First lets deal with your total and outrageous hypocrisy here.

What was your reaction when Iran attacked a US base in Iraq. Injuring more than 100 US troops and then lying about it for more than 2 years?

But now let's take a look at what really happened.

Iran says it won’t tolerate threats emanating from Iraqi soil
Tehran’s warning to Baghdad comes a day after the elite Guards launched ballistic missiles on purported Israeli targets in Erbil.


A general view shows a damaged mansion following missile attacks in Erbil [Safin Hamed/AFP]
By Maziar Motamedi
Published On 14 Mar 202214 Mar 2022

Tehran, Iran – Iran’s foreign ministry has said the country will not tolerate security threats emanating from Iraqi soil a day after the elite Revolutionary Guards launched ballistic missiles on purported Israeli targets in the Kurdish capital, Erbil.

“It is in no way acceptable that one of our neighbours, which has deep ties with us, becomes a focal point for threats against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told reporters on Monday.


He claimed Israel has repeatedly created security problems for Iran through Iraqi soil, including by organising anti-establishment rallies and “terrorist groups” in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.

Prior to Sunday’s missile attack, Iraq had been repeatedly warned both publicly and through diplomatic channels that it must not allow its borders to become “focal points for conspiracy, plots and sabotage” against Iran, Khatibzadeh said.


“The Islamic Republic of Iran expects Iraq’s central government that it will end this situation once and for all, and won’t allow its borders to be taken advantage of, especially considering all the claims of improving ties to new levels that exist between the two countries,” he said, also warning Israel that Iran is aware of its movements in the region.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Sunday claimed the missile attack in northern Iraq, saying it targeted an Israeli “strategic centre for conspiracy” in the country.

The attack appears to have come in response to the killing of two IRGC members last week by Israel in Syria, for which Iran had promised retaliation. IRGC also warned of a “destructive response” if Israel engages in further attacks.

The state-run IRNA news website confirmed that the missiles used in the attack were of the Fateh-110 variety, with a range of 300km (186 miles), and were launched from an IRGC base in northwestern Iran, without elaborating further.


No injuries were reported in the attack, which happened in the vicinity of the US consulate. The United States State Department spokesman, Ned Price, condemned the missile attack, adding that there was no indication it was directed at American interests.

Iraqi officials also condemned the attack as a violation of the country’s sovereignty, with the foreign ministry summoning Iran’s ambassador to hand him an official letter of protest.

The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman did not address Iraqi criticism of a violation of its sovereignty or the letter.

Implications for nuclear deal
The attack comes as Iran and world powers are in the final stages of efforts to restore their 2015 nuclear deal in Vienna.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video message posted on social media that it is “not only absurd, but downright dangerous” to continue to pursue the nuclear deal after the attack, and claimed it would “give the ayatollahs a nuclear arsenal” in addition to lifting sanctions.

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman signalled on Sunday that the US is still seeking an agreement with the aim of curbing Iran’s nuclear programme despite the missile attack.

If restored, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the deal is formally known, will cap Iran’s uranium enrichment to 3.67 percent while also limiting its use of centrifuges and its enriched stockpiles.

At the moment, Iran is enriching uranium up to 60 percent using advanced centrifuges while maintaining its nuclear programme is strictly peaceful. The country began gradually abandoning the JCPOA limits one year after a unilateral US withdrawal from the nuclear accord in 2018.


The attack appears to have come in response to the killing of two IRGC members last week by Israel in Syria, for which Iran had promised retaliation [Azad Lashkari/Reuters]
Source: Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022...rate-threats-from-iraqi-soil-after-missile-at

 

And we see yet another example of stumbler not giving a shit about America or its allies.

From what stumbler posts we know he;
Believes America is a "shithole country".
Supports celebrity atheletes who disrespect our flag, our anthem, our military and our first responders.
Supports the destruction of our only democratic ally in the mideast.
Supports our sworn enemy Iran getting nuclear weapons.
Supports our sworn enemies.
Supports free shit we can't afford cause, you know, free.
Is a liar.
Is a hypocrite.

 

Iran and Russia To Discuss Stalled Nuclear Deal





Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian is in Moscow today to meet his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov as Tehran seeks to remove a new roadblock in its quest to return to the 2015 nuclear deal and remove punishing sanctions.

Like the world’s energy markets, food markets, and traditional geopolitical alignments, Russia’s war in Ukraine has had a knock-on effect on the deal’s endgame. Moscow now demands its own sanctions carve-outs in return for any deal, a move that could blunt Western attempts to force Putin’s government to incur tangible costs for its invasion.

