"WASHINGTON – A forfeiture complaint and warrant were filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that all petroleum-product cargo aboard the Bella with international maritime organization (IMO) number 9208124, the Bering with IMO number 9149225, the Pandi with IMO number 9105073, and the Luna with IMO number 9208100 are subject to forfeiture based on the terrorism forfeiture statute.
John Demers, Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division; Michael R. Sherwin, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia; Steven W. Cagen, Special Agent in Charge, Denver, Colorado, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); Rainer S. Drolshagen, Special Agent in Charge, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Federal Bureau of Investigation, made the announcement today."
Iran is screwed.
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"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A fire and an explosion struck a building above Iran's underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility early on Thursday, a site that U.S.-based analysts identified as a new centrifuge production plant.
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran sought to downplay the fire, calling it an “incident” that only affected an under-construction “industrial shed,” spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said. However, both Kamalvandi and Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi rushed after the fire to Natanz, which has been targeted in sabotage campaigns in the past.
Kamalvandi did not identify what damaged the building, though Natanz governor Ramazanali Ferdowsi said a “fire” had struck the site, according to a report by the semiofficial Tasnim news agency. Authorities offered no cause for the blaze, though Iran's state-run IRNA news agency published a commentary addressing the possibility of sabotage by enemy nations such as Israel and the U.S. following other recent explosions in the country."
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran sought to downplay the fire, calling it an “incident” that only affected an under-construction “industrial shed,” spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said. However, both Kamalvandi and Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi rushed after the fire to Natanz, which has been targeted in sabotage campaigns in the past.
Kamalvandi did not identify what damaged the building, though Natanz governor Ramazanali Ferdowsi said a “fire” had struck the site, according to a report by the semiofficial Tasnim news agency. Authorities offered no cause for the blaze, though Iran's state-run IRNA news agency published a commentary addressing the possibility of sabotage by enemy nations such as Israel and the U.S. following other recent explosions in the country."
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Good job stopping terrorism in the Middle East, Mr. President. Anyone think that's a bad thing?
"Crippling sanctions together with a plunge in oil revenue, plus the expenses needed to fight the coronavirus, taken in the context of the Iranian regime’s inefficiency in solving economic crises, has painted the livelihood of the Iranian people as deepest dark.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has estimated the status of Iran’s economy till the end of 2020 as caught in deep inflation and recession. According to the IMF, Rouhani’s budget deficit in 2020 will, for the people, translate into high cost of goods, instability of the national currency and lower purchasing power.
On June 10, 2020, Rouhani said: “Under the immense pressure of sanctions we have had a yearly drop of 50 billion dollars in revenue… This is twice the previous year’s budget.”
Payman Jabali, Deputy of the Broadcasting Organization in Foreign Affairs, said on June 10, 2020, “After 40 years of activity, Dari Radio in Afghanistan is closed due to its debts. Eutelsat has stopped broadcasting the Al-Kothar Network on the pretext of its debts. Press TV, Al-Alam and I-Film both in English and Arabic languages are no longer being broadcast on satellite.”
Fred Fritz, an Iran specialist in the Institution of Security Policies, posted in the National Review saying: “the maximum-pressure strategy has succeeded even though Iran continues to stubbornly refuse to participate in negotiations on an agreement to replace the JCPOA. Iran’s economy is suffering under unprecedented economic pressure from U.S. sanctions, leading to protests against the regime in Iran. Protests against the Iranian government have also taken place in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria, as U.S. sanctions have denied Tehran funds for pro-Iran militant groups and political allies in these countries. This includes members of Hezbollah, Iran’s terrorist proxy in Lebanon, going without paychecks”."
https://tsarizm.com/analysis/2020/07/07 ... the-anger/
"Crippling sanctions together with a plunge in oil revenue, plus the expenses needed to fight the coronavirus, taken in the context of the Iranian regime’s inefficiency in solving economic crises, has painted the livelihood of the Iranian people as deepest dark.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has estimated the status of Iran’s economy till the end of 2020 as caught in deep inflation and recession. According to the IMF, Rouhani’s budget deficit in 2020 will, for the people, translate into high cost of goods, instability of the national currency and lower purchasing power.
On June 10, 2020, Rouhani said: “Under the immense pressure of sanctions we have had a yearly drop of 50 billion dollars in revenue… This is twice the previous year’s budget.”
Payman Jabali, Deputy of the Broadcasting Organization in Foreign Affairs, said on June 10, 2020, “After 40 years of activity, Dari Radio in Afghanistan is closed due to its debts. Eutelsat has stopped broadcasting the Al-Kothar Network on the pretext of its debts. Press TV, Al-Alam and I-Film both in English and Arabic languages are no longer being broadcast on satellite.”
Fred Fritz, an Iran specialist in the Institution of Security Policies, posted in the National Review saying: “the maximum-pressure strategy has succeeded even though Iran continues to stubbornly refuse to participate in negotiations on an agreement to replace the JCPOA. Iran’s economy is suffering under unprecedented economic pressure from U.S. sanctions, leading to protests against the regime in Iran. Protests against the Iranian government have also taken place in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria, as U.S. sanctions have denied Tehran funds for pro-Iran militant groups and political allies in these countries. This includes members of Hezbollah, Iran’s terrorist proxy in Lebanon, going without paychecks”."
https://tsarizm.com/analysis/2020/07/07 ... the-anger/
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Not a bad thing - just a lie
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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Come on Meade, the world is much safer since he took officce; he got the US much more respect in the world and his enemies quake before him.
