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| How Parnas and Fruman’s Dodgy Donation Was Uncovered by Two People Using Google Translate | ||||
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Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman have attained notoriety for their parts in the Ukraine mess. They’re both Soviet-born U.S. citizens who worked closely with the president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, serving as emissaries in the campaign to oust then-U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and press Ukraine’s government to investigate Joe Biden’s son.
But Parnas and Fruman also exemplify the shattering of norms when it comes to the influence of big money in politics during the administration of President Donald Trump — and that’s the subject of this week’s episode of “Trump, Inc”.
Using a recently formed LLC, Parnas and Fruman donated $325,000 to a pro-Trump super PAC in early 2018. They then attended a dinner with the president — at the president’s hotel — and got the ear of the president. At that dinner, in April 2018, Parnas and Fruman made the first known pitch to Trump to remove Yovanovitch, helping set in motion a series of events that led to the president’s impeachment.
Parnas and Fruman have since been indicted by federal prosecutors in New York for, among other things, acting on behalf of one or more Ukrainian officials who wanted the U.S. ambassador removed, and funneling money from a Russian businessman into campaigns in Nevada while concealing the source of the funds. The men have pleaded not guilty.At first glance, the indictments seem to show that potential campaign abuses are being effectively policed. But the “Trump, Inc.” episode shows just the opposite: The events came to light because of an improbable, almost random, series of events and at least one key slip-up.
Parnas and Fruman’s successful attempt to use money to win access to the president wasn’t brought to light by prosecutors. Or by the federal agency set up specifically to enforce the laws governing money in politics. It was uncovered by a few watchdogs responding to a question from a reporter and using Google Translate to decipher Russian-language articles published in Ukraine. “The only reason that we know about Parnas and Fruman is that they weren’t sophisticated donors,” said Robert Maguire, the research director at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
The process began with a question. In a newsletter he wrote, reporter Lachlan Markay of The Daily Beast wondered about a $325,000 donation to the pro-Trump America First PAC attributed to an entity he’d never heard of called Global Energy Producers. Could anybody, he asked his readers, tell him anything about it?
That piqued the curiosity of Brendan Fischer, the director of the federal reform program at the elections watchdog group Campaign Legal Center. He noted the size of the donation, which represented 6.5% of what the America First PAC had taken in that quarter. He asked a researcher-investigator at the center, Maggie Christ, to begin digging.
Christ learned that Global Energy Producers was a Delaware LLC formed only five weeks before. There was no sign it was an operating business or had any assets. As is typical, the Delaware LLC’s address revealed nothing.
But Christ noticed a second address. It turned out to be the Boca Raton, Florida, home of a man named Lev Parnas. (Suffice it to say that most people who set up an LLC that shields their identity choose to leave their home address off the documents they file. Parnas’ lawyer declined to be interviewed.)
Christ had never heard of Parnas. He was a cipher online; he’d never been covered by the news, as far as Christ could discern. “Fruman and Parnas had no public footprints at that point,” she said. “They were just not public figures at all. So we were pretty confused as to what their motivations might have been.”
Christ kept pulling threads. Using Google Translate, she was able to read some Russian-language articles that had appeared in Ukraine, one of which described Fruman as a “channel of direct communication between the Jewish community of Kiev and the President of the United States.” From there she found indications that Parnas and Fruman had been at a dinner with the president as well as a photo of Fruman at Mar-a-Lago with Trump.
Suspicious, the Campaign Legal Center decided to file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission charging that Global Energy Producers was a front for an unnamed donor — which, the organization contended, would violate U.S. election laws.
The complaint generated more information. A lawyer in Florida representing a family claiming to be owed money by Parnas — an investment years ago in a movie called “Anatomy of an Assassin,” which the man asserted Parnas never repaid — contacted the Campaign Legal Center. That lawyer was then able to subpoena bank and wire transfer records. The resulting documents revealed that Global Energy Producers hadn’t donated the $325,000 to the America First PAC; a different shell company, this one owned by Parnas and wife, had actually contributed the money.
