This is another reason the US should cut off all aid to Israel. They are supposed to by our "ally" and yet constantly stab the US in the back and try to sabotage US efforts in the middle east. The US and the world has every right to negotiate with Iran and especially try to salvage the Iran Nuclear deal. And Israel has no right to try to sabotage those efforts.

Iran says Israel attacked Karaj site to thwart nuclear talks
Gov’t blames Israel for June attack, accuses it of trying to derail negotiations in Vienna that could see harsh US sanctions lifted.

Tehran, Iran – The Iranian government has blamed Israel for an attack last month on a nuclear-related site near the capital, Tehran, saying its regional arch foe was once more trying to derail talks in Austria aimed at salvaging Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

Government spokesman Ali Rabiei said on Tuesday Israel was behind the June 23 attack on a building in Karaj that belongs to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.

“[Israel] carried out these actions with the presumption that it would signal it can stop Iran and say the world has no need to negotiate with Iran,” he said, according to state-run IRNA.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/6/iran-says-israel-attacked-its-karaj-site-to-thwart-nuclear

 

By stumblers logic we should then cut off all aid to biden/harris.

 

This is what we get by Trump pulling his limp dick out of the Iran Nuclear deal even though his own administration told him Iran was in compliance. President Biden is trying to get Iran to come back into it but every time Israel tries to sabotage it by attacking Iran the stakes go up. And Putin gets to raise the stakes as well. I wish Putin would have just told Trump to lift all sanctions and he probably would have done it for his puppet master.

If I was President Biden the first thing I would have done is offer Iran an olive branch and lifted sanctions on anything that would help them fight COVID and humanitarian aid.

Iran nuclear worries. Iran has begun the process of making enriched uranium metal, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported on Tuesday, a move which the United States called “an unfortunate step backwards” while France, Germany, and the United Kingdom said the process fulfilled “no credible civilian need.” Development of uranium metal was banned under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal due to its use in the core of a nuclear weapon. Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s representative at indirect U.S.-Iran negotiations in Vienna noted Iran’s breach of the deal on Twitter while offering a reminder that Biden’s failure to lift Trump-era sanctions on Iran also constitutes a breach. Ulyanov said another round of Vienna talks and a full restoration of the deal was the “only way out of this vicious circle.”

Foreign Policy Morning Brief

 

stumbler continues the lie that Iran has no plans for an offensive nuclear weapon.
stumbler would sell America and its allies kissing iran's ass.
But then, what else could we expect from someone who calls America a "shithole country"?

Iran Is Not Complying with the Nuclear Deal - Center for Security Policy

Iran set to further reduce compliance with nuclear deal (nbcnews.com)

Goal of reviving Iran nuclear deal by July 15 not achievable, Russian envoy says - World - TASS

 

Lier, lier, pants on fire, and its its an ....


obsession
(əbˈsɛʃən)
n
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2. a persistent preoccupation, idea, or feeling
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On the one hand the EU wants to make a nuke deal with iran so they can open markets and sell their goods to iran, yet they sanction iran for kidnapping their citizens for ransom, what are the EU's priorities, profit or a nuclear iran?


EU Parliament seeks sanctions on Iran officials for human rights abuse
Lawmaker wants Iranian regime president Raisi investigated for crimes against humanity


The European Parliament passed a resolution dated Wednesday, urging that sanctions be imposed on Iranian regime officials for the imprisonment and executions of EU nationals.
According to the resolution’s language, the EU Parliament called on the European Council, “to consider further targeted sanctions, including freezing the assets of the Iranian regime officials and entities involved in the arbitrary detention and sentencing to death of EU nationals, including, in the event of Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali’s continued detention, either using the current EU human rights sanctions regime against Iran or the EU’s global human rights sanctions regime (EU Magnitsky Act).”
Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers on Thursday wrote on Twitter: “Delighted that EU Parliament supported @ecrgroup demand for sanctions against Iranian regime officials. We will also push for President Raisi to be investigated for crimes against humanity, including murder, forced disappearance and torture.”

The nuclear deal would restrict the Iranian regime's ability to build nuclear weapons for 10 years in exchange for sanctions relief.
The European powers would gain access to Iran's markets for valuable trade deals with as part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the formal name for the Iran nuclear deal.

The EU resolution noted that “Iran has been actively imprisoning foreign nationals in order to blackmail foreign governments” and “at least a dozen EU nationals are being arbitrarily detained in Iran.”
According to the resolution, “Iran is also arbitrarily detaining its own citizens in dire conditions” and courts often deny defendants the right to a fair trial and restrict legal counselling and visits from consular authorities and UN and humanitarian organizations.”

