The Biden White House has published a long-awaited report on the widely condemned and humiliating withdrawal of the U.S. military from Afghanistan.

U.S. forces swiftly withdrew in August 2021 as the Taliban quickly resumed power, two decades after America’s invasion and subsequent catastrophic occupation.

The 12-page redacted report pinned the blame on bad intelligence and President Joe Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump.

This is not the first time the U.S. has blamed its intelligence for foreign policy crises it initiates abroad.

Phil Wilayto, editor of The Virginia Defender quarterly newspaper, told Tehran Times, “When the U.S. has a foreign policy disaster, it tends to blame faulty intelligence.”

Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, which Washington pinned the blame on the al-Qaeda terrorist group, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan the same year.

Later in 2003, the U.S. also invaded Iraq on a pack of lies after presenting fake intelligence to the international community.

“There were no weapons of mass destruction, there was no link between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda, there were no links between Saddam Hussein and the attacks on 9/11. These were just lies concocted to justify carrying out an invasion of Iraq, which (the U.S.) wanted to accomplish, in order to extend U.S. hegemony in West Asia,” Wilayto pointed out.

Presenting the declassified summary, U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby admitted mistakes had been made on Afghanistan’s withdrawal.

“Clearly we didn’t get things right” on intelligence, Kirby claimed.

Wilayto noted the Pentagon was caught completely off guard, saying “the U.S. was obviously not anticipating the Taliban advancing on and taking over the capital city of Kabul so quickly. Period. Again, this was much less a failure of the U.S. intelligence, as it was an underestimation by the U.S. military of the determination of the Afghani forces to rid their country of the U.S. occupying presence.”

The White House report also tried to divert the blame of the U.S. establishment’s disastrous occupation of Afghanistan on President Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump.

“The departing Trump administration had left the Biden administration with a date for withdrawal, but no plan for executing it. And after four years of neglect – and in some cases deliberate degradation – crucial systems, offices, and agency functions that would be necessary for a safe and orderly departure were in disrepair,” the document claimed.

It also claimed that Trump, in his final 11 months in office, had reduced the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan, allegedly reaching some 2,500 military personnel by the time Biden took over in January 2021.

“As a result… the Taliban were in the strongest military position that they had been in since 2001,” it added.

In a social media post, Trump responded by labeling the current White House as “morons” and said they were responsible for a “grossly incompetent SURRENDER in Afghanistan.”

“Biden is responsible, no one else!” Trump wrote.

The White House report acknowledged the long-term failure of the war, including the Taliban’s surprising resilience and the weakness of the U.S.-backed Afghan army.

“After more than 20 years, more than $2 trillion dollars, and standing up an Afghan army of 300,000 soldiers, the speed and ease with which the Taliban took control of Afghanistan suggests that there was no scenario — except a permanent and significantly expanded U.S. military presence — that would have changed the trajectory,” it said.

Kirby declined to answer questions over whether Biden has any regrets for his decisions and the measures he took leading up to the very embarrassing withdrawal.

On August 26, 2021 at the crowded perimeter of Kabul’s international airport and amid a very disorganized Pentagon operation to evacuate the country, a bomb attack killed 13 US troops and 170 Afghans, where the U.S.-led military was carrying out an airlift operation in just a matter of days.

The scenes were very reminiscent to that of the U.S. military fleeing Vietnam.

The international community as well as America’s Western and regional allies watched on as the tragic scenes showed Afghan civilians in a state of panic, mobbing fleeing airliners and even falling to their deaths as they attempted to cling onto departing planes.

Kirby claimed there was a list of intelligence failures, alleging that Washington did not predict “how fast the Taliban were moving across the country” or “the degree to which they were constructing these deals in the hinterlands that kind of fell like dominos.”

“We didn’t anticipate how fast the Afghan national security forces were going to fold,” he said. “I don’t think we fully appreciated the degree of corruption that was in the officer ranks in the military.”

This is despite a watchdog that was established by Congress, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), publishing quarterly reports on the failures of the U.S. occupation in the country.

One SIGAR report was more damaging and critical of the American occupation than the other.