That only increased the suspicions, and ultimately federal prosecutors echoed the Campaign Legal Center’s assertions in their indictment, while also adding the allegation that Parnas and Fruman were acting on behalf of “at least one foreign official — a Ukrainian government official who sought the dismissal of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.”
What became of the complaint to the FEC? The agency isn’t allowed to say what, if anything, it’s doing in response to the complaint (though the FEC would typically step aside when prosecutors file criminal charges that parallel an FEC investigation).
But even if the FEC wanted to take action, it couldn’t. The agency no longer has the minimum number of commissioners legally required to bring an enforcement action, effectively making the agency impotent. And even before that, according to Commissioner Ellen Weintraub, a Democratic appointee, the agency had succumbed to total paralysis. What was once a partisan divide at the agency, she said, had turned into a dispute over whether the very notion of enforcing election laws has merit. It no longer matters, she said, whether the potential target of an investigation is a Republican or a Democrat.
As Weintraub put it: “So Republicans have voted over and over again not to enforce the law, not to investigate, not to pursue allegations against Democrats. And Democratic commissioners have, on the other hand, voted to pursue them. So most, most recently, we had a case alleging a multimillion dollar coordination scheme between a super PAC and the Hillary Clinton campaign. And I voted to pursue the investigation and the Republicans blocked it. And this has happened — this scenario — has happened over and over and over again.” (The two other sitting FEC commissioners, both Republican appointees, declined to be interviewed.)
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| Calif.: DA Says Case of Hundreds of Dr. Drug-Rapes Made Up | ||||
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| Epstein’s Mystery Bank Came Alive After His Death | ||||
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| Jimmy Kimmel Shows How Trump’s Medal For Rush Limbaugh Is Even Worse Than You Think | ||||
| Wed, 05 Feb 2020 05:34:12 -0500
The right-wing talk show host was honored by the president with the Medal of Freedom on the worst possible day.
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| “analysis of trump electorate” – Google News: Three Questions With Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders – Charleston City Paper | ||||
| Wed, 05 Feb 2020 05:33:26 -0500
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| Putin remains coy on future and Trump plans to run, and win; In The News for Feb. 5 – 570 News | ||||
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| mikenov on Twitter: Joshua Adam Schulte CIA employee who is suspected of being involved in a leak of classified documents to WikiLeaks, the Vault 7 documents, have called “the largest loss of classified documents in the agency’s history … joshua schulte | ||||
| Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:43:18 -0500
Joshua Adam Schulte CIA employee who is suspected of being involved in a leak of classified documents to WikiLeaks, the Vault 7 documents, have called “the largest loss of classified documents in the agency’s history …
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| mikenov on Twitter: Ex-C.I.A. Analyst Faces Trial in Biggest Leak of Agency’s History nyti.ms/2uagSxk | ||||
| Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:39:06 -0500 | ||||
| Ex-C.I.A. Analyst Faces Trial in Biggest Leak of Agency’s History – The New York Times | ||||
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| Ocasio Cortez Slams Trump’s ‘Lawless Conduct’, Boycotts SOTU | ||||
| Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:29:15 -0500
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) waits to hear testimony from Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Donald Trump before the House …
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| WATCH LIVE: Iowa caucuses mark ‘beginning of the end’ for Trump, Sanders says | ||||
| Tue, 04 Feb 2020 20:44:36 -0500
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., spoke to supporters in Iowa on Monday, Feb. 3, as results of the state’s presidential caucuses were coming in. “Today marks the beginning of the end for Donald Trump,” Sanders said, calling the president “corrupt” and a “pathological liar” who is trying to divide Americans on race, religion and gender. Sanders said he would win the election thanks to Americans who are tired of wealth inequality and want more support for social services such as health care. He vowed to pass a Medicare-for-all health program, as well as to make colleges and universities tuition-free. The Vermont senator also promised to deliver major changes to the U.S. immigration and criminal justice systems, as well as American reliance on fossil fuels. Sanders said his supporters were “the strongest grassroots movement” the country has ever seen.
