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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
'Speedway Slammer' is red state's answer to 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention facility
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Arabia
IDF intercepts missile from Yemen, 68th launched by Houthis since March
[IsraelTimes] No injuries reported; last missile attack was four days ago; drone was intercepted on Sunday

The Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s 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...
fired a ballistic missile at Israel early Tuesday morning, causing sirens to sound in central Israel and in Jerusalem-area towns.

The Israel Defense Forces said the missile was successfully intercepted by air defenses. There were no reports of impacts or injuries.

The Houthis, in a statement, claimed to have targeted Ben Gurion Airport.

Since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive against Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
in the 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with 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...
Strip following the collapse of a ceasefire there, the Houthis in Yemen have launched 68 ballistic missiles and at least 18 drones at Israel. Several of the missiles have fallen short.

Tuesday’s attack was the first such incident since the Houthis on Sunday attempted a drone attack on Israel.

In a statement on Sunday, the Houthis claimed to have launched three drones at Israel, targeting "Zionist enemy military targets" in Tel Aviv, Ashkelon and Haifa.

According to the IDF, only one drone reached Israel, and it was shot down by the Air Force over the Egyptian border, near the community of Bnei Netzarim, where sirens had sounded.

The other two drones likely fell short before reaching the country.

On Friday, the Houthis fired a ballistic missile at Israel, which the IDF said was also intercepted successfully.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/06/2025 2025-08-06 01:03 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Caribbean-Latin America
Gunmen affiliated with the 'Jalisco New Generation Cartel' (CJNG) - "F.E.M" patrolling in Michoacán.
Posted by: badanov || 08/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Azerbaijani ISIS member tried for attempted attack on Baku synagogue
[IsraelTimes] The suspect is accused of planning an attack on the Mountain Jews Synagogue of Baku with a Molotov cocktail in December

A youth in Azerbaijan affiliated with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
terror organization is being tried for attempting to attack a synagogue in the capital city of Baku in December, according to Azerbaijani media reports.

18-year-old Abdulla Aliyev is accused of attempting to attack the Mountain Jews Synagogue of Baku with a Molotov cocktail and other weapons on December 28. The State Security Service was able to prevent the attack and detain him.

An accomplice testified against Aliyev, saying he was recruited online. The two began speaking about ISIS on Instagram that November, and Aliyev sent him a link to join a secret group.

"Later, he told me that he was going to attack a synagogue and asked me for an axe, a knife, a Molotov cocktail, and gloves," the witness said. "He said that after that, when the time came, he would bomb other places as well."

The two were driving together to attack the synagogue when authorities stopped and inspected the car, finding incendiary substances and weapons.

Aliyev was found to be affiliated with the ISIS Khorasan terrorist organization, media reports said. He was charged at the Baku Court of Grave Crimes on multiple accounts of terrorism, religious extremism, and organized crime. The trial will next meet on September 22.

Azerbaijan is considered one of the safest Moslem countries for Jews, thanks in large part to a secular government that actively promotes religious tolerance and interfaith harmony.

The country’s Jewish community is said to date back over 2,000 years to the Babylonian exile.

Today, between 6,000 and 30,000 Jews live in the country, according to various estimates, with the majority living in Baku.

Three of Azerbaijan’s eight synagogues are in Baku, including the Mountain Jews Synagogue, which was built in 1945.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/06/2025 2025-08-06 01:24 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


A defendant in the Crocus terrorist attack case offered victims 1,000 rubles each
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] One of the defendants in the case of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow, Umedzhon Soliev (an individual included in the Russian Federation list of terrorists and extremists) offered to pay the victims 1,000 rubles. This was stated on August 5 by the victims' lawyer Ksenia Trunova.

Soliev made this proposal during the next court hearing. This amount, in his opinion, should compensate for moral damage.

“During today’s hearing, defendant Umedzhon Soliev proposed to compensate moral damages to 127 victims, whom we represent, by paying them 1,000 rubles each,” Trunova said in a comment to TASS.
According to the internet, that’s US$12.50, an insulting amount, especially when he admits his actions damaged his own soul as well as their bodies.
Soliev is accused of supplying weapons, ammunition and explosives to the direct perpetrators of the terrorist act. He used the pseudonym Muhammad and headed a structural cell of the terrorist organization in Russia.

Earlier, on August 5, it became known that the organizers of the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall allocated 350 thousand rubles for the purchase of weapons. They brought three Kalashnikov assault rifles, one Makarov pistol and at least 1,381 cartridges from Dagestan to the Moscow region in a car with a cache.