The resolution also called on Iran to "release political prisoners, including human rights defenders, as they have been arbitrarily detained solely for exercising their fundamental rights to the freedoms of expression, belief, association, publication, peaceful assembly and media freedom."

 

Large explosion heard in Tehran - report
The explosion happened several hours after a large-scale cyberattack across Iran.​

A large explosion has been heard in Tehran, Iran, according to Iranian Fars News agency.Tehran's fire department head said that they "have not received any reports regarding an explosion," reports Fars News,
although they reportedly clarified that fire and rescue teams had been sent to the area in the north of the Iranian capital.Reports have placed the explosion close to a building which houses Iranian television and radio stations.
The Deputy Governor of Tehran has been quoted by the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News saying that the incident is under investigation and it was unclear at this time what caused it, and it is unknown as of right now if it was an act of terrorism or not.

The explosion happened several hours after a large-scale cyberattack across Iran, with hackers posting the phone number of the country's supreme leader as the number to call for information for train delays.​

 

Looses something on a cell phone....Much funnier on a wide screen...and in reality

 

Hackers breach Iran rail network, disrupt service

Trains were delayed by apparent cyberattacks as hackers posted the phone number of the country's supreme leader.

Train services in Iran were delayed by apparent cyberattacks on Friday, with hackers posting the phone number of the country's supreme leader as the number to call for information, state-affiliated news outlets reported.
Trains were delayed or canceled as ticket offices, the national railway's website and cargo services were disrupted, with "unprecedented chaos at railway stations across the country," the state broadcaster IRIB reported. A notice on electronic boards at stations asked travelers to call a number which in fact belonged to the office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , IRIB and the semi-official news agency Fars said.
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"Long delays due to cyberattacks," said another notice on station boards, Fars added.


IRIB later quoted a state railway company spokesman as saying technicians were checking the disruptions and denying that there were major delays

 

Iran dissidents seek Bennett's support of democracy and counter-terrorism
The group is seeking the "overthrow of this ideological and medieval regime that is on the cuff of acquiring a nuclear bomb."





A group of Iranian dissidents who are based outside of the Islamic Republic of Iran published on Thursday a congratulatory letter to Naftali Bennett, urging him to also support Iranian democracy and continue Israel’s campaign to stop Iranian regime terrorism.

The opponents of Iran’s theocratic state wrote

“For more than four decades, threatening the existence of the state of Israel and hatred of the Jewish people has been an inseparable component of the Islamic Republic’s rule.
In addition to its promotion of international terrorism, the regime has produced nothing but poverty, economic bankruptcy, suppression, and a myriad of social problems for the people of Iran.”

” Iranians, specifically in the past several years, have come to the streets multiple times and bravely protested the Islamic Republic — protests that were suppressed in the most ruthless manner possible.
For these reasons, both the prosperity and democratic future of Iranians and the safety of Israeli citizens and the Jewish people require the overthrow of this ideological and medieval regime that is on the cuff of acquiring a nuclear bomb.”

The group requested the Bennett
“continue your nation’s correct policy of the past several years of weakening the terrorist forces of this regime, especially the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps],
with increased decisiveness. The regime that massacres Iranian protesters in streets across our country is the head of the octopus whose tentacles are the terrorists who extend insecurity to the state of Israel and other nations in our region.”

The signatories wrote that
” To that end, we request that you decisively and comprehensively support the protests of the varying, but united, groups of the Iranian people bravely fighting to take charge of their own destiny through a democratic government,
which will reestablish peaceful relations with its neighbors and the international community. We also request that you support the Iranian people with anti-filtering and anti-censorship technology.”

The letter concluded with a call for diplomatic relations between a post-Islamic Republic in Iran government and Israel under the title Cyrus Accords, a phrase that was coined by Victoria Coates and Len Khodorkovsky in a February Jerusalem Post opinion article.

“The Iranian people have consistently and clearly expressed their opposition to the regime’s anti-Israel and anti-Semitic policies.
We believe that a democratic Iran, supported by its rich culture and history, will be a strategic ally of Israel and a productive member of the international community in establishing peace and stability, specifically in the Middle East.
We await the day when the two ancient nations of Iran and Israel, under the auspices of the Cyrus Accords, establish serious political, cultural, economic, and technological relations and we believe that day is closer than ever,” wrote the signatories.

