It isn’t customary to think of hard-eyed, cynical corporate lawyers as naifs, but clearly Unilever’s legal team fell very short on this one — something that will never, ever be allowed to happen again.
[IsraelTimes] Parent company says ice cream maker’s ’insistence on taking sides in the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict’ is untenable, argues it has no authority to file lawsuit
Unilever, the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s, has asked a US judge to dismiss a lawsuit from the ice cream maker as a court battle over its attempt to boycott Israeli settlements drags on.
The UK conglomerate argued in a Friday court filing that Ben & Jerry’s had overstepped its bounds with the attempted boycott last year and its lawsuit against Unilever.
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The Jewish founders of Ben & Jerry’s, who no longer run the company, have said Unilever "usurped their authority" by spinning off the Israel branch.
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The ice cream maker’s decision to boycott settlements sparked uproar in Israel and among some US Jewish groups. Critics of the settlement boycott have argued it is antisemitic because the company has never attempted to boycott any other region of the world.
For the seven millionth, four hundred and eighty-seven thousandth, nine hundred and first time, criticism if Israel is not anti-Semitism.
But I see why they constantly tie the two together: they want to get off scot-free for their crimes.
I fully support being unjust to bastitches who hate you. I am a tad disappointed Israel hasn't gone total Xinjiang on them yet. And the guilt whores of the international community, crying for paleostinian mohamed lickers, they are the biggest obstruction in the way.
Of course. But holding Israeli to standards vastly more stringent than any other country on the planet demonstrates hatred of the Jews. In this case, for instance, Ben&Jerry’s has no problem with the thirty-five other countries where they do business, including the United Arab Emirates, Mexico, and, until recently, Russia.
[Garowe] Former al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... deputy leader Mukhtar Robow says he too has human compassion and has lost close family members to al-Shabaab since he denounced the group's extremism ideologies and defected to the government where he is leading the crackdown against the bully boys.
Robow, now serving as minister for Religious Affairs and Endowment, says his family is fully immersed in the fight against al-Shabaab who control large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia. Since he took up the role, Robow has been assisting the government to counter the bully boys.
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[Garowe] African newest state -South Sudan has announced that they will send a battalion of 750 soldiers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... for a peacekeeping mission in the eastern part of DRC.
They join Uganda, Kenya, and Burundi who have both answered the call to join the East African regional force tasked to restore peace in the country’s restive eastern part of Goma and Northern Kivu.
Radio Miraya -a local media station owned by the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... mission in South Sudan, President Kiir said the troops will soon be deployed to eastern DRC.
"South Sudan has contributed a battalion of 750 soldiers to the East African regional force," Kiir is quoted as saying. "These troops will be deployed to the DRC to help stabilize the eastern region."
They will join over 900 Kenyan troops who arrived in Goma in mid-November. Uganda also said it would send 1,000 soldiers under the EAC force. Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye said his country would also contribute to the regional force.
Leaders of the East African Community (EAC) resolved to send a joint force to deal with multiple gangs in the DRC after the country joined the bloc in April as the seventh member state.
The resurgence of the M23
...also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army. The Tutsi group was founded in 2012 as a Rwandan sock puppet, which no doubt seemed a good idea at the time, but in less than a year the Congolese army defeated them, and then Rwanda publicly stepped back in response to international pressure. Recently M23 has started acting up again, possibly again at Rwandan instigation...
rebel group in May this year prompted regional and international efforts to bring an end to the decades-long insecurity in eastern DR Congo, where over 120 gangs roam.
As the Nairobi talk between the Congolese government and multiple gangs continues in Kenya’s capital city, the M23 rebels have been sidelined from the talks after Kinshasa labeled them a terrorist movement.
Speaking at the third Inter-Congolese dialogue, former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta called on all parties to the conflict to open their minds to peace and said foreign gangs must be disbanded.
"We are here as part of the East African Community to find a way and work with you to find peace. A peace that the Congolese have not seen for more than 20 years," Kenyatta said in Swahili. "Some children have never set foot in a classroom because of the conflict, and some men never got the opportunity to farm their land to bring themselves out of poverty because of conflict."
Officials present at the ongoing Nairobi inter-Congolese dialogue said some 53 rebel groups have accepted a ceasefire, including the M23 rebel group.
