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How Europe Could Blunt U.S. Iran Sanctions Without Washington Lifting A Finger – Foreign Policy
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It has been nearly seven months since the United States withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal. As sanctions begin to bite, Iranian companies are laying off employees, and Iranian households are facing renewed hardships. Iran has exercised remarkable patience while it waits for Europe to devise its #special_purpose_vehicle (#SPV), a new entity intended to help Iran blunt the impact of U.S. secondary sanctions by making it possible for companies to trade with Iran, despite the fact that most international banks refuse to process payments to and from the country.

The SPV will do so by offering a “#compensation” service. By overseeing a ledger of payments related to exports and imports between Europe and Iran, the SPV will be able to coordinate payments so that a European exporter of goods to Iran can get paid by a European importer of goods from Iran, eliminating the need for cross-border transactions. The SPV simply coordinates payments so that exporters can be paid from funds outside of Iran while importers can be paid by funds within Iran.

Compensation is a solution that companies have been using informally for years—the proposed mechanism is feasible. But time is running out to get the SPV up and running. Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s atomic energy agency, recently warned that “the period of patience for our people is getting more limited.”

Europe’s SPV could be launched in the nick of time. France and Germany will likely formally establish the entity in January. But many critics believe the SPV will have a negligible impact on Iran’s economy, not least because it is unlikely that the mechanism will be used to facilitate European purchases of Iranian oil.

#Iran Insists on Uranium Enrichment Ahead of Talks
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Iran’s atomic agency chief insisted Sunday on Tehran’s demands for increased uranium enrichment, days before the resumption of thorny talks with world powers in Geneva. Ali Akbar Salehi, a former foreign minister and ex-nuclear negotiator for the Islamic Republic, said that within eight years the country would need 12 times more enriched uranium than at present. read more

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UN #nuclear chief to visit #Iran next week
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UN nuclear agency chief Yukiya Amano is expected to visit Tehran on November 11, Iranian state television said on Tuesday, a possible sign of progress in a long-stalled investigation into suspected nuclear arms research by Tehran. The head of Iran’s atomic energy organisation, Ali Akbar Salehi, said he hoped the two sides would reach an agreement during Amano’s visit, state television said on its web site, without giving details. read (...)

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#Iran arrests group of alleged saboteurs at #nuclear site
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At least four people have been arrested in Iran for trying to sabotage a nuclear site, an Iranian official was quoted by Iranian media as saying on Sunday. The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, said officials had monitored and then arrested a “number of saboteurs” before they could carry out their plan. “Some time ago, we uncovered sabotage activities by several people at a nuclear plant,” Salehi said in comments carried by the Mehr news agency. "We let them (...)

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Pour le pouvoir israélien actuel, mieux vaut avoir des ennemis que des amis...

Israel is sanctifying the status quo and ignoring the possibility of a new Iran - Diplomacy & Defense - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
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A few hours before the unprecedented political drama unfolded on Friday in Iran, Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon reported to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and laid out his philosophy.

The head of the Israeli defense establishment declared - without any reservations - that nothing will change as a result of the Iranian election and that, in any event, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will decide on the country’s next president.

It did not take long for the depth of Ya’alon’s embarrassment of himself, and of those on whose behalf he flew to Washington, became clear. At best, Ya’alon’s remarks reflected a serious error in judgment on the part of Israeli intelligence and provided additional proof of the limitations of Military Intelligence and the Mossad in predicting internal political shifts in Iran and in Arab states. At worst, his words reflected arrogance, prejudice and shooting from the hip of the very worst kind.

But how can we complain about Ya’alon, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in Poland on Wednesdsay that Iran’s “so-called” election will not bring about any meaningful change. Netanyahu’s and Ya’alon’s Pavlovian responses, as well as the statement issued by the Foreign Ministry on Saturday night, reflect the overall approach of the Likud government which rejects all change, exaggerates the threats, plays down the opportunities and sanctifies the status quo.

