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"We do not intend to allow our sanctions to be
evaded by Europe or anybody else," John R. Bolton, the national
security adviser, said in a speech Tuesday at a forum sponsored by a
group intensely critical of the Iran nuclear accord.
India isn't planning to buy any Iranian oil in November,
raising the prospect that Tehran will lose another major customer as
U.S. sanctions hit and spurring speculation over whether China will follow
suit.
Iranian oil exports are declining ahead of a second
round of U.S. sanctions to be imposed on Nov. 4 and Iran's economy is
likely to contract 3 percent this year and 4 percent in 2019, the
Institute of International Finance said on Tuesday.
UANI IN THE NEWS
"We do not intend to allow our sanctions to be
evaded by Europe or anybody else," Mr. Bolton said at the
conference, which was organized by United Against Nuclear Iran, a
group that has criticized the 2015 nuclear deal reached under the
Obama administration.
In an even more fiery speech to a group opposed to the
Iran deal, Bolton was to go further. "If you cross us, our
allies, or our partners; if you harm our citizens; if you continue to
lie, cheat and deceive, yes, there will indeed be hell to pay,"
he was to say according to prepared remarks released by the White
House ... Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also spoke at the event
hosted by United Against a Nuclear Iran being held to coincide with
U.N. General Assembly. In his speech, Pompeo unveiled a long list of
Iranian misdeeds from its support of Syrian President Bashar Assad
and Houthi rebels in Yemen to sponsoring or plotting attempted
terrorist attacks in Africa, Asia, Europe and beyond.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan
Rouhani exchanged taunts at the United Nations General Assembly on
Tuesday with Trump vowing more sanctions against Tehran and Rouhani
suggesting his American counterpart suffers from a "weakness of
intellect." ... Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton,
addressing a group called United Against a Nuclear Iran, called the
2015 accord "the worst diplomatic debacle in American
history" and had a warning for "the mullahs in
Tehran."
National Security Adviser John Bolton and Sec. of State
Michael Pompeo dismissed announcement by European Union, China and
Russia to set up a financing channel for legitimate business with
Iran, saying U.S. wouldn't allow sanctions to be evaded. Countries
that set up such financing vehicles will "do so at their own
risk," Bolton says in speech before the group United Against
Nuclear Iran in New York. Bolton says SWIFT financial messaging
service should take a "good hard look at their business with
Iran." Pompeo says at same event that European announcement of
special financing vehicle is "one of the most counterproductive
measures imaginable for regional and global peace and security"
U.S. will weigh "whatever may be necessary and appropriate"
if it detects Iran is expanding enrichment of uranium, Bolton says.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo denounced Tuesday a
European Union plan to set up a way to preserve business with Iran
and avoid renewed American sanctions. Addressing the United Against a
Nuclear Iran pressure group being held near the annual UN General
Assembly, Pompeo said he was "disturbed and indeed deeply
disappointed" by Monday's announcement from remaining members of
an international nuclear deal.
"By sustaining revenues to the regime, you are
solidifying Iran's ranking as the number one state sponsor of terror,
enabling Iran's violent export of revolution, while the Iranian
people scrape by," Pompeo said at a United Against Nuclear Iran
event. "I imagine the corrupt ayatollahs and the IRGC were
laughing this morning. This decision is all the more unacceptable
given the litany of Iranian-backed terrorist activity inside of
Europe."
National Security Adviser John Bolton delivered a
no-holds-barred warning to Iran at a major summit in New York on
Tuesday, telling the regime in a fiery speech that "we are
watching, and we will come after you" and that there will be
"hell to pay" if it continues on its current course ... In
his speech to the United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) annual summit,
Bolton took aim at the threatening rhetoric long used by Khomeini and
other top Iranian politicians...Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also
spoke at the UANI summit on Tuesday, and criticized other nations for
"enabling" Iranian-sponsored terrorism by working with Iran
to bypass U.S. sanctions.
During remarks at the United Against Nuclear Iran
Summit, President Trump's national security adviser John Bolton gave
a stern warning to Iran.
Two of President Donald Trump's top officials addressed
a conference critical of the Iranian government on Tuesday, calling
for a harder line against the revolutionary Shiite Muslim
power.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security
adviser John Bolton spoke at the 2018 United Against Nuclear Iran
summit in New York City.
President Donald Trump's national security adviser John
Bolton went after Iran in a fiery speech on Tuesday. "We are
watching and we will come after you," Bolton said while speaking
at the United Against Nuclear Iran summit in New York City.
