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Rohani: Tehran does not want 'new tensions' in the region


Haaretz
Sat, 12 May 2018 10:51 UTC
Rohani
© RFE/RLIranian President Hassan Rohani
Iranian official denies Tehran behind attack: 'We're not in Syria'

'Diplomacy cannot help Iran, resistance only way to confront enemies,' Revolutionary Guard says.

Iranian President Hassan Rohani said Thursday evening that the Islamic Republic does not want "new tensions" in the Middle East, AFP reported, in his first response since the overnight flare-up between Israel and Tehran.

Earlier Thursday, an Iranian official denied that Iran was behind an overnight barrage of missiles on Israel, saying it does not have military forces in Syria, despite the fact that Israel blamed Iran's Revolutionary Guard for the attack.
"Iran does not have any connection to the missiles fired at Israel. If Iran did it we would have announced it immediately. When [ISIS] attacks Iranian targets in Syria we responded and made it known. Iran does not have any military presences in Syria and it was the Syrian army that fired missiles," the deputy head of Iran's national security council.

Comment: Iran did not take part in this skirmish. This narrative is a setup for Western and Saudi ears - a cover job for Israeli pre-emptive strikes.

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Ex-DM al-Obaidi: The US is responsible for discord in Iraq


Sputnik
Sat, 12 May 2018 13:47 UTC
Khaled Yassin al-Obaidi
© Middle East MonitorFormer Iraqi Minister of Defense Khaled Yassin al-Obaidi
The elections were initially set for September but were postponed due to the fight against the Daesh terrorist group. The vote will be the first since the liberation of the country from the jihadists.
"Americans are mainly responsible for what happened to Iraq because they were the first to form a government on a base of confessional quotas... It was decided under Paul Bremer's [US Presidential envoy and head of the transitional government during US military presence in Iraq] leadership that Sunnis would get 5 ministerial offices, Shiites - 11, and Kurds - 7. This decision laid the foundation of the discord between confessional and ethnic groups and led us to the situation in modern Iraq with its sectarianism and inter-ethnic hostilities," the former Iraqi Minister of Defense Khaled Yassin al-Obaidi told Sputnik.
Obaidi is also among the leaders of the Victory Alliance, a coalition established by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.

Major coalitions were put forward by the leading Shiite politicians of the country - Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Vice-President Nuri al-Maliki. There are 6,686 candidates, 2,014 of them women, for 328 seats in the parliament.

Comment: "We would not want to be either on the axis of the Russian Federation or in the US..." Neutrality has its value...everyone wants you.

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Attention

The fate of the world hangs on the EU?!?

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Sat, 12 May 2018 13:30 UTC
Uncle Sam
© Daily Mail
So it's come to this. The fate of the world hangs in the balance...and it's the EU that's going to be the deciding factor.

The EU? Really? Sigh.

You may have heard that the US scrapped the Iranian nuclear deal this week, setting off a series of events that could very likely end up in a regional conflagration. But if that's what you heard, then you heard wrong. In actuality, Trump signed an Executive Memorandum on Tuesday that reaffirmed his October 13, 2017 decision to deny re-certification of the JCPOA and lifted sanction waivers promised under that agreement.

Confused? Don't worry, so is mostly everyone else. But here's the bottom line: the "Iran nuclear deal" was not some treaty between the US and Iran. It was a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signed by China, France, Russia the United Kingdom, the United States, the EU and Iran. In other words, only one player in this seven-member deal is walking away from the table.

This is not a trivial distinction. What it means is that it is still perfectly possible that the other signatories to the agreement could continue on with the agreement or hammer out some replacement for it. At the very least, Europe could stand up to Washington's sanctions regime...if they followed Mish Shedlock's advice and "Grow a Backbone on Something Important," that is. As Mish points out, billions of dollars of European business are on the line. That money will be lost if the Europeans just roll over and accept US demands to wind down all business in Iran in the next three to six months.
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Maxine Waters pulls double victim status in tantrum on House floor: I resent 'making America great again'!