Posted by: badanov || 08/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Home Front: WoT
Cars torched, ‘Death to the IDF’ graffitied in St. Louis; American who served in IDF said to be target
[IsraelTimes] Several cars were set on fire and “Death to the IDF” graffiti was spray-painted in a residential neighborhood in the St. Louis area, according to local reports and the head of the Trump administration’s antisemitism task force.

Leo Terrell says the “horrific antisemitic attack,” in which three cars were torched, targeted an American citizen who served in the Israel Defense Forces who had returned to his family home in Clayton.

“Soon after, he and his family were targeted,” Terrell writes in a post on X.

There are no reports of injuries. Local media reports a suspect has been taken into custody.

KMOV 4 News says that in addition to “Death to the IDF,” further graffiti was spray-painted on the street that it described as “a direct attack on an individual.” The outlet adds that it blurred that “part of the threatening message because it’s targeted at a specific individual.”

Terrell says the graffiti “accused him of being a murderer.”

“I am outraged. Antisemitic violence has no place in America, not in St. Louis and not anywhere. We will pursue every avenue to bring the perpetrators to justice. If you commit antisemitic hate crimes, you will be caught. And you will be held accountable,” says Terrell, adding he contacted the FBI about the case.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/06/2025 2025-08-06 04:04 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
UN says 88% of its aid is being looted before it reaches its destinations
[IsraelTimes] Israel’s concerns over what happens to UN aid deliveries appeared to be reinforced as the global body admitted that nearly all supplies it took charge of failed to be delivered as planned.

The United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
Office for Project Services published data showing that since the resumption of humanitarian aid deliveries to 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with 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...
on May 19 and up until August 5, a total of 2,604 aid trucks were collected by the UN. Of those, 2,309 did not reach their intended destinations inside the Gaza Strip. According to the organization, this was due to the trucks being "intercepted either peacefully by hungry people or forcefully by armed actors during transit in Gaza."

The numbers account for 88 percent of all trucks. In recent months, the percentages were even higher. According to UNOPS, in June, 1,155 trucks were collected by the UN and its partner organizations after crossing into Gaza, and 1,048 of them — 90.7% — were intercepted before reaching their destinations. In July, the figure rose to 94%, with 1,161 trucks collected and 1,093 intercepted.

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Olga Cherevko from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs clarified to The Times of Israel that the vast majority of looting is being carried out by hungry Gazooks, not by armed gangs.


Gunmen are seen on trucks carrying aid after they entered the northern Gaza Strip from Israel, west of Beit Lahia on June 25, 2025. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)
"The long-standing restrictions on the entry of aid have created an unpredictable environment where there is a lack of confidence by the communities that aid will reach them," she said.

"This has resulted in many of our convoys offloaded directly by starving, desperate people as they continue to face deep levels of hunger and are struggling to feed their families," the UN staffer continued.

"As we have said before, the only way to reach a level of confidence is by having a sustained flow of aid over a period of time. This was clearly evident during the weeks of the last ceasefire when such incidents did not occur," she added.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/06/2025 2025-08-06 04:05 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Its still doing better than the Clinton’s foundation…
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Russian diplomatic mission car attacked near Jerusalem
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] An official vehicle of the Russian diplomatic mission to the Palestinian National Authority was attacked near Jerusalem. This was reported on August 5 by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The ministry stressed that the car had diplomatic license plates and was carrying Russian diplomats accredited to the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

"The car <…> was attacked in the area of the illegal Israeli settlement of Givat Assaf near Jerusalem by a group of settlers. The car sustained mechanical damage. The attack itself was accompanied by verbal threats against Russian diplomats," the department's website says.

Moreover, the attack took place in front of the Israeli military, and they did not even try to prevent the aggression. The Foreign Ministry considers the incident a gross violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, which, among other things, speaks of the obligations of the host country to ensure the principle of immunity of diplomats.

The Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv sent a corresponding representation to the authorities of the Jewish state. The Russian Foreign Ministry expects that the Israeli side will draw conclusions.

Russia lodges protest over alleged settler attack on Russian diplomatic vehicle

[IsraelTimes] “On July 30, a vehicle of the Russian Federation’s mission to the Palestinian National Authority, bearing diplomatic license plates and carrying personnel of the Russian diplomatic mission accredited by Israel’s Foreign Ministry, was attacked near the illegal Israeli settlement of Givat Assaf, near Jerusalem, by a group of settlers,” Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says in a statement.

