[ALMANAR.LB] The leaders of 24 Libyan municipalities on Monday signed the UN-sponsored agreement on the formation of a national unity government, in a move welcomed by UN envoy Martin Kobler.
"I'm very happy there are 24 signatures of the Libyan political agreement by mayors. This is a good sign," Kobler told news hounds after a meeting at Gammarth in Tunisia.
Lawmakers from Libya's two rival parliaments, as well as other political figures, last Thursday in Morocco signed a deal on a unity government despite opposition on both sides.
The signing went ahead despite a warning from the heads of the parliaments that the deal has no legitimacy and the politicians signing the agreement represented only themselves.
The heads of the two bodies instead back an alternative inter-Libyan accord signed early this month in Tunis.
On Thursday, Kobler acknowledged that much remained to be done to end the turmoil in Libya that has allowed turbans and people-smugglers to flourish since the fall of dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him... in 2011.
He called the signing ceremony "just the beginning of a long journey for Libya".
"It's very important that municipalities become part of the Libyan political agreement which was signed in Skhirat three days ago," Kobler said on Monday, emphasizing the provision of basic services.
Municipal signatories included the cities of Sabratha near Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , Zintan to the west, Al-Baida in the northeast but also Misrata, an AFP journalist said.
The core of Fajr Libya, a coalition of Death Eater militias that backs the non-recognized parliament in Tripoli, is in Misrata some 200 kilometers (120 miles) east of the capital.
"People need clean water and need electricity and a strong government can deliver this," Kobler said.
"That's why I asked the mayors to go back to their municipalities and to tell their people to support the agreement in order to have electricity, to have water, to have functional hospitals and schools."
He also stressed that the door remained open for others to sign the agreement.
In an interview with AFP on Sunday, Kobler said his team is in contact with security officials in Tripoli to ensure that the new unity government can operate safely from the capital.
"We hope to have an agreement with everybody -- the regular army, the regular police but also militias," he said.
Kobler told AFP that the UN Security Council would vote on a resolution to recognize the new government as "the sole legitimate authority" in Libya.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Ceasefire in 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... will be extended for seven days after it officially expires Monday, the head of the ousted government negotiation team said Sunday at UN-brokered talks in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... "The truce will be extended for seven more days and will then be automatically extended if it is respected by the other party," Foreign Minister in the exiled government, Abdel Malak al-Mekhlafi, told news hounds in Bern, referring to the Yemeni army and the popular committees who are confronting the Saudi-led aggression against the Arab impoverished country.
The decision, at the request of runaway president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, was communicated to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... , Mekhlafi said, noting that its automatic renewal had been part of the army and the committees' commitment to respect Security Council Resolution 2216.
The resolution, adopted in April, calls on the revolutionary committees allies, to withdraw from territory captured last year including the capital Sanaa, and to lay down their weapons.
Mekhlafi also called for the release of five prisoners held by the revolutionaries including ousted Defense Minister Major-General Mahmoud al-Subaihi.
The revolutionaries cleansed Sanaa on September 2014 from al-Qaeda-linked bandidosturbans who swept the capital, covered by Hadi's militiamen. The 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... s have since that time carried several suicide kabooms across Yemen, especially in Sanaa, targeting Mosques and popular markets.
Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition.
Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to runaway Hadi who is a close ally to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... Yemeni army, backed by the committees has been responding to the aggression by targeting several Saudi border military posts and cleansing several areas across the country, especially the country's south, from Hadi and al-Qaeda-linked militias.
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In recent months, Denmark has taken a fairly harsh stance toward refugees. In September, for example, authorities published an ad in Lebanese newspapers carrying an unmistakable message to foreigners who might think about seeking asylum: Don't come to Denmark.
Now, the country is debating another and even more extreme step: The government is considering a law that would allow authorities to confiscate jewelry from refugees entering the country. The proposal is almost certain to pass Parliament.
The law would also impact refugees already in the country. It is included in an asylum policy bill that is expected to pass Parliament in January and would be set to take effect by next February. Police authorities would be allowed to seize valuables and cash amounts they deem expensive enough.
