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Caspian Sea: Iran to create ferry link with Dagestan, Russia


RT
Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:44 UTC
Derbent Russia
© Sputnik/Vladimir VyatkinNaryn-kala Citadel museum, part of the Derbent State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve in the city of Derbent, Republic of Dagestan, Russia.
Tehran is in talks with Moscow over plans to establish a ferry service across the Caspian Sea that would link Iran with Russia's Dagestan.

The Iranian ambassador to Russia, Mehdi Sanai, had earlier arrived in Derbent to discuss the development of relations between Iran and Russia's Republic of Dagestan. During the visit, the two sides discussed the question of increasing cargo traffic through Makhachkala Commercial Sea Port, as well as the launch of direct passenger and cargo flights between Makhachkala and Tehran.

Among the issues discussed was a plan to set up a direct ferry service linking the two states, with the head of Dagestan's republic, Vladimir Vasiliev, highly optimistic about the prospect.

"Derbent attracts Iran like a magnet and [the ferry service] will work. [Tehran] is ready to establish sea links with us, and we are ready to cooperate - and everything will work," Vasilyev told journalists at a press briefing on Sunday.

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Attention

Attorney for Joseph Mifsud confirms he is a western intelligence operative — NOT a Russian operative

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Sun, 18 Aug 2019 17:49 UTC
Joseph Mifsud
© BBC.comJoseph Mifsud
In other words, Mueller's team lied.

Investigative reporter John Solomon from The Hill joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning.

The two discussed John Solomon's latest interview with CIA operative Joseph Mifsud's attorneys.

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The covert Anglo-American origins of color revolutions & the NED

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 18 Aug 2019 16:52 UTC
Hong Kong flag US american flag protests
© Agence France-Presse/NurPhoto/Vernon YuenA Hong Kong protester waves American and Hong Kong flags in front of government headquarters, July 21, 2019. Photo:
A few years ago, very few people understood the concept behind color revolutions.

Had Russia and China's leadership not decided to unite in solidarity in 2012 when they began vetoing the overthrow of Bashar al Assad in Syria - followed by their alliance around the Belt and Road Initiative - then it is doubtful the color revolution concept would be as well-known as it has become today.

At that time, Russia and China realized that they had no choice but to go on the counter-offensive, since the regime change operations and colour revolutions orchestrated by such organizations as the CIA-affiliated National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Soros Open Society Foundations were ultimately designed to target them. China and Russia have the potential collective power to challenge the power of the Anglo-American elites based largely in the City of London and Wall Street. Relatively small-scale protest movements blew up into rose, orange, green and yellow revolution efforts in Georgia, Ukraine, Iran and Hong Kong because those places were recognized as weak points along the periphery of what threatened to become a great power alliance of sovereign Eurasian states.

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Rocket

Shoigu says Russia won't deploy new missiles if US does the same


RFE/RL
Sun, 18 Aug 2019 16:56 UTC
Sergei Shoigu
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on August 18 that Moscow would not deploy new missiles so long as U.S. officials did the same in Europe and Asia.

He said his country was ready for a dialogue with the United States on intermediate- and short-range missiles and reiterated recent assertions by Moscow that it has no plans for new deployments.

"We still stick to that," Shoigu told Rossiya-24 TV, according to Interfax. "Unless there are such systems in Europe [deployed by Washington], we won't do anything there."

TASS news agency quoted Shoigu as saying in the same appearance: "We are keeping the door open, we still believe that as long as the U.S. doesn't deploy such systems to Europe, we won't do the same, and as long as there are no U.S. missiles in Asia, there won't be our missiles in the region."
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Quenelle

Gibraltar rebukes US again, refuses to accept US appeal to seize Iranian tanker


Arab News
Sun, 18 Aug 2019 16:50 UTC
grace 1 adrian darya
© ReutersThe Iranian flag flies at oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, previously named Grace 1, as sits anchored in the Strait of Gibraltar on Sunday, August 18, 2019.
Gibraltar refused a US request to seize the Iranian tanker Grace 1 on Sunday, saying it was unable to comply because it was bound by European Union law.

A federal court in Washington on Friday issued a warrant for the seizure of the tanker, the oil it carries and nearly $1 million. British Royal Marines had detained the vessel in Gibraltar in July on suspicion that it was carrying oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions.

"The Central Authority's inability to seek the Orders requested is a result of the operation of European Union law and the differences in the sanctions regimes applicable to Iran in the EU and the US," a Gibraltar government statement said.

"The EU sanctions regime against Iran - which is applicable in Gibraltar - is much narrower than that applicable in the US."

The tanker raised an Iranian flag and and had a new name painted on its side, Reuters images of the stationary vessel filmed off Gibraltar showed on Sunday.

