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The IAEA has demanded that Iran provide "clarifications" regarding "possible undeclared nuclear material and nuclear-related activities," as well as access to two sites in question.
Those demands are based on alleged Iranian documents that Israeli intelligence supposedly stole from Iran in 2018. And as The Grayzone has previously reported, their authenticity is highly questionable, and their purported theft may have never occurred.

Former CIA director John Brennan • Former director National Intelligence James Clapper
Sidney Powell was on the Vicki McKenna radio show and she dropped another bomb. Per a report from Lifezette, General Michael Flynn's attorney Sidney Powell shared the following: "He was going to audit the intel agencies because he knew about the billions Brennan and company were running off the books," Powell said, referring to former CIA Director John Brennan.
Powell began her interview noting at the 1:00 mark that when she took over the Flynn case three things were very, very troubling and egregious:
One - he was not properly informed of what the government had even disclosed to his defense lawyers prior to the plea.Then Powell drops the bomb at the 5:50 mark where she discloses that Flynn was going to audit the Intel agencies because he knew about the billions former CIA Director John Brennan was running off the books. To hear Sidney Powell's interview on 1310 News Talk, go here.
Secondly, the government didn't disclose a fraction of what it should have disclosed (i.e. the whole case was made up).
And three, he was prosecuted and threatened with the prosecution of his son. That's how they coerced the guilty plea. It was just unconscionable conduct to threaten to indict him and his son the very next day and give them the Manafort treatment if he didn't enter his plea right then, and I'm convinced it's because they knew right then the press was going to explode with the Strzok-Page text messages and everything.
On Monday night, the Director of National Intelligence and the head of the CIA both put out statements decrying intelligence leaks.
DNI John Ratcliffe, who said Saturday that the president was not briefed "on any intelligence alleged by the New York Times in its reporting," put out a new statement saying:
"U.S. and coalition force protection is a critical priority for both the president and the intelligence community. The selective leaking of any classified information disrupts the vital interagency work to collect, assess, and mitigate threats and places our forces at risk. it is also, simply put, a crime."
The Dems' latest hot take on Monday night stood for only moments before it was sent down the memory hole, though by then it had already been preserved for eternity on an internet archive site. The hot-button tweet said President Donald Trump had "disrespected Native communities," and would do so again by holding his July 4th rally at Mount Rushmore, which it deemed "sacred" to some Native American tribes.
The now-deleted post sent critics into a fury, interpreting the message to say that both the iconic American monument and Independence Day itself are celebrations of racism. Among those to wade into the fray were Trump's own campaign team, as well as the GOP's national spokesperson, Elizabeth Harrington, who put a challenge to Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Molyneux - the host of Freedomain Radio, billed as "the world's number one philosophy show" - was booted off YouTube on Monday over its policies regulating "hate speech," according to a company statement. His termination came amid a broader social media purge throughout the day, which saw prominent Trump-related accounts banned on Reddit and Twitch, as well as other right-wingers scrubbed from YouTube for good.
"We have strict policies prohibiting hate speech on YouTube, and terminate any channel that repeatedly or egregiously violates those policies," a YouTube spokesperson told The Verge about Monday's bans, adding that a policy change last year has driven a surge of similar deletions.
Comment: It appears that YouTube has upped the pace, and has moved from smaller outlets to those with huge followings. Social media platforms cannot be stripped of their 230 protections soon enough. Those who are banned due to arbitrary political opinions should have the right to sue these platforms on freedom of speech grounds
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- YouTube bans Infowars relaunch just days after promising to allow 'controversial' content
- YouTube removes SYRIANGIRL's video about her Facebook ban - because of 'hate speech'
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Speaking before the National Assembly on Tuesday, Khan asserted that the gunmen who stormed the facility were linked to Pakistan's longtime rival.
"We have no doubt this was done by India," he stated as cited by local media, adding that the three security guards who lost their lives in the attack were "heroes" and "thwarted a major incident, which was planned by India to destabilize us."

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu speaks at a joint news conference with Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjart after their talks, in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, June 30, 2020.
Comment: That would be better than a Turkish presence.
"France supports a pirate, a coupist," he added, pointing to Paris' support for putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar, who is also backed by Russia.
Comment: He's also the leader of the Libyan National Army, which is supported by Libya's population, unlike the so-called official Libyan government, which only controls a small fraction of the country, is illegitimate, composed of murderers and terrorists, and with which Turkey is in league.
"All of our bilateral relations are within the framework of transparent agreements," Çavuşoğlu said.
Turkey enjoys good relations with Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA), which is recognized by the United Nations and most of the world as the only legitimate administration in the North African country.
The DBR planned to question Poroshenko on June 30 in a case about his alleged illegal appointment of Serhiy Semochko to the post of the deputy chief of the Foreign Intelligence Service.
Poroshenko's lawyer, Ihor Holovan, told journalists that his client did not show up at the DBR because the summons for questioning had been made via the DBR's website, which is illegal since Poroshenko should have been served the subpoena personally.
Comment: Rather rich of the U.S. embassy, considering it was/is one of the epicenters of Ukraine's corruption:
- Kiev's US Embassy pushes Ukrainian propaganda outfit on 'World Press Freedom Day'
- US Embassy pressed Ukraine to drop probe of George Soros group during 2016 election
- Ukraine's missing $7 billion: US denies Ukrainian authorities opportunity to present evidence of Democrat meddling in 2016 elections
- Marie Yovanovitch: An Obama holdover accused of telling Ukraine to 'ignore Trump because he'll be impeached' and meddling in Ukraine's election
- The true Ukraine controversy involves an activist US embassy and non-adherence to the Geneva Convention
- US diplomats riding roughshod over sovereignty of national governments
The person in question is well-known Russian broadcaster Dmitry Kiselyov, who in fact heads a completely different news organization called Rossiya Segodnya — a basic fact-check that the bright sparks at Latvia's National Electronic Media Council (NEPLP) seemingly failed to conduct.
Kiselyov has indeed been under EU sanctions since Crimea voted for reunification with Russia in 2014, but he has nothing to do with RT or its broadcasting.
Of course, the knee-jerk move to banish RT based on false information could have been avoided had the council taken even a cursory glance at either RT or Rossiya Segodnya's Wikipedia pages.













Comment: The MSM mouthpieces, including the Associated Press are still trying to keep the "Russian bounty" story alive: Yeesh. When even arch warmonger Bolton won't back the story, it should be clear it's pure fantasy.
New York Times takes anti-Russian hysteria to new level with report on Russian 'bounty' for US troops in Afghanistan