[IsraelTimes] But justices say administration must first hold a court hearing for those it’s seeking to expel using the Alien Enemies Act
The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to use an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... n migrants colonists, but said they must get a court hearing before they are taken from the United States.
In a bitterly divided decision, the court said the administration must give Venezuelans who it claims are gang members "reasonable time" to go to court.
But the conservative majority said the legal challenges must take place in Texas, instead of a Washington courtroom.
The court’s action appears to bar the administration from immediately resuming the flights that last month carried hundreds of migrants colonists to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The flights came soon after President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II to justify the deportations under a presidential proclamation calling the Tren de Aragua gang an invading force.
The majority said nothing about those flights, which took off without providing the hearing the justices now say is necessary.
In dissent, the three liberal justices said the administration has sought to avoid judicial review in this case, and the court "now rewards the government for its behavior." Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined portions of the dissent.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said it would be harder for people to challenge deportations individually, wherever they are being held, and noted that the administration has also said in another case before the court that it’s unable to return people who have been deported to the El Salvador prison by mistake.
"We, as a Nation and a court of law, should be better than this," she wrote.
The justices acted on the administration’s emergency appeal after the federal appeals court in Washington left in place an order temporarily prohibiting the deportations of migrants colonists accused of being gang members under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act.
"For all the rhetoric of the dissents," the court wrote in an unsigned opinion, the high court order confirms "that the detainees subject to removal orders under the AEA are entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal."
The case has become a flashpoint amid escalating tension between the White House and the federal courts. It’s the second time in less than a week that a majority of conservative justices handed Trump at least a partial victory in an emergency appeal after lower courts had blocked parts of his agenda.
Several other cases are pending, including Trump’s plan to deny citizenship to US-born children of parents who are in the country illegally.
Trump praised the court for its action Monday.
"The Supreme Court has upheld the Rule of Law in our Nation by allowing a President, whoever that may be, to be able to secure our Borders, and protect our families and our Country, itself. A GREAT DAY FOR JUSTICE IN AMERICA!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social site.
The original order blocking the deportations to El Salvador was issued by US District Judge James E. Boasberg, the chief judge at the federal courthouse in Washington.
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SCOTUS already ruled on the AEA to include the finding that deportations are not subject to judicial review. Once again we have the judiciary granting themselves power without Constitutional or Congressional authority.
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There's a huge difference between sending someone back to his home country (or just letting him board a plane to Caracas) and deporting someone without any judicial review into a hellhole prison in a token third country, where nobody has the chance to ever get out again.
What on earth are you doing here? You are basically establishing that your government can do whatever it pleases with any foreigner on your soil, including those being there lawfully. No judicial review necessary before a person you just don't happen to like gets sent into a prison in El Salvador? Why not North Korea?
And then you have Trump who "‘simply floated" idea of deporting U.S. citizens, White House’s Leavitt says.
Excuse me?
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We are deporting illegal aliens. If you don't like it, don't sneak into our country and break our laws.
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This is not "deportation". Your government sends people to a foreign concentration camp (that's what it is) without any judicial review. And your president announces that he would like to do the same with U.S. citizens.
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/\ El Sal won the bid.
"Nothing personal, it's just business."
~ Otto Biederman
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The illegal was from El Salvador, and they chose where to put the gangbanger
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Your government sends people to a foreign concentration camp (that's what it is) without any judicial review. And your president announces that he would like to do the same with U.S. citizens
That's a crock of shit. Don't want to be deported? Don't come illegally. You cross a passive country, you LOSE the right to claim asylum. NO US Citizens have been or will be deported...droned maybe (See Awlacki) under Obama? You may pretend to be conservative, but you are European, EC.
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Re #6. And your president announces that he would like to do the same with U.S. citizens
To which he added that he (and his cabinet) must always follow the law. From my point of view, his use of the word "like" was a statement of desire rather than a prediction, akin to "alas, I wish" rather than "I will".
He then said he'd abide by the decision of the Supreme Court, intimating he isn't too keen on the decisions of the lower courts so will appeal all such rulings all the way to SCOTUS. SCOTUS did limit the standing of the district court judges w.r.t habeus petitions. The system is working. We are in the midst of a lesson about what process is due an enemy alien.
The constitution states
he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,
and
no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law
but the law states:
Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies. The President is authorized in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed on the part of the United States, toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety.