Prominent Iranians in the diaspora signed the letter, including Saba Farzan, Iranian-German Journalist, Cameron Khansarinia, Policy Director of National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI) in the USA, Maryam Memarsadeghi, Senior Fellow at Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Majid Mohamadi, Retired Faculty Member, Writer, Iran Analyst, and Fred Saberi, Iranian-Swedish Political Analyst in Middle East affairs.

 

By all means, lets play, Lets make a deal with iran, .....nooooo reason at all they shouldnt have nukes!

Iranian exiles protest, demand prosecution of president-elect

Supporters of Iran's exiled opposition rallied in Berlin and elsewhere on Saturday to demand the prosecution of the Islamic Republic's newly elected president, Ebrahim Raisi, whom they accuse of crimes against humanity.
Flag-waving demonstrators rallied at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and other locations as part of a Free Iran World Summit that featured speeches by former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa.

In a keynote address, Maryam Rajavi, president elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, accused Raisi of being the "henchman" responsible for the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have said Raisi's election was a blow for human rights and called for him to be investigated over his role in what they and Washington have called the extrajudicial executions of thousands of political prisoners.

Iran has never acknowledged the mass executions and Raisi has never publicly addressed allegations about his role. Some clerics have said the trials were fair, praising the "eliminating" of armed opposition in the early years of the 1979 Islamic revolution.
In an online address, Pompeo described the Iranian presidential election as "in fact, a boycott and the regime knows it." "This is a show laid bare for the entire world to see," Pompeo said.

Pompeo denounced Raisi as a leader who had been hand-picked by Iran's supreme leader, leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to "inflict pain, frighten, continue to loot, and to plunder" on behalf of the theocracy.

 

Just like the mental health experts warned for years. The more Trump failed and the more he felt reality closing in on him the more dangerous he would become. Up to and including starting a war just try to stay in power.

Gen. Milley warned Trump on possible Iran strikes: 'You're gonna have a f------ war'

Milley was concerned Trump would do anything to stay in power, from launching a military coup to starting a conflict with Iran, the book says.

https://thehill.com/policy/internat...on-possible-iran-strikes-youre-gonna-have-a-f

 

Did we have a war with Iran under Trump?
No.
Did Trump launch a military coup?
No.

Perhaps general Milley should just quietly fade away.
He's embarrassing himself.

 

Milley warned Trump: "You're gonna have a f-----g war"

Axios

President Trump with Gen. Mark Milley on Oct. 7, 2019. Photo: Ron Sachs/CNP via Getty Images


Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, feared President Trump might provoke war with Iran as he tried to cling to power, Susan Glasser writes in The New Yorker.

Flashback: Iran was repeatedly raised in White House meetings with Trump in the months after the election, and Milley repeatedly argued against a strike, Glasser reports:

Milley ... was worried that Trump might set in motion a full-scale conflict that was not justified. Trump had a circle of Iran hawks around him and was close with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was also urging the Administration to act against Iran after it was clear that Trump had lost the election. "If you do this, you’re gonna have a f-----g war," Milley would say.
Between the lines: It's stunning that Milley is allowing these detailed accounts of his thinking to be reported while he's still in the job.

• The WashPost's Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker report in their book, "I Alone Can Fix It," out Tuesday, that Milley saw Trump's post-election behavior as a "Reichstag moment ... The gospel of the Führer."

Milley considered resigning after the Lafayette Square photo op on June 1, 2020, and told his aides that was "prepared to be fired, or even court-martialed," Glasser reports.

• Two days later, in the Pentagon briefing room, Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced that he didn't support invoking the Insurrection Act against protesters, and said he tried to "stay apolitical."

Soon after, Glasser writes, "Esper, Milley, and the Centcom commander, Frank Mackenzie, were scheduled to attend a White House meeting on Afghanistan."

Trump, enraged, lit into Esper before Milley could even sit down. The President went "apes---t" on Esper, Milley told associates, one of the worst such reamings-out he had ever seen. Trump would go on to fire Esper days after he lost the 2020 election.

https://www.axios.com/milley-trump-war-iran-b6efb7f8-b549-4b71-a505-d039c92b4b3c.html

 

Did we have a war with Iran under Trump?
No.
Did Trump launch a military coup?
No.

Perhaps general Milley should just quietly fade away.
He's embarrassing himself.

 

Trump, Trump, Trumpity, Trump, Trump, I see Trump here, I see Trump there, I see Donald Trump everywhere

 

Biden ramps up pressure on Iran as it grapples with protests



The Biden administration wants to ramp up pressure on Iran amid stalled talks to rejoin the nuclear deal, but internal calculations in Tehran are difficult to predict as the nation faces rising unrest at home.

