[IsraelTimes] A Super Bowl halftime show performer was charged yesterday with two misdemeanors, about 4 1/2 months after he ran across the field at the Superdome waving a flag that included the words “Sudan and Free Gaza,” Louisiana State Police say.
Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, 41, turned himself in to authorities to face charges of resisting a police officer and disturbing the peace by interrupting a lawful assembly, police say. He surrendered in coordination with his attorney and was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center.
Nantambu revealed the flag and ran on the field during rapper Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance on Feb. 9. He was detained on the field after his demonstration but not charged. The NFL said at the time he would be banned for life from league stadiums and events.
According to a statement from police, Nantambu had been hired as an extra performer and “had permission to be on the field during the performance, but did not have permission to demonstrate as he did.”
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy thanks investigators for their work.
“We take any attempt to disrupt any part of an NFL game, including the halftime show, very seriously and are pleased this individual will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” McCarthy says in a statement.
The man allegedly shot by controversial former NFL star Antonio Brown has been identified as the protester who invaded the field during Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX halftime show.
Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, 41, of New Orleans, is listed as a victim after Brown was accused of firing off two rounds with a handgun outside a celebrity boxing event in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood in the early hours of May 17.
Nantambu told investigators that one of the rounds grazed his neck, according to the Associated Press.
The 36-year-old former Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver is wanted for attempted murder, with authorities calling for a $10,000 bond and house arrest pending trial, according to a Miami-Dade arrest warrant. Brown contests that he was a victim of attempted robbery.
Most recent reports suggest that Brown has now fled the country.
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[IsraelTimes] Goldsmiths, a college in the University of London, has apologized to its Jewish students and staff for allowing a “culture” of antisemitism to build up on its campus over recent years.
Following an independent inquiry commissioned by the school’s governing council, it will now work to implement a two-year action plan to tackle the problem, the school says.
“The inquiry sets out a disturbing picture, and I am sorry that our community and culture fell short of the behaviors we expect,” says the school’s Vice-Chancellor Frances Corner.
The report laid out a set of 17 recommendations to be implemented by 2027 that will improve support services for students, upgrade reporting and tracking mechanisms, and rethink staff training, the school says.
Antisemitism has spiked in the UK and around the world since Hamas launched its war against Israel on October 7, 2023. A report presented by StandWithUs UK to the UK Parliament’s House of Lords in May showed that Jewish university students across Great Britain are facing unprecedented levels of antisemitism, with many reporting being attacked, threatened and intimidated on campus.
In 2022, Goldsmiths said it would investigate allegations of antisemitism after a Jewish professor, David Hirsh, was publicly attacked as a “far right white supremacist” and a “Zionist Goldsmiths academic.”
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[IsraelTimes] Irish rap group Kneecap, other performers, lead pro-Palestinian chants and deliver profanity-laden rants about ‘Zionists’ to cheering crowds at the world-renowned event.
NO STRANGERS TO CONTROVERSY
Formed in 2017, Kneecap is known for anarchic energy, satirical lyrics and use of symbolism associated with the Irish republican movement, which seeks to unite Northern Ireland, currently part of the UK, with the Republic of Ireland.
To their fans, they are daring provocateurs who stand up to the establishment; to their detractors, they are dangerous extremists.
The group has faced criticism for lyrics laden with expletives and drug references, and for political statements, especially since videos emerged showing the band shouting “up Hamas, up Hezbollah” and calling for the death of British Conservative lawmakers.
They have since apologized for the latter incident, which sparked outrage as two MPs have been murdered in the UK in the past nine years, and many worry about their safety.
But the group denies the terrorism charge and says the video featuring the Hezbollah flag has been taken out of context.
Asked whether he regretted waving it, and other comments caught on camera, Chara told the Guardian in an interview published Friday: “Why should I regret it? It was a joke — we’re playing characters.”
GLASTONBURY REJECTS CRITICISM
Since Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, was charged, the group has been pulled from a slew of summer gigs, including a Scottish festival appearance and various performances in Germany.
