🚨NEW BUST: Transnational gang of Illegal Aliens arrested for a string of violent home invasions and torture across Houston. A father was pistol-whipped in front of his wife and son before they threatened to cut off all his fingers.
The Tuaregs from FLA have recorded an FPV drone attack against a meeting of the Russian Africa Corps representatives and the Malian army in Tessalit. Apparently a few FPVs were used in the attack against the regime forces, with a few killed and dozens of wounded claimed. #Malipic.twitter.com/AQ1skFrHQ8
That would be the Front for the Liberation of Azawad, which announced its existence on November 30, 2024. It was a consolidation of preexisting Tuareg separatist movements in Northern Mali.
[IsraelTimes] Israel Air Force strikes against the Houthis in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, hit a military compound where the presidential palace is located, two power stations and a fuel depot, the military says.
The strikes come as a response to the Houthis’ repeated missile and drone attacks on Israel.
According to the IDF, the Yemeni presidential palace in Sanaa is “located within a military site from which the military operations of the Houthi terrorist regime forces are conducted.”
The two power plants that were targeted “served as a significant electricity supply facility for military activities,” the military says.
The strikes involved around a dozen IAF aircraft, including fighter jets and refuelers. More than 30 munitions were dropped on the four targets, according to military sources.
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Colombian mercenaries are trained to operate drones within the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after which they return to their drug cartels and apply the acquired experience against law enforcement. This was previously reported by the specialized publication Intelligence Online citing a report from Mexican military intelligence.
[IsraelTimes] Jewish activists say they were initially pushed away by individuals wearing masks and hoods who chanted ‘child killers’ and ‘Free Palestine’
German Jewish activists said they were shoved and attacked with red paint while hanging up posters of the hostages held in Gaza at a park in Frankfurt on Friday.
Sacha Stawski told German tabloid Bild that he and two others were initially pushed away by a mob of dozens wearing hoods and masks. Some were wearing face coverings bearing the face of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
“We attached posters with photos of the 50 hostages still in Hamas’s captivity to a fence in the Frankfurt Grüneburgpark,” he told Bild.
While holding up photos, he said they heard “antisemitic calls.”
“We were insulted as ‘child killers,’ and I constantly heard ‘Free Palestine,’ and ‘genocide’ calls,” he said, adding that he and two other men were then attacked by a woman holding two tubes of red paint.
“The paint was also poured over my glasses, so I found it hard to see the perpetrator,” he said.
Stawski told the Kan public broadcaster that he suggested to the crowd that they take a moment together to reflect on all the innocent victims of the war.
“I suggested several times to the people there that we hold a minute of silence for all the innocent victims of this war, and said that I, too, only want peace,” he said. “Even though I said this several times, there was nothing but insults and rejection from these people.”
Police confirmed the incident to Bild and said they have increased their presence in the area.
Bild noted that there was an encampment of environmentalists set up in the park — it was unclear if the attackers were linked.
Videos on social media appeared to show that it was not the first time posters of hostages had been ripped down in the park in recent days.
[X] Note the Antifa flag carried in the background of the first tweet, whisked too late out of sight of the camera.
Es ist mir unbegreiflich, dass so etwas in Frankfurt möglich ist. Es war kein einziger Polizist im Park zu sehen. Die angeblichen Klima-Schützer entpuppten sich als knallharte Antisemiten. pic.twitter.com/iN6DWuejel
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Sacha Stawski in Frankfurt's Grüneburgpark:
“It’s about HOSTAGES! HOSTAGES! Nothing else!”
Hamas supporters:
“They have the privilege that they are still hostages and not dead people.”
This seems to be the understanding of privilege among Hamas supporters – dehumanizing!
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It is incomprehensible to me that something like this is possible in Frankfurt. Not a single police officer was to be seen in the park. The alleged climate protectors turned out to be hardcore antisemites.
[IsraelTimes] The manager of a leisure park in southern France has been detained for alleged religious discrimination after a group of Israeli children was refused access to the facility, a French prosecutor’s office said in a statement Friday.