The only thing missing was for Netanyahu and Ya’alon to call for extending the term of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as in the case of Egypt and former President Hosni Mubarak.

One thing is clear: Khamenei did not want Hasan Rowhani to win the presidential election. Iran’s supreme leader backed his national security adviser and nuclear talks envoy, Saeed Jalili. Jalilee was trounced, coming in third place and a distant 15 million votes away from Rowhani.

Another thing is clear, too: The election will change things in Iran. A hint of this could have been found a few days ago, when Reuters published the contents of a letter sent five months ago to Khamenei by Iran’s Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, behind Ahmadinejad’s back. Salehi called on the country’s supreme leader to enter into direct talks with the United States as soon as possible. In his written response to Salehi, Khamenei said he was not optimistic about the prospects for success, but would not stop them from reaching out to Washington.

Rowhani, as former head of Iran’s negotiations team on the nuclear issue, called back in 2005 for direct talks with the United States, made the elimination of the international sanctions against Iran the central plank of his election campaign. He even slammed Jalili for being too tough in the talks with the West.

The post-election period could be an opportunity for a diplomatic breakthrough in Iran’s relations with the United States in general and on the nuclear issue in particular, especially in light of the results of the election.

One more point should be mentioned, as for Ya’alon. In his remarks on Friday, the defense minister also dismissed the Arab peace initiative, including the positive change introduced recently as a result of the efforts of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, as nothing but “spin” by the media.

Ya’alon’s remarks, coming at a time when Kerry is endeavoring to restart the peace process, were much harsher than Netanyahu’s relatively moderate message to the Knesset ten days ago. “We listen to every initiative and are willing to discuss any motion that is not a requisition,” Netanyahu said at the time.

Après les interférences de l’ambassadeur américain, celles de l’Iran.
Après l’Algérie (voir poste de Zara « pas de médiation de l’Algérie »), ce serait l’Iran dont, aux dires de Salehi, les Bahreiniens chercheraient l’aide pour résoudre leur situation intérieure complétement bloquée

Bahrain denies Iran mediation request claim | GulfNews.com
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Bahrain has denied a claim that it had asked Iran to mediate in the political deadlock that has hit the country for two years.
“Bahrain has not and will not ask for a mediation in a domestic issue from anyone, least of all from Iran,” Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa, the foreign minister, said on his Twitter account.
The foreign ministry in a statement strongly rejected the claims made by Iran’s foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi about an alleged request by Bahrain to Iran to mediate, saying that they were false, lacked credibility and were a blatant interference in the kingdom’s internal affairs

Diplomatic source : Iranian FM meets Assad | Maan News Agency
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DAMASCUS (AFP) — Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, whose country is one of Syria’s closest allies, held talks with President Bashar Assad on a previously unannounced visit to Damascus on Tuesday, an Iranian diplomatic source said.

“Salehi arrived in Damascus from Amman and was received by President Bashar Assad,” the source said.

In the Jordanian capital, Iran’s top diplomat called for dialogue between the Syrian regime and “peaceful” opposition groups, warning that the impact of the conflict would affect the entire region.

Salehi’s visit comes after Israel reportedly carried out two separate attacks against Syrian sites last week.

Iran condemned those strikes and has said it is ready to train the Syrian army, which is in its third year of a conflict against rebels seeking to overthrow Assad.

Deux articles sur l’usage d’armes chimiques en Syrie.
Carla Del Ponte, en charge de la Commission des Nations Unies sur la Syrie, indique ne pas détenir de preuve de l’implication du régime d’Assad dans l’usage d’armes chimiques. En revanche, elle fait valoir que de fortes suspicions pèsent sur l’opposition qui pourrait avoir utilisé du gas sarin. Ali Akbar Salehi, Ministre des Affaires étrangères d’Iran, émet la même hypothèse.

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U.N. has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin gas: investigator
Sun, May 05 (2013) 18:13 PM EDT

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GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria’s civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday.

