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7/13/2015 11:53:55 PM

Pentagon Announces Plan Aimed at Lifting Transgender Ban in Military

The Associated PressJuly 13, 2015

Over the next six months, a working group in at the Pentagon will be studying the impact of lifting the military’s transgender ban. (Photo: Getty Images)

Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the Pentagon’s current regulations banning transgender individuals from serving in the military are outdated, and anyone willing to serve the country should be able to do so.

Carter is creating a working group to do a six-month study on the impact of lifting the ban. Carter says the group will begin with the presumption that transgender people should be able to serve openly.

The plan, which was first reported by The Associated Press, gives the services time to work through questions about health care, housing, physical standards, uniforms and costs associated with the change.

During that time, transgender individuals would still be unable to join the military, but decisions to force out those already serving would be referred to the Pentagon’s acting undersecretary for personnel.

With the six-month study, military chiefs wanted time to methodically work through the legal, medical and administrative issues and develop training to ease any transition, and senior leaders believed six months would be sufficient.

The officials said Defense Secretary Ash Carter has asked his personnel undersecretary, Brad Carson, to set up a working group of senior military and civilian leaders to take an objective look at the issue. One senior official said that while the goal is to lift the ban, Carter wants the working group to look at the practical effects, including the costs, and determine whether it would affect readiness or create any insurmountable problems that could derail the plan. The group would also develop uniform guidelines.

During the six months, transgender individuals would still not be able to join the military, but any decisions to force out those already serving would be referred to the Pentagon’s acting undersecretary for personnel, the officials said. One senior official said the goal was to avoid forcing any transgender service members to leave during that time.

Several officials familiar with the planning spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the issue publicly before the final details have been worked out.

In a statement to The Associated Press, Carter said, “we must ensure that everyone who’s able and willing to serve has the full and equal opportunity to do so. And we must treat all of our people with the dignity and respect they deserve. Going forward the Department of Defense must and will continue to improve how we do both.”

Some of the key concerns involved in the repeal of the ban include whether the military would conduct or pay for the medical costs, surgeries and other treatment associated with any gender transition, as well as which physical training or testing standards transgender individuals would be required to meet during different stages of their transition.

Officials said the military also wants time to tackle questions about where transgender troops would be housed, what uniforms they would wear, what berthing they would have on ships, which bathrooms they would use and whether their presence would affect the ability of small units to work well together. The military has dealt with many similar questions as it integrated the ranks by race, gender and sexual orientation.

Transgender people — those who identify with a different gender than they were born with and sometimes take hormone treatments or have surgery to develop the physical characteristics of their preferred gender — are banned from military service. But studies and other surveys have estimated that as many as 15,000 transgender people serve in the active duty military and the reserves, often in secret but in many cases with the knowledge of their unit commander or peers.

“Obviously this isn’t finished, but Secretary Carter’s clear statement of intent means that transgender service members should and will be treated with the same dignity as other service members,” said Allyson Robinson, Army veteran and policy director for an association of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender military personnel called Service members, Partners, and Allies for Respect and Tolerance for All, or SPARTA.

The move follows several weeks of high level meetings in the Pentagon among top ranking military chiefs, secretaries and Defense Department leaders, including one on Monday involving Carter and the chiefs of the various services.

Military leaders have pointed to the gradual - and ultimately successful - transition after the ban on gays serving openly in the military was lifted in 2011. Although legislation repealing that ban passed Congress in late 2010, the military services spent months conducting training and reviews before the decision actually took effect the following September.

The latest Pentagon move comes just weeks after the Supreme Court upheld the right of same-sex couples to marry.

Officials familiar with the Pentagon meetings said the chiefs of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force did not express opposition to lifting the ban. Instead, they said the military leaders asked for time to figure out health care, housing and other questions and also to provide information and training to the troops to insure a smooth transition.

Although guidelines require that transgender individuals be dismissed from the military, the services in recent months have required more senior leaders to make the final decisions on those cases, effectively slowing the dismissal process.

The transgender issue came to the fore as the military struggled with how to deal with convicted national security leaker Chelsea Manning’s request for hormone therapy and other treatment while she’s in prison. Manning, arrested as Bradley Manning, is the first transgender military prisoner to request such treatment, and the Army approved the hormone therapy, under pressure from a lawsuit.

Manning, is serving a 35-year sentence. The former intelligence analyst was convicted in August 2013 of espionage and other offenses for sending more than 700,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks while working in Iraq.


Pentagon prepares to lift military transgender ban


The plan will end one of the last gender- or sexuality-based barriers to military service.
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7/14/2015 12:02:05 AM

Son of Boston Police Captain Arrested as Possible Terrorist

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By MICHELE McPHEE, BRIAN EPSTEIN and BRIAN ROSS30 minutes ago

Son of Boston Police Captain Arrested as Possible Terrorist (ABC News)


The estranged son of a respected Boston police captain was arrested July 4 by FBIagents as part of a counter-terrorism operation against alleged ISIS-inspired domestic terrorists, federal officials told ABC News today.

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Alexander Ciccolo, 23, of Adams, Mass., was taken into custody on gun charges after buying two pistols and two rifles from an undercover FBI confidential informant, federal officials said. In a search of his apartment, officials reported they found it loaded with possible bomb-making equipment including a pressure cooker, a variety of chemicals, an alarm clock, along with “attack planning papers” and “jihad” paperwork. FBI agents said he used the name Abu Ali al-Amriki and neighbors said he was a recent convert to Islam.

“This is a very bad person arrested before he could do very bad things,” one senior federal official briefed on the arrest told ABC News.

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According to the FBI, Ciccolo attempted to stab a nurse in the head with a pen during a routine screening, “leaving a hole in the nurse’s skin.”

An FBI affidavit said Ciccolo initially planned to travel to “another state” and use a pressure cooker bomb “to conduct terrorist attacks on civilians, members of the U.S. military and law enforcement personnel.” The FBI said the attack location was later changed to a town with a state university and would be concentrated on “college dorms and cafeteria, to include executions of students, which would be broadcast live via the internet.”