The Israeli children, aged 8 to 16, were on holiday in Spain and had made a reservation for Thursday to use the zip line facility in Porté-Puymorens, near the Spanish border in the Pyrenean mountains, the Perpignan prosecutor’s office said.
The prosecutor’s office said the manager initially told some people he was refusing the group access on the grounds of “personal beliefs” before offering other justifications to others.
A message posted Wednesday evening on the park’s social media said the site would be closed Thursday due to a storm, “in order to carry out a complete inspection of the facilities.”
The park told the group they could not visit. They went to another leisure facility in France with no incident, the statement said.
The manager denied any wrongdoing, it added.
“A line was crossed. We are appalled,” said Perla Danan, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) in the Languedoc-Roussillon region.
“It started with graffiti, insults and physical attacks and now it’s literally a ban on children aged 8 to 16,” Danan said, adding that it reminded her of the “no Jews or dogs allowed” sign during the Holocaust.
Jean-Philippe Augé, the mayor of Porté-Puymorens, which has around 100 inhabitants, said “the DNA of our community is based on a sense of sharing and fraternity,” adding that the incident had caused “utter astonishment” in the village.
Augé said the zip line course is operated by a private company.
ICE had a massive raid today at The Home Deport on Sherman Way and Lankershim in North Hollywood. Apparently, the word isn't getting out to illegal aliens. They think those red cards that Manuel Bunzalez is handing out will keep them safe. No way Jose! Viva La Migra! pic.twitter.com/8g6EQ1Swfo
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While I am sure many of us agree, Criminal / Gang ILLEGALS need to be quickly arrested, jailed, deported and then banned for life from return.
But! In all honesty, it does open the question of how will the various US Markets (construction, food and etc) that need cheap manual labor, be addressed?
Because this Smartphone Generation, we have mindlessly walking around doing Social Media, is far from able or nor wishes to address those type of labor needs.
Should some type of 90 day sign-up period be held, for 1 year VISA's be undertaken? With historical & follow up constant Police - National Crime Information Center monitoring for anything more than a parking ticket, thus requiring immediate deportation and Ban for life on conviction.
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New housing was going up at the local Air Force base. The contract had to comply with existing federal law. That means the contractor had to use the law to base labor costs. During the building ICE came to the site and gathered a number of illegals. They certainly weren't being paid the prevailing union wages. The contractor blamed subcontractors for the hires. However, someone was pocking the difference. Don't get me started how those illegals got to work on the base to begin with.
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P2k, the Feds require a LOT of paperwork for their projects. As you suspected, there was an inordinate amount of subterfuge going on as each of those 'subcontractors' have to provide weekly or monthly certified payroll records that are then signed off at each layer as they go up the chain to the main general contractor (and they also sign off on each record's validity) for them to submit to the Feds.
Records falsification is a huge no-no and carries
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In all honesty, it does open the question of how will the various US Markets (construction, food and etc) that need cheap manual labor, be addressed?
In a word, NO.
In several words: It's only cheap for the employer. The illegals get social security, welfare, medicare, medicade, food stamps, childcare, section 8, and more I haven't thought of.
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Those college grads will use AI or a YT video and build your house for you…I mean, it can’t be that hard if they can get the uneducated folks to build them. Too many folks got educated beyond their intelligence level…
As the USA became computerized / I.T. focused, it all but stopped turning out hands on Technical Trade grads. To the point we are faced with a shortage of Hands-On-Worker bees'.
We recently read we have 50+ Million foreign nationals working here in the USA. Clearly, they are doing a lot of the work the new generation (whatever) won't.
eg. While I was attending college in Fresno, the San Joaquin Valley in the early 70's, cheap farm labor was seasonal. A majority headed back to Mexico after harvest.
SO.
Yes! We need strict immigration control.
Yes! We need to kick out the NON-US Citizen Welfare leeches, the drug gangs and all the sexual deviants/perverts.
But we also need law-abiding SEASONAL, less expensive Farm Labor.
Because, imagine price results of paying US Citizens farm hands $25+ per/hr to operation heavy machinery in the sun, and shovel $hit for 12hrs a day for 9 months a year
[IsraelTimes] Israeli tanks reportedly advanced into a new neighborhood of Gaza City in the Strip’s north on Saturday.
