Is the US targeting Iran now??

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https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019...-wont-allow-any-shipping-disturbance-Official
Iran will secure Strait of Hormuz, won’t allow any shipping disturbance: Official

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi says the Islamic Republic will strive to ensure security of the Strait of Hormuz, and will not allow any disturbance in shipping in the strategic sea passage between the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman.
During a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in Paris on Tuesday, the Iranian diplomat reiterated his country’s resolve concerning the issue.
Le Drian, for his part, said Iran has to take the necessary steps to ensure a de-escalation process in the Persian Gulf.
Araqchi’s remarks came a day after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani underlined Iran’s historical role as a preserver of maritime security in the region, saying the country has no interest in initiating tensions either here or beyond.
PressTV-‘Iran historical steward of maritime security in region’

President Hassan Rouhani underlines Iran’s historical role as a preserver of maritime security in the region.
“Over the course of history, Iran has been and will continue to be the most principal preserver of security and shipping freedom in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and Sea of Oman,” Rouhani said during a meeting with a ranking Iraqi delegation headed by Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi in Tehran on Monday.
The Islamic Republic, he added, would never act as the party to start any warfare or tension with other countries.
Iran, France stress need for diplomacy to ensure world peace
Also on Tuesday, Araqchi and French President Emmanuel Macron stressed the need for diplomacy in order to establish peace worldwide.
The Iranian deputy foreign minister delivered a written message from Rouhani to his French counterpart, whose country is a signatory to the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the media in the courtyard of the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, France, on July 23, 2019. (Photo by AFP) The two sides exchanged viewpoints on several issues of mutual interest, including regional and international developments and the ways to reduce tensions in the Middle East.
They also emphasized that the JCPOA must be safeguarded as an international, multilateral agreement and one of the most outstanding diplomatic achievements in present history.
Tensions have been running high between Tehran and Washington since last year, when US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the nuclear deal, and unleashed the “toughest ever” sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
The European parties to the JCPOA have since been trying to convince Iran to remain in the pact by promising to shield its economic interests from US sanctions.
PressTV-‘JCPOA Joint Commission meeting slated for July 28’

An urgent meeting of the Joint Commission of the JCPOA will be held in Vienna on July 28, says Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman.
In May, a year after the US’s exit, Tehran began reducing its commitments under the JCPOA on a stage-by-stage basis in response to Washington’s pullout and the ensuing European failure to make up for America’s absence.
Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said on July 15 that Tehran’s decision to reduce its commitments to the 2015 nuclear pact was not made out of stubbornness, but rather it aims to give a chance to diplomacy.
Kamalvandi said the move was aimed to awaken the other parties to the JCPOA to honor their obligations.
PressTV-Iran keeps all paths open to save JCPOA: Rouhani

Rouhani tells Macron about Tehran’s decisiveness to enable preservation of its 2015 nuclear deal with world countries.
Araqchi’s visit to France comes two weeks after Emmanuel Bonne, Macron’s top diplomatic adviser, visited Tehran as part of efforts to salvage the Iran nuclear deal.
Rouhani and Macron held a telephone conversation last week, during which the Iranian president said Tehran was determined to “keep all doors open” to keep the JCPOA alive.

 

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More bullshit from the most evil people and their minions in the planet.


https://www.breitbart.com/national-...g-he-could-wipe-it-off-the-face-of-the-earth/
Afghanistan Requests ‘Clarification’ on Trump Saying He Could Wipe It ‘Off the Face of the Earth’

The Afghan government asked for “clarification” following U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks Monday about being able to wipe Afghanistan “off the face of the earth” if he really wanted to win the war there.

Responding to Trump’s comments on Tuesday, the office of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said:

Afghanistan is one of the most deep-rooted and ancient countries of the world have been able to overcome countless crisis during history. The Afghan nation has not and will never allow any foreign power to determine its fate.
Our cooperation and partnership with the world countries, particularly with the United States, is grounded on common interests and mutual respect.
…
Given the multifaceted relationship between Afghanistan and the United States, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan calls for clarification on the US President’s statements expressed at a meeting with the Pakistan prime minister, via diplomatic means and channels.
​

During a joint press conference at the White House with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday, President Trump declared:

If we wanted to fight a war in Afghanistan and win it, I could win that war in a week. I just don’t want to kill 10 million people. … I have plans on Afghanistan that, if I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the Earth. It would be gone. It would be over in — literally, in 10 days. … I don’t want to go that route.
So we’re working with Pakistan and others to extricate ourselves [from Afghanistan]. Nor do we want to be policemen, because basically we’re policemen right now. And we’re not supposed to be policemen. We’ve been there for 19 years, in Afghanistan. It’s ridiculous. I think Pakistan helps us with that because we don’t want to stay as policemen.
​

Asked to respond to Trump’s comments in a Fox News interview aired on Monday, PM Khan said:

I guess what the president meant was that if he had a scorched earth policy, where a military machine went from one side of Afghanistan to the other. The US has the greatest fire power in the history of mankind. But clearly that would be devastating.
Already people in Afghanistan have suffered four decades of conflict. The last thing Afghanistan needs is more violence and it needs peace.
The Taliban should become a part of the political process, so then you would have a government which will represent the people of Afghanistan.
​

Becoming part of the political process would grant the Taliban the opportunity to return to power in Kabul after it was removed by U.S. troops in late 2001, soon after the 9/11 attacks.
Khan’s comments are consistent with the Trump administration’s Afghan strategy to end the war. The primary focus of Trump’s plan is to achieve a “political reconciliation” between the Taliban and Kabul.
Trump administration officials have come out in support of legitimizing the Taliban as a political power despite the group’s well-documented human rights atrocities and involvement in the deadly opium and heroin trade.
Taliban jihadis, who already control or contest about half of the country, are fighting to implement a sharia-compliant Islamic emirate in Afghanistan.
Likely referring to the American military’s current train and advise mission, Trump suggested on Monday that the United States is no longer leading combat operations and, therefore, “not fighting the war.” Members of his administration have conceded that a military victory is not possible at this point in Afghanistan.
Former U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis described winning in Afghanistan as achieving a “political reconciliation” between Kabul and the Taliban.
“We do look toward a victory in Afghanistan,” Mattis proclaimed in March, adding, “Not a military victory — the victory will be a political reconciliation” with the Taliban.
Although tensions have been brewing between neighbors Pakistan and Afghanistan for years, Islamabad has taken credit for using its influence over the Taliban facilitate the group’s ongoing peace talks with the United States.
Echoing comments by President Ghani in early 2018, a U.S. watchdog agency reported this March that Afghanistan would collapse without international funding, which along with the opium trade are the main drivers of the country’s economy. Most of the funding originates in the United States.
Taliban terrorists claim the U.S. “promised” to keep funding Afghanistan after a potential American military withdrawal stemming from a peace deal.
Despite U.S. peace-seeking efforts, the Taliban has intensified attacks during the negotiations and continued to refuse to allow Kabul to participate in the talks.
The U.S. has spent nearly a $1 Trillion on the Afghanistan war. Terrorists, primarily the Taliban, have also killed 2,288 American service members and maimed 20,481 others. Nevertheless, the Taliban’s manpower and influence have reached unprecedented levels.
Nearly 18 years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in response to the Taliban regime harboring al-Qaeda, the two jihadi allies remain close.

AsiaNational SecurityPoliticsAfghan peace talksAfghanistanAshraf G

 

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Well. Allways told you the US can not win all wars the US start.

So much for you not being a plant/troll/uninformed troll.

 

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Canadian navy not asked to join British coalition to protect Strait of Hormuz

 

[Hoid]

Canadian navy not asked to join British coalition to protect Strait of Hormuz

We have been deployed in the Persian Gulf since Gulf War 1.

Not sure how much more money we need to give big oil.

 

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Former Vietnamese - American war was good from by Vietnam Army every one in the US were disappointment when the US leave as loser.

