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Iran Rained Down Ballistic Missiles On A Mockup Of Israel's Nuclear Reactor

In a highly suggestive drill, Iran demonstrated a combined missile and drone strike against a lookalike of Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility.
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Eikä varmasti ole sattumaa, että toi näyttää ihan siviilirekalta ja kontilta. Pari rekkaa ajelee sopivaan paikkaan, pressut pois, dronet liikkeelle, pressut takasin kiinni ja rekat katoaa muun liikenteen joukkoon.
 
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Eikä varmasti ole sattumaa, että toi näyttää ihan siviilirekalta ja kontilta. Pari rekkaa ajelee sopivaan paikkaan, pressut pois, dronet liikkeelle, pressut takasin kiinni ja rekat katoaa muun liikenteen joukkoon.
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Periaatteessa jokin tuollainen voisi palvella miinakentän virkaa. Droneille oltaisiin ohjelmoitu tuhoamisalue jolta hakea maalia. Navogointi voisi hyvinkin olla inertialla toimiva, kun etäisyydet eivät varmaankaan tarvitsisi olla pitkät ja lennokki osaisi hakea alueelta maalit itsenäisesti. Mutta itse suunnittelisin tuon siten että konttia ei tarvitse nostaa pystyyn, vaan kontti voisi toimia itsenäisesti.
 
Talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal that have resumed in Vienna show some progress but it’s “far too slow,” a U.S. official said Tuesday.

“Iran has at best been dragging its feet in the talks while accelerating its nuclear escalation,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a press briefing. “We have been very clear that that won’t work.”

If Iran continues at that pace, it will be too late to restore the 2015 nuclear accord between Iran and world powers known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, he said.

Diplomats reconvened Monday in the Austrian capital for an eighth round of negotiations meant to limit the Persian Gulf country’s nuclear activities in exchange for relief from U.S. sanctions.
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Western parties have yet to make "political decisions" to conclude talks aimed at restoring the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran said Monday after its chief negotiator returned to Vienna.

All sides to the negotiations have signalled progress in the talks being held in the Austrian capital, but add that they are at a critical stage.

Iran has repeatedly emphasised the need for the West to make certain "decisions".

"Unfortunately, Western sides and the US haven't still made their political decisions on several remaining issues," Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said at his weekly press conference.

These issues are "in the fields of removal of sanctions, guarantees and some political claims about Iran's peaceful nuclear programme", he said.

Parties to the 2015 deal saw it as the best way to stop the Islamic republic from building a nuclear bomb -- a goal Tehran has always denied.

Iran has also restricted some inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog. The IAEA wants Iran to resolve questions surrounding the previous presence of nuclear material at undeclared sites but Iran is asking for this issue to be "closed."

Khatibzadeh said that, unless this dispute is settled, "we can't think of the possibility of an agreement about the return of the US to JCPOA."

He confirmed that Iran's chief negotiator Ali Bagheri returned to Vienna on Monday. Bagheri had gone home last Wednesday for consultations, during which talks continued at the level of experts in Vienna.

The negotiations to revive the deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, involve Iran as well as France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China directly, and the United States indirectly.

The 2015 agreement gave Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme, but the US unilaterally withdrew from it in 2018 under then-president Donald Trump who reimposed heavy economic sanctions.

That prompted Iran to begin rolling back on its own commitments.

During the Vienna talks Iran has repeatedly called for guarantees from the US administration of President Joe Biden that there will be no repeat of Trump's pullout.

The talks continue after Russia on Thursday began its invasion of Ukraine, which has threatened to divert attention from Vienna and sap momentum built up after 10 months of on-off negotiations.

Khatibzadeh, however, said there is "no relation between the two" issues diplomatically, as "different files are being followed up in their own framework even between the countries that have difference of attitudes."
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Iran says awaits West's 'political decisions' in nuclear talks

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Germany's Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that a new Iran nuclear agreement "cannot be postponed any longer", during his first visit as chancellor to Israel, which staunchly opposes efforts to forge a deal with Tehran.