Thanks to the watchdog, Congress and the U.S. establishment/deep state, including its intelligence apparatus, were fully aware of what was happening in Afghanistan, so there is no reason to blame “intelligence” for the disastrous and deadly policies Washington pursued in the country.

The CIGAR reports (nearly 70) were very detailed and clearly spelled out how the U.S. occupation was not proving any services to the Afghan population, allowing the Taliban to regain influence.

John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, regularly spoke of how significant amounts of dollars were being lost to “waste, fraud and abuse.”

In the years leading up to the collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban, the man appointed by Congress itself became more and more critical of the U.S. policies in the public eye. It is very sinister of the Biden White House to cite “intelligence” when so many reports were being published over so many years, documenting the fiasco of the American occupation.

The U.S. occupation led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Afghan civilians and the U.S. trained armed forces, which later collapsed.

In Iraq, the U.S. trained army also collapsed in the face of Daesh. One million Iraqis are estimated to have been killed as a result of the U.S. invasion and other forms of intervention in the country.

“Intelligence is a hard business,” Kirby claimed.

The reality is U.S. intelligence isn’t “a hard business” for a country that annually spends trillions of dollars on its military budget.

The U.S. has a dark history of using its so-called intelligence to expand its hegemonic rule and that has come at a price.

Millions of civilians have been maimed around the world as a result of Washington’s intelligence.

It was “U.S. intelligence” that saw a significant increase in number of terrorist organizations in West Asia and beyond, ironically under Washington’s so-called “war on terror”.

The terrorist groups created by the U.S. have not only maimed a countless number of civilians in West Asia but also prevented countries from both stabilizing and using the mass natural resources in the region.

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Trump has followed an authoritarian, rather than a democratic, playbook as president. It is fitting that he would end up like some of history’s best-known autocrats: hunkered down in his safe space, surrounded by his latest crop of unhinged loyalists, trying pathetically to escape the reality of his defeat.

On Saturday, Trump literally begged Georgia’s secretary of state to overturn the election results. “The people of Georgia are angry. The people in the country are angry,” Trump said in the call, a recording of which was obtained by NBC News. “And there’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated.”

The “inner sanctums” of authoritarians take on special importance when things are going badly and their power is threatened. Composed of flatterers and family members, they function to shield the head of state from any information that conflicts with his delusion that he is always right and will stay in power indefinitely. “For God’s sake, don’t upset the Führer — which means do not tell him the bad news — do not mention things which are not as he conceives them to be,” the exiled German journalist Karl H. von Wiegand wrote of Hitler in 1939, summarizing a situation familiar to those who have worked for Italy’s Benito Mussolini, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the current American president.

Hitler was unusual in keeping the same group of loyalist ministers around him for the entirety of his rule — Joseph Goebbels, with Hitler from the start, committed suicide in the Führerbunker soon after his leader did. Frantic purges of the inner circle also usually occur during the end stage of the rule. The head of state shrinks further into his safe spaces (whether headquarters in the nation’s capital or remote retreats) and surrounds himself with extremists who are willing to do whatever it takes, even lead the country into civil war, to keep him in power. Gaddafi, in power for 40 years, took this path by refusing to surrender when the Libyan revolution started in 2010.

Trump is hardly Hitler or Gaddafi, and authoritarianism works differently in the 21st century. Today’s leaders can come in through elections and then often try to manipulate elections to stay in office — until they get enough power to force the hand of legislative bodies to keep them there indefinitely. It took Vladimir Putin 20 years to amend the Russian constitution to lead until 2036.

Yet Trump’s actions are giving Americans a taste of the maneuvers autocrats engage in when they feel desperate to retain power. Days after the election, as Trump inquired about the possibility of military action, he fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper (who had opposed the use of troops to control civilian protests in the summer) and then other top policy and intelligence officials, as well as multiple advisers on government defense oversight boards.

This prepared, in theory, a more receptive climate for more extremist individuals, such as the recently pardoned Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, who had secretly worked for Erdoğan and is now advocating for Trump to declare martial law or invoke the Insurrection Act to stay in office.

Lawyer Sidney Powell was also pressed into service as an end-stage loyalist. At a Dec. 8 news conference, Powell detailed those who have supposedly conspired to steal the election from Trump. The list sums up a century of right-wing authoritarian propaganda: communists, George Soros (the anti-Semitic angle), Antifa, and corrupt liberals (here, the Clinton Foundation).

