[KhaamaPress] The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released its latest report regarding the civilian casualties in Afghanistan, reporting 1692 deaths during the first six months of the year.
The report by UNAMA further added that 3430 civilians have also suffered casualties during the same period, due to various incidents.
According to UNAMA, IEDs caused nearly half of all civilian casualties. Continuing trends first documented last year by UNAMA, the majority of IED casualties were caused by suicide and complex attacks, which again were responsible for record high civilian casualties, resulting in 1,413 civilian casualties (427 deaths and 986 injured), a 22 per cent increase.
UNAMA attributed 52 per cent of civilian casualties from suicide and complex attacks to Daesh/ISKP, mainly in Kabul and Nangarhar province. The Taliban were responsible for 40 per cent, the remainder were attributed to unidentified Anti-Government Elements.
Ground engagements were the second leading cause of civilian casualties, followed by targeted and deliberate killings, aerial operations, and explosive remnants of war.
The armed conflict caused 544 women casualties (157 deaths and 387 injured), with almost half from ground engagements, UNAMA said, adding that it recorded 1,355 child casualties (363 deaths and 992 injured), a 15 per cent drop compared to the same period in 2017.
UNAMA attributed 67 per cent of all civilian casualties to Anti-Government Elements, with 42 per cent attributed to the Taliban, 18 per cent to Daesh/ISKP, and seven per cent to unidentified others.
UNAMA attributed 1,047 civilian casualties to Pro-Government Forces, approximately the same as during the corresponding period in 2017. Pro-Government Forces caused 20 per cent of all civilian casualties in the first half of 2018 (17 per cent by Afghan national security forces, two per cent by international military forces, and one per cent by pro-Government armed groups).
[KhaamaPress] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. has confirmed the likely return of the First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Speaking during a presser in Kabul, President Ghani said Gen. Dostum will likely return to Afghanistan in the near future.
He said the government has also talked with the Attorney General’s Office regarding the likely return of Gen. Dostum from Turkey but did not elaborate further.
In the meantime, President Ghani said the nation will be updated as new improvements are made in this regard.
Dostum left the country for Turkey nearly a year ago amid ongoing controversies regarding his alleged involvement in the sexual abuse of his rival Ahmad Khan Ishchi.
However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... the officials had earlier said that the First Vice President has left for Turkey due to health issues.
A front man for Junbish-e-Millie party Kanishka Turkistani said earlier this year said that the health condition of Gen. Dostum has improved, his medical treatment has concluded along with some other works in Turkey, and he will return to the country soon as there are no barriers available at the moment for his return.
[KhaamaPress] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has ordered an immediate probe into the alleged misconduct by the Afghan forces after a video emerged purportedly showing armed forces beating and torturing the security personnel of Nizamuddin Qaisari.
He said any move or action by the armed forces in contradiction to the laws and regulations will not be acceptable, emphasizing such that such moves do not represent the policy of the armed and defense institutions.
The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said President Ghani has ordered an immediate and thorough investigation into the alleged misconduct during the arrest of certain individuals in Faryab as well as the alleged civilian casualties during the operations in Paktia and Nangarhar provinces.
He said the armed security and defense forces must take necessary precautions to prevent such incidents and should act as per the enforced laws and considering the human rights and Islamic values.
President Ghani said the armed security and defense forces are considered a major investment of the country and people who have managed to secure the trust of the people and international community with their bravery and it is important that the trust between the armed forces and the people should be further strengthened.
[PRESSTV] Tens of thousands erupted into the streets of Morocco's capital Rabat on Sunday, July 15, to demonstrate against the jailing of leaders of a protest movement in the predominantly Berber region of Rif.
A court in Casablanca in June sentenced 39 people, including protest leader Nasser Zefzafi, to terms of up to 20 years in jail in connection with a protest movement that shook Morocco in late 2016 and early 2017.
The protests erupted after a fishmonger was crushed inside a rubbish truck while trying to recover fish confiscated by police in the northern city of al-Hoceima in October 2016.
