Daily Archives: June 28, 2022

2022-06-28: News Headlines

Staff (2022-06-28). Biden advisors believe Zelenskyy should admit Ukraine shrink. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — White House officials are losing confidence that Ukraine will ever be able to take back all of the land it has lost to Russia, US officials told media news.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-06-28). NATO number one threat to global peace: EU lawmaker. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — "NATO is the biggest threat to global peace since it is pushing the European Union toward confrontation with Russia and China," according to a French member of the European Parliament.

Staff (2022-06-28). Erdogan sets condition for Sweden, Finland membership in NATO. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Sweden and Finland must consider Tàºrkiye's security concerns if they seek to join NATO, the Turkish president said before leaving for a NATO summit meeting in Madrid on Tuesday.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-06-28). EU spokesman says Vienna talks may go on after Doha talks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Peter Stano, a spokesman for the European Union, has voiced hope that the Vienna talks will continue after the indirect Doha talks.

Jason Ditz (2022-06-28). Qatar to Host Indirect US-Iran Nuclear Talks. news.antiwar.com EU efforts to restart the nuclear talks are finally bearing fruit. US and Iranian diplomats Qatar was willing to host the all-important talks, and Iranian officials are heading in with a fresh team and talk of more flexibility as Iran's been hinting at willingness to compromise on…

_____ (2022-06-28). Tensions between Lebanon and Israel Escalate. journal-neo.org Against the backdrop of the recent deterioration in Israel's relations with Iran and the worsening of Tel Aviv's relations with the Palestine Liberation Organization, whose militias operate from Lebanon, Syria and the Golan Heights, the situation on the border between Lebanon and Israel is becoming much more complicated. The IDF's readiness for a new military …

Ana Perdigón (2022-06-28). G7: France Wants Venezuela & Iran's Oil Back on World Market. orinocotribune.com On Monday, June 27, a spokesperson for the government of the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, requested the diversification of the world's sources of oil. Specifically, the spokesperson requested that petroleum products from Venezuela and Iran begin to flow on the world market. The request provides new evidence of the boomerang effects caused by the economic blockade imposed on Venezuela by the US and its allies, including France. | Within the framework of the G7 Summit being held in Germany, sources from Macron's administration stated that France considers it essential that the entire international communit…

Editor2 (2022-06-28). Two Countries Apply to Join BRICS. orinocotribune.com Iran and Argentina see potential in Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa bloc | The Islamic Republic of Iran has officially submitted its application to join the group of five leading economies made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, the foreign ministry in Tehran announced on Monday. The move comes after the Iranian president addressed the BRICS summit last week. | While BRICS is not a treaty bloc, it has a "very creative mechanism with broad aspects," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Monday, according to the Tasnim news agency. He added that Tehran has already ha…

Editor (2022-06-28). Patrick Lawrence: Who Should Control Foreign Policy? scheerpost.com March 15, 2019: Peace activists in Berlin discouraging Germany from buying combat aircraft that can be used as delivery systems for nuclear weapons. (Ippnw Deutschland, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) | By Patrick Lawrence / I had a letter in the mail the other week from someone named Barry Klein, who resides in Houston. I filed it knowing I would write about it, and now I shall. | Klein runs a group called

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-06-28). Iran sympathizes with Jordan over tanker incident. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — The new Iranian Foreign Ministery spokesman Nasser Kanani has offered condolences to Jordan over a deadly tanker gas leak that killed and injured dozens of people in the port city of Aqaba Turesday.

Staff (2022-06-28). Iran competent candidate for BRICS: Russia's Lavrov. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, saying that the decision to include Argentina and Iran in the BRICS will be made by consensus, adding that the two countries are competent candidates.

Staff (2022-06-28). China supports Iran's membership in BRICS. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson has said his country as the BRICS chair for this year, supports the membership expansion process and expanding the "BRICS Plus" cooperation.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-06-28). VIDEO: FM Amir-Abdollahian arrives in Ashgabat from Ankara. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — The Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian arrived in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, to attend the Caspian Sea littoral states meeting after his trip to Turkey.

