[OneIndia] Yasir took it to Twitter to mock Pakistain by sharing the picture of the famous surrender of its army to India in 1971. Paks have been living in humiliating defeat for more than five decades now.
All is not well between Afghanistan and Pakistain. From exchange of fire on the Durand Line to now exchange of insults on social media between their leaders, the neighbouring countries are definitely not on good terms. When Pakistain Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah warned of an attack on Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain's (TTP) hideouts in Afghanistan, it did not go well with the Taliban rulers.
Needless to say, it irked several of the Taliban leaders. In fact, Taliban leader Ahmad Yasir took it to Twitter to mock Pakistain by sharing the picture of the famous surrender to India in 1971. Paks have been living in humiliating defeat for more than five decades now and this act from the Taliban leader is definitely going to rub salt on their wounds.
Not just the Talibani leader insulted Pakistain by sharing the famous surrender photo of Pak Lieutenant General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi but also warned the country to stay away from Afghanistan to avoid disgrace. In the entire history of its existence Pakistain has fought four major wars with India and always got humiliating defeat but the 1971 surrender was the biggest ever.
The Taliban leader has shown Pakistain its place when he tweeted: "Interior Minister of Pakistain! Excellent Sir! Afghanistan, Syria and Pakistain are not The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... to target the Kurds in Syria. This is Afghanistan, the graveyard of proud empires. Do not think of a military attack on us, otherwise there will be a shameful repetition of the military agreement with India."
TALIBAN 2.0 NOT A PAK SLAVE
Pakistain is in no condition to help the Taliban financially, especially when it itself is begging for rescue and bailouts. The recent developments just show that the Taliban would not be cowed down by Pakistain. The new Taliban leadership is in no mood to cajole the Pak military establishment, this could be ascertained from the fact that there have been several border conflicts between them. Earlier, Afghan Taliban forces shot up a border crossing with Pakistain and killed six civilians in December last year.
The first version of Taliban was like a vassal state for Pakistain; however, things have changed a lot. Moreover, the geopolitics of today is not what it was in the 1980s and 1990s. The two entities now no longer are fond of each other for various reasons. Foremost reason seems to be the fact that today Pakistain does not hold any leverage over the Taliban leaders, especially the second generation.
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I would think that the ISI would have the Taliban totally infiltrated. If that is not the case, they are more of a Dumb Service.
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[Jpost] Designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization would put them on par with the US, Canada, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
The UK is going to designate The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, a branch of Iran’s military, as a terrorist organization, The Telegraph reported on Monday.
The UK's Terrorism Act 2000 allows the Home Secretary to proscribe an organization as a terrorist group if the organization "commits or participates in acts of terrorism," "prepares for terrorism," "promotes or encourages terrorism (including the unlawful glorification of terrorism)," or "is otherwise concerned in terrorism."
In brief, the UK government uses "terrorism" to mean an action or threat of action that involves harm to a person, property, electronic system, section of the public or the general public. Furthermore, the threat or action must be intended to influence or intimidate a government or the public and must be motivated by "a political, religious, racial or ideological cause."
WHY IS THIS HAPPENING NOW?
The UK's decision to label the IRGC as a terrorist organization comes among heightened tensions between Iran and the West as Iran cracks down on anti-government protestors, including some with ties to the UK.
In response to the detainment of protestors with dual nationalities, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak's spokesperson said, "We've always said that we will never accept our nationals... being used for diplomatic leverage and we urge the government of Iran to stop its practice of unfairly detaining British and other foreign nationals."
A few other countries, namely the US, Canada, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, already consider the IRGC as a terrorist group.
As relations between the Iranian regime and the West continue to worsen, more countries are considering making similar moves to officially consider the IRGC as a terror organization. Iran International reported late last month that members of Germany's parliament have also been seriously pushing to also label IRGC as such.