Laos and the Golden Triangle were back under control. Vietnam was the excise for being there. The Bankers do not give a fuk about people, there were there for the opium. I can build a profile of you from all the false history you are pushing.
https://www.unodc.org/pdf/laopdr/lao_opium_survey_2005.pdf
Preface Laos has taken one more step towards freedom from opium. By early 2005, poppy cultivation in the country stood at 1,800 hectares, down from 6,600 hectares a year earlier. When the decline started in 1998, Laos had 26,800 hectares under opium poppy cultivation. It now seems likely that the country will reach the goal its government set itself four years ago: freedom from opium by the end of 2005. For the first time in many years, we can safely assume that Laos is no longer a supplier of illegal opiates to the world market. What is still produced is consumed by the country’s approximately 20,000 opium smokers, many of whom are now undergoing treatment or rehabilitation. This year’s opium survey was supplemented by a study on the coping strategies of former opium growers - how have they managed to survive economically without the income from the sale of opium? It is not surprising that farmers targeted by alternative livelihoods projects did better than others. But even those who did not benefit from externally financed projects somehow coped, by taking off-farm employment, by establishing small-scale irrigation, by developing their livestock or by collecting non-timber forest products. And in each and every village surveyed, at least one half of the population – the women – voiced no doubts about the advantages of opium elimination. Typically, it was the women in farming communities who did most of the backbreaking work in the opium fields, and they and their children who had suffered from their husbands’ addiction in terms of malnutrition and domestic violence. Today, women have time for other household and family activities. There is ample reason to pay tribute to the intelligence and resilience of farming families in the former opium growing mountains of northern Laos. They have coped remarkably well under difficult circumstances. But their communities have still not escaped the poverty associated with drug production. In response, the Government of Laos recently formulated a strategy that relies on alternative livelihood programmes that offer farmers much-needed income during the transition from illicit to legal crops. On many occasions, in the UN General Assembly and elsewhere, the international community has solemnly declared that the problem of illicit drugs is an international problem that cannot be solved by the producer countries alone. I therefore urge donor countries and development agencies to extend a hand to farmers struggling to break free of drug cultivation. It is a proven method of sustaining opium elimination in Laos.

Should I do the math for you?? Laos -25,000 hectors Afghanistan +90,000 hectares 60,000 hectares increase for big pharma

 

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Now you are denying the West has done anything wrong at all.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/gunsdrugscia.html

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Original Air Date: May 17, 1988
Produced and Written by Andrew and Leslie Cockburn
Directed by Leslie Cockburn

NARRATOR
Tonight, on FRONTLINE: An investigation of the CIA and its role in international drug dealing.

VICTOR MARCHETTI
The history of the CIA runs parallel to criminal and drug operations throughout the world, but it's coincidental.

NARRATOR
Is the CIA using drug money to finance covert operations?

RAMON MILIAN RODRIGUEZ
Narcotics proceeds were used to shore up the Contra effort.

JOHN KERRY
Something's wrong, something is really wrong out there.

NARRATOR
Tonight, "Guns, Drugs and the CIA."

JUDY WOODRUFF
Good evening. Two of the most persistent offensives of the Reagan presidency have been the war against communism in Central America and the war on drugs here at home.
But investigations of America's secret war in Nicaragua have revealed mounting evidence that the Central Intelligence Agency has been fighting the Contra war with the help of international drug traffickers.
It is not a new story.
Tonight's FRONTLINE investigation traces the CIA's involvement with drug lords back to the agency's birth following World War II. It is a long history that asks this question: "In the war on drugs, which side is the CIA on?"
Our program was produced by Leslie and Andrew Cockburn. It is called Guns, Drugs, and the CIA and is reported by Leslie Cockburn.

Ronald Reagan:
Illegal drugs are one thing that no community in America can, should, or needs to tolerate. America's already started to take that message to heart. That's why I believe the tide of battle has turned and we're beginning to win the crusade for a drug-free America.

U.S. Senator John Kerry:
The subcommittee on narcotics, terrorism, international operations will come to order. From what we have learned these past months, our declaration on war against drugs seems to have produced a war of words and not action. Our drugs seem to have produced a war of words and not action. Our borders are inundated with more narcotics than in anytime ever before. It seems as though stopping drug trafficking in the United States has been a secondary U.S. foreign policy objective, sacrificed repeatedly for other political and institutional goals such as changing the government of Nicaragua, supporting the government of Panama, using drug-running organizations as intelligence assets, and protecting military and intelligence sources from possible compromise through involvement in drug trafficking.

RAMON MILIAN RODRIGUEZ, Government Witness
If we start with the premise that drug trafficking is morally reprehensible, our government agencies are not supposed to do anything like that, but they live in a practical world.

SUBCOMMITTEE HEARINGS

John Kerry:
Would you raise your right hand please.

