[Libya Herald] The Dar Al-Ifta, headed by the Grand Mufti, Sheikh Sadik Al-Ghariani, has said that the Sharia must be the main source of legislation in Libya and that any law issued that is contrary to it would be considered void.
In a decision, dated 22 December 2013, drawn up by the Dar Al-Ifta's Research and Religious Studies Council, it said it was not permissible any law to be passed that was contrary to the Sharia which itself had to be placed above the constitution.
The Dar Al-Ifta also said that the wave of liquidations that had taken place in Libya were "major sins, regardless of the entities that stand behind them".
Calls for elections to be boycotted and describing the government or anyone working for it as infidels were also condemned. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... all the killings and kabooms, as well as calling people infidels was the government's fault the decision read, for which it had to bear responsibility.
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As per various MSM-Net Artics, ya mean
"absolutely intolerable"???
* See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > CHINA GIVES JAPAN "SEVERE REPRIMAND" OVER SHINZO ABE'S WAR SHRINE VISIT - TIMES OF INDIA.
China FM Wang Yi = China-Japan relations are already "very grim"- Abe visit is "absolutely intolerable" to China.
* TOPIX > [WaPo] CHINA URGES JAPAN TO MEND ITS ACTIONS, lest it suffer consequences.
* WORLD NEWS > [New Straits/Business Times] CHINA MUST RETALIATE [take excessive measures] FOR JAPAN PM SHRINE VISIT: MEDIA.
* RELATED SAME > [Xinhua] NEWS ANALYSIS: ABE'S YASUKUNI VISIT PUTS JAPAN ON A VERY DANGEROUS PATH.
versus
* BIG NEWS NETWORK > [China Daily] CHINA IN FULL CONTROL OF [East China Sea] AIR DEFENSE ZONE.
* WORLD NEWS > [Jakarta Globe, Other] WILL 2013 BE THE YEAR THE UNITED STATES LOST CHINA?
Fear notteth, Amerika, "SWEET CAROLINE" Kennedy is coming!
* SAME > [Dawn.PK] CHINA, KOREAS IN CONFLICT OVER ANCIENT KINGDOM.
True, but as said times before China = Beijing is unlikely to agree to anything as per contemporary NORTH KOREA until it FORMALLY + PERMANENTLY gets back Taiwan, i.e. its equivalent of OTH, USDOD-style "Pearl Harbor/Norfolk HQS" [CENTCOMS] for the projection of Chinese + PLA power-n-authority into the far Pacific + beyond.
* TOPIX > [American Thinker] THINK THE MIDDLE EAST IS DANGEROUS, CHECK OUT NORTHEAST ASIA.
* SAME > WAR SHRINE PROTESTS SHOW LIMIT ON US SUPPORT TO JAPAN, by neighboring Govts-States whom are also important or significant US Allies-Partners.
* SAME > [JPost] FOREIGN AFFAIRS: THE YEAR AUTHORITY BROKE DOWN.
As anti-US OWG Globalists intended???
* SAME > OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY: RAPPROCHEMENT, RETRENCHMENT, OR RESIGNATION?
PCorrectness, Political Dialecticism, 1990's Clintonism, + OWG Globalism would likely argue or answer "yes" to ALL OF THE ABOVE???
Ditto as per East Asia???
D *** NG IT, IS THERE NO LOVE FOR "REDEFINITION" OR "REFINEMENT"???
* FYI DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Kanka News] CHINA IS BUILDING LARGE HELICOPTER ASSAULT SHIPS.
LHAS.
> 40-45,000 Tonnes.
> Up to 1000 PLAN Marines or similar.
> 7-8,000-km range.
> Desires 3-6 Afloat Battle groups for PLAN by 2020.
North Korean leader Pudgy Kim Jong-un on Wednesday warned that war could break out "without any prior notice," the official KCNA news agency reported.
Suet Face Kim was speaking during an inspection of a command post on the 22nd anniversary of his father Kim Jong-il's ascent to supreme commander. After looking around the unit's facilities, Kim told soldiers to get something to eat and put it on the house improve combat readiness and never forget that war could break out without warning.