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[KavkazUzel] Anatoly Aksakov, head of the State Duma committee on the financial market, announced the launch of Islamic banking in four regions of Russia, including Chechnya and Dagestan, in February.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in August 2022 it became known that the Central Bank of Russia planned an experiment to develop Islamic banking in Chechnya and Dagestan, the pilot project was announced for 2023.
The implementation of the Islamic banking project requires changes in federal legislation, experts in the field of finance have previously pointed out. Islamic finance services in Russia are more expensive than conventional banking services, these conditions are unattractive for business against the backdrop of sanctions, they explained.
Russian credit institutions may begin to provide financial products on the principles of Islamic banking as early as February, Izvestiya writes with reference to Anatoly Aksakov, head of the State Duma committee on the financial market.
According to the deputy, the State Duma will adopt a bill on Islamic banking in the second and third readings already in January, and it may be launched next month. Tatarstan, Chechnya, Dagestan and Bashkortostan will participate in the pilot project, Lenta.ru reports.
The Central Bank conceptually supports the bill on such an experiment, the press service of the regulator reported.
The head of Ingushetia also announced the launch of Islamic banking in the region. In September 2022, Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov announced that the republic was among the regions where the Central Bank would conduct an experiment to develop this project. He expressed the opinion that the new financial model will help increase the demand for banking services in the region. At the same time, Kalimatov did not name any deadlines for launching Islamic banking. The head of the State Duma committee, speaking now about the project, did not mention Ingushetia.
Recall that in February 2018, the participants of the Islamic economic forum "Russia - the guarantor of partnership" announced that plans to create Islamic financial structures in Russia faced severe legislative restrictions . They suggested creating a special zone in Chechnya for testing the mechanisms of Islamic banking.
[IsraelTimes] Source close to Sara Khadem says she received warnings to stay away from Iran; Spanish media reports she will settle with husband in already owned apartment in undisclosed location
An Iranian female chess player who competed abroad without a hijab has fled to Spain after receiving warnings to not return home to Iran, according to a report Tuesday.
Sara Khadem, also known as Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, competed in the Blitz Chess Championships and the FIDE World Rapid last week in Almaty, Kazakhstan, without a hijab, which is compulsory for women under Iranian law.
A source close to the player said she received multiple phone calls telling her to not return to Iran, according to the report in Rooters.
Other callers told her she should come back, with promises to "solve her problem." Her parents and relatives in Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... have also received threats.
According to the source, because of the phone calls she received, tournament organizers decided to provide Khadem with security and in cooperation with Kazakh police, four security guards were stationed outside her hotel room during her stay in the country.
Khadem, who arrived in Spain Tuesday, intends to settle there along with her husband, film director Ardeshir Ahmadi, and their young child, the Spanish daily El Pais reported.
Sources told El Pais the couple owns an apartment in Spain, but they are keeping quiet about exactly where they plan to live. It was not clear if they intend to apply for asylum or obtain residency.
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[Rudaw] The bodies of three Kurds killed in Gay Paree’ December attack will be returned to the Kurdistan Region, and two of them will be buried in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... (Bakur), and the other body will be buried in the Kurdistan region.
In late December, a 69-year-old man attacked the Ahmet Kaya Kurdish Cultural Centre in Rue d'Enghien street, Gay Paree. Three people were killed and three others were maimed in the shooting.
"The situation has returned to normal, but the attack worried us," Salami Pierre, a Gay Paree restaurant owner, told Rudaw’s Znar Shino, adding "It was a terrible tragedy that happened to the Kurds."
Gay Paree’ prosecutor office responded to Rudaw's questions saying they are unable to provide any information at this stage as the investigations are confidential.
French police are closely monitoring the area near Ahmet Kaya Kurdish Cultural Centre, where the attack took place.
On Tuesday, a ceremony will be held in Gay Paree to pay tribute to the victims of the incident, and then the bodies will be returned to their homelands.
The Kurdish Democratic Council in Gay Paree is organizing the ceremony, which will be attended by Kurdish residents and other citizens of Gay Paree, activist muppets, and friends of the victims.
