TEHRAN (Iran News) – French President Emmanuel Macron has held meetings with opposition party leaders in a desperate attempt to form a parliamentary majority after losing control of the National Assembly and the power he enjoyed during his first term to implement his own policies so easily.

Macron’s Ensemble alliance won just 245 seats in the second-round vote on Sunday, far short of the 289 needed for an absolute majority.

Some experts say Macron has himself to blame after spending more time trying to lead Europe on Ukraine, while other parties focused on the cost of living crisis back at home.

Other analysts say the Ukraine crisis which has exacerbated the rising cost of energy in Europe is an early sign for what other leaders on the continent can expect to lose, as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which is being supported by NATO, drags on.

While other parties spent time on the campaign trail, Macron was in Kyiv pledging to intensify the delivery of weapons; a trip he made after being criticized for saying Russia should not be “humiliated”.

If the French leader had achieved a path to peace in the Ukraine conflict; there may have been some praise back home, not only for those suffering from the fighting but also for the easing of energy prices in France.

French media described Macron’s significant losses as a “crushing defeat” and an “earthquake”.

Many have pointed to the low voter turnout: 46.23 percent in Sunday’s crucial second-round legislative election as just one sign of Macron’s failure.

As it stands those who abstained from the vote were the biggest winner as some analysts have suggested, but the factor behind the abstention is a lack of vision among the contenders to address the French people’s urgent needs amid rising inflation.

One notable and unexpected result was Nupes, an alliance of leftwing and Green parties led by Jean Luc Melenchon that won the second largest number of seats.

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said the “unprecedented” situation “is a risk to our country faced with challenges at the national level as well as at the international scale.”

Borne herself was only appointed in May by Macron in the aftermath of his presidential win and has been under heavy pressure to step down.

Melenchon has called on the French PM to submit to a vote of confidence telling reporters “that woman has no legitimacy. None. We’re wasting our time until she leaves,”

On Tuesday, Borne succumbed to the growing calls and offered her resignation. However, she appears to be safe for now after receiving the backing of her party MPs and intervention by Macron, mainly because she retained her seat in the legislative vote.

Macron had insisted before the election that all ministers who lost their seats would have to stand down. Nevertheless, the decision to keep the Prime Minister in power has been strongly criticized.

The political impasse has left the French President holding back-to-back meetings with leaders of opposition parties in an attempt to break the political deadlock; or as the Elysee Palace put it for “possible constructive solutions” to the deadlock.

Experts says Macron may try and form a majority by joining hands with smaller parties but whether that approach will work remains to be seen.

His most important meeting was with Christian Jacob, leader of the mainstream right Les Republicains party, which came fourth in the parliamentary election winning 64 seats.

“We have never been in such a situation. The responsibility for it lies with the president of the Republique. He has had a five-year term for nothing” Jacob told reporters.

Earlier, Jacob accused Macron of “using the extremes” for his own purposes. “He has put the country in this situation,” he said.

Macron’s losses paved the way for the far-right and leftist parties to prosper and essentially play a key role in the country’s political landscape for the next five years.

After meeting Macron, Jacob said, “I told the president that it was out of the question to enter into a coalition deal, that would be a betrayal of our voters.” Earlier Jacob had called the President “arrogant”.

Macron’s also sat down at the Elysee with Olivier Faure, head of the Parti Socialiste, one of four parties in Melenchon’s alliance.

Faure told journalists before the meeting that “Emmanuel Macron was legitimately re-elected, but he has not been given a clear mandate,”

Earlier Faure told French media he would tell the president “the country is not well, it is angry, but it is not blocked and there are policies that are possible.”

There has been no indication so far as to whether Macron will meet Melenchon.

He did, however, go all the way to meeting his longtime fierce rival, Marine Le Pen, head of the radical left La France Insoumise,

After her meeting with Macron, Le Pen said she told him her party’s MPs will be part of the opposition but don’t want to do “systematic obstruction.”

“If measures are being proposed that go in the right direction… we will vote for them. If they go in the wrong direction, we will amend them. If they are not amended as we want, then we will oppose them,” she added.