"Especially with a rat-crazed leader like me in charge!"
On Dec. 16, military Politburo chief Choe Ryong-hae made the same comments at a loyalty rally marking the second anniversary of Kim senior's death.
The unit Kim visited on Wednesday is headquartered in Nampo, South Pyongan Province and its main duty is to defend the outskirts of Pyongyang.
Kim was accompanied by a new troika who appear to be propping up his throne after the execution of his uncle Jang Song-taek -- Choe, chief of the Army's General Staff Ri Yong-gil, and Minister of the People's Armed Forces Jang Jong-nam.
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The worst part will be the clean up. The Sorks are rightly terrified at the thought of having pay to undo 60+ years of hard core communisim with extra crazy on top. Wonder if the ChiComs can be induced to take over by threatening to set up NSA listening posts on the Yalu, near Chosin?
#2
No, one thing both the SOKORS + NOKORS have in common is their mutual fear of a Chinese takeover of North Korea.
Again, NOKOR is in an unenviable position - their utility or role in peninsular war is to get killed using up the US-ROK + UN Command to make things easier for the likely intervening or defending Chinese PLA; or in the alternate to get killed trying to mil prevent a PLA takeover of their country for any reason.
As China's domination or control of NOKOR slowly but steadily increases, espec vee SINO-DPRK FTZS + LIKE, + PERENNIALLY DELAYED FORMAL REUNIFICATION BETWEEN BEIJING + TAIWAN, it may unfortunately prove to be in Pudgy's interest to attack first.
USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CVN I'M A'LOOKIN AT YOU.
Given the still-modernizing Operational, MilTech deficiencies of the PLA vee the US-Allies, CHINA = NORTH KOREA = ATTACK FIRST ANYWAY, IN-THEATER ANDOR OUT-OF-THEATER???
Lest we fergit, its a PLA General that covertly commands Kimmie's army, not Kimmie per se albeit his Regime is given certain or select autonomy.
THUS, ANY NORTH KOREAN ATTACK = COVERTLY CHINA-ORDERED, OVERTLY PUDGY/NORTH KOREA LAUNCHED = CARRIED OUT.
#3
KJU will [preemptively?] attack iff he + Regime believe there is no other domestic or diplomatic way to prevent de facto full PLA takeover or control.
As for CHINA ...
* TOPIX > [Arutz Sheva = INN] NORTH KOREA RUSHING WAR PREPARATIONS.
* SAME > [NowPublic] FUKUSHIMA: JAPAN'S [secret = covert] NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM REVEALED AKIE ABE.
Shinzo's Babe = Japan's First Lady.
* RELATED CHINA DAILY FORUM = ABE PLANS TO REWRITE JAPAN'S PACIFIST CONSTITUTION.
More everything for the JSDF, to include possible dev indigenous Nippon NucWeaps.
China knows that Japan is likely to do such ASAP AMAP ALAP iff it had a choice, hence it is to China's advantage to resolve any and all MilPol/Geopol = "strategic access", etc. issues wid Japan SOONER, NOT LATER I.E. BEFORE JAPAN + JSDF GET TOO MILITARILY STRONG + NUKULAAR + BEFORE US-LED MISSILE DEFENSE IS FIRMLY OR PERMANENTLY ESTABLISHED JUST OFF CHINA'S SHORES. DITTO AS PER ANY AND ALL OTHER PRO-US ALLIES IN EAST ASIA.
versus
* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > CHINA NEEDS TO KEEP NORTH KOREA IN PLAY DURING SIX-PARTY TALKS.
* VOICE OF RUSSIA > NORTH KOREAN LEADER "WAS VERY DRUNK" WHILE ORDERING EXECUTION OF HIS UNCLE'S AIDES.
Aides' executions broadly indic to ROK Intel that "Dear Uncle" wasn't long for this world.
