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^ Because most of them are not elegant and cannot act. That leaves flappin' they yaps, getting tattoos and being involved in unseemly tabloid hijinx.
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The stars of yesteryear were just as slutty as the stars of today only the internet had not been invented and a “reporter” could get a ride if he kept silent.
#4
Of tats I am not very fond.
Just give me a platinum blonde,
A nice femme fatale
With a gal-beating pal
That gets killed by her daughter!
Just give me a plotter
Without any ink
But who'll wed in a wink
And who goes through more guys than James Bond!
TIGHTENING THE NOOSE FOR WOMEN’S EDUCATION – A document attributed to the Ministry for Higher Education warns both private and public institutions to deny female students entry into programs. The letter also instructed both private and public institutions to deny entrance exams for women in the future. Finally, all higher education institutions are now required to notify the Ministry five days before any entrance exam process is to take place. Presumably, this last measure is intended to give the Taliban time to send monitors to testing sites. The letter has sparked outrage online and, if genuine, will almost certainly affect discussions about economic and humanitarian aid among the international community. While the Taliban has continued to say that ‘all’ Afghans deserve an education, the policies they are putting in place are durable and will be difficult to remedy should a reversal of the policy ever be made. The ban on taking the entrance exams is particularly troubling as it provides an excuse for more delays.
TALIBAN SAY THEY HAVE CLEARED ISIS-K FROM MAJOR CITIES – Perhaps in response to the killing of the ISIS leader in Africa, Bilal al-Sudani, a Taliban spokesman declared on Saturday that ISIS-K strongholds have been destroyed in much of the country and efforts are being made to clear the remaining operational cells from the Provinces. ISIS-K’s most recent release of its propaganda journal, Khurasan Ghag, clearly targets the Taliban and other international representatives in the country. The Taliban claims also fly in the face of the international consensus about ISIS-K’s capabilities in the country. The Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs stated on Friday that ISIS activities had increased significantly in recent months and questioned the Taliban’s ability to counter the terror group.
OFFICIAL DEATH TOLL FOR COLD SPELL RISES – As additional reporting continues to come in from rural areas, the Taliban said the death toll stands at 166. Reportedly, 200,000 livestock perished in the cold and the losses are expected to put a strain on domestic food production over the course of the year. Both figures are likely to continue increasing as more rural areas report casualties and losses.
MODERATE EARTHQUAKE FELT IN BADAKHSHAN – A 4.3 magnitude quake struck Badakhshan in the early morning hours of 28 January. No casualties or damage were reported. A more powerful quake struck along the Iranian-Turkish border that has so far resulted in 3 deaths and moderate structural damage.
PROTESTS AGAINST THE BURNING OF QURAN CONTINUED – While fewer Afghans participated in Saturday’s protests, there were still several hundred people in many of the city centers who turned out. Several clerics chose to make remarks and condemn the incident. The protests have been peaceful.
NEXT 24 HOURS
ISIS-K MAY RESPOND TO RECENT TALIBAN ANNOUNCEMENTS – The remarks by Zabiullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban, about the regime’s recent success in eradicating the terror group’s support bases throughout Afghanistan could provoke a response. Historically, ISIS-K has chosen to strike targets after similar comments have been uttered. While the Taliban has enjoyed some success in its recent counter-terrorism operations, most estimates suggest several thousand ISIS-K fighters remain in the country. Further fueling the risk of a possible attack is the loss of their top commander in Africa. Leaders may use the moment to ‘make a statement’ with an attack.
The White House has announced that Bilal al-Sudani was responsible for financing ISIS affiliates around the world, including the ISIS branch in Afghanistan.
"The US military conducted a successful over the horizon counter-terrorism operation in northern Somalia that resulted in the death of Bilal al-Sudani, a leader and enabler who for ISIS global network as well as well as approximately ten additional ISIS operatives. Sudani’s activities provided funding to sustain deadly capability of ISIS affiliates globally including ISIS Khorasan branch in Afghanistan one of ISIS's most lethal branches," said Karine Jean-Pierre, White House Press Secretary.
