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The US is misreading Iran: Raisi believes no nuclear deal is near

Elijah Magnier
TheAltWorld
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
BidenRaisiTrumpNetanyahu
© The CradleUS President Biden • Iranian President Raisi
Former US President Trump • Former Israeli PM Netanyahu
Joe Biden, beware. Iran's new President Ebrahim Raisi plans to take the kid gloves off for nuclear talks.

The US believes that hardening its position in negotiations with Iran is an effective show of force. It's a provably false assumption. Forty years of sanctions and chest-thumping have failed to achieve any of Washington's objectives or "tame" Tehran. The swap of 10 prisoners held by both the US and Iran failed, notwithstanding lengthy negotiations between Iran and the UK, with the British negotiating on behalf of the US. Today, the nuclear deal awaits the incoming Iranian administration of Ebrahim Raisi before indirect talks resume. Only this time, the nuclear deal, which appears to still be on the table, is in fact due to be taken off the table for a while.

President Ebrahim Raisi has no intention of handing over the nuclear deal decision to the Foreign Ministry. A series of procedures have been adopted to make it impossible for the agreement - as proposed by the US - to be accepted unless it meets Iran's requirements and verification process. The Iranian negotiating team in Vienna is expected to be much more rigid than before and will strictly abide by the Iranian National Security committee's recommendations. It will take a while for the US to realize that just because Iran may be in a hurry to lift sanctions, it is far from being flexible on its conditions. The bottom line is that the nuclear deal must be pushed "to more mature circumstances," otherwise, no deal at all and all options are on the table.

Comment: Iran is playing tough - because it is. Biden and crew are no match. Hubris will out them quickly.

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Hezbollah chief Nasrallah said group could escalate response to Israel


MEMO
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 02:33 UTC
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© Mahmoud Zayyat/AFPPortrait of Lebanese Shi'ite movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah
The leader of Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah said that while his group had chosen to respond to Israeli air strikes on open land, it could escalate with a different strategy in future, Reuters reported.

Hezbollah fired rockets towards Israeli forces on Friday, drawing retaliatory fire from Israel into south Lebanon in a third day of cross-border back and forth amid wider tensions with Iran.

Hezbollah wanted to show that Israeli air strikes would be responded to and in an appropriate manner, Nasrallah said, adding that the response could be in any open land in "Northern occupied Palestine," Galilee, or the Golan Heights.

Comment: Another day, another skirmish, another warning...

Hassan Nasrallah said the group had chosen to respond Friday to IAF strikes in southern Lebanon by firing at unpopulated areas. The Israeli airstrikes in the early hours of Thursday came a day after Palestinian groups in southern Lebanon launched a salvo of rockets across the border. Two of the rockets fired Wednesday landed close to the city of Kiryat Shmona, igniting brush fires but causing no injuries.

The Hezbollah chief said the group wanted to show that any Israeli air strike would be responded to in "the appropriate and proportional way." "We chose... open land in the Shebaa Farms area to send a message, and to take a step, and we can later escalate by another step," Nasrallah said. He said that Hezbollah had on Friday fired 20 rockets toward open fields only, as the Israeli airstrikes on Thursday had themselves hit open fields.

"Don't miscalculate by saying that Hezbollah is busy with Lebanon's problems," he said. "We always used to say that we are not looking for war and we don't want war but we are ready for it."
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Arrow Down

Belarus unlikely to become part of Russia as Putin doesn't need 'another headache,' Lukashenko says, promising to resign 'soon'


RT
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:25 UTC
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© Sputnik/BelTA.jpgBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko
Talk of Belarus, a former Soviet republic, being fully absorbed as part of Russia is premature, the country's embattled leader Alexander Lukashenko has said, arguing that the two can still have a close relationship without it.

