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  1. #61
    IRGC: What Is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps?
    https://sputniknews.com/military/201...rrorism-state/




    Fighting 'Deviant Movements'

    The IRGC was founded after 1979 Revolution.
    Whereas Iran's regular military (or Artesh) defends the country's borders and maintains internal order,
    the Revolutionary Guard is intended to protect the country's Islamic Republic system,
    preventing foreign interference,
    coups by the military
    or destabilization by "deviant movements" (internal groups, individuals and elements opposed to the government).

    The Corps has roughly 125,000 military personnel including ground, aerospace and naval forces,
    with the latter now the primary forces tasked with operational control of the Persian Gulf.
    It also controls the paramilitary Basij militia which has about 90,000 active personnel.



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  3. #62
    You could write this off as just diplomatic back slapping & glad handing...
    and of course, this is nothing most of us don't already know...
    but
    being able to declare this history making Syrian victory
    against an aligned, covert and failed 'international plot' of the hegemons
    is a one-of-a-kind event.
    It shows their elevated and allied resolve and blunt awareness.
    I celebrate with them ANY victory against global hegemony.
    It's a Concord and Lexington event for the planet imo.
    Viva la resistance.


    US after creating second Israel in eastern Syria
    http://en.mehrnews.com/news/128484/U...-eastern-Syria




    TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) – Iranian Leader’s Senior Adviser Ali Akbari Velayati warns
    that the increasing presence of the US in eastern Syria signifies their intention to split the region.
    They have the same plot for Iraq, looking for the formation of a second Israel.

    Speaking at a meeting with Syria’s envoy to Tehran,
    Ali Akbar Velayati stated that Syria’s government and president Bashar al-Assad
    proved their support for the Resistance in the region.
    The US and Saudi Arabia thought they could defeat Syria within a few weeks,
    but with the guidance of Bashar al-Assad, the government and its people
    managed to resist for six years, eventually winning an international war.

    “The government and people of Syria guarded the honor of the resistance,
    and demonstrated that it is possible to stand against an evil and international plot.” He added.

    Velayati went on to say that without doubt,
    the hostility of the US and the Zionist regime will bear no fruit in the face of Resistance Front.
    He was certain that Syria’s government will make further efforts to maintain their territorial integrity.

    He noted that the region’s situation is very complicated, but terrorists, extremist groups and their supporters have been defeated,
    adding that the countries of the region have consensus on their shared interests
    which makes them triumphant against the disintegration plots of their enemies.

    Velayati stressed on the intelligent and insightful guides of Leader of Islamic Revolution without which victory would be impossible.

    Adnan Hassan Mahmoud, Syrian envoy to Tehran, expressed his gratitude for Leader’s influential role in the victories of the region
    and said that Iran stood against terrorists with all its might.




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    On October 15th Trump is supposed to declare:
    1. our abrogation (breach) of the 5+1 Nuclear agmnt w/ Iran
    2. the inclusion of a 'State entity' IRGC as a 'terrorist org' and
    3. his 'strategy' for Iran (probably resumption of sanctions)

  4. #63
    **Neocon alert** (I post in its entirety)



    Trump Admin Will Not Commit to Designating IRGC as Terror Group
    http://freebeacon.com/national-secur...-terror-group/




    The Trump administration will not commit to designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, Iran's elite fighting force, as terrorists, despite a congressional mandate to do so by the end of the month, according to multiple U.S. officials and other administration insiders who told the Washington Free Beacon that holdovers from the Obama administration are working to stymie the effort.

    While President Donald Trump is expected to announce this week that he will not certify Iran as in compliance with the landmark nuclear deal, it remains unclear if he will follow through with congressionally approved plans to extend a terror designation to the IRGC, a move that has prompted Iran to threaten greater attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East.

    The IRGC is responsible for numerous terror attacks on American troops over the years and has played a key role in interfering with U.S. operations in Syria. A bipartisan consensus in Congress has already backed such a designation, but key Obama-era holdovers and top national security officials who have the president's ear are urging him to refrain, according to multiple sources who spoke to the Free Beacon.

    Top lawmakers and insiders who spoke to the Free Beacon about the growing uncertainty over how best to hold Iran accountable for its terror activities expressed frustration over what they view as the administration's inability to follow through with its foreign policy promises, particularly as they relate to Iran, which has increasingly targeted U.S. forces with military action.

    New reports emerged Wednesday afternoon that Trump's planned speech on Iran may be scaled back and not take place until Friday, if it does at all.

    Trump last week signed new sanctions legislation mandating that the United States extend a terror designation to the IRGC, marking the first time in U.S. history a foreign country's military branch would be hit with such a designation.

    However, the State and Treasury Departments would not confirm Wednesday that the administration intends to make good on this law, which was approved by Congress with bipartisan support.

