[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Security Council on Wednesday renewed for a year UN member states’ authorization to inspect vessels off Libya suspected of smuggling migrants colonists between Africa and Europe.
Proposed by Britannia, the resolution was approved unanimously by the 15 members of the council.
It "condemns all acts of migrant smuggling and human trafficking into, through and from the Libyan territory and off the coast of Libya, which undermine further the process of stabilization of Libya and endanger the lives of hundreds of thousands of people."
Negotiations led to friction with the United States, which wanted to water down the draft text and remove several paragraphs on migrant smuggling considered too permissive for migration, diplomats said.
Plunged into chaos following the fall of longtime dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... in a 2011 NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -backed uprising, Libya has become a prime transit point for sub-Saharan African migrants colonists making dangerous clandestine bids to reach Europe.
People smugglers have taken advantage of the turmoil, putting African migrants colonists seeking to reach Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... at greater risk.
Many migrants colonists, intercepted or rescued at sea, find themselves detained in detention centers with poor conditions.
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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement Sayyed Abdol Malik al-Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... said on Thursday that the US-Saudi aggression forces are escalating their campaign against the Western Coast in order to occupy Hodiadah.
Sayyed al-Houthi pointed out that the Emirati and US troops operate away from the battlefield where they oblige their mercenaries to keep fighting, adding that they kill anyone who tries to escape.
Ansarullah leader also stressed that peace requires maintaining the individual and the national dignity, not helplessly surrendering to the enemy which is attacking one’s country.
Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... has been since March 25, 2015 under aggression by the Saudi-led coalition, which also includes UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan and Kuwait, in a bid to restore power to runaway former president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
Tens of thousands of Yemenis have been injured and martyred in Saudi-led strikes, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... the allied forces of the Yemeni Army and popular committees established by Ansarullah revolutionaries have been heroically confronting the aggression with all means, inflicting huge losses upon Saudi-led forces.
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[PRESSTV] Separatists in southern Yemen, backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have called for an uprising in the restive port city of Aden and other southern provinces, controlled by officials of the country’s former Saudi-allied government.
"We assure our people in all the southern provinces that we support a popular uprising which would end the suffering, and we insist that it be peaceful," the so-called Southern Transitional Council (STC) said in a statement on Wednesday.
The separatists want to revive the former South Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... republic which merged with the north in 1990.The port city of Aden, Yemen’s second largest city, used to be the capital of the once independent South Yemen.
The call for uprising could further put pressure on UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths, who was expected in Abu Dhabi later on Wednesday to meet Emirati officials and the STC leader, Aidaroos al-Zubaidi.
The UAE has played a key role in a Saudi-led military campaign, which was launched in March 2015 with the aim of reinstalling the government of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
Yemen has no effective government for now, and the state affairs are now being run by Yemen’s Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... Ansarull movement, which is also defending the country against the Saudi war.
Prior to the offensive, Hadi had resigned and fled to Riyadh. The Saudi regime and its allies later managed to seize Aden from the Houthis and put it under the control of the ex-president’s officials.
Numerous Arab-language outlets have verified the collision between Saudi and Emirati interests there. Neither Abu Dhabi nor Riyadh has, however, attested to any division within the Saudi-led coalition.
The STC statement further called on "the people to control the government’s institutions that provide revenues," referring to the bodies controlled by the forces loyal to Hadi. It did not say whether this should include oilfields.
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[AnNahar] French accusations that Iran was behind a foiled bomb plot near Gay Paree could not have come at a worse time for its moderate president and his hopes of EU support against crippling new U.S. sanctions.
Tuesday's allegations are a blow to President Hassan Rouhani, and hit just as European governments are working on a mechanism to allow Iran to continue to reap the economic benefits of compliance with a landmark 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... in May.
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Yeah, just like Russia, it makes zero sense for the Iranians to pull a move like that at a time like this. I'm no friend of the Mad Mullahs, but dang this stinks of a false flag.
The real question is, what are the thoughts of French intelligence that led them to oppose the EU's skirting around the US sanctions?
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What's a little terrorist bomb plot amongst friends and trading partners, amirite?
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Netanyahu(sp) gave a speech the other day at the UN, which was well received, showing the location of two currently operating nuclear bomb research facilities in Iran.
[SPUTNIKNEWS] Austrian Interior Minister Herbert Kickl and Danish Minister for Immigration Inger Stojberg have developed a plan to curb the influx of undocumented migrants coming to the European Union, Kleine Zeitung reported on Thursday.