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The explosions may be becoming a weekly feature.
"EXPLOSIONS have rocked the Iranian capital of Tehran, according to online reports. This marks the third blast in three weeks for the country.
Another deadly explosion was heard in western Tehran on Friday, according to local reports of a blast at a missile warehouse.
However, sources claim there have been more than one in multiple regions. An intelligence official told The New York Times said that Israel was possibly behind the attack."
"EXPLOSIONS have rocked the Iranian capital of Tehran, according to online reports. This marks the third blast in three weeks for the country.
Another deadly explosion was heard in western Tehran on Friday, according to local reports of a blast at a missile warehouse.
However, sources claim there have been more than one in multiple regions. An intelligence official told The New York Times said that Israel was possibly behind the attack."
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How does impoverishing a nation of 60 million proud people advance the cause of peace? It wasn't their guys who brought down the WTC. They didn't spawn ISIS or Al Qaeda.
Be careful what you wish for, Darren.
Be careful what you wish for, Darren.
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Maybe they wouldn't be so impoverished if the Iranian regime shared with their people.ex-khobar Andy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 6:10 pmHow does impoverishing a nation of 60 million proud people advance the cause of peace? It wasn't their guys who brought down the WTC. They didn't spawn ISIS or Al Qaeda.
Be careful what you wish for, Darren.
These are some of the same people who recruited children of the poor by promising martyr hood via a plastic necklace when they cleared Iraqi mine fields by running through them.
I have no respect for a government that fosters the idea of children as disposable to gain income. I wonder what happened to the children that were maimed for life. Or did the Iranians put them out of their misery as they laid there crying for their mothers? Or did they just let them bleed out and not waste the ammo?
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You're saying the ones with wealth and power should share that wealth with the poor?
That's sort of the opposite of a Conservative Capitalist agenda, now isn't it? Sounds almost... Socialist.
Death is Nature's way of telling you to slow down.
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"According to the latest report by the think tank, “High-resolution commercial satellite imagery… shows that the Iran Centrifuge Assembly Center (ICAC) at the Natanz Enrichment Site has suffered significant, extensive, and likely irreparable damage to its main assembly hall section.”
Further, the report says, “This new facility, inaugurated in 2018, was critical to the mass production of advanced centrifuges, in particular the assembly of rotor assemblies, the rapidly spinning part of the centrifuge and its most crucial component.”…
“Albright said that his institute’s findings are confirmed by Iran’s shifting story.
“While early reporting from Iran suggested that a fire was ‘limited’ and restricted to a ‘shed under construction,’” he said, “more recent Iranian admissions are stating that the damage was ‘significant.'”
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Iran now looks foolish as well as impotent. Having first claimed it was an accident, in which the damage was slight, Iran has had to admit – thanks to the West’s spy satellites that show the building’s roof blown off, and the blackened ruins beneath – that it was an attack and not an accident, and the damage not minor but “significant.” Iran will never admit that the attack destroyed three-quarters of the main centrifuge assembly hall at Natanz.
Iran has promised to avenge the attacks. But it has often promised before to settle scores with Israel, and then failed to follow through. Right now it has much else to consume its attention. The regime is now facing two other grave crises. First, there is the country’s economic collapse: the 90% decrease in oil revenues since 2018, the steep drop in the black market value of the rial, the rise in unemployment. It has had to slash its subsidies to Hezbollah and the Houthis. Iran has just had to ask the IMF for a $5 billion loan. Second, there is the catastrophic coronavirus pandemic. Iran’s official figures are 200,000 infected, and 10,000 deaths. But other sources from within Iran suggest that as many as 15 million Iranians have been infected, and that there have been 40,000 deaths. Given these two ominous developments, in the economy and in the public’s health, can Iran afford to now engage in retaliation against Israel?"
Further, the report says, “This new facility, inaugurated in 2018, was critical to the mass production of advanced centrifuges, in particular the assembly of rotor assemblies, the rapidly spinning part of the centrifuge and its most crucial component.”…
“Albright said that his institute’s findings are confirmed by Iran’s shifting story.
“While early reporting from Iran suggested that a fire was ‘limited’ and restricted to a ‘shed under construction,’” he said, “more recent Iranian admissions are stating that the damage was ‘significant.'”
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Iran now looks foolish as well as impotent. Having first claimed it was an accident, in which the damage was slight, Iran has had to admit – thanks to the West’s spy satellites that show the building’s roof blown off, and the blackened ruins beneath – that it was an attack and not an accident, and the damage not minor but “significant.” Iran will never admit that the attack destroyed three-quarters of the main centrifuge assembly hall at Natanz.
