IRAN: Latest and Breaking News

George1 wrote:

nomadski wrote:https://www.mashreghnews.ir/news/1132691/%D9%88%D9%82%D8%AA%DB%8C-%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B9%D9%87-%D9%86%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86-%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%A2%D8%B0%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85-%D9%86%D9%85%DB%8C-%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF-%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85


Here we see Azer people in R. AZER, mourn the war dead in traditional Shia fashion. But despite their religious commonality, with Iranians. They speak Azeri. Not Farsi. Their loyalty is to Turkey. Not Iran. And if they were to unite with either Turkey or Iran. Then the ethnic power  balance would change in Iran, in their favour. And escalate tensions with the Farsi speaking population. Lead to conflict. As it already is doing in Tabriz.

So what is the solution?  Greater unity can only happen between Iran and R. AZER, when social conditions are very similar. If Azeris in Iran only speak Farsi and Azeris in R. AZER, also only speak Farsi. Then both religion and language are identical. Unification can happen.

But as things stand now. The Azeri population in R. AZER, only share in part a common religion with Iranians. Similar to the Iraqi Shia. They may become closer to Iran. But they can not form the same country.

At the moment, despite their religious chanting, they are allied with Turkey. An expansionist power. Aiming to build a pan - Turkic Empire. The way to stop Turkey, is to support Armenia. To stop their expansionist policy. If Turkey United physically with R. AZER. Then again this would change the ethnic balance of power. Lead to separatism by Iranian Azerbaijani.

Therefore, Iran should first stop the unification of Azer with Turkey. By supporting Armenia territorial integrity. And should not think about unification of R. AZER, with Iran, at this time. That will also lead to social conflict. Instability. The time for that will come, if and when all Azeris speak Persian.

nomadski wrote:https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/iran-crisis-boris-johnson-trump-soleimani-corbyn-commons-quds-a9275336.html%3famp


I heard Iran FM, was going to invite  UK. Face to face talks with general soleimani murderers supporters.


https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2020/11/17/2390974/foreign-ministers-discuss-iran-uk-cooperation

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/en.mehrnews.com/amp/139727/

Not even a year has passed. Hard revenge by the Liberals.

nomadski wrote:Yes, and this killing  of supposed AQ member ( hypothetical ) and great foreign news coverage stands in  Sharp contrast to killing of Iranian University teacher , a few days ago, in drive by shooting. Hardly any coverage  by NYT or by  local media or  statement by Iranian officials. Great distraction? Cover one story , with another story ?


Similar to earlier in this year. Soliemani killed 3 January. Ukraine plane " shot down" on 8 Jan 2020.


Edit :  I could believe a domestic agent being responsible or a foreign agent for the teacher 's  killing. But in case of previous assassinations of university professors , they are all nuclear and physics teachers. I find it hard to believe that only nuclear scientists , should somehow become outspoken politically , and thus become targets of domestic terrorism. So it is obvious to me that foreign terrorism was responsible for their killings.

Now, there is little or no details about this latest assassination. Only that unlike the many  previous assassinations, there is little or no news about it in Iran . This is strange. Now if he was not a Nuclear scientist,  and perhaps a Geography teacher, then this rules out foreign activity. Together with media silence. Does anyone know?

The Iranian Ministry of Defense issued a statement confirming the news of the assassination and killing of a nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Sujoy wrote:The extent of the Mossad’s intelligence and operational reach inside the Islamic Republic

PapaDragon wrote:
Wasn't this guy supposed to have protection detail or something?  

Especially if he was still active in nuclear projects?

ahmedfire wrote:Assassination of scientisits is something dirty , Israel did it before with the Egyptian female atomic energy scientist Dr Sameera Moussa who was the first Arab woman to obtain a PhD in atomic radiation. They killed her in a "car accident" during her visit to the US .

Iran should reply with the same thing or through Hezbollah .

par far wrote:

ahmedfire wrote:Assassination of scientisits is something dirty , Israel did it before with the Egyptian female atomic energy scientist Dr Sameera Moussa who was the first Arab woman to obtain a PhD in atomic radiation. They killed her in a "car accident" during her visit to the US .

Iran should reply with the same thing or through Hezbollah .

I think Dr Sameera Moussa was not involved in making nuclear weapons and she was still murdered.  

Iran will hit back(if they don't hit back, then it will be perceived as weakness) but I think Iran will hit back smartly. We will see.

I think Dr Sameera Moussa was not involved in making nuclear weapons and she was still murdered.

par far wrote:

ahmedfire wrote:Assassination of scientisits is something dirty , Israel did it before with the Egyptian female atomic energy scientist Dr Sameera Moussa who was the first Arab woman to obtain a PhD in atomic radiation. They killed her in a "car accident" during her visit to the US .

Iran should reply with the same thing or through Hezbollah .

Iran is in a tough place. If they hit back too hard , they risk a Serbia/Iraq style air campaign from the US. They have next to no allies that would stand by them. Iran is stuck eating these attacks for now. They will probably try and stick out the next 50 days of Trump and go from there.