[Garowe] The Democratic Republic of the Congo has hit back at Rwandan president Paul Kagame over remarks on the 2023 presidential elections.
President Kagame had alleged that DRC President Felix Tshisekedi is planning to use the ongoing insecurity in the eastern part of the DRC to postpone the 2023 presidential election.
The Rwandan head of state made the allegations while addressing a parliamentary session after the swearing of new members of the Cabinet.
Kagame believes the current leadership of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is creating a security emergency a year before the country holds presidential elections in order to find a reason to postpone the elections scheduled for December 2023.
More posturing from the other side, then this bit:
DRC has always accused Kagame’s government of supporting the M23 rebels who control the area in Congo’s North Kivu province.
Mr Muyaya accused President Kagame of creating insecurity in DRC and trying to politically destabilize president Tshisekedi.
Mr. Kagame had earlier said that Rwanda "has no interest in insecurity in Congo" and that he was interested in a peaceful neighbourhood.
The March 23 movement, or M23, is a predominantly Congolese Tutsi rebel group that was dormant for years.
It took up arms again in November last year and seized the town of Bunagana on the border with Uganda in June. After a brief period of calm, it went on the offensive again in October, greatly extending the territory under its control and advancing towards Goma.
Kinshasa accuses its smaller neighbor Rwanda of providing M23 with support, something that UN experts and US officials have also pointed to in recent months. Kigali denies the charge.
On Thursday, the government accused the M23 militia -- with whom it is locked in a months-long conflict -- of slaughtering 50 people at Kishishe, a village around 70 kilometers (40 miles) north of the city of Goma. The M23 hit back, saying the allegations were "baseless" and denying that it targeted civilians.
At a council of ministers meeting on Friday, the DRC's president Felix Tshisekedi "condemned in the strongest terms the massacre of more than 100 compatriots in Kishishe", government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said. He said Tshisekedi had "instructed the government to declare three days of national mourning," adding that flags would be flown at half-mast throughout the country. The period of mourning will end on Monday with a televised fundraising event to support victims, Muyaya said.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A leader in the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militia revealed a new Saudi plan to split the militia, through the processes of attracting and buying loyalties to its leaders.
“There are efforts to attract members of the STC from the people of Abyan and Shabwah governorates and appoint them to senior positions in the government and bodies affiliated with the Presidential Council,” Abdullah Mubarak al-Ghaithi, a leader of the STC in Hadhramaut, said on his Twitter account.
“This comes as a prelude to splitting the STC into a moderate council representing the provinces of the so-called Hadhramaut and Abyan provinces, and an extremist council representing the southern triangle,” he said.
This comes after Saudi Arabia targeted the STC militia and weakened it militarily by handing over Al-Ma’ashiq Presidential Palace to a force belonging to Tariq Affash and battalions of the “Shield of the Homeland” brigade to assume protection, in addition to other vital facilities in Aden as part of Riyadh’s moves to replace the STC. Also, non-payment of the STC forces to push their members to go to Tariq’s camps to join them.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The government loyal to the US-backed Saudi-led coalition on Saturday revealed that it had started arrangements to impose more restrictions on the entry of food and fuel ships to the port of Hodeidah. and Iranian arms and explosive shipments
This comes after extensive meetings with US officials, most notably the envoy, Tim Lenderking, who is currently visiting the region.
Media reported that the pro-coalition government began pursuing oil companies that own ships that transport fuel under the pretext of dealing with what it described as “Houthis,” noting that the move is part of efforts to tighten restrictions on the entry of oil derivatives through the port of Hodeidah.
The move of the pro-coalition government came in the wake of a meeting between the Minister of Finance in Maeen’s government and the US envoy to Yemen.
Later, the US envoy, during a meeting with the UN envoy, hinted at his country’s tendency to tighten food entry procedures, under the pretext of obstacles that Sana’a may impose on the distribution of aid, which is an attempt to justify the anticipated blockade crime.
These moves, despite proving their failure over the past years, indicate Washington’s attempt to pressure Sana’a to allow the export of oil for the benefit of regional and international parties, while Sana’a sticks to spending its revenues on paying salaries.