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| I have a ‘good feeling’ about Iowa: Bernie | ABC News | ||||
| Tue, 04 Feb 2020 20:43:35 -0500
The 2020 presidential candidate discussed climate change, student debt and immigration while addressing supporters in Iowa.
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| Girl killed when vehicle hits high school students | ||||
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 14:32:46 -0500
A girl was killed and five other people were injured when a motorist slammed his pickup into a high school cross-country team as they ran along a street outside their Oklahoma school, officials said. Max Leroy Townsend, 56, was arrested, CBS affiliate KWTV reports.
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| mikenov on Twitter: …implementation of the directives of the President of the Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed, and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed. UAE allocates $2bn for investment projects in Mauritania – Middle East Monitor middleeastmo | ||||
| Tue, 04 Feb 2020 14:14:13 -0500
…implementation of the directives of the President of the Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed, and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed.
UAE allocates $2bn for investment projects in Mauritania – Middle East Monitor middleeastmonitor.com/20200204-uae-a…
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| UAE allocates $2bn for investment projects in Mauritania – Middle East Monitor | ||||
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 14:12:00 -0500
Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed (R), 4 February 2020
February 4, 2020 at 5:55 am
The UAE announced, Sunday, that it has allocated $2 billion to Mauritania for the implementation of investment and development projects, and provided soft loans, according to the official Emirates News Agency (WAM).
The news agency stated that the initiative comes in implementation of the directives of the President of the Emirates, Khalifa bin Zayed, and the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed.
On Saturday, the Mauritanian President, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, started a visit to the Emirates, which e duration was not announced, and during which he will meet with several Emirati officials.
Earlier on Monday, the two countries exchanged documents on several memoranda of understanding and joint agreements, including a memorandum of understanding on mutual visa exemption, and a memorandum of understanding for technical and military cooperation.
Last week, the Mauritanian Prime Minister, Ismail Ould Bedde Ould Cheikh Sidiya, said that his country’s economy “achieved good results last year, as the growth rate reached 6.9 per cent in 2019,” with a slow down at 6.3 per cent in 2020.
Mauritania is trying to boost growth rates above 7 per cent, after years of sharp decline, as has decided in 2018 to involve the private sector in government strategic projects.
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| WATCH: Sen. Rand Paul’s statement on Trump’s impeachment trial | Trump impeachment trial | ||||
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:27:45 -0500
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., took to the Senate floor on Feb. 4 to criticize Democrats’ efforts to impeach President Donald Trump and remove him from office. “The great irony is they did exactly what they accused the president of. They used the government and the government’s process to go after their political opponent,” Paul said. He went on to slam the Democrats’ use of a FISA court during the Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Senators weighed in for the second straight day on how they will vote on whether to remove President Donald Trump from office. The speeches come one day before the Senate will decide whether to convict or acquit Trump on two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. After the Senate voted last week to bar new witness testimony and subpoenas for documents, Trump’s acquittal has seemed all but assured. The House of Representatives impeached Trump in December.
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| WATCH: Sen. Roberts’ full statement on Trump’s impeachment trial | Trump impeachment trial | ||||
| Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:22:41 -0500
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, said he believed that President Donald Trump should be acquitted of both impeachment charges. He added that he was “troubled” by House managers’ “demand that we, in the Senate, fill in the gaps of their investigation and call more witnesses.” On Feb. 4, Senators weighed in for the second day on how they will vote on whether to remove Trump from office. The speeches come one day before the Senate decides whether to convict or acquit Trump on two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. After the Senate voted last week to bar new witness testimony and subpoenas for documents, Trump’s acquittal has seemed all but assured. The House of Representatives impeached Trump in December.
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| WATCH: Sen. Schumer’s full statement on Trump’s impeachment trial | Trump impeachment trial | ||||
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:22:19 -0500
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he thought House managers made a “compelling case” against the actions of President Donald Trump, but “even if you didn’t, the idea that, that means you shouldn’t have witnesses and documents … fails the laugh test.” Schumer was focused on last week’s vote by the Senate to not call on witnesses or documents in the Senate impeachment trial.