But Glastonbury organizers defied Starmer, who had said it was not “appropriate” for Kneecap to perform at one of the country’s biggest and most famous music festivals.
“People that don’t like the politics of the event can go somewhere else,” Michael Eavis, co-founder of the festival, said in an article published in a free newspaper for festival-goers.
“There have been a lot of really heated topics this year, but we remain a platform for many, many artists from all over the world and, you know, everyone is welcome here,” Emily Eavis, one of the organizers, said.
During their hour-long set, Kneecap thanked both organizers for not bowing to the pressure to cancel their appearance.
Approached by the Daily Mail for comment following Saturday’s performances, Glastonbury Festival said only that it “does not condone hate speech or incitement to violence of any kind from its performers.”
[HotAir] The Scottish National Party appears to have had the substantial backing of the Iranian government.
At least it sure seems that way.
How do we know? Dozens of the most prominent pro-SNP X accounts that accounted for about 250,000 pro-Independence posts on X all went silent at once--on the day Israel started bombing the crap out of Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Iran's internet went dark.
It's almost as if Iran were interested in sowing division and social strife in a country to which tens of thousands of Moslem immigrants colonists were streaming.
Dozens of anonymous social media accounts backing Scottish independence abruptly fell silent after Israel’s air strikes caused an internet blackout in Iran, it has been alleged.
The UK Defence Journal (UKDJ) reported that many of the accounts on X had posted hundreds of messages per week backing independence or criticising the UK.
But the posts suddenly stopped at the same time on June 13 after a major Israeli air strike campaign crippled Iran’s cyber infrastructure, causing an internet blackout that affected 95 per cent of national connectivity.
Some of the accounts included a first name and a description in their bios such as "NHS nurse" or "Glasgow socialist", and were accompanied by a photograph of a young, attractive person.
The disclosure comes after US researchers last year identified a network of more than 80 X accounts linked to Iran that had posted more than 250,000 messages since late 2021.
[Breitbart] A judge in Argentina ruled on Thursday that the country could place ten Iranian and Lebanese citizens — including the recently appointed head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — on trial in absentia for their suspected roles in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA).
Known locally as the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a very fancy name for the Buenos Aires Jewish community center, the Jewish version of the YMCA.
The AMIA bombing killed 85 people and left hundreds injured; it was the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the Western Hemisphere at the time and retained the title until September 11, 2001. The individuals approved for an in-absentia trial on Thursday are Iranian current and former officials and suspected members of the Iranian proxy terrorist organization Hezbollah — all Iranian and Lebanese citizens.
Argentine authorities identified these individuals decades ago — and some others who have since died — as the masterminds and executers of the attack as well as the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, which killed another 29 people. Iran has adamantly rejected any evidence linking it to the attack, condemned Argentine officials for seeking justice in the case, and have been otherwise uncooperative with the investigation. The significant evidence against the individuals in question led Interpol to issue red notices, requests for arrest, in 2006 for several senior Iranian officials.
Argentina has traditionally not permitted in-absentia trials. Under current President Javier Milei — who recently declared Iran an “enemy of Argentina” following a visit to Israel — the Argentine Senate passed a law in February that legalized in-absentia trials. The AMIA case is the first and most high-profile attempt to implement the law since it passed.
Judge Daniel Rafecas approved such trials for ten fugitives. The most prominent name on the list is the commander of the IRGC, General Ahmad Vahidi, who received the title this month after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eliminated his predecessor, Major General Hossein Salami, in an airstrike on June 13. Israeli launched a military operation that day to contain Iran’s threats of attack after the United Nations declared Iran in breach of international legal obligations regarding nuclear non-proliferation. The IRGC is a win of the Iranian armed forces and a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.
Others approved for in-absentia trials include two current members of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council, a top government body, Ali Akbar Velayati and Mohsen Rezai. Rezai is also a senior IRGC officer. Rafecas approved trials for cleric Mohsen Rabbani, Iranian official Ali Fallahijan, and several Lebanese accused Hezbollah members.