The incident occurred “with the acquiescence of Israeli military personnel, who were present at the scene and did not attempt to stop the attackers’ aggressive actions,” she adds.

Reuters was not able to independently verify the Russian foreign ministry’s report.

Zakharova says the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv submitted an official démarche to Israeli authorities.

Posted by: badanov || 08/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran executes another man convicted of spying for Israel
[IsraelTimes] Iranian authorities have executed a man convicted of spying for Israel by passing information about a nuclear scientist killed during the 12-day war with Israel in June.

“Roozbeh Vadi… was executed following judicial proceedings and confirmation of his sentence by the Supreme Court,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website says, adding that the convict had leaked information about a “nuclear scientist who was assassinated during the Zionist regime’s recent aggression.”
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/06/2025 2025-08-06 03:53 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Qassem refuses to commit to arms handover while Israel continues attacks
[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
said Tuesday his group would not accept any timetable on handing over its weapons to the Lebanese state while Israeli strikes continue, as the government held a session on the issue.

"Any timetable presented for implementation under... Israeli aggression cannot be agreed to," Qassem said in a televised address, urging the state to develop "plans to face the pressure and threats" and not to "deprive the resistance (Hezbollah) of its capacities and strength."

"The resistance is fine, strong and dignified, its supporters are resilient and coherent, and its fighters are ready to offer the dearest sacrifices," Qassem added.

The Iran-backed Hezbollah emerged badly weakened from more than a year of hostilities with Israel, including two months of all-out war that saw its arsenal pummeled and a slew of senior commanders killed, among them leader Sayyed
...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged...
His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
Long the strongest political force in Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
-- with detractors accusing it of using the threat of its weaponry to impose its will on domestic decisions -- Hezbollah has also seen that influence diminish since the conflict.

Israel has kept up regular raids on Lebanon despite the November truce, mostly saying it is striking Hezbollah targets, and has threatened to keep doing so until the group has been disarmed.

"Are we being asked to engage in dialogue, or to surrender our weapons without dialogue?" Qassem said.

"We cannot accept Lebanon committing to gradually giving up its strength while all the strength cards remain in the hands of the Israeli enemy," he added.

Qassem also criticized a recent proposal presented by U.S. envoy Tom Barrack on disarming the group.

"Whoever looks at the deal Barrack brought doesn't find an agreement but dictates," he said, arguing that "it removes the strength and capabilities of Hezbollah and Lebanon entirely."

Hezbollah is the only faction that kept its weapons after Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war, doing so in the name of "resistance" against Israel, which occupied the country's south until 2000.

Last month, Barrack urged Lebanon to "act now" to impose a state weapons monopoly.

A Lebanese official with knowledge of the talks told AFP that "Washington is pressuring Lebanon to make Hezbollah hand over its weapons according to a timetable, but without (the U.S.) providing any guarantees."

President Joseph Aoun last week said Lebanon was committed to removing "weapons from all gangs including Hezbollah" and seeing them surrendered to the Lebanese Army.

Lebanon is at "a crucial stage" and must choose "between collapse and stability," Aoun had said, linking international support for the crisis-hit country to disarming the group.

In his speech, Qassem said that "we do not agree to any new deal other than the existing deal between the Lebanese state and the Israeli entity," referring to the November ceasefire.

Qassem also warned Israel against launching any new "large-scale aggression."

"Israel's interest is not to widen the aggression because if they expand, the resistance will defend, the army will defend and the people will defend," Qassem said. "This defense will lead to the fall of missiles inside the Israeli entity," he added.

Before discussing the fate of its weapons, which it considers a matter of domestic defense strategy, Hezbollah has demanded that reconstruction of areas destroyed during the war begin, and that Israel stop its attacks, withdraw from five areas it occupies and release Lebanese prisoners.
Qassem said the war had killed 5,000 Hezbollah fighters and wounded 13,000, the first official toll the group has given. But he said the organization remained in good order, with fighters ready to make “the harshest sacrifices” if needed.

Qassem warned Israel against launching any new “large-scale aggression” because “if it does, Hezbollah will go on the defensive, “and this defense will lead to rockets falling inside the Israeli entity.”
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/06/2025 2025-08-06 02:38 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Ali Larijani reappointed secretary of Iran’s top security body
[IsrelTimes] Islamic Republic also revives Iraq war-era Defense Council to review defense plans and enhance capabilities of its armed forces amid a shakeup after Israel war

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has appointed Ali Larijani as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, the country’s semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.

