability".[9]
This paper looks at how the Trump administration will seek to implement this new Iran strategy and provides a comparison with the European approach. It outlines the consequences that are likely to follow from a more confrontational strategy toward Iran and examines the implications for European security interests.
It concludes that Europe should not only try to preserve the nuclear deal with Iran, it should also make contingency plans to salvage the relationship with Iran if the US defects. This includes taking measures to protect European banks and companies from US secondary sanctions. In the meantime, however, European governments need to demonstrate that the current diplomatic track can lead to progress on the issues of concern with Iran. They should do so by first leading on or at least encouraging negotiations on issues such as ensuring freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf, de-escalating the wars in Yemen and Syria, and stabilising Iraq in the aftermath of the Islamic State group (ISIS). Europe will also need to find a pragmatic approach to addressing the concerns with Iran's ballistic missile programme. European capitals will need to maintain constructive channels with both Tehran and Washington, and resist pressure from the US to once again isolate Iran.
Europe's gradual opening to Tehran
A gradual process of confidence building and rapprochement has been underway between the EU and Iran for several years. A new round of nuclear negotiations began in 2013 at roughly the same moment that Iranian voters elected Hassan Rouhani as Iran's president. His administration shunned his predecessor's brash isolationism and anti-Western rhetoric. With the support of the Obama administration, the EU found the political space to thaw relations with Tehran by pursuing economic and political engagement.
The EU and European governments have responded positively to calls from the Rouhani administration to improve relations, and accelerated formerly dormant exchanges with Iran across government organs, parliament, judiciary, and the business sector. Since Iran's decade of isolation drew to an end in 2103, most EU countries have sent their foreign minister to Iran and officially received Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif. Shortly after the JCPOA was implemented in January 2016, Rouhani made his first high profile visits to Europe and in April 2016 the EU high representative Federica Mogherini travelled to Tehran with seven European commissioners with the aim of expanding EU-Iran relations. The EU's 'Iran Task Force', established in 2015, has led on European projects with Iran on nuclear safety, energy, educational exchanges, and EU officials have suggested that the European Investment Bank may operate in Iran in the future.10
Countless European trade delegations have visited Iran, with the EU reporting a 94 percent increase in Iran-EU trade in the first half of 2017 from the same period in 2016.[11]
As Mogherini has said, "Europe feels an interest and a responsibility to engage with Iran", and indeed a growing number of European governments believe that diplomacy with Iran can be an effective means of reducing the violence and instability in the Middle East.[12] But robust engagement with Iran on regional issues has yet to be seriously tested. Those who are fiercely critical of any diplomatic opening with Iran, such as Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, argue that negotiations would only create greater space for Tehran to continue actions that destabilise the region.[13]
Republicans in Congress made similar criticisms when the Obama administration, together with European partners, began negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme.[14] Yet, not only did the talks result in a deal that addressed the most critical security concerns of the West, Iran has also delivered on its commitments. Since this diplomatic process began, engaging rather than excluding Iran on regional issues has at times produced results that are in the mutual interest of the West and Iran. For example, a quiet political exchange between Iran and some European countries, together with local actors, contributed to easing Lebanon's political deadlock in 2016.[15] The US too has found it advantageous to work with Iran on certain regional issues, such as the anti-ISIS fight. In that case, the US-led forces and Iran have, through the Iraqi government in Baghdad, established a system for de facto military coordination.
However, relations between Europe and Iran remain far from normal. A combination of factors ranging from lingering distrust, mutual disappointment over the lack of progress, and their opposing stances on a number of regional issues have limited the rapprochement.
Divisions between Iran and Europe are on full display in Syria and Yemen where each has backed opposing sides. There are also deep disagreements related to Iran's support for non-state actors in the region, its arming of Hezbollah, and its position on Israel - and more recently concerns over Iran's expanding ballistic missile programme. In these areas, Europeans have generally worked with the US.
They have supported, for example, the Trump administration in its complaints to the United Nations about Iran's ballistic missile tests.[16]
Meanwhile, Iran is frustrated by the paltry level of European investment in the Iranian economy. Increased European investment is a critical piece of the Rouhani government's effort to attract an annual target of $50 billion in foreign direct investment and to boost job growth.[17] The easing of sanctions since the JCPOA has allowed for an uptick in trade, but Iranian policymakers and the business sector remain disappointed by the level of European investment in Iran.[18]
Financing for such investments is in short supply and most banks in Europe are sensitive to US politics on Iran given the high degree of exposure they have to the US market and regulators.[19] A handful of smaller and state-owned European banks, particularly those in Austria, Denmark, France, and Germany have provided financing for deals and investments in Iran, and some governments such as Denmark and Italy, have provided credit lines to support exports to Iran.[20] However, major European banks, whose financing is needed for longer-term and bigger investments inside Iran, have remained reluctant.[21]
Various expectations and preconditions mean that Europe and Iran risk mutual disappointment in their effort to improve relations. Tehran wants European capitals to do much more to encourage economic exchange, resolve the complex banking deadlock, and to oppose Trump's attacks on the JCPOA. Similarly, European governments want to see signs of good faith from Iran beyond the nuclear issue, such as less Iranian support to non-state actors and militia groups in the region, greater Iranian pressure on the Assad regime to accept political transition, and less frequent testing of Iranian ballistic missiles.[22] Their Iranian counterparts view such expectations as unrealistic, and at times naive, considering Iran's domestic politics and a regional environment that is increasingly hostile to Iranian interests.[23]
The clash with Trump
Over the past year, the E3 (the UK, France, and Germany) and the EU have firmly expressed to the US their continued commitment to the nuclear deal. They have made the case that the Trump administration would be isolated on the Iran issue if it chose to walk away from the JCPOA.[24] Some European governments have also said that the JCPOA's survival is a precondition for their cooperation with the Trump administration on other areas of Iran policy, notably regional issues.[25] They have attempted to persuade Trump that multilateral engagement on Iran is a more effective way to change Iranian calculations than a policy of containment.[26]
Although European capitals share many of the concerns of the US about Iran, Europe is quickly parting ways with the Trump administration over two fundamental issues. First, they disagree on what they are trying to achieve with Iran. Trump's statements on Iran move US policy aims towards efforts to weaken the Islamic Republic and perhaps to the idea of regime change.[27] The US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, for example, effectively backed a regime change approach when he outlined that the administration would "work towards support of those elements inside of Iran that would lead to a peaceful transition of that government."[28] European governments, on the other hand, are hoping to see behavioural change from Iran in ways that promote European security interests and contribute to regional stability.
The second source of European-US differences over Iran relates to the tools used to achieve these goals. European governments are moving away from isolating Iran using containment and sanctions towards engaging the country using diplomatic and economic tools. The Trump administration has moved in the opposite direction, seeking to isolate Iran through political measures and tougher sanctions.
Perhaps the clearest example of this division occurred in May 2017. During Trump's visit to Riyadh, he called for all nations to isolate Iran. Within hours, the EU high representative together with other European leaders publicly congratulated the re-elected president, Hassan Rouhani, on his victory and expressed hope for further political opening with Iran.[29] Similarly, on the same day as Trump made his speech on the new US Iran strategy, the French president discussed with Rouhani a potential trip to Iran, which would be the first by a French head of state since Iran's 1979 revolution.[30] In parallel a number of giant European companies have ignored Trump's calls to refrain from doing business with Iran and instead announced new deals with their Iranian counterparts. [31]
Despite these European efforts, there is a broad tendency in Washington among both Democrats and Republicans to assume that European governments can be co-opted or coerced to follow US policy on Iran.[32] US observers believe that, when faced with a choice of doing business with Iran or facing economic US secondary sanctions, European governments and businesses will opt to preserve their US ties. They also tend to believe that, by threatening to adopt a confrontational position towards Iran - to include killing the nuclear deal, pushing for regime change, or even conducting limited military strikes against Iran - the US will coerce Europeans to come on board with less extreme policies, such as renegotiating the nuclear deal or demanding that Iran change its behaviour on regional files. In opposing Trump's policy towards Iran, European governments find themselves in the unusual position of being closer to Russia and China than to their traditional transatlantic partner.[33]
The US plan: Containment and rollback
Politics inside Washington has created a broad consensus in the Trump administration and Congress on the need to get tough on Iran with the ultimate objective of significantly weakening Iran's leadership.[34] In October, Trump outlined the new US Iran strategy that has at its heart an effort to derail the JCPOA, and to contain and confront Iran, leaving little political space for diplomacy.
Implementation of such goals, however, will be difficult. As administration officials admit, Iran's regional footing is stronger now than at any time since the start of the 2003 Iraq war and its ability to impose costs on the region and the US is also greater.[35] Given the new level of the challenge, the administration has had an often fierce debate on how precisely to confront Iran.[36] Currently, it appears that two broad factions have emerged: Donald Trump and everyone else.
(1) Donald Trump
The president has taken every opportunity to broadcast his animosity towards Iran. He has called for the country's international isolation and sought to pressure foreign companies not to do business with the country.[37] So far Trump has channeled his stated intention to get tough on Iran into attempts to dismantle or undermine the nuclear agreement.
There is little doubt that Trump seeks to undermine the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor and world powers. Despite assessments by US generals and eight reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that verify Iranian compliance, Trump claims that Iran is violating the "spirit" of the deal.[38] In his October speech, he outlined that he was willing to end US participation in the nuclear deal unless it was amended to extend the expiration dates of various Iranian obligations (the so called "sunset provisions") and to include tougher limitations on Iran's missile programme.[39]
On regional issues, Trump has already doubled down on US support to Saudi Arabia in its regional feud with Iran.[40] This stands in stark contrast to Obama's attempt to encourage greater accommodation and compromise between the two regional powers.[41] The US administration has also stepped up backing for the Saudi military campaign in Yemen, in part to weaken Iranian-allied Houthi forces.[42] Trump has sided with Saudi Arabia even where this has put the US at odds with other key regional allies such as Qatar.[43] This followed Trump's agreement to sell Saudi Arabia $110 billion in weapons, an agreement hailed by the White House as the single largest such deal in US history.[44]
(2) Everyone else
In contrast, some of Trump's cabinet members, including secretary of defence James Mattis, seem intent on moderating the president's pronouncements on Iran.[45] Moderation in this context means that, although this camp believes in increasing the pressure on Iranian regime, it also believes that retaining the JCPOA is the best way to do so.[46] It has reportedly pressed Trump to adhere to the nuclear deal to keep allies on board with pursuing a more active and aggressive pushback on Iran across the region.
The views on Iran of many of these military officers in Trump's cabinet are coloured by their own and the US military's experience with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Lebanon and Iraq.[47] The deep animosity towards the IRGC was reflected in the White House fact sheet on the US strategy towards Iran, which is heavily focused on countering the IRGC.[48] Close advisers to this camp say that they seek to avoid direct military confrontation, but that the US should support covert and overt military pushback against Iranian assets in the region. They tend to favour supporting Arab allies to engage in greater asymmetric warfare against the IRGC and Iranian-backed forces (in particular Hezbollah), together with placing greater economic sanctions on such entities.[49] As a former US official acknowledges, a similar approach was employed in small doses by the Obama administration, but the Trump administration seeks to make it a centrepiece of US policy.[50]
While supporting a more assertive posture against Iran, this camp wants to avoid losing focus on the Trump administration's priority of fighting ISIS. Senior US officials have reportedly cautioned against looser rules of engagement, which would allow US military commanders to respond more forcefully to the IRGC and Hezbollah forces in Iraq and Syria, out of concern that this would divert attention from the priority of fighting ISIS in the region.[51] There is also a willingness in this camp to engage with Iran where this serves US interests. Tillerson has indicated that he is open to diplomacy with Tehran.[52] In the Department of Defence, there is some support for establishing lines of deconfliction with Iran to avoid skirmishes between naval forces in the Persian Gulf.[53]
Overall, the moderates have swayed Trump to accept a subtler approach to dealing with Iran. Trump seems unwilling to deliver a deathblow to the nuclear deal. He has so far twice used his executive power to renew waivers of sanctions as required under the JCPOA. Instead, the October decision to decertify Iranian compliance with the JCPOA provides a face-saving way for Trump to look tough on Iran but to shift the immediate responsibility over the fate of the nuclear deal onto Congress.[54]
Yet, even if Trump is isolated, he is the president. It remains unclear if he is interested in renegotiating a better deal or simply aims to shut the door to all diplomacy with Iran. Even if Congress does not follow Trump's decertification of the JCPOA by ending the deal altogether, the US commitment to the agreement is likely to hang in the balance every three months when Trump must decide to re-waive US sanctions on Iran (with the next waiver deadline looming in January 2018). The unpredictability surrounding his position on the nuclear deal, even with his own cabinet members and closest allies, has essentially put the deal in limbo.[55]
As the battle over the nuclear deal between Trump and his cabinet rages on, the US and Iran have stepped up their shadow boxing in the Middle East. On several occasions, Iranian and US naval ships have narrowly avoided incidents in the Persian Gulf.[56] Their respective forces on the ground have clashed in Iraq and Syria,[57] and Iranian drones and US fighter jets have clashed in the air over the Middle East.[58] The Trump administration has sanctioned Iranian entities and persons involved with the ballistic missile programme and observers expect tougher Congressional sanctions on this issue in the coming year.[59]
All of this means that European governments should prepare for increasing tensions between Iran and the US.