Macron may resort to running a minority government and will have to compromise with MPs on passing legislation, something that threatens to paralyze parliament.

According to Fabien Roussel of the French Communist Party, who met Macron on Tuesday evening, the president asked him “if we were ready to work in a government of national unity”, and if such an initiative was the right solution or whether support should be sought “on a case-by-case basis”.

The French economy minister Bruno Le Maire has admitted “we will have to show a lot of imagination” to govern. The leftists, the far-right, and the green bloc will most likely stand in the way and oppose Macron’s policies. The first session of the new National Assembly is scheduled for next Tuesday.

Le Pen’s far-right party, for example, had just eight seats in the previous parliament, her bloc has significantly expanded that this time round to 89 seats that giving the party unprecedented power.

Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has urged the creation of a “grand coalition”, considering a “compromise”, even if it meant “finding new profiles” to take the lead.

But Macron will travel to Brussels for a European summit scheduled on Thursday and Friday. He will then head to a G-7 meeting in Germany next week, followed by a NATO summit in Spain and a brief visit to Portugal.

Again critics say his constant traveling and lack of attention to domestic affairs has left the French President out of touch with important domestic affairs.

Will this be the start of a new trend in Europe, where Presidents, Prime ministers, and Chancellors suffer losses for putting the affairs of the European Union and NATO above their mandate to deliver on domestic affairs?

Time will tell, but if the voter reaction to Macron is anything to go by, it reveals a lot about other European nations, whose nationals are suffering from a cost of living crisis and abstaining from the ballot boxes in protest.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) – French President Emmanuel Macron has warned against humiliating Russia for its military offensive in Ukraine, if and when any peace deal is agreed upon.

Speaking to reporters in the French city of Strasbourg, Macron says that once the war ends, Moscow and Kyiv will eventually have to sit down and negotiate peace terms, so any further tensions will only serve to the detriment of the situation.

“We will have a peace to build tomorrow, let us never forget that,” Macron said “I mentioned this earlier. We will have to do this with Ukraine and Russia around the table. The end of the discussion and the negotiation will be set by Ukraine and Russia.”

However, Macron says this will “not be done in denial, nor in exclusion of each other, nor even in humiliation.”

In what may come as a blow to the government in Kyiv, Macron also said it would take “decades” for Ukraine to join the European Union.

“I am saying this in all honesty; honesty that we owe to the Ukrainians,” Macron said, “we can have an accelerated process… to accept candidate status for Ukraine but we know that given our standards and the criteria, it would probably take decades for Ukraine to really join the European Union.”

Ukraine had been seeking a quick route to EU membership and Macron’s remarks will come as another setback for Kyiv, which has also been refused membership in NATO.

The French leader laid out his vision of a broader club of European nations that would allow for deeper cooperation between non-EU countries.

Under this new wider “political community”, nations like Ukraine and even the United Kingdom could be included, Macron explained.

The French President whose country currently holds the EU’s presidency says a new organization would try and achieve objectives beyond the scope of the EU.

“The European Union, given the level of its integration and ambition, cannot be in the short term the only means of structuring the European continent,” he pointed out.

The initiative was immediately supported by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who was standing alongside the French President.

Vladimir Medinsky, the Russian chief negotiator says that peace talks with Ukraine had not stopped and were being held remotely.

Moscow has accused Kyiv of stalling the talks and using reports of atrocities committed by Russian troops in Ukraine to undermine the negotiations. Russia denies targeting civilians in what it calls its “special military operation”.

Asked when-in-person talks might be held with Ukrainian negotiators, Medinsky said “we need more specifics on hand in order to meet in person.”

Since March 29, Ukraine and Russia have not held face-to-face peace talks, but have been meeting via video conferences.

Last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that there was a risk the peace process could collapse.

Russian President Vladimir Putin calls Moscow’s actions a “special military operation” in the face of NATO’s eastward expansion on Russian borders. Putin has also previously claimed the “special military operation” is designed to disarm Ukraine, defend Russian speakers from persecution and prevent the United States and its allies from using the country to threaten Russian security.