SCOTUS will decide it, and the rest of us will abide by it.
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Trump claimed he "didn't know what the law is". The President of the United States who took an oath to "support and defend the Constitution" doesn't know that he can't deport U.S. citizens to foreign prisons?
Should be quite interesting when President Alejandra Ocasio-Cortez sends MAGA-supporters as "terrorists" to Cuban jails and says that she wants to ban the posession of all arms. She just doesn't know what the law says.
Yes Frank G, I'm European. And Conservative. One of those who believe in due process and justice for all.
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Watch the hands, not what's said, EC. EU Pols talk tough and do/fund shit.
Name one US citizen actually deported by Trump. You have a 4 year term + to refer to?
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This POS claims fears he would be harmed by RIVAL gangs? Does that make any sense as to why we would bring him back?
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#8 The illegal was from El Salvador, and they chose where to put the gangbanger
Your government sends people to a foreign concentration camp ... without any judicial review
Through the magic of dog sitting, I happened to see the presser with Trump and El Salvador's Prez Bukele. It was all quite entertaining.
A couple observations:
Trump and Bukele seemed to be getting along like pals.
Two US courts (immigration and immigration appeal) had ruled the guy exported to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia, was a gang-banger. When the gang came under the Alien SOB Act or whatever it's called, he became deportable to his home country.
Bukele said he will not send criminals to the US. He took justifiable pride in converting El Salvador from a regional murder capital to one of safer places in the hemisphere.
Trump says he has no control over El Salvadoran citizens in El Salvador, no matter what a district court might eventually rule after they re-mull over the ruling the Supreme Court punted back to them and figure out what "facilitate" and "effectuate" mean.
[PostMillennial] Trump issued an order authorizing the temporary military control of the Roosevelt Reservation, a federally owned stretch of land established in 1907.
President Donald Trump has placed a 60-foot-wide strip of land along the US-Mexico border under the jurisdiction of the US military, a move aimed at continuing the White House’s efforts to deter illegal immigration.
Trump issued an order authorizing the temporary military control of the Roosevelt Reservation, a federally owned stretch of land established in 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt for the purpose of border security. The strip spans parts of California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Under the order, military personnel will be permitted to detain individuals who cross into the US illegally within this area.
According to a report by Politico, Trump had previously authorized military operations on the Roosevelt Reservation during his first term to assist with the construction of the border wall. The order is part of a broader effort by President Trump to increase military involvement in addressing mass illegal immigration at the southern border.
“Our southern border is under attack from a variety of threats,” the order stated. “The complexity of the current situation requires that our military take a more direct role in securing our southern border than in the recent past.”
The directive, however, has raised concerns from critics who argue it may violate the Posse Comitatus Act, a federal law that prohibits the use of active-duty military personnel for domestic law enforcement purposes.
“Welp they’re doing the Roosevelt Reservation crazy strategy, giving the military ‘jurisdiction’ over a 60-foot-wide stretch of land from CA to AZ and then claim that migrants are being arrested for ‘trespassing on military property’ thus trying to bypass the [Posse Comitatus Act],” wrote Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, in a post on X. The Trump administration has argued that by placing the land under the jurisdiction of the military, active-duty troops can detain illegal immigrants the same way they would temporarily detain a trespasser on a military base until law enforcement arrives.
The order also directed the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to submit recommendations by next week on whether Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to support deportation efforts. The law would allow the president to deploy additional military forces to the southern border and allow them to assist law enforcement.
Illegal border crossings have dropped significantly since Trump took office. The administration reported just 7,200 migrant encounters in March, a stark decline from over 189,000 recorded during the same month last year under the Biden administration.
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The business of drug and people smuggling is fluid. They have likely found another route.
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Posse Comitatis issues may be involved. If the military has law enforcement powers like any federal military facility, that issue is likely rendered moot.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] According to security forces, Ingush imams Muhammad Tamaskhanov and Magomed Sultygov did not report that a member of Amirkhan Gurazhev’s group approached them with a request for help.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, the imam of one of the mosques in Nazran, Muhammad Tamaskhanov, and the imam of the mosque in Karabulak, Magomed (Muhammad) Sultygov, were detained on April 10. Anonymous Telegram channels cited the imams' failure to report the actions of the militants of Amirkhan Gurazhev's group as the reason for the detention. That evening, it became known that Tamaskhanov and Sultygov had been released . According to anonymous Telegram channels, they were released on bail.
