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Iran jails British-Iranian they claim is "agent of England's intelligence service" for six years

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Iran has revealed that an unnamed British-Iranian dual citizen, who it says is "an agent of England's intelligence service," has been jailed for six years for spying. The case had not previously been disclosed.

No details of the case were provided, such as when the person was arrested or where, according to Reuters. The judiciary's Mizan news agency said Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi had "referred to a six-year prison sentence for an agent of England's intelligence service."

Announcing the ruling on Sunday night, the prosecutor said the same British-Iranian citizen was also under investigation in a separate case related to a private bank, giving no further details.

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Vader

Chickenhawk Macron: 'France ready to strike chemical weapons sites in Syria'

French President Emmanuel Macron
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French President Emmanuel Macron addresses a press conference in the Indian city of Varanasi on March 12, 2018
France has expressed readiness to launch targeted strikes against any site in Syria used to deploy chemical arms and weapons that could result in the death of civilians.

French President Emmanuel Macron, who is on an official visit to India, said at a news conference on Monday that his country's military would be ready to strike if it found "irrefutable evidence" chemical weapons had been used to kill civilians in Syria.

"The day we have, in particular in tandem with our American partners, irrefutable proof that the red line was crossed -- namely the chemical weapons were used to lethal effect -- we will do what the Americans themselves did moreover a few months ago; we would put ourselves in position to proceed with targeted strikes," Macron said.

"We are cross-matching our own information with that of our allies but to put it very clearly we have an independent capacity to identify targets and launch strikes where needed," the French president added.

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Rocket

Bye-bye Satan: Russia to replace Soviet era ICBMs with new-generation Sarmat missiles

RS-28 Sarmat
© Vladimir Fedorenko / Sputnik
The Sarmat is being developed to replace the RS-36M ICBM family – dubbed 'Satan' by NATO – which entered service in the 1970s and 1980s.
Russia will soon start scrapping its family of Soviet-era R-36M ICBMs, dubbed 'Satan' by NATO, according to the Defense Ministry. The missiles that will replace them, Sarmat, boast cutting-edge capabilities.

"It [Satan missile] is at the end of its life span, and we are about to start discarding that missile," Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yury Borisov said.

Borisov did not elaborate on the exact model though. The R-36M intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was first deployed in 1975, becoming the most powerful silo-based strategic nuclear munition in the world. Two further modifications of the missile were made since then, and its booster stage also received tweaks.

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Mr. Potato

Mad Maxine hits back at Trump after 'low-IQ' jab

Maxine Waters
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House Representative
Democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters says she's "not intimidated" by Donald Trump and forecasts his impeachment, as the pair continued exchanging barbs in one of the most vitriolic running feuds on Capitol Hill.

Waters, 79, went on MSNBC and insisted that Trump's impeachment was a matter of time, saying that "if for some reason Mueller does not get him, Stormy will. So we know that this is going to go on."

Robert Mueller is leading the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and links with Trump's entourage, while Stormy Daniels is the pseudonym of an adult actress, who alleges that she had an affair with Trump from 2006 onwards, which his lawyers tried to hush-up with money and threats.

Comment: McCain, Waters, Pelosi and a host of others well past their due date should just retire gracefully, while they can still (almost) put together a coherent sentence, and in Killary's case, possibly dodge jail time. They've inflicted themselves on the American electorate for long enough


Info

Russian envoy to UN says Al-Nusra terrorists used chlorine chemicals in Eastern Ghouta while US ambassador to UN threatens that US will attack Syrian army

Ruins
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Russia's envoy to the UN Vassily Nebenzia has accused militant groups in Eastern Ghouta of using chlorine gas, while stressing that the Syrian government has every right to eradicate the "terrorism hotbed" near its capital.

Nebenzia has defended Syria's government and the ongoing anti-terrorism operation in Eastern Ghouta, asserting that it has "every right to try and remove the threat to the safety of its citizens."

"According to information at our disposal, on March 5, Al-Nusra militants used chorine substance in Eastern Ghouta, which injured 30 civilians. All this is done to prepare the grounds for unilateral military actions against sovereign Syria," Nebenzia stated.

Comment: US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley just threatened that the US will strike Syrian government forces if they don't stop their operation against terrorists in the area.
"We also warn any nation that is determined to impose its will through chemical attacks and inhuman suffering, most especially the outlaw Syrian regime, the United States remains prepared to act if we must," Haley said.

The comment was made after the US diplomat said that the previous UN ceasefire resolution on Syria had "failed" accusing the Syrian government, Russia and Iran of this.

Haley also proposed a new UN ceasefure resolution:

"We have drafted a new ceasefire resolution that provides no room for evasion," Haley said. "It is simple, straightforward and binding. It will take effect immediately upon adoption by this Council. It contains no counterterrorism loopholes for Assad, Iran and the Russians to hide behind."

According to Haley, the previous resolution "failed" because it had allowed the Syrian Army and its allies to conduct operation in Eastern Ghouta against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda), which was excluded from the ceasefire.
Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia said that the Syrian army's counter-terrorism operation in Ghouta doesn't oppose UN Security Council Resolution No. 2401.
Nebenzia, during a session of the UN Security Council on the situation in Syria held Monday, said that the Syrian government has the full right to defend the security of its citizens, to confront terrorist organizations and to confront threats to citizens, noting that "the suburbs of Damascus cannot remain under the terrorists' control."



