Iraq
Thursday 28 September 2023
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"Al-Harir base in Erbil, Iraq is overcrowded after the arrival of a new batch of troops from the US"
The video shows the August 2021 airlift at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan. -
"The silence of European leaders over the burning of copies of the Quran is surprising, which amounts to their complicity in the crime."
European leaders have strongly condemned the Quran burnings while stressing that in democracies citizens have a constitutional right to free expression. -
"The Abrams? Heh! A children's pedal car, your Abrams. Here’s the real power! An upgraded T-72! ... Surpasses foreign equipment in combat power, control, protection and ease of operation."
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“IRGC is the biggest and most successful anti-terrorist entity.”
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has a record of sponsoring terrorism abroad and brutal repression at home. -
Iraq found evidence of artillery like that used by the Turkish forces nearby. The attack killed nine and injured 20.
“This [attack] is similar to normal terror moves of the [PKK]. We are not strangers to this. It is not possible for Turkey to do something like this.” -
Iran’s mismanagement of water resources by building dams and diverting rivers is depriving Iraq of water.
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“I wish success for our heroic soldiers involved in this operation, which we are carrying out in close cooperation with the central Iraqi government and the regional administration.”
In fact, Iraq’s government denounced the Turkish military operation against Kurdish militants. -
"Poland decided to fight illegal migration on the border with Belarus with the help of Leopard tanks. … Are they going to use tanks against civilians?"
Poland has sent additional troops to the border in response to Belarusian human trafficking, but not tanks. -
"It was expected from the Israelis and Americans to start using [hues and] cries about the current affairs in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman and go for ... false-flag hijacking and unreal stories ..."
Witnesses said the would-be hijackers who boarded the Asphalt Princess demanded that it divert course to Iran. -
“More than four decades later, we are none the wiser as to what precisely motivated the embassy seizure and who were the ultimate controllers of the terrorist gang.”
The terrorists behind the Iranian Embassy hostage taking in London and their motivations have been known for decades, and it wasn’t staged. -
"[T]he new variant of coronavirus is more dangerous for children and young people. In the past two days, we have recorded deaths among infants under a year old with extensive lung damage.”
Experts confirm the U.K. variant B.1.1.7 is more dangerous; however, more study is needed to verify risks for children. -
“Iran rejects the ‘suspicious rumors’ circulating about the rocket attack that targeted a U.S. airbase in Erbil and condemns ‘suspicious attempts’ to link the incident to the Islamic Republic.”
Iraqi and Kurdish security sources say a proxy group for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps was behind a deadly rocket attack in Erbil.