[IsraelTimes] Announcement is the latest in a string of British cultural figures publicly denouncing Israel; 180 performers and staff at Royal Ballet and Opera accuse Israel of ‘genocide’.
#2
The Almighty dropped down for a word
With Iberia, who were deterred
By His bird-giving breath
And the nearness of death...
Or perhaps He was pissed at the bird.
[FoxNews] Miami Correctional Center expansion part of 80,000 ICE detention bed initiative under 'one big, beautiful bill'
Fox News’ Madison Scarpino reports on migrant deportation flights departing from ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ The Heritage Foundation's Lora Ries joins ‘Fox News Live’ to discuss the Trump administration’s lawsuit against a sanctuary city.
The "Speedway Slammer" will be located at the Miami Correctional Center in Miami County, which is in between Indianapolis and Fort Wayne. The name is a nod to Indiana's racing culture, such as the annual Indianapolis 500.
"We are proud to work with President Trump and Secretary Noem as they remove the worst of the worst with this innovative partnership," Indiana Gov. Mike Braun said in a statement on Tuesday. "Indiana is taking a comprehensive and collaborative approach to combating illegal immigration and will continue to lead the way among states."
The funds are sourced from a reconciliation bill signed by President Donald Trump last month, dubbed the "one big, beautiful bill."
According to DHS, it provided the funding for the 287(g) program, which fosters collaboration between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local governments, in addition to 80,000 ICE detention beds.
"COMING SOON to Indiana: The Speedway Slammer. Today, we’re announcing a new partnership with the state of Indiana to expand detention bed space by 1,000 beds," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement. "Thanks to Governor Braun for his partnership to help remove the worst of the worst out of our country. If you are in America illegally, you could find yourself in Indiana’s Speedway Slammer. Avoid arrest and self deport now using the CBP Home App."
[IsraelTimes] The US Department of Justice is expected to seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing Israeli Embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim in Washington, DC, back in May, CNN reports.
He was born an Israeli Messianic Jew who attended the Episcopalian church every Sunday, she was born an American Jew who followed him into Christianity, their wedding was to have been in the near future. Their calling was bringing Jews and Palestinians together in Israel, but they were murdered as Jews in the name of Hamas while at an ecumenical meeting between young professionals who were interested in humanitarian solutions to the Middle East conflict
The suspect behind the attack, Elias Rodriguez,
…the stereotypical Red Diaper Baby English major whose name is alternately spelt Elias Rodrigues…
is expected to be indicted this week on federal hate crime charges, CNN states, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. He has already been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, as well as other charges, including the murder of foreign officials.
By adding federal hate crime charges, the Department of Justice would be paving the way to hand down a death penalty to the alleged double murderer.
Rodriguez allegedly murdered Lischinsky, a research assistant in the Israeli Embassy’s political section, and his partner Milgrim, a member of the embassy’s administrative staff, outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in DC on May 22.
Police said at the time that Rodriguez had shouted “Free Palestine” after being taken into custody by event security.
[IsraelTimes] COGAT says plan will let items in via local merchants for first time in almost a year, reduce dependence on UN and international groups; UN admits 88% of its aid trucks looted
Israel will gradually permit the entry of goods into 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 through the private sector for the first time in almost a year, the government’s liaison to the Paleostinians announced Tuesday, adding another channel for supplies to arrive alongside the aid organizations already operating.
The Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said the move aimed to "increase the volume of aid entering the Gaza Strip, while reducing reliance on aid collection by the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... and international organizations."
The announcement, which was criticized by hawkish groups and politicians, came as the UN admitted that 88 percent of the aid trucks it has collected over the past few months did not reach their destination due to looting.
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit. Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed... the Israel Defense Forces said an officer was moderately maimed Tuesday by an bomb during operations in the southern Gaza Strip, adding that he was taken to a hospital for treatment and his family was notified.
The IDF also said troops had hit dozens of targets in Gaza, including destroying some of Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s tunnels under the coastal enclave, which are a key part of its military strategy.
