US won’t recognize its mistake, uses IAEA as tool against Iran – Iranian professor

"Western countries from the very beginning violated the [Iran nuclear] deal and ultimately Trump tore up the deal," Mohammad Marandi, a political analyst and professor at Tehran University, told Sputnik. "So it is not Iran's fault that we are where we are today."

"But instead of accepting the fact that they are to blame, the West wants Iran to be under maximum-pressure sanctions," he added, with the aim of halting "many parts of its peaceful nuclear program."

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) ordered the use of advanced centrifuges on November 22 to step up the enrichment of uranium. That was in response to the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) resolution condemning Tehran for "failing to cooperate" with the nuclear watchdog.

The motion submitted by the US, UK, France and Germany got 19 out of 35 votes on the IAEA Board of Governors. Russia, China and Burkina-Faso voted against, and 12 states abstained.

The AEOI denounced the resolution as "politically-motivated, unrealistic, and counterproductive," adding that technical and safety cooperation with the IAEA will continue, as in the past.

The pundit argued that Iran has not violated international law and has always operated within the framework of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and IAEA regulations.

"Iran does not have any intention to build a nuclear weapon," Marandi said, accusing the US of making the IAEA a tool of coercion.

By increasing the enrichment of uranium "the Iranians are sending a clear message to the West that they won't be intimidated and that if the West tries to use the IAEA to put pressure on Iran, Iran will make sure that Western countries pay a price for this," the professor stressed.

"The West is on the decline, but they continue to think that they dominate the world," he said. "They have always played a very negative role in our region."

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American patriot & relentless truth-seeker: Sputnik pundit Scott Bennett passes away

Scott Bennett, a former US Army Special Operations officer, psychological warfare expert, whistleblower and Sputnik pundit, passed away on Thursday, November 21 in Walnut Creek, California. He was 46.

Bennett's colleagues and friends shared the sad news, expressing their deep grief over the loss of an American patriot, truth-seeker, and relentless advocate for peace.

Scott's comrades-in-arms revered him as a distinguished officer in the US Army’s elite Special Operations Forces, while international reporters highly valued his advice and analyses on pressing geopolitical issues.

As a whistleblower, Bennett never feared to speak the truth and expose those in power who violated their obligations to high office. He repeatedly warned about the growing escalation in Ukraine, viewing the conflict as a proxy war led by US elites and a subservient Kiev regime against Russia.

In 2023, Bennett traveled to Donbass to see the situation firsthand and share his knowledge with Americans, who he believed were misled by the US corporate press about the ongoing conflict and Washington's role in it.

In a September interview with Sputnik, Bennett warned that the US Deep State would do whatever it takes to prevent Donald Trump from immediately shifting to negotiations to settle the Ukraine crisis if he won in November.

"The Democrat establishment and national security/military-industrialist deep state in America is trying to tie [the Ukraine] conflict against Russia around Donald Trump’s neck," he said at the time. He had no doubts that Russia would eventually prevail: "The military mathematics shows very clearly the overwhelming victory that will inevitably come to Russia," he told Sputnik.

Bennett also raised his voice against Israel's war in Gaza, denouncing it as genocide against Palestinians. "The Israeli government is trying to erase the Palestinian people and all memory of Gaza like chalk drawings from the blackboard,” he told Sputnik back in April.

The legacy of this fearless warrior and sincere man with a big heart will remain in the memory of his family, friends, colleagues, and millions of readers around the globe.

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Here’s why Russia’s Oreshnik hypersonic missile is ready for mass production

Thursday’s combat deployment testing of the Oreshnik missile system against a Ukrainian military-industrial target in Dnepropetrovsk speaks to the fact that the new Russian missile system is ready for deployment and mass production, and the reason comes down to the way Russia’s missile weaponry has been designed for many decades, says veteran Russian military observer Dmitry Kornev.

The capabilities of Russia’s military-industrial complex when it comes to producing Oreshnik-style weaponry is “significantly higher than those of the West,” Kornev told Sputnik, pointing to the Russian (and before that Soviet) missile design philosophy going back to the Cold War-era standoff involving the RSD-10 Pioneer and the Pershing 2 – with the Soviet system designed to ensure strategic deterrence on the continental scale, vs. the US goal of delivering a strike against enemy targets as quickly as possible from a forward foothold.

“Our system likely has a far greater strike potential in the sense that it was created on the basis of already proven ballistic missile technologies - most likely, at the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering, which means that mass production and rapid deployment of large quantities of the missiles is assured,” Kornev said.

“In the case of the West, any similar system will be rather expensive to create,” Kornev emphasized.

President Putin confirmed in a briefing with defense officials Friday that a decision on the Oreshnik’s mass production has been taken, and that the military has amassed a stockpile of the new ballistic hypersonic missiles, and “will continue these tests, including in combat conditions, depending on the situation and the nature of the security threats that are created for Russia.”

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🇷🇺🇸🇦 Relations between Russia and Saudi Arabia are excellent – Medvedev

Relations between Russia and Saudi Arabia are excellent and friendly, and the countries are working together to stabilize energy markets, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev highlighted.

"As for relations between Moscow and Riyadh, they are very good and friendly. Russia cooperates with Saudi Arabia in the energy sphere to maintain market stability," Medvedev told the Al Arabiya broadcaster.

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From the rubble to despair: Gaza boy's unfinished battle for recovery

Farid, the sole survivor of an Israeli strike on a five-story building in the heart of Khan Yunis, now lives paralyzed, trapped in a body that requires constant care and rehabilitation. In Gaza, under the suffocating Israeli siege, doctors are powerless to provide him with the treatment he so desperately needs.

"He needs treatment abroad. Before the war, we were involved in rehabilitation, but the occupation destroyed hospitals and the necessary equipment. Now we can only perform 10 to 15 percent of the necessary rehabilitation treatment," said Tariq al Hafni, a doctor at Khan Younis Hospital.

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Message to NATO: Don’t Poke the Russian Bear — @AussieCossack.

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