    The administration may be getting cold feet due to the objections of key U.S. officials and those in the Treasury Department who view such a designation as harmful to American companies that have business interests in Iran, where the IRGC controls a majority of the economy, sources said.

    "The IRGC is responsible for wreaking havoc throughout the Middle East and, through its Quds Force, for killing hundreds of American troops in Iraq," Rep. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and chair of its National Security Subcommittee, told the Free Beacon.

    "The IRGC represents a quintessential terrorist group and should be designated as such," DeSantis said. "Whereas the Obama administration flew pallets of cash to the IRGC, the Trump administration should act to hold the IRGC accountable. Designating it as a terrorist group is a good first step."

    Neither the State Department or White House would confirm to the Free Beacon plans to follow through with this designation, prompting speculation that the process may be held up over objections by Obama-era holdovers in the Trump administration who view the move as a shot at dismantling the former president's nuclear deal.

    "Congress didn't ask the president to designate the full IRGC," according to one veteran Middle East policy advisor who lobbies Congress on Iran sanctions. "They told the president to do it by veto proof majorities. Obama holdover lawyers and his establishment staffers are telling him he can use loopholes to just go after some entities and circumvent Congress."

    These same voices are continuing to advise Trump against decertifying Iranian compliance with the deal, despite the president's personal belief that the Islamic Republic has flagrantly violated what he has repeatedly described as a bad deal.

    "These are the same people advising him to certify the nuclear deal, which was also rejected by bipartisan majorities in Congress," the source said. "They're wrong and if they stay wrong, lawmakers will eventually make it an oversight issue."

    A State Department official declined repeated requests for clarification on what the administration intends to do about the IRGC, but told the Free Beacon officials remain "deeply troubled by Iran's longstanding provocative activities including its support for terrorism and destabilizing activities in the region."

    "We are committed to holding Iran accountable for its behavior," the official said. "The United States retains the authority to respond to Iran's support for terrorism, human rights abuses, and destabilizing activities. The U.S. government constantly reviews information, through an interagency process, to evaluate potential sanctions violators for targeting under existing sanctions authorities."

    A Treasury Department official did not respond to a request for comment on the matter.

    Iranian officials vowed last week to strike U.S. forces and bases in the region if the Trump administration moves forward with extending a terror designation to the IRGC.

    Rep. Sean Duffy (R., Wis.), a vocal opponent of the Iran deal, told the Free Beacon that Iran would be wise to back down from its threats.

    "President Obama's terrible Iran deal predictably emboldened the Iranian regime to build up their military and antagonize the region," Duffy said. "Iran may have been able to bully our previous president, but the American people elected President Trump to stand up for the United States on the world stage."

    "The Iranian regime is already on notice for being the world's largest state-sponsor of terror, and it would be wise for them to back down from their belligerent posture," Duffy added.
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    basically a warhawk piece excusing Trump & blaming Obama holdovers as peacenik 'traitors'/obstructionists.
    Last edited by goldenequity; 10-12-2017 at 06:46 AM.

  5. #64
    Iran to stay committed to JCPOA if Russia, China, EU refuse to back U.S. decision to quit deal - Tehran source

    aka 5-1 ... EU would have to disobey/ignore 'global' banking sanction commands...
    Last edited by goldenequity; 10-12-2017 at 01:41 PM.



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  7. #65
    Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Says Missile Program Will Accelerate
    https://sputniknews.com/military/201...le-accelerate/

  8. #66
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
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  9. #67
    Saudis Call Missile Attack "Blatant Act Of Aggression" By Iran, "Could Be Considered Act Of War"

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-05/saudis-call-missile-attack-blatant-act-aggression-iran-could-be-considered-act-war
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    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
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  10. #68
    Iran Slams Saudi/US Claims It Ordered Ballistic Missile Attack From Yemen

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-07/iran-slams-saudi-us-claims-it-ordered-ballistic-missile-attack-yemen
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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  11. #69
    Arab League To Hold Urgent Meeting On Iran As Saudis Reportedly Mobilize Fighter Jets

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-12/arab-league-hold-urgent-meeting-iran-saudis-mobilize-f-15-fighter-jets
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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  12. #70
    In October Mr Trump, who scorns the multinational agreement to freeze Iran’s nuclear weapons programme as “the worst deal ever”, disavowed but did not formally withdraw from the pact. That gave Congress 60 days to reintroduce sanctions that were suspended by the deal: a deadline expiring this week. Mr Trump also urged lawmakers to craft new measures to halt Iran’s ballistic-missile development and support for Middle Eastern terrorism. European allies noted Iran’s technical compliance with the deal and warned America it would walk out alone. The buck will now pass back to Mr Trump, whose next chance to kill the agreement falls in January.