On Feb. 4, Senators weighed in for the second day on how they will vote on whether to remove President Donald Trump from office. The speeches come one day before the Senate will decide whether to convict or acquit Trump on two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
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| Sen. Blumenthal: What Trump Did Was ‘Classic Bribery’ | Hallie Jackson | MSNBC | ||||
| Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:16:43 -0500
Senator (D-CT) joins to Hallie Jackson to explain why he will vote to convict and remove the President on Wednesday, adding that he won’t “rule out” a censure motion if the President’s behavior continues. Aired on 2/4/20.
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| President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial winding down | ||||
| Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:16:27 -0500
As the Senate impeachment trial heads toward a final vote, Democrats urged the Senate to hold President Trump accountable for abusing his power. Susan Page, Washington bureau chief for USA Today, joins CBSN to discuss the trial.
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| Historian Says Nothing Like This Moment In Past 50 Years | Morning Joe | MSNBC | ||||
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:08:29 -0500
Presidential historian Michael Beschloss and writer Susan Page join Morning Joe to discuss the lack of results from the Iowa caucuses and what it all means. Aired on 2/4/20.
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| mikenov on Twitter: India detains thousands in Kashmir unnecessary censorship of kashmir youtube users by india – YouTube youtube.com/results?search… | ||||
| Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:04:42 -0500
India detains thousands in Kashmir
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| mikenov on Twitter: The Protests In Kashmir That India Didn’t Want You To See NEW DELHI– Chants of “Long live Mother India!” and “down with Pakistan!” rang out in the streets, as crowds gathered to hea censorship of kashmir youtube users by india – YouTu | ||||
| Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:03:09 -0500
The Protests In Kashmir That India Didn’t Want You To See
NEW DELHI– Chants of “Long live Mother India!” and “down with Pakistan!” rang out in the streets, as crowds gathered to hea
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| mikenov on Twitter: “Когда «железного канцлера» упрекали за слишком мягкое отношение к России, он отвечал: «В Германии только я один говорю «ничего!», а в России – весь народ». Местечковое мышление | Что такое Местечковое мышление podskazki.info/mestechko | ||||
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“Когда «железного канцлера» упрекали за слишком мягкое отношение к России, он отвечал: «В Германии только я один говорю «ничего!», а в России – весь народ».
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| Местечковое мышление | Что такое Местечковое мышление | ||||
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:31:08 -0500
Местечковое мышление как качество личности – склонность проявлять ограниченность сознания; мыслить бессистемно, замкнуто, провинциально, в отрыве от целостного видения ситуации, с полным отрицанием существования того, что выходит за круг усвоенных понятий; ставить свои локальные, периферийные, узкие интересы выше общих.
Интеллигентный молодой человек пытается развлечь девушку умными разговорами. – А хотите, я расскажу вам про Большой адронный коллайдер? – Странные вы все, мужчины, у вас развито только местечковое мышление, только об одном думаете… Вы серьезно считаете, что всем девушкам интересно, что там у вас в штанах?
Местечковое мышление – склонность пренебрегать глобальными интересами во имя интересов «своего огорода». Наплевательское отношение к интересам страны перерастает в местечковое самоуправство и сумасбродство.
Местечковый ум мыслит исключительно в режиме, выгодно это моему «местечку» или нет. Всё должно быть так, как в моём местечке. То, что существует в моём местечке, несомненно, разумно. То, что принято в других местах – ересь, блажь, глупость и дурость.
Местечковое мышление всегда «Не нашего прихода». В некоторой деревне священник, сказывая проповедь внятным слогом и чувствительными выражениями, привел в слезы слушающих его поселян, все плакали, исключая одного крестьянина. Его спросили, для чего он не плачет? На сие ответил он: — Я не здешнего прихода.
Всё преходящее извне объявляется местечковым умом ложным, вредным, надуманным и не достойным внимания здравомыслящего человека, который, по определению, должен быть согласен с носителем местечкового сознания. Все инакомыслящие – вон отсюда, чемодан – вокзал. Человек, поражённый местечковым мышлением, живёт по принципу: друзьям – всё, врагам – закон.
