[PJMedia] Saturday, Feb. 1, is another World Hijab Day, a Western feminist expression of solidarity with Moslem women in the United States who are supposedly oppressed and discriminated against because they wear the hijab. The National Education Association (NEA) is going in for this in a big way out of concern for hijab-wearing Moslem women who have supposedly been discriminated against. Notably absent, however, is any NEA concern for women who have been victimized for not wearing the hijab.
The NEA asserted Wednesday that "Moslem students in the United States—from middle school through college and university—are experiencing harassment, discrimination, and bullying at scary rates, surveys show. On college campuses, 49% of Moslem students experienced harassment or discrimination due to their Moslem identity, they told the Council on American—Islamic Relations-CA in 2024. More than one in three felt targeted by professors; more than half by their peers." That would be terrible indeed, but it ain’t necessarily so.
Nonetheless, in order to counter this alleged harassment and discrimination, the NEA wants you to observe World Hijab Day, and quotes one of the proponents of the day as saying: "The whole goal is to dismantle Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... ." The idea that there have been any significant manifestations of "Islamophobia" is, however, dubious; note that the NEA relies for its data on the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... -linked Council on American-Islamic Relations ... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm... (CAIR). Yet CAIR has been caught promoting numerous fake hate crimes.
Also, the oppression related to the hijab is not linked to wearing it, but to not wearing it. Actual incidents of Moslem women being harassed or discriminated against for wearing the hijab in the U.S., meanwhile, are extraordinarily hard to find. It’s much easier to find examples of Moslem women in America who falsely claimed that they were being harassed or discriminated against in order to score points on the left’s insane scale of victimhood worship.
Back on Sept. 16, 2022, in Tehran, the Iranian morality police arrested Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, for not wearing her hijab properly. Amini later died in a hospital in Tehran, and numerous Iranians charged that she had been tortured to death while in jug. All over the country, protesters erupted into the streets to protest not against the hijab laws, but against the repressive and brutal Islamic Theocratic Republic itself.
Other women, and male protesters as well, were killed as the Iranian regime ruthlessly applied the Qur’anic injunction to "strike terror in the enemies of Allah" (8:60). The protests went on for months until the regime began summarily executing protesters, and even then some indomitably courageous Iranians continued to take to the streets to demand their freedom.
It is against that backdrop that World Hijab Day is once again being celebrated. For innumerable women in Iran, the hijab is the most visible sign of their second-class status, and of the brutality of the regime that will imprison them for years or even kill them outright for daring to venture out in public without wearing it.
For the Reader’s edification, editorialist Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, appends a longish list of hijabis who lied in recent years about being attacked for wearing the thing, and an even longer list of girls and women attacked and killed for refusing to wear one.
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If we need to do something in Afghanistan in the future, there are some women there who would probably help us.
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I would like to invite any Female NEA members to vacation 30 days in IRAN, or any other such Islamic nation. Then behave, teach, act, and dress the same as they do and teach here.
Then honestly report back to us their 1st hand experiences. If they can.
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"Each year, our Mohammedan lobby
Promotes here its queer little hobby
Of steering you girls
Clear of baring your curls"
Sneers a dear merely beaten hijabi.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is filling President Joe Biden’s gaps in the nation’s border wall.
Trump’s new border patrol chief, Michael Banks, touted the wall construction in a Saturday tweet: “Efforts like installing wall panels to fill critical gaps in Deming, New Mexico, exemplify our commitment to enhancing infrastructure and operational effectiveness.”
The expanded concrete-and-steel wall will complement Trump’s many other border measures. Those changes include the deployment of more border guards and the rollout of legal changes that minimize loopholes in the border law.
The combination of the wall, guards, and legal changes is likely to greatly reduce the flow of migrants.
Trump will soon push Congress for extra border wall funding via a fast-track “reconciliation” spending bill.
Public support for border security is at record levels.
In January 2021, Democrats stopped construction of Trump’s border wall.
President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, also halted the planned development of lights and sensors on the completed portions of the wall. His decision to stop construction likely violated a federal “anti-impoundment” law that bars officials from not spending the money allocated by Congress for specific purposes.
His decision helped more than two million illegal migrants sneak through or across the incomplete wall.
Democrats wanted the migrants to get in so they could take jobs and suppress wage inflation amid massive spending by the Democrats. The plan failed, partly because the migrants also spiked inflation by boosting housing prices.
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It wasn’t just the Dems that wanted the invasion. Half of the GOP Senators have made pro-invasion arguments in the last 4 years.
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His decision to stop construction likely violated a federal “anti-impoundment” law that bars officials from not spending the money allocated by Congress for specific purposes.
The House has already voted to impeach Mayorkas for his misdeeds. The Senate has already voted against taking up the impeachment. What one Congress forbids, the next allows.
[IsraelTimes] Iran-backed rebels say they released ‘humanitarian’ prisoners, aiming ‘to build trust and establish a new phase’ in peace talks to end decade-long civil war Did I just read about Trump releasing 2000-lb bombs to Israel? Why, yes I did 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... ’s 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... rebels unilaterally freed 153 war detainees Saturday, the International Committee of the Red Thingy said, one of several overtures in recent days to ease tensions after the ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
Previous prisoner releases have been viewed as a means to jumpstart talks over permanently ending Yemen’s decade-long war, which began when the Houthis seized the country’s capital, Sanaa, in 2014.