[ShabelleMedia] Farhiyo Abdi Wasuge, who was the minister of state for Transport and Aviation, Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... was killed on Saturday evening in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.
The shocking murder took place in Warta Nabadda district, and gangs were behind the targeted liquidation, according to the area police.
Galmudug state president Ahmed Qoor-Qoor has condemned the killing of the minister and blamed al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all of which have enough problems without them... for being responsible for the liquidation.
The slain regional official was one of the newly appointed ministers in the Galmudug state’s cabinet. She was in the office for a short time.
It is not known who is behind her murder, but the incident came at a time when Galmudug is fighting against al-Shabaab in Galgadud and Mudug regions.
Al-Shabaab has already killed elders and businessmen from Galmudug in Dire Revenge for the military offensive by SNA, regional forces, and local people, who joined the re-liberation.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i Parliament on Saturday demanded that punitive actions be taken against crimes that offend Islamic sanctities, as well as against Lions of Islam who burned and tore copies of the Holy Koran.
The Parliament members denounced the negligent stances of the normalization regimes towards countries that allowed offense to Islamic sanctities, and decided to address the Arab and Islamic parliaments to take firm stances towards countries that protect or justify the perpetrators of these crimes.
They criticized the Western nations’ strategy of applying different standards to attacks and rights breaches against the Paleostinian Arab people, and the confiscation of their right to defend themselves and confront the Zionist occupation forces.
On another hand, the Parliament also condemned strongly the heinous crimes committed by the Saudi spy warplanes in al-Sharjah area of al-Jarrahi district in Hodeidah province, which claimed the lives of three children and maimed others, as well as the Saudi bombardment on border populated villages and areas in Saada province on an almost daily basis.
The Parliament held America and Britannia responsible for these crimes, as they gave the Saudi regime international cover and support for the continuation of committing more crimes, calling for the formation of an impartial international committee to investigate these crimes, and to bring the perpetrators to justice to receive their deterrent punishment.
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[KavkazUzel] The court sentenced 47-year-old Akhmed Majidov to 10 years of strict regime, finding him guilty of aiding militants and illicit trafficking in weapons and explosives.
According to the prosecution, Majidov helped the international terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham,
...formerly Al Nusra, and before that Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria, when they weren’t yet pretending they’d separated from the mothership...
whose activities are banned in Russia.
The verdict against Medzhidov came into force, Astrakhan.ru reported on January 26, citing the FSB department for the Astrakhan region.
According to the security forces, during a search in the convict's house, weapons, ammunition, religious literature, as well as money and bank cards were seized. In addition to a long term of imprisonment, the man received a fine, but the publication does not specify its amount.
Akhmed Majidov was charged under four criminal articles: on facilitating terrorist activities, illegal possession of weapons, illegal possession of explosives or explosive devices, as well as illegal manufacture of weapons (Articles 205.1, 222, 222.1 and 223 of the Criminal Code of Russia), follows from the case file on website of the Southern District Military Court. The case was considered in eight sessions.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that in November 2022, a resident of the Astrakhan region, Jasur Ismatov, received five years in prison for trying to join members of a terrorist organization in Syria.
Far-left trans activists tried to disrupt a speaking event in Rutherford County, Tenn. featuring teen detransitioner @ChoooCole. The activists feel threatened by ex-trans who speak out about how they were pressured into transitioning. Video by @fromkalen: pic.twitter.com/VzfaEmTlDa
[GEO.TV] In a major achievement, the security forces busted a network involved in suicide kabooms and other nefarious activities in the country during intelligence-based operations in different parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Geo News reported Saturday.
Afghan mobile SIM cards, drugs, and foreign currency were recovered from the terrorists’ possession, the media outlet reported, citing intelligence sources.
At least three coppers were martyred after a jacket wallahwent kaboom! on January 19 during an attack on a check post in the Takhta Beg area of Jamrud. Later, the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) grabbed credit for the attack.