Scholz's visit, which included a ceremony at Jerusalem's Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem accompanied by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, comes amid the geopolitical turmoil sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The two heads of government -- both relatively new to office following many years when their countries were ruled by veterans Angela Merkel and Benjamin Netanyahu -- met as rapidly moving world events test their leadership.

Policy differences on Iran, long Israel's arch foe, surfaced at a Jerusalem joint press conference, with Scholz saying Germany "would like to see an agreement reached in Vienna".

The latest round of negotiations to salvage Iran's 2015 nuclear deal started in late November in the Austrian capital and the talks are expected to reach a crunch point in the coming days.

The so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) secured sanctions relief for Iran in return for strict curbs on its nuclear programme to prevent it acquiring an atomic weapon, a goal Iran has always denied pursuing.

"Now is the time to make a decision," Scholz said. "This must not be postponed any longer and cannot be postponed any longer. Now is the time to finally say yes to something that represents a good and reasonable solution."

The original 2015 agreement unravelled when former US president Donald Trump withdrew from it, with Israeli encouragement.

Israel's Bennett has said he is "deeply troubled" by the outlines of a new deal taking shape, fearing it does too little to stop Iran from getting the nuclear bomb, while granting it sanctions relief.

Bennett stressed on Wednesday that Israel is "following the talks in Vienna with concern" and warned that "Israel will know how to defend itself and ensure its security and future".
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In Israel, Germany's Scholz says Iran deal 'cannot be postponed'

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At the earlier visit to Yad Vashem, Scholz left a message in the guest book stressing Germany's historical responsibility toward the Jewish state.

"The mass murder of the Jews was instigated by Germany," he wrote. "Every German government bears permanent responsibility for the security of the state of Israel and the protection of Jewish life."

Bennett said the Holocaust "is the wound that forms the basis of ties between Germany and Israel. From this wound we have built significant and steadfast relations."

When it comes to current events, the two leaders have also diverged on their responses to Russia's war in Ukraine.

Since the invasion started last week, Scholz's coalition government has reversed a ban on sending weapons into conflict zones and halted the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project between Russia and Germany.

He also pledged 100 billion euros ($113 billion) this year to modernise Germany's army and committed to spending more than two percent of Germany's gross domestic product on defence annually, surpassing even NATO's target.

Israel has taken a more conservative approach, citing its warm ties with both Kyiv and Moscow and security cooperation with Russian forces which have a large presence in Syria on Israel's northern border.

Bennett has resisted Kyiv's request for weapons, according to Israeli media, and this week sent Ukraine 100 tons of non-military assistance, including blankets, water purification kits and medical supplies.

"We have a very measured and responsible policy whose goal is both to help the Ukrainian people and to do what we can to help alleviate some of the pressures and the consequences of this horrific situation," Bennett said as he stood beside Scholz.

Scholz, one a one-day trip, was later due to meet Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and visit the Knesset, or Israeli parliament.

He postponed a scheduled meeting with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank due to the events in Ukraine, the German Foreign Office in Ramallah told AFP.
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Iran's foreign minister said Friday he was ready to travel to Vienna if a deal is reached to revive the 2015 nuclear accord, as the US suggested an agreement is possible.
"I am ready to go to Vienna when the Western sides accept our remaining red lines," Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in a phone call with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, quoted in a foreign ministry statement.
"The presence of foreign ministers in Vienna and the announcement of a final deal depend on full respect for the red lines set out by Iran, including effective economic guarantees," the statement read.
The 2015 deal began unravelling when former US president Donald Trump withdrew from it in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions, prompting Iran to start disregarding the limits on its nuclear activity laid down in the agreement.
Talks to restore the agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), underway in Vienna involve Iran as well as Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia directly, and the United States indirectly.
On Thursday, US State Department deputy spokeswoman Jalina Porter said negotiators were "close to a possible deal".
"But a number of difficult issues still remain unresolved," Porter said.
However, "if Iran shows seriousness, we can and should reach an understanding of mutual return to full implementation of the JCPOA within days", she added.
Enrique Mora, the European Union's coordinator for the talks, also said they were in the "final stages".
The Iranian foreign minister said Friday: "We are ready to finalise a good accord immediately."
But he warned that the West's "haste" could undermine "respect for Iran's red lines".
Amir-Abdollahian did not define the "red lines" but during negotiations in Vienna, Iran has repeatedly demanded the right to verify the removal of sanctions and for guarantees the US will not repeat its withdrawal from the agreement.
The latest developments come as the head of the Vienna-based UN atomic agency is due Saturday in Tehran to meet senior officials.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Rafael Grossi is seeking to get Iran to clarify the presence of nuclear material at several undeclared sites.
Iran has said the closure of the probe is necessary in order to clinch a deal to revive the JCPOA.
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Iran FM ready to go to Vienna if nuclear deal struck