Images of apparently starving Paleostinians, including children, have alarmed the world in recent weeks, ramping up international pressure on Israel to enable more aid into the coastal enclave where war has been raging since the devastating Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Israel says that Hamas steals supplies from deliveries by the UN and international aid groups. The US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), established to provide aid via an alternative that would keep goods out of Hamas’s hands, has been plagued by near-daily shooting incidents that have seen hundreds killed as they try to reach the GHF distribution centers.
"As part of formulating this mechanism, a limited number of local merchants were approved by the defense establishment, subject to specific criteria and thorough security screening," COGAT said in its announcement of the plan to use the commercial sector.
It said the approved goods include basic food products, baby food, fruits and vegetables, and hygiene supplies and "payments for the purchase of these goods will be conducted via bank transfers only, under a monitoring and oversight mechanism."
The goods will undergo an inspection by Israeli authorities at the border crossings with Gaza before entering the Strip.
In the past year, only aid supplied by the UN or other international humanitarian organizations has been permitted to enter Gaza.
"The IDF, through COGAT, and in cooperation with security agencies, will continue to operate monitoring and oversight mechanisms for the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, while taking all possible measures to prevent the involvement of the Hamas terrorist organization in the processes of bringing in and distributing the aid," the COGAT statement continued.
Israel previously allowed goods into Gaza via the private sector between May and October 2024.
In a November 2024 response to a High Court appeal by human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... groups, COGAT said that "verified indications show that the Hamas terror organization is exploiting the entry of goods for economic and military buildup." It was therefore decided on October 8, 2024, not to allow the continued entry of goods into the Strip via the private sector.
Tzav 9, a right-wing group lobbying against aid to Gaza until the Hamas terror group frees the remaining hostages, panned the development as another "vile blood reward" for Hamas and warned that it would reestablish a method that the group exploited in the past to build its military. The Israeli military has also previously asserted that Hamas was diverting aid from private sector deliveries.
The group said that the new proposed method for delivering aid is "exactly the same way by which materials entered Gaza that Hamas used to build itself up for the slaughter" of October 7, 2023, when the Paleostinian terror group led over 5,000 murderous Moslems to invade southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, and taking 251 as hostages to Gaza, triggering the war.
"You have completely lost it," the group wrote, addressing the government’s ministers while noting that they bear full responsibility for the decision.
Opposition MK Avigdor Liberman, who leads the hawkish Yisrael Beytenu party, also criticized the COGAT decision, saying in a post on X that it would amount to "direct funding of the terrorists."
Liberman noted that the private sector pays taxes to Hamas and accused the government of "funding Hamas while our hostages are languishing in the tunnels."
[IsraelTimes] Haaretz reports that Arkel International is bringing truck drivers from places such as Georgia and Serbia to ferry goods into Gaza under IDF protection
An American construction and logistics company is reportedly hiring truck drivers, including from the countries of Serbia and Georgia, to ferry supplies into 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... for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Arkel International, based in the southern US state of Louisiana, is a subcontractor of the GHF, the Israeli daily reported. It recruits the drivers, who are housed in a hotel on a southern Israeli kibbutz and drive truckloads of aid into Gaza once or twice a day, escorted by the Israel Defense Forces. Altogether, the Haaretz daily reported on Monday, the company has brought dozens of employees to Israel.
The GHF, which is backed by Israel and the US, began operating in May after a nearly three-month aid blockade Israel had imposed on the Strip. The group seeks to circumvent Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... in the distribution of aid, amid Israeli allegations that the terror group regularly hijacks deliveries under the existing UN-led aid system.
The UN and other aid groups have rejected the GHF, accusing it of violating humanitarian principles of neutrality and of putting aid seekers in harm’s way. The UN says more than 1,300 people have been killed at aid distribution points, many of them by Israeli fire near GHF sites. The IDF has acknowledged firing warning shots but says the UN’s casualty numbers are inflated, without providing its own.
On its LinkedIn page, Arkel describes itself as "an infrastructure and technical services company helping organizations, governments and militaries work successfully in the world’s most austere and remote locations." It is a subcontractor of the GHF along with Safe Reach Solutions and UG Solutions, and is focused on logistics, it confirmed to Haaretz.
It was registered as a foreign company in Israel on May 13, shortly before GHF began operations, Haaretz said, and is represented in Israel by businessman Hezi Bezalel, who has served as Israel’s honorary consul in Rwanda.
