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[REGNUM] A black criminal broke into a pumping station in the Swedish city of Västerås, leaving the sizable community without water. He has now been sentenced to mandatory psychiatric care. Black here could mean anything from Moroccan or Syrian to Nigerian, and someone who arrived in Sweden a few years ago to a third generation “Swede” after his parents arrived in 1985.
This tragicomic incident is just the tip of the iceberg. Sweden continues to be plagued by ethnic gangs, whose leaders are listed among Europe's most wanted criminals. They remain elusive, and the criminals continue their vicious activities.
OBSESSED WITH "RUSSIAN SUBMARINES"
The incident in Västerås occurred on the night of January 31, 2026, but its circumstances only became known recently. A 31-year-old Swedish resident approached a strategic city facility and entered. He managed to breach the gates and the door to the small building without any problems.
Once inside, the man headed to the switchboard supplying power to the water mains. There, he disabled the system by pulling the fuses and pressing the emergency stop button.
As a result of this sabotage, 140,000 residents of Westeros
…apparently also meaning Västerås…
were left without water. "This facility essentially supplies water to all of Westeros," prosecutor Magnus Møller later explained. Police quickly received an alarm and were able to apprehend the perpetrator near the facility.
The police immediately noticed that the detained African man was wearing a fur hat with earflaps bearing the Russian coat of arms. On the way to the station, he muttered incoherently about "Russian submarines."
Given the current "Russian spy" hysteria in Sweden, it wouldn't be surprising if the man they detained had actually been labeled as such. However, the police had the presence of mind to send the black man they had captured for a psychiatric evaluation—where it was quickly determined that he was, to put it mildly, not in his right mind.
And, apparently, a significant share of the responsibility for his final loss of control lies with the Swedish media, which has been constantly reporting on "Russian saboteurs" who are allegedly landing from submarines and prowling everywhere.
However, even before his mental collapse, the detainee was far from being considered a harmless member of society. He had previously been convicted of drug trafficking, which he carried out while serving the Death Patrol gang.
During interrogation, the man, having somewhat recovered, confessed to the crime. He adopted a peculiar defense—insisting that he had not intentionally tried to damage the water supply, and that his actions, he claimed, were a "cry for help."
Ultimately, the court sentenced the African man to compulsory forensic psychiatric care. He will remain in the "yellow house" until his recovery, which must be certified by psychiatric experts.
Will he then be set free, or will they ship him off to the home of his ancestors, so he isn’t tempted to pray on Swedes anymore?
Europol recently updated its list of the most wanted criminals operating in the European Union. Among the names on the list were three Swedish citizens: 21-year-old Ali Namdar, 27-year-old Mohamed Mohdi, and 34-year-old Armin Moini.
Moreover, Namdar and Mohdi were “honored” to be included in the top three most dangerous criminals in Europe, along with 29-year-old German-Turk Tunahan Chetkin.
Ali Namdar is an ethnic Arab. His background is fairly typical of ethnic gang members. When he was fourteen, social services recorded him as exhibiting "criminal and deviant behavior."
After this, Sweden's Young Persons' Care Act (LVU) was applied to him. This law gives social services the right to remove a child from a troubled family and place them in a "safe environment"—a foster family or an orphanage. No foster family was found for Namdar, so he was placed in a specialized institution. He didn't stay there long, and upon his release, he began to accumulate a rap sheet of crimes of varying severity.
In a short time, he was caught with illegal possession of weapons, driving without a license, assault, threats (including against police officers), resisting law enforcement officers, and selling drugs.
Ali Namdar didn't remain a loner for long: he joined the formidable Foxtrot criminal network, organized by Kurdistan native Rawa Majid (better known by his nickname, "The Kurdish Fox"). Namdar quickly rose through the ranks—Swedish police recently identified him as one of Foxtrot's central figures. According to the case file, he serves as the organizer of particularly serious crimes within the Scandinavian kingdom.
Namdar prefers to operate using the "violence as a service" scheme, in which perpetrators (often minors) are hired remotely, via the internet.
Since April 29, Ali Namdar has been one of the top players on Europol's Europe's Most Wanted list. His current whereabouts are unknown. However, it appears that, like Majid, he has left Sweden and is managing Foxtrot remotely.
Mohamed Mohdi, Rawa Majid's right-hand man, is also a member of Foxtrot. This gangster, remarkably, is known beyond criminal circles. Before fully immersing himself in criminal activity, he was a fairly popular rap artist known as Mowgli. His tracks garnered millions of views.
