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Old April 8th, 2019 #221
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US designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorist organization – Trump
Published time: 8 Apr, 2019 14:16
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The US has designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a “terrorist organization,” accusing the elite force of financing and promoting terrorism in the region. Tehran is now eyeing a mirror response for the American military.

A statement from Donald Trump released Monday claimed: “This unprecedented step, led by the Department of State, recognizes the reality that Iran is not only a State Sponsor of Terrorism, but that the IRGC actively participates in, finances, and promotes terrorism as a tool of statecraft.”

The elite unit is the “primary means” for Tehran in orchestrating its “global terrorist campaign,” the US president claimed.

While the decision has been rumored for some time already, last week US media reports signaled the move was imminent. That information has caused an angry reaction in Tehran, with top Iranian officials vowing to put the whole US Army on a “terror list” in retaliation.

Speaking shortly after Trump’s announcement, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a press conference on the matter, explaining that the designation is set to take effect in one week.

Pompeo accused the IRGC of “masquerading” as a legit military force, while “actively engaging” in terrorism for 40 years. The force “organizes and executes terror campaigns around the world” and is working to destabilize the Middle East region, namely Syria, Iraq, Yemen and other countries, according to Pompeo.

US National Security Advisor John Bolton took to Twitter to reiterate Trump’s statement, with a bit of a personal touch. Bolton explained that the new hostile move against Tehran was made in the name of Iran’s people who “suffer.”

https://www.rt.com/news/455885-us-de...rce-terrorist/
 
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The Iranians aren't bombing schools and hospitals like the IDF is. Izzy and their well tamed pit bull, the USA, are the biggest mass murderers this century.
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The Iranians aren't bombing schools and hospitals like the IDF is. Izzy and their well tamed pit bull, the USA, are the biggest mass murderers this century.
Let's go back almost half a century to the 1972 election for kwa presidunce, shall we?????

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Let us say to Americans, as Woodrow Wilson said in his first campaign of 1912, “Let me inside the government and I will tell you what is going on there.”

Wilson believed, and I believe, that the destiny of America is always safer in the hands of the people then in the conference rooms of any elite.

So let us give our – let us give your country the chance to elect a Government that will seek and speak the truth, for this is the time for the truth in the life of this country.

And this is also a time, not for death, but for life. In 1968 many Americans thought they were voting to bring our sons home from Vietnam in peace, and since then 20,000 of our sons have come home in coffins.

I have no secret plan for peace. I have a public plan. And as one whose heart has ached for the past ten years over the agony of Vietnam, I will halt a senseless bombing of Indochina on Inaugural Day.

There will be no more Asian children running ablaze from bombed-out schools. There will be no more talk of bombing the dikes or the cities of the North.

And within 90 days of my inauguration, every American soldier and every American prisoner will be out of the jungle and out of their cells and then home in America where they belong.

And then let us resolve that never again will we send the precious young blood of this country to die trying to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship abroad.

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This is also the time to turn away from excessive preoccupation overseas to the rebuilding of our own nation. America must be restored to a proper role in the world. But we can do that only through the recovery of confidence in ourselves.


Now, it is necessary in an age of nuclear power and hostile forces that we’ll be militarily strong. America must never become a second-rate nation. As one who has tasted the bitter fruits of our weakness before Pearl Harbor in 1941, I give you my pledge that if I become the President of the United States, America will keep its defenses alert and fully sufficient to meet any danger.

We will do that not only for ourselves, but for those who deserve and need the shield of our strength -- our old allies in Europe and elsewhere, including the people of Israel who will always have our help to hold their Promised Land.
From George McGovern's acceptance speech for Democratic candidate for kwa presidunce, Miami Beach, Fl, 1972.

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Bring doze boyz home from the Nam so they can be Pissrael's soldiers.

I had just turned 22 and just about puked when I heard that Pissrael statement!!!!!!!

And, it ain't over. Drumpf is kissing shitrael's butt for too goddamn long!!! We might as well just have the joococraps and the joobublicunts!!!!!


