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2021-03-14 17:33
Pompeo admits Trump admin failed to bring Iran to negotiating table
TEHRAN - Former U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo acknowledged on Sunday that the Trump administration failed to bring Tehran to the negotiating table for a new nuclear deal.
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2021/02/06
By Abir Bassam
Tripoli riots: The third step to topple Lebanon
A few days ago, one of my friend’s comments attracted my attention. He said: “America loves Lebanon, as much as Juha loves his stepmother”. Juha is an authentic Arab character, who is known for his exceptional anecdotes that grew as parables in people’s perceptions. He was an exceptional figure in the Arabic culture.
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2021-01-24 11:06
By Mohammad reza Moshfegh
Washington’s policy dependent on sowing sectarian strife: special ambassador to UN
TEHRAN – Criticizing U.S. meddling in West Asia, especially Yemen, the HRC ambassador at large to the Middle East (West Asia) believes that Washington seeks to sow “sectarian discord” among Islamic countries.
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2021-01-17 13:00
Pakistan PM: Pompeo’s attempts to link al-Qaeda to Iran intended to please Israel
Imran Khan says no one believes Pompeo’s claim that Iran has links with al-Qaeda
TEHRAN – The prime minister of Pakistan has said the purpose behind U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's anti-Iran’s remarks is to appease the Zionists, but the world does not believe in his false allegations, IRNA reported on Saturday.
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2021-01-13 21:21
Zarif: Pompeo ending ‘disastrous career with more warmongering lies’ by Iran, Qaeda link rant
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says his American counterpart is marking the twilight of his already “disastrous” career with a pathetic end by resorting to more baseless “warmongering lies” about Iran and other countries, Press TV reported.
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2021-01-13 21:15
The Pompeo ploy
TEHRAN – In a sign of inability to prevent the incoming administration from rejoining the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has resorted to what he took from the CIA archives to cook up a new story against Iran.
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2021-01-13 20:12
Iran witnessing ‘scandalous and shameful’ end of Trump: Rouhani
TEHRAN – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that the U.S. “maximum pressure campaign” against Iran ended in failure and described Donald Trump’s record in the final days of his presidency as “scandalous and shameful” which Iran is witnessing.
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2021-01-13 20:10
Foreign Ministry: U.S. allegation of Iran’s link with al-Qaeda sign of desperation
TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson has dismissed the false accusations of Iranian ties with al-Qaeda by the outgoing U.S. secretary of state as a sign of Washington's frustration and the failure of its policy of “maximum pressure” on Tehran.
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2021-01-13 19:50
Iran rejects Pompeo’s ‘preposterous’ AQ allegations
TEHRAN - Alireza Miryousefi, spokesman for Iran’s mission to the United Nations, has responded to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's allegations that Iran had links to the al-Qaeda (AQ) terrorist group.
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2021-01-01 20:16
Iran stands ready to confront any U.S. adventurism
TEHRAN – As Iran makes preparations for commemorating the first martyrdom anniversary of its counterterrorism hero, U.S. President Donald Trump scrambles to find an excuse for waging a war on Iran to cover up his failures over the past four years.
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2020-12-22 16:42
Tehran strongly refutes Pompeo’s anti-Iran accusations
TEHRAN — Iran has strongly rejected any attack on diplomatic mission, saying U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo aims to create tension through his irresponsible anti-Iran accusations.
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2020-12-21 15:19
Rocket attack on U.S. embassy in Baghdad ‘unacceptable,’ Iran says
TEHRAN – Saeed Khatibzadeh, spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, has called a rocket attack on the United States embassy in Iraq “unacceptable” and “dubious”.
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2020-12-20 13:16
Spokesman derides outgoing Pompeo’s obsession with Iran
TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Ministry has reacted to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s obsession with Iran, saying the U.S. regime is responsible for coups and wars against regional countries.
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2020-12-18 11:55
Zarif reminds Pompeo of his self-sanctioning lunacy
TEHRAN — Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has reminded his American counterpart, Mike Pompeo, about the failure of U.S. sanctions against Iran under his term, which have even targeted U.S. companies.