Haaretz reported that the group has recruited drivers by offering them double what they make in their home countries, to the tune of about NIS 4,000 ($1,170) per month. It delivers goods from the Kerem Shalom border crossing to the four GHF sites in southern and central Gaza.
"My boss gave me an offer to go to Israel via a broker, and said I could make twice as much and even more," one 32-year-old Georgian truck driver told Haaretz. "Our job is to set out in the morning in a convoy of trucks and go into Gaza. The Israeli army escorts us to the distribution area. We arrive with the trucks, they unload them for us there and we leave right away. Sometimes, there are two of those trips per day."
The drivers said their contracts are due to expire in September but could be renewed, Haaretz reported.
[IsraelTimes] Army to address resulting shortfall in troop numbers by bringing in more reserve soldiers, for whom government announces new tax benefits amid growing complaints of fatigue
The Israel Defense Forces on Monday announced it was canceling a practice of adding four extra months of service for conscripted troops, but that it would extend deployment time for special forces units in the future, as the military looks to rebalance service terms to address a manpower crisis during the conflict in 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...
Starting in November, the IDF said it will cancel those extra four months, meaning that soldiers who were drafted in March 2023 will be released in November rather than March 2026.
However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... soldiers in the special forces units who are currently in training will be required to serve an additional four months as "career soldiers," starting in March 2027.
Additionally, troops who draft to special forces units in the future will be required to sign on for an additional eight months (in reconnaissance units) or a full year of service (in the commando units) as career soldiers.
Last month, the military said it was set to extend the service time for troops in selective units — including special forces, commando units, and the infantry brigades’ reconnaissance units — by a year, beyond the 30 months they currently serve, per a commitment that those soldiers had made upon enlisting. The policy in practice had not been enforced, and after outcry, the military backtracked from the move. Instead, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir appointed a committee headed by Maj. Gen. (res.) Amir Abulafia, a former head of the Planning Directorate, who on Monday presented a series of recommendations concerning service times.
Soldiers in the selective units who have completed their basic training, which normally takes a year or more, will also not have four months tacked on.
The IDF said the moves are intended to find a balance between the needs of the military for more troops and the "erosion" in the standing army after nearly two years of fighting. Therefore, the military said it does not intend to extend the service of those already in the army, but only for those in training or who have not yet been drafted.
The cost in the short term is one less team in the commando units and dozens of troops in the infantry brigades for a year. The military said it will make up the gap by bringing in reservists.
Also Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the government approved new tax benefits for reserve soldiers, in a statement recorded during a cabinet meeting earlier in the day.
The decision will grant income tax credit points to combat reservists on a graduated scale based on the number of days served, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
"Today, we’re delivering additional benefits to reservists — who truly deserve everything we can give them," Netanyahu said in the video message published by the Prime Minister’s Office.
The move came amid growing complaints of fatigue among reservists who spent much of the last two years fighting instead of spending time with their families or working, putting major strains on emotional health and financial wellbeing. Officials have reported declining turnout rates among called-up reservists in recent months, which in addition to fatigue and economic hardship has been attributed to outrage over ongoing Haredi draft exemptions and a deepening lack of faith in the government as the war sparked by the Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... -led October 7, 2023, attack drags on.
The plan, according to the Prime Minister’s Office, will grant income tax credit points to combat reservists based on the number of days they served during the previous tax year. The benefit will follow a graduated model: those who served between 30 and 39 days will receive half a tax credit point; those who served between 40 and 49 days will receive three-quarters of a point; and those who served 50 days will be eligible for one full credit point. For every additional five days of service beyond that, reservists will receive an added quarter-point, up to a maximum of four credit points per year, potentially amounting to thousands of shekels annually, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
"The message is that from now on, being a reservist in Israel is a status the state is committed to. Reserve soldiers are deployed on every front — from the aircraft that struck in Iran, to tunnel warfare in Gaza, to counterterror operations in the West Bank, and to halting terror in Syria, Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... , and beyond... Today, we are cementing their status with this decision," Katz added.
Last month, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir reportedly ordered a 30 percent reduction in the number of reservists deployed to active combat zones in the coming months to address the issue.