FUCK YOU SHITRAEL!!!!!!
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Old April 8th, 2019 #225
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IDF = isn't really a defense force. It's a terrorist organization of bandits, highwaymen and pirates.
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The Jewnited States supports terrorist organizations that are good for the jews, like the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), which has carried out assassinations and seeks to overthrow Iran's government:

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The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran or the Mojahedin-e Khalq (Persian: سازمان مجاهدين خلق ايران‎, translit. sâzmân-e mojâhedīn-e khalq-e īrân, abbreviated MEK, PMOI or MKO) is an Iranian political–militant organization[27][28][29] based on Islamic and Socialist ideology and advocates overthrowing the Islamic Republic of Iran leadership and installing its own government.[30][31][32]
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The European Union, Canada and the United States formerly listed the MEK as a terrorist organization, but this designation has since been lifted,
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A wide range of sources states that the MEK has little or no popular support among Iranian people. The most frequent reason cited for it, is that their alliance with Saddam Hussein during Iran–Iraq War, and attacking Iranian conscripted soldiers and civilians, is viewed as treason or betrayal within the homeland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People...ahedin_of_Iran

List of people assassinated by the People's Mujahedin of Iran

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Jews managed to get Western countries to remove MEK from their list of terrorist organizations:

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The United Kingdom lifted the MEK's designation as a terrorist group in June 2008,[269] followed by the Council of the European Union on January 26, 2009, after what the group called a "seven-year-long legal and political battle."[37][36][38] It was also lifted in the United States following a decision by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton[98] on September 21, 2012 and lastly in Canada on December 20, 2012.[39]
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On February 29, 2012, Dershowitz filed an amicus brief in support of delisting the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) from the State Department list of foreign terrorist organization.[64][65]
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IDF = isn't really a defense force. It's a terrorist organization of bandits, highwaymen and pirates.
Oh, absolutely.

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Israel's minister of culture says Palestinian children should be shot


When Ahed Tamimi was 14 years old, she helped fight off a pissraeli soldier who tried to kidnap her young cousin in the West Bank:


https://mondoweiss.net/2015/09/teenage-behind-saleh/


https://www.rt.com/news/313807-idf-s...lestinian-boy/

Here are the pictures:











And here's the video:

State of Palestine: Teenage girl stops IDF soldier attacking injured boy in West Bank

Some despicable pro-jewish hasbara activists have said that this attack is fake, i.e. that it was staged by Palestinian actors, while other hasbara activists admit that the attack is real, but claim that the Palestinian family is to blame for the violence.

When Pissrael's minister of culture and sports, Miriam "Miri" Regev, heard about this she became furious – not because she was upset with the pissraeli soldier who tried to kidnap an injured Palestinian boy, but because the soldier was humiliated by a young girl and a couple of women. Regev wanted the soldier to shoot them:


http://mondoweiss.net/2015/08/soldie...ters-occupied/


https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...inian-conflict

Pissraelis are utter scum. That's the takeaway here.
 
Old August 5th, 2021 #227
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Israel 'Ready to Attack Iran' as Defense Minister Says 'We Need to Take Military Action'

BY BRENDAN COLE ON 8/5/21 AT 4:46 AM EDT

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said his country is ready to attack Iran and that there must be a global response to the threat the Islamic Republic poses.

His comments come amid growing tensions following a deadly drone strike on an Israeli-operated tanker off the coast of Oman.

Israel, along with the U.S. and the U.K., has blamed Tehran for the attack on the Mercer Street last week that killed two people—the Romanian captain and a British crew member. Iran has denied involvement in the incident.

"Israel is ready to attack Iran, yes," Gantz told Ynet on Thursday.

"We are at a point where we need to take military action against Iran. The world needs to take action against Iran now," he added, in comments tweeted by Ynet journalist Attila Somfalvi.

Gantz also told the outlet that Tehran is looking to challenge Israel on a number of fronts including building up its forces in Lebanon, deploying militias in Syria and Iraq and maintaining its supporters in Yemen. "Iran is a global and regional problem and an Israeli challenge," he said.

Israel is in "ongoing discussions with our U.S. allies," the defense minister added, saying there is an international reaction that includes the UN Security Council "to the recent Iranian aggressions."

"We know that when the Islamic Jihad faction in Gaza launches attacks against Israel, they do so with the support and urging of the Islamic Republic," Gantz said.

