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Did you know there are two intersecting roads in Tehran that are named after opposing historical figures of the Persian Constitution Revolution: Sattar Khan St and Sheikh Fazzolah Nuri Expy.

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2021/12/28
00:54 UTC

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European Union urges Iran to salvage 2015 nuclear deal quickly

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The European Union urged Iran to move faster toward salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal after the seventh round of talks adjourned in Vienna on Friday. The nuclear talks adjourned over new demands from Tehran. Iran requested a new pause in the talks in Vienna, which aim to bring the United States (US) back into the 2015 agreement. The 2015 nuclear deal was earlier abandoned by the former President of the US, Donald Trump. The EU called the latest pause requested by Tehran disappointing.

Diplomats representing Britain, France and Germany said in a statement that the recent talk on nuclear deal takes them back nearer to where the talks stood in June. They said, "We are rapidly reaching the end of the road for this negotiation, however, we are disappointed because of the pause.”

European negotiators

European negotiators said that they aim to resume the talks by the end of 2021. However, they have not yet confirmed a date following the suspension on Friday. They expressed "disappointment and concern" over the latest pause requested by Tehran. Negotiators from the U.S. President Joe Biden's administration were also involved indirectly in the latest round of discussions. Reportedly,  E.U. envoy Enrique Mora told the media that they don't have months for negotiation, they rather have weeks to have an agreement with Iran.

Iran Nuclear deal

The nuclear talks were started again in late November after a five-month break following the election of a new government in Iran. The meetings were earlier suspended in June because of the election. Later on, the talk was again suspended amid European disappointment. At that time, Europe warned Iran to modify their demands. The diplomats said that Iran had walked back all previous diplomatic progress and fast-forwarded its nuclear programme.

In 2015, the United States, China, Russia, Germany, France, and Britain made an agreement in Vienna with Iran on its nuclear programme.

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2021/12/20
10:21 UTC

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Is Iran’s diplomacy pushing nuclear talks towards failure? Israel warns of fruitless talks

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Iran has been taking a rather diplomatic stand over nuclear talks, even through latest round of talks in Vienna. Joshua Zarka, Israel’s lead diplomat on Iran has now warned that the extended diplomacy by Iran has now pushed the country to “last stretch of diplomacy”. Israel had hoped that as the talks began over resumption of Iran Nuclear Deal, also known as JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), United States and European Union would be able to levy an emergency motion to IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) board. This would help in substantiating the fact that Iran has continuously breached the obligations under 2015 nuclear deal and NPT (non-proliferation treaty). If this motion is activated, it would just be the start in opening a wider process that would help Iran change its stubborn stand on the nuclear programme.

Israel, the arch enemy of Iran, has always pushed it’s allies to steer away from the nuclear talks negotiations, citing that Tehran would anyways covertly carry on its nuclear programme. Israel has advocated to push Iran out of its nuclear programme forcefully. Tel Aviv was successful in persuading former President Donald Trump of United States of America to exit the JCPOA – a step that has been termed the most catastrophic decision by US in its foreign policies.

Iran’s regime has seen a complete transformation with Ebrahim Raisi taking over as President of Iran in August 2021. This has changed the dynamics around the leadership, its foreign policies and stand when it comes to nuclear deal and country’s nuclear programme. “The reality is that we are dealing with a very different Iran,” IAEA director general Rafael Grossi said. “2022 is so different from 2015 that there will have to be adjustments that take into consideration these new realities so our inspectors can inspect whatever the countries agree at the political table.”

“There’s no other country other than those making nuclear weapons reaching those high levels of uranium enrichment”, Grossi said. “I’ve said many times that this doesn’t mean that Iran has a nuclear weapon. But it does mean that this level of enrichment is one that requires an intense verification effort.”

As Iran continues to restrict IAEA inspectors from accessing the nuclear sites freely, the world looks at a grim picture of the country’s nuclear program, Grossi warns. “If the international community through us, through the IAEA, is not seeing clearly how many centrifuges or what is the capacity that they may have … what you have is a very blurred image,” he said. “It will give you the illusion of the real image. But not the real image. This is why this is so important,” he said stressing on the importance of the nuclear deal talks.