The Iranian tanker caught in a stand-off between Tehran and the West is expected to leave Gibraltar on Sunday night, Iran's ambassador to Britain tweeted on Sunday.

"The vessel is expected to leave tonight," envoy Hamid Baeidinejad said on Twitter, adding that two engineering teams had been flown to Gibraltar.

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Attention

Trumps warns Antifa may be branded 'organization of terror' ahead of Portland right-left showdown


RT
Sat, 17 Aug 2019 20:54 UTC
antifa portland
© Reuters / Jim Urquhart / FileGeared up Antifa protestors in Portland
Portland, Oregon, is bracing itself for a major right-wing rally — an event previously marred by clashes with anti-fascists. Warning any would-be violent counter-protesters, Donald Trump said events will be "watched very closely."

Trump on Saturday warned that "major consideration is being given to naming ANTIFA an "ORGANIZATION OF TERROR."

Trump also expressed hope that Portland mayor Ted Wheeler would be able to "properly do his job" and prevent outbreaks of violence at the upcoming gathering.

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Propaganda

'Revolution' in Russia? How The Economist Messed Up Fact-Checking in Article on Moscow Rallies

Zara Muradyan
Sputnik
Sun, 18 Aug 2019 16:42 UTC
The Economist:
The Economist: "Protests in Moscow show that Putin’s critics are getting stronger"
The British magazine has published an article about pro-opposition rallies in Moscow that kicked off six weeks ago, citing a young woman who said at a forum in "southern Russia this weekend" that the only solution to corruption and inequality is revolution. However, the youth event that The Economist wrote about took place three years ago.

In an article titled "Protests in Moscow show that Putin's critics are getting stronger", The Economist quoted a young Russian woman who said at "a state-organised forum in southern Russia" the past weekend, "We have only one solution - revolution. We are like an explosive cocktail. We are ready to go off".

The article was published on 15 August as thousands of people were preparing to take to the streets in Moscow for a sixth consecutive week to join an authorised rally staged by opposition political figures who failed to register as candidates for the upcoming local parliamentary elections.

The newspaper wrote that participants of the forum, including members of the youth wing of the governing United Russia party, voiced grievances over inequality and corruption.

The protests in the capital, The Economist assumed, would set off a chain reaction throughout the country, which poses a real "danger" to President Vladimir Putin.


Comment: That's what such rags and spies are banking on. And if they can influence things in that direction by posting fake news, they'll do that too.

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War Whore

Pentagon to name new command center after Curtis 'Bombs Away' LeMay

Bill Gertz
The Washington Free Beacon
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:39 UTC
Offutt Air Force Base
© Reuters / U.S. Air Force/ Delanie StaffordOffutt Air Force Base, Nebraska
The U.S. Strategic Command, in charge of waging nuclear war, has a new command and control facility in Omaha that will bear the name of a famous warfighting Air Force general.

The top-secret Nuclear Command and Control Facility at Offutt Air Force Base will be named after the late Gen. Curtis LeMay and is one of the most secure buildings in the world, hardened against electromagnetic pulse attacks and wired with high-technology fiber optic communications lines.

The 900,000 square-foot facility is in the final stages of construction and will replace an aging 1950s-era command center 250 yards down the road.
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Bullseye

American and British naval presence in Gulf brings insecurity - Iranian commander


RT
Sun, 18 Aug 2019 21:44 UTC
marines
© U.S. Navy / Reuters / Adam Dublinske
American and British military posturing in the Persian Gulf undermines regional security, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's navy said. His warning comes as Gibraltar releases an Iranian tanker seized there by the UK.

"The presence of America and England in this region means insecurity," Alireza Tangsiri cautioned on Sunday, according to Iranian media. He also suggested that Iran could form a coalition with neighboring states to guarantee security in the Gulf.

Tangsiri's remarks coincide with Gibraltar's decision to release 'Grace 1,' an Iranian oil tanker that was boarded and seized by British Royal Marines there last month. Washington has ordered that the vessel -now renamed to 'Adrian Darya'- be recaptured once it leaves Gibraltar, accusing the ship of transporting oil to Syria to support the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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Kashmir is "nuclear flashpoint" says Pakistan army after India's 'no first use' remark


Latestly
Sun, 18 Aug 2019 15:32 UTC
pakistan india
© PTI
A day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that India's commitment to a 'No First Use' nuclear policy is subject to future circumstances, Pakistan army described the Kashmir issue as "nuclear flashpoint". Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations Director General Major General Asif Ghafoor on Saturday said: "Kashmir is definitely a nuclear flashpoint."

Ghafoor further said that the Pakistani armed forces are fully prepared to repulse any form of Indian aggression. "Kashmir dispute is a fight to be fought for long," he said. Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi termed Rajnath Singh's statement on "No First Use" nuclear policy as a "damning reminder of India's unbridled thirst for violence".

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