IRAN news November 14

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فائزه هاشمی: اعتراضات سال ۸۸ کاملا قانونی بود/ چرا با آنها که آدم کشتند هیچ برخوردی نشد؟

فائزه هاشمی با ناحق خواندن حصر کروبی، موسوی و رهنورد؛ خواستار پایان حصر آنها شد و تصریح کرد: اینها کار خلاف قانونی انجام ندادند و از شخصیت های ارزشمند نظام هستند.

به گزارش کلمه، این عضو حزب کارگزاران که در حاشیه بازدید از بیستمین نمایشگاه مطبوعات با خبرنگاران سخن می گفت، در پاسخ به سوالی درباره حصر، این برخورد را غیرقانونی خواند و گفت: آقایان موسوی و کروبی و خانم زهرا رهنورد در سال های قبل نیز به ناحق در حصر بوده و هستند.

وی با بیان اینکه اینها کار خلاف قانونی انجام ندادند و از شخصیت های ارزشمند نظام هستند، همچنین اعتراضات سال ۸۸ را کاملا قانونی خواند و گفت: کارهای خلاف قانون را دیگران مرتکب شدند که با آنها برخوردی نشد.

فائزه هاشمی سپس در پاسخ به خبرنگار یکی از رسانه های اقتدارگرا که از او پرسید “آیا قبول ندارید که اینها (رهبران جنبش سبز) آدم کشته اند؟” نیز گفت: کسانی که آدم کشتند، دیگران بودند که متاسفانه هیچ برخوردی هم با آنها نشده است.

او در پاسخ به سوال دیگری درباره نامه علی مطهری نماینده تهران به حسن روحانی در مورد غیرقانونی بودن حصر رهبران جنبش سبز و اقدام رئیس جمهوری در این باره نیز گفت: روحانی چه کاری می تواند بکند؟ این مساله در اختیار وی نیست که آنها را آزاد کند.

هاشمی همچنین در پاسخ به خبرنگار دیگری از نشریات اقتدارگرا که از فتنه ۸۸ و ۹ دی سخن می گفت، تصریح کرد: من لفظ فتنه را برای اعتراضات ۸۸ قبول ندارم و موافق نیستم، چراکه طبق اصل ۲۷ قانون اساسی آن اعتراضات قانونی بوده است و نمی***توان آن را فتنه نامید.

وی در ادامه گفت: شواهد آن زمان نشان داد که جریان مقابل و نحوه برخورد با اعتراضات در جهت قانونی حرکت نکرد و کار را به مشکلات و نابسامانی***ها کشاند.

فائزه هاشمی با بیان اینکه من فتنه واقعی را آن برخوردهای غیرقانونی و غیراصولی با تظاهرکنندگان می***دانم، خاطرنشان کرد: متاسفانه فتنه دکان عده***ای شده است که از آن به نفع منافع خود استفاده می***کنند؛ یک داستانی درست کردند و از آن بهره***برداری می***کنند

 

[Playboy]

[h=1]Report: Iran opens gold plant, doubling production[/h][h=2]Report: Iran opens new gold-processing plant, doubling its annual production to 6 tons[/h]

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian state television is reporting that the country has inaugurated a new gold-processing plant that will double the country's annual production to 6 tons.
The report says First Vice President Ishaq Jahangiri attended the inauguration Saturday of the plant near Takab in northwestern Iran.
It says the new processing facility, built next to Iran's Zarshouran gold mine, also will produce an estimated 2.5 tons of silver and 1 ton of mercury a year.
State television says Iran previously produced an estimated 3 tons of gold a year.
This is part of Iran's "economy of resistance" to counter sanctions imposed over Tehran's contested nuclear program. The Islamic Republic is currently negotiating a final deal over its atomic program with world powers.

 

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[h=1]China to double its Iran energy investment[/h]
China will double its investment in Iran's energy projects, an Iranian official said Sunday, ahead of a deadline for a deal with world powers over Tehran's nuclear programme.
"China has agreed to changes proposed by Iran's central bank, raising its share in Iranian projects to more than $52 billion (42 billion euros)," deputy energy minister Esmail Mahsouli was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.
The decision follows a visit by central bank president Valiollah Seif to Beijing in September.
Iranian media cited officials as saying the investment will be guaranteed by Iranian deposits worth $20 billion held in Chinese banks due to international sanctions imposed for Iran's nuclear programme.

Read more: https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/china-double-iran-energy-investment-091214924.html

 

[Playboy]

how iran uses creative financing to get around the sanctions
on it's banking sector.the timing is a good reminder for the p5+1
negotiators.

[h=1]Exclusive: Iran uses China bank to transfer funds to Quds-linked companies – report[/h]


