Video - Iranian Def Minister: We Need to Surprise the Enemy, America, and Hit It Where It Hurts the Most

Video - Iranian Def Minister: We Need to Surprise the Enemy, America, and Hit It Where It Hurts the Most. Memri. Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan recently said that the main threat to Iran was from America and its ally, Israel, and that in order to gain the upper hand in battle Iran should operate in a situation of asymmetric warfare, and have sufficient power to surprise the enemy in order to "hit it where it hurts the most." He was speaking on IRINN TV on February 7.

Hossein Dehghan: Today, the main threat is from the arrogant regime, America, along with the Zionists and so on. When we consider how to fight such a threat, we need to find factors that will give us the upper hand in battle. There will be a situation of asymmetric warfare. We have several plans to develop [military] products and technology, to improve existing products, and to develop our industrial infrastructures. We must operate in such a way that strategically, we will not be surprised on the day [of battle], for example, by finding ourselves in a scenario that we did not think of, or by suffering damage that we did not anticipate. In addition, we need to have sufficient power to surprise the enemy. In other words, we need to hit the enemy where it hurts the most.

Iran May Stop Cooperation with IAEA If US Leaks Secret 'Obama & Iran' Nuclear Documents.

Iran May Stop Cooperation with IAEA If US Leaks Secret 'Obama & Iran' Nuclear Documents. (IFP).

During the US election campaign, reports circulated indicating that Trump would reveal certain documents on Iran’s nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), allegedly kept hidden by Obama administration.

An article carried by the Daily Beast website late last December quoted an “individual who has participated in those conversations” as saying that “senior officials who will be part of the Trump administration are already discussing what so-far-unseen information about the Iran agreement they will be able to make public after January.”

A number of Iranian parliamentarians have commented on the US President Donald Trump’s threat of publicizing the secret nuclear documents between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), saying such threats may lead to Iran’s decision to stop cooperation with the Agency.

Referring to Trump’s threat to disclose Iran’s secret documents pertaining to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Jamali Nobandegani, who is also a member of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said threatening Tehran with claims about publicizing such [secret nuclear] documents is an old trick.

“Most of the so-called IAEA agents who are dispatched to other countries [for inspecting nuclear facilities and activities] are, in fact, undercover agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Mossad — Israel’s intelligence agency. In the past, prior to the raising of the nuclear issue by the IAEA, American and European media published Iran’s documents.”

“Since the IAEA’s director general is appointed by the direct vote of the US and other Western countries, he does not have the freedom and authority to make independent decisions and, thus, fails to guarantee the fulfilment of the Agency’s commitments,” he went on to say.

Referring to the leak of the secret documents between Iran and IAEA in the past, Jamali Nobandegani stressed that in case of another disclosure [of such documents], the international community will eventually notice the IAEA’s lack of commitment, understand the reason behind Iran’s reluctance to cooperate with the agency and respect the country’s decision.

Therefore, in case Trump carries out its threat of publishing the documents, the Iranian government will definitely take necessary measures to reciprocate.

Among Iran’s measure may be suspending cooperation with the IAEA, as these documents are directly related to the country’s national security and a nation’s security is not negotiable and tradable. Hmmm....Why shouldn't the America public be informed of the 'backroom' deals the Obama 'admin' made with Iran? Read the full story here.

Iran injecting uranium hexafluoride (UF6) into IR-8 centrifuge machines violation of the Joint Plan of Action (JPA)?

Iran injecting uranium hexafluoride (UF6) into IR-8 centrifuge machines violation of the Joint Plan of Action (JPA)? (Taz).

US President Donald Trump is angry at the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA/ nuclear deal) because, after clinching the accord, the world has recognized Iran's right to enrich uranium, President Hassan Rouhani said.

President Rouhani said that it became feasible to enrich uranium in the country using advanced domestically-manufactured centrifuge machines,
known as IR-8, one year after the implementation of the JCPOA, Tasnim news agency reported.

The president made the remarks addressing a group of people in the northern province of Alborz.