Al Jazeera aired footage purportedly showing IDF tanks in the Sabra neighborhood, which is located in the central part of Gaza City, close to the Zeitoun neighborhood, where the military has been operating for over a week.
The IDF has said it is operating on the outskirts of Gaza City ahead of a major offensive that would see the military capture the entire city. Tens of thousands of reservists are due to show up for duty on September 2 for the offensive, which is likely to begin in the following weeks.
Israeli attacks in the Strip killed at least 34 people on Saturday, according to Palestinian media. The death toll in Gaza was not independently verified and does not differentiate between combatants and civilians.
According to the reports, six of the people killed died while waiting for aid in the Zikim area of the northern Gaza Strip; two were killed in a drone strike on a tent in Khan Younis, and one was killed in a drone strike on a house in al-Sabra, south of Gaza City.
According to health officials at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Israeli strikes killed at least 14 people in southern Gaza, more than half of them women and children. The officials said the strikes targeted tents sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis.
Betcha Hamas shot off rockets or something from among the tents as usual, but Hamas-owned journalists as usual only reported Israel’s return fire to the Spot where fire originated.
Meanwhile, an Israeli officer was killed in an apparent accident in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, the military announced.
He was named as Lt. Ori Gerlic, 20, a platoon commander in the Kfir Brigade’s Shimshon Battalion, from Meitar.
According to an initial Israel Defense Forces probe, the officer was killed by an Israeli explosive that detonated, for reasons as-yet unclear, during efforts to demolish structures in Khan Younis.
The military said it was investigating what caused the explosive to detonate prematurely.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip now stands at 460. The toll includes two police officers and three Defense Ministry civilian contractors.
Southern Hospital Preps For Evacuees
[IsraelTimes] Palestinians on Saturday began to clean up and renovate the European Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, as part of preparations for the evacuation of Gaza City ahead of the IDF’s planned offensive in the area.
The planned campaign has sparked a major international outcry, with governments and humanitarian groups warning of potentially disastrous consequences for Gaza’s civilians, noting widespread malnutrition that has recently worsened significantly amid the 22-month war.
Earlier this week, the IDF said that the European Hospital, which was closed after the military raided and sealed a Hamas tunnel running underneath it, was slated to resume operations to accommodate the expected influx of people fleeing northern Gaza.
On Thursday, Israeli authorities warned medical facilities and international organizations in the northern Gaza Strip to gear up for mass evacuation.
According to the IDF, Gazan medical officials were told that “the hospital infrastructures in the southern Gaza Strip are being adapted for the absorption of the sick and wounded, alongside an increased entry of necessary medical equipment in accordance with the requests of the international aid organizations.”
A security official said the UN and international aid groups were formulating a plan to restart the hospital “as an additional medical response” for the estimated one million Palestinians who are set to be displaced from Gaza City when the IDF launches its offensive there. The military also warned medical officials in northern Gaza to prepare to move their equipment to hospitals in the Strip’s south.
Footage published by Palestinian media on Friday showed medical staff cleaning up the hospital, as well as an excavator at work in the compound, after the IDF allowed them to enter the area.
On May 13, Hamas’s then-leader in Gaza, Mohammed Sinwar, and other top commanders in the terror group were killed in an airstrike on a tunnel running underneath the hospital. The military raided the medical facility in June, capturing their bodies and sealing the tunnel underneath it with concrete..
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 62,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed over 22,000 combatants in battle as of August and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.
The network quotes the two as saying that Trump wants a quick and decisive operation, and doesn’t want the war against Hamas to further drag out.
The report also says that during the same meeting, military chief Eyal Zamir clashed with far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, saying the Israel Defense Forces isn’t sure how long it will take to evacuate Gaza City’s civilian population.
“We ordered you [to carry out] a quick operation. In my opinion, you can besiege them. Whoever doesn’t evacuate, don’t let them. No water, no electricity, they can die of hunger or surrender. This is what we want and your capable [of doing it],” Smotrich reportedly said.