Ukraine dismisses Moscow’s claims of persecution and denies any threat to Russia from Ukraine or Western countries.

Meanwhile, during his address at the Victory Day parade in Moscow’s Red Square to mark Russia’s victory over Germany in the Second World War, Putin said Russia’s military operation in Ukraine was a preemptive move against future aggression.

Putin praised the achievement of the Soviet people during World War II and further addressed the Kremlin’s reasons for the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kyiv.

Putin insisted Russia had to act because of a security threat in the eastern Donbass region and added “we saw the military infrastructure unfolding [in Ukraine]; hundreds of foreign advisers starting their work; there were regular deliveries of the most modern weapons from NATO countries. The danger grew every day,” the president explained.

“Russia gave a preemptive rebuff to aggression – this was a forced, timely, and the only right decision by a sovereign, strong and independent country,” he added, referring to the launch of the military operation.

“Despite all the disagreements in international relations, Russia has always advocated the creation of a system of equal and indivisible security,” Putin continued.

The Russian leader highlighted  Moscow’s attempts to engage in dialogue on security guarantees with Washington late last year, which the latter failed to address.

Experts say providing those guarantees could have, in essence, prevented a war, had the White House responded to reassure Russia and address its security concerns.

“NATO countries didn’t want to hear us, which means that, in fact, they harbored completely different plans, and we saw it,” Putin added.

Meanwhile, U.S. President Joe Biden has resurrected a World War II act to accelerate weapons shipments to Ukraine for its battle against Russian forces.

Weapons sent under this act are separate from the nearly $4 billion in military aid that the U.S. has already sent to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s military operation in February, and from the $33 billion worth of military aid that the president recently asked Congress to approve.

He also signaled that he is ready to make a political concession in Congress to win quick approval of a request for another $33 billion in funds to send more weapons to Ukraine.

Biden said he is ready to drop funding for the Covid-19 pandemic for Americans and just get the money for weapons to Ukraine through.

Some Democrats have expressed disappointment the COVID-19 aid would be considered separately.

Senior Senate Democrat Dick Durbin told reporters “It would have been so much better for us to protect the United States as well as worked to protect Ukraine,”

Asked if separating Ukraine aid hurts prospects for COVID-19 aid, Durbin said, “It doesn’t help. Putting those two together would have been positive.”

The act, which passed Congress last month with 417-10 votes in the House and flew with flying colors in the Senate, suspends limitations on the number of weapons and other military supplies Biden can send to Ukraine or “other Eastern European countries”.

However, it does stipulate that Kyiv must subsequently pay for whatever it receives. Kyiv’s ability to later repay the U.S. has been under the spotlight, considering Zelensky had recently asked the U.S. and the EU for $7 billion per month to keep the country’s economy afloat.

Critics have accused the U.S. and its NATO allies of prolonging the war and suffering of Ukrainians by sending weapons, instead of backing the peace process to end the war.

Even the unprecedented sanctions imposed against Russia have been questioned as the measures have failed to end the conflict.

Experts argue Washington triggered the war and is trying to ensure the fighting stays at an impasse in a bit to confront Russia’s rising economy and military strength as well as its growing ties with other EU nations.

Meanwhile, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that Biden was not happy with leaks to American news outlets in which U.S. intelligence took credit for helping Ukraine target a Russian ship and Russian generals in Ukraine.

“The president was displeased with the leaks… and he did not feel they were constructive,” she said.

The American news reports do not indicate how many Russian generals had been killed in Ukraine using U.S. intelligence to locate their whereabouts.

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(Iran News) –Current President Emmanuel Macron has defeated Marine Le Pen in the second round of France’s elections but faces an uphill task to unite a much more polarized nation than when he first took the helm in 2017.

The country’s Interior Ministry announced the final result that saw Macron win a second term in office with 58.55 percent of the votes compared to Le Pen’s 41.45 percent.

Five years ago Macron swept to victory over his same rival with 66 percent of the votes.