However,
the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... the release comes just after the Houthis detained another seven Yemeni workers from the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... , sparking anger from the world body.
Those released previously had been visited by Red Thingy staff in Sanaa and received medical checks and other assistance, the organization said while announcing the release.
Let us note that the Red Cross freely visited Houthi prisoners to check on them, but never even asked to visit those held in Gaza. Do I harp on this point? Then I shall continue to harp.
The Houthis had signaled Friday night they planned a release of prisoners.
The Red Thingy said it "welcomes this unilateral release as another positive step towards reviving negotiations."
"This operation has brought much-needed relief and joy to families who have been anxiously waiting for the return of their loved ones," said Christine Cipolla, the ICRC’s head of delegation in Yemen. "We know that many other families are also waiting for their chance to be reunited. We hope that today’s release will lead to many more moments like this."
Abdul Qader al-Murtada, the head of the Houthis’ Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs, said in a statement carried by Houthi media that those released were "humanitarian cases’ that included the sick, maimed and the elderly.
"The goal of the initiative is to build trust and establish a new phase of serious and honest dealing," al-Murtada said.
The Red Thingy has helped oversee other prisoner releases, including one that saw some 1,000 prisoners swapped in 2020, over 800 detainees exchanged in 2023 and another release in 2024.
The rebels said earlier this week they would limit their attacks on ships in the Red Sea corridor and released the 25-member crew of the Galaxy Leader, a ship they seized back in November 2023, as the Gaza ceasefire took hold.
The war in Yemen has killed more than 150,000 people, including fighters and civilians, and created one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters, killing tens of thousands more.
The Houthis’ attacks on shipping during the Israel-Hamas war have helped deflect attention from their problems at home. But they have faced casualties and damage from US-led Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting the group for months now, as well as strikes by Israel.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... Yemen’s economy is in tatters, something that’s put increasing pressure on the Houthis and others in the conflict to potentially negotiate an end to the war.
A de facto ceasefire in the conflict, which drew in a Saudi-led coalition in 2015, has largely held for several years now even during the Houthi attacks over the Israel-Hamas war.
Yet the Houthis still conducted the raids that saw seven UN workers detained, likely alongside others. The rebels previously detained UN staffers, as well as individuals associated with the once-open US Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, aid groups and civil society.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... late Friday demanded the immediate and unconditional release of the seven, as well as all other UN workers held by the Houthis, some since 2021.
"The continued targeting of UN personnel and its partners negatively impacts our ability to assist millions of people in need in Yemen," he warned in a statement. "The Houthis must deliver on their previous commitments and act in the best interests of the Yemeni people and the overall efforts to achieve peace in Yemen."
The UN has halted work in Yemen, which provides food, medicine and other aid to the impoverished nation.
US President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... separately has moved to reinstate a terrorism designation he made on the group late in his first term that had been revoked by president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant.... , potentially setting the stage for new tensions with the rebels.
Analysts have linked the newest UN detentions as being connected to the decision, though the Houthis themselves have yet to comment on them.
The rebels have been airing repeated programs on television channels they control parading people they describe as working with Western intelligence agencies or the Israelis.
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Not happy with this but could be a huge oppotunity for deals. Columbia has a very low GDP per person (cheap labor) but they are highly educated and skilled. They are where Mexico was some 20-30 years ago and can make low end items in low-medium added value (see ore into refined raw metal and such) and then ship that to Mexico/US for assembly into higher value added products. Aaaaand we have a free trade agreement with them. Maybe slip a few billion from venture capitalists to build up infrastructure that are encouraged by tax breaks and that can help decouple from China even more
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Ha. Colombia is playing soccer and we're playing baseball, with Nolan Ryan pitching.
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Closing the visa section (as the article states) is not the same as closing the embassy. Don't get me wrong - glad we did it and should do it more places.
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Oi! Who will buy my coffee beans?
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BREAKING: Following retaliatory measures announced by President Donald Trump Colombian President Gustavo Petro now is offering his presidential plane to help repatriate deportees
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That was quick?
🚨 BREAKING: Following retaliatory measures announced by President Donald Trump Colombian President Gustavo Petro now is offering his presidential plane to help repatriate deportees pic.twitter.com/Mcei5f1lUi
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The threat was more than just closing the embassy visa section. Red State collected the entire sequence here, including President Trump’s epic 1000-word image posted in response to the capitulation. Just keep scrolling down.
[BBC] In the shadow of a vast crucifix, labourers and construction workers in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez are building a small city of their own. A tent city.
On the old fairgrounds, beneath an altar constructed for a mass by Pope Francis in 2016, the Mexican government is preparing for thousands of deportees they expect to arrive from the United States in the coming weeks.
Juarez is one of eight border locations along the 3,000-kilometre-long (1,900 miles) border where Mexico is getting ready for the anticipated influx.
As well as protection from the elements, the deportees will receive food, medical care, and assistance in obtaining Mexican identity documents, under a deportee-support programme which President Claudia Sheinbaum's administration calls "Mexico Embraces You".
"Mexico will do everything necessary to care for its compatriots and will allocate whatever is necessary to receive those who are repatriated," said the Mexican Interior Minister, Rosa Icela Rodriguez, on the day of Trump's inauguration.
For her part, President Sheinbaum has stressed her government will first attend to the humanitarian needs of those returning, saying they will qualify for her government's social programmes and pensions, and will immediately be eligible to work.