____ (2022-06-28). Iran, Pakistan armed forces secure shared borders. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi said that the armed forces of two countries of Iran and Pakistan created adequate security conditions at shared borders.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-06-28). EU foreign policy chief reacts to start of Doha talks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell expressed his view of today's indirect talks to lift anti-Iran sanctions in Doha, Qatar.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-06-28). US stops oil tanker in transit from Russian port to Louisiana. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — The US authorities have stopped an oil tanker carrying fuel products from Russia to the US state of Louisiana, local US media said on Tuesday.

Staff (2022-06-28). Iran, Qatar diplomats hold bilateral meetings in Doha. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani on Tuesday met and held talks with the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-06-28). Iran FM stresses need to draw Caspian Sea baselines soon. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — The Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has called for accelerating the work on concluding an agreement on drawing the baselines in the Caspian Sea.

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-06-28). Iran, US indirect talks on removal of sanctions kick off. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — The indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States in the Qatari capital of Doha have started on Tuesday afternoon.

Staff (2022-06-28). Iran military delegation visits Oman Maritime Security Centre. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — The visiting military delegation from the Islamic Republic of Iran has paid a visit to Oman's Maritime Security Centre (MSC) in Muscat, an Omani source reported on Tuesday.

Staff (2022-06-28). Installing new centrifuges in line with Strategic Action Plan. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said that Iran's measure to install new centrifuges at the Fordow nuclear facility is in line with Parliament's Strategic Action Plan.

Staff (2022-06-28). Israeli regime cannot defend itself: IRGC chief. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — The commander-in-chief of IRGC Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami criticized the act of some Arab states in normalizing their ties with the Israeli regime while the regime cannot defend itself.

____ (2022-06-28). At least 51 dead in prison riot fire in Colombia: report. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) —At least 51 prisoners died after a fire started during a prison riot in southwestern Colombian city of Tulua, head of National Prisons Agency said on Tuesday, one of the worst incidents of recent prison violence in the country.

Staff (2022-06-28). Egypt totally oppose engaging in any conflict with Iran. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — As the US and Israeli attempt to form an anti_Iran military allience in the Middle East, sources have told the media that Egyptian military and political organizations totally oppose to any military conflict with Iran.

Staff (2022-06-28). Shur river in Alborz Province. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) — Shur river, also named Shurkat river or Abharrood, is a seasonal river located in Eshtehard, Alborz province.

TeleSUR, yart, JCM (2022-06-28). Delegaciones de Irán y EE.UU. llegan a Qatar para diálogo nuclear. telesurtv.net La Cancillería de Qatar dio la bienvenida a los negociadores y se mostró satisfecha de ser sede de las conversaciones.

Dave DeCamp (2022-06-27). Putin Says Russia Will Send Nuclear-Capable Iskander Missiles to Belarus. news.antiwar.com On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow "In the coming months, we will transfer to Belarus Iskander-M tactical missile systems, which can use ballistic or cruise missiles, in their conventional and nuclear versions," Putin said at a meeting with Lukashenko. | At the meeting, Lukashenko…

Matt Sedlar (2022-06-27). OPEC Plus's Accelerated Oil Production Pales in Comparison to Lost Output from US Sanctions. cepr.net Biden has a significant opportunity in his hands to boost global oil production by breaking with Trump's failed "maximum pressure" campaigns, and ending unilateral — and likely illegal — sanctions against Iran and Venezuela.

____ (2022-06-27). Nuclear-Armed Powers Squander $156.000 per Minute on Their MAD Policy. transcend.org 24 Jun 2022 – They call it MAD: Mutual Assured Destruction. It is about the nuclear-armed powers' doctrine of military strategy and national security policy. And they spent on their MAD policy more than 156.000 US dollars, every single minute, in just one year—2021.

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