The ceremony will last about three hours and the Gay Paree municipality will participate in the event. The bodies will reportedly be sent to Istanbul through a Gay Paree airport on Tuesday night and each of the victims will be buried in their homelands.
Even though the suspect was charged with "murder" and "attempted murder," Kurds in Gay Paree continue to hold demonstrations protesting their lack of protection in the French capital, as December’s attack marks the second incident targeting Kurds in Gay Paree in less than a decade.
Three Kurdish activist muppets, including co-founder of PKK Sakine Cansiz, were assassinated at a Kurdish cultural center in Gay Paree in January 2013.
[OneIndia] The Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain has formed several ministries on the lines of democratic countries like the US & India. This is definitely not going down well with the Mighty Pak Army as it challenges their authority.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), better known as Pak Taliban, is here to stay and make the Pak establishment pay for what it has been doing in the neighbourhoods in the name of 'jihad'. The latest development reported by the local media claims that the Pak Taliban, which has often been quoted by the Pak establishment as "bad Taliban", has formed its own government.
Pak newspapers report that the Pak Taliban has formed several ministries in the pattern of democratic countries like America, India, etc. For instance, new appointments have been added by the Talibani government in Pakistain. This is definitely not going well with the Mighty Pak Army as it challenges their authority.
DIVISION OF MINISTRIES
It looks like the Pak Taliban is planning for the future where they would be ruling the country very much like their brothers in arms in Afghanistan. Needless to say, the terrorist organization has announced that it has made new appointments dividing the outfit into various "ministries" such as defence, judiciary, information, political affairs, etc.
Additionally, there are ministries like economic affairs, education, a fatwa issuing authority, intelligence and a department for construction, etc. amongst others. Interestingly enough, the 'ministry of defence' is headed by Mufti Muzahim who figures in the US list of wanted terrorists.
STATES WITHIN A STATE
While the development is seen as a challenge to the Pak government and its illusory sovereignty, it's a fact that there are some areas within Pakistain where it's not the government of the day but TTP that holds power. Needless to say, TTP already enjoys partial control in a couple of regions which are operating like 'States within a State'.
Pakistain for a long time has been using faceless myrmidons for its nefarious purposes and agenda. These faceless myrmidons have helped Pakistain bargain with the Western countries. It garnered hundreds of billions of dollars from the US for its half-hearted support for 'War on Terror'. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... it exposed itself when it hid the late Osama bin Laden ...... who doesn't live anywhere anymore...... who was caught and rubbed out by the US marines.
Tehrik-e-Taliban-e-Pakistain is an alliance of holy warrior networks formed in 2007 to unify opposition against the Pak military. A great truth about TTP is that they are not interested in running the whole Pakistain but want to run the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and neighbouring Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province under strict Sharia law.
Will the Mighty Pak Army start its offensive against TTP as it did against them a couple of years ago? Then, it launched an operation 'Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... ' against the locals in Wazoo killing thousands of innocent people.
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[KhaamaPress] Afghanistan was a major beneficiary of India’s military training programs among the regional countries before the fall of the Republic government in the dim-August of 2021.
The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDFA) was allowed to apply for up to 1,000 slots each year at Indian institutes, including the Indian Army Academy in Dehradun and the Officers Training Academy in Chennai.
After the fall of Kabul and took over of Afghanistan by the present regime, the Afghan officers and police who were in training in India could return to Afghanistan.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... after the fall of Kabul, the Indian government allowed 185 Cades of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDFS), who were stranded in the country, to undergo a 12-month training or receive medical care. despite that, now they are facing an uncertain future in New Delhi.
The officials in New Delhi said they had further training to advance their knowledge and better serve their nation. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... they expressed sorrow that they could not return to their country to serve the nation.
They also stated that neither they could return home nor financially get support. As a result, they are struggling financially and facing psychological issues.
Despite calling for a national amnesty, the acting administration in Afghanistan still reports detained, prosecuted, tortured, and missing dozens of former Afghan army soldiers, coppers, and former national security personnel, said one of the officers.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his shoulder. Ow! he exclaimed, with feeling...... according to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... -run defence ministry, 25 former army officers have reportedly returned to Afghanistan after completing training programmes in New Delhi.
