[HindustanTimes] Hundreds of loudspeakers have been installed in Afghanistan's capital Kabul to encourage worshippers to attend prayers, the Taliban ...Arabic for students... 's religious enforcers said. The ministry for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice said that hundreds of empty shops and other buildings that were not in use have been converted into mosques to give everyone the opportunity to pray communally, AFP reported.
"During the previous government, some of the loudspeakers were removed and people were not able to listen to the Azan (call to prayer)," the ministry said adding that 400 loudspeakers had been installed in different parts of Kabul "so the people could listen to the Azan at the same time".
As Taliban continue to introduce strict rules and regulations in Afghanistan, since they returned to power in August last year, in accordance with Islamic sharia law, women have largely been squeezed out of public life.
Earlier this month, supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada ordered judges to fully enforce Islamic law which includes public executions, stonings and floggings, and the amputation of limbs for thieves.
Local media also reported that the vice ministry has ordered shops in certain parts of Kabul to shut for Friday prayers.
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Religion is a matter of the heart and soul. This is just a sick farce.
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More speakers, eh? Wonder if they're wired or wireless.
If wireless, hacking in and playing Blue Oyster Cult's 'Don't Fear The Reaper' might be appropriate.
With Cowbell.
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I always wanted to go into a Whole Foods market, access the PA system and put in a Lynyrd Skynyrd mix tape so I can watch all the lefties freak out.
The things I learn here, Raj. :-) I’ve found it fascinating that some local Blues musicians quietly found a way to let me know they were Trump voters, for some reason, but what the Lynyrd Skynyrd front man did was not at all quiet.
[ToloNews] A local court in the Netherlands ruled on Wednesday that Dutch forces unlawfully bombed a residential complex in Afghanistan in 2007, and ordered the state to pay financial compensation to the victims.
The District Court of The Hague found the late-night attack on a compound that left some 20 civilians dead violated international humanitarian law. The court sided with four survivors of the attack who brought a civil suit against the Dutch state for compensation.
The defense ministry argued that buildings were being used by Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... fighters when the military hit the walled compound, known as a "quala," with munitions fired from attack helicopters and F-16s. The Dutch were part the U.S.-led coalition fighting in Afghanistan at the time.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... some 12 hours had passed from the last time the Islamic Emirate used the location as a firing position when the bombing occurred, and judges concluded that the military did not have enough information to designate the compound as a military target.
An estimated 250 Afghans, including between 50 and 80 civilians, were killed during the three days of fighting which became known as the Battle of Chora. In the days leading up to the battle, the Islamic Emirate fighters had captured a number of police outposts and were advancing on a Dutch military facility.
The group’s lawyer, Liesbeth Zegveld, called the attack "blind violence" in hearings earlier this year. "The distinction between military and civilian targets is a basic principle of the law of war," she told Dutch public broadcaster NOS.
A spokesperson for the defense ministry said they would consider the ruling. They have three months to file an appeal. The exact amount of compensation will be determined at a later hearing.
[RT] Turkiye’s air operations in northern Iraq and Syria are "just the beginning" and the country may soon launch a ground offensive into Kurdish-controlled areas of Syria, President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... warned on Wednesday.
In an address to ruling party politicians, Erdogan explained that Turkiye is determined to "close down all of our southern borders... with a security corridor that will prevent the possibility of attacks on our country."
He said the ground incursion will begin "at the most convenient time for us," and will target the regions of Tel Rifaat, Mambij and Kobani, which he called "sources of trouble."
Erdogan also reassured the Iraqi and Syrian governments that Ankara’s operation is not a challenge to their illusory sovereignty or territorial integrity, and stressed that the aim of the operation is to protect the security of Turkiye. If those countries "cannot fulfill the requirements of the agreement, we have the right to take care of it ourselves," he warned.
Retaliatory raids have escalated along the Ottoman Turkish-Syrian border in recent days, with Ankara carrying out a series of air and artillery strikes against targets linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the YPG, which it considers to be terrorist organizations and blames for the November 13 kaboom in Istanbul, which claimed the lives of six people and maimed 81 more.
