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Israel’s navy has intercepted a ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of Iranian weapons intended for Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Israeli military has said.
The Antiguan-flagged vessel, Francop, was boarded 160km (100 miles) off the Israeli coast, the military said, and has been towed to the port of Ashdod.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu said the arms were intended to strike Israeli cities.
In recent months Israel has stepped up efforts to combat the smuggling of arms to both Hezbollah and Hamas militants.
Hezbollah has not yet …

The Iranian Regime is the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
Iranians are rising up again today against this oppressive and murderous regime.
Will the “free world” support them this time?
This video recaps the June 2009 Iranian Green Revolution.

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Today, November 4, via Tehran Bureau courageous Iranians continue to risk their lives knowing the brutality they face from the Regime–beatings, imprisonment, rape, death and/or public execution. Here they are chanting “Khamenei is a murderer, his rule is null and void.”

1:35 pm latest on Twitter. Information has slowed down …

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Tweets continue to pour out of Iran. The Iranian Regime is the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
Here are the latest with video links.

Note the gun fire in the background.
Update from the WSJ: President Obama: America, he said, “seeks a relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran based upon mutual interest and mutual respect. We do not interfere in Iran’s internal affairs.”

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The Iranian Regime is the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
From Twitter: People TEAR DOWN Khamenei’s huge billboard pic.

Top story in today’s Iran News Daily.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei : Iran Won’t Be Deceived by U.S.
TEHRAN (IRNA) – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said yesterday that the Iranian nation will not be deceived by the U.S. government’s conciliatory gesture.
“As long as the U.S. government has not stopped its imperialistic attitude and threats, Iranian nation will not be deceived by the U.S. government’s apparently …

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The Iranian Regime is the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
Latest on Iran Uprising on Twitter with links to most recent videos.

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The Iranian Regime is the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
Recent video out of Iran. Iranians are chanting “Obama, You’re Either with Them or with Us”

Enduring America has an excellent round up with more videos.

Today, on the 30th anniversary of the Iranian hostage crisis where 53 Americans were taken hostage at the American Embassy in Iran and held captive for 444 days, massive protests are breaking out in Iran. President Obama issued this statement.
This event helped set the United States and Iran on a path of sustained suspicion, mistrust, and confrontation. I have made it clear that the United States of America wants to move beyond this past, and seeks a relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran based upon mutual interests …

A troubling report on the failure to reform madrassas–the “breeding grounds for jihad” in Pakistan from Dawn.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has virtually shelved a US-aided, multi-million-dollar plan to reform seminaries considered nurseries of jihad, faced with uncooperative Islamists, as the military cracks down on the Taliban.
The government, allied to then US president George W. Bush’s ‘war on terror,’ initiated the project in 2002 in a bid to introduce a more secular curriculum to madrassas, sensing a homegrown threat from extremism.
It was billed as a policy U-turn after military ruler General Ziaul …

Dawn provides this interesting read on the state of affairs in Pakistan and US aid.
Comments in the press and endless TV debates on terrorism and the American offer of aid to combat it have come to sound more like expressions of ego than of realism. These statements appear an exercise in politicking and posturing and do not look the hard economic realities in the eye.
Moreover, the views of political parties are coloured by their own interests. Most unrealistic and perturbing, however, is the stand of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI). The …

According to Pakistan Daily: “Former president Gen. (Retd) Pervez Musharraf is to launch his political career in earnest in December this year, confirmed sources close to him.”
In another report harshly critical of President Asif Ali Zardari’s administration entitled: A Confused Pakistani Government says, “A traumatized nation watches its confused leaders make contradictory statements on the university attack and the Kerry-Lugar bill.”
WITH an ongoing military operation and rampant terrorism across the country, the first priority for the government should have been to establish clarity of purpose and strategy. Unfortunately, that is …

“If we are going to have a mature partnership where we work together” then “there are issues that not just the United States but others have with your government and with your military security establishment,” Clinton was quoted telling senior Pakistani journalists in Lahore. “I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they (al Qaeda leaders) are and couldn’t get them if they really wanted to,” she said.

Erdogan said that Turkey’s foreign policy is based on friendship with other countries and not having any enemies.

Latest on the War on Terror– oops — overseas contingency operations.
KABUL – Taliban militants wearing suicide vests and police uniforms stormed a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early Wednesday, killing 12 people — including six U.N. staff. It was the biggest in a series of attacks intended to undermine next month’s presidential runoff election.
A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the early morning assaults, which also included rocket attacks at the presidential palace and the city’s main luxury hotel.
The chief of the United …

The Taliban have warned Pakistan that they would stage more attacks if the army does not end a new ground offensive in South Waziristan tribal region, where the military has dispatched some 30,000 troops to flush out insurgents. South Waziristan is a major base for the Pakistani Taliban and other foreign militants.

Today eight American troops died in two separate bomb attacks in South Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month of the war for U.S. forces since the 2001 invasion to oust the Taliban. Brigadier General (R) Anthony J. Tata at Biggovernment.com writes about the cost of President Obama’s indecision in Afghanistan.
While the Obama violinists’ supple wrists magically fiddle with their bows, the firefights continue in Afghanistan. General Stan McChrystal’s thorough assessment requesting 60,000-40,000 additional troops is now over seven weeks old and the Obama administration’s duplicity is becoming more evident by …

Earlier this year, the ICC issued a warrant of arrest for Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir, President of Sudan for war crimes and crimes against humanity. “He is suspected of being criminally responsible, as an indirect (co-)perpetrator, for intentionally directing attacks against an important part of the civilian population of Darfur, Sudan, murdering, exterminating, raping, torturing and forcibly transferring large numbers of civilians, and pillaging their property. This is the first warrant of arrest ever issued for a sitting Head of State by the ICC.” He remains free today.
For …

Judith Miller writes at City Journal how twenty-six years after the Beirut bombing, the struggle against militant Islam continues.
… That night, I interviewed a Marine who had been guarding the entry post and who remembered only one thing about the driver of the Mercedes that had rammed through the compound’s concrete barriers: the young man with a beard, who turned out to be a 24-year-old Shiite Muslim, was smiling.
On October 23, 1983, 241 Marines, sailors, and soldiers died in the first mass suicide bombing attack—the largest single-day loss of life …

The latest on documentary filmmaker and NEWSWEEK correspondent Maziar Bahari.
On Oct. 17, the regime let Bahari out on bail almost as suddenly as it had arrested him, and with almost as little explanation. Through his months in solitary confinement, he had never once been allowed to see a lawyer, although he was pushed in front of government television cameras to confess that he had inadvertently helped to promote a “velvet revolution” against the Islamic Republic in the wake of the bitterly contested June 12 elections that returned President Mahmoud …