Again, its quite possible that Kimmie's beloved late great "Dear Uncle" was "Pro-Reform, Pro-North Korea" [patriot], but Uncle's spouse "Dear Auntie" [Auntaaay] was "Pro-Reform?, Pro-China"
[Beijing lover], thus leading to family shenannigans + no one getting any Turkey or Gifts during the holidays.
#4
Joe, you can't tell between spoken crap and reality?
All they say is crap, they've no chance to succeed, just noise to bolster their people's minds.
The whole idea is to frighten their enemies, they have so many.
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I expect Joe can tell the difference James. Joe is a voracious reader and a fine judge of internet wisdom, which is why he is here. He knows from suicidal robots too.
[DAWN] In a long-delayed move, the Sindh government will start installing mobile phone jammers in all seven prisons of the province within the next week after the federal government and intelligence agencies gave a go-ahead to the Rs80 million project, it emerged on Wednesday.
A bigwig confirmed to Dawn that federal institutions including the ministry of IT and telecom and the Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had approved the provincial government's proposal to install jammers.
"A team of defence production ministry recently completed its survey in this regard and we expect the jammers will be installed anytime soon over the next week," Sindh additional chief secretary of home Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah told Dawn.
"The Sindh government has allocated Rs80 million for the project and set up a committee with the IG prisons as its head to execute and supervise the project. It will be launched simultaneously in all seven prisons," he said.
He said the project was part of the government's long-term plan to put in place maximum checks on the jail inmates and finally ban use of mobile phone. The project for installation of jammers would be completed within a few weeks, he said.
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[DAWN] Though the special court constituted for the 'high treason' trial of former president Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... has fixed January 1 for his indictment, the former military ruler is still seeking remedy from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the case.
Justice Riaz Ahmed Khan of the IHC on December 23 dismissed his three petitions against the establishment of the special court, appointment of its judges as well as Akram Sheikh as head of the prosecution team.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... Gen Musharraf has decided to file an intra-court appeal (ICA) with a two-member division bench of the IHC.
Advocate Faisal Hussain, one of the counsel for Gen Musharraf, told Dawn that his client had given the go-ahead to the legal team for filing the ICA against the rejection of the petitions. The ICA will be filed on Thursday or by the end of this week, he added.
"It is the right of Gen Musharraf as well as any other citizen to seek available remedies provided in the law and the constitution through the courts.
"If a citizen is not given relief through a constitutional petition, what is the other way to agitate his grievances," he added.
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[DAWN] GUNS have fallen silent in Mirali -- a bustling town 35km to the east of North Wazoo's regional headquarters of Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , but now with rows of burnt down and bombed shops and houses.
The sudden flare-up and military's fierce response to a suicide kaboom at one of its main camps in Khajori on Dec 18 have shown that the situation in North Waziristan remains volatile, dangerously close to a full-blown conflict.
That the grinding of the peace processor would be illusive was known to all but what many people fail to understand is just how complex it would be, given the large number of myrmidon groups with different agendas and goals.
A ceasefire has now been in effect. But the question is for how long. The military is edgy. For far too long, they say, they sat out there, taking casualties.
Since September, they say, a total of 67 improvised explosives devices were planted to harm them; 40 were neutralised, 27 went kaboom!, resulting in deaths and injuries to about a hundred of their men.
Since 2009, compared with other tribal regions, the casualty rate the military has suffered is the highest in North Waziristan and eleven times the casualties they have taken in South Waziristan. Patience has worn out.
"The question is for how long," asked one military officer. "It's better to go out and die fighting them than take casualties sitting inside our camps."
In Mirali the fighting has stopped but the situation remains fluid. The military, despite its furious response, says it is committed to the politicianship's plan to initiate peace dialogue with snuffies in Waziristan.
Commitment notwithstanding, no-one in the know is willing to put his bottom dollar on the success of the yet-to-start grinding of the peace processor. Such is the complexity of the situation. There are so many groups and with so varied objectives that no matter whom the government speaks to sue peace, any of the groups not happy with the process can light a match to burn down the entire process. Consider what happened on December 18. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) posted an English translation of its statement on the Jamia Hafsa Urdu Forum on Tuesday, saying that the military responded with air and ground attack after a group of "frustrated fighters" had bombed a military convoy.
