[GEO.TV] A Bangladesh government-appointed commission investigating hundreds of disappearances by the security forces under ousted premier the loathesomeSheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated... on Monday warned that the same "culture of impunity" continues.
The Commission of Inquiry into Enforced Disappearances is probing abuses during the rule of Hasina, whose government was accused of widespread human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... abuses.
That includes the extrajudicial killing of hundreds of political opponents and the unlawful abduction and disappearance of hundreds more.
The commission was established by interim leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, 84, who is facing intense political pressure as parties jostle for power ahead of elections expected early next year.
Bangladesh has a long history of military coups and the army retains a powerful role.
"Enforced disappearances in Bangladesh were not isolated acts of wrongdoing, but the result of a politicised institutional machinery that condoned, normalised, and often rewarded such crimes," the commission said, in a section of a report released by the interim government on Monday.
"Alarmingly, this culture of impunity continues even after the regime change on August 5, 2024".
This is the aftermath of being taken to the woodshed...
[Regnum] Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, in response to the concerns of US President Donald Trump, who suggested the possibility of transferring nuclear weapons to Iran, said that Russia does not intend to do so.
Good. That would have been really, really dumb. Because they consider you infidels in need of conquering, too, and there is no guarantee that feeding that particular alligator would get you eaten last.
Medvedev wrote about this in English on the X social network, commenting on criticism of him from the head of the White House.
"As for President Trump's concerns: I condemn the US strike on Iran - it did not achieve its goals.
Apparently it did… or at least pushed the deadline considerably further off.
However, Russia does not intend to supply nuclear weapons to Iran because, unlike Israel, we are parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty," Medvedev wrote.
*Snicker* Like you, Israel was not going to supply Iran with nukes. So nice to see you both in agreement on the subject.
He indicated that he was well aware of what such a move could lead to, since he also controlled Russia's nuclear forces when he was president. At the same time, Medvedev warned that other countries could make deliveries.
In addition, Medvedev recalled that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which he signed with the 44th US President Barack Obama, is still in effect.
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[Regnum] The number of victims since the anniversary of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall has increased to 149 people, 609 were injured and traumatized. Updated data was reported on June 23 by the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Svetlana Petrenko.
A year after the terrorist attack in March 2025, committed by people from Central Asia before a concert of the group "Piknik" in a concert hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow, 146 people were reported dead, six of them children.
Since then, three missing persons have been declared dead by the courts. Another person remains missing.
A representative of the Russian Investigative Committee noted that the agency had completed the investigation into 19 defendants in the criminal case, and the materials had been sent to the prosecutor for transfer to the court.
“The preliminary investigation is ongoing in relation to the two organizers and four members of the terrorist organization,” the press service of the Russian Investigative Committee reports Petrenko as saying.
The department also clarified that the terrorist act in the concert hall was committed in the interests of Ukraine in order to destabilize the political situation in Russia.
More from Kavkaz-uzel.eu Investigation into case of 19 accused in Crocus terrorist attack completed
The investigation into the case of 19 people accused of involvement in the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall outside Moscow has been completed, and their case has been transferred to the prosecutor's office. Six more people remain under investigation in the terrorist attack case.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, on March 22, 2024, armed men broke into the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow, opened fire and set it on fire. 145 people died, the FSB classified the incident as a terrorist attack. This terrorist attack was the largest in the Moscow region in 30 years.
In April 2024, four Tajik citizens and a Russian citizen, Shakhromdzhon Gadoev, Mustakim Soliev, Zubaydullo Ismailov, Umedzhon Soliev and Khusein Khamidov, who worked as tilers at construction sites in Makhachkala and Kaspiysk, were arrested in Dagestan. The investigation believes that they were preparing a terrorist attack in Kaspiysk and supplied weapons to those involved in the attack on Crocus City Hall. In November 2024, Ingush residents Khusein Medov and Dzhabrail Aushev were detained in connection with the terrorist attack. The investigation links them to the recognized terrorist militant wing of the Ingush vird of the Batalkhadzhins. In December 2024, four more Ingush residents were detained on suspicion of aiding the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.