After the forensic examination of bullet casings collected from the scene of the crime, CCTV footage, and the body parts, it was established that TTP’s terrorist Umar was behind the attack.
Umar was facilitated by Satana Jan, a resident of Tehsil Jamrud of Khyber district. Then, the security forces launched an operation to arrest the suspects involved in the attack on the police check post.
During the operations, security forces nabbed two controllers, Farmanullah and Abdul Qayyum, on January 23. The security forces on January 27 then arrested four more controllers of terrorist, Fazl Amin, Fazl Ahmed, Mohammad Amir, and Hamadullah. Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, a triangular dorsal fin appeared in the water. Then another... two Afghan nationals were also taken into custody during the operation.
During the initial interrogation, controller Fazal revealed that the suicide bomber was an Afghan national who was brought to Pakistain by Jan.
Jan provided the Afghan national with the suicide jacket and weapons for the attack. "He was running TTP's North Wazoo chapter," Fazal added. The suicide bomber was being facilitated from inside Afghanistan, he revealed.
Jan was using four houses as hideouts and for suicide attacks in the country, he added.
The reports come as Pakistain tackles rising terror attacks — especially by the outlawed TTP and from across the Afghan border.
[GEO.TV] A terrorist was shot full of holes during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in North Wazoo, the military's media wing said Saturday.
The operation was conducted in the district's Mir Ali area, according to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). When the security forces approached the terrorists, they retaliated.
In response, an intense fire exchange took place between the troops and terrorists. After killing the terrorist, the forces also recovered weapons and ammunition.
"The killed hard boyz remained actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces and [the] killing of innocent citizens," the military's media wing added.
The development comes as the country is facing rising insurgency, especially in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, after the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain (TTP) ended its ceasefire with Islamabad in November.
The security forces are conducting back-to-back operations to eliminate bully boys, however, terrorist attacks have seen a rise in the last five months, which have also taken the lives of scores of citizens.
[GREATERKASHMIR] A special court of the National Investigation Agency has ordered the attachment of the office of All Parties Hurriyat Conference situated at Rajbagh area in summer capital Srinagar.
Srinagar based news agency Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Dot Com (KDC) reported that the order passed by the Additional Sessions Judge New Delhi Shalinder Malik has stated that "Immovable property i.e; building office of All Parties Hurriyat Conference at Rajbagh which was earlier used as office of APHC is ordered to be attached. Necessary legal process be carried out in this regard."The order passed by an NIA court was under the ’NIA vs Mohammad Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go.... and others’ pursuant to the orders of MHA dated 30.05.2017 against Hafiz Syed. In its application, the NIA claimed that there is sufficient evidence against Naeem Khan — the accused Hurriyat leader — who "partly owns the property".NIA has submitted in the court that the "property was being used for planning and execution of terrorist and secessionist activities" and for other offenses and thus invoked the provisions of Section 33 (1) of UAPA to seek attachment of the property."
In this case Nayeem Ahmad Khan was arrested during the investigation of this case on 24.07.2017 and was arraigned as accused no.5. Charge sheet filed against 12 accused persons so far in this case.
The NIA stated there is sufficient evidence in the form of documentary, electronic and oral to substantiate the charges framed against the accused Naeem Khan, it is prayed that the above said building which was being used by members of APHC for unlawful activities by A-5."They further stated that "Accused Nayeem Khan is a co-owner of that property and facing prosecution. There is an evidence that above mentioned immovable property was being used for planning and execution of terrorist and secessionist activities and for offences for which accused has already been charged, therefore above said property i.e. building/office of APIIC situated to Rajbagh Srinagar (UT of J&K) may be attached u/s 33(1) of UA(P) Act."
Citing several judgments, the court of Additional Sessions Judge New Delhi noted that section 24 expands the expression of the "proceeds of terrorism" and makes it clear that such expression shall also include "any property intended to be used for terrorism".
