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Iran: Missile test was not a message to Trump, we don't need to test the US President as we know him 'quite well'


RT
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:01 UTC
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Iran's recent missile test is not a message to Donald Trump and his administration, Iran's Foreign Ministry said, adding that Tehran doesn't need to test the US president, as it knows him "quite well."

Iran conducted missile and radar tests in an area covering 35,000 square kilometers in Semnan Province on Saturday. The drills were held to "showcase the power of Iran's revolution and to dismiss the sanctions," according to a statement from the Revolutionary Guards, a branch of Iran's Armed Forces.

"Iran's missile test was not a message to the new US government," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi (Ghasemi) said on Monday, as cited by Reuters. "There is no need to test Mr. Trump as we have heard his views on different issues in recent days... We know him quite well," he said.

According to Qasemi, Washington is "still in an unstable stage" and Trump's remarks are "contradictory."

"We are waiting to see how the US government will act in different international issues to evaluate their approach," he said.

Comment: Further reading: US Threatens Iran for Daring to Defend the Iranian People

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Vader

Bill O'Reilly, meet the real "killer": Barack Obama's massive kill list in charts

Alexander Christoforou
The Duran
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 17:29 UTC
obama fake tears
Former POTUS Barack Obama may have played the part of a dainty liberal, but don't be fooled, deep down Barack was a killer. A killer of mass proportions.

As the US liberal and neocon media freak out over Trump's interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, where Trump (GASP) admitted that he "respects" Putin, and America "is not so innocent" when it comes to killing...we present to you the real stone cold killer.

Numbers don't lie.

When it comes to racking up 'kills', no one was more deadly these last eight years than Barack Hussein Obama.

No world leader even comes close to Obama's kill stats.
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Bad Guys

The myth of Syria's 'sectarian conflict'


21st Century Wire
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 20:47 UTC
Syria war protest
21st Century Wire says...

The following is a video of one of the interviews, conducted by 21WIRE Associate Editor, Vanessa Beeley, during her time in Aleppo, observing the liberation of the eastern districts from a five year Nusra Front-led terrorist and extremist-militant, occupation. It clearly demonstrates how NATO and Gulf state funded extremists and mercenaries, embedded in East Aleppo, used the externally generated, sectarian myth, to control and intimidate civilians living under their rule.


Danny Makki, an independent Syrian commentator and freelance journalist, based in Damascus wrote the following analysis of the "sectarian" myth that has been used to support the NATO and Gulf state proxy military, political and economic, illegal, intervention in Syria:
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Russia disagrees with US characterization of Iran


PressTV
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 17:16 UTC
Dmitry Peskov
© Sergey Guneev / ReutersRussian President's Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov
Russia says it disagrees with the administration of US President Donald Trump's characterization of Iran as a "terrorist state."

Several officials in Trump's inner circle are known for visceral acrimony toward Iran. Trump himself, who is a former businessman with no prior political career of his own, has also been striking a belligerent tone on Iran, particularly regarding a nuclear deal that Tehran negotiated with six other countries — including the US — back in 2015. Trump has said the deal benefited the other parties to the deal more than it did American businesses.

But in a first remark that closely resembled his aides' rhetoric on the Islamic Republic, Trump told Fox News on Sunday that Iran was "terrorist state number one."

Reacting to that remark on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, "We disagree with this postulate," Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
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People

Boomerang effect: US's color revolution formula comes home to roost


Sputnik
Sun, 05 Feb 2017 22:47 UTC
color revolution
© AP Photo/ Jose Luis Magana
Last month, a day after Donald Trump's inauguration, the anti-Trump movement got a new symbol: the pink 'p****hat', worn by protesters at the Women's March. Russian observers, well-acquainted with the color revolution technology that the US once meticulously exported to Eastern Europe, are surprised to see the formula returning home to the US.

On Thursday, Sputnik reported on billionaire financier George Soros' extensive secret spending on special interest groups meant to help keep the global anti-Trump protests going. "The source of funding for this unrest is important to note," Thursday's report emphasized, given that "organizations affiliated with the billionaire have been deeply connected to color revolutions and political uprisings across the globe, including the Arab Spring."

On Saturday, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of major cities across the US for the third weekend in a row, condemning Trump's agenda, his executive orders and his cabinet appointees. Protests rocked New York City, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles, with smaller demonstrations held in other cities and at US embassies in other countries.

Russian observers, well-acquainted with State Department's use of color revolution technology in countries near Russia in the past, have marked their surprise in seeing some of the formula's well-known methods being deployed in the US itself.
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New Chinese ballistic missile makes latest appearance in drills


AP
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 17:05 UTC
Chinese DF-16 ballistic missile
© AP / Andy Wong
A highly accurate Chinese ballistic missile capable of threatening U.S. and Japanese bases in Asia has made its latest appearance at recent Rocket Force drills.