[BBC] Around 10,000 troops have surrounded the city of Soyapango in El Salvador as part of a massive crackdown on gangs, President Nayib Bukele has announced.
All roads leading to the city have been blocked, and special forces have been searching houses for gang members.
Officers have also been stopping everyone attempting to leave the city and checking identity papers.
The operation is part of a massive crackdown on gangs after a surge in violence earlier this year.
The justice minister said 12 people had been arrested so far.
Soyapango is one of El Salvador's largest cities and is home to more than 290,000 people. The city - which sits just 13 km (8 miles) west of the capital San Salvador - has long been known as a hub for gang activity.
"As of this moment, the municipality of Soyapango is totally surrounded," President Bukele wrote on Twitter. "Extraction teams from the police and the army are tasked with extricating all the gang members still there one by one."
He added that ordinary people "have nothing to fear" and said that the crackdown was part of "an operation against criminals, not against honest citizens".
Images released by the government showed heavily armed troops clad in body armour and carrying assault rifles outside the city.
One resident, Guadalupe Perez, told the AFP news agency that the raid had come as a welcome surprise.
"They search you and ask for your identity papers to verify where you live, but that's fine - it's all for our safety," the 53-year-old said.
Since Mr Bukele announced a state of emergency in late March, more than 58,000 people have been jailed by authorities in the country of 6.5 million people.
Rights groups have criticised the heavy handed nature of the crackdown, saying the measures, which allow police to arrest suspects without warrants, have led to arbitrary detentions.
But Mr Bukele's allies say the crackdown is necessary after a wave of homicides culminated with gangs being blamed for 62 murders in a single day on 26 March.
A recent poll taken by the Central American University (UCA) found that 75.9 percent of Salvadorans approved of the state of emergency.
[IsraelTimes] Canada announced Friday another round of sanctions against Iran, including a technology company that developed components of drones that the West says have been used by Russia to attack Ukraine.
"Canada will not stand idly by while the regime’s human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... violations increase in scope and intensity against the Iranian people... (and it takes) actions that continue to threaten international peace," Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said in a statement.
In November, Ottawa had already sanctioned two Iranian drone makers, Shahed Aviation Industries and Qods Aviation Industries.
Added in this new round was the Baharestan Kish Company, which has contracted with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp to provide drone research.
Also making the Canadian sanctions list was Safiran Airport Services for having "coordinated Russian military flights between Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... and Russia, through which the Iranian regime transferred lethal Iranian-made Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Russia," said the statement.
The United States had already taken measures against both companies.
Ottawa also sanctioned the ultra-conservative Revolutionary Guards-linked daily Javan, accused of disseminating "anti-Semitic messaging and the Iranian regime’s propaganda."
Brigadier-General Morteza Talaei, senior judge Ali Ghanaatkar Mavardiani and security forces commander Hassan Karami were slapped with sanctions too.
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[The Nation (Pak)] Newly appointed Army Chief Gen Asim Munir took over the command of Pakistan Army at an impressive change of command ceremony at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi yesterday
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ISI background? You bet. • Director-General of Military Intelligence (DGMI) (December 2016 - October 2018) • Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) (October 2018 - June 2019)• Quartermaster General at GHQ Rawalpindi (2019 - 29 November 2022)
• 11th Chief of Army Staff (29 November 2022 - present)
[The Nation (Pak)] Federal Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal on Saturday advised the Chairman Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... to stop hatching conspiracy against the national institutions of the country. "Imran’s party has been using derogatory language against the national institutions including security, judiciary and election commission," he said while talking to a private news channel. He said the PTI leaders were "playing with the country for vested interests". Appreciating the tough decisions of the coalition government, he said, "we (govt) had to take solid measures to strengthen national institutions, foreign policy, economy, and governance". "The govt under the leadership of PM Shehbaz Sharif is working round the clock to revive economic and business sectors," he added.
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[IsraelTimes] Tor Wennesland sends ‘heartfelt condolences’ to family of Ammar Mifleh; Foreign Ministry: Envoy’s statement a ‘total distortion of reality’; Soldier: I stopped a significant attack
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... envoy to the Middle East on Saturday said he was "horrified" by the killing of a Paleostinian stabber who security forces said maimed an Israeli police officer in the West Bank.