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) on Jan. 28 announced that the organization has started injecting uranium hexafluoride (UF6) into IR-8 centrifuge machines.

The organization through a statement on the same day said that Iran’s research and development plans will continue without any halt in all sectors of peaceful nuclear activities according to the JCPOA.

Iran and the world powers inked the JCPOA on July 14, 2015 .

Under the terms of the agreement as issued in a fact sheet released by the US State Department last year, Iran “will not use its IR-2, IR-4, IR-5, IR-6, or IR-8 models to produce enriched uranium for at least ten years. For ten years, enrichment and enrichment research and development will be limited to ensure a breakout timeline of at least 1 year. Beyond 10 years, Iran will abide by its enrichment and enrichment R&D plan submitted to the IAEA, and pursuant to the JCPOA, under the Additional Protocol resulting in certain limitations on enrichment capacity.” Source.


Related: Technical Note: Making Sense out of the IR-8 Centrifuge By David Albright.

Currently, Iran has pledged not to inject the IR - 8 centrifuge with uranium hexafluoride since to do so would violate the Joint Plan of Action (JPA) (and if undeclared, also its safeguards agreement).

The IAEA reported in its most recent Iran safeguards report that no uranium hexafluoride gas had been injected into this centrifuge at the Natanz enrichment plant as of late August. 3

Although the IAEA recently visited one of Iran’s centrifuge R&D facilities, gaining more knowledge of Iran’s activities, and no evidence has emerged of secret enrichment in the IR - 8 or other centrifuges, the IAEA cannot determine, with the current safeguards and JPA verification arrangements, if Iran has secretly injected gas into the IR - 8 centrifuge at sites other than the Natanz or Fordow centrifuge plants.

The recent visit to the centrifuge R&D center did not constitute an inspection. For example, the IAEA did not take samples able to determine the presence of enriched uranium at the site. However, even with these uncertainties in mind, as of today, there is no reason to assume that Iran has tested the IR - 8 centrifuge with uranium hexafluoride.

Related:

Rouhani Orders Work on Nuclear Propulsion Device, which means Higher enrichment than allowed.

Iran has started injecting uranium hexafluoride (aka UF6) into its newly developed Advanced IR-8 centrifuges.

Iran has started injecting uranium hexafluoride (aka UF6) into its newly developed Advanced IR-8 centrifuges. (Taz).

Iran has started injecting uranium hexafluoride (aka UF6) into its newly developed IR-8 centrifuges, hailing it as a great step in nuclear enrichment research and development, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran reported January 28.

IR-8 is Iran’s most modern nuclear centrifuge, which is 20 times faster than IR-1, the older model which Iran used before its landmark nuclear deal of 2015.

The organization said that the research and development project is compliant with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Under the terms of the nuclear deal as issued in a fact sheet released by the US State Department last year, Iran “will not use its IR-2, IR-4, IR-5, IR-6, or IR-8 models to produce enriched uranium for at least ten years. For ten years, enrichment and enrichment research and development will be limited to ensure a breakout timeline of at least 1 year.

Beyond 10 years, Iran will abide by its enrichment and enrichment R&D plan submitted to the IAEA, and pursuant to the JCPOA, under the Additional Protocol resulting in certain limitations on enrichment capacity.”

Iran has disputed the US factsheet, however saying that under the accord, it is allowed to conduct R&D on its more advanced centrifuges.


Iran believes the US has violated the nuclear deal by renewing the Iran Sanctions Act in late 2016, which eased sanctions in exchange for curbs on Iran’s nuclear program. Hmmm.....Thanks Hussein Obama. 

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Rouhani Orders Work on Nuclear Propulsion Device, which means Higher enrichment than allowed.

Hussein Obama 'admin' quietly sent Palestinians $221 million in its last hours in power

Hussein Obama 'admin' quietly sent Palestinians $221 million in its last hours in power. (Napo).

Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released US$221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking.

A State Department official and several congressional aides said the outgoing administration formally notified Congress it would spend the money Friday morning. The official said former Secretary of State John Kerry had informed some lawmakers of the move shortly before he left the State Department for the last time Thursday.