According to the Kleine Zeitung newspaper, the plan, which was presented during the conference of the European Migration Network (EMN), envisages ensuring an effective control on the EU external borders. Austria and Denmark reportedly want to deport all migrants who have no right to stay in the European Union back to either their native country, a safe third-party or special migrant reception centers.
The plan also seeks to create better conditions in the countries of migrants' origin, prevent refugee deaths in the Mediterranean Sea, destroy the human trafficking business, strengthen solidarity between EU countries and the Schengen Area’s member states, as well as resettle refugees after tackling illegal migration.
The plan was presented after in June, the European Council summit agreed on several aspects of the EU migration policy, including the establishment of "regional disembarkation platforms in close cooperation with relevant third countries" and controlled centers in the EU member states to process asylum applications. The resettlement or relocation of migrants across the bloc is expected to be done on a voluntary basis amid the lack of consensus.
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The plan also seeks to create better conditions in the countries of migrants' origin...
Already been tried, hasn't worked. Surely the definition of insanity applies here.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... will eliminate the entire PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) terrorist organization from the region, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Thursday.
Yildirim told audience at his presser that Turkey will avenge their losses to the PKK, while also offering his condolences to the families of the soldiers killed on Thursday.
Earlier in the day, seven Ottoman Turkish soldiers were killed after their military vehicle struck a roadside kaboom in the Batman Province.
In response to this PKK attack, the Ottoman Turkish military intensified their operations in the southeastern countryside of Turkey in a bid to clear the outlawed organization.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is giving greater priority to Iran and radical groups it backs in a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy document released on Thursday that further increases the pressure from Washington on Tehran.
The strategy, unveiled by National Security Adviser John Bolton, is the first issued since 2011 when the Obama administration’s view of counterterrorism was focused almost exclusively on the threat posed by al Qaeda after the death of its founder, Osama bin Laden.
The priority given to Iran this time around reflects President Donald Trump’s drive to contain Iran’s influence in the Middle East, curtail its ballistic missile program and backing of extremist groups and force it to the negotiating table by re-imposing U.S. sanctions.
Iran was cited only once ‐ on the penultimate page ‐ of the 2011 counterterrorism strategy as an "active" state sponsor of "terrorism."
But the current document shows how the Trump administration has put Shi’ite Muslim Iran at the center of U.S. concerns, even as it keeps a focus on Sunni Muslim militant groups in Syria and Iraq.
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The JV has been diminished, go after the Head Coach
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Couldn't do it while Obumble and ValJar were allies of Iran.
[Al Jazeera] The Indian government plans to decongest its airports by introducing facial recognition technology next year - a proposal that may once again raise privacy concerns in the South Asian country.
India's Ministry of Civil Aviation on Thursday said passengers on domestic flights will be able to opt to use their biometric authentication system and go paperless.
"Security will benefit from the ability of the technology to verify the passenger at every checkpoint in a non-intrusive way," ministry secretary Rajiv Nayan Choubey said in a statement.
The proposal says passengers would be verified by being photographed at every stage of the check-in process - from entering the airport to proceeding through security and boarding the plane.
The government statement said the biometric technology will be introduced first at Bengaluru and Hyderabad airports by February next year, followed by Kolkata, Varanasi, Pune and Vijayawada by April.
Indian media reports said the biometric system at the proposed airports will use passengers' 12-digit unique identification number, known in India as "Aadhaar", and mobile phone numbers.
Aadhaar, ("foundation" in Hindi) is the world's biggest identity project, with over a billion individuals enrolled so far. The national Aadhaar database holds all the personal details of registered citizens, including their biometric data from photos, fingerprints and iris scans, in a national database.
Authorities said the scheme will be rolled out early next year in order to decongest India's airports, which have witnessed a six-fold rise in passenger numbers in the last decade.
The scheme is similar to US-based Delta Air Lines launching its first biometric terminal in Atlanta or British Airways installing the technology at airports in New York, Orlando and Miami.
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[PRESSTV] Iraq’s Foreign Ministry has dismissed ...Tut tut, my good man!... accusations by the United States that Iran is to blame for recent violence ‐ including through alleged holy warrior groups ‐ in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, where Washington recently closed its consulate.
"There are no forces or military groups in Iraq that receive orders from abroad, whether from Iran or from another country," said Iraq’s Foreign Ministry front man Ahmad Mahjoub in Washington on Wednesday, according The Washington Times.