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2020-12-12 17:46
GC spokesman to Pompeo: Iran not like U.S. regional minions
TEHRAN — Guardian Council spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei has censured U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over interfering in Iran’s domestic affairs, saying Iran is not like the United States’ minions in the region.
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2020-12-05 21:11
By Martin Love
The U.S. and allies have done little but inflame West Asia…
Heiko Maas, Germany’s foreign minister, must be crazy, literally. Or just a blind twit, like so many others in the “Western” establishment of lily-white bigots, racists and Christian imperialists.
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2020-12-02 22:50
By M.A. Saki
Pompeo visited West Bank, Golan Heights because he plans to run for president in 2024: activist
As a preface to my answers, I'd like to state the following:
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2020/11/25
By Martin Love
Does Biden have the wisdom to be better than Trump? …
Biden will be better. Biden will be better, goes the mantra not just among most Democrats in the U.S., but among any person who manages to generate a reasonable thought and perspective about world and national U.S. affairs. To be a U.S. citizen these days with half a brain is like riding a dangerous roller coaster and gripping a safety bar with white knuckles, and the same can probably be said for decent souls anywhere in the world, including Iranians.
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2020-11-24 12:40
By Haniyeh Sadat Jafariyeh
Aramco rocket attack coincides secret talks in S. Arabia
TEHRAN – Saudi Arabia was surprised when Jedda’s ARAMCO distribution facilities were hit by rockets of Houthis on Monday morning a while after Pompeo, Netanyahu, and MBS were holding secret talks in the country.
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2020-11-24 12:01
By M.A. Saki
The world looks as Pompeo mocks international law
On November 19, Mike Pompeo toured the occupied West Bank a year after he shockingly said the settlements did not contradict international law.
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2020-11-24 00:20
Saudi Arabia treading on dangerous ground as secret meeting revealed
TEHRAN – In a highly controversial move, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman held on Sunday a secret meeting with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Saudi city of Neom.
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2020-11-22 20:14
ISIL attack hits Afghan capital as Pompeo joins peace talks
Mortar shells slammed into a residential area of Afghanistan's capital and killed eight people Saturday, hours before outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held what are likely his last meetings with the Taliban and Afghan government negotiators trying to hammer out a peace deal.
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2020-11-21 18:51
Pompeo whitewashes Israeli crimes: Tehran
TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has a doctrine of whitewashing Israeli crimes and formalize the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
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2020-10-23 18:44
Chomsky on General Soleimani’s killing: 'It's as if Iran decided to murder Mike Pompeo'
American polymath Noam Chomsky has said the assassination of top Iranian commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani has shown that the U.S. is a "rogue state" that has no regard for international law.
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2020-10-19 14:56
Iran will sell more weapons than it will buy: defense chief
TEHRAN — Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said on Sunday that Iran will sell more weapons than it will purchase following the expiration of a UN arm embargo on Tehran that expired on October 18.
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2020-10-06 23:36
National Interest cites reasons why America won’t win a sanctions showdown over Iran
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231 makes for dry reading. The resolution and its appendices are over a hundred pages long, laying out the provisions of the UN’s acceptance of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) brokered between Iran and the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany.
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2020-09-30 11:43
Pompeo on lifetime mission to upend regional stability
TEHRAN – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is using everything in his power to advance policies that could result in nothing other than chaos and instability in a region already suffering from ill-considered policies and violence.
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2020-09-21 18:11
Zarif advises Trump to change course before Pompeo further turns his govt. into laughing stock
TEHRAN — Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has advised the U.S. president to change tack before his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo turns the Trump administration into a global laughing stock.
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2020-09-20 18:07
Iran terms U.S. as ‘biggest threat’ to world peace
TEHRAN — Tehran has responded to Washington’s “futile efforts” to reinstate the UN sanctions on Iran, saying the U.S. regime is the “biggest threat” to world peace and security.
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2020-09-20 15:59
Pompeo is waiting for a JCPOA movie to get what it is, says Zarif
TEHRAN — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has not read the text of the 2015 nuclear deal and is waiting for a movie about it in order to understand what’s in the deal, says Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
