Posted on 11/23/2015 7:31:30 AM PST by xzins
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Tehran for talks with Iranian leaders about the crisis in Syria.
On his first trip to Iran in eight years, Putin met with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday, as Russia nears a third month of military engagement in the conflict.
The discussions come on a sidelines of a one-day trip to Iran for a summit of gas-exporting countries.
Tehran and Moscow have supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the ongoing civil war that has crippled the country since 2011 and killed over 250,000 people. The violence has displaced millions more.
On September 30, Russia's military launched its first airstrikes against Islamic State militants, in addition to fighting other groups. Some of these groups are moderate Syrian groups supported by U.S.-led airstrikes and opposed to Assad.
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Mr. Putin is an outstanding figure in today world; I appreciate #Russia’s efforts in nuclear issue.
by Jacob Kornbluh
Sept 2, 2015
In a phone interview with CNN Tuesday evening, Trump claimed that there's "something in the Iran deal" that "people don't understand" saying if someone attacks Iran, "we have to come to their defense."
"Does that include Israel?" Trump asked. "And most people say yes, they don't have an exclusion for Israel. So if Israel attacks Iran, according to that deal, I believe, the way it reads, unless they have a codicil or they have something to it, that we have to fight with Iran against Israel." ..."
Trump was most probably referring to language highlighted by the opponents of the deal. On page 142, the deal includes a clause that states, "Co-operation through training and workshops to strengthen Iran's ability to protect against, and respond to nuclear security threats, including sabotage, as well as to enable effective and sustainable nuclear security and physical protection systems."
Washington-based Center for Security Policy asserted that Annex III appears "to commit the United States and other world powers to the defense of Iran's nuclear program."
http://jpupdates.com/2015/09/02/trump-iran-deal-requires-u-s-protecting-iran-in-event-of-israeli-strike/
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September 11, 2015
Jennifer Griffin, Lucas Tomlinson
FoxNews.com
As the Pentagon warily eyes a Russian military build-up in Syria, Western intelligence sources tell Fox News that the escalated Russian presence began just days after a secret Moscow meeting in late July between Iran's Quds Force commander - their chief exporter of terror - and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Fox News has learned Quds head Qassem Soleimani and Putin discussed such a joint military plan for Syria at that meeting, an encounter first reported by Fox News in early August. ..."
The Quds Force is the international arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, involved in exporting terrorism to Iran's proxies throughout the Middle East including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. ..."
Officials who have monitored the build-up say they've seen more than 1,000 Russian combatants - some of them from the same plainclothes Special Forces units who were sent to Crimea and Ukraine. Some of these Russian troops are logistical specialists and needed for security at the expanding Russian bases.
Sept 23, 2015
A prominent pro-Hezbollah newspaper in Lebanon reported Tuesday that Russia and the terrorist organization have formed an alliance and will fight together in Syria. "The parties to the alliance are the states of Russia, Iran, Syria, and Iraq, with Lebanon's Hezbollah as the fifth party,"
Al-Akhbar Editor in Chief Ibrahim al-Amin wrote. The pact would be called the "4+1 alliance", a pun based on the P5+1 that negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran. Hezbollah is a proxy of Iran based in Lebanon and Moscow has been working with Tehran to save Bashar al-Assad's regime, even sending men and weapons to Syria.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/09/22/report-russia-partners-with-hezbollah.html
"In a 2014 New Yorker interview, Obama said his goal was to create a 'new equilibrium' in the Middle East.
In the short run, at least, his signature diplomatic undertaking can be counted on to bring more violence to this volatile region.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the [Obama-Putin Iran deal] agreement is formally known, provides the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism an infusion of somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 billion of unfrozen assets and a great deal more of continuing revenues as businesses and governments around the world rush to profit from oil-and-gas-rich Iran's reintegration into the world economy.
The agreement relaxes the international isolation of the Islamic Republic and ratifies Tehran's status as a nuclear threshold state. And it relieves restrictions on Iran's acquisition of weapons, including ballistic missiles. ..."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/10/iran_deal_throws_sparks_on_mideast_tinderbox_128034.html
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Obama is seething with jealousy.
Obama is seething with jealousy.
Putin has positioned himself as Europe’s defender against Jihadism. Just as Hitler did against Bolshevism. Both actually allied with it IRL.
https://twitter.com/20committee/status/668793996630753284
And this is always the fly in the ointment. Does Russia temper Iran, or merely enable it? Might Russia be able to pull Iran’s irrational fuse at some point? (I doubt it.)
I have to admit that for Russia to have working relations simultaneously with Israel and Iran while hammering jihadists is quite intriguing.
Is this story reported anywhere besides VOA? Face it, that’s a pure propaganda outlet. Obama even made it possible for them to aim their propaganda at US citizens. That used to be illegal.
If you (speaking in general) supported the McCain effort to overthrow Assad then you are to blame for this development.
Ze 12
Russia has always kept a boot on the neck of Islamic excess, from Czars to commissars to presidents. That includes the neck of Turkey, as treacherous and murderous a nation as has ever existed.
Yes. Overseas sources.
US alphabet networks are being silent...for some reason.
Russian investigative journalists and bloggers have uncovered an army of internet trolls paid to pour invective on the Kremlin's opponents and heap praise on President Putin.
Posing as job applicants, the reporters discovered the government hacks working at a small company called the St Petersburg Internet Research Agency. ..."
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article3891720.ece
Sadly, Putin leads & Obama leads, too....FROM BEHIND.....maybe from behind Michelle’s skirt!!! Have not seen Obama anywhere near his wife, Michelle lately...odd, don’t ya think!!!
Obama is 100% with our enemies!!! The French leader, Hollande meets with Obama tomorrow in Washington, DC...to poke Obama and give him some manly spine!!! No such luck, Mr. Hollande, Obama hangs with his beloved Muslim Botherhood & their ISIS soul brothers!!! Obama could care less about the slaughter in Paris, a week ago!!! Shucks he cares less about American security & safety!!! He is out to destroy the American Republic....IMHO!!!
Putin has positioned himself as Europe's defender against Jihadism. Just as Hitler did against Bolshevism. Both actually allied with it IRL.
The story is everywhere from Yahoo News to the Jerusalem Post.
Breaking news.com
Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Iran’s Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in Tehran; Khamenei said Putin ‘is an outstanding figure in today world’ - @khamenei_ir
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I understand. But I see no exceptions among ‘all the nations of the earth’. Just as in Psalm 2.
Imminence is always a part of the question too. I don’t think we are there yet, but the ingredients for the meal seem to be on the counter. They haven’t been cooked just yet.
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