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TEHRAN (FNA)- South African Ambassador to Tehran William Max Philman Whitehead dismissed US President Donald Trump's allegations on Iran's assistance to terrorist groups, and underlined his country's support for the 2015 nuclear deal as a road that may not be reversed.
"The remarks about Iran claiming that the country supports terrorism or destabilizes the region are not acceptable to us at all," Whitehead said in an interview with Iran's state TV on Tuesday night.
Elsewhere, he described the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and the world powers as an "unreturnable" agreement, and said the Europeans have shown good support for the deal and made investments in different sectors in Iran after signing it.
Asked about hostile positions adopted by the Saudi officials against Iran in certain international meetings and its impacts on relations between Tehran and Pretoria, he said, "This issue leaves no impact on economic exchanges and relations between Iran and South Africa as both countries are independent and enjoy age-old ties."
In relevant remarks on Monday night, Russian Ambassador to Tehran Levan Jagaryan dismissed Trump's allegations about Iran's support for terrorism, and said, "Iran itself is a victim of terrorism and we have witnessed this at the country's Eastern and Western borders."
"At present, Iran is fighting against terrorism along with Russia and the Syrian government forces," Jagaryan further stressed.
He also warned that Washington's withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and the world powers would endanger not only the US but also the entire world.
"We stress that Iran has been 100% and fully committed to its undertakings. Therefore, we expect the US Congress and administration to remain in compliance with the nuclear deal as their withdrawal will endanger the US and the whole world, and will lead to negative events," Jagaryan said in an interview with Iran's state TV.
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Supreme Leader's top adviser for international affairs Ali Akbar Velayati dismissed the western calls for ending Tehran's military advisory role in Syria, stressing that other foreign troops who have been deployed in the Arab country without permission should withdraw.
"Iran is present in Syria at the invitation of the legal Syrian government," Velayati told reporters in Tehran on Wednesday.
"Those who are in Syria without the permission of the legal government should leave the country," he added.
In relevant remarks last Wednesday, Velayati underlined that his country will help the Syrian people and their allies foil Washington's plots to disintegrate Syria and create a Kurdish state on the Eastern bank of the Euphrates.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran supports Syria's territorial integrity and doesn’t accept any aggression against the Syrian territories," Velayati said.
"The Americans want to disintegrate the Syrian territories and have done the preliminary moves to create and recognize an independent country in Eastern Euphrates in the Kurdish-populated region but certainly this will not be materialized," he added.
Velayati expressed confidence that Iran will help the Syrian people and their allies to prevent the US dreams come true, and said, "Certainly, we will defeat the Americans in this evil desire."
Also earlier this month, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned that Washington is seeking to disintegrate Syria, adding that Tehran will firmly stand against the plot.
"We oppose the presence in Syria by the Americans who have incorrect goals in the region and are thinking of disintegrating Syria," Rouhani told Iranian and foreign reporters in a press conference in Tehran.
He also referred to Turkey's military operations in Northern Syria against the Kurds, and said, "We have good relations with Russia and Turkey but it is our principled position that deployment of a country's army in another country's territories should be carried out with the consent of the second country's people and government and therefore, we want this operation which doesn’t yield any results but killing people to stop."
President Rouhani foresaw good future for relations among Tehran, Ankara and Moscow, adding that during recent phone talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the latter has stressed the necessity for holding a summit with the participation of the three countries' presidents.
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TEHRAN (FNA)- US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer confirmed he paid $130,000 to an adult film actress who allegedly had a sexual relationship with the President.
Michael Cohen, who worked as a counsel to the Trump Organization for more than a decade, said in a statement to The New York Times that he paid the money to Stephanie Clifford out of his own pocket.
“Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly,” Cohen added.
“The payment to Ms. Clifford was lawful, and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone,” he stressed.
However, Cohen refused to answer several follow-up questions, including whether Trump had known that he made the payment, or why he paid such money or whether he had made similar payments to other people.
The news, which was initially rebutted by Cohen, first broke last month by The Wall Street Journal which said the lawyer brokered payment to Clifford, who Trump met at a golf event in 2006, a year after his marriage to Melania.
In the fall of 2016, Clifford began talking with ABC News for a story involving an extramarital affair with Trump, but Cohen arranged to pay her to stop her from going public.
Following his acknowledgement of the news, officials with Common Cause tried to determine whether the Trump Organization or someone else made the payment.
“The complaint alleges that I somehow violated campaign finance laws by facilitating an excess, in-kind contribution,” Cohen said in his statement, adding that “The allegations in the complaint are factually unsupported and without legal merit, and my counsel has submitted a response to the F.E.C.”
So far, at least 16 women have accused Trump of unwanted sexual advances, allegations Trump dismisses.
Weeks before the presidential election last November, The Washington Post released a tape in which Trump boasted about how he sexually assaulted women because he was powerful.
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
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TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian Army discovered a large cache of Israeli-made arms and ammunition in mop-up operation in liberated regions in Deir Ezzur province on Tuesday.
The army sources said they were carrying out cleansing operation in the villages of al-Sayal and Hasarat East of the town of Albu Kamal in Southeastern Deir Ezzur when they discovered several warehouses containing a large number of Israel-made missiles, rockets, mortars, shells, landmines and hand-made bombs.
In the meantime, the army men found a tunnel in the village of al-Sabikhan East of the town of al-Mayadeen that was used as a large workshop to manufacture arms and bombs, the sources said adding that a large quantity of unknown materials has also been found in the tunnel.
Field sources reported on Sunday that the Syrian Army sent a large number of fresh forces and a large volume of military hardware to Eastern Deir Ezzur after its positions in the region were pounded by the US fighter jets a couple of days ago.