NARRATOR
Ramon Milian Rodriguez saw that world as the chief accountant of the Colombian cocaine cartel responsible for managing eleven billion dollars in drug profits. Now serving a forty-three year sentence for money laundering, he has been a key witness for a senate investigation probing links between drugs and the CIA.

RAMON MILIAN RODRIGUEZ
Say for instance, the drug group was involved in a war with a terrorist group, a communist terrorist group, well, it would behove the CIA to give that drug group as much help and advice as possible so they could win their little war.

VICTOR MARCHETTI
The history of the CIA runs parallel to criminal and drug operations throughout the world, but it's coincidental.

NARRATOR
Victor Marchetti came to know the world of covert operations as a long time CIA officer. He is the highest ranking agency official ever to go public about what he learned.

VICTOR MARCHETTI, Central Intelligence Agency
It goes all the way back to the predecessor organization OSS and its involvement with the Italian mafia, the Cosa Nostra in Sicily and Southern Italy. Later on when they were fighting communists in France and--that they got in tight with the Corsican brotherhood. The Corsican brotherhood of course were big dope dealers. As things changed in the world the CIA got involved with the Kuomintang types in Burma who were drug runners because they were resisting the drift towards communism there. The same thing happened in Southeast Asia, later in Latin America. Some of the very people who are the best sources of information, who are capable of accomplishing things and the like happen to be the criminal element.

WILLIAM COLBY, Former Director, CIA
CIA has had a solid rule against being involved in drug trafficking. That's not to say that some of the people who CIA has used or been in touch with over the years may well have themselves been involved in drug traffic, but not the CIA.

RAMON MILIAN RODRIGUEZ
If the CIA is going to, if their job is to maintain the safety of our country and freedom by manipulating foreign powers to do what this country wants, and if the guy who's holding the power at that particular moment happens to be a drug lord, then you have to get involved with the drug lord.

VICTOR MARCHETTI
As a result, we kept getting involved with these kinds of people, not for drug purposes and not for personal gain but to achieve a higher ideological goal.

NARRATOR
In a refugee camp in Northeast Thailand, there live the remnants of one such involvement. They are the Hmong or Meo Tribe. While American troops were fighting in Vietnam, these people were the foot soldiers of a secret CIA army. They fought in undeclared war in Northern Laos, across the border from North Vietnam.

GENERAL RICHARD SECORD
They're hill people, they're little guys. Like most hill people they're pretty fierce. In Laos we were the guerrillas. The war in Laos was a textbook example of what can be done in unconventional warfare.

NARRATOR
General Richard Secord is one of the many veterans of the CIA secret war in Laos. Because Laos was officially neutral, American troops could not be used. The CIA relied on massive air power and a tribal army to fight the local communists and the North Vietnamese.
On the ground in Northern Laos, a handful of CIA officers directed as many as eighty-five thousand soldiers drawn from the mountain tribes. But American officials did more than just send their allies into battle.

RON RICKENBACH, Former Official, U.S. Agency for International Development
Early on, I think that we all believed that what we were doing was in the best interests of America, that we were in fact perhaps involved in some not so desirable aspects of the drug traffic, however we believed strongly in the beginning that we were there for a just cause.

NARRATOR
Ron Rickenbach served in Laos as an official for the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1962 to 1969. He was on the front lines.

RON RICKENBACH
These people were willing to take up arms. We needed to stop the Red threat and people believed that in that vein we made, you know, certain compromises or certain trade-offs for a larger good. Growing opium was a natural agricultural enterprise for these people and they had been doing it for many years before the Americans ever got there. When we got there they continued to do so.

RICHARD SECORD
When they would move from one place to another they would carry their little bags of opium, they smoked it in pipes. And opium could be bought in the streets of any village.

FRED PLATT, Former Pilot, Laos
When a farmer raised a crop of opium, what he got for his year's worth of work was the equivalent of thirty-five to forty U.S. dollars. That amount of opium, were it refined into morphine base, then into morphine, then into heroin and appeared on the streets of New York, that thirty-five dollar crop of opium would be worth fifty, sixty, a hundred thousand dollars in 1969 dollars--maybe a million dollars today.

