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Abbas Araghchi: “Why We Insist on Uranium Enrichment”
“Why have we insisted, and continue to insist, on uranium enrichment? Why won’t we surrender it, even under the threat of war? Because no one has the right to dictate what we may or may not possess. This is rooted in a fundamental principle: the rejection of domination.
Enrichment is our right under international law, and whether we choose to exercise it is our business alone. For years we’ve been told, ‘You have no right to enrich; enrichment must be zero.’ Why? ‘Because we’re concerned,’ they say. If you’re concerned, we’re prepared to address that. Have questions? We’ll answer them. Is trust lacking? We’ll build it. But no one has the right to say, ‘You cannot have this because we don’t want you to.’
This is the heart of our resolve: we have stood firm in defense of our own rights. Enrichment matters, but what matters even more is demonstrating that the Islamic Republic of Iran takes orders from no one and submits to no domination.
If there are doubts about the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program, we are ready to answer them. The only path forward is diplomacy. Every other path has been tried and has led nowhere. Negotiations will only succeed when the rights of the Iranian people are recognized and respected, not granted, because our rights are already legitimate in and of themselves. What we ask is simply that they be respected.”
In my view, Araghchi’s statement is more than a dignified reply to the United States. It is a rebuke of the condescending posture the West has held toward Muslims for nearly a century. It is a declaration that the era of bullying and imposed values is over. If Iran emerges from this with its honor intact, God willing, neither the United States nor the Muslim world will be what they once were.
https://xcancel.com/FrameTheGlobe/status/2043432051106558319
🇮🇷🇺🇸🇾🇪| An hour ago, the US naval blockade began on Iranian ports.
If it goes out of hand, we may witness a Yemeni blockade of the blockade of the blockade.
🇮🇷🇪🇺 “Spare the sermons; Europe’s chronic failure to practice what it preaches has turned its ‘international law’ talk into peak hypocrisy.” - Iranian MFA Spokesman to Kaka Khallas
🇮🇷🇨🇳🇺🇸| It looks like, despite the one vessel ‘RICH STARRY’ doing a U-turn today, at least 9 other Iranian & Chinese linked vessels continued their path amid a US naval blockade.
So is the supposed blockade just a paper tiger, or is there something else going on? Also thanks for the work, rainpizza; I am sure we all appreciate you doing this for free.
That’s what those vessels are going to test. It will be interesting to see what will come next.
Also, glad to be of service to Lemmygrad. 🫡
Oil tankers and other large ships move very slow, at 22-46 km/hr. That’s roughly the speed of a professional bicyclist.
The US blockade is not located at the mouth of the strait of Hormuz, where the US navy will get bombarded with missiles, but in the Indian Ocean. That’s around 2000km out.
So, if anything going to happen, there’s still plenty of time to do it
Ah I see.
My guess is: the US can’t directly blockade the straight’s choke-point or they would be in range of Iranian anti-ship missiles, speed boats, and other defenses. So they are stuck having to blockade a multi-thousand km long band of ocean 100s if not 1000s of kms radius away from the actual straight. Even with all the boats they have there, that’s just too big, there would unavoidably be gaps that boats could pass through before the navy could react.
🇮🇪 Ireland is entering its eighth consecutive day of mass protests over soaring fuel prices, as residents describe being forced to cut back on basic heating costs just to get by.
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/182299
Get ready folks because what is happening in Ireland will be the new normal.
🌟⚡️🇮🇱 Hezbollah carried out a sophisticated ambush, where Israeli occupation forces entered a house in Bint Jbeil, only to discover that the house was fully rigged with explosives. There were 7 casualties, including both dead and wounded, as a preliminary report. While the occupation forces were trying to evacuate injured and dead personnel, they were attacked with direct fire.
Source -> https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/181901
🇮🇷⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 I do not see a ceasefire anywhere.
I see a regrouping.
I see thousands of U.S. soldiers being shipped to the region in an attempt to try infiltrating again where they already failed last time.
I see Zionist Israel claiming to stop aerial bombardment against Lebanon but clear as day attempting to gain grounds during this hasty ceasefire when it miserably failed otherwise.
But…I also see the IRGC locked and loaded.
And I see Hezbollah resistance steadfast and ready more than ever to rub the nose of the occupation in southern Lebanese dirt, if they as much as peep their heads.
I see dark days ahead but certainly, I see the light of victory at the end of this tunnel of colonialism and occupation.
صبراٌ جميلاً وبالله المستعان.
✍️ Marwa Osman
The IRGC needs time to reload too. I think they will make better use of their time.
Meanwhile the yanks are lighting their own ships on fire.