The aides said written notification dated Jan. 20 was sent to Congress just hours before Donald Trump took the oath of office.


In addition to the $221 million for the Palestinians, the Obama administration also told Congress on Friday it was going ahead with the release of another $6 million in foreign affairs spending, including $4 million for climate change programs and $1.25 million for UN organizations, the congressional aides said. Hmmm....Obama: 'Judge me by where my heart lies". Read the full story here.

Video - Ted Cruz: History will record Barack Hussein Obama and John Kerry as relentless enemies of Israel.

Egyptian Daily Reveals Minutes Of Secret Palestinian Authority Meeting With John Kerry, Susan Rice; U.S.-Pal Coordination On UNSC 2334.

Egyptian Daily Reveals Minutes Of Secret Palestinian Authority Meeting With John Kerry, Susan Rice; U.S.-Pal Coordination On UNSC 2334. (Memri).

In mid-December 2016, a Palestinian Authority (PA) delegation met in Washington with officials from the outgoing Obama administration for secret talks. On December 27, the Egyptian daily Al-Youm Al-Sabi', which is close to Egyptian intelligence services, published an exposé of the minutes of the secret talks. 

According to the report, by Ahmed Gomaa, the Palestinian delegation included PLO Executive Committee secretary and negotiating team leader Saeb Erekat; Palestinian general intelligence chief Majid Faraj; Husam Zomlot, strategic affairs advisor to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud 'Abbas; Palestinian Foreign Ministry official Dr. Majed Bamya; Palestinian negotiations department official Azem Bishara; Palestinian intelligence international relations department chief Nasser 'Adwa; and head of the PLO delegation to Washington Ma'an Erekat.

The report gave the details of the Palestinian delegation's schedule during the visit, noting that "the Palestinian side began its meetings on December 12, when Saeb Erekat and Majid Faraj met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. The next day, the two met with National Security Advisor Susan Rice. The entire delegation met with an American team that included four representatives of the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security, for a six-hour political-strategic meeting. Majid Faraj concluded his visit with a lengthy meeting with the CIA chief."

According to the report, the minutes of the "top secret" meeting of Kerry, Rice, Erekat, and Faraj reveals U.S.-Palestinian coordination leading up to the UN Security Council vote on Resolution 2334 regarding Israel's settlements, which was adopted December 23. It states that the sides "agreed to cooperate in drafting a resolution on the settlements" and that the U.S. representative in the Security Council was "empowered" to coordinate with the Palestinian UN representative on the resolution.

The meeting also, according to the report, was aimed at coordinating Kerry's attendance at the upcoming international Paris Conference set for January 15, 2017, in order to promote a further international move regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Kerry, it said, offered to propose his ideas for a permanent arrangement "provided that they are supported by the Palestinian side."

At the meeting, Rice pointed out the "danger" of the incoming Trump administration's policies, the report stated, adding that both she and Kerry had advised President 'Abbas to make no preliminary moves that might provoke the new administration. Rice even offered to help arrange a meeting between the Palestinian delegation and a representative from the Trump team, by enlisting the help of World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder.

Also at the meeting, Erekat warned that if the U.S. Embassy was moved to Jerusalem, the Palestinians would call to expel U.S. Embassies from Arab and Muslim capitals, the report said.
The report added that Kerry and Rice had fulsomely praised 'Abbas's policies and how he handled matters, and harshly criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that he "aims to destroy the two-state solution."

It should be mentioned that both Kerry and Erekat have denied that there was any U.S.-Palestinian coordination in drafting the Security Council resolution.[1]


Following are excerpts from the Al-Youm Al-Sabi' report:

Coordinating Kerry's Attendance At International Conference In France

The delegation also attempted to coordinate Kerry's attendance at the Paris Conference, which will take place January 15, 2017, to promote a further international move for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to the report. "As for the French initiative, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that he could not attend [the conference if it were to be held] December 21-22, but stressed that he could [attend it if it were to be held] after January 9. The Palestinian delegation stressed that 'Abbas had contacted the French side, and that it had expressed its willingness to postpone the international conference [in Paris] so that the American secretary of state could attend."