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2021/12/16
08:22 UTC

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نماینده عربستان سعودی گفت: «اما تا زمانی که مقامهای رژیم ایران به بازی با این مذاکرات ادامه دهند، این مذاکرات راه به جایی نخواهد برد. #نه_به_جمهورى_اسلامى #ايران #عربستان

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2021/12/14
10:00 UTC

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Islam is a disgrace and a virus in Iran.

As a Youth/Persian I have always wanted to express this as it is my right and OWN opinion.

After serving in 2 wars and both happen to be next door to the country my parents ran away from and smuggled me out of I will freely state this below & no I’m not in America nor an American. (For you mullah/Islam lovers who are going to get defensive after reading this)

Ever since the Islamic conquest of Persia and the faultier of our home base religion of Zoroastrism. Modern “Iran” under Islam has become a laughing stock in all the history books & in the minds of every other nation/human around the world to this day.

The reason I bring this up is because not one older person I have ever met (Persian) is willing to sit down and rightfully put away there own pride/ego to say that since the Islamic conquest, Persia has completely lost its prestige in all its might.

A disgusting virus such as Islam is lingering in a fruitful land of our forefathers. The submission of the population to a disgusting religion like this builds hatred in my own heart thus it has led me to a career path many don’t dare to take as they want a luxury lifestyle and really don’t care for our own peoples suffering unless it feeds their own ego at the current moment thus they jump to defend the homeland with empty words of pride. (Poems, prays, etc) never to pick up a rifle and go near the border waiting for the moment to strike as there own skin is to valuable.

If they cared they would noticed that it’s not just the suppression of Zoroastrians but even the Baha’i are hung & many other countless religious organizations are under the stove of the Islamic mindset. (Thank the Mongolian empire for the mixture of races and religions in persia during the Silk Road era)

I chose my own religion, I don’t need my parents to pass down a religion I don’t believe in nor want in my own blood line & I believe that humans choose what they believe as there god just like how I honestly don’t care/have no feelings if tomorrow a massive civil war breaks out and minority religious sectors of Persia revolt against the Shia population for there acknowledgement/support for the governments behavior under the name of Shia Islam.

Growing up I watch many kids like my self raised with the pride of being from Persia (Iran) and a child of Cyrus the Great but when I asked my father why didn’t his parents (grandma&grandpa) fight for the shah or stop those who were about to rape our land, he said “they had no choice as it was a bunch of the uneducated / low income / different ideology’s from those people who supported the shah and wanted kommani (or however you spell that disgusting name.)

This became a core reason why I took a military career.

I realized at a young age that ONE life has the possibility to impact almost 84million peoples future even after that life has passed away. I will gladly state that if tomorrow war does break out GOOD. We the youth are itching for it like “bambam” coke mix with smokeless powder.

Like I stated above this is from my viewpoint and few others (Persians youth) are standing next to me with the same mindset.

Islam has to leave, if not then accept the consequences of what can happen as it has happened throughout history (from any war that suppress the people in the minority sector.) Many lost family members because of what these mullah lovers have done under the name of Islam & many have just stood by and watched there neighbors being dragged out to never be seen again or dumped in a river 50km away.

Remember ONE life can make a change for 84 million, Cyrus the great still used war and a heavy hand to win the territory’s he did it’ll be a shame if That’s the route we must take to free the land from a virus. In my eyes if you defend Islam youre a part of the virus but if you’re a child of Cyrus the Great then you’re a defender of Persia & must be prepared to sacrifice all to free her. Sorry but not sorry like I stated above this is my own rightful opinion.

Cyrus would spit on all who coward behind the fear of dying for the Achaemenid Empire just so that they can live and pretend all is fine while there own country men/children die.

Rise up if not you’re not worth being a part of our culture nor you deserve the right to call yourself Persian. I will post the picture of the face that finally made me speak out. A child shot by the government forces. A child that looks like me when I was younger after we ran away to a land I am a stranger too and I can’t truly call my home as it’s been stripped from me. I will remember him when the time comes and I will avenge him & many others when the time comes. If you’re in Persia (Iran) then you know his face. If not shame on you too.

This post isn’t ment to be directed at just a religion but understand that Persia is a nation of many religion but keep that Arab religion out of our country. Take this as you wish I am getting bit by mosquitoes writing this and it’s worth it.

Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die.

Remember your blood line. We aren’t Arabs

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2021/10/24
03:51 UTC

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Food Crisis in USA - بحران غذا در امریکا

بحران غذا در امریکا

The United States suffers from its own acute national challenges. Estimates suggest 23 million people live in so-called “food deserts”—low-income areas with poor access to healthy food. ... Advances in emerging technologies hold the promise to both alleviate the food crisis and amplify American influence abroad.

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2021/10/16
06:57 UTC

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Mohd. Eslami, Chief of AEOI accuses Israel of sabotaging Iran's Karaj nuclear site.

Mohammad Eslami, Chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization has accused Israel of sabotaging Iranian Karaj nuclear site. Eslami alleged that the attack was carried out to disrupt Iran-IAEA relations and interrupt Iran nuclear deal.

1 Comment
2021/10/06
18:21 UTC

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کانالهای خبری گروههای جدایی طلب پان ترک که از بودجه سرویس اینتل ترکیه تأمین می شوند ، اکنون در اعتراضات ضد رژیم در تهران به شیوه خود دروغ می گویند! آنها فیلم ها را می دزدند ، علامت خود را می گذارند و ادعا می کنند معترضان پس از جدایی استان های آذربایجان ایران هستند

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2021/07/26
21:55 UTC

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Iran Policy Should Prioritize Human Rights

Iran systematically interrogated, condemned, and executed 30,000 political prisoners in 1988 as part of an effort to stamp out organized opposition to the fledgling theocratic dictatorship.

Both the current and the former Ministers of Justice for the entire regime were previously members of the death commissions in 1988.

The former, Ebrahim Raisi, was confirmed as the new president of the Iranian regime on June 18, after a tightly controlled electoral process in which the vast majority of the Iranian population refused to participate

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2021/07/19
11:17 UTC

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PocketOption Was Blocked-پاکت آپشن فیلتر شد

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2021/07/07
08:38 UTC

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Power blackouts trigger protests

People in Tehran took to the streets on Sunday evening to protest the continued electricity outage caused by poor management and the government's destructive policies.

Rallies took place in different parts of Tehran, including Tehran Pars and Baharestan. The protests quickly took on a political nature as protesters chanted “Down with Khamenei” and “Down with the dictator” and “Down with the Islamic Republic,” calling for the ouster of the ruling mullahs and their supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

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2021/07/06
11:02 UTC

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Ebrahim Raisi is Exactly Who You Think He is

Ebrahim Raisi, lacking any formal education or legal experience, became a revolutionary "judge" in the aftermath of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, and immediately rose through the political ranks. To some analysts, this is a sign of his "shrewd opportunism." Raisi not only ordered killings, he watched while it happened. His brutality extended to sexual perversion with the systematic rape of virgin prisoners.

Ebrahim Raisi is exactly who you think he is—a killer.

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2021/07/01
11:12 UTC

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World Reacts to Raisi Presidency

In the Iranian elections last week, frontrunner Ebrahim Raisi emerged as the victor, and the world has been reacting to the news of his presidency.

He was congratulated by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrollah, Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad, and former Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki, but much of the rest of the world has reacted in horror at his appointment.

Who wouldn’t be? Ebrahim Raisi has risen to the presidency instead of being investigated for the crimes against humanity of murder, enforced disappearance and torture.

The US has already blacklisted Raisi and other officials involved in the massacre, while the EU imposed sanctions on him for human rights violations.

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2021/06/23
11:26 UTC

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Iran presidential voting opens, hardline cleric’s rivals excluded

Iranians are voting in a presidential election in which the ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi is seen as all but certain to coast to victory, after all serious rivals were barred from running.

Iranian opposition groups abroad and some dissidents at home have urged a boycott of the vote they see as an engineered victory for Raisi, the 60-year-old head of the judiciary, to cement ultraconservative control.

Voters queued at schools, mosques and community centres, some carrying Iran’s green, white and red national flag.

Iran has often pointed to voter participation for democratic legitimacy – but polls signal the turnout may drop below the 43% of last year’s parliamentary election.

Results are expected around noon on Saturday. If no clear winner emerges, a runoff will be held a week later.

