Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Eye on Iran: Iran to Pay Families of Killed Palestinians






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Reuters: "Iran will pay thousands of dollars to families of Palestinians killed in a wave of anti-Israeli protests and violence, or whose homes have been demolished by Israel, Tehran's ambassador to Lebanon said on Wednesday. Scores of Palestinians and dozens of Israelis have been killed in five months of street violence. Palestinians have carried out stabbings, shootings and car rammings, and Israeli security forces have shot dead many assailants... 'The decision firstly includes giving an amount worth $7,000 to every family of a martyr of the intifada in Jerusalem,' ambassador Mohammad Fathali said at a Beirut news conference. Iran would also offer '$30,000 to every family whose home the occupation (Israel) has demolished for the participation of one of its sons' in the unrest, he said." http://t.uani.com/1SUdf2B
 
AFP: "Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that Iranians want lawmakers who will not be intimidated by the United States, two days before a key parliamentary election. Despite negotiations between Tehran and Washington that led to a nuclear deal and the lifting of sanctions, Khamenei has said there will be no further direct talks and no wider rapprochement. 'The people want neither a pro-government nor an anti-government parliament,' he said in Tehran. 'They want a courageous and devout parliament that knows its duties and is not intimidated by the United States.' The remarks follow repeated warnings by Khamenei and other officials since the nuclear deal that Iran must guard against economic, social and cultural 'infiltration' from the US." http://t.uani.com/1VErerk

Reuters: "Iran's leader said that he was confident voters would return a parliament prepared to stand up to the United States at Friday's election and prove that the lifting of sanctions on the Islamic Republic had not changed its anti-Western stance... 'The nation will vote for a parliament that puts Iran's dignity and independence first, and stands up to foreign powers whose influence on Iran has been removed,' Khamenei was quoted as saying by his official website on Wednesday. Khamenei said again that he was certain that the United States had concocted a plot after the nuclear deal to 'infiltrate' the Islamic Republic... The potential opening up to the West has alarmed hardliners and they have arrested dozens of artists, journalists and business people, including Iranians holding joint U.S. or British citizenship as part of a crackdown on 'Western infiltration'. Rouhani has criticized the arrests, saying some 'play with the infiltration word' to pursue their own goals. But Khamenei said in Tehran, addressing an audience of thousands of people from Najafabad city: 'When I talked about a U.S. infiltration plot, it made some people in the country frustrated. 'They complain why we talk about infiltration all the time ... But this is a real plot. Sometimes even the infiltrators don't know they are a part of it.'" http://t.uani.com/1mXL6tm

U.S.-Iran Relations

ICHRI: "Siamek Namazi, the Iranian-American businessman who was arrested in October while visiting family in Tehran, is being held incommunicado in Evin Prison and denied access to his lawyer and visits by family members. Namazi's family has reported that the imprisoned dual national has gone on a hunger strike. 'As a mother I ask the authorities to at least allow me and Siamak's father to visit him as soon as possible to convince him to stop his hunger strike,' wrote Effat Namazi in a Facebook post on February 20, 2016.  Namazi was arrested on October 15, 2016 and is being held in Evin's Ward 2-A, which is controlled by Iran's Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Organization. 'Unfortunately, I've not been able to visit Siamak, despite an order from the Assistant Supervisor of Security Prisons,' wrote Effat Namazi. 'His lawyer has not been able to see him either.' 'We recently heard through Twitter that Siamak's cellmate said he had gone on a hunger strike,' added Effat Namazi. 'This news has made the family much more worried because it will certainly harm his health.' Namazi was heading the strategic planning division for Crescent Petroleum, an oil and gas company based in the United Arab Emirates, when he was arrested." http://t.uani.com/1SU1xFd

NPR: "Last year was a terrible season for the American pistachio industry. Warm temperatures and the lack of water resulted in a loss of almost half the crop, and profits were down by around $1.4 billion from 2014. This year, the industry is hoping to recover, but growers across the country may face a different issue: competition stemming from the lifting of sanctions against Iran. Iran is historically known for its pistachios. They're one of the country's main non-oil exports, sold in large quantities to places like China. Until about 30 years ago, a large amount of the pistachios sold in the U.S. were from Iran. The American pistachio industry didn't boom until an embargo was put in place on the Iranian nut in the wake of the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-81." http://t.uani.com/1XMCUcT