The individuals in question have never presented themselves before the Argentine legal system despite being wanted for decades. The attorneys tasked with their defense at the court argued that in-absentia trials were unconstitutional in the country, but failed. Judge Rafecas did assert, however, that in-absentia trials should be limited to special cases in which no other viable option exists and the absence of such a legal process would actively deprive the victims of a grievous crime of justice.
“Especially in grave international crimes (genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity), the accused are military or political leaders with resources to hide or flee countries without extradition,” the judge wrote in his ruling, according to the Argentine newspaper Clarín. Without such a trial, the individuals “may remain indefinitely fugitives and the cases could remain paralyzed… and depriving victims of justice.”
Rafecas also warned that, “in situations of war crimes or terrorism, not judging the accused could weaken the [public] trust in the justice system.”
Argentina’s road to justice for the AMIA victims has been a long and dangerous one, impeded for years by leftist governments seeking to improve diplomatic ties with the Iranian regime. While years of research led to the Interpol red notices in 2006, no significant action to enforce those notices was taken for nearly a decade. In a breakthrough for the case, the prosecutor tasked with it, Alberto Nisman, had prepared an extensive case to present before Congress in 2015 accusing then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of conspiring with Tehran to protect the accused perpetrators of the bombing in exchange for favorable trade deals.
The day before Nisman was to present his case before Congress — on January 15, 2015 — he was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in his apartment. A draft arrest warrant for Fernández was found in his trash bin. His death was ruled a suicide.
Former President Mauricio Macri, who succeeded Fernández de Kirchner, rescinded her memorandum of understanding with Iran, but the case did not move forward in any other major way during his term. Fernández de Kirchner returned to power as vice president under former President Alberto Fernández (no relation) in 2019; only following the election of current President Javier Milei, who took office in 2023, did legal processes in the AMIA case accelerate.
In addition to the in-absentia trial law, the Milei administration expedited a case in the country’s Federal Criminal Cassation Court against the Iranian government and Hezbollah as organizations, finding them both responsible in April 2024 for the AMIA attack 30 years prior.
In April, prosecutor Sebastián Basso, who succeeded Alberto Nisman, requested an arrest warrant for Iranian “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
On 18 July 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van bomb loaded with about 275 kilograms (600 lb) of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and fuel oil explosive mixture,[21][22] into the Jewish Community Center building located in a densely constructed commercial area of Buenos Aires. The explosive is thought to have been arranged to focus the blast on the building 3 to 5 metres (10 to 16 ft) away, exhibiting a shaped charge or explosively formed penetrator effect.[citation needed] The exterior walls of this five-story building were of brick masonry construction, which supported the floor slabs. The air blast from the bomb totally destroyed the exposed load-bearing walls which, in turn, led to progressive failure of the floor slabs and virtually total collapse of the building
[IsraelTimes] Shipping costs for the Gulf have fallen in the past two days after a ceasefire was reached between Israel and Iran, although rates could rebound if tensions increase, shipping and insurance industry sources say.
The conflict had raised concerns that Iran could close Hormuz, the strait between Iran and Oman through which around 20% of global oil and gas demand flows, amid broader fears that oil could soar to $100 a barrel.
Shipping rates for supertankers, which can carry 2 million barrels of oil, jumped over the past week before the ceasefire, more than doubling to over $60,000 a day. Rates were quoted around $50,000 a day on Thursday, freight data shows.
“Tanker rates … have been pulling back following the halt to hostilities between Israel and Iran,” Jefferies analyst Omar Nokta says.
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[WBIR] The indictments come more than a year after two different protests on UT's campus ended in several arrests.
A Knox County grand jury indicted a prominent Knoxville restaurateur and several others for criminal trespassing more than a year after they participated in peaceful protests on the University of Tennessee's campus.
Yassin Terou, who owns Yassin's Falafel House in Knoxville, and nine others are facing criminal trespassing charges for participating in the "Nakba Day Vigil" on May 15, 2024, at UT's campus.
