Emanuele Ottolenghi
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He is in Venezuela. Check in the mail is fine.
$15 MILLION REWARD for information leading to arrest and conviction of Nicolas Maduro
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Tomorrow, which mainstream US paper will match this German one? http://t.co/b4lQ7Oz1ZR judging by today's self-censored TV reports, no one.
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You first heard it here: Assad Ahmad Barakat, @USTreasury sanctioned #Hezbollah terror financier since 2004, was arrested this morning in Foz do Iguazú, in the Tri-Border Area of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, by Brazil’s Federal Police. #ProjectCassandra.
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Hate to be right, but I called it 10 days ago: Hezbollah would carry out terror attacks in LatAm. Today Brazilian authorities announced they foiled a Hezbollah terror plot. See my piece from @19_forty_five about Hezbollah’s threat in LatAm
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Reminds me of a Soviet era joke: why is the U.S. imperialist? Because it interferes in the USSR domestic affairs. all over the world!
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Paraguay just designated #Hezbollah as an international terrorist organization. Congratulations to @MaritoAbdo and his government 4 taking this bold action. Paraguay has joined Argentina in recognizing #Hezbollah’s terrorist nature. It’s now time 4 Brazil & Chile to follow suit.
El Presidente de la República @MaritoAbdo, resolvió a través del Decreto Nº 2.307 reconocer la designación como organización terrorista global a ISIS y Al Qaeda y como organización terrorista internacional a Hamás y Hezbollah. Lo anunció el ministro de @minteriorpy
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NB @USTreasury: Iran Air's logo visible on head rest behind militiaman's shoulder. Proof positive Iran Air has been flying fighters 2 Syria
Afghans of #IRGC's Fatemiyoun brigade on board the Iranian airliner,Tehran-Damascus; Next in Tadmur,Syria.more pics:
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El vicepresidente del Paraguay me bloquea en twitter. Sin duda, prueba de su gran sentido democrático y respeto para el derecho de crítica de la sociedad civil. Pero curioso. Que teme, señor Velázquez, además de la verdad?
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Don’t believe the hype: Hezbollah is not going broke (but it could, if the Trump Admin expanded its maximum pressure campaign to Hezbollah’s cocaine trafficking & money laundering activities). Read my latest in @ForeignPolicy
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My latest: the real power behind the throne in Paraguay and why that is a problem for President Biden’s global anti-corruption agenda @FDD_CEFP @FDD #Corruption #Paraguay.
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Iran released hostages did not free prisoners. The US did not free prisoners, it released convicted felons. Don't call this a prisoner swap.
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Erdogan takes page from Benito Mussolini's playbook: gut democracy of its meaning but use its formal trappings 2 legitimize dictator's rise
Former columnist of pro-AKP #YeniŞafak who had announced his decision to vote NO beaten by AKP thugs at ballot box.
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When last year @UNESCO passed absurd res denying Jewish ties 2 Jerusalem, nobody worried about prejudging final status of #Mideast #PeaceProcess. When @POTUS recognized reality of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, everyone forecasting apocalypse. Why? Jews don’t do #DaysOfRage.
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Mohsen Rezai’s plane travelled from Tehran to Nouakchott on Jan 8. It crossed airspace of Turkey, Greece, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria before entering Mauritania’s airspace. On his way back, he will cross sovereign airspace of the same countries or possibly others. @StateDept
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Nota roja del poder judicial paraguayo contra el financiero de #Hezbollah Assad Ahmad Barakat. Lo que no se pudo lograr durante muchos años se cumplió en menos de una semana. Con voluntad política si se puede. Adelante @MaritoAbdo
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Large amount of heroin seized in Genoa, Italy from Iran appears to be loaded off a container with the logo of IRISL, which @USTreasury just redesignated #IranSanctions #ProjectCassandra.
270 kg of #heroin from #Iran A Genova il più ingente sequestro di eroina degli ultimi venti anni | Video Genova | XIX TV | Multimedia | Il Secolo XIX @eottolenghi @SuneEngel
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Preguntas directas al presidente 🇵🇾 @Horacio_Cartes sobre los vínculos contrabando-narcotrafico-terrorismo. En un día de incautaciones record de sus cigarillos, no llegó el momento de responder? Cc: @PresidenciaPy @desimasi2 @juankilezcano @Santula
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Unidentified Iranian aircraft heading to Damascus. Now that @POTUS Iran policy review is done can he decertify the Boeing/Airbus deals?
