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Iranian security forces capture large cargo of explosives in eastern borders - Russian commander says about 10,000 militants deployed in Afghanistan


Fars News Agency
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:17 UTC
Iranian Security Forces
© FNA
The Iranian intelligence ministry announced in a statement on Monday that the country's security forces have discovered and seized a large cargo of explosives along Iran's Eastern borders
The Iranian security forces in the Southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan could foil the plot of a terrorist groups to transfer 80kg of a combination of explosives, 17 pedal booby-traps, 28 pistols, 2,100 rounds, 35 mortars, tens of electronic detonators and other explosive equipment, the statement said.

A sum of 580kg of narcotics have also been seized from the terrorists, it added.

In a relevant development earlier this month, Iranian border guards in Sistan and Balouchestan confiscated a consignment of explosives which were smuggled into the country in preparation for terrorist attacks.

Comment: The Iranian Intelligence Ministry said in a Monday statement that security forces in the eastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan confiscated the consignment, which was due to be smuggled into the country.
The forces thwarted terrorist groups' plots to transfer 80 kilograms of composite explosives, 17 booby traps, 28 pistols with 2,100 bullets, 35 hand grenades, tens of electronic detonators and other explosive equipment through technical and intelligence operations, the statement added.
Police and security forces in Sistan and Balouchestan have been quite successful in ensuring security despite its long borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, harsh weather and vast desert areas.
Iran, which has a 900-kilometer common border with Afghanistan, has been used as the main conduit for smuggling Afghan drugs to narcotics kingpins in Europe.

Despite high economic and human costs, the Islamic Republic has been actively fighting drug-trafficking over the past three decades.

The country has spent more than $700 million on sealing its borders and preventing the transit of narcotics destined for European, Arab and Central Asian countries.

The war on drug trade originating from Afghanistan has claimed the lives of nearly 4,000 Iranian police officers over the past four decades.
About 10,000 militants, most of whom are Daesh members are currently in Afghanistan, commander of Russian Central Military District troops Lt. Gen. Alexander Lapin said at a meeting with students and employees of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) on Monday.
"After the defeat of ISIL, members of gangs from Syria and Iraq are moving to other regions. The group's leaders pay special attention to Central Asian countries... According to our estimate, about 10,000 militants, most of whom are members of ISIL... are concentrated on Afghanistan's territory," Lapin said.


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Yankees go home! Massive demonstration in Raqqa demands expulsion of US forces


Sputnik
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:05 UTC
Raqqa
© AP Photo / Gabriel Chaim
The city used to be an HQ for Daesh until it was freed by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after massive air bombing performed by the US coalition. Earlier in March 2018 reports had started to surface about a civilian group banding together in a bid to expel the US and SDF from the city.

According to the Iranian Al-Alam TV channel, a massive demonstration is taking place in the central street of Raqqa, where "hundreds of Raqqa residents" holding national Syrian flags are advocating the expulsion of the US military presence. According to the media platform, inhabitants are demanding that the US withdraw from the north-eastern parts of Syria and slamming the airstrikes, conducted by the US, UK and France on April 14. They also urged the speedy return of the legitimate Syrian government to the city and the start of restoration work in Raqqa.
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'Completely wrong': London protesters react to UK's airstrikes on Syria


RT
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:53 UTC
Protesters
© Peter Marshall / Global Look Press
London, UK. 13th April 2018. A police officer appears to conduct the sit-down on Whitehall.
Despite a lack of public support, Theresa May, led by the US, went ahead with airstrikes against the Syrian government. We took the streets of London to find out what the public now thought following the attack.

Some outright condemned the strikes and advocated diplomacy. One man told RT: "I think it's completely wrong, they needed to wait for more evidence." He added: "I don't quite understand why they couldn't just wait a couple of days and just get all the evidence [...] and they would at least have a better mandate."

Another passerby said striking Syria could be "understandable," but added: "But unfortunately I am growing less automatically likely to believe what I'm told by the media."

One woman hit out at the prime minister for failing to address MPs. "I don't think the PM should have attacked Syria because she did not consult Parliament and there is no real evidence of who has done it."

