Iran nuclear deal signed in Geneva

I am curious what the military target is in that "neat" photo you posted. It looks like a civilian housing complex.

Wiki's article needs to be corrected. It uses vague wording and provides no reference for its claim.

But three out of 5 permanent members of the security council (Russia, China and France) are dead against a broadening of article 51 to cover under self-defense ANY preemptive OR preventive attacks.

I right clicked his image and the properties of the address said MSNBC, pretty sure it was in 2009

of which Human Right Watch said it was used illegally in heavily dense populated areas.
Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza

revelette2 wrote:

of which Human Right Watch said it was used illegally in heavily dense populated areas.
Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza

Not even remotely illegal.

Israel, however, is not a signatory to Protocol III

In addition, the protocol only restricts the use of the incendiary version of White Phosphorus. It does not restrict the use of smoke munitions within cities.

Incendiary weapon” means any weapon or munition which is primarily designed to set fire to objects or to cause burn injury to persons through the action of flame, heat, or a combination thereof, produced by a chemical reaction of a substance delivered on the target.

Iran's parliament has approved a deal on its nuclear programme agreed with six world powers, state media say.

The deal was passed with 161 votes in favour, 59 against and 13 abstentions, the official IRNA news agency said.

I am curious what the military target is in that "neat" photo you posted. It looks like a civilian housing complex.

Iran has begun to decommission uranium enrichment centrifuges in order to fulfil the nuclear deal struck with six world powers in July, its nuclear chief has announced during a visit to Japan.

Ali Akbar Salehi said initial work to reduce the number of centrifuges had started, but would take some time.

When police and judiciary officials turned up last week in north Tehran to shut down a newly opened restaurant billed as the city's first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet, few Iranians were surprised.

To many it was obvious that the owner, who protested that his restaurant was a franchise of a Turkish company and not of the American chain, had clearly misjudged the current mood.

Iran is still far from opening up for business with the outside world.
In the past few weeks hardliners have launched a rearguard action against President Hassan Rouhani, whom they suspect of trying to steer the country towards the West and in particular the US following the recent nuclear deal.

They accuse the US, for its part, of conspiring against Iran using agents who have "infiltrated" various institutions of power to make a comeback in their country.

Anti-American rhetoric has been stepped up in all areas of public life.

And ahead of this month's annual commemoration of the storming of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979, a huge new poster appeared in central Tehran in which the famous US Iwo Jima image was manipulated to show US troops planting a flag on a hill of dead bodies.
As might be expected, the hardliners have provided no evidence to back up their claims. Instead they cite the words of their ideologue, the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Soon after the nuclear agreement with the US and other big powers in Vienna that sought to limit Iran's nuclear activities in return for the lifting of crippling international sanctions, he took aim at the US.

"The Americans want to use these [nuclear] talks and the agreement as a means to infiltrate Iran," Ayatollah Khamenei said at the time. "We have stopped this before and we will stop all their future attempts too. We will not allow them to infiltrate our economy or subvert our political system or our culture," he added.

Hardliners, who control many centres of power including the judiciary, the police, the Revolutionary Guard, the intelligence agencies and the state broadcaster have used their Supreme Leader's words to justify a fresh crackdown.

They have arrested several prominent journalists without saying why, although on state television their mouthpieces have accused the journalists of being "agents of US infiltration".

Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza

That smoke cloud is called “the Medusa.” It’s created by the M825A1 155mm artillery shell. This American projectile is sold to Israel and fired from the M109 Howitzer, a self-propelled artillery piece.

but not a penny for our hostages held for 444 days...….