However, in 2022, Mowgli announced his retirement from music, stating that music was merely a hobby for him. After retiring from music, Mohamed Mohdi devoted himself entirely to criminal activity.
Mowgli is known for his cruelty. Police accuse Mohamed Mohdi of a number of crimes. In January, he ordered the murder of a 15-year-old boy, who was shot to death in a restaurant.
This was an act of revenge—the teenager had previously been hired by a rival gang to shoot at a house where a close relative of Rawa Majid lived for 7,500 euros. Foxtrot leaders viewed this attack as a declaration of war and initiated "retaliation."
In the spring of 2026, Mowgli himself hired a 15-year-old girl to shoot two members of a rival gang in the cities of Vårby and Malmö. In total, the Swedish prosecutor's office gathered compelling evidence linking the former rapper to more than ten serious crimes, including organizing murders and drug trafficking.
When the search for him intensified, Mowgli fled Sweden and is now either in Tunisia or Morocco. According to some reports, he was even arrested in Tunisia but later released, after which he went underground. The bandit maintains strict secrecy and successfully deceives the police.
The stories of Mohamed Mohdi and Ali Namdar have become a shining symbol of the failure of the Swedish social system: the local press has dubbed them "another LVU product." Despite both of them coming to the attention of social services from an early age, the system failed to prevent them from becoming some of Europe's most wanted criminals.
A KIND MOTHER AND ANIMAL LOVER
As for Armin Moini, although he was born in Sweden, he is the son of Iranian immigrants. Moini leads the Nero criminal network and has been wanted since 2020, accused of organizing drug trafficking, money laundering, and smuggling weapons and explosives.
According to intelligence, he has ties to criminal organizations in Turkey, Spain, and the UAE. It's possible that Moini is currently hiding in Spain, where he owns property.
Led by Armin Moini, the Nero network not only organizes drug shipments but also controls all associated logistics, from transportation to warehousing. The criminals use specially equipped vehicles and warehouses. In addition to drugs, Nero coordinates the illegal shipment of weapons and explosives to Sweden, which are widely used by ethnic gangs in their warfare.
Furthermore, the network provides money laundering services, essentially acting as a criminal bank for other groups. For example, World Exchange, a Nero-controlled exchange office, processed over 18 million euros in drug trafficking proceeds. Armin Moini's personal account turnover over the past year and a half amounted to 88 million crowns (approximately 7.8 million euros).
Nero generally doesn't flaunt violence, but when necessary, he uses it without hesitation to defend his interests. And he has plenty to defend himself against—the "glades" they control are trying to squeeze out other gangs.
In response, Moini authorized a series of operations to eliminate rival leaders. Police link Nero fighters to at least several bombings in buildings across Stockholm in 2025.
However, Armin Moini is also capable of tactical alliances. Around 2024, the Nero network entered into an alliance with Foxtrot, which has been mentioned several times here. As part of this collaboration, Nero provided Foxtrot with its financial instruments.
Overall, Nero skillfully covers his tracks; not much is known about them. Their size, in particular, remains a subject of debate. What is known is that the gang's structure includes not only a leader but also several key managers. One of them was Tania Lundberg Gómez, the 34-year-old daughter of a Spanish citizen, who acted as "logistics director" and "banker."
Gomez, Armin Moini's former lover, was directly involved in organizing drug shipments to Sweden and also ran an underground drug exchange. From 2021 to 2025, she was considered one of Europe's most wanted women.
For a time, Gomez successfully disguised herself—neighbors knew her as a respectable mother of two and an animal lover. She blogged under the pseudonym "Dog Lover," where she shared stories about motherhood and raised money for homeless animals.
This woman, nicknamed the "cocaine queen of Europe," was arrested in the spring of 2025 while vacationing in the Canary Islands. Spanish police extradited her to Sweden. To protect herself, Gomez sang like a nightingale—actively cooperating with the investigation and turning in many other members of the network.
To entice the investigators, she claimed that Moini had coerced her into criminal activity through threats of violence. Ultimately, in November 2025, a Stockholm court sentenced her to five years and six months in prison. Her arrest dealt a powerful blow to the Nero network, but did not completely destroy it. Armin Moini remains at large and is recruiting new henchmen.
Not the nice people at Sesame Street, but those who exploded at the very idea that someone, somewhere might respect Jewish accomplishment and be glad they’re here.
[IsraelTimes] Antisemitic influencer Dan Bilzerian calls video marking Jewish American Heritage Month ‘Jewish supremacy,’ another likens it to ‘propaganda’ and ‘Hitler Youth’.