"APHC was the place where meetings were held to strategize different protests, funding activities of stone pelting on security forces, recruiting unemployed youths to carry out unlawful activities as well as terrorist activities to create an unrest in the erstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir to wage war against the Government of India," were the major points that were noted by the Delhi court court.
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#Iraq's military has proceeded with building a road that traverses a "hot territory" in #Diyala in a bid to eradicate sleeping #ISIS cells and repatriate the internally displaced #citizens, a local official says.#ISIL#terrorisme#terrorism
Iraq's military has proceeded with building a road that traverses a "hot territory" in Diyala in a bid to eradicate sleeping ISIS cells and repatriate the internally displaced citizens to their hometowns, a local official said on Saturday.
Iraqi authorities use the term "hot territories" to imply that the area in question is infested by terrorist groups.
Al-Miqdadiyah's interim commissioner, Hatem Abd Jawad, told Shafaq News Agency that Diyala's Operations Command is building a road that travels along with the Diyala River to explore abandoned orchards and lands in the towns of Sheikhi, Abi Karma, Makhisa, and Abi Khanazir.
"Operation Revealing Road aims to uncover the hideouts and transportation routes used by ISIS militants in order to purge the entire area and ultimately allow the return of the displaced citizens to their hometowns," he said.
"More than 50% of the families that were displaced from the Abi Saida sub-district are still unable to return due to security concerns," Abd Jawad added.
Diyala, which stretches from the Iranian border to just north of the capital, Baghdad, is crossed by the Hamrin mountain chain, infamous for its longstanding use as a hideout for insurgent groups even before IS existed.
It was east of Diyala's capital city, Baquba, that the Jordanian-born leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq at that time, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in a 2006 airstrike.
In recent years, Diyala has been one of the Iraqi governorates with the highest number of attacks by ISIS cells and has seen attacks using similar methods to the most recent one.
While security issues have been left to fester in the governorate and must be addressed, there are also major concerns about sectarian killings.
Sunni Arabs in general across Iraq experienced major displacement during ISIS occupation of their hometowns and the subsequent fight against the international terrorist group, victory against which in the country was declared by the Iraqi government in December 2017.
Many from areas previously under ISIS control have still not returned home almost five years later, or have no homes to return to. In some cases, such as Jurf al-Sakr (now renamed Jurf al-Nasr), they are not being allowed back into the area by Shiite armed forces that have claimed the area for themselves.
Such situations — which has deprived many of their lives, homes and livelihoods — are being used for propaganda purposes by ISIS or others seeking to place collective blame on already suffering communities.
[SHAFAQ] Iraq's al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) on Saturday announced capturing the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... 's top assassin in the so-called Wilayat of Northern Baghdad.
An official statement by the PMF media office said the terrorist was detained following a "tight ambush" set by the PMF's special force in al-Anbar, near al-Tahaddi checkpoint.
The arrestee, according to the statement, was in charge of the liquidation unit in the so-called Wilayat of Northern Baghdad when the holy warrior group took over swathes of Iraq's area in 2014.
[IsraelTimes] Local officials say suspect with handgun attempted to infiltrate Kedumim, near Nablus; no other injuries reported
A Paleostinian man armed with a handgun was rubbed out by a security guard near the northern West Bank settlement of Kedumim, the military, medics, and local officials said shortly before midnight on Saturday.
According to local security officials, a suspect was spotted on the settlement’s surveillance cameras approaching Kedumim’s northern neighborhood at around 11:50 p.m.
The security coordinator for the settlement and another guard reached the scene and spotted the suspect who at that point had pulled out a handgun.
"The guard spotted a terrorist armed with a handgun trying to infiltrate the settlement, engaged him and shot at him, and killed him," the settlement said in a statement to residents.
"The terrorist was not able to infiltrate into Kedumim and thank God there were no casualties," the statement added.
The Rescuers Without Borders emergency service said the suspect was killed at the scene and there were no other injuries.
