Thursday, August 5, 2021

Iran swears in new hard-line President amid Regional Tension.Iran have to be very careful,not to be termed as hard-liners & to spoil the All Peaceful entered Negotiation/Agreements,as the Diversionary tactics' Israeli Ex.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Imperial Queen led UK with the Double Agences' France are behind the Scene tarnishing all Iranian ongoing Peaceful Negotiation/Agreements.

Iran swears in new hard-line President amid Regional Tension.Iran have to be very careful,not to be termed as hard-liners & to spoil the All Peaceful entered Negotiation/Agreements,as the Diversionary tactics' Israeli Ex.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Imperial Queen led UK with the Double Agences' France  are behind the Scene tarnishing all Iranian ongoing Peaceful Negotiation/Agreements. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The protégé of Iran’s supreme leader, Ebrahim Raisi, was sworn in as the country's new president during a ceremony in parliament on Thursday, an inauguration that completes hard-liners’ dominance of all branches of government in the Islamic Republic. The  US  Ex. President Trump with his Diversionary tactics' Israeli Ex.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Any French/British Assistance is Parochial. (1 of 12) President Ebrahim Raisi, right, takes his oath as president, as Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejehi listens in a ceremony at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. Raisi, a protégé of Iran's supreme leader, completes the hard-liners' dominance of all branches of government in the Islamic Republic. (2 of 12) President Ebrahim Raisi delivers a speech after taking his oath as president in a ceremony at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. The inauguration of Raisi, a protégé of Iran's supreme leader, completes the hard-liners' dominance of all branches of government in the Islamic Republic. (3 of 12) President Ebrahim Raisi, center, walks to the podium to take his oath as president in a ceremony at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. The inauguration of Raisi, a protégé of Iran's supreme leader, completes the hard-liners' dominance of all branches of government in the Islamic Republic. (4 of 12) President Ebrahim Raisi, center, speaks with female lawmakers after taking his oath as president in a ceremony at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. The inauguration of Raisi, a protégé of Iran's supreme leader, completes the hard-liners' dominance of all branches of government in the Islamic Republic. (5 of 12) President Ebrahim Raisi, center, waves to journalists as he is surrounded by a group of lawmakers after taking his oath as president at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. The inauguration of Raisi, a protégé of Iran's supreme leader, completes the hard-liners' dominance of all branches of government in the Islamic Republic. (6 of 12) Participants listen to a speaker during swearing-in ceremony of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021.The inauguration of Raisi, a protégé of Iran's supreme leader, completes hard-liners' dominance of all branches of government in the Islamic Republic. (7 of 12) Lawmakers listen to the Iranian national anthem during the swearing-in ceremony of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. The inauguration of Raisi, a protégé of Iran's supreme leader, completes the hard-liners' dominance of all branches of government in the Islamic Republic. (8 of 12) President Ebrahim Raisi delivers a speech after taking his oath as president in a ceremony at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. The inauguration of Raisi, a protégé of Iran's supreme leader, completes the hard-liners' dominance of all branches of government in the Islamic Republic. 9 of 12) President Ebrahim Raisi, center, is surrounded by group of lawmakers while leaving after taking his oath as president at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. The inauguration of Raisi, a protégé of Iran's supreme leader, completes the hard-liners' dominance of all branches of government in the Islamic Republic. (10 of 12) Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, second left, arrives to attend the swearing-in ceremony of his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. Thursday's inauguration ceremony, scaled back because of the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the country, still drew leaders and dignitaries from around the world. The presidents of Iraq and Afghanistan flew in for the occasion, along with Enrique Mora, the European Union official who has coordinated the recent nuclear negotiations in Vienna. (11 of 12) Deputy Secretary General and Political Director of the European External Action Service (EEAS), Enrique Mora, center, arrives to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. Thursday's inauguration ceremony, scaled back because of the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the country, still drew leaders and dignitaries from around the world. The presidents of Iraq and Afghanistan flew in for the occasion, along with Mora, the European Union official who has coordinated the recent nuclear negotiations in Vienna. (12 of 12) Deputy Secretary General and Political Director of the European External Action Service (EEAS), Enrique Mora, center, arrives to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. Thursday's