For those who have followed Trump’s time in office closely, his recourse to such measures is unsurprising. During his presidency, Americans have witnessed not just the decline of accountability and ethics in government, but also the rise of a political cult that glorified Trump as a man able to get away with what lesser men cannot and replaced expertise with loyalty as a criterion for government service.

Yet because Trump did not succeed in destroying democracy, the media and the political opposition have left a public record of the kinds of authoritarian dynamics we normally hear about only from exiles or dissenters. Large news outlets invested in new investigative teams to cover Trump’s corruption, and their fact-checkers were kept busy calling out his lies. “Whistleblowers” across government made the news. Many who served in Trump’s inner circle published tell-all books about his chaotic mode of governance or leaked news of his latest autocratic plans to the media while still in his employ.

From start to finish, Trump’s administration offered Americans an extraordinary civics lesson in how democratic erosion works and a road map of the weaknesses in our institutions that we can follow to bolster our system.

It is rare in history that a process of authoritarian capture is interrupted, but that’s what happened when Americans voted Trump out. Many members of the GOP, still loyal to Trump, are likely to wage war on the Biden administration. The dangers to our republic from illiberal forces are far from over. Yet a new vigilance and activism have gained ground. We will need them, and a robust free media, to protect our democracy in the turbulent years to come.

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The U.S. in President Donald Trump era has had a special difference with other editions of presidencies in the U.S. history and the difference has been that the decision-makers in the White House were not military. In this four-year period, Trump has always accused previous administrations of expending which has not benefitted the U.S. in the whole world, and especially in the West Asia. This method of administering the country by Trump has led to restriction in the U.S. military budget and massive withdrawals from the U.S. ambitious stances in any part of the world by the U.S. military.

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Emergence of morale lacking ambition and motivation in all military elements and its spread to the security structure has made the U.S. suffer from multidimensional confusions. That the U.S. with such deafening propagation and even with explicit claim of fight with terrorism and with fell to assassination of Martyr Qassem Soleimani and his comrades in Iraq is one of these confusions. That the U.S. in its haplessness regarding managing the COVID-19 pandemic accuses China is one of these confusions. That the U.S. presidential election structure has turned into an unusual bipolarity with norm-breaking behaviors is one of these confusions.

Of course, by writing this article I mean mostly attention on a strange confusion that has targeted the U.S. cyber system. In the news it has been reported that the U.S. after discovering a cyber-attack has noticed that the attack has been underway for over ten months with the most complicated methods and also realized that its control and its methods of prevention and defense against it had no plans, and it has not found yet the possible discovery of the source and trace of these attacks.

The U.S. president has recently assured that the cyber-attack is under control. Experts believe that under control in view of the U.S. officials means shutting down the cyber systems that for the time being that the systems could remain immune from the Russian detriment. Of course, despite different U.S. officials’ charges against Russian hackers, Russians have strongly denied those charges and have asked the U.S. officials to show down genuine, logical and documented evidence for their claim.

However American officials are not sure that Russians have a hand at this cyber-attack and they have not presented any evidence and document on Russian engagement in this attack and speculations believe this idea that Americans have moved on course to accusing Russians. However what is seen in the U.S. media climate is that the U.S. cyber army has been inflicted with heavy and irrecoverable blows.

One should take this point into consideration that the U.S. Administration has suffered heavy blows in several occasions and has lost many of its classified documents and secrets of its state-of-the-art technologies but in none of the previous occasion it had been involved with such a structural confusion.

The biggest hacking action that one can see its result openly is the manufacture of the fifth generation of fighter jets by China that by employing the confidential designing knowhow and technologies of the U.S. F-35 and F-36 in less than three years bore fruit, and the Chinese unveiled and flew their fighter jets before the Americans unveiled their F-35s.

Although data and information about the military technology is of great importance, the biggest concern of the Americans is not limited merely to the military technology and hacking some parts of air systems information but this concern is about the more strategic dimensions which will have more perils in the longtime. Let’s have a look back at what one of the American news agencies, the Associated Press, has covered on this issue recklessly, “Could Hackers Have Obtained Nuclear Secrets? COVID-19 Vaccine data? Blueprints for Next-Generation Weapons Systems?”