Comment: See also:

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Biohazard

Danish psychologist compares #MeToo Movement with Gestapo and KGB


Sputnik
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:53 UTC
#MeToo
In late 2017, all of Scandinavia was deeply shaken by the outbreak of the anti-harassment #MeToo movement focusing on women's rights and embracing all spheres of life. According to a Danish psychologist, though, the women's movement has rather become a tool in the perennial battle of the sexes.

In a searing opinion piece, where he shared his reflections on the balance of genders and the way it affects society, Danish psychologist and therapist Finn Korsaa has compared the #MeToo movement with the Nazi Gestapo in a way that it helps to enforce a certain ideology.
"The issue of women's quotas in corporate boards has long been like a hot potato. But how come no one insists on changing the significant overrepresentation of female psychologists? And why do we never ever hear demands for more men in the role of nurses?" Korsaa wrote in the Berlingske daily, suggesting that the so-called "equality efforts" go deeper than balancing the gender situation in the labor market and government bodies.

Comment: As Pierre Lescaudron said in The Health & Wellness Show: Toxic Feminism and the War on Men:
At the core of these revolutionary doctrines, there is no beneficiary. Ultimately, everybody is a victim. The revolution is aimed towards children. In a revolutionary process, you see a perpetual radicalization of ideas. The revolutionary of yesterday is a martyr today and tomorrow is going to be a counter-revolutionary that will go through the guillotine. And I think Feminism is not different from that. You see all those waves, first waves and second waves, always more radical then the last. You see feminists from the 70s and 80s that are appalled by Feminism today and say it went way too far. And the feminists of today will be appalled by Feminism in 5 years and say it went way too far.

Because, at the core of those doctrines there is a quest for power through victimhood - alleged victimhood. It's a competition for power and the ultimate winner is the ultimate victim - alleged victim. There cannot be any winner. It's a never ending race where you sacrifice, step-by-step, portions of the population.
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Life Preserver

Alcohol poisoning deaths decline by 25% after Russia bans non-food alcohol products


RT
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:14 UTC
Russian police inspect alcohol products
© Alexey Malgavko / Sputnik
Police officers inspecting documents of alcohol-containing products in a shop in Omsk
The number of deaths caused by tainted alcohol poisoning has fallen by 25 percent since Russian authorities imposed a ban on the sale of alcohol-containing non-food products, the government consumer rights watchdog has reported.

The press service of the Rospotrebnadzor agency told TASS that there were 677 alcohol poisonings over the New Year holidays in 2018, compared to 1,800 during the same period last year. The number of fatalities was 46 compared to 500 - an eleven-fold decrease, the press service added.

Comment: Another factor in the decline might be that Russians have been adopting much healthier lifestyles in the past few years, consuming far less alcohol while exercising more and eating healthier food:

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2 + 2 = 4

Peter Hitchens: How on earth would killing MORE people rescue Syria?

Peter Hitchens
Mail on Sunday
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 16:23 UTC
$200bn to reconstruct war-torn Syria… the US and its partners should pay
© Karam Almasri / Global Look Press
Aleppo, Syria
Why do so many people in politics and the media want to start wars? Since I toured a sordid hospital full of wounded people in Bucharest at Christmas 1989, and even more after I saw for the first time (in Vilnius in 1991) what a human head looks like after a bullet has passed through it, I have seen it as an absolute duty to warn against armed conflict. It is a filthy thing.

No doubt there are times when we must fight. But there are plenty more when we should not.

Any fool can kill a man in a second and ruin a city in a week. But it takes long years of nurture to raise a child to adulthood, and centuries to build a civilisation.

Yet I look around me and see the mouths of intelligent people opened wide, yelling for an attack on Syria, when the only certain outcome of that will be blood and screams and ruins, and the deaths of innocents in 'collateral damage'. What good will this do?

What is wrong with them? They are not cruel and stupid, yet they call for actions which are both.
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Bomb

'Lone-wolf strikes" campaign: ISIS threatens to bomb New York City subway in new propaganda poster


RT
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:14 UTC
ISIS threats
© Stringer / Reuters
A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa June 29, 2014.
A new propaganda poster uploaded to the messaging platform of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) has threatened to bomb the New York City subway.

The poster shows a man dressed as a tourist wearing a rucksack inside New York's High Street-Brooklyn Bridge subway station. A bomb with a timer is placed on the ground behind him. "You will not expect where we will attack," the poster reads.

