Leave Afghanistan, let the people be after 41 years of foreign intervention and meddling--and Narco trade.

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A Global Demand to 35 Governments: Get Your Troops Out of Afghanistan 

David Swanson at antiwar.com

The governments of Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, and US all still have troops in Afghanistan and need to remove them.

A very happy looking USA 'warrior' inspecting the Afghan cash crop of the Empire, and the $1 trillion narcotics market of the USA managed by the CIA, and Pentagon.

These troops range in number from Slovenia’s 6 to the United States’ 2,500. Most countries have fewer that 100. Apart from the United States, only Germany has over 1,000. Only five other countries have more than 300.

Governments that used to have troops in this war but have removed them include New Zealand, France, Jordan, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Ireland.

We plan to deliver a big THANK-YOU to every government that removes all of its troops from Afghanistan, along with the names and comments of every signer of this petition.

The American 'Warriors' carrying Afghan heroin into C-130 transport planes destined for the USA, if not Iran, Turkey, Kosovo, Russia, Ukraine and Europe.--the enemy countries for the GLOBALISTS.

We plan to deliver a demand to remove all troops to every government that has not done so, along with the names and comments of every signer of this petition.

The U.S. government is the ring-leader, and the bulk of its killing is done from the air, but – given the deficiency in democracy in the US government, which is now on its third president who promised to end the war but hasn’t – it is critical that other governments withdraw their troops. Those troops, present in token numbers, are there to legitimize behavior that could otherwise be recognized as lawless and outrageous. A government lacking the courage to reject US pressure has no business sending any number of its residents to kill or risk dying in a US/NATO war.

This petition will be signed by people in each nation involved in the war, including the nation of Afghanistan.

Please sign the petition, add comments if you have anything to add, and share with others.

If you want to be part of delivering the petition to a particular government, contact World BEYOND War.

Here’s the petition:


To: Governments with Troops Occupying Afghanistan
From: YOU

We, the people of the world, demand that every government with troops still in Afghanistan remove them.

We thank and applaud those governments that have done so.

Please spread the word.

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David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed War. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio. This originally appeared at WorldBeyondWar.org.

How Britain stole $45 trillion from India

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I'm not dredging up the long-forgotten past to claim victimhood, sympathy or to embarrass certain parties.

The criminal Rothschild run UK STATE, with what was at one time the largest empire, does not have a monopoly on genocide, war crimes, extermination, predatory disaster capitalism that starved 10's of millions specifically in India, extreme racism of natives in their own country...and extreme religious bigotry as a justification of the preceding crimes (We are doing Gods' work).

I'm doing it for Afghanistan, the country next door which has on and off been part of India, and so intertwined with the history of India, even though geographically it is considered part of Central Asia.

I consider myself as a Pashtun in spirit born in Bangladesh. Bangladesh historically experienced waves upon waves of Pashtun rulers, or Pashtun's working for Turkic masters in Bengal converting a lapsed waning Buddhist final part of India into Islam.

The Mongol EMPIRE was appalling, committing mass genocide in Northern China, Turkic Central Asia and Russia. It is well documented. This aspect of Mongol history is overlooked, and instead, Mongol uncivilisation of drinking fermented goats/yak milk, throat singing and military skills are lionised. 

The Spanish EMPIRE was appalling, committing mass genocide in North, Central and South America. It is well documented. This aspect of Spanish history is overlooked, and instead, Spanish uncivilisation of flamenco, plucky smart Europeans Christopher Columbus 'discovering' America for the West, and Imperial Spain, Christianity, Predatory Capitalism Plantations and military skills are lionised. 

NAZI Germany...was appalling, committing mass genocide in......

The British Empire was different from the above in that the horrible crimes of the British Empire were hidden from the British public and the wider world. Propaganda from Hollywood to Newspapers, literature, the media played a critical part in this. The Evil British Empire cared about its image, in a way the above 3 Empires did not.