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed the local officials’ account and said troops were scanning the area for additional possible suspects. Sirens sounded in the settlement as residents were ordered to remain indoors until further notice while the army searched the area.
The IDF also released an image of the suspect’s gun.
Kedumim is located near the Paleostinian city of Nablus.
To be fair, Israel is so small that everything is near other things.
Earlier on Saturday, a Paleostinian gunman shot up a restaurant near the Almog Junction close to Jericho in the West Bank, then fled after his gun apparently jammed.
In recent months, Paleostinian button men have repeatedly targeted military posts, troops operating along the West Bank security barrier, Israeli settlements and civilians on the roads.
Saturday’s shooting and suspected attempted attack followed a pair of terror attacks in Jerusalem over the past day. On Friday night, a Paleostinian gunman from East Jerusalem killed seven and injured three in the Neve Yaakov neighborhood, and the next morning, a 13-year-old Paleostinian shot and maimed two Israeli men near the Old City.
[IsraelTimes] Victims identified as father and IDF officer son; pair shot close to Old City near Silwan neighborhood; shooter waited between cars, used handgun to fire at passing group
Two men were shot and maimed in a terror attack outside Jerusalem’s Old City, police and medics said Saturday morning.
Police said the attacker was a 13-year-old Paleostinian from East Jerusalem. He was shot and maimed by armed members of the group he attacked.
The Kan public broadcaster named the attacker as Muhammad Aliyat from Silwan.
Police said the victims were father and son. Their family has been informed that they were maimed.
The Israel Defense Forces later said the son was an off-duty officer in the Paratroopers Brigade and that the soldier had managed to shoot and hit the attacker despite his wounds.
MDA said its medics treated the pair on Ma’alot Ir David Street in the capital, close to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, before taking them to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in the city.
The hospital said the victims, a man in his 20s and a 59-year-old man, were listed in serious but stable condition.
Both suffered gunshot wounds to their upper bodies, according to MDA and hospital officials.
Police said the 13-year-old terrorist arrived in the area armed and apparently carried out the attack alone.
In surveillance video from the scene he can be seen waiting behind some parked cars before opening fire toward a group of people.
He was shot by two armed members of the group, including the off-duty officer. The attacker was taken by medics for further medical treatment, but his condition was not immediately known.
The handgun used in the attack was seized, police said.
Gunfire could be heard in footage shared on social media.
The attack came hours after seven people were killed and three more were hurt in a shooting attack on Friday night in the Neve Yaakov neighborhood.
Police said Saturday that the national alert level was raised to the highest level, as security forces were bolstered across Israel and the West Bank in the wake of the deadly attack.
Police commissioner Kobi Shabtai ordered that a team of officers from the elite Yamam counterterrorism unit be stationed in Jerusalem following the two attacks.
Military chief Herzi Halevi issued instructions to increase forces in the West Bank and along its security barrier, and to prepare for a potential escalation in the region.
#1
They live in UN sponsored prison camps of their own accord. They train their children to hate others and kill even at the cost of their own lives. They continue to forfeit prosperity to act as a tool of grievance for evil overlords that hate us all.
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I hope the attacker repents and changes his attitude before they hang him.
[An Nahar] Israel police said Saturday they arrested dozens of people after a Paleostinian gunman killed seven people outside a synagogue in one of the deadliest attacks in Jerusalem in years.
Police identified the gunman as a 21-year-old resident of east Jerusalem, the sector of the city annexed by Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War.
There has been no indication that he had prior involvement in bully boy activity or was a member of an established Paleostinian gang.
Nonetheless, this single thing he did absolutely merited a summary death sentence, promptly executed.
He was killed by police following a brief chase after the shooting.
Good.
In a statement, Israeli police said they had arrested "42 people for questioning" overnight, "some of them members of the terrorist's family."
Others detained included residents of the gunman's neighborhood, police said.
In a separate statement, police said the force had been placed on the "highest level" of alert following the attack in Neve Yaakov neighborhood of east Jerusalem.