According to the Integration Ministry, "the new rule on seizure will only apply to assets of a considerable value." Foreigners are expected to be able to "keep assets which are necessary to maintain a modest standard of living, e.g. watches and mobile phones. Furthermore, assets which have a certain personal, sentimental value to a foreigner will not, as a main rule, be seized unless they have [considerable] value."
For example, Fatima's wedding ring...
There were discrepancies in how the two main political parties are interpreting the proposed law. "Absurdly, the minister of justice initially explained the law on television by saying that it would apply to a hypothetical asylum seeker arriving with a suitcase full of diamonds. This prompted the Danish People’s Party to point out that items of smaller value should also be impounded," Whyte said.
He thinks there is no need for the law. "Asylum seekers generally do not arrive in Denmark with large amounts of cash and jewelry," he said.
How about guns and ammo?
The proposal "has been branded petty and cruel, and some opponents have asked whether the government would also be taking out asylum seekers' gold fillings," Whyte said. The idea of seizing jewelry from people who are fleeing has a particularly bitter connotation in Europe, where the Nazis confiscated large amounts of gold and other valuables from Jews and others.
The Danish Integration Ministry emphasized, however, that current rules already required refugees with sufficient financial means to pay for their stay themselves.
That seems fair. Public support is for those who cannot support themselves. Denmark requires the same of their own citizens.
Although the seized valuables are supposed to pay for refugee-related expenditures, the financial impact could be of less consequence. Experts say the Danish government is more interested in sending a message.
"Europe currently receives a very high number of refugees," Denmark's Integration Ministry defended the law. "Denmark does take a share. However, [too many refugees] put pressure on the Danish society and make it more difficult to ensure a successful integration of those who come to Denmark."
"Refugees who have been granted a residence permit can make full use of the free Danish school, education (including tertiary education) and health system on the same level as everyone else in Denmark," the ministry said. Denmark also provides integration procedures that run up to three years and include language as well as job training, for instance. "The aim of the Danish integration effort is to support refugees in order for them to become participating and financially independent citizens," the statement emphasized.
If you're looking to send the message that the 'refugees' should go elsewhere, anywhere else, this is a good message to send.
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[Daily Caller] Islamic State is selling Yazidi girls and women in an underground sex slave market in Turkey, according to a report by Germany's broadcast service ARD. Little new here in the last several hundred years, simply under reported.
According to the report, the underground black market is based in the Turkish town of Gaziantep, close to the Turkish-Syrian border.
"IS [Islamic State or ISIS] offers women and underage children in a kind of virtual slave market with for-sale photos. ... The transfer of money, as the reporter discovered, takes place through a liaison office in Turkey," reports German station NDR (NDR is part of the German ARD media consortium).
The sale of the girls and women follows a sort of auction pattern, with the highest bidder winning. According to the reports, prices for the women can go as high as $15,000 to $20,000 each. After bidding, the money is transferred through middle men in Turkey, eventually reaching ISIS coffers.
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But do they provide them with taxpayer paid birth control?
The tradition is that sex slaves don't get to have babies, Crazy Fool. Babies make them uninteresting/unavailable while pregnant, and ambitious to compete for the interests of the child in competition with legitimate half siblings.
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The tradition is that sex slaves don't get to have babies, Crazy Fool. Babies make them uninteresting/unavailable while pregnant, and ambitious to compete for the interests of the child in competition with legitimate half siblings. Posted by trailing wife
....and a dynamic not the exclusive domain of the Islamic State, but one easily converted to a federally funded enterprise.
[Jpost] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, source denies that Turkish authorities have imposed restrictions on Hamas activities and officials living in country.
Hamas's top operative Saleh Al-Arouri has left The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... following unprecedented American and Israeli pressure on the Turkish government, a Hamas source said on Monday.
The source said that Al-Arouri was now moving from one country to another and was no longer based in Turkey.
The source told the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper that Al-Arouri had left Turkey several months ago. "He decided to leave Turkey voluntarily so as not to embarrass Turkey, which was facing big pressure from Israel and the US Administration," the source added, denying charges that Al-Arouri was involved in planning terror attacks from Turkey.
Someone is having just a little too much fun. This is the third school district that we know about (New York City ignored the threat they received, assuming it was a hoax). Will this one also turn out to have a German IP?