Victor Skinner
The American Mirror
Fri, 11 May 2018 16:20 UTC
Maxine Waters
© YouTube screenshotRep. Maxine Waters (D-Ca.) berated a fellow member of Congress after he used President Trump's campaign slogan in a speech on the floor of the House.
California Congresswoman Maxine Waters doesn't want to hear any talk about making America great, especially if it's coming from a straight white man.

Waters went off the rails at a recent House debate when Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly had the audacity to suggest the country needed to shift focus from what divides to what unites.
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Macron calls for "full force" EU integration and "yield nothing" to national sovereignty

Virginia Hale
Breitbart
Sat, 12 May 2018 12:00 UTC
Macron Merkel
© Lukas Schulze/Getty Images,
Emmanuel Macron has demanded closer and faster EU integration towards a superstate, in a speech where he vowed to "yield nothing" to conservative eastern members which believe in a Europe of strong nations.

Speaking in Aachen, where he received this year's pro-EU Charlemagne prize "in recognition of his vision of a new Europe" and his "decisive stance" against nationalism, the French president urged Brussels to move full speed ahead on monetary union and creating a single foreign policy and defence strategy for the whole bloc.


Comment: Even though he knows his own countrymen would leave the EU given the chance.


Condemning the "music of nationalism [that] is resounding everywhere in Europe", Macron called on Europhiles who want to see more power concentrated in Brussels to "move forward with full force and as quickly as possible" with plans for integration so as to drown out the "clear [voices] of nationalists and demagogues".


Comment: Quick! Before citizens have time to fight back against the totalitarian dystopia.


Comment: Macron is despised by his own party and has brought chaos at home, what could we expect from an EU super-state with him at the helm? Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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Erdogan: Israeli regime pushing Middle East to war


PressTV
Sun, 13 May 2018 20:50 UTC
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
© Photo by AFPTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a crowd during the congress of the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) Ankara youth branches at the Ankara Sports Hall in the capital Ankara, Turkey, May 11, 2018
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lambasted the Israeli regime for its use of "unnecessary aggression" in Syria following recent Israeli airstrikes in the war-torn Arab country, saying Tel Aviv is dragging the Middle East into war.

The Turkish president made the comments in an interview with BBC Arabic on Sunday, saying the occupying regime "is sowing fear and pushing" the Middle East "region to war."

Erdogan also denounced the Israeli aerial aggression against the sovereignty of Syria, three days after Israeli warplanes attacked dozens of "targets" inside the Arab country in what was said to be the most extensive strike in Syria in decades.

Comment: Turkey will complete the construction of Syrian ceasefire observation posts in the Syrian province of Idlib within a week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
"As of now, the number of the observation posts along the perimeter of the de-escalation zone in Idlib has reached 10. The agreements envisage the construction of 12 such posts. The remaining two will be built within the upcoming week. I hope that after the construction of the posts is completed the situation in Idlib will normalize," Erdogan told reporters.

There are currently four agreed de-escalation zones in Syria, which has been engulfed in a civil war since 2011. The first in Idlib and parts of neighboring Latakia, Hama, and Aleppo provinces; the second in the north of the central Homs province; the third in Eastern Ghouta near Damascus; and the fourth in certain parts of the country's southern Daraa and Quneitra provinces.


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European Union foreign policy chief: Trump 'systematically destroying and dismantling everything'

Frank Sellers
The Duran
Sun, 13 May 2018 04:27 UTC
Federica Mogherini, the EU’s foreign policy chief
Federica Mogherini, the EU’s foreign policy chief
"This impulse to destroy is not leading us anywhere good," she added

As the EU has increasingly faced an atmosphere of disunity and disruption, Trump's ditching the JCPOA only threatens to make matters worse for Europe.

But that's not all, says the EU's foreign policy chief, Frederica Mogherini, it also increasingly isolates America as she points out that 'no country is big enough to face this world alone'.

It seems that Trump's hubris is big enough to try it.

Comment: It's one thing if European leaders feel these things and express these sentiments among themselves, but another thing when they come right out and make these feelings and assessments known and expressed for all the world to see and hear.

And still another thing when they begin to act in their own best interests and actively buck the oppressive yoke of US policy. Things will be getting very interesting as the US continues to try to exert its control over the world - and the world vociferously responds with a "sorry, no more!".

