Iranian gangsters desperate to blackmail Biden into ending sanctions
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A photo made available by the Tasnim News Agency shows Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps boats seizing a South-Korean flagged tanker in the Persian Gulf on January 4. Photo courtesy of Tasnim News Agency/EPA-EFE
Jan. 11 (UPI) Gangsters are usually experts at blackmail, extortion and the protection racket. The criminal Iranian regime excels at all three.
As the clock ticks down to Joe Biden s inauguration as the 46th U.S. president, the increasingly unstable theocratic regime is building up its litany of threats, blackmail and extortion in a desperate bid to secure an end to crippling U.S. economic sanctions.
Anti-Turkey Statements In Iran – Part III: Erdoğan Is Undermining Iran s Territorial Integrity
January 11, 2021 | By A. Savyon and M. Manzour
Introduction
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sparked rage in Iran recently by quoting a popular Azeri poem; his recitation was perceived in Iran as an insult and a provocation against Iran s sovereignty and territorial integrity. On December 10, during his participation in the Azerbaijan victory celebrations over the liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia, he recited, in Turkish, a line from the Azeri poem Aras : They tore the Aras [River] and filled it with rocks and sticks / I will not be separated from you. They have separated us forcibly, he said. The poem laments the division of the Azeri provinces between the Persian Qajar Empire and Czarist Russia in the early 19th century. Areas of the Caucasus that are today part of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia belonged to the Qajar Persian Empire, and following its defeats
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One year after the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane in Iranian airspace, five countries whose citizens were killed in the crash are “urgently” calling on Tehran to fully disclose how the tragedy occurred, deliver justice, and make reparations.