In recent weeks, the terrorist group has promised to target the World Cup finals in Russia, as well as locations in Paris. The poster is part of the group's "lone-wolf strikes" campaign as it loses its foothold in the Middle Eastern countries where it is operating.
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Arrow Down

The West's toothless missile strike: chaos in place of policy; symbolism in place of action

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:03 UTC
Russian troops Hmeimym airbase syria
© European Press Agency/Sergei Chirikov
Russian soldiers march during a rehearsal of Victory Day parade, in which they took part with a Syrian unit at Hmeimym airbase in Latakia province, Syria, 04 May 2016.
All the West has achieved is expose its fear of the Russian military, its lack of a plan for Syria, and its contempt for international law

Over the last few days the word has been the witness of one of the most grotesque and shameful episodes in the history of international relations.

Three nuclear powers, one of them the US, the world's erstwhile "hyperpower", and the other two like the US permanent members of the UN Security Council, after days of dithering and argument, launched a military strike on Syria which (depending on whose reports you believe) either failed dismally or which was preplanned to achieve nothing.

They launched this strike in utter disregard of international law, which vests the power to launch strikes of this sort exclusively with the UN Security Council.
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Stock Up

Demand for Russian military hardware soaring - expect even more after humiliating performance of FUKUS arms in Syria


RT
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:07 UTC
russian military hardware
© Mikhail Voskresenskiy / Sputnik
Exposition of military machinery shown as part of the Army 2017 International Military-Technical Forum at the Alabino training field
Orders for Russian-made weaponry surged significantly in 2017 with Russia's state weapons exporter clinching deals worth $15 billion with 53 nations, according to the company's director general and CEO Aleksandr Mikheev.

The company's order portfolio saw fresh growth after a 2016 decline, when Rosoboronexport signed contracts worth just $9.5 billion. The current stock of orders is reportedly valued at $45 billion.

"Rosoboronexport sealed nearly 1,100 deals with foreign customers in 2017. Last year, the company's representatives took part in work of international committees and working groups for military-technical cooperation with 48 countries," Mikheev said.

According to the official, foreign partners are ready to negotiate purchases of Russian combat planes, helicopters, armored force and combat engineer vehicles, as well as offshore, air and ground engagement systems.

"To retain positions in the international markets, Rosoboronexport is currently developing unique offers for our partners, including those connected to the transfer of technologies," Mikheev said, stressing that in 2017 orders for anti-aircraft defense and electronic weapon systems made up some 40 percent of the total portfolio.

Comment: This trend will only continue. Unlike the U.S., Russia actually makes good military gear, and they're proving it in Syria. In fact, the main effect of FUKUS' latest attack on Syria is the demonstration of how ineffective U.S. weapons really are, and how superior Russia's are. Buyers will be lining up. See:

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Boat

Russia sends reinforcements to Syria - tank-laden ship spotted in Bosphorus

Jessica Finn, Jennifer Smith and Lara Keay
Daily Mail UK
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 15:56 UTC
russian ship
© Yoruk Isik / Twitter
Two Russian warships laden with military vehicles have been spotted en route to the Syria after Friday's US-led airstrikes obliterated three suspected chemical weapons sites
Two Russian warships laden with military vehicles have been spotted en route to Syria after Friday's US-led airstrikes obliterated three suspected chemical weapons sites.

An Alligator-landing ship was pictured cruising down The Bosphorus on Sunday as the world awaits Vladimir Putin's response to this week's co-ordinated military action against Syria.

The vessel was spotted on its way to the Russian naval base at Tartus on the north Syrian coast.

On its fourth deployment of Russian military equipment to the war-torn country the ship was seen laden with tanks, trucks, ambulances and an IED radar.

A yellow RoRo Alexandr Tkachenko was also pictured heading for Tartus carrying high-speed patrol boats, a temporary bridge structure and several trucks. The images were posted on social media by Bosphorus-based naval observer Yörük Işık.

They come in wake of Friday's US-led campaign against Bashar al-Assad's regime and a chemical weapons attack that brutally murdered 75 civillians.


Comment: Just the facts, please. This should read, at the very least: "They come in wake of Friday's US-led campaign against Bashar al-Assad's government and an alleged chemical weapons attack that allegedly killed 75 civillians [sic]." Jessica, Jennifer and Lara are hacks.

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