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| IranPressNewsBlog Provides Daily Reports and Updated News about Iran and the World - in English. This Blog Operates as a Part of IranPressNews(dot)com Website. |
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| Implications of the Economic Sanctions on Iran |
| 2010-02-27 10:20:25 |
IranPressNews.com /The international sanctions are affecting various sectors of the Iranian economy, and as time goes by, the serious implications are evident. This is mainly because of the sharp drop in oil prices that will probably result in a loss of 50 billion dollars in oil revenues in the current fiscal Iranian year (March 2009-March 2010) over the previous year.With regard to foreign trade, the sanctions have caused difficulties in Iran’s financial activities vis-a-vis Europe and some of the banks in Asia and the Gulf region. Many European banks have severed their financial ties with Iranian banks, and Chinese and Gulf banks have reduced (under heavy western pressure) the scope of financial activity opposite Iran. In addition, Iran’s banks are having difficulties carrying out f...
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| Khamenei to Support Hezbollah Despite of Ezzedin's Case |
| 2010-02-27 09:26:08 |
IranPressNews.com /Iran’s Leader Ali Khamenei stated: "Iran will continue to support Hezbollah despite the case of Salah Ezzedin", and despite Internal Economic Problems. An emergency meeting was held in the Leader Ali Khamenei's bureau, at the firstweek of Jan. 2010, on a demand of Hezbollah leader Nassrallah. The meeting was held after few delays and an urgent demand from Nassrallah, who complained that Iran is not assisting its strategic ally in its economic crises. The background for the demand is that Hezbollah had incurred huge financial losses because of the bankruptcy of Lebanese businessperson, Salah Ezzedin, a fact that became known few months ago. The meeting's (that was summoned by a request of the Intelligence minister) purpose was to evaluate Iran's policy and framework as ...
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| Trilateral Meeting in Damascus |
| 2010-02-27 09:25:05 |
The Jerusalem Post /Ahmadinejad, Nasrallah and Assad have dinner together, discuss "threats." Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah met Thursday evening in Damascus along with their senior advisors, and discussed regional developments and “the zionist threat,” it was revealed Friday. The two were the guests of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who had dinner with the two and participated in the talks. According to Arab media reports, the meeting was not reported upon until after it had taken place for security reasons. On Thursday Ahmadinejad and Assad together unleashed vicious rhetoric against Israel, with Ahmadinejad declaring that the “criminal” state of Israel is doomed, and Assad charging that Israel “is capable of aggression at any...
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| The Reason of Aghazadeh's Dismissal |
| 2010-02-27 09:24:17 |
IranPressNews.com /The Reason for Aghazadeh's Dismissal: his Attempt to Expose the Bribe of senior IAEA Officials. In an internal discussion held in the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) shortly after lran's presidential elections, AEOI chairman Aghazadeh spoke very scathingly. He said, "the president thinks that it is possible to bribe the entire Iranian nation as Iran has bribing very senior IAEA officials and their relatives in recent years." It was clear to the participants to the meeting, that Aghazadeh was referring specifically to IAEA director- general Mohamed El-Baradei. For years, there had been rumors in the IAEA behind the scenes that El-Baradei was taking steps that would be beneficial to Iran's nuclear tile. AEOI chairman did not specify the amount paid out in bribes ...
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| Drug Triangle Smuggles Exceedingly into Europe |
| 2010-02-27 08:28:35 |
IranPressNews.com /How the new drug triangle "Venezuela-Iran-Hezbollah" is smuggling vast quantities of drugs into Europe. A tripartite agreement had been signed in Caracas in late 2009 between an Iran Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) official, a senior Hezbollah official, and a Venezuela government representative. The purpose of this agreement is to smuggle drugs originating in Venezuela into European countries, via Iran and Lebanon. The agreement outlined a cooperation, that the sides termed as "the winning triangle".The agreement in question is a special kind of agreement based on Venezuela's government's undertaking to transfer to Iran the drugs (cocaine and marijuana from Colombia) which it had confiscated from the drug lords in Venezuela, at 70% of their value. Iran will transfer to Hezbol...
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| US, Israel Resume "Strategic Dialogue" on Iran |
| 2010-02-26 08:37:58 |
Agence France Presse (AFP) /The United States and Israel held a "strategic dialogue" on Thursday over Iran's nuclear programme for the first time since US President Barack Obama took office, officials said. US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg met with Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon to pick up the regular consultations that were held during the preceding Bush administration. "The dialogue provided an opportunity for in-depth discussion of a range of regional and international issues, thereby further strengthening the close strategic cooperation between the two countries," the foreign ministry said after the meeting. Another round of talks would take place in Washington later in the year, it added. Israeli officials had said the talks would focus primarily...
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| Medvedev Calls for "Responsible Behaviour" from I.R. Iran |
| 2010-02-26 08:36:57 |
Agence France Presse (AFP) /Iran must act responsibly and transparently to end the standoff over its nuclear programme, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday, in a fresh sign of Moscow's growing impatience with Tehran. "I think the way out of this situation is responsible behaviour by Iran itself," Medvedev said in an interview with the French magazine Paris-Match, according to a text posted on the Kremlin website. "We believe that Iran's nuclear programmes should conform to the demands of international organisations like the IAEA, and also that work in this area should be transparent for oversight," he added. "So far, unfortunately, there are many problems here." The Kremlin has shown growing irritation with Iran in recent weeks and has said it could not exclude a new round of U...
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| Is the Iranian Regime Collapsing? |
| 2010-02-26 08:26:50 |
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs /To grasp Iran’s ambitions and foreign policy it is necessary to understand the Islamic Republic’s religious ideology which aspires to establish global Islamic rule – under Shi’ite leadership. This belief lies at the heart of Iran’s foreign policy, including its ambition to acquire nuclear weapons. Ayatollah Khomeini ruled that a Muslim mustn’t touch infidels, deal with them, or come into contact with them. Jews, in particular, are considered unclean. Iranian leaders call for the annihilation of Israel because these “unclean Jews” occupy the Muslim land of Palestine and hold the keys to the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque.When Ahmadinejad declared that Israel ought to be wiped off the map, he added that this was merely the first stag...
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| Obama Has Failed on Iran |
| 2010-02-26 08:26:41 |
By Richard Grenell, Newsmax /Let’s face it; President Barack Obama’s hope for a dialogue with dictators was a naïve gamble to begin with. Even many people in his own party thought it was an academic exercise from an inexperienced law professor that wasn’t rooted in reality. But during the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama was on one side of the argument of what to do about Iran, and Hillary Clinton and John McCain were on the other. Obama championed the idea that he could rally the international community to do more to isolate the government of Iran and that he could sit down with its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to convince him that he should give up the illegal pursuit of a nuclear bomb. Clinton and McCain, however, advocated for a tougher approach that included immediate new s...
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| US to Pursue Pressure Track on Iran: Petraeus |
| 2010-02-26 08:26:31 |
Agence France Presse (AFP) /The United States is raising the stakes in its bid to halt Iran's nuclear program, putting the issue on a "pressure track," top US general David Petraeus said Sunday. The US and other world powers are drumming up support for a fourth round of UN sanctions against Iran for its refusal to comply with repeated ultimatums to suspend uranium enrichment and agree to a UN-backed nuclear fuel deal. President Barack Obama had talked about a dual-track approach to dealing with Iran's suspect nuclear activities, involving efforts to engage Iranian leaders backed up by the threat of further sanctions. "I think that no one at the end of this time can say that the United States and the rest of the world have not given Iran every opportunity to resolve the issues diplomaticall...
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