Bolton to Iran: If you cross us, "there will indeed
be hell to pay" Bolton, in prepared remarks for United Against
Nuclear Iran, [Bolton] told Iran there will be "hell to
pay" if they cross the U.S. or her allies.
Shortly after he stepped up to the podium at the United
Against Nuclear Iran Summit Sept. 25 in New York, Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo had to pause while protesters were escorted out.
The Trump administration is unlikely to yield. In
addition to Mr. Trump's speech at the U.N. on Tuesday, Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo is expected to outline Washington's renewed
attempts to isolate Tehran in an event titled the "United
Against Nuclear Iran Summit" in New York on Tuesday afternoon.
Iran on Tuesday took advantage of President Donald
Trump's abandonment of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, portraying
itself as a law-abiding state ready to work with traditional U.S.
allies to avoid war... The European Union, in a slap to Trump, is
setting up a way for European companies to continue to do business
with Iran and evade sanctions, a step it considers necessary to keep
Iran from reactivating its nuclear-weapons program (something Rouhani
disingenuously suggested in his speech was an "artificial
crisis")... "This is one of the most counterproductive
measures imaginable," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said before
an anti-Iran crowd in New York Tuesday under the auspices of the nonprofit
United Against a Nuclear Iran. Pompeo said the countries taking part
are "enabling Iran's violent export of revolution," by
helping them avoid sanctions.
The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the
ambassadors of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to Washington and
the director of Israel's Mossad spy agency were among those who spoke
alongside two of President Donald Trump's most senior officials at
the 2018 United Against Nuclear Iran summit.
The United States, however, could expand its sanctions
to target the mechanism. Whether or not it will do so is as yet
unclear, but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized Europe for the
plan on Tuesday. Speaking at the aptly titled United Against Nuclear
Iran summit in New York, the US's top diplomat called the plan
"one of the most counterproductive measures imaginable for
regional global peace and security" and said the plan supports
the sponsoring of terrorism.
The United States will respond swiftly and decisively to
any Iranian attack on US interests, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
said during an address to the United Against Nuclear Iran Summit in
New York City on Tuesday.
Hours after the US and Iranian leaders took aim at each
other at the UN General Assembly, US National Security Adviser John
Bolton said at an anti-Iran summit that Tehran will have "hell
to pay" if it crosses the US or its allies."The murderous
regime and its supporters will face significant consequences if they
do not change their behavior. Let my message today be clear: We are
watching, and we will come after you," Bolton told the so-called
United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) summit in New York.
"According to the mullahs in Tehran, we are 'the
Great Satan,' lord of the underworld, master of the raging
inferno," Bolton said in New York Tuesday. "So, I might
imagine they would take me seriously when I assure them today: If you
cross us, our allies, or our partners; if you harm our citizens; if
you continue to lie, cheat, and deceive, yes, there will indeed be
hell to pay," Bolton said at the United Against Nuclear Iran
Summit, held on the margins of the UN General Assembly.
Speaking at a conference, Bolton also said the United
States would be "aggressive and unwavering" in enforcing
economic sanctions on Iran that are resuming after Washington
withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
The State Department's August 13 designation of Qassim
al-Muamen as a terrorist, serves as the latest reminder that Iran's
destabilizing actions are not limited to Iraq, Syria and Yemen...
Muamen's new terrorist designation highlights Iran's near continuous
efforts to create a smaller version of Lebanon's Hezbollah inside
Bahrain, with the goal of destabilizing the island kingdom's Sunni
al-Khalifa monarchy and threaten U.S. and Saudi Arabian interests in
the Persian Gulf.
Last week, the United Nations General Assembly opened
its annual session, and on Wednesday, President Trump will chair a
meeting of the United Nations Security Council. Unsurprisingly, the
notoriously impulsive president keeps changing his mind about whether
to focus on more general topics or on Iran's destabilizing behavior,
including its ballistic missile program, sponsorship of terrorism,
and arms sales to the Houthi rebels in Yemen. But Trump is missing an
opportunity to use the gathering to strike at Tehran's Achilles heel
- its violations of the Iranian people's human rights.
NUCLEAR DEAL & NUCLEAR PROGRAM
Europe's frantic efforts to save the nuclear pact at the
U.N. probably won't work.
US national security adviser John Bolton, however, is
due to warn Iranian leaders that they do not trust the regime and
there will be consequences for aggression. "If you cross us, our
allies, or our partners; if you harm our citizens ... there will
indeed be hell to pay," Mr Bolton will tell an anti-Iran
conference in New York, according to prepared remarks.