Ciccolo’s father is Boston police Captain Robert Ciccolo, a veteran commander assigned to Operations at Boston Police headquarters who was one of those to respond to the deadly Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013. According to the FBI, the younger Ciccolo said he was “inspired” by the Marathon bombing and the use of pressure cooker bombs, and told the FBI undercover operative, “Allahu Akbar!!! I got the pressure cooker today.”

Law enforcement officials said Capt. Ciccolo alerted counter-terrorism authorities about a year ago that his son, with whom he had had minimal contact for several years, “was going off the deep end” and “spouting extremist jihadist sympathies.”

According to the affidavit of an FBI agent, the younger Ciccolo recently stated that he is, “not afraid to die for the cause," and that he characterized America as ”Satan” and “disgusting.”

Capt. Ciccolo did not respond to a request for comment but late Monday the Ciccolo family posted a statement on the Boston Police Department's website.

"While we were saddened and disappointed to learn of our son's intentions, we are grateful that authorities were able to prevent any loss of life or harm to others," the statement reads. "At this time, we would ask that the public and the media recognize our grief and respect our desire for privacy."

According to the FBI affidavit, Ciccolo posted a photo of a dead American soldier and wrote, “Thank you Islamic State. Now we won’t have to deal with these kafir back in America.” Kafir is a reference to non-believers of Islam. In a meeting with an FBI cooperating witness, Ciccolo praised the recent terror attack on a beach resort in Tunisiathat killed 39 people, according to the FBI affidavit. “Awesome. Awesome, you that ah, that brother in Tunisia was impressive,” Ciccolo allegedly said.

The younger Ciccolo is scheduled to be in court in Springfield, Massachusetts Tuesday morning for a detention hearing. He was quietly arraigned last Monday on the gun charges, according to documents filed in federal court today. Ciccolo has been held at the Wyatt federal lockup in Rhode Island since his arrest.

Last week FBI Director James Comey said agents had arrested more than 10 people with suspected ties to ISIS and that the busts foiled planned Fourth of July attacks.

“I do believe that our work disrupted efforts to kill people, likely in connection with July 4th,” Comey said.

Ciccolo’s arrest was among the ones that interrupted a planned attack, the officials said.

Prior to allegedly becoming an ISIS sympathizer, Ciccolo was photographed attending an anti-nuclear "peace walk" in 2012.

Jun Yasuda, a Buddhist who walked with Ciccolo in July 2012, told ABC News Ciccolo appeared to be “concerned about peace… and understood about non-violent protest.”

“We walked together after Fukushima, and he realized that he had an open mind and that people were wonderful,” Yasuda said.

Michele McPhee is a Boston-based freelance journalist and frequent contributor to ABC News. ABC News' Alexander Hosenball contributed to this report.

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7/14/2015 12:33:42 AM
More and more truth coming to light

Document Shows CIA Reaction to Finding No WMD in Iraq

Posted on July 11, 2015 [By Jean Haines]
by Jean

Posted on July 10, 2015
by DavidSwanson

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The National Security Archive has posted several newly available documents, one of them an account by Charles Duelfer of the search he led in Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, with a staff of 1,700 and the resources of the U.S. military.

Duelfer was appointed by CIA Director George Tenet to lead a massive search after an earlier massive search led by David Kay had determined that there were no WMD stockpiles in Iraq. Duelfer went to work in January 2004, to find nothing for a second time, on behalf of people who had launched a war knowing full well that their own statements about WMDs were not true.

The fact that Duelfer states quite clearly that he found none of the alleged WMD stockpiles cannot be repeated enough, with 42% of Americans (and 51 percent of Republicans) stillbelieving the opposite.

A New York Times story last October about the remnants of a long-abandoned chemical weapons program has been misused and abused to advance misunderstanding. A search of Iraq today would find U.S. cluster bombs that were dropped a decade back, without of course finding evidence of a current operation.

Duelfer is also clear that Saddam Hussein’s government had accurately denied having WMD, contrary to a popular U.S. myth that Hussein had pretended to have what he did not.

The fact that President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and their team knowingly lied cannot be overemphasized. This group took the testimony of Hussein Kamelregarding weapons he’d said had been destroyed years ago, and used it as if he’d said they currently existed. This team used forged documents to allege a uranium purchase. They used claims about aluminum tubes that had been rejected by all of their own usual experts. They “summarized” a National Intelligence Estimate that said Iraq was unlikely to attack unless attacked to say nearly the opposite in a “white paper” released to the public. Colin Powell took claims to the U.N. that had been rejected by his own staff, and touched them up with fabricated dialogue.

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Jay Rockefeller concluded that, “In making the case for war, the Administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when in reality it was unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even nonexistent.”

On January 31, 2003, Bush suggested to Blair that they could paint an airplane with U.N. colors, fly it low to get it shot at, and thereby start the war. Then the two of them walked out to a press conference at which they said they would avoid war if at all possible. Troop deployments and bombing missions were already underway.

When Diane Sawyer asked Bush on television why he had made the claims he had about Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction, he replied: “What’s the difference? The possibility that [Saddam] could acquire weapons, if he were to acquire weapons, he would be the danger.”

Duelfer’s newly released internal report on his hunt, and that of Kay before him, for the figments of propagandists’ imagination refers to “Saddam Hussein’s WMD program,” which Duelfer treats as an on-again, off-again institution, as if the 2003 invasion had just caught it in one of its naturally cyclical low tides of non-existence. Duelfer also describes the nonexistent program as “an international security problem that vexed the world for three decades,” — except perhaps for the part of the world engaged in the largest publicdemonstrations in history, which rejected the U.S. case for war.

Duelfer openly states that his goal was to rebuild “confidence in intelligence projections of threat.” Of course, having found no WMDs, he can’t alter the inaccuracy of the “projections of threat.” Or can he? What Duelfer did publicly at the time and does again here is to claim, without providing any evidence for it, that “Saddam was directing resources to sustain the capacity to recommence producing WMD once U.N. sanctions and international scrutiny collapsed.”

