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2025-06-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
'Iran has surrendered and is begging for mercy!'
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Telegram channel of kief_point

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

[ColonelCassad] Iran is ready to give up the creation of nuclear weapons in exchange for an end to Israeli attacks! Statement by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi! Iran has surrendered and is begging for mercy!
How much do they have left to giveup? And how is that giving up to be guaranteed?
Let's figure it out.

Iran has been publicly stating for many years that it does not intend to create nuclear weapons. There is also a corresponding fatwa from Rahbar Ali Khamenei (the country is now demanding that it be cancelled in light of the well-known events). Neither the IAEA, nor the US intelligence community — no one in the world, except Israel — has unequivocally stated that Iran has or is actually developing nuclear weapons (the Americans have recently denied such statements).

The current US-Iranian negotiations are stuck at the stage that was obvious from the start: Washington ultimately demanded that Tehran stop all nuclear research, agree to zero enrichment of uranium and even abandon peaceful nuclear energy. This, by the way, is Israel's position - because, in its opinion, Iran should not have anything nuclear in any form. Naturally, the Iranians do not accept this and consider the right to develop peaceful nuclear energy to be their legal right.
They have also privately considered it to be their Allah-given right to develop nuclear weapons, no matter what they might otherwise say in public. but do go on.
That is, now the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has simply repeated once again the official and well-known position of his state, which has already been voiced many times during negotiations - we can sign an agreement to renounce the creation of nuclear weapons (because we are not going to create them anyway), but we will not renounce peaceful nuclear energy:
How many lies can we count in that statement?
We are ready for any agreement that implies preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. However, if the goal of the agreement is to deprive Iran of its legal rights [to develop peaceful nuclear energy], then we are not ready for such an agreement.

And that's it. Absolutely nothing new, no sensations, no statements about renunciation of the creation of nuclear weapons in exchange for an end to Israeli bombing, because Iran has already lost the war and is now surrendering.
Countries surrendering because they have lost the war do not demand conditions to what they will surrender, I believe. Perhaps they need to be pounded some more until they have lost those things they would demand, to make the point moot.
In what form Araghchi's program statement was spread across Telegram channels is another question.

Everything is to the point. There is no fundamental change in Iran's diplomatic position. What was said before the war began, they are still saying.

However, after the funny reports two days ago that Iran would swallow and not respond, this is not surprising.

P.S. Israel issued a warning for Iranians to stay away from military and nuclear facilities.

Iran has issued a warning to Israelis to stay away from oil and nuclear facilities.

So to speak, an announcement for the evening.

The broadcast of military operations in the Middle East, as well as the war in Ukraine, can be watched as usual here (if anyone is interested, subscribe, there is a mountain of materials on both wars published there every day)

More from regnum.ru
Iran ready to sign deal to ensure absence of nuclear weapons

Iran is ready to conclude an agreement guaranteeing that it will not have nuclear weapons. This was stated by the country's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on June 15.

“We are ready for any agreement that implies preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons,” the minister noted at a meeting with ambassadors.

At the same time, he emphasized that if the goal of the agreement is to deprive Iran of the rights to develop peaceful nuclear energy, then the country is not ready for this.

As reported by Regnum News Agency, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attacked several areas of Iran on the night of June 13, explaining this by the beginning of a military operation to counter the Iranian nuclear program. It was reported that the Jewish state's air force carried out more than a hundred strikes on the territory of the Islamic Republic in five waves of attacks.

Commenting on the escalation of the Middle East conflict, US President Donald Trump called on the Iranian authorities to reach an agreement on the nuclear program with Washington before it is too late. The American leader also said that the US produces the "deadliest" weapons in the world, of which Israel has many.

In a conversation with Regnum News Agency, Vladimir Sazhin, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pointed out that the Israeli attack on Iran has already effectively closed the path to a nuclear deal between Tehran and Washington. He explained this by the fact that the American side was aware of Tel Aviv's plans. In addition, the US is demanding a complete zeroing of the Iranian nuclear program, which was not even in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - the previous document that regulated Tehran's nuclear developments.

On June 14, the official representative of the diplomatic department of the Islamic Republic, Ismail Baghaei, said that the negotiations between Iran and the United States on the nuclear deal have not yet been canceled. However, he believes that the Israeli side, with its actions on June 13, effectively made the negotiations between Iran and the United States meaningless.

Posted by badanov 2025-06-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| ||Comments [159 views ]  Top

#1 Anything less than a Japanese style public surrender to MacArthur [rubio or Witkoff or Rubio] from Iran just won't do! Iran must say they will stop enrichment and have the US monitor the nuclear dismantlement ON TV before the world.
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#2 Seen reports (Not Confirmed) that the mad Mullah is dead.
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