Erekat: If U.S. Embassy Is Moved To Jerusalem, We Will Call To Expel U.S. Embassies From Arab And Muslim Countries

"When Susan Rice asked what the Palestinian response would be if the U.S. Embassy was moved to Jerusalem, or if a new settlement bloc was annexed, Erekat responded: 

'We will directly and immediately join 16 international organizations, withdraw the PLO's recognition of Israel, and cut back our security, political, and economic ties with the Israeli occupation regime, and we will hold it fully responsible for the PA's collapse. Furthermore, we will [call] on the Arab and Islamic peoples to expel U.S. Embassies from their capitals.' 

Rice answered Erekat by saying: 'It seems that future matters could be very complicated, and we are all apprehensive about sitting down with Erekat because of his absolute knowledge of these matters, and because of his memory and his sincerity.' She expressed the American side's respect and friendship for Erekat, and apologized for yelling at him in March 2014."

"John Kerry And Susan Rice Asked That The Meetings Be Classified 'Top Secret'"

Finally, the report stated: "John Kerry and Susan Rice asked that the meetings be classified 'Top Secret' and that what went on in them not be leaked, in light of the sensitivity of the transition between the two U.S. administrations."

"The Palestinian delegation," it said, "asked Kerry and Rice to reexamine the financial aid to the PA and not to reduce it, as they did when they cut it from $150 million in 2011 to $100 million in 2012, with the current aid proposal being only $39 million. 

According to the meeting's minutes, the Palestinian side revealed that [U.S.]  financial aid to the PA was $400-$500 million between 2008 and 2013, and was cut to $370 million in 2014 and 2015, and then cut again to $290 million in 2016.[6]

"The Palestinian side praised the American administration's aid to UNRWA, which averaged $277 million per year between 2009 and 2016, and asked for it to be increased in order to cover UNRWA's $101 million deficit in 2016." Read the full story here.

Islamist Dwarf country Qatar, population 1,8 Million biggest Arms importer in the world .

Islamist Dwarf country Qatar, population 1,8 Million biggest Arms importer in the world. (TN). [Google Translated].

According to the annual report of the US Congress, Qatar has led the world's largest arms importers with a flow of $ 17 billion. The report covers the period from 2008 to 2015.

According to the same report, Egypt (population 82 Million) came second with 12 billion dollars, Saudi Arabia (population 28,8 Million) comes in third with 8 billion dollars.

According to BBC, the list of the largest importers of weapons for the year 2015 are: Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Pakistan, Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Iraq.

Hmmm.....Biggest Arms seller for 2016 .....The Obama 'Admin'.Anyone wondering what such a tiny Country does with so many weapons? To Whom they sell them? Why he's arming all Israel's enemies?

Obama 'Admin': 'Iranian President’s Order on N. Propulsion Devices No Breach of JCPOA'

Obama 'Admin': 'Iranian President’s Order on N. Propulsion Devices No Breach of JCPOA'. (IFP).

“Such an announcement does not run counter to the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action),” a senior Obama administration official said on condition of anonymity, in reference to the nuclear deal, Reuters reported.

In separate directives issued to the Foreign Ministry and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) on Tuesday, President Rouhani demanded that they draw appropriate plans to design and manufacture nuclear propulsion devices as well as the fuel required for them.

He instructed Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the AEOI, to report back to him on the issue within a maximum period of three months.

The president said the measures were warranted in light of the United States’ foot-dragging in fulfilling its commitments under the multilateral nuclear deal and the recent ratification of an anti-Iran legislation in the US Congress known as the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA).

Hmmmm.........

U.S. naval reactors are all pressurized water reactors, which are identical to PWR commercial reactors producing electricity, except that:

• they have a high power density in a small volume and run either on low-enriched uranium (as do some French and Chinese submarines) or on highly enriched uranium (20% U-235, current U.S. submarines use fuel enriched to at least 93%, compared to between 21–45% in current Russian models, although Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker reactors are enriched up to 90%),

Pres Hussein Obama Signs Waiver Ordering US Embassy Not to Be Moved to Jerusalem.