Duelfer claims that former Saddam yes men, rigorously conditioned to say whatever would most please their questioner, had assured him that Saddam harbored these secret intentions to start rebuilding WMD someday. But, Duelfer admits, “there is no documentation of this objective. And analysts should not expect to find any.”

So, in Duelfer’s rehabilitation of the “intelligence community” that may soon be trying to sell you another “projection of threat” (a phrase that perfectly fits what a Freudian would say they were doing), the U.S. government invaded Iraq, devastated a society, killed upwards of a million people by best estimates, wounded, traumatized, and made homeless millions more, generated hatred for the United States, drained the U.S. economy, stripped away civil liberties back home, and laid the groundwork for the creation of ISIS, as a matter not of “preempting” an “imminent threat” but of preempting a secret plan to possibly begin constructing a future threat should circumstances totally change.

This conception of “preemptive defense” is identical to two other concepts. It’s identical to the justifications we’ve been offered recently for drone strikes. And it’s identical to aggression. Once “defense” has been stretched to include defense against theoretical future threats, it ceases to credibly distinguish itself from aggression. And yet Duelfer seems to believe he succeeded in his assignment.

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7/14/2015 12:52:28 AM

The arrogance of empire: US openly plots to remove Putin, dismember the Russian Federation

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Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:22 UTC
Comment: Yevgeny Alexeyevich Fedorov is a Russian politician, deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia four convocations (1993-1996, 2003), chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship of the State Duma, member of the Central Political Council of United Russia party, PhD. State Councilor of the Russian Federation. In this interview with Poznavatelnoe.tv (Cognitive TV) he discusses the mechanisms by which the US seeks to overthrow the Russian government from the inside.





Transcript posted by New Insight.

Evgeny Fedorov: To be honest, I liked the statement by the US Defense Secretary recently, one week ago or so. He said frankly: We won't lift the sanctions until we solve two problems in Russia: the resignation of the Russian government, i.e. Putin, and the dissolution of the Russian Federation. The second problem they have been trying to solve for a thousand years. The first has been added. This is the way they frame the issue. Here we just need to understand the technology of their efforts - the technology of orange invasion. The Maidan in Yerevan is a small element of the invasion.

We have talked about this before, but let's go through the details again. The invasion technology is the recruitment of the decision-makers, under the influence of fear, by the use of blackmail, a guarantee of political asylum, and a guarantee, that they can keep their stolen wealth. Those are the main mechanisms. Their tasks are: Communication to a thousand decision-makers in Russia or a few hundred in Armenia: ministers, oligarchs, state officials, leading media figures, and so on. And a personal agreement with them, that they see their future within the United States of America, and will move to there, if problems arise. It's called, "here's a plane for you". When Yeltsin was ordering the storming of the White House ( Moscow, 1993 ), there was an American plane waiting. Meaning: Yeltsin knew, that whatever would happen in the White House, if he would be losing, then in half an hour he's on the plane and out of there. And that's the end of it - he's sitting in America, contented, i.e. he loses the position of President, but he doesn't lose his wealth or life. Here we have the same, i.e. personal negotiations, in the context of which a result is achieved. The US Defense Secretary spoke very clearly, very correctly. What he reflected was not the usual propaganda nonsense that "Once you give up Crimea, the sanctions will end". He reflected the main point: Crimea became an issue for those objectives. Crimea only became an issue after the coup d'état in Kiev, which was an attack on us, after which the secondary issues arose: Crimea, Donbass, and so on. The objective of the February 2014 attack in Kiev was in fact a violation of international law. The Americans decided to do that. They don't do this all that often, I mean such a violation of the law, this is an exception. Having decided to do this, they would clearly go all the way, having already attacked. It's like when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union. He couldn't have advanced 100 km only to say: "I've changed my mind. I'm going back". That doesn't happen. It's an attack to the end, till the death.Quite simply the Defense Secretary explicitly revealed the true objectives - the dismemberment of the Russian Federation, the removal of Vladimir Putin. That's it.

Next begins the mechanism to achieve these objectives. What is the mechanism? Well, I was at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. I liked the fact that those mechanisms were articulated clearly. We're not just trying to guess why the Americans are applying pressure - it was all revealed there. They are conducting a negotiation process with the Russian elites for the extradition of Putin. The same negotiation process was conducted, for example, in Ukraine for Yanukovych. These are basically the methodologies of Ambassador Tefft. He works by them all the time. It was the same before that, when Saakashvili entered the leadership of Georgia. It's the same mechanism. The task is to get a thousand people to join this conspiracy. In essence, one can call it a conspiracy. However, they don't need to make a pact among themselves, they only need to make agreements with the US Ambassador, or with his representatives. It's not correct to call it a conspiracy in the full sense of the word, because it's not made among themselves. This is how the mechanisms of external invasion work - they make agreements with the Americans. The US Ambassador says: "We're willing to lift the pressure of sanctions on Russia, if you extradite the national leader Putin, and agree to the dismemberment of Russia, which will require a certain amount of time".

EF: What was the response? The response of Russian big business was the following. Just three days ago Deripaska ( Oleg, billionaire ) talked for half an hour in an interview on RainTV, he said it clearly. In this context he is talking not just for himself but as a representative of the business community. He said: "we need to negotiate with the Americans". The Americans' position is known - "we're negotiating on the basis of extradition of Russia's leader". Thereafter the response from the Russian business community was: "We agree to talk to you and negotiate". The Americans' conditions have been announced, so it must to be on those conditions. Next begins the negotiation process for extradition, which is already underway and will involve generals, the Interior Ministry, the security forces, because they have to be taken care of in this process. Then appears the public figures for the transitional period, to whom power should to be transferred. The same happened in Ukraine. Look at Turchynov - this is a temporary figure of the transitional period, who was supported by the Americans. After him came their second candidate. Next will come the third. So they will be taking this path. Now look at that Forum, the main event of the Forum. The St. Petersburg Forum. The main event, at the opening, i.e. at the very beginning, was the first five or six speakers. All of a sudden the issue is raised about early presidential elections. Where is the economic forum and where are the presidential elections? [Strange.] The issue is being raised. Next, see how the pieces came together. The Americans say, "we will negotiate with you on condition of extradition". I'm not making this up. I'm only citing the official statement of the business community: "we're willing to negotiate".