'Battlefield' won't decide Russia-Ukraine conflict — Türkiye
[RT] Russia and Ukraine will inevitably have to sit down at the negotiating table to resolve the ongoing conflict, Turkiye's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a conference on Wednesday. Military action won't bring about its end and will only prolong the hostilities, he added.
"One way or another, this war will end at the [negotiating] table," the minister told an audience at Bilkent University in Ankara. "We do not think that it will end through military gains on the ground," he added, warning of a "risk of war that could last for decades."
According to Cavusoglu, Russia and Ukraine were already "very close to a ceasefire" during talks in Istanbul in spring before "moving away" from the negotiating table. The two sides haven’t sat down to negotiate since talks in Istanbul in late March. Moscow was initially optimistic about the prospects for a peace deal but later accused Kiev of torpedoing the talks.
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He has Putin envy.
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[Shafaq News] Iraq has promised to remove anti-Tehran Kurdish parties from its territory, Iran's Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian said in a presser on Wednesday.
Amir-Abdollahian said that a "foreign conspiracy" to instigate a civil war and ultimately divide Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... has failed.
The Iranian foreign minister said that the western countries fomented "riots" in the country "by deceiving a group of young people and arming turbans in the neighboring Kurdistan region of Iraq."
Amir-Abdollahian said that the Iraqi side has promised, in talks with the Iranian authorities, to secure the borders in the Kurdistan region by deploying troops, "but that is yet to happen."
"As long as there is a threat to us from a neighboring country, our armed forces will continue their actions to ensure maximum national security of the country. We, in the diplomatic and security apparatus of the country, will continue the talks with the Iraqi authorities to get over this phase," Iran's top diplomat said.
Amir-Abdollahian said that the western countries should not slander Iran for alleged violation of human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... with their own record throughout history.
"The fact that more than 50 coppers and security officers were martyred by rioters with firearms and rocks, and several thousand copperswere maimed, is a sign of respect for human rights and showing restraint by Iran's police and security forces [during the riots]," Amir-Abdollahian continued.
He explained that "riots and newly-imposed sanctions were aimed at pressuring Iran into giving up its demands at the talks, but the Americans must have realized now that Iran does not cross its red lines."
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[IsraelTimes] Treasury official says Tehran is ’reportedly targeting and gunning down its own children,’ in announcing sanctions on political figures in Kurdish cities in northwestern Iran.
The United States imposed sanctions on three Iranian officials on Wednesday for their role in the crackdown on protests in Kurdish-populated regions of the country.
"The Iranian regime is reportedly targeting and gunning down its own children, who have taken to the street to demand a better future," Treasury Undersecretary Brian Nelson said in a statement.
"The abuses being committed 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... against protestors, including most recently in Mahabad, must stop," Nelson said.
The Iranian officials sanctioned hold posts in Iran’s Kurdish regions, according to the Treasury Department.
"Since countrywide protests erupted after the killing of Mahsa Amini by Iran’s ’morality police’ in September 2022, the Kurdish cities in northwestern Iran, such as Sanandaj and Mahabad, have faced a particularly severe security response," the department said.
"In the past few days, dozens of protesters have reportedly been killed in the Kurdish region alone," it added.
Sanctions were imposed on Hassan Asgari, the governor of Sanandaj, Alireza Moradi, the head of law enforcement forces in Sanandaj, and Mohammad Taghi Osanloo, the commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces in Iran’s West Azerbaijan province, which includes Mahabad.
Protests have gripped Iran since Amini, a 22-year-old of Kurdish origin, died on September 16, three days after her arrest in Tehran by the notorious morality police for allegedly breaching the Islamic dress code for women.
The rallies have been led by young women who burned their headscarves and confronted security forces in the biggest wave of unrest to rock Iran for years.
In October, the United States placed over a dozen Iranian officials on its sanctions blacklist for the crackdown on the protests.
The sanctions block any assets those named might have under US jurisdiction and forbid US individuals or entities from doing business with them.