UT police cuffed Terou and others outside the law school after a group participating in the vigil was warned they were in an unauthorized area and told to leave. Terou said he tried to speak with police and asked if they could quickly use the area to mourn Palestinians killed and communities uprooted during the Nakba.
According to the arrest report, the group had been assigned a space for the event immediately across the street on Cumberland Avenue outside the Student Union Plaza, which had been reserved until 10 p.m. UTPD said the group did not leave the unreserved space outside the law school and were given two warnings to leave before they took them into custody.
Following his arrest, Terou filed a complaint with UTPD about the arrest, claiming officers aggravated existing nerve damage during the arrest, which caused his arm to need a sling. He spent part of the night in the hospital after he was arrested. UTPD said it conducted an internal investigation and found no policy violations were committed.
WBIR 10News reached out to Terou's attorney. The attorney said he was out of town on a humanitarian mission, but said he was "disappointed it is necessary" after she told him about the indictment:
Two others were charged with criminal trespassing for participating in peaceful protests on UT's campus on May 2, 2024, to raise awareness of the ongoing attacks in Gaza and to stand in solidarity with Palestinians. The two were not students at UT and are scheduled to be arraigned in court on July 16.
The following people were indicted, records show:
Zanne Soliz – criminal trespassing
Yassin Terou – criminal trespassing
Layla Soliz – criminal trespassing
Stephen Wilhelm – criminal trespassing
Rachel Tanon – criminal trespassing
Theodoros Kyriakopoulos – criminal trespassing
Sophia Ellis – criminal trespassing
David M. Murray – criminal trespassing
Hezekiah McDonald – criminal trespassing
Andreas Bastias – criminal trespassing
Jessica McGill – criminal trespassing (from the May 2 protest)
Wesley McCool – criminal trespassing (from the May 2 protest)
Seven other UT students were taken into custody and cited during the May 2 protests. UT said the seven were sanctioned for violating university policy over the use of outdoor space.
More academic hating for Iran — a few stories I happened across since 6/23:
Academics Who Call For Iranian Attacks on America
[HotAir] What does it say that a professor at Georgetown University--an Episcopalian, no less--is calling for Iran to strike US bases in the Middle East?
At first, it would seem an odd flex until you understand that it is part of the "decolonization" effort that we hear so much about. After all, the very same people who argue that America is evil and must be destroyed are deeply invested in open borders and unlimited immigration into the United States. If the US is so racist and cruel, why would every Mahmoud, Mohammed, and Jose want to come here as "refugees" from countries they purport to love so deeply?
The names:
California State University Professor Dr. David Yaghoubian
UChicago professor Alireza Doostdar, whose brother is in prison for spying for Iran
At the April 7 protest, around 250 protesters called former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett a 'war criminal,' referred to Jewish students as 'inbreds,' and demanded they return to Europe.
The honor for an avowed white supremacist and antisemite has roiled the campus at the public university, in a state where a 2023 law prevents state funding for university programs that advocate for “diversity, equity and inclusion or promote or engage in political or social activism.”
Preston Damsky, 29, received the “book award” for a paper he wrote for a class last fall. In the paper, he argued for the removal of voting rights protections for non-white citizens and orders to kill “criminal infiltrators at the border,” according to the New York Times.
The award for the paper was given to Damsky by Federal Judge John L. Badalamenti, a Trump administration appointee who taught Damsky’s class.
The law school’s interim dean, Merritt McAlister, initially defended Damsky’s accolade, invoking “institutional neutrality,” arguing in an email to the law school community that professors must not engage in “viewpoint discrimination” according to the Times.
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[IsraelTimes] Israel accuses the United Nations of aligning itself with Palestinian militant group Hamas after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres denounced an Israeli-backed aid distribution system in war-ravaged Gaza.
The US-and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation had provided “46 million meals” in the territory, the foreign ministry says in a post on X, but “the UN is doing everything it can to oppose this effort. In doing so, the UN is aligning itself with Hamas, which is also trying to sabotage the GHF’s humanitarian operations.”
