Monday, August 27, 2018

Eye on Iran: Iran Resumes Talks with Russia to Build New Nuclear Power Plan



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Iran has resumed talks with Russia to build a new nuclear power plant capable of generating up to 3,000 megawatts of electricity, energy minister Reza Ardakanian said Saturday, according to the Tasnim news agency. 


Iran's parliament voted Sunday to fire the country's finance minister amid an economic free fall fanned by America's withdrawal from the nuclear deal with world powers, dealing another blow to President Hassan Rouhani's embattled administration.


Iran has full control of the Gulf and the U.S. Navy does not belong there, the head of the navy of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, General Alireza Tangsiri, was quoted by Tasnim news agency as saying on Monday.

SANCTIONS, BUSINESS RISKS, & OTHER ECONOMIC NEWS


Iran [is] awaiting European guarantees on the sale of Iranian oil and banking relations, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday, according to the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA).


Iranian lawyers will ask the International Court of Justice on Monday to order the United States to lift sanctions ordered by the Trump administration against Tehran.


Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said some members of oil producer group OPEC were acting in accordance with U.S. policies, Iran's Khaneye Mellat news agency reported on Friday.  


The European Union's decision to transfer millions of dollars in aid to Iran is a symbolic move intended to undermine the United States' strategy of pressuring Tehran into re-negotiating the nuclear deal, analysts said. 


Non-oil exports from Iran's South Pars, the world's largest gas field, rose 23 percent over the past year, its head of customs said on Saturday, according to an Iranian agency. 

PROTESTS & HUMAN RIGHTS


A detained British-Iranian aid worker sentenced to five years in jail in Iran was returned to prison on Sunday after a request to extend her three-day temporary release was rejected, her husband said. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she was heading back to Britain with her two-year-old daughter after a family visit.


Jailed Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh began a hunger strike in prison on Saturday, she announced in a note posted on her husband's Facebook page.


Iranian Christians are in dire straits in the Islamic Republic because of a new wave of regime repression that has largely not registered in the media due to the country's economic free fall and popular uprising by a people fed up with the tyrannical nature of the regime.

U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS & NEGOTIATIONS


Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday that the U.S. is waging a "psychological war" against his nation and its trading partners.

IRANIAN INTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS


Iran's Defense Ministry has shut down more than 130 of its companies that were active in the economic sector and sold its shares in other corporations.

IRANIAN REGIONAL AGGRESSION


Iran has full control of the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, the head of the Revolutionary Guards navy, General Alireza Tangsiri, said Monday, according to the Tasnim news agency. 

NORTH KOREA & IRAN


North Korea's state-controlled newspaper on Sunday accused the United States of "double-dealing" and "hatching a criminal plot" against Pyongyang, after Washington abruptly canceled a visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

RUSSIA, SYRIA, ISRAEL, HEZBOLLAH, LEBANON & IRAN


The Yemeni government filed a complaint to the United Nations Security Council against the Iran-backed Lebanese "Hezbollah" party over its meddling in its internal affairs, reported Al-Arabiya.net. It said that the Iran-backed Houthi militias were being ordered by "Hezbollah" to hinder the UN-sponsored Geneva talks set for September 6.


Yemen's Houthi group fired two Zelzal-1 missiles in the direction of Saudi Arabian provinces alongside the joint border, the Houthis' Masirah TV said in a tweet on Sunday. The two missiles targeted "gatherings of Saudi soldiers," one in Jizan and the other in Najran, it said.


Iran's defense minister said Sunday his country will continue its support of the Syrian government to ensure improved security in the region, adding that the nature of the two countries' cooperation won't be decided by a "third party." 


Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami arrived in Syria on Sunday for meetings with President Bashar al-Assad and senior defence and military officials as part of a two-day visit, according to the Tasnim news agency. 


Iran and Syria agreed to expand defense and military cooperation, seemingly pushing back against US and Russian attempts to force Iranian troops out of the country, Iranian and Syrian state-run media reported Sunday. 


Russia would essentially have to fight Iran to get it out of Syria, where Tehran aims to continue the 30-year alliance and benefit from the reconstruction after the civil war, experts say. 

GULF STATES, YEMEN, & IRAN


Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the Islamic Republic always seeks to strengthen relations with Qatar as a friendly country in the sensitive Middle East region. "There are numerous capacities and grounds for the expansion of cooperation between Iran and Qatar in political and economic fields and there is no obstacle in the way of improving joint cooperation," Rouhani said in a telephone conversation with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani on Sunday.

CYBERWARFARE


Hackers linked with the Iranian government are targeting universities and academic institutions around the world as part of a major campaign to steal unpublished research and obtain intellectual property, security researchers have revealed. 


Facebook on Tuesday dismantled an expansive, covert Iranian influence operation aimed at American, British, Latin American, and Middle Eastern audiences... The exposure of this multi-year cyber campaign should dispel the myth that Tehran put a tight leash on its hackers during and after negotiating the nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).


More than a year before Facebook and Twitter announced that they had discovered a new foreign influence campaign tied to Iranian state media, a group of volunteer moderators on Reddit noticed a peculiar pattern of submissions.






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