His comments come on the day hardliner Ebrahim Raisi was set to be sworn in as the new Iranian president, and they reiterate the Israeli position that it is ready to strike against Iran.

Possible Strike Against Iran


Israeli Lieutenant General Aviv Kochavi said in January that his forces had been instructed to prepare for a possible offensive against Iran.

On Wednesday, the commander-in-chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, issued a warning to countries threatening Iran—especially Israel.

"There is no act, from any enemy at any point and with any scope, that will be tolerable and won't prompt us to show a strict and decisive response," he said during a visit to the country's forces, according to Al Jazeera.

Iran's deputy ambassador to the U.N., Zahra Ershadi, rejected Israel's claims that Tehran was behind the attack on the vessel.

She said in a letter to the UN Security Council that Israel "has a long dark record in attacking commercial navigation and civilian ships," the Associated Press reported.

Newsweek has contacted Iran's foreign ministry for comment.

https://www.newsweek.com/israel-iran...on-act-1616434
 
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Israel's malign behavior stems from blind Western support: Iran Foreign Ministry

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Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman has censured Israel for threatening Iran with military action following a recent attack on an Israeli-managed tanker in the Sea of Oman, blaming Western countries for Tel Aviv's "malign behavior."

"In another brazen violation of int'l law, Israeli regime now blatantly threatens #Iran with military action," Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a Thursday tweet.

The Iranian spokesman blamed the West for Israel's "malign behavior," saying that the regime's conduct was the outcome of Western countries' blind support for Tel Aviv.

Khatibzadeh then warned the Zionist regime and its supporters that "ANY foolish act against Iran will be met with a DECISIVE response."

"Don't test us," Iran's Foreign Ministry admonished Israel.
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Iran has chosen wisely.

Iran's New President Has a Track Record of Antisemitism | Opinion

JONATHAN A. GREENBLATT , CEO AND NATIONAL DIRECTOR, ADL
ON 6/27/21 AT 8:00 AM EDT


The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a 19th century forgery by Russian intelligence services, was designed to scapegoat Jews for the empire's hardships. It has since fueled more than a century of hate. The Protocols has catalyzed antisemitic harassment, assaults and pogroms, and helped lay the groundwork for the Holocaust. For over a century, the Anti-Defamation League and other experts have warned that The Protocols are nothing but venomous lies and antisemitic conspiracy theories.

And Iran's President-Elect, Ebrahim Raisi, played a hands-on role in promoting The Protocols as part of a sustained campaign to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish people.

This information, which the ADL recently uncovered, is deeply relevant as the world considers whether to return to the Iran deal and what would constitute a "longer and stronger" accord. Raisi's track record shows us that an obsessive hatred of the Jewish state is not an abstraction but a major feature of his career.

To be clear, Raisi is far from a humanitarian. He has gotten much attention for reported crimes against humanity. It is well-documented that he was one of four judges who, in the late 1980s, oversaw the execution of thousands of members of Iranian opposition groups, including women and children. One analyst recently wrote that his subdued personality and criminal record evokes Hannah Arendt's notion of the banality of evil.

In 2016, Raisi was appointed by Iran's supreme leader to direct the Astan Quds Razavi Foundation, in which capacity he oversaw the production of a 50-episode documentary film promoting The Protocols. The documentary aired on Iranian TV and was distributed to pilgrims at a major religious shrine under his control, the Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad, Iran, the resting place of the eighth Shi'ite Imam. The Shrine is a major religious site visited by 20 million pilgrims a year pre-pandemic, according to Iranian records filed with UNESCO.

While the Foundation had previously published and promoted hardcopy editions of The Protocols and continued to do so during his tenure, under Raisi, it also exploited new media to amplify the spread of the antisemitic Protocols. About a year after Raisi assumed control, the Foundation announced plans for the documentary about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

In 2018, the film, titled "the Devil's Plan," was released and the Foundation held a press conference in one of the Shrine's historic courtyards. The film's director told journalists that Jews, "the leaders of this front of untruth," have in the Protocols "codified from past centuries the most complete plan for their demonic world domination" and that the film explains the need for their "elimination." He decried "the hands of the party of Satan, namely, global Zionism" and said the film would be broadcast on both the Foundation's television network and on public TV stations.