    More at: https://espresso.economist.com/8808e...f50499f2fc75e8
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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  13. #71
    Iran to join Russia-led economic power bloc
    https://www.almasdarnews.com/article...ic-power-bloc/



    delegates of member states of the Eurasian Economic Union: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Kyrgyzstan


    Yemen Missiles

    Strategic Sentinel-Conta verificada
    According to CNN, tomorrow the Trump administration will present evidence to the Defense Intelligence Agency of evidence
    that Iran has provided missiles to Houthi rebels in Yemen, missiles like the type the rebels recently fired at Saudi Arabia

    (likely it will be this...)
    U.N. Panel Finds Evidence of Iranian Hardware in Yemeni Rebels’ Missile. And American.
    http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/08/...e-white-house/


    UN does not confirm Iran link to Yemen missiles: report
    http://www.france24.com/en/20171211-...eport?ref=tw_i

  14. #72
    U.S. presents its evidence of Iran weaponry from Yemen

    The United States on Thursday presented for the first time pieces of what it said were Iranian weapons supplied to the Iran-aligned Houthi militia in Yemen, describing it as conclusive evidence that Tehran was violating U.N. resolutions.The arms included charred remnants of what the Pentagon said was an Iranian-made short-range ballistic missile fired from Yemen on Nov. 4 at King Khaled International Airport outside Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh, as well as a drone and an anti-tank weapon recovered in Yemen by the Saudis.
    Iran has denied supplying the Houthis with such weaponry and on Thursday described the arms displayed as "fabricated."
    The United States acknowledged it could not say precisely when the weapons were transferred to the Houthis, and, in some cases could not say when they were used. There was no immediate way to independently verify where the weapons were made or employed.
    But U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley expressed confidence that the transfers could be blamed on Tehran.
    "These are Iranian made, these are Iranian sent, and these were Iranian given," Haley told a news conference at a military hangar at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, just outside Washington.
    All of the recovered weapons were provided to the United States by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the Pentagon said. Saudi-led forces, which back the Yemeni government, have been fighting the Houthis in Yemen's more than two-year-long civil war.
    The unprecedented presentation - which Haley said involved intelligence that had to be declassified - is part of President Donald Trump's new Iran policy, which promises a harder line toward Tehran. That would appear to include new diplomatic push.
    "You will see us build a coalition to really push back against Iran and what they're doing," Haley said, standing in front of what she said were the remnants of the Nov. 4 missile.
    Under a U.N. resolution that enshrines the Iran nuclear deal with world powers, Tehran is prohibited from supplying, selling or transferring weapons outside the country unless approved by the U.N. Security Council. A separate U.N. resolution on Yemen bans the supply of weapons to Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi and others.
    Iran on Thursday rejected the U.S. accusations as unfounded.
    "These accusations seek also to cover up for the Saudi war crimes in Yemen, with the U.S. complicity, and divert international and regional attention from the stalemate war of aggression against the Yemenis," Iran's mission to the United Nations said in a statement.

    More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-u-p...170545594.html
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment



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  16. #73
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    U.S. presents its evidence of Iran weaponry from Yemen
    Good thing there is no evidence of any US or Saudi bombs, missiles, ships, planes, artillery, mortars, ammo, guns, or other weapons being used in, on, or against Yemen.

    Last edited by AZJoe; 12-14-2017 at 03:15 PM.
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
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  17. #74
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    U.S. presents its evidence of Iran weaponry from Yemen

    The United States on Thursday presented for the first time pieces of what it said were Iranian weapons supplied to the Iran-aligned Houthi militia in Yemen, describing it as conclusive evidence that Tehran was violating U.N. resolutions.The arms included charred remnants of what the Pentagon said was an Iranian-made short-range ballistic missile fired from Yemen on Nov. 4 at King Khaled International Airport outside Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh, as well as a drone and an anti-tank weapon recovered in Yemen by the Saudis.
    Iran has denied supplying the Houthis with such weaponry and on Thursday described the arms displayed as "fabricated."
    The United States acknowledged it could not say precisely when the weapons were transferred to the Houthis, and, in some cases could not say when they were used. There was no immediate way to independently verify where the weapons were made or employed.
    But U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley expressed confidence that the transfers could be blamed on Tehran.
    "These are Iranian made, these are Iranian sent, and these were Iranian given," Haley told a news conference at a military hangar at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, just outside Washington.
    All of the recovered weapons were provided to the United States by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the Pentagon said. Saudi-led forces, which back the Yemeni government, have been fighting the Houthis in Yemen's more than two-year-long civil war.
    The unprecedented presentation - which Haley said involved intelligence that had to be declassified - is part of President Donald Trump's new Iran policy, which promises a harder line toward Tehran. That would appear to include new diplomatic push.
    "You will see us build a coalition to really push back against Iran and what they're doing," Haley said, standing in front of what she said were the remnants of the Nov. 4 missile.
    Under a U.N. resolution that enshrines the Iran nuclear deal with world powers, Tehran is prohibited from supplying, selling or transferring weapons outside the country unless approved by the U.N. Security Council. A separate U.N. resolution on Yemen bans the supply of weapons to Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi and others.
    Iran on Thursday rejected the U.S. accusations as unfounded.
    "These accusations seek also to cover up for the Saudi war crimes in Yemen, with the U.S. complicity, and divert international and regional attention from the stalemate war of aggression against the Yemenis," Iran's mission to the United Nations said in a statement.

