Secret U.S.-Iran Deal Paved The Way For New Iraqi PM – Report

A secret deal between the U.S. and Iran has paved the way for Mustafa al-Kadhimi to become Iraq’s Prime Minister, the Middle East Eye reported on March 14 citing an Iraqi political source with knowledge on the matter.

The source told the UK-based outlet the U.S. policy of exerting “maximum pressure” on Iran will not change. However, Washington agreed under the secret deal to de-escalate militarily in the Gulf and to “look the other way” if a third-party country in Europe released some of Iran’s frozen money.

In return, Iran told Shiite factions in Iraq to approve al-Kadhimi as the country’s new Prime Minister, which they did in the parliament on May 7.

“The Americans managed to get their man, and the Iranians to get their money,” a source told the Middle East Eye, adding “The economic hardship that Iranians have faced, and all the difficulties they faced after the assassination of Qassam Soleimani, has hit them hard. There were negotiations. The deal ended with the Iranians accepting this guy [Kadhimi] and they told their allies to vote for him.”

Al-Kadhimi, a former director of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS), is well-known for his close ties with U.S. intelligence.

His candidacy for the premiership was challenged by Shiite factions prior to the U.S.-Iran deal. Iran-affiliated Kata’ib Hezbollah even accused al-Kadhimi of taking part in the U.S. drone strike which killed Iran Quds Force commander Qassam Soleimani and Iraqi leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

According to the Middle East Eye, Iraqi sources declined to reveal the Iranian assets which would be unfrozen under the new deal. However, they pointed to a decision by a court in Luxembourg to block a U.S. request to transfer $1.6bn in Iranian assets to victims of the 9/11 attacks.

Iran welcomed the decision, which was taken last month, calling it a victory. It remains unclear, however, if any of the frozen assets were later released.

Secret deals between the U.S. and Iran are nothing new. Nevertheless, the deal on Iraq, if true, highlights the failure of Washington’s “maximum pressure” campaign on Tehran.

https://southfront.org/secret-u-s-iran-deal-paved-the-way-for-new-iraqi-pm-report/

Kurdish Forces Carry Out New Attacks Against Turkish Military And Its Proxies In Northern Aleppo

On May 15, the Afrin Liberation Forces (ALF) announced that their units had carried out a series of attacks against Turkish forces in northern Aleppo.

In an official statement, the Kurdish group said its fighters targeted on May 13 a gathering of vehicles carrying Turkish-backed militants in Afrin city with an improvised explosive device (IED). Two vehicles were destroyed and another was damaged. Two militants were also injured

Also on May 13, ALF fighters carried out two “special operations” in the town of Azaz killing four militants and injuring three others.

On May 14, the ALF targeted positions of the Turkish military in the town of Kimare in southern Afrin. The group shared a video of its fighters destroying a crawler excavator near Kimare with an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM).

The ALF said two Turkish service members were killed and three others were injured in Kimare attack. However, this is yet to be confirmed.

In the last few weeks, the ALF carried out dozens of attacks on Turkish forces in northern Aleppo. The Turkish military and its proxies limited their response to few artillery strikes on Kurdish areas south of Afrin.

https://southfront.org/kurdish-forces-carry-out-new-attacks-against-turkish-military-and-its-proxies-in-northern-aleppo-video/

Syria Libya looking like Gog Magog aka Netanyahu v Erdogan==

Nolte: PBS Uncovers More Alleged Victims of Joe Biden’s Unwanted Touching

The far-left PBS NewHour interviewed 74 former Joe Biden staffers and uncovered even more women who claim to be victims of the former vice president’s unwanted and inappropriate touching.

These alleged victims are in addition to Biden’s eight accusers and the female Secret Service agents who say Biden exposed himself to them (without their consent) while swimming in the nude almost daily.

To the surprise of no one, however, even with these bombshell revelations, PBS still tries to exonerate Biden and attack Tara Reade — who has credibly accused Biden of a 1993 sexual assault — as a liar.