The Foundation then published a news bulletin announcing that its 50-part documentary would be available on CD for pilgrims visiting the Imam Reza Shrine and distributed to audiences at the Foundation's cultural programs.

Raisi left the Foundation in 2019 when he was picked to head Iran's judiciary, but the Foundation continued the antisemitic project it pioneered during his leadership. For example, several weeks after Raisi left, the Foundation announced a contest on which contestants would be quizzed as to the contents of the Protocols film, to better teach the "ways to confront the tricks of Satan." The public was invited to participate in the contest online and pilgrims encouraged to submit answers using special drop boxes at the Imam Reza Shrine.

As head of the Foundation, reportedly the largest holding company in Eastern Iran, Raisi bore responsibility for its exploitation of a major heritage site to spread vicious antisemitism and for letting its financial resources be used to propagate such incitement against the Jewish people.

But even since he's left the Foundation, Raisi has continued to incite hateful conspiracy theories and even violence in his public remarks. Last year, he alleged America and "global Zionism" are plotting to subjugate all Muslims, pulling the strings of a global media empire, hatching devious plans in think tanks and conspiring to insult the Prophet Muhammad. And he cheered on other terrorists, proclaiming "all the Zionists know Hezbollah will drop such rockets and bombs so that no person in Israel will be safe."

Raisi's history of hate mongering throws into stark relief the twin perils of U.S. engagement with Iran over its nuclear activities. On the one hand, real progress will be tough to achieve with such a regime, especially now that Raisi's election erases the fiction that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, might be offset by a less provocative Iranian president. But on the other hand, these revelations also highlight the urgency of such negotiations, given how terrifying the prospect would be of nuclear weapons in the hands of such cruel and hateful men.

Clearly, such a dilemma offers no easy answers. Yet our discovery that Raisi was responsible for systematically propagating The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, one of the most dangerous tracts in history, provides an unsettling reminder of just how engaged Iran's government and leaders have been in inciting antisemitism. The revelation appears to substantiate the profound anxiety among Israelis and others in the region about an ascendant and militarized Iran.

The Biden Administration's recent disruption of regime-backed websites that spread Iranian disinformation and bigotry was a positive step, even if those sites already are resuming activity. What's needed now is a forthright recognition by this Administration that Iran's regime remains the number one state sponsor of antisemitism, which the Trump team actually got right. And based on that, the Administration should issue a strategy for constraining and counteracting Iran's initiatives inciting hatred and violence against Jewish communities around the world.

The devastation wrought by dictators from Hitler to Stalin to Khomeini brandishing The Protocols should compel all of us to take seriously the threat represented by an Iranian regime bent on acquiring nuclear weapons and sponsoring terrorism across the region. Raisi comes to this job as a perpetrator of crimes against humanity, and no responsible country should host him for a state visit or any official talks. Now the U.S. and all world powers must work together to assure that he can commit no additional crimes against humanity.

https://www.newsweek.com/irans-new-p...pinion-1604270
 
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Iran will definitely continue to support Palestine: President Raeisi

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Islamic Republic will continue to support Palestine as the main issue of the Muslim world.

"We have never had and never will have any doubt about this policy. In our view, Palestine has been and will be the first issue of the Muslim world." Raeisi said in a Friday meeting with the head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas Ismail Haniyeh, who took part in the swearing-in ceremony of the Iranian president Thursday.

Raeisi commended Haniyeh's optimistic stance on the liberation of al-Quds and the end of Palestine's occupation and said Operation al-Quds Sword - the Palestinian resistance group's 11-day retaliatory rocket and missile launches in response to Israel's brutal bombing campaign of Gaza in May - showed that a great leap has been made in the fight against the occupiers.

"Today, signs of a great victory of the resistant movement have emerged and Operation al-Quds Sword was one of the signs of this victory," he said.

In Operation Sword al-Quds, he added, the resistance forces tightemed the noose on the Zionist enemy in a way that neither the Zionists themselves nor their supporters could even imagine.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken and New Israeli Government Coordinate To Blame Iran For Mercer Street False Flag

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An Israeli-led coalition of the United States, Romania and the United Kingdom are pushing the world to mobilize against Iran.

