Let's talk Iran - January 11, 2022

Heshmat Alavi @HeshmatAlavi

#BREAKING Jan 11—Isfahan, central #Iran Reports of a grenade attack targeting a site associated to the regime's security forces. This follows a similar attack last night in the city of Mashhad in northeast Iran.

Heshmat Alavi @HeshmatAlavi

Jan 10—Mashhad, NE #Iran A group of young women set fire to a local Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) paramilitary Basij building, raising security concerns among authorities regarding how dissidents can easily access their sites. https://t.co/NZz3RGfCNZ

Iran Deal Legalizes Iranian Bomb, Introducing Instability in the Middle East, Higher Energy Prices at Home

Biden’s re-entry into the Iran deal will have major consequences not just for U.S. allies, but for Americans here at home. Iran has been telling Biden administration officials that it’s reluctant to reenter the Obama-era nuclear deal for fear that the next Republican president will withdraw from it as President Donald Trump did in 2018. But there’s no way for American negotiators to guarantee that a future administration will abide by an agreement that legalizes Tehran’s nuclear weapons program. So it seems President Joe Biden will have to make sure Iran gets the bomb on his watch. LINK

China Gorges On Cheap, Sanctioned Oil From Iran, Venezuela

Thanks to Biden's appeasement of Iran's ayatollah, China is buying more sanctioned oil from Iran and Venezuela at a bargain. Exactly 324 million barrels from Iran and Venezuela in 2021, about 53 percent more than the year before.

Chinese buyers, particularly private refiners, have benefited from Washington’s tough line on Iran and Venezuela, continuing to buy their oil long after their counterparts elsewhere in Asia ceased purchases. The risk that non-U.S. entities may lose access to the U.S. financial system or have their American assets frozen if found guilty of breaching the sanctions hasn’t dissuaded them. LINK

Heshmat Alavi @HeshmatAlavi

THREAD 1) The US seeks to reenter the #Iran nuclear deal. Reminder: Iran’s regime was violating the 2015 agreement from day one & prior to Trump’s nixing. Iran did not dismantle the core of the plutonium reactor at Arak, as required by the deal (JCPOA).

Preparing for Iran Strike: Bennett Says Israel Undergoing Largest Rearmament in Years

“Bennett’s government increased the 2022 defense budget to nearly $19.2 billion, a large chunk of which was to be earmarked for planning on military engagement with Iran”.

Heshmat Alavi @HeshmatAlavi

#Iran has been violating Obama's 2015 nuclear deal since day one Obama's unbridled appeasement of Tehran's ayatollahs allowed the regime to obtain a highly flawed nuclear deal and begin violating it from the get go. #JCPOA

heshmatalavi.substack.comIran has violated Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal since day oneObama’s unbridled appeasement of Tehran’s ayatollahs allowed the regime to obtain a highly flawed nuclear deal and begin violating it from the get go.

Yemen pro-government troops capture oil-rich Shabwa province from pro-Iran rebels

Pro-government forces in Yemen backed by a Saudi-led military coalition say they have seized control of the northern oil province of Shabwa from Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

Government forces and Houthi rebels have been locked for months in a fierce battle in northern Yemen with heavy fighting in the oil- and gas-rich Marib and Shabwa provinces. LINK

Heshmat Alavi @HeshmatAlavi

THREAD 1) To those arguing #Iran should be provided sanctions relief, keep in mind that money going into Iran is used by the regime to fund & arm terrorists. The U.S. Navy recently seized a new shipment from Iran to the Houthi terrorists in #Yemen.

“Iran Needs More People To Stand and Fight”: Executed Political Prisoner Baktash Abtin

His death and the protests with “Death to Khamenei” chants at his funeral, and by his fellow inmates, show that the regime’s killings has failed to silence the people of Iran. LINK

Iran’s Revolutionary Court Sentences Political Prisoner to Death

Babak Paknia, the lawyer representing political prisoner Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani said in a tweet today that his client has been sentenced to death for “corruption on earth.”

Iran uses executions as a tool of political repression against protesters, dissidents, and members of minority groups, after unfair trials based on forced confessions under torture. LINK

Flight PS752: The lives and hopes that perished

This act of terrorism, one more time, has shown the true nature of the regime in Iran. Brutality and mercilessness are the attributes of this regime, and human life has no value in its philosophy. Until this regime is brought down by the people of Iran, the world will continue to witness broader acts of terrorism. LINK