    More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-u-p...170545594.html
    Neocon Niki's Dog & Pony Show

    "It's hard to find a conflict or a terrorist group in the Middle East that does not have Iran's fingerprints all over it."
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/haley-r...inkId=45908145



    (better cuz it's BIGGER!!!!!!)




  18. #75
    Al-Masdar News-@TheArabSource
    Iran will pull out of Syria immediately if Damascus requests - Analyst
    https://www.almasdarnews.com/article...uests-analyst/

  19. #76
    Saudi Arabia has been bombing the entire infrastructure of Yemen with the aid of Washington, for years. Saudi Arabia, with Washington assistance, is blockading Yemen and starving the people to death. Saudi Arabia is arming Al Qaeda and other terrorists organizations in Yemen, with the assistance of Washington. The situation in Yemen is tragic. So Washington's answer is to sanction Iran.
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
    "War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne "Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.

  20. #77
    Target Iran

    Years ago there was a plan, A Clean Break: Project for the New American Century (PNAC), to wreck the Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians and to re-mold the Middle East. It first involved destroying Iraq or in the discredited words of Paul Wolfowitz, “The road to peace in the Middle East goes through Baghdad.”

    Destroying Syria was to be next. And then Iran. … the “Clean Break” plan “to aggressively remake the strategic environments of Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. …

    In a short one minute video former NATO commander General Wesley Clark criticizes the plan as hatched to remake the Middle East. … neoconservative David Wurmser (subsequently Vice President Cheney’s principal advisor) forecasting “if Saddam Hussein were driven from power, Iraq would be ‘ripped apart by the politics of warlords, tribes, clans, sects, and key families,’ and out of the ‘coming chaos in Iraq and most probably in Syria,’ the United States and her principal allies, namely Israel and Jordan, could redraw the region’s map.” See American Prospect, “The Apprentice.” …

    all this was years ago, but the plan remains …

    Trump has declared that Iran is violating its nuclear agreement although all the other signatories state that it is in compliance. … Washington imposing tighter economic sanctions to bring about a pretext for attacking Iran …

    A Cato Institute report details all the ways Iran has complied with the [nuclear] agreement including giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium, dismantling two thirds of its uranium enrichment centrifuges, allowing international surveillance and other measures …

    Times are Changing
    Washington is now finding it harder to force the Europeans to go along with re-imposing sanctions. China is much stronger and might take up the trade and giant oil investments which Washington could force European companies to forego. Iran has a vastly stronger missile program to retaliate … Iran is three times as large as Iraq and far less subject to fractional internal ethnic divisions. The pro-Israel lobby is divided although … North Korea’s nuclear and new missile technology make it harder for Washington to demand concessions, while at the same time reneging on its past commitments. America’s trustworthiness is already suspect from having attacked Libya after Libya gave up its nuclear program. And even in Washington there is new congressional resistance to the President’s ability to start new wars. …

    starting a war with bombing runs against Iran “would make escalation inevitable.” U.S. “forward deployed bases (and war ships)…are within range of Iranian missiles and it is easy to imagine the vast oil facilities in the Persian Gulf being targeted as war passions would grow. This would paralyze oil exports to Europe and Asia and bring on a world economic crisis. A new American started war would also likely exacerbate America’s terrorism problems and “most likely produce profoundly negative consequences for regional security and American interests,” …

    war professionals are far less enthusiastic for wars than parts of the pro-Israel Lobby for which wars and chaos help their fundraising. … much of Israel’s intelligence establishment supports the Iran agreement. … Carmi Gillon, “the majority of my colleagues in the Israeli military and intelligence communities supported the deal.” …
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
    "War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne "Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.

  21. #78
    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    Neocon Niki's Dog & Pony Show ...


    (better cuz it's BIGGER!!!!!!)



    Appropriate. Its Neocon Nikki's Colin Powell moment.

    So Yemenis are being killed and starved to death by Saudis with US bombs, weapons, intelligence, advice, and logistics ...
    therefore we must go to war with Iran to end the Saudi genocide of Yemen.

    On another point, one Yemen missile supposedly has Iran's "fingerprints", yet ISIS is using large quantities of high tech weaponry unequivocally proven to me directly traced to the US government. Yet Nikki has no problem with US traced ISIS weapons. Oh the hypocrisy. Shouldn't she be calling for a war on Washington.

    Last edited by AZJoe; 12-15-2017 at 09:16 AM.
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
    "War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne "Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.