Around 49 million people were eligible to cast their ballots but 49 million people certainly did not cast their ballots with voter turnout also lower. Abstention has been put at 28 percent which is the highest on record in 50 years.

Despite becoming the first French President to secure two consecutive terms in two decades, Macron acknowledged the “anger” and “disappointment” in his victory speech saying the country was torn apart by “doubt” and “division”.

As the vote-counting process began reports surfaced of people protest voting by casting a blank ballot. The number of spoiled votes coupled with the abstention rate were both alarmingly high.

The lead-up to this election was dominated by the rise of the far-right candidates in France, spearheaded by Le Pen. The Rassemblement National party leader, who previously said she would ban the Muslim headscarf in public and after three attempts for the Presidency’s post, has never come so close to winning.

Many experts have criticized Macron’s own anti-Muslim and xenophobic stances over the past couple of years in a country that has between five to six million Muslims (the highest in Europe) for the rise of the far-right by tapping into extremist ideologies.

Observers say the longer Macron governs, the more the ultra-right will grow in strength.

The polls and the evidence (such as the lowest turnout in modern history) suggest not only French Muslims are frustrated with the racist rhetoric.

The younger generation are also said to have been marginalized from the election with an increasing number staying away from the ballot boxes.

Perhaps not a surprise then that the far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon came third in the first round of this election, where no candidate received more than the required 50 percent of the votes.

Macron acknowledged many people did not vote for him because of the French President’s policies or popularity but rather to refrain Le Pen from entering the Presidential palace.

He said “I also know that many French people voted for me to block the far right. I also want to thank them, and tell them that their vote places me under an obligation,” Macron also touched on “those who abstained, could not decide and those who voted for Marine Le Pen.”

He pledged “to heal the divisions that have been expressed in these elections,” claiming he would do this “by ensuring respect for everyone, every day. I want a fairer society”

But analysts argue the longer he stays in power the stronger the ultra-right would become with some saying the fact a far-right candidate came close to winning this time, it’s very possible they will win next time.

In a central Paris neighborhood, riot police charged at and sprayed tear gas on demonstrators to break up a crowd of hundreds of mostly young angry protesters who had gathered to rally against both candidates.

In a short speech, conceding defeat, Le Pen said her result was “a striking victory” and that the ideas she represented “had reached new heights”, adding “In this defeat, I can’t help but feel a hope.”

Le Pen also noted she will not be standing down from politics, as many pundits had suspected she would if she lost.

The other major issue of this election had been the state of the economy with inflation being a major factor. The rise in the prices of goods and services is being accelerated by the war in Ukraine.

This would suggest that French support for the conflict is fading among the French public, something Macron spent the campaign trail focusing on while Le Pen is said to have good ties with Russia and campaigned much more in different regions on the streets of France.

For the working class and the poor, the French economy has truly been staggered with the younger generation having a very difficult time finding employment.

Analysts say Macron hasn’t accomplished much on the domestic front for these three sections of society, leaving them angry and alienated. Polls indicate a large proportion of people are having trouble making ends meet and the cost of living became one of the key issues of the campaign.

The heavy-handed crackdown on the weekly yellow vest protests under Macron’s tenure will go down in the history books for all the wrong reasons.

Nevertheless, this was a very important election for the European Union, the leaders of whom were watching very closely. Le Pen had regularly stated her dissatisfaction with the purpose of the EU and was expected to have been on a collision course with the bloc.

France holds the EU six-month presidency and had set its policies for the 27-nation Union, Macron is likely to continue with his previous five-year role of trying to lead Europe diplomatically. Whether that has been classified as a success or even achieving its desired results is open to debate.

Critics say the EU has failed to break away from Washington’s dominance over Europe and continues to support U.S. international policies.

The European Council President Charles Michel, as well as the Prime Ministers of Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany’s chancellor, were among the first global leaders to congratulate Macron.

Also on the international front It’s a major win for NATO whose members, analysts argue, like to militarily intervene in other countries or ignite the fire of a conflict and stand back watching as their military-industrial complexes make a profit.