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During his presidency Iran unleashed its death squads against Iranian dissidents. #Rafsanjani was not a moderate.
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@warreports posted this photo on Aug 7, 2017. IRGC trained militias flying to Syria. One can read “Iran Air” clearly on the head rest in the row behind the two militiamen takin a selfie. What more proof does the Trump Admin need to resanction the airline and nix the Boeing deal?
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A thread: The Argentinian Twitter sphere is up in arms about Mohsen Rezai’s attendance of the Ortega sham inauguration in Managua on Monday. Here’s some facts that are still relevant to this matter.
Argentina condena la presencia de Mohsen Rezai en la toma de posesión del presidente de Nicaragua
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As anticipated. two @MahanAirlines aircraft on same flight path to and from #Venezuela have just crossed each other off the Portuguese coast as they head in opposite directions. #IRGC airlift to #Maduro is in full swing.
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My latest @ForeignPolicy where I reveal that Lebanon’s embassy in Paraguay is pressuring the local attorney general to block the extradition to the U.S. of a suspected Hezbollah operative
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@nytimes investigative report reveals ties between Venezuela’s #TareckElAissami & Hezbollah. Thanks to Chavez & Maduro regimes, the country has become Hezbollah’s forward operating base in the Americas #ProjectCassandra
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More evidence emerges to confirm what I have been saying for over a year: the #IRGC uses Abadan as hub for military airlift to Syria
Iraqi militia of "Kata'ib al-Imam Ali"Shia group in Abadan airport,Iran, being transferred to Syria.More photos here:
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Triple Frontera, lavado de dinero y financiación al terrorismo de Hezbolá: Mi entrevista con @patriciavargasq en @UltimaHoracom #ProjectCassandra #Hezbollah
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Congratulations to @MarianoFederici, @policiafederal, @fiscalia_prensa, the national security team of @MaritoAbdo & all authorities involved in the capture of Assad Ahmad Barakat, @USTreasury sanctioned #Hezbollah financier. More please! #ProjectCassandra.
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The man in charge of liaising with Iran and Hezbollah suddenly takes over Venezuela’s oil sector, just five days after Iranian engineers and critical supplies come to the rescue in an unprecedented airlift from Tehran to the Paraguana refinery complex. I call it “timing”.
To revamp Venezuela's struggling oil industry, Maduro names US fugitive @TareckPSUV as oil minister and Hugo Chavez's cousin Asdrubal to head @PDVSA. Both jobs were held by Gen. Quevedo, who oversaw a 65% plunge in oil production during his 28-month tenure. @AP story upcoming.
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Accommodating Iran Will Be No More Successful Than Accommodating Russia - My latest piece @tabletmag is out.
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Syria Air cargo flies to Iran. The #IRGC airlift carrying weapons to #Assad & #Hezbollah continues. Reminder of one reasons Iranians are protesting against their regime - it supports mass atrocities abroad while oppressing freedom at home
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Hezbollah is a Transnational Criminal Organization. My latest on @TheHill about DOJ's announcement
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Muchas gracias a @infobae por traducir y publicar en castellano mi reciente artículo de @ForeignPolicy sobre las faltas institucionales de Paraguay en tema de lucha al lavado de dinero y financiación al terrorismo
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Syrian Air heading 2 Tehran. Wanna hurt #Assad's war machine? Cut off #irgc_terrorist airlift thru Iraq airspace
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What’s happening? Iranians are rising against their government. Meanwhile, Iran Air is taking delivery of more European manufactured planes. Delivery scheduled 12/30/17. Seems like the perfect time to ramp up trade with the regime
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Criminals & murderers like Rezai should not be given a free pass to jet set. That Nicaragua & Venezuela, themselves rogue regimes run by brutal dictators, are giving him a free pass goes with the territory. Everyone else should step up & make sure a wanted fugitive faces justice.
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#Hezbollah and the Iranian regime are a band of criminals. So give them more money, Mr. President. Guaranteed happy ending. My latest @tabletmag on why lifting sanctions on Iran is such a bad idea.