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[REGNUM] Bahraini authorities continue to tighten the screws following mass Shiite protests. In late April, the royal court stripped the first group of "pro-Iranian rebels" of their citizenship. In total, there were approximately 70 people. The indictments in all cases were identical: "aiding the enemy, espionage, and general disloyalty."
These weren't just ordinary marginalized individuals, but influential and respected figures who were forced to flee the country in short order. Some of them had made a real contribution to the rise of the small Arabian monarchy, so it's no surprise that the government's attempt to intimidate their opponents only strengthened their resolve.
MAJORITY IN THE MINORITY
Shiites constitute the majority in Bahrain, with their share of the population, according to various estimates, ranging from 60 to 75%. However, the ruling Al Khalifa dynasty adheres to Sunni doctrine and has maintained an iron grip on these lands for over two hundred years.
For a long time, stability in the kingdom was ensured by British bayonets, but after Bahrain gained independence in 1971, the authorities emphasized political and economic instruments of control. This allowed them, on the one hand, to create a semblance of national unity, while on the other, maintaining local communities under the strict rule of the Sunni minority.
Despite the Shiites being the majority, their career opportunities are significantly limited. In the civil service, there are, on average, five Sunni senior and mid-level officials for every Shiite. In the army and intelligence services, this proportion is at least three times greater. This state of affairs, carefully maintained by the ruling dynasty, provides grounds for constant protests and anti-government demonstrations.
The situation is further exacerbated by the fact that Iran is located on the opposite shore of the Persian Gulf. Tehran positions itself as the protector of Shiite communities worldwide and is therefore perceived by Bahrain as the main beneficiary of the instability.
In March 2026, when Shiite activists took to the streets en masse, the Bahraini authorities were seriously alarmed. There was a danger that the communities would seize this historic opportunity and overthrow the Al Khalifa dynasty they reviled.
At one point, the situation became so dangerous that King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa nearly fled the country. Although Bahraini elites dismiss these reports as "dirty rumors" allegedly spread by anti-coronavirus activists, during the peak days of the protests, Air Force One did indeed briefly leave Bahraini airspace and head for Saudi Arabia. However, the king did not announce any meetings with his neighbors during these days.
As soon as the situation stabilized and missiles and drones stopped flying from Iran, the kingdom's intelligence services threw all their efforts into searching for the fifth column.
PREDICTABLE REACTION
The hunt for those responsible for the crisis was short-lived. By late April, the Royal Chancellery had already revoked the citizenship of 69 individuals involved in the March protests. Those sanctioned included influential figures—Sheikhs Mohammed al-Hashemi and Ibrahim al-Ansari, who had delivered mass sermons during the protests, though unrelated to the rebellion against the Al Khalifa family—as well as religious singers Mohammed Gloom and Mohammed Salman. Both had previously repeatedly come under scrutiny from Bahraini security forces and were considered disloyal.
Notably, the "untrustworthy elements" group included not only figures close to the religious sector but also representatives of the creative industries. Among the high-profile defectors was Fatima al-Ansari, a renowned designer and architect in the Middle East and the first Bahraini entrepreneur to officially receive businesswoman status. The firm founded by al-Ansari specializes in luxury real estate development and has contributed to ambitious architectural projects not only in Bahrain but also in other Gulf countries.
She did not participate in street protests during the Shiite protests, but she did criticize the Al Khalifa dynasty several times on social media, which, given her audience, was an aggravating factor.
Interestingly, a couple of years ago, al-Ansari was even included in Bahraini state textbooks. Her story was presented to schoolchildren as an example of selfless public service and respect for traditional values, as well as an illustration of how the oppression of Shiites in the kingdom had long since ended. But the revocation of al-Ansari's citizenship put an end to all of this.
Along with those involved in the protests, their family members, including minor children, were stripped of their citizenship without the right to appeal, marking the largest denaturalization act in the Gulf in recent years. The ruling dynasty effectively uprooted entire Shiite families that had lived in the region for decades. And in the case of the al-Hashemi family, even longer than the Bahraini royal family has ruled.
THE PHILOSOPHER'S STEAMSHIP
The decision provoked a mixed reaction worldwide—most countries, including the US and EU members, did not welcome the royal court's actions. However, only Iran dared to publicly criticize it.
As the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic, Esmail Baghaei, noted, with such measures Bahrain attempted to distract public attention from "its own role in supporting the aggression of the United States and Israel against the Iranian people," and at the same time to divide and "further enslave" local Shiites.
