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Top cleric issues fatwa calling on all Muslims to avenge ‘blood of the martyr’ Khamenei prompting fears of sleeper cell and lone wolf attacks across the globe

Waiting to be vaporized

A top Iranian cleric has issued a fatwa calling for Muslims to avenge the ‘blood of the martyr’ Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Following the death of the Supreme Leader on Saturday, Iranian religious leader Nasser Makarem Shirazi delivered a formal religious decree that claimed all Muslims were obliged to avenge him.

Shirazi stated that the US and Israel were the ‘main perpetrators of this crime.’

I’m sure there’s a cruise missile with his name on it.

h/t Patti Jo

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PM Flip Flop refuses to ‘categorically’ rule out military involvement in Middle East conflict

Mark Carney refuses to ‘categorically’ rule out military involvement in Middle East conflict

CANBERRA—Prime Minister Mark Carney now says he won’t rule out future military involvement in the spiralling Middle East conflict.

Speaking in the Australian capital, Carney appeared to harden Canada’s stance on the war, saying it’s too soon to call for an immediate ceasefire because it is not clear whether the objectives to knock out Iran’s nuclear program and support for terrorist groups have been achieved.

Asked whether Canada could get involved militarily, Carney said he could not “categorically” rule that out.

Yea? You and whose army?

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Why the Iran war is really about China

The question of whether America is fighting Israel’s war is perhaps the least interesting one. Strip away the noise, and a more consequential picture emerges. The United States has used overwhelming force to dismantle what had quietly become the most significant Chinese forward position outside East Asia.

Over the past half-decade, Tehran transformed itself from a regional irritant into a structural component of Chinese strategic architecture. Roughly 90 per cent of Iran’s crude exports flowed to Chinese refineries operating beyond the reach of American sanctions enforcement. That revenue funded approximately a quarter of the Iranian state budget, including the military forces that Washington now considers a direct threat. China, for its part, was not being philanthropic. Cheap Iranian crude helped Beijing accumulate a strategic petroleum reserve reportedly exceeding a billion barrels – enough to sustain the Chinese economy for roughly a hundred days in the event of a Pacific naval blockade. Iran was a hedge against American sea power, and a lucrative one at that.

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Israel Is Blowing Up Iran’s Police State to Clear the Way for a Revolt

Airstrikes have targeted organizations responsible for suppressing protests and cracking down on separatists; analysts are skeptical the strategy will work

TEL AVIV—Israel’s military is targeting the Iranian police state that brutally suppressed protests and killed thousands of people, with the hope of clearing the way for a popular revolt to overthrow the Islamic government.

Israeli airstrikes have targeted people responsible for internal security, from members of the Basij paramilitary force to senior intelligence officials, the Israeli military said. The U.S. has also hit some domestic-security agencies, including the Tehran headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the powerful group responsible for defending and perpetuating the regime.

The Revolutionary Guard and Basij militants were the main perpetrators of the bloody crackdown against antigovernment protesters in January. They opened fire on crowds, killing thousands in one of the deadliest acts of political crackdowns worldwide in decades. Police units and intelligence services also suppressed rallies and arrested protesters en masse.

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Iran-linked hackers offer $250k for beheading of former Canadian politician Goldie Ghamari

Goldie Ghamari is concerned for her life after the Iranian-linked hacker group Handala placed a $250,000 bounty for her beheading, the former Ontario Progressive Conservative MP told The Jerusalem Post.

She has since filed a police report and was reassured that law enforcement was taking the incident “very seriously.”

h/t Mauser

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Iran war: Why is Russia not coming to Tehran’s aid?

The beleaguered Iranian regime, with very few international allies, has been counting on Moscow’s support amid the ongoing US-Israeli strikes, but so far it has been left deeply disappointed.

Just hours after Israeli and US bombs started hitting Tehran on Saturday, Russia came out with a blunt statement, with the country’s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, calling it an “unprovoked act of armed aggression against a sovereign and independent UN member state.”

Moscow is one of Tehran’s few but staunchest allies, and a possible collapse of the Iranian regime could be a blow for its geopolitical and economic interests. Then why has it not come to Tehran’s rescue?

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Trump voters back him on Iran – but that could change if war drags on

The US strikes on Iran may be the biggest story around the world, but in Texas – where voters head to the polls on Tuesday to select the Democratic and Republican nominees in November’s midterm congressional elections – it appears mostly to be an afterthought. At least for now.

At a banquet hall in the central Texas town of Waco on Monday, Ken Paxton, the Republican state attorney general running for the US Senate, made a pitch to voters that was heavy on domestic red meat for his conservative audience

Makes you wonder who the intended recipients of this statement really were … Trump says Iran strikes were “last best chance” to take out missiles, nuclear threat

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