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Says the spokesman of a regime in charge of ethnic cleansing, the use of chemical weapons against civilians, the murder of 500K+ people, torture chambers, largest refugee crisis since WWII #Syria #IranDeal
Some are exuberant to milk, and others even happier about being milked. Meanwhile, Yemenis, on whose backs juvenile delinquents seek to jumpstart careers, remain forgotten by the West.
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Last month, Argentina's Financial Intelligence Unit froze assets linked 2#Barakat network in the #TBA, targeting #Hezbollah money laundering scheme. Paraguay has now ordered arrest of #Hezbollah financier, Assad Ahmad Barakat. My latest @FDD
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Flight W5138 from Tehran to Las Piedras.is in the air. The petrochemicals for gold swap deal between Iran’s regime and #NicolasMaduro continues #aeroterror
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Importante investigación de @ABCDigital documenta esquema lavado de dinero por #Hezbolá en Paraguay, muy símil al caso de #AymanJooma del 2011 #ProjectCassandra. Apoyo total a la Fiscal general @SandraQuinonezA para que se cumpla exitosamente el proceso judicial
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The Iranian-Venezuelan cargo joint venture #Emtrasur is back in the Southern Cone, after three weeks ago when it spent three days in the TBA to collect 80 tons of Paraguayan cigarettes. Where next? #aeroterror.
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So far, the most appropriate response by a Western leader to the death of a vicious communist dictator
Fidel Castro is dead!.
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Anyone called her a warmongering neocon yet?
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The Argentinian government should request international assistance so that Rezai’s trip home is not as pleasant as his journey to Managua. It should file a complaint with Mauritania. It should ask friends to block their airspace to transit for Rezai’s plane.
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Obama let Iran off the hook on nukes; Syria on chemical weapons and ethnic cleansing; & Hezbollah on drug trafficking & money laundering to finance terrorism. Also got a Nobel Peace prize.
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Lebanon’s FM denies protecting Hezbollah linked Mohammad Nader Farhat, arrested in Paraguay 4 money laundering on May 17. I revealed on Friday in @ForeignPolicy that Lebanon’s embassy interceded 4 him. Here’s the evidence.
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#MahanAir has just opened a new weekly direct flight to Rome, showing Italy’s government’s utter disregard for the role #Mahan played in supporting ethnic cleansing in Syria. @matteosalvinimi was just in DC recently to be crowned a trusted US ally. With friends like these. .
Advisory warning by @USTreasury on the deceptive practices of Iran’s civil aviation industry including activities related to WMD proliferation, support for international terrorism, and human rights abuses.
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@USTreasury sanctioned Fars Air Qeshm cargo flight just left Caracas on its way back to Iran. Made a technical stopover in Mauritania on its way in. #aeroterror
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Syria Air cargo flies home from Tehran. For the #IRGC it’s business as usual. Kill your own people at home. Help others kill their own people abroad. #IranProtests
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My latest @ForeignPolicy: the president should block aircraft sales to Iran - due to Iran’s continuing airlift to Syria
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Finally, three tweets on #IranProtests from EU spokesperson. Took five days. Not a word of condemnation yet. No word from @FedericaMog who starts an official visit to Cuba on Wednesday. For shame
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#MarceloPecci was murdered. He was a patriot: a public servant fearlessly devoted to investigating organized crime in his native Paraguay. He was assassinated in Colombia. Clearly, his work bothered large regional networks. May his memory be a blessing.
[URGENTE] El fiscal antidrogas y dedicado a investigar casos grandes sobre el crimen organizado, Marcelo Pecci, fue presuntamente asesinado en Colombia. #730AM
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Hoy la @policiafederal arrestó a Assad Ahmad Barakat en Foz do Iguaçu, lado brasileño de la triple frontera. Barakat, operativo de #Hezbolá sancionado por 🇺🇸, es la cabecilla de red de blanqueo. Argentina congeló sus bienes en Julio. Paraguay ordenó el su arresto en agosto.
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Another Iranian airline no longer in operation suddenly flies to Damascus: this time Saha Airlines #IRGC airlift
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Argentinian government freezes assets of the Barakat clan in the #TriBorderArea. They used the casino on the Argentinian side. Beneficiary: Hezbollah. #projjectcassandra
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@realDonaldTrump @Doranimated for example, sanction Iran Air under EO 13224 for its material support to #Assad & #Hezbollah, thereby blocking @Airbus & @Boeing sales of 200 aircraft to the regime
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Evidence of corruption/complicity within Paraguay’s police in favor of #Hezbollah’s SDGT Assad Ahmad Barakat. New government of @MaritoAbdo taking first steps to tackle terror finance in TBA. More please!.