• There was a moral justification to encourage the Scottish highland foot soldiers and ordinary working-class Englishmen to fight for Empire--they had to fight, massacre, destroy and kill for the greater good....to civilise the natives; for Jesus and for loot, free bounty.
• When the British Empire got going, it was also the age of enlightenment, of enquiry through reason and logic,,,,,and the expansion of Parliamentary democracy. Thus in this modern sophisticated society, there was a large body of educated men who would object to the moral absolutism of empire, genocide in their countries name, mass looting, mass institutional racism in a society which was after all the first to abolish slavery. TO OVERCOME THEIS BARRIER A VERY SOPHISTICATED VEIL WAS COVERED OVER INDIA, where the British public received very little news of what was really going on in a society ruled by 500 pliant Indian semi-autonomous Maharajahs, and 100,000 British soldiers and bureaucrats. Tea and cucumber sandwich, splendid pageants, processions and images of plaint grateful Indians serving the Empire, and receiving dollops of British civilisation. Everything was calm and happy.

Hollywood Parody-mocking of from the flower power sixties of/about  Hollywood movies from the 1920's, especially 1930's 1940's and 1950's and the PORTRAYAL of the evil British Empire as a glorious spiffing Jolly good show, by Hollywood. 

At another level it could be a film about Satyajit Ray, India's greatest movie director, and why he couldn't get any support in Hollywood for his pet project to make a movie about Aliens visiting earth (Sci-fi)....'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and especially 'ET', ALLEGED to have been plagiarized by Hollywood/Spielberg (Though very appropriately invited to London for negotiations of his ideas, plots, the dialogue was ultimately sent off with racism and ridicule by Hollywood and notably Peter Sellers) Satyajit Ray left 60's London bitterly and vowed never to work with 'Westerners' until Sir Richard Attenborough gently coaxed him out of his sullen stupor, and the two collaborated with the 'The Chess Players' 1977 with Ray as the Director and Attenvborough acting as Lord Dalhousie. Or at another level the racist Monopolistic idea that ONLY Jews could make good Sci-fi movies in the USA. 

Yes, Hindi commercial movies are filthy smelly awful and Westerners from the UK can come in and make even better Hindi Masala movies than the locals, 'Slum DOG millionaire'. 2008, which wins 8 Oscars from Hollywood. So there!

The USA is an empire with 1000 military bases around the world, with full-spectrum dominance as its goal and PNAC as its guiding light.

It is an evil Empire, that is committing a lot of evil crimes, unbeknownst to ordinary Americans. 

The USA possess the best propaganda machine in the world and is allied with Western media in EUROPE and the wider world (Japan, South Korea, Qatar, Singapore etc) 

The USA, the leader of the Pack is committing crimes in Afghanistan, the most significant aspect of which is Opium cultivation and the processing of it into heroin to export to Afghan neighbours, and ALL around the world, using American military logistics, and in cooperation with mafia networks in Iran, Central Asia, Russia, Ukraine and Europe....and of course into America, which kills Americans. 

All the top brass peacocks from FIELD Marshal Milley Cyrus, Mad Dog Mattis who planned the invasion of Afghanistan in the 1990's and Trump hero Mike Flynn who has served in Afghanistan, down to your basic American lieutenant know about this Urban Legend, but like any good Mafia foot soldiers remain silent. This is exactly what the Evil British Empire did in India, exporting Opium to China with disastrous consequences for that Great civilisation. Along with CIA death squads killing Afghan kids for fun, and importing ISIS CRISIS ACTORS from Syria/Iraq to keep the pot boiling. It is not a surprise that this American created Failed State of 20 years yearns for the USA to stay to sustain the Global Narco trade, bribery, kickbacks and the free money from the American taxpayer to buy their fealty....with massive corruption of the $1 trillion spent on the country by Afghans and of course plucky Americans.