Light Sabers

Afrin and East-Ghouta: The fall of two cities in Syria

The Turkish proxy Takfiris have nearly encircled the Kurdish held city of Afrin. The water supply to the city is cut off. It will fall within a few days. .
Afrin Map 3/12/2018
© Syrian Civil War Map
This is the direct result of gigantic miscalculations by the YPG Kurds who controlled the Afrin area. They had a clear offer from the Syrian and Russian government: Hand over the administration to the legitimate Syrian government and the Syrian army will come and defend your land.

They rejected that offer multiple times. They thought they could withstand an attack by a numerical superior enemy which has abundant air and artillery support. Hizbullah can do that but the Kurds are not Hizbullah. Their defense network was mediocre with bunkers easily visible (vid) from the air and ground and without any water supply and other necessities. These medieval fortifications were built over years but fell within hours. There was apparently no second line to fall back to. The tactical military abilities the YPG Kurds have shown were rather amateurish. The announced reinforcements from east Syria made no difference. Now their 'canton' is lost to a very hostile forces. Can it ever be regained?

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Attention

'Sort this out for yourselves first, then come talk to us': Putin responds to BBC journalist regarding Russian culpability in Skripal poisoning

Crime scene Skripal poisoning
© Toby Melville / Reuters
Police officers stand at crime scene tape, as a tent covers a park bench on which former Russian inteligence officer Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia were found after having been poisoned by a nerve agent in Salisbury, Britain, March 6, 2018
Vladimir Putin has brushed off questions about Russia's responsibility for the poisoning of ex-double agent Sergei Skripal, as reports circulated that the UK plans to say that Moscow could be behind the incident.


"Sort this out for yourselves first, then come talk to us," said the Russian president, when asked about the case by a BBC journalist during a visit to the southern region of Krasnodar. Putin then emphasized that he was in the region to deal with matters related to agriculture, not international espionage.

Last week, Moscow denied culpability for the alleged poisoning of the 66-year-old GRU agent-turned-MI6 informant, with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stating that "not a single firm fact has been presented," while accusing the UK media of "fanning flames of hysteria."The diplomat also said that Russia was prepared to offer its help in investigating the case.

Comment: MI5 Poisons Another Russian Asset to Smear Putin in Ongoing Propaganda War


Propaganda

UK: The Times newspaper breaks news of ex-Russian spy 'death' on its front page... but he's alive

The time newspaper
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It's either fake news or The Times knows something we don't - the paper's first edition ran emblazoned with the shocking - and untrue - headline: "May set to hit back at Russia over spy death." Except he's not dead... oops.

The attack on Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, in Salisbury last weekend is expected to be a front-and-center issue at the National Security Council (NSC) meeting on Monday, while authorities work to establish the facts. The PM is expected to face a frontline of MPs baying for Russian blood, while Skripal and his daughter remain in Salisbury District Hospital in a critical, but stable, condition. They're also both very much alive.

Comment: If they don't sort themselves out we could see the Times going the way of Newsweek, CNN and all the other fake news outlets people are tiring of:


Cult

CIA whistleblower: Clinton charity fraud may be biggest scandal in US history, cause constitutional crisis

Clinton cabal
Former CIA Officer and whistleblower Kevin Shipp says the reason for all the crime and treason at the FBI and DOJ all boils down to one thing - the Clinton so-called "charity." Shipp explains,
"Hillary Clinton was running and is running a global financial criminal syndicate. She was using these secret servers to conduct Clinton financial money laundering business. The shocking thing about that is all the former directors of the CIA that have come out to support her, from Clapper to Brennan to Morell to Robert Gates supporting her being elected, knew about this criminal syndicate. Comey was protecting it. Lynch was protecting it. Weissmann was protecting it. And that is the big why. What's she got on these people? Are they financial ties? They had to be aware of this, especially the counter-intelligence units. We know it was hacked into by foreign intelligence services because it was just hanging out there. Hillary Clinton was running a secret server outside the Department of State for the purposes of laundering money through the criminal Clinton Foundation."

Comment: Does Trump and his allies have the will and the power to bring Clinton and her deep state cabal down? It remains to be seen. The Clinton people play for keeps, are well connected in the intelligence community - and will likely stop at nothing to keep themselves from being prosecuted.

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Caesar

NBC's clueless Megyn Kelly interview only emphasized Putin's presidential credentials

Putin Megyn Kelly 2018 interview
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Megyn Kelly interviews Vladimir Putin on March 1, 2018.
With the Russian president in the heat of a re-election campaign, Putin sat down to talk with NBC's Megyn Kelly for an interview that enabled him to burnish his credentials to the Russian electorate.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's team swept a doubleheader on March 1, with his mid-day speech claiming strategic parity with the U.S., and then the nightcap duel with NBC's Megyn Kelly. Any lingering doubt that Putin is a shoo-in for another term as President is now dispelled. Putin might consider sending NBC a thank-you note.

As I watched NBC's special, Confronting Putin, Friday evening, I asked myself - naively - what possessed President Putin to subject himself again to what NBC calls a Megan Kelly "grilling," replete with supercilious questions and less-than-polite interruptions, just nine months after his first such "grilling." It then hit me that "grilling" is in the eye of the beholder.

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Putin vs Megyn Kelly round 2: Full text of NBC's extensive interview (with VIDEO)