Mursi Stressses Importance Of IRAN, EGYPT'S Unity In Facing Global Challenges

Via FARS NEWS AGENCY TEHRAN (FNA)-Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi said Iran plays an important role in resolving he regional crises, and underlined that Tehran and Cairo should be united in dealing with global challenges. When the follower of unrighteousness are united in their nrighteous path, why should not we go united in our right osition when dealing with global challenges". Mursi said in a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi in Cairo on Tuesday. Stressing that Egypt assumes Iran's stability as its own stability, he said, "There is no problem between Iran and Egypt." The Egyptian president also underscored the important role of Iran's assistance to the settlement of problemsin the region, and announced Cairo's readiness for any kind of regional cooperation with Tehran. After the collapse of Hosni Mubarak's regime, the Iranian and Egyptian officials voiced their interest in the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries and Salehi officially invited the then Egyptian counterpart Nabil Al-Arabi to pay a visit to Tehran. Later, the Iranian foreign minister and his former Egyptian counterpart also held a meeting in Bali, Indonesia. Also, during the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran late August, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Egyptian counterpart conferred on ways to promote the bilateral relations between Tehran and Cairo, and stressed the need for continued consultations in this regard.

U.S.-S. Korea drill pushes Korean Peninsula to brink of war: DPRK ceremonial leader

U.S.-S. Korea drill pushes Korean Peninsula to brink of war: DPRK ceremonial leader - Xinhua | English.news.cn

TEHRAN, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) --The U.S.-South Korea joint military exercise pushes the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war, said the ceremonial leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK) at the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the Iranian capital on Thursday. Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, said that the Korean Peninsula is one of the world's most tense regions and the ongoing exercise between the United States and South Korea will push the Peninsula to the verge of war. Recently, Americans have deployed many up-to-date weapons to the region, which threatens the DPRK, Kim said. South Korea and the United States are on a joint military exercise on Aug. 20 to 31, aiming to enhance defense readiness against potential security threats in the Korean Peninsula, according to military officials in Seoul. The DPRK will build war-deterrence forces to protect the country, and cooperate with any country dedicated to the unification of the Korean Peninsula, said the DPRK leader. He meanwhile also called for the members of the NAM to maintain solidarity, saying that the history of the NAM has proven that unity can bring success and division causes failure. The leader also emphasized that the Western sanctions imposed on Iran and Syria should be removed. Heads of state or government from over 100 countries participated in the two-day NAM summit, which opened in Tehran on Thursday.

Iran denies plans to show nuclear sites to diplomats

Iran denies plans to show nuclear sites to diplomats

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran said on Tuesday it has no plans to show its nuclear sites to diplomats visiting Tehran for this week's Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit, contradicting an earlier offer by a deputy foreign minister. "We have no specific plans for a visit to Iran's nuclear installations by foreign guests participating in the summit of NAM member countries," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said, state news agency IRNA reported. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Mehdi Akhoundzadeh hinted on Monday that Iran might let visiting NAM diplomats tour the Parchin military base, which the U.N. nuclear watchdog says may have been used for nuclear-related explosives experiments.

Western diplomats had dismissed the tentative offer, made shortly after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) again failed to gain access to Parchin for its inspectors at a meeting with an Iranian delegation in Vienna on Friday. "Any tour the Iranians conduct for visiting NAM officials would be nothing more than a very, very bad publicity stunt," a senior Western diplomat in Vienna told Reuters. "It is the IAEA that should have been given access to Parchin." Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's representative to the IAEA, reiterated his country's determination to keep enriching uranium. "We will not suspend enrichment for even one second," the Iranian Students' News Agency quoted him as saying.

> Enriched uranium can be used to fuel power stations, or, if processed further, for nuclear weapons. Akhoundzadeh also said on Monday that U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, due in Tehran for the NAM summit, might be able to visit Iran's atom sites. Ban's spokesman denied any such plan. Iran is hosting the NAM summit, which ends on Friday, at a time when the West is trying to isolate the Islamic Republic over suspicions it is seeking a nuclear weapons capability. Tehran says its atomic programme has only peaceful aims. The IAEA suspects that Iran has conducted explosives tests in a steel chamber at Parchin relevant for the development of nuclear weapons, possibly a decade ago, and that it may have tried to cleanse the site in recent months. (Reporting By Yeganeh Torbati; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

UAE sends ruler of Umm al-Qaiwain to NAM summit in Tehran

UAE sends ruler of Umm al-Qaiwain to NAM summit in Tehran - Xinhua |

DUBAI, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) --The United Arab Emirates (UAE) government announced Monday that H. H. Sheikh Saud bin Rashid Al Mu'alla, member of the UAE Supreme Council and ruler of Umm al-Qaiwain, will lead the UAE delegation to the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Iran. Iran will hold the two-day summit on Aug. 30-31 in its capital Tehran and start its three-year rotating presidency of the NAM. This year's NAM summit, to be attended by representatives from over 100 countries and regions and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, will mark the first visit of a UAE government delegation to the Islamic republic after the Gulf Arab state summoned its ambassador to Iran on April 16, 2012, in protest of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the disputed Gulf island of Abu Musa.