On Friday afternoon, Ammar Mifleh tried to enter a vehicle of an Israeli couple in the town of Huwara, near Nablus, Border Police said. While trying to break through the locked door, one of the occupants — an off-duty IDF officer — shot and maimed Mifleh with his handgun.
Mifleh then ran at a nearby Border Police officer and stabbed him in the face, lightly injuring him.
Graphic footage posted to social media showed another Border Police officer trying to apprehend Mifleh after the stabbing, as two other Paleostinians were trying to pull him free.
The second officer managed to pull Mifleh away from them in a headlock, but he then briefly freed himself from his grasp and appeared to try and grab the officer’s automatic weapon. The officer then allowed the weapon to fall to the ground as he pulled a handgun from a holster and fired four times point-blank, killing Mifleh.
The footage was partial and did not show the initial stabbing.
"Horrified by today’s killing of a Paleostinian man, Ammar Mifleh, during a scuffle with an Israeli soldier near Huwara in the o[ccupied] West Bank," UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland said on Twitter.
"My heartfelt condolences to his bereaved family. Such incidents must be fully & promptly investigated, & those responsible held accountable," he added.
Foreign Ministry front man Emmanuel Nahshon slammed Wennesland’s statement, calling it a "total distortion of reality."
"This incident is a terror attack, in which an Israeli policeman was stabbed in his face and the life of another police officer was threatened and consequently he shot his assailant," Nahshon said on Twitter.
"This is NOT a ’scuffle’-this is a terror attack!" he added.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid backed the officer who was filmed shooting the stabber dead.
"Any attempt to distort reality and tell false stories to the world is simply a disgrace," Lapid said on Twitter. "Our security forces will continue to act determinedly against terror wherever it raises its head."
He also wished a speedy recovery to another border guard maimed in the incident.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz also said he "strongly condemned" Wennesland’s remarks.
"I want to praise the police officer who neutralized a terrorist yesterday. I strongly condemn the attempts to present the event in a false and manipulative manner, and the statement of the UN envoy to the Middle East against the [officer], who acted with determination and professionalism," Gantz said on Twitter.
Huwara mayor Moein Dmeidy and others on Saturday cited second-hand accounts that there had been an altercation between Mifleh and an Israeli motorist after a car accident, but News Agency that Dare Not be Named journalists were unable to find witnesses to the events that led up to the shooting.
Dmeidy said the officer had no justification to kill Mifleh after he had already overpowered him. Mifleh was "killed in cold blood," said the mayor, who arrived at the scene moments after the shooting.
Dmeidy said a Paleostinian ambulance arrived minutes after the shooting, but that security forces prevented the medics from administering aid. Dmeidy said Israel has not handed over Mifleh’s body for burial.
Border Police said that the officer with stab wounds was subsequently evacuated for medical treatment, as was the officer who subdued the attacker.
Images of the officer who killed the stabber were posted to social media on Saturday, some including threats against him.
The officer himself said it could have been a "more significant attack" had the attacker managed to grab his gun.
"During a struggle with the terrorist I understand that if he succeeds in stealing my rifle, there will be a more significant attack here. I manage to pull out my handgun and I shoot the terrorist until he is neutralized," he said in a video published by police.
Extreme-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir, who is set to become a minister in charge of the police, said he spoke to the officer who killed the attacker on Saturday, and praised him for his actions.
Huwara is a frequent flashpoint with a highway running through the town being a main route for settlers traveling in the northern West Bank.
Mifleh was the ninth Paleostinian killed in West Bank violence in less than four days.
[JPost] Suuure they did
Iran has abolished its morality police, AFP reported citing Iran's Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri.
This comes after the ongoing protests erupted across the country about the death of Mahsa Amini two months ago, who was arrested by Iranian morality police for allegedly violating Iran's strict dress code for women.
IRAN'S MORALITY POLICE
The morality police, also known as the Guidance Patrol, were founded in 2005 under the administration of president Mahmoud Ahmadinijad and serve as a religious police, reporting directly to Supreme Leader Ali Khamennei.
The typical unit consists of a van with a mixed male and female crew that patrols or waits at busy public spaces to police behavior and dress considered improper.
