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Denmark Latest to Accuse Iran Regime of Assassination Plot

October 31, 2018 by admin

Denmark Latest to Accuse Iran Regime of Assassination Plot

Denmark joined a growing list of countries to accuse the Iranian regime of attempting to mount assassinations of dissidents on its soil when it announced on Tuesday it suspected an Iranian government intelligence service of trying to kill an Iranian Arab opposition figure,

The alleged plot, which Denmark’s foreign minister said he believed the Iranian government was behind, prompted the Nordic country to call for fresh European Union-wide sanctions against the Islamic Republic, according to Reuters.

A Norwegian citizen of Iranian background was arrested in Sweden on Oct. 21 in connection with the plot and extradited to neighboring Denmark, Swedish security police said.

The attack was meant to target an Iranian dissident, intelligence chief Finn Borch Andersen said.

Predictably the Iranian regime was quick to deny the charges and tried to place the blame on its various enemies. Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said that the publication of such “spiteful” media reports and its attribution to Iran is a plot by enemies to affect Tehran’s growing relations with European countries.

He emphasized that these claims are the continuation of plots and conspiracies hatched by known enemies who are against good and expanding Iran-Europe relations at the current sensitive conditions.

The Norwegian suspect had been observed photographing the residence of the Iranian dissident, Danish security services said in a statement.

The plot follows a similar one over the summer in which Iranian intelligence services were implicated in attempting to smuggle a bomb into a gathering of Iranian dissident groups outside of Paris at which a number of American dignitaries were attending, including former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Last Friday, France expelled an Iranian diplomat over the bomb plot in retaliation.

Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen described the alleged planned assassination by Iran in Denmark as “totally unacceptable”

Rasmussen said, after a meeting with his British counterpart Theresa May in Oslo, that he appreciated her support.

“In close collaboration with UK and other countries we will stand up to Iran,” he tweeted.

Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said Denmark would discuss further actions with European partners in the coming days.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo congratulated Denmark on arresting “an Iranian regime assassin.”

In May, Pompeo claimed that Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guard was carrying out “assassination operations in the heart of Europe”, an allegation that at the time bewildered security experts, given that there had been no recent killings in Europe officially attributed to the Iranian state. Since then, France and now Denmark have directly blamed Tehran.

The most recent killing of an Iranian dissident took place in The Hague in November last year, when a gunman shot Ahmad Mola Nissi, another Iranian dissident, which had claimed responsibility for several attacks in Iran.

In further action, Denmark recalled its ambassador from Tehran and called for fresh European Union sanctions in retaliation. The announcement came as Tehran scrambled to muster European support before the US re-imposes stringent sanctions on the country early next month.

The Wall Street Journal editorialized about the seriousness in the increasing number of assassination efforts by the Iranian regime and the bewildering lack of response by EU officials who have been busy trying to concoct ways to throw an economic lifeline to Iran in the wake of U.S. sanctions.

“Denmark wants the EU to impose new sanctions on Iran. Federica Mogherini, the EU’s pro-Iran foreign-policy chief, replied blandly that “we are following events.”

“Even as Iranian hit squads are setting up shop across the Continent, the European Union is displaying a fundamental lack of seriousness about a country uninterested in distinctions between bombs, missiles and assassinations,” the Journal’s editorial board opined.

It is a remarkable turn of events to see the Iranian regime resort to these brazen attacks being carried out under the direct supervision of Iranian intelligence and diplomatic personnel without any effort to hide or disguise the plots.

It can be seen as an indicator of how desperate the mullahs must be in Tehran as they see their grip on power eroding steadily under the drumbeat of persistent protests throughout Iran and the threat of new economic sanctions that will cut off the supply of hard currency to fund the regime’s operations.

That desperation is another sign that the Iranian regime’s days may be numbered.

Filed Under: Blog, News Tagged With: Denmark Terror plot, EU's appeasement policy, Featured, Federica Mogherini, Iran Terrorism

Hassan Rouhani Starts Second Term with False Threats

August 8, 2017 by admin

Hassan Rouhani Starts Second Term with False Threats

Hassan Rouhani Starts Second Term with False Threats

Hassan Rouhani must be feeling like he’s stuck in the movie “Groundhog Day” as he was sworn in for a second term as the Iranian regime’s handpicked puppet president of Ali Khamenei and his fellow mullahs.