(Reuters) - There is no trace of Shenzhen Lanhao Days Electronic Technology Co Ltd at its listed address in the beige and pink-tiled "Fragrant Villa" apartment complex in this southern Chinese city. The building's managers say they’ve never heard of it.
But a Western intelligence report reviewed by Reuters says Shenzhen Lanhao is one of several companies in China that receives money from Iran through a Chinese bank. Such transfers help to finance international operations of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' elite Quds Force, the report said.
The Quds provides arms, aid and training for pro-Iranian militant groups in the Middle East, such as Hezbollah, Hamas and Shi'ite Muslim militias in Iraq. They have also armed and trained government forces in Syria's civil war in violation of a U.N. arms embargo, U.S. and European officials say.
Washington designated the Quds a supporter of terrorism in 2007. The European Union sanctioned them in 2011.
The report said that the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) holds accounts with the Bank of Kunlun Co Ltd, a China National Petroleum Corp unit. Quds-controlled Iranian companies, including one called Bamdad Capital Development Co, initiate transfers from these accounts to either Chinese entities directly controlled by the Quds or to Chinese entities owed money by the Quds, such as Shenzhen Lanhao.
"The money transfers from accounts held by the CBI with Bank Kunlun are initiated by the Quds Force and transferred to Chinese companies connected to the Quds Force in order to meet its financial needs," the seven-page report said. Reuters could not independently verify the claims in the report.
The suspected movement of Iranian funds linked to the Quds Force through a Chinese bank and Chinese companies is a reminder of the difficulty of enforcing sanctions on Iran at a time when the United States and other world powers hope to clinch a nuclear deal with Tehran by Nov. 24.
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Kunlun in 2012 for conducting business with Iran and transferring money to an entity linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, but there was no mention then of any link to the Quds.
Once the money is transferred from Kunlun to other entities, the intelligence report said, the Quds can use it for acquisitions in China and to finance all sorts of covert activity in other countries. The report does not say how specific funds moving out of the CBI's accounts at Kunlun would be used by the Quds.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/18/us-iran-sanctions-china-exclusive-idUSKCN0J20CE20141118

 

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this is good news for the blogger and his family.

[h=1]Ayatollah Khamenei frees Iran blogger[/h] Iran leader releases Hossein Derakhshan, suspected of spying for Israel and given prison term of 19 years for ‘insulting Islam’




Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, on Thursday pardoned the blogger Hossein Derakhshan after his six years in prison for spreading propaganda, insulting Islam and cooperating with hostile countries, Iranian media reported.
Iranian bloggers credit Derakhshan, an Iranian-Canadian journalist who lived in Tehran before moving to Toronto in 2000, with launching a blogging revolution in the Islamic republic by publishing instructions on the subject in Farsi. No reason was given for his release.
“I’m free after six years,” he wrote on his Google Plus page on Thursday. “I thank God. I’m so grateful to Ayatollah Khamenei.”

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...r-hossein-derakhshan-freed-ayatollah-khamenei

 

[Playboy]

this news should make the crime minister of the apartheid regime
in isreal and his aipac agents in washington mad enough to bang
their heads against the nearest wall.which is precisely why this news
was announced today.it basically puts to rest the myth that sanctions
brought iran to the negotiating table whereas in reality iran has
basically achieved their goal which was to become a threshold nuclear
power capable of producing a nuclear device if they ever wanted to do so.

[h=1]Iran debuts US-made helicopters in affront to sanctions[/h]

TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian company on Thursday displayed four brand new U.S.-made helicopters it purchased through third parties, offering them as proof that the country could evade international sanctions over its disputed nuclear program.
The display of the R-44 helicopters came during an air exhibition in Kish Island, in the Persian Gulf.
The four-person helicopters are manufactured by the California-based Robinson Helicopter Company.
Mahmoud Azin, the head of Iran’s Helicopters Company, told the Tasnim news website that the helicopters were purchased at a marked-up price through “dealers” and can be used for both training and police air patrols. His company, which has some 25 helicopters, mainly serves Iranian oil sites.



Read more: http://nypost.com/2014/11/20/iran-debuts-us-made-helicopters-in-affront-to-sanctions/

 

[Playboy]

iran's auto industry constitutes 10% of it's total gdp.
under the sanctions in the past 2 years it was severely
tested and production was cut by 50%.but since last year's
agreement the production has been rising and will reach it's peak
level next year.foreign car makers will have to deal with this new
environment if they want to get back in that market.iran will no
longer make deals under the previous paradigm.

[h=2]Iran car mart gone local, say foreigners[/h]30 NOVEMBER 2014 @ 11:35 PM

TEHRAN: Foreign carmakers seeking a return to the Iranian market with the lifting of international sanctions will find the business environment has changed: former joint venture partners now want to play the game by their own rules.
Iran’s car industry has been a major casualty of penalties imposed over the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme, with production plummeting and workers laid off because of the ensuing economic slowdown.
France’s PSA Peugeot-Citroen and South Korea’s Hyundai left the country altogether, while Renault continues to import parts and assemble cars in Tehran but at a fraction of former output.
Total car production was 1.6 million in 2011, but it had halved two years later.
United States sanctions on the car industry in 2013 were the main cause, on top of American and European bans on Iranian bank transactions abroad.
But the car sanctions were lifted earlier this year after an interim nuclear agreement was reached between Iran and world powers and a final accord is still on the horizon, raising the prospect of better times for the industry.
That will draw international suitors to Tehran yesterday for the second consecutive Iran Auto Show.
Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Renault, Peugeot, Kia and Toyota have confirmed. US carmakers General Motors and Ford were invited but it is unclear if they will attend.
The organisers want to attract foreign investment but the conditions of a partnership are likely to change.
Under new joint deals, the industry ministry wants 40 per cent of production done in Iran to begin with, rising to 85 per cent after five years.AFP

 

[Playboy]

and here is the isreali take on the same news:

Locals in driver’s seat as automakers look to enter Iran
As sanctions eased, Tehran looking to attract new manufacturers with auto show Monday, but officials say new terms will be in Iran’s favor


Read more: Locals in driver's seat as automakers look to enter Iran | The Times of Israel http://www.timesofisrael.com/locals-in-drivers-seat-as-automakers-look-to-enter-iran/#ixzz3Kb6ZTeUj