https://ecfr.eu/publication/why_iran_will_divide_europe_from_the_united_states_7230/

Archive Link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210427031002/https://ecfr.eu/publication/why_iran_will_divide_europe_from_the_united_states_7230/

#77514 at 2021-04-27 03:04:23 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #353: AZ Ballot Audit Underway (no MSM coverage) Edition

>>77509

https://web.archive.org/web/20210427025831/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/world/middleeast/iran-suleimani-Zarif.html

Iran's Foreign Minister, in Leaked Tape, Says Revolutionary Guards Set Policies
Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, described a rivalry with a powerful and widely revered military leader, Qassim Suleimani.

#35011 at 2021-01-04 22:31:55 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #161: The World Is About To Change RALLY NIGHT Edition

think we habs an answer as to where some of those trans-atlantic SAM flights that left yesterday and today are heading for.

Breakthrough Reached in Gulf Dispute With Qatar -Senior Trump Official

A breakthrough has been reached in Qatar's three-year-old dispute with Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries and an agreement aimed at ending their rift is to be signed in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, a senior Trump administration official said. The development is the latest in a series of Middle East deals sought by Washington - the others involving Israel and Arab states - aimed at building a united front against Iran.

As part of the deal, Saudi Arabia will reopen its airspace and land and sea border to Qatar as of Monday, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Ahmad Nasser al-Sabah said on Kuwait TV ahead of a Gulf Arab summit in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

Saudi state agency SPA quoted Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as saying the annual gathering of Gulf leaders would unite Gulf ranks "in the face of challenges facing the region".

Qatar's ruler, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, will attend, the royal court said. The U.S. official said the Saudi crown prince and Qatari emir would sign the deal. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt have imposed a diplomatic, trade and travel embargo on Qatar since mid-2017 accusing it of supporting terrorism. Qatar denies it and says the embargo aims to undermine its sovereignty.

While Saudi Arabia made clear it intended to lift the blockade, the other three countries did not do so immediately, but the Trump official said "it's our expectation" they would also join in lifting the blockade. Under the emerging agreement, Qatar will suspend lawsuits related to the blockade, the official said.

All of the countries involved in the deals are U.S. allies. Qatar hosts the region's largest U.S. military base, Bahrain is home to the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet, and Saudi Arabia and the UAE host U.S. troops. White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, assigned to work on the dispute by U.S. President Donald Trump, helped negotiate the deal and was working the phones on it until the wee hours of Monday morning, the official said.

When in December Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said a resolution to the dispute seemed within reach, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a Twitter post said he hoped Gulf reconciliation "contributes to stability and political and economic development for all peoples of our region." UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said in a Twitter post that Tuesday's summit would restore Gulf unity and that "more work lies ahead and we are moving in the right direction".