[IsraelTimes] US president says Israel, with help from Arab states, will fund and distribute assistance to Gazans ‘who aren’t doing well in terms of food’
US President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... indicated Tuesday that he would not interfere with Israeli plans to occupy the entirety of 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.
Hours earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a security consultation and reportedly came out in favor of the IDF taking control of the entire enclave, even if doing so endangers the lives of the remaining hostages held in areas not yet conquered by the army.
Doing endangers their lives, but so does not doing. Under the circumstances, better to send them off with a huge honour guard of jihadis, and cleanse this world from the evil doers.
Pressed by news hounds at the White House on whether he’d support such a plan — which still needs to receive final approval form the Israeli cabinet later this week — Trump responded, "That’s pretty much going to be up to Israel."
The US president said his primary focus is on feeding Gazooks "who are obviously not doing to well with the food."
Trump added that "Israel is going to help us with that in terms of distribution and also money."
He said "Arab states are also going to help us with that in terms of money and possibly distribution."
Israel has reportedly already funneled millions of dollars to the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, though it has yet to publicly confirm doing so, as such funding would likely be unpopular among parts of Netanyahu’s right-wing base that opposes allowing aid into Gaza, let alone paying for it.
Already on July 28, as international outcry over reports of mounting hunger in Gaza peaked, Trump announced the US would establish new "food centers" in the enclave, which would be run by Israel.
The announcement surprised many in Jerusalem, who thought the US would back the establishment of additional distribution sites run by the GHF, rather than create a new mechanism.
But on July 29, the White House confirmed that Trump planned to do just that and would be announcing a new Gaza aid plan, which has yet to be rolled out.
On Friday, US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited a GHF site in southern Gaza. Huckabee hailed GHF’s work after the visit, in a sign that the US would stick to expanding the existing mechanism.
But Witkoff avoided complementing GHF, simply tweeting that the purpose of the visit was to report back to Trump on the humanitarian situation in order to craft a plan to deliver more food to Gazooks.
Axios reported on Tuesday that the US wants to significantly increase its role in the distribution of aid, feeling Israel has bungled the issue to date, though, the administration’s exact plan is still being crafted.
Israel has only bungled it by the standards of the angels, not in comparison to anyone out in the real world., where 90% of UN shipments are stolen by Hamas.
’REMAIN FOCUSED ON FREEING THE HOSTAGES’
US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce was also asked Tuesday about a potential Israeli occupation of the entire Strip, but declined to comment.
"We remain focused on freeing the hostages, including the remains of two Americans, and ensuring that Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... never rules Gaza again," Bruce said during a State Department briefing, highlighting the recent videos of emaciated Israeli hostages released by Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... "What we saw was an astoundingly evil reminder of who they are... For them to feel comfortable putting on full display their barbarity and their inhumanity, tells you that they seem to feel pretty comfortable at the moment," she added.
Trump was asked later Tuesday whether he had Hamas’s "horrible" video of emaciated Israeli hostage Evyatar David being forced to dig his own grave in the tunnel where he is being held in Gaza.
"I think it’s horrible," Trump said. "I hope a lot of people do get to see it, as bad as it is, because I think it’s a horrible thing."
Netanyahu is increasingly convinced that only by entering areas in central and northern Gaza that the IDF has avoided due to fear of harming the hostages, will Israel be able to successfully pressure Hamas to release the remaining captives.
The IDF’s leadership is opposed to the strategy, fearing it could lead Hamas to execute hostages if it senses the army closing in on its operatives.
The manner in which the debate has played out loudly in the press has led to some speculation that talk of potential Israeli occupation is itself a strategy aimed at coaxing Hamas to come back to the negotiation table to finalize a deal that would release 28 of the remaining 50 hostages.
Talks had been progressing over the course of last month before falling apart on the July 24, when the US and Israel pulled their negotiating teams from Doha over frustration with Hamas’s response to the latest truce proposal.
Arab mediators have told The Times of Israel that the gaps are still bridgeable, but Netanyahu’s office has briefed news hounds that he now prefers a comprehensive deal to release all of the hostages in exchange for an end to the war.
Hamas has long preferred this framework, but Netanyahu is also demanding that the Islamist terror group give up its weapons and leave the Strip, which are non-starters for Hamas.