When the British arrived in India, the country had experienced a very long civil war and the product of Mughal over-extension. It was specifically the fault of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb and his devotion to orthodox Islam and religious zeal which resulted in him spending the better part of his grinding futile reign (1658-1707) invading the 5 Deccan Sultanates, The Hindu Maratha Confederacy and finally the Southern Hindu Vijaynagar Empire. Emperor Aurangzeb was rarely in Delhi, ruling the country dealing with mundane civil matters, and watching warily what the Persians were up to in the West. Administratively he was the best Mughal Emperor, but when you have war in your mind all the time, and enemies to crush...sustaining a military of 700,000 fighting a constant war for half a century, even with the biggest economy on earth and biggest military budget, was unsustainable.

Out of these 3 invaded entities, due to the leadership of a charismatic leader, despite the foreign occupation, death, desolation, destruction the Marathas came out on top of the situation. When the Persians under Nader Shah invaded and defeated the Mughals, it spelt the end of the Mughal empire and the ascendency of the Marathas. The Marathas themselves were then defeated by the Afghans in 1761.

So when the British arrived on the scene the country was without the power to defend the country, exhausted by war 1660-1761, and rudderless.

• Occupation by a foreign power using its military was/is never good for the occupied country, using whatever creative excuses they may have to invade a country wether in the 1750s or 2001, based on the false flag of 9/11. In India, the excuse was the Black Hole of Calcutta....initially. After full conquest, it was the civilisation movement of the savages.
• To be a third-class citizen in your own country. Destruction of self-identity and the value of heritage. 
• Divide and conquer.....the propagation of minority identity.
• Introducing religion into national social and political life.
• 30 million dead from Predatory Capitalism
• The theft of $45 trillion worth of money from India.
• De-industrialisation
• The permanent arrival of mass poverty in India
• Using India's resources and personnel to fight the Empires wars around the world, and subjugate other nations
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How Britain stole $45 trillion from India

And lied about it.


Jason Hickel
Dr Jason Hickel is an academic at the University of London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts at Aljazeera, Qatar.




There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India – as horrible as it may have been – was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the administration of India was a cost to Britain. So the fact that the empire was sustained for so long – the story goes – was a gesture of Britain’s benevolence.


New research by the renowned economist Utsa Patnaik – just published by Columbia University Press – deals a crushing blow to this narrative. Drawing on nearly two centuries of detailed data on tax and trade, Patnaik calculated that Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938.




It’s a staggering sum. For perspective, $45 trillion is 17 times more than the total annual gross domestic product of the United Kingdom today.

How did this come about?

It happened through the trade system. Prior to the colonial period, Britain bought goods like textiles and rice from Indian producers and paid for them in the normal way – mostly with silver – as they did with any other country. But something changed in 1765, shortly after the East India Company took control of the subcontinent and established a monopoly over Indian trade.

Here’s how it worked. The East India Company began collecting taxes in India, and then cleverly used a portion of those revenues (about a third) to fund the purchase of Indian goods for British use. In other words, instead of paying for Indian goods out of their own pocket, British traders acquired them for free, “buying” from peasants and weavers using money that had just been taken from them.

It was a scam – theft on a grand scale. Yet most Indians were unaware of what was going on because the agent who collected the taxes was not the same as the one who showed up to buy their goods. 

Some of the stolen goods were consumed in Britain, and the rest were re-exported elsewhere. The re-export system allowed Britain to finance a flow of imports from Europe, including strategic materials like iron, tar and timber, which were essential to Britain’s industrialisation. 

Indeed, the Industrial Revolution depended in large part on this systematic theft from India.

On top of this, the British were able to sell the stolen goods to other countries for much more than they “bought” them for in the first place, pocketing not only 100 percent of the original value of the goods but also the markup.

After the British Raj took over in 1858, colonisers added a special new twist to the tax-and-buy system. As the East India Company’s monopoly broke down, Indian producers were allowed to export their goods directly to other countries. But Britain made sure that the payments for those goods nonetheless ended up in London.

How did this work? Basically, anyone who wanted to buy goods from India would do so using special Council Bills – a unique paper currency issued only by the British Crown. And the only way to get those bills was to buy them from London with gold or silver. So traders would pay London in gold to get the bills, and then use the bills to pay Indian producers. When Indians cashed the bills in at the local colonial office, they were “paid” in rupees out of tax revenues – money that had just been collected from them. So, once again, they were not in fact paid at all; they were defrauded.