On March 3, 2024, during a counter-terrorist operation in Karabulak, security forces killed six people - according to sources, Amirkhan Gurazhev, Zelimkhan Tsuroev, Magomed Barkinkhoev, Tagir Tsuroev, Mikail Tutaev and Bers Chemurziev were killed. Security forces declared them militants of the banned terrorist organization "Islamic State". "Caucasian Knot" prepared a report " How the special operation in Karabulak took place ".
A 37-year-old and 31-year-old resident of Ingushetia are suspected of failing to report terrorist crimes (Article 205.6 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the republican department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported on April 12.
"According to the investigation, in August 2023, a member of an international terrorist organization, whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation, approached the suspects with a request for financial and other assistance necessary to continue terrorist activities. The defendants, reliably knowing that the said person had committed terrorist crimes, did not report this to the law enforcement agencies of the republic," the department's Telegram channel said.
The person who asked for help was Ganiev from Gurazhev’s group, and the suspects were Sultygov and Tamaskhanov, an Interfax source in law enforcement agencies explained.
A 33-year-old resident of Ingushetia, Khazir Ganiev, was killed in a shootout with security forces in Sunzha on November 22, 2023. According to security forces, Ganiev was an accomplice of Amirkhan Gurazhev. This information was confirmed in October 2024 after his arrest by Sunzha resident Alikhan Ozdoyev, who was wanted on suspicion of aiding Gurazhev's group.
According to the security official, employees of the republican Center for Combating Extremism and the Federal Security Service found out that in the summer of 2023, Ganiev approached imams Sultygov and Tamaskhanov with a request to provide him with financial assistance. Security officials believe that Ganiev needed the money to continue his terrorist activities.
The source added that a preventive measure in the form of a written undertaking not to leave was chosen for Sultygov and Tamaskhanov, the agency writes.
Recall that Ingush journalist Izabella Yevloyeva had earlier cast doubt on the version about the connection between the imams' detention and the case of Gurazhev's group. "It is possible that someone from Gurazhev's group had ever visited the mosques where the detained imams served, but this is not grounds for their prosecution. However, for the security forces in the region, such an indirect reason may be sufficient," she told the "Caucasian Knot."
The Cinco de Mayo parade in Chicago for 2025 has been canceled by organizers over fears of deportations. But it may be an excuse for disorganization. In 2024, the same Mexican nationalist event was canceled over "fears of gang violence" near the route. https://t.co/T2SHRev87M
#4
It marks the day indigenous Mexican forces defeated the French at the Battle of Puebla. It's not even a national holiday in Mexico. It was used as a marketing gimmick to sell Mexican themed beer in the US.
But not since. So it’s clearly a first year of the term reaction. We can look forward to the same happening again the first year of whoever wins for the Republicans four years from now.
[IsraelTimes] Egyptian plan would reportedly include Cairo overseeing Hamas demilitarization, with US said to promise terror group a commitment Israel will join talks on ending war
Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... is willing to release a greater number of hostages under a new truce proposal that it had previously agreed to, with the US reportedly telling the terror group it will pressure Israel into entering talks to end the war, the Saudi al-Arabiya channel reported Sunday night.
Talks have reportedly been deadlocked over Israel’s demand that the terror group free 11 of the hostages in exchange for an extended ceasefire while Hamas has offered to release five. According to reports over the weekend, in its latest proposal Israel has expressed readiness to lower the number of hostages released.
The al-Arabiya report, citing unnamed sources, said that the drafting of the new deal is in its final stages and that Hamas has given an initial agreement to raise the number of hostages to be freed. The report did not detail the number of hostages that would potentially be released.
If a deal is reached under the proposed draft, hostages will be released in two stages alongside agreements on the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip, the report said.
The report also said that while the US has told Hamas it will pressure Israel into entering talks to end the fighting, discussions on whether leaders from the terror group will be permitted to stay in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... have been postponed to a later time.
The Saudi outlet also said that under the potential agreement, medical reports will be provided by the forces of Evil on the conditions of the remaining hostages.
Israel has been waiting for a response to its latest proposal for a ceasefire-hostage release deal after a delegation from the terror group arrived in Cairo over the weekend. The US is seeking to pressure the sides to move forward, according to reports in Israeli media outlets.