Yesterday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken took to the United Nations Security Council to demand global action to hold Iran "accountable" for the July 29th sinking of an Israeli-owned vessel captained by a Romanian citizen in the North Arabian Sea. Two people died in the supposed drone attack.

Blinken, who presents as a moderate but holds Jewish extremist views on Iran, did not provide any evidence for the claim. While many hoped the Biden administration would restore the nuclear deal, US policy towards Iran is in practice just as hostile as the campaign run by Zionists in Trump's cabinet.

Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's new president, has adamantly denied any role in the attack on the Mercer Street tanker. Representatives for Tehran have openly accused Israeli intelligence of deliberately sabotaging the ship. Last May, Iran warned the UN that Israel was orchestrating attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf to frame them in order to subvert their diplomatic interests, especially the restoration of the nuclear deal with the US.

A number of American commentators have pointed out the inconsistencies in US/Israeli claims about the Mercer Street. One columnist, conservative icon Pat Buchanan, compared the attack to the infamous "Gulf of Tonkin" false flag that served as a catalyst for the Vietnam War.

Foreign policy analyst Philip Giraldi has reiterated Buchanan's sentiment. It is not in Iran's interest to attack the Mercer Street, an empty, civilian, Liberian flagged (albeit Israeli owned) ship in international waters. The new administration in Tehran has shown eagerness to get the sanctions lifted on their country, and they know they would be blamed for such an incident. Giraldi and Buchanan both suggest that whoever did attack the ship -- likely Israel -- has a vested interest in thwarting a new nuclear deal and isolating Iran even further.

Meanwhile, US and British Special Forces have been dispatched to Yemen to find the supposed drone operators they say are responsible. No public statements by the Pentagon or US government have made any mention of a link to Yemen, but information about the operation was leaked to British tabloid Express, which has typically been an unreliable news source.

At the same time, there is a lot of movement happening on the intelligence front. CIA Director William Burns is expected to arrive in Israel today to meet with Mossad's head David Barnea. The purpose is to discuss the incident and Iran. This is a bad sign for the Iranians.

The amount of noise being made by Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who has threatened full blown war against Iran over the suspicious incident, suggests that a direct confrontation could be approaching.

The real trigger appears to be the election of Raisi, who the New York Times has dubbed a "hardliner." With starvation sanctions failing to move the Iranian people, Zionists in Washington and Israel are running out of patience with one of the only states in the world willing to directly confront world Jewry.

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Israel hopes Biden will take harder line on Iran after Afghan withdrawal

Israel seems determined to focus on the opportunities that could stem from the Afghan crisis, such as a wake-up call to its American allies.


Israeli intelligence had long given up on Afghanistan. When President Donald Trump declared that US troops would withdraw by May 2021, no one in Israel entertained hopes of a change in policy under a Democratic administration. When President Joe Biden announced a final US pullout from the war-torn country, assessments differed on how long it would take the Taliban to crush the modern Afghan state envisioned by the United States and its allies. “It will not take three months and not even one month,” a senior Israeli security source told Al-Monitor several weeks ago on condition of anonymity. “It will happen much faster.” But even he probably did not believe that it could take the Taliban only hours to take over Afghanistan.

Israel has experience with such situations. The departure of its troops from Lebanon in May 2000 was planned as an orderly pullout over several days. It turned into a rushed flight of Israeli forces as the Israeli-supported South Lebanon Army, armed and trained by the United States like the Afghan military, fell apart within hours on live television, making way for the Islamist Hezbollah movement to seize control. A similar situation occurred in Gaza some 15 years ago, with Hamas overtaking the Strip, routing the far bigger and better armed Fatah force of Mohammed Dahlan that had controlled the enclave since the Oslo Accords. “One should not count heads or rifle barrels,” the late Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said at the time. “What counts is willingness to die for a cause. The Hamasniks are determined, Dahlan’s people are not. That’s the story in a nutshell.”

Israel's intelligence agencies clearly envisioned a Judgment Day scenario in terms of US deterrence in the Middle East in general and Iran in particular. But other voices are also emerging in Israel.

“It’s possible to leverage events there in our favor,” a former senior Israeli intelligence source told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity. “I think that the shock experienced by Biden and his people, the harsh public reaction in the US and in the international media could have the opposite effect now, similar to a pendulum effect. The humiliating surrender to the Taliban could actually lead Biden to toughen up and decide to flex US muscle toward Iran, given the threat it poses to world peace and not just to the lives of local citizens.”

