Iran, IAEA agree to extend monitoring deal, give ongoing Vienna talks a chance
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-24
The extension follows the expiry of a three-month agreement signed in February between the Iranian government and the IAEA providing the UN body access to Iranian nuclear sites through photos despite an Iranian law restricting physical inspection…
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NPR Should Ask Where Nicaraguan Non-Profits' Money Comes From
John Perry | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-24
Imagine what would happen if the US media discovered that a candidate in the mid-term elections was under investigation by the FBI for receiving money from a foreign government. Then, suppose it was one that's hostile to the US, perhaps Syria or Iran, and that the same government was also covertly funding election coverage in,…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/24/npr-should-ask-where-nicaraguan-non-profits-money-comes-from/
Iran's Inspection Deal With Internatoinal Atomic Agency Expired
Anonymous007 | southfront.org | 2021-05-24
Click to see full-size image | The speaker of Iran's parliament said a three-month monitoring deal between Tehran and the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency has expired. | As a result, its access to images from inside some Iranian nuclear sites would cease."From May 22 and with the end of the three-month agreement, the (IAEA) agency will have no access to data collected by cameras inside the nuclear facilities agreed under the agreement," state TV quoted parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf as saying. | The…
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Russia Developing Two Smaller Hypersonic Missiles For Its Tu-22M3 And Su-34 Bombers
Anonymous007 | southfront.org | 2021-05-24
Click to see full-size image | Testing of a new small-sized hypersonic missile "Ostrota" that is to be equipped on Russia's bombers should begin next year, Izvestia reported. | Aircraft armed with such ammunition will become part of the Russian non-nuclear deterrent force. | The new missiles will help Russia maintain a leading position in this high-tech type of weapon. It is alle…
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US Winks, Israel Bites? Shifting Middle East Alliances. The War on Iran is "On Hold"?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-23
At the outset of Bush's Second Term, Vice President Dick Cheney dropped a bombshell, hinting that Iran was "right at the top of the list" of rogue enemies of America, & that Israel would, so to speak, "be doing the bombing for us", without US military involvement & without us putting pressure on them "to do it".
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US Trying To Extradite Diplomat For The 'Crime' Of Securing Food For The Hungry
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-23
Special envoy and ambassador to the African Union for Venezuela, Alex Saab, was on a humanitarian mission flying from Caracas to Iran to procure food and gasoline for the Venezuelan CLAP food assistance program. Saab was detained on a refueling stop in the African nation of Cabo Verde and has been held in custody ever since June 12, 2020. | Saab's "crime," according to the US government, which ordered the imprisonment, was money laundering. That is, Saab conducted perfectly legal international trade, but his circumventing the US sanctions — which are designed to prevent relief to the Venezuelans — is…
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Mysterious Drone Strikes Destroyed Several Hangars In Syria's Deir Ezzor — Report
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-05-23
Illustrative image. | On May 23 morning, unidentified combat drones carried out a series of strikes on the outskirts of the town of al-Bukamal in southern Deir Ezzor. The government-held town is located right on the border with Iraq. | According to the Naher Media, a local pro-opposition news blog, the strikes destroyed a number of newly-built hangars in al-Hamdan desert. The strikes didn't result in any human losses. | Liwa Fatemiyoun and Liwa Zainebiyoun, Afghan and Pakistani armed groups supported by the Iranian Islamic Re…
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