He was speaking during a round-table discussion with news hounds held at the Iraqi Embassy in the US capital, where he is on a trip to hold talks with US officials.
Mahjoub said Iraqi authorities were "surprised" by Washington’s recent decision to withdraw American personnel from the US consulate in Basra following an apparent rocket attack at the diplomatic perimeter.
"We were surprised that our American friends withdrew their staff from the US consulate." He said, adding that Baghdad was "committed to protecting all foreign missions in Basra."
Earlier, on Friday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had blamed Iran for the violence in Basra and the emergency evacuation of US personnel from there, as well as for alleged security threats to the Americans stationed at the US Embassy in Baghdad.
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So come back so we may be attacked?
You assure me you dealt with the party that shot the fire over the Bow first asshole.
I have had enough with this two faced bullshit with Iran. We threw in with you because you did not not their brand of Shiaism. Remember?
You All asked us. You should treat the US as Royalty right now.
That is the last time I will listen to you fuckers. We are going back to the old way.
You had better protect MY Americans sent to protect You. We ALL have too much to lose if we lose this so get your heads back into the game.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two days following the appointment of Adel Abdul Mahdi to head the Iraqi government, Shiite leader Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... who heads Sairoon alliance, the biggest parliamentary bloc, called upon his bloc members not to take any ministerial posts.
Abdul Mahdi was named two hours following the naming of moderate Kurdish candidate Barham Salih to head the post of president of Iraq on Tuesday. Read more
In a tweet on Wednesday, al-Sadr said that he succeeded in appointing an independent figure for the prime minister position, pointing out that he instructed his parliamentary bloc’s members not to be in the coming new government, in order to give more options for Adel Abdul Mahdi to form his government.
Sadr expressed in his tweet his satisfaction in naming Abdul Mahdi who is an independent figure and clean from government corruption, as he said.
He called on all political parties not to put pressure on the options of Abdul Mahdi, so that he can form a cabinet free from party quotas - sectarian and ethnic - while maintaining the diversity of the Iraqi society.
The Shiite leader gave the government of Abdul Mahdi a full year to prove itself in front of the Iraqi people.
In reference to the outgoing government of Haidar al-Abadi, al-Sadr said: "The next government will proceed with great strides towards building Iraq on the right bases, as his predecessor tried, away from the exclusivity of authority and position."
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[IsraelTimes] Liberman says troops ready to confront ’any scenario’ after army bolsters forces around security fence
I don’t know whether to hope things calm down, or if it would be better for Gaza to explode and be pounded to rubble again, so I’m very glad it isn’t my decision.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Thursday said the Israel Defense Forces was on high alert on the Gazoo border, following weeks of nightly riots along the security fence.
"Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman held an assessment session this afternoon on the situation in the Gazoo Strip, together with the chief of staff, head of military intelligence, Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), and other security officials," a statement from his office said.
Liberman instructed the IDF to maintain "maximum preparedness for any scenario," according to his office.
Earlier in the day, the army announced it had decided to deploy additional troops to the Gazoo Strip area.
"It was decided to send large numbers of reinforcements in the coming days to the Southern Command and to continue the determined policy of thwarting terror attacks and preventing infiltrations into Israel from the Gazoo Strip security fence," the army said in a statement.
The army also set up additional Iron Dome air defense batteries in southern Israel as part of the move.
Border riots, dubbed the "Great March of Return," have increased dramatically in recent weeks. These began as weekly events from late March through the summer, but appeared to slow as the Gazoo-ruling Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group entered indirect talks with Israel aimed at a ceasefire.
When those talks stalled, Hamas increased the pace of rioting and demonstrations against Israel, and created new units tasked with sustaining tensions along the border fence including during nighttime and early morning hours.
In an interview with the Yedioth Ahronoth daily published Thursday, the leader of the Hamas terror group in Gazoo, Yahya Sinwar, said he didn’t want any more wars but said an "eruption is inevitable" given the current humanitarian conditions in the Strip ‐ conditions that Israel and some others in the world blame explicitly on Hamas’s poor governance of the coastal enclave.
British publication The Telegraph reported Wednesday that in a recent five-hour briefing to Paleostinian news hounds, Sinwar laid down his new strategy which states that if Israel lifts the Gazoo blockade, Hamas and the other Paleostinian factions would ensure all rocket launches and other attacks against Israel are stopped.
