[KhaamaPress] Pakistain provided the people of Afghanistan with another consignment of humanitarian aid that was crossed through the Torkham crossing point in the east of Afghanistan.
This was the first tranche of assistance relief crossed from Pakistain through the land on Sunday, September 19.
A statement released by the Pak embassy in Kabul reads that the aid which was loaded in 13 trucks include, flour, cooking oil, rice, pulses, and sugar.
As per the statement, additional four trucks are intended to cross the crossing point and the aid dispatched will be distributed to people in need in various provinces.
Earlier, Pakistain had dispatched tonnes of food ingredients and medicines through the air to Kabul, Kandahar province, and Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... The country intends to send another tranche of blankets this time as the winter season is getting closer in Afghanistan.
After the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... takeover, Afghanistan is in a humanitarian crisis and desperately needs assistance relieves as such.
The international community has pledged $1.2 billion in humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan that was welcomed by the Taliban authorities.
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Let the muslim countries take care of them. We have done enough.
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[ToloNews] A number of school-aged girls and young women on Sunday told TOLOnews they are disappointed by the recent decision of the Education Ministry of the caretaker cabinet to not allow female students to attend secondary school-level classes.
The Education Ministry in a statement said on Friday that only boys’ schools will reopen, and only male teachers can restart their jobs, but did not say anything about female teachers or girls returning to school.
On Saturday, boys and male teachers appeared in schools, but girls’ schools and classrooms remained empty.
According to students and teachers, the decision has shut out millions of girls across the country.
Fatima is a student at the Sayedul Shuhada Girls High School in western Kabul. She says she wants to become a lawyer in the future, but now she is prohibited from chasing her dream and is badly disappointed.
"As a girl, I feel like I am not a citizen of Afghanistan. I am locked at home like a prisoner," she said.
A number of boys, meanwhile, urged the Education Ministry to allow the girls to continue their schooling. "Our schools have reopened, and it would be good if girls’ schools also reopened so they can continue their classes," said Ahmad, a student.
"The girls’ schools should also reopen," another student said.
Just In Sayedul Shuhada Girls High School, thousands of girls are being deprived of an education. According to the school administration, around 7,000 students are enrolled at the school. Following the recent decision, nearly 5,000 girls have not been allowed back.
Aqila Tawakuli, the headmaster of the school, said that around 4,745 students who are in classes above sixth grade are at their homes.
Based on numbers of the Education Ministry, currently 14,098 schools operate in Afghanistan, of which 4,932 are schools with students from grade 10-12, 3,781 from grades 7-9, and 5,385 from grade 1-6.
According to the statistics, out of the total schools, 28 percent of grade 10-12, 15.5 percent of 7-9, and 13.5 percent of grade 1-6 are girls’ schools.
Saeed Khosti, a member of the Cultural Commission of the Culture and Information Ministry, said: "There are technical problems.There are problems that should be solved fundamentally and there is a need to make a policy and framework. In this framework, it should be established how our girls should continue their lessons. When these problems are solved, all the girls can go to school."
The female students said that although the Taliban ...Arabic for students... has repeatedly said it has changed, their recent decision is disappointing and causes the girls and young women to fear a further loss of rights.
Looking at the photo at the link, there were perhaps a few dozen protesters willing to risk Talib beatings.
[ToloNews] Women's rights and civil society activists on Sunday gathered in front of the former women's affairs ministry building to react against education restrictions against women and girls and to demand that their intetests are represented in the government.
The caretaker cabinet recently replaced the ministry of women's affairs with the ministry of virtue and vice, and told formerly employed women to stay at home.
The protestors called for the caretaker government to reinstitute the ministry of women and to allow the girls’ secondary schools to be opened.
Lida, a civil society activist, said: "The ministry of women, which is the identity of women, should not be eliminated. This elimination means the removal of women from society."
Women's rights activist Diba Farahmand said: "The ministry of virtue and vice should not have replaced the ministry of women. It should go elsewhere."
In the meantime, the protestors emphasized that the women who have been prohibited from working are financially responsible for their families. "There are women who are breadwinners for their families. There is no way for them, except working," said Hasina Sarwari, a women's rights activist.
Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... a movement called "Wave of Change" led by Fawzia Koofi held a meeting on Sunday, and called for the inclusion of women in the caretaker government, otherwise the movement will launch civil protests.
Fawzia Koofi, who attended the meeting virtually, said that she is coming to Afghanistan soon. She said: "It is apparent that the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... sideline women from society. It is clear that the Taliban still hold their previous ideas and have not changed."
This comes as the education ministry of the caretaker cabinet on Friday announced only that male students and teachers should report to school.