So it begins: professionals in the political domain start looking for compromises, saying, "Ok, we'll have, say, early elections".

PTV: What difference does that make?

EF: It's very simple. Early elections strip the president of his authority, in certain circumstances.

PTV: By how much do they want to shift it?

They haven't said yet. It was only announced for the first time at this high-level forum. And the business community has only just been told: "You want to stay alive in the face of sanctions pressure and American aggression? You want to negotiate with them? Ok then, let's find the technologies by which they will be happy with you, and you with them". Of course, you will be happy with them, if they lift the pressure. They will be happy with you, if you organize the removal of the national leader. Later the professionals discuss how to remove him. It means organizing early elections. By the way, with Yanukovych it was the same story - early elections were demanded. That happened on the eve of the coup d'état - the demand for early presidential elections. The methodology is just being repeated to the letter, except that in Russia it will take longer - it's a more complex country, therefore this methodology has to be fleshed out more along the way, but it's all happening in absolutely the same way.

Now let us see what is the reaction of Russia. The process doesn't simply advance by itself. We began talking about Armenia, and have now switched over to Russia, because that's important for us. The process doesn't simply advance by itself. It's been underway for a year in a certain controlled way. How would you characterize the position of Russia for this year in the environment of external aggression? How? We know the objective is the destruction of the Russian Federation. What have the Russian authorities done, above all the Government, in this year in response to the aggression against Russia?

PTV: I have the impression we are taking cover behind our boxing gloves and saying "don't punch us" - but we ourselves are not punching.

EF: We are not even covering.

PTV: Some things we are doing.

EF: We are not doing anything.

We're talking about "quantitative easing". The policy consists of many points, but the main among them is the interest rate. Apart from that: regulations, lending periods, reserves. For some reason we have Basel III, while in America, in Europe - no Basel III. This has also been established by the Central Bank. In other words, the Central Bank is the warder, controlled from outside, who doesn't give Russia the means to create its own life-blood in the economy, roughly speaking. Their task is to ensure that the adrenal glands of the state organism don't function. By the same mechanism we receive blood from the Americans through certain pipes which are called "foreign investments" or "credits". Then they said to us: "Today we won't give you any blood". They closed the pipes. But making your own is forbidden. It means the organism is softly dying - this is the essence of the sanctions.

If you want the sanctions to be ineffective against us, then you don't need to make an embargo for those purposes (embargo is for other purposes), rather you need to enable the adrenal glands, right? That's putting it in simple terms for ordinary people. You're an ordinary Russian citizen. You want to eat meat?

PTV: Some don't eat it at all.

OK, but you want to eat normally? Yes. You want to travel just in a normal car? Yes. Well, if you have money, then you will spend it to buy food. This money then goes into industry which produces food - dairies, farms, and so on. Then the money circulates, the food is produced, right? The policies of Russia is to not give you money. To lower your pension, lower your wages, or better still - fire you. That's been the policies of the past year. Consequently, you don't get money in your hands, and you don't bring this money into the economy. Or you want to buy a car, but you're not given the money, so you didn't buy a car. The engineering plants which manufacture cars in Kaluga have halted, because people have stopped buying cars from them. You are not given the money to solve your problems, or, at the same time, to power up the engine of the economy.

This is being done by the Americans along with the Central Bank. Previously, the Americans provided money, and the Central Bank a little too, plus the government. Now the Americans provide none, nor does the Central Bank, which has become tougher, and the government is implementing austerity and not providing money.

PTV: The Central Bank wasn't providing money before either.

EF: But the Americans did.

PTV: Then the Central Bank is irrelevant here.

EF: That's not the point. They could provide money. We used to get money from the Americans, from the Fed, i.e. the American Central Bank was performing the function of the Russian Central Bank in supporting your standard of living. You see? Since they shut off this function, while not allowing our CB to take on this function, it automatically freezes the economy. The freezing of the economy affects everyone, not forcefully but gradually. Because today your pay is 30 thousand, later it will be 27 thousand, then 20 thousand. After a year you see it has become 20. Then add inflation. It doesn't come in one big shock.

PTV: Softly.

EF: But for commerce it's a sharp shock, because they have to bluntly declare bankruptcy. So it's a mechanism for manipulation of the business community, especially large businesses, to bring them into the conspiracy. Which is what we are observing.

We see a conspiracy forming in Russia against Putin on the basis of the sanctions and the corporations which are dependent on the Americans - we don't have any others. We see that this conspiracy is even beginning to be expressed officially via TV. It's no longer just happening covertly in people's kitchens, but is now being articulated via TV. We will see in August that by its dynamics it will have matured into the already calculated proposals. There will be talk of not just "early elections" but now in detail about "who should be elected". You and I drew attention to elections. The next day at 8 o'clock there was a breakfast at Sberbank, where dubious theses were presented about "his last term in office", i.e. the rolling out of the thesis of "early elections" has already begun, which in the understanding of the American initiators means the early election of someone else.

PTV: Not Putin then.

Obviously. We can see the conspiracy is beginning to take shape. Moreover, the conspiracy is lawful. Some may think that a conspiracy involves people with weapons. That does happen too, but not in this case. The conspiracy is lawful, meaning they will exploit their resources. Which resources? Parliamentary deputies, most of whom have close ties with the business community. State officials - also having ties with business. People in the Interior Ministry - who provide protection for the business community, i.e. receive money. Many of them have ties.

PTV: And FSB officers.

EF: It has all begun.