  22. #79
    From Moon of Alabama: Nitwit Nikki Haley's Colin Powell "Irrefutable Evidence" Moment Crumbles as a Lie

    Her props were alleged missile parts recovered somewhere at some unknown time. She claimed that these were provided by the Saudis and the UAE and showed debris of missiles fired from Yemen. Haley further claimed that Iran had delivered such missiles to Yemen …

    There are several possible explanations of where the Houthi and their then allied Yemeni army might have acquired such missiles. But even if one accepts that Iran delivered these, it is unknown when such deliveries might have taken place. It could have happened years before …

    Haley claimed that the UN had found that the missile debris on display was from an Iranian Qiam missile. But the UN has made no such findings. It only said that the debris and Qiam missiles "had similar structural and manufacturing features". The Iranian Qiam missile .... is a short-range ballistic missile designed and built by Iran. It was developed from the Iranian Shahab-2, a licensed copy of the North Korean Hwasong-6, all of which are versions of the Soviet Scud-C missile. There are many variants of the Soviet Scud family (A, B, C) produced in various countries and they naturally all have "similar structural and manufacturing features".

    The Yemeni military bought Soviet Scuds … The Yemeni military also bought North Korean Hwasong 5 and likely also Hwasong 6 missiles directly from North Korea. The Yemeni army has over 30 years of experience with such missiles and qualified personal to modify these …

    Haley simply lied about the UN findings. They do not say what she claims. Indeed the UN panel acknowledged that the similarities found do not prove the origin: … “as yet has no evidence as to the identity of the broker or supplier” of the missiles, ..

    Haley pointed to one alleged part of the missile debris that bore a logo of an Iranian company. She neglected to point out that the UN panel also found U.S. made hardware as part of the missiles. Neither proves where the missile came from. …

    Sheldon Adelson was the biggest sponsor of her [Haley’s] political career.

    Haley neglected to point out that … Saudi Arabia has killed then-thousands of Yemeni civilians with U.S. provide bombs and missiles. It is Saudi Arabia that is blockading Yemen and causing a very large famine. …

    In view of such a catastrophe one might even hope that Iran provides hundreds of missiles to Yemen to push the Saudis into ending their genocidal policies.


    "Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
    "War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne "Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.

  23. #80
    Another Good Commentary on Nikki Haley;s Foreign Policy Idiocy:

    Nikki Haley is not good at foreign policy. … as America’s envoy to the UN, her most noteworthy moments have been two incoherent diatribes on Iran. The first–an airing of grievances passed off as justification for killing the Iran nuclear deal … Yesterday, she doubled down with a speech trying to make the case that Iran is, among other things, supplying Houthis in Yemen with ballistic missiles … There are a variety of problems with Haley’s assertions. …

    First, Haley cited a UN report in her claim regarding Iranian missile transfers to the Houthis. Of course, the UN has reached no such conclusion. Instead, a panel of experts concluded that fired missile fragments show components from an Iranian company, but they have “no evidence as to the identity of the broker or supplier.” …

    Analysts from the U.S. Department of Defense speaking to reporters at Haley’s speech openly acknowledged that they do not know the missiles’ origin. Perhaps most surreal is the very same UN report cited by Haley also says the missile included a component that was manufactured by an American company. …

    It was therefore appalling to see that Haley’s speech reference Yemen and not include a single word about America’s ongoing military, intelligence, and logistical support for the Saudi-led humanitarian catastrophe taking place. … in addition to bolstering Iran’s influence in country where it was previously negligible, the Saudi-led debacle has also empowered al-Qaeda …

    The most inexplicable part of Haley’s charade is her insistence on talking about Iran rather than talking to Iran. The only thing stopping her from sitting down one on one with her Iranian counterpart at the UN … is her own shortsighted ideological rigidity. … the track record is clear. Talking about Iran produced more missiles … Talking to Iran eventually produced compromises on missiles …

    If Haley is truly concerned about Iran’s missile program and regional activities … immediately halt all American military, intelligence, and logistical support for the Saudi-led humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen. If the war ends, concerns about Iran in Yemen recede. Second, freeze all missile sales … If Saudi Arabia and the UAE aren’t armed to the teeth with missiles they don’t know how to use, Iran’s threat perception and missile development reduces accordingly. …

    At best, this is willful ignorance on Haley’s part. At worst (and more likely), she cherry-picked intelligence in a fashion eerily reminiscent of the 2002-2003 push for invading Iraq. …
    "Let it not be said that we did nothing." - Dr. Ron Paul. "Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone." - Sophie Magdalena Scholl
    "War is the health of the State." - Randolph Bourne "Freedom is the answer. ... Now, what's the question?" - Ernie Hancock.