A win for Le Pen would have pulled Paris out of the NATO integrated command structure. The French military would not have taken orders from NATO command dealing the Western alliance a major setback.

The major underlying challenge for Macron is reflected in the fact that while both contenders had their (smaller than expected) share of voters; a significant percentage of the ballots casted in France’s 2022 presidential election were votes of rejection.

To say the country is deeply divided would be an understatement, as his second term begins Macron has a major challenge ahead to serve and unite not just the French population but also French politics.

Parliamentary elections take place on 12 and 19 June amid mounting political opposition. Macron’s party and its allies need a majority of 289 MPs in the 577-seat lower house. The elections will outline the nature of Macron’s government.

Macron has called for a “big new political movement” which observers say was an appeal to the far right and left to reach a majority.

Newly elected Presidents in France tend to easily achieve a parliamentary majority usually because of the lower number of votes for the opposition.

But this election is different, especially with Le Pen gaining more votes than had been predicted and not standing down from politics as had also been expected. She has pledged a strong opposition parliamentary bloc.

Despite a tough election process, the hard work is just about to begin for the French President.

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Speaking to reporters in Dubai, Macron claimed Friday that the current round of talks had not been successful, and hinted that there would be a delay before the next round took place.

“I think it’s probable that this round of negotiations, given the positions, does not succeed,” he said according to Reuters. “It is most likely that these negotiations do not continue in the short term.”

No other European leaders have commented on the talks before Macron, and to this day, no other western leaders have commented on the state of things between Iran and the west as much as Macron has.

The reason for this may well be the fact that the French president set off a tour of Persian Gulf Arab countries on the same day the talks were wrapped up in Vienna. On Friday, while Iranian and European negotiators were holding intensive, heated debates, Macron arrived in the United Arab Emirates with a large politico-economic delegation.

After a plenary session between Iran and the P4+1 group of countries, the French joined their European and American colleagues in putting the blame on Iran for allegedly not showing enough seriousness. They even accused Iran of playing for time, using the Vienna talks to expand its nuclear infrastructure, and backtracking from the previous hard-won compromises achieved during the past six rounds.

On the contrary, Iran refused the western narrative of the talks, underlining the need for a swift conclusion of the talks. Iran’s response to the European and American criticism showed that the western problem with the talks boils down to a number of things: first, Iran entered the talks with a view to negotiate on equal footing and achieve a fair deal. Second, Iran has caught the west by surprise by presenting carefully drafted proposals. Third, Iranian negotiators have made it clear that they understand Europe’s use of double standards in terms of non-nuclear issues.

As for the third reason, Iran seems to have made it clear that Vienna talks should only focus on nuclear issues stipulated in the 2015 nuclear deal officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) while the U.S. and its European allies have said that they want to use the JCPOA as a starting point to address other issues such as Iran’s missiles and influence in the region. In an analysis piece on Saturday, Iran’s state news agency, IRNA, the U.S. certainly seeks to force Iran to negotiate over its ballistic missiles after the JCPA is revived. But this objective, which is equally shared by the Europeans, would be far from being achieved even if the tatted nuclear deal is resuscitated. Because Iran is unlikely to negotiate on issues of paramount importance to its national security particularly now that the French are turning the Persian Gulf region into an arms depot.

During his visit to the UAE, Macron and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed oversaw the singing of a record 14-billion-euro contract for 80 Rafale warplanes. The Rafale order, signed on Friday, is the biggest made internationally for the Dassault Aviation aircraft since 2004, according to the Arab Weekly, a publication close to the UAE. The biggest international order ever made for the French jets came as Macron held talks with bin Zayed at the start of a two-day trip which will also take in Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

The resource-rich UAE, one of the French defense industry’s biggest customers, also inked an order for 12 Caracal military transport helicopters for a total bill of more than 17 billion euros, the publication added.