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When the Nazis shut my mother out of public and private schools in the Netherlands, then shut down the Jewish schools, my grandmother found Jewish educators to tutor Mama in the living room. There were stories about such things in Afghanistan the last time round, so I expect parents are quietly getting on with it, this time with modern textbooks.
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Sunday, the Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba said that the long-standing Chairman of the state-run National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanallah, can remain in his post.
Al-Dbaiba’s decree has revoked an earlier decision by the country’s Oil and Gas Minister, Mohammed Aoun, who sought to suspend the NOC’s Chairman.
The announcement may also end a dispute between the NOC and Oil and Gas Ministry that risked causing a slump in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) member’s crude production.
Oil Minister, Mohammed Aoun, said in late August that Sanallah, who’s been in his role for seven years, was suspended for an alleged "violation" of rules regarding business travel.
The attempted ouster underscored the political tensions in a country that’s been mired in conflict and civil war for much of the past decade.
On Friday, the NOC announced the resumption of crude oil exports in both Sidra and Ras Lanuf ports, after stopping for one day. Oil exports were halted after a group of demonstrators protest inside the two ports.
Despite the delay in shipment, production was not reduced, the NOC explained.
"Since the February 2011 revolution, the NOC has been the faithful custodian of Libya’s oil wealth," Sanallah said
"We will never accept the politicization of the corporation to use it as a bargaining chip by some politicians to achieve non-national interests and agendas," Sanallah added.
Sanallah also demanded that the "hidden hands" behind these events will be held accountable, and that they be brought to justice.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... Libyan Minister of Oil and Gas told Bloomberg that the decision to suspend the Sanallah was still valid. "An earlier decision to suspend the NOC’s Chief was still in effect and awaiting enforcement by authorities."
[All Africa] Can a revamped Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) turn the tide against the malignant 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.... -linked gang that continues to terrorise the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (DRC)?The FIB is staffed by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and attached to the United Nations
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The United Arab Emirates has named six Nigerians who are alleged to be financing turban group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , as well as other criminal activities in Nigeria. The list includes Abdurrahaman Ado Musa, Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad.
The decision came about a year after the six were indicted for sponsoring Boko Haram. The accused were said to have transferred up to U.S.$800,000 to the Death Eaters between 2015 and 2016. A court had found them guilty of setting up a Boko Haram cell in the UAE to raise funds and material assistance for them.
A Nigerian government official who was allegedly said to be involved in the sponsorship of the Death Eaters that has killed over 100,000 civilians and security forces and inflicted untold economic damage on the country since its campaign began in 2009. The government official, it was gathered was yet to be publicly identified by the UAE authorities, amidst alleged diplomatic pressure not to publish the name.
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Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militias in 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... on Saturday defied human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. and government warnings and executed nine civilians, including a minor, in the insurgency-held capital of Sanaa after accusing them of involvement in the assassination of Saleh al-Samad in April 2018.
That’s three years ago...
Samad, who held the post of president in the Houthi-controlled administration which runs most of northern Yemen, was killed in an air strike in the port city of Hodeidah on Yemen’s west coast.
The execution of the nine civilians from Hodeidah was described as a total war crime by the internationally recognized government and has sparked widespread outrage among human rights activists in the war-torn country.
Hundreds of activists took to social media against the Houthi move and accused the Iran-backed militia of striking fear among civilians in areas under its control by carrying out such actions.
[EpochTimes] The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned several Chinese entities and individuals based in China for financing Iran-related terrorist activities.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Treasury Department posted on its website on Sept. 17 that it’s imposing sanctions on members of the networks that finance the terrorist organization Hezbollah in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that... and Kuwait. The United States has also sanctioned members of international financial controllers and front company networks that provide financial support to Hezbollah and Iran.
Several of the sanctioned companies are based in Hong Kong, including PCA Xiang Gang Ltd.; Damineh Optic Ltd.; China 49 Group Co. Ltd.; Taiwan Be Charm Trading Co., Ltd.; and Black Drop Intl Co., Ltd.
Those companies are either directly or indirectly owned, controlled, or directed by Morteza Minaye Hashemi, an Iranian businessman living in China who’s also on the sanctions list. Hashemi is accused by the U.S. government of funding the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF).
Hashemi, who controls a number of companies in Hong Kong and mainland China, was helped by two Chinese nationals, Yan Su Xuan and Song Jing, according to the Treasury Department’s statement. They opened a bank account for Hashemi under his instructions and are the owners of the company on paper. Yan also purchased military-civil, dual-use products from the United States on behalf of Hashemi to ship to Iran.
The two other companies now under sanctions—Victory Somo Group (HK) Ltd. and Yummy Be Charm Trading (HK) Ltd.—are owned or controlled by Song. Hashemi also has supervised the financing and management of the companies.