Pres Hussein Obama Signs Waiver Ordering US Embassy Not to Be Moved to Jerusalem. (Matzav).

As he has every six months of his administration, President Barack Obama signed a waiver on Thursday ordering the U.S. Embassy in Israel to remain in Tel Aviv – and not be moved to Yerushalayim as Congress has requested and the Israelis would like.

Every president since the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 was passed by Congress has signed the waiver every six months, determining the delay is necessary “to protect the national security interests of the United States.”

But during his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to move the seaside embassy – and pronto.

With his election, many Israelis – including Yerushalayim Mayor Nir Barkat – said they hope Trump will honor his promise. “This will symbolize the close relationship and courageous friendship between the two nations,” said Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked.

Israelis are excited by the prospect, but not holding their breaths. About half of Israelis polled said they didn’t think Trump would really relocate the embassy, according to a November survey for the Jerusalem Post.

In an address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in March, Trump promised to “move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.”


Trump said the relocation would happen “fairly quickly.”

Previous candidates, including Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, promised the same thing in their courtship of pro-Israel voters, then reversed themselves.

The United States, like other countries, maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv, and says any change must await the final resolution of the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

But if Trump were to want to move the U.S. embassy up the hill 40 miles from Tel Aviv to Yerushalayim, diplomats say it would require … virtually nothing.


President Trump could simply not sign the next waiver and then planning and construction could proceed.

The decision will soon be Trump’s.

(c) 2016, The Washington Post · William Booth 

Obama 'Admin' Gives Airbus Green Light to Sell 106 Planes to Iran.

Obama 'Admin' Gives Airbus Green Light to Sell 106 Planes to Iran. (IFP).

The US Office of Foreign Assets Control, an arm of the Treasury Department, granted the license to Airbus Group SE on Tuesday to deliver more than $20 billion in jets to Iran Air in the coming years, Reuters reported.

Airbus is based in France but it must have the US authorization to export planes to Iran because at least 10 percent of the aircraft’s parts are made in the United States.

The Treasury’s approval comes in the last months of the US President Barack Obama’s administration after anti-Iran sanctions were lifted as part of a landmark nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), signed between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries last year.

In January, Iran signed a major contract with European aviation giant, Airbus, worth about $27 billion to buy 118 planes within few months. The contract was signed during the visit to France by Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani.

However, critics of plane sales to Iran have sought to block the transaction. The US House of Representatives passed a bill on November 17 that would bar the sale of commercial aircraft to Iran, which would also affect the US aerospace heavyweight, Boeing. The bill must now clear the Senate.

The White House announced that President Obama would veto the bill, saying it would undermine the international nuclear agreement.

The White House said US allies would view the legislation as a violation of the JCPOA. Hmmm........Merry Christmas.

Iran Warns US it might walk away from JCPOA after House Moves to Renew Sanctions.

Iran Warns US it might walk away from JCPOA after House Moves to Renew Sanctions. (IFPnews).

US lawmakers voted 419 to one for a 10-year reauthorization of the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA), which was initially adopted in 1996 on the unfounded ground that Tehran was pursuing a non-civilian nuclear program.

The ISA will expire at the end of 2016 if it is not renewed and the bill must be passed by the Senate before being signed by the US president into law.

Iranian officials warned the US against renewing the ban in light of the fact that Iran has had the sanctions lifted on the back of its 2015 nuclear accord with world powers, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani addressed US officials on Tuesday night in a strident tone.

“If you extend the sanctions, this will mean kicking the JCPOA away and we will confront it through implementing powerful technical packages,” he said, without elaboration.


The agreement was struck in July 2015 between Iran and the P5+1 group comprising the US, France, China, Britain, Russia and Germany.

Back in July, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said, “We will not violate the JCPOA, but if the opposite side violates it – as US presidential candidates are currently threatening to tear up the JCPOA – if they tear up the JCPOA, we will burn it.”

