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US takes down Iran-linked news sites, alleges disinformation

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — American authorities took down a range of Iran’s state-linked news websites they accused of spreading “disinformation” on Tuesday, a U.S. official said, a move that appeared to be a far-reaching crackdown on Iranian media amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the case had not yet been officially announced by the American government, said the U.S. had seized roughly three dozen websites, the majority of which are linked to Iranian disinformation efforts.

by Blazingcatfur•June 22, 2021June 22, 2021•0•Iran, USA

Israel is worried about Ebrahim ‘the Butcher’ Raisi, Iran’s new president

In the last two days, three interesting stories have emerged from the Middle East. The first story is about Ebrahim “the Butcher” Raisi’s election as president in Iran; the second is Israel’s announcement that this election forces it to protect itself against this butcher; and the third is news that Iran’s sole nuclear power plant abruptly shut down. The first and second stories are quite obviously connected. The real question is whether the third story is a promise of things to come or is just a coincidence.

by Blazingcatfur•June 22, 2021June 21, 2021•0•Iran, Israeli - Islam Conflict

Iran nuclear deal: President-elect Raisi issues warning over talks

Iran’s president-elect has welcomed the negotiations with world powers aimed at reviving a 2015 nuclear deal, but said they must guarantee national interests.

At his first news conference since his victory in Friday’s election, Ebrahim Raisi promised he would not allow the talks in Vienna to be dragged out.

He also insisted that Iran’s ballistic missile programme was “not negotiable”.

Biden will give them anything they want.

by Blazingcatfur•June 21, 2021June 21, 2021•0•Iran, USA

Iran’s sole nuclear power plant undergoes emergency shutdown

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s sole nuclear power plant has undergone an unexplained temporary emergency shutdown, state TV reported on Sunday.

An official from the state electric energy company, Gholamali Rakhshanimehr, said on a talk show that the Bushehr plant shutdown began on Saturday and would last “for three to four days.”

He said that power outages could result. He did not elaborate but this is the first time Iran has reported an emergency shutdown of the plant, located in the southern port city of Bushehr. It went online in 2011 with help from Russia. Iran is required to send spent fuel rods from the reactor back to Russia as a nuclear nonproliferation measure.

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2021June 20, 2021•0•Iran

Ebrahim Raisi’s Victory Gives Israel ‘No Choice’ But to Attack Iran’s Nuclear Programme, Report Says

Israeli officials have warned that Ebrahim Raisi’s victory in the Iranian presidential elections gives them “no choice” but to attack Iran’s nuclear programme, Israel’s Channel 12 has reported, citing a senior government source. “[The attack] will require budgets and the reallocation of resources”, the source told the TV channel, adding that Israeli security officials believe Raisi will adopt hardline views on foreign and nuclear policy pushed by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

by Blazingcatfur•June 20, 2021June 20, 2021•0•Iran, Israeli - Islam Conflict

The Biden Administration’s Iran Policy: All Carrots, No Stick

Since the Biden administration assumed office, it has been increasingly appeasing the Iranian regime, which in return, is further emboldening and empowering the mullahs.

The first appeasement came when the administration changed the previous administration’s policy of maximum pressure to a policy of appeasement toward the Iran’s proxy militia group, the Houthis. Even as evidence — including a report by the United Nations — showed that the Iranian regime is delivering sophisticated weapons to the Houthi militia group in Yemen, the Biden administration suspended some of the sanctions against terrorism that the previous administration imposed on the Houthis. The previous US administration had designated Iran’s proxies, the Houthis, a terrorist group.

by Blazingcatfur•June 19, 2021June 19, 2021•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Iran, USA

Ebrahim Raisi: The mass murdering cleric is Iran’s new president

Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline cleric close to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is set to become Iran’s new president.

The 60-year-old presented himself as the best person to combat corruption and solve the economic problems Iran has experienced under the outgoing President Hassan Rouhani.

He is the country’s top judge, and has ultra-conservative political views. Many Iranians and human rights activists have pointed to his alleged role in the mass executions of political prisoners in the 1980s.

by Blazingcatfur•June 19, 2021June 19, 2021•0•Iran

Iran’s Fake Presidential Election

Iran’s so-called presidential election today, June 18, is a fraud, a ruse for the world to observe and seemingly domestically designed to release some pent-up popular pressure.

Iran’s presidency itself is a weak institution of weak political superstructure which also includes the legislative branch (the majles, the sort-of equivalent of a parliament). This highly visible but insubstantial governmental apparatus masks the real power in Iran: the “deep state” of the Islamic Republic.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2021June 18, 2021•0•Iran

‘He watched as guards threw my baby on the floor’: Meet Ebrahim ‘Butcher’ Raisi as Iran prepares to make him president

Iranian political prisoners who were interrogated, tortured and sentenced to die by Ebrahim Raisi have told of their horrifying experiences as Iran prepares to make him the country’s next president.