Channel 12 says Ben Gvir then asked Zamir whether “you’re scared of the military advocate general,” with the latter responding that “we are operating in other areas, in Khan Younis and Rafah.”
“This isn’t what the political leadership ordered. You don’t want to defeat [Hamas],” Smotrich is quoted as telling Zamir, who reportedly shouted back, “You don’t understand anything. You don’t know what a brigade or battalion is. This takes time.”
Interesting that they don’t quantify even a suggestion of how many thousands…
[IsraelTimes] Weekly demonstrations come as Netanyahu says Israel to negotiate for all captives after Hamas okayed phased deal, even as Gaza City takeover still looms
Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv and across Israel on Saturday night in weekly protests calling on the government to make a deal with the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... terror group for a hostage release deal and ceasefire in the Gazoo Strip, while thousands more gathered for a separate Jewish-Arab anti-war protest.
The demonstrations came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he had issued instructions for negotiations to be held for the return of all 50 hostages, even as he moved toward approving plans for a military offensive aimed at conquering Gaza City.
Previously the protesters demanded that all the hostages would be released at once, with no preference for those in greatest distress. Now that Bibi also demands that, the protesters have moved the goalposts yet again.
Hamas said last week it had agreed to a proposed deal, which would see the release of 10 living hostages and the bodies of 18 slain hostages during a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza, as well as the release of hundreds of Palestinian security prisoners. During the ceasefire, Israel and Hamas would hold negotiations for the return of all remaining hostages and a permanent end to the war.
Netanyahu has indicated in recent weeks, however, that he would only support a comprehensive deal, rather than a phased, partial agreement, and only if the terms meet all his conditions, including the disarmament of Hamas, the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, and the transfer of governance to a body that is not Hamas or the Palestinian Authority.
SEPARATE ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST
As happens every week, a separate protest — this one explicitly anti-government — was held nearby, on Begin Road.
After the speeches ended, protesters gathered around a group of drummers and lit a bonfire. It burned for a few minutes before police entered the crowd with a fire extinguisher and quickly put out the blaze.
Minutes later, protesters lit another fire while continuing to chant for a hostage deal. It was soon extinguished by the cops as well.
As the flames fizzled out on the pavement, Zahiro Mor, the nephew of slain hostage Avraham Munder, gave an impromptu speech, telling protesters that “we are now seeing not an attempt, but the active torpedoing [of hostage deal negotiations].”
“We will do everything to prevent this!” he declared. “Starting tomorrow and continuing throughout the entire week, there will be tons of demonstrations… the important thing is that we get out onto the streets and finally voice our fucking rage!”
Go fuck your rage in private like decent people, and stop scandalizing children in the streets.
In addition to the main protests in Tel Aviv, demonstrators gathered in Jerusalem, Haifa, and other major cities across Israel, as well as at highway junctions across the country, to call for a hostage deal.
Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding 50 hostages, including 49 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023, and the body of one soldier killed in Gaza in 2014.
Of the 50, 20 are believed to be alive, and there are grave concerns for the well-being of two others. The remaining 28 have been confirmed dead by the military.
‘STOP KILLING CHILDREN’: ARAB-LED PROTESTERS DECRY ‘GENOCIDE’
A separate anti-war protest, led by an Arab civil society group in partnership with human rights organizations, was held in Tel Aviv’s Habima Square earlier in the day on Saturday, drawing thousands of participants.
Demonstrators, some of whom wore keffiyehs and held signs accusing Israel of committing genocide and starvation in the Strip, chanted: “From Gaza to Jenin — stop killing children,” and “Gaza, Gaza, don’t despair, we will end the occupation.”
The protest was organized by the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, the leading umbrella organization representing the country’s Arab minority, together with the Partnership for Peace movement and a coalition of human rights groups.
Police on Thursday threatened to revoke the permit for the protest and a march that was planned alongside it, citing “the excess of events” the police already had to cover,” and demanded attendance be capped at 500 people rather than 5,000.
Following the cancellation of the permit, committee chair Mohammad Barakeh accused authorities of trying to silence Arab opposition to the war.