Israel would rather stay focused on the opportunities that could stem from the Afghan crisis. “There’s an opportunity here, too,” a senior diplomatic source in Jerusalem told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity. “First of all, it seems to me that these events illustrate to Israel’s allies in the Middle East that only one significant force remains in the world stable and determined enough to stand up to Iran without blinking. That force is Israel.”

The diplomatic source added that as Prime Minister Naftali Bennett heads for his first White House visit later this month, he “must convince Biden that the US, as leader of the free world, cannot afford a series of pullouts and defeats in the Middle East.” Bennett is expected to tell the president that giving in to Iran after folding in Afghanistan could set off a disastrous chain reaction with deleterious effects for generations to come.

“It should be stressed,” the source said, “that Israel does not and cannot have any complaints against the Americans for departing Afghanistan. It is neither fair nor moral to demand that the American taxpayer continue to fund a struggle for the freedom of the Afghan people, and it is the president’s right to put a stop to the bloodletting in this sinkhole.” Bennett’s task will be to convince Biden that Iran is not Afghanistan: It poses a tangible and significant threat to the entire world, and the United States is not being asked at any stage to invade Iran or launch all-out war against it.

“The Americans are the only ones with a credible, significant military option that does not involve boots on the ground, to destroy or at least severely damage Iran’s nuclear infrastructure,” said the diplomatic source. “Putting that option firmly and seriously on the table, and displaying determination to deploy it, is the only way to break though the dead end reached in efforts to block Iran’s nuclear program.”

Bennett is now preparing for this mission, although a final date for his sit-down with Biden has yet to be finalized. At the same time, Israeli intelligence is examining the stunning intelligence failure in assessing Afghanistan’s resilience in the face of the Taliban onslaught. “There are undoubtedly things that intelligence cannot measure, detect or identify,” a former Israeli intelligence source told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity. “One can measure power, weapons, number of fighters, tanks and planes. It’s harder to measure determination, staying power and willpower. Many intelligence assessments have come crashing down in the face of a deceptive reality. We must study the Afghan case so that we can prevent a similar intelligence failure here. Unlike the US, Israel cannot afford mistakes of this magnitude.”

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals...han-withdrawal
 
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Mossad assassinated Iran’s chief nuke scientist with remote AI gun — report

Some would say that the operation succeeded in throwing Iran’s nuclear program into chaos for some months, but that Tehran has long since recovered.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB SEPTEMBER 18, 2021 22:10Email Twitter Facebook fb-messenger

Iran’s chief military nuclear scientist and the father of its weapons program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was assassinated in November 2020 by the Mossad using a remote-controlled artificial intelligence operated sniper machine gun, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

From the start, there has been controversy about how Fakhrizadeh was killed, but The Jerusalem Post can now confirm the accuracy of the Times report regarding the remote-controlled gun.

When he was assassinated, multiple intelligence sources told the Post that the killing of Fakhrizadeh might be as significant a setback to Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb as the destruction of its Natanz nuclear facility in July 2020.

According to the report, “Iranian agents working for the Mossad had parked a blue Nissan Zamyad pickup truck on the side of the road connecting the town of Absard to the main highway. The spot was on a slight elevation with a view of approaching vehicles. Hidden beneath tarpaulins and decoy construction material in the truck bed was a 7.62-mm sniper machine gun.”

“Around 1 p.m., the hit team received a signal that Mr. Fakhrizadeh, his wife and a team of armed guards in escort cars were about to leave for Absard, where many of Iran’s elite have second homes and vacation villas,” said the report.

Next, the report details how the sniper who took out Fakhrizadeh did so remotely from Israel, over 1,600 kilometers away, since the hit squad had long ago left Iran.

The gun which was used was a special model of a Belgian-made FN MAG machine gun attached to an advanced robotic apparatus.

It was smuggled into the country in small pieces over several months because, taken together, all of its components would have weighed around a full ton.

One new detail in the report was that the explosives used to destroy evidence of the remote-gun partially failed, leaving enough of the gun intact for the Iranians to figure out what had happened.

