Mountainman As IRAN gets “CLOSER” to The Negotiated DEALS/BENCH MARKS w/their ECONOMY and of Course their BRO SHIITE TWIN = IRAQ READY as Well…It’s No (WONDER) USA is Easing Up W/the UST/OFAC…SPRINGING Up w/OIL and the REST is PERFECT TIMING…to Set those “SPRING FORWARD” Clocks!…IMO as Well.
Tlar Article: “Nuri al-Maliki on Monday sources, the latter decided to retire from formal political positions permanently.” Maliki was trying to make Iraq a dictatorship with him as the dictator answering only to Iran. I believe we have crossed the turning point and Iraq will become a free market and a full fledged democracy as it was envisioned in 2003.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps announced Tuesday that it has tested several ballistic missiles across the country, despite recent US threats of sanction against such tests.
The tests were “to show Iran’s deterrent power and also the Islamic Republic’s ability to confront any threat against the (Islamic) Revolution, the state and the sovereignty of the country,” said IRGC official website.
The missile test comes two months after the United States imposed fresh economic sanction on Iranian companies connected to the country’s missile program.
Iran’s missile tests are in violation of a United Nations ban on testing nuclear-capable ballistic missiles.
Tehran says it hasn’t violated the terms of the nuclear deal it signed with the P5+1 powers in Vienna last July, arguing that the deal technically bans the testing of missiles “designed” to be fitted with nuclear warheads, not missiles.
The price of OPEC basket of thirteen crudes stood at $34.34 a barrel on Monday, compared with $32.34 the previous Friday, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations.
The new OPEC Reference Basket of Crudes (ORB) is made up of the following: Saharan Blend (Algeria), Girassol (Angola), Oriente (Ecuador), Minas (Indonesia), Iran Heavy (Islamic Republic of Iran), Basra Light (Iraq), Kuwait Export (Kuwait), Es Sider (Libya), Bonny Light (Nigeria), Qatar Marine (Qatar), Arab Light (Saudi Arabia), Murban (UAE) and Merey (Venezuela)./ End
The Turkish Foreign Minister, Mawloud Jawish Oghlu stressed his country supports the unity of the Syrian and Iraqi territories,” and expressed hope for the establishment of security and stability in the region.
The Turkish Minister said in a speech, during his participation in a session devoted to discuss his Ministry budget for 2016, at the parliament in the capital, Ankara, that his country “surrounded by raging area where a number of conflicts and armed conflicts.”
He pointed out that “Turkey was not in any day, a party to the burning conflicts in the region,” stressing his country’s “obligations placed on them, to find solutions to problems that were worsened in the recent period, from around us.
Jawish Oghlu stressed that Ankara warned that the Syrian regime’s survival, and the continuation of the clashes, led to the emergence of terrorist organizations in Syria, adding that the “organizations like Daash, and BED ( a Syrian extension of the Organization of PKK), emerged after the start of the regime in the murder of his own people.
He continued, as saying, “We fight terrorism in Syria and Iraq, and must eliminate Daash and Al-Nesra, calling for a “ceasefire on Syrian lands, and stabilize them, in order to resume political talks.
About the nature of his country’s relations with Iran, the Turkish Minister pointed out that the visit by Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu, to Tehran “is not out of our need for Tehran, but we attach extreme importance as a brotherly state.”
However, he said, “but we criticize the wrong policies and criticize the policies of the United States if it makes a mistake, and the same with Russia, and also opposed Iran’s sectarian policies.”
In the same context, Jawish Oghlu, announced that the Iranian president, Hassan Rohani, and his Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, will visit Turkey within a short period, without mentioning a specific date ./End
Iran has expressed its frustration over many banks in Europe remaining wary of resuming business ties with Tehran despite the removal of economic sanctions against it last January.
As part of an international nuclear agreement reached with Iran in July 2015, the United States and European Union lifted the bulk of their economic sanctions against Tehran’s clerical government.
However, the US government is still forbidding American banks from doing business with Iran, since Washington still charges Tehran with aiding and abetting terrorists in the Middle East.
“There is still ‘Iranophobia’ in the banking sector that we’re trying to overcome,” according to deputy governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Hamid Tehranfar.
“We have asked the International Monetary Fund to review our regulations so other countries’ banks feel reassured,” he was quoted as saying by Iran’s official Press TV. “The IMF will announce its assessment in 2018,” he said.
The Iraqi Ambassador to Tehran Rajeh Saber Abboud al-Moussawi announced on Saturday for an expected visit of the Iranian president to Iraq.
Al-Moussawi said on the sidelines of the exhibition of foodstuff in Arvand Rud region that a delegation politically, economically and culturally of high-level will accompany Hassan Rowhani on his visit , but he did not specify the date of the visit
He added that the two parties will work towards lifting all obstacles that hinder the expansion of bilateral relations.
He pointed out the determination of both sides to develop the political, economic and cultural relations, and said that the volume of trade exchange between Iran and Iraq has risen from two billion dollars to 14 billion dollars during the past eight years. / End
The transfer of Iranian state television quoted the central bank governor was quoted as saying on Saturday that Iran expects economic growth of more than five percent in 2016 after the lifting of sanctions on the country.
The governor said the Crown Sword of God “Economic growth slowed in 2015, but local and international forecasts indicate that growth in 2016 will exceed five percent.”
Iran emerged from years of economic isolation in January when international forces lifted led by the United States and European Union sanctions have adversely affected the economy of Iran’s third-largest oil producer in OPEC.
In return for the lifting of sanctions, Iran agreed to curb its nuclear ambitions.
Move the site of the Ministry of Iranian oil Information on the Internet (Shana) on Saturday for international affairs director of the National Iranian Oil Company as saying that Iran’s exports of oil and gas products will intensify two million barrels per day by the end of March.
Said Mohsen Qmbar “sold gas outputs intensify more slowly from the sale of crude oil, but we expect sales to be faster than sales of crude oil in the future.”
rcookie Report: “Iran ‘s long road to re – integrate into the global financial system…” A GREAT REPORT THAT PROVIDES A REALITY CHECK TO IRANS REINTEGRATION TO THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM… AND THE LONG LONG ROAD AHEAD…AND OBSTACLES THEY MUST WORK THROUGH… PUTTING TO REST ANY SPECULATION TO BEATING IRAQ TO THE MARKET…