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  25. #81
    Tehran-Damascus road 'launched' as Iranian military convoy enters Syria (through Iraq)
    https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/ne...&utm_medium=sf




    Iraq:

    Ali Y. Al-Baroodi @aliBaroodi
    Christmas trees & Santa Claus are back to Mosul. You can find them everywhere. It's a nice gesture of peace from Mosulis.
    #rebuildmosul

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRLcti9WkAA0IVa.jpg:large
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRLc4Z2WkAEKrbr.jpg:large
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRLc9JAX4AA1Hom.jpg:large
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRLdBnuWAAErytO.jpg:large





    @BaFana3
    File under 'Fantasy/SciFi' genre.
    #Saudi-produced CGI animation video depicts how #Iran would be occupied and completely destroyed by an invasion of Saudi armed forces



    lol

  26. #82

    Don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

  27. #83
    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    Neocon Niki's Dog & Pony Show

    ... or you can trade what's on the pallets for what's behind Door #3




    "I changed my mind... I want what's on the pallets."

    Don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

  28. #84
    Mid December...


    US, Israel Sign Secret Deal to Cooperate Against Iran
    http://news.antiwar.com/2017/12/28/u...-against-iran/


    Israeli media is reporting a secret deal was negotiated and signed by the Trump and Netanyahu governments
    regarding what they described as “the Iranian threat,” pledging full cooperation with one another
    in targeting Iran in various ways.

    Negotiated behind closed doors,
    The deal was a series of memorandums of understanding negotiated through National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster
    (Remember?? McMaster HIMSELF was 10 years running as NGO coordinator targeting Iran before Trump admin.)


    Now/(suddenly)... (various MSMs/Roiders)

    Dozens Arrested in Iran's Second City After Protests Over Prices
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ts-over-prices

    Protests Flare in Cities Across Iran, as Thousands Express Dissatisfaction With Government
    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...=recirc_recent

    Price protests turn political in Iran as rallies spread
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/riot-poli...140129422.html

    -----

    Trump May Try to Kill Iran Nuclear Deal in Mid-January
    http://news.antiwar.com/2017/12/28/t...n-mid-january/


    (restoring international sanctions/more pressure/gasoline)


    moar treachery afoot...

    KSA - JORDAN

    SURA
    BREAKING - King of Jordan dismisses his 3 brothers; Faisal, Ali and Talal from Jordanian army command
    after evidence of them contacting Saudi leaders Mohammad bin Salman and Mohammad bin Zayed to formulate a coup against him.
    All 3 brothers are now under house arrest.


    hahaha... how long B4 KOJ takes out an S-400 insurance plan??
    Last edited by goldenequity; 12-29-2017 at 11:17 PM.

  29. #85
    Update

    Iran:

    Raman Ghavami
    @Raman_Ghavami

    Update7: protesters attacked the governor office of #Hamedan, chanting: “ Death to the Islamic Republic”, “We don’t want Islamic Republic”.

    Qom chanting “Death to the Islamic Republic “, “Death to Hezbollah”, we don’t want an Islamic Republic”
    #Iranprotests #RegimeChange





    Babak Taghvaee
    @BabakTaghvaee
    56 min.
    BREAKING: #IRGC Special unit (Police anti-riot force consisted of IRGC officers) fired at people of #Ahwaz who were protesting #Iran's Islamic regime authorities in support of yesterday protests of people of #Mashhad.







    ==========

    Just reminder:

    The Times of Israel
    Report: US, Israel sign secret pact to tackle Iran nuclear and missile threat
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/report...medium=twitter





    Siavash Ardalan
    @BBCArdalan
    3 hod.
    Iranian #protests today in #Qom - Iran's equivalent of the Vatican - were particularly anti establishment, anti regime and displayed a remarkable yearning for the return of the #monarchy: "Oh Shah Please Return to Iran"

    #Iranprotests


    Babak Taghvaee
    BREAKING: Tens of calls for demonstrations against Islamic regime is now spread in social media. Iranians have planned protests in nearly all of cities of Iran such as Tehran, Tabriz, Shiraz, Sanandaj, Semnan, Hamedan, & etc. tomorrow. Also university students will join them.

    PROXY PRESS
    Louis Allday @Louis_Allday
    Anyone discussing the protests in Iran and talking about "economic problems, rising prices" etc
    but
    making no mention of the hugely damaging impact of Western (primarily US) sanctions....
    should be ignored.


    Regime Change 'Policy'.... now Officially LAUNCHED






    =================


    This is reminding me more of Ukraine/Maidan than 'Arab Spring'....
    'genuine' Ukrainians in the 'streets' wanted 'progress/change' because of crap economy/EU as 'saviors' against poverty/hardship..
    only to be used as 'pawns' by the West to instigate coup.
    Look what they got.

    In Iran.. it is similar...
    There is a GENUINE desire to be out from under Islam... triggered by the pressure of sanctions & poverty..
    but
    they will be the 'pawns'
    for MUCH more nefarious intentions.