The Hamas leader reportedly said he is confident that an agreement with Israel can be reached by mid-October, but threatened to cause "chaos" with mass border demonstrations if there is no deal.
A senior Hamas official on Sunday accused Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... of fomenting violence in the region and pushing Israel toward a new war in the Gazoo Strip.
"Abbas wants to control everything in Gazoo; war is good for him," Mahmoud al-Zahar, a big shot in the Gazoo Strip, told Arab media. al-Zahar was in Cairo as part of a large delegation from Gazoo taking part in talks to reach a Paleostinian reconciliation deal and a possible long-term truce with Israel.
At least 140 Paleostinians were killed during the protests since late March, according to AP figures. Hamas has acknowledged that dozens of the fatalities were its members.
On Friday, the Haaretz daily quoted Israeli security sources as saying that Hamas is preparing for war, bolstering its forces significantly over the past few weeks.
That assessment is not new, IDF sources told Haaretz, having warned repeatedly that the situation is more likely to escalate than to calm down. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... recently the army noted that the terror group appears to actively be readying itself for a limited conflict with Israel. It is only a question of when Hamas will decide to go to war, the paper said.
[IsraelTimes] Nir Barkat wants to replace UN agency services to 20,000 residents of capital’s Shuafat refugee camp with municipal provisions.
Outgoing Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Thursday detailed a proposal to expel the UN’s Paleostinian refugee agency from the capital and have the municipality provide education, health, welfare, and sanitation services in its place.
Barkat, whose term as mayor ends at the end of the month, accused the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees (UNRWA) of failing those under its purview and instead inciting terror activity.
He gave details of a plan prepared by a team of city officials and experts to replace all of UNRWA’s functions with municipal services in the Shuafat refugee camp, founded in 1965 and home to some 20,000 residents.
The plan comes after the Trump administration announced it was cutting nearly $300 million in planned funding for UNRWA, and said that it would no longer back the agency after decades of support. Instead, the US said, it would seek other channels by which to aid the Paleostinians.
"The US decision to stop funding UNRWA creates a rare opportunity to deal immediately and decisively with the PA’s intention to perpetuate the ’refugee problem’ and encourage incitement," Barkat said in a Thursday statement.
"There are no refugees in Jerusalem, only residents. They will receive their services from the Jerusalem Municipality alone, like all other residents," he added. "The municipality, at my instruction, has developed a detailed plan of action to replace all UNRWA services by the services of the Jerusalem Municipality, including education, welfare, health, and sanitation."
According to the plan, the seven UNRWA-run schools ‐ with a total of 1,800 students ‐ which operate without a license from the Education Ministry will be closed at the end of the current academic year, and the pupils absorbed into existing municipal schools.
Barkat wants to expropriate or lease the existing UNRWA schools to use as municipal buildings, and in addition will construct an educational and municipal services complex near the East Jerusalem neighborhood "whose services will be far superior to those that UNRWA has provided."
The municipality will also issue closure orders for UNRWA’s medical centers, which operate without approval from the Health Ministry, and construct a new public health center in their place, Barkat said.
Existing UNRWA-run welfare programs operating within the Shuafat camp and nearby Kufr Aqeb will continue but will be transferred to the governance municipality welfare and employment services, according to Barkat’s plan.
Garbage disposal and sewage infrastructure, which Barkat said was currently under the auspices of UNRWA, will also be transferred to the municipality’s responsibility.
Other than saying he would close the schools at the end of the current academic year, Barkat gave no timeframe for when he intends to implement the changes.
In March, Barkat announced he would not seek a third term in municipal elections scheduled for October 30 and will instead run for Knesset on the Likud party ticket.
His replacement as mayor would not be bound by the plans prepared by Barkat’s committee.
In defunding UNRWA, the US also indicated that it rejected the criteria by which the UN agency defines Paleostinian refugees, whereby the UN agency confers refugee status not only on original refugees but on their millions of descendants.
The "right of return" is one of the key core issues of dispute in the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict. The Paleostinians claim that five million people ‐ tens of thousands of living original refugees from what is today’s Israel, and their millions of descendants ‐ should be allowed to resettle in the Jewish state. Israel rejects the demand, saying that it represents a bid by the Paleostinians to destroy Israel by weight of numbers, and argues that other refugees under the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) are treated differently and much more quickly resettled.