The Taliban-run defense ministry, meanwhile, has announced that 25 former army officers have returned to Afghanistan after finishing training courses in New Delhi.
The former officials of Afghansitan’s defense ministry said that this ministry used to send a few hundred soldiers to India, China, Turkey, UAE, and Russia each year for short-term and long-term military training.
[OneIndia] The Assam government has started an experiment to include the Moslem community, including Bengali speaking Moslems as stakeholders in the government's fight against radical Islamists and Jihadis, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
Speaking to news hounds on January 1, Sarma said that the Assam police has also initiated measures to de-radicalise the privately run Madrasas. These Madrasas will have to fill up a Performa besides maintaining a ledger book and also give details on description of the land in use. These details will have to be furnished to the authorities by the board.
It may be recalled that the Assam government had demolished three Madrasas in the state in September 2022 for their involvement in Jihadi activities. In 2021, the government converted 400 government run Madrasas into regular schools.
CM Sarma said that last year the government had cracked down on eight modules of the al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Coontinent and Ansarulah Bangla Team, nine Bangladeshi nationals involved in acts of Jihad. He further said that 53 Jihadis had been arrested.
He said that the Director General of Police is working with the Moslem community to rationalise the Madrasa education. He said that they were getting cooperation and those who are running the Madrasas are being made as stakeholders rather than being treated as enemies, Sarma also added.
He said that there are areas where there are hardly any Hindus. We have started a new experiment in the war against Jihadi by including the Moslem community including the Bengali speaking Moslems as stakeholders.
He went on to add that these persons have created a positive and conducive environment. The inclusion of science, rationalisation, maths subjects, respecting the right to education, reducing the number of Madrasas, database of teachers and making those teachers coming from outside compulsorily appear before the cop shoppes from time to time are some of the measures that the government has taken, CM Sarma said. A check-list on how to ink the agreement has also been prepared, he added.
It was also decided that before engaging an Madrasa teacher from outside the state, the Madrasas will have to seek police verification. Further the distance between two Madrasas will have to be three kilometres, it was also decided.
[IsraelTimes] Session unlikely to lead to formal censure but will reflect anger and concerns surrounding sensitive site, with one US official accusing far-right minister of trying to sow chaos.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council will convene an emergency session to discuss firebrand
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[AlAhram] Younis al-Shaer, a 21-year-old Paleostinian, left Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... dreaming of a better life in Europe, only to return to the Paleostinian enclave in a coffin.
He was one of scores of Paleostinians risking the perilous journey across the Mediterranean.
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[IsraelTimes] Interior minister claims brothers Maher and Karim Younis used their Israeli status to help carry out 1980 attack that left IDF soldier Avraham Bromberg dead
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri asked the attorney general Tuesday to revoke the citizenship of two Lions of Islam who killed a soldier decades ago.
Brothers Maher and Karim Younis, from the Arab town of ’Aara in central Israel, murdered Cpl. Avraham Bromberg in 1980 and are expected to be released from prison in the coming days after serving 40 years.
Deri, the leader of the Haredi Shas party, learned of their expected release when he took office, he said in a letter to Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.
"It’s unthinkable that these people will continue to hold Israeli citizenship," he said, according to Channel 12. "Canceling their citizenship will send an important message when it comes to those who have become icons for committing terrorist, criminal acts."
Deri claimed that the two had used their citizenship to further their deadly actions, justifying the request.
In the attack, the assailants jumped Bromberg as he was heading back from his army base in the Golan Heights, overpowered him, shot him in the head and stole his weapon. They left him on the side of a road where he was found and brought to a hospital, but died soon after.
Advocates for Paleostinian terror convicts, including the Paleostinian Authority, have pushed for their release.