Israel's police chief Kobi Shabtai called the shooting "one of the worst attacks (Israel) has encountered in recent years."
[IsraelTimes] Fadi Dekidek, a senior medic with Magen David Adom emergency services, who was the first medic on the scene of the deadly January 27, 2023 terror attack in Nave Yaakov, Jerusalem, speaks to Channel 12 news on January 28, 2023. (Channel 12 screenshot)
Fadi Dekidek, the first Magen David Adom paramedic on the scene of Friday night’s deadly terror attack in Neve Ya’akov, describes the "very difficult" scene he encountered, as he checked the pulses of victims and realized that many of them were dead, and worked to treat the casualties.
He tells Channel 12 news in an interview that the police had given his team the okay to enter the scene, even though gunfire was still audible nearby — possibly from the exchange in which the terrorist, Alqam Khayri, 21, a resident of East Jerusalem, was rubbed out by coppers nearby.
Dekidek says he has been with Magen David Adom for many years, and encountered many terrible scenes, but this was of a different order.
As the senior medic at the scene, "I had to check all the people, to my sorrow including all the fatalities, and to oversee the scene... and to enter the [Ateret Avraham] synagogue, in order to check that there was nobody inside. We had received a [first, inaccurate] report that the incident took place in the synagogue, but fortunately, there was nobody injured inside."
Ben Caspit, the Channel 12 host, says to him: "Fadi, you realize that you are a man who encapsulates our whole story here. One amazing man. An Arab from East Jerusalem. Someone from your people carried out [this terror attack]. You save the Jews. You treat them. That’s the whole crazy paradox we live in — you encompass it."
Dekidek responds: "I’m sure you and the public all know that Magen David Adom is a state all of its own for co-existence. Jews save Arabs. Arabs save Jews. I think it’s an example for the whole world."
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#HTS enters an area held by ally Ahrar al-Sham in the city of al-Bab, east of #Aleppo, after the Syrian opposition's Interim Government demanded the latter hand over their areas of control in east of al-Bab. https://t.co/1bIkHE4IF3
[Jerusalem Post] A large fire was reported at the Kangan Petro Refining Co. (KPRC) in southern Iran along the coast of the Persian Gulf on Monday, just a day after an explosion reportedly impacted a drone factory in the center of the country.
According to Iranian media, a fire at the waste warehouse at KPRC was contained and extinguished within an hour and no operational units were damaged. No injuries were reported in the fire. Video footage reportedly from the scene of the fire showed large amounts of smoke billowing out of a warehouse.
The fire comes just a day after nine people were injured in an explosion at the Sepahan Nargostar chemical and fireworks factory in the city of Shahin Shahr in Iran’s Isfahan Province on Saturday night. The cause of the blast was said to also be under investigation.
The Sepahan Nargostar factory is a producer of industrial and commercial explosive materials and is under the supervision of the National Security Council, according to IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency), the official government-controlled news agency. The company produces various types of fireworks and gunpowder, as well as nitrate, sodium, potassium, strontium, calcium, copper and barium, the report said.
The Guardian reported on Sunday that the blast actually took place at the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA), which produces a variety of aircraft, including drones, for Iranian and pro-Iranian forces and is also located in Shahin Shahr.
The explosion was linked to the shooting down of a drone by Israel near the Jordanian border last week, the report said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was an Iranian drone sent from either Iraq or Syria. The IDF collected fragments of the destroyed aircraft for further examination.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian Ministry says 3 aircraft launched at facility; 2 shot down, 3rd hits building, causing ’minor damage’ to roof and no injuries
Bomb-carrying drones targeted an Iranian defense factory in the central city of Isfahan overnight, authorities said early Sunday, causing some damage at the plant amid heightened regional and international tensions engulfing the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The Iranian Defense Ministry offered no information on who it suspected carried out the attack, which came as a refinery fire separately broke out in the country’s northwest and a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck nearby, killing two people.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... Tehran has been targeted in suspected Israeli dronezaps amid a shadow war with its Mideast rival as its nuclear deal with world powers collapsed. Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... tensions also remain high with neighboring Azerbaijan after a gunman attacked that country’s embassy in Tehran, killing its security chief and wounding two others.