She urged Mexicans to "remain calm and keep a cool head" about relations with President Trump and his administration more broadly – from deportations to the threat of tariffs.
"With Mexico, I think we are going very well," said President Trump in a video address to the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. The two neighbours may yet find a workable solution on immigration which is acceptable to both – President Sheinbaum has said the key is dialogue and keeping the channels of communication open.
Undoubtedly, though, she recognises the potential stress President Trump's declaration of an emergency at the US border could place on Mexico.
An estimated 5 million undocumented Mexicans currently live in the United States and the prospect of a mass return could quickly saturate and overwhelm border cities like Juarez and Tijuana.
It's an issue which worries Jose Maria Garcia Lara, the director of the Juventud 2000 migrant shelter in Tijuana. As he shows me around the facility, which is already nearing its capacity, he says there are very few places he can fit more families.
"If we have to, we can maybe put some people in the kitchen or the library," he says.
There comes a point, though, where there simply isn't any space left – and donations of food, medical supplies, blankets and hygiene products will be stretched too thin.
"We're being hit on two fronts. Firstly, the arrival of Mexicans and other migrants who are fleeing violence," says Mr Garcia.
"But also, we'll have the mass deportations. We don't know how many people will come across the border needing our help. Together, these two things could create a huge problem."
Furthermore, another key part of Mr Trump's executive orders includes a policy called "Remain in Mexico" under which immigrants awaiting dates to make their asylum cases in a US immigration court would have to stay in Mexico ahead of those appointments.
When "Remain in Mexico" was previously in place, during Trump's first term and under the presidency of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico, Mexican border towns struggled to cope.
Human rights groups also repeatedly denounced the risks the migrants were being exposed to by being forced to wait in dangerous cities where drug cartel-related crime is rife.
This time around, Sheinbaum has made it clear that Mexico has not agreed to the plan and won't accept any non-Mexican asylum seekers from the US as they wait for their asylum hearings. Clearly, "Remain in Mexico" only works if Mexico is willing to comply with it. So far, it has drawn a line.
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The cartels will run the camps. The result will be further trafficking.
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further trafficking.
But hopefully no longer north into the U.S. Also, it will make a nice starting point when our Special Forces start hunting the terrorist narco gangs — so much less disturbing for the locals than banging on their own doors, right?
[IsraelTimes] Cyprus has been transit point for repatriation of foreign nationals fleeing conflicts in Middle East and for delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza amid Israel-Hamas war
Experts from the US Air Force are looking at ways to upgrade Cyprus’s premier air base for use as a humanitarian staging post in future operations in the Middle East, a Cypriot official told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named Thursday.
Cyprus, which is only 184 kilometers (114 miles) from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, has acted as a transit point for the repatriation of foreign nationals fleeing conflict in the Middle East and beyond on numerous occasions in the past. It has also served as a transit point for humanitarian aid to Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Experts from the 435th Contingency Response Group based out of Ramstein, Germany will spend the next few days at Andreas Papandreou Air Force Base to assess the upgrade needed to accommodate a wide array of US air assets and other forces.
Cyprus and Israel have worked on several joint projects in recent years, as I recall. Once the base is upgraded, America might not be the only one interested…
A key priority is to ensure air traffic safety in and around the base, which abuts the island’s second-largest civilian airport, the official said. The base’s location makes it easy to transfer evacuees onto civilian aircraft at the adjacent airport for their trip home.
The official spoke to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named on condition of anonymity because he’s not authorized to speak publicly about the details of the experts’ visit.
Air traffic safety would need to be enhanced through new high-tech installations, including state-of-the-art radar, to ensure the independent operation of civilian and military aircraft at safe distances.
Other essential upgrades include expanding both the base itself and the runway to accommodate more transport and fighter aircraft. Hardened shelters to protect those air assets are also envisioned.
The Cyprus government agreed to the air base upgrade assessment following the recent deployment of a US Marine contingent at the base. The Marines, who were equipped with V-22 Osprey tiltrotor military transport and cargo aircraft, were on stand-by in the event of a swift evacuation of US citizens from nearby Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel... during Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah targets late last year.
Deputy government front man Yannis Antoniou told the state broadcaster Thursday that any use of the base by the forces of the US or other nations would require prior Cyprus government approval. He insisted the air base would not act as a forward base for military strike operations against targets in the region.
"We’ve shown interest in working with [US Forces] because we consider this to serve the vital interests of the Cyprus Republic," Antoniou said, adding that in their report, the USAF experts will offer an estimate of the upgrade costs and which percentage of those the US government would be willing to cover.
'I think we're going to move them to the border where they are allowed to carry guns.'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump has revealed what could be the fate of nearly 90,000 newly hired Internal Revenue Service (IRS) staff, suggesting he might 'move them to the border'.
Words to drive some, or perhaps many, to quit, which I suspect is the objective.
Hours after he was handed over the presidency, the Republican leader signed an executive order to stop the hiring of all federal civilian employees until 'his Administration can determine that it is in the national interest to do so'.
Apart from the IRS, the decision is temporary for all other federal offices. He also froze funding for the Inflation Reduction Act commonly known as the bipartisan infrastructure law.
President Trump's order has since thrown the future of about 87,000 new IRS agents who had been hired for the 2022 Act into jeopardy.
According to Forbes, they were meant to 'focus on work pursuing high-wealth individuals, complex partnerships, and large corporations that do not pay taxes owed'.
