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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard recruits volunteers to fight in Gaza
The Iranian regime has launched an online campaign to recruit volunteers – including children – to fight alongside Hamas in the war against Israel. But the government’s propaganda efforts are not making much headway among anti-regime Iranians.
Issued on: 26/10/2023 - 18:23; 4 min
People cross a road near a giant billboard depicting Muslim peoples walking with their national flags towards the Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem, erected in Valiasr Square in the centre of Tehran on October 25, 2023. © Atta Kenare, AFP
By: Bahar MAKOOI
Shortly after Hamas conducted its bloody “Al-Aqsa Flood” terrorist operation in Israel on October 7, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launched an online recruitment campaign with the same name, hoping to convince young Iranian men and boys to join the Palestinian armed group in its war efforts.
The “Al-Aqsa Flood” campaign features a young boy in his pre-pubescent teens wearing military fatigues in front of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque. The child also has the symbolic pro-Palestine keffiyeh scarf wrapped around his neck, and wears a pin with General Qassem Soleimani’s portrait on his jacket. Soleimani, who long headed the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Al-Quds unit, was killed by American forces in Baghdad in 2020.
There is much more on this story at France24.
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Russia practices 'massive nuclear strike' in test to deter
'enemy nuclear strike'
By Paul Godfrey
An A Yars Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile blasts off from Plesetsk Cosmodrome 500 miles north of Moscow headed for a target in Russia's Far East as part of joint exercises of the country's strategic ground. sea and air nuclear deterrent forces led by Armed Forces Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin. Photo by EPA-EPA/Russian Ministry of Defence
Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Russia held major nuclear warfare exercises to test the preparedness of its strategic ground, sea and air nuclear deterrence forces for an "enemy nuclear strike."
President Vladimir Putin led the nuclear response simulations on Wednesday which involved firing an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile, a submarine-launched missile from beneath the Barents Sea and launching cruise missiles from aircraft, the Kremlin said in a news release.
Russian television showed Defense Secretary Sergei Shoigu telling Putin afterward that the exercises had successfully simulated "delivering a massive nuclear strike by (on?) strategic offensive forces in response to an enemy nuclear strike."
The tests saw an A Yars ICBM, launched from silos 500 miles north of Moscow fly 3,600 miles to hit a training target in Kamchatka in Russia's Far East, a Tula strategic nuclear submarine fire a Sineva ballistic missile from the Arctic and TU-95MS long-range bombers air-launch cruise missiles.
"The purpose of the training exercise was to check the level of preparedness of military command bodies, as well as the skill of the leadership and operational personnel in managing the troops (forces) under their command," the Kremlin said.
"The objectives of the exercise were achieved in full."
The Kremlin said the exercises were directed by Putin as "Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Federation Armed Forces" from his office in the Kremlin but the missile launches were coordinated by the National Defense Control Center.
The nuclear war games come as a bill for Russia to quit the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty lands on Putin's desk after the upper house of the Duma backed it in a unanimous vote Wednesday.
The legislation which backtracks Russian ratification of the treaty which it signed in 2000 was requested by Putin to bring Moscow in line with Washington which has never ratified the CTBT.
Russia in June announced that it would deploy its nuclear weapons to Belarus, marking the first time that they have been stationed outside Russia since 1991.
The First Casualty of War is Truth - Edrogan makes that abundantly clear
Turkish President Erdogan defends Hamas, criticizes Israel over war
By Darryl Coote
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey on Wednesday before Parliament criticized Israel over its war in Gaza and defended Hamas. Photo courtesy of Office of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Oct. 26 (UPI) -- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey chastised Israel over its bombing of Gaza in its war against Hamas, a militant group he defended by saying it was "fighting to protect its land and citizens."
Hamas mission statement has nothing to do with protecting Gaza or its people. It has everything to do with annihilating all Jews from between the river and the sea.
Erdogan's words, spoken Wednesday before the Turkish Parliament, were swiftly rebutted by Israel and are expected to raise tensions in the Middle East and between Turkey and its NATO allies, including the United States, which has voiced full support for Israel.
Israel has been incessantly bombing the Palestinian enclave of Gaza since Hamas launched a surprise attack Oct. 7, killing some 1,400 Israelis and kidnapping 220 others.
Meanwhile, the number of Palestinian dead rises daily amid Israel's response and has reached at least 6,546, including more than 2,700 children.
If these numbers come from Palestinian sources, you can be certain that they are wildly exaggerated. For instance, the Al Ahli Hospital bombing was credited with 500 deaths cause by an Israeli missile. In fact, it has now been proven that there were fewer than 100 deaths and they were all caused by an errant Palestinian Islamic Jihad missile. I'm sure Hamas has not revised its figures to reflect the truth.
Also, children are deliberately used as shields for Gazan launching pads as clearly revealed in this article, and admitted by Egyptian Muslim journalist Ibrahim Eissa.
The United Nation's relief agency for Palestinian refugees said Wednesday that the bombing has destroyed or damaged more than 40% of all housing units in Gaza, while the number of internally displaced people is now estimated to be about 1.4 million.
Erdogan described Israel's offensive as "one of the bloodiest, most disgusting, most brutal attacks in history against innocent people in Gaza."
This statement is grossly exaggerated unless you assume it applies to Hamas' Oct 7th, attack on innocent Jews.
"This picture alone is enough to show that the purpose is not self-defense, but a brutality to commit the all-out human crime," he said.
Again, this is true of Hamas, not Israel!
"In the world, you will not find any other state and army that bombs cities day and night with warplanes just to kill children, burns hospitals, places of worship, schools, marketplaces, buildings, streets with fire; continues this inhumane action with its tanks, cannons and weapons."
Actually, we saw it with ISIS not so long ago, and we certainly saw it on Oct 7th from Hamas. Furthermore, we see it all the time on a much smaller scale in every European country that threw its doors wide open and welcomed Muslim migrants.
The Turkish president also called out Western nations that have backed Israel in its war, but said that while they may be indebted to Israel, Turkey is not.
"Hamas is not a terrorist organization, but a liberation and mujahideen group fighting to protect its land and citizens," he said.
Bold, flat-out lie!
Not long after, Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Lior Haiat said they "whole heartedly" reject Erdogan description of Hamas.
"Hamas is a despicable terrorist organization worse than ISIS that brutally and intentionally murders babies, children, women and the elderly, takes civilians hostage and uses its own people as human shields," Haiat said in a statement.
"Even the Turkish president's attempt to defend the terrorist organization and his inciting words will not change the horrors that the whole world has seen and the unequivocal fact: Hamas = ISIS."
To Parliament on Wednesday, Erdogan said Turkey has no problem with Israel, but that it cannot approve of its war, and he has canceled an upcoming visit to the country in response.
Hamas jihadi calls his father: ‘I killed them with my bare hands,
your son killed Jews!’
OCT 25, 2023 1:30 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
His father is dead chuffed to hear that his son has murdered ten Israelis, and tells him: “May Allah protect you.” Tell us again how these are the people who have the moral high ground.
“Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger as saying: ‘The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.’” (Sahih Muslim 2922)
Will Allah protect him? Allah will welcome him to Hell!
The last hour - They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. John 16:2.
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