Earlier this week, Karim Younis, a member of Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... ’s Fatah movement, said in a statement that his "soul remains with those who hold the embers of the Paleostinian struggle," according to Channel 12 news.
Deri’s appeal came despite tensions with Baharav-Miara over his appointment as interior minister and health minister in the new government.
In a rare step, Baharav-Miara announced Tuesday that she will not defend Deri’s appointment to the ministries in response to High Court petitions seeking to annul his roles over multiple past convictions. The coalition has passed special legislation to allow him to serve as a minister despite a recent suspended sentence for tax offenses.
The move comes against the backdrop of already highly strained relations between Baharav-Miara and the new government, with the former having publicly criticized the legislative agenda of the new coalition and members of the latter having loudly condemned her for the comments.
The deportation of Israeli citizens who served their sentences would also likely spark international criticism of the new government.
[OneIndia] The sea route has been the most preferred for the narco mobs operating in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu. The proceeds from the drug trade are being used to fund terror and revive the defunct LTTE
Tamil Nadu has been placed under a state of very high alert after it was learnt that one of Sri Lanka's notorious drug lords, 'Kanjipani' alias Mohammed Imran had entered the country through coastal Rameswaram.
The development is worrying for the agencies as the number of drug smuggling are on the rise from Sri Lanka. All the recent cases have clearly suggested that the drug mafia in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu are being manned by the ISI in Pakistain. It has also come to light that the drugs are being sold and the proceeds of the same are being used to revive the LTTE in the state.
ABOUT KANJIPANI:
Kanjipani Imran alias Mohammed Imran was released from a jail in Sri Lanka after he had obtained bail in a criminal case. He managed to give the agencies in Sri Lanka the dodge following which is said to entered Tamil Nadu reports said.
The Intelligence says that there are many pending cases against Imran which include murder and drug peddling. He managed to escape from Sri Lanka on Christmas eve. He is internationally connected and deals directly with the drug lords in Pakistain and Afghanistan. He was recently arrested in Dubai following which he was deported to Sri Lanka.
LACK OF EFFORT:
Imran is a notorious character and it is not just his drug connections that are worrying. In fact the proceeds from his business directly are used to fund terror. When he was brought from Dubai to Sri Lanka, he was arrested under the provisions of the Prevention of Terrorism Act. He was accused of threatening a police officer.
Despite knowing the gravity of the situation and Sri Lanka facing incidents of terror on many occasions, the police rolled back the charges under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and applied new charges under the penal code. This gave his legal team the chance to seek bail which he was granted because the charges against him were weak.
At court, the Attorney General said that the charges of threatening a police man do not fall under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, following which the Chief Magistrate ordered his release while barring him from travelling abroad.
The agencies in both Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu were found to be lax in this case, especially when there is so much details about this man. He is said to be a close aide of Haji Salim, a member of the Pakistain drug mafia who was in close contact with the nine persons arrested by the National Investigation Agency in a drug case. An official tells OneIndia that the NIA case had made it clear that this is the same drug mafia which had been funding the revival of the LTTE at the behest of Pakistain's ISI.
This is also the same module which was part of a major operation. In this connection the Indian forces had intercepted a boat carrying 300 kilograms of heroin, five AK-47 machine guns and 1,000 rounds of 9 mm bullets.
THE RAMESWARAM CONNECTION:
In November last year, the Tamil Nadu coastal police had arrested a DMK councillor and a former councillor of the same party for attempting to smuggle cocaine to the tune of Rs 360 crore from the Ramanathapuram district. The police said that former DMK councillor, Jainuddin and the current councillor of the 19th ward of Rameswaram, Sarbaz Nawaz had attempted to smuggle cocaine into Sri Lanka.
The official cited above said that this is not the time to be lax. Rameswaram has always known to be a hub for such activities and the fact that Imran had managed to slip into this place is hardly surprising as he has a deeply infested network there.
When the civil war in Tamil Nadu ended the number of drug smuggling cases shot up. The demand for cocaine remains high in India, while the Sri Lankans prefer heroin.