The medium-range DF-16 featured in a video posted last week on the Defense Ministry's website showing the missiles aboard their 10-wheeled mobile launch vehicles being deployed in deep forest during exercises over the just-concluded Lunar New Year holiday.

While the Rocket Force boasts an extensive armory of missiles of various ranges, the DF-16 fills a particular role in extending China's reach over waters it seeks to control within what it calls the "first-island chain."
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The Southern Movement and the ambiguities of the Yemen civil war

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:34 UTC
Houthis in Yemen
Unlike in Syria, where the lines between good and evil are clearly delineated, the Civil War in Yemen is far more precarious and subtle.

There is a temptation among many commentators to paint the current Civil War in Yemen as a straight forward war between pro-Iranian Houthi Shi'as loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the forces loyal to deposed President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, who are supported by America, Britain and Saudi Arabia.

Of course there are also al-Qaeda and ISIS forces in the country fighting a kind of Saudi proxy war on top of the official Saudi war.

What is less mentioned than the sectarian elements of the conflict, are the regional and historically ideological elements of Yemeni history which are at play. I am speaking of al-Hira or The Southern Movement, founded in 2007 with the aim of re-establishing an independent state in South Yemen.
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SOTT Focus: US Threatens Iran for Daring to Defend the Iranian People

Paul Mansfield
Sott.net
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 17:45 UTC
General Michael Flynn
© Carlos Barria / Reuters"I came, I saw, Iran." National security adviser General Michael Flynn should take a chill pill.
Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency General Michael Flynn, reincarnated as National Security Adviser in the Trump administration, showed he has lost none of his belligerence toward Iran, nor gained any control over his war hawk ways when he threatened that the US is "officially putting Iran on notice," for two recent events. One was not even carried out by Iran, but rather by Iranian-supported Houthi forces who attacked a Saudi warship, while the other was a medium-range ballistic missile test carried out for defensive purposes by Iran. In the myopic worldview of people like Flynn, however, Iran has no right to self-defence. It must sit there like a sitting duck, defenceless, anxiously waiting to be picked off by the US and Israel at a time of their choosing.

Flynn has shown unconditional loyalty to Donald Trump from the start of Trump's election campaign, becoming a trusted confidante and a bottomless pit of knowledge on military/intelligence matters. Trump should strongly consider the value of this loyalty, as Flynn threatens Trump's pledge to scale back US military adventurism and regime change addiction.

Flynn loves Israel. He deliberately lies about Iran's nuclear program. At the end of 2007, 16 US intelligence agencies concluded Iran stopped working on a nuclear program by 2003. Yet 9 years later, Flynn repeats the lie that Iran is still actively working on nuclear weapons. This cloudy thinking totally undermines the good work he did as head of the DIA in revealing the plan for a Salafist principality in Eastern Syria and Western Iraq. But we must take the good with the bad, and in Flynn's case the bad leaves the good in the shade.
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Attention

Yemeni Army claims attack on Riyadh: Saudis mysteriously silent

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:24 UTC
SCUD missile
Could a Yemeni attack on Saudi Arabia be the pretext for a US war on Iran?

The Yemeni Army have issued a statement claiming they have launched a ballistic missile which successfully struck a military target in Riyadh. This comes approximately a week after Houthi rebels released footage of a successful missile attack on a Saudi war ship.

The attack on the Saudi ship was the proximate cause which prompted Michael Flynn, President Trump's National Security Advisor to put Iran 'on notice'.

Although Iran has and continues to aid the Houthi rebels, it is unclear what if anything Iran had to do with the attack in question.
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Green Light

Trump & Putin working together in Libya? There's a very good chance


Sputnik
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:01 UTC
Lybian fighters
Last week, EU leaders met in Malta, where they affirmed support for the Tripoli-based Libyan government, and approved the Italy-led plans to build refugee camps in Libya. But the US may have its own project for resolving the Libyan crisis, and could work to try and implement it together with Russia, says Israeli-Russian journalist Avigdor Eskin.

Friday's informal EU meeting in Malta focused on how to stem the flow of migrants from Libya and other African countries into Southern Europe. Ever since the French, UK and US-led military campaign to help militants oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, hundreds of thousands of migrants have made the perilous journey from the North African country to Italy, with 181,000 people arriving in the Southern European country in 2016 alone. Thousands have also died along the way.

Comment: Listen to some important information on the current state of Libya:

The Truth Perspective: Libya Ruined: Interview with Sheikh Khalid Tantoush - Introduced by James & JoAnne Moriarty

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