{"id":15604,"date":"2024-02-15T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T12:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/iran-declares-antarctica-its-property-in-direct-challenge-to-biden-global-treaty\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T12:48:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T12:48:14","slug":"iran-declares-antarctica-its-property-in-direct-challenge-to-biden-global-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/iran-declares-antarctica-its-property-in-direct-challenge-to-biden-global-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran declares Antarctica its property in direct challenge to Biden, global treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n

JERUSALEM \u2014 Iran\u2019s Navy commander announced in a televised broadcast last fall that the regime owns Antarctica and will build a military operation in the South Pole.<\/p>\n

\u2018We have property rights in the South Pole. We have plan to raise our flag there and carry out military and scientific work,\u2019 Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Shahram Irani said in late September, according to a translation by the Washington D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s naval saber-rattling is drawing new attention in response to the Iranian-backed militias that\u00a0murdered three U.S. soldiers in Jordan last month.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital asked a U.S. State Department spokesperson if the recent American unfreezing of\u00a0$6 billion in Iranian funds held in Qatar could be used by Iran to set up a base in\u00a0Antarctica.<\/p>\n

\u2018No. Iran\u2019s funds held in Qatar may not be used for any activities in\u00a0Antarctica,\u2019 the spokesperson said. \u2018Those funds can only be used to purchase humanitarian goods, meaning food, medicine, medical devices and agricultural products.\u2019<\/p>\n

Despite the clerical regime\u2019s growing bellicosity in the Middle East and across the world, according to veteran Iran observers, the Biden administration\u00a0released $6 billion in sanctions relief to Tehran\u2019s rulers ahead of the Iran-backed Hamas massacre of 1,200 people Oct. 7 in southern Israel. Hamas slaughtered over 30 Americans during its invasion of Israel.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s President, Ebrahim Raisi, who was sanctioned by former President Trump for his role in the two massacres of Iranian dissidents and protesters, disputed the Biden administration\u2019s restrictions on the use of the $6 billion. Raisi taunted Biden\u2019s White House, declaring his regime will use the massive cash infusion\u00a0\u2018wherever we need it.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Iran\u2019s future plans to try to expand its military presence and influence into the Antarctic would not only violate multilateral conventions on the issue, but continues the regime\u2019s trend of aggression across the globe,\u2019 said Yonah Jeremy Bob, author of \u2018Target Tehran\u2019 and a senior Jerusalem Post military and intelligence analyst.<\/p>\n

\u2018Whether through terrorism on basically every continent or its rampant piracy in the maritime arena, the Islamic Republic continues to show why it is a danger to world stability and why Israel and the Mossad\u2019s role in holding it back from nuclear weapons remains critical.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Every time Tehran expands its tentacles into a new area to disrupt the rules-based order promoted by the West, the U.S. and its allies are given an additional opportunity to take the nuclear threat more seriously. Antarctica might seem a distant threat, but if the West acts as meekly as it did when Iran recently kicked out nuclear weapons inspectors, the Islamic Republic will only become further emboldened on other track,\u2019 he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reported in February 2023 that\u00a0the United States tracked warlike announcements by Iran\u2019s navy chief that Tehran plans to establish\u00a0a military presence at\u00a0the Panama Canal.\u00a0Iran deployed two military ships to Brazil at the time that were headed for\u00a0the Panama Canal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In December, the Islamic Republic claimed it was\u00a0building \u2018smart\u2019 cruise missiles for its navy arsenal.<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s an arcane topic, but little lies between Iran\u2019s coast outside the Persian Gulf and the eastern hemisphere side of Antarctica,\u2019 Jennifer Dyer,\u00a0a retired commander of U.S. Naval Intelligence, told Fox News Digital<\/p>\n

\u2018In theory, Iran could claim an interest in Antarctica similar to India\u2019s, Australia\u2019s, New Zealand\u2019s or Chile\u2019s (or those of the U.K. and France, for that matter), with their island outposts in the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n

\u2018I can say that raising the flag at the South Pole doesn\u2019t carry any\u00a0implications in international law. The Antarctic Treaty (which became effective in 1961) has a specific provision that no action by any nation after 1961 can be the basis of a territorial claim on the continent.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Iran isn\u2019t a signatory to the treaty and might try to do frisky things in Antarctica,\u2019 Dyer noted. \u2018Those things wouldn\u2019t be recognized by other nations, at least as matters stand now.\u00a0The U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Japan, India, China and Russia are all signatories to the treaty, as are Brazil, and Argentina, Chile, Australia and New Zealand, the \u2018jumping off\u2019 nations closest to the continent.\u2019<\/p>\n

Potkin\u00a0Azarmehr, an expert on Iran, told\u00a0Fox News\u00a0Digital, \u2018Everything in Iran is reminiscent of the USSR in its last days before collapse. Ambitious but pointless plans by a state with completely wrong priorities. Unable to provide basic services to its people, bankrupt institutions but full of grandiose talks\u2019<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital sent press queries to Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry and its U.N. mission in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JERUSALEM \u2014 Iran\u2019s Navy commander announced in a televised broadcast last fall that the regime owns Antarctica and will build a military operation in the South Pole. \u2018We have property rights in the South Pole. We have plan to raise our flag there and carry out military and scientific work,\u2019 Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}