[🇮🇷] Iran news/views

[Krishna with Flute]

Iranians are amongst the nicest of people.

It's true that many Iranians, like people everywhere, are warm, hospitable, and have aspirations for peace, prosperity, and better relations with other nations. Unfortunately, when governments act in ways that don't align with the will of their people, it can lead to widespread suffering and misunderstanding.

Many Iranians express discontent with their government and its policies, particularly when those policies lead to international isolation or economic hardship. The dissonance between the people's aspirations and governmental actions can create frustration internally and misperceptions externally.

The enmity between the Iranian government and Israel is partly ideological, rooted in the Iranian regime's political philosophy since the 1979 revolution. This hostility has been exacerbated by the government's support for groups like Hezbollah, which Israel considers terrorist organizations. These actions provoke cycles of retaliation that deepen animosity on both sides.

When Sunni-majority countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia have started normalizing relations with Israel, signaling a shift in regional dynamics. Many agreements show that historical animosities can be overcome when governments align with their people's desire for stability and economic growth.

 

[Lulldapull]

Tide's turning in Syria now. Very heavy Russian bombing and the resistance axis making inroads. Al-Turkiya's jihadist offensive has totally flopped. What the Russians need to do is to occupy the Syrian border with Turkey around Idlib and cut off the exits for these jihadists from fleeing.

It will be a masterstroke!

 

[Saif]

Iran to develop transit hub for Asia-Europe trade

Iran is working to attract a share of the Asia-Europe goods transit by developing a free zone in its northwest, not least by completing a key rail route, an Iranian official said on Tuesday. Hossein Garousi, head of the Maku Free Zone Organization, outlined the plan ahead of an international confe

thefinancialexpress.com.bd

Iran to develop transit hub for Asia-Europe trade
FE ONLINE DESK
Published :
Dec 11, 2024 12:51
Updated :
Dec 11, 2024 12:51

Iran is working to attract a share of the Asia-Europe goods transit by developing a free zone in its northwest, not least by completing a key rail route, an Iranian official said on Tuesday.

Hossein Garousi, head of the Maku Free Zone Organization, outlined the plan ahead of an international conference on economic development of the free zone, reports Xinhua.

Iran aims to handle some 150 billion US dollars worth of goods transported from China to Europe via the Maku Free Zone annually, he said.

Garousi emphasized that an investment of 500 million dollars in the rail route would enable the transport of 15-20 million tonnes of goods annually by train.​

 

[Saif]

Iran shuts power plants over fuel shortages

Iran has suspended operations at several power plants over fuel shortages that have been intensified by rising demand during a spell of freezing weather...

www.newagebd.net

Iran shuts power plants over fuel shortages
Agence France-Presse . Tehran, Iran 16 December, 2024, 20:38

Iran has suspended operations at several power plants over fuel shortages that have been intensified by rising demand during a spell of freezing weather.

The country is an energy giant and holds one of the world's largest reserves of natural gas, but it has been forced to ration electricity in recent weeks and close schools and government buildings.

President Masoud Pezeshkian, who has been advocating for reduced fuel consumption, apologised to the nation on Monday for the shortages and promised they would be resolved by next year.

The western Lorestan province was the latest to take action, partially closing a gas-powered plant on Monday because of "increased consumption of gas among household consumers", according to IRNA state news agency.

It followed a move on Sunday by the northern province of Golestan to close plants and ration electricity, according to local media.

Sub-zero temperatures continue to be recorded all over the country, shutting schools and government offices in more than 20 provinces, including in the capital Tehran.

Local media reports said Isfahan and West Azerbaijan provinces were the latest to order schools and government buildings to shut over the cold snap.

People have also been hit with power cuts across the country, including in Tehran.

IRNA said on Monday that restrictive measures had saved two million cubic metres of gas and 100 megawatts of electricity in the 24 hours.​

 

[Lulldapull]

Iran has unlimited natural resources and they're using them like animals. They have no idea that these are limited resources in the long term and oil n gas wells need upgrading/ investments and new wells dug and capital expenditure and what not.

As long as Iran keeps its borders air tight, things will be reasonable.......population is naturally declining, cuz Irani's not stupid and which equals more going around.......but if Pakistan (the jahil population center of gravity) collapses, which it looks like it will.......then Iran will be burdened with 10's of millions of new refugees.

Pakistan is on IMF life support. The moment its pulled, all those high talking idiotic coloreds on our other forum driving taxi's in NYC/ Chicago/ Lundon will come to their senses in two minutes.