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2021/06/18
11:53 UTC

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Iran exceeds the 60% uranium enrichment threshold

“Iran has carried out an enrichment of uranium to 63% and, if necessary, we will immediately start enriching uranium above this level.” Iranian President Hassan Rohani said today on state TV.

The Iranian president then said that the negotiators in the Vienna nuclear talks should accept Iran’s terms to solve the remaining problems and allow the world to witness greater growth and interaction. “The US and Europeans should know that Iran seeks nuclear energy not to produce nuclear weapons,” Rohani said, making it clear that the Islamic Republic aims to develop its nuclear, aerospace, and missile power to strengthen the Country’s industry.

“We are not looking for wars and tensions, but in the meantime, we will not bow to the enemies and our defense will be unpleasant,” he continued.Recently, the United States lifted part of the economic sanctions on Iran. The measure affects three former government officials and two oil-related companies; comes on the eve of the new round of indirect negotiations between Tehran and Washington in Vienna on nuclear power (JCPOA) the weekend.Sources in the White House speak of a “conciliatory” gesture a few hours after a meeting that could sanction the full US return to the pact signed in 2015 by Barack Obama and disavowed three years later by his successor Donald Trump.

The Biden administration remains cautious and urges not to give too much importance to the decision. Also, because, at the same time, punitive measures were ordered against a group of people and activities headed by Sa’id Ahmad Muhammad al-Jamal, for the support provided to the Houthi rebels in the bloody war that has been going on for some time with the pro-government government. Saudi in Yemen. The sanctions lifted yesterday affected former officials and companies “involved in the purchase, sale, transport or marketing of Iranian petrochemicals”.

Ned Price, the spokesman for the State Department, stresses that “there are no links” between the sanctions and talks with world powers and the Islamic Republic. “What we want to say to Iran – he adds – is that we want to be reasonable. When the sanctions are no longer justified, we are ready to revoke them, but when they are justified, we are ready to impose them.”

Meanwhile, the attention of international diplomacy is focused on Vienna, where the sixth round of indirect talks between the US and Iran is about to begin. Over the last two years, Tehran has progressively violated the terms of the pact, easing restrictions on nuclear activities.

The first steps date back to 2019, in response to Trump’s withdrawal from JCPOA in May 2018 and the reintroduction of the toughest sanctions in history, which resulted in a collapse of the Iranian economy.Presidential elections will take place in Iran on June 18, which will archive the era of moderate Hassan Rouhani to bring an ultra-conservative to power. A change that could also affect the timing, methods, and results of the nuclear talks.

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2021/06/15
13:35 UTC

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Fire extinguished on Iranian oil tanker off Syria after suspected attack

Three people died in an attack on an Iranian tanker off the Syrian coast on Saturday. According to media reports, a fire broke out on board.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in the UK later confirmed the news. The Syrian news agency Sana specified that the fire broke out after “what is believed to be an attack by a drone coming from Lebanese waters”.It is not known who is behind the attack, perhaps an operation to prevent the delivery of oil to the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. The incident is part of the mysterious “war of the oil tankers”, which has been going on for some years now and which sees Iranian, Saudi, and Emirati tankers targeted by attacks, with reciprocal exchanges of accusations.

In 2019 only, the UK blocked an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar, which was later released. An Iraqi oil tanker was seized by the Iranians in August of that year, while in September the same authorities of the Islamic Republic seized the British Stena Impero. In June 2019 two tankers, one Japanese and one Norwegian were attacked in the Persian Gulf, and a month later two other Saudi Aramco ships were sabotaged while they were moored near the United Arab Emirates.

In the past month, some oil tankers, belonging to a commercial fleet bound for Syria, were bombed by the Israelis in the eastern Mediterranean, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Between the end of February and the beginning of March, the Israeli government sounded the alarm about the huge quantities of oil that had deposited on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea after spilling from an unidentified tanker offshore in international waters.

According to the Israelis it had not been possible to trace the perpetrators of the disaster, there was talk of a “ghost” ship. Unconfirmed Iranian government sources also spoke of attacks that hit several oil tankers. No sinking but massive damage, so much so that two of these ships were forced to return to the port of departure.