Meanwhile, London ended up with all of the gold and silver that should have gone directly to the Indians in exchange for their exports.


This corrupt system meant that even while India was running an impressive trade surplus with the rest of the world – a surplus that lasted for three decades in the early 20th century – it showed up as a deficit in the national accounts because the real income from India’s exports was appropriated in its entirety by Britain.

Some point to this fictional “deficit” as evidence that India was a liability to Britain. But exactly the opposite is true. Britain intercepted enormous quantities of income that rightly belonged to Indian producers. India was the goose that laid the golden egg. Meanwhile, the “deficit” meant that India had no option but to borrow from Britain to finance its imports. So the entire Indian population was forced into completely unnecessary debt to their colonial overlords, further cementing British control.

Britain used the windfall from this fraudulent system to fuel the engines of imperial violence – funding the invasion of China in the 1840s and the suppression of the Indian Rebellion in 1857. And this was on top of what the Crown took directly from Indian taxpayers to pay for its wars. As Patnaik points out, “the cost of all Britain’s wars of conquest outside Indian borders were charged always wholly or mainly to Indian revenues.”

And that’s not all. Britain used this flow of tribute from India to finance the expansion of capitalism in Europe and regions of European settlement, like Canada and Australia. So not only the industrialisation of Britain but also the industrialisation of much of the Western world was facilitated by extraction from the colonies.

Patnaik identifies four distinct economic periods in colonial India from 1765 to 1938, calculates the extraction for each, and then compounds at a modest rate of interest (about 5 percent, which is lower than the market rate) from the middle of each period to the present. Adding it all up, she finds that the total drain amounts to $44.6 trillion. This figure is conservative, she says, and does not include the debts that Britain imposed on India during the Raj.

These are eye-watering sums. But the true costs of this drain cannot be calculated. If India had been able to invest its own tax revenues and foreign exchange earnings in development – as Japan did – there’s no telling how history might have turned out differently. India could very well have become an economic powerhouse. Centuries of poverty and suffering could have been prevented.

All of this is a sobering antidote to the rosy narrative promoted by certain powerful voices in Britain. The conservative historian Niall Ferguson has claimed that British rule helped “develop” India. While he was prime minister, David Cameron asserted that British rule was a net help to India.

This narrative has found considerable traction in the popular imagination: according to a 2014 YouGov poll, 50 percent of people in Britain believe that colonialism was beneficial to the colonies.

Yet during the entire 200-year history of British rule in India, there was almost no increase in per capita income. In fact, during the last half of the 19th century – the heyday of British intervention – income in India collapsed by half. The average life expectancy of Indians dropped by a fifth from 1870 to 1920. Tens of millions died needlessly of policy-induced famine.

Britain didn’t develop India. Quite the contrary – as Patnaik’s work makes clear – India developed Britain.

What does this require of Britain today? An apology? Absolutely.

Reparations? Perhaps – although there is not enough money in all of Britain to cover the sums that Patnaik identifies.

In the meantime, we can start by setting the story straight. We need to recognise that Britain retained control of India not out of benevolence but for the sake of plunder and that Britain’s industrial rise didn’t emerge sui generis from the steam engine and strong institutions, as our schoolbooks would have it, but depended on violent theft from other lands and other peoples.

GLOBAL RECESSION

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President Biden's chance to build a tangible legacy for himself and be different from Globalist Trump

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Iran should not take up the FULL ENERGY of the Biden Presidency, in the manner of Trump especially in the critical years of 2018/2019 when he should have fully geared up for a second term, but instead unceremoniously vented energy against Iran, egged on by fascist right-wing messianic Likudnik Netanyahu, the Godfather of Jared. 

False flag drone attacks, false flag tanker attacks, terrorism inside Iran courtesy of MEK, Iranian Generals on diplomatic missions to Iraq to negotiate with the Saudis assassinated, and the Sunni ISIS let loose which itself claimed terrorist attacks against Iranian military parades in the South, and of course PJAK of the Kurds attacking border installations and personnel. 