Detainees and their families had called for Sunday's march, which brought together Berber (Amazigh) groups, leftist opposition parties, human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups and the banned Islamist movement al-Adl wal-Ihsan.
The al-Hoceima demonstrations, along with protests in the mining town of Jerada in early 2018, marked the biggest unrest in Morocco since Arab Spring protests in 2011 prompted King Mohammed VI to devolve some of his powers to an elected parliament.
After the Rif protests the king dismissed three ministers and various other officials over a lack of progress in a development plan for the Rif.
Ahmed Dgherni, one of the founders of the Berber (Amazigh) movement, called the march "a popular referendum that united different political trends" to back the cause of freedom.
After last month's verdicts, a lawyer representing the state said the sentences were lenient and that some of the accused had been indicted for serious crimes including attacking law enforcement officers.
Lawyers of Rif activists say they will appeal against the sentences.
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[PRESSTV] An Emirati prince has sought asylum in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... after fleeing his country over claims that his life was in danger because of a dispute with the UAE's rulers.
According to the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... on Sunday, Sheikh Rashid bin Hamad al-Sharqi, 31, is the second son of the emir of Fujairah and arrived in Doha on May 16.
Sheikh Rashid accuses Emirati leaders of blackmail and corruption, but does not seem to have evidence to support his claims.
Reports of the prince's defection to Qatar began to circulate in May.
He also noted that tensions were high among the UAE rulers over the country's involvement in the war against Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and that the actual Emirati corpse count was higher than announced.
"There have been more deaths from Fujairah than anywhere else," he noted.
Last week, Amnesia Amnesty International said the UAE and its allied local militia have been torturing captives at a network of clandestine prisons in southern Yemen.
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The #FreeTommy march on 14 July on Whitehall had an amazing turnout. This, despite police telling people they weren’t allowed in and some were outright lied to being told that the event had been cancelled.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... issued presidential decrees on Sunday reshaping key political, military and bureaucratic institutions as part of the transformation to a powerful executive presidency triggered by last month's election.
President Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in on Monday under the new system and now holds sweeping powers, allowing him to issue decrees on executive matters and appoint and remove senior civil servants.
Erdogan has said the powerful executive presidency is vital to make government more efficient, drive economic growth and ensure security. Critics decry what they say is increasing authoritarianism and a push toward one-man rule.
Among the latest changes, the General Staff was brought under the authority of the defence minister, according to state-run Anadolu news agency, a move following Erdogan's appointment of military commander Hulusi Akar as defence minister.
In total, the country's Official Gazette published seven decrees affecting many state institutions, including the secretariat of the National Security Council, the Defence Industry Directorate and the State Supervisory Council.
The changes coincide with the second anniversary of an attempted coup during which at least 250 people were killed, many of them unarmed civilians, when rogue soldiers attempted to topple Erdogan's government.
A state of emergency was imposed after the failed putsch on July 15, 2016 and is set to expire this week.
Erdogan's AK Party and its nationalist ally plan to introduce security regulations to ensure the "fight against terrorism" will continue after emergency rule ends, two sources told Rooters.
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Remind me which idiots insisted Turkey's army be under the control of the government?
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Turkey has now become a thorn deeply embedded in the arse of the western democracies.
I can see a time when Turkish soldiers are going to invade Europe shouting " Alla hu Akbar.
Personally, I have been boycotting all Turkish merchandise and I refuse to fly Turkish airlines despite their attractive prices.
I don't want to finance the new "Sultan" Erdogan and I firmly believe that the only way we can deal with the situation (short of war) is to devastate the Turkish economy as a demonstration of what the west can do to fight Islamic aggression.
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[Atimes] Pakistan’s economic crisis deepens in an election year.
Pakistan desperately needs to borrow to stave off a major economic crisis. But the IMF says it is in no position to service existing debts.
The Pakistan government to be formed after July 25 elections will inherit a record high-trade deficit of $37.7 billion, a plunging stock market that hit this year’s lowest at 39,288 points on Monday and a currency that has been devalued by over 15% in the past seven months.