Does Trump have any idea how counterproductive his maneuvers are - and how well they fall into line with the US Deep State's goal for global hegemony??

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Flashback Coincidence? Sergei Skripal was close to consultant who was linked to the dodgy Steele dossier on Trump

Robert Mendick
The Telegraph
Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:41 UTC
Christopher Steele Sergei Skripal
© PA WIRE/ITV NEWS/LNPSergei Skripal, centre, and Christopher Steele, left, who compiled the notorious dossier on President Trump that detailed his allegedly corrupt dealings with Vladimir Putin. Right: a police officer wearing protective equipment at one of the scenes of the investigation.
A security consultant who has worked for the company that compiled the controversial dossier on Donald Trump was close to the Russian double agent poisoned last weekend, it has been claimed.

The consultant, who The Telegraph is declining to identify, lived close to Col Skripal and is understood to have known him for some time.

Col Skripal, who is in intensive care and fighting for his life after an assassination attempt on Sunday, was recruited by MI6 when he worked for the British embassy in Estonia, according to the FSB, the Russian intelligence agency.

The Telegraph understands that Col Skripal moved to Salisbury in 2010 in a spy swap and became close to a security consultant employed by Christopher Steele, who compiled the Trump dossier.

The British security consultant, according to a LinkedIn social network account that was removed from the internet in the past few days, is also based in Salisbury.

On the same LinkedIn account, the man listed consultancy work with Orbis Business Intelligence, according to reports.

Comment: Read also Alex Christophorou's take on this:

The poisoning of Sergei Skripal leads right to Hillary Clinton and the DNC

and Moon of Alabama's:

The Silence Of The Skripals - Government Blocks Press Reports - Media Change The Record

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Big surprise: Politicians and corporations hire actors to signal support that doesn't actually exist

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 11 May 2018 16:03 UTC
actors support politicians
In an age where most politicians have very little support for their campaigns and causes, they have been known to resort to desperate measures to improve their public image. While this practice is disregarded by some as a "conspiracy theory," many politicians have been caught hiring actors to fill the crowds of their campaign speeches - corporations too.

In fact, just this week in Ontario, Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford's campaign was forced to admit that they hired actors for at least one of their events. Ford's staff acted like this was not authorized by them, but instead blamed a local candidate for arranging their actors. Campaign officials for Toronto Centre Tory candidate Meredith Cartwright reportedly hired the actors to support Ford at a rally in Dundas Square.

"We were very confused by this situation because we are getting record numbers of supporters to every event across Ontario. This was done by a local candidate and it won't be continuing," Ford's spokeswoman, Melissa Lantsman, said in an email to the Toronto Star.

A number of these actors reached out to the press about the event to blow the whistle, including artist and performer Devanshu Narang.

Narang told The Star that he was offered $75 to appear at the rally between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. wearing the candidate's t-shirt, but he turned down the gig.

Comment: Fake news, fake politicians, fake support. Image is everything. Fake is the new real.

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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: The Art of The Iran no-Deal: Trump, Israel, And The End of The Atlantic Alliance


Sott.net
Sun, 13 May 2018 16:00 UTC
behind headlines 234 joe niall
Surely this means World War?

Last week's attack by Israel on Syria was the most extensive since the Yom Kippur (Arab-Israeli) War of 1973. Allegedly taking out 'almost all Iranian military infrastructure in Syria', the Israelis claimed a great victory against their nemesis, Iran, which means its allegedly nefarious designs on the region were 'set back years'.

This latest flashpoint in the Syrian theater of war coincided with two other noteworthy events: Israeli PM Netanyahu's visit to Moscow as Putin's guest of honor at the annual (WW2) Victory Day Parade, and President Trump's big announcement that the US is reneging on the Iran Deal.

The former has people wondering if Putin has 'taken Israel's side' - or even, gasp, that he was a crypto-Zionist all along! - while the latter has European leaders doubling down on their commitment to trading with Iran and openly plotting about how to circumvent US sanctions.

On this week's episode of Behind the Headlines, SOTT.net editors Joe Quinn & Niall Bradley discussed the apparent launch of direct Israel-Iran confrontation and Trump's 'Art of The Iran no-Deal'...


Running Time: 01:27:20

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