However while speaking to a crowd of roughly 2,000 people at the Circa Resort & Casino in downtown Las Vegas today, he said they may be 'moved to the border'.
'They hired - were trying to hire 88,000 new workers to go with you, and we're in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them or maybe we move them to the border,' the President said amongst cheers.
'I think we're going to move them to the border where they are allowed to carry guns. You know, they're so strong on guns. But these people are allowed to carry guns. So we will probably move them to the border.'
Apart from halting new hiring, the new leader also announced the creation of a complimentary agency to the IRS to deal with external taxes and tariffs.
Like the IRS, the External Revenue Service (ERS) will collect and uphold laws related to taxes on foreign countries.
It comes after Trump said in November that he will impose a 25 percent tariff on Canada and Mexico.
He also wants to put an additional 10 percent tax on goods from China – on top of other existing tariffs.
'I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families,' Trump said during his speech at the Capitol on Monday.
'Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.'
Trump went on: 'For this purpose, we are establishing the External Revenue Service to collect all tariffs, duties and revenues.'
'It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our Treasury – coming from foreign sources,' he concluded.
'The American dream will soon be back and thriving like never before.'
The proposed 25 percent tariff would represent a significant escalation in trade tensions and could impact a wide range of industries, from agriculture to automotive manufacturing.
He also warned world leaders they could face crippling economic sanctions if they don't start manufacturing in America in a blistering speech to the World Economic Forum on January 23.
The president said nations 'will pay' if they opt against doing business in the United States and touted a return to the 'Golden Age' of financial prosperity.
He also offered an incentive of lower taxes and rates to nations that choose to move more of their business while he is in the White House.
In remarks putting the globe on notice, he said his message was very simple: 'Come make your product in America and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on earth... but if you don't make your product in America, then very simply, you will have to pay a tariff.'
As he rolled out his strategy to boost American manufacturing, he also urged Canada to become the 51st state to avoid the crippling economic sanctions he could deploy worldwide.
[IsraelTimes] Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, Liri Albag reunite with parents; Israel cancels planned return of Gazans to north, demands civilian Arbel Yehud’s release be arranged
Four female soldiers held hostage by Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... for 477 days — Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, and Liri Albag — were released by the terror group on Saturday after being paraded through a Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... City square before being handed over to the Red Thingy.
Having walked calmly with their captors to the stage, the four smiled and waved to the large crowd that Hamas had assembled in the square.
The release marked the second set of hostages to be freed under the current ceasefire-hostage release deal. Israel was later to free 200 Paleostinian security prisoners, including dozens serving life sentences for murder and terror.
Crowds of Paleostinians gathered early in the morning in the same central square in Gaza City where Romi Gonen, 24, Emily Damari, 28, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31, were released last week.
The chaotic scenes of that release were not repeated, with Saturday’s handover heavily stage-managed by Hamas.
Dozens of armed and masked Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... button men formed a cordon around a stage that had been set up in the square. A drone could be seen distributing candy to members of the crowd.
After the arrival of the Red Thingy transport, the four hostages were brought into the square in separate vehicles. Dressed in olive garb meant to look like IDF uniforms and clutching "gift bags" from Hamas, the young women were marched onto a stage festooned with English and Arabic slogans such as "Paleostine: The victory of the oppressed people vs the Nazi Zionism."
A large sign in Hebrew also read, "Zionism will not win."
All four women appeared in good physical condition as they went up on stage, holding hands, waving to the crowd and smiling before being escorted by masked button men into the waiting Red Thingy vehicles. (According to Israel’s Health Ministry, freed hostages were drugged by Hamas to appear "happy" in previous releases.)
The four women’s appearance Saturday was in stark contrast to the images of the young soldiers seen after they were captured on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led bandidosholy warriors stormed their Nahal Oz military base. Bloodied and frightened, they were dragged into Gaza in their pajamas.
After their release, Ariev, 20, Gilboa, 20, Levy, 20 and Albag, 19, were handed over by the Red Thingy to IDF special forces who escorted them across the border, back home into Israel, and to the Re’im IDF facility. There, they were reunited with their families and underwent a brief medical check.
"They are in safe hands and on their way home," IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a televised statement.
HAMAS PROPAGANDA
On Saturday afternoon Hamas published a propaganda video showing the release. In the video, Hamas gave each of the hostages a "prisoner release form," along with a framed certificate and a keychain with the Paleostinian flag.
The hostages were also forced to wear badges with their personal details, attached to a lanyard with a Paleostinian flag pattern.
The four young women were seen thanking Hamas in Arabic for their treatment — in statements that were almost certainly coerced — before they were taken to the packed square in Gaza City where they were handed over to the Red Thingy.
Hagari slammed Hamas for the staged ceremonial handover.
"Hamas is a murderous terror group. In the last few hours, Hamas proved its cruelty by organizing a cynical ceremony," he said, adding that Hamas "presented a misrepresentation of treatment and care for the hostages, while in reality, it is cruelly holding for 477 days innocent civilians."
"The mission will not end until all of them return to Israel," he added.
TEARS OF JOY
The military said that the four were checked by army doctors when they were handed over to the IDF by the Red Thingy inside Gaza and were in relatively good physical condition.
"Their medical condition is normal, with no findings that require special [emergency] medical intervention on the ground," officials said. They will undergo further assessments by doctors and mental health officers at an army base near the border, before being taken to a hospital.