Jerusalem has welcomed the US decision to cut the funding.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Palestinian resistance movement, Islamic Jihad, celebrated on Friday its 31st anniversary by holding a military parade in Gaza, expressing allegiance to the leader of the group, Ziad al-Nakhala. Nakhala had vowed sticking to resistance path till liberating the entire Palestinian territories occupied by the Zionist forces.
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What anniversary is the 31st?
Seething? Explosives?
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[PRESSTV] Israeli officials have reportedly approved plans for the construction of 14,864 new settler units in the occupied West Bank irrespective of international outcry against the regime’s land expropriation and settlement expansion policies in the Paleostinian territories.
Mayor of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, Shlomo Ne'eman, said on Thursday that the construction of the new units will triple the number of settler population in the area, which lies directly south of Jerusalem al-Quds and Bethlehem in the central West Bank.
He added that the project includes 1,100 settler units in Rosh Tzurim settlement, located about 20 kilometers south of Jerusalem al-Quds, 600 units in Migdal Oz settlement, some 1,107 in Gevaot settlement, and 1,200 units between Bat Ayin and Migdal Oz settlements.
The project is estimated to cost 18.9 million shekels ($5,195,610).
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Israel will settle in the Land that The Lord Showed Them.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Germany and Israel agree that Iran should never be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons but they differ on how to achieve this goal, Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslems .. said on Thursday.
She was speaking at a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
"We are very convinced and strongly share Israel’s position that everything must be done to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Where we are not always united is on the path to this goal," Rooters quoted Merkel as saying.
The problem being that she thinks President Obama’s personal deal is an effective way to prevent that acquisition, while Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump strongly disagree.
She also said that Iran’s military presence in Syria and Leb was a threat to Israel.
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The problem being that she thinks President Obama’s personal deal is an effective way to prevent that acquisition, while Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump strongly disagree.
I disagree.
Merkel isn't naive, she's malicious.
Given Merkel's political and familial background; and given her actions, the reasonable assumption is that she sides with an anti-Western totalitarian theocracy.
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Agreed - she's an East German politician. They should have banned all those assholes from running for office after reunification, and now they're paying for it, dearly.
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Classic vile politician. Keep people focused on what you are saying while moving your hands out of sight to do other things you know the people won't like.
[PRESSTV] Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...Iran's doddering head theocrat... Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ...the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the actual dictator of Iran... says American sanctions are "more fragile than" Iran’s economy, emphasizing that the land of the Medes and the Persians will "slap the US in the face" by defeating those bans, once again.
Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks during a speech to a large gathering of Iran’s Basij volunteer forces and senior military officials at the Azadi Stadium in the capital, Tehran, which has a capacity of 100,000 people.
"Following vast explorations, the enemy has arrived at sanctions [as a solution] to counter the Islamic Theocratic Republic. It has no other solution but economic sanctions. Other paths in front of it are blocked," said Ayatollah Khamenei, stressing, however, that "economic sanctions are more fragile than our national economy."
"Our national economy can defeat sanctions," said the Leader. "The defeat of sanctions will be America’s defeat, and the US, with this defeat, should once again be slapped in the face by the Iranian nation, God willing."
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Shut the fuck up. I can't wait until we blow some of your speedboats out of the water - you have it coming.
[PRESSTV] The front man for Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says IRGC forces will give the harshest response to the slightest mistakes of the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s enemies.
Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif made the remarks in a Thursday address to a gathering of thousands of voluntary Basij forces in the northwestern city of Oroumiyeh.
He said the time when one used its military power to intimidate other nations is over. "We hereby announce the slightest mistake made by the enemy will immediately receive the most crushing response."
General Sharif pointed to a July terrorist attack on a military checkpoint in western Iran, which left several Shia and Sunni Iranians dead, and said, "As you witnessed, the attackers’ base was targeted with our missiles in less than a week, and we gave them a crushing response."
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian Army soldiers have expressed deep satisfaction with using the MT-12 "Rapira" anti-tank gun for hunting down vehicles and barricades of jihadi groups across the country.
Commonly known as "the sniper cannon", the MT-12 "Rapira" features a new smoothbore gun, the 100 mm 2A29 gun, as well as a redesigned carriage and gun shield to protect the crew from machine gun fire and shell splinters.
it was equipped with laser guidince device and night vision goggle.
The gun requires a crew of six: commander, driver of the towing vehicle, gun layer, loader, and two ammunition crewmen.
