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Iranian Warship Thought to be Headed to Venezuela Left Port with 7 High-Speed Missile Boats Aboard

The seven missile craft aboard Makran are each approximately 57 feet (17.5 meters) long and match the Peykaap family of medium-sized fast attack craft operated by Iran. There are several variations of these craft in Iranian service, although all are generally similar. The latest Peykaap-II type (also known as the Bavar class) is 57 feet long and can carry two anti-ship missiles and two 12.75 inch torpedoes. The missiles could be of the Kowsar or Nasr types, which are derived from Chinese models with a quite modest range of around 18 nautical miles.

by Sarcasticat•June 2, 2021June 1, 2021•0•Iran, military, Venezuela

Blinken and a Repeat of ‘Eyeless in Gaza’ Saga

“The advanced bunker of the Resistance Front”. This is how official media in Tehran describe the Gaza Strip as it emerges from its latest mini-war against “The Zionist enemy”. Needless to say, Iran’s “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei, regarding himself as leader of the “Resistance Front,” is already looking forward to the next round of this sordid duel. In messages to Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas and Ziyad Nakhalah of the Islamic Jihad for the liberation of Palestine, “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei asserts that he has received “a divine pledge that total victory is on the way”, and demands that the two groups continue the fight until “our holy land is cleansed of the existence of the usurper”.

Tehran media claim that “the great victory” supposedly achieved by Hamas and Islamic Jihad is, to a large extent, due to financial, material and training support from the Islamic Republic.

by Blazingcatfur•May 30, 2021May 30, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence, Israeli - Islam Conflict

IRGC General Urges Israelis to Pack Their Bags and ‘Look for Living Place in US or Europe’

“The Zionist regime should pack its travelling bags and look for a living place in the US, Alaska, or Europe”, the general said, adding that “Mossad’s threats and the option of war against Iran, especially after their incapability against the Palestinian resistance” hold no water.

In lockstep…

Hamas leader Khaled Mash'al: No future for the Zionist entity on our land. The two-state solution is dead. pic.twitter.com/o0ZUN2B3ic

— Khaled Abu Toameh (@KhaledAbuToameh) May 29, 2021

by Blazingcatfur•May 29, 2021May 29, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence, Israeli - Islam Conflict

Iran is enriching uranium at levels ‘only countries making bombs are reaching,’ UN’s nuclear watchdog warns

“A country enriching at 60% is a very serious thing — only countries making bombs are reaching this level,” Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the Times.

by Sarcasticat•May 27, 2021May 26, 2021•0•Iran, Iranian Nuclear Capability, UN

Even with a Deal, the Mullahs Will Pursue Nukes

The argument that negotiating and reaching a nuclear deal with the mullahs of Iran will curb their nuclear ambitions and prevent the Iranian regime from obtaining nuclear weapons is, sadly, a dangerous fantasy.

The nuclear deal has sunset clauses that soon remove restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program after the deal expires. In short, the nuclear deal, rather than preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, as it was falsely touted to do, in fact paves the way for Tehran to become a legitimized nuclear state after it concludes.

by Blazingcatfur•May 26, 2021May 26, 2021•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Iran, Iranian nuclear agreement

How Hamas’ Assault Serves as Iran’s Testing Ground

Hamas’s war effort against Israel is of importance to Iran as a testing ground for a certain strategic hypothesis. As [Hamas representative in Tehran Khaled] Qaddoumi put it, the movement this time “applied a strategic shift in the concept of resistance, from defending Gaza against Israeli attacks to defending all Palestinians living in historic Palestine.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 24, 2021May 23, 2021•0•Iran, Israeli - Islam Conflict

Biden’s Iran Deal Will Weaken U.S. National Security

For weeks, the Biden administration and the Iranian regime have been sequestered at a posh hotel in Vienna, negotiating the terms of their mutual return to compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA). After four rounds of negotiations, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani was quoted proclaiming that “almost all the main sanctions have been removed.” If that’s true, then it would be epic negotiating malpractice and, worse, an indefensible surrender of U.S. national security by President Joe Biden’s lead negotiator Rob Malley to the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.

by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2021May 23, 2021•0•"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Iran, USA

Blast at Iranian drone factory days after Israel’s Hamas accusation

A factory that makes Iranian drones has suffered a major explosion days after Israel had claimed that Iran was providing drones to Hamas in Gaza.