Trump, himself, has conceded that it would be hard to destroy a deal enshrined in a United Nations resolution. In August 2015, he said he would not “rip up” the nuclear deal, but that he would “police that contract so tough they don’t have a chance.”

Shamkahni said, “The Iranian nation is an independence-seeking one. They (US leaders) cannot sit in glass palaces saying they would [either] tear up the JCPOA or renegotiate it.”


Yahya Rahim Safavi, a top military adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, also said if Washington annulled the JCPOA at Israel’s behest it would cost it dearly.

“Whoever becomes the president in the US, he will have to support the Zionists, but annulling the JCPOA will be a strategic mistake. If Trump seeks to annul the JCPOA, this will cost the US dearly,” he said.

Obama 'Admin' Refusing to Cooperate With Investigation Into $1.7 Billion in Cash Payments to Iran.

Obama 'Admin' Refusing to Cooperate With Investigation Into $1.7 Billion in Cash Payments to Iran. (WFB).

Attorney General Loretta Lynch is declining to comply with an investigation by leading members of Congress about the Obama administration’s secret efforts to send Iran $1.7 billion in cash earlier this year, prompting accusations that Lynch has “pleaded the Fifth” Amendment to avoid incriminating herself over these payments, according to lawmakers and communications exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

In an Oct. 24 response, Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik responded on Lynch’s behalf, refusing to answer the questions and informing the lawmakers that they are barred from publicly disclosing any details about the cash payment, which was bound up in a ransom deal aimed at freeing several American hostages from Iran.

The response from the attorney general’s office is “unacceptable” and provides evidence that Lynch has chosen to “essentially plead the fifth and refuse to respond to inquiries regarding [her] role in providing cash to the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism,” Rubio and Pompeo wrote on Friday in a follow-up letter to Lynch, according to a copy obtained by the Free Beacon. Hmmm.....As i said many times before: "high crimes and misdemeanors". Read the full story here.

You know the JCPOA is a joke when....Iran Unveils Satire Book about Nuclear Talks.

You know the JCPOA is a joke when....Iran Unveils Satire Book about Nuclear Talks. (IFPnews).

In a ceremony held in Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Centre, a book titled The Elegant [which means Zarif in Persian] Aspects of Negotiations was unveiled.

According to a report by ISNA, as translated by IFP, the ceremony was attended by Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif, Deputy Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, members of Iran’s nuclear negotiation team, and the bereaved families of nuclear martyrs.

The book, which was unveiled on October 1, contains satirical poems, caricatures, and cartoons about the nuclear talks between Tehran and world powers.

In an address to the ceremony, the organizer and producer Abbas Sajjadi, the director of Niavaran Artistic Creations Foundation, hailed the efforts made by satirists and cartoonists who, since the early days, looked at nuclear negotiations from a different perspective.

“I was thinking that we, as culture and art professionals, can also do something beside what our negotiators did; we wanted to do something that is in fact valuable in global and national level.”

“I shared the idea with Mr. Zarif and the rest of the negotiating team and they said that we should wait until the ratification of JCPOA,” he noted.

The book is a compilation of poetry and caricature which depicts the story of the national epic of the nuclear deal, known as JCPOA, in the eyes of culture and art professionals.

During the ceremony, Ali Jannati, the Iranian Minister of Culture, said in a message that “big achievements are often laced with marginal issues that escape people’s attention. Satire is perhaps the most eloquent way and the best means to alleviate the harshness of such controversies and express them openly.”

Jannati stressed that satire is able to provide a sweet wrapping for bitter events of the society and helps people gain a better understanding of contentious issues gently.

“If a diplomat is confident that his efforts will lead to victory, bearing all the difficulties and concerns of negotiations will become easy and even sweet to them,” he added.

FM Zarif also hailed the efforts made by the organizers of the ceremony and said, “I’m actually at a loss for words. Although my last name means elegant, I have to admit that I have been deprived of the elegance of the prominent figures of art and culture who are here today. I would like to sincerely thank them all.”

“I do not deserve all this generosity and kindness,” Zarif expressed humility, and added, “I hope this magnanimity of Iranians, which has been manifested in you artists and intellectuals, remains unfailing.”