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'Smoothbore' and 'laser guidance' strike a discordance within me.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... stated on Thursday that his military will not leave Syria until new elections are held.
"Whenever the Syrian people hold an election, we will leave Syria to its owners after they hold their elections," Erdogan said at a forum in Istanbul, as quoted by Rooters News Agency.
Erdogan’s comments come just a week after he said he will not have any diplomatic relations with Damascus until Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... is removed from power.
The Ottoman Turkish President has been a key ally to the Syrian opposition forces in northern Syria over the years, despite disagreements with their Russian and Iranian allies over the leadership of the country.
With a new demilitarized zone in the Idlib province, Erdogan’s forces have managed to solidify their presence in Syria.
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Can't leave. gotta give the umma something other than my lousy rule to think about.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian government has reached a "major understanding" with hostile Arab states, Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... on Wednesday, after receiving delegates from Gulf and Western countries over the past few months.
In an exclusive interview with Kuwait’s al-Shahed newspaper on Wednesday, his first with a Gulf media outlet since 2011, Assad suggested relations with hostile regional powers are gradually improving and could be normalized, as the Syrian Army continues to reclaim territory in the war-torn country.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... commenting on the Syria crisis in an interview with al-Arabiya, Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said 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... should seek to "reclaim" a role in the matter.
"Syria is an Arab country. Its people are Arabs and what happens there concerns us before any other nation. It is not correct that regional and international countries are looking into the Syrian issue and not us," Bahrain’s foreign minister said.
Syria was suspended from the vaporous Arab League in late 2011, as Gulf states ramped up their efforts to oust Assad’s government as part of their battle for regional dominance with Iran.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... some Gulf states, including Oman, and to a lesser extent, Bahrain, have maintained amicable relations with the Syrian government.
Now, with Damascus setting about nationwide post-war reconstruction, some Syrian government officials have suggested 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... and its regional allies should pay billions of dollars in reparations to Syria.
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[IsraelTimes] Tehran called ’world’s central banker of international terrorism’ for supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, and others; strategy urges sharing burden of fighting terror with allies.
US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s national security adviser on Thursday unveiled the administration’s long-awaited counterterrorism strategy, delivering it with harsh words for Iran.
Calling Iran the "world’s central banker of international terrorism," Bolton said the strategy will rely on traditional military action to fight terrorists, but also seek increased emphasis on non-military means to battle not only Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Death Eaters but those backed by Iran and other groups.
"We recognize that there’s a terrorist ideology that we’re confronting, and I think it’s long been the president’s view that without recognizing that we’re in an ideological struggle, that we can’t properly address the terrorist threat," Bolton said.
The document calls Iran "the most prominent state sponsor of terrorism, through its global network of operatives and its ongoing support to an array of terrorist groups."
It specifically lists Hezbollah and Hamas as two terror groups supported by Iran that could pose a threat to the US.
"Hizballah fields powerful military and intelligence elements, possesses large stocks of sophisticated arms, and maintains extensive networks of operatives and sympathizers overseas, including individuals in the homeland," the document reads.
Bolton said radical holy warriors represent a "pre-eminent transnational terrorist threat" to the US and its interests abroad. The new strategy is broader than those released by previous administrations, he said.
"We’re looking at all of the threatening ideologies that we face, including not just Sunni ideologies" espoused by IS myrmidons, but Iran-sponsored terrorist groups, such as Lebanese Hezbollah, Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic jihad, Bolton said.
He noted that the Treasury Department issued sanctions earlier Thursday to disrupt Hezbollah’s financial support networks.
The strategy’s goals are far-reaching: pursue turbans all the way to the source of their support, modernize counterterrorism tools, counter radicalization, protect US infrastructure, strengthen borders and limit myrmidons’ ability to recruit online.
It’s the first US strategy on counterterrorism since President Barack Obama That’s just how white folks will do you.... released his approach in 2011, but it has similar themes to those released by previous administrations.
In line with the Trump administration’s "America First" policy, the strategy also calls for sharing the burden and expense of fighting terrorism with allies.
"The strategy also places greater emphasis on protecting the homeland, preventing attacks, and mitigating the impact of an attack, should one occur," Bolton said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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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[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement Sayyed Abdol Malik al-
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[AnNahar] French accusations that Iran was behind a foiled bomb plot near 
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Moqtada 
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as 
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[IsraelTimes] Tehran called ’world’s central banker of international terrorism’ for supporting Hezbollah, 