NARRATOR
The war isolated the Meo tribespeople in their remote villages. CIA-owned Air America planes became their only life line to the outside world. While Meo children came to believe that rice fell from the sky, Meo farmer witnesses could count on Air America to move their cash crop.

RON RICKENBACH
It was then the presence of these air support services in and out of the areas in question where the product, where the opium was grown that greatly facilitated an increase in production and an ease of transhipment from the point of agriculture to the point of processing. So, when I say the Americans greased the wheels, essentially what I'm saying is we did not create opium production. We did not create a situation where drug trafficking was happening. But because of the nature of our presence, this very intense American means that was made available to the situation it accelerated in proportion dramatically.

NARRATOR
The possibility that Air America flew drugs is still hotly disputed by many former senior officers.

RICHARD SECORD
You can question any number of people who were there, who actually were there, not people who claim that they had some knowledge of rumors, you can question any number of people and I venture to say they will all support what I'm saying, and that is that there was no commercial trade in opium going on.

RON RICKENBACH
I was on the airstrip, that was my job, to move in and about and to go from place to place and my people were in charge of dispatching aircraft. I was in the areas where opium was transshipped, I personally was a witness to opium being placed on aircraft, American aircraft. I witnessed it being taken off smaller aircraft that were coming in from outlying sites.

NEIL HANSEN, Former Pilot, Air America
Yes I've seen the sticky bricks come on board and no one was challenging their right to carry it. It was their own property.

NARRATOR
Neil Hansen is a former senior Air America pilot, now serving a sentence for smuggling cocaine.

NEIL HANSEN
We were some sort of a freebie airline in some respects there, whoever the customer or the local representative put on the airplane we flew.
Primarily it was transported on our smaller aircraft, the Helios, the Porters and the things like that would visit the little outlying villages. They would send their opium to market.

NARRATOR
From the villages, the planes carried their cargo over the mountains to Long Chien, CIA headquarters for the war. It was a secret city. Unmarked on any map and carefully hidden from outsiders, Long Chien became one of the busiest airports in the world, with hundreds of landings and takeoffs a day.

ED DEARBORN, Former Pilot, Air America
At the height of the war when there were thousands of people in there, there were villages all over, there were landing pads up on what we called Skyline drive which was the ridge on the north side of Long Chien. T-28s were going in and out of there, C-130s were going in and out of there. It was an amazing place, just amazing.

NARRATOR
Ed Dearborn is a veteran of Long Chien and Air America. A key figure in the covert air operation.

ED DEARBORN
From a sleepy little valley and village you know, surrounded by the mountains and the karst, this great war machine actually was working up there.
It was the heart and pulse of Laos at that time, more commonly referred to as the CIA's secret base you now, heh heh heh.

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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/gunsdrugscia.html

 

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See you after the weekend.

 

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Drones are better in swarms aren't they??

NO...................


you are mistaken.........................


as usual..........................



You are thinking about swarms of radical Muslims.......................................


they are definitely better in swarms.............................................


so they can egg each other on...............................................


to do really STUPID STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


That is why there is so much stupid stuff happening in places



like Gaza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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Sheeple love this shit. Iran is one of the last countries in the Muddles East to not be bombed into a pile of rubble. There are not enough refugees to complain about? Phuking conservatives and republicans can't get enough carnage to entertain them.

POOR STUPID CLIFFY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


His vast, bloated idiot ego...........................................


gets in the way of his world view!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Cliffy DOES NOT CARE.........................................


that Muslims in Syria................................................


and Kurdish Muslims..........................................


and various Iraqi groups..........................................


ALL BEGGED THE WEST for help................................................


against Syrian ASSHAT Asad.........................................


and against Isis butchers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


During WW1 Arabs prayed for western military aid..................................


against Ottoman Turks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


In the 1800`s...............................


black Africans PRAYED for western military aid..............................


to destroy the SLAVE TRADERS of Sudan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The people of Darfur today Pray for western aid against bandits armed and sponsored by RED CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



In the 1800`s, Crees and other native tribes begged for CDN help against invading Sioux!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


In 1610 the Huron/Algonquin Confederacy prayed for military aid from the French...................................


against the Mohawks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


After the Yankee Revolution the Mohawks prayed for REFUGE......................................