The Haaretz daily, citing Paleostinian sources involved in the talks, reported Sunday night that Cairo and Doha are working with the US toward a potential additional stage of the ceasefire-hostage release deal reached in January that would also include talks to end the 18-month war.
The report also claimed Egypt has put forward a proposal under which Hamas would demilitarize under Cairo’s supervision as part of a permanent ceasefire deal.
Hamas, the report said, is lowering expectations for results in the current round of negotiations, but believes there is an opportunity to reach a ceasefire deal before mid-May, when US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... is slated to visit Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... , the UAE and Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... .
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... a report in the Ynet news site Sunday said that Israel was waiting for a response from the terror group to a proposal to release nine or 10 living hostages — including US-Israeli Edan Alexander, who was featured in a Hamas propaganda video released Saturday — slightly down from Israel’s earlier demand that 11 hostages be freed in any next stage.
The Ynet report said, without citing sources, that the US has promised Hamas that if it agrees to free more than eight hostages, it will provide the group with a commitment that Israel will enter talks aimed at ending the ongoing war.
A Hamas official told AFP on Friday that it hoped its delegation in Cairo, headed by the group’s chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya, would lead to "real progress towards reaching an agreement to end the war, halt the aggression and ensure the full withdrawal of occupation forces from Gaza."
In a statement Sunday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that during a conversation between the premier and the family of hostage Eitan Mor, he stressed that efforts to free those held captive by Hamas are continuing "at this very moment."
The Hebrew media reports echoed reporting from The Times of Israel on Friday, citing two officials familiar with the talks who said Israel had come down slightly from its earlier demand that 11 living hostages be released in order to revive the ceasefire deal, and would instead agree to the release of eight.
After meeting with Trump last week in Washington, Netanyahu agreed to soften his demands, the two officials said.
That has always been a reliable play in the past. Perhaps something will change to short-circuit that, a final solution if you will pardon the expression.
What the HELL is the matter with these people? How can they not care how dangerous this is?
[IsraelTimes] A group of over 250 former Mossad members sign onto a statement backing a letter signed by Israeli Air Force veterans that calls for the government to prioritize the return of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, even at the cost of ending the ongoing war against the terror group.
The signatories to the letter, which was organized by former top hostage negotiator David Meidan, include ex-Mossad chiefs Danny Yatom, Efraim Halevy and Tamir Pardo.
“We believe the continuation of the fighting endangers the lives of the hostages and our soldiers, and that all possibilities to reach a deal that will bring an to the suffering must be exhausted,” the letter states. “We call on the government to make brave decisions and act responsibly for the security of the country and its citizens.”
A group of some 200 reservist doctors signs onto a similar letter, which like the statements from the ex-Mossad operatives and air force veterans does not include a call to halt reserve service in protests.
The new letters join several other statements that followed the pilots’ letter, which prompted the military to dismiss those still actively serving for using the “Israeli Air Force brand” in a political protest.
Is this a fad, like swallowing goldfish or stuffing as many as possible into a telephone booth? I cannot understand this many Israelis so self-righteously turning off their brains.
[IsraelTimes] Over 1,600 former IDF paratroopers and infantry soldiers have signed a letter demanding the government reach a deal to bring the hostages home, even if it means ending the war, according to a Ynet report.
The letter states: “We, the fighters and commanders of the paratroopers and infantry units, whose flag bears the words: ‘We do not leave wounded behind on the battlefield,’ call for the return of the hostages, even at the cost of halting the fighting. This is a call to save lives.”
This latest appeal adds to a growing wave of public pressure to end the ongoing war, following similar letters from IDF reservist doctors, former 8200 intelligence unit members, ex-Mossad members, navy reservists, and reservist air force personnel.
In a newly published letter, Talpiot graduates say they support the recent protest by Israeli Air Force reservists and denounce the government’s war policy as serving “political and personal interests” rather than security needs.
“The continuation of the war does not contribute to any of its stated goals,” the letter states, warning it will only lead to more deaths — including hostages, IDF soldiers, and innocent civilians — and the erosion of Israel’s reserve forces. The signatories urge the public to demand action and condemn efforts to silence dissenting voices.
This is not the first time Talpiot graduates have taken a public stance. In July 2023, hundreds signed a letter refusing voluntary reserve duty in protest of the government’s proposed judicial overhaul.