In the event, it said, fighters from the IMU, the TTP and Ansarul Mujahideen hit back to 'defend civilians'.
Two IMU fighters were killed and 22 foreign "refugees" maimed. It put the civilian casualty figures at 70. The military, the IMU said, had suffered more than 300 casualties.
The military rubbishes the claim and insists that not a single soldier was killed or injured in the follow-up action which, it says, left more than 30 foreign snuffies dead, most of them Uzbeks.
This is what Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and his pointman for the grinding of the peace processor in North Waziristan, Chaudhry Nisar, will have to grapple with: a plethora of myrmidon groups ever keen to attack security forces and an increasingly edgy military. And they may not have much time at hand.
No-one seems to be in control in North Waziristan. Together with the military and the paramilitary, the political administration is confined to the fort in Miranshah. With curfew clamped, the military moves only on what is called the Road Opening Days, suffering roadside kaboomings and ambushes.
As for the myrmidon groups, they are many. Government officials put the total number of local myrmidon groups operating in North Waziristan, including the Haqqani network, at 43. Dattakhel-based Hafiz Gul Bahadar has the highest number of groups affiliated with him -- 15, followed by 10 independent groups. There are six TTP-affiliated groups. The Punjabi Taliban have four groups.
In addition, there are 12 foreign myrmidon groups, including Al Qaeda.
With a combined strength of roughly 11,000 fighting men, the Pak and foreign myrmidon groups represent a formidable challenge, officials acknowledge.
Given the enormity and complexity of the problem, the lack of trust between the snuffies and the state and prevalent scepticism within the civil-military establishment regarding success and sustainability of the proposed grinding of the peace processor, the path to peace, if and when taken, would not be easy.
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Bet the casualties are to locals and to paramilitary troops rather than to regular Pakistani army troops
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That Idiot standing behind the RPG will hortly go to pair-o-dice.
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And I'm supposed to care because ....?
Sorry, my give-a-shit meter's broken.
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And I'm supposed to care because ....?
You don't have to.
But let's run down a scenario.
1. The Paks lose control of North Waziristan.
2. The Islamists gain a base of operations.
3. The objective could then be one or any of the following:
Gradual capture of South Waziristan and the other northwest territories.
Increased attacks within the urban areas of Pakistan with the objective of full-blown guerilla warfare.
Launching platform to retake Afghanistan after the US/NATO leaves.
Longer term:
Possible collapse of the current oligarchic Pakistani government, with replacement by either a more Islamic-sympathetic government, an openly radical Sunni Islamist government, or an Islamic-nationalist government.
Potential loss of control of Pakistani nukes.
Long-term:
Increased security threats to India and the Kashmir region.
Increased influence by China and/or Saudi Arabia/Gulf nations.
Potential radical Islam threat increase to Bangladesh and the SE Asian nations.
Increased/perceived increase threat to Iran, the former (muslim-dominated) Soviets.
#5
If/when #1 happens, #1a should be a series of Arclights if the Paks have a lick of common sense. Which I doubt.
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The problem is that the Paks do not really have the capability. Nor, do I think, the Pak military has the will. They've not been in a full-blown, long-term conflict for decades. What is being classed as "military losses" at this point are poorly-armed, poorly funded and poorly-used Frontier Constabulary. The Pak Army has no experience in either "arc-light" or a protracted campaign in mountainous territory. Indeed, I think a full-blown assault against North Waziristan would likely shatter the Pak military into several groups, among them a radical Islamist faction.
#3
(Puts on tinfoil beanie)
Announcing its conclusions on Thursday, the head of Russia's Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA), Vladimir Uiba, said "Yasser Arafat died not from the effects of radiation but of natural causes".
Yep, the Russians would say that, especially if they poisoned him.
(Tinfoil beanie off again)
He's dead, that couldn't happen to a more deserving person.