Нищий с местечковым мышлением каждую пятницу является к купцу за подаянием. Однажды приказчик заявляет ему, что купец
велел ничего не давать, потому что выдает дочку замуж. – Хорошенькое дело делать дочери приданное за счёт меня.
В интеллектуальной области местечковое мышление проявляется как доктринёрство, то есть, как упрямое, слепое, педантичное, некритичное следование какой-либо определенной отжившей доктрине и защита её. По словам Алексия Касатикова, местечковость не готова ко встрече с жизнью, поскольку жизнь не собирается укладываться в уготованный гроб рамок местечкового мышления. В этот гроб можно уложить только лишь труп жизни, которую для этого надо убить, запретив ей перечить неуклюжим схемам местечкового мышления. А если жизнь не удаётся убить, то она изгоняется, а вместо неё в приготовленный гроб кладётся идол — искусственное создание, чем-то напоминающее жизнь и, в отличие от неё, во всём согласное с любыми пожеланиями местечкового доктринёра, еретика, сектанта.
Россиянину с его широтой души, как правило, несвойственно местечковое мышление. Его ум настроен на необъятные просторы России. Русский ум мыслит глобально, целостно, ему по нраву мышление в режиме «всё будет хорошо», «до свадьбы заживёт», «ничего». Поэтому он по определению отрицает уровень местечкового мышления. Поэтому он не делает трагедии из того, что враг временно оккупировал его «местечко». – Ничего, прорвёмся. Враг будет разбит. Победа будет за нами!
Однажды Бисмарк нанял ямщика, но усомнился, что его лошади могут ехать достаточно быстро. «Ничего-о!» – отвечал ямщик и понесся по неровной дороге так бойко, что Бисмарк забеспокоился: «Да ты меня не вывалишь?» «Ничего!» – отвечал ямщик. Тут сани опрокинулись, и Бисмарк полетел в снег, до крови разбив себе лицо. В ярости он замахнулся на ямщика стальной тростью, а тот загреб ручищами пригоршню снега, чтобы обтереть окровавленное лицо Бисмарка, и всё приговаривал: «Ничего… ничего-о!» Впоследствии Бисмарк заказал кольцо из этой трости с надписью латинскими буквами: «Ничего!» И признавался, что в трудные минуты он испытывал облегчение, говоря себе по-русски: «Ничего!» Когда «железного канцлера» упрекали за слишком мягкое отношение к России, он отвечал: «В Германии только я один говорю «ничего!», а в России – весь народ».
Местечковое мышление грешит сектантством. Журналист Владимир Добровольский пишет: «От местечкового мышления есть польза, когда оно решает проблемы на бытовом уровне, а когда речь идет о решении глобальных задач, оно наносит непоправимый ущерб их решению. Развитие происходит, но очень медленно и с перепадами из крайности в крайность. И сопротивляться этому сложно, потому что большинство людей не мыслит целостными категориями. Они предпочитают, чтобы за них думали другие…. В экономике царит хаос, потому что каждый «местечковый» деятель тащит одеяло на себя, стремясь урвать свой интерес и, мало заботясь об интересах государства. Даже если бы он и захотел позаботиться об интересах государства, в силу своего местечкового мышления, сделать бы этого не смог. Местечково, по большому счету, мыслить не выгодно. Мысля целостно, быстрей добьетесь желаемого и не будете в состоянии постоянной войны с собой и окружающим миром, так как противостояние уступит место сотрудничеству».
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HAMLET: “Slanders, sir. For… they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams…” – 7:34 AM 2/4/2020 – The Week Of The #LongKnives: “Me” – und who is that? #MAGNIFICENT ERUSHALAIM? Looks like this, definitely. fbinewsreview.blogspot.com/2020/02/734-am…
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.@Senatemajldr: “We must vote to reject the House abuse of power. Vote to protect our institutions. Vote to reject new precedents that would reduce the framer’s design to rubble…vote to acquit the president of these charges.” pic.twitter.com/QMpxH82EkJ
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| mikenov on Twitter: RT @seth_hettena: Trump’s tax returns will reveal all. Which is why he never ever wants them to see the light of day. | ||||
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Trump’s tax returns will reveal all.