News that shows the opening of a new front in the conflict between Israel and Iran. The Israeli government denounced the “concern that oil profits could finance extremism in the Middle East”. But so far Israel, while having admitted to being responsible for hundreds of aerial bombardments of Iranian forces and their allies in Syria, has never talked about attacks at sea.

Observers believe that Iran violates US sanctions by exporting oil to China and other countries, a decision taken to save the Islamic Republic economy brought to its knees by the embargo imposed by Washington during the Trump administration. Several companies have confirmed that in the last period shipments from Iran have almost doubled compared to last year.

TankerTrackers.com, an American company that uses satellite images to track oil carriers, estimates that Iranian crude exports in the last period reached 1.2 million barrels per day compared to 481,000 barrels per day in February 2020. Trend confirmed by SVB International, which spoke of 585 thousand barrels of crude per day exported from Iran in November 2020 compared to 230 thousand at the beginning of 2020.

In July 2019, the Iranian super tanker, Grace 1, was boarded by the British Navy off the coast of Gibraltar. London also justified itself by saying that the transport of oil violated the sanctions imposed by the European Union. The response of Iran was not long in coming: shortly afterward the Swedish-owned oil tanker Stena Impero was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz, which was released only after the British marines left Grace 1.

The exchange of mutual accusations between Iran and Israel is on the agenda from a while. Last year, an Israeli-owned ship, the Helios Ray, was attacked in the Gulf of Oman. Again, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the Islamic Republic by declaring that “Iran is Israel’s greatest enemy. I am determined to stop it. We are hitting it throughout the region”. For its part, Iran denied any responsibility.

Shortly thereafter, however, he accused Israel of numerous attacks, including the one that destroyed the centrifuge assembly plant at the Natanz nuclear power plant, where Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, one of the leading Iranian scientists, allegedly lost his life. Initially, the oil spill off the Israeli coast was also blamed on Iran by the Israeli Minister of the Environment. But Israeli security officials said they could not confirm these allegations.

At the international level, the Israeli government is exerting strong pressure on the new American President Biden given the informal talks between the US and Iran regarding the nuclear deal, perhaps fearing that the new tenant of the White House decides to adopt an approach softer towards Iran. That is why Israel has already threatened to act by force to stop Iran’s nuclear program.

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2021/04/26
17:50 UTC

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Helping an International Discord Server get more Members from Iran 🇮🇷

Hey! This is international server. This is a server with people from every country where the people from those countries gather to learn about other cultures countries etc. We have specific channels for every topic where you can chat about everything!

  • Many Languages Channels

  • Meet people from all over the World From Cuba  To Tuvalu

  • Friendly and Caring Staff

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And more!

Link: https://discord.gg/PdTbbAs

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2021/04/22
11:15 UTC

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Escalation Tensions Between Biden and Iran, Explained; The Vienna Talks and Reentering the Iran Deal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMZsHVTG2_c

All the original signers of the Iran Deal meeting in Vienna and tensions are high. Between an Israeli cyber attack on Iranian nuclear facilities and Iran upping their enrichment to 60% the situation is volatile. Here is what is happening in Vienna, what the participants are thinking, and how we got here.

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2021/04/15
01:47 UTC

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Abbas Araghchi: Iran will not hold any negotiations with the United States either directly or indirectly.

The United States and Iran will return to Vienna on 6 April, where the nuclear agreement was signed in 2015: it is the first concrete progress in the attempt to save the agreement abandoned by Donald Trump three years ago and which Joe Biden promised to resurrect. While no direct meeting between the Americans and Iranians is envisaged, indirect talks through the other powers involved in the agreement are an important step.

Iran will not hold any negotiations with the United States, either directly or indirectly”: Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said yesterday evening. “We are not in a hurry, there will not even be a gradual plan to revive the nuclear deal and the final step should be the removal of sanctions by the United States,” he added. Araghchi said that, in an interview on state TV, commenting the reports that the White House will hold indirect talks with Iran during a meeting of the joint commission on the nuclear deal scheduled for Tuesday in Vienna.