On Monday, Turkey's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it welcomed the move by Saudi Arabia and called it an important step towards resolving the dispute. "Our hope is that this dispute reaches a comprehensive and lasting resolution based on mutual respect for the countries' sovereignty and that other sanctions against the people of Qatar are lifted as soon as possible," it said, adding that Turkey supported all efforts to bring stability to the Gulf region.

Kushner, Middle East envoy Avi Berkowitz and Brian Hook, a special State Department adviser, were flying to the Saudi Arabian city of al-Ula to attend the ceremony, the U.S. official said.

If the deal holds, the Gulf dispute will be added to a string of diplomatic achievements of the Kushner team, a list that includes normalization deals last year between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-01-04/breakthrough-reached-in-gulf-dispute-with-qatar-senior-trump-administration-official

8chan/8kun QRB Posts (15)

#85044 at 2021-08-21 18:02:21 (UTC+1)
QRB General #534: DO NOT QUIT YOUR JOB - Make them FIRE YOU! Edition

Japan to extend $300 mil. in loans for upgrading Iraq refinery

Japan will extend up to 32.7 billion yen ($300 million) in low-interest loans to Iraq to assist the country's plan to upgrade one of its oil refineries, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi told his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein on Saturday.

Motegi made the pledge during an unannounced trip to Baghdad, the first visit to Iraq by a Japanese foreign minister after Taro Aso in August 2006. Separately, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said a meeting has been set for Sunday between Motegi and new Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, an anti-U.S. conservative hard-liner who took office this month, in Tehran. The meeting comes as Iran faces a deadlock in nuclear talks with the United States and Europe. Japan has built a friendly relationship with Tehran while also being allied with Washington. Besides Hussein, Motegi held separate talks in Baghdad with Iraqi President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, and the two sides agreed to step up cooperation in ensuring peace and stability in the Middle East country.

The Japanese Foreign Ministry did not announce Motegi's visit to Iraq which came between his trip to Turkey and planned travel to Iran as part of his Middle East tour due to safety reasons. The originally released itinerary said he would fly from Istanbul straight to Tehran on Saturday morning.

The financial aid will be used to expand one of Iraq's major refineries in Basra, southern Iraq, as part of efforts to rebuild the economy, according to the ministry. Motegi and Hussein also discussed regional issues including the crisis in Afghanistan, as well as ways to expand business between Japan and Iraq, the ministry said. Prior to the trip to Iraq, the Japanese minister visited Egypt, the West Bank to meet with Palestinian leaders, Israel, Jordan and Turkey.

During the visit to Iran, he will also meet with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Hossein Amir Abdollahian, a former deputy foreign minister who is set to succeed Zarif under the Raisi administration. Raisi has called for the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Iran, which have been strengthened since 2018 when then President Donald Trump's administration pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.

After Iran, Motegi will travel to Qatar before returning home on Tuesday.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/08/89a161f375a9-breaking-news-motegi-makes-unannounced-visit-to-iraq-1st-by-japan-fm-in-15-yrs.html

#60081 at 2021-06-05 21:43:56 (UTC+1)
QRB General #270: They Gonna Need A Better Hoax NCSWIC Edition

#49765 at 2021-04-30 19:09:56 (UTC+1)
QRB General #141: MayDay MayDay Edition

#139
>>49606, >>49658, >>49665 Eyes on the skies - C'mon man!...two trips in two days?
>>49610, >>49614 BILL GATES' luxury catamaran visits the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
>>49613, >>49616, >>49618 Child trafficking getting exposure from Gen. McInerney, Tucker, PDJT, Lin Wood
>>49616, >>49653 General McInerney on Telegram: Contact AZ State Fair to shut down surprise carnival near Maricopa audit site. Tim Scott is a RINO coward trash Senator.
>>49619 Arizona Audit Director Ken Bennett: Maricopa County Election Audit on Pace to be Done by Deadline
>>49620, >>49621, >>49622 The Anti-Lockdown Movement Is Large and Growing
>>49623 Antifa has threatened to kill the mayor of a major American city in an ISIS-style video
>>49624 Rep Boebert brings space blanket to Joe's speech - guess why?
>>49633 "Makes Me Worried": China Based Companies Rush To List On U.S. Exchanges At A Blistering Pace
>>49634 UK spy agencies are looking for the next Alan Turing and'Q'in recruitment drives with a focus on tackling cyber threats
>>49635 Examiner Who Performed Andrew Brown Autopsy Previously Had License Suspended, Accused Of Mishandling Prior Investigation
>>49636 Cypress College Professor Can Barely Hide Her Disdain When Student Calls Police 'Heroes'
>>49640, >>49642 report: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
>>49666 Antifa Terrorists Issue Direct Physical Threat To Portland Mayor: Resign Or Else....
>>49675 #139

#138
>>49501, >>49510, >>49515, >>49522, >>49532, >>49534, >>49554 Gold Eyes to the Skyz
>>49581 Tucker talked about Schenck - 1917/Schenck v. United States: Defining the limits of free speech
>>49568 Inside the Foreign-Funded 'Hub Project' to Transform America
>>49566 CALL TO DIG/ Ray Cammack
>>49564, >>49565 DID SOMEONE SAY--- RALLY!? #MAGA
>>49560 South Korean President Moon will visit White House on May 21, confirming 'ironclad alliance'
>>49558 Gaetz scandal isn't about Gaetz
>>49555 Mints are running out of gold; not enough physical silver to cover paper - former U.S. Mint Director
>>49545 Giuliani: DOJ Secretly Went into My iCloud Account in 2019 as We Were Defending Against Phony Impeachment
>>49544 Illinois judge rules FOID card 'unconstitutional'
>>49543 Paris Mayor Backs Military Chiefs Who Threatened To Seize Control From Macron Over Inaction On Radical Islam
>>49533 new x22report It' Going To Happen, Keep Fighting, They Have Gone To Far, Hit Back 10 Times Harder
>>49530 100 Days Into Biden's Presidency, Hunter Still Owns Stake In Chinese Private Equity Firm, Business Records Show
>>49523 "I'm Working on it, Man! Give Me Another 5 Days"
>>49519 mail in data for Botus attendance has yet to be tabulated, waiting.......
>>49516 the gaffs just keep comin
>>49512 SC school board wants to buck the governor
>>49511 Killery is habby, should be a warning alert for all
>>49506 NYT jacks viewer numbers for Botus, still way low compared to 45
>>49586 #138

Previously Collected Notables:
>>48843 #131, >>48940 #132, >>49037 #133, >>49143 #134, >>49271 #135, >>49367 #136, >>49478 #137
>>48153 #124, >>48258 #125, >>48353 #126, >>48451 #127, >>48546 #128, >>48649 #129, >>48742 #130
>>47591 #117, >>47680 #118, >>47776 #119, >>47858 #120, >>47930 #121, >>48015 #122, >>48051 #123

QRB notables archived here >>>/qrb/9528
Notables aggregator https://wearethene.ws

#49676 at 2021-04-30 14:42:36 (UTC+1)
QRB General #140: Antifa Do or Die Time Edition

Globals
>>47678 Maricopa County Livestream Audit new
>>42330, >>43177, >>43179, >>43185, >>44766 BO changes & board updates
>>43537, >>46268, >>46270 Moar ideas on posting for Wearethene.ws
>>44058 Content policy - what's ok, what's not, what to do
>>44282, >>44284 Using a password with fullchan.net restricts access - bakers, watch out

