Iran

US and UN’s Dangerous Flirtation: Cuddling with Iran

The Biden Administration may have set a new record in appeasing the Iranian regime, which is, according to the annual US Terrorism Report, the world’s “Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism” and a flagrant violator of human rights.

While people in Iran were celebrating the death of the tyrannical President Ebrahim Raisi, whom they called “the Butcher of Tehran,” the Biden Administration was sending condolences to the Iranian regime — a move that sparked outrage and disbelief among those who champion democratic values and human rights (here, here and here).

The Biden administration was sending condolences to a regime that not only brutalizes its citizens, but that has also been using its militias and proxies — Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Palestinian Islamic Jihad — to blow up peace throughout the Middle East, and sending missiles and drones to Russia — after it illegally seized Georgia and Crimea — to illegally attack Ukraine.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA

Iran blames Western sanctions for fatal crash of US helicopter carrying Ebrahim Raisi

That’ll Buff Out.

Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s former foreign minister, has blamed US sanctions on aviation parts for the helicopter crash that killed the Islamic Republic’s president.

Mr Zarif suggested on Monday that the punitive measures had compromised Tehran’s access to modern aircraft and inhibited repairs to its ageing fleet of American-made aircraft.

The helicopter carrying Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian president, as well as Hossein Amirabdollahian, the foreign minister, on the fatal flight was a US-made Bell 212 helicopter, likely to be more than 40 years old, according to Iranian state media.

Awww…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Ebrahim Raisi’s Iran was one of brutal repression

There are no doubt some who are saddened by the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi. Iran-backed Islamist militias, for instance, have clearly been dismayed by the news of his fatal helicopter crash on Sunday. Lebanon’s Hezbollah extended its ‘deepest condolences’ to Iran’s leaders. Hamas, the anti-Semitic terror group currently fighting Israel in Gaza, went even further to express its ‘feelings of sadness and pain’. Its leaders pledged their ‘complete solidarity’ with the Islamic Republic.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence

Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi dies in helicopter crash

The hardline Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, has died in a helicopter crash in foggy weather in the mountains near the border with Azerbaijan.

The charred wreckage of the aircraft, which crashed on Sunday carrying Raisi, as well as the foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and six other passengers and crew, was found early on Monday after an overnight search in blizzard conditions.

Fears had been growing for Raisi, a 63-year-old ultraconservative, after contact was lost with the helicopter on Sunday as it navigated fog-covered mountains in north-west Iran.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

There are no accidents …

Searches ongoing after Iranian President Raisi’s helicopter involved in ‘hard landing’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, WTF?

Will the West Get Ever Serious about Sanctions on Iran?

If attempts by Western leaders to impose further sanctions against Iran in retaliation for its direct attack against Israel are to have any validity, they will need to be a great deal more effective than those implemented in recent decades.

For decades, the US and its allies have been imposing sanctions against Tehran in an attempt to restrain its malign support for terror organisations, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

Maybe start with paint.

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Women join Iran’s ‘ambassadors of kindness’ who snatch other women from the streets

In Tehran’s Revolution Square, two women clad in long black full hijab approach another woman, dressed in jeans, a long-sleeved shirt and a hijab, or head scarf.

She tries to walk away, but one of the women in full hijab grabs her by her sleeve and pulls her back, yanking her onto the ground. She is surrounded, wrapped in a blanket and bundled into a white van.

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Iran’s death sentence for rapper sparks protests and undermines criticism of US

An Iranian court’s decision to pass the death sentence against Toomaj Salehi, a popular Iranian rapper and regime opponent, has led to international protests and damaged Iran’s fledgling efforts to exploit crackdowns on unrest in US university campuses over Gaza as an abuse of human rights.

Crowds gathered in the US, Europe and Canada on Sunday to support Salehi, while dozens of political prisoners in Iran’s Ghezel Hesar prison issued a statement condemning the death sentence, calling it “the culmination of gross human rights violations in Iran”. Salehi has also won the support of major US rappers, as well as human rights groups.

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War By Affirmative Action?

Why does Biden play Iranian poker with American and Israeli lives?

Answer? He envisions war sort of like affirmative action, in which the less accomplished belligerent is allowed all sorts of concessions for the sake of equity.

Israeli and American military capability, and particularly their missile defenses, are seen as unfair, almost like high achievers’ top SAT scores that are seen as unearned and used to privilege some over others and therefore must be countered or dropped.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA

Are Iran’s Nine Lives Nearing an End?

The theocracy of Iran has been the world’s arch-embassy attacker over the last half century.

So it has zero credibility in crying foul over Israel’s April 1 attacks on its “consulate” in Damascus and the killing of Iran’s kingpin terrorists of the Revolutionary Guard Corps there.

Remember, the world was first introduced to the Iranian ayatollahs by their violent takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1980.

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Canada has become a safe haven for officials from Iran’s monstrous regime

Qasem Soleimani: US kills top Iranian general in Baghdad air strike

We only heard the man with blood on his hands speak twice: once, to correct his Persian translator, and later, to confirm that he understood the reasons for his deportation order.

This was Seyed Salman Samani’s third and final hearing at Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB). His lawyer had requested that it be closed, but the IRB declined, and so I was among the three journalists who attended the virtual hearing last month. And in the end, IRB adjudicator Kirk Dickenson ordered Mr. Samani – Iran’s former deputy interior minister – to be deported from Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Iran, WTF?

Under Biden Administration, Iran’s Mullahs Enjoying Green Light to Go Nuclear

The ascent of Iran’s nuclear program under the watch of the Biden administration stands as a grim illustration of its failure and inadequacy. Iran’s mullahs appear to have been tacitly handed an alarming green light to pursue their nuclear ambitions with impunity. The bleak reality is that time is rapidly running out for concerted action to stop Iran’s march towards acquiring nuclear weapons capability. The Biden administration’s response, however, has been marked by silence, massive funding of Iran and a conspicuous absence of intervention.

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Biden Administration’s Jitterbug with Iran’s Regime

In the intricate and often perilous world of international relations, every decision carries weight, consequences, and the potential to shape the course of events. At the heart of this delicate dance lies the Biden administration’s policy towards Iran — a policy that has been veering dangerously off-course, betraying not only the principles of national security but also the essence of American values.

The recent decision to shower Iran, the “leading state sponsor of global terrorism,” with yet another $10 billion in sanctions waivers, “freeing up $10 billion elsewhere to spend on terrorism, missiles, nuclear weapons and the repression of Iranian women,” defies logic and morality.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA

There Goes Latin America: Iran’s Regime in America’s Backyard

A threatening development has been brewing largely under the radar of the Biden administration and the mainstream media attention: Iran’s calculated expansion into Latin America, from Argentina to Mexico.

With alarming nonchalance, the Biden administration appears to have turned a blind eye to the Iranian regime’s concerted efforts to establish a military foothold right in America’s backyard. The ramifications of this complacency are profound. The Iranian regime, which, since it began in 1979, has been calling for “Death to America,” now has ballistic missiles which it says can reach the US, and claims to have a hypersonic missile that, according to one report, “Can Destroy US In 40 sec.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, South America, USA