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[Egypt Independent] Thousands of Christians are killed every year because of their faith and the persecution is becoming more widespread, Catholic observers said as Christmas celebrations are increasingly marred by attacks in at-risk countries.
Pope Francis addressed the killings in a recent interview saying there was "an ecumenism of blood", meaning that Christians of all denominations including Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox are targeted.
"The narrative about Christianity in the Western mind is that a Christian is rich, powerful and has massive political influence," said John Allen, a Vatican expert and author of the new book "The Global War on Christians".
"It doesn't reflect the reality. They are impoverished, linguistic and cultural minorities," he said.
Estimates on Christian deaths are contested and vary widely.
Out of around 2.3 billion Christians in the world, between 9,000 and 100,000 people are said to be killed because of their religion every year.
In an editorial for Italia's top-selling Corriere della Sera daily on Monday, Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Sant'Egidio Catholic charity in Rome, criticised the "silence at Christmas over the persecutions".
The US evangelical group Open Doors said the worst country for anti-Christian violence is North Korea, followed by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Maldives, Mali, Iran, Yemen and Eritrea. ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... The situation was said to be worsening in Egypt, Æthiopia and Syria as well.
Open Doors has said that 100 million Christians are being persecuted -- a figure that has been widely criticised for including entire communities and not individual Christians at risk for their faith.
Some observers say the reasons for anti-Christian violence are much more varied than simply a question of faith and are often linked to a variety of local issues.
An upsurge in attacks in Central African Republic or South Sudan, for instance, is being seen as linked more to ethnic discord and battles for control of resources.
The issue is a highly sensitive one, as shown by the criticism of Allen's talk of "war on Christians" by US professor Andrew Chestnut, an expert on Pentecostalism.
"Allen has not only done a disservice to Christians around the globe suffering real repression and persecution, but has dangerously fanned the flames of religious conflict," he wrote in the Huffington Post.
Chestnut said that Allen had written about "a fictitious war that exists only on the pages and in the questionable data of certain Christian organizations".
Experts have pointed to three main types of anti-Christian violence -- the main one being religious radicalism and particularly rising levels of Islamic as well as Buddhist and Hindu extremism.
Allen said there were also cases of Christians being attacked by other Christians, like US evangelicals singled out by traditionalist Catholics in Mexico.
The second threat is in states where governments see Christians as a possible subversive danger -- like in Eritrea or North Korea, where tens of thousands of Christians have been imprisoned, Allen said.
There is also a persecution linked to businesses, mafia groups, paramilitaries or guerrillas that see Christian social teachings as a threat to their interests.
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What part of "Global Jihad" + "The Secular Commies-Socialists may only delusionally think they can control Radical Islam's Hard Boyz" [God/Faith-based Socialists aka Theo-Socialists] did we not understand???
[An Nahar] Abdullah Qassir, the director general of Hizbullah's al-Manar television, has submitted his resignation, media reports said on Wednesday, in the wake of the latest controversy over the TV network's "apology" to Bahrain.
"Qassir left for Iran after his resignation was accepted," As Safir newspaper said in a terse report on its website.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... LBCI television said the man had submitted his resignation a week ago, adding that it was accepted on Wednesday and denying reports that he was "sacked" over his move.
On December 8, Qassir confirmed to LBCI that the Hizbullah-owned TV network had apologized to Bahrain over its coverage of the Shiite-led protests in the Gulf kingdom.
"The Lebanese Communication Group (parent company of al-Manar and al-Nour) has officially apologized to the Information Affairs Authority in the kingdom of Bahrain over its coverage of news related to the kingdom in the previous period," Bahrain's state news agency BNA reported on Dec. 7.
"In its statement which was published and announced during the 90th general assembly of the Arab States Broadcasting Union's executive council ... (LCG) extended its apology to the kingdom of Bahrain and stressed its commitment to objectivity in covering the news of Arab countries in the future," BNA said.
The agency said Bahrain had submitted to the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... 's general-secretariat a request to revoke LCG's membership in the ASBU, adding that the request was referred to the union's general assembly since it is the highest authority concerned with looking into the issue and ruling on it.