Larijani is a senior adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
, Iran’s supreme leader. The appointment took place amid institutional changes following Iran’s 12-day air war with Israel in June.

Israel said its sweeping assault on Iran’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment sites, and ballistic missile program was necessary to prevent the Islamic Theocratic Republic from realizing its avowed plan to destroy the Jewish state.

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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
retaliated to Israel’s strikes by launching over 500 ballistic missiles and around 1,100 drones at Israel. The attacks killed 29 people and maimed over 3,000 in Israel, according to health officials and hospitals.

The war, which saw the US join Israel in striking nuclear enrichment centers, reportedly killed more than 1,000 people in Iran and was the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s most severe security challenge since its war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in the 1980s.

A former member of the Revolutionary Guards, Larijani held the same top security position from 2005 to 2007 and was parliamentary speaker from 2008 to 2020. He now replaces Ali Akbar Ahmadian, who had become SNSC secretary in 2023.

In April, prior to the war with Israel, he said Iran would pursue nuclear weapons if attacked.

"We are not moving toward [nuclear] weapons, but if you do something wrong in the Iranian nuclear issue, you will force Iran to move toward that because it has to defend itself," Larijani told state TV at the time.

Iran has consistently denied seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
it enriched uranium to levels that have no peaceful application, obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities, and expanded its ballistic missile capabilities. Israel said Iran had recently taken steps toward weaponization.

On Sunday, Iran also revived an Iraq war-era Defense Council to review defense plans and enhance the capabilities of its armed forces in a centralized manner.

Iran’s president heads both the Defense Council and the SNSC.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/06/2025 2025-08-06 02:30 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Shiite ministers walk out as cabinet tasks army with drafting plan to restrict arms before Aug. 31
[AnNahar] Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
's government on Tuesday tasked the army with developing a plan to restrict arms to the state by year end, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said, an unprecedented move that paves the way for disarming Hezbollah.

The government "tasked the Lebanese Army with setting an implementation plan to restrict weapons" to the army and other government forces "before the end of this year," with the plan to be presented to the cabinet by the end of this month, Salam told a presser after a nearly six-hour cabinet session headed by President Joseph Aoun.

Environment Minister Tamara al-Zein of the Amal Movement and Health Minister Rakan Nassereddine of Hezbollah had walked out of the cabinet session shortly before its end in protest at its decisions.

State Minister for Administrative Development Fadi Makki meanwhile voiced reservations over the part related to setting a timetable before the army presents its proposal and before the continuation of discussions in the presence of all parties in the next cabinet session.

Finance Minister Yassine Jaber of the Amal Movement and Labor Minister Mohammad Haidar of Hezbollah did not attend the session due to their presence outside the country.

Salam also announced that Cabinet would discuss the latest U.S. paper in its session on Thursday.

The Iran-backed Hezbollah emerged badly weakened from more than a year of hostilities with Israel, including two months of all-out war that saw its arsenal pummelled and a slew of senior commanders killed, among them leader Sayyed
...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged...
His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
Long the strongest political force in Lebanon -- with detractors accusing it of using the threat of its weaponry to impose its will on domestic decisions -- Hezbollah has also seen that influence diminish since the conflict.

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
, in a televised address while the cabinet meeting was underway, said the Iran-backed group would not disarm while Israeli attacks continue.

"Any timetable presented for implementation under... Israeli aggression cannot be agreed to," he said.

Israel has kept up regular raids on Lebanon despite the November truce, mostly saying it is striking Hezbollah targets, and has threatened to keep doing so until the group has been disarmed.

Qassem also criticized a recent proposal presented by U.S. envoy Tom Barrack on disarming the group.

Hezbollah is the only faction that kept its weapons after Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war, doing so in the name of "resistance" against Israel, which occupied the country's south until 2000.

Last month, Barrack urged Lebanon to "act now" to impose a state weapons monopoly.

A Lebanese official with knowledge of the talks told AFP that "Washington is pressuring Lebanon to make Hezbollah hand over its weapons according to a timetable, but without (the U.S.) providing any guarantees."

The group will not surrender its weapons "without something in return -- the Americans know this well," the official added, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
Aoun last week said Lebanon was committed to removing "weapons from all gangs including Hezbollah" and seeing them surrendered to the Lebanese Army.