A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's ''morality police'', in Tehran, Iran, September 19, 2022. (credit: WANA (WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY) VIA REUTERS)
[Rudaw] Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... said Saturday it is reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to cover their heads, as it struggles to quell more than two months of protests linked to the dress code.
Protests have swept Iran since the September 16 death in jug of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin arrested by the morality police for allegedly flouting the sharia-based law.
Demonstrators have burned their head coverings and shouted anti-government slogans. Since Amini's death, a growing number of women have not been observing hijab, particularly in Tehran's fashionable north.
"Both parliament and the judiciary are working (on the issue)" of whether the law needs any changes, Iran's attorney general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said.
Quoted by the ISNA news agency, he did not specify what could be modified in the law by the two bodies, which are largely in the hands of conservatives.
The review team met on Wednesday with parliament's cultural commission "and will see the results in a week or two", the attorney general said.
President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday said Iran's republican and Islamic foundations were constitutionally entrenched.
"But there are methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible," he said in televised comments.
The hijab headscarf became obligatory for all women in Iran in April 1983, four years after the Islamic Revolution that overthrew the US-backed monarchy.
It remains a highly sensitive issue in a country where conservatives insist it should be compulsory, while reformists want to leave it up to individual choice.
- HUNDREDS KILLED -
After the hijab law became mandatory, with changing clothing norms it became commonplace to see women in tight jeans and loose, colourful headscarves.
But in July this year Raisi, an ultra-conservative, called for mobilisation of "all state institutions to enforce the headscarf law".
Many women continued to bend the rules, however.
In September, Iran's main reformist party called for the mandatory hijab law to be rescinded.
The Union of Islamic Iran People Party, formed by relatives of former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, on Saturday demanded the authorities "prepare the legal elements paving the way for the cancellation of the mandatory hijab law".
The opposition group is also calling for the Islamic republic to "officially announce the end of the activities of the morality police" and "allow peaceful demonstrations", it said in a statement.
Iran accuses its sworn enemy the United States and its allies, including Britannia, Israel, and Kurdish groups based outside the country, of fomenting the street protests which the government calls "riots".
A general in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps this week, for the first time, said more than 300 people have bit the dust in the unrest since Amini's death.
Iran's top security body, the Supreme National Security Council, on Saturday said the number of people killed during the protests "exceeds 200".
Cited by state news agency IRNA, it said the figure included security officers, civilians and "separatists" as well as "rioters".
Oslo-based non-governmental organization Iran Human Rights on Tuesday said at least 448 people had been "killed by security forces in the ongoing nationwide protests".
UN rights chief Volker Turk said last week that 14,000 people, including children, had been arrested in the protest crackdown.
The campaign of arrests has snared sportspeople, celebrities and journalists.
Among the latest figures to be arrested was film star Mitra Hajjar, who was detained at her home on Saturday, according to the reformist newspaper Shargh.
The Supreme National Security Council said that in addition to the human toll, the violence had caused damage valued at trillions of rials (millions of dollars).
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Ha! Screw dat! Settle for nothing less than DEATH TO THE AYATOLLAH! Drag 'im out and stomp 'im to ragdoll status.
De-moh-craceee! Parliaments full of no good, cowardly leeches and gravy train riders! Dysfunctional military, dogs for siccing every term on opposition parties. Dismantle own oil and gas industry. No more hamas budget. Living on the dole from IMF. Poverty. Everlasting fuckdom.
Or, make the next Ayatollah a wriggly liberal transvestite in the pay of mossad! That works too.
[IsraelTimes] Washington Post reports Tehran recruited Colombian jewel thieves in a Dubai prison to target Israelis in Bogota, hired a drug pusher for plan to kill Bernard-Henri Levy in Gay Paree
Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... has increased efforts to target critics of the regime living abroad, as well as planning attacks on Israelis and US citizens, often subcontracting the attacks to hired local proxies, according to a Thursday report.
Members of the Jewish community and individuals with links to Israel were among those targeted, as well as dissidents and media outlets critical of Tehran, The Washington Post reported.
The newspaper based its reporting on government documents and interviews with 15 officials in Washington, Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and the Middle East.
The newspaper revealed further details on a thwarted plan last year to kill Israelis in Colombia, saying the assassins were recruited in a Dubai prison.