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[Ynet] Senior Israeli officials involved in hostage deal and Gaza ceasefire talks said Saturday they see no basis for U.S. President Donald Trump's optimism on the issue.
Trump declared Friday at the White House that a Gaza ceasefire might be achieved as soon as next week. His statement surprised Jerusalem policymakers, who received no prior update suggesting that such a development justifies this forecast. He does talk a lot.
He makes a point of being positive, it seems to me, until the point is reached when he goes strongly negative — that’s how things went with Iran, too.
[Rudaw] Ali Shamkhani, a senior advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> , was severely injured in Israel’s first wave of strikes. On Saturday he made his first public appearance at a funeral for dozens of people killed in the war with Israel, and he described the moment the room he was in was hit.
Shamkhani said he was asleep in his room when it collapsed under an Israeli strike, leaving him trapped beneath the rubble for three hours. "My whole room collapsed, a lot of debris fell on me," he told state TV. "At first, I thought it was an earthquake."
With limited oxygen, Shamkhani began digging with his foot in an attempt to free himself. "I was taking small, sharp breaths. It wasn’t even a breath," he recalled.
Rescue workers searching for survivors heard him shouting and called out, "He’s here!"
"I wasn’t afraid for a moment. I said I was going to die... I’ve lived my life. Let’s see how long I live," he said. "We're taking bets"
Shamkhani, a key figure in Iran’s military and political establishment, has held senior roles across both the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the regular army.
He served as defense minister from 1997 to 2005 and later as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 2013 to 2023, where he oversaw national security and nuclear diplomacy. Known for bridging reformist and conservative camps, Shamkhani has played a lasting role in shaping Iran’s regional and strategic policies.
He was wrongly reported killed in Israel’s first strikes on Iranian military leadership and nuclear sites on June 13.
"They knew why they targeted me, and I know why they targeted me," Shamkhani said.
On June 21 he posted on social media that he had been injured.
In its operation against Iran, Israel targeted the top echelon of Iran’s military, killing many senior commanders including IRGC commander General Hossein Salami, chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri, head of IRGC’s main operational command General Gholam Ali Rashid, and head of the IRGC’s aerospace division General Amir Ali Hajizadeh.
"These soldiers, my dear brothers, who were all martyred, were friends, comrades, and fellow soldiers," said Shamkhani. He described them as "the minds and pillars of Iran’s authority" with whom he used to plot strategy.
The commanders were all quickly replaced and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... began a retaliation campaign that had been pre-planned as a contingency.
"We predicted that we would be attacked, so what happened next was based on the decisions of the Supreme Leader during these meetings. We knew what to do if this happened and we knew what our capabilities were," Shamkhani said.
His interview was done on the sidelines of a large, state funeral ceremony for around 60 people, including military personnel, scientists, and civilians killed in the war with Israel. The event grew massive crowds.
President Masoud Pezeshkian joined brass hats at the funeral, as did Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba.
The conflict brought an end to indirect nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has ruled out the possibility of resuming the talks, though US President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... has said he expects they will meet.
Shamkhani said that the US was not negotiating with Iran with the goal of reaching a nuclear deal, but in order to "provoke the internal situation in the country and force them to protest."
Those behind the conflict believed "that with a single action, Iran’s internal situation will be ripe for an uprising," he said, but added that Iranians have repeatedly demonstrated their commitment to national illusory sovereignty.
"Now it is our duty to resolve even the smallest disagreement [with the people]," he added.
There’s able to and there’s permitted, which they should consider carefully
[IsraelTimes] UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi says Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... likely will be able to begin to produce enriched uranium "in a matter of months," despite damage to several nuclear facilities from US and Israeli attacks, CBS News says.
If the bombs were effective, he’s pretty much out of a job, which is unthinkable. Therefore the bombs must not have been effective., amirite?