Araghchi made these comments after yesterday’s group of countries still party to the 2015 nuclear deal (Russia, China, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Iran itself), in a videoconference organized by the European Union had announced a meeting for next Tuesday in Vienna with the presence of a US delegation, which abandoned the agreement in May 2018 at the behest of the then President Donald Trump. Various sources then spoke of the possibility of indirect negotiations between Tehran and Washington for the re-entry of the United States into the agreement.

“We will have talks only with the 4 + 1 group, ie Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China – said Araghchi, Iranian chief negotiator – but these members can talk to any other country in any way they want”. For his part, however, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, said that “the impasse has been broken” and therefore the path of negotiations is now open.

The dialogue will focus on how Washington and Tehran can simultaneously return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, one by removing the Trump-era sanctions and others by respecting uranium enrichment commitments (after the US withdrawal from the agreement, Iranians have increased both the quantity and the quality of their stocks).

The talks focus on returning to the original understanding, not on Tehran’s missile program or its role in the region that the US and Europe also aim to address in the future. US officials assure the New York Times that they do not intend to keep part of Trump’s sanctions and that the “maximum pressure” strategy has failed.

The other signatories will meet without the United States, to begin defining a road map. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif specified that there is no meeting planned with the US: “There is no need”, the goal is “to quickly finalize the removal of sanctions and nuclear measures, for an elimination choreographed by all the sanctions, after which Iran will put an end to the corrective measures “.

The question is what will be the “choreography” of the road map? The Americans have so far proposed reciprocal gradual steps which have been read by Iran as bearish offers. Iranians suggest a quick and understanding approach (keyword in Zarif’s tweet). Both countries demand the first move on the other. It is not a technical problem but a political one: of trust, of priorities, and climate

Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi

2 Comments
2021/04/03
16:15 UTC

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Israeli defense minister: Plans to attack Iran nuclear sites updated

اگر إسرائيل جرات می کنه همچین حرفی بزنه و به ایران حمله کنه، آنها جنگی را آغاز می کنند که نمی توانند ازش نجات پیدا کنند. ایران موشک هاییی مثل قاصد و ذوالجناح ICBMs داره که می تواند به آسانی اسرائیل را نابود کند

https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2021/03/05/israel-Israel-plans-iran-airstrike-nuclear-sites/6321614976661/?spt=su&or=btn_tw

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2021/03/24
23:31 UTC

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US carries out air strikes in Syria targeting Iranian backed militias

حمله های هوایی به پایگاه های گروه های حمایت شده از ایران در سوریه توسط آمریکا یک حرکت بزدلانه است. ایالات متحده باید این اشتباهات را متوقف کند و دوباره برگده به مذاکرات با ایران تا بتونند به یک هدف مشترک برسند که هر دو طرف می توانند از آن سود ببرند.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/us-iraq-iran/index.html

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2 Comments
2021/03/12
16:32 UTC

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What would happen if Hossein Dehghan became Iran's next president in June?

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2021/03/03
10:47 UTC

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Iran, North Korea Resume Missile Collaboration In 2020: UN Report

أمريكا باید در نظر داشته باشد که این تحريم های سخت علیه ایران فقط باعث خودکفا شدن این کشور خواهد شد و ایران برای دفاع از خودش با کشورهای دیگر همکاری خواهد کرد. چه اتفاق دیگری باید رخ بدهد تا این کشورها بتوانند با هم شروع به گفتقو کنند؟

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/iran-north-korea-resume-missile-collaboration-in-2020-un-report-2366308

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2021/03/01
15:10 UTC

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UN slams Iran for its constant threat to minority groups

On Friday, The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet blames Iran for continuing human rights violations against minorities in areas, the comments come after days of violence in the Baluchestan and Sistan region. 

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2021/03/01
11:24 UTC

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With the nuclear deal, Washington ready for dialogue with Europe and Iran

The United States has agreed to participate in the multilateral talks with Iran hosted by the European Union to negotiate a return by both countries to the nuclear agreement reached in July 2015 (JCPOA) and from which the former Trump administration withdrew in May 2018. The US State Department spokesman Ned Price announced yesterday, explaining that the United States will accept the invitation of EU High Representative Josep Borrell to talk with Iran and with the other countries that have agreed on Tehran’s nuclear program deal.