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We have banned them from Hobby Lobby and deactivated all their Cracker Barrel gift cards. More serious reprisals are surely in the works.
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[Shafaq News] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) suspended its joint operations with the Global Coalition against ISIS in Syria, blaming Washington for "not taking a firm position" over the Ottoman Turkish bombing.
The SDF General Commander, Mazloum Abdi, said they stopped combatting the terrorist organization due to the Ottoman Turkish attacks that "target civilians and want to occupy their land."
Abdi pointed out that the US-led Coalition did not issue any statement against Turkiye for targeting the SDF forces.
Many of the SDF's members come from the People's Protection Units (YPG), a Syrian-based offshoot of the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... -based Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), labeled by both Ankara and Washington as a terrorist organization.
In Turkey, the SDF and YPG are the same. And Ottoman Turkish officials launched the recent offensive against both groups after blaming them for a November 13 bombing in Istanbul that killed at least eight people and injured dozens more.
SDF and PKK denied involvement in the bombing.
Since 2015, US military forces have been present in Syria, supporting the Kurdish-led SDF fight against ISIS and providing humanitarian, military, and financial assistance.
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I am greatly saddened by the demise of our strong partnership with whomever that group was. Maybe we can still be friends and call each other on rainy days.
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Great we are selling out the Kurds in several countries. They love us and value freedom but they inconvenience our relations with totalitarian regimes who despise us.
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[RUSSIATODAY] A plot that sought to spark a civil war in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today 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. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and lead to its disintegration has failed, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Wednesday, claiming that recent violent mostly peaceful riots were fueled by American and Israeli weapons.
Abdollahian told a presser on Wednesday that Tehran had gathered documents proving that Iran’s adversaries wanted to trigger a ’terrorist war’ with the final goal of dividing Iran. These efforts, however, were thwarted, he said.
The minister also suggested that the recent anti-government riots were fomented by foreign states. According to Abdollahian, these nations were deceiving young Iranians while arming "Lions of Islam in the neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan region."
Apart from that, over the past eight weeks, Iran has detected a massive rise in foreign interference in the country, the minister said, adding that 76 "terrorist and anti-Iranian centers" emerged in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, which borders Iran. In the meantime, according to the official, American and Israeli weapons were being smuggled into Iran.
"Our friends in Iraq made a commitment to sweep those terrorist groups away and disarm them in a definite span of time," he noted, signaling that Iran’s strikes on targets in Iraq will continue as long as they are regarded as a threat.
For months now, Iran has seen violent mostly peaceful protests that erupted over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who was arrested by Iran’s morality police over an "improper" hijab in September and died hours later. While the Iranian authorities claim that she died of a pre-existing medical condition, Amini’s family insists she was beaten to death while in jug.
Abdollahian’s comments come after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi accused the US earlier this month of trying to destabilize Iran by encouraging unrest in the guise of legitimate protests, taking a page from the playbook Washington used in Libya and Syria, two countries that were plunged into civil wars.
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So they've arrested some more regime-wreckers?
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If we did something in Iran, I think we can rule out the FBI out of hand due to the operation’s overall lack of stupidity and incompetence.
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I notice this article is from RT which makes it suspect right off the bat. That being said, we know the CIA has a long, long history of meddling in the affairs of other countries. One might argue it was the CIA's interference with a democratically elected Iranian government back in the 1950's and subsequent installation of the Shah that led to the Islamic Revolutionary government that rules Iran today. CIA should butt the fuck out because any government that comes to power as a result of CIA meddling is automatically illegitimate.
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With the Shah’s family being not available can we have the CIA install the Kardashians instead? We ought to get something out of it rather than the COA just doing their usual baloney.
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With the Shah’s family being not available
Are you sure? At least as of a few years ago the royal court required the presence of ladies-in-waiting in the traditional regular rotation. I got to listen to a friend of a friend tell stories about it shortly after her return, grateful that since Mr. Wife is not a medical professional I’d likely never have to endure that kind of thing again. I seem to recall the court resides in Paris, or a similar fashionable European city with proper shopping and amusements.
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