He concluded that if it wasn’t for people’s endurance, understanding, wisdom, patience and equanimity, there would be no possibility of any breakthrough on any subject.

Video - Iran Unveils New Combat Drone, reverse engineered from 'Donated' RQ 170 Class.

Video - Iran Unveils New Combat Drone, reverse engineered from 'Donated' RQ 170 Class. HT: Avionist.

On Oct. 1, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) unveiled a new combat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) called Saeqeh (Thunderbolt) during an expo showcasing the latest UAV projects of IRGC’s Aerospace Division.

Belonging to the Simorgh class, the new drone is a long-range unmanned aerial vehicle capable of carrying four precision-guided bombs, modeled on the American RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone captured in 2011.


Commenting on the latest achievements by the IRGC forces, Commander of the IRGC’s Aerospace Division Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh said that “today Iran has better aviation systems and equipment than the US and expressed hope that one day Iran will have the same might in the UAV industry as in the missile sector.”

So, it looks like the Iranians have not only copied the RQ-170, but they have also developed something new based on the captured “Beast of Kandahar” whose crash landing in Iran remains a mystery. A sensibly smaller drone that retains the same wing shape as the Sentinel but lacks the frontal air intake of the Lockheed Martin’s stealth drone.

Moreover it’s not clear where does the landing gear (if any) comes out from. Hmmm.........Thanks Hussein for the 'Kamikaze drones'.Read the full story here.

Obama 'Admin' signed secret document lifting UN sanctions on Iran banks on day Iran released Americans.

Obama 'Admin' signed secret document lifting UN sanctions on Iran banks on day Iran released Americans. (WSJ).

The Obama administration agreed to back the lifting of United Nations sanctions on two Iranian state banks blacklisted for financing Iran’s ballistic-missile program on the same day in January that Tehran released four American citizens from prison, according to U.S. officials and congressional staff briefed on the deliberations.

The U.N. sanctions on the two banks weren’t initially to be lifted until 2023, under a landmark nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers that went into effect on Jan. 16.

The U.N. Security Council’s delisting of the two banks, Bank Sepah and Bank Sepah International, was part of a package of tightly scripted agreements—the others were a controversial prisoner swap and transfer of $1.7 billion in cash to Iran—that were finalized between the U.S. and Iran on Jan. 17, the day the Americans were freed.

The new details of the delisting have emerged after administration officials briefed lawmakers earlier this month on the U.S. decision.


According to senior U.S. officials, a senior State Department official, Brett McGurk, and a representative of the Iranian government signed three documents in Geneva on the morning of Jan. 17.

“By agreeing to remove U.N. and EU sanctions eight years early on Iran’s main missile financing bank, the administration effectively greenlighted their nuclear warhead-capable ballistic missile program,” said Mark Dubowitz, a top critic of the Iran nuclear deal at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank. Hmmm......As i said more than once in the past 'High crimes and misdemeanors'. Read the full story here.

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Video - Egyptian Philosopher - Islamic Fundamentalism Will Play a Role in the Destruction of USA

Video - Egyptian Philosopher - Islamic Fundamentalism Will Play a Role in the Destruction of USA. (MEMRI).

Egyptian philosopher Mourad Wahba expressed his views on the dangers inherent in religious fundamentalism in two TV interviews that aired on August 8. Speaking on Egypt's Channel 1 TV channel, he said that the Arab culture was "backward" and that Egyptian mentality needed to be "liberated" from the religious fundamentalism present both in Islam and in Christianity. In a Mehwar TV interview, Wahba said that he had warned of the dangers of Islamic fundamentalism back in the 1980s, when he foresaw that it would play a role in the destruction of the Soviet Union and later of the U.S. "There is inadequate awareness in the U.S. of the dangers inherent in fundamentalism," he said. Channel 1 (Egypt)

Mourad Wahba: Our culture is backward.

Interviewer: Right.

Mourad Wahba: I am generalizing. Our culture is backward. and tries to distance itself from the West, purporting to have some sort of exceptionalism, a special identity. This exceptionalism...