The President of the USA bitched for Netanyahu, and his numerous election bids in Israel, and provide distraction and cover for his corruption charges, with money from Adelson. 

According to the IMF since 2016, measured by PPP, the USA became the 2nd largest economy (China $31 trillion, USA $21 trillion--2021). This is very very consequential, not in the sense that China is a threat or it was in any way China's fault, but that it is the duty of SERIOUS HARDHEADED American leaders to restructure the American economy so that it performs better, and the right economic formula's are created to get the USA out of its economic quagmire, high unemployment, underperforming industries, small businesses collapsing, rising debt, hyperinflation around the corner, economic collapse around the corner......infrastructure, education, healthcare and so much more that has been neglected that matter to the common man....and the COVID-19 Pandemic from which 500,000 Americans have died, and 28 million infected. The worst affected country in the world. 

The time to blame others for American problems has gone. 

The CIA installed the Iranians Mullahs in power in 1979, as part of the 'Arch of Crisis', 'Clash of Civilisation' policy from the Rothschilds of LONDON, ENUNCIATED through Bernard Lewis at Princeton University. The purpose was to attack the Soviet UNION with its 20% Muslim population (payback for Vietnam) ......I would require hours upon hours to list the crimes of the barbaric Medival CIA mullahs have inflicted on the good Iranian people. 

After the horrors of 42 years of CIA Mullah Iran, the USA should not inflict further torture and degradation on the good Iranian people.

The USA should go back to the JCPOA IMMEDIATELY, in the same manner, Trump quixotically left it. It is a combined International Treaty agreed by significant world powers and based on multilateralism, not American exceptionalism. 

It was the laborious product of John Kerry and his team, in what was one of the longest drawn-out negotiation in American diplomatic history (so it wasn't lightly entered into).

But quixotic narcissistic Trump, with a deep racist hatred for Barack Hussein Obama, 'The MUSLIM' WAS going to go against it simply because it was seen as one of his major international successes.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR: whilst the mullahs never wanted nuclear power (Its was the Shah's dream, egged on by the USA since 1974) 

Israel falsely has been accusing Iran of nuke bombs and the allegation that they are just 6 months away, since 1983!!! Even when the CIA through Russian agents funnelled nuke bomb blueprints under 'Operation Merlin' in the 1990's the mullahs did not fall for it. 

When the Iranian Supreme Leader makes a Fatwa and declares publicly REPEATEDLY  that Nuclear weapons are unIslamic to his hardcore domestic followers, we really should believe him. Nuclear weapons are not something the Medival Mullahs can comprehend in their world view. When CIA Saddam started using Chemical weapons supplied by the USA, from 1984 against Iranian troops in the Iran/Iraq war, Ayatollah Khomeini stated that Chemical weapons use were unIslamic, and despite 4 further years of a gruelling war, mullah Iran did not use any Chemicals against Saddam's soldiers.

However the Israeli 'cry wolf' scenario has created paranoia in the Greater Middle East and as a result, many states are now acquiring nuclear power clandestinely, and legitimately.  

Egypt is acquiring a vast nuclear plant at $25 billion being built by the Russians.

Turkey is acquiring nuclear plants, and they may even have a 'surge program.'

Saudi Arabia wants to buy nuke bombs from certain powers, or the means to build nuke bombs from certain powers.

And so on, and so on, and so on. THE ISRAELI FAKE CRY WOLF SCENARIO OVER IRAN.......is creating CURIOSITY AND FATEFUL CONSEQUENTIAL  ACTION IN THAT DIRECTION IN REALITY IN THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST.........'Well if the mullahs are going for nuke bombs as the USA/Israel accuse, then we should have nuke bombs toooo'

In 2003 the Mullahs were elated that the USA had finally toppled CIA Saddam.

The USA reciprocated by inviting elite Iranian Quds forces into Iraq, to guard the holy Shia sites in Najaf and Karbela, and give reassurance to the 65% Iraqi Shia majority.