The United States is so far holding firm, with one Biden administration official saying there was no “scope for going beyond” what has already been agreed in Vienna. The official said that the administration “would know within a week whether or not Russia is prepared to back down,” in comments to the Wall Street Journal.

Is it dead (again)? With Russia pursuing an unpredictable course, officials in Vienna appear to be preparing an alternative deal without Moscow’s input. Such a deal would need to find replacements for Russia’s role in removing enriched uranium from Iran as well as its expertise in converting its Fordow nuclear facility to a research role. One former Iranian official, speaking to Middle East Eye, said the absence of Russia on those fronts was “no big deal” since “the U.S. and Europe can easily find another country to do that for Iran.”

Iran’s side. If Iran is purely motivated by reviving its economy, a deal that leaves out Russia would still be less destructive than the sanctions-riddled status quo. Although Iran’s exports to Russia doubled from $400 million to $800 million from 2019 to 2020, that still represents a small percentage of Iran’s overall exports. Far more valuable is its relationship with its Asian partners. China, India, Japan, and South Korea made up nearly 75 percent of Iran’s exports in 2019 (China was the destination for $12.1 billion of those exports, 48.3 percent of Iran’s total).

Iran’s longtime alliance with Russia, (underscored by its apparent support for Russia’s war), as well as budget-boosting oil prices, both serve to complicate the picture. On Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said that a deal without Russia wasn’t under consideration and laid the blame on the United States for delays.

“Downgrading what is happening in Vienna to one element—meaning Russia’s demand—is what the U.S. wants so everyone would forget its own responsibilities. No one must forget that the party responsible for the fact that we are still at the point of non-agreement is the U.S.,” he said.

Khatibzadeh said if Washington “adopts a suitable political decision today, delegations can return to Vienna tomorrow.”

Foreign Policy Morning Brief

 

Excellent.
A sworn enemy of America, Iran, and a Country we are sanctioning for it's unjustified attacks on Ukraine, Russia, are having conversations about how they can get Iran nuclearized. And presumably, to get America to pay for it.
And stumbler thinks it's a thing, worthy of broadcasting to us minions on the forum.

So, @stumbler , you posted the article but offered no opinion as to what it means.
Anything you'd care to offer us?
Maybe more spew about a "shithole country"?
How nuclearizing Iran would be a good thing, since Trump opposed it?
Inquiring minds want to know.

 

Despite what the government of Iran pretends, Soleimani was and is very unpopular inside Iran. Iranian students tore apart his posters in a protest shortly after his death. Even in legal news sites, if someone lives a comment in favor of Soleimani, overwhelming number of viewers give that comment negative votes.

 

The problem of course is we all know we cannot believe a fucking thing Russia says.


Russia and the Iran deal. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has indicated that Russia will not stand in the way of reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, despite eleventh-hour demands suggesting it might do so, saying on Tuesday that he had received written guarantees that Russia’s participation would proceed as agreed between major powers. “I have heard how the Americans have every day tried to accuse us of delaying the agreement—that is a lie. The agreement is not finally approved in several capitals, and the Russian capital—Moscow—is not one of them,” Lavrov said.

Foreign Policy Mourning Brief

 

I think this is another sign that Iran is about to cut a new nuclear deal. First Iran and Russia met a day or two ago and both of them came out and said Russia was not holding up the deal. And this looks like an Olive Branch showing they are willing to work with the West.


Iran Frees British Charity Worker After Six Years in Detention

A British-Iranian charity worker arrested six years ago while on holiday in Tehran and accused of fomenting an anti-government plot, has been freed after the U.K. reportedly agreed to release $500 million in frozen Iranian assets. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained in April 2016 while visiting Iran to introduce her baby daughter to her parents in Tehran. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the U.K. news agency. But after Boris Johnson, then foreign secretary, casually told MPs that she was “simply teaching people journalism,” which was not true, she was given a five-year prison term for engaging in anti-government propaganda, becoming a pawn in a wider diplomatic and financial conflict. Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release, after a further year under house arrest at her parents’ home, comes as part of a wider prisoner exchange—the Fars news agency said another dual British-Iranian citizen, Anousheh Ashouri, was also being freed—and will raise hopes for a revival of the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal torn up by Donald Trump.

Read it at TWashington Post

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nazan...er-six-years-prison-and-house-arrest?ref=home

 

You're just excited to see this nuclear deal be enacted, right Stumbler?

 

Just like the thread says.

Trump's defense chief says he was accused of disloyalty after he refused to back claims slain Iranian general Soleimani was planning to attack 4 US embassies

John L. Dorman,John Haltiwanger
Tue, May 10, 2022, 10:45 AM



A composite image of US President Donald Trump and Iranian military commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani.Leah Millis/Reuters; Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP

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  Mark Esper said his refusal to affirm Trump's claims about Iranian threats upset several loyalists.
  
