Eye on Iran: Iran's Supreme Leader Calls for End to 'Murderous' Israeli Regime

Join UANI           Top Stories Reuters: "Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday called for a referendum canvassing the Arabs and Jews that live in Israel in order to end the 'Zionist state', but said until such a vote could be held, armed resistance was necessary... 'There are logical and practical means to this end, which is for people who live and belong there to pick the government of their choice through a referendum. That would be the end of a usurping fake regime,' Khamenei, who has the last word in all matters in Shi'te Muslim Iran, said in a speech to university students in Tehran.Until then, Khamenei said, 'while waiting for an end to this cold-blooded murderous regime, mighty armed resistance is the only way to deal with it.'" http://t.uani.com/1tFv5GL National Journal: "A group of Republican senators wants to require President Obama to come to Congress for approval on any nuclear deal with Iran. Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marco Rubio of Florida, John McCain of Arizona, and James Risch of Idaho announced late Wednesday a plan to mandate that the president submit a deal to Congress for consideration within three days of concluding an agreement with Iran. Corker, the primary sponsor of the bill, said coming to Congress is in the president's interest, because it will help garner the support of the American people for a final deal. 'Hopefully, this will become something that is very bipartisan,' Corker said. 'This bill is about transparency.' According to the senators' Iran Nuclear Negotiations Act, if the president does not submit a deal to Congress, sanctions will be automatically reimposed." http://t.uani.com/1kdRACw Reuters: "U.S. planemaker Boeing has disclosed an agreement with Iran to provide airplane parts, relaxing a three-decade freeze in ties as part of a broader package of sanctions relief. The agreement sets out general terms and conditions for the 'potential sale of certain goods and services related to the safety of flight,' Boeing said in a regulatory filing. It marks the first acknowledged dealings between U.S. aerospace companies and Iran since the 1979 U.S. hostage crisis led to sanctions that deepened during the decade-old international dispute over Iran's nuclear program. Boeing said its agreement with state carrier Iran Air covered airplane parts, manuals, drawings, service bulletins, navigation charts and data. Boeing has also opened discussions with Iran Air Tours, a subsidiary of Iran Air, for similar goods and services, it said... In April, Boeing and engine maker General Electric said they had received licenses from the U.S. Treasury Department to export spare parts. European planemaker Airbus reiterated on Thursday that it had applied for a U.S. export license but said it had not yet reached an agreement with Iran on how to implement it." http://t.uani.com/1tFuk0v     Nuclear Program & Negotiations LAT: "Since the deadline extension was announced Friday, Iranian reformists and hard-liners have blamed the impasse on the United States, its European allies, Israel - and each other... Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of the parliament's foreign policy commission, said American greed caused the delay and vowed that Iran wouldn't give in to U.S. demands... In an interview with the Fars news agency, he said Iranian negotiators warned U.S. officials during the talks that if no deal was reached, Iran would quickly resume production of uranium enriched to 20% purity, which worries the West because such uranium can be easily converted to bomb fuel. Iran would also activate the partially built Arak heavy-water reactor, which is designed to produce plutonium, another potential nuclear bomb fuel, Boroujerdi said. 'We hope America stops being greedy,' he said." http://t.uani.com/1mIFFHg Sanctions Relief Reuters: "India paid a third and final instalment of $550 million to Iran on Thursday, three industry sources said, part of the frozen funds released to Tehran in the interim deal with world powers. Under a pact reached in November, Iran won access to $4.2 billion in oil revenues held by its buyers, to be paid out in eight money transfers through July... Five Indian refiners - Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd, Essar Oil, Indian Oil Corp, Hindustan Petroleum Corp and HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd (HMEL) - have partly paid money owed for crude imports in the previous two instalments. Of the total of about $4.6 billion the refiners owe Iran as of May 31, they have paid $1.65 billion by taking the last three of the eight payment slots scheduled in the November deal." http://t.uani.com/1peSM7y Domestic Politics RFE/RL: "The Iranian regime has long used signal jamming to disrupt the flow of information into the Islamic republic, but it couldn't have forecast the