The White House explained that its delegation will be led by Special Envoy Rob Malley. “As long as we don’t sit down and talk, nothing will happen, but that doesn’t mean that when we sit and talk, we will be successful,” a senior State Department official quoted by The New York Times said. “We know that if we don’t take that step, the situation will go from bad to worse,” he added. An opening in this sense should come from the president himself, Joe Biden, who is speaking today at the conference on security in Munich.

For his part, Tehran returned today to ask the United States to lift the sanctions imposed by the Trump administration: a concession that Biden can hardly make before seeing concrete progress. The tangible sign of the difficulties with which the renewed dialogue starts. The confrontation between Iran and the United States on Tehran’s nuclear program and in particular on the “JCPOA” agreement of 2015 has entered a decisive phase.

In Paris, the foreign ministers of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom met and had a video dialogue with the American secretary of state Antony Blinken. The message sent to Iran is this: it would be dangerous for Tehran to block AIEA inspections, as the Iranians have threatened to do in recent weeks. Iran calls for the US to make the first move, or to lift the economic sanctions previously triggered by the Donald.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian received his colleagues from Berlin and London, Heiko Maas and Dominic Raab, at the Quai d’Orsay; from Paris, they activated the connection with Blinken, a meeting entirely dedicated to the Iranian nuclear issue. At the end of the discussions, the 4 issued a joint note in which they ask Tehran to “consider the consequences of such a serious action, especially in this moment of renewed diplomatic opportunity”.

After the US exit from the JCPA, the Trump administration in 2018 reintroduced harsh economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Sanctions that effectively blocked the country’s oil exports and brought the economy to its knees. Since his presidential election campaign, Joe Biden had hinted that his administration would return to the JCPOA.

But in the meantime, one year after the new US sanctions, Iran has gradually begun to violate the treaty. It has increased the number of centrifuges used to enrich uranium. It has refined the metal in quantities and percentages outside the boundaries of the treaty and has also recently begun to produce metallic uranium, which is a form of material used primarily for military production.

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2021/02/19
10:41 UTC

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Iran to form 'NATO' defense and security pact with allies

اتحاد محور مقاومت یکی از نتایج تحریم ها و ایدهلوژی ضد اسلامی کشورهای غربی هست. ایران و متحدانش می توانند به نیرویی تبدیل شوند که آمریکا و اسرائیل نمی توانند باهاش روبرو بشه.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210119-iran-to-form-nato-defence-and-security-pact-with-allies/#.YCbrqqP8gDI.twitter

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2021/02/14
03:11 UTC

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Iran envoy at UN says Islamic Republic won't hesitate to defend itself

از اول انقلاب اسلامی تا حالا بعد از ۴۲ سال ایران سفت و سخت آماده واساده که از حق و حقوقش توی دنیا دفاع کنه. کشورهای دیگه باید درک کنند که این تحریمها ایران را یه کشور قویتری میکنه.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210128-iran-envoy-at-un-says-islamic-republic-wont-hesitate-to-defend-itself/#.YCbhUU0WdA0.twitter

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2021/02/13
18:52 UTC

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پرواز دوباره بمب‌افکن‌های استراتژیک آمریکا بر فراز خلیج فارس در میانه تنش‌ها با ایران

در اواخر دولت ترامپ و اوایل دولت بایدن آمریکا چند بار بمب‌افکن‌های بی ۵۲ را در خایج فارس پرواز داد چون میخواست تعهدش به امنیت منطقه را نشون بده. این عملیات فقط پول حروم کنی برای آمریکا بود و ایران ترس و عکس العمی از خودش نشون نداد.

https://www.radiofarda.com/a/b52-flew-persiangulf-iran-us-tension/31071988.html

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2021/02/12
19:19 UTC

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Bitcoin: A dirty solution to Iran’s economic troubles?

تمامی این آلودگی ها و قتعی برق ها به خاطر تحریم های سختی است که ایران باهاشون روبرو است و این کشورمجبور میشه برای تقویت اقتصادیش به بیت کوین رو بیاره. آمریکا باید زودتر به برجام برگردد و این تحریم ها را به خاطر مردم ایران لغو کند.

https://www.mei.edu/publications/bitcoin-dirty-solution-irans-economic-troubles

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2021/02/11
21:26 UTC

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