The narco mobs rely heavily on the fishermen to smuggle in these drugs. There have been scores of such persons arrested by the Indian coasties and the drug link has cropped up in most cases.
[IsraelTimes] Nasrallah says a simple ’trachea allergy’ cause recent cancellation of planned speech; lambastes Netanyahu coalition as full of ’corrupt criminals and murderous Moslems’.
His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... , the leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah terror group, gave a televised speech Tuesday, shutting down rumors about his poor health and lashing out at "crazy officials" in Israel’s new "government of corrupt criminals and murderous Moslems."
"I would like to reassure you that there is no need to worry at all," Nasrallah said in an address to mark the third anniversary of the liquidation of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani , who was killed in a US air strike in Iraq. He also spoke out against Israel’s new government, though expressed hopes it would lead to the Jewish state’s demise.
Nasrallah, 62, dismissed rumors mentioned in some Israeli and international news outlets that he had had a stroke or was near death, after a speech planned for Friday was called off. Nasrallah, who coughed and had a hoarse voice throughout his address, explained that he has had a "trachea allergy" for the past 30 years.
"After what was said in the Israeli and Gulf media, I would like to reassure you that there is no need to worry at all," he said.
"I apologize for making you worry," he told supporters. Lebanese media affiliated with Hezbollah had reported that Nasrallah was suffering from the flu, preventing him from speaking normally and this was the reason for the canceled speech.
The Hezbollah chief also addressed the new Israeli government, as well as the controversial visit to the Temple Mount Tuesday morning by the far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
Any "harm against al-Aqsa might blow up the entire region," Nasrallah warned, issuing a message to the international community to "rein in those crazy officials in Israel" in order to prevent war.
"The new Israeli government is a government of [people who are] corrupt, criminals and murderous Moslems," Nasrallah said, according to a translation by the Lebanese Naharnet news site.
He joked darkly that the only reason to be optimistic about the new government was because it might hasten Israel’s demise.
"We will not tolerate any change" in the fragile balance of power between Israel and Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... , he said. "We tried Netanyahu for a long time and we do not fear him."
[Rudaw] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... on Tuesday indicted two Frenchies and a Belgian on charges of espionage but no ruling has been issued yet, the country’s judiciary front man said.
"Two Frenchies were arrested on charges of espionage and conspiracy against the security of the country," judiciary front man Massoud Setayeshi was quoted by Mizan Online as saying.
Setayeshi added that an indictment was issued for the Belgian national and is awaiting the results of the investigation launched by the prosecutor.
The judiciary front man refused to reveal further details about the charges against 40 other foreign nationals detained in the country during the recent wave of protests but said "we promise to inform about the latest status of all nationals who were arrested" when the time is right.
Iranian Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... has accused foreign nations, mainly Israel, the United States, and European countries of being behind the recent wave of massive countrywide protests in the country that have triggered a violent mostly peaceful crackdown by security forces.
At least 516 protesters, including 70 children, have been killed and over 19,000 have been arrested since the protests began almost four months ago, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
Seven Frenchies are currently detained in Iran. Benjamin Briere, who was detained in 2020, was sentenced to over eight years in prison for espionage charges last year.
French President Emmanuel Macron in October condemned Iran's violent mostly peaceful crackdown on the protests.
"For the women who courageously began to drop the veil and go before arms, for the young people and the men who are fighting for women's rights, for what is universal in this fight, La Belle France condemns the repressions perpetrated by the Iranian regime," read a tweet from Macron on Wednesday.
In October, La Belle France advised its citizens to leave Iran "as soon as possible" as the country continues to reel from protests sparked by the death of 22-year old Kurdish woman Zhina (Mahsa) Amini in jug of the country’s morality police in September.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[OneIndia] Yasir took it to Twitter to mock Pakistain by sharing the picture of the famous surrender of its army to India in 1971. Paks have been living in humiliating defeat for more than five decades now.
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...The nation is noted for 
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...... who doesn't live anywhere anymore......
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
Hezbollah
...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