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday dismissed as "irrelevant" Russian demands for guarantees that new sanctions linked to Ukraine will not affect Moscow's rights under a reworked Iran nuclear deal.

With the parties to the Iran agreement, which the US abandoned in 2018, now seemingly close to a new accord, Blinken rejected fresh demands voiced Saturday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

The sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine "have nothing to do with the Iran nuclear deal," Blinken said on CBS talk show "Face the Nation."

They "just are not in any way linked together, so I think that's irrelevant," he said, speaking from Moldova, a small country on Ukraine's southwest border.

Blinken added it was not only in America's interest but Russia's as well that Iran not be able "to have a nuclear weapon or the capacity to produce a weapon on very, very short order."

- 'Pragmatic approach' -

The latest Russian reservations, coming amid the intense crisis over Ukraine, threaten hopes that an Iran agreement could be wrapped up quickly.

Iran and the United Nations nuclear watchdog had announced tentative agreement early Saturday on an approach for resolving issues crucial to reviving the country's 2015 nuclear accord with world powers.

Rafael Grossi, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said in Vienna that while the UN agency and Iran had yet to settle "a number of important matters," they had now "decided to try a practical, pragmatic approach" to overcome them.

However, Grossi said there was "no artificial deadline."

Both US and British officials said late in the week that negotiators in the Vienna talks were close to a possible deal, while cautioning that some issues remained to be settled.

But Lavrov said Saturday that Moscow, itself slapped with severe sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, needed guarantees from Washington before backing the nuclear deal.

He said Russia wanted written guarantees that Ukraine-related sanctions "will not in any way harm our rights to free, fully fledged trade and economic and investment cooperation, military-technical cooperation with Iran."

Russia is party to the Vienna talks along with Britain, China, France and Germany. The United States is participating indirectly.

Moscow is expected to play a role in implementing any fresh deal with Iran, for example by receiving shipments of enriched uranium from Iran.

The 2015 nuclear deal has been hanging by a thread since then US president Donald Trump pulled out in 2018 and reimposed sweeping sanctions, including on Iranian petroleum exports.

- 'Very damaging' -

The landmark accord was aimed at guaranteeing Tehran could not develop a nuclear weapon -- something it has always denied wanting to do.

Iran said this week that it was ready to quickly raise its crude exports to pre-sanctions levels once a deal is signed.

Iranian international relations analyst Fayaz Zahed said the government needed to be very careful about Moscow's possibly shifting interests.

"Now that Russia is under sanctions, it is perhaps no longer interested in resolving the Iran nuclear issue, a position that could be very damaging," he said.

The coming days are seen as pivotal because of the rate at which Iran is making nuclear advances.

Its stockpile of enriched uranium has now reached more than 15 times the limit set out in the 2015 accord, the IAEA said this week.
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Blinken says new Russia demands on Iran nuclear deal 'irrelevant'