The outgoing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government has been criticized for its economic policies, which have left the country with a balance of payments crisis, and a record debt, with the rupee being devalued three times since December 2017.
A recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on Pakistan says “risks to Pakistan’s medium-term capacity to repay have increased significantly… due to mounting external and fiscal financing needs and declining reserves.”
The report says, Pakistan’s external financing needs are expected to rise from $21.5 billion (7.1% of GDP) in 2017 to $45 billion by 2023 (9% of GDP). The figures suggest that the next government will have few options but to seek another IMF loan to reduce the current account deficit.
Finance Ministry sources told Asia Times that a recent $1 billion loan from China was agreed to in May this year. It will provide a much needed respite to the foreign currency reserves. Pakistan has received an additional $3 billion worth of loans from Chinese commercial banks in recent months in connection with the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Finance Ministry officials, however, say Chinese loans are a short-term fix and Islamabad will need a longer-term solution. “Pakistan has borrowed up to $7 billion from China over the past two years, but an IMF bailout has become a necessity. And it is the new government that will carry it out,” said Waqar Masood Khan, a former federal secretary at the Ministry of Finance.
“It was almost as if the previous government had sworn not to go to the IMF, even though they could’ve done so in January to stabilize the economy. They practiced a lot of fiscal indiscipline and are leaving behind a record deficit of 70.1% [of the GDP],” he said, adding that fixing the broken macroeconomic framework would be the biggest challenge for the next government.
While the PML-N government continued to deny it was looking for an IMF bailout during the last few months of its tenure, the then finance minister, Miftah Ismail, had talks with World Bank and IMF officials during his trip to Washington in April this year.
Diplomatic sources confirm that a major purpose of the US visit was to discuss terms of a bailout package for after the elections, which the PML-N expects to win.
A Foreign Ministry official confirmed that Islamabad has been in talks with Washington over the need for financing, maintaining that economic deterioration in the country could allow militant elements to exploit the situation.
Miftah Ismail told Asia Times that he did not meet the US over a potential bailout loan, maintaining that help from the IMF wasn’t needed right now.
“It’s for the next government to decide, but it is too soon [to ask for an IMF bailout],” he said. Even so, the former finance minister conceded that some policies during the previous five years were flawed.
“Exports [have gone] down for three years in a row, suggesting that we should have devalued the rupee [earlier]. By keeping the rupee at a nominally high rate we hurt our exports, increased our imports and we drained our reserves. We also had to borrow money resulting in the State Bank having to intervene,” he said.
However, Ismail believes that with the latest devaluation, the rupee has regained competitiveness and should help export growth. “Also, I think we’ve now reached the accurate rupee value now,” he says. Ismail also says the current debt numbers are being viewed out of context.
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Looking forward to more cheap rugs, or whatever the hell it is that country produces, besides foaming at the mouth jihadi assholes or IT guys like Awan...
[DAWN] TIMERGARA: Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... leaders on Saturday alleged that Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... workers hurled stones at the caravan of JI chief Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... on Friday night when it was passing by the house of ANP candidate for PK-16, Haji Bahadar Khan. Mr Bahadar has rejected the charge.
Speaking at a presser in Timergara Press Club, JI leader Izazul Mulk and its activists alleged that the ANP workers attacked their cycle of violence rally on Friday when it reached near the house of Mr Bahadar. They said that the motorcade of Sirajul Haq was also attacked near Mr Bahadar’s house the same night.
"It shows the attacks were preplanned and aimed at disturbing the peaceful environment," Mr Mulk said, adding that the JI chief remained unhurt while three workers were maimed on the occasion.
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[IsraelTimes] Ezra Nawi charged with violating law prohibiting Israelis from helping Paleostinian Authority security services; PA penal code calls for death for those who sell to Jewish buyers
Prosecutors filed an indictment Sunday against Israeli left-wing activist Ezra Nawi on charges of passing information to the Paleostinian Authority security service about Paleostinians who planned to sell West Bank land to Israeli Jews, thereby endangering the sellers’ lives.