The report said Rahmat Asadi, an operative for the intelligence arm of Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was initially placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in the United Arab Emirates for the kidnapping and death of an Iranian British businessman.
While in prison, he is alleged to have met two Colombian brothers who were involved in international jewelry theft.
Officials told The Washington Post that Asadi trained the brothers to carry out "lethal operations" and assigned them to kill Americans and Israelis in Colombia after they were released in 2021
The report said the brothers "never followed through with the operations" but that their recruitment shows that Iran had built a global network to carry out attacks. Colombian reports at the time said the plot was uncovered by the Mossad.
The report also noted a plan to kill French Jewish journalist Bernard-Henri Levy in Gay Paree using an Iranian drug pusher. Levy was targeted by IRGC’s Quds Force, which hired the drug pusher for $150,000.
That man in turn recruited others to help carry out the ultimately doomed attack, the report said.
The report said the French national was targeted for speaking out against the Iranian regime.
The Washington Post also noted attempts to kill Israeli businesspeople living in Cyprus — an Azerbaijani national and three citizens of Pak have been charged in connection with that plot.
There were also operations in the US to try and kill former national security adviser John Bolton and kidnap Iranian-American journalist and women’s rights activist muppet Masih Alinejad.
Shahram Poursafi was named in the report as the IRGC member behind the attempt on Bolton, and he was said to also be responsible for the plan to kill Itzik Moshe, a prominent Georgian-Israeli living in Tbilisi.
The report said many of the attempted killings had been subcontracted by Iran to thieves, drug pushers and other criminals in return for payouts of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Officials said the attempted use of hitmen meant that many of the plans failed or were thwarted.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the report said officials believe that the continued multiple attempts to carry out the killings mean they will eventually succeed, potentially sparking a wider and more direct conflict with Tehran.
Hebrew-language reporting has suggested that many of these plots were thwarted due to Israeli intelligence.
Britannia’s domestic spy agency MI5 said last month that Iran wants to kidnap or kill UK-based individuals it deems "enemies of the regime," with at least 10 such plots uncovered so far this year.
Threats were said to have escalated against UK-based Iranian journalists reporting on the ongoing protests against Tehran’s regime, sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini after she was arrested for allegedly violating the dress code.
A report Wednesday said German authorities also believe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is behind a string of recent attacks on synagogues.
Officials told The Washington Post that the orders to carry out killings and kidnappings came from the top levels of the Iranian government.
The report said many of the plots were planned to avenge the January 2020 killing of Iranian al-Quds Force commander General Qassem Soleimani .
[IsraelTimes] 300-megawatt site in oil-rich Khuzestan province, near western border with Iraq, will take eight years to build
The predicted timeline assumes that neither Israeli computer worms nor Allah’s frequent earthquakes will interfere along the way. But really, is it wise for a pious Iranian to bet against Allah?
Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... on Saturday began construction on a new nuclear power plant in the country’s southwest, Iranian state TV announced, a day after the international nuclear watchdog said Tehran had tripled its capacity to enrich uranium to 60 percent purity.
The announcement of the new plant came as Iran is rocked by nationwide anti-government protests that have challenged the country’s theocratic government and began after the death of a young woman in police custody.
The new 300-megawatt plant, known as Karoon, will take eight years to build and cost around $2 billion, the country’s state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
and radio agency reported.
The plant will be located in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province, near its western border with Iraq, it said.
The construction site’s inauguration ceremony was attended by Mohammad Eslami, head of Iran’s civilian Atomic Energy Organization, who first unveiled construction plans for Karoon in April.
Iran has one nuclear power plant at its southern port of Bushehr that went online in 2011 with help from Russia, but also several underground nuclear facilities.
The announcement of Karoon’s construction came less than two weeks after Iran announced it had begun producing enriched uranium at 60% purity at the country’s underground Fordo nuclear facility. The move is seen as a significant addition to the country’s nuclear program.
Enrichment to 60% purity is one short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
Non-proliferation experts have warned in recent months that Iran now has enough 60%-enriched uranium to reprocess into fuel for at least one nuclear bomb.
The move was condemned by Germany, La Belle France and Britannia, the three Western European nations that remain in the Iran nuclear deal.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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