  
• In his memoir, Esper recalled an interview where Trump said four US embassies were being targeted.
  
  
• Esper wrote that he believed threats were possible but said reports didn't specify any set number.
  

Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper revealed in his newly-released memoir that allies of former President Donald Trump complained that he was "not loyal" after he did not back the former president's 2020 allegations that slain Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani had sought to target four US embassies for attack.

In his new book, "A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times," Esper — who served under Trump as Army secretary from 2017 to 2019 and in his aforementioned role as the Pentagon chief from 2019 until his November 2020 termination by the then-president — said his intelligence briefings did not indicate that Soleimani was specifically eyeing four embassies.

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While Esper was concerned about potential attacks, he didn't feel comfortable backing up Trump's assertions, which he detailed in the book — charging that the former president displayed a pattern of dishonesty.

"The simple fact was that Trump usually exaggerated and often made statements that could not be confirmed; others were outright fabrications. I became ensnared in one of those rhetorical webs on a Sunday morning talk show," the former defense chief wrote.

Esper recalled in his book a January 2020 Fox News interview featuring Trump. The former president made allegations that the ex-defense secretary said weren't included in CIA intelligence reports.

On January 10, just days after Soleimani had been killed by the US, "Trump told Fox News that Soleimani planned to attack several diplomatic posts in the Middle East, remarking, 'I can reveal that I believe it probably would've been four embassies.' Not long before that, [Mike] Pompeo had told the media the United States didn't know when or where the attacks might occur, but acknowledged that embassies were threatened," he wrote.

"This was consistent with my understanding of the intelligence, the reports I was receiving, and precautionary actions we were taking," Esper continued. "Embassy Baghdad was obviously under threat, and State had enough concerns about Embassy Beirut that we reinforced that site as well. In addition, as I mentioned earlier, the safety of our embassies in Kuwait and Bahrain concerned me."

The former defense secretary reiterated that while he agreed that there were still clear threats against embassies, Trump's claims about the four sites couldn't be supported, per reports that intelligence officials had seen.

"I didn't recall any specific mention of four sites in my briefings and reports from the CIA," he wrote. "Therefore, when I first appeared on CNN on Sunday, January 12, I made two things clear: first, that I hadn't seen any specific evidence with regard to the targeting of four embassies; and second, that I still believed there were threats against multiple embassies, noting that we had reinforced earlier diplomatic posts."

He added: "Regardless, my unwillingness to affirm Trump's specific claim that the intelligence said Soleimani targeted four embassies plunged me into hot water with the president. A trusted colleague told me that some of Trump's friends called to report on me, complaining that I was 'undermining' him and 'not loyal,' and even suggested he 'fire Esper' ... for being honest."

During Esper's January 2020 appearance on the CBS News program "Face the Nation," the then-Defense secretary said that he "didn't see" anything in reports indicating that four embassies would be targeted, but still had the expectation that Iran "was going to go after our embassies."

Soleimani was killed by a US drone strike near Iraq's Baghdad International Airport in January 2020. Trump was adamant that the threat to multiple embassies forced his hand in ordering the strike that eventually took down the longtime Iranian security and intelligence commander.

The Trump administration never publicly provided clear evidence to support its claim that Soleimani posed an imminent threat to US personnel in the region and offered shifting justifications for the strike in the aftermath as congressional lawmakers questioned its legality.

Soleimani was Iran's top general, the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) elite Quds force, and was widely considered the second most powerful person in the country after Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. His death came amid a period of heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran — linked to Trump's controversial decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal — and pushed the US and Iran to the brink of war.

Iran retaliated with missile attacks on US forces in Iraq, which injured dozens. But both sides ultimately backed away from a broader conflict. The dynamic between the US and Iran remains contentious, which has impacted the Biden administration's efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal. Trump withdrew from the Obama-era deal in May 2018, a move that saw US-Iran relations rapidly deteriorate.

A representative for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-defense-chief-says-accused-164506911.html

 

Still defending enemies of America, eh mr. "Shithole country"?

 

How cute.
Whats been keeping trump alive has been the despicable obsession with him.

And making up lies to defend a terrorist and enemy of America is damn sure defending an enemy.

What about you, anon, do you think America is a "shithole country"?

 

Hardly! Without his base, Trump is nothing. They most certainly keep him alive. The RNC knows they've got to kowtow to his base...

 

Attaboy.
You keep spewing his name and making your claims.
Trump appreciates your support.

 

He'll take your support.

 

Eu Tu Fox News.