    They live under a hybrid gov... a 'theocracy' with an elected (secular) President.
    They want to return to a shah (a 'king') to replace the ahatollah.
    good luck... we KNOW what happened in 1953 don't we?




    hypocrisy (of course) is now rampant on social media...
    the same people who (yesterday) wanted Tehran 'nuked'..
    are now 'cheering' for the 'good Iranian people'....




    Last edited by goldenequity; 12-30-2017 at 03:04 PM.

  30. #86
    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    Mid December...


    US, Israel Sign Secret Deal to Cooperate Against Iran
    http://news.antiwar.com/2017/12/28/u...-against-iran/


    Israeli media is reporting a secret deal was negotiated and signed by the Trump and Netanyahu governments
    regarding what they described as “the Iranian threat,” pledging full cooperation with one another
    in targeting Iran in various ways.

    Negotiated behind closed doors,
    The deal was a series of memorandums of understanding negotiated through National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster
    (Remember?? McMaster HIMSELF was 10 years running as NGO coordinator targeting Iran before Trump admin.)

    This has Mc(swamp)Master's fingerprints all over it..

    remember how he first 'gutted' the Trump base????
    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post6504015



    BREAKING: LEAKED Document Reveals McMaster GRANTED Susan Rice “Unfettered Access to Classified Information”
    https://www.circa.com/story/2017/08/...er-letter-says


    mission accomplished.

    ========

    A fervent neocon..... McMaster is inextricably 'linked' to 'secular' Iran insiders...

    2 articles dissecting McMasters decade of work for International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

    McMaster Worked at Think Tank Backed by Soros-Funded Group that Helped Obama Sell Iran Nuclear Deal
    http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2...-nuclear-deal/

    McMaster Served at Group Financed by Multinational Corporations Doing Billions in Iran Business
    http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2...iran-business/

    This is BIG globalist money orchestrating this sudden eruption of a 'grassroots protest'.
    We should have NO doubts about it.
    We watch and wait.



    How long B4 the 'snipers' show up?
    Last edited by goldenequity; 12-29-2017 at 10:57 PM.

  31. #87








    Iran/Anti-riot protests/12 30 2009/part 1




    Last edited by goldenequity; 12-30-2017 at 06:22 AM.

  32. #88
    Gee... I wonder who could be behind this...


    Breaking: Iranian terrorist group blows up oil pipeline in country’s west
    https://www.almasdarnews.com/article...countrys-west/


    BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:43 A.M.) – An Iranian Salafist jihadist group with ties to Syria’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front (currently called Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham)
    has blown up an oil pipeline in Iran’s west, reportedly causing major damage.

    According to emerging reports, the Ahwaz Martyrs Brigade of Ansar al-Furqan,
    an Iran-based terrorist group with ties to Al-Qaeda affiliate groups elsewhere in the Middle East,
    has carried out a bomb attack in the country’s Khuzestan province.

    The attack targeted, and reportedly succeeded in destroying, an oil pipeline in Khuzestan’s Omidiyeh region.
    The attack appears to have been carried out during the night at some point between late Friday after or very early Saturday morning.


    VIDEO: Iranian Nusra-linked terrorists blow up oil pipeline
    https://www.almasdarnews.com/article...-oil-pipeline/
    Last edited by goldenequity; 12-30-2017 at 06:29 AM.



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  34. #89
    @realDonaldTrump
    The entire world understands that the good people of Iran want change, and,
    other than the vast military power of the United States,
    that Iran’s people
    are what their leaders
    fear the most....

    (So... why RU not talking about situation in Saudi Arabia, UAE or Bahrain while yer at it? Why not support the opposition leaders in SA... Oh, that's right... there are none....
    they were all beheaded.)

    Karl Sharro
    All of a sudden US policy hawks love, absolutely love, the Iranian people. It's a true Christmas miracle!











    What we can expect:
    rise of terroristm in Iran, romanticized as "fight for freedom" in the corporate media,
    more sanctions,
    worsening of the situation,
    protests will soon get bigger,
    (When the people need money a few thousand dollars are enough to create a large crowd)
    Small groups will riot while hiding within the larger protests of genuinely concerned people,
    "western" media will engage with their usual pseudo liberal humanism and concern trolling,
    the police in Iran will arrest rioters who are raising havoc & the media will scream "brutality",
    "martyrs" will be created and iconified,
    Rumors of censorship and suppression will be raised,
    fake news will come from everywhere,
    hundreds of sock puppet Twitter and Facebook accounts will suddenly be "Iranian" (and breathlessly report "from the scene" of their Langley offices)
    Just two weeks after zionists and Washington made a deal to counter "Iranian threat"...