There are only so many Shit-on-a Shingles a sailor can shit out and have eventually back up the whole plumbing and flood the barracks lol
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇸🇦 NEW: Less than a day in, Saudi Arabia is pressuring Trump to drop the blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, warning that it could push the Houthis to escalate in the Red Sea and Bab Al-Mandab – WSJ
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/30964
🇦🇪⚡️🇺🇸 Prominent UAE commentator: It is time to think about closing the American bases as they are a burden and not a strategic asset
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/182385
Lmao sounds like copium. ‘We can defend ourselves so close the bases USA, please so we don’t get bombed anymore, please just close the bases already’. However, I don’t care what these zio slaves say as long as they really go through the shedding of US bases.
Less cope and more spin. This is effectively advocating for US removal on a pretense that saves face.
—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: About 15-20 vessels crossed the Strait of Hormuz in the past 36 hours using the new Iranian-assigned shipping corridor and with IRGC permission after paying tolls
Most of the vessels were Chinese, Pakistani, Russian or Iranian.
Looks like the Zionists are trying to bait Hezbollah into a civil war.
🇺🇸 According to USNI News—the media arm of the U.S. Naval Institute—the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is operating off Namibia, taking an unusual route around Africa to join a growing U.S. naval buildup in the Arabian Sea amid a U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Instead of transiting the Strait of Gibraltar and Mediterranean, the strike group—escorted by USS Donald Cook (DDG-75), USS Mason (DDG-87), USS Ross (DDG-71), and supported by USNS Arctic (TAOE-8)—is bypassing the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb.
ℹEarlier today, some reports said it had crossed Gibraltar; however, this now appears not to be the case.
Source -> https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/181857
Cowards… They are clearly afraid of Ansar Allah
Honor and glory to the Lebanese people that stand up to fight the Zionists
I didn’t know Mike Ehrmantraut was with Hezbollah
Waltuh, get away from Iran, Waltuh
🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is now officially underway.
🔸 15+ US warships in position.
🔸 UK Maritime Trade Operations confirming restrictions on Iranian ports across the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and parts of the Arabian Sea.
🔸 Trump threatening to destroy any Iranian fast-attack boats that approach: “using the same system of kill that we use against the drug dealers on boats at Sea”.Iran’s response: no port in the Persian Gulf or Sea of Oman will be safe if Iranian ports are threatened. The IRGC Navy says any military vessel approaching the Strait of Hormuz is a ceasefire violation.
The ceasefire and the blockade are now running simultaneously. One of them will break first.
WSJ.
So in short, they lost the war a few days ago, and are now trying to blockade… a blockade? Do they realize that this will not give them any of the things they want from Iran? Also, I thought all their military goals had been achieved, but this shows otherwise.
I think the explanation from Brain Berletic makes sense -> https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11306526/8063671
▪️This is the full implementation of Washington’s initial objective for waging war with Iran, an oil blockade of not only China but also much of the multipolar world;
▪️The US’ primary geopolitical objective is global hegemony and the only way it can achieve this objective is by dragging the rest of the rising multipolar world down relative to US power and wealth;
Ah, so letting the rest of the world suffer while they get to reap the profits afterwards (like during WWI and WWII) is the strategy. I wonder how successful it will be, though.
Hopefully, the US vassals from Europe/Asia and the Global South finally take a stand against the USA. That might help to throw the plan off.
Honestly, would not be surprised if WWIII starts after this (American fascism is horrifically toxic and will cause those unwilling to take the toxicity to do something about it).
Who says it hasn’t already started? World wars can start at different times in different regions. WWII is usually said to have started in 1939 but that’s just for western Europe. In the Pacific and for the Soviet Union it started in 1941. In China it started in 1936, or maybe even 1931 with the invasion of Manchuria by the Japanese. The start of the SMO in 2022 might come to be seen retrospectively as the beginning of this world war. With the subsequent later activation of fronts in Gaza, Lebanon and now Iran. Or maybe it started in 2014 in Crimea. Or 2011 in Libya and Syria. Ok those last two dates are maybe stretching it a little bit, but ultimately all these conflicts are connected by the fact that they are the result of the US acting aggressively in an attempt to preserve its declining hegemony.
Honestly I think it is more a move against europe. China can adjust to a sea blockade by using over land routes, protecting sea convoys, lowering their exports, and rejiggering their oil usage.
Europe has no plans and no resources other than a bunch of people. I think the plan is for usa to deprive them of their energy and convince them to go take West Asia and Africa with human wave attacks. Remember hegseth’s speech to europe? They want another crusade, just as hamfisted and poorly planned as the last ones, and this time they want it to go all the way to South Africa so elon can go back to slave labor emerald mining.
usa learned that the best way to be king is to make everyone else fight eachother. They don’t want to get in a confrontation with China. They want to make confrontations between everyone that pull China and Russia into them.