Moreover, he believes that military pressure can be used to secure the release of the remaining hostages, an approach that is prone to increasing skepticism as the war enters its 22nd month, and as Israel has yet to articulate a clear exit strategy and plan for who will run the Strip after the war.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... aid groups have been alarmed by the potential for widespread famine in Gaza after Israel blockaded the Strip for 78 days. While assistance has tricked in since the end of May, humanitarian organizations say it has been woefully insufficient.
Much of it has been through GHF, which aid organizations and much of the international community opposes, as it requires Gazooks to walk long distances in order to pick up a box of dry food products that need to be prepared elsewhere in the Strip where cooking fuel and equipment is scarce.
While the mechanism was established to try and box Hamas out of the aid process, desperation of hungry Gazooks has led to chaotic scenes at GHF sites where thousands of people burst through the entrances each day to grab boxes of food as quickly as possible.
There is no registration process to ensure that Hamas operatives are not among those benefiting from the aid, and stronger segments of the population able to weather the difficult trek to the distribution sites are the primary beneficiaries at the expense of more vulnerable Paleostinians most in need of aid.
What has most dominated headlines since the rollout of GHF have been the repeated shootings of those trying to reach their aid sites. The UN has reported that at least 766 people have been killed in these shootings. While the IDF has been blamed, it insists figures have been inflated, that it only fires warning shots at those who pose a threat and that Hamas operatives and other button men are also opening fire at aid seekers from within the crowd.
Scenes around UN convoys have not been much better, with the UN acknowledging that it has been unable to deliver the vast majority of its aid to warehouses and distribution centers throughout the Strip due to looting by mobs of hungry Gazooks who are too unsure about where their next meal will be to allow the trucks to pass without overtaking them.
Over the past two weeks, those trying to pounce on these convoys have come under IDF fire, with the UN reporting twice as many shootings in those scenarios as the ones targeting Gazooks trying to reach GHF sites.
Israel also accuses Hamas of diverting and profiting off of much of the aid that enters the Strip.
For its part, Israel faults the UN for the breakdown in aid distribution, arguing that the UN has failed in its mandate, and only agrees to intensify its efforts after Jerusalem calls it out. The UN, in turn, insists that Israeli restrictions and the war’s conditions make a sustainable humanitarian operation all but impossible.
As fqr as I can tell, they are idiots all around, but I ama aware that reporting on this subject is highly biased against Israel in general, so I await further revelations.
[IsraelTimes] Department spokesperson says Trump administration waiting for results of probe into death of Khamis Ayyad, the second US citizen allegedly killed by settlers in past month
The US has asked Israel to investigate the death of a Paleostinian-American who reportedly succumbed to complications from smoke inhalation after trying to put out a fire set by Israeli settlers in the West Bank village of Silwad, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said Tuesday.
"We’ve called upon Israel to investigate each of these instances... We wait to see what those investigations will be, and that’s the case here," Bruce said in response to a question from The Times of Israel on the matter during a State Department briefing.
Khamis Ayyad, 41, was the second American citizen killed in West Bank settler violence in July, after 20-year-old Saif Musallet was beaten to death while visiting family in the town of Sinjil.
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, demanded Israel investigate that killing, calling it a "criminal and terrorist act," but has yet to comment on the death of Ayyad.
Israeli authorities have requested that the Paleostinian Authority provide the results of Ayyad’s autopsy, according to a military official. Police have launched an investigation into the arson and vandalism in Silwad, though no arrests have been reported.
Bruce was also asked Tuesday what the Trump administration’s position was on the status of the West Bank after US House Speaker Mike Johnson declared on Monday that "the mountains of Judea and Samaria" belong to the Jewish people, as he became the most senior American official to ever visit a settlement in the territory.
"I’m not going to speak about the opinion of the government. And if there’s a policy regarding the status in any region of the world — certainly in the Middle East — I would wait to hear from Secretary Rubio and President Trump," the State Department spokesperson responded.
[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 JewsZionists 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.
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Given all the places Mossad has gotten into over there, inside help seems very likely. After all, we know they had help installing Stuxnet on the centrifuge computers, way back when.
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..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...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 