This type of speculations by the media is stated while it shows itself that these media outlets do not have actually any certain achievement and the amount of their information is very little and it is mostly speculations because if they had had anything special, they would not have passed it very easily and they would go for exposing the elements and currents, and would take the issue into the political scene.

In this complicated case, probably it may take several weeks, several months or even more time for experts of the digital sleuths combing through U.S. government and private industry networks to get the answers that show the infiltration holes and methods of hacking. Experts say these hackers are consummate pros at covering their tracks. What’s seems clear is that this campaign — which cybersecurity experts says exhibits the tactics and techniques of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence agency — will rank among the most prolific in the annals of cyberespionage.

However Americans should be asked, with taking into consideration of the past experience of their sophisticated drone being hacked and being landed on the land of the Islamic Republic of Iran, how they have dared to dispatch their nuclear submarine to the Persian Gulf and they have not feared the route of it towards northern coasts is not been traced.

It seems the aim behind hacking systems in different organizations in the U.S. from the Treasury Department and industries to the intelligence agencies is to wear out and to disappoint the American systems of getting the gesture of being a super power and to accept the federative collapse that fortunately by the U.S. refrain from retreating its political stand and insistence on its false ambition of being a super power, it itself foments more the materialization of hackers’

  By: Hamid Reza Naghashian

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In the current condition the judgement regarding the U.S. presidential election results is not so easy because in recent days the recounts of some votes in some swing states whose results have been questioned by the White House have been suspicious. In the U.S. elections, most of the election organizers continued counting the ballots ignoring the White House appeal for recount but U.S. President Donald Trump without having any valid evidences and revealing them has claimed about massive vote-rigging in the election and has vowed to challenge it in the highest U.S. judicial body, namely the Supreme Court.

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It is still unknown exactly how he is to lodge his complaint in the court. He and his campaign have taken independently some legal actions in some key states, and for example, in Pennsylvania and Michigan, he has requested the court for recounting the ballots and all his requests for recount have been rejected by the courts.

One of the issues which have been challenged by Trump is the mail-in ballots arriving after the state’s 7 p.m. of November 3 deadlines. According to the approved law of the state, the ballots can be counted till three days after the polls. The Republicans before the Election Day took twice this state law to the court in Pennsylvania but they failed in this state once in their effort in the state supreme court and another time in the national Supreme Court.

Now the Trump campaign is after reopening the case in the Supreme Court. This is one of the challenges that Mr. Trump and his supporters have pined hope on it to succeed. Mr. Matthew Weil, the Bipartisan Policy Research Center’s elections project, in an interview has said that he was concerned that legal explanations could have failed to create doubts for Trump, and the president might have relied on his 6-man co-party team in the Supreme Court. This historical memory shows us that last time when the Supreme Court was deadlocked, and four conservative judges versus three liberal judges as well as the Chief Justice John Roberts failed about the final verdict on the issue but this time by election of Judge Amy Coney Barrett who is a conservative, the issue would be possible to be reviewed with new approach.

Weil says before the election and when the result of votes in the Supreme Court was 4-4 and was deadlocked on this dispute, they expressed willing to take the issue to the court and review it in the future. He added, “I do think there is a risk that some of those [postal] ballots that were cast by election day and not received until Friday may be discarded”, he said. Despite this, he says “My guess is that it’s not going to be a huge number of ballots that could be thrown out, so the election would have to be very, very close for that to matter”.

Regardless of this impartial viewpoint whose impartiality is not clear because it will seal the result in favor of Joe Biden, an important issue is being shaped in the U.S. climate and it is the tensions created in line with bringing supporters to Washington and this atmosphere may move in a direction that may not  let the country to stay away from bi-polarization even if Trump himself wants to retreat from his stance.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama in a warning interview has pointed to his concern about undermining the democracy in the U.S. but the Trump clan pays no attention to such consequences.

It seems recent visits of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela Elliot Abrams to the occupied lands (Israel) and their meetings with the Zionist regime may speak of some explanations about a behind-the-scene plan that the White House has concealed it behind its claim of not conceding the defeat in the election.