Sanctions Enforcement

AP: "A man arrested at the U.S.-Canada border last week is one of four people accused of conspiring to violate trade sanctions by sending technical equipment to Iran - some of which ended up with the Iranian military, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Shahin Tabatabaei, of Vancouver, Canada, was arrested entering Washington state at Lynden, north of Seattle, on Friday, the FBI said. According to a federal indictment in California that has been under seal for the past two and a half years, he ran companies in Mexico and Canada that shipped American items through Turkey or the United Arab Emirates into Iran from 2007 to 2011. The items appear to have had applications in the oil and gas industry, and the indictment suggests at least some had potential military uses. Assistant U.S. attorney Todd Greenberg told U.S. Magistrate Judge Mary Alice Theiler on Tuesday afternoon: 'A number of the items went to the Iranian military. That is a national security concern.' ... The other defendants were based in Canada and Iran. One, Seyed Mohammad Akhavan Fatemi, was identified as the owner of IRCA Group in Canada. The company's website describes it as a property developer based in Vancouver and lists its owner as Mohammad Fatemi." http://t.uani.com/1oHeC8n

Sanctions Relief

Reuters: "Oil services company Petrofac will reopen its office in Iran, its chief executive said on Wednesday, as the lifting of Western sanctions allows foreign companies to rekindle business ties with Tehran. 'We are keen to go back. We are opening our office in Tehran again,' Petrofac Chief Executive Ayman Asfari told analysts on Wednesday. He said Petrofac was probably going to bid for oil services contracts though large oil companies once they have obtained new business, meaning the amount of work it does in Iran would remain low in the next year or two. 'But three or four years down the road it will be an important market for us,' he said. Petrofac was in Iran before sanctions were imposed and it worked directly for the National Iranian Oil Company on a number of projects." http://t.uani.com/1XMEcVf

Reuters: "India on Wednesday approved a $150 million credit line for the development of Iran's Chabahar port, the government said in a statement. The port in southeast Iran is central to New Delhi's efforts to circumvent arch-rival Pakistan and open up a route to landlocked Afghanistan where it has developed close security ties and economic interests. Under the agreement signed last year between the two countries, India will equip and operate two berths in the first phase of development at Chabahar Port and extend a credit line of $150 million through its external lending arm. Both berths will commence operations within 18 months of the signing of a final contract, the statement said. India will make a capital investment of $85.21 million and annual revenue expenditure of $22.95 million on a ten year lease following which the ownership of equipment will be transferred to Iran. New Delhi and Tehran agreed in 2003 to develop Chabahar on the Gulf of Oman, near Iran's border with Pakistan, but the venture has made little progress because of the sanctions over Iran's atomic programme." http://t.uani.com/1T6UOYZ

Terrorism

AP: "Philippine officials said Wednesday that they have strengthened security for Saudi Arabia's embassy and its national airline because of a possible threat. Philippine Foreign Undersecretary Rafael Seguis said the Saudi government had asked several countries, including the Philippines, for improved security. He said he was unaware of the nature of the reported threat. Seguis noted that Saudi Arabia has a conflict with Iran, where the Saudi Embassy recently came under attack, but said it's hard to say whether the reported threat was connected to that. 'It's our responsibility under international convention to protect, as a host state, foreign diplomatic missions,' Seguis said by phone. 'It's just a security augmentation, maybe because of their present situation with Iran.' Protesters set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and attacked its consulate in another Iranian city in response to the kingdom's execution of a prominent Shiite cleric on Jan 2." http://t.uani.com/1UlZg53