Video showed their families at the IDF facility near Re’im clapping, cheering and crying with joy as they watched their loved ones emerge from the Hamas vehicles.
Hundreds of people gathered in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, viewing a livestream of the release while friends and families of the four watched from their homes.
VIOLATING THE DEAL
Hagari said Hamas violated the hostage agreement with the release of the four female soldiers before releasing all civilian women. "Hamas did not abide by its obligation in the deal to free civilian women first," he said.
Hagari said Israel will make sure that civilian hostage Arbel Yehud, who Israel believes to be alive, is released soon, along with Shiri Bibas and her children, adding, "We have heavy concerns for their fate."
He said Israel expects more information on the Bibas family soon.
Hagari also said the military is "committed to the return of Agam Berger, another surveillance soldier kidnapped on October 7, 2023, and all the other hostages.
The five are among seven female soldiers kidnapped from the IDF surveillance unit at the Nahal Oz army base during the Hamas-led massacre on October 7, 2023.
One of the kidnapped surveillance soldiers, Ori Megidish, was later rescued alive, and the body of a second one, Noa Marciano, was recovered after she was murdered in captivity.
Following the return of the four soldiers to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office issued a statement saying that due to Hamas not standing by its obligation to release Yehud, Israel would delay allowing Paleostinians to return to the northern Gaza Strip.
"Israel has received four female hostage soldiers from the Hamas terrorist group today, and in return will release security prisoners" according to the deal, the PMO said.
"In accordance with the agreement, Israel will not allow the passage of Gazooks to the north of the Gaza Strip until the release of civilian Arbel Yehud, who was supposed to be released today, can be arranged," the statement added.
The decision was reportedly made during security consultations held by Netanyahu on Friday night, soon after Hamas had released the names of the four female soldiers it was freeing, but announced after the releases so as not to jeopardize them.
The announcement means that, as things stand, the IDF will not be withdrawing from part of the Netzarim Corridor on Sunday.
Under the deal, Israel was set to withdraw from the northern half of the corridor on day seven of the ceasefire to allow Paleostinians to return to north Gaza via the coastal road.
Israel had conveyed to Hamas that it expected Yehud — who is thought to be held by fellow terror group Paleostinian Islamic Jihad — to be released this weekend. However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... she was not named by Hamas on Friday. Yehud had been on the list to be released in the only previous hostage-truce deal, in November 2023, but the deal collapsed before the final scheduled group of releases.
Hamas is expected to provide Israel with details on the status of the 26 remaining hostages on the list later Saturday or Sunday, providing long-sought specifics on which hostages are alive. There was concern in Jerusalem, however, that Hamas might merely provide an overall number of how many of the 26 are alive.
TERRORISTS TO BE FREED AND DEPORTED
Following the release of the hostages on Saturday, Israel freed another batch of Paleostinian security prisoners, some 200, 121 of whom were serving life sentences for attacks that killed dozens of Israelis.
Hamas’s list of life-term prisoners showed that 70 of them were to be exiled. Egyptian media reported that Israel had delivered them to Egypt via Gaza’s Rafah Border Crossing.
Terrorists released included Mohammad Odeh, 52, and Wael Qassim, 54, both from East Jerusalem. They were incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! for carrying out a series of deadly Hamas attacks against Israelis, including a bombing at a cafeteria at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2002 that killed nine people, including five US citizens.
It is believed that 87 of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.
[IsraelTimes] Female soldiers tell family and friends about periods with no food, cleaning toilets for terrorists, months without showers, seeing TV news of protests on their behalf.
[IsraelTimes] Lawmakers rage at call between Abbas and Fatah prisoner Yasser Abu-Bakr who was serving multiple life sentences, warn that PA cannot be given role in managing post-war Gaza
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> made a congratulatory phone call on Saturday to a Paleostinian terrorist who was released as part of a hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... despite having been sentenced to a cumulative 115 years back in 2004.
The phone call drew outrage from Israeli politicians, who pointed to it as proof that under Abbas, the PA was not fit to play a role in the governing of postwar Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... A video carried out by Paleostinian news outlets showed Fatah prisoner Yasser Abu-Bakr taking a call from Abbas after his release.
A native of the West Bank’s Jenin, Abu-Bakr was sentenced in 2004 to a cumulative 115 years in jail for arming a terror cell that shot up a Netanya hotel lobby in March 2002, wounding some 50 people and killing a nine-year-old girl. The cell’s members also killed two coppers and a civilian bystander in subsequent shootouts.
According to reports on social media, Abu-Bakr rebuffed Abbas’s well-wishes and told him that the congratulations were out of place given the high corpse count in the Gaza Strip after 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas, sparked by the October 7, 2023 terror assault in southern Israel.
The PA president’s call to the convicted terrorist prompted an outpouring of rage from Israeli politicians, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich who declared that Abbas "was and is an enemy" of Israel.
"Mahmoud Abbas was and is an enemy, a terror supporter, a promoter of terror, and the authority he heads was and is a terrorist organization, and is not a ’partner’ to anything," the far-right Religious Zionism chair said, referring to calls within Israeli society for Israel to allow the PA to govern the Gaza Strip in place of Hamas.
"His phone call tonight to a Jew-murderer is a wake-up call to those who still delude themselves about the PA being an alternative to Hamas in Gaza after the war. It won’t happen. Not in Gaza and not in Judea and Samaria," Smotrich said, using the Biblical terms for the West Bank.
