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Have you ever heard of John Batchelor before ?
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Doc wrote:.
Have you ever heard of John Batchelor before ?
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Iran and China agreed to expand bilateral ties and increase trade to $600 billion in the next 10 years, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday during a visit to Tehran by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Iran and China signed 17 accords on Saturday, including on cooperation in nuclear energy and a revival of the ancient Silk Road trade route, known in China as One Belt, One Road.
2016: The Year of the Great Middle East Cyberwar?
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Although cyberwarfare is a relatively new phenomenon, Iran already has a history of conducting cyberattacks against its regional rivals during diplomatic crises. In retaliation for the Saudi government’s “crimes and atrocities” in countries such as Syria and Bahrain, in 2012 a group calling itself “Cutting Sword of Justice” launched a malware attack on Saudi Aramco – Saudi Arabia’s state oil company — that destroyed 30,000 computers, and shortly thereafter a similar virus struck Qatar-based gas company RasGas. From 2012 to 2014, Iran’s “Operation Cleaver” targeted companies in Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and 12 other countries in sectors “including oil and gas, energy and utilities, transportation, hospitals, telecommunications, technology, education, aerospace, defense contractors, and chemical.” Already, in the wake of Saudi Arabia and Iran severing diplomatic ties, unknown hackers have attacked key websites belonging to the Saudi Defense Ministry.
Iran has also employed foreign proxies to launch cyberattacks against countries opposing Tehran’s interests in the region’s various conflicts. The “Syrian Electronic Army” (SEA) has attacked Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other countries known to be supporting Syrian rebel groups, targeting news networks such as Qatar’s Al Jazeera, Saudi Arabia’s Al Arabiya, and U.S. outlets such as the New York Times and Washington Post. It has sabotaged websites belonging to the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, and even hijacked President Obama’s Facebook and Twitter accounts. Similarly, last June the previously unknown “Yemen Cyber Army” released roughly half a million documents stolen from the Saudi Foreign Ministry in retaliation for the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen.
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"In our invoices we mention a clause that buyers of our oil will have to pay in euros, considering the exchange rate versus the dollar around the time of delivery," the NIOC source said.
We Iranians were invaded by Greeks, Arabs, Mongols, and Turks, but we never lost our identity because foreign invaders would find a richer culture in Pomegranates than that of their own.
Iran Executes Entire Male Population of Village
Reports about the executions do not mention if they men were given trials or if the executions were carried out en masse or gradually.
Many countries, especially in SE Asia, have mandatory death penalties for drug trafficking, although they are mandatory upon conviction.Doc wrote:http://www.clarionproject.org/news/iran ... on-village
Iran Executes Entire Male Population of Village
Reports about the executions do not mention if they men were given trials or if the executions were carried out en masse or gradually.
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Doc wrote:.
http://www.clarionproject.org/news/iran ... on-village
.Iran Executes Entire Male Population of Village
Reports about the executions do not mention if they men were given trials or if the executions were carried out en masse or gradually.
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Many countries, especially in SE Asia, have mandatory death penalties for drug trafficking, although they are mandatory upon conviction.
Not that I'd want to be at the mercy of any of their judicial systems.
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The Ayatollahs have spoken
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According to many Muslim Islam is a race and people that like beheading people belong in Islamic hell
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"We believe that Moses and Jesus are great prophets.
If you don’t believe that, you are not Muslim.
We believe in Abrahamic religions.
We view them as brothers.
We as Muslims believe in Prophet Moses.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is the only country where religious minorities have the same freedoms, occupy high positions, are free to operate on the market, in the economy, and have their representatives in the parliament.
We consider ourselves first Jews, then Christians, and only after that, Muslims.”
We see the proof of these words literally outside the building, on the street.
On a regular weekday, at 8 pm there is a line in front of a movie theatre.
There are many screens showing different movies, but everybody wants to see the one about Solomon.
It premiered two weeks ago. The room is full. The movie is based on the Koran account about King Solomon, whom Muslims honor as Prophet Suleiman.
The story in the Koran is different from the biblical account. Israel’s trials are shown as a tragic and mystical story of a God-fearing community – and Muslim viewers genuinely sympathize with the suffering Jewish people.
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"Jews are safe in Iran. That’s true. Nobody needs guards.
There has never been a single instance of anti-Semitism in Iranian society.
This phenomenon belongs to the European, Christian world.
There is no anti-Semitic sentiment in Iran.
We have no attacks on synagogues or cemeteries as happens in Paris.
Just so you know, there are 15 synagogues in Tehran,” the head of the hospital says.
To him, it’s a major indicator of freedom of religion.
I keep to myself the fact that Moscow, which has ten times more Jews than Tehran, has only four synagogues.