It was in 2003 that the mullahs offered a Grand Bargain to the USA covering everything, including much of what the USA wants now.

But Bush II in 2003 was still intoxicated with the Pentagon Blitzkrieg plan of 7 countries in 5 years, including Iran. A historic opportunity lost.

Iran in good faith invited IAEA inspections of a very intrusive nature, of go any where and see everything snap inspection (nothing to hide in the first place), running for 18 years the longest in IAEA history.

Since that time of 2003, USA leaders have made dire threats against Iran, dire threats of war, simultaneously while IAEA inspections were going on, terrorism inside Iran, assassinations and sanctions.

Uncivilised illegal barbaric behaviour against Iran.

Why should Iran cooperate with IAEA inspections if ALL they get back in return is more threats and real terrorism inside Iran? What is the benefit? What is the rationale? 

Since 2003, Iran has built closer relations with Russia and China. The compulsion to cooperate with Washington is much less than it was in 2003.

Khomeini arriving from Paris, France on 1st February, my birthday.

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Why Is Biden Creating Himself An Iran Quagmire?

By Moon of Alabama.

Since he came to power President Joe Biden has done nothing to revive the nuclear agreement with Iran. The JCPOA was breached by the U.S. in 2018 when then-President Trump left the deal and renewed a 'maximum pressure' sanction campaign against Iran. For over a year Iran stuck to its commitment under the deal. It then began to gradually exceed some of the technical limits of the deal. Those steps were legal under the JCPOA because the U.S. had left the deal. All of them are reversible.

In response to the murder by Israel of Iran's top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh the conservative parliament passed a law that compels the moderate government under the Iranian President Rohani to further reduce its adherence to the JCPOA deal. As part of this, the Iranian government will soon reduce the ability of the international inspectors from the IAEA to observe parts of its civilian nuclear program. As the Ambassador of Iran to the UN announced:

Gharibabadi @Gharibabadi - 16:11 UTC · Feb 15, 2021

Act of Parliament will be executed on time (23 Feb) and the IAEA has been informed today to ensure the smooth transition to a new course in due time. After all, goodwill brings about goodwill!

 

1. The Biden administration demands that Iran fully come back under the restrictions of the deal (whilst the USA under Trump carried out unrestricted sanctions--The USA CAN ignore the JCPOA deal carte blanc but Iran cannot), 

2. to agree to an extension of some restriction under the deal 

3. and to agree to talks about its missile programs (nothing to do with JCPOA) 

4. and its role in the Middle East (Nothing to do with JCPOA). 

Only after that, says the Biden administration, would the U.S. remove some of its sanctions.

The demands are nonsense and have absolutely no chance of being fulfilled.

It is the U.S. that is in breach of the deal. Biden could simply reenter it by lifting the sanctions Trump imposed. Iran had promised that it would follow through by coming back into the technical limits of the deal. But instead of agreeing to that the Biden administration is trying to create a more complicated process by coordinating its negotiation positions with Saudi Arabia, Israel and other opponents of the deal:

Israel’s envoy to the United States suggested Tuesday that Israel may not consult with the new administration on its steps to reenter [JCPOA].

Biden has pledged to engage with allies and partners, including Israel, before making any moves to join the deal. But Reuters reports that some Israeli officials believe consulting with the Biden administration could backfire for Israel “by falsely signaling its consent for any new deal that it still opposes.”

 

During informal talks held by the Trump administration with Iran the U.S. had made similar demands as Biden is now making. Iran has rejected all of them.

Iran's missile force, built independently, is a deterrence against potential aggressors in its region.

 

Since the Iranian revolution 43 years ago the country has been under various weapon embargoes. Its airforce has therefore no modern fighter jets. The Arab states in the Gulf Cooperation Council on the western side of the Persian Gulf have in total some 450 modern fighter jets in between them. Additionally the U.S. is keeping at times a hundred or more of its own fighter jets in the region.