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the extent of the damage to the nuclear sites is "serious," but that the details are unknown, while US President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... insists Iran’s nuclear program has been set back "decades."
But Grossi, the director general of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, says "some is still standing."
"They can have, you know, in a matter of months, I would say, a few cascades of centrifuges spinning and producing enriched uranium, or less than that," Grossi said Friday, according to a transcript of the interview released Saturday.
Another key question is whether Iran was able to relocate some or all of its estimated 408.6-kilo (900-pound) stockpile of highly enriched uranium before the attacks.
The uranium in question is enriched to 60 percent — above levels for civilian usage but below weapons grade. That material, if further refined, would theoretically be sufficient to produce more than nine nuclear bombs.
Grossi admitted to CBS: "We don’t know where this material could be."
"So some could have been destroyed as part of the attack, but some could have been moved. So there has to be, at some point, a clarification," he says in the interview.
For now, Iranian politicians voted to suspend cooperation with the IAEA and Tehran rejected Grossi’s request for a visit to the damaged sites, especially Fordo, the main uranium enrichment facility, which was struck by the US last Sunday.
"We need to be in a position to ascertain, to confirm what is there, and where is it and what happened," Grossi said.
US says it monitored all Iran nuke sites before strike and didn’t see any enriched uranium moved
[IsraelTimes] White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the US was monitoring all of Iran’s nuclear facilities — not just the main underground one at Fordo — in the days leading up to its strike on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities and did not identify any enriched uranium being moved out of the facilities.
Trump says nothing was taken out of Iran nuclear facility
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump says nothing was moved from an Iranian nuclear facility, echoing his defense secretary who earlier today said he is unaware of any intelligence suggesting Iran had moved its uranium to shield it from US strikes over the weekend.
“The cars and small trucks at the site were those of concrete workers trying to cover up the top of the shafts. Nothing was taken out of facility. Would take too long, too dangerous, and very heavy and hard to move!” Trump, without providing evidence, writes on his social media platform.
No known intelligence that Iran moved uranium, US defense chief says
[IsraelTimes] US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he is unaware of any intelligence suggesting Iran had moved any of its highly enriched uranium to shield it from US strikes on Iran’s nuclear program over the weekend.
“I’m not aware of any intelligence that I’ve reviewed that says things were not where they were supposed to be, moved or otherwise,” Hegseth says.
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@1 Uranium hexafluoride which is used in enrichment has a boiling point of 56.5 °C (133.7 °F; 329.6 K). It wouldn't burn but be vaporized and dissipated by an explosion.
[Rudaw] Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria (Rojava) said on Saturday that there is a targeted "disinformation campaign" to undermine the force by falsely linking them to the terror attack on a Christian church in Damascus.
"A renewed targeted online disinformation campaign falsely claims that an ISIS [Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ] member who contributed to the terrorist attack on the Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus had previously received kerosene aid from an American NGO while residing in al-Hawl camp. This narrative is part of a broader effort to attack the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), continuing a pattern of falsifying documents to undermine their legitimacy," the SDF said in a statement on Saturday.
On Sunday, a jacket wallah affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) entered Mar Elias Church in Damascus during mass, opened fire on worshippers and detonated an explosive vest, killing 25 people and injuring 63 others. The attack renewed fears of sectarian violence in Syria as it tries to recover from decades of dictatorship and years of civil war.
Syrian authorities arrested six suspects and killed two others during a raid on an ISIS cell. Interior Ministry spokesperson Noureddine al-Baba said that two of the suspects were not Syrian nationals and had infiltrated the capital from al-Hol camp that houses thousands of ISIS family members in the SDF-held northeast.
The SDF denied the connection, saying that it reviewed camp files and no one fitting the ministry’s description had been released during the timeframe specified. The SDF, which is keeping several thousand ISIS fighters in prisons, further explained that the camp mostly comprises women and kiddies rather than imported muscle of ISIS.
The director of the Middle East Institute’s Syria Program, Charles Lister, then shared on X a document that claimed to show one of the suspects received aid in al-Hol delivered by the humanitarian organization Blumont.