[WMUR] NASHUA, N.H. - School officials in Nashua said classes will resume Tuesday after all schools in the city were shut down because of a threat.
The threat came in through email. Officials said they exercised extreme caution in closing the schools Monday, but they later determined the threat wasn't credible, and it's safe for students to return.
Police Chief Andrew Lavoie wouldn't go into specifics about what was written in the threat or where it might have come from. Officials also wouldn't go so far as to call it a hoax, but they said they are confident that the school buildings are safe.
"We can say with confidence there is no current threat to Nashua public schools," Lavoie said.
Superintendent Mark Conrad said the threat was specific, mentioning the two high schools by name, Monday's date and the means by which students would be hurt.
"Over time, superintendents have learned that the more specifics, the more concerned to be about a threat, and this was a very specific threat," Conrad said.
Putting safety first, Conrad said he decided to not only close the high schools but all 17 public schools.
"Had we held school in the other schools, we would have had a very high rate of absenteeism, a high level of anxiety," he said. "This way, we could say every child was safe today."
One town over in Hudson, Superintendent Bryan Lane said he had his faculty search their emails. Even though they found no threats, he still took precautions.
"We put extra police presence in place at the high schools and also in the elementary schools," Lane said.
In Nashua, police called in the FBI for assistance. Police hand-checked windows and doors, and searched the buildings at every school.
"Literally hand checks of doors, windows. We had bomb dogs, the Nashua department bomb unit there. We had state police and ATF bomb K-9s assisting us," Lavoie said.
Lavoie said nothing suspicious was found.
"I certainly don't know the intent of the perpetrator, but we will do everything we can to find you, and you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law," he said.
Nashua schools plan to have an increased police presence Tuesday, and briefings will be held in the morning for faculty and staff. Guidance counselors will be on hand for students.
"It's just something that you get used to nowadays and it's like everywhere, and hopefully everything goes by fine and nothing happens," Rodriguez said.
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"Over time, superintendents have learned that the more specifics, the more concerned to be about a threat, and this was a very specific threat," Conrad said.
You guys just on keep handing the enemy your protocols. What could possibly go wrong?
BTW, I wouldn't shut down an entire school system for an email threat.
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And if you don't shut them down, and there is an attack, you have a real problem. The first duty of a bureaucrat is to avoid that kind of problem above all else. It's called CYA.
[Ynet] Iranian hackers breached the control system of a dam near New York City in 2013, an infiltration that raised concerns about the security of the country's infrastructure, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing former and current US officials.
Two people familiar with the breach told the newspaper it occurred at the Bowman Avenue Dam in Rye, New York. The small structure about 20 miles from New York City is used for flood control.
The hackers gained access to the dam through a cellular modem, the Journal said, citing an unclassified Department of Homeland Security summary of the incident that did not specify the type of infrastructure.
The dam is a 20-foot-tall concrete slab across Blind Brook, about five miles from Long Island Sound.
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Seems like I heard about this - or something similar - a couple of years ago. Maybe in 2013? So why would it be news again?
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It speaks to the tremendous hammering of SCADA controlled infrastructures by nationalized or contract threat agents. Government controlled, privately operated, public water containment facilities generally use the same flow control system software, tweaked to container volume hydrology cycles. Isolated events such as this on minimally secure templated, flood control 'feeder' systems can have been used to identify opportunities for causing cascading load failures downstream, while operating within normal parameters. Northeast reservoirs are now full from heavy winter rains which typically would have been snow.
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Bobby, here is the link to the Wall Street Journal article. The point is that cyber attacks on industrial control systems, already a matter of concern a few years ago, have increased significantly this year despite pleas from the government that utilities and industry disconnect their equipment from the internet.
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And here is the link to the 2013 article I was thinking about, but it was Chinese hackers, then. Maybe they sold the hacker tech to the Mad Mullahs?
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[DAWN] The Supreme Court has regretted that by raising arguments on the merit of the case and the sentence already confirmed, an attempt was made to re-argue the entire case on a review petition by the counsel representing Malik Mohammad Mumtaz Qadri, an Elite Force commando who had assassinated former Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... governor Salman Taseer for allegedly committing blasphemy.