PBS glosses over its own bombshell findings of further misconduct by Biden, and does so by way of an over-written, exhausting 3,500-word piece of “BenSmithing.” So what you have here is the taxpayer-funded welfare queens at PBS using new evidence of unwanted and inappropriate touching to smear an alleged assault victim who has seven pieces of corroborating evidence.

To save you from having to read through PBS’s interminable piece of victim-shaming propaganda (that reads exactly like those 1990s media attacks on all of Bill Clinton’s victims), I went ahead and filtered out the real news in the piece, the actual bombshells PBS wrist-flicks to protect an alleged sexual predator because Orange Man Bad.

We’ll start with my favorite…[emphasis added]

Many former Biden staffers said they believe Reade’s allegation is false.

Oh, nice spin.

“Many.”

Many?

Ah, so the real news here is that not every former Biden staffer said they believe Reade’s allegation is false.

Here’s the rest… [emphasis added]

Yet Biden, now the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee, was also a toucher, seemingly oblivious to whether physical contact made some women uncomfortable.

“We knew that about Biden,” Byrne said. “He was always massaging somebody’s shoulders. But never anything more than that. There was no vibe about him.”

However, staffers agree it was not in Biden’s nature to gauge social signals about whether someone wanted to be hugged or touched.

A former staffer said that when Biden does things like stroking women’s hair, there’s a complicated dynamic at play.

For others, Biden’s touching evoked some regret. “There were times as I now look back that I think we messed up. We should have said something about that,” a different former staffer said. “We probably should have recognized that made people uncomfortable.”

So what you have here — all in an effort to protect a powerful male Democrat — is PBS attempting to normalize his behavior, to say it was okay, even in 1993 — which, by the way, was two years after Anita Hill was supposed to have enlightened creeps like Rapey Joe about this kind of stuff.

Listen, I’m 54 years old and I’ve been working since I was 14; never once have I stroked a coworker’s hair, never once have I sniffed a coworker’s hair, never once have I given a coworker an unwanted kiss — not on the lips, the cheek, or the back of the head. Not even during the pre-Anita Hill era I like to call the go-go 80s.

In fact, in all the decades I’ve been in the workforce, in all the places I’ve worked, and all the people I’ve worked with, I don’t know of a single soul who has done any of the things Biden’s done for decades, and this especially includes what Biden’s done to children.

I’m sorry, but Joe Biden is a sex creep, and no amount of wishcasting, BenSmithing, and rationalization from PBS welfare queens can change the basic fact that they just uncovered even more examples of a powerful man touching female subordinates inappropriately.

And riddle me this, PBS welfare queens…

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/05/15/nolte-pbs-uncovers-more-alleged-victims-of-joe-bidens-unwanted-touching/

We Are Now In The Process Of Dismantling The Rothschild Banking System, Target Locked:Jim Willie

Interesting

Claims the Fed is being loaded up with junk to break the Rothschild central banking system

Google Shares Tumble On Reports Of Imminent Antitrust Lawsuit

While bulls had comforted themselves that amid a "work from home" pandemic lockdown, any regulatory actions against the mega-tech firms would likely be put on hold, it appears that is not the fact.

The Wall Street Journal reports that both the Justice Department and a group of state attorneys general are likely to file antitrust lawsuits against Alphabet's Google - and are well into planning for litigation.

According to people familiar with the matter, The Justice Department is moving toward bringing a case as soon as this summer.

The timeline confirms AG Barr's previous comments in March that he wanted the Justice Department to make a final call this summer. “I’m hoping that we bring it to fruition early summer,” Mr. Barr said at the time.

“And by fruition I mean, decision time.”

Much of the states’ investigation has focused on Google’s online advertising business.

Mr. Paxton, Texas AG, said the pandemic was not slowing the states’ efforts.

“We’ve issued [civil subpoenas] to Google and impacted third parties. We hope to have the investigation wrapped up by fall,” Mr. Paxton said in a statement.

“If we determine that filing is merited we will go to court soon after that.”

This sent shares in GOOGL lower after hours…

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/google-shares-tumble-reports-imminent-antitrust-lawsuit