Details on the Isfahan attack, which happened around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, remained scarce. A Defense Ministry statement described three drones being launched at the facility, with two of them successfully shot down. A third apparently made it through to strike the building, causing "minor damage" to its roof and wounding no one, the ministry said.
Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
’s English-language arm, Press TV, aired mobile phone video apparently showing the moment that drone struck along the busy Imam Khomeini Expressway that heads northwest out of Isfahan, one of several ways for drivers to go to the holy city of Qom and Tehran, Iran’s capital. A small crowd stood gathered, drawn by anti-aircraft fire, watching as a kaboom and sparks struck a dark building.
"Oh my God! That was a drone, wasn’t it?" the man filming shouts. "Yeah, it was a drone."
Those there fled after the strike.
That footage of the strike, as well as footage of the aftermath analyzed by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, corresponded to a site on Minoo Street in northwestern Isfahan that’s near a shopping center that includes a carpet and an electronics store.
Iranian defense and nuclear sites increasingly find themselves surrounded by commercial properties and residential neighborhoods as the country’s cities sprawl ever outward. Some locations as well remain incredibly opaque about what they produce, with only a sign bearing a Defense Ministry or paramilitary Revolutionary Guard logo.
The Defense Ministry only called the site a "workshop," without elaborating on what it made. Isfahan, some 350 kilometers (215 miles) south of Tehran, is home to both a large air base built for its fleet of American-made F-14 fighter jets and its Nuclear Fuel Research and Production Center.
The announcement of the attack comes at a tense time in Iran, which has been rocked by protests over the death of Mahsa Amini in September, tensions over its nuclear program and accusations that Tehran has been supplying drones to Russia for the war in Ukraine.
Separately, Iran’s state TV said a fire broke out at an oil refinery in an industrial zone near the northwestern city of Tabriz. It said the cause was not yet known, as it showed footage of firefighters trying to extinguish the blaze.
State TV also said the magnitude-5.9 earthquake killed two people and injured some 580 more in rural areas in West Azerbaijan province, damaging buildings in many villages.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... and Israel have long been engaged in a shadow war that has included covert attacks on Iranian military and nuclear facilities.
Last year, Iran said an engineer was killed and another employee was maimed in an unexplained incident at the Parchin military and weapons development base east of the capital, Tehran. The ministry called it an accident, without providing further details.
Parchin is home to a military base where the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency has said it suspected Iran conducted tests of explosive triggers that could be used in nuclear weapons.
In April 2021, Iran blamed Israel for an attack on its underground Natanz nuclear facility that damaged its centrifuges.
[An Nahar] The army closed the entrances of the Shiyyah and Ain el-Remmaneh neighborhoods and took strict security measures in the area on Saturday following calls for rival rallies related to the Beirut port blast case.
"The aim of the measures in the vicinity of Tayyouneh is to stress that security is a red line and not to sow panic among the people," security sources told al-Jadeed TV.
The Shiyyah, Ain el-Remmaneh and Tayyouneh areas had witnessed deadly armed festivities last year during a rally demanding the removal of Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar.
A few activist muppets meanwhile staged a symbolic sit-in outside the nearby Justice Palace to demand the sacking of State Prosecutor Judge Ghassan Oueidat following his latest controversial measures in the port case, the National News Agency said.
During the small sit-in, nine women carried banners demanding an end to political interference in the judiciary, the sacking of Oueidat, the signing of the judicial appointments decree and the amendment of the legal articles that are obstructing the probe.
The main grouping of the families of the Beirut port blast victims meanwhile distanced itself from the demos and warned that the calls for rival rallies are "aimed, among other things, at causing violence and bloodshed on the streets."
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.
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