The criminal case against 19 defendants in the case of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall has been sent to the prosecutor's office for transfer to court, and the investigation against two organizers and four members of the terrorist organization is still ongoing, said Svetlana Petrenko, a representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
The investigation into the case against Shamsiddin Fariduni, Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, Muhammadsobir Faizov, Saidokram Murodali Rachabalizoda, Shakhromdzhon Gadoyev, Zubaydullo Ismoilov, Khusein Khamidov, Muhammad Zoir Sharipzoda, Yakubdzhoni Davlatkhon Yusufzoda, Nazrimad Lutfulloi, Jumakhon Kurbonov, Khusein Medov, Dzhabrail Aushev, Alisher Kasimov, Umedzhon and Mustakim Soliev, Isroil Islomov, as well as Dilovar and Aminchon Islomov has been completed. The investigation believes that all of them were members of the terrorist organization "Vilayat Khorasan", banned in Russia. Depending on the role of each, they are accused of especially serious crimes.
"The investigation has established that this inhuman crime was planned and committed in the interests of the current leadership of Ukraine with the aim of destabilizing the political situation in our country. In addition, a number of the accused planned to blow up an entertainment complex in the city of Kaspiysk in the Republic of Dagestan, but this crime was prevented," RIA Novosti quotes a representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia as saying today.
According to the investigation, preparations for the terrorist attack began several months before it was committed. Some of the defendants arrived in Russia from abroad, where they had undergone initial training. Some were already in Russia, looking for means and tools to commit the crime. Others were constantly remaking firearms and handing them over to members of the terrorist organization. The weapons were brought to Kaspiysk, from where they were delivered to Moscow immediately before the terrorist attack, TASS writes.
[CenterForImmigrationStudies] Our analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics household survey, officially called the Current Population Survey (CPS), shows a large decline in the foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) between January and May of this year. The decline was caused by a falloff in the number of non-citizens from Latin America who arrived in 1980 or later, a population that overlaps significantly with illegal immigrants. We preliminarily estimate that the number of illegal immigrants has fallen by one million since the start of the year, perhaps due to their leaving in response to President Trump's election and stepped-up enforcement efforts. But it is important to note that these findings come with important caveats.
Findings:
Based on the CPS, published figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the number of foreign-born individuals in the labor force declined by 601,000 from January to May 2025.
Our analysis of the raw data shows the total foreign-born population, both in and out of the labor force, declined 957,000 from January to May 2025. This is one of the largest declines over a 4-month period in the foreign-born in the last three decades, but it is not unprecedented.
The decline was entirely among non-citizens. The number of naturalized U.S. citizens in the data did not fall from January to May of this year.
In particular, non-citizens from Latin America who indicated they arrived in the United States in 1980 or later show a 1.07 million decrease from January to May of this year and a 1.45 million falloff since December 2024.
[FoxNews] A former Secret Service agent shares crucial guidance on situational awareness following US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities
Robert McDonald was a Secret Service agent for more than 20 years and is an expert in executive protection, intelligence and protective travel logistics. During that time, he coordinated security for U.S. and foreign dignitary visits.
Now, he is a professor of criminal justice at the University of New Haven.
"There are those type of areas where people are coming and going. People are transient. Lots of people go there every day," he told Fox News Digital in reference to airports and bus and train stations. "Anything can happen at any time. Again, you've just got to be able to be cognizant of your surroundings, be situationally aware and be able to get yourself out of a situation if something was to happen."
"We don't wish anything to happen, but you just got to be able to get yourself out of a particular zone relatively quick," he said.
The same principle applies to any crowded place, both indoors and out, McDonald said. Being "situationally aware" includes being on the lookout for anything that seems out of place in day-to-day life. He clarified that "out of place" is different for everyone.
"For example, if you go to a mall or Times Square and you see a backpack lying on the corner with nobody around it, or it hasn't moved in a while, you might want to report that," he said.
"If there are particular cars in and around your neighborhood that are not normally there, it could be nothing," McDonald said. "It could be a visitor to your neighbor, but it could be something out of the ordinary that you would want to potentially report."
With regard to reporting suspicious activity, McDonald assured Americans that law enforcement entities want to be tipped off to anything suspicious, even if it turns out there is no threat.
"Authorities want to hear from you and want to be able to investigate things that are out of the ordinary," he said. "You may be the only person that's noticing that something is out of the ordinary, and we have a responsibility to pass that information forward to authorities. Let them come and decide that the issue is a non-issue, right."
Since Saturday's bombings in Iran, a leading state sponsor of Islamic terrorism, major metropolitan areas including New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Miami have stepped up security protocols.
Fox News contributor Paul Mauro, a former NYPD inspector who monitored terror cells, told Fox News Digital that police are upping patrols, particularly at relevant religious sites, and also monitoring for online chatter from potential terror threats.