The blast at the weekend injured at least nine workers at the petrochemical factory in Isfahan. The Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (Hesa), which produces a variety of aircraft and drones for Iranian and pro-Iranian forces, is located in the complex owned by Sepahan Nargostar Chemical Industries.

by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2021May 23, 2021•0•Iran

Iran cuts off more IAEA surveillance

Iran has been busy lately, making demands for sanctions relief and the freeing of some of its frozen assets. All of these complaints have been geared toward bringing them back to the table regarding their nuclear program. Behind the scenes, it’s long since become obvious that the Biden administration has been negotiating with Iran while denying that they are doing so.

by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2021May 23, 2021•0•Iran, USA

Iran condemns Ontario court’s ruling that destruction of Flight PS752 was a terrorist act

Iran’s foreign ministry has denounced as “shameful” an Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruling that found Iran intentionally shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 in an act of terrorism.

The judge issued the judgment Thursday against Iran in a civil lawsuit filed by four families who lost loved ones in the destruction of the plane shortly after takeoff in Tehran on Jan. 8, 2020.

In a statement issued today, ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh said the court’s decision lacked legitimate evidence.

by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2021May 23, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence

Is the worst yet to come in the Middle East?

Almost the entire Israeli military and political establishment see an Iranian bomb as a flying holocaust

We can’t say yet if the latest fighting between Israel and Hamas is the start of ‘the big one’, a new Palestinian intifada, or uprising. That possibility was raised by the grandest of Middle East commentators, Thomas Friedman, in the New York Times. Friedman is sometimes mocked for his prognostications. A ‘Friedman’ is defined as six months because of his repeated statements that the ‘next six months’ would be critical for the US in Iraq, the light at the end of the tunnel visible only then. He also praised the ‘new ideas’ of Saudi Arabia’s ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, before it turned out that one of those new ideas was to dismember his critics with a bonesaw. Perhaps there will be another intifada, though as I write events are not moving that way. We should worry more about what the conflict between Israel and Hamas tells us about the real ‘big one’: war between Israel and Iran.

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

Victim families, others urge Liberal government to act on ruling that Iran intentionally shot down airliner

Victims’ families, an opposition critic and an academic expert all implored the federal government Friday to seize on Ontario court ruling that concluded Iran intentionally shot down an airliner full of Canadians in an act of terrorism.

The decision in a lawsuit filed against the Islamic Republic on behalf of some relatives has no direct bearing on government affairs.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2021May 22, 2021•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Iran

Iran shot down plane full of Canadians intentionally in act of terrorism, Ontario judge rules

A jury will now decide how much Iran should pay the victims. ‘We will seize and sell any Iranian assets worldwide that we can get our hands on,’ their lawyer said.

by Sarcasticat•May 22, 2021May 21, 2021•0•Canada, Iran, terror attack

Iran’s downing of Flight 752 was act of terrorism, Ontario court rules

The downing of Flight 752 by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards was a deliberate act of terrorism, the Ontario Superior Court has ruled in a decision released on Thursday.

Justice Edward Belobaba found “on a balance of probabilities that the missile attacks on Flight 752 were intentional.”

“The plaintiffs have established that the shooting down of Flight 752 by the defendants was an act of terrorism and constitutes ‘terrorist activity,’” the judge added.

by Blazingcatfur•May 20, 2021May 20, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence, Ukraine

Israel shot down armed Iranian drone – Netanyahu

The drone Israel shot down near the border with Jordan on Tuesday was Iranian, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday.

“While we were busy fighting, a few days ago, Iran sent an armed drone into Israel from Iraq or Syria,” Netanyahu told German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who was in Jerusalem. “Iranian forces launched an armed drone, which our forces shot down at the border between Israel and Jordan.

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