"A review is surely not a rehearing of the main case and all contentions have already been attended to in the Oct 7 judgment under review in some detail," the apex court said in a five-page detailed judgment explaining why its three-judge bench had on Dec 14 rejected the review petition filed by Mumtaz Qadri through his counsel Mian Nazir Akhtar.
"No error patent on the face of the record was pointed out by Qadri's counsel against the Oct 7 judgment," said the verdict, authored by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, who headed the bench which had dismissed the review petition.
Mumtaz Qadri, who is undergoing a jail term in Rawalpindi's Adiyala jail, was convicted of killing Salman Taseer at a market in Islamabad on Jan 4, 2011.
On Oct 7, the Supreme Court had accepted the federal government's appeal seeking restoration of the Oct 1, 2011, capital sentence handed down by an anti-terrorism court and partial overturning of the Islamabad High Court's March 9 endorsement of Qadri's plea to annul Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997, though the high court had upheld the death sentence under the Pakistain Penal Code.
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[DAWN] Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... said on Sunday that the current Indian government under Narendra Modi acts as if it is a regional superpower.
"Modi's India acts as if they are a regional superpower, we are a nuclear-armed country and we know how to defend ourselves," said Aziz.
"We also have evidence of Indian agency RAW's involvement in fuelling terrorism in Pakistain," added Aziz.
He also said that while Pakistain has evidence of Indian involvement in terrorism, India on the other hand only has propaganda against Pakistain.
"Propaganda against Pakistain is more important for the Indians, rather than giving us evidence," stated the adviser to the premier.
Sartaj Aziz also said that India wants normalisation on their own terms, they would like to talk about trade and connectivity but not much else.
He remarked, "If Kashmire is not an issue for India, why have stationed 700,000 troops in Indian-occupied Kashmire?"
The adviser to the premier also stated that India should hold a referendum in occupied Kashmire, and the people would decide their own fate.
"India should realise after the current episode that their tactics are not working, and they need to be sincere about dialogue with Pakistain," added Aziz.
Yesterday, the government decided to cancel the planned meeting of national security advisers with India, citing New Delhi's refusal to allow an expanded agenda and a meeting with Kashmiri leaders.
The Indian external affairs ministry immediately termed the decision "unfortunate" and tried to wash its hands of the controversy that led to the cancellation of the meeting by saying that it "did not set any preconditions".
The decision was announced after Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj virtually set a deadline for Pakistain to decide by midnight if it was ready to go ahead with the talks by agreeing not to meet the Kashmiri leaders and restricting the discussion to terrorism.
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AFAIC Mr. Aziz must mean OWG "Co-Superpower".
Safe to say that, as per the Artic, that PAKISTAN DEEMS ITSELF ALSO AS A SUPERPOWER = CO-SUPERPOWER WANNABE LIKE RUSSIA, CHINA, + IRAN [India?].
* WAFF > US ENGAGED WID PAKISTAN ON TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS: OLSON.
Richard Olson, US SpecRep for Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Again, IMO 1980's Iran-vs-Iraq "War of the Cities/Scuds" has now devol into the Saudi-vs-Houthi "War of the Shorties" [SRBMS, SR SSMS] in Yemen. EXPANSION OF SAME OUSTADIE OF YEMEN QUITE POSSIBLE AT THE RATE THE SAUDIS + HOUTHIS ARE GOING AT EACH OTHER.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Quartz.com] PAKISTAN'S ARMY IS BUILDING AN ARSENAL OF "TINY" NUCLEAR WEAPONS - AND ITS GOING TO BACKFIRE.
"Micro" or "Nano" Nukes = GOOD FOR THE GLOBAL JIHAD???
D *** NG IT, PAKISTAN CAN'T DO THAT, THATS NORTH KOREA'S = PUDGY'S JOB!
Of course you know this means war between Pakistan + Pudgy, but first some Spicy Menudo.
[DAWN] The adviser to prime minister on foreign affairs, Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... , told Senate that the exclusion of some Islamic countries from the Saudi-led 34-nation anti-terror alliance will be discussed at international level.
Answering a question posed by Senate chairman on exclusion of Syria, Iraq and Iran from the Saudi-led alliance, Aziz said on Monday the issue would be discussed in upcoming meetings in the next couple of weeks and also in the upcoming Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) summit.