"[NYPD] will put out special attention patrol cars at locations that could track to the conflict in places that have an Israeli connection, and there's a couple of Shia mosques – Iran is Shia – and there are a couple of Shia mosques," Mauro told Fox News Digital. "You never know what's going to develop. So [they'll] liaise with those communities. They'll talk to them, they'll put special patrol, special attention patrol."
"You're going to look very closely online," he said. "You're going to be monitoring a lot of the online stuff. NYPD has a very robust cyber counterterrorism program, and you're going to do that very heavily."
”No shit, there I was on the phone…” The IDF has so many wonderful stories like this over the years.
[IsraelTimes] Audio recorded at the beginning of Israel’s attack on Iran and obtained by Washington Post was reportedly part of a broad intelligence operation
Leaked audio of a call shows how, on June 13, as Israel began bombing Iran’s nuclear sites and assassinating key officials, its intelligence agents embarked on a campaign to threaten lower-level Iranian military leaders.
In the recording, published Monday by the Washington Post, an anonymous intelligence operative can be heard telling an Iranian general in Persian that he has 12 hours to flee with his family before Israel kills him.
"I can advise you now, you have 12 hours to escape with your wife and child," says the intelligence operative, whose voice has been altered in the recording. "Otherwise, you’re on our list right now."
The Post did not identify the Iranian general, who it said is believed to still be alive, and muted his voice on the call. It reported that the call was one of a number made to senior Iranian officials at the outset of Israel’s strikes against Iran’s nuclear program and military infrastructure, with the aim of destabilizing the country’s regime and threatening second- and third-tier officials who would replace the assassinated leaders.
At the beginning of the call, the operative identifies himself as coming from a country that "sent Salami, Bagheri and Shamkhani to hell," referring to three senior Iranian leaders Israel killed at the beginning of the campaign. They are Hossein Salami, chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, Iran’s military chief; and Ali Shamkhani, a top adviser to Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> , Iran’s supreme leader.
The call, which the Post said only that it had received from an "Israeli individual who obtained the material," appeared to have been part of the vast Israeli intelligence operation that accompanied the strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
The intelligence effort saw groups of agents and weapons covertly embedded in Iran. Along with assassinating military leaders, Israel also killed many of Iran’s top nuclear scientists. On Monday, a semi-official Iranian news agency said the country had executed someone arrested in 2023 for collaborating with Israel’s Mosssd ...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end... intelligence agency.
The Prime Minister’s Office told The Times of Israel that it had no comment on the Washington Post report.
Later in the call, the operative tells the general to make a video denouncing the regime in Tehran, "saying we have walked away from this government, and we are unwilling to sacrifice our lives for people who destroyed our country for 46 years."
The operative told the general to send the video via the encrypted messaging platform Telegram. The general asks where to send the video, though it is unclear whether he made one or sent it.
In the call, the operative says that Israel could kill the general on a moment’s notice.
"We’re closer to you than your own neck vein," he said. "Put this in your head. May God protect you."
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[IsraelTimes] Mojtaba Khamenei, hardline son of supreme leader, said to be a frontrunner, alongside Hassan Khomeini, his predecessor’s grandson, who is considered a relative moderate
The clock is ticking for senior holy mans seeking a successor to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> A three-man committee from a top holy manal body, appointed by Khamenei himself two years ago to identify his replacement, has accelerated its planning in recent days since Israel attacked 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 threatened to assassinate the veteran leader, five insiders with knowledge of the discussions told Rooters.
Khamenei, 86, is being regularly briefed on the talks, according to the Iranian sources who requested anonymity to discuss highly sensitive matters. He has gone into hiding with his family and is being guarded by the Vali-ye Amr special forces unit of the Revolutionary Guards, a top security official said. On Monday, the IDF conducted what Defense Minister Israel Katz called "unprecedented" strikes on the Iranian capital.
The ruling establishment will immediately seek to name a successor to Khamenei if he is killed, to signal stability and continuity, according to the sources who acknowledged that predicting Iran’s subsequent political trajectory was difficult.
A new leader will still be chosen for his devotion to the revolutionary precepts of the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s late founder ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, according to one insider, who is close to Khamenei’s office and privy to succession discussions.
At the same time, the top echelon of power is also considering which candidate might present a more moderate face to ward off foreign attacks and internal revolts, the person said.
