[HODHODYEMENNEWS] A prominent military commander in the ranks of the Emirati-backed militias survived on Monday an assassination attempt in the center of the city of Lawdar of Abyan province, southern Yemen.
Local residents reported that an explosive device was planted in the car of “Akram al-Yazidi,” a commander of the militia of “security belt” in Lawdar district, while he was inside a restaurant near the Qat popular market.
The residents confirmed that the explosion did not cause any casualties, despite the presence of many citizens inside the market.
This came amid reports of the withdrawal of a number of UAE military units from Abyan.
Abyan province has been witnessing bloody conflicts for months between armed factions affiliated with the UAE and the militants of Islah and al-Qaeda.
[IsraelTimes] Security forces said to die in ’terrorist’ attack in Sistan-Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... region; assailants reportedly fled toward Pakistain
A "terrorist" attack killed four members of Iran’s security forces in a southeastern region beset by anti-government protests as well as murderous Moslem and criminal unrest, official media reported on Monday.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members were killed "during a terrorist act" in the Saravan region of Sistan-Balochistan province near the Pak border, the state IRNA news agency said.
The region is one of Iran’s poorest and is home to the Baluchi minority, who adhere to Sunni Islam rather than the Shiite branch predominant in Iran.
"The powerful presence of the security forces pushed elements of the group to flee towards Pakistain," IRNA said about the assailants without providing further details.
The area has previously seen festivities with drug smuggling gangs as well as rebels from the Baluchi minority and Sunni Moslem murderous Moslem groups.
Earlier this month a holy man was killed after being kidnapped from his mosque in Khash, a town in Sistan-Balochistan.
A chief prosecutor said last week that the killers of holy man Abdulwahed Rigi had been arrested before trying to cross the border, and accused them of seeking to stir trouble between Sunnis and Shiites.
Violence erupted in the picturesque provincial capital Zahedan on September 30 and authorities said six members of the security forces were among the dozens of people killed.
Local figures said the protests in Zahedan were triggered by anger over the reported rape of a teenage girl by a police officer.
Overseas-based activist muppets accused security forces of firing on demonstrators.
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The casualties came against the backdrop of nationwide unrest that followed the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, 22, after her arrest in Tehran by morality police who accused her of violating Iran’s dress code for women.
Last month a delegation from Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... expressed sadness and promised solutions in a visit to the area, official media said at the time.
In violence elsewhere in Iran, IRNA reported on Monday that four Shiite clergy were maimed by unknown assailants armed with a "sharp object" in the Shiite holy city of Qom, south of Tehran.
Two of them were treated at the scene for injuries, while the other two were taken to hospital but expected to be released, IRNA said.
Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... has executed two men it said were convicted of violence against security force members in connection with the nationwide protests.
Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, was hanged in public after being sentenced to death by a court in the northeastern city of Mashhad for killing two members of the security forces with a knife, the judiciary’s Mizan Online news agency reported last week.
Four days earlier Iran executed Mohsen Shekari, also 23, for wounding a member of the security forces. It was the first announced case of the death penalty being used against a protester.
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[IsraelTimes] State news agency reports air defenses engage Israeli missiles over Syrian capital; extent of damage to targeted sites unclear
Israel launched Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against unknown targets near the Syrian capital Damascus late Monday, leaving two soldiers maimed, Syria’s state news agency reported.
There was no comment from the Israel Defense Forces, in line with its policy of not generally commenting on air raids in foreign countries.
The SANA news agency, citing a military source, said Syrian air defenses shot down several Israeli missiles over Damascus. Syria regularly claims to intercept Israeli missiles, though military analysts doubt such assertions.
Shortly before the Syrian media reports, Israelis near the northern border filmed Israeli Air Force jets flying overhead. SANA said the IAF jets launched their missiles from over the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel.
SANA said two soldiers were maimed as a result of the strikes. Their conditions were not immediately clear.
The state-run news agency ...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?... added that damage had been caused to the sites that were struck. The extent of the damage was unclear.
The last strike in Syria attributed to Israel was on December 11, when a Syrian military site was targeted. Hours later, the IDF dropped threatening pamphlets in southern Syria, warning Syrian soldiers to stop cooperating with the Iran-backed Hezbollah in the area.
At least two Syrian regime soldiers were maimed as a result of an Israeli strike in the vicinity of the capital Damascus on Tuesday, marking the first Israeli attack on the war-torn country in over a month.
Syrian air defenses intercepted several Israeli missiles in the early hours of Tuesday, according to Syrian state media (SANA), adding that at least two soldiers were maimed in the attack.
The strike also resulted in material damages, SANA noted.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that at least four Israeli missiles targeted positions of Iran-affiliated militias in the vicinity of Damascus, killing two unidentified individuals believed to be members of Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective.... 's Hezbollah group.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian media says agents for Israeli spy agency developed contacts with Islamic Theocratic Republic’s arms firms; unclear how many have been arrested
Iran ...The nation is 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... claimed on Monday that it had busted a Mossad-led spy network in the country that sought to gain access and sabotage its defense industry, according to media reports.
Iran’s state-owned Press TV reported that intelligence services uncovered a Mossad operation that employed a data broker, Frank Genin, to act as the head of a spare parts manufacturing company, and then forge connections with Iranian firms and individuals tied to the defense industry. A different Frank G. I swear!
According to the report, Genin invited his contacts to Malaysia to meet Hadrien Lavaux, supposedly a Mossad agent, and managing director of Triple A, an aerospace materials company based in Singapore.
The report claimed that Lavaux’s role in the company was a cover. Genin is listed as the company chairman on the Triple A website.
Triple A then reportedly forged relations with Iranian firms that sell carbon fibers, resin, and other metal alloys, while Lavaux’s partners attended events inside Iran, and took note of the demands of the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s defense industry.
The network then began inviting figures in Iranian defense companies to faux conferences around the world.
Iranian intelligence managed to identify the network, follow its activities and thwart its plans, according to the report.
The report did not specify how many people were arrested.
Iran makes claims of busting Mossad spy rings from time to time. The veracity of such claims is unclear.
Tehran and Jerusalem have long accused each other of spying. Israel views Iran as its greatest threat and has repeatedly threatened to take military action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Iran denies seeking such weapons and has vowed a harsh response to any Israeli aggression.
In January, Israel said it had broken up an Iranian spy ring that recruited Israeli women via social media to photograph sensitive sites, gather intelligence and encourage their sons to join Israeli military intelligence.
Earlier this month, Iran executed four people accused of working for the Mossad, while three others received lengthy prison sentences.
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