"We have some ideas about the issue which are yet to be discussed," he added. They're infested by at least 62 terror organizations, by their own admission. Their intel agencies are now or have been in the recent past involved in the creation, training and leadership if some of the most deadly terror organizations on the face of the earth, again by their own admission.
And they're complaining because they're not included in an anti-terror alliance?
Despite all the evidence that would mitigate against it, Pakistan is one of the 34 nations in the alliance. They're protesting because their dear friend Iran was not invited, and Iran's friends Iraq and Syria.
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I think 'fox in the henhouse' disparages foxes.
[ALMANAR.LB] Police in Pakistain's port city of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... said Monday they were hunting a network of women from well-off families acting as fundraisers for the ISIL group, highlighting its growing appeal among the country's middle classes.
Raja Umar Khattab, chief of the Counter Terrorism Department of Sindh province, said the hunt was launched after police placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... the suspected financier of a gun attack on a bus that left 44 people dead in May.
The attack on the bus was the first inside Pakistain officially claimed by ISIL, which has proclaimed a "caliphate" over territory it has seized in Iraq and Syria and is seeking to expand its global reach.
Khattab said the suspect, whom he named as Adil Masood Butt and who was arrested last week, confessed to police that his wife had established a religious organization in the city called 'Al Zikra Academy'.
"The academy has no organizational structure or offices," Khattab told AFP.
"A group of 20 women, all from well-off families, distributed USBs (computer memory sticks) containing ISIL videos, and also preached in support of terror organizations. They also arranged marriages among the group's followers," he added.
He said the group collected funds for snuffies in the name of "Islamic" charity which were later handed over to the accused.
"The wife and mother-in-law of the main suspect of the carnage, Saad Aziz, were also part of the network," he added.
Aziz, a graduate of one of the country's top business schools, was blamed by police for both the massacre and the shooting of peace activist Sabeen Mahmud in April. He was arrested in May.
Khattab said efforts were being made to track and arrest the women.
For over a decade Pakistain has been waging a war against homegrown krazed killer fighters that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of civilians.
The fighting has been led mainly by Al-Qaeda, the Pak Taliban and its affiliates, though there are signs that the appeal of ISIL is growing among the affluent and educated classes who are motivated more by the idea of global jihad than local causes.
Islamabad denies ISIL is a major threat, though the police chief of Sindh province, of which Karachi is the capital, told a parliamentary standing committee in October that ISIL was behind the bus attack and that 14 people had been arrested for alleged links to the group.
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[Ynet] Air defense system, capable of intercepting medium-range missiles, low-flying aircraft or cruise missiles, is now on course for deployment within the next four months.
David's Sling is designed to shoot down rockets with ranges of 100 to 200 km (63 to 125 miles), aircraft, or low-flying cruise missiles. It will fill the operational gap between the Iron Dome short-range rocket interceptor and the Arrow ballistic missile interceptor, both already in service.
The three systems incorporate a network of radar-guided interceptors designed to shoot down everything from the low-flying, Katyusha-style rockets of Hezbollah and Paleostinian guerrillas to the ballistic Shehab and Scud missiles of Iran and Syria.
The final test of the air defense system was conducted on Monday morning in a test field in southern Israel ahead of its delivery to the Air Force in the next four months. The system is scheduled to become operational in the coming year.
The IDF will deploy four David's Sling batteries, with the Air Force receiving two in the first stage. The batteries could either operate from one permanent location, similar to the Arrow air defense system, or be mobile, allowing the military to deploy it wherever needed, similar to the Iron Dome air defense system.
David's Sling is being developed and manufactured jointly by Israel's state-owned Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd and Raytheon Co, a top US arms maker.
Rafael also makes Iron Dome, which has been extensively bankrolled by the US Congress. Israel and the United States say Iron Dome batteries have proven capable of shooting down around 90 percent of Paleostinian rockets fired from Gazoo.
Israel is working on a directed energy defense system which would use lasers fired by drones to disable missiles. Hasn't got to test stage yet (or possibly it was tested but performed so poorly that they didn't want to release the results).
