Tehran in Meltdown as Israel Decapitates Hamas and Hezbollah

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  By Struan Stevenson Conflagration engulfs the Middle East, with the Israel-Hamas war having gone on for more than a year now, and many Israeli hostages are still being held in deplorable conditions by Hamas terrorists. In Northern Israel, constant missile and rocket attacks by Hezbollah led to the mass evacuation of more than 70,000 Israelis from their homes in 2024 and to the inevitable military retaliation by the Israel Defense Forces, as they crossed the border into Southern Lebanon. Israeli missiles are raining down on key Hezbollah targets in Beirut. The assassination of Hezbollah’s terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, a seismic event, shattered his close friend and ally Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader and Hezbollah’s main sponsor. Nasrallah’s successor, Hashem Saffieddine, was also killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut within hours of being nominated for the Hezbollah leadership role and before the funeral of his predecessor had even taken place. Es...
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Iran, May 2, 2019 – Iran’s state media reported on Wednesday that the ruling clerical regime is planning to increase the price of gasoline beginning Thursday and assign gas rations for each car. The price of each liter of government-rationed gasoline would be 10,000 rials (about 22 cents/liter official rate) with 60 liters ration per car each month, According to reports. The price of gas without ration would run 25,000 rials(about 55 cents/liter official rate). The price of premium gas would be 30,000 rials (about 66 cents/liter official rate). Following this announcement, car owners rushed to the gas stations to purchase as much gas as they could before the new regulation comes into effect, and long queues were formed at each gas station in a matter of minutes in most major cities and towns. Long queues of cars at pump stations in the city of Urmia (northwest Iran) Long queues in Lahijan to get gas before the new regulation goes into effect Long queues in Lahijan, northern Iran, as people seek to buy gasoline before the new regulation goes into effect Long queues in Tehran as people seek to purchase gasoline before the new regulation goes into effect Long queues of cars waiting to buy gas in Tehran, Resalat Ave. Long queues of cars waiting to buy gasoline in Tehran’s Resalat Ave. – Iran Following this announcement and subsequent protests and crisis in the making, on Wednesday the clerical regime backed away from its earlier announcement of increasing the price of gasoline and rationing it. Fearing this would turn into an excuse for the people who are already fed up of the regime’s destructive policies and turn this crisis into an anti-regime protest, the clerical regime hastily backed away from implementing the new price quote and rationing. Officials are now saying the effective date of the implementation would not be on Thursday and that the new date would be announced in a later date. source:english.mojahedin.org

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By Amir Taghati
The US special representative for Iran is visiting the United Nations in New York to update the five permanent members of the Security Council about US policy on Iran, as the White House continues to ratchet up pressure on the Iranian Regime.

The US State Department released a statement about Brian Hook’s visit on April 30 and May 1, which read: “He will underscore the importance of holding Iran accountable for its defiance of UN Security Council resolutions on the development and testing of ballistic missiles.”
The statement went on to say that Hook would reiterate the importance of fully implementing all relevant UN Security Council resolutions related to Iran, “including the enforcement of the Council’s legally binding travel restrictions and arms embargoes”.
The US has taken a tough approach to Iran since Donald Trump took office in 2017, which led to the US withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear agreement last May and the reimbursement of sanctions.
Trump said the accord, designed to get Iran to restrict its nuclear program was “fatally flawed” because it failed to address Iran’s ballistic-missile program or state sponsorship of terrorism.
Iran, of course, denied a military aspect to its nuclear program, claimed its ballistic missile program is merely defensive and claimed that it didn’t fund militant groups in the Middle East.
Since pulling out of the nuclear deal, Trump has reimposed nuclear sanctions on Iran, designated Iran regime’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) a “foreign terrorist organization”, and ended the sanctions waivers granted in November to the eight largest importers of Iranian oil.
The decision to allow the six-month sanctions waivers to expire was announced by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on April 22 as part of the US push to reduce Iranian regime’s oil exports to zero.
The Iranian regime claimed it will keep exporting oil, but that will be increasingly hard now that the US designated the IRGC as a terrorist group – the first time the US has done so to a state entity of another government – because the IRGC control much of the oil industry, so anyone purchasing Iranian oil will not only be breaking US sanctions but supporting a terror group.
The Iranian regime responded by preposterously designating the US military as a terror group, which was ridiculed by pundits across the political spectrum.
The US has also criticised Germany, France, and Britain for their attempts to launch a new trade mechanism to bypass US sanctions and help foreign firms do business with Tehran.
source:ncr-iran

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