The indictment, filed by state prosecutors at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, charges Nawi with violating a law that forbids Israeli citizens from working for the Paleostinian Authority’s security branches.
The trial will make Nawi the first Jew to be tried for aiding the Paleostinian Authority ‐ a crime under a clause from the 1995 Oslo Accords that subsequently entered Israeli penal law, with a sentence of up to five years in prison.
The Judea and Samaria District Police originally recommended that the prosecution charge Nawi and another activist in the left-wing Ta’ayush organization, Guy Butavia, with the far more serious crimes of contacting a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit a crime.
In May it emerged that the case against Butavia and a third figure, Paleostinian Yasser Navaja, had been closed for lack of evidence.
Nawi was tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in January 2016 at Ben-Gurion Airport as he tried to leave the country, days after the airing of an episode of Israel TV’s investigative series "Uvda" (Fact) in which he was recorded saying he helped Paleostinian authorities track down Paleostinians who attempted to sell land to Jews.
The program used evidence collected by an undercover activist for a right-wing organization called Ad Kan (It’s Gone Far Enough), which infiltrated left-wing organizations such as Nawi’s Ta’ayush in order to expose what it saw as anti-Israel behavior.
In the investigative report, Nawi could be heard speaking about four Paleostinian real estate sellers, whom Nawi said mistook him for a Jew interested in buying their West Bank property.
"Straightaway I give their pictures and phone numbers to the Preventive Security Force," Nawi is heard saying in reference to the Paleostinian Authority’s counterintelligence arm. "The Paleostinian Authority catches them and kills them. But before it kills them, they get beat up a lot."
The broadcast sparked a political storm, with right-wing politicians and activists pointing to it as proof that left-wing groups are not interested in human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... In the Paleostinian Authority, the penal code calls for capital punishment for anyone convicted of selling land to Jews. This law, which Paleostinian officials have defended as designed to prevent takeovers by settlers, has not been implemented in Paleostinian courts, where sellers of land to Jews are usually sentenced to several years in prison.
See also the Wall Street Journal's take here. It's behind the subscription paywall, so you may need to drop the headline in Google's search app to read the rest of it.
[LI] The archives showed that Iran systematically had deceived the West about its nuclear program and goals, We can now conclusively say the Iran nuke deal was induced by fraud:
We now can conclusively say the Iran Nuclear Deal was induced by fraud by the Obama administration and the Mullah regime.
As a result, Iran is just biding its time, putting all the pieces into place to launch and deliver a nuclear weapon when the deal sunsets. We know that because of the archives obtained by Mossad.
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That's quite amazing. Can we have our cash back now?
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I bet that was a ass-puckering moment for the Iranians
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Since the Juices clearly had either inside help or divine guidance, or more likely both, the prospects for a disinformation campaign are mind-blowing. I hear that Rouhani himself is a Mossad agent. Oops, I guess I shouldn't have said that.
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It's Okay Matt, we will still have Qassem Soleimani. OOOooops!
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The last members of a Kurdish militia pulled out on Sunday from the Syrian town of Manbij, allied Arab fighters said, under a deal reached to avoid festivities with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) led the victorious 2016 offensive to rid Manbij of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and had kept military advisers in the town to train local forces.
It announced last month it would begin withdrawing from the town as the local Manbij Military Council was capable of holding it on its own.
"The last group of military advisers from the People’s Protection Units finished withdrawing on July 15, 2018 after completing their mission to train and develop our forces, under the deal with the international coalition," the MMC said.
The YPG forms the backbone of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish-Arab alliance that has ousted IS from swathes of Syria with help from the US-led coalition.
But the militia is considered a "terrorist" group by Ankara, which sees it as the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), outlawed in Turkey.
Ankara and allied rebels overran the YPG’s northwestern bastion of Afrin in March and threatened to continue on to Manbij.
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[PRESSTV] Western countries have reportedly been scrambling to evacuate "volunteer" White Helmets from Syria, who have been accused of cooperating with Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... forces of Evil and staging false flag gas attacks.
