Zitat:West support for MKO due to enmity toward Iran: Defense Minister
Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:4AM GMT

Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan says the West’s support for the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) is driven by their enmity toward the Islamic Revolution.
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In April, the MKO opened an office in Washington after the United States formally removed the anti-Iranian group from the US State Department's list of terrorist organizations in September 2012."
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Zitat:China’s customs data shows that Iran was the biggest supplier of fuel oil to the country in September. The data, provided by China’s General Administration of Customs, showed that Iran shipped 410,867 million tons (mt) of fuel oil to China in September, the London-based weekly Platts reported on Tuesday.
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At the beginning of 2012, the United States and the European Union imposed new sanctions on Iran’s oil and financial sectors with the goal of preventing other countries from purchasing Iranian oil and conducting transactions with the Central Bank of Iran.

Zitat:...The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has provided the Russian army with a copy of the US ScanEagle drone which was hunted by the IRGC in 2012 and a video showing how Iran monitors the trans-regional countries' vessels and equipment in the Persian Gulf.
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Zitat:EU imposes fresh sanctions on Iran shipping: IRISL
Tue Dec 3, 2013 3:47PM GMT

The Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) says the European Union has imposed fresh sanctions against the country by banning Iranian vessels from using its ports and shipping lines despite the recent nuclear deal in Geneva.

“Despite the deal reached during recent Geneva talks [between Iran and the six major world powers], in which it was agreed that no new sanctions would be imposed on Iran, the European Union has banned the entry of Iranian vessels into European [shipping] lines,” Mohammad Hossein Dajmar, managing director of IRISL, told ISNA on Tuesday.
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Zitat:8. März 2014 17:11

Spitzengespräche zwischen EU und Iran
Iran begrüßt Ashton zum "Neustart" in Teheran

EU und Iran nähern sich einander langsam an. Der Besuch der EU-Außenbeauftragten Ashton in Teheran gilt als "Neustart der Beziehungen". Dennoch bestimmt vor allem ein altes Thema die Gespräche.
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Zitat:22.03.2014 / Ausland / Seite 6Inhalt
Neue Störmanöver gegen Teheran
Netanjahu droht wieder mit Krieg gegen Iran. Mehrheit im US-Kongreß für unerfüllbare Maximalforderungen
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Jetzt machte Israel wieder einmal mit einem Paukenschlag auf sich und das Thema aufmerksam. Die Medien des Landes berichteten am Mittwoch, daß Premier Benjamin Netanjahu und Verteidigungsminister Mosche Jaalon die Streitkräfte angewiesen hätten, sich für Militärschläge gegen Iran im laufenden Jahr bereit zu halten. Für diese Eventualität seien im Etat mindestens zehn Milliarden Schekel (umgerechnet 2,08 Milliarden Euro) vorgesehen. Quelle der Meldungen sind angeblich drei namentlich nicht bezeichnete Mitglieder der Knesset, die im Januar und Februar an Ausschußanhörungen über die Planungen der Streitkräfte teilgenommen haben.
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Hintergrund der israelischen Störmanöver war offenbar die jüngste Verhandlungsrunde zwischen Iran und der internationalen Sechsergruppe, die am Dienstag und Mittwoch in Wien stattfand.
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Bekannt war der von der Pro-Israel-Lobby AIPAC inszenierte Vorstoß schon seit Ende Februar, einschließlich des Wortlauts der beiden Briefe, für die damals Unterschriften gesammelt wurden. Am Ende steht ein Resultat, mit dem das AIPAC sich sehen lassen kann, nachdem es in den vergangenen Monaten einige politische Niederlagen – vor allem das Scheitern seiner Kampagne für Militärschläge gegen Syrien – einstecken mußte: 83 von 100 Senatoren haben den einen Brief unterschrieben, 395 von 435 Abgeordneten den anderen.
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Irans Recht auf die Anreicherung von Uran darf nicht anerkannt werden. Die Anreicherungsanlage in Fordo, die in Bunkern unterhalb eines Bergmassivs liegt, muß demontiert werden. Die Bauarbeiten am Schwerwasserreaktor in Arak müssen eingestellt werden. Die Inspektoren der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde (IAEA) müssen jederzeitigen Zutritt zu jedem Objekt im Iran haben, das sie für »verdächtig« erklären.
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Zitat:Iran Tries To Wriggle Out Of Nuke Talks With A HASHTAG
7:20 PM 07/08/2015

Iranian and Russian media may be looking for an honorable and PR-savvy way for Iran to withdraw from nuclear negotiations.

Various Iranian state-backed media agencies reported that Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif were shouting loudly enough to bother nearby hotel rooms during negotiations in Vienna this week. Rumors soon surfaced about other diplomats teasing Kerry and Zarif for the outburst.

The Iranian has reportedly gotten personal too. Countering Western diplomats’ criticism of Iranian interference in the Middle East, Zarif reportedly told them, “I should take every one of you to international courts for supporting Saddam” during Iran’s torturous 1980s war against Iraq.

In another incident, Zarif and Russia’s Sergei Lavrov accused the European Union’s top diplomat of making “threats” to cancel the talks entirely. According to Russia’s state-sponsored news agency RIA Novosti, Zarif snapped back, “Never threaten an Iranian.” Lavrov added, “Nor the Russians.”
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Zitat:Iran 'tourism' truck sparks Science Museum security alert
4 August 2015

A mobile home being used to promote Iran was at the centre of a major security alert in central London.

Cristian Ivan, 42, from Romania, "fell in love with Iran" when he visited in 2010. He is now travelling across Europe in a van with the slogan "Iran is Great" on the side.

Counter-terror police were alerted to a "suspicious vehicle" when he parked it outside the Science Museum on Monday.

The museum was evacuated and roads were shut for two hours for investigations.
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Zitat:Two laden Greek tankers seized by Iranian forces

Suezmaxes Delta Poseidon and Prudent Warrior boarded in the Middle East Gulf and escorted to Iranian anchorage. [...]

TWO GREEK oil tankers have been boarded in international waters by Iranian military personnel while navigating through the Middle East Gulf.

Industry sources confirmed that in two seemingly similar operations the suezmaxes Delta Poseidon (IMO: 9468671) and Prudent Warrior (IMO: 9753545), both under Greek flag, were approached by Iranian helicopters on Friday afternoon. They were both boarded by military personnel and later escorted by naval vessels from international traffic lanes to Iranian waters a few miles off the coast. [...]

The incidents occur at the end of a week that saw the US seize a cargo of Iranian crude oil from a Russian tanker held in Greece. Tehran decried the move as “international robbery.” According to state news agency Irna, Iran’s foreign ministry summoned the chargé d’affaires of the Greek embassy in Tehran to protest the move, calling it “a clear act of piracy”.

Iran has also protested to the envoy of Switzerland in Tehran, which represents US interests there, over the seizure in Greece of the cargo from the aframax Lana, formerly named Pegas. One industry source told Lloyd’s List: “we have to wait and see what the Iranians want but everyone, including security forces in the region, think this is a case of tit-for-tat.”