Many of the above details were published by The Jewish Chronicle in a report in February, following contradictory reports in Iran, Israel and globally in November and December 2020 about whether a remote gun or a physical team was used.

At the time of the assassination, most senior Israeli defense and intelligence media analysts leaned heavily toward the physical team theory, viewing the remote-gun scenario as disinformation to throw Iran off the tail of catching the physical team.

At the time of the February report by the Jewish Chronicle, the Post was informed that the planning of the assassination which started in March 2020 was accurate, but that multiple aspects of the report, such as that it had set the Iranian nuclear program back five years, were inaccurate.

The Post can now confirm that the remote-gun portion of the Jewish Chronicle and now the Times report are accurate.

While all Israeli intelligence and defense officials still praise the assassination for setting back Iran’s nuclear weapons program dramatically, 10 months later and with the Islamic Republic an estimated one month away from producing sufficient enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb, the legacy of the operation is less clear.

The Post later reported that a publicly unknown man named “Farhi” replaced Fakhrizadeh, even as experts say he could not be fully replaced.

Some would say that the operation succeeded in throwing Iran’s nuclear program into chaos for some months, but that Tehran has long since recovered.

On the other hand, others say that even if Iran decides to move its uranium enrichment up to 90%, that is weaponized level, they still have to put together the other components of a nuclear weapon capability. These include tasks concerned with detonation and missile delivery. Fakhizadeh would have shone in these tasks and his loss will still be felt and slow down the ayatollahs.

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Old September 21st, 2021 #234
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US, Israeli commanders involved in Gen. Soleimani’s assassination killed: Report

Tuesday, 21 September 2021 3:40 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 21 September 2021 3:44 PM ]

In retaliation to the US assassination of top anti-terror commanders, General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the resistance axis has killed two American and Israeli commanders, according to a report.

The Cradle, which describes itself as a journalist-driven publication covering West Asia, has learned through a senior security source that the resistance axis has killed two high-ranking American and Israeli commanders in a military operation in Erbil in northern Iraq.

The operation was carried out to avenge the killings of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force chief Gen. Soleimani and deputy commander of Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi Mahdi al-Muhandis, the report said on Monday.

Quoting a “senior resistance axis security official,” the report identified the slain men as Lt. Col. James C. Willis, 55, of Albuquerque and of the Red Horse Unit, an American commander, and Col. Sharon Asman, 42, of the Nahal Brigade, an Israeli commander.

Both the US and the Israeli regime had claimed that the commanders were killed in separate accidents days apart.

The Pentagon had on June 27 claimed that Willis died in a non-combat incident at Qatar’s Al-Udeid base, without providing further details.

The Stars and Stripes, an American military newspaper, described him as “commander of the 210th Red Horse Squadron,” a 130-member unit that “provides civil engineering with rapid response capabilities to conduct operations in remote, high threat environments.”

According to Israeli media, Asman died on July 1 “after collapsing during fitness training at a military base in central Israel.” He had fought in Lebanon and Gaza among other places in his career spanning 25 years.

However, dismissing media reports aimed at obfuscating the truth, The Cradle quoted the security source as saying that both Willis and Asman were killed in Erbil during an operation against those involved in the assassinations of Soleimani and Muhandis.

There have been at least two separate attacks this year on the Israeli spy agency Mossad targets in Iraq.

The first incident came in mid-April, after Israel’s sabotage attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, strikes on maritime vessels belonging to the two sides in regional waters, and the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last November.

The Cradle source did not elaborate on the timing of the attacks that killed Willis and Asman.

“Iran has changed the equation of dealing with the (Israeli) regime,” the source was quoted as saying, referring to Iran’s new assertive stance toward the Israeli regime.

Pertinently, this is the first time a resistance axis official has claimed responsibility for retaliatory measures against the killers of the top Iranian and Iraqi commanders, The Cradle said in the report.


Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Mahdi al-Muhandis, the two iconic figures in the fight against the Daesh terrorist group, were killed in a US airstrike outside the Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020.

Days after the brazen act, the IRGC launched a volley of missiles at a major military base housing American forces in Iraq.