The visits can appease the concerns of the Zionist regime and at the same time they can explain the secret plan that the plan essentially can be the Republican’s evaluation of the current U.S. economy and they are actually seeking dividing the country into two parts in order that they could hand the doubts over  to some part of the country, and they themselves ride the other rich part of the country.

  By: Hamid Reza Naghashian

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The surprise which had been promised by President Hassan Rouhani regarding the White House failure in triggering the snapback mechanism and its ineffectiveness came true on Sunday, September 20.

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After one month of media ballyhoo of senior officials of the White House regarding the return of the UN sanctions (stipulated in the UN Resolution 2231) against Iran, the UN was to announce its stand in a meeting but with involvement of European troika in the snapback mechanism which has been mentioned in the JCPOA, the mechanism was not activated due to official pullout of the U.S. from the JCPOA.

In order to frighten Iran, the U.S. dispatched its aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) with over 5,000 navies and troops to the Persian Gulf and trumpeted that the carrier has passed the Strait of Hormuz and entered the Persian Gulf in order to squeeze the throat of Iran in the Strait of Hormuz after activating the snapback mechanism but it did not happen.

Meanwhile at the same time U.S. President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in recent days had tried to pave the ground for the return of sanctions through resorting to the intimidation but this time the U.S. was left more isolated than ever, and beside Russia and China, other Western states did not heed its order and refrained following it because UK, France and Germany on September 19 by sending a letter to the UNSC once again reiterated their own stand of defending the JCPOA, and announced that the UN embargos against Iran which had been suspended after signing the nuclear deal, JCPOA, in 2015 would not return  despite the U.S. insistence.

According to the Russian news agency Sputnik, the European troika wrote a joint letter to the head of the UNSC where they stipulated, “Any decision or action regarding the return of the UN sanctions and reimposition of the U.S. sanctions after its pullout of the JCPOA in 2018 is incapable of having legal effect.”

The phrase of “incapable of having legal effect” noted in the letter was both almost a humiliation to the U.S. and also an indication to the deep rift in the Wester camp’s stand with the U.S. In this letter, it has also been pointed to the previous UN Resolutions against Iran and it has been emphasized, “Our view was widely shared in the Council, which was reflected by the President of the Security Council in this conclusions of 25^th of August.” The letter concludes, “The E3 remains committed to the fully implementing UNSCR 2231 (2015) by which the JCPOA was endorsed in 2015. We have worked tirelessly to preserve the nuclear agreement and remain committed to do so.”

Although the U.S. Department of State by issuing a statement has claimed it has activated the snapback mechanism and they believe that the world will follow this system but the UN and European diplomats have different views.

According to the French news agency, AFP, a European diplomat on Saturday and regarding the activating the return of international sanctions against Iran said, “Americans will pretend they have activated the snapback mechanism and sanctions will return and come into effect. But this action has no legal basis, and as the result it can have no legal consequence.” A UN diplomat also said, “I don’t see anything happening. It would be just a statement. It’s like pulling a trigger and no bullet coming out.”

To complete this theory that the snapback mechanism does not function, Russian officials have recently warned that the U.S. unilateralism against Iran would lead to the disgrace of the UNSC.

What is observed in the U.S. behavior is that the U.S. in the emotional condition of the White House is trying to provide grounds to compensate President Trump’s previous failures on the eve of the presidential election as he is in dire need of a success but fortunately, the world is not with him and any stone he has thrown has missed the target.

 By: Hamid Reza Naghashian

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An unproved charge, that the West Asian countries have paid its price for it, is attributed to September 11, 2001 event.

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In fact, if Al-Qaeda was behind this scenario, Saudi Arabia’s rulers should have paid its price so that not only they did not pay, but also they paved the ground for presence of the U.S. Army in the region.

It was an incident where the U.S. guile is seen, and most individuals and international communities have casted doubt on it as the U.S. claims that the extremist group Al-Qaeda with financial support of Saudis has masterminded the attack and they are trying to cover up the role of Saudi government in order to milk more this milk cow. So the plot was carried out in the morning of September 11, 2001 when 19 Al-Qaeda forces hijacked four American passenger planes.