Iran has promised to avenge the attacks. But it has often promised before to settle scores with Israel, and then failed to follow through. Right now it has much else to consume its attention. The regime is now facing two other grave crises. First, there is the country’s economic collapse: the 90% decrease in oil revenues since 2018, the steep drop in the black market value of the rial, the rise in unemployment. It has had to slash its subsidies to Hezbollah and the Houthis. Iran has just had to ask the IMF for a $5 billion loan. Second, there is the catastrophic coronavirus pandemic. Iran’s official figures are 200,000 infected, and 10,000 deaths. But other sources from within Iran suggest that as many as 15 million Iranians have been infected, and that there have been 40,000 deaths. Given these two ominous developments, in the economy and in the public’s health, can Iran afford to now engage in retaliation against Israel?"
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Iran is screwed.
Darren, does this screed ever get old?
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
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The start of an insurgency?
"An explosion was reported in an oil pipeline in Iran Saturday, the latest in a mysterious series of blasts and blazes that have occurred throughout the country.
Several of the recent disasters have struck sensitive Iranian sites, leading to speculation that they could be part of a sabotage campaign engineered by Israel or another Tehran foe. "
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-latest ... -pipeline/
"An explosion was reported in an oil pipeline in Iran Saturday, the latest in a mysterious series of blasts and blazes that have occurred throughout the country.
Several of the recent disasters have struck sensitive Iranian sites, leading to speculation that they could be part of a sabotage campaign engineered by Israel or another Tehran foe. "
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-latest ... -pipeline/
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"Since late June, 11 Iranian citizens - three in Tehran and eight in Isfahan - have been sentenced to death for taking part in mass anti-government protests in November 2019. Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was accused of fuelling anti-government protests through a popular Telegram channel in 2017, also received the death penalty during the same period.
Also in June, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shut down Iran's biggest anti-poverty NGO, the Imam Ali Society, and arrested its founding director, Sharmin Meymandi Nejad, citing "anti-Iran activities". The independent charity had attracted the regime's fury during last year's protests by criticising government officials for "calling the poverty-stricken demonstrators rioters and agents of the enemy". "
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opini ... 12571.html
Also in June, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shut down Iran's biggest anti-poverty NGO, the Imam Ali Society, and arrested its founding director, Sharmin Meymandi Nejad, citing "anti-Iran activities". The independent charity had attracted the regime's fury during last year's protests by criticising government officials for "calling the poverty-stricken demonstrators rioters and agents of the enemy". "
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opini ... 12571.html
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The beatings will continue until morale improves.
"July 20, 2020
The Iranian rial fell to a new low against the US dollar on the unofficial market on Saturday and has now seen its value fall by almost half in 2020 as the economy comes under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic and US sanctions.
The dollar was offered for as much as 255,300 rials, up from 242,500 on Friday, according to foreign exchange site Bonbast.com. The economic daily Donya-e-Eqtesad’s website gave the dollar rate as 252,300, compared with 241,300 on Friday.
The currency has lost nearly 48% of its value in 2020, more than half of that in the past month, as a drop in oil prices and a slump in the global economy have deepened the economic crisis in the country, which also has the highest death toll in the Middle East from the pandemic.
The official exchange rate – used mostly for imports of state-subsidised food and medicine – is 42,000 rials per dollar.
In May 2018, President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from a multilateral deal aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear programme and reimposed sanctions that have since battered the economy.
President Hassan Rouhani, who has partly blamed the rial’s drop on the failure of exporters to repatriate their foreign currency earnings, instructed the central bank on Friday to redouble its efforts to enforce rules on returning export earnings, state media reported. In the months after May 2018 the rial’s value tumbled as Iranians snapped up dollars, fearing Washington’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal and sanctions could shrink Iran’s vital oil exports and severely impact the economy. The currency recouped some of its losses in late 2018."
https://dailytimes.com.pk/643171/irans- ... ons-weigh/
"July 20, 2020
The Iranian rial fell to a new low against the US dollar on the unofficial market on Saturday and has now seen its value fall by almost half in 2020 as the economy comes under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic and US sanctions.
The dollar was offered for as much as 255,300 rials, up from 242,500 on Friday, according to foreign exchange site Bonbast.com. The economic daily Donya-e-Eqtesad’s website gave the dollar rate as 252,300, compared with 241,300 on Friday.
The currency has lost nearly 48% of its value in 2020, more than half of that in the past month, as a drop in oil prices and a slump in the global economy have deepened the economic crisis in the country, which also has the highest death toll in the Middle East from the pandemic.
The official exchange rate – used mostly for imports of state-subsidised food and medicine – is 42,000 rials per dollar.
In May 2018, President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from a multilateral deal aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear programme and reimposed sanctions that have since battered the economy.
President Hassan Rouhani, who has partly blamed the rial’s drop on the failure of exporters to repatriate their foreign currency earnings, instructed the central bank on Friday to redouble its efforts to enforce rules on returning export earnings, state media reported. In the months after May 2018 the rial’s value tumbled as Iranians snapped up dollars, fearing Washington’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal and sanctions could shrink Iran’s vital oil exports and severely impact the economy. The currency recouped some of its losses in late 2018."
https://dailytimes.com.pk/643171/irans- ... ons-weigh/
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