Notables
are not endorsements

#139
>>49606, >>49658, >>49665 Eyes on the skies - C'mon man!...two trips in two days?
>>49610, >>49614 BILL GATES' luxury catamaran visits the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
>>49613, >>49616, >>49618 Child trafficking getting exposure from Gen. McInerney, Tucker, PDJT, Lin Wood
>>49616, >>49653 General McInerney on Telegram: Contact AZ State Fair to shut down surprise carnival near Maricopa audit site. Tim Scott is a RINO coward trash Senator.
>>49619 Arizona Audit Director Ken Bennett: Maricopa County Election Audit on Pace to be Done by Deadline
>>49620, >>49621, >>49622 The Anti-Lockdown Movement Is Large and Growing
>>49623 Antifa has threatened to kill the mayor of a major American city in an ISIS-style video
>>49624 Rep Boebert brings space blanket to Joe's speech - guess why?
>>49633 "Makes Me Worried": China Based Companies Rush To List On U.S. Exchanges At A Blistering Pace
>>49634 UK spy agencies are looking for the next Alan Turing and'Q'in recruitment drives with a focus on tackling cyber threats
>>49635 Examiner Who Performed Andrew Brown Autopsy Previously Had License Suspended, Accused Of Mishandling Prior Investigation
>>49636 Cypress College Professor Can Barely Hide Her Disdain When Student Calls Police 'Heroes'
>>49640, >>49642 report: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
>>49666 Antifa Terrorists Issue Direct Physical Threat To Portland Mayor: Resign Or Else....
>>49675 #139

#138
>>49501, >>49510, >>49515, >>49522, >>49532, >>49534, >>49554 Gold Eyes to the Skyz
>>49581 Tucker talked about Schenck - 1917/Schenck v. United States: Defining the limits of free speech
>>49568 Inside the Foreign-Funded 'Hub Project' to Transform America
>>49566 CALL TO DIG/ Ray Cammack
>>49564, >>49565 DID SOMEONE SAY--- RALLY!? #MAGA
>>49560 South Korean President Moon will visit White House on May 21, confirming 'ironclad alliance'
>>49558 Gaetz scandal isn't about Gaetz
>>49555 Mints are running out of gold; not enough physical silver to cover paper - former U.S. Mint Director
>>49545 Giuliani: DOJ Secretly Went into My iCloud Account in 2019 as We Were Defending Against Phony Impeachment
>>49544 Illinois judge rules FOID card 'unconstitutional'
>>49543 Paris Mayor Backs Military Chiefs Who Threatened To Seize Control From Macron Over Inaction On Radical Islam
>>49533 new x22report It' Going To Happen, Keep Fighting, They Have Gone To Far, Hit Back 10 Times Harder
>>49530 100 Days Into Biden's Presidency, Hunter Still Owns Stake In Chinese Private Equity Firm, Business Records Show
>>49523 "I'm Working on it, Man! Give Me Another 5 Days"
>>49519 mail in data for Botus attendance has yet to be tabulated, waiting.......
>>49516 the gaffs just keep comin
>>49512 SC school board wants to buck the governor
>>49511 Killery is habby, should be a warning alert for all
>>49506 NYT jacks viewer numbers for Botus, still way low compared to 45
>>49586 #138

#49675 at 2021-04-30 14:41:24 (UTC+1)
QRB General #139: Rally's Coming Edition

call'n this bun final

hold 'em fer a few

#139
>>49606, >>49658, >>49665 Eyes on the skies - C'mon man!...two trips in two days?
>>49610, >>49614 BILL GATES' luxury catamaran visits the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
>>49613, >>49616, >>49618 Child trafficking getting exposure from Gen. McInerney, Tucker, PDJT, Lin Wood
>>49616, >>49653 General McInerney on Telegram: Contact AZ State Fair to shut down surprise carnival near Maricopa audit site. Tim Scott is a RINO coward trash Senator.
>>49619 Arizona Audit Director Ken Bennett: Maricopa County Election Audit on Pace to be Done by Deadline
>>49620, >>49621, >>49622 The Anti-Lockdown Movement Is Large and Growing
>>49623 Antifa has threatened to kill the mayor of a major American city in an ISIS-style video
>>49624 Rep Boebert brings space blanket to Joe's speech - guess why?
>>49633 "Makes Me Worried": China Based Companies Rush To List On U.S. Exchanges At A Blistering Pace
>>49634 UK spy agencies are looking for the next Alan Turing and'Q'in recruitment drives with a focus on tackling cyber threats
>>49635 Examiner Who Performed Andrew Brown Autopsy Previously Had License Suspended, Accused Of Mishandling Prior Investigation
>>49636 Cypress College Professor Can Barely Hide Her Disdain When Student Calls Police 'Heroes'
>>49640, >>49642 report: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
>>49666 Antifa Terrorists Issue Direct Physical Threat To Portland Mayor: Resign Or Else....

#49667 at 2021-04-30 14:30:25 (UTC+1)
QRB General #139: Rally's Coming Edition

notables bun @ 75

#139
>>49606, >>49659, >>49665 Eyes on the skies - C'mon man!...two trips in two days?
>>49610, >>49614 BILL GATES' luxury catamaran visits the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
>>49613, >>49616, >>49618 Child trafficking getting exposure from Gen. McInerney, Tucker, PDJT, Lin Wood
>>49616, >>49653 General McInerney on Telegram: Contact AZ State Fair to shut down surprise carnival near Maricopa audit site. Tim Scott is a RINO coward trash Senator.
>>49619 Arizona Audit Director Ken Bennett: Maricopa County Election Audit on Pace to be Done by Deadline
>>49620, >>49621, >>49622 The Anti-Lockdown Movement Is Large and Growing
>>49623 Antifa has threatened to kill the mayor of a major American city in an ISIS-style video
>>49624 Rep Boebert brings space blanket to Joe's speech - guess why?
>>49633 "Makes Me Worried": China Based Companies Rush To List On U.S. Exchanges At A Blistering Pace
>>49634 UK spy agencies are looking for the next Alan Turing and'Q'in recruitment drives with a focus on tackling cyber threats
>>49635 Examiner Who Performed Andrew Brown Autopsy Previously Had License Suspended, Accused Of Mishandling Prior Investigation
>>49636 Cypress College Professor Can Barely Hide Her Disdain When Student Calls Police 'Heroes'
>>49640, >>49642 report: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
>>49666 Antifa Terrorists Issue Direct Physical Threat To Portland Mayor: Resign Or Else....

#49640 at 2021-04-30 12:43:35 (UTC+1)
QRB General #139: Rally's Coming Edition

@IranWireEnglish

reports this morning officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. #ZarifGate #Iran

#49385 at 2021-04-29 13:44:00 (UTC+1)
QRB General #137: Joe Strikes Out! Edition

Shakeup in Iran's presidential office after leaked FM tape

Iran's president on Thursday replaced the head of a government think tank after a recording of a conversation with the country's foreign minister leaked out this week. The tape, meant for government records, provided a rare glimpse into the theocracy's power struggles and set off a firestorm in Iran.

The conversation took place as an interview with Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif by Saeed Leilaz, an economist. The tape was to be kept by the Strategic Studies Center, the think tank associated with Iran's presidency. In the recording, Zarif offers a blunt appraisal of diplomacy and his constricted role in the Islamic Republic.

Iran's presidency announced Thursday that Hessameddin Ashena, head of the Strategic Studies Center, had resigned and that Cabinet spokesman Ali Rabiei replaces him. Ashena was also reportedly present during the interview with Zarif.

The audio tape, leaked earlier this week to London-based, Farsi-language news channel Iran International, set off political controversy across Iran ahead of the country's June 18 presidential election. While Zarif has said he does not want to run in the election, some have suggested him as a potential candidate to stand against hard-liners in the vote.

On Wednesday, President Hassan Rouhani, who after eight years in office is restricted by term limits from running in the June election, lashed out over the recording's release. He said the interview was part of a wider project with government officials and also urged for an investigation into how the tape was leaked. Zarif can be heard saying at various points in the tape that it was not meant for release. The recording runs a total of some seven hours.

Also Thursday, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported, citing an informed source in the judiciary, that 15 people connected to the interview have been banned from leaving the country.

Zarif's leaked remarks included cutting references to the limits of his power and those of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a top commander in Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who was killed in a drone strike in Baghdad.