The Treasury Department stated that it will seize the properties of the sanctioned individuals and entities in the United States and prohibit all transactions with them.
The department stated that Hashemi used his access to the international financial system to launder money for IRGC-QF and Hezbollah. Hashemi worked with Mohammad Reza Kazemi to launder tens of millions of dollars for IRGC-QF and Hezbollah through foreign exchange and gold sales.
Regarding the new sanctions, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that Hezbollah used revenues generated by the financial networks to "fund terrorist activities and to perpetuate instability in Lebanon and throughout the region."
Blinken called on governments around the world to take measures to ensure that Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations aren’t allowed to have access to financial institutions.
"The United States will not relent in targeting these networks, and we will continue to take action to disrupt their activities," he said.
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They're on double secret probation.
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[GREATERKASHMIR] Strongly condemning the killing of a policeman and a labourer in Kulgam district of south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , the Union Minister of State in PMO Dr Jitendra Singh on Saturday said that efforts were being made to create fear among masses.Dr Singh, who is also the Union Minister of State (Independent charge) Science & Technology, Minister of State (Independent charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, stated this here after inaugurating a blood donation camp.
The Union Minister arrived in Kashmir for a two-day visit as a part of outreach programme going on for over a week now. He also met BJP functionaries this evening. "There are some elements, who do not want that there should be peace in Kashmir," he said adding that even common citizens did not want such incidents to happen in Kashmir. "However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... efforts are being made to create such atmosphere and fear among the common masses," Dr Singh said.
"Reality is that terror and snuffies are now in their last phase and they want to revisit this way and are thus, targetting, common citizens," he added. On the visit of the Parliamentary delegation to Jammu and Kashmir, the Union Minister said that some projects were stalled in Kashmir for the last few years, they gained momentum due to these visits and those works were also being reviewed.
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[GREATERKASHMIR] Director General of Police Dilbag Singh Saturday visited Kulgam in south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... and Handwara, and Kupwara in north Kashmir and called for intensifying operations against the bully boys.Chairing the security review meetings at Kulgam and Kupwara, the DGP directed the officers to keep a strict watch on the suspicious elements and Over Ground Workers (OGWs) who are providing any kind of support to violent mostly peaceful activities.
He directed the officers to revisit the security plans "as the bandidosgunnies in order to create disturbance were looking for soft targets and stressed for counter strategies and preventive measures".
The DGP emphasised upon the officers to remain extra alert and ordered a series of counter measures to prevent unfortunate incidents like the killing of the Railways Protection Force (RPF) cop and a non-local labourer.
Singh said that protecting the lives of the people was the prime concern of the Police and every attempt of the anti-national elements to disrupt the peaceful atmosphere in J&K would be dealt with firmly.
He directed the officers to intensify the "operations against bandidosgunnies and terror support network" and said, "The bandidosgunnies involved in yesterday's killings should be brought to justice very soon."
The DGP directed the officers to augment the security of vulnerable targets and places.
He emphasised for putting in use the latest technology in monitoring the movement of suspicious elements.
Singh reiterated the importance of maintaining close synergy between the J&K Police and other agencies to meet the security challenges in J&K.
He said that the killing of infiltrators in the recent past at various border areas was an indicator that Pakistain and its agencies were making continuous attempts to disturb peace and stressed upon the offices to maintain alertness on the borders and the hinterland to check the movement of anti-peace elements.
He also led officers and relatives in paying floral tributes to Bantu Sharma at Kulgam and in the afternoon visited the family of SI Arshid Ahmad Mir at Handwara.
He was accompanied by IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar, DIG South Kashmir Range Abdul Jabbar, DIG North Kashmir Range Sujit Kumar and other senior officers.
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[Rudaw] A Peshmerga official on Saturday said Kurdish and Iraqi security forces have made good progress in their collective efforts to counter 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) murderous Moslems, forming joint operation centers in disputed areas, but the establishment of a joint brigade will be delayed until after the election. Their combined efforts raise hopes of putting an end to the activities of the murderous Moslem group in Iraq.
The brigades would have been formed by now "if it wasn’t for this year’s October 10 elections," Deputy Peshmerga Minister Sarbast Lazgin said in a presser.
Iraq will hold parliamentary elections on October 10.
Joint operation centers in Khanaqin, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Makhmour, and western Nineveh have been formed and security and military cooperation between the Kurdistan Region and Baghdad is headed down a good path, Lazgin added.
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[Rudaw] 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... has threatened to expand operations against what it described as "American and Zionist mercenaries" in northern Iraq, vowing to annihilate them weeks before millions of Iraqis head to the polls in a national election.