Two frontrunners have emerged in the succession discussions, the five insiders said: Khamenei’s 56-year-old son Mojtaba, long seen as a continuity choice, and a new contender, Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the leader of the Islamic Revolution.
The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... recently reported that Khamenei had chosen three possible successors, in addition to other potential replacements for top officers.
Khomeini, a close ally of the reformist faction that favors the easing of social and political restrictions, nonetheless commands respect among senior holy mans and the Revolutionary Guards because of his lineage, the sources added.
"I once again humbly express that this small and insignificant servant of the Iranian people stands ready to proudly be present on any front or scene you deem necessary," the 53-year-old said in a public message of support to the supreme leader on Saturday, hours before the US bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Khomeini has come into the frame as a serious candidate this month amid the conflict with Israel and America because he could represent a more conciliatory choice internationally and domestically than Mojtaba Khamenei, the five people said.
By contrast, Khamenei hews closely to his father’s hardline policies, according to the insiders who cautioned that nothing had been determined, candidates could change and the supreme leader would have the final say.
However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... with the military conflict continuing, it remains unclear whether any new leader could be chosen easily or installed securely or if he could assume the level of authority enjoyed by Khamenei, they added.
Israeli strikes have also killed several of Iran’s top Revolutionary Guards commanders, potentially complicating a handover of power as the elite military force has long played a central role in enforcing the supreme leader’s rule.
Khamenei’s office and the Assembly of Experts, the holy manal body from which the succession committee was drawn, were not available to comment.
Planning for an eventual handover was already in the works because of Khamenei’s age and the longstanding health concerns of a leader who has dominated all aspects of Iranian politics for decades, the sources said.
The urgency of the task was underlined in September when Israel killed Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> , a close ally of Khamenei’s, and the planning accelerated significantly this month following the Israeli attacks on nuclear sites, which were followed by the American attacks this past weekend.
US President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... reportedly vetoed an Israeli plan to assassinate Khamenei on the first day of the war. But last week, ahead of the American strikes on Iran, Trump issued his own threat to the supreme leader.
"We know exactly where the so-called ’Supreme Leader’ is hiding," the president warned on social media, calling for Tehran’s unconditional surrender. "He is an easy target."
On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified that the Trump administration is not seeking regime change. However overnight Trump posted online that "if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!"
Khamenei hasn’t publicly expressed any preference for his successor. The sources said he had repeatedly opposed the idea of his son taking over in succession discussions in the past, concerned about any suggestion of Iran returning to the kind of hereditary rule that ended with the ousting of the shah in 1979.
The role of supreme leader was created after the revolution and then enshrined in the constitution, giving a top holy man ultimate authority in guiding the elected president and parliament.
Officially, the leader is named by the Assembly of Experts, made up of 88 senior holy mans who are chosen through a national election in which a hardline watchdog body aligned with Khamenei must approve all the candidates.
"Whether the Islamic Theocratic Republic survives or not, it will be a very different one, because the context in which it has existed has fundamentally changed," said London-based Iranian political analyst Hossein Rassam, adding that Hassan Khomeini could fit the bill for a leader to take Iran in a new direction.
"The regime has to opt for someone who’ll facilitate slow transition."
Hassan Khomeini’s close links to the reformist faction of Iranian politics, which pursued an ultimately unsuccessful policy of opening Iran to the outside world in the 1990s, saw hardline officials bar him from running as a member of the Assembly of Experts in 2016.
The succession planners are aware that Khomeini is likely to be more palatable to the Iranian population than a hardliner, the five insiders said. Last year he warned of a "crisis of rising popular dissatisfaction" among Iranians due to poverty and deprivation.
By contrast, Mojtaba Khamenei’s views echo those of his father on every major topic from cracking down on opponents to taking a hard line with foreign foes, the sources said — qualities they saw as hazardous with Iran under attack.
A mid-ranking holy man who teaches theology at a religious seminary in the city Qom, the center of Iranian religious life, Mojtaba has never held a formal position the Islamic Theocratic Republic, though he exercises influence behind the scenes as the gatekeeper to his father, according to Iran watchers.
The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Mojtaba in 2019, saying he represented the supreme leader in "an official capacity despite never being elected or appointed to a government position" aside from working in his father’s office.
Several of the candidates long seen as possible successors to Khamenei have already died.