Behind British guns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Cliffy edits and rewrites and OUTRIGHT DENIES History..........................................


with the sort of FACILE LIES...................................


we have come to expect from the MOST RABID..................................


of Soviet Commissars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/07/29/602168/Pompeos-malign-intent-toward-Iran
Pompeo’s malign intent toward Iran

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is an Iranophobic war-mongering extremist, a serial liar “diplomat” in name only, a notion he abhors — demanding the world community subservience to US interests, preemptive wars his favored strategy.
Virtually all his remarks about Iran are bald-faced Big Lies. So was saying the Trump regime’s Middle East mission is “creat(ing) stability” — ignoring endless US regional wars of aggression, falsely blaming Iran for things it had nothing to do with.
Longstanding bipartisan US policy calls for transforming the Islamic Republic into a vassal state, along with gaining control over its vast oil and gas reserves.
Interviewed by Bloomberg News on Thursday, Pompeo ludicrously said he’s willing to go to Tehran — where he’s reviled and not wanted.

 

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If America was sincere about wanting World Peace it would buy up weapons and dispose of them in the safest possible way.
Looking forward to reparations to Palestine.

 

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That is why there is so much stupid stuff happening in places



like Gaza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The stupid stuff in Gaze comes in on warplanes belonging to Israel, their closes neighbors, caused by the same group you cherish the most

 

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https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/...-never-warned-us-before-june-drone-shootdown/
CENTCOM Official Claims Iran Never Warned US Before June Drone Shootdown

According to US Navy Captain Bill Urban, a spokesperson for US Central Command, Iran never warned the US before shooting down its RQ-4 Global Hawk drone last month, challenging Tehran’s claim that it had.

When Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down a US spy drone in the Strait of Hormuz last month, Tehran claimed the drone had violated Iranian airspace and been challenged by ground forces prior to being shot down with a surface-to-air missile. While CENTCOM has long maintained the drone was over international waters, now it’s challenging the second half of Iran’s claims, saying that the Iranians never warned the US before firing on their UAV.
Urban told Military.com in an email exchange on Tuesday that CENTCOM had logged "six different occasions where Iranian air defense stations queried or warned US aircraft and [unmanned aerial vehicles] on the international guard radio channel," but that "none were recorded or reported by the RQ-4 that was shot down in international airspace in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz, and none were received, reported or recorded by any other aircraft at the time of the shoot down.”
"We are not aware of any Iranian attempt to warn any US forces or headquarters before they executed the shoot down of the RQ-4,” he said.
Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi said in a June 21 letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that was obtained by Sputnik that the UAV was operating in “full stealth mode” and, “despite repeated radio warnings, it entered into the Iranian airspace,” at which point Iranian air defenses “targeted the intruding aircraft.”

 

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https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/...-never-warned-us-before-june-drone-shootdown/
CENTCOM Official Claims Iran Never Warned US Before June Drone Shootdown
According to US Navy Captain Bill Urban, a spokesperson for US Central Command, Iran never warned the US before shooting down its RQ-4 Global Hawk drone last month, challenging Tehran’s claim that it had.
When Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down a US spy drone in the Strait of Hormuz last month, Tehran claimed the drone had violated Iranian airspace and been challenged by ground forces prior to being shot down with a surface-to-air missile. While CENTCOM has long maintained the drone was over international waters, now it’s challenging the second half of Iran’s claims, saying that the Iranians never warned the US before firing on their UAV.
Urban told Military.com in an email exchange on Tuesday that CENTCOM had logged "six different occasions where Iranian air defense stations queried or warned US aircraft and [unmanned aerial vehicles] on the international guard radio channel," but that "none were recorded or reported by the RQ-4 that was shot down in international airspace in the vicinity of the Strait of Hormuz, and none were received, reported or recorded by any other aircraft at the time of the shoot down.”
"We are not aware of any Iranian attempt to warn any US forces or headquarters before they executed the shoot down of the RQ-4,” he said.
Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi said in a June 21 letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that was obtained by Sputnik that the UAV was operating in “full stealth mode” and, “despite repeated radio warnings, it entered into the Iranian airspace,” at which point Iranian air defenses “targeted the intruding aircraft.”