The Americans have found, if you like, the weak link, by which they are building the conspiracy. What is meant by "lawful"? Vladimir Putin's options to implement policy even by direct control will be cut, cut, cut. Say he wants to introduce a law. He will be told, "No, we don't fear you any more. We won't implement this law: this or that signature is missing. We will muddle it up". This has happened before. Now it will be activated. Furthermore, it will affect the personnel policy too. After August, through the winter, I think, by the drop of living standards, they will manage to bring out several hundred thousand people onto the streets, as in Armenia. Simply because, with the help of the government, they will severely crash people's living standards. This will be especially felt after the winter. I think the main salvos, which we see now in Armenia, we will see in Russia around Spring 2016. But for the specialists it will all be clear by August. So the plan is clear and is now simply being realized by Tefft. He is traveling around the country for that reason, talking to everyone, seeking points of rebellion. Recently, for example, he went to Ekaterinburg and met the mayor Roizman to discuss this subject. People also went to Yakutsk and discussed it there. So he's looking.

In order to start a rebellion is simply needed 100,000 - 200,000 hungry people, as in Armenia, of whom 90% could be blindly exploited, while at the same time organized. They are not told they're acting for the benefit of the Americans. They are simply told: "You are hungry? Then come out against the government". That's all. But among them will be certain essential detachments, some of whom will be sent from Ukraine. No wonder our bill to ban Ukrainians - militants from Ukraine - from participating in protests is being rejected in the Duma.

PTV: You submitted such a bill?

EF: Our group "Russian Sovereignty" introduced the bill.


PTV: That foreign citizens may not participate?

EF:That foreign citizens cannot participate in political protests.
In religious and cultural events - by all means, as much as you like. But in political events, with political slogans, where the initiating group registers a "political protest" - no. We have introduced such a bill. The government was afraid to give a negative submission. No-one gave a negative submission, because it's such an obvious thing. Then the US Embassy made phone calls to get it crushed, because our bill, like all the others, is, so to speak, a 'wrecker'. We are always sticking in these wreckers, 'cause we know how the system is constructed. Our little wreckers could bring down the whole system at a certain point. So now there is a battle ongoing for this bill. It's so obvious, that even the government doesn't want to reveal themselves.

PTV: Quite rightly, because the bill is clear and sensible enough.

EF: And obvious. So the struggle continues. But that wasn't my point. We have a battle on all fronts. That was just one small episode of it.

Or the one about aggressor nations, where the bill didn't pass, you know. The essence of the bill was to forbid Americans from controlling the processes in Russia which they are officially controlling. How on earth is one to defend against an aggressor, if the aggressor controls you? Well, we are controlled by Americans - officially, in the form of dozens of American companies working in all the main ministries and departments, performing administration - they write the laws. For example, the IMF writes something, and they kind of decode it and translate into Russian. They write the laws, government decisions, ministers' orders, instructions - all of them. These offices, ministries lack their own creative departments. They all take the creativity from the Americans, while their own creativity is forbidden under Article 13 of the 1993 Russian Constitution - the ban on state ideology. Sowe proposed: at least in law don't allow aggressor nations to command us. It's a simple law.

PTV: Well, if we are controlled by the Americans then this bill will not pass.

EF: It didn't pass.


PTV: Obviously.

EF: Once again, they all ran away, hid, failed to vote.

But what is the essence? It's obvious. You are fighting a Great Patriotic War, but your Red Army is subordinated to Hitler.The general sits waiting: until the order comes from Hitler's headquarters, I will not execute the orders of Stalin. Let them repeat it. This is nonsense, absolutely all of it - this is how it is in our administration. Why are we surprised that with every passing day it's getting worse, worse, worse. You stated that in the past year nothing was done. That is spot-on. The foreign conspiracy, the invasion, the aggression and the sanctions - in one year nothing has been done about it. There is a 60-point anti-crisis plan - in not one of the 60 points is there a fight against the crisis. There are points to soften the blows from the crisis a little: giving money to people who have become unemployed as a result of the crisis. But why should people become unemployed at all? Put money into the economy and no-one becomes unemployed. But no, better to take away money from the budget and give it to the unemployed. These are the plans.

Or subsidizing the interest rate. Just lower the rate, and there will be no need to subsidize it. That's how they do it in 40 countries: Europe, America, Japan, Switzerland, Australia. Why subsidize it? Subsidy means taking away money from pensioners out of the budget and giving it to businesses. What's the point of that? Just keep the interest rate low, as in Europe, and there will be no need to take away pensioners' money from the budget. Furthermore, with low interest rates that money will begin to circulate in the economy, and will become tax revenues, which flow into the budget. So your budget, on the contrary, will increase. You can raise pensions and salaries, while having zero inflation. Oh no, we are categorically not going down that path. At the St. Petersburg forum, which you mentioned, people with ideas of normal economic response - i.e. lowering the interest rates - were not invited at all. People like Glazyev, for example. Those ideas were not expressed at all. We heard only the propaganda nonsense from the textbooks on colony management, i.e. you should do this, because it says so in our textbook. That's what all the speakers were saying, without any reference to reality. They don't have a single example of a country with low interest rates and high inflation. There simply are no examples. Yet there are 40 countries with low interest rates. So what is the issue?

It's what we have been talking about before: in an environment of no sovereignty in the nation, any talk of resisting external aggression is pointless hot air. Until you've resolved the problem of sovereignty, you won't resolve a single other problem.Not the battle against the aggressor. Not the problem of Donbass and Ukraine. Because the fifth column will always be in charge there, and any patriotism or heroism by the people will be cut off by a knife in the back. In principle, no movement on this whole story of the crisis. Nothing will be achieved at all. That's clear, because you don't have the power. The issue of sovereignty is the issue of power. Who has the power? Foreigners on the territory of Russia? Russian institutions of government? Putin? The parliament? Or someone else? This is the issue. Until you have resolved the issue of sovereignty, it's impossible to resolve the problem of survival.