Earlier this week, Zarif expressed regret over the affair, saying his remarks had been misinterpreted. Rouhani portrayed the breach as intended to derail ongoing talks over the return to Iran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers.
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Shakeup-in-Iran-s-presidential-office-after-16138049.php

#48403 at 2021-04-26 17:28:27 (UTC+1)
QRB General #127: Happy Birthday Melania Edition

LEAKED AUDIO: John Kerry Told Iran's Foreign Minister About Israel's Covert Operations in Syria

In a recently leaked audio, Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said then-Secretary of State John Kerry informed him about Israel's covert operations in Syria.

John Kerry served as Barack Obama's Secretary of State from 2013 - 2017 and currently serves as Biden's special climate envoy. Zarif said he was shocked by John Kerry's revelation that Israel had attacked Iranian targets in Syria over 200 times. The leaked audio was obtained by The New York Times and other outlets and the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh effectively confirmed the leaked tape's authenticity. Fox News reported:The release of the comments by Zarif set off a firestorm within Iran, where officials carefully mind their words amid a cutthroat political environment that includes the powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, ultimately overseen by the country's supreme leader. Zarif has been suggested as a possible candidate for Iran's June 18 presidential election as well.

Outside of Iran, Zarif's comments could also affect talks in Vienna aimed at finding a way for Tehran and the U.S. to both come into compliance with Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. Already, sabotage targeted Iran's nuclear facility at Natanz during the talks as Tehran has begun enriching a small amount of uranium up to 60% purity, which edges the country closer to weapons-grade levels. Khatibzadeh called the release of the recording "illegal" and described it as "selectively" edited, though he and others did not offer opinions on how it became public. Zarif, visiting Iraq on Monday after a trip to Qatar, took no questions from journalists after giving a brief statement in Baghdad. John Kerry previously engaged in shadow diplomacy but nothing will ever happen to this treasonous fixture in the Democrat party.

John Kerry secretly met with foreign officials to salvage Iran's nuclear weapons program while Trump was president.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/leaked-audio-john-kerry-told-irans-foreign-minister-israels-covert-operations-syria/

#46994 at 2021-04-21 01:30:30 (UTC+1)
QRB General #111: All As Ascribed Edition

>>46993
page 2

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/12/world/middleeast/iran-israel-nuclear-site.html

==After Nuclear Site Blackout, Thunder From Iran, and Silence From U.S.=

The Americans and Israelis have worked together in the past to impede Iran's nuclear ambitions, but the U.S. denies that was the case in the latest sabotage.

The last time the centrifuges crashed at Iran's underground nuclear fuel-production center at Natanz, more than a decade ago, the sabotage was the result of a joint Israeli-American cyberattack intended to slow Tehran's progress toward nuclear weapons and force a diplomatic negotiation.

When they crashed again this weekend, the White House asserted that the United States had no involvement.

The operation raised the question of whether Israel was acting on its own to strike Iran and undermine American diplomacy as the Biden administration seeks to reconstitute a nuclear agreement. Or, alternatively, whether Israel was operating in concert with American interests, carrying out dirty work that would weaken Iran's negotiating position in the talks.

The White House was saying almost nothing in public on Monday about the apparent explosion inside Iran's Natanz facility, below more than 20 feet of reinforced concrete, which destroyed the power supply that keeps the centrifuges spinning at supersonic speeds, enriching uranium.

"The U.S. was not involved in any manner," the White House spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, said Monday. "We have nothing to add on speculation about the causes or the impacts."

White House officials did not comment on whether the United States had been given advance notice of the attack.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, who landed in Israel on Sunday, the morning the attack took place, held two press briefings before he left Israel on Monday and never once uttered the word Iran.

White House and State Department officials said they had no idea whether the Iranians would show up in Vienna again on Wednesday, when the talks were scheduled to resume.

In Tehran, lawmakers asked Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to suspend the talks, saying that Iran should not be engaged in negotiations when it is under attack.

"Talks under pressure have no meaning," said Abbas Moghtadaie, the deputy chairman of Parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, said in a Clubhouse talk on Monday. "This was a message we conveyed very clearly today."

The Biden administration is seeking to revive an agreement, scuttled by President Donald J. Trump three years ago, in which Iran accepted limits on its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, opposed the original agreement and has made no secret of his opposition to resurrecting it.

Mr. Zarif, in a statement broadcast by Iranian state television, said that Israel wanted "to take revenge because of our progress in the way to lift sanctions."

"But we will take our revenge on the Zionists," he continued.

#35403 at 2019-08-03 02:13:47 (UTC+1)
QRB General #46: Shill Admits Defeat Edition

Rand Paul pushed for Iranian diplomat to meet with Trump
: report
By Tal Axelrod - 08/02/19 09:38 PM EDT

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) reportedly worked to set up an Oval Office meeting between President Trump and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif last month before the top Iranian diplomat was targeted by sanctions from the Trump administration.
The New Yorker reported Friday, citing U.S. and Iranian sources, that Paul and a senior adviser met with Zarif for an hourlong conversation in mid-July in New York, as the Iranian foreign minister traveled there for a United Nations summit.

Zarif reportedly offered ideas on how to reduce tensions surrounding Iran's enrichment of uranium beyond the limits of an Obama-era nuclear pact and the country's involvement in the bombing of oil tankers in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Among the ideas reportedly floated was the prospect that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could issue a fatwa, or religious edict, forbidding the production or use of nuclear weapon. Zarif also pitched resuming cooperation based on the 2015 nuclear agreement, from which Trump withdrew the U.S. in 2018, in exchange for sanctions relief.
It was then that Paul pitched the idea of meeting with Trump to relay his suggestions, the magazine reported. U.S., Iranian and diplomatic sources told The New Yorker that Trump had authorized Paul to extend the Oval Office invite as early as that week.
A White House official declined to comment about the invitation for the magazine's report. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.

Trump has said that he authorized Paul to negotiate with Iran to curb tensions between Washington and Tehran, saying the Kentucky Republican asked if he could get involved.
Zarif reportedly told Paul he would have to send the idea of an Oval Office meeting up the flag pole in Tehran but expressed concern that the conversation would produce little more than a photo opportunity.
The reported moves come as tensions between the two countries have skyrocketed in recent weeks after Iran sped up its uranium enrichment, bombed the oil tankers and shot down an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone.
Trump said he had authorized a retaliatory strike in response to the drone downing but aborted the operation after learning that 150 Iranians could be killed.
READ MORE:
https://thehill.com/policy/international/asia-pacific/456025-rand-paul-pushed-for-iranian-diplomat-to-meet-with-trump

#22018 at 2019-07-20 22:05:34 (UTC+1)
QRB General #28: COBOL & Bunker Still Operational Edition

Islamic Revolutionary Guards Say Capture of UK Tanker Is Payback for Detention of Iran Tanker
7/20/2019

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A powerful council in Iran said Saturday the country's seizure of a British oil tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz was in response to Britain's role in impounding an Iranian supertanker two weeks earlier.
Spokesman of Iran's Guardian Council, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, was quoted in the semi-official Fars news agency saying "the rule of reciprocal action is well-known in international law" and that Iran's moves to "confront the illegitimate economic war and seizure of oil tankers is an instance of this rule and is based on international rights."

The council rarely comments on state matters, but when it does it is seen as a reflection of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's views. That's because the council works closely with Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters.
The free flow of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is of international importance because one-fifth of all global crude exports passes through the waterway from Mideast exporters to countries around the world.
The British-flagged Stena Impero was seized by Iran on Friday evening with a crew of 23 crew aboard. None are British nationals. Maritime trackers show it was headed to a port in Saudi Arabia.
Two weeks earlier, Britain's Royal Marines took part in the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of Iranian crude by Gibraltar, a British overseas territory off the southern coast of Spain. Officials there initially said the July 4 seizure happened on orders from the U.S

Britain has said it would release the vessel if Iran could prove it was not breaching European Union sanctions on oil shipments to Syria. However, on Friday, a court in Gibraltar extended by 30 days the detention of the Panama-flagged Grace.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif characterized the seizure of Iran's tanker as "piracy." In comments on Twitter, he wrote that the U.K. must cease being an accessory to the "economic terrorism" of the U.S. - a reference to sweeping American sanctions on Iran.