The options on the table for the U.S., which are said to include tighter restrictions on Iran's oil exports as well as new sanctions on its missile and drone programs, are likely to further strain tensions amid the months-long efforts to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the formal name for the Obama-era nuclear deal that the U.S. exited in 2018 under then-President Trump.

The U.S. has warned that negotiations cannot continue indefinitely and called out Iran for failing to agree to a seventh round of indirect talks in Vienna, more than two-months after the last round concluded.

Meanwhile, growing protests in Iran over water and electricity shortages are drawing scrutiny from the international community. At least nine people, including a teenager, have been killed during the protests, according to Human Rights Watch. Nearly 200 arrests have taken place.

Naysan Rafati, senior Iran analyst with the International Crisis Group, said Iranian leaders are likely engaged in a significant debate over whether to rejoin the JCPOA for immediate sanctions relief because of domestic turmoil, or continue nuclear provocations to attempt to exact concessions from the West.

Iran has in recent months ramped up its nuclear activity far beyond the constraints of the deal, increasing its stockpile of nuclear material and infrastructure key to building a bomb. Even if Iran disposed of excess materials that can be used to build a bomb, it has gained key operational knowledge that is irreversible.

“If you're sitting in Tehran you have a choice at this moment ... do you look at the circumstances right now and look at the negotiations in Vienna, and say, ‘we’ve made progress on these talks, the imperative of sanctions relief is very much there, and let’s get these negotiations over and done with?’ ” he asked.

“The risk is also that Iranians will look at increasing brinkmanship right now ... that they still have room for their own form of leverage, which is further nuclear escalation, and that they can continue to spin up more nuclear provocations but there is only so much more the U.S. can do on the sanctions front,” he added.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in an interview with Sky News Arabia Thursday in Kuwait, put the blame squarely on Tehran for failing to come back to the table, saying the U.S. is monitoring the protests.

“We believe that it’s in our interest and Iran’s interest to come back into compliance with the nuclear agreement, the JCPOA. But that really depends on Iran making the decision to do so. It’s not yet made that decision,” he said.

“Meanwhile, of course, we’ve seen protests in Iran that started outside of Tehran; they’ve now come to Tehran,” Blinken added, describing them as “people’s deep frustration with the failure of the government to meet their basic needs."

“And, of course, we stand with the people of Iran in the desire to have their voices heard, and we urge — strongly urge the government not to use violence and repression to silence those voices,” he said.

The protests began July 15 in Iran’s southwest Khuzestan province, with demonstrators taking to the streets blaming government mismanagement for water shortages. The demonstrations have evolved into mass frustration across the country and against Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Videos of the protesters posted on social media include chants of “Death to the dictator," “Shame on Khamenei, let go of the country” and slogans criticizing Iran’s support of proxy fighting forces across the region, according to reports by the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

It’s unclear if the protests are having an effect on calculations by the Iranian regime on potentially returning to the negotiations with the U.S. and other JCPOA participants, including France, Germany, the U.K., Russia, China and the European Union.

Dennis Ross, who served as special assistant to former President Obama and is a distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, wrote on Twitter that he expects the protests will pressure the Iranian regime to return to the JCPOA later this year.

“Protestors chanting ‘I am thirsty’ is a basic sign of failure. Sanctions relief is an increasing need; expect Iran to return to the JCPOA by Fall,” he tweeted.


Dennis Ross
@AmbDennisRoss
Demonstrations in Iran ranging from oil workers on strike to upheaval in Khuzestan are a reminder of how Iran is failing its citizens. Protestors chanting “I am thirsty” is a basic sign of failure. Sanctions relief is an increasing need; expect Iran to return to the JCPOA by Fall
9:35 AM · Jul 26, 2021



The Biden administration wants to ramp up pressure on Iran amid stalled talks to rejoin the nuclear deal, but internal calculations in Tehran are difficult to predict as the nation faces rising unrest at home.

The options on the table for the U.S., which are said to include tighter restrictions on Iran's oil exports as well as new sanctions on its missile and drone programs, are likely to further strain tensions amid the months-long efforts to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the formal name for the Obama-era nuclear deal that the U.S. exited in 2018 under then-President Trump.

The U.S. has warned that negotiations cannot continue indefinitely and called out Iran for failing to agree to a seventh round of indirect talks in Vienna, more than two-months after the last round concluded.