Israel has attempted to downplay reports in recent weeks that the PA will play a significant role in postwar Gaza, and that it will be allowed to take control of the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt in future phases of the ceasefire deal.
While the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has partially denied the veracity of the reports, it has admitted that the PA currently plays a limited role at the crossing, providing the stamp on passports allowing Gazooks to exit the Strip.
Netanyahu has publicly refused to entertain the idea of the PA ruling postwar Gaza, accusing it of glorifying terror and supporting the October 7 attack. Yet many in the Israeli security establishment have privately backed such a move due to the lack of any other viable alternative.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian crowds hail terror group as Israel frees 200 inmates, including 121 serving life for attacks that killed dozens; one prisoner refuses to leave jail for Gaza, is swapped
Recently released Palestinian prisoners that were facing life sentences, enter Ramallah as flags from Hamas, Fatah, DFLP, and PFLP wave around them.
Prisoners released: 81 Hamas life sentences 23 PIJ life sentences 13 Fatah life sentences 2 PFLP life sentences 1 DFLP life… pic.twitter.com/QaBciBb5Ap
Israel on Saturday released 200 Paleostinian prisoners, including 121 serving life sentences for terror attacks that have killed dozens, in return for four female soldiers held by Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... , according to two lists published by the terror group.
Hamas’s list of life-term prisoners showed that 70 of them would be exiled. Egyptian media reported that Israel had delivered them to Egypt via Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s Rafah Border Crossing after Hamas released Naama Levy, Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa and Liri Albag.
None of the other Paleostinian prisoners were set to be exiled, according to Hamas’s list of non-life-term prisoners.
Crowds of Paleostinians erupted in joy and chanted praise of Hamas as they welcomed dozens of prisoners who arrived in Ramallah aboard buses.
Stepping off the buses in gray tracksuits, many prisoners were raised onto the shoulders of people waiting, while others walked through the crowd.
"I had no doubt that I would be liberated one day. I was confident of that," said Mohammad al-Arda, sentenced to life imprisonment plus 15 years over his membership in the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group. He was recaptured in 2021 after digging his way out of jail through an improvised tunnel with three other inmates.
"We were in solitary confinement, under pressure and pain. I swear to God that when I saw the happiness of my people I became happy too, a happiness that words can’t describe," he said, after returning to Ramallah.
In the first, 42-day phase of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, Israel is expected to release up to 1,904 Paleostinian security prisoners, including 737 serving life terms, in return for 33 Israelis held captive in Gaza.
Naser Dawoud, a Hamas terrorist who spent 21 years in prison serving two life sentences for taking part in attacks on Israel, said he couldn’t believe his name was among those to be freed. "I am a human being and was sentenced for life, I didn’t expect this to happen, there were some efforts before, but this time God blessed us," he told Rooters.
Paleostinian national flags and flags of the Fatah faction that dominates the Paleostinian Authority could be seen in photos and videos from the West Bank. PA forces were reported to confiscate Hamas flags in some cases.
However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... in the village of Kafr Aqab in East Jerusalem, which is under Israeli jurisdiction, Hamas flags were seen during a celebratory procession.
Before the implementation of the ceasefire-hostage deal, Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the IDF to prevent celebrations and parades by Paleostinians during the releases of security prisoners.
Channel 12 news reported that prisoners freed to Gaza were greeted with chants of "We are the people of Muhammad Deif," referencing Hamas’s late military chief, who was killed in an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in the Strip in July.
Footage shared on social media showed prisoners deported to Egypt phoning relatives after their release. The former prisoners include some responsible for orchestrating deadly suicide kabooms over the past several decades.
Saturday’s release is the second under the ceasefire, after Sunday saw Hamas free three civilian women in return for 90 Paleostinian security prisoners — mostly women and minors.
The lists Hamas published Saturday showed that three members of the so-called Silwan Squad were slated for release, all of whom were said to be headed for exile: Wael Qassam, Wissam Abbasi and Muhammad Odeh.
The Silwan Squad, named for its members’ East Jerusalem neighborhood, killed 35 people and maimed hundreds in five bombings across Israel between March and June 2002, at the height of the Second Intifada.
Recently released Paleostinian prisoners that were facing life sentences, enter Ramallah as flags from Hamas, Fatah, DFLP, and PFLP wave around them.
The squad’s fourth member, Alaa Abbasi, was not among the 737 life-term prisoners Israel said it would release in the hostage deal’s first phase. At 60 life sentences, he is serving the longest prison term of the four.
Another terror convict listed as going into exile was Samer al-Atrash, a member of a Hamas cell that killed seven people on a Jerusalem bus in May 2003. al-Atrash is one of a handful of prisoners up for release who hold Israeli citizenship.
According to the list, Israel will also exile Mohammed al-Tous. Arrested for murder in 1985, al-Tous, 69, has spent the longest continuous period in Israeli detention of any Paleostinian prisoner. He is a member of the Paleostinian Authority’s ruling, secularist Fatah movement.
Another Fatah prisoner said to be freed was Yasser Abu-Bakr, a native of the West Bank’s Jenin, who will not be exiled. Abu-Bakr was sentenced in 2004 to a cumulative 115 years in jail for arming a terror cell that shot up a Netanya hotel lobby in March 2002, wounding some 50 people and killing a nine-year-old girl. The cell’s members also killed two coppers and a civilian bystander in subsequent shootouts.