From that, here is my prognosis: without resolving the problem of sovereignty, Russia will go under. As the US Government has announced, the Secretary of Defense. He announced deliberately and honestly: we will achieve our objectives, because we know that in every node of the Russian administration sits our people, who are in control of the processes, and they shall mindlessly surrender Russia by the set deadlines. That's it. The Ambassador has reported to Washington on the execution of his task. Sowithout resolving the problem of sovereignty, i.e. constitutional reform, referendum, it is impossible to resolve the problem of survivability. Even overcoming or combating the crisis is impossible. It's as obvious as ABC.

If you have the phenomenon of Putin in charge of the national direction and NOD (National Liberation Movement), then we have the law on our side. We are the organization of law, we don't need to break it.

PTV: I can't disagree with that.

EF: Laws are being broken against us. Now in Petersburg our cars were set on fire. It was written directly, that the car was set on fire because it was from NOD. Of course, terrorism is being conducted against us, against NOD. What did you think. It's the embassy. Moreover, they burned it on the day the US Ambassador arrived in Petersburg. What did you think? Dozens of NOD members have been killed in Donbass. There is ongoing terrorism against us, because we are the main ones addressing the issue of really transforming the system. All the others have scattered. Some people may be doing good deeds, helping children or something else. But who will save the nation? We are the main bone. That's why I'm telling you - their task is to paralyze us.

Why is there now such a rouse against NOD on the Internet? Moreover, not on the essence but simply stuffing negative spam. Because we are the main problem for the Americans. Because even with the weak forces which exist in Russia, with the right historical solution, it's possible to be get out of this, i.e. defeat them. What is our government doing now? They are just mindlessly leading the country into the quagmire to destroy it. It would be better if they were doing nothing. But in fact, the further it goes, the worse it gets, because that is where they are leading us, along a blatantly hostile road. We are the only ones offering the technology with which to respond. That's the strength of NOD, and that's why the primary terror is being conducted against us. Who else had their car burned up in Russia? Only ours. Because we are main technology, the historical technology. So it's impossible to solve the problems without personally putting time and strength into it. Let's say you really want to get some result - whatever, getting a girl to fall in love with you, making your country free, getting the aggressor expelled from your land. You won't achieve it by picking your nose. You have to act: conquer the girl, repel the aggressor, liberate your country by some specific means, be it with or without weapons - there are different scenarios. It's just ABC. Half the citizens of Russia have realized this. That's the reason they took a portrait of their grandfather, and, rather than sitting in their kitchen with it, like they did last year, the previous year, or the 60-70 years before that, they went out onto the streets in a collective action, i.e. there are some brains, there is an awakening in the windings.

Next, spend three hours supporting Putin, pushing the issue, maybe more than once. If you don't push it, then you'll leave it to the oligarchs and conspirators alone,
and they'll peck it to death, push it aside. Putin is now saying openly, "my directives are not being implemented". In three years of the directives under the May Edicts there is only 20% implementation. In three of twelve messages he states repeatedly that on the Central Bank there is always zero effect. We need to help. What is there to not understand about that? Help. You love him, you give him a good rating, then do something. Don't mess about. Since that's what you've decided, then do something.

PTV: Evgeny, people simply have an entirely different mindset. They trust the person whom they have elected to the post of President. They have entrusted him with administration. Thereafter he's supposed to know what to do about everything. They have entrusted him with authority over the nation.

EF: Nothing of the sort! Where did you find the word "authority"? Have you even read the Constitution? Where did you hear the word "authority" of the President? We have three authorities: legislative authority is led by the Chairperson of the Federation Council and the State Duma; executive authority is led by the Prime Minister; judicial authority is lead by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Where is the President here?

PTV: The President is the head of the executive authority.

EF: He is only prescribed powers on foreign policy, where he has had successes, and on commanding the armed forces - meaning legal command. He was even forbidden from moving forces outside our borders, as you know, by a decision of the Federation Council ( June 2014 ). Where is his authority? The word "authority" isn't there. Yes - executive power in the areas of foreign policy and defense - that's all. Formally he has no authority. What are you talking about? The people have entrusted him, but not with authority, they have entrusted to him monitoring of the Constitution and a representative capacity. He heads the representative authority, having no executive functions, but having a portrait on the wall - a representative function. Same with other presidents - he's not the only president in the world. That's what it's about. Don't expect any solution to the problem of sovereignty from this post - that would require a different post, with a different purpose and different content. For that you would have to annul the decision from 1993 (Constitutional referendum), by which you - as a voter - prescribed the President's lack of authority. You see? This has to be done. The intellectual task has to be thought through. You have to discuss it with your wife, understand it, and thereafter spend three hours on the streets with a slogan, to provide support, and so on.

PTV: Well, if we would have been attacked, as in 1941 ...

EF: We have already been attacked.

PTV: Back then they attacked in tanks and uniforms...

EF: Ok, so you want to be told via TV, that we have been attacked. Well, TV is already captured, they won't report it. TV is the Brandenburg Regiment (special forces). They have already severed the lines of communication. You sit with your garrison, you lift the telephone, and there's only silence. Silence on the line means there's no war. No order has been given - means there's no war. We are surrendering. That's your logic. Ok then, surrender.

PTV: No, but I mean decisions are not made by the people anyway, not by the masses. There are always... You yourself have been talking about the Maidan in Ukraine and Yerevan.

EF: Decisions are made by the people. But these decisions are partly driven by instincts, by historical memory. Remember, the people made the decision en masse to volunteer to go to the front.

PTV: That's right - because we were attacked.

EF: It was said, that we had been attacked.

PTV: The people themselves saw it, felt it.

EF: The population in Leningrad didn't see that the Brest Fortress had been attacked. They were told via newspapers and radio. But today the first thing the enemy has done is to capture the newspapers and radio. One has to activate the brain a bit and understand that we could be attacked and it's not reported on the radio. Can you comprehend such a thing?

PTV: Nope.

EF: I'm sure that in some villages of the Soviet Union there was no radio and people still comprehended - by word of mouth - and went to the Armed Forces Recruiting Office. So enter NOD as a coordinator, join the struggle, or else go under. It's your choice. We have done what we could. We have laid out the path to freedom and life. Whether the masses in Russia will make use of it or not - that's up to them.

