Iran and IAEA Reach An Agreement On Nuclear Equipment Monitoring

On September 12th, the UN nuclear watchdog – the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reached an agreement with Iran to solve “the most urgent issue” between them.

Namely, the IAEA and Iran agreed on the overdue servicing of monitoring equipment to keep it running.

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi obtained the agreement in a last-minute trip to Tehran he called “constructive” before a meeting of his agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors this week at which Western powers were threatening to seek a resolution criticizing Iran for stonewalling the IAEA.

A resolution risked an escalation with Tehran that could kill the prospect of resuming wider, indirect talks between Iran and the United States on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

Those talks stopped in June, and Iran’s new president Ebrahim Raisi took office in August.

Western powers have urged Iran to return to negotiations and said time is running out as its nuclear programme is advancing well beyond the limits set by the deal, which Washington abandoned in 2018.

“This is not a permanent solution, this cannot be a permanent solution. This has always been seen, for me at least, as a stopgap, as a measure to allow time for diplomacy,” Grossi told reporters.

“We managed to rectify the most urgent issue: The imminent loss of knowledge we were confronted with until yesterday. Now we have a solution.”

The coordinator of the now-stalled nuclear talks, European Union political director Enrique Mora, said on Twitter that the agreement “gives space for diplomacy”, adding it was crucial for the talks to resume as soon as possible.

The 2015 agreement introduced monitoring of extra areas of Iran’s nuclear programme beyond those supervised under Iran’s core legal obligations to the IAEA.

Iran said in February it was abandoning that monitoring, which covers areas like the making of parts for centrifuges – the machines that enrich uranium.

“The reconstruction and the coming together of the jigsaw puzzle will come when there is an agreement at the JCPOA level, but at that time we will have all this information and there will not have been a gap,” he said.

The agreement did little to resolve another issue between the IAEA and Iran – Tehran’s failure to explain uranium traces found at three undeclared former sites.

Grossi said Iran had invited him to return soon and he expected to meet the country’s “highest authorities”.

“This may take time. It’s not heroic but it’s much better than any alternative,” he said of efforts to resolve that issue.

Diplomats said the United States and its European allies had not yet decided whether to seek a resolution against Iran at the IAEA Board of Governors meeting, which starts on September 13th.

While describing Iran’s “concessions” on monitoring as “very modest,” Eurasia Group analyst Henry Rome said “they will almost certainly be sufficient to avert censure at this week’s meeting.”

https://southfront.org/iran-and-iaea-reach-an-agreement-on-nuclear-equipment-monitoring/

“F*ck Biden!” – Trump Supporters Gather to Protest Governor Newsom’s Campaign Rally with Joe Biden in SoCal

Joe Biden departed Idaho and traveled to California on Monday as part of his tour to the western part of the US to survey wildfire damage.

Earlier Monday Trump supporters in Idaho welcomed Dementia Joe with “F*ck Biden” signs.

Joe Biden got the same “F*ck Biden!” welcome wagon in Southern California Monday evening.

Trump supporters carrying “F*ck Biden” signs lined up out outside of Long Beach City College where Biden will be campaigning with Governor Gavin Newsom on the eve of the recall election.

“Please hide your kids and hide your wife!” a protester shouted into a megaphone ahead of pervert Biden’s visit.

A protester was asked if she had anything to say to Joe Biden and Gavin Newsom: ‘F*ck him’

An Asian protester said Joe Biden should be sent to China.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/fck-biden-trump-supporters-gather-protest-governor-newsoms-campaign-rally-joe-biden-socal-video/

Chinese State Media Slams Soros As "The Most Evil Person In The World" And "The Son Of Satan"

It didn't take China long to respond to George Soros after he went nuclear on Beijing and US investment titans abandoning their "ESG ideals" to capitalize on China's massive market.

Over the weekend, China’s state-run tabloid Global Times labeled George Soros a “global economic terrorist” in a tit for tat exchange playing out in dueling op-eds that underscore the rising temperature in US-China relations, the Standard and Asia Times reported.

The article, published on September 4, accused the billionaire hedge fund manager and liberal donor and Democrat supporter of providing finance to Hong Kong’s jailed newspaper owner Jimmy Lai to support the city’s anti-Beijing protests in 2019.

Soon thereafter, Soros penned an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that said New York-based BlackRock’s recent $1 billion mutual fund investment in China was a “tragic mistake” and would lose money for the asset manager’s clients. Soros wrote the BlackRock investment “imperils the national security interests of the US.” That followed an August 30 op-ed Soros published in the Financial Times that said Chinese President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on private enterprise has been “a significant drag on the Chinese economy” and “could lead to a crash.”