Meanwhile, growing protests in Iran over water and electricity shortages are drawing scrutiny from the international community. At least nine people, including a teenager, have been killed during the protests, according to Human Rights Watch. Nearly 200 arrests have taken place.

Naysan Rafati, senior Iran analyst with the International Crisis Group, said Iranian leaders are likely engaged in a significant debate over whether to rejoin the JCPOA for immediate sanctions relief because of domestic turmoil, or continue nuclear provocations to attempt to exact concessions from the West.

Iran has in recent months ramped up its nuclear activity far beyond the constraints of the deal, increasing its stockpile of nuclear material and infrastructure key to building a bomb. Even if Iran disposed of excess materials that can be used to build a bomb, it has gained key operational knowledge that is irreversible.

“If you're sitting in Tehran you have a choice at this moment ... do you look at the circumstances right now and look at the negotiations in Vienna, and say, ‘we’ve made progress on these talks, the imperative of sanctions relief is very much there, and let’s get these negotiations over and done with?’ ” he asked.

“The risk is also that Iranians will look at increasing brinkmanship right now ... that they still have room for their own form of leverage, which is further nuclear escalation, and that they can continue to spin up more nuclear provocations but there is only so much more the U.S. can do on the sanctions front,” he added.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in an interview with Sky News Arabia Thursday in Kuwait, put the blame squarely on Tehran for failing to come back to the table, saying the U.S. is monitoring the protests.

“We believe that it’s in our interest and Iran’s interest to come back into compliance with the nuclear agreement, the JCPOA. But that really depends on Iran making the decision to do so. It’s not yet made that decision,” he said.

“Meanwhile, of course, we’ve seen protests in Iran that started outside of Tehran; they’ve now come to Tehran,” Blinken added, describing them as “people’s deep frustration with the failure of the government to meet their basic needs."

“And, of course, we stand with the people of Iran in the desire to have their voices heard, and we urge — strongly urge the government not to use violence and repression to silence those voices,” he said.

The protests began July 15 in Iran’s southwest Khuzestan province, with demonstrators taking to the streets blaming government mismanagement for water shortages. The demonstrations have evolved into mass frustration across the country and against Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Videos of the protesters posted on social media include chants of “Death to the dictator," “Shame on Khamenei, let go of the country” and slogans criticizing Iran’s support of proxy fighting forces across the region, according to reports by the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

It’s unclear if the protests are having an effect on calculations by the Iranian regime on potentially returning to the negotiations with the U.S. and other JCPOA participants, including France, Germany, the U.K., Russia, China and the European Union.

Dennis Ross, who served as special assistant to former President Obama and is a distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, wrote on Twitter that he expects the protests will pressure the Iranian regime to return to the JCPOA later this year.

“Protestors chanting ‘I am thirsty’ is a basic sign of failure. Sanctions relief is an increasing need; expect Iran to return to the JCPOA by Fall,” he tweeted.

The Biden administration has said it is prepared to lift sanctions that are inconsistent with the original terms of the nuclear deal, likely to give a key influx of cash to leaders in Tehran under pressure from the public.

But it has also called for Iran to commit to follow-up negotiations to address its ballistic weapons program and support for proxy-fighting forces across Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and in the Gaza Strip.

Washington appears to be preparing a parallel pressure campaign, with a senior official telling The Wall Street Journal that the administration is considering sanctions that impact Iran’s ability to build drones and precision-guided missiles.

This comes on top of the administration weighing sanctions targeting Chinese imports of Iranian crude oil, also reported by the Journal.

Robert Einhorn, a senior fellow in the Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative with the Brookings Institution, said that it's likely the U.S. and Iran resume negotiations after the inauguration of President-elect Ibrahim Raisi, set for Aug. 5, but that they face significant differences.

“There will be a resumption of talks but it’s not at all clear that negotiations will go smoothly,” he said. “Raisi has made very clear, and most Iranians have made very clear, that even if the JCPOA is restored, they have no interest in follow-on negotiations.”

Khamenei, in reported remarks Wednesday, ramped up criticism against the “West,” calling them the “enemies” and condemning the U.S. demand for follow-up negotiations as a pretext to walk away from the JCPOA.

“By putting this sentence, they want to provide an excuse for their further interventions on the principle of [the deal] and missile program and regional issues," Khamenei said, according to The Associated Press. "If Iran refuses to discuss them, they will say that you have violated the agreement and the agreement is over.”

https://thehill.com/policy/internat...ure-on-iran-as-it-grapples-with-protests?rl=1

 

Was wondering what happened to this thread

 

Robust.
A robust response is called for here.