Interviewer: But this is meaningless.

In 1986, or rather, before 1988, the American philosopher John Somerville told me that he would like us to organize an international conference together, and invite Soviet and American philosophers to attend, because the world was under threat of a nuclear war. I liked the idea, and we organized a conference in St. Louis, in the US. At the conference, I told the philosophers that I expected religious fundamentalism, especially Islamic fundamentalism, to play a role in the destruction of the Soviet Union, and after that, to play a role in the destruction of America. That, in my opinion, would free up planet Earth for an Islamic Caliphate. That was the view I expressed in St. Louis in 1986, with the Soviet and American philosophers. They told me that I was a pessimist, and that it couldn't happen. Then, in 1991, the Communist bloc fell, and in 2001, America began to fall with the destruction of...

Interviewer: The World Trade Center…

Mourad Wahba: That's right. To this day - and you can see this for yourself - America is undergoing an internal struggle, and it will continue to face difficulties, because it does not understand the violence of religious fundamentalism.

In the days of Obama... I've written an article about Obama, titled: "A Fundamentalist in the White House," in which I consider Obama to be a fundamentalist, who has six advisors from the Muslim Brotherhood. Now that the US has awoken, you can see the internal struggles raging within it, along with the suicide-bombers. All this is because there is inadequate awareness in the US of the dangers inherent in fundamentalism.

New evidence Obama's BFF Iran evaded sanctions, continued nuclear weapons development with Venezuela.

New evidence Obama's BFF Iran evaded sanctions, continued nuclear weapons development with Venezuela.(FPD).

New evidence suggests Iran received help from Venezuela with its nuclear program despite a decade of U.N.-mandated sanctions aimed at curbing the rouge regime’s controversial nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

A 2009 document obtained by Brazil’s leading weekly, Veja magazine, shows late dictator President Hugo Chavez signing off on the release of funds to help Iran with its nuclear ambitions.

Specifically, the document states the funds were to be designated for the import of equipment for a gunpowder factory and the development of production plants for nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose, elements used in rocket propulsion for Iran’s government. There is also the suggestion that Chavez may have helped Iran produce rocket motors.

The document provides written proof that Iran successfully continued with its weapons-building program, circumventing what were perceived as ‘watertight’ sanctions.

In a 2011 hearing at the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, then head of U.S. Southern command General Douglas Fraser told the committee that the U.S. was concerned about weekly flights between Venezuela and Iran dubbed the “Axis of Evil Express,” that could potentially be used to transport terrorists and weapons. Hmmm........So Why the CIA (Obama Admin) didn't want the EU And IAEA push for clarity on the Iranians their Military research on Nuclear weapons? Read the full story here.

Former Iranian pres Ahmadinejad writes to Pres Hussein Obama to 'fix' Supreme Court ruling.

Former Iranian pres Ahmadinejad writes to Pres Hussein Obama to 'fix' Supreme Court ruling. (AA).


Iran's ultra-conservative former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked US President Barack Obama to "quickly fix" a recent Supreme Court ruling.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote to Obama saying that April's rulingallowing families of US marines killed in the 1983 bomb attacks on a Beirut military base to claim damages from frozen Iranian funds.

This, he says, could cost his country some $2 billion.

The attack claimed the lives of 305 people - mostly American servicemen - and US courts have ruled that Iran and Hizballah were likely responsible for the attack.

"I passionately advise you not to let the historical defamation and bitter incident be recorded under your name," he wrote in the letter published on a website affiliated with Ahmadinejad's office.

The former president said he gave the letter to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which represents US interests in Iran. Embassy officials declined to comment.

The letter comes amid speculation that Ahmadinejad could make a surprise return to politics.

The controversial leader oversaw a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters following Ahmadinejad's election win in 2009 which opponents viewed as "fraudulent".

Meanwhile, conservatives have entrenching their power in the regime and looking to sideline the more progressive administration of President Hassan Rouhani. Hmmmm.....Khamenei playing the same trick  as the shah  of Iran:  bring in 'moderates' and once you got everything bring back the 'hardliners'