Talpiot is an elite IDF training program for soldiers who have demonstrated academic excellence in the sciences. The soldiers pursue academic degrees in physics, math, or computer science while serving in the IDF.
So they get credit for wearing the uniform while avoiding actual soldiering? If so, that’s not much better than the Haredim who avoid military service altogether because they think themselves much too holy to risk their skins like normal Israelis
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy staff member who went missing in late March when 15 people were killed by Israeli fire is being detained by Israeli authorities, the rescue service and the Red Thingy said on Sunday.
Hisham Mhana, the spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) in the Gazoo Strip, confirmed to Rooters that it had received information that the Paleostine Red Islamic Thingy Society paramedic Assad al-Nsasrah was being held in an Israeli place of detention.
"As per standard practice, we informed the families immediately. In this case, we also informed the Paleostine Red Islamic Thingy Society (PRCS) as they have special standing as a partner of the International Red Thingy and Red Islamic Thingy Movement," he said.
The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately comment.
Mhana said the ICRC has not been granted access to Nsasrah, who until Sunday had been declared missing, and also has not been able to visit any of the Paleostinian detainees and prisoners in Israeli jails since Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, who are being held on suspicion of being affiliated with Gaza-based terrorist organizations.
The Red Cross has also not visited any of the hostages held by the Hamas terror group in Gaza, including the 59 captives who remain in the coastal enclave.
Those “captives” being about 1/3rd living and 2/3rds formerly living, thanks to those perverse Gazan proclivities.
In a post on X, the PRCS demanded the immediate release of Nsasrah, who it said was “forcibly abducted” while carrying out humanitarian duties.
The duty of transporting jihadis hither and yon to confound the enemy is not recognized by the Geneva Conventions, guys. It is, in fact, considered an act of war, rendering the participants subject to capture or death as spies.
It added that Nsasrah and his colleagues came under heavy gunfire, which led to the killing of eight others in a “grave violation” of international humanitarian law.
On the contrary, but y’all do like pretending.
The bodies of 15 emergency and aid workers from the Red Crescent, the Hamas-linked Civil Emergency Service and the UN were found buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza in March. The IDF has said at least six of them were members of Hamas’s military wing.
Up to a maximum of all of them being military or political members, of course. Arab terrorists have a habit of secondary careers that they claim when pretending to be civilians instead of their primary work.
[IsraelTimes] A powerful armed faction in southern Syria led by defected military officer Ahmed al-Awda announces that it is dissolving itself and integrating into the government’s armed forces.
“We, members, soldiers and officers of what was previously known as the Eighth Brigade, officially announce the dissolution of this formation and handing over all its military and human capacities to the defense ministry,” says Colonel Mohamed al-Hourani in a statement.
One wonders how rapidly Iran’s scientists are sprinting toward the finish line of their nuclear bombs to fit on the missiles they’ve been working on in parallel — all under the cover of discussions they intend to drag out as long as President Trump is willing. Nothing so silly as the shape of the table, but if they are still discussing what subjects they will discuss…
[IsraelTimes] Islamic Republic says Oman to continue mediating, with future location not yet finalized; Trump says talks ‘going okay’ but ‘nothing matters until you get it done’
The Iranian foreign ministry said Sunday that talks with the United States slated for next weekend will remain “indirect,” with Omani mediation, and focused solely on the nuclear issue and lifting of sanctions.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff held brief talks on Saturday in Muscat — after a two-hour-plus, Omani-mediated session, with the US and Iran delegations in separate rooms –marking the highest-level Iran-US nuclear negotiations since the collapse of a 2015 accord.
Another round of talks will be held on Saturday, April 19, with the location yet to be finalized.
“Negotiations will continue to be indirect. Oman will remain the mediator, but we are discussing the location of future negotiations,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said in an interview with state TV.
He said the talks would only focus on “the nuclear issue and the lifting of sanctions” and that Iran “will not have any talks with the American side on any other issue.”
Analysts had said the US would push to include on the agenda discussions over Iran’s ballistic missile program along with Tehran’s support for the “axis of resistance” — a network of terrorist groups opposed to Israel.
Tehran has, however, maintained it will talk only about its nuclear program.
Donald Trump in 2018 pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers during his first term as US president.