Soros said indices such as MSCI’s ACWI, ESG Leaders Index and BlackRock’s ESG Aware, have “effectively forced hundreds of billions of dollars belonging to US investors into Chinese companies whose corporate governance does not meet the required standard — power and accountability is now exercised by one man (Xi) who is not accountable to any international authority.”

The billionaire urged the US Congress to pass legislation limiting asset managers’ investments to “companies where actual governance structures are both transparent and aligned with stakeholders.” Previous reports said that Soros’ hedge fund had disposed all of its exposure to Chinese assets earlier this year.

Having made a name (and $1.1 billion ) for breaking the Bank of England in 1992, during the Asian financial crisis in 1997, Soros also tried to break the Hong Kong dollar’s peg to the US dollar but was ultimately defeated by the Hong Kong government, which intervened heavily in markets to protect the peg. Soros was given the nickname “financial crocodile” by local media at the time.

In September 2001, Soros was invited to visit China and met then Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji in Beijing. But after the 2008 global financial crisis, Soros told media in October 2009 that China should step up to the plate as the leader of a new global economic order.

Then, in January 2016, Soros told a dinner audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos that “a hard landing is practically unavoidable” for the Chinese economy. A few days later, the People’s Daily, China’s Communist Party mouthpiece, warned that “Soros’s war on the renminbi and the Hong Kong dollar cannot possibly succeed – about this there can be no doubt.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinese-state-media-slams-soros-most-evil-person-world-and-son-satan

177 Stanford Faculty Members Urge DOJ To Stop Looking For Chinese Spies In Academia Because It Causes "Racial Profiling"

A group of Stanford professors have come together to urge the Justice Department to stop looking for Chinese spies at U.S. universities, a September 8 letter from the group reads.

Arguing that such programs cause "racial profiling", the professors claim the "China Initiative", which was set up to prevent U.S. technology theft, is "harming the United States' research and technology competitiveness and "is fueling biases", Reuters reported.

The Justice Department brought 27 cases as a result of the initiative. While some have been dropped, others are ongoing. Peter Michelson, Stanford's senior associate dean for the natural sciences told Reuters: "I think what the FBI's done in most cases is to scare people - investigating people and interrogating them. And it's harmful to the country."

What country, Peter?

177 faculty members signed the letter, which was posted on a site they called "Winds of Freedom".

"We, a group of 177 Stanford faculty members from more than 40 departments, have sent the following open letter to the U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, requesting that he terminates the Department of Justice's China Initiative. The China Initiative was introduced by then Attorney General Jeff Sessions in 2018, with the objective of combating economic espionage, intellectual property theft and other threats associated with the government of China," the site reads.

It continues: "However, we believe the China Initiative raises concerns of racial profiling and is harming the United States' research and technology competitiveness. This initiative has led to a significant increase of investigations and prosecutions to researchers in academia, with most cases unrelated to intellectual property theft or scientific/economic espionage. The investigations have been disproportionately targeting researchers of Chinese origin. The chilling effect of the China Initiative is discouraging many scholars from coming to or staying in the U.S. We believe that the China Initiative should be terminated."

You can read the full letter here:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/177-stanford-faculty-members-urge-doj-stop-looking-chinese-spies-academia-because-it-causes

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ch4j_ONiVrVWcJYjtCeBDurGnv64W1Jw/viewquoted

Greg Kelly Suggests Trigger-Happy Killer Lt. Mike Byrd “Will Work This Weekend and He Will Be Armed” at DC “Justice for J6” Protest

In July, The Gateway Pundit confirmed that Lt. Mike Byrd was Ashli Babbit’s shooter.

Lt. Byrd killed Ashli Babbitt in cold blood on Jan. 6 in the US Capitol.

Ashli Babbitt, a Trump-supporting US veteran, was gunned down in cold blood inside the US Capitol. She was unarmed and posed no threat to the police or anyone. There were several police officers surrounding her when she was shot dead without warning. Her killer Lt. Mike Byrd then fled down the hall after he shot her dead without warning.

The Gateway Pundit confirmed that Lt. Mike Byrd was Ashli Babbitt’s killer.

And now we also know that Congress was evacuated on Jan. 6 due to a pipe bomb threat. It was not because of Trump supporters walking the halls.

In August Lt. Mike Byrd was exonerated for killing Ashli Babbitt in cold blood. He gave no warning, he ran from the scene of the crime, he shot an unarmed woman dead who posed no threat.

And now he walks free.

Greg Kelly reported on Monday that trigger-happy Lt. Mike Byrd will work on Saturday at the Conservative “Justice for J6” rally on Saturday.

Greg Kelly went on to say that unrepetent killer Mike Byrd will be armed again.

God help us.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/greg-kelly-suggests-trigger-happy-killer-lt-mike-byrd-will-work-weekend-will-armed-dc-justice-j6-protest-video/