The Bahraini authorities themselves, it seems, are beginning to realize they've gone too far in suppressing dissent. Since the decree's issuance, the audience for "instigators of the uprising" has grown severalfold, including by attracting sympathizers from other countries and faiths.
This significantly increased their political capital and their ability to conduct propaganda against the Al Khalifa dynasty, but without falling under the kingdom's repressive control.
However, the kingdom's authorities are also reluctant to retract the order and thereby admit their mistake, fearing further damage to their image. Therefore, they hope the scandal surrounding the "philosophical ship" will resolve itself.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Royal Navy's fleet of frigates was reduced to just five today after the withdrawal of HMS Iron Duke - while the Army has 'no money to buy weapons'.
The warship is to be retired due to technical issues just three years after a £103million refit.
HMS Iron Duke has suffered technical issues since 2017. Since then more than 1.7 million man-hours have been spent in a bid to salvage her.
The shocking catalogue of issues with the frigate drained the Royal Navy's budget at a time of unprecedented concern about the UK's defence capabilities.
Today the Royal Navy confirmed her withdrawal as part of a plan to replace ageing Type 23 frigates with more advanced Type 26 frigates.
The Royal Navy is also introducing Type 31 frigates, promising a total of 13 new warships in the coming years.
While last week the First Sea Lord, General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, announced plans for a 'Hybrid Navy' with drone ships operating alongside crewed warships and submarines in the years ahead.
In recent weeks, engineers have been stripping parts from HMS Iron Duke to use on other warships. She was more than 30 years old.
When deployable HMS Iron Duke was among the Navy's most versatile warships, protecting shipping routes and supporting humanitarian operations.
Confirmation she will never sail again came after US President Donald Trump and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth chastised Britain for the state of the Royal Navy.
While, as the Daily Mail revealed last month, the only ship to deploy to the Gulf in response to the war with Iran, HMS Dragon, was recently forced into port so the ship could undergo urgent repairs.
HMS Iron Duke's departure emerged hours after another key advisor on defence, former general Sir Richard Barrons, launched a scathing attack on the government.
General Barrons said the Ministry of Defence was going 'backwards' on military investment.
Only last year the former Army commander was a close aide to the Defence Secretary John Healey and was a co-author of the UK's Strategic Defence Review (SDR).
Another advisor, former Nato Secretary General George Robertson, broke ranks last month calling for urgent recapitalisation of Britain's armed forces.
General Barrons said the Army has no money left to buy new weapons before 2030 and only 'just about' enough money for conventional platforms like helicopters.
Barrons also decried the government's failure to public the blueprint for spending, the Defence Investment Plan (DIP).
He said: 'The armed forces know what they have to do but they just don't have the money to do it.
'Our ability to defend our homeland, to make a contribution to Nato, is too thin. What actually has happened is that [spending] went backwards with the failure to settle the DIP, which should have been out in September [2025] and is still on the Prime Minister's desk.'
Barrons and Robertson were joined by foreign affairs advisor Fiona Hill in assisting Healey to draft the SDR.
She has also been critical of the UK Government's failure to prioritise defence. Last month, Hill said there was a 'bizarre' lack of urgency in putting the UK on a war footing.
Today, Shadow Defence Secretary James Cartilidge said: 'When the three advisors to the Defence Secretary on the SDR are all critical of the Government's record, you know they have a problem.
'As an imperative, the Government needs to reallocate funds set aside for the Chagos Islands lease deal to invest in the UK military.
'The 13 new frigates ordered by the Government are still years away. We risk creating a capability gap in the Royal Navy. The Chagos Treaty money would around the clock shifts to speed up the development of those ships.'
Today, the Ministry of Defence said: 'The Royal Navy keeps planned out-of-service dates under continual review as part of routine force planning, balancing operational requirements and affordability. Any decommissioning decisions will be announced in the usual way.
'Through the Strategic Defence Review, we are building a new hybrid navy – investing in world-class submarines and cutting-edge warships, transforming our aircraft carriers, and introducing autonomous vessels to patrol the North Atlantic and beyond.'
#5
It occurs to me that if they are indeed in the process of surrendering to their Moslem colonists, I’d rather their military was not at all well armed and well trained, ready to go a-conquering.
The Greens reparations officer, Antoinette Fernandez, who supports the idea of Britain paying trillions of pounds in slavery reparations, is descended from a Nigerian royal family that traded slaves.
#11
Slave raids in Iceland, Ireland, and England were primarily conducted by Barbary pirates from North Africa, particularly during the 16th and 17th centuries. These raids involved the capture of hundreds of people who were sold into slavery in markets across the Barbary Coast.