Among the prominent bully boyz slated for release later in the deal are Zakaria Zubeidi, the former Jenin commander of Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, and Mahmud Abu Varda, who is serving 48 life sentences for criminal masterminding multiple terror attacks, including a 1996 bombing on a bus in Jerusalem that killed 45 people.
Most of the prisoners on the lists published Saturday hail from Hamas itself. Others belong to Fatah, Paleostinian Islamic Jihad, and one of two Marxist factions: the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine ... a breakaway faction of the Pöpular Frönt för the Liberation of Paleostine. The are regarded as the most intellectual of Paleostinian fedayeen groups, smoking cheap cigarettes and drawing heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain their crappy lives. They can occasionally be seen strutting through the streets of Paleostine, dressed up like soldiers and lugging firearms, though they seldom manage to hit anything and then usually by accident. This may be because of their habit of wearing black masks that cut off most of their vision. That would also explain their habit of occasionally walking into walls, which is a well-known attribute of those immersed in true understanding of the dialectic... and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine.
One life-term prisoner was listed as having no affiliation — a 15-year-old arrested on November 2, 2023, whose crime was not detailed. Another 15-year-old, arrested the same day, appeared on the list of non-life-term prisoners, also without affiliation. They were the only two minors on the Hamas list.
Except for the two minors, all prisoners were listed as having been arrested before October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led bully boyz stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.
Kan news reported that two of the inmates slated for release had refused to board a bus taking them from Ketziot Prison to Gaza. One of the inmates eventually agreed to board, while the other continued to refuse and was swapped with another prisoner.
It is believed that 87 hostages remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.
Hamas has so far released seven hostages during a ceasefire that began in January. The terror group released 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November 2023, and four hostages were released before that.
Eight hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 40 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the Israeli military as they tried to escape their captors.
In addition to those kidnapped in the October 7 attack, Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the body of an IDF soldier who was killed in 2014. The body of another IDF soldier, also killed in 2014, was recovered from Gaza earlier this month.
[ZeroHedge] Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which rules Syria from Damascus under Jolani, is still a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization under US law. The only change which happened at the end of the Biden administration was that the US $10 million bounty on Jolani's head was removed, at a moment Western officials have engaged the new regime in Damascus on a diplomatic level.
But The Washington Post has just revealed that American intelligence officials met with HTS representatives and passed them classified intelligence information. This happened during the tail-end of the Biden White House.
The Washington Post report begins, "In the chaotic days after the fall of [Bashar] al-Assad, the Biden administration began to engage cautiously with HTS and its leader, Abu Mohammed al-Julani."
"The intelligence exchange with HTS has occurred in direct encounters between US intelligence officials and representatives of HTS, rather than via third parties." The Post continues.
The report adds that this "has involved exchanges between the two sides, in Syria and a third country. It began roughly two weeks after HTS came to power on Dec. 8."
This is being presented by US officials as to combat threats being presented by a resurgent ISIS. For example, there have been recent reported plots against a key Shia religious pilgrimage site on the outskirts of Damascus, the Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque.
"In at least one case, the U.S. intelligence helped thwart an ISIS plot to attack a religious shrine outside Damascus earlier this month, according to the officials," the WaPo report says.
The serious contradiction in all of this is that American companies and citizens are still unable to do business or any interactions with Syrian entities under US counterterrorism laws and due to the long-existent sanctions. And yet, US intelligence is passing on classified information to Syrian leaders despite the terror designation and ongoing sanctions. To an ongoing intelligence collection effort, a "contradiction" is simply an opportunity.
The other glaring contradiction is that the separation between HTS and ISIS ideology is thin and slim. Jolani himself was once the personal emissary of ISIS chief pf Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the early days of the anti-Assad war for regime change.
We've documented previously that in some cases ISIS fighters have simply changed out their black flag patch for a HTS logo: Watch: Syrian 'Moderate Rebel' Removes ISIS Patch At Prompting Of American Journalist.
Foreign fighters have also continued to thrive in post-Assad Syria, with reports of global jihadists terrorizing and pressuring Christians, Alawites, and Druze - most often in the countryside and far away from international media cameras. The US State Department in the early years of the Syrian war acknowledged that tens of thousands of foreign jihadists poured across the borders of Iraq, Jordan, and Iraq to fight Assad forces.
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[MAIL] A top spy chief has issued a chilling warning to Donald Trump, cautioning him over Tulsi Gabbard's nomination as Director of National Intelligence.
Former Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in Britain, Sir John Sawers, described Gabbard's possible ascension to the top espionage post as 'difficult', and said there appears to be no 'overall global plan' behind Trump's pick.
'I think senators have got a lot of responsibility to ensure that only people who are suited to top jobs get through to them, especially those in the most sensitive areas,' Sawers told CNN on Saturday.
'The United States is the most powerful intelligence community in the world, and one of its biggest challenges is Russia, and another (of its) biggest challenges is China.'
The spy chief raised concerns over Gabbard's 'pro-Russian' positions through her career, with critics also pointing to her past remarks on former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad as 'not an enemy' after she controversially met with him in 2017.
'To have someone who's a director of national intelligence who basically takes a very pro-Russian approach, well, that strikes me as very difficult, and it makes it difficult for America's partners as well,' Sawers continued.
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That would be the MI6 that employed Christopher Steele and helped build the Russian Dossier hoax? Excuse me if I think Trump won't take this asshole's advice
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The war hawks intend to tank Tulsi if they think they can get away with it. She was certainly right about our Syrian involvement likely ending like our foray in Libya.