Iran's subsequent seizure of the British tanker was seen as a significant escalation. Germany and France have both condemned the move, with Berlin saying it undermines all efforts to find a way out of the current crisis.
In London, Tom Tugendhat, the chairman of Britain's House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, said military action to free the British tanker would be "extremely unwise," especially because the vessel was apparently taken to a well-protected port.
Current tensions have been escalating since President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and imposed economic sanctions on Iran, including its oil exports

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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/07/20/islamic-revolutionary-guards-say-capture-of-uk-tanker-is-payback-for-detention-of-iran-tanker/#

#19630 at 2019-07-19 05:05:57 (UTC+1)
QRB General #25: WWG1WGA WRWY @ /qresearch Edition

American warship destroys Iranian drone in Strait of Hormuz (AP)
July 19 at 12:07 AM

WASHINGTON - A U.S. warship on Thursday destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after it threatened the ship, President Donald Trump said. The incident marked a new escalation of tensions between the countries less than one month after Iran downed an American drone in the same waterway and Trump came close to retaliating with a military strike.

In remarks at the White House, Trump blamed Iran for a "provocative and hostile" action and said the U.S. responded in self-defense. Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, told reporters as he arrived for a meeting at the United Nations that "we have no information about losing a drone today."

The clash in one of the busiest waterways for international oil traffic highlighted the risk of war between two countries at odds over a wide range of issues. After Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal last year and imposed additional economic sanctions, the Iranians have pushed back on the military front, allegedly sabotaging Saudi and other oil tankers in the Gulf, shooting down a U.S. drone on June 20 and stepping up support for Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Adding to the economic pressure on Tehran, the Treasury Department said Thursday it was imposing sanctions on what it called a network of front companies and agents involved in helping Iran buy sensitive materials for its nuclear program. It said the targeted individuals and entities are based in Iran, China and Belgium.

Trump said the Navy's USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship, took defensive action after the Iranian aircraft closed to within 1,000 yards of the ship and ignored multiple calls to stand down.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ap-news-in-brief-at-1204-am-edt/2019/07/19/b1b5d044-a9da-11e9-8733-48c87235f396_story.html?utm_term=.2fc390a34559

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iranian-drone-destroyed-by-us-warship-over-strait-of-hormuz-u-s-s-boxer-today-2019-07-18/

#19548 at 2019-07-19 04:05:06 (UTC+1)
QRB General #25: WWG1WGA WRWY @ /qresearch Edition

>>19538
>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/18/iran-nuclear-deal-trump-Mohammad-Javad-Zarif-sanctions
>>19540
Caving and Capitulation may be the wrong words for a willingness to talk.
Scanned the article for cross ref with Rand Paul Iran news lately.
Article downplays Rand role in the straight out.
Which tells me Rand is absolutely pivotal in these talks.

This article is still Notable in light of action in region.

That drone. Better look it over good. I suspect someone else in the region is extremely anxious to derail this development. Nuff said.

#19538 at 2019-07-19 03:58:45 (UTC+1)
QRB General #25: WWG1WGA WRWY @ /qresearch Edition

>>19535

Talking of Iran deal, they apparently have capitulated and are willing to hold discussions:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/18/iran-nuclear-deal-trump-Mohammad-Javad-Zarif-sanctions

8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (2)

#11796622 at 2020-11-26 17:35:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #11 - THE SILENT WAR CONTINUES Edition

>>11781942
Inside the secret mission to bring jailed Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert home from Iran

1/2

Iranian authorities detained Australian university lecturer Kylie Moore-Gilbert after discovering she was in a relationship with an Israeli citizen, sparking baseless claims that she was a spy for Israel.

Dr Moore-Gilbert, an Australian-British academic detained in Iran for more than two years, was released on Thursday morning in exchange for three Iranian men linked to a botched 2012 bomb plot in Bangkok.

The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald can reveal the Australian government played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in bringing Thailand to the table and engineering the prisoner swap deal that has allowed Dr Moore-Gilbert to be released.

The complicated prisoner-swap deal - which Prime Minister Scott Morrison repeatedly declined to confirm on Thursday - involved high-level negotiations with the Thai government.

Multiple senior government and diplomatic sources confirmed that Dr Moore-Gilbert was detained in Iran in 2018 after authorities found out her partner was Israeli.

This led to Iranian authorities stopping Dr Moore-Gilbert at Tehran airport while she was leaving the country after attending an academic conference in 2018. Authorities made allegations the Melbourne University lecturer was working as a spy for Israel and sentenced her to 10 years behind bars for espionage. The Australian government and Dr Moore-Gilbert rejected the Iran government's allegations as baseless.

Australian government sources, who asked not to be named as they had not been authorised to discuss the negotiations, said it had taken more than six months of at-times delicate discussions to put the deal together.

Foreign Minister Marise Payne was central to the "quiet diplomacy" strategy of intense negotiations and the inclusion of third party governments in the talks.

Senator Payne met her Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, four times over the past two years and raised Dr Moore-Gilbert's case on each occasion.

As Australia sought Dr Moore-Gilbert's freedom from jail, Iranian government officials made it explicitly clear they wanted Saeed Moradi, Mohammad Khazaei and Masoud Sedaghat Zadeh released by Thai authorities in exchange.

The three men were all detained in Thailand on charges of having planned to bomb the capital, Bangkok, in 2012 that authorities said was intended to target Israeli diplomats.

The request from Iran led to the Australian government approaching the Thai government to seek help with arranging the prisoner swap. Thailand agreed to the deal after months of high-level negotiations. Discussions were also held with the Israeli government.

(continued)

#7865087 at 2020-01-21 09:08:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #6 - YEAR OF THE BOOMERANG Edition

Australian detainee says she rejected invitation to spy for Iran

An Australian university lecturer jailed in Tehran says Iran tried to recruit her as a spy in exchange for her release, an offer she rejected in a letter smuggled out of prison.

Cambridge-educated Kylie Moore-Gilbert begged to be allowed to leave the restrictive unit where she has served periods in solitary confinement.

In letters smuggled out of her cell in Evin prison, she said she feels "abandoned and forgotten" and claimed Iran tried to recruit her as a spy.

Dr Moore-Gilbert, who most recently worked as a lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Melbourne, was arrested in September 2018 while at an educational conference and later convicted of espionage.

She is serving a 10-year sentence, but has described being shown two conflicting sentences: one outlining 13 months' imprisonment and the other a decade-long term.

Ten letters seen by British media outlets, written in crude Farsi, were sneaked out of the prison.

In a letter to her "case manager", Moore-Gilbert wrote: "please accept this letter as an official and definitive rejection of your offer to me to work with the intelligence branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps".

"Under no circumstances will I be persuaded to change my decision.

"I am not a spy. I have never been a spy and I have no interest to work for a spying organisation in any country. When I leave Iran, I want to be a free woman and live a free life, not under the shadow of extortion and threats."

The letters are variously addressed to three men. One, named Mr Vasiri, is thought to be a deputy prosecutor in the Iranian judiciary, while Mr Ghaderi and Mr Hosseini are thought to be mid-ranking officers in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

In the letters, Dr Moore-Gilbert referred to meetings with these men, who appear to have influenced her treatment in prison, including being allowed access to books.

The prison section she is being held in is reportedly run by the IRGC, while her case is managed by the judiciary.

Dr Moore-Gilbert detailed the conditions she has endured while incarcerated.

In a letter written last July she said: "I'm taking psychiatric medications, but these 10 months that I have spent here have gravely damaged my mental health.

"I am still denied phone calls and visitations, and I am afraid that my mental and emotional state may further deteriorate if I remain in this extremely restrictive detention ward."

In a letter sent to her Iranian case manager, Dr Moore-Gilbert stated her "official and definitive rejection of your offer to me to work with the intelligence branch of IRGC".

"I am not a spy. I have never been a spy and I have no interest to work for a spying organisation in any country."

