MBunge wa Marekani Atoa Onyo Kwa Rais Kikwete - Mafuta ya Iran

Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA)

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Berman Calls on Tanzanian President to Cancel Reflagging of Iranian Vessels

Berman Writes Tanzanian President, , Warns U.S. Assistance in Jeopardy

Washington, DC – Congressman Howard L. Berman, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today called on the Tanzanian President to cancel the reflagging of Iranian vessels following reports that the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) vessels are being reflagged under his nation’s flag.

Berman added that US assistance to Tanzania would be in jeopardy if these actions persisted.

In the letter, Rep. Berman writes, “It is profoundly disappointing to me to learn that your government has acted in contravention of the broad international coalition that is working together to use peaceful means, including economic sanctions, to change the threatening behavior of the Iranian regime. The decision to accept the re-flagging of NITC vessels casts a shadow over Tanzania’s international reputation.”

Rep. Berman has been a champion of Iran sanctions in Congress, building broad coalitions in support of ending Iran’s nuclear weapons program. In January, Rep. Berman, joined by Senator Menendez (D-New Jersey) introduced stiffer sanctions aimed at the NITC and the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) if they are determined to be affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The sanctions would penalize foreign financial institutions that facilitate financial transactions involving NITC or NIOC.

The letter to President Kikwete follows:

Dear President Kikwete,

I am writing to express my deep dismay that Tanzania has permitted the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC), to reflag at least 6 and as many as 10 of its vessels under the Tanzanian ship registry, allowing them to remain under NITC ownership and continuing to transport Iran’s crude oil exports. This action by your government has the effect of assisting the Iranian regime in evading U.S. and EU sanctions and generating additional revenues for its nuclear enrichment and weapons research programs and its support for international terrorism.

It is profoundly disappointing to me to learn that your government has acted in contravention of the broad international coalition that is working together to use peaceful means, including economic sanctions, to change the threatening behavior of the Iranian regime. The decision to accept the re-flagging of NITC vessels casts a shadow over Tanzania’s international reputation.

I respectfully request that Tanzania cancel the re-flagging of the NITC vessels. Given the close and cooperative relationship that our two governments now enjoy, it would be unfortunate if this action were permitted to stand.

It would be preferable that Tanzania take this action of its own accord. However, your government should take note of President Obama’s Executive Order 13608, signed May 1, 2012, which provides for the imposition of sanctions on any entity worldwide, including foreign governments, that assists Iran in evading U.S. sanctions. In my view, reflagging Iranian oil tankers falls within the scope of sanctionable activity under that Executive Order. In addition, if Tanzania were to allow Iranian vessels to remain under Tanzanian registry, we in the Congress would have no choice but to consider whether to continue the range of bi-lateral U.S. programs with Tanzania.
Sincerely,

Howard Berman

Ranking Democrat, House Foreign Affairs Committee

Mafuta ya Iran Tanzania

 Kutoka:

http://news.yahoo.com/tanzania-probes-iran-oil-tanker-reflagging-reports-154342107.html

Tanzania said Thursday it is investigating US accusations it reflagged Iranian oil tankers to help Tehran evade US and EU sanctions.

"If we confirm that there are Iranian ships flying Tanzania's flag, we are going to obliterate the registration," Foreign Minister Bernard Membe told reporters.

Both the European Union and the United States have imposed embargos on Iranian oil exports to pressure Tehran over its contested nuclear drive.

Tanzania said it has asked the US and EU to support the investigations, after Howard Berman, a member of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said at least six Iranian tankers had switched flags to skirt sanctions.

On Wednesday, neighbouring Kenya said it had cancelled an oil import deal with Iran after international pressure.

Rais Kikwete Akutana na Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais wa Iran na Mjumbe wa Rais wa Burundi Ikulu Dar es Salaam Leo

Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete akipeana mikono na  Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais wa Iran Mh Muhammad Reza Rahimi Ikulu jijini Dar es salaam leo May 30, 2012. Kiongozi huyo yuko nchini kwa ziara ya kikazi

 Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete akiongea na  Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais wa Iran Mh Muhammad Reza Rahimi Ikulu jijini Dar es salaam leo May 30, 2012. Kiongozi huyo yuko nchini kwa ziara ya kikazi. Katikati yao ni mkalimani

 Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete akipokea ujumbe  Ikulu jijini Dar es salaam leo May 30, 2012 kutoka serikali ya Burundi alioletewa na Mh Martin Nivyabandi, ambaye ni Waziri wa Maendeleo ya Jamii wa nchi hiyo. 



Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete akiongea Ikulu jijini Dar es salaam leo May 30, 2012 na Mjumbe maalumu kutoka serikali ya Burundi, Mh Martin Nivyabandi, ambaye ni Waziri wa Maendeleo ya Jamii wa nchi hiyo. Kushoto ni Balozi wa Burundi nchini Tanzania

Picha zote na Ikulu

Ndege Imeanguka Iran! Watu 168 Wafa!

(Mabaki ya ndege ilioanguka Iran)

Kuna habari za kusikitisha kutoka Iran. Ndege ya Caspian Airlines, imeanguka huko Iran na watu 168 wamepoteza maisha. Ndege ilikuwa hewani dakika 16 tu kabla ya kuanguka. Sehemu ilipoangukia imeacha shimo kubwa, mabaki hakuna zaidi ya vipande vidogo vidogo! Ndege hiyo iliruka kutoka uwanja wa ndege was kimataifa huko Iran (Imam Khomeini International Airport) na ilikuwa inaelekea mji mkuu wa Armenia,Yerevan.

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Kutoka CNN.com

(CNN) -- A passenger plane carrying 168 people smashed into the ground in northwestern Iran Wednesday, killing everyone on board and creating a huge smoldering crater.

Photos indicate the aircraft created a huge crater.

Ten members of the country's youth judo team were aboard the Caspian Airlines plane, several sources including Press TV reported. The network said the dead included eight athletes and two coaches.

The plane "disintegrated into pieces," said Col. Masood Jafari Nasab, security commander of the city of Qazvin, close to the crash site.

Video of the crash site showed a huge crater in the earth scattered with charred pieces of the plane and tattered passports.
"The aircraft all of a sudden fell out of the sky and exploded on impact, where you see the crater," a witness told Press TV from the crash site.

Sirous Saberi, the deputy governor of Qazvin province, said military forces are searching for the plane's data recorder and cockpit voice recorder to determine the cause of the crash, Press TV said. The Russian-made Tupolev plane went down near the village of Jannatabad near Qazvin at 11:33 am on Wednesday, the station reported.

Qazvin Police Chief Hossein Behzadpour and Mohammad Reza Montazer Khorasan, the head of the disaster management center in Iran's health ministry, both confirmed that all 168 people on board were killed in the crash, Press TV reported.

Qazvin is the largest city in the province of Qazvin and is its capital, with an estimated population of 330,000.

It is about 140 kilometers (90 miles) northwest of Tehran, the capital of Iran.
The Iranian newspaper Hamshahri reported that the plane was flying from Tehran and was headed to Yerevan, Armenia.

The semi-official Mehr news agency listed the names of 153 passengers and 15 crew members. At least 42 of the names appeared to be Armenian, but it was not clear if they were from the former Soviet republic or if they were ethnically Armenian citizens of Iran.

The plane -- identified as flight number 7908 -- crashed 16 minutes after takeoff, said the newspaper, quoting a spokesman from Iran's civil aviation organization.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad expressed his condolences to the victims' families, as did the European Union in a statement.

Media reports said the type of aircraft involved in the crash was a Tupolev 154.
The three-engine Tupolev 154 is the aging workhorse of Russia's commercial fleet, at one time carrying about half of all Russian air passengers.

It was designed as the Soviet counterpart to the Boeing 727 and the European-made Trident, but with the added ability to operate from short, rough runways. About 1,000 were produced.

Although a popular aircraft, it has had a checkered history and has been involved in about 30 air disasters since it was created in 1968.

Aviation analyst Kieran Daly told CNN said numerous Tupolevs have been lost since the aircraft was introduced in the 70s.

"Having said that there were many of them built, and they have been in service in quite difficult parts of the world for a very long time. But there have been a lot of these Tupolev 154s lost, quite a few in Iran."

The last plane crash in Iran involving a Tupolev plane occurred in 2006, according to the Web site airdisaster.com.

That crash occurred on an Iran Air Tour flight from the port city of Bandar Abbas; it crashed and caught fire during landing, the Web site reported.

Twenty-nine of the 147 people on board died in that crash.

Kwa habari zaidi someni:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090715/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_plane

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8151327.stm

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3746997,00.html