The demonstration featured the participation of all four Arab-majority parties — Hadash, Ta’al, Balad, and Ra’am,
…Ra’am is the political party of the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel…
who are currently engaged in ongoing discussions over reviving the Joint List alliance.
Joint List was originally a paid project of the Barack Obama State Department, intended to aid the State Department’s Victory15 project which trained paid leftwing activists to protest and push Bibi Netanyahu out of office. It failed abysmally, but a great deal of fun was had by all. The same leftwing activists have been leading anti-Bibi protests ever since, funded by various US government and private initiatives. One would think they would tire of failing year after year, so it must be lucrative...
Hadash-Ta’al MK Aida Touma-Sliman took to X to share images of the anti-war protest, writing: “Here at Habima Square, despite attempts to silence and subjugate us, thousands of voices are crying out: End the war of destruction and starvation immediately!”
“The establishment can revoke permits, but the moral stand for life, justice and equality doesn’t need a permit, it only demands that you be a human being,” she wrote.
Not a very big crowd:
I came back home from the demonstration organized by the High Follow Up Committee of the Arabs and the Partnership for Peace. Still moved deeply by the thousands who came, Jews and Palestinian Arabs, citizens who brought their demand to stop the genocide and starvation policy and… pic.twitter.com/iAbEUkH7Bd
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The problem here is what will become of the Karen, Kachin, Padaung, and Shan minorities. The Burmans when aroused are a vicious ethnicity. Burma, in many ways is like the Sudan. A ruling elite, generally military, at the core, and facing off against ethinic minorities on the periphery. Now faced with a problem among the Muslim minority of the west, what is needed is a diplomacy, a leader, who can bring the fissiparous elements together in what could be a very fine and profitable multi-ethnic Burma.
[Rudaw] The 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.... (ISIS) carried out a suicide kaboom in Syria’s eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, killing a member of the state security forces, state media reported late on Friday.
The attack targeted a checkpoint in Mayadin city, according to Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).
Mayadin is located within areas of Deir ez-Zor controlled by Damascus. The oil-rich part of the province is under the control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Deir ez-Zor is a hotspot for ISIS attacks. The bully boy group often targets SDF in the province. The Kurdish-led force, with the support of the US-led global coalition against ISIS, has carried out numerous operations against the group there.
Kurdish internal security forces (Asayish), which is part of the SDF, on Friday announced the arrest of an ISIS leader in Hasaka city. He was accused of intimidating civilians, robbery and targeting security forces.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli forces have advanced about two kilometres into Syrian territory at more than one location, setting up checkpoints and detaining Syrian citizens, drawing condemnations from regional countries, state media reported on Friday.
The new development comes despite talks between Tel Aviv and Damascus in Gay Paree under US mediation, as part of diplomatic efforts aimed at promoting security and stability in Syria.
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said Friday that Israeli armored vehicles have advanced from the Golan Heights into the provinces of Daraa and Quneitra.
Six Israeli army vehicles entered the town of Abdeen west of Daraa at dawn, briefly detaining three young men from one family, SANA reported. Another four Israeli army vehicles entered the village of al-Ajraf in Quneitra where they set up a checkpoint at the entrance to the village and searched several homes.
Since the collapse of the regime in Syria in December last year, the Israeli army has carried out a number of operations across the border, including Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and ground operations to support the Druze minority in the south of the country, as Damascus struggles to maintain control over Druze-majority areas in the south, where protesters recently called for separation from the Syrian state.
Israel's military activity was discussed at a meeting of the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Security Council on Thursday.
"The Arab Group condemns in the strongest terms the violations of the Israeli occupation forces in Syrian territory, which represent a flagrant violation of Syrian illusory sovereignty, international law, and the United Nations Charter, and a direct threat to regional peace and security," Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... ’s permanent representative to the UN, Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani, told the council.
Iran’s ambassador, for his part, accused Israel of destabilizing Syria.
"The Security Council should not ignore the ongoing destabilizing actions of the Israeli regime in Syria. Israel’s repeated aggressive attacks have caused civilian casualties, destroyed vital infrastructure, and escalated regional tensions,"said Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani.