Which is why he never ever wants them to see the light of day.
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| mikenov on Twitter: RT @seth_hettena: The Trump Organization, brought to you by Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Turkey, and Russia. | ||||
| Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:51:19 -0500
The Trump Organization, brought to you by Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Turkey, and Russia.
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| mikenov on Twitter: RT @HassanRouhani: Enough of these foolish attempts. The Most Despicable Plan of the Century. #DespicablePlan | ||||
| Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:50:59 -0500
Enough of these foolish attempts. The Most Despicable Plan of the Century.
#DespicablePlan
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Where is the state of Palestine This Plan and Israel are just parts of dust in middle east I think that how this decision can taken by US?? Enough of these foolish attempts. The Most Despicable Plan of the Century.
#DespicablePlan
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@HassanRouhani How do you describe the plan that gave away the Caspian sea on a silver plate to your master Russia with NO negotiation and NO argue?!
Have you got any shame Hassan of #DespicableRegime?
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Iran’s @HassanRouhani calls @realDonaldTrump’s plan ‘most despicable plan of century’
#Iran #DespicablePlan #Unite4Palestine #FreePalestine #لا_صفقة_القرن
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| mikenov on Twitter: Iran’s president says Tehran ready to work with EU to resolve… reut.rs/37Uc0en | ||||
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| Iran’s president says Tehran ready to work with EU to resolve nuclear deal issues | ||||
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:45:03 -0500
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran is ready to cooperate with the European Union on issues related to the nuclear deal it agreed with world powers in 2015, President Hassan Rouhani was quoted as saying on Monday by the ISNA news service.
He made his comments at a meeting with Josep Borell, the head of the EU’s foreign service, who traveled to Iran to try to reduce tensions in the Middle East after the U.S. killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani last month.
Under the deal, Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of most international sanctions, but the United States withdrew from the deal in 2018 and reimposed sanctions on Iran.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran is still ready for interaction and cooperation with the European Union for resolving issues and, whenever the opposite side completely upholds their commitments, Iran will return to its commitments,” Rouhani said.
Iran began reducing its commitments under the nuclear deal last year to put pressure on the parties remaining in the accord to protect its economy from U.S. sanctions and allow the Islamic Republic to gain the full benefits outlined in the deal.
Iranian officials have said all of their actions have been within the parameters of the nuclear deal, are reversible and that they are still committed to having their program monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
But Britain, France and Germany, which with the United States, Russia and China agreed the deal with Iran, declared Iran in violation of the 2015 pact last month and launched a dispute mechanism under which the matter could be referred back to the Security Council and U.N. sanctions reimposed.
Iran could quit the global nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European countries refer it to the U.N. Security Council over the nuclear agreement, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in late January.
The 1968 NPT has been the foundation of global nuclear arms control since the Cold War.
Iran says it has never pursued the development of nuclear weapons.
Reporting By Babak Dehghanpisheh; Editing by Hugh Lawson and Timothy Heritage
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Audio Captured Iran Plane Downing: ‘That Surely Is the Light From a Missile’
Air traffic tapes recorded an exchange between an Iranian controller and a stunned pilot who saw a nearby plane blown up in midair.
18 hours ago
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| Iran Upholds Death Sentence For Man Accused Of Giving Nuclear Secrets To CIA : NPR | ||||
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:40:26 -0500
Iran’s Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili says the country’s top court has confirmed a death sentence for an Iranian man convicted of spying for the CIA. Esmaili identified the purported spy as Amir Rahimpour and said he would be executed soon. Hamed Ataei/Mizan News Agency via AP hide caption
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Iran’s Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili says the country’s top court has confirmed a death sentence for an Iranian man convicted of spying for the CIA. Esmaili identified the purported spy as Amir Rahimpour and said he would be executed soon.