The first plane crashed the northern part of the World Trade Center building at 08:45 a.m. and then the second plane hit the southern side of the building at 09:03 a.m. Immediately after the second plane crashed the building, the U.S. government ordered the closure of New York airports and imposed curfew in the tunnels and bridges of the city.

The then U.S. President George Bush who was in Florida officially announced that the U.S. was attacked and flew to one of the U.S. military centers. One of the hijacked planes hit the Pentagon in Washington D.C. at 09:43. This attack caused the government to order immediate evacuation of the White House.

The southern building collapsed at 10:05 almost one hour after the being hit by the plane. At 10:10 the west side of the Pentagon collapsed. At the same time the fourth plane crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

This attack made the government officials order evacuation of the United Nations, Department of State and Department of Justice buildings and later the World Bank building. The northern building of the Twin Towers collapsed at 10:28. After this collapse, all government federal buildings were closed and evacuated in Washington. Israel also closed down its diplomatic centers worldwide. All government center in New York were closed and the then New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani who is mistress of the MKO group (Iranian terrorist Group) urged citizens not to leave their residences.

International airports of Los Angeles and San Francisco were almost completely evacuated and closed. At 13:04, U.S. President Bush while he was at the Barksdale Air Force Base announced that the U.S. forces were on full alert in all over the world, emphasizing that elements behind this crime will be harshly punished.

At 13:44 the Pentagon announced that five warships and two aircraft carriers were in charge of protecting the security of eastern coasts of the U.S. It also ordered the ban on commercial flights all over the U.S. until Wednesday.

The fire resulted from the attack swept the Building No. 7 of the World Trade Center at 16:10. The New York stock market, The Wall Street, was forced to shut down. At 16:30, U.S. President Bush flew from Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska to Washington. The building No. 7 of the 47-story World Trade Center tower collapsed at 17:20. President Bush and his wife under tight security returned to the White House at 18:54. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center collapsed completely in two hours. At 16:00, CNN TV channel reported that the U.S. officials would probably blame the Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden for this terrorist attack.

Al-Qaeda was and is still a group which was formed by Bin Laden during the Soviet Union troops’ withdrawal from Afghanistan in order to conquer Afghanistan as their ruling realm. Al-Qaeda in 1988 and in a fatwa (religious order) announced that it is the duty of any Muslim to kill Americans in any part of the world. Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ahmed Rafia Taha, Mir Hamza and Fazl al-Rahman seemed to be the leaders of Al-Qaeda at that time.

According to the claims of the Americans, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, a senior member of Al-Qaeda, was one of the masterminds of the 9/11 terrorist attack.

Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad several times during his speeches at the UN General Assembly attributed the 9/11 attack to the U.S, and called for forming a fact-finding committee. He also in his speech said: “9/11 is actually a pre-planned game for inciting the human community sentiments and for finding a pretext to attack at the Islamic region and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, and it has led to killing of one million innocent people in these regions.”

Among the different assumptions and analyses on the 9/11 event, activists in analyzing the role of Freemasonry’s role in today’s world have some views. They believe that 9/11 event had been planned years before being taken place. To prove their views, they point to the existing ambiguities in reporting the accident that the Twin Towers disaster and deaths of thousands of people was not actually carried out by Bin Laden’s men but it was done by the U.S., Freemasonries and Jews.

To proof this claim, they say it is enough only to fold a one-dollar note to see the picture of Twin Towers after being hit by Boeing planes.

 By: Hamid Reza Naghashian

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TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani has condemned U.S. sanctions which have obstructed Iran’s access to medicines amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying the White House knows nothing about humanity.

Speaking during a meeting of the national task force for fighting the coronavirus on Saturday, Rouhani slammed Washington for blocking a request by the Iranian government for a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to combat the deadly outbreak.

“We requested a $5 billion loan from the IMF and all members agreed, but America does not allow us to get the loan for medicines and treatment,” he said. “They have distanced from humanity as far as this. The White House today has no sense of humanity. If it had a sense of humanity, it wouldn’t have done this,” he said.

The Iranian president also lashed out at what he called “friendly countries” that have frozen Iran’s money in their banks.