inauguration ceremony, scaled back because of the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the country, still drew leaders and dignitaries from around the world. The presidents of Iraq and Afghanistan flew in for the occasion, along with Mora, the European Union official who has coordinated the recent nuclear negotiations in Vienna. August 05, 2021 The former judiciary chief known for his distrust of the West takes the reins at a tense time. Iran's indirect talks with the U.S. to salvage Tehran’s landmark 2015 nuclear deal have stalled, as Washington maintains crippling sanctions on the country and regional hostilities simmer. “The sanctions must be lifted,” Raisi said during his half-hour inauguration speech. “We will support any diplomatic plan that supports this goal.” Wearing the traditional black turban that identifies him in the Shiite tradition as a direct descendant of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, Raisi recited the oath of office with his right hand on the Quran. In his address, Raisi stressed his embrace of diplomacy to lift U.S. sanctions and mend rifts with neighbors, a subtle reference to Sunni rival Saudi Arabia. But he also signaled that Iran seeks to expand its power as a counterbalance to foes across the region. “Wherever there is oppression and crime in the world, in the heart of Europe, in the U.S., Africa, Yemen, Syria, Palestine ... we will stand by the people,” he said, referring to Iran-backed militias like Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. His voice rose with emotion, eliciting a clamor of approval from the audience. "The message of the election was resistance against arrogant powers.” Raisi, who won a landslide victory in an election that saw the lowest voter turnout in the nation’s history, faces a mountain of problems — what he described on Thursday as “the highest level of hostilities by Iran's enemies, unjust economic sanctions, widespread psychological warfare and the difficulties of the coronavirus pandemic.” Amid ongoing sanctions, Iran is grappling with runaway inflation, diminishing revenues, rolling blackouts and water shortages that have sparked scattered protests. Barred from selling its oil abroad, Iran has seen its economy crumble and its currency crash, hitting ordinary citizens hardest. Without offering any specific policies, Raisi pledged to resolve the country's mounting economic crisis, improve the spiraling currency and “empower poor people." Former President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from Iran's nuclear deal in 2018 has led Tehran to abandon over time every limitation the accord imposed on its nuclear enrichment. The country now enriches a small amount of uranium up to 63%, a short step from weapons-grade levels, compared to 3.67% under the deal. It also spins far-more advanced centrifuges and more of them than allowed under the accord, worrying nuclear nonproliferation experts, though Tehran insists its program is peaceful. Raisi, 60, a conservative cleric long cultivated by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has promised to engage with the U.S. But he also has struck a hard-line stance, ruling out negotiations aimed at limiting Iranian missile development and support for regional militias — something the Biden administration wants to address. The official proceedings in Tehran come just a week after a drone crashed into an oil tanker linked to an Israeli billionaire off the coast of Oman, killing two crew members. The U.S., Israel and the United Kingdom blamed Iran for the raid and vowed a collective response, with Israel's defense minister on Thursday even warning the country is ready to strike Iran. Although Tehran denied involvement, the assault escalates a yearslong shadow war targeting commercial shipping in the Mideast and threatens to complicate efforts to revive the nuclear deal. Thursday's inauguration ceremony, scaled back because of the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the country, still drew leaders and dignitaries from around the world. The presidents of Iraq and Afghanistan flew in for the occasion, along with Enrique Mora, the European Union official who has coordinated the recent nuclear negotiations in Vienna. Senior officials from Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Venezuela and South Korea also attended. Associated Press writer Isabel DeBre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report. --------------------------------------------------- UN nuclear chief in Iran as it threatens watchdog's cameras.Iran (AP).The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog met Sunday with Iranian officials in a bid to preserve his inspectors' ability to monitor Tehran's atomic program, even as authorities said they planned to cut off surveillance cameras at those sites. (1 of 5) Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks in a meeting with Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. Grossi met with Salehi ahead of Iran's plans to partly suspend United Nations inspections of the country's nuclear facilities. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP) (2 of 5) Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, speaks with Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi, back to camera at center, during their meeting in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog met Sunday with Iranian officials in a bid to preserve his inspectors' ability to monitor Tehran's atomic program, even as authorities said they planned to cut off surveillance cameras at those sites. (3 of 5) Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi, right, looks towards Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during a meeting, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog met Sunday with Iranian officials in a bid to preserve his inspectors' ability to monitor Tehran's atomic program, even as authorities said they planned to cut off surveillance cameras at those sites. (4 of 5) Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi, second left, meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, second right, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog met Sunday with Iranian officials in a bid to preserve his inspectors' ability to monitor Tehran's atomic program, even as authorities said they planned to cut off surveillance cameras at those sites. (5 of 5) Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi, center, meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, back to camera at left, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog met Sunday with Iranian officials in a bid to preserve his inspectors' ability to monitor Tehran's atomic program, even as authorities said they planned to cut off surveillance cameras at those sites. February 21, 2021 Rafael Grossi's arrival in Tehran comes as Iran tries to pressure Europe and the new Biden administration into returning to the 2015 nuclear deal, which President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from in 2018. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who under President Hassan Rouhani helped reach the nuclear deal, said the cameras of the International Atomic Energy Agency would be shut off despite Grossi's visit to follow a law passed by parliament. “This is not a deadline for the world. This is not an ultimatum,” Zarif told the government-run, English-language broadcaster Press TV in an interview aired before he was to meet Grossi. “This is an internal domestic issue between the parliament and the government.” “We have a democracy. We are supposed to implement the laws of the country. And the parliament adopted legislation — whether we like it or not.” Zarif's comments marked the highest-level acknowledgement yet of what Iran planned to do when it stopped following the so-called “Additional Protocol,” a confidential agreement between Tehran and the IAEA reached as part of the nuclear deal. The IAEA has additional protocols with a number of countries it monitors. Under the protocol with Iran, the IAEA “collects and analyzes hundreds of thousands of images captured daily by its sophisticated surveillance cameras,” the agency said in 2017. The agency also said then that it had placed “2,000 tamper-proof seals on nuclear material and equipment.” In his interview, Zarif said authorities would be “required by law not to provide the tapes of those cameras.” It wasn't immediately clear if that also meant the cameras would be turned off entirely as Zarif called that a “technical decision, that's not a political decision.” “The IAEA certainly will not get footage from those cameras,” Zarif said. The Vienna-based IAEA did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Zarif's comments. The agency last week said the visit was aimed at finding “a mutually agreeable solution for the IAEA to continue essential verification activities in the country.” There are 18 nuclear facilities and nine other locations in Iran under IAEA safeguards. Grossi met earlier Sunday with Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran's civilian nuclear program. Iran's ambassador to the IAEA, Kazem Gharibabadi, later tweeted that “Iran and the IAEA held fruitful discussions based on mutual respect, the result of which will be released this evening.” Iran’s parliament in December approved a bill that would suspend part of U.N. inspections of its nuclear facilities if European signatories do not provide relief from oil and banking sanctions by Tuesday. Already, Iran has slowly walked away from all the nuclear deal's limitations on its stockpile of uranium and has begun enriching up 20%, a technical step away from weapons-grade levels. It also has begun spinning advanced centrifuges barred by the deal, which saw Iran limit its program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. An escalating series of incidents since Trump's withdrawal has threatened the wider Mideast. Over a year ago, a U.S. drone strike killed a top Iranian general, causing Tehran to later launch ballistic missiles that wounded dozens of American troops in Iraq. A mysterious explosion also struck Iran's Natanz nuclear facility, which Iran has described as sabotage. In November, Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who founded the country's military nuclear program some two decades earlier, was killed in an attack Tehran blames on Israel. Zarif brought up the attacks in his interview with state TV, saying the IAEA must keep some of its information confidential for safety reasons. “Some of them may have security ramifications for Iran, whose peaceful nuclear sites have been attacked," Zarif said. “For a country whose nuclear scientists have been murdered in terrorist operations in the past — and now recently with Mr. Fakhrizadeh — confidentiality is essential.” Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 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