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I'll admit I'm ambivalent about her politics (anti-2A, then flip flopped, the whole Assad thing) but her other attributes means I'll give her a chance to show her stuff.
[IsraelTimes] After Bern demanded probe into death of tourist who was arrested on suspicion of espionage, Tehran says 64-year-old entered Iran ‘in a car fitted with various technical equipment’ "Seat belts and airbags, even!"
A Swiss national who Iranian authorities said took his own life while in an Iranian jail after being arrested on suspicion of espionage had taken pictures of military sites, Iran’s judiciary spokesperson said on Wednesday.
Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... had demanded detailed information on the reasons for the arrest of the 64-year-old man, who had been traveling in 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... as a tourist, and a full investigation into the circumstances of his death earlier this month.
"The person had entered the country from Dogharoun (bordering Afghanistan) in October as a tourist in a car fitted with various technical equipment meant for different purposes," the judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir said.
The Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) has said it was informed by the Islamic Theocratic Republic about the arrest of the 64-year-old man on December 10 on suspicion of espionage.
The man had been traveling in Iran as a tourist, and had not resided in Switzerland for almost 20 years, the FDFA said, adding he had been living in southern Africa.
The Iranian spokesperson said the detainee had hanged himself with a piece of cloth after turning off his cell’s light and placing himself out of the view of security cameras. Epsteined
"After passing through several provinces, he entered Semnan province and was arrested while being in a military-restricted zone," Jahangir said. "He was arrested on charges of taking pictures of the military zone and collaborating with hostile states."
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have in recent years arrested dozens of dual nationals and foreigners, mostly on charges related to espionage and security.
Several Europeans or dual nationals are detained in Iran, including French couple Cecile Kohler and Jacques Gay Paree, who are accused of spying.
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, arrested and tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... in Iran since December, was freed and returned to Rome earlier this month.
In 2023, Oman negotiated the release of six Europeans, including Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, who had been convicted of espionage and spent more than a year in detention.
Rights groups accuse Iran of trying to extract concessions from other countries through such arrests. Iran denies this.
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Everyone should have to sign a statement before they enter Iran: I ____________, am an idiot. I have always been an idiot, and I will always be an idiot.
If I am arrested I will not expect anyone to help me, because I am an idiot.
In Iran lands a panda. [Rick Steves
hits the streets in his shocking short sleeves]
"Folks, it's all black and white:
Friends and food and nice sights,
And quite safe!" [Stevie eats, shoots, and leaves]
[IsraelTimes] IAEA chief Grossi urges diplomacy between US, Iran on nuclear issue; UN chief pushes Iran to renounce nuclear weapons
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... is "pressing the gas pedal" on its enrichment of uranium to near weapons grade, UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Wednesday, adding that Iran’s recently announced acceleration in enrichment was starting to take effect.
Grossi said last month that Iran had informed the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency that it would "dramatically" accelerate the enrichment of uranium to up to 60% purity, closer to the roughly 90% of weapons-grade.
Western powers called the step a serious escalation and said there was no civil justification for enriching to that level and that no other country had done so without producing nuclear weapons. Iran, which frequently threatens to destroy Israel, has said its program is entirely peaceful and it has the right to enrich uranium to any level it wants.
"Before it was (producing) more or less seven kilograms (of uranium enriched to up to 60%) per month, now it’s above 30 or more than that. So I think this is a clear indication of an acceleration. They are pressing the gas pedal," Grossi told news hounds at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
According to an ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency yardstick, about 42 kilograms (93 pounds) of uranium enriched to that level is enough in principle, if enriched further, for one nuclear bomb. Grossi said Iran currently had about 200 kilograms of uranium enriched to up to 60%.
Still, he said it would take time to install and bring online the extra centrifuges — machines that enrich uranium — but that the acceleration was starting to happen.
"We are going to start seeing steady increases from now," he said.
Grossi has called for diplomacy between Iran and the administration of new US President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... , who in his first term, pulled the United States out of a nuclear deal between Iran and major powers that had imposed strict limits on Iran’s atomic activities. That deal has since unraveled.
"One can gather from the first statements from President Trump and some others in the new administration that there is a disposition, so to speak, to have a conversation and perhaps move into some form of an agreement," he said.
Separately, UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... said at Davos that Iran must make a first step toward improving relations with countries in the region and the United States by making it clear it does not aim to develop nuclear weapons.
"The most relevant question is Iran and relations between Iran, Israel and the United States," Guterres said as he discussed the situation in the Middle East at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
"Here my hope is that the Iranians understand that it is important to once and for all make it clear that they will renounce to have nuclear weapons, at the same time that they engage constructively with the other countries of the region."
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Say the Enrichment locations were bombed, AGAIN.
Other than delaying the process yet AGAIN.
There will still be plenty of RAD waste. Rad waste that could be used to make some very dirty waste showering projectiles.
How about instead, making use of the increasing number of Iranian people, that are fed-up with the abusive Draconian practices of the high-ranking Twelver Shia clergymembers?
Just start training these willing Iranian decedents to take out their and the free world's real problem. The Iranian Radicalized Shia clergy members?
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"That nucular balm in a chador,
The Fat Lady, gets even fatter..."
In shocker, World Police
Seen renewing their lease!
Academic: Mad mullahs much madder.
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...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
...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 
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