 

[Saif]

Khamenei says Iran does not have or need regional proxy forces

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denied on Sunday that militant groups around the region functioned as Tehran’s proxies, warning that if his country chose to ‘take action’, it would not need them anyway.

www.newagebd.net

Khamenei says Iran does not have or need regional proxy forces
Agence France-Presse . Tehran 22 December, 2024, 22:15

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denied on Sunday that militant groups around the region functioned as Tehran’s proxies, warning that if his country chose to ‘take action’, it would not need them anyway.

The remarks came after a year in which Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza suffered heavy losses in wars with Israel, and two weeks after the fall of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, who had been a key link in Tehran’s so-called axis of resistance.

Another spoke of that axis, Yemen’s Huthi rebels, have been repeatedly targeted by the United States and Britain over their attacks on Red Sea shipping lanes, launched in solidarity with Palestinians.

‘The Islamic Republic does not have a proxy force. Yemen fights because it has faith. Hezbollah fights because the power of faith draws it into the field. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad fight because their beliefs compel them to do so. They do not act as our proxy,’ supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told a group of visitors in Tehran.

‘They the Americans keep saying that the Islamic Republic has lost its proxy forces in the region! This is another mistake,’ he said, adding: ‘If one day we want to take action, we do not need a proxy force.’

Earlier this month, Syrian rebels’ lightning push to Damascus from their strongholds in the northwest ended the decades-long rule of Assad’s family, which had been an ally of Tehran.

Khamenei predicted ‘the emergence of a strong, honourable group’ in Syria, saying the country’s young men had ‘nothing to lose.’

‘His university, school, home, street and life are insecure; what should he do? He must stand with strength and determination against those who have designed this insecurity and those who have implemented it, and God willing, he will overcome them.’

Assad had long played a strategic role in Iran’s anti-Israel axis of resistance, particularly in facilitating the supply of weapons to Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon.

The axis of resistance also includes Hamas, the Huthis and smaller Shia militia groups in Iraq.

All of the groups are united in their opposition to Israel and its main backer the United States.

The supreme leader, who has the final say in major state policies, also accused the United States of trying to create chaos and unrest in Iran.

‘The Iranian nation will trample under its strong feet anyone who accepts America’s mercenary role in this regard,’ he said.​

 

[Saif]

Iran ‘main security challenge’ in ME

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday said Iran was the main strategic and security challenge in the Middle East, citing the acceleration of its nuclear programme and support for Russia’s war against Ukraine.

www.thedailystar.net

Iran ‘main security challenge’ in ME
Says France’s Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday said Iran was the main strategic and security challenge in the Middle East, citing the acceleration of its nuclear programme and support for Russia's war against Ukraine.

"Iran is the main strategic and security challenge for France, the Europeans, the entire region and beyond," Macron said in a speech to ambassadors, adding the issue would be a key subject of discussion with the new administration of US president-elect Donald Trump.

"The acceleration of the nuclear programme leads us nearly to the point of no return," Macron said.

Iran says it is enriching uranium for peaceful purposes and has stepped up the programme since US President-elect Donald Trump pulled Washington out of the 2015 deal during his first term of office and restored tough US sanctions on Tehran.

European powers France, Germany and Britain said last month Iran's actions had further hollowed out the deal and would heighten its stockpile of high-enriched uranium without a "credible civilian justification".

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said in December that the Islamic Republic was "dramatically" accelerating enrichment close to the roughly 90 percent level that is bomb-grade.

The three European powers were co-signatories to the 2015 deal in which Iran agreed to curb enrichment, seen by the West as a disguised effort to develop nuclear-weapons capability, in return for a lifting of international sanctions.

French, German and British diplomats are set to hold a follow-up meeting with Iranian counterparts on January 13 after one last month held to discuss the possibility of serious negotiations in coming months to defuse tensions with Tehran with Trump due to return to the White House on January 20.​

 

[Lulldapull]

Zarif explains the reality to a hendu-pak dalit cheerleader on what the situ really is. Zarif tryin talk to a black man.......makeup luggva k TV per aata hae fareed chakarya ka convert......lol......@Vsdoc

Irans in a great position with a loud mouth trump ka ulla empowered by the establishment.

Irans totally winning:

 

[Lulldapull]

Abhi lay le Iran saara region in two minutes @Vsdoc .......do mint main sub lay lay no problem......resurrect Sassanid Persia.

Museebat ye hae k in illaqon main ab kon rehta hae bhai.......lol

Laina asaan hae doc......govern karna mushkil. Iran don't got a gulag/ concentration camp culture.

Lainay ko to aaj lain lain no?

 

[Sharma Ji]

Dose of caffeine > forum > @Lulldapull 's Irani bhakti posts.

sure beats reading the news