Hizbullah, however, has distanced itself from LCG's apology, describing the move as the delegation's "own evaluation" of things and noting that al-Manar's representatives did not consult with Hizbullah's leadership before making the decision.
"Our stance which supports the cause of the aggrieved Bahraini people has not changed at all and we consider that the injustice practiced by Bahrain's authorities against their people is still enormous and ongoing," the party said in a statement.
Shiite-majority Bahrain has blacklisted Hizbullah and banned Bahraini opposition groups from having contact with the Lebanese party over allegations it was interfering in the kingdom's internal affairs.
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"Qassir left for Iran after his resignation was accepted," As Safir newspaper said in a terse report on its website
"please don't kill me"
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[Egypt Independent] Secretary-General of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... Nabil al-Araby emphasized again to the UN Security Council the need to end fighting in Syria in order to allow humanitarian aid access.
This came during Araby's meeting on Wednesday with the delegation of the General Federation of Arab Journalists, headed by the head of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate Moayed al-Lamy.
Araby added that there are more than nine million refugees and displaced Syrians in difficult conditions and without any humanitarian aid in the harsh winter.
He explained that the Arab Spring countries--Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen--are currently undergoing a transition period, with the exception of Syria, which is suffering a great deal especially with regard to the issue of refugees.
"Our position on the Syrian issue is clear from the very beginning, as we have demanded and are demanding that the Security Council contributes to the decision to stop fighting from both sides, the government and the opposition," he noted.
Araby urged for media coverage of the issue.
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ANKARA -- Iran's hardline lawmakers are seeking to increase uranium enrichment under the country's nuclear program to a level that can produce bomb-grade material, a state-run website said on Wednesday.
After all, who's going to stop them?
The bill could bring Tehran into direct conflict with the major powers that reached an interim agreement with Iran in Geneva last month, requiring Tehran to suspend its enrichment of higher grade uranium.
No, really?
However, Iran's most powerful authority Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has so far backed the accord.
In English, not in Farsi...
The hardliners, irked by the foreign policy shift since supposedly moderate President Hasan Rouhani was elected in June, oppose the Geneva deal.
The bill introduced on Wednesday, "if approved, will oblige the government to ... enrich uranium to 60 percent level in order to provide fuel for submarine engines
...for all the Iranian navy submarines of course...
if the sanctions are tightened and Iran's nuclear rights are ignored (by major powers)," said hardline lawmaker Mehdi Mousavinejad, according to the English language Press TV website.
It was not immediately clear whether or when the parliament might discuss the bill but the official IRNA news agency said it was introduced by some 100 lawmakers and had been tagged with a "double urgency" status, meaning it could be discussed in parliament within a week.
"The bill is aimed at giving an upper hand to our government and the negotiating team ... It will allow the government to continue our nuclear program if the Geneva deal fails," IRNA quoted Hossein Taghavi Hosseini, spokesman for parliament's National Security and Foreign Affairs committee, as saying.
The November 24 accord is meant to give the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain, Germany and Iran a period of six months to negotiate a final settlement of the decade-old standoff, easing worries over a new war in the Middle East.
"Iran's parliament lacks power and particularly after Rouhani's election win, the hardline lawmakers do not have the upper hand," a senior western diplomat in Tehran said.
The "senior western diplomat" is an idiot. The only factions in the Iranian power structure are hard-liners and ultra hard-liners...
"Iran's Supreme Leader backs the deal and ultimately, lawmakers have to follow his path."
The Iranian government would have no choice but to obey such a bill if passed by parliament. But diplomats and analysts believe Iran could be using parliament as a bargaining tool in the talks.
Brilliant analysis. You guys are like Dan Dierdork doing color analysis at a football game...
"This draft bill has been prepared in reaction to America's hostile measures," Mousavinejad told the official IRNA news agency on Tuesday.
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Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Egypt Independent] Thousands of Christians are killed every year because of their faith and the persecution is becoming more widespread, Catholic observers said as Christmas celebrations are increasingly marred by attacks in at-risk countries.
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