The threats from Iran’s chief of the armed forces come as Tehran feels emboldened following the US abandonment of Afghanistan.
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US wars are what gave Iran an opening in Iraq in the first place. Everyone said, knock Saddam off his perch and Iraq becomes an Iranian province. And then a shocker: it happened.
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U.S. troops is attacked by drone
Published Tue, Jul 6 2021
The U.S. military confirmed a Tuesday evening drone attack in northern Iraq, near a base that houses American troops.
[SHAFAQ] A Kurdish official in Diyala Governorate said that Kurdish candidates are prevented from electoral promotion and publishing election posters in Khanaqin.
The official front man for the Kurdistan Alliance and member of the Khanaqin Center for the PUK, Abbas Mahmoud, told Shafaq News Agency, "the candidates of the Kurdish parties were prevented by the other parties from publishing electoral posters in Saadiyah, Jalawla, Jabara and Qara Tapa."
Mahmoud expressed astonishment at the deprivation of the Kurdish candidates from their right to promote their candidacy, while Arab candidates from Arab parties are conducting their electoral propaganda regularly in Khanaqin.
Mahmoud called on the Electoral Commission and the security authorities to confront any party that prevents electoral promotion.
Moreover, a Kurdish party official reported that a PUK member in Jalawla had received threats and warnings from entering Jalawla.
Since October 2017, Kurds have faced organized political and security marginalization by parties trying to revive the Arabization attempts against the Kurds, which the former regime practiced against the Kurdish community.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The US-led International Coalition against ISIS in Iraq and Syria has renewed its support for Iraq as US forces begin their gradual withdrawal from the Levantine country. For what that's worth.
The fourth round of meetings of the Joint Technical Committee between Iraq and the US had kicked off in Baghdad on Friday with the Joint Operations Command of the Iraqi Army saying that a security agreement had been signed to reduce the combat units and military forces in each of the two bases of Ain al-Assad in western Iraq’s Anbar province, and Harir in the Kurdistan region near Erbil.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... the Coalition said Saturday it carried out raids targeting sites of the terrorist organization on the outskirts of Kifri district in the Sulaymaniyah province in northern Iraq.
"Coalition warplanes carried out three air strikes targeting terrorist hideouts in the Koh mountain range near Nogol district in Kifri district," according to a security source who requested anonymity.
"French warplanes bombed a location where the gunnies were hiding, near the village of Qalan, according to intelligence information," said the source.
Earlier Saturday, the Iraqi Ministry of Defense said in a statement that security forces had arrested an ISIS member in the al-Mushahdah district, north of the capital Baghdad.
In a Twitter post, military front man, Col. Wayne Marotto, said the Coalition is committed to supporting both the Iraqi security forces and the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in their fight against ISIS and to ensure that the group "never resurges."
It is noteworthy that the Coalition’s stand in solidarity with Iraq comes at a time that ISIS is waging several operations in different parts of the country, even in areas near the capital, Baghdad.
While the Iraqi government had concluded a truce with Iran-aligned armed factions to ensure they no longer target US troops in Iraq, the most important development remains Baghdad’s agreement with Washington to cut back the number of forces in Ain al-Assad in western Iraq’s Anbar province, and Harir in the Kurdistan region near Erbil.
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Translation: "No we won't be leaving a tip."
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One militant says the escapees that were captured by the IDF early Sunday were not protected by the factions because they were located in eastern Jenin away from where the 'resistance groups' were located. More excuses will likely be heard over the coming days.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The new head of the Atomic Energy Organization 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... has said he wants to speed up the conversion of the country's Arak heavy water reactor into a research facility.
Under a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, Tehran agreed to modify the Arak reactor so that it could not produce military-grade plutonium.
"This project must be reconfigured and returned to operation as soon as possible," Iranian media on Saturday quoted Mohammad Eslami as saying during a visit to the site this week.
No time frame was specified.
The nuclear deal gave Iran sanctions relief in return for tight controls on its nuclear program, monitored by the UN.
Tehran has gradually rolled back its nuclear commitments since 2019, a year after then US president Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... withdrew from the multilateral deal and began reimpozing sanctions.
Iran said in 2019 that a secondary circuit for the Arak reactor had become operational as part of its redesign, but that the reactor's primary circuit, which contains the core, was still being built.
It also said that the US withdrawal from the nuclear accord had slowed the reactor's conversion.
Eslami's comments came just days after the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, visited Tehran and reached a temporary arrangement to continue surveillance of Iranian nuclear facilities.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that...
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The US-led International Coalition against ISIS in Iraq and Syria has renewed its support for Iraq as US forces begin their gradual withdrawal from the Levantine country.
...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 