PTV: The masses have never seen you even once.

EF: That's their problem.

PTV: How theirs? The amount of information is huge, it's hard to find things.

EF: Never mind that. My starting point is that it is their problem. We have done all that we could. So it's your problem. It's your choice to die - go ahead then! We do very well understand the problem of the mass media. That's why the most important direction of NOD's work, in order to wake up the masses, is that the smaller group of people - the members and headquarters of NOD - take action, conduct the struggle. And we are conducting this struggle. We are always putting pressure on the mass media. By the way, I invite people to gather at RBC TV at 12 o'clock: we will be conducting a large picket, protesting against the fact that one of the most important mass media channels, which addresses the business community - in fact it's the main business channel - conducts a totally anti-Russian policy, supporting the sanctions, supporting the system of external administration. Moreover, it's a scandal that this channel is managed by a citizen of a NATO member state.

PTV: There's a lot of that here...

EF: I know that in business this is the norm. But in this case it is, after all, the media. We have to understand this. You said, "the media won't report it". Of course they won't, if they are the enemy. They are even managed by CIA agents and the like - that's what Putin said, not me. Obviously a citizen of a NATO member state is carrying out their orders. It's just a propaganda mouthpiece of the occupier. This needs to be discussed. I'm sure that a picket at RBC TV (we are calling out several hundred people), if it were thousands, tens of thousands of people, then Grigoriev ( Vladimir Grigoriev, head of Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication ), the American agent who gives money and grants from the Russian treasury to RBC, Echo Moscow and the rest of them, this Grigoriev would be forced to use his influence to ensure that RBC is not led by a foreign citizen.

PTV: On the 30th June is the picket at RBC? At what time?

EF: At 12 mid-day. This is simply a very glaring case, where a citizen of NATO is officially in charge of Russian mass media, and, accordingly, is promoting propaganda for the destruction of the Russian economy.

PTV: There are many such cases in this country. The mass media is full of them.

EF: In this case it's absolutely clear. Don't forget, we managed to force through our little law that owners of mass media must be citizens of Russia. But then the Russian owners appoint foreign agents to run Russian TV. So the problem is wider, as we already knew. But in this case it's of a just scandalous nature. They are really shameless. So we will protest until we achieve the removal of this ... Derk Sauer ( RBC CEO ).

PTV: Returning to Yerevan. If the Yerevan Maidan is successful, what will it mean for Russia.

EF: A front will form around us. Really, it has always been there. This is their latest victory on one of the fronts. The noose is being tightened around Russia. Next it will be Belarus.

PTV: What exactly will it mean? The armed coup in Ukraine established the objective of a war between Ukraine and Russia. But an armed coup in Armenia - what is the purpose of that? The Armenia army is not going to start a war. Basically, there is no army there.

EF: It's the isolation of Russia. So that Russia has no allies. Remember when Armenia, all of a sudden, joined the Eurasian Economic Union?

PTV: Yes, there was a bit of a noise about that.

EF: Quickly, instantly. I understand what happened there. Armenia understood perfectly well what was going on. They were stringing along the Americans till the last moment, playing both sides. And when they couldn't drag it out any longer, as I understand it, they joined up by agreement with Putin. As a result, basically, the Americans have bluntly registered them as enemies and have now begun to torment them. So now we see the inevitable result.

The whole Greece saga is about total monopolism by the Americans and Europeans. No colony or vassal state can escape from them, because they will immediately close off the faucet of life. As soon as Russia resolves the problem of the rouble, i.e. lowers the interest rates and launches the national rouble - having one third of the world's wealth behind it, it will be the strongest world currency. Because it's not American virtual wealth. One third of the world's material wealth is behind us, created by our ancestors. From that point begins the fracture of the European Union. Because we will be able to offer credit to Greece on the same terms as credit from the EU. Recall their conditions: the (ECB's) key interest rate is 300 times lower. Good conditions? So that's it.

If we issue such credits to ourselves, and to others - Greece, at least, then we will be an open economy and in Russia will be launched rapid industrialization and growth of the money supply. Then, as we discussed, a person will buy chicken, automobile, apartment, because they start getting 2-3 times more pay. Inflation will fall to zero, because we will replace the dollar, which brings inflation into Russia. Remember, the rouble constitutes only 1/4 of the money in circulation in the Russian economy, while 3/4 is dollars, euro and foreign currency. We will be able to provide credit to foreign companies, including Greek ones - and why not. That's it. From that moment Greece leaves the European Union, followed by Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and even Poland and the Baltic states.

PTV: Tell me, why wasn't NOD crushed at the very beginning?

EF: Because for 15 years Putin has been preparing to oust the American power in Russia. He accumulated troops that no-one knew about. An armada appeared from up his sleeve. 15 years he prepared that. For 15 years he maneuvered and retreated, knowing his weaknesses. He saved our nuclear weapons, even though they wanted to put the squeeze on - I know about this personally. He saved, let's say, some of the supports in the economy, saved the demographics, raised the standard of living, and with that created a positive mood among the people. He spent a long time maneuvering. These were maneuvers of retreat, but still maneuvers, which created opportunities for victory. We don't have victory, of course, but opportunities for it have been created. In the context of these opportunities emerged NOD, which had existed from the very beginning. Putin and NOD have been there for 15 years. But it was formalized into headquarters only three and a bit years ago. NOD existed previously - we have already discussed that. But the headquarters appeared only under the protection of Putin. If there wouldn't have been Putin, there wouldn't have been headquarters - we would have been crushed immediately, no question about that. The headquarters appeared only under that cover, when he rolled out a certain beach-head, from where began the organizational side of things.



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7/14/2015 10:46:53 AM

After hard negotiation, historic Iran nuclear deal reached

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VIENNA (AP) — After 18 days of intense and often fractious negotiation, world powers and Iran struck a landmark deal Tuesday to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions — an agreement designed to avert the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran and another U.S. military intervention in the Muslim world.

