“Maduro sent letter to Iran’s leader accrediting US fugitive,” Joshuar Goodman, AP, Star Tribune, January 22, 2021. Think about it—Venezuela attempted to designate one of its terrorists to serve as a diplomat, directing them directly toward the Supreme Leader. “Maduro sent letter to Iran’s leader accrediting US fugitive,” Joshua Goodman, AP, ABC, January 22, 2021.
Based on the very recent article in this blog, the UN disagrees with Iran. “U.S. blocking Iran’s payment of overdue UN membership fees, Zarif says,” Tehran Times, January 22, 2021.
Should have done this years ago. “Twitter permanently banned an account believed to be linked to Iran’s supreme leader Friday after it posted a threatening image that included former President Donald Trump. The account, @khamenei_site, was linked to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s website, The Associated Press reported.” See “Twitter Bans Account Linked To Iran’s Supreme Leader,” Dustin Jones, NPR, AP, January 22, 2021.
“You’ve got to at least admire the effort that was put into this. Iran’s supreme leader has threatened Donald Trump with assassination by posting a pretty high-quality drawing of a drone looming over the former president while he tarump teeing off with a drone shadow above him. It’s captioned with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s remarks from December, in which he said “Revenge is certain” over the Trump-ordered killing of top Iranian military commander General Qassem Soleimani last year. No action has been taken against the tweet yet, even though it seems likely to have broken any number of the social-media’s company’s rules.” See “Iran’s Supreme Leader Posts Drawing of Drone Strike on Golfing Trump FORE!,” Jamie Ross, Daily Beast, January 22, 2021.
“Iran, China to Continue Fight Against Donald Trump, Officials as Private Citizens,” David Brennan, Newsweek, January 22, 2021.
“Iran starts on Qeshm bitumen plant,” Argus, January 22, 2021.
“Iran: 33 Executions in Iran in the Past Month Alone,” NCRI, January 22, 2021.
How do you sue yourself? “Iran’s president to sue state TV after guest called him ‘opium user’,” Ahmed Vahdat, Telegraph, January 22, 2021.
“Arab Coalition thwarts two terrorist attacks by Iran-backed Houthi militia,” Saudi Gazette, January 22, 2021.
Makes you wonder who else is doing the same thing inside America, working with the Iran Mission to the UN (who just complained last week about restrictions placed by the U.s. on their movement—now we know more). This is the second article on this topic, but I’m including it hear because of the picture with the FM. “Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the U.S. branch of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the MEK’s parent organization, said the move to arrest Afrasiabi and hold him to account was “welcome and long overdue”, but warned that there are more like him across the U.S. “Unfortunately, for the past three decades, the Iranian regime has been running an extensive network of agents and operatives, many of them U.S. persons, in clear violation of American law. The impunity with which Tehran has run its emissaries in the United States had emboldened them,” Jafarzadeh said.” See “FBI Arrests Tehran’s Agent,” Iran Focus, January 22, 2021.
Note that the chief diplomat for Iran says nothing of hostages, terror, missiles, or human rights violations. Or the nuclear weapon program. But Iran wants the U.S. to move first, and to return to the troubled JCPOA. “Iran Wants the Nuclear Deal It Made,” Mohammad Javad Zarif, Foreign Affairs, January 22, 2021.