These arms deals have been widely seen as a sign that France is employing double standards on security issues in the region. On the one hand, it calls on Iran to curtail its conventional weapons such as ballistic missiles. On the other hand, it provides the UAE and other Arab sheikhdoms with state-of-the-art weaponry.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) –  “Authoritarian” health pass protests in France show no signs of letting up . Without the permits French residents are prohibited from entering many places including shopping centers, restaurants, cafes, hospitals as well as boarding long-distance trains. Even somebody dining on an outside terrace will need the pass.

Despite a public backlash and four consecutive weeks of protests against the “health pass”, Paris has extended the legislation known as Pass Sanitaire from August 9.

The passes are shown in the form of a QR code, digitally or on paper, and sent to those who are fully vaccinated, have a negative Covid-19 test, or had the disease and recovered.

The government hopes it will boost vaccination rates.

But, French President Emmanuel Macron is facing a tricky task just eight months before he seeks re-election in April 2022.

Official figures say more than 237,000 people took part in demonstrations nationwide across the weekend.

Organizers say the turnout was higher.

Opponents of Macron’s plans strongly believe the pass violates the most fundamental of French principles: the “liberty” and “equality” of the country’s national motto.

The protests have united the far right and the far left and many in between.

Critics accuse Macron of running a health “dictatorship” by forcing people to get vaccinated against their will.

They argue that the pass limits their movements outside their houses, and implicitly makes vaccinations mandatory.

During the demonstrations, protesters pointed out they are not, in principle, opposed to vaccines, but object to being forced to have them.

Experts say the key debate around the health pass has been the power of the state against the people.

Presidential Candidate, Jean-Luc Melenchon, describing the health pass as “absurd, unfair and authoritarian”.

The French government has defended the plan saying nobody is being forced to be vaccinated, but opponents say they are certainly being coerced.

Meanwhile, Italy also saw thousands turn out in opposition to the country’s Green Pass, which is now required for teachers and anyone attending indoor events.

The Italian Green Pass is required to enter museums, sports venues, cinemas, and indoor dining. School teachers, university staff, and students are also required to show the pass.

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 Despite being welcomed by flowers upon landing at the French colony, Macron will certainly be met with anything but flowers by the victims of France’s devastating impact of its decades-long testing of nuclear weapons in the archipelago.

Macron is under pressure from the locals to address the controversial tests that Paris conducted not in its homeland but far away in French Polynesia a program that began in 1966. More than 100,000 people on the Islands are believed to be suffering from radiation exposure since the nuclear arms tests finally ended in 1996. Many of those who have been contaminated are suffering from diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma as well as other types of cancer including thyroid, throat and lung cancer.

The residents of the Islands are demanding acknowledgment of the atomic program, an apology, and confirmation by Macron that all the victims will receive compensation. So far, only 63 civilians have reportedly been compensated by Paris since the French testing of 193 nukes to develop its nuclear weapons program.

According to joint research by multiple institutions earlier this year, the damage to the Islands was far greater than France had publicly acknowledged. The study included 2,000 pages of recently declassified documents by the French Defense Ministry and one of the investigators told media outlets that “[France] has tried hard to bury the toxic heritage of these tests”. However, it’s not just the toxic nature of the path France took to acquire nuclear arms and the fact Paris denounces other countries over their peaceful nuclear program; there is another painful element to these tests for the residents of Polynesia. Locals say the fact that France conducted its nuclear weapons tests on the archipelago far away from home all the way in the South Pacific Ocean, midway between Australia and Mexico, is a symbol of racist French colonial attitudes that viewed the islanders as inferior to the residents of France.

Critics would naturally ask why Paris did not conduct these very dangerous tests closer to a home near its borders. The 193 Association of victims of nuclear tests says “Just as )President Macron( has recognized as a crime the colonization that took place in Algeria, we also expect him to declare that it was criminal and that it is a form of colonization linked to nuclear power here in the Pacific.”

A French presidential official, speaking on condition of anonymity, claims Macron will be “encouraging several concrete steps” over the legacy of the tests, reports citing the unnamed official said this will involve the opening up of state archives and will address the issue of compensation. It remains to be seen if these steps will stem the anger of the locals, over the decades, pro-independence movements have increased in popularity which resulted in the Islands taking more control of its internal affairs and more autonomy. In 2014, French Polynesia’s assembly passed a resolution demanding France pay around $1bn in compensation, only for the environmental damage that Paris caused by its nuclear weapons tests.