A statement issued by the UAE government said Sheikh Saud will be accompanied by Sheikh Saif bin Rashid Al Mu'alla, chairman of Umm al-Qaiwain Economic Department, Anwar Mohammed Gargash, UAE minister of state for foreign affairs, and Saif Mohammed Al Za'abi, UAE ambassador to Iran. On June 11, Iran invited UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan to attend the NAM summit.

Salehi calls for opposing sanctions against Iran

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Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi urged the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) members on Sunday to stand against the sanctions imposed against Iran. Salehi stressed that "the foreign interference in the events taking place in our region was unacceptable".

ADL: ‘NAM Summit in Tehran is anti-Semitism’

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Abraham Foxman, head of pro-Israel Jewish lobby group. the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has criticized UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon’s decision to address the 16th Non-Alignment Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran (August 26-31); as an act of “anti-Israel, anti-American and anti-Semitism“. Hillary Clinton’s Zionist Jew spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters on August 20, that Iran doesn’t have the right to host NAM summit. “So we frankly don’t think that Iran is deserving of these high-level presences that are going there,” she said. She also, criticized Egyptian president Dr. Mohamed Mursi’s decision to attend the NAM meeting in Tehran. Over 100 members countries of NAM have confirmed to attend the summit. Over 51 Presidents, Vice-presidents and Prime Ministers would be representing their countries. The notable guests will include Dr. Mohamed Morsi (Egypt), Hugo Chavez (Venezuela), Kim Jong-Nam (N. Korea), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Asif Ali Zardari (Pakistan), Jalal Talibani (Iraq), Omar al-Bashir (Sudan), Manmohan Singh (India), Emirs of Kuwait and Qatar, Hamid Karzai (US Occupied Afghanistan), Abdullah Gul (Turkey), Michel Sleiman (Lebanon), Elham Aliyev (Azerbaijan), Mahmoud Abbas (PA) and Raul Castro (Cuba). Iran will assume the rotating presidency of the NAM for the next three years.

Both the US and Israel has resented the decisions of Morsi and Abbas to attend the meeting. Israel’s foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman in a letter to the Mideast Quartet –the grouping of the US, Russia, the EU and the UN that guides the Middle East peace process –has called the removal of PA president Mahmoud Abbas, a double agent. He called Abbas “an obstacle to peace.” Abbas’ term as PA president expired in January 2009, but has been kept in that position by US-Israel-EU to stop Hamas taking over that position too. Israeli daily the Jerusalem Post reported on August 19 that “Israel is working through its embassies abroad and through direct conversations with various leaders to persuade other NAM countries – some of which have good ties with Israel –to either boycott the meeting or send only low-level representation to send a strong message to Iran of an abhorrence of its policies (toward the Zionist regime)“. Daniel Mariaschin, executive vice president of B’nai B’rith International, a Jewish supremacist organization, said he fears that Iranian presidency of NAM during the next three years –will boost delegitimation of Israel. In response to US-Israel blackmailing, Mohammad Kosari, member of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy –has called Dr. Mursi’ visit to Iran as Zionist entity’s great failure. “Americans attempted to prevent Mr. Mursi’s visit to Iran, but the Egyptian president will visit Iran, which is interpreted as failure for the US“, while stressing: “The Zionist regime and the US plots can only be materialized through difference and discord among Muslim states“. Egyptian ambassador to the United Nations, Lebanese-born Mootaz Ahmadein Khalil, in an interview with China daily Xinhua, said that Ki-moon’s decision to attend the NAM summit in Iran has nothing to do with the illegal sanctions against the Islamic Republic. He hoped Iran, who will take over NAM’s rotating presidency from Egypt, will address the priorities of the movement and have a successful presidency that will reflect interests of all NAM member countries. Khalil called US claim ‘absurd’ –that the summit will boost Iran’s image among the world community.
y. He stressed that hosting of summit is the responsibility of the country which receives the rotating presidency of NAM and will not bring direct benefits to the country’s international relations. Canadian Jewish journalist and blogger, Eric Walberg, posted on his blog on August 22, 2012. “Egypt’s rapprochement with Iran is long overdue, held in check by the Mubarak regime’s toadying to the US and Israel. One of the first ships to go through the Suez Canal after the revolution last year, long before the MB came to power through its Freedom and Justice Party, was an Iranian warship. Even under Mubarak, the pressure to normalize relations was mounting, with trade increasing and normalization of relations between EgyptAir and IranAir. Full diplomatic relations are only a matter of months.”
Egypt along with India, Ghana, Indonesia and former Yugoslavia –were the founding members of NAM which was established at the height of the Cold War, in 1961 –to bring together nations that consider themselves independent of the world’s major power blocs. The organisation counts a total 119 countries plus the Palestinian Authority and 21 observer countries.

Israels "last minute update" against Iran (NAM)

Israel official: "Iran has stepped up work to develop nuclear warhead" (Netanjahu/NIE+US) . Obama, seeking reelection in 11/2012, to allow more time for international diplomacy (?%20fake) included a "last minute update" against Iran's peaceful nuclear ambitions. Israel, widely reputed to have the region's largest atome arsenal, sees notencial nuclear-armed Iran as a long threetened to attack its arch-foe "preventively". Iran given belief that Irsrael cannot place her fate in the hands of the others.