    Iran - Regime Change Agents Hijack Economic Protests
    http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/12...sts-.html#more


    -------

    @StratSentinel
    Protestors set council building on fire in Dorud #Iran.
    @ThomasVLinge
    Iran: anti-regime protesters in the town of Dorud (#Lorestan) have set fire to the city council building tonight. #IranProtests

    @StratSentinel
    Iranian protestors call for an #Iranian Republic

    @AlArabiya_Eng
    BREAKING: Three killed, many injured as Iran Revolutionary Guard militias shot a night protest in Doroud, Loerstan province, in central Iran.

    @StratSentinel
    Iranian protesters clash with police in Ahvaz, Iran.

    @StratSentinel
    Telegram and other social media outlets are being shut down in #Iran.
    Telegram was crucial in organizing the protests.
    New reports also state the entire internet has also been cutoff for #Iran
    (this is false)


    =======



    --------

    Last edited by goldenequity; 12-30-2017 at 03:59 PM.

  35. #90
    Quote Originally Posted by goldenequity View Post
    Sure smells like it has Washington-Israeli Regime-change fingerprints all over it.

    More from Moon of Alabama :

    probably the first stage of a large "regime change" operation run by the U.S. and Israel with the help of Iranian terrorist group. … A delegation led by Israel's National Security Adviser met with senior American officials in the White House earlier this month for a joint discussion on strategy to counter Iran's aggression in the Middle East …
    "[T]he U.S. and Israel see eye to eye the different developments in the region and especially those that are connected to Iran. We reached at understandings regarding the strategy and the policy needed to counter Iran. Our understandings deal with the overall strategy but also with concrete goals, way of action and the means which need to be used to get obtain those goals." …

    [current “protests”] a result of the above meeting [?] …

    My hunch is that the usual suspects are behind these protests. Note that these started in several cities at the same time. This was not some spontaneous local uproar in one city but had some form of coordination.

    Then there is this:

    A search in various languages finds exactly zero such "reports". Carl Bildt is a former Swedish prime minister. He was recruited in 1973 as a CIA informant and has since grown into a full blown U.S. asset. He was involved in the Ukraine coup and tried to personally profit from it. ….

    Some of these protests have genuine economic reasons but get hijacked by other interests: In the central city of Isfahan, a resident said protesters joined a rally held by factory workers demanding back wages. “The slogans quickly changed from the economy to those against (President Hassan) Rouhani and the Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei),” the resident said by telephone.

    Purely political protests are rare in Iran [...] but demonstrations are often held by workers over layoffs or non-payment of salaries …

    “Some people had came to express their demands, but suddenly, in a crowd of hundreds, a small group that did not exceed 50 shouted deviant and horrendous slogans such as ‘Let go of Palestine’, ‘Not Gaza, not Lebanon, I’d give my life (only) for Iran’,” Alamolhoda said. …

    Two videos posted by BBC Persian and others I have seen show only small active protest groups with a dozen or so people while many more are just standing by or film the people who are chanting slogans.

    Videos published by the terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq [MEK], 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, also show mostly small protests … The MEK, or its "civilian" organization National Council of Resistance of Iran , seem to be most involved in the current protests. … Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, saluted the … chanting “… She said, “Yesterday Mashhad, today Kermanshah, and tomorrow throughout Iran; this uprising has tolled the death knell for the overthrow of the totally corrupt dictatorship of the mullahs” …

    This very early engagement of the MEK … first report … is extremely suspicious. In 2012 it was reported that Israel had used the MEK terrorist organization to assassinate nuclear scientists in Iran … U.S. officials reportedly confirmed the link between Israel and the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), with one official saying: "All your inclinations are correct.” …

    In October a CATO Institute paper analyzed (and rejected) several options for U.S. handling Iran. Under Option Three: “Regime Change from Within” it noted:
    In this approach, the United States would pressure the Iranian regime and simultaneously back groups that oppose it-whether the exiled extremist National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), pro-democracy Green Revolution factions, or ethnic minorities within Iran-a strategy advocates often compare to Reagan’s support for civil society groups in the Soviet Union. … the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Mark Dubowitz, urged President Trump to “go on the offensive against the Iranian regime” by “weakening the Iranian regime’s finances” through “massive economic sanctions,” while also “undermin[ing] Iran’s rulers by strengthening pro-democracy forces” inside Iran. This option appears to be gaining traction in the Trump administration’s ongoing Iran policy review and has received public support from Tillerson. CIA Director Mike Pompeo also favored such an approach during his time in Congress.

    The White House and the Netanyahoo regime agreed on a strategy towards Iran. Major members of the Trump administration are in favor of "regime change" … A few weeks after an agreement was found, coordinated economic protests start in Iran which are soon hijacked by small groups of very active regime changers. … exile terrorists, well known for deadly collaboration with Israeli spies as well as for having operation cells in Iran, is highly engaged in the protest from very early on. …
    Last edited by AZJoe; 12-31-2017 at 01:22 PM.
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