JPost: "The Islamic Republic of Iran announced on Wednesday its support for the 'Jerusalem intifada' that Israel has been witnessing for the past five months, declaring that it would give financial rewards to families of Palestinian terrorists. Speaking at a press conference in Beirut on Wednesday, with the participation of several leaders of Palestinian factions, Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammad Fathali, said: 'Continuing Iran's support for the oppressed Palestinian people, Iran announces the provision of financial aid to families of Palestinian martyrs who were killed in the 'Jerusalem intifada.' According to the ambassador, every family of a martyr will receive $7,000, while a family whose home was demolished by the IDF will receive $30,000. The aid will be conveyed through the Palestinian branch of the Shahid Institution, which was established in Iran in 1992. Fathali called on the Arab Muslim nation to unite around the central Palestinian issue and said that 'the martyrs' blood will release the entire Palestine, from the river to the sea.' Hamas' foreign relations chief, Osama Hamdan, who participated in the press conference, said that Hamas appreciates the Iranian initiative to support the Palestinian intifada, adding that this is not the first gesture Iran has made to Palestine and that the former treats the Palestinian issue as 'its own issue.'" http://t.uani.com/21gi4bg

AP: "Israel's defense minister is accusing Iran of building an international terror network that includes 'sleeper cells' that are stockpiling arms, intelligence and operatives to be ready to strike on command in places including Europe and the U.S. Moshe Yaalon says Iran aims to destabilize the Middle East and other parts of the world and is training, funding and arming 'emissaries' to spread a revolution. He says Tehran is the anchor of a 'dangerous axis' that includes Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut, Saana and other cities in the region." http://t.uani.com/1S1cQu5

Regional Destabilization

Daily Caller: "James Jeffrey, former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, made a provocative assertion Tuesday when he said the burgeoning alliance between Iran, Russia and Syria is the primary problem facing the Middle East today. Speaking during a panel discussion for the launch of the Atlantic Council's new Task Force on the Future of Iraq, Jeffrey, who served as ambassador from 2010 - 2012, said that Iraq has actually been relatively successful compared to the rest of the region, but warned of a worrisome trend he had seen recently. 'We have an Iran, Syria, Russia problem right now in the Middle East, that is the number one problem in the whole region,' said Jeffrey, 'considering we also have ISIS, that's saying a lot.' ... In regard to Iran's strategy in particular, Jeffrey noted that 'most, but not all, observers believe [Iran] is trying to establish a regional power position.' The Iranian goal is to 'unite all of the Shia with a combination of ... diplomatic relations as a state and a political ideological movement as a party.'"http://t.uani.com/1p4ijVA

Iran-Saudi Tensions

Reuters: "Saudi Arabia and Bahrain warned their citizens on Tuesday against travel to Lebanon, citing safety concerns, and the United Arab Emirates said it was banning its nationals from visiting the Mediterranean country. The moves by the Gulf Arab allies came after Saudi Arabia last week suspended aid worth $3 billion to the Lebanese army over the Beirut government's failure to sign up to statements condemning attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain both urged citizens currently in Lebanon to leave quickly for their own safety. They have both issued previous warnings on security grounds for Lebanon, which is located next to war-ravaged Syria. In a terse statement carried by the state news agency WAM that gave no reason for its new travel ban, the UAE foreign ministry said it would also reduce the number of its diplomats stationed in Beirut. In Lebanon's tangled political scene, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies are staunchly opposed to Hezbollah, a political party in the governing coalition that also has a powerful militia backed by Iran, Riyadh's arch regional rival." http://t.uani.com/1mXKFiK

Human Rights

ICHRI: "The Iranian government, in a joint project with several domestic universities, is spending $36 million to develop what it calls 'smart filtering' in order to strengthen its Internet censorship capabilities. Smart filtering refers to the selective blocking of content within a website, as opposed to the complete blocking or shutting down of an entire website. The initiative, announced by deputy Communications and Information Technology Minister Ali Asghar Amidian in an interview with the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) on February 18, 2016, reflects growing concern among hardliners in Iran over the state's ability to control the citizenry's access to information given the huge growth of Internet use in the country. It also reflects an unspoken acknowledgement of the state's movement away from the wholesale blocking of websites that have become widely used in Iran, by both the citizenry and state officials. According to Asadollah Dehnad, the acting director of the Telecommunications Company of Iran, who was quoted by Citna, the Iranian technology news agency on January 18, the average Iranian spends more than two hours a day on Telegram and 'that means many times more than watching [state] television.' It has been almost a decade since Iranian officials promised to introduce 'smart filtering.'  To date, however, they have had little success." http://t.uani.com/1R1ivvi