SANCTIONS, BUSINESS RISKS, & OTHER ECONOMIC NEWS
President Trump will lead a United Nations Security
Council session Wednesday on weapons of mass destruction and Iran,
and European leaders are signaling that they're more than willing to
disagree with the U.S. Meanwhile, Europeans are looking for ways to
duck U.S. financial sanctions-without much success.
Iran's oil tankers are starting to disappear from global
satellite tracking systems with just under six weeks to go until U.S.
sanctions are due to hit the country's exports, making it harder to
keep track of the nation's sales.
President Donald Trump told the United Nations General
Assembly that Iran's leaders "sow chaos, death and
destruction." But the president had nice things to say about
another country. Near the end of his talk, Trump said that India, for
example, is "a free society over a billion people, successfully
lifting countless millions out of poverty and into the middle
class." Less than two hours later, Bloomberg News reported that
India isn't planning to buy any crude oil from Iran in November,
costing Tehran a major customer as U.S. sanctions take effect.
U.S. President Donald Trump should stop interfering in
the Middle East if he wants the price of oil to stop rising, Iranian
Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday responded to
U.S. President Donald Trump's criticism of high oil prices, saying
that if had not reimposed sanctions on Tehran, prices would not have
risen as much.
Haven't India's oil companies heard of Federica
Mogherini? The country's biggest oil buyers haven't booked any
cargoes from Iran for November, potentially cutting imports to zero,
officials at the companies told Debjit Chakraborty, Dhwani Pandya and
Javier Blas of Bloomberg News on Wednesday.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday slammed U.S.
sanctions saying they amounted to "economic terrorism" and
"economic war" while speaking at the UN General
Assembly.
PROTESTS & HUMAN RIGHTS
Iran's security apparatus has escalated its targeting of
Iranian dual citizens and foreign nationals whom they perceive to
have links with Western academic, economic, and cultural
institutions,
U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS & NEGOTIATIONS
President Trump thrust his commitment to an
"America First" foreign policy back onto the United Nations
General Assembly on Tuesday. But in his second address on this
diplomatic stage, he sounded as eager to claim credit for his
achievements after 20 months in office, as he was to disrupt the
world order.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan
Rouhani exchanged taunts at the United Nations General Assembly on
Tuesday with Trump vowing more sanctions against Tehran and Rouhani
suggesting his American counterpart suffers from a "weakness of
intellect."
President Donald Trump delivered what has become one of
his signature foreign policy gestures before speaking at the UN
General Assembly on Tuesday, offering to meet Iran's President Hassan
Rouhani while applying military and economic pressure to Tehran.
"Despite requests, I have no plans to meet Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani. Maybe someday in the future. I am sure he is an
absolutely lovely man!" Trump tweeted.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a speech to the
United Nations General Assembly that the Islamic Republic is a
peaceful nation committed to its international obligations, while the
U.S. has disregarded global norms and used its power to bully others.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused the United
States on Tuesday of trying to overthrow his government, rejecting
bilateral talks after President Donald Trump denounced Iran's leaders
and predicted stepped-up U.S. sanctions would get Tehran to negotiate
over its nuclear program.
RUSSIA, SYRIA, ISRAEL, HEZBOLLAH, LEBANON & IRAN
While U.S. President Donald Trump struggles to convince
the world to follow his lead on Iran, he's got at least three key
allies firmly on his side. Blocks away from the UN, where Trump gave
a speech Tuesday excoriating the Iranian regime and calling on the
world to isolate its economy, the Saudis, Emirates and Israelis got
together at a Manhattan hotel for a conference with essentially one
theme: confronting Iran.
Russia said on Monday it would supply an S-300
surface-to-air missile system to Syria in two weeks despite strong
Israeli objections, a week after Moscow accused Israel of indirectly
causing the downing of a Russian military jet in Syria.
Lebanon's Parliament has ratified the international Arms
Trade Treaty, angering Hezbollah legislators, some of whom walked out
in protest.
GULF STATES, YEMEN, & IRAN
Bahrain's attorney general charged nearly 170 people on
Tuesday with forming a Shiite "terrorist organisation"
named for Lebanon's famed militant group Hezbollah... The authorities
have repeatedly accused Shiite Iran and it allies, including
Hezbollah, of fomenting the unrest.
Saudi Arabia denied it had backed the gunmen who killed
25 people at a military parade in southwestern Iran over the weekend,
almost half of them Revolutionary Guards, the Saudi state news agency
reported on Tuesday.
IRAQ & IRAN
American and Iranian officials have taken unusually
visible roles in trying to influence the makeup of the new Iraqi
government, but both sides have so far come up short, failing to
place their allies in key positions.
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