Former president Hashemi Rafsanjani ... the fourth President of Iran. He was a member of the Assembly of Experts until he was eased out in 2011 He continues, for the moment, as Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council. In 2005 he ran for a third term as president, ultimately losing to rival Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in Khamenei's graces back then. In 1980 Rafsanjani survived an assassination attempt, during which he was seriously injured. He has been described as a centrist and a pragmatic conservative without all that much reason. He is currently being eased out of any position of actual influence or power and may be dead by the end of 2012... died in 2017, former judiciary chief Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi died in 2018 and former president Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash in 2023. Another senior holy man, Sadegh Amoli Larijani, has been sidelined.
Others, such as Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Alireza Arafi, are still in contention but have fallen behind Mojtaba Khamenei and Hassan Khomeini, the five sources said.
Beyond the most likely candidates, it’s also possible that a less prominent holy man could be chosen as a pawn of the Revolutionary Guards, said Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group think tank.
"It is possible that they would put forward a candidate that no one has ever heard of and would not really hold the same levers of power that Ayatollah Khamenei has held now for more than 30 years," he said.
The supreme leader’s voice is powerful.
After the death of the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s founder Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, Khamenei was publicly hailed as his predecessor’s choice. Although he had already served as president, Khamenei was only a mid-ranking holy man and was initially dismissed by influential holy mans as weak and an unlikely successor to his charismatic predecessor.
However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... he steadily tightened his grip to become Iran’s unquestioned decision-maker, relying on the Revolutionary Guards as he outmaneuvered rivals and crushed bouts of popular unrest.
[NAHARNET] The U.S. administration has asked Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... to reach ''presidential consensus'' on the decision of monopolizing arms between President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... and PM Nawaf Salam ahead of referring such a decision to Cabinet for formal approval, al-Jadeed TV has reported.
''Washington considers that monopolizing arms is an essential first step that must precede any Israeli withdrawal and border demarcation,'' al-Jadeed added.
''U.S. envoy Tom Barrack has returned to the front burner the files that former U.S. deputy special envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus and her team had finalized, putting them on the table for implementation within a specific time frame, topped by an official decision from the Lebanese government on monopolizing arms in the hand of the state,'' al-Jadeed said.
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[NAHARNET] The statement issued Sunday morning by President Joseph Aoun was followed by ''a series of domestic and foreign contacts, especially with the Americans, that focused on keeping Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... away from war and abiding by neutrality,'' the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Monday.
Lebanon also held phone talks with the French and the U.N., the daily added, revealing that the Lebanese state ''communicated with Hezbollah to avoid intervention (in the Israel-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... war) and obtained guarantees that there will be no participation.''
The Lebanese state had received a message from U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Lisa Johnson, who asked that it be passed on to Hezbollah, according to media reports.
''Any action against any U.S. base or against U.S. interests in Lebanon will be met with a very harmful response,'' the reports quoted Johnson as saying.
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[NAHARNET] Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... warned in an interview published Monday that ''the attack on 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... will have hefty prices because the entire region is in danger.''
In an interview with the Hezbollah-affiliated al-Ahed news portal, Qassem also slammed U.S. President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... 's threats against Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> ''Trump's threat to assassinate Imam Khamenei is a vile action and at the same an evidence of weakness,'' Qassem added.
''Trump is ignorant of the reverence of this great leader among Moslems and in the world and ignorant of the dangerous repercussions of such threats,'' the Hezbollah leader went on to say.
He also stressed that ''Iran will emerge victorious, because it is righteous and the one being aggressed against,'' adding that ''Iran has the leadership of the brave supreme leader who is insisting that Iran be dignified and strong.''
''Iran has unified people who have left behind their disputes to be unified in the face of the American-Israeli aggression,'' Qassem added.
As for Israel's continued occupation and attacks in Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... , Qassem said Hezbollah supports the Lebanese state's ''diplomatic choice'' but would take the ''appropriate decision'' if diplomacy fails to achieve Lebanon's objectives.
Hezbollah is ''ready to adopt any choice taken by the state to halt the aggression and secure Israel's withdrawal,'' he said.
Noting that the reconstruction of areas destroyed in the latest war with Israel is the ''top priority'' for Hezbollah and for ''the course of the state and its recovery,'' Qassem said his group still retains military ''capabilities.''
''The resistance shall stay and continue and it is repairing itself. It has expressed the strength of its continuity through its people, who rushed to their villages in the South and offered deaders to remain in their land, and also through the million-man funeral for its two (slain) secretaries-general (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...> and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine) — as well as through its effective contributions to the process of building the state and its institutions,'' Qassem went on to say.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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