ICHRI: "The 70-year-old father of a student who has not been heard from for 17 years since his arrest has been sentenced to 91 days in prison and 74 lashes for 'disturbing public order' by allegedly participating in a gathering in support of an imprisoned spiritual leader. But Hashem Zeinali was only there to demand answers about his son and got mixed into the crowd, according to his wife. Speaking to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Akram Neghabi said the focus of her husband's interrogation indicated that the authorities targeted Neghabi for seeking answers about their son rather than having any connection to the case of the spiritual leader, Mohammad Ali Taheri, who has been persecuted for his alternative spiritual beliefs. 'My husband told the judge that he respects Mr. Taheri and his followers but my husband is searching for our missing son and that's why he was in front of Evin Prison on that day holding our son Saeed's picture,' Neghabi told the Campaign. 'During interrogations, the Revolutionary Guards told my husband that they had not arrested our son and he should take back his accusations, therefore they knew he was not a Taheri follower,' she said." http://t.uani.com/1XMBkYo

WashPost: "Iranian nationals are not even allowed to visit their country's greatest foe, Israel, but an Iranian poet, who fled from there two years ago after facing harassment and arrest for being gay, is now seeking asylum in the Jewish state. Payam Feili, who has been living in Turkey since 2014, arrived in Israel in December to see his novella, 'I Will Grow, I Will Bear Fruit ... Figs,' staged as a play in Hebrew in Tel Aviv, a city known for its openness toward gays. Now Feili, who is not Jewish, says he wants to stay. He told The Washington Post recently that after three months here, what he feels for the country is something 'more than love.' ... Feili, who writes openly about being gay in his poetry, believes that if he returns to Iran he will be putting his life at risk. Homosexuality is illegal in the Islamic Republic and those found guilty of the 'crime' face tough punishments, including death. According to the PEN American Center, a writers' group advocating freedom of expression, Feili was forced into exile after mounting threats against himself and his family. In an article on the group's website, the poet describes how he was arrested outside his home and held for 44 days without charge after agreeing to publish his work in Hebrew. Feili also said that his openness about his homosexuality has left him unable to publish in Iran following the release of his first book, a collection of poetry titled 'Sakooye Aftab' ('The Sun's Platform')." http://t.uani.com/1UlZjxV

Domestic Politics

FT: "Iran's hardliners are trying to rally support ahead of elections on Friday by alleging that their reformist opponents are being supported by shadowy foreign groups - including the UK's BBC. 'It is not an allegation. It is a crime [reformists have committed],' Parviz Soruri, a senior hardline politician, told the Financial Times. 'The BBC [Persian Service] very clearly has supported the electoral list of reformists. This will mar Iran's political independence and can lead to the presence of alien forces. The British move is interference in our internal affairs.' ... Iranian reformists have reacted angrily to the accusations of foreign support. Mohammad-Reza Aref, the most prominent pro-reform candidate, said: 'I'm not going to dignify these allegations with daily denials.' ... 'The old arrogant power [Britain] is upset with us,' said Lotfollah Forouzandeh, a hardline politician. 'It is because we will not surrender in our foreign policy." http://t.uani.com/1S1iE6L

Reuters: "The buzzing crowds and human chains of Iran's disputed election in 2009 may be nowhere to be seen ahead of Friday's poll but the activists who fired up the protests then are keeping the flame alive online. After the sustained demonstrations of 2009, Iran's hardline establishment barred reformist candidates and unauthorized gatherings, and arrested many activists on charges of sedition. Now, reformists seeking to spread the word about moderate candidates have turned to online platforms like the messaging app Telegram. 'There is no way we are allowed to have that street presence again,' said Mohammadreza Jalaeipour, a political activist who spent five months in solitary confinement for running a campaign supporting a reformist candidate in 2009. Now a researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, Jalaeipour runs a social media and Telegram campaign that includes the Green Online Chain, harking back to the Green Chain of 2009 when activists in green headbands held hands to form a 20-km (12-mile) line down Tehran's Valiasr Street." http://t.uani.com/1KKjt2B