Farideh Goudarzi, who was jailed for being part of a banned political group, told MailOnline how Raisi watched guards drop her baby on the floor as part of one brutal interrogation – after she was tortured while pregnant and forced to give birth in jail.

Meanwhile Mahmoud Royaee, another political prisoner interrogated by Raisi during the execution of up to 30,000 opposition activists in a 1988 purge, said Raisi once handed down a death sentence to an inmate who was in the midst of an epileptic fit.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2021June 17, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence

China and Iran: Join Up the Dots

The whole is much more than the sum of the parts

The Free World seems finally to be waking up to the fact that for at least a decade we have been in ‘grey war’ with the new alliance of China, Russia, Iran and N. Korea (CRINK) without openly realising it. Within high circles in the Western Intelligence Community (which is awake, not woke, thankfully) there is a name for it: ghost attack.

Ghost attack is described thus in two stages: Stage One: “Commit non-attributable, or feasibly deniable, acts of war that advance your own national power and physically harm your adversaries, but do not fit traditional legal standards to mobilize them to a formal response.” Stage Two: “Then foment chaos, advance the narrative of your innocence, and underline your adversary’s incompetence through information warfare.”

by Blazingcatfur•June 13, 2021June 13, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Iran, USA

To Biden Administration: The Record of Iran’s Top “Moderate” Mullah

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has long been labeled in the West a “moderate” or “diplomatic sheikh” who will change the Iranian regime for the better. The Obama administration reached a deal with the Rouhani’s administration and lifted sanctions against the Iranian regime; and now the Biden administration is forging ahead to revive former President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Rouhani before he leaves office.

Here, for perusal, are the eight-years of records of the so-called moderate President of Iran.

by Blazingcatfur•June 12, 2021June 12, 2021•0•Iran, USA

Is the Biden Administration Helping Iran to Achieve Its Nuclear Dream?

The most likely outcome of US President Joe Biden’s ill-considered attempt to revive the nuclear deal with Iran is that it will lead to a dramatic reduction in the time frame Tehran requires to build an atomic warhead.

One of the central goals of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) struck with Iran by former US President Barack Obama was to delay Tehran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons for more than a decade.

At the time the deal was agreed in 2015, intelligence experts predicted it would take it Iran about one year to develop the technological know-how to develop a nuclear warhead if Iran was allowed to continue with its nuclear activities.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2021June 10, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Iran, Iranian Nuclear Capability, Islam, Islam and violence

The Poisonous Fruit of Appeasing Iran’s Mullahs

Iran is continuing to exploit the Palestinian issue to promote its expansionist schemes in the Middle East and meddle in the internal affairs of Arab countries, including Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and Bahrain.

Iran is doing so while its representatives continue to conduct indirect negotiations with the US administration in Vienna on reviving the 2015 “Iran nuclear deal,” which Iran never signed.

Diplomats from Britain, France and Germany who are negotiating with the Iranians seem oblivious to the growing concern in the Arab world over Tehran’s support for terrorism and its ongoing intervention in the internal affairs of several Arab countries.

by Blazingcatfur•June 9, 2021June 9, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence

Islamic Republic: Welcome to Iran’s Fake Democratic Elections

Iran’s presidential “elections” will be held in less than three weeks. Do not, however, be deceived by any narrative that suggests the mullahs’ system is democratic or that the people of Iran freely or fairly get to elect their president.

Iran’s mullahs claim that the Islamic Republic is a “democratic” system of governance. Iran’s Supreme Leader recently boasted about the Islamic “democracy,” the regime’s political system and people’s crucial role in influencing and shaping the political establishment…

by Blazingcatfur•June 5, 2021June 5, 2021•0•Iran

Why did the new Iranian navy build glass bottomed ships?

So they could see the Old Iranian Navy;)

Iran Navy Ship Sinks after Fire in Gulf of Oman

An Iranian naval vessel sank in the Gulf of Oman Wednesday after efforts to put out a fire failed, but the crew safely disembarked, the navy said.

The fleet replenishment tanker Kharg had caught fire on Tuesday near the port of Jask on the Gulf of Oman.

The fire broke out in “one of the systems” of the vessel, a navy statement said without elaborating.

Firefighting efforts continued “for 20 hours” before the ship went down, it said.

by Blazingcatfur•June 2, 2021June 2, 2021•0•Iran