In early December, a coalition of opposition forces - then spearheaded by the now-dissolved Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS), under Ahmed al-Sharaa, led a swift offensive toppling the regime of longtime Syrian dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... . Sharaa in late January became Syria’s interim president.
Since then, Tel Aviv has intensified efforts to destroy Damascus’s military stockpiles and its forces have entered buffer zones east of the Israel-annexed Golan Heights.
Israel had captured most of the Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War. In 1974, a US-brokered Disengagement Agreement created a UN-monitored buffer zone to reduce tensions by delineating separation lines between Syrian and Israeli forces without establishing formal peace.
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani on Tuesday held a rare meeting with Ron Dermer, Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister and top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Gay Paree. The discussions, reportedly mediated by the US, come as Syria struggles to maintain control over Druze-majority areas in the south, where protesters recently called for separation from the Syrian state.
According to Tom Barrack, the US special Envoy for Syria, the goals of the meeting between Israel and Syria were achieved.
"Our goal was dialogue and de-escalation," Barrack said, without mentioning whether or not there were any agreements signed in the meeting.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian forces have killed six militants in a raid in the restive southeast, state media reports, saying they were members of a “terrorist” group linked to arch enemy Israel.
“During an intense exchange of fire with terrorists in Sistan-Baluchistan province, six assailants were killed and two others arrested,” official news agency IRNA says, citing a statement from the intelligence services.
The report doesn’t provide an exact location or say when the raid took place.
Sistan-Baluchistan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, has long been a flashpoint for clashes between security forces and armed groups, including drug traffickers and separatists.
IRNA says there are “documents” indicating “the Zionist nature” of the group targeted in the latest raid, adding that its members had planned to attack a “vital” facility in Iran’s east, without elaborating.
The report says that “the main operation team” was composed of “seven non-Iranian terrorists,” but doesn’t specify their nationality.
Two intelligence agents and a police officer were wounded in the gunfight, IRNA says.
Iran regularly reports deadly ambushes in the province targeting police or members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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[REGNUM] The "spy war" between Iran and Israel has taken an unexpected turn. Iranian intelligence services have reported the arrest of a "pro-Israel intelligence network" made up of local evangelical Christians.
The latter, while in the country in a semi-legal position, conducted reconnaissance of nuclear facilities and surveillance of potential targets with good intentions.
During the investigation it became clear that most of the Christians could have been used “in the dark,” and the real organizer of the influence network had long since disappeared from sight, putting Iranian security officials in front of an uncomfortable choice.
UNDER THE HOOD
Although the vast majority of Iranians are Muslim, there is room in the country for other faiths, including Christianity.
According to the latest estimates, the total number of adherents of this religion in the country exceeds 300 thousand people (about 0.4% of the population), and they are predominantly Armenians and Assyrians.
They have basic rights such as permission to conduct services and perform rituals, as well as celebrate major religious holidays.
However, there is also a so-called "shadow" category of Christians - those movements that are prohibited from holding public worship services. As a rule, we are talking about Protestant groups that are considered by the Iranian authorities as "apostates" and do not have the opportunity to fully preach in Iran.
The total number of "shadow" Christians is unknown and ranges from 250 to 400 thousand people.
Some claim up to three million. But because converting from Islam is illegal, there’s no way of counting them.
Although the Iranian government has never officially declared war on the protesters, every president has felt it his duty to tighten the screws a little. The situation reached its climax in 2005, when the ultra-conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power.
He believed that all Protestants were agents of the US and Israel and used religion as a cover for subversive activities. Until Ahmadinejad's resignation in 2013, "shadow" Christians lived literally under the surveillance of the secret services and became the object of public persecution.
However, even after Ahmadinejad left the presidency, suspicion towards “shadow” Christians in Iran has not completely disappeared from the agenda. The only difference is that the focus of attention has shifted to specific movements within Protestantism.
Thus, Baptists, Charismatics and Mennonites—adherents of evangelical movements widespread in the USA and European countries—remained under constant attention.
However, despite constant monitoring, until recently cases of persecution of Christians in Iran were isolated: punishments were imposed for importing banned literature into the country or disturbing public order. However, this August the situation changed radically.