strategy's deadly consequences. Satellite-jamming technology is being blamed for disrupting Iran's ability to predict a major dust storm that hit Tehran in June, killing five people. In a report presented to parliament this week, the Iran Meteorological Organization claimed it was unable to forecast the massive dust storm because of signals emitted by jamming devices, according to the semiofficial ISNA news agency on July 22. In addition to the five killed, the June 2 storm injured several dozen people and knocked out power to around 50,000 homes in the capital, according to Iranian media reports." http://t.uani.com/1AaSAMu Opinion & Analysis Olli Heinonen & Simon Henderson in WINEP: "One example of transfer of technology that has concerned Washington and other capitals has been in the field of missiles. Iran's Shahab-3 missile is, like Pakistan's Ghauri, a locally produced version of the North Korean Nodong missile. A Shahab-3 missile fired from Iran has the range to reach Israel, as well as threaten Tehran's Gulf Arab rivals. But North Korea has developed bigger missiles, which, if transferred, would extend Iran's reach and payload delivery. The International Atomic Energy Agency has also raised concerns about redesign work by Iran on the Shahab-3 re-entry vehicle to allow it to carry a new payload, which could be a nuclear device. Public North Korean contacts with Iran have continued this year. In February, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif took a break from negotiations with international powers over his country's nuclear program to hold talks with North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Ri Gil Song aimed at bolstering bilateral ties. Zarif reportedly emphasized the entitlement of all countries to the right to benefit from peaceful nuclear technology, and Ri supported 'Iran's peaceful nuclear policy.' One particular area of concern for the global powers negotiating with Iran is that North Korean technicians will provide Iran with advanced centrifuge technology. Pyongyang has apparently mastered production of the P-2 centrifuge. These are much more efficient than the P-1 centrifuges that Iran currently uses, and they are more proven than the IR-2m that Iran is trying to develop, apparently due to technical difficulties with making the P-2 type and shortages of key raw materials. Such a move would complicate the negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, which have already been extended until late November after the parties failed to reach an agreement by the original July 20 deadline. The talks over North Korea's illicit nuclear program are going even worse: The legacy of Jon Pyong Ho is moving forward, as the United States opts for a strategy of 'strategic patience"=; -- waiting for North Korea to return to the negotiating table. North Korea's restarted reactor at Yongbyon is producing new plutonium, its centrifuges are enriching uranium at the same site and possibly unknown locations, and preparations are under way for another nuclear test. So far, there are no indications that any diplomatic agreement over Iran's nuclear program will shed light on Pyongyang and Tehran's possible nuclear collaboration. But it would be rash indeed to argue that the absence of evidence shows that nothing has gone on." http://t.uani.com/1pflRgi Claudia Rosett in NRO: "Having failed to produce a deal after six months of bargaining in Vienna, the Iran nuclear talks now appear headed for a venue even less auspicious for the U.S. and its allies: the United Nations General Assembly, whose next session opens this September in New York. According to a senior U.S. administration official, speaking at a background press briefing as the latest round of nuclear talks wrapped up, July 18, in Vienna: 'There is no question that the U.N. General Assembly will become a focal point or a fulcrum for these negotiations.' There has been no explanation so far of the format in which the Iran nuclear talks might mesh with the General Assembly. But with the talks now extended by four months, through November 24, the same U.S. official added that the opening of the General Assembly will provide a handy nexus 'because we have a lot of players there and an easy way to really get some business done.' Easy for whom? The record suggests that Iran is both adept and aggressive in exploiting the U.N., where, for a country under sanctions, it enjoys remarkable room to maneuver. At last September's General Assembly opening, Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, became the star of the show, courted by the Obama administration while he denounced the U.S. for 'violence and extreme actions.'" http://t.uani.com/1nkta9Q Eye on Iran is a periodic news summary from United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) a program of the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. 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