Opinion & Analysis

Nicholas Noe in Newsweek: "One approach, however, has worked exceptionally well in fighting terrorism and pressuring opponents around the world: Weaponizing the global financial system by freezing assets and delinking states and institutions from the vital infrastructure of the global economy. Indeed, there is now widespread recognition that the cocktail of financial instruments brought to bear against Tehran, for example, played a key role in forcing concessions on its nuclear program and opening a pathway towards at least a partial rapprochement with the West. In this non-violent effort, arguably the most important tool was exercised in 2012 when Iran's financial institutions and its government were cut off from the Belgium-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication system (SWIFT). Iranian companies, ministries and individuals could no longer trade, pay bills internationally or move money around. The economic activity ground to a halt and inflation skyrocketed in the Persian state. Last month, as part of the overall deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, several Iranian banks were finally reconnected to the SWIFT system, with more likely to follow in the coming months. Almost immediately, the rusted lungs of the Iranian economy reopened with tens of billions of dollars in global trade deals offered. But almost as soon as this activity started to register, the longstanding conflict between Iran and some Western nations, actually moved into sharper focus with the honing of financial weapons by the U.S. Treasury Department. Even though the United Nations and the European Union have essentially lifted their nuclear-related sanctions, U.S. President Barack Obama has kept in place an array of secondary sanctions that penalize anybody doing business with companies connected to Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an institution the Obama administration says supports global terrorism and regional destabilization. Prove yourself to be free of any IRGC links-a tall order since it is believed to control huge swathes of the Iranian economy-and you can do business globally. Come to the table with question marks around this issue, and anyone dealing with you or moving your cash around would risk America's financial wrath; not only in the form of steep U.S. fines in perpetuity-tens of billions of dollars were levied over the past few years under the old sanctions' regime-but also by being cut off from the American side of the global financial system. Of course, since the U.S. is at the heart of that system, and many key transactions are done using the U.S. dollar, few institutions around the world are likely to risk the possibility of facing Treasury Department scrutiny. But all of this could quickly change with a new U.S. administration next year, or even increased congressional disgruntlement this year. Just a week and a half ago, John Smith, the acting director of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, was berated at one public hearing by Representative Brad Sherman, a Democrat who opposed the Iran deal, because of the former's statement that he, 'has not seen evidence of European actors continuing to do business with the IRGC.' Sherman countered with the example of Iran's second largest airline that flies to several European cities, Mahan Air. In 2011, the Treasury Department sanctioned the airline for its IRGC links and it remains on the secondary sanctions list. 'Here's an example where you have a major airline doing business in dozens of cities and you can't find them doing business with a single bank?' an exasperated Sherman asked of Smith. Over the past month, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has arrested alleged Hezbollah members on charges of using millions of dollars in drug money raised from cocaine sales-including in the U.S.-to purchase weapons for the party's fighters in Syria. Among those arrested were Mohamad Noureddine, whom the DEA accuses of being a money launderer for Hezbollah. The U.S. Treasury, which had accused Hezbollah of counterfeiting the greenback in the past, has already imposed sanctions against Noureddine and another alleged Hezbollah money launderer, Hamdi Zaher El Dine in January 2016. Cases like these have been pretty standard fare over the past decade and a half. Now, however, U.S. attempts to dry up Hezbollah's funds have found a new tool that is set to be unsheathed by mid-April, when the Treasury Department must promulgate specific regulations for the International Financing Prevention Act of 2015. The act, which passed unanimously by Congress and was signed into law by Obama on December 19, 2015, is repeatedly touted by Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio as his signature achievement. Crucially, and unlike previous executive orders pertaining to Lebanon that went after individuals or specific companies, the law penalizes any bank 'that knowingly facilitates a significant transaction or transactions for Hezbollah.' According to one top U.S. government official involved in the process, who wished to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of his post, the law is less focused on Lebanon than on delinking Hezbollah from financial transactions that it benefits from elsewhere worldwide, especially in South America and Africa. Despite such assurances, key sections of Lebanon's political elite are worried, to say the least... When it comes to Lebanon's banking system though, everybody invariably seems to fall into line, fearful of doing anything that might disrupt one of the few profitable and reliable anchors greasing so many wheels. Unsurprisingly then, waves of Lebanese bankers and officials have been traveling to Washington, hoping to soften or at least narrow the impact of the new law. Unfortunately for them, it appears that their lobbying efforts might not come to much. Much like the IRGC-focused sanctions, questions will likely linger long into the future including: What constitutes a significant transaction-since the Treasury Department will not set hard dollar limits, for example-and what must a bank do to prove it did not 'knowingly' facilitate a transaction for Hezbollah? Moreover, both the IRGC and Hezbollah are extremely secretive organizations, with both hidden and public faces; in the case of Hezbollah, the party has sizable elected representation at both the local and national government levels. So, how can a bank manager really know whether a person is unaffiliated with the targeted organization? And what constitutes being a member of Hezbollah in the first place: Could a local 'supporter,' or someone who votes for Hezbollah candidates, be prohibited from maintaining bank accounts? Could an MP who is not a 'member' of the party per se-but is still a part of its parliamentary bloc-put a whole bank's operations at risk?" http://t.uani.com/1Q0jlut