The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons, which are banned under international law, said commission member Carla Del Ponte.

“Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated,” Del Ponte said in an interview with Swiss-Italian television.

“This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities,” she added, speaking in Italian.

Del Ponte, a former Swiss attorney-general who also served as prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, gave no details as to when or where sarin may have been used.

The Geneva-based inquiry into war crimes and other human rights violations is separate from an investigation of the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria instigated by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, which has since stalled.

President Bashar al-Assad’s government and the rebels accuse each another of carrying out three chemical weapon attacks, one near Aleppo and another near Damascus, both in March, and another in Homs in December.

The civil war began with anti-government protests in March 2011. The conflict has now claimed an estimated 70,000 lives and forced 1.2 million Syrian refugees to flee.

The United States has said it has “varying degrees of confidence” that sarin has been used by Syria’s government on its people.

President Barack Obama last year declared that the use or deployment of chemical weapons by Assad would cross a “red line”.

(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Tom Pfeiffer)

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Iran’s Salehi says chemical weapons ’red line’ in Syria
30 avril 2013

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TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi insisted on Tuesday that use of chemical weapons in Syria would also be a “red line” for Tehran, but suggests rebel forces should be investigated.

According to ISNA news agency, Salehi said the use of chemical weapons “by anybody is our red line.” But he said opposition groups could have used chemical agents and demanded a UN probe.

Dedefensa.org : Qui s’intéresse à ces “amis de la Syrie”-là ?
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Le 9 août s’est tenue à Téhéran une conférence de la paix sur la Syrie, à l’initiative de l’Iran, et avec la reconnaissance de l’ONU puisque le secrétaire général de cette organisation y participait. Il n’y a pas eu un déluge d’intérêt de la presse-Système sur cette affaire ;
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Teheran Times donne, le 10 août 2012, l’identité des pays (et organisation) participants : « The meeting was chaired by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, and delegates from Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Belarus, Benin, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and the United Nations attended the meeting. » (Pour notre compte et pour ce qui concerne cette liste, nous nous étonnerons accessoirement, sans autre élaboration sinon l’hypothèse d’un esprit malveillant d’une mission d’information pour les USA, de la présence de la Géorgie, ami intime des USA via Shalikachvili.) Sans donner de décompte complet, M K Bhadrakumar, dans son article développé ci-dessous, donne ces précisions sur les participants qui contredisent la liste mentionnée puisqu’on y trouve la Jordanie et la Palestine : « Again, the participation by Jordan, Iraq, Oman, Tunisia, Algeria, Sudan and Palestine from amongst the Arab League members stands out. » Il est manifeste qu’une certaine confusion sur l’identité des participants a été entretenue par certains, pour ne pas trop alarmer les amis du bloc BAO, ou encourir leur courroux.

• C’est donc surtout M K Bhadrakumar qui publie, le 12 août 2012, sur Indian PunchLine, un texte d’analyse intéressant. Il s’attache à la présence de deux pays qu’il connaît bien, le Pakistan et l’Inde, et situe la position de ces deux pays importants par rapport à la crise syrienne et à la “ligne BAO”.
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Le jeudi des aveux : Ali Akbar Salehi, Michel Samaha et les autres …

« Par sa nature même, la vérité porte l’évidence en soi. Dès qu’on la débarrasse des toiles d’araignée de l’ignorance, elle brille avec éclat. » Gandhi

En organisant, seulement aujourd’hui, après des mois de massacres, cette soi-disant « conférence internationale » destinée officiellement à trouver une issue négociée au conflit syrien, l’Iran semble engagé dans une course contre la montre pour atteindre deux objectifs, au moins, à court terme :

I- Les agités du bocal et Thierry Meyssan sont-ils plus royalistes que le roi ?
II- Retour à la case départ…
III- La toile d’araignée de l’Iran prend feu …

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