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Iran on Thursday accused the United States of making efforts to restore a nuclear deal "more complicated", after new Russian demands stemming from its invasion of Ukraine raised concerns of further delays.
The Islamic republic is locked in negotiations with world powers to revive the 2015 deal that offered it sanctions relief in return for curbs on its nuclear programme.
Its arch foe the United States, under former president Donald Trump, unilaterally withdrew in 2018 from the accord known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
Moscow said on Saturday that, before backing a revived deal, it wants written assurances from Washington that sanctions imposed on it over the Ukraine war will not affect its economic and military cooperation with Tehran.
"Vienna negotiations are becoming more complicated every hour without a political decision by the United States," Iran's top security official Ali Shamkhani tweeted on Thursday.
"US approach to Iran's principled demands, coupled with its unreasonable offers and unjustified pressure to hastily reach an agreement, show that US isn't interested in a strong deal that would satisfy both parties," he added.
The negotiations to revive the deal involve Iran as well as France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China directly, and the United States indirectly.
The US's unilateral withdrawal from the accord and its reimpositon of biting economic sanctions prompted Iran to begin rolling back on its own commitments.
Negotiators had recently signalled that talks had progressed into a "final phase", but pending issues were still unresolved.
The United States has described Russia's new demands "irrelevant", while France warned they could dash hopes for a revived nuclear accord.
"Some people are trying to blame us for protracting the talks. I must tell that the talks have not yet been finalised, even the text of final agreement is not yet finalised," Russian chief negotiator Mikhayil Ulyanov said on Wednesday.
"Like any other participant we have the right to ask for something... it's normal business, those who don't understand it are not professionals." he added.
"We have the right to protect our interest both in the nuclear field, as well as in the wider context," he said, adding that he believes "all our trade and economic relations with Iran should be exempt from current and future EU or US sanctions".
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Iran says US has 'complicated' nuclear talks

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The EU announced a pause Friday in the talks it is chairing on the revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, days after fresh Russian demands complicated negotiations which had appeared close to completion.

The EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell tweeted that the pause was "due to external factors," despite the fact that "a final text is essentially ready and on the table".

The current round of negotiations started in late November in the Austrian capital Vienna between Britain, China, France, Germany, Iran and Russia, with the US taking part indirectly.

They had progressed most of the way toward their aim -- the revival of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which began unravelling when former US President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018.

The EU diplomat who has been personally chairing the talks, Enrique Mora, told reporters that delegations had got to the point of "negotiating footnotes".

He praised in particular the United States and Iran for to their "very constructive, very positive approach".

However, last week Russia said it was demanding guarantees that the Western sanctions imposed on its economy following its invasion of Ukraine would not affect its trade with Iran.

As with the original JCPOA in 2015, Moscow had been expected to play a role in the implementation of any fresh deal, for example by receiving shipments of enriched uranium from Iran.
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Iran nuclear talks paused after Russian demands

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Tehran itself has blamed the US for "creating challenges" in the final stage of the talks.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said Friday the pause in talks could create "momentum for resolving any remaining issue".

"No external factor will affect our joint will to go forward for a collective agreement," he said in a tweet.

Russia's ambassador to the UN in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, told reporters outside the talks venue that he rejected "attempts to put all the blame on the Russian Federation".

"The conclusion of the deal does not depend on Russia only," he said, saying that other parties to the talks "need additional time".

Borrell said on Friday that he would "continue to be in touch with all #JCPOA participants and the US to overcome the current situation and to close the agreement".

Mora said he hoped to see the talks resume "very, very soon".
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Jotakin taktisia puikkoja on ilmeisemmin ammuttu autonoomiselle kurdien alueelle Irakin pohjoisessa, ilmeisesti Iranista.

Vaikuttaviltahan nuo näytti kun yöllä poksahtelivat, mutta yö nyt aina "kaunistaa" näin: tietoa ei ole että ketään olisi kuollut. Tämä ei olisi ensimmäinen kerta kun Iran on puikkoa pistänyt Irakiin. Iranin ilmoitti iskevänsä mukamas Mossadin salaiseen toimipisteeseen alueella (USA:n uusi konsulaattirakennus oli lähellä, mutta siihen ei osunut: mitään USA:n sotilastukikohtaa tuolla ei ollut).
 
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Minkähä takia Iran hyökkäsi näin kimppuun? Kolmas sen ku lähestyy. Katsotaas miten Pohjois-Korean testi menee uuden "hirviöohjuksen" kanssa ja minne tulee alas. Oisko Putin pyytänyt tätä Iranilta?

Jenkkien konsulaatti oli ainakii lähellä siis minne ohjukset tulivat alas.
 
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