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A first convoy from Europe arrives in Iran via Armenia

November 26, 2016 by administrator

The first convoy arrived in Iran from Germany via a new multimodal transit route connecting Iran and Europe via the Black Sea, said the secretary of the Iranian International Transport Association Golyamhossein Amiri, according to Iran.ru .

Iran.ru said that this new road could replace in the future that which crosses the territory of Turkey. “Two freight containers have arrived in Iran via the Armenian border,” – said Amiri. “The containers were shipped from Hamburg via a relatively short route,” – said the official.

“Over the last two years we have had problems at the Turkish border when it comes to transporting goods from Europe. This has prompted us to enter into negotiations with several other countries for alternative routes “- said Golyamhossein Amiri.

Tehran and Ankara have long been involved in a transit dispute related to the different fuel prices in the two neighboring countries. In addition, transit trucks have to wait long hours to move from Turkey to Iran. The queue at the border often reaches 15 kilometers. The agreements signed by the customs officers of the two neighboring countries are unable to solve this problem.

The security of goods in transit is another issue that hinders the transport of goods by Turkey. In Turkey, several Iranian lorries have been the victims of voluntary fires.

The Iranian government advised truckers to take two different routes: one by Azerbaijan, Russia and Belarus, and the other by Armenia, Georgia, the Black Sea, Romania and Bulgaria. “The cost of transport through the [new] path seemed to be less than 1-2% [compared to the Turkish itinerary],” Amri said.

Saturday 26 November 2016,
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Daesh (ISIS) smuggling oil via Turkey, Iraq says

December 13, 2014 by administrator

Baghdad: Iraqi finance minister Hoshyar Zebari has said that the Daesh (ISIS) is smuggling Iraqi and Syrian oil via Turkey, and called it the richest terrorist group in the world.

“Daesh controls a number of oilfields in Syria and Iraq and they smuggle this oil overland through trucks, through middlemen to Turkey or towards other countries,” Zebari told Al Jazeera news channel Friday.

After an accounting of banks under Daesh control, Zebari said that Daesh is now believed to have looted about $500 million from Mosul, Tikrit and other cities, saying it was “the richest armed group in the world”.

He said Iraq was trying to crack down on Daesh financing, including oil smuggling.

“The air campaign targets these facilities in Syria and in northern Iraq in order to deprive them of this revenue but they have enormous financial resources; they are paying recruits good salaries, better than what we can afford to pay ours,” he added.

“And this is one element of the strength of this organisation. It’s not purely an underground terrorist organisation. It has an agenda it wants to control. It wants to rule.”

He also rejected comments by US officials that the fight against the Daesh could take years.

“Contrary to what many people think, I don’t think this will be a long drawn out battle,” the minister said.

The comments came after the Iraqi army managed to liberate two key districts in the city of Samarra on Friday.

He added that coordination between Iraqi forces and the US-led coalition is the key to the success of the offensive against the radical group.

History repeat itself, How Turkey successfully used the “Western-Power” to destroy christianity in Anatolia 1914 and now 2014 in middle east

August 2, 2014 by administrator

By Wally Sarkeesian

The Turkish government in 1914 alliance with Germany as cover up, systematically destroyed the indigenous christian population from Anatolia currently called Turkey and now alliance with USA (NATO) power using so called ISIS systematically destroying christian populations from Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, and all african continent.

In northern Iraq, recently conquered by the Turkish zealots of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levent (ISIL), who refer to themselves now as the Islamic State (IS), gave Christians in Mosul three choices: convert to Islam, pay a special tax (about $750, on this occasion), or be killed. They all fled, and now Mosul is Christian-free for the first time in almost two millennia. while ISIS slaughter and massacre Arab and christians yet Turkish so called hostages come home not a scratch moreover Turkish consulate in Mosul is now ISIS head quarter. to add insult to injury the 1,800 Truck that ISIL using come from Turkey report by turkish news media. moreover do not be surprised the other 49 so called hostage in mosul will come home soon safe and no scratch.

There were still about 60,000 Christians in Mosul when the United States and its sidekicks invaded Iraq eleven years ago. By last year, it was down to 30,000. Only two months after the arrival of Turkish secret army ISIL, there are none. Most have fled to Kurdistan with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. They are not going back, and if they can they will leave the Middle East forever.

What has changed? For many centuries, the Christian minority lived in relative peace and prosperity under Arab Muslim rule for centuries until the Turks show up. In the early 20th century, they were in the forefront of the nationalist and literary renaissance in the Arab world. But in the past decade, about a quarter of the Arab world’s 12 million Christians have emigrated, and the flow is increasing every year.

Almost a hundred years after the Armenian Genocide of 1915, the AKP government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan appears to have proven William Faulkner’s saying: “The past is not dead. In fact it is not even past.”

Turkey staged and intervened in the Syrian war from its early days . Erdogan lead the aggression – along with other countries – provided anti-regime forces safe havens inside Turkish territories and turned a blind eye to the influx of foreign fighters into Syria, including thousands from Turkic Chechnya, Azerbaijan, Kosovo,and other Central Asian countries. Those fighters currently form the strongest elements of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and other al-Qaeda affiliated groups.

do not be surprise the other so called hostages will free..