And rightfully so. Under cover of that stupid agreement that President Obama pretended really hard was not a diplomatic treaty requiring Senate advice and consent, Iran built several new sites and populated them with many more centrifuges for concentrating uranium even faster than originally intended, to the point that they they were already getting close to breakthrough by the time President Trump threw off the treaty’s protections.
He reimposed sweeping economic sanctions against Iran, which continued to adhere to the agreement for a year after Washington’s pullout
…that’s “adhere”, since at sites away from IAEA supervision they were accelerating accumulating nucleqr bomb materials and continuing work on the bomb mechanisms forbidden altogether by the “agreement” they’d signed off on agreeing to. As was revealed by the warehouse of materials Mossad made off with and PM Netanyahu shared with the UN General Assembly….
but later began rolling back its own commitments.
Asked about the talks, Trump told journalists aboard Air Force One on Saturday: “I think they’re going OK. Nothing matters until you get it done.”
…whether done with a signed, enforceable agreement or Israeli and American bombs.
Iran, which avowedly seeks Israel’s destruction, has consistently denied seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.
Not taqqiya, but one of the other categories of required Moslem lies to protect the Ummah from kaffir attacks.
However, it has been enriching uranium to levels that have no peaceful application, has obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities, and expanded its ballistic missile capabilities, and its officials have increasingly warned that they could pursue the bomb.
Where could means are in the process of…
Saturday’s rare negotiations came weeks after Trump sent a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urging nuclear talks while warning of possible military action if Iran refuses.
American dawa does not require converting to our religion, just surrender.
The US president said earlier this week that Israel would participate in such a strike, if not lead it.
Iran and the US separately described Saturday’s discussions as “constructive.”
Iran said Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi acted as an intermediary in the indirect talks.
The negotiators, Araghchi and Witkoff, spoke directly for “a few minutes” after the talks, Tehran’s foreign ministry said.
The process took place in a “friendly atmosphere,” Oman’s Albusaidi said.
Several Iranian websites that track the unofficial exchange rate reported Sunday a strengthening of the Iranian rial to around 850,000 to the US dollar, down from more than one million in recent days.
‘TURNING POINT’
Iran is reeling from Israel’s pummeling of its two proxies, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, and is seeking relief from wide-ranging sanctions hobbling its economy. Israel went to war against Hamas after the Gaza-ruling terror group invaded Israel on October 7, 2023
…the attack having been funded, trained, and planned by Iran…
and slaughtered 1,200 people in southern Israel, most of them civilians, and abducted 251 hostages, where 59 are still held.
…more than half having become corpses along the way…
Hezbollah began attacking northern Israel the next day,
…also planned, trained, and funded by Iran…
drawing an escalating Israeli response, during which much of Hezbollah’s leadership was killed and its military capacity greatly degraded.
Tehran has agreed to the meetings despite balking at Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign of ramping up sanctions and repeated military threats.
Mere threats or solid promises? I think the latter.
Trump and Witkoff both had described the talks as being “direct” in the days before the meeting..
“I think our position begins with dismantlement of your program. That is our position today,” Witkoff told The Wall Street Journal before his trip. “That doesn’t mean, by the way, that at the margin we’re not going to find other ways to find compromise between the two countries.”
He added: “Where our red line will be, there can’t be weaponization of your nuclear capability.”
That red line indicated a degree of flexibility in the Trump administration’s position and a potential break with Israel, whose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asserted that he will only accept the full dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
On Sunday, Iranian media largely welcomed the rare talks as a “decisive turning point” in relations between the longtime foes.
Iran’s conservative Javan daily praised the US for “not seeking to expand the negotiations to non-nuclear issues.”
The government-sponsored newspaper, Iran, described the discussions as “constructive and respectful,” quoting Araghchi.
Meanwhile, the reformist Shargh newspaper said it was a “decisive turning point” in Iran-US relations.
The hardline Kayhan newspaper, which was largely skeptical in the days leading up to the talks, lamented that Iran does not have a “plan B” while there was “no clear prospect for an agreement with Donald Trump.”
It, however, lauded what it said was the fact that the American side did not bring up “the dismantling of nuclear facilities” and “the possibility of a military attack” during the discussions.
Tehran and Washington have had no diplomatic relations since shortly after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Western-backed shah and Iran’s subsequent seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran and its holding of 52 American diplomats as hostages.
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