Those tests on French Polynesia are very reminiscent of the United States’ testing of nuclear weapons on the Marshall Islands. During the height of the Cold War, from 1946 to 1958, Washington tested 67 nuclear weapons in what is now the Republic of the Marshall Islands, located in the central Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and the Philippines.

This is perhaps one of the least-known and least-spoken tragedies that the U.S. has committed. 75 years later, Washington has yet to issue an apology to the victims, where radiological contamination is an ongoing problem. What makes this tragic crime even more disturbing is the way the U.S. tricked, deceived, and killed the residents of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. When it detonated scores of nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands, at times Washington destroyed entire Islands.

One morning in 1954, the residents of the Rongelap Atoll and the Utrok Atoll woke up to the sound of the U.S. military testing one of its largest thermonuclear bombs, dubbed Bravo, but the residents had no idea what the mushroom cloud in the sea was. Nobody told them. It took a couple of hours until the fallout from a nuclear weapon fell down on them, contaminating their food, water, and skin.

A few days later, the U.S. Army came to evacuate the residents, however by that time they had already suffered from radiation poisoning. Their hair had fallen out, their skin was burnt and they were vomiting. Essentially, the residents had become human trial guinea pigs for experimental purposes. In April 1955 the U.S. Naval Medical Institute in Maryland and the U.S. Radiological Defense Laboratory in California Compiled a 37-page report titled ‘Medical Examination of Rongelap People Six Months After Exposure to Fallout’.

It details every aspect of the Rongelap Islands residents’ side effects to the nuclear bomb with a follow-up medical examination that was made six months after they had been exposed to the atomic bomb radiation. The document shows the residents were then brought back to Rongelap so U.S. researchers could have the opportunity of conducting further research on the future side effects of radiation on human beings. In 1956, a U.S. Atomic Agency Commission official said “While it is true that these people do not live the way that Westerners do, civilized people, it is nonetheless also true that they are more like us than the mice.”

The future proved to be a disastrous one for the people of the Rongelap Islands. Cancer cases, miscarriages, and other deformities multiplied. By 1967, out of 19 children, who were younger than 10 (the day the Bravo nuclear bomb exploded) 17 had developed thyroid disorders and growths with one child dying of leukemia. By 1985, according to U.S. government documents and news reports at the time, the people of Rongelap asked Greenpeace to evacuate them after the U.S. refused to relocate them or to acknowledge their radiation exposure. In some cases, the U.S. did relocate residents from one Island to another without informing them what was happening, all the US army said was they were being transferred somewhere more luxurious. But there was no luxury and the residents returned to radioactive waste that would eventually kill them.

Nowhere is this more evident than in Enewetak Atoll. Before the U.S. forces arrived and occupied the Islands, the natives lived a normal healthy life before being told to leave their land. Enewetak’s chain of Islands withstood the brunt of America’s last stage of nuclear bomb detonations. Between 1948 and 1958, 43 atomic bombs had been detonated there.

After agreeing to a 1958 temporary deal on nuclear testing with the Soviet Union, the U.S. began using the Enewetak Islands as a testing ground for conventional and bioweapons. The U.S. would go on to shoot ballistic missiles at it from California. After the American military exhausted its military interest in the region, it invited the leaders of Enewetak back for the first time since 1946. The leaders were mortified by what they saw. Photographs show an apocalyptic scene of windswept, deforested islands. Meanwhile, until today, the Runit Island, contains radioactive soil and debris left behind from a nuclear weapons test; more than 3.1 million cubic feet to be more accurate. This includes lethal amounts of plutonium and so much nuclear waste that the U.S. refuses to take responsibility for it. It’s a disaster of untold magnitudes and it shows how the U.S. developed its nuclear weapons using other people’s land in a remote region, where the residents were deemed not worthy enough to be protected from 67 nuclear weapons tests. The decades that followed and America’s mistreatment of the residents of the Marshall Islands, not protecting them from any further harm, such as more radiation exposure, further revealed Washington’s true face to the world. The French followed a similar line.