Iranian officials have on several occasions vowed to avenge the death of the two top commanders, as well as the killing of its top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Iran has denounced the assassinations as “state terrorism” and vowed to end the American presence in the region as the ultimate act of revenge, while urging neighboring Iraq to expel the US forces from the country.

Last week, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian pledged to legally pursue the case and bring the perpetrators to justice.

“Continuing to pursue this case and bringing the state terrorists to justice is one of the definitive policies of the Iranian Foreign Ministry,” he said last Tuesday, during a meeting of the special committee on the legal and international pursuit of General Soleimani’s assassination.

“The Foreign Ministry is committed to its intrinsic duty to pursue this issue legally, politically and internationally,” he stressed, while emphasizing the need to keep alive the memory of Gen. Soleimani.

On Monday, Iran’s Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Mohammad-Reza Gharaei Ashtiani also vowed a “crushing response” to any “imprudent move” by the enemy.

The newly-appointed minister said Iran has repeatedly stressed that its defensive power and progress in new technologies and domestic innovations are meant to ensure national security and respond to any external aggression.

“The enemies of the Iranian nation will definitely receive a crushing response for any imprudent and reckless action and will incur heavy costs,” Brig. Gen. Ashtiani asserted, referring to the Israeli regime.

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a remote-controlled artificial intelligence operated sniper machine gun,
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Jews are cowards, it's what they do. Or get goyim to do their dirty work.
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The U.S. will be seen as endorsing the crime, resulting in yet another foreign policy disaster in the Middle East, Philip Giraldi writes.

Some might recall candidate Joe Biden’s pledge to work to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) which was a multilateral agreement intended to limit Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon. The JCPOA was signed by President Barack Obama in 2015, when Biden was Vice President, and was considered one of the only foreign policy successes of his eight years in office. Other signatories to it were Britain, China, Germany, France, and Russia and it was endorsed by the United Nations. The agreement included unannounced inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities by the IAEA and, by all accounts, it was working and was a non-proliferation success story. In return for its cooperation Iran was to receive its considerable assets frozen in banks in the United States and was also to be relieved of the sanctions that had been placed on it by Washington and other governments.

The JCPOA crashed and burned in 2018 when President Donald Trump ordered U.S. withdrawal from the agreement, claiming that Iran was cheating and would surely move to develop a nuclear weapon as soon as the first phase of the agreement was completed. Trump, whose ignorance on Iran and other international issues was profound, had surrounded himself with a totally Zionist foreign policy team, including members of his own family, and had bought fully into the arguments being made by Israel as well as by Israel Lobby predominantly Jewish groups to include the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Trump’s time in office was spent pandering to Israel in every conceivable way, to include recognizing Jerusalem as the country’s capital, granting Israel the green light for creating and expanding illegal settlements on the West Bank and recognizing the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as part of Israel.

Given Trump’s record, most particularly the senseless and against-American-interests abandonment of JCPOA, it almost seemed a breath of fresh air to hear Biden’s fractured English as he committed his administration to doing what he could to rejoin the other countries who were still trying to make the agreement work. After Biden was actually elected, more or less, he and his Secretary of State Tony Blinken clarified what the U.S. would seek to do to “fix” the agreement by making it stronger in some key areas that had not been part of the original document.



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jewsign WATCH: IDF F-15 Jets Escorted US Bomber in Apparent Show of Force to Iran as Tensions Remain High

TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - Israeli F-15 fighter jets have escorted a US B-1B bomber over the skies of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday.

The joint flight was another example of “the continued strategic cooperation of the IDF with the United States in the area,“ the IDF added.

The army shared*pictures*and footage of the escort mission, which was apparently aimed at sending a message to Tehran, given the*heightened tensions*between Iran, on one side, and the Jewish State and the US, on the other.


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TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - Israeli F-15 fighter jets have escorted a US B-1B bomber over the skies of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday.

The joint flight was another example of “the continued strategic cooperation of the IDF with the United States in the area,“ the IDF added.

The army shared*pictures*and footage of the escort mission, which was apparently aimed at sending a message to Tehran, given the*heightened tensions*between Iran, on one side, and the Jewish State and the US, on the other.


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It's more fun to see a B-1B escorted away from Russian airspace by MiGs and Sukhois.

Or away from Iran by Iran air force jets if that ever happens.
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