"WE OFTEN HUNG AROUND THE PLANT"
Following Israel's Operation Lion Force in June, Iranian security forces carried out a large-scale campaign of arrests and raids aimed at destroying Tel Aviv's agents. Some fifty evangelists were also caught in their net, arrested in different parts of the country.
The largest number of agents were detained in Tehran (12 people) and Mashhad (6 people), where Iranian military and religious authorities resided respectively. Another four were caught in Semnan province, where a large number of secret facilities are located, including missile bases and research institutes.
Three other evangelists were said by local residents to have been hanging around the TESA centrifuge plant in Karaj "suspiciously often."
The rest were taken to police stations by local Basij militias, who had been raised by Tehran to hunt for Israeli spies. Moreover, many of them explained such high attention to the protesters precisely by the “lessons of Ahmadinejad” and his followers.
RIGHTEOUS "FEAT"
Initially, the evangelists' cases were tried separately from each other, and at least ten were released on bail almost immediately for lack of serious evidence. Three received apologies from law enforcement for the inconvenience caused.
However, during the process it became clear that most of the detainees had one common detail in their biographies. They all attended masses of Bryan Jay Adams, an American-born evangelist who settled in Turkey several years ago.
Adams, who called himself a disciple of Mark Burns (an influential American pastor and “spiritual mentor” of American President Donald Trump ), organized meetings for suffering Iranians in Izmir, Turkey, at the local Baptist community, helped organize worship services, and also had confidential conversations about pressing issues.
Much of his sermons were devoted to the situation in the Middle East. Adams said that Iran's desire to acquire nuclear weapons was a harbinger of the imminent Apocalypse, and Christians must perform a "righteous deed" by thwarting Tehran's plans.
At the same time, the pastor did not incite his followers to "take up arms" against the ayatollah regime. On the contrary, he called on his flock to "go on pilgrimages" to various parts of Iran, collect information about the situation, look for followers and like-minded people in the army and in dangerous industries, and use them to sabotage the work.
The data collected during the "pilgrimages" were subsequently actively discussed at meetings in Izmir and were supplied with religious remarks from Adams.
At the same time, the pastor at least several times asked the pilgrims to pass on various literature to their friends in Turkey or in the Iranian border area, explaining this by his own “very busy schedule.”
The last meeting took place in June, a few days before the start of the Lion Force. However, during it, the pastor did not give his charges new assignments, but only called on them to “pray harder” and carry his ideas to other Protestants in the country.
SOMEONE ELSE'S BIOGRAPHY
Iranian investigators believe that the evangelists were victims of an Israeli intelligence operation, at least because the preacher Adams is unknown in wide evangelical circles and has never figured among Burns's disciples.
But everyone is familiar with his full namesake - the Canadian singer and composer, who became famous, among other things, for his religious-themed music albums and who was friends with Republican elites.
In Tehran, they believe that the unknown Israeli agent simply “tried on” (with some adjustments) someone else’s biography and, thanks to this, quickly gained the trust of the Protestants.
He then used them for covert espionage in his own interests, as well as for transmitting secret reports to operatives in other countries under the guise of religious and other literature.
This version is supported by the fact that subsequent attempts to find "Pastor Adams" in Izmir with the help of Christian loyalists were unsuccessful. The previously active preacher broke off previous contacts and literally "disappeared from the radar."
It is interesting that the Iranian authorities are trying their best to protect local Christians from possible attacks and are positioning the detained evangelists as “undercover Zionists” whose goal is to sow discord in the country and create a schism on religious grounds.
The reason is simple: dissatisfaction with the activities of the Protestants could well result in pogroms, which will not add to Tehran’s popularity in the eyes of the world community.
Moreover, pressure on religious communities that have “representatives” in the United States carries the risk of the White House using this factor to justify new anti-Iranian operations.
Tehran does not want to give its opponents an additional trump card, but it will most likely not be able to let the situation slide either. Due to the presence of an “Israeli trace” in the case of the evangelists, their trial risks becoming in many ways a show trial.
Although most of them still believe that they are victims in the case rather than real defendants.
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