Hamed Ataei/Mizan News Agency via AP
Iran’s Supreme Court has affirmed a death sentence for a man accused of giving secrets about the country’s nuclear program to the CIA, a government spokesman announced Tuesday.
“Amir Rahimpour who spied for the CIA and received huge amounts of money and attempted to provide the U.S. intelligence service with a part of Iran’s nuclear information was tried and had been sentenced to death,” judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Esmayeeli said at a news conference in Tehran, according to Iran’s semiofficial FARS News Agency.
Esmayeeli said the sentence will be carried out “soon.” He did not give an exact date or other details about Iran’s plan to execute Rahimpour.
“It’s the first Iranian death sentence for spying on behalf of America in nearly a decade,” NPR’s Peter Kenyon reports.
The public announcement is the latest salvo in Iran’s dispute with the United States, which ratcheted up after President Trump abandoned an international nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on Iran in 2018. Last month, a U.S. drone strike killed a top Iranian commander and Iran retaliated with missile strikes against Iraqi bases housing American personnel.
Iran has made numerous claims of counterintelligence coups against the U.S. in recent years.
Last April, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi announced his agency had disrupted CIA operations by identifying 290 spies operating in Iran and other countries. He said Iran had shared that information with other nations. And last June, Iran said it “dismantled” a CIA espionage network – a claim that a U.S. official denied.
Last July, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said it had detained 17 Iranians, accusing them of spying for the U.S. In response, Trump said the announcement was “totally false.”
As he announced the death sentence for Rahimpour, the Iranian judiciary spokesman added that two other Iranians have also been punished for espionage, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency.
“They did their spying activities in form of charity organizations; they were sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for espionage and another five years for acting against security,” IRNA reports.
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| mikenov on Twitter: Iran Upholds Death Sentence For Man Accused Of Giving Nuclear Secrets To CIA npr.org/2020/02/04/802… | ||||
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| Телефонный разговор с Королём Саудовской Аравии Сальманом бен Абдель Азизом Аль Саудом • Президент России | ||||
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:27:44 -0500
Телефонный разговор с Королём Саудовской Аравии Сальманом бен Абдель Азизом Аль Саудом
По инициативе саудовской стороны состоялся телефонный разговор Владимира Путина с Королём Саудовской Аравии Сальманом бен Абдель Азизом Аль Саудом.
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| Рабочая встреча с Министром сельского хозяйства Дмитрием Патрушевым • Президент России | ||||
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:27:06 -0500
Рабочая встреча с Министром сельского хозяйства Дмитрием Патрушевым
Глава Минсельхоза России информировал Президента об итогах работы агропромышленного комплекса за 2019 год и текущей ситуации в отрасли.
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| Посещение Череповецкого химико-технологического колледжа • Президент России | ||||
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:26:25 -0500
Посещение Череповецкого химико-технологического колледжа
В ходе рабочей поездки в Череповец Владимир Путин посетил химико-технологический колледж и ознакомился с работой этого учебного заведения.
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| Посещение Центра боевых искусств • Президент России | ||||
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:24:13 -0500
Посещение Центра боевых искусств
Владимир Путин посетил в Череповце спортивную школу «Центр боевых искусств» и ознакомился с работой учреждения.
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| Встреча с представителями общественности • Президент России | ||||
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:22:01 -0500
Встреча с представителями общественности
В рамках посещения Череповецкого химико-технологического колледжа Владимир Путин провёл встречу с представителями общественности.
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| mikenov on Twitter: RT @ABC: Drone footage shows almost empty streets in typically bustling Wuhan, China, amid a citywide lockdown over the deadly coronavirus… | ||||
| Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:16:19 -0500
Drone footage shows almost empty streets in typically bustling Wuhan, China, amid a citywide lockdown over the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
The viral outbreak has infected more than 20,600 people globally. abcn.ws/2SlUaKq pic.twitter.com/ZctumKNM1Q
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