Lebanon is at "a crucial stage" and must choose "between collapse and stability," Aoun had said, linking international support for the crisis-hit country to disarming the group.

Before discussing the fate of its weapons, which it considers a matter of domestic defense strategy, Hezbollah has demanded that reconstruction of areas destroyed during the war begin, and that Israel stop its attacks, withdraw from five areas it occupies and release Lebanese prisoners.

But analysts say Hezbollah's options for pressing its demands are more limited since the conflict.

According to David Wood from the International Crisis Group, Hezbollah could apply pressure to the government by saying "that the (disarmament) decision doesn't represent Lebanon's national interests."

It could also encourage its supporters to demonstrate, but any violent mostly peaceful escalation "that Hezbollah's leadership deliberately plans and calls for is still a pretty unlikely scenario," he said, noting a domestic confrontation was "not in Hezbollah's interest."

However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
with the government pushing for disarmament and Hezbollah demanding concessions first, Wood said a diplomatic track could run into an impasse.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/06/2025 2025-08-06 02:06 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Iran says it detained ‘sabotage cell’ linked to exiled opposition group
[IsraelTimes] Three alleged members of People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran planned to ‘disrupt public order,’ are undergoing ‘specialized interrogation,’ prosecutor says

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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has arrested three members of a suspected sabotage cell linked to the exiled opposition for attempting to disrupt public order, Iranian media reported Tuesday.

The suspects, who are allegedly linked to the outlawed former rebel group the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran (MEK), were detained by the Revolutionary Guard in the county of Pakdasht, southeast of Tehran, the ISNA news agency said.

"Three members of MEK-linked sabotage cells who sought to disrupt public order and security were identified and arrested," prosecutor Mohammad Hassanpour told ISNA.

He accused the MEK of using underground propaganda networks to recruit individuals to form "sabotage cells" aimed at disrupting public order.

Security forces dismantled the cell and arrested all its members, he added.

Hassanpour said the suspects were undergoing "specialized interrogation" and the investigation was ongoing.

Their arrest comes after the execution late last month of two long-term members of the group for alleged armed operations.

They had been found guilty of producing improvised mortars to attack civilians, homes and public institutions.

Founded in the 1960s to oppose the Western-backed shah, the MEK was outlawed after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 for fighting alongside Saddam Hussein’s troops in the Iran-Iraq war.

Disarmed by a US-led coalition following its invasion of Iraq in 2003, the group now advocates a change in Iran’s system from abroad.

In recent weeks, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
, has accused the group of seeking to foment "unrest" with the aim of toppling the system during Israel’s June 13 attack, which triggered a 12-day war with Iran.

During the fighting, Israeli — and then later US strikes — targeted Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities, weapons program, and top nuclear scientists. Israel said its attacks aimed to thwart an immediate existential threat to the Jewish State.

Iran responded to the attacks by firing hundreds of missiles at Israeli cities that killed 28 and injured over 3,000. It has faced continuing internal instability since the war ended and has launched a sweeping internal crackdown aimed at rooting out Israeli spies, dissidents and opposition figures.
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  IDF declares defeat of Hamas battalion in Beit Hanoun, as operatives shown surrendering
Sat 2025-08-02
  Four killed in Thursday's Israeli strikes on south, east Lebanon
Fri 2025-08-01
  Islamic State in Sahel raided Burkina Faso Army Base in Oudakan
Thu 2025-07-31
  Strategic Town Lost as SNA Troops Flee: Al-Shabaab Gains Ground Amid Crumbling Defenses
Wed 2025-07-30
  In 1st, entire Arab League condemns Oct. 7, urges Hamas to disarm
Tue 2025-07-29
  PM said to propose Israel begin annexing parts of Gaza if Hamas again rejects truce deal
Mon 2025-07-28
  Up to 43 dead after attacks on church and homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo carried out by Islamic State linked group
Sun 2025-07-27
  The June 19th near battle between USS Reagan and ChiComs
Sat 2025-07-26
  Hamas reports 122 Palestinians, including 83 children killed by starvation in Gaza
Fri 2025-07-25
  Houthis Hijack Israel-Linked Ship In The Red Sea
Thu 2025-07-24
  Shin Bet detained a woman accused of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Netanyahu using an improvised explosive device
Wed 2025-07-23
  Illegal immigrants are now 'going on strike' to protest ICE raids


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