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Profanity against the sanctity and enlightening teacher of ethics for humanity, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), cannot have come out of a mouth which has a hand in with the culture, ethics, science and sociology with affection and kindness.

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Today French President Emanuel Macron has turned into a symbol out of what one can call it culture and civilization. Today in the world, who is that does not consider Macron as a marionette of civilization-evading nature of the same material of its predecessor Masonry? What today has caused French President’s anti-Islamism, and the current, which has employed him for implementing this very  inauspicious way, knows it well that today it is the era of Islam, and the young and the old in the world the more they become educated, the more they take shelter in a belief which promotes nothing but ethics and love and affection, and today all the world know that anti-Islamism is a baseless project which has failed from its root.

The Satanic scenario of anti-Islamism, which has kickstarted recently with repetition of the derogatory act by the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and publishing defamatory cartoons on the dear Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) followed by the support of the hapless, unwise, lowbrow and adventurist French president, has entered a new stage, and this stage of enlightening the world opinion, which is put forward with the flag of the so-called anti-Islamism, paves the ground for joining of very large number of world people to Islam.

Today the big contradiction in the West like the flag-bearer of the so-called, freedom of expression in Europe is seen more vividly than ever for its covering of its failure in cultural basics resulted from its false and bankrupt liberalism in preventing the spread of the culture of Islam and tendency of western citizens to the perspicuous religion of Islam and the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Who is, with the least study, that doesn’t know that Islam and Muslims today are more committed to Jesus Christ than Christians especially the government agents in the west?

Muslims know Christ as the close ally of their Imam Mahdi (A). Freemasons have never believed in Christ and they have used his name as a tool for befooling the people in their governance. Muslims consider their Prophet, who has brought the true and undistorted history of Christ, as the sign of blessing for all Divine religions and humanity of today.

Muslim people worldwide react to this unethical insult by launching protests and condemning it in the Islamic and non-Islamic societies against this stupid act of French President, and with boycotting French-made products, and consider it a new era of rise of global tendency to Islam, and they call it an opportunity for exposing the behind-the-scene reasons, Zionist factors and Freemasons in insulting the Islamic sanctities.

The leaders of hegemony system and Zionists, who are the main supporters of the extremist and takfiri currents as well as generating horror and violence in the world, will not be able to save the crisis-ridden and anti-humanity West from the self-made quagmire of anti-spirituality, and undoubtedly in the not-too-distant future, they will face with more deserved responses from the Islamic ummah rather than only boycotting the goods and protests in the streets.

Today according to the acknowledgements of teachers of the reputed European universities, birth of new generation of truth-seeking youths in all universities of the world like French university Sorbonne has driven Western government nuts.

Many groups of people, from Jews and Christians to Catholics and others have set the modus operandi of the Islamic Republic of Iran as the base for their thought, and they basically fight continuously with the ruling Freemasons. The number of prisoners of this struggle is confidentially in the hands of individuals who have chosen the Islamic Republic of Iran as their confident.

Today in the fake cradle of the so-called liberty, some thought is suppressed which predisposes the Re-Appearance of Hazrat Mahdi (A) in the world. The failure of foundations based on the thought and promotion of American, British and French Lodge (basic organizational unit of Freemasonry) has been revealed in anger of people like Macron.

Who is that is aware of the current condition in the world and does not see the hidden layers of the presence, mixed with anger, of Zionism and Freemasons in this divergence from liberalism in the structures of European parties? Today all of what is about to happen is in full accordance with written narrations of Re-Appearance of the Savior.

Nations are more awake so that Masonism can take them as its slaves. Hearts are clear and aware and see the dawn very near despite the night-lover bats have lurked in the darkness. People like Macron should also wait and see and taste the result of what has been poured out of their stinking existence.

 By: Hamid Reza Naghashian

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