Dr Moore-Gilbert also used the letters to protest her innocence, saying she had been the victim of "fabrications and trumped-up accusations".

On September 18 she wrote about having food allergies.

"I cannot eat most of the food coming out of Ward 2A's kitchen … I am entirely alone in Iran. I have no friends or family here and in addition to all the pain I have endured here I feel like I am abandoned and forgotten."

Dr Moore-Gilbert recently smuggled another letter from the prison in which she begged Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to secure her freedom.

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne spoke with her Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif about the situation on the sidelines of a conference in India on January 16.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/australian-detainee-says-she-rejected-invitation-to-spy-for-iran-20200121-p53tf4.html

8chan/8kun QResearch CANADA Posts (2)

#13524525 at 2021-04-27 15:58:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #17: TRUE DOUGH, not the moldy Ottawa stuff Edition

Wonder what has the Iranians stirred up?

From Midnight Riders
#353 >>77535
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry allegedly informed Iran that Israel had carried out at least 200 covert strikes against Iranian targets, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif revealed in a leaked recording.

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1386856106325118982
>>77538
https://twitter.com/AmericanMandal2/status/1386837258700050435

>>77539
REVEALED: John Kerry allegedly told Iran Israel had carried out at least 200 covert strikes against Iranian targets.

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1386845198500651013
>>77545
Kerry faces calls to step down over leaked Iran tapes http://hill.cm/ISe29F5

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1386881797863186434

#12876815 at 2021-02-10 04:38:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research Canada #14: It's A Marathon, Not A Sprint Edition

Canada reportedly reviewing #Iran official recording on flight PS752 being intentionally hit

TORONTO (Sputnik) - Canadian officials are reviewing a secret audio allegedly of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif discussing the possibility that Ukrainian...

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1359351387075837956

8chan/8kun QResearch FRANCE Posts (2)

#13525186 at 2021-04-27 17:42:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research France #4

>>13525185
À partir de Minuit Cavaliers
#353 >>77535
L'ancien secrétaire d'État américain John Kerry aurait informé l'Iran qu'Israël avait mené au moins 200 frappes secrètes contre des cibles iraniennes, a révélé le ministre iranien des Affaires étrangères Mohammad Javad Zarif dans un enregistrement divulgué.

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1386856106325118982
>>77538
https://twitter.com/AmericanMandal2/status/1386837258700050435

>>77539
RÉVÉLÉ: John Kerry aurait déclaré à l'Iran qu'Israël avait mené au moins 200 frappes secrètes contre des cibles iraniennes.

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1386845198500651013
>>77545
Kerry fait face à des appels à démissionner suite à la fuite de bandes iraniennes http://hill.cm/ISe29F5

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1386881797863186434

#13525185 at 2021-04-27 17:42:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research France #4

From Midnight Riders
#353 >>77535
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry allegedly informed Iran that Israel had carried out at least 200 covert strikes against Iranian targets, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif revealed in a leaked recording.

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1386856106325118982
>>77538
https://twitter.com/AmericanMandal2/status/1386837258700050435

>>77539
REVEALED: John Kerry allegedly told Iran Israel had carried out at least 200 covert strikes against Iranian targets.

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1386845198500651013
>>77545
Kerry faces calls to step down over leaked Iran tapes http://hill.cm/ISe29F5

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1386881797863186434

8chan/8kun QResearch GERMANY Posts (1)

#8323279 at 2020-03-05 11:19:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #41 | We Came Here For A Reason - Edition

https://www.danisch.de/blog/2020/03/04/die-story-von-den-hamsterkaeufen/
http://archive.is/pGZrr

Eine Leserin hat zur vorhin beschriebenen Bundestagsdebatte angemeckert (ich habe sie so verstanden, dass sie sich das auch angesehen hat, denn ich hatte ja nur ein paar Eindrücke von fast eineinhalb Stunden zusammengefasst), dass niemand erwähnt hat, dass die Bundesregierung die Schutzausrüstung in großen Mengen verschenkt hat.

Dass Maas Ende Januar mit dem Bundeswehr-Airbus, der Deutsche aus Wuhan abholen sollte, 10.000 Anzüge hingeschickt hatte.

Mitte Februar hat er aber noch eine zweite Lieferung hingeschickt, wie er sogar selbst angab:

https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/newsroom/maas-hilfsgueter-coronavirus/2307756
http://archive.is/Ome5Q

> Wir wollen China weiter nach Kräften bei der Bekämpfung des Corona-Virus unterstützen. Heute geht eine weitere Hilfslieferung von 8,7 Tonnen mit einem Wert von mehr als 150.000 Euro auf den Weg, um schnell und unbürokratisch zu helfen. Deutschland steht bei der Bekämpfung der Corona-Epidemie fest an Chinas Seite und arbeitet mit den chinesischen Behörden eng und vertrauensvoll zusammen. Wir haben dabei allergrößten Respekt vor den Anstrengungen, die China bereits unternommen hat. Mein Dank gilt auch den Spendern, die sich an der Hilfslieferung beteiligen.
>
> Hintergrund:
> Die zweite Hilfslieferung umfasst Schutzmaterial des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes an das Rote Kreuz Wuhan, persönliche Schutzausrüstung und Sprühgeräte für Desinfektionsmittel der Firma Scholz-Recycling GmbH für das Chinesische Rote Kreuz Chongqing, Schutzkleidung und Desinfektionsmittel der Firma Beiersdorf sowie Schutzanzüge der sächsischen Staatskanzlei (DRK Sachsen). Bei der Rückführung deutscher Staatsangehöriger aus Wuhan mit einem Flugzeug der Luftwaffe wurden am 01.02.2020 insgesamt 5,4 Tonnen Verbrauchsmaterial nach China gebracht (Schutzanzüge, Gummistiefel, Handschuhe, Masken, Schutzbrillen, OP-Hauben, Handschuhe sowie Spenden der Firma Beiersdorf).

https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2020-02/coronavirus-china-deutschland-hilfslieferung-bundesregierung-epidemie-desinfektionsmittel-schutzkleidung
http://archive.is/bRpDk

https://www.danisch.de/blog/2020/03/04/diplomatische-dreiecke/
http://archive.is/vMIeS

Ich hatte doch geschrieben, dass Außenminister Heiko Maas zweimal tonnenweise Schutzkleidung und Masken an China verschenkt hat.

China hingegen verschenkt Ausrüstung und 250.000 Gesichtsmasken an den Iran.

https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13981210000590
http://archive.is/urj9P

Earlier in a separate message, Hua said, "Today, on behalf of the Chinese embassy in Iran, I granted 250,000 face masks to Iran."
In a telephone conversation on Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi exchanged views on the latest situation of coronavirus outbreak in the world, voicing support for collective measures against the infection.
Zarif described the new contagious virus outbreak as a global concern, saying handling the problem entails a collective effort by all.

8chan/8kun QResearch NEW ZEALAND Posts (1)

#13525266 at 2021-04-27 17:54:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research New Zealand #8: Smell Their Fear Edition

From Midnight Riders #353 >>77535

Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry allegedly informed Iran that Israel had carried out at least 200 covert strikes against Iranian targets, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif revealed in a leaked recording.

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1386856106325118982
>>77538
https://twitter.com/AmericanMandal2/status/1386837258700050435

>>77539
REVEALED: John Kerry allegedly told Iran Israel had carried out at least 200 covert strikes against Iranian targets.

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1386845198500651013
>>77545
Kerry faces calls to step down over leaked Iran tapes http://hill.cm/ISe29F5

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1386881797863186434

(This may be why the IRGC shills are more active than usual)

8chan/8kun QResearch SOUTH AFRICA Posts (1)

#13524544 at 2021-04-27 16:02:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition

From Midnight Riders #353
>>77535
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry allegedly informed Iran that Israel had carried out at least 200 covert strikes against Iranian targets, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif revealed in a leaked recording.

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1386856106325118982
>>77538
https://twitter.com/AmericanMandal2/status/1386837258700050435

>>77539
REVEALED: John Kerry allegedly told Iran Israel had carried out at least 200 covert strikes against Iranian targets.