The sources said that the army dispatched a large number of forces and a large volume of military equipment to the Eastern bank of the Euphrates River in Eastern Deir Ezzur.
The sources further added that several artillery units and military vehicles were sent to al-Jazeera Khasham, al-Tabiyah and Marat.
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TEHRAN (FNA)- The Al-Nusra Front (Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at or the Levant Liberation Board) and the White Helmets are coordinating another false-flag operation in Idlib province to later accuse the Syrian government forces of carrying out another chemical attack, local sources warned Tuesday.
The Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria quoted the sources as disclosing that the Al-Nusra has transferred over 20 chlorine gas cylinders to one of the villages in Idlib province.
The sources told the Russian center that Al-Nusra is to carry out provocative measures with the White Helmets' cooperation to later accuse the Syrian army of a new chemical attack on the militants.
Also, RT quoted the Russian Center as saying that it's been warned that the Al-Nusra terrorists brought in chlorine containers to a local village, where they aimed to work with the White Helmets to stage “a false-flag operation.”
Late on Monday, the Russian Center received a phone call from a resident of the village of Saraqib in Idlib province about the planned incident.
According to the source, on the afternoon of February 12, Al-Nusra Front brought three cars packed with more than 20 cylinders of chlorine along with personal protective equipment to Saraqib.
Additionally, according to the caller, representatives of the local branch of the White Helmets, wearing individual means of protection, conducted rehearsals of "giving first aid" to "local residents" who were supposedly suffering from poisoning.
The information received from the Idlib resident raised a red flag for members of the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria.
According to the center, this indicates that the Al-Nusra terrorists along with the White Helmets are plotting another “provocation” with the use of poisonous substances in Idlib province, aimed at accusing the Syrian authorities of using chemical weapons against local residents.
A prominent politician said last week that Washington's renewed claims about Syria's use of chemical weapons was aimed at a new plot against Damascus.
Ahmad al-Ra'ie, the leader of the Syrian Forces Union, was quoted as saying by the Arabic service of Sputnik news agency that the US officials' claims that the Syrian army used chemical weapons were nothing but a prelude to implement a big plot in Syria.
He noted that the American officials admitted that there was no evidence for such allegations, and said, "There is a scenario - and we have been used to it – in which a group of terrorists fire chemical weapons and then the US blames the Syrian army for using chemical weapons and an international crisis starts."
Al-Ra'ie said that Syria is able to foil the US plots but it needs to regain control of the suspicious regions in order not to allow the Americans to send chemical weapons to them for such false flag operations.
In similar remarks in early February, Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm newspaper, warned that Washington's recent allegations that the government in Damascus has used chemical weapons are aimed at justifying its possible future strikes against the Syrian army positions.
"The golden rule which had existed since 7 years ago and the start of the crisis in Syria is that every time the US has felt that its plots in Syria have been foiled, it raised the issue of chemical weapons as a pretext to attack the Syrian army positions," Atwan wrote.
He referred to the recent remarks by US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis who claimed that Washington is concerned about the potential use of sarin gas in Syria, a day after the US warned it was prepared to consider military action if necessary to deter, what it called, chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian government, and said Mattis, meantime, has admitted that there is no evidence to corroborate that the Syrian government has used Sarin.
Atwan also pointed to other US officials' remarks who had claimed that the Syrian government and the ISIL use chemical weapons, and said, "Such comments are dangerous as they put the Syrian government and the ISIL on the same side and raise similar accusations against them and exonerate other (terrorist) groups (than the ISIL) from them."
Sarin is a colorless and tasteless toxin that can cause respiratory failure leading to death.
Accusing the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of using chemical weapons against civilians, the US launched several dozen Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian air base last April after a sarin gas attack on Khan Shaykhun in Idlib Province claimed at least 80 lives.
"We are on the record and you all have seen how we reacted to that, so they would be ill-advised to go back to violating the chemical (weapons) convention," Mattis said recently.
This is while the Syrian government has fiercely denied using or even possessing chemical weapons since the country’s compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention was certified by international observers in 2013.
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Representative of the Iranian Jewish community at the parliament Siamak Mareh Sedq warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Tehran's crushing and unforgettable response to any foreign aggression, specially by Israel.
"The enemies of the Iranian nation, including the child-killing Israeli prime minister, should have understood that although the revolutionary Iranian nation is not a warmonger and wants sustainable and fair peace for all nations, it doesn’t withdraw even an iota from its revolutionary-monotheist positions," Mareh Sedq said, addressing an open session of the parliament in Tehran on Tuesday.
He warned Netanyahu against even thinking of aggression against Iran, and said, "If any crazy person wants to attack Iran's national interests, he/she will be given a crushing response."
His remarks came after Commander of Khatam ol-Anbia Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli warned that the country's Armed Forces are prepared to respond to any enemy threats and aggression with an iron fist.
"We have no compromise with the enemies and we have learned it from our martyrs," Brigadier General Esmayeeli said earlier this month.
"We have to protect our cultural positions because the enemies are after creating crevice in them," the commander added.
Also, in November, Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami underlined that the country's Armed Forces are fully prepared to defend the country, and said that if enemy dares to attack the Islamic Republic, it will face Tehran's rigid reaction.
"As the regional upheavals unfolded, the enemy suffered defeat against our zealous youth, and it will experience the same in case of trying to make an aggression against the country,” Brigadier General Salami said.
He underlined that the enemy was after thwarting Iran's progress through supporting and strengthening terrorist groups by presenting a distorted and detestable image of Islam to the world.
"The enemy will face nothing, but defeat in return for hostility towards the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Brigadier General Salami added.
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