Four years ago, he was handpicked by his fellow clerics to be the “moderate” face of the regime and push for a lifting of economic sanctions that were crippling Iran through a nuclear agreement with the West.

With the help from the Iran lobby and a misguided Obama administration, he shepherded a deal through that saved him and his fellow mullahs from being tossed out on a wave of broad discontent among the Iranian people.

Now he begins a second term finding himself once again trying to promote a nuclear deal that is in danger of going the way of the dodo bird; only this time he finds a much different world stage he stands on in which the Iranian regime’s true colors have been on vivid display.

He finds President Donald Trump clearly skeptical of the regime’s intentions and efficacy of the nuclear deal.

He finds a U.S. Congress voting overwhelmingly to impose new economic sanctions because of Iran’s ballistic missile program.

He finds a Trump administration moving quickly to impose economic sanctions targeting Revolutionary Guard Corps leaders and companies involved in ballistic missile development.

Most worrisome, he finds a weakened Iran lobby machine that has lost much of its punch and influence with the transition of the Obama administration leaving many regime advocates cut off from the West Wing and cabinet agencies.

Rouhani attempted to offer up some tough-sounding rhetoric, but only ended up reminding watchers of his precarious position within the regime as his own brother was arrested on corruption charges.

“Today is the time for the mother of all negotiations, not the mother of all bombs,” Rouhani said, referring to the US dropping its largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat in Afghanistan in April. The Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, was among those present at Rouhani’s inauguration.

“The US has showed a lack of commitment in its implementation of the nuclear deal because its policymakers are addicted to the illegal and futile policy of sanctions and humiliation,” Rouhani said. “This has proved the US to be an unreliable partner to the world and even to its longtime allies.”

Referring to Trump, he added: “We do not wish to engage with political novices … Those who want to tear up the nuclear deal should know that they will be ripping up their own political life by doing so and the world won’t forget their noncompliance.”

Tehran has complained the US is reneging on its obligations. Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani, said last week that Tehran had formally complained to the joint commission supervising implementation of the accord over the US senate’s new sanctions against Iranian entities, imposed over Tehran’s testing of missiles.

It is a curiously ironic stand for the regime to make since Iran was adamant during negotiations over the nuclear deal two years ago that “side issues” such as the regime’s ballistic missile program, sponsorship of terrorism and human rights abuses should not be part of the agreement.

When the Obama administration caved into those requests and took them out, the stage was unwittingly set for the Trump administration and Congress to act on those same “side issues” separately and apart from the nuclear deal and now the mullahs are crying foul like squealing babies whose milk bottle has been yanked from their mouths by a stern father.

The Iranian regime clearly wants a double standard on its conduct and now that it isn’t getting it, the mullahs cry foul and threaten to pack up and leave like petulant children.

It’s an appropriate metaphor given how Iranian parliament members acted when European Union policy chief Federica Mogherini showed up for the swearing in ceremony and was promptly surrounded by them in a rush of sophomoric selfies.

The scene was roundly criticized in Iranian state media and on social media for the “strange” behavior being exhibited.

The Fars news agency posted a photo which many social media users felt showed Mogherini unimpressed – and labelled the MPs’ behavior “strange”. One MP, Alireza Salimi, called the behavior “self-surrender to the West”, and said that a committee on the conduct of members may probe the incident – if other MPs complain that the selfies caused “contempt” for parliament.

One popular tweet compared the image to a scene from the film “Malena,” where crowds of men rush to light actress Monica Belluci’s cigarette.

Another made the same point using of an iconic image from Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.”

But the irony was not in the rush for selfies, but rather the fact that most Iranians are barred from using social media platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter because of their widespread use by political opponents and dissidents.

It is also ironic to see Iranian MPs swarm a female politician when so many Iranian women are brutalized by misogyny laws passed by the same parliament permitting underage child marriages and restricting job opportunities and educational choices for women.

In fact, women are still prohibited from riding bicycles on public streets throughout Iran.

Now that is more compelling irony.

Laura Carnahan

Filed Under: Blog, News, The Appeasers Tagged With: #NuclearDeal, Appeasement policy, Featured, Federica Mogherini, Iran, Iran deal, Iran Lobby

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