Speaking as part of an interview broadcast by BelTA, the veteran president argued that
"to strengthen integration in the economy, you do not need to be part of the same body. Belarusians highly value that, after a number of centuries, they have become a sovereign and independent nation."
In response to suggestions that the eastern European nation could once again be run from Moscow, as it was during the Soviet Union, Lukashenko said that it was unlikely there was appetite for it on either side of the border.
"I always see it through Putin's eyes. Does Russia need another headache? He understands it this way - the world has changed."
Last month, Putin said that the two nations, joined as part of the 'Union State', were already at a "degree of integration," but that this was nowhere near as advanced as in, for example, the European Union. He added that the direction of travel would likely be towards greater co-operation and inter-operability. "We are in favor of this, and we'll work in partnership with all our neighbors and friends," he concluded.
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Bad Guys

'Confidential' email: White House using influencers to target children as young as 12 on vaccines

Hank Berrien
The Daily Wire
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 20:00 UTC
vaccine injection
The White House is reportedly targeting children "within the 12-18 age range" in order to "grow awareness" about the COVID-19 vaccine.

The New York Times reported last week that "Village Marketing, an influencer marketing agency" was reaching out to social media influencers with audiences in that target range on behalf of the White House, asking them to join "a broad, personality-driven campaign to confront an increasingly urgent challenge in the fight against the pandemic: vaccinating the youthful masses, who have the lowest inoculation rates of any eligible age group in the United States."

On Tuesday, a "confidential" email, apparently blessed by the White House team, surfaced on social media, confirming the New York Times report. The email was reportedly sent to social media "influencers" asking them to "do an intimate 1×1 Zoom call with Dr. Anthony Fauci" in order to promote teenagers getting the coronavirus vaccine, and states "The goal is to have (redacted) ask questions on behalf of (redacted) community and educate young people around (sic) the vaccine as there is a massive need to grow awareness within the 12-25 age demo."
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Georgia ballots rejected by machines were later altered by election workers to count

John Solomon, Daniel Payne
Just the News
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 11:21 UTC
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© AP/Carlos OsorioBallot issues
Records obtained by Just the News provide unprecedented glimpse into human adjudication of thousands of ballots, where marks for candidates like Trump were sometimes removed so ballots could count for Biden.

A day after the November election, as Donald Trump and other Republican candidates clung to evaporating leads in Georgia, vote counters in Atlanta were confronted by a paper ballot known only by its anonymizing number 5150-232-18.

A Dominion Voting machine had rejected the ballot on election night because the voter had filled in boxes for both Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, an error known as an "overvote." The machine determined neither candidate should get a tally, and the ballot was referred for human review.

The image of the ballot, obtained by Just the News, shows the voter messily scribbled a large blob in the box to select Trump as president while also putting a thinner check mark next to Biden's name.

At 6:10 p.m. ET on Nov. 4, 24 hours after the ballot was first scanned and rejected by Machine 5150, a panel of humans decided the vote should be awarded to Biden, with the notation "mark removed for Donald J. Trump." You can see that ballot here: 05150_00232_000018_0.pdf

Scores of additional ballots that same day had checks manually removed next to Trump's name as well as many other candidates up and down the ticket — Libertarians, Democrats and write-ins alike — and the votes awarded instead to other candidates.
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US military relocated 40 Daesh terrorists from prisons to base in NE Syria


Sputnik
Fri, 06 Aug 2021 23:41 UTC
US military
© AP/Baderkhan AhmadUS Military in Syria
The US military has transported 40 Daesh terrorists from prisons to its base in the northeastern province of Al-Hasakah, Syrian state media reported.

According to the SANA news agency, the terrorists were sent from the prisons of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to the US base in the city of Ash Shaddadi. Sources told SANA that the list of the evacuated terrorists included a Daesh spy commander and an explosive-making expert. The United States is reportedly going to use the militants for their own purposes in the region.

US forces have frequently been reported transferring militants to their non-authorised Al-Tanf military base in Homs Governorate. In January, SANA reported that the base, located on the Syrian-Jordanian border, serves as "a sanctuary for the terrorists in the region", where they are supplied with weapons.