. "Hemos encontrado que en la Policía Nacional se le ha otorgado pasaporte (a Assad Ahmad Barakat) después de que la Corte le suspendió la nacionalidad paraguaya. No es posible que una persona que no sea paraguaya tenga pasaporte". Ministro del Interior, Juan Ernesto Villamayor.
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Resultados! Con voluntad politica y cooperación internacional se pueden golpear las redes de financiación al terrorismo en la triple. Congratulaciones a @SandraQuinonezA y a la @fiscalia_prensa. Más por favor!.
Agradecemos la cooperación internacional para la lucha contra el crimen organizado.
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Mahan Air, principal carrier in #IRGC airlift to #Assad & #Hezbollah, is landing in Damascus. Friendly reminder: Mahan flies 2 multiple EU destinations despite its material support 4 war crimes & ethnic cleansing. Trump Admin has yet 2 sanction its main service providers in EU
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@FitzpatrickIISS @mdubowitz Iran’s aviation sector has sustained the #IRGC military airlift to #Assad & #Hezbollah. So yeah, let’s give them safer planes. Safety, no doubt, is the issue here.
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Russian Air Force aircraft heading towards Latakia. Turkey’s airspace is open to Russia’s op in Syria. When did Turkey leave NATO and began helping NATO’s chief adversary, remind me?
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Downing Street on Scotland: we did it but you can't do it
Downing Street on Scotland: "Another referendum would be divisive and cause huge economic uncertainty at the worst possible time.".
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Translation: Russian commitments to Israel to keep Iran far from the border are pure BS.
#BREAKING: the #attacked (25 December 2018) site in the #Syrian 4th division camp is completely #destroyed. According to media reports, it was an Iranian #Fajr-5 rockets storehouse, located in an #Iranian base, only 40 km from the border with #Israel.
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FDD | Suspected Hezbollah Financier Extradited to the U.S. #NaderFarhat was extradited to Miami yesterday and appeared in court today. Read my analysis here #ProjectCassandra
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Here’s his plane, still in Managua as of a few minutes ago:
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La delegación empresarial que acompañó a @LuisCastiglioni a Líbano incluyó a Hassan Khalil Día, el ex embajador paraguayo a Beirut que fue destituido por el presidente @Horacio_Cartes en Diciembre 2016. Ya se olvidaron porqué? Aquí la razón:
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Iran sends weapons to Hezbollah on commercial flights. The Obama Administration licenses Airbus to sell commercial aircraft to Iran
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Important new arrest in Paraguay: once again Hezbollah and narco-traffic in same sentence. Time 2 sanction Hz as transnat'l criminal group
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#QassemSoleimani orchestrated the rape of Aleppo in 2015. Anyone opining that his demise may be bad for the region’s stability has a short memory.
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New @MahanAirlines flight number (W5134) now live without a listed destination. Heading to #Venezuela again? Reminder: Mahan procured EP-MMR in May 2015, in violation of @USTreasury sanctions, while the Obama Administration was finalizing the #JCPOA
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Obama on Iran sanctions evasion investigations: stand down. Obama on Hezbollah drug trafficking investigations: stand down. Obama on Russian meddling: stand down.
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Visto in una libreria italiana. Il vetrinista è un genio
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Congratulaciones a @SandraQuinonezA Fiscala General de Paraguay por un nuevo exitoso operativo contra blanqueadores del narcotrafico vinculados al terrorismo islamico de #Hezbollah. Segunda vez en menos de dos meses #ProjectCassandra
En un exitoso operativo, el Ministerio Público con la cooperación de la @senad_paraguay y la @RRPPpoliciapy detuvo hoy a Mahmoud Alí Barakat, que cuenta con orden de detención y solicitud de extradición por parte de la justicia de EEUU bajo cargos de lavado de dinero.
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Paraguay’s prosecutors order the arrest of Assad Ahmad Barakat after it emerged he illegally obtained a Paraguayan passport last April. Barakat is sanctioned by @USTreasury for his role as a #Hezbollah terror financier.
