Friday, August 31, 2018

Eye on Iran: Iran Moves Missiles to Iraq in Warning to Enemies



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Iran has given ballistic missiles to Shi'ite proxies in Iraq and is developing the capacity to build more there to deter attacks on its interests in the Middle East and to give it the means to hit regional foes, Iranian, Iraqi and Western sources said.


President Donald Trump said the Iranian regime may collapse because of his administration's policies, including leaving the international nuclear agreement with Tehran negotiated by his predecessor. 


A decade ago, a captive Iraqi terrorist leader told his U.S. interrogators all about how Shiite militias worked with Iran, Hezbollah and each other to attack American soldiers in Iraq. Now, as that terrorist is set to wield significant political power in Iraq, the details of his interrogations are being released for the first time.

UANI IN THE NEWS


We see a flight of companies from Iran - Total, Siemens, Maersk - major corporations that are refusing to do deals with the Iranian regime regardless of what the capitals of Europe and EU Central is encouraging them to do, and that's because they recognize what most of the rest of the world recognizes: that Iran is not open for business.

NUCLEAR DEAL & NUCLEAR PROGRAM


Honouring the 2015 nuclear deal is not Iran's only option, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday in a Twitter post.


The United Nations' nuclear watchdog said Thursday that Iran continues to comply with the terms of a 2015 nuclear pact, despite the United States' withdrawal from the deal and renewed sanctions that have contributed to an economic crisis.


Iran's foreign ministry on Friday dismissed a French call for more negotiations with Tehran over the international nuclear accord as "bullying and excessive".

SANCTIONS, BUSINESS RISKS, & OTHER ECONOMIC NEWS


Iran's most senior general has threatened to shut down the world's busiest oil chokepoint if the U.S. manages to completely cut his country's oil and gas trade.


Japan remains firmly committed to seeking US exemption for Iranian oil imports as it sees the supplies as important for the country's energy security and businesses, a top government official told S&P Global Platts on Thursday. 

MISSILE PROGRAM


Satellite photos published Thursday purported to show the establishment of an Iranian surface-to-surface missile factory in Syria, raising fresh concerns over the extent of the two countries' military cooperation on Israel's northern border.


Iran "cannot avoid" talks on thorny issues like its ballistic missile program and role in Middle East conflicts, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned Thursday, as European powers work to rescue the beleaguered nuclear deal with Tehran.

MILITARY/INTELLIGENCE MATTERS & PROXY WARS


The US military is changing up its Middle East war games to deal with perceived Iranian threats short of entering into armed conflict, Al-Monitor has learned.


Suicide terrorism was virtually unknown until the creation of the Islamic Republic of Iran and became a useful tool of the regime, which it used through proxy forces such as Hezbollah, to carry out strikes against overseas facilities and assets of more powerful nations like the US and Israel, the attacks of which it could claim plausible deniability.
  
IRANIAN REGIONAL AGGRESSION


Chief of the Joint Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Mohammad Hossein Baqeri has threatened that foreign forces sailing through the Strait of Hormuz will face action by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) if they violate international regulations.

RUSSIA, SYRIA, ISRAEL, HEZBOLLAH, LEBANON & IRAN.


Israel's defence minister described Iran on Friday as having slowed down its long-term force deployment in Syria, attributing this to Israeli military intervention as well as an economic crisis gripping Tehran as U.S. sanctions are restored.

GULF STATES, YEMEN, & IRAN


President Trump should pick up the phone - or get on Twitter - and tell Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani that the U.S. won't use expanded base facilities in Qatar and will consider relocating the U.S. military out of Qatar entirely. Unless, that is, Qatar realigns its foreign policy towards greater support for regional stability and counterterrorism.

MISCELLANEOUS


As if the free world didn't have enough to worry about with Russian fake news, now the world leader in state-sponsored terrorism is getting into the act: Iran is running a disinformation campaign on social media, and it is bigger than previously believed. A closer look though at this propaganda, however, reveals a paper tiger. Iran's network of Twitter handles, websites and Facebook fakes are amateurish and clumsy.








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