Jennifer Rubin in WashPost: "The Government Accountability Office put out a preliminary report on Tuesday on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran: 'GAO's preliminary observations indicate that IAEA may face potential challenges in monitoring and verifying Iran's implementation of certain nuclear-related commitments in the JCPOA. According to current and former IAEA and U.S. officials and experts, these potential challenges include (1) integrating JCPOA-related funding into its regular budget and managing human resources in the safeguards program, (2) access challenges depending on Iran's cooperation and the untested JCPOA mechanism to resolve access requests, and (3) the inherent challenge of detecting undeclared nuclear materials and activities-such as potential weapons development activities that may not involve nuclear material. According to knowledgeable current and former U.S. government officials, detection of undeclared material and activities in Iran and worldwide is IAEA's greatest challenge. According to IAEA documents, Iran has previously failed to declare activity to IAEA. However, according to a former IAEA official as well as current IAEA and U.S. government officials GAO interviewed, IAEA has improved its capabilities in detecting undeclared activity, such as by adapting its inspector training program.' Now, it would have been helpful for the Senate - before voting on the Iran nuclear deal - to have information like this. Nevertheless, it confirms once again how much the administration gave up to get its legacy deal. At a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with Secretary of State John F. Kerry, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a staunch critic of the deal, read aloud more of the GAO's findings. 'Let me read some of them: 'GOA's preliminary observations point to directly to future problems with monitoring, verifying and meeting requirements of the JCPOA.'' said Menendez. 'It talks about its limitation, 'a limited budget from an irregular funding sources, human resource shortfall, important equipment operating at capacity already not being able to go beyond that, limited analytical capabilities that will all be tested by the new mandates of the JCPOA, a lack of authorities,' obviously the IAEA activities will depend to a significant degree on the cooperation of the Iranian state.' He continued, 'Thirdly, that while they have focused virtually all of their resources to pursue the JCPOA, they're going to have very little resources. They turn away from other proliferators and potential proliferators. And, finally, among other items, the IAEA's own estimates has identified the need for approximately $10 million per year for 15 years over and above its present budget. So, it is an agency that is understaffed for its purposes, losing technical assistance, people are leaving, has now a singular focus.' Menendez wants Iran to pay for the needed upgrades to the IAEA, but the better question - which he has raised before - is how we could have given Iran billions up front with such an obviously deficient monitoring scheme in place. The incentive is on the administration to ignore violations (for fear of losing its deal), not on Iran, 'flush with money,' as Menendez put it, to abide by its terms." http://t.uani.com/1Q08Ebp
       


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