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Mahan Air flight to Damascus: daily reminder that #Irandeal or no deal, the #IRGC airlift to #Assad & #Hezbollah continues on a daily basis.
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Mahan Air’s participation in #IRGC airlift continues, while this @USTreasury sanctioned airline flies 2 dozens of EU destinations. @POTUS should ask his EU partners, who r so incensed about #Jerusalemisthecapitalofisrael, why their outrage spares this accomplice in mass murder
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Señor presidente @MaritoAbdo, me permito de señalarle la definición OCDE ( de paraíso fiscal. Elementos principales: falta de transparencia, y falta de interscambio de datos.
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El "cantante de Mezquita" Seyed Ali Hijazi aquí "cantando" en la conmemoración de un mártir del Hezbolá: .Cc: @ViceParaguay
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Mahan Air's #SyrianExpress heading 2 Damascus. 3rd weapons/militias delivery from Iran 2 #Assad 2day, at no political cost 2 Iran's regime
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Samer Atoui - a senior #Hezbollah commander - died in Syria last October. His ties 2 Latin America, including an intimate friendship with @USTreasury sanctioned #SobhiFayad, reveal much about Hezbollah’s Latin American networks. My latest @weeklystandard
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Huge blow 2 airline and 2 sanctions evaders who used it as vector 4 their businesses in Germany. Blocking airspace also has implications 4 other European routes. Mahan still flies 2 France, Greece, Italy, Spain among its European destinations. Other EU govts should follow up now.
Germany bans Iranian airline on suspicion of spying, terror
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Hard to believe this happened in this century
"There is a practical streak to the Iranian regime"."They are responsive, to some degree, to their publics". "Chance for a different type of relationship"."Ushers a new era in U.S.-Iranian relations"."A new era in Iranian relations with its neighbors”
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Fiscal general de Paraguay @SandraQuinonezA no pierde tiempo en la lucha contra la corrupción aún que se quede a los más altos niveles del estado. 👏👏👏 Coraje! Así se fortalece el estado de derecho y la democracia.
El Ministerio Público presentó imputación y ordenó la detención del ex Fiscal General Javier Diaz Verón y su sra Esposa Maria Selva Morinigo por los hechos punibles de enriquecimiento ilícito y lavado de dinero, respectivamente.
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It was not a direct flight: 1st stop Mauritania; 2nd stop Caracas; then on to Managua. Rezai is under an Interpol international red notice. The trip from Tehran 2 Managua required stopovers & crossing national air spaces of several countries. 2 return home, he needs 2 do the same.
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Israeli request for speed up delivery of refueling jets rejected by U.S. Gantz: we have an #Iran attack deadline. Blinken: here’s my Spotify list
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1. Photo evidence via @warreports from 03/01/17 clearly shows Iranian airliner #IranAir ferrying #IRGC fighters to support Assad in #Syria:
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Will President Joe Biden’s cri de coeur “Putin is a war criminal” become former President Barack Obama’s “Assad must go?” Read my latest @nypost
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Colombia’s new foreign minister meets Iran’s Vice President to discuss “strategic issues.” Thus begins the new Colombia under @petrogustavo.
En la mañana de hoy el Canciller (D) sostuvo un diálogo sobre temas estratégicos de la relación bilateral con el Vicepresidente de la República Islámica de Irán 🇮🇷 .en asuntos parlamentarios .Seyed Mohammad Hosseini.
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You should have listened to me, @mdubowitz and bought Italian suits instead. Own it.
I am feeling pressure to “wear a tailored French suit” (which I don’t own) & “keep” my “curly hair” (which isn’t curly) “just so.” May be late into the office today scrambling to change this. Just two of the many factual errors in this piece:
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They can build nuclear weapons and send rockets into space but can’t provide their citizens clean water. And that’s how every totalitarian system eventually ends
A resident video of the water Khorramshahr's protesters are angry about:
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The proud to be ashamed to be Jewish brigade. But useful. Whenever an antisemite claims Jews are smart, I immediately mention them as proof of the contrary.
I’ve heard of Two-Day Jews but here’s a new category - Jews who only feel connected to and express their Judaism when they disown it and side with its enemies.
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Iran Air flying Abadan to Damascus. Less than 6 months after JCPOA implementation, Iran Air running #SyriaExpress
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