If Israel had this, it would essentially make the whole Iran missile and bomb program worth much much less.
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I doubt it cost as much as the great f35. Will more than likely work better to.
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Almost 80 percent of the industrial units in Iran are closed or semi-closed, Mehdi Pourghazi, head of the industrial committee of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce said.
Some 30 percent of the industrial units in the country are closed, Pourghazi said, Iranian semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Dec. 16. Meanwhile about 50 percent of industrial units work at half-capacity, he said, adding the statistics are alarming.
Don't worry, Champ is riding to the rescue...
Appropriate measures should be taken to resolve the industrial units’ problem, Pourghazi said. The government itself has not settled its debts to the industrial units, he added.
The Iranian government unveiled its economic policy package in late October, in a bid to stimulate growth in the stagnant economy through higher investment in production and encouraging consumer spending. The measures are envisaged for a duration of six months in the run-up to the removal of international sanctions against Iran.
The sanctions are to be lifted in the coming months, following Iran’s landmark agreement on its nuclear program, which was reached in July.
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Bet you the "industrial units" needed for nuclear weapons manufacture are working.
[ALMANAR.LB] Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah made a televised statement two days after the martyrdom of freed detainee Samir Kuntar in which he reminded Israel that Hezbollah will respond to the liquidation of any member of the resistance in the way, time, and date it chooses.
After sending his greetings to the Christians in the region and the world for the birth anniversary of Jesus Christ (as) , and to the Muslims for the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad (as), Sayyed Nasrallah offered condolences over the departure of Sheikh Mohammad Khatoun who passed away Sunday, and expressed solidarity with the Nigerian people after the massacre that took place last week.
His eminence called upon the Nigerian president and government to release Sheikh Zakzaki whose three sons were martyred last year on the hand of the Nigerian Army during the procession of Al-Quds day in Nigeria. He further expressed his fear that Israel, US, or terrorist sides can be behind this operation in attempt to engage Nigeria in sedition like the case in many other countries in the region.
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Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah made a televised statement from his bunker?
[Rudaw] The US-led coalition against 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.... (ISIS) said Monday it had shut down 90 percent of the group's oil export capacity, in some 9,000 air strikes this year in Iraq and Syria.
"Coalition forces curbed ISIS capacity in the export of oil by 90 percent," coalition front man Steve Warren said in Baghdad.
"The international coalition carried out 9,000 air strikes in Iraq and Syria during 2015," he said.
As Iraqi forces gear up for an major offensive to push ISIS out of Ramadi -- capital of the country's largest Anbar province -- Warren said there would be no US ground forces taking part in the operations, which Baghdad said would take place this week.
Warren said that thousands of ISIS gunnies had been killed in Arclight airstrikes, and that hundreds of shelters and buildings used by the gunnies or its affiliates were destroyed.
He added that 40 percent of areas that had been held by ISIS -- which stormed into Iraq and captured a third of the country in a June 2014 blitzkrieg -- had been reclaimed by Iraqi joint forces."The terrorist organization (ISIS) lost more than 40 percent of the land in Tikrit and Baiji, and soon in Ramadi," he said.
Warren also expressed pleasure at "the Turkish withdrawal from Iraqi territory," referring to an announcement by Ankara that it was pulling out forces that had been near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The front man said that "the arrival of a US special force to perform (military) tasks was at the request of the Iraqi government."
He denied Russian allegations that the coalition was bombing Iraqi soldiers deliberately, saying those reports were "incorrect."
Iraq said Saturday that nine of its soldiers were killed when US-led coalition warplanes mistakenly struck the troops near the ISIS-controlled city of Fallujah.
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What the hell took ya so long? Deliberate indifference for over a year equals aiding the enemy.
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[DAWN] The Supreme Court has regretted that by raising arguments on the merit of the case and the sentence already confirmed, an attempt was made to re-argue the entire case on a review petition by the counsel representing Malik Mohammad Mumtaz Qadri, an Elite Force commando who had assassinated former
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
[ALMANAR.LB] Police in Pakistain's port city of 
[ALMANAR.LB] Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah made a televised statement two days after the martyrdom of freed detainee Samir Kuntar in which he reminded Israel that Hezbollah will respond to the 