“We have countries that are also our friends and our money is in their bank, [but] they have locked it three times and are not willing to release our money for our needs. They say that the Americans have pressured” them against unfreezing Iran’s money and that they had retreated in the face of the US oppression, Rouhani said.

Such a crime is unprecedented in history, with a country not being able to draw off its money deposited in a bank in a bid to cover its people’s health needs, he underlined.

The Americans, he added, are angry about how the Iranian government is managing the country, so they are mounting their pressure despite the country’s fight against the highly contagious virus.

Iran has been contending with the deadliest pandemic the world has seen in many decades amid US sanctions, which have seriously hampered efforts to contain the outbreak.

More than 397,801 Iranians have been infected with COVID-19 in Iran. More than 22,913 have died, while 342,539 have recovered.

President Rouhani went on to say that a top priority for the government is to provide medicines for people amid the tough economic situation caused by sanctions.

“At a time when enemies have even banned [companies from sending] medications needed by the people as part of their unfair and illegal sanctions, a high priority for the country is to meet needs for medicines,” he said.

He made the remarks during a conversation with Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnasser Hemmati, who presented a report on the trend of procurement of raw materials for pharmaceutical companies.

Hemmati said some $900 million have been allocated to the import of medicines and medical equipment over the past six months.

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Americans after suffering consecutive defeats in the Middle East, including Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, today is facing a rising power in the South America that  yesterday through making political and economic hype, it failed to bring down this rising phenomenon, Venezuela,  which has almost been soaked  by the rain of resistance maturity in the region.

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Yesterday all pressures were focused on a point that was the source of all independence-seeking movements in the region and the U.S. tried its best to push back this move to its starting point and to dry up the grounds for materialization of anti-capitalist revolutions in the continent which is attributed to the U.S. and some in its neighborhood.

In almost past three years, the White House, led by President Donald Trump, has constantly stepped up its economic sanctions against Venezuela and has condemned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and in fact it called on Venezuelan people to topple Maduro’s government which is actually an anti-U.S. government and source of materialization of interests of anti-capitalists of the U.S. type in this half of the continent. But Iran and Venezuela hand in hand thwarted all seditions and plots one after the other.

Since January 5, 2019 when Juan Guaido became the president of National Assembly of Venezuela, he actively tried to make Venezuela’s military and international communities recognize him as Venezuela’s legitimate president.

After President Trump’s recognition of Guaido as Venezuela’s President, Brazil, Colombia, Canada, Peru and Chile also recognized Guaido as legitimate president. Of course, Guaido with support of Trump in a speech addressing his supporters in the east of Caracas said, “I swear to take charge as the caretaker president of Venezuela till to topple this usurper government.”

But where does he stand today and where does Venezuela stand? Today Venezuela’s economy is moving on course to produce gasoline domestically and to solve its economic problems as a leading country in the continent. Tomorrow the story is totally different. Tomorrow Venezuela will be Iran’s counterpart in the continent because Maduro thinks of making its military independent and he wants to boost his country’s military power and capability.

This week and reacting to his Colombian counterpart’s claim that Caracas intends to buy missiles from Iran, Maduro welcomed the idea.  During a televised broadcast with cabinet members, instructing Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino to follow up and jokingly telling his cabinet to keep the plan a secret, noting, “It had not occurred to me.”

In order to herald his ambition to neighboring states, supporters and opponents, he said “What a good idea, to speak with Iran to see what short, medium and long range missiles they have, and if it is possible, given the great relations we have with Iran.”

Earlier the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Embassy in Caracas had announced that Iran was on the verge of finalizing a trade deal with this Latin American state. Last week, a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of restoration of ties between Iran and Venezuela was held in Caracas with senior Venezuelan officials and Iran’s ambassador in presence. Iranian officials have not reacted to Maduro’s remarks on buying missiles from Iran. But regarding this point that political relations between both states are progressing on course to the growth of resistance culture, undoubtedly the Islamic Republic of Iran’s response, if it is officially received, would be positive.

Venezuela has actually been the U.S.’s backyard in the Latin-speaking countries and it is still, but since  creation of motivation, it has provided Iran with appropriate ground for promoting the criteria for intensifying resistance against anti-justice capitalism.

Iran and Venezuela hand in hand will make the future of the Latin America and this motivation will provide the ground for weakening Washington.

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