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Independent: U.S. support for Iranian protesters ‘no genuine’

In an article published by Independent on Tuesday, it is said that the United States’ support for the Iranian protesters is not genuine as Washington’s sanctions has caused economic crisis in the country.

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Russia to continue cooperation with Iran on Fordow reconfiguration

Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Tuesday announcing that Moscow will continue its close cooperation with Iran on the Fordow reconfiguration.

Pompeo says U.S. will no longer waive sanctions on Fordow facility

TEHRAN – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the U.S. will no longer waive sanctions related to Iran’s Fordow nuclear plant after Tehran resumed uranium enrichment at the site more than a year after Washington withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement.

Zarif calls U.S. claim of support for Iranians ‘shameful lie’

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that the United States’ claims of support for the Iranian people is a “shameful lie”.

By Mohammad Ghaderi

Riding wave of people’s protest in Iran: Devil disguised as savior

After the failure of their “maximum pressure” policy against the Islamic Republic, the Americans have launched the project of “creating insecurity” in Iran, as they have done in Iraq and Lebanon.

Top reformist MP: Ill-wishers not allowed to meddle in Iran’s affairs

TEHRAN – A top reformist lawmaker says Iran would not allow ill-wishers to interfere in its internal affairs, hinting at Washington’s meddlesome remarks in the aftermath of the protests that erupted after the government implemented an unannounced decision to ration gasoline and increase its price. 

Foreign Ministry: Iranians condemn Pompeo’s support for rioters

TEHRAN - Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Sunday that the Iranian people condemn U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s support for rioters.

*By Mohammad Ghaderi

Why countries are reluctant to join U.S.-led maritime coalition

TEHRAN - The U.S.-led naval coalition to protect shipping in the Persian Gulf formally was launched in Bahrain on Thursday. But the notable point is that countries have not welcomed this plan. Only a few countries with ineffective naval power have joined the coalition.

U.S. lying that sanctions exempt food, medicine: Iranian minister

TEHRAN - Iranian Agriculture Minister Mahmoud Hojjati said on Tuesday that the United States is lying that sanctions against Iran do not include food and medicine.

Pompeo threatens to wreck Iran’s economy

TEHRAN – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has threatened Iran with bringing about the collapse of its economy should it not “change its behavior”.

Iranian FM says the Adana agreement between Turkey and Syria is still valid

Zarif says Syria and Turkey should together guard border

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that the Syrian Army together with Turkey can guard the border with Turkey.

Emails suggest UAE and Saudi Arabia funded U.S.-based anti-Iran pressure group

For the second year in a row, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo chose an unusual venue in which to present new escalations in the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” strategy against Iran during the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York.

By Martin Love

The U.S. has evolved to “Inverted Totalitarianism” 

NORTH CAROLINA - Mike Pompeo continues to write and speak garbage about Iran. His obvious aim: turn the person in the U.S. street against Iran, or at least, spew enough propaganda over and over so that no one of weak mind, a majority, is going to object to the Trump gang doing whatever it wants in and to West Asia, and that in subservience to the Saudis and the Zionists.

By Martin Love

Absolution from crimes by deflection and deceit is never successful

NORTH CAROLINA - Vladimir Putin appears far and away smarter than any major Western “leader”, especially Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo. Ansarullah appears to have attacked the Abqaiq oil processing plant in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia with drones or something, or claims it did. Maybe they fired off missiles of some sort that had adopted Iranian technology. It’s a mystery, but whatever and whoever hit the plant, and it wasn’t the homemade firecracker rockets that fly out of the Gaza Strip to land in some farm field around Sederot inside “Israel”, whatever this “country” without defined borders really is geographically (it’s never been reliably determined).

By Javad Heirannia

Pompeo pursues an essentially ideological foreign policy: Adib-Moghaddam

TEHRAN - Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at the London Middle East Institute believes that “The chief diplomat of the current administration, Michael Pompeo, continues to pursue an essentially ideological foreign policy, that is driven by a distinctively irrational approach to world politics in general and Iran in particular.”

Zarif to Pompeo: You’ve got it all wrong

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says his American counterpart, Secretary of States Mike Pompeo, has it the other way around when it comes to who wishes to “fight to the last American”.

Zarif questions Pompeo’s coalition for ‘peaceful resolution’

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has questioned U.S. Secretary of States Mike Pompeo’s “coalition for peaceful resolution”, listing eight diplomatic initiatives by Iran since 1985.

By Javad Heirannia

Pompeo will have less weight in Trump’s national security team: expert

TEHRAN - Research Assistant at Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security, says in the absence of Bolton, I think Pompeo, another Iran Hawk will have less weight in Trump’s national security team.

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U.S. Congresswoman says Trump’s information about Iran cannot be trusted

U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has said that President Donald Trump administration’s information about Iran cannot be trusted.

By Alireza Hashemi

Reuters scraping the barrel implicating Iran in Yemeni drone attacks

It appears the western MSM have found a new pretext to further their pro-war line on Iran, this time using a Yemeni drone attack into key Saudi oil installations to bolster the case for confrontation with Iran.

Iran says U.S. hasty claims about strikes on Aramco harmful to all

TEHRAN – Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei said on Monday that the United States’ claims about Iran’s role in the drone strikes on the Saudi Aramco oil installations were “hasty” and will be harmful to all countries in the region.

U.S. maximum pressure has turned into ‘maximum deceit’: Iran

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday that the United States’ failed policy of maximum pressure on Iran has turned into “maximum deceit”.

By Haniyeh Sadat Jafariyeh

‘With or without Bolton’ that is not the question

TEHRAN – The US National Security Adviser, John Bolton, was forced out from the White House last Tuesday due to, as believed, his different stances from those of Trump on issues such as the US foreign policies towards specific countries including Iran.

‘Thirst for war and maximum pressure should go with the warmonger-in-chief’, Zarif says in reaction to Bolton ouster

TEHRAN – In reaction to the ouster of White House national security advisor John Bolton by Donald Trump on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted, “Thirst for war—maximum pressure—should go with the warmonger-in-chief”.

Zarif asks Pompeo: “What exactly is extortion”!? 

TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday asked U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that “what exactly is extortion?”

Zarif says ‘we will sell oil to any and all buyers’

‘Stop nagging’, Zarif tells Pompeo

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “stop nagging” about the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya, saying that Iran “will sell oil to any and all buyers”.

By M.A. Saki

It’s shameful that Pompeo talks about JCPOA provisions

TEHRAN – Speaking at a United Nations Security Council Session on Middle East Peace and Security on August 20, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington is concerned about the approaching end of some of the UN arms embargo and other sanctions against Iran based on the JCPOA.

IRGC: Augmenting defense power on agenda of Iran’s armed forces

TEHRAN – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has said that it is on agenda of Iran’s armed forces to continuously increase their defense power.

Pompeo does not even know about Tisha B’Av night: Iran

TEHRAN – The Iranian government spokesman has lashed out at U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his remarks about Palestine, questioning the American diplomat’s qualification to express opinions about the issue.

By Martin Love

Iran’s strength lies in continued patience

NORTH CAROLINA - It’s said that Donald Trump is likely to win re-election in 2020 if he avoids war with Iran, keeps up the tariff and political pressure on China, and if the Democrats nominate a neoliberal like Joe Biden or even Kamala Harris.