WASHINGTON—Maintaining that the unmanned aerial vehicle was simply going about its day without posing a threat to anyone, U.S. Department of State officials claimed Thursday that one of their drones was minding its own business on its way to church when Iran attacked it out of nowhere. “This was an outrageous, unprovoked attack by the Islamic Republic of Iran on an innocent drone who merely wanted to attend mass in peace,” said acting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, emphasizing the drone’s upstanding moral character by pointing out its history of donating to charity, volunteering at soup kitchens, and making homemade cookies for school bake sales. “We’re talking about a drone that sings in the church choir and coaches little league baseball games on the weekends—an absolute pillar of the community. This is an upstanding family drone who did nothing to deserve any sort of attack. What kind of world do we live in where an innocent drone can’t fly through Iranian air space on its way to church?” At press time, Department of Defense officials confirmed that their request for Iran to return the drone’s body back to the U.S. for a proper burial had gone unanswered.
https://politics.theonion.com/u-s-claims-drone-was-minding-own-business-on-its-way-t-1835695562

 

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U.S. imposes sanctions on Iran's foreign minister, a dramatic step bound to escalate tensions

The move by the Trump administration to punish Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had been anticipated after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said last month that President Trump had directed him to sanction Zarif. But the sanctions were delayed after State Department officials argued that would close the door to diplomacy.

source: WAPO

 

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Guess who 'blinked' lol. Was there ever any doubt after NATO refused to follow the US?
https://sputniknews.com/us/201908011076423080-iran-nuclear-waivers-ninety-days/
US to Extend Iran Nuclear Waivers for 90 Days - Bolton

US National Security Adviser John Bolton announced Wednesday that the United States will extend its key sanctions waivers for five Iranian nuclear programs for a total of 90 days.

"I think the idea here is we are watching those nuclear activities very, very closely," Bolton said in an interview with Fox Business. "So this is a short, 90-day extension."
Earlier in the day, an unnamed source with told the Washington Post that "these [sanctions] waivers can be revoked at any time, as developments with Iran warrant. But because of the Treasury Department’s legitimate concerns, we’ve decided to extend them for now.”
This will be the second time the US has extended sanctions waivers to only the Arak, Fordow and Bushehr power plants and facilities in the Islamic Republic.
The extension allows Russia, China and European nations to continue projects with the Iran-based facilities without incurring US sanctions.
The related countries' civilian nuclear cooperation projects were established under the guidelines laid out in the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, which crumbled following US President Donald Trump's choice to withdraw Washington from it on May 8, 2018.
On Tuesday, Washington issued a formal request to London, Paris and Berlin to join in combating alleged aggression from Tehran in the Hormuz Strait.
Germany and France have expressed hesitation regarding the US' "maximum pressure" campaign, and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas issued a statement calling for a diplomatic, non-military solution.
"We must make every effort to avoid a further escalation in the Strait of Hormuz … We will look for a way to ease tensions. There can be no military solution to it," Maas said.

 

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Trump's "Coalition of the Willing" isn't going much better than Dubyas.

The Germans have said "Nein!" to the US Navy's Persian Gulf Task Force

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/31/germany-rejects-us-call-join-gulf-taskforce/

Canada's not part of it, either. Presumably we were asked at some level, seeing as Canada has been a participant in a number of previous Persian Gulf task forces and that our ships instantly "plug in" to American fleets.

The Brits are in the region but not as a part of the same party. British ships do not smoothly integrate into American fleets (likely by design). Jeremy Hunt is suggesting a separate European naval fleet turn up, instead.

Whatever Trump is, he sure as hell isn't a coalition builder.

He's a one man jug band and the Americans will therefore be sailing by themselves.

 

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Trump's "Coalition of the Willing" isn't going much better than Dubyas.

The Germans have said "Nein!" to the US Navy's Persian Gulf Task Force

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/31/germany-rejects-us-call-join-gulf-taskforce/

Canada's not part of it, either. Presumably we were asked at some level, seeing as Canada has been a participant in a number of previous Persian Gulf task forces and that our ships instantly "plug in" to American fleets.

The Brits are in the region but not as a part of the same party. British ships do not smoothly integrate into American fleets (likely by design). Jeremy Hunt is suggesting a separate European naval fleet turn up, instead.

Whatever Trump is, he sure as hell isn't a coalition builder.

He's a one man jug band and the Americans will therefore be sailing by themselves.

Separate European naval group consisting of English and British ships .