Fox News host blames Trump for canceling nuclear deal as Iran nears bomb: 'I’m just saying'

Sarah K. Burris
June 12, 2022



Even though they will be speaking from the same stage, both Donald Trump and Hassan Rouhani have ruled out a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly AFP/File / Nicholas Kamm, HO


Former President Donald Trump is responsible for the end of the nuclear treaty between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

"The Iran Deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into," said Trump in 2018.

He then reimposed sanctions on Iran. Since 2018, Iran has been working on its nuclear weapons program because Trump failed to negotiate anything else before eliminating it.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned Sunday that Iran is dangerously close to having nuclear weapons and that they'll get there if the west doesn't stop it.

Because they're so close, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi is concerned that the revelation that Iran switched off their surveillance cameras could be the final blow to establishing another agreement that would help stop the nuclearization of Iran.

Even Fox network hosts have come forward admitting that Trump is responsible for the current state of affairs.

National security and military analyst Rebecca Grant warned on Fox News on Sunday that Iran has always wanted the bomb because they hate the United States and Israel.

But host Arthel Neville made it clear: "It sounds like President Trump should not have withdrawn from the deal in the first place back in 2018."

Grant said that the deal would have expired in five years anyway.

"It wasn't a strong enough deal," said Grant.

"It was something," Neville shot back. "It was something. And 2018 was, 19, 20, 21, 22, four years ago. I mean, it still would be in place. I'm just sayin'."

"That's right, but I think at issue is if Iran had stopped noncompliance, it would have gotten worse in the last year and a half, so," said Grant. The "worse" she's referring to is in wake of Trump cutting out the treaty.

See the video below:

https://www.rawstory.com/fox-blames-trump-iran-nuclear/

 

When did this Happen ?

 

The American hating member of the forum cannot stop.

 

I think I need to ask @Fateme about this because it sure seems to be coming out of nowhere. I thought the Iran nuclear deal was dead.


Iran's Khamenei says 'nothing wrong' with a nuclear deal with West

Reuters
June 11, 2023, 12:23 PM ET




By Parisa Hafezi

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran's supreme leader on Sunday said a deal with the West over Tehran's nuclear work was possible if the country's nuclear infrastructure remained intact, amid a stalemate between Tehran and Washington to revive a 2015 nuclear pact.

Months of indirect talks between Tehran and Washington to salvage the nuclear accord with six major powers have stalled since September, with both sides accusing each other of making unreasonable demands.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's guarded approval comes days after both Tehran and Washington denied a report that they were nearing an interim deal under which Tehran would curb its nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief.

"There is nothing wrong with the agreement (with the West), but the infrastructure of our nuclear industry should not be touched," Khamenei said, according to state media.

A U.S. State Department spokesperson declined specific comment on Khamenei's remarks, reiterating the Biden administration stance that the United States "is committed to never allowing Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon."

"We believe diplomacy is the best way to achieve that goal on a verifiable and durable basis, but the President has also been clear that we have not removed any option from the table," he said, alluding to the possibility of military action.

"We will not characterize the nature of an Iranian leader's remarks," the spokesperson added.

The 2015 agreement limited Iran’s uranium enrichment activity to make it harder for Tehran to develop nuclear arms, in return for lifting international sanctions.

Then-U.S. President Donald Trump exited the pact in 2018 and reimposed sanctions that have crippled Iran's economy, leading Tehran to gradually move well beyond the deal's nuclear restrictions and reviving U.S., European and Israeli fears that Iran may seek an atomic bomb.

Echoing Iran's official stance for years, Khamenei said the Islamic Republic has never sought to build a nuclear bomb.

"Accusations about Tehran seeking nuclear weapons is a lie and they know it. We do not want nuclear arms because of our religious beliefs. Otherwise they (the West) would not have been able to stop it," Khamenei said.

Khamenei, who has the last say on all state matters, said the country's nuclear authorities should continue working with the U.N. nuclear watchdog "under the framework of safeguards."

However, Khamenei called on Iranian authorities not to yield to the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) "excessive and false demands," adding that a law passed by Iran's hardline parliament in 2020 had to be respected.

Under the law, Tehran would suspend IAEA inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment if sanctions are not lifted.

"This is a good law ... which must be respected and not violated in providing access and information (to the IAEA)," Khamenei said.

Last month, the IAEA reported limited progress over disputed issues with Iran, including re-installing some monitoring equipment originally put in place under the 2015 pact that Tehran ordered removed last year.

(Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Additional reporting by Arshad Mohammed in Saint Paul, Minn; Editing by Alex Richardson, David Holmes, Sharon Singleton and Mark Porter)

https://www.rawstory.com/iran-s-khamenei-says-nothing-wrong-with-a-nuclear-deal-with-west/