This also comes amid earlier reports by Syrian state media of American forces being spotted, on multiple occasions, transporting weaponry and logistics gear from Iraq to Syria and smuggling Syrian oil and wheat, as US-backed rebels remain in control of parts of northeastern Syria, rich in oil and natural gas.
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Kim Jong Un's sister blasts S. Korea for military exercises with US


Associated Press
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 20:08 UTC
Kim Yo Jong
© Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via APKim Yo Jong
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ripped South Korea for proceeding with military exercises with the United States that she said are an invasion rehearsal and warned Tuesday that the North will work faster to strengthen its preemptive strike capabilities.

Kim Yo Jong's statement came after South Korean media reported that the allied militaries will begin four days of preliminary training on Tuesday before holding computer-simulated drills on Aug. 16-26.

Kim said she was given authority to release the statement, implying the message came directly from her brother.

Hours after her comments were published on state media, South Korea's defense and unification ministries said North Korean officials hadn't responded to their calls Tuesday afternoon over inter-Korean hotlines, which had been disconnected for a year before North Korea agreed to reopen them in late July. The Koreas then described the move as a conciliatory gesture.
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Taliban storm Afghanistan's Farah city near Iranian border


aa.com.tr
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
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© screenshot
The Taliban on Tuesday entered Farah city in western Afghanistan, making it the ninth provincial center to be partly or fully captured by the insurgents.

Acknowledging coordinated Taliban assaults on the city which serves as the capital of Farah province, local police spokesman Farooq Khalid told Anadolu Agency that intense clashes between government forces and the Taliban fighters were underway. He claimed that over 80 advancing Taliban insurgents were killed by security forces.

The Taliban, however, claimed to have reached the city center. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed tweeted:
"Two checkpoints were captured near the intelligence and police command center a moment ago, and the 'Mujahideen' launched their attacks on the intelligence and police command center. The battle continues and the 'Mujahideen' advance."
In a major push to repel advancing Taliban from urban centers, the Afghan forces claimed to kill 361 insurgents in air and ground offensives in the past 24 hours.

The Defense Ministry said the operations were conducted in the Nangarhar, Kunar, Logar, Paktia, Paktika, Maidan Wardak, Kandahar, Sar-e Pol, Helmand, Kunduz, and Baghlan provinces.

Farah became the ninth provincial capital after Qala-e-Nau, Lashkargah, Zaranj, Sheberghan, Kunduz, Taluqan, Aybak, and Sar-e-Pul to have been at least partly overrun by the Taliban.

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Thousands of Russian, Uzbek & Tajik troops rehearse turning back enemy offensive on Afghan border amid fears of Taliban incursions


RT
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 20:04 UTC
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Large-scale wargames have been held in Tajikistan, bringing together soldiers from three former Soviet republics to practice targeting enemy combatants and securing the border with neighboring Afghanistan, as the US withdraws.

On Tuesday, the commander of Russia's Central Military District, which helped to organize the drills, told TASS that the battle simulations were an important part of "protecting our countries from military aggression" in an increasingly unstable part of the world.

"We are completing joint exercises of the armed forces of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and the Russian Federation," he said, adding that "for the first time, the use of multiple service branches with massive aviation, reconnaissance and artillery support is being conducted, based on the experience we have gained from the conflict in Syria."
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US has NO mandate in Syria & America's interpretation of international law is 'ridiculous,' says Russian ambassador

Jonny Tickle
RT
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 09:27 UTC
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© AFP / Delil SOULEIMANFILE PHOTO. A US soldier in the Syrian village of al-Hashisha on the outskirts of Tal Abyad town.
Washington has no legal mandate to keep its armed forces in Syria, and the presence of American soldiers in the country contradicts the 2015 UN Security Council resolution that called for a ceasefire and a political settlement.

That's according to the Russian embassy in Washington, which responded to a tweet by Wayne Marotto, the official military spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, the American campaign in the Middle East to defeat ISIS.

Writing on social media, Marotto said that the US has a "clear mandate under international law" to keep boots on the ground in Syria.

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