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1386845198500651013
>>77545
Kerry faces calls to step down over leaked Iran tapes http://hill.cm/ISe29F5

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1386881797863186434

8chan/8kun QResearch UK Posts (2)

#13524497 at 2021-04-27 15:53:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #37: "Richard Trevithicks 250 Birthday" Edition

>>13524379
"Look here (Boris) not there (Kerry and Iran)"

From Midnight Riders
#353 >>77535
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry allegedly informed Iran that Israel had carried out at least 200 covert strikes against Iranian targets, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif revealed in a leaked recording.

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1386856106325118982
>>77538
https://twitter.com/AmericanMandal2/status/1386837258700050435

>>77539
REVEALED: John Kerry allegedly told Iran Israel had carried out at least 200 covert strikes against Iranian targets.

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1386845198500651013
>>77545
Kerry faces calls to step down over leaked Iran tapes http://hill.cm/ISe29F5

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1386881797863186434

#11197142 at 2020-10-21 22:37:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research UK #23: "London Calling"

From 8 October
Wonder how this would affect the "British Iranian Chamber of Commerce at #4 Victoria Street?

U.S. imposes new Iran sanctions that may spook European banks
By Daphne Psaledakis, Arshad Mohammed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday slapped fresh sanctions on Iran's financial sector, targeting 18 banks in an effort to further choke off Iranian revenues as Washington ramps up pressure on Tehran weeks ahead of the U.S. election.

The move freezes any U.S. assets of those blacklisted and generally bars Americans from dealing with them, while extending secondary sanctions to those who do business with them. This means foreign banks risk losing access to the U.S. market and financial system.

The Treasury Department said in a statement the prohibitions did not apply to transactions to sell agricultural commodities, food, medicine or medical devices to Iran, saying it understood the need for humanitarian goods.

However, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused the United States of targeting Iran's ability to pay for basic necessities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"U.S. regime wants to blow up our remaining channels to pay for food & medicine," Zarif said on Twitter. "Conspiring to starve a population is a crime against humanity."

Iranian Central Bank governor Abdolnaser Hemmati dismissed the sanctions as political propaganda and played down their practical impact.

"Rather than having any economic effect, the American move is for U.S. domestic propaganda and political purposes, and shows the falsity of the human rights and humanitarian claims of U.S. leaders," Hemmati said in a statement.

Analysts said the secondary sanctions may further deter European and other foreign banks from working with Iran, even for permitted humanitarian transactions.

"It's like a punch in the face to the Europeans, who have gone out of their way to indicate to the Americans that they view it as being extremely threatening to humanitarian assistance or humanitarian trade going to Iran," said Elizabeth Rosenberg of the Center for a New American Security think tank.

"They also want … to make it very difficult for any future president to be able to unwind these measures and engage in nuclear diplomacy," Rosenberg added, alluding to the possibility that Democratic candidate Joe Biden could defeat Republican President Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 U.S. election.

Biden, who was vice president when the Obama administration negotiated the nuclear accord, has said he would rejoin the deal if Iran first resumed compliance with it.

Tensions between Washington and Tehran have soared since Trump unilaterally withdrew in 2018 from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal struck by his predecessor and began re-imposing U.S. sanctions that had been eased under the accord.

The sanctions Trump has reinstated target everything from oil sales to shipping and financial activities. While they exempt food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies, many foreign banks are already deterred from doing business with the Islamic Republic - including for humanitarian deals.

Washington's latest move targeted what the Treasury described as 18 major Iranian banks, which were designated under authorities including U.S. Executive Order 13902, which allows the Treasury Department to target entire sectors of the Iranian economy.

It named them as Amin Investment Bank, Bank Keshavarzi Iran, Bank Maskan, Bank Refah Kargaran, Bank-e Shahr, Eghtesad Novin Bank, Gharzolhasaneh Resalat Bank, Hekmat Iranian Bank, Iran Zamin Bank, Karafarin Bank, Khavarmianeh Bank, Mehr Iran Credit Union Bank, Pasargad Bank, Saman Bank, Sarmayeh Bank, Tosee Taavon Bank, Tourism Bank and Islamic Regional Cooperation Bank.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-usa-sanctions-idUSKBN26T35H

Center for a New American Security

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_a_New_American_Security

8chan/8kun CBTS Posts (2)

#215789 at 2017-12-31 11:51:39 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #254: Q, Q got what I need Edition

>>215754
United States Denies "Ransom" Payout to Iran: The Obama administration denied reports that it had secretly sent $400 million worth of cash to Iran in January. Republicans accused the Obama administration of paying "ransom" to Iran, as the payout coincided with the release of five Americans detained by Iran. The five released, including Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, were released in a prisoner swap that saw the United States release seven Iranians who had been detained for violating sanctions. In January, the United States said that the $400 million transferred was part of a fund frozen since 1981. Officials further emphasized that due to international sanctions, the payment had to be made in cash. Josh Earnest, a spokesperson for the White House, emphasized that the United States did not pay a ransom "to secure the release of Americans unjustly detained in Iran" and underscored that the claims were made by Republicans wanting to undermine the deal, saying, "They're struggling to justify their opposition to our engagement with Iran."

Human Rights

IRNA reports: "Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday voiced Iran's readiness to boost cooperation with UN human rights commissioner. He made the remarks in a meeting in Geneva with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein."
The Washington Post reported: "A Washington Post reporter imprisoned in Iran has been granted access to an attorney - but not the one of his choosing. Jason Rezaian, who has been the paper's Tehran correspondent since 2012 and holds U.S. and Iranian citizenship, has spent 222 days in Tehran's Evin Prison. Family members say that their preferred attorney was blocked by the country's Revolutionary Court, which last week had given them a deadline of March 2 to present one that was "acceptable.""

>>215722
>>215629
>>215634

#210207 at 2017-12-30 16:43:09 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #247: Spiders and Webs Edition

John Forbes Kerry's daughter, Dr Vanessa Kerry, has a foundation called the Seed Global Health program.

The State Dept gave $8 million between 2012/15 to the Peace Corps which then awarded the money to Dr Kerry's foundation.

https://
aclj.org/executive-power/why-did-the-obama-administration-funnel-millions-to-secretary-of-state-john-kerrys-daughters-nonprofit

Dr Vanessa Kerry is married to Dr. Brian (Behrooz) Vala Nahid, an Iranian-American physician. What is significant is that as part of the wedding preparations, Kerry went to a dinner party hosted by George Soros at his Manhattan penthouse. He undoubtedly met the best man Mahdi Zarif, and also met his father, Mohammad Javad Zarif,current Iranian Foreign Minister, who acted as the chief negotiator during nuclear talks, across the table from Kerry. This revelation was made by former Congressman Allen West

https://www.
breakingisraelnews.com/46248/nuclear-nepotism-hushed-up-truth-kerrys-personal-iran-connection-middle-east/#PRIdTqbrsw14u88h.99

endchan qanonresearch Posts (1)

#51779 at 2021-04-30 14:07:48 (UTC+1)
Q's War Room #9476: Recall All RINOS

Jason Brodsky
@JasonMBrodsky
#BREAKING: @IranWireEnglish
https://twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1387858970405113857
reports this morning officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Unit raided the offices of President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. #ZarifGate #Iran

Kerry story must be true lol

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#7776 at 2021-04-30 14:05:16 (UTC+1)
QR Bunker General #22: Evergiven Moving But Not Unloaded Edition

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Question: https://mobile.twitter.com/THE_47th/status/993441109668966400

Answer: S. Rifai @THE_47th 3:43 am - 7 May 2018 That's a low blow to an old friend Fars News Agency @EnglishFars Iran Confirms Zarif-Kerry Meeting in New York fna.ir/bm1yks

Extra Answer: Article: TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Monday confirmed media reports that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had met with former US Secretary of State John Kerry in New York two weeks ago to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, but meantime, stressed that the minister has had no meeting with the Trump administration officials

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2019-02-24: Resigned as Foreign Minister from Government of Iran

Source: https://www.resignation.info

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