The accord will keep Iran from producing enough material for a nuclear weapon for at least 10 years and impose new provisions for inspections of Iranian facilities, including military sites. And it marks a dramatic break from decades of animosity between the United States and Iran, countries that alternatively call each other the "leading state sponsor of terrorism" and the "the Great Satan."

"This is a historic moment," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said as he attended a final session alongside his counterparts from the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia in Vienna on Tuesday morning. "We are reaching an agreement that is not perfect for anybody, but it is what we could accomplish, and it is an important achievement for all of us. Today could have been the end of hope on this issue. But now we are starting a new chapter of hope."

The formal announcement of the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was to be made after the meeting, and President Barack Obama planned to deliver a statement from the White House. Its completion comes after more than two weeks of furious diplomacy, during which negotiators blew through three self-imposed deadlines. Zarif and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who conducted most of the negotiations, both threatened to walk away while trading accusations of intransigence.

The breakthrough came after several key compromises.

Diplomats said Iran agreed to the continuation of a U.N. arms embargo on the country for up to five more years, though it could end earlier if the International Atomic Energy Agency definitively clears Iran of any current work on nuclear weapons. A similar condition was put on U.N. restrictions on the transfer of ballistic missile technology to Tehran, which could last for up to eight more years.

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Washington had sought to maintain the ban on Iran importing and exporting weapons, concerned that an Islamic Republic flush with cash from the nuclear deal would expand its military assistance for Syrian President Bashar Assad's government, Yemen's Houthi rebels, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and other forces opposing America's Mideast allies such as Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Iranian leaders insisted the embargo had to end as their forces combat regional scourges such as the Islamic State. And they got some support from China and particularly Russia, which wants to expand military cooperation and arms sales to Tehran, including the long-delayed transfer of S-300 advanced air defense systems - a move long opposed by the United States.

Another significant agreement will allow U.N. inspectors to press for visits to Iranian military sites as part of their monitoring duties, something the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had long vowed to oppose. However, access isn't guaranteed and could be delayed, a condition that critics of the deal are sure to seize on as possibly giving Tehran time to cover up any illicit activity.

Under the accord, Tehran would have the right to challenge the U.N request and an arbitration board composed of Iran and the six world powers would then decide on the issue. The IAEA also wants the access to complete its long-stymied investigation of past weapons work by Iran, and the U.S. says Iranian cooperation is needed for all economic sanctions to be lifted. IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said Tuesday his agency and Iran had signed a "roadmap" to resolve outstanding concerns.

The economic benefits for Iran are potentially massive. It stands to receive more than $100 billion in assets frozen overseas, and an end to a European oil embargo and various financial restrictions on Iranian banks.

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Zarif said the agreement was a "win-win solution."

Federica Mogherini, the European Union foreign policy chief, called it "a sign of hope for the entire world."

But it didn't come easily, as tempers flared and voices were raised during debates over several of the most contentious matters. The mood soured particularly last week after Iran dug in its heels on several points and Kerry threatened to abandon the effort, according to diplomats involved in the talks. They weren't authorized to speak publicly on the private diplomacy and demanded anonymity.

By Monday, however, the remaining gaps were bridged in a meeting that started with Kerry, Mogherini and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and then involved the Iranians. A half-hour after Zarif's inclusion, the ministers emerged and told aides they had an accord.

The deal comes after nearly a decade of international, intercontinental diplomacy that until recently was defined by failure. Breaks in the talks sometimes lasted for months, and Iran's nascent nuclear program expanded into one that Western intelligence agencies saw as only a couple of months away from weapons capacity. The U.S. and Israel both threatened possible military responses.

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The United States joined the negotiations in 2008, and U.S. and Iranian officials met together secretly four years later in Oman to see if diplomatic progress was possible. But the process remained essentially stalemated until summer 2013, when Hassan Rouhani was elected president and declared his country ready for serious compromise.

More secret U.S.-Iranian discussions followed, culminating in a face-to-face meeting between Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the United Nations in September 2013 and a telephone conversation between Rouhani and President Barack Obama. That conversation marked the two countries' highest diplomatic exchange since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution and the ensuing hostage crisis at the American embassy in Tehran.

Kerry and Zarif took the lead in the negotiations. Two months later, in Geneva, Iran and the six powers announced an interim agreement that temporarily curbed Tehran's nuclear program and unfroze some Iranian assets while setting the stage for Tuesday's comprehensive accord.

It took time to get the final deal, however. The talks missed deadlines for the pact in July 2014 and November 2014, leading to long extensions. Finally, in early April, negotiators reached framework deal in Lausanne, Switzerland, setting up the last push for the historic agreement.

The disputes are likely to continue, however. In a foreshadowing of the public relations battle ahead, Iranian state TV released a fact sheet of elements it claimed were in the final agreement — a highly selective list that highlighted Iranian gains and minimized its concessions.

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Among them was an assertion that all sanctions-related U.N. resolutions will be lifted at once. While a new U.N. resolution will revoke previous sanctions, it will also re-impose restrictions in a number of categories.

Beyond the parties to the pact, spoilers abound.

In the United States, Congress has a 60-day review period during which Obama cannot make good on any concessions to the Iranians. U.S. lawmakers could hold a vote of disapproval and take further action.

Iranian hardliners oppose dismantling a nuclear program the country has spent hundreds of billions of dollars developing. Khamenei, while supportive of his negotiators thus far, has issued a series of defiant red lines that may be impossible to reconcile in a deal with the West.

And further afield, Israel will strongly oppose the outcome. It sees the acceptance of extensive Iranian nuclear infrastructure and continued nuclear activity as a mortal threat, and has warned that it could take military action on its own, if necessary.

The deal is a "bad mistake of historic proportions," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday, adding that it would enable Iran to "continue to pursue its aggression and terror in the region."

Sunni Arab rivals of Shiite Iran are none too happy, either, with Saudi Arabia in particularly issuing veiled threats to develop its own nuclear program.

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Associated Press writer Bradley Klapper in Washington contributed.


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