#Iran deal

[gamer2002]

Treason.

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Guardian Link

Iran Primer Link

[andrewtheprophet]

The South Korean Horn Needs to Nuke Up Under Biden: Daniel 7

South Korea’s Yoon to meet Biden as doubts grow over nuclear umbrella Reuters Published April 24, 2023 SEOUL: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol set off on Monday for the for the United States and a summit with President Joe Biden at a time of rare questioning in South Korea of an alliance that has guaranteed its security for decades. Yoon’s April 24-29 trip is the first state visit to the…

[sayruq]

Ceasefire Deal Update

Additional context:

The IDF has withdrawn all but one brigade from Gaza

Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah has said Iran's response will either end the war in Gaza or start a regional war. Iran has spent the past few days speaking to its allies and beefing up its defense so it could go either direction

[crazysnakey]

Don't forget the reason the U.S. is supporting Israel's genocide of Palestine - hell, 90% of the reason they ever get involved into something in the Middle East is for ulterior purposes regarding oil.

That and the Ben Gurion Canal project, which you can learn more about:

Also this short video explaining the canal's significance and full history in summary:

Simply put,

[his-heart-hymns]

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is a powerless entity that governs West bank.The terrorist israeli colonizers kill palestinians,attack and destroy their villages and farms for new settlements.The Palestinian authority refrains from retaliating because they don't have any army or even self defense weapons.Everytime israeli terrorists attack westbank the PA cries in front of america and all what america does is 'condemns the act of violence'.That's the reason why america now wants PA to return back to Gaza because they are 'ideal oppressed people', they give up their land and die peacefully,they don't retaliate back like Hamas does.

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[sjerzgirl]

This poor excuse for a human is blaming Biden for Iran building nuclear weapons, seemingly forgetting it was HE who put an end to the agreement that was keeping them from building them. Inspections proved they were abiding by the agreement. Then he came along, hell-bent on undoing each and every one of Obama's agreements/achievements worldwide. If they have nukes, shit-for-brains is DIRECTLY responsible.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Eli Clifton at The Guardian:

Top Republican donor and TikTok investor Jeff Yass is connected to over $16m in funding to anti-Muslim and pro-Israel groups that have advocated for a US war with Iran and other militaristic policies in the Middle East, according to an investigation by the Guardian and Responsible Statecraft.

Media reports on Yass, the billionaire co-founder of Susquehanna International Group, a trading and technology firm, have focused on his outsized role in the Republican party, to which he is now the largest political donor in the 2024 election cycle, contributing more than $46m thus far. Yass has also emerged as the biggest funder of a group targeting progressive representative Summer Lee in her primary race, suggesting an interest in influencing Democratic primary outcomes, not just in boosting Republicans. But little has been reported about his involvement in funding groups advocating a pro-Israel US foreign policy, hawkish US policies in the Middle East and support for theorists whom experts described as extreme anti-Muslim conspiracists.

Leading Yass’s philanthropy in the foreign policy space is $7.9m contributed to Jerusalem Online University between 2014 and 2019 by a grant-making group at which he once served as one of three directors. A Jewish Daily Forward investigation into the group in 2011 found that the website promotes itself as a source of educational materials about the Middle East and Israel, but the website’s actual message is far more biased, the Forward found. “On its website and its promotional materials, Jerusalem Online U hardly portrays itself as a center for neutral academic inquiry,” the Forward wrote. “In fact, it boasts an explicitly pro-Israel mission that seems distinctly at odds with academic principles. In one advertisement for its services, the Jerusalem Online U site’s blog features a video of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telling Congress last May that ‘Israel is what is right’ about the Middle East. The words ‘Be a Part of What’s Right’ appear on screen as he speaks.”

The contributions came from the Claws Foundation, an entity at which Yass served as a director alongside Arthur Dantchik, a co-founder of Susquehanna, and attorney Alan P Dye. Dye did not return calls for comment. The Kids Connect Charitable Fund – which does not list Yass or Dantchik as directors but listed the Claws Foundation as a “related tax-exempt organization” in an IRS filing and was identified as an arm of both men’s philanthropy by Haaretz – contributed another $3.48m to Jerusalem Online University’s parent organization, Imagination Productions. The Claws Foundation also issued a $10,000 grant to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces in 2011 and $35,000 in grants, between 2010 and 2011, to the Center for Security Policy, an anti-Muslim and conspiracy theory-promoting group founded by Frank Gaffney, whom the Southern Policy Law Center describes as “one of America’s most notorious Islamophobes” and the Anti-Defamation League describes as a chief promulgator of the conspiracy theory “that the US government has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and that a number of political figures have actual ties to the group”. The Center for Security Policy vice-president, Clare Lopez, has said: “When Muslims follow their doctrine they become jihadists.”