Iran has little ability to defend itself from a concerted bombing campaign. The only thing it can do is to threaten a response by extensive missile strikes on regional targets. Its missile force is thus a sheer necessity. To suggest that Iran should limit its missile force is a demand that would leave the country defenseless. (AND INDICATES that Washington wishes to attack Iran some time in the future.... per 7 countries in 5 years blitzkrieg plan from the Pentagon in the late 1990's)

I won't paste too many 'German' faces as that might be bait for the Israeli zealot wacko's

A further prolonging of the time limits for restrictions under the JCPOA deal is likewise not agreeable. The JCPOA was negotiated in a long process during which both sides made concessions. That the U.S. is now coming back to unilaterally demand longer restrictions without offering anything new in return is unreasonable.

Iran will not agree to any negotiation with the Biden regime unless the U.S. returns to the deal first. Its Supreme Leader has spoken:

Khamenei.ir @khamenei_ir - 8:42 UTC · Feb 17, 2021

About the #JCPOA, promises were made by the other side. I am saying one thing: We’ve heard many promises which were broken & contradicted in practice. Mere words don't help. This time only action! Action! If the Islamic Republic sees action from the other side, it will act too.

Maureen O'Hara from Northern Iran

 

In May 2021 Iran will elect a new president. The moderate Rouhani has failed to revive the Iranian economy. Rouhani negotiated and agreed to the JCPOA but was then betrayed by the U.S. with new devastating sanctions which brought more economic pressure. The conservatives in Iran have already won the 2020 parliament elections. (Note: The 'moderates' in Iran are neoliberals. The more hard line 'conservatives' are social-democrats.) The conservatives will likely win the presidency. Currently the former 'hardline' president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, pictured below, has the highest voter approval of all potential candidates. Should the religious authorities allow him to run he is likely to win. U.S. diplomacy with Iran will then become even more difficult.

Another Noreen O'Hara on the right from Northern Iran.

It is hard to understand what the Biden administration is expecting to win by slow walking a return to the JCPOA.

• It practically guarantees that the Iranian side will become more hardline.
• Keeping up the sanctions also guarantees that Iran will make new moves to counter those. It has reliable proxies in the region and there are many U.S. aligned targets and interests that can be hit. If Iran can not export oil because of U.S. sanctions why should it tolerate that Saudi Arabia can continue to export?
• Without the U.S. rejoining the JCPOA Iran has all incentives to further increase its stockpile of enriched Uranium and to further increase its enrichment level. U.S. nuclear submarines run on 60% enriched Uranium. Why should Iran not build similar boats and enrich its stockpile to the necessary level? While Iran does not want nuclear weapons it could, like Japan, create and stockpile all the necessary ingredients. The time frame needed to become a nuclear weapon state would then be down to a weekend's project.
• There is no chance to further increase the pressure on Iran without co-operation from Moscow and Beijing. While the Biden administration has talked with both on Iran there is no sign that they would (again) agree to limit their trade with Iran. This especially as Washington has declared itself to be hostile to both of them.
• There is no reasonable way the U.S. can attack Iran or its nuclear program without risking intense damage to its own forces and to its allies in the region. Any attack would likely escalate into a wider war. Israel, a nuclear weapon state which is currently expanding its stockpile, would get involved and Iran's ally in Lebanon, Hizbullah, would use its missile force to destroy the economy of the Zionist entity.

Shaun O'Donnel the I of Persia.

The above has all been well known for months. By not immediately reentering the deal the Biden administration is committing diplomatic suicide as has been laid out by many commentators.

Eugene O'Malley, training up to fight the CIA's ISIS IN IRAQ....as a Shia who hates ALL Sunni 'al-CIA-duh'

The Biden administration could have had an easy early foreign policy win by simply ending the sanctions on Iran and by returning to the JCPOA. Instead it is now creating a quagmire for itself that will consume most of its foreign policy energy.

Connor Cruise O'Brien, world wrestling champion.

It is beyond me why it is doing so. 

The simple chart that tells us that the Rothschilds of London have greater control over some countries, more than others.

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