CBS News broadcasting service reported on Saturday that White Helmets members are in danger of liquidation and in need of rescue as the Syrian army intensifies its counter-terrorism operation in the country's southern part.
The report said the issue of the White helmets' withdrawal from Syria had been raised with US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... in multiple conversations with allied countries on the sidelines of the July 11-12 NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... summit in Brussels.
The Netherlands, Britannia, La Belle France, Canada and Germany have been trying to find a way to get an estimated 1,000 White Helmets volunteers and their family members out of Syria, the report added.
British Prime Minister Theresa May brought up the issue during her meeting with Trump in the UK, and that the topic may also be discussed at Trump's upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... The White Helmets was founded in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... in 2013 by former British MI5 officer James Le Mesurier.
Since its establishment, the group has received at least $55 million from the British Foreign Office, $23 million or more from the US Office of Transition Initiatives and untold millions from Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... US officials and Western diplomats say the evacuation has not been formalized on the agenda of the July 16 Trump-Putin meeting due to uncertainty about the Russians' help in the process, The CBS News said.
"We are not there yet at all in terms of firming up the necessity to have a discussion with Putin," a Western diplomat said. "If we run out of options, and the only option left is the Russians, then it is worth pursuing."
A US government official stressed that efforts to evacuate the White Helmets from Syria is in line with the Trump administration's plans for a withdrawal from the Arab country.
"This effort says we are in the evacuation phase. It is an admission that the regime is going to regain control of the country and the White Helmets can't remain," he said. "Or else the regime will take repercussions on them."
Back in March, Trump ordered the State Department to suspend $200 million in recovery funds for Syria, including aid to the White Helmets, amid a review of the future of the US role in the war-torn country.
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They're coming home? Hide your wallets children...
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meant wallets
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Can't we just photoshop some pix of the White Helmets being evacuated? Seems cheaper.
[PRESSTV] Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... says the Syrian Arab Army and the allied forces are firmly resolved to defeat terrorism and liberate the entire Arab country's territory.
Assad made the remarks in a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister's Special Assistant for Political Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari and his accompanying delegation in Damascus on Sunday.
Jaberi Ansari commended the recent achievements made by the Syrian army in the battle against Lions of Islam in the southern city of Dara'a and its countryside.
The two sides emphasized that the elimination of terrorism in most of the Syrian territories has prepared an appropriate ground for putting an end to the seven-year war in Syria but the policies and preconditions set by countries that support terrorism have so far prevented it.
Since June 19, the Syrian army has been conducting the liberation operation in Dara'a, which borders Jordan and the Israeli-occupied side of Syria’s Golan Heights.
In a bid to minimize civilian casualties, both Syria and Russia have been initiating talks with turbans to make them hand back the areas they control to the government without fighting.
Dara'a was the birthplace of sedition that was born in March 2011 before morphing into a foreign-backed militancy that continues to this day.
The Syrian army on Thursday raised the national flag over the city of Dara'a as a major counter-terrorism operation nears an end, with foreign-backed turbans leaving the region in negotiated surrender deals.
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[PRESSTV] Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...Iran's doddering head theocrat... Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ...the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the actual dictator of Iran... says European signatories to the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), must provide Tehran with necessary guarantees about the continued implementation of the deal.
The Leader made the remarks in a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his cabinet in Tehran on Sunday. The meeting mostly focused on economic problems facing the country with Ayatollah Khamenei offering ways on how to overcome them.
Ayatollah Khamenei noted that drawing up a "stable economic roadmap" was needed to solve the country’s economic problems, emphasizing that solution of those problems must not be made conditional on the continuation of the JCPOA.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
[KhaamaPress] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has ordered an immediate probe into the alleged misconduct by the Afghan forces after a video emerged purportedly showing armed forces beating and torturing the security personnel of Nizamuddin Qaisari.
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
[AlAhram] 
...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that...
[LI] The archives showed that Iran systematically had deceived the West about its nuclear program and goals, We can now conclusively say the Iran nuke deal was induced by fraud:
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
