MESOPOTAMIA NEWS DEVELOPMETS : To Pressure Iran, Pompeo Turns to the Deal Trump Renounced

The secretary of state is preparing an argument that the U.S. remains a participant in the Obama-era nuclear deal, with the goal of extending an arms embargo or destroying the accord. –  “We are prepared to exercise all of our diplomatic options to ensure the arms embargo stays in place at the U.N. Security Council,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.

By David E. SangerApril 26, 2020 – THE NEW YORK TIMES –

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is preparing a legal argument that the United States remains a participant in the Iran nuclear accord that President Trump has renounced, part of an intricate strategy to pressure the United Nations Security Council to extend an arms embargo on Tehran or see far more stringent sanctions reimposed on the country.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : BRITISH MUSLIMS IN FAVOR OF SHARIA LAW IN FACE OF CORONA VIRUS !

British government asked to account for rise in Muslim Brotherhood activity

Andrew Rosindell asks top ministers for report how group is taking advantage of Covid-19 – 29 Apr 2020 – THE NATIONAL ae

Sir John Jenkins, author of 2015 report.

A senior British politician has today demanded answers over concerns at the rise in Muslim Brotherhood activities as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. Andrew Rosindell, MP, has placed questions before Parliament over the increased levels of activities in both Britain and globally by the fundamentalist network. There are concerns that the Islamist movement, that seeks to implement strict sharia law under a global caliphate, has taken advantage of the Covid 19 pandemic to spread its influence.

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MESOPOTAMI NEWS CORONA IN ISRAEL : A QUESTION OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE !

IDF intelligence’s constant eye on coronavirus and Iran

While the enemy may be different, “this is very similar to our usual work.”

By ANNA AHRONHEIM   APRIL 27, 2020 16:19  JERUSALEM POST

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE GENESIS OF A VIRUS FROM RED CHINA / THE ULTIMATE STORY

The Controversial Experiments and Wuhan Lab Suspected of Starting the Coronavirus Pandemic

By Fred Guterl , Naveed Jamali AND Tom O’Connor On 4/27/20 at 3:34 PM EDT –  Why The Wuhan Lab Remains A Suspect In the Coronavirus Investigation- NEWSWEEK

Just one day after the U.S. surpassed China to become the country with the highest number of Covid-19 cases, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency updated its assessment of the origin of the novel coronavirus to reflect that it may have been accidentally released from an infectious diseases lab, Newsweek has learned.

The report, dated March 27 and corroborated by two U.S. officials, reveals that U.S. intelligence revised its January assessment in which it “judged that the outbreak probably occurred naturally” to now include the possibility that the new coronavirus emerged “accidentally” due to “unsafe laboratory practices” in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the pathogen was first observed late last year. The classified report, titled “China: Origins of COVID-19 Outbreak Remain Unknown,” ruled out that the disease was genetically engineered or released intentionally as a biological weapon.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Can anyone stop Netanyahu’s annexation plans?

A formidable array of figures is working in public and behind the scenes to block Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex West Bank lands.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement overlooking the Israeli settlement of Har Homa, located in an area of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, that Israel annexed to Jerusalem after the region’s capture in the 1967 Middle East war, Feb. 20, 2020.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INTEL ISRAEL HITS HARD IRAN IN SYRIA

Defense Minister Bennett: Israel goes from containing Iran in Syria – to expulsion

Apr 27, 2020 @ 10:40 DEBKA FILES ISRAEL

Israeli warplanes were alleged to have struck targets near Damascus early Monday, April 27, hours after Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said: “Keep yours ears open. We have moved from containing Iran’s military presence in Syria to expulsion.”

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : KURDISTAN IRAQ / BARZANI = MORE TRADE WITH IRAN! MORE CORONA INFECTIONS !

Kurdistan Region reopens two border crossings with Iran

Hiwa Shilani | 28 April 2020 – The international border crossing of Bashmakh on the Kurdistan Region and Iran border.

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdistan Region’s Ministry of Interior announced the reopening of two border crossings with Iran starting from April 28.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEW : THE EUROPEAN/BRUSSELS UNION ON ITS KNEES IN FRONT OF RED CHINA

The Cost of Europe Bowing to China’s Disinformation and Pressure

By Judy Dempsey Overcoming the coronavirus pandemic is also about the EU defending its own principles of transparency and truthfulness, both of which China is aggressively challenging. – April 28, 2020 – FOREIGN AFFAIRS

It’s not easy being a Western diplomat in Beijing these days. It’s not just because of the restrictions imposed by the Chinese communist authorities to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

Dempsey is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie Europe and editor in chief of Strategic Europe.

Ever since the virus broke out in Wuhan back in December 2019—which for some weeks was covered up by the authorities—Beijing has gone on a massive campaign of disinformation and intimidation.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS LEBANON : Economic Woes Ignite Protests Across Lebanon

Top of the Agenda  28 Apr 2020
Lebanese protesters clashed with security forces and set fire to banks in Tripoli during one of more than two dozen demonstrations (Al Jazeera) in the country since Sunday. Demonstrators aired fresh grievances about Lebanon’s plummeting currency after the government began easing coronavirus-related movement restrictions (AP).

The Lebanese pound has lost half its value in the past six months, while food prices have recently surged. The coronavirus lockdown halted a protest movement (FP) that began in October to denounce the country’s corruption and economic crisis. Authorities said fifty-four security force members were wounded in recent protests and one protester was shot dead.

Analysis
“Human Rights Watch has warned millions could go hungry unless the government puts forward a robust social-safety net. But when the cabinet sought to get approval for a large spending bill at a parliament session earlier this month, quorum was lost and the decision postponed,” Timour Azhari writes for Al Jazeera.

“How long the pandemic lasts, and how governments and activists respond, will dictate whether the interruption represents a fleeting pause, a moment of metamorphosis, or an unceremonious end for some of the most widespread mass mobilizations in recent history,” Vivian Wang, Maria Abi-Habib, and Vivian Yee write for the New York Times.

CFR’s Brad W. Setser looks at potential pathways out of Lebanon’s economic crisis.

 

MESOPOTAMIA NEWS VIEW ON NORTHERN SYRIA / KURDISTAN

How map of control has changed in northern Syria since April 2019

كيف تغيرت خريطة السيطرة في الشمال السوري منذ نيسان 2019

Enab Baladi – Ali Darwish  28 April 2020 – Deir Ezzor News

Since 24 April 2019, who controls what parts of northwestern Syria has changed dramatically. The Syrian regime and its ally, Russia, advanced on the northwest province of Idlib, the last stronghold of the Turkish-backed opposition. It retook control of strategic towns and cities in addition to the Aleppo-Latakia international highway (M4).

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