In 2013 to 2014, the Claws Foundation sent $250,000 to the David Horowitz Freedom Center, another central promoter of anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. Horowitz, whom the group is named after and who serves as its president, once complained that Muslims were a “protected species in this country” and said he was “wait[ing] for the day when the good Muslims step forward” at a Brooklyn College event in 2011. “The fact Yass is donating to Gaffney and Horowitz’s organizations shows how extreme his politics are,” said Tommy Vietor, former national security council spokesperson under President Obama. “They are beyond Trump. They are OG conspiracy theorists. Gaffney in particular.”

[...] Trump has a track record of shifting positions on Israel and Iran to align with political mega-donors. Only after securing the nomination in 2016 did Trump pivot to more militaristic positions in the Middle East – committing to withdrawing the US from the JCPOA, moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and supporting an unconditionally pro-Israel US approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – positions in lockstep with his biggest political patrons in the general election, the late Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam.

Top GOP funder and billionaire Jeffrey Yass has donated over $16M into pro-Israel Apartheid and anti-Islam causes.

[eppysboys]

This is an archive of Trump Moments that belong together:

[swiftsnowmane]

GENEVA—1 April 2024—A groundbreaking report published today by the pre-eminent human rights organization, Human Rights Watch, states that the Iranian government’s 45-year systematic repression of the Baha’i religious minority amounts to the crime against humanity of persecution under international criminal law.

The new 49-page report, titled “The Boot on My Neck: Iranian Authorities’ Crime of Persecution Against Baha’is in Iran,” documents in incredible detail the discriminatory laws, policies and practices used by the Iranian government to violate the fundamental human rights of Baha’is in the country. Human Rights Watch said that Baha’is face abuses in almost every aspect of life, from arbitrary arrests and imprisonment by government agencies, to property confiscations, denial of access to education and employment, and even the blocking of dignified burials in line with Baha’i burial rites.

“Iranian authorities deprive Baha’is of their fundamental rights in every aspect of their lives, not due to their actions, but simply for belonging to a faith group,” said Michael Page, Middle East and North Africa deputy director at Human Rights Watch, at a pre-launch event of the report. “It is critically important to increase international pressure on Iran to end this crime against humanity.”

Human Rights Watch conducted exhaustive research and extensive documentation in preparing its report, using as one of its main sources the Baha’i International Community’s (BIC) Archives of Baha’i Persecution in Iran website, which has published almost 12,000 documents related to the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran. Government policies and court documents were used as well as interviews with Baha’is, in Persian, both inside and outside Iran, between May 2022 and March 2023.

Human Rights Watch said in its report that the Islamic Republic has codified its repression of Baha’is into law and policy and sustains their enforcement through security and judicial authorities. The report also details discussions between Human Rights Watch researchers and Iranian Baha’is, some named and some whose identities were withheld for security reasons, and all of whom detail lifelong efforts by Iranian authorities to disrupt or destroy every aspect of their lives.

“The Baha’i International Community deeply appreciates the publication of this exceptional report and the powerful evidence it puts forth,” said Simin Fahandej, BIC Representative to the United Nations in Geneva. “The report brings together years of research and documentation regarding the systematic persecution of the Baha’is in Iran and draws clear attention to Iran’s flagrant disregard for its human rights obligations under international law and treaties. Our sincere hope is that the world will hold the Iranian government accountable for the longstanding injustices perpetrated against the Baha’i community, and that Iran takes all necessary legal and policy steps to end this systematic persecution.”

[andrewtheprophet]

The South Korean Nuclear Horn: Daniel 7

The (South) Korean Nuclear Threat 13 APR 2023 By Dr Jeffrey Robertson SHARE South Korea is in the midst of a debate to secure nuclear weapons and few outside realise the seriousness and level of the debate. Few inside realise the question is much bigger than just South Korea, with great implications for the region, including Australia.  Debate on securing an independent nuclear weapons…

[workersolidarity]

Seismic Iran-Saudi Rapprochement Isolates US

China, in a massive move towards Middle Eastern peace has managed to coordinate a Rapprochement between rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia. Bitter enemies, the Saudis have often been encouraged in their rivalry by US Foreign Policy which depends heavily on Saudi aggression to check Iranian regional power.

This is a BIG move towards a new multi-polar world, and a big move away from US Hegemony and US Dollar dominance. The Rapprochement will likely lead to Iran playing a larger role in OPEC+ and open up opportunities for more trade in the region. It also becomes that much more unlikely that Iran will pursue a nuclear weapon. This is likely the last nail in the coffin of the Iranian nuclear weapons program, it being extremely unlikely Saudi Arabia would have agreed to the Rapprochement if they had believed there were any chance of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon.

The deal also isolates the United States and Israel, moving the region closer to China and Russia and away from the West.

The whole world should be celebrating this achievement by Xi Jinping and China. It makes the world a safer place for everyone.

[sayruq]

A ceasefire might be coming soon because Iran and Russia are having meetings with Palestinian leaders this month (the Iran meetings have already happened) to likely plot out post war reconstruction of Gaza (so the Americans and Israelis aren't in charge of that).