Blumont on Friday said the document is not legitimate. "We are aware of images circulating online reportedly from our team’s work in Syria. The images are not authentic and do not reflect how we track the distribution of humanitarian assistance," it said.
Lister has since deleted the post and on Friday he confirmed that the document was fake but said a senior Syrian government official had confirmed that two of the six members of the ISIS cell were "smuggled out from al-Hol in late-2024."
Smuggling people out of al-Hol is a problem at the sprawling camp. The SDF has reported arresting suspected smugglers. In March they captured a man accused of "smuggling terrorists, particularly foreign ISIS women, out of al-Hol camp.
The accusations against the SDF come at a sensitive time as the Kurdish administration in Rojava is in talks with the interim government about their integration into national institutions. Kurds are looking for guarantees of their political and cultural rights that had been denied under the former regime.
SDF chief Mazloum Abdi and Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa signed a landmark agreement in March over the future of SDF and the Kurdish enclave. Several articles of the agreement have been implemented, including swapping of prisoners, and there are ongoing talks between both sides.
Sheikhmous Ahmed, who supervises Rojava’s camps, told Rudaw English on Friday that the recent deadly festivities between Damascus-affiliated gangs and religious minorities like the Druze and Alawites created the belief that only the SDF can protect the minorities.
He claimed that Damascus is using the attack on the church as a pretext to spread disinformation about the SDF as part of "a smear campaign."
Rojava has been internationally praised for its coexistence and women rights.
Violence broke out in early March in the Alawite-majority coastal areas of western Syria after loyalists of ousted Syrian dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... launched attacks on security forces affiliated with the new Syrian leadership.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) then reported that around 1,500 people, mostly Alawite civilians, have been killed in the violence. The UK-based war monitor added that most casualties were caused by government or government-affiliated forces.
In April, global human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... watchdog Amnesty International censured the "mass killings," accusing Damascus of perpetrating a "war crime" against the minority group and warning of further "atrocities" if accountability is not enforced.
Many members of the Druze community were killed in late April following attacks by groups linked to Damascus. The fighting was initially triggered by an audio recording that was allegedly blasphemous toward the Prophet Muhammad. Initially attributed to a prominent Druze holy man, the recording was later discredited by both the holy man and Syrian authorities.
[Rudaw] A committee tasked with electing Syria’s new parliament expects the vote will take place in August, a Kurdish member of the committee told Rudaw on Friday.
"We are now at the stage of visiting Syrian provinces where we are holding meetings with activists, sociologists, politicians, and academics from each province as public gatherings. This is to draft the temporary system for electing People's Assembly members as our program continues. We hope these elections will take place at the end of August," said Mohammed Wali.
Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa established an 11-member Higher Committee for the Elections of the People's Assembly on June 2 and instructed it to form provincial committees that will be responsible for electing suitable representatives for the assembly.
The vote will not be open to the public. Wali said 70 percent of the members of the assembly will be experts and intellectuals while the rest will be notables and dignitaries. One third of the members will be directly chosen by Sharaa.
Kurds, who had been deprived of Syrian citizenship for decades, are eligible to become candidates, but people who were granted citizenship after the eruption of the civil war in 2011 are not eligible because of fears that ousted dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... granted citizenship to many Iranian murderous Moslems, explained Wali.
It remains unclear whether the elections will be held in the Kurdish-held northeast (Rojava). Wali said this is linked to political developments. The Rojava administration is in talks with Damascus about integrating into national institutions.
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[Regnum] Information spread in the media about Washington's alleged plans to help Tehran receive about $30 billion in investments for the development of a peaceful nuclear program was denied by US President Donald Trump on his social network Truth Social. Good to see the word spreading so quickly around the world.
"Who in the Fake News Media is saying that 'President Trump wants to give Iran $30 billion to build non-military nuclear facilities'? Never heard of that ridiculous idea. This is just another FRAUD made up by the Fake News Media to humiliate [me]. These people are SICK!!!" the American leader wrote.
CNN notes that such information is being actively discussed by key players in the Middle East. One of the proposals involves investments of $20-30 billion in the Iranian nuclear program, with the funds coming from Arab countries.
The issue was raised at a secret meeting between US Presidential Envoy Steven Witkoff and representatives of the Persian Gulf countries. In addition, the possibility of easing sanctions on Iran and the idea of replacing the Fordow nuclear facility with a program that excludes uranium enrichment were discussed.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that, as US President Trump stated, the United States will again use military force against Iran if it becomes aware of a dangerous level of uranium enrichment.
On the night of June 22, the US Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes on Iranian territory. Trump said the attacks were carried out on sites allegedly related to the nuclear program.
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[ColonelCassad] Despite Trump's calls to "Fire Natasha!" CNN continues to pile on that Trump's strikes on Iran were futile.
CNN has biased idiots on staff. There are rumbles that they’re getting nervous over there that CNN can no longer afford to keep most of them.
CNN: The US did not drop a bomb on the facility in Isfahan, it is too deep.
The US Air Force did not drop a bunker buster bomb on the nuclear facility in Isfahan, Iran, because it is located deep enough underground.
This was reported by CNN, citing comments from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Kane.
In fact, the strikes on the nuclear facility in Isfahan were first carried out by Israel, and then the US attacked the facility with Tomahawk cruise missiles. The main damage was inflicted on the buildings on the surface.
The underground complex itself was not actually damaged, since Israel had nothing to destroy it with (except nuclear weapons, and even that is not a fact), and the US did not even try to destroy the underground facility in Isfahan.
So the underground part of the complex has not gone anywhere and can be reactivated after repair work on the surface. At the same time, the IAEA will now not be allowed into the facilities to objectively monitor what is happening. It's about the same with Fordow.
Only the facility in Natanz, which is not located so deep, could potentially have suffered more serious damage from one of the bunker buster bombs.
P.S. Regarding Iran's strike on the US, the published satellite images of the Al Udeid base so far show one hit on the presumably radar system on the base's territory.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli and American airstrikes at Iran’s Isfahan nuclear site destroyed equipment key to the production of nuclear weapons, according to The New York Times.
The report says the equipment is used for a process known as metallization that converts enriched uranium gas into metal, one of the final steps to producing the explosive core inside a nuclear bomb.
Analysts cited by the US newspaper say that Tehran intensified its nuclear activities at Isfahan after US President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, adding that the strikes on the metallization gear have denied the Islamic Republic the ability to assemble an atomic weapon in the near future.
“It’s a bottleneck,” David Albright, a former UN nuclear inspector, tells The New York Times regarding the destruction of the equipment. “They have to rebuild it.”
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Wow. Who ya gonna believe - the Rooshians or the Slimes?
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[ColonelCassad] Iran, after the failures of its air defense system during the war with the US and Israel, promptly buys 40 Chinese 4th generation J-10C fighters at once.
J-10Cs for oil. Next comes the fun of trying to get them delivered. How long does it take to build that many, and will it be the Mullahs who take possession in the end, or their successors?
These aircraft showed excellent performance in combat (in combination with Chinese long-range air-to-air missiles PL-15) during the last Indo-Pakistani war, when they outperformed the French Rafales.
Successes on the battlefield immediately increased interest in the arms trade market for Chinese aircraft.
Iran does not have a very rich choice when it comes to purchasing modern aircraft. Either buy from China or from Russia. But since Russia has reduced arms exports in the interests of the Central Military District, China looks like an obvious option. The same applies to potential purchases of air defense systems and radars.
But since Iran's rearmament will be long-term, in the future Russia may also consider selling the S-400 air defense system to Iran, as well as the Su-35, Su-57 and Su-75 fighters, which it can earn good money on.
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These aircraft showed excellent performance in combat (in combination with Chinese long-range air-to-air missiles PL-15) during the last Indo-Pakistani war, when they outperformed the French Rafales. 