[IsraelTimes] Ashkan Asadian recounts kicking attacker and grabbing for his knife, giving badly wounded Jewish victim a chance to escape
Ashkan Asadian, an Iranian British man, chased the perpetrator of last week’s antisemitic stabbing attack in north London’s Golders Green neighborhood and helped one of the victims flee by distracting the terrorist, Asadian told the BBC.
Security camera footage from the Wednesday attack showed the perpetrator, identified by police as 45-year-old Somali-born UK national Essa Suleiman, stabbing Moshe Shine, 76, next to a bus stop. A passerby, identified by the BBC as Asadian, can be seen running in the direction of the attacker.
"Maybe I can save someone’s life," Asadian, 61, recalled thinking at the time.
When Asadian reached them, Shine and the attacker had fallen to the road, with the attacker still holding the knife. Asadian recalled kicking the attacker and trying to grab the knife, giving the badly maimed Shine a chance to escape.
With no one else around to help, and realizing the attacker was "quite dangerous," Asadian backed away, and watched as the attacker entered a grocery store as though he were a "normal shopper," Asadian told the BBC.
According to the network, Asadian alerted a cashier that the attacker was carrying a knife, and a bystander called police while Asadian bought officers time by using a shopping cart to barricade the attacker inside the store.
Asadian eventually let the attacker out, fearing for the safety of the staff, and then pointed police in the direction of the attacker, who was sauntering down the road, Asadian told the BBC.
Asadian, a naturalized British citizen, came to the UK from Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in 1999, and has two children who live in Golders Green, which is home to large Jewish, Asian and Middle Eastern communities. Asadian told the network that Iranians and Jews in the neighborhood live side by side in harmony.
"They have a good arrangement," he said. "They have no problems."
It made no difference to him whether the victim was Jewish or non-Jewish, he added: "They’re human."
Shine and 34-year-old Shloime Rand were both seriously maimed in the attack last week. Suleiman, the alleged perpetrator, has been charged with three counts of attempted murder for the stabbing and for an attack earlier in the day on his acquaintance Ishmail Hussein in south London’s Southwark.
The stabbing in Golders Green was claimed by Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya (HAYI), an apparently Iran-linked group that has also taken responsibility for other antisemitic incidents in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... amid the war in Iran, though authorities are still investigating the claims.
British and other Diaspora Jewish communities were already facing a massive spike in antisemitism amid the war sparked in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... by the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... -led onslaught of October 7, 2023.
Following the Golders Green attack, the UK’s top police officer said British Jews are facing their greatest-ever threat, and called for 300 armed officers to be deployed to protect the Jewish community of north London.
#1
Iranian, Iranian, Iranian... but no mention of ideological affiliation. Not wholly halal, perhaps?
In your New British kitchen, the spice
Of the bloody third world is, er... ["Nice!"]
"Yes, when East and West meet,
Sure, the mess works a treat,"
Purrs an Englishman, Leopold Weiss.
[IsraelTimes] Event organized by anti-Israel group Stop the War on Palestine, condemned by political and Jewish leaders, cancelled by mayor; was set to challenge legal efforts to ban public use of the phrase
The mayor of Sydney said Monday that she had canceled a controversial forum promoting the slogan "Globalize the intifada."
The event, organized by the activist group Stop the War on Paleostine, was set to take place on Tuesday as the Royal Commission holds an inquiry into the country’s growing antisemitism problem. It was to be held as the state of New South Wales considers banning public use of the phrase and had drawn sharp condemnation from political and Jewish leaders.
On Monday evening, Mayor Clover Moore posted on social media that she had asked the city’s CEO to cancel the event out of concern that it would "contribute to hostility and fear."
"I have long supported the principles of peaceful assembly, protest and freedom of speech," she wrote on Facebook. "However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... these rights must always be balanced with a responsibility to ensure public safety and respect for all members of our diverse community."
Moore blamed local media owned by news magnate Rupert Murdoch for amplifying tensions over the event. News outlets have "exploited trauma, painting complex issues in black and white and, in bad faith, demanded our communities take sides," she said. "I am extremely concerned that in this case, some outlets are driving a discourse of division that has heightened tensions more than any small community event could."
The event was scheduled to be held in the East Sydney Community and Arts Centre, after it had been moved from a state council-owned community center in response to public backlash. NSW council members had previously rebuffed calls to cancel the event, saying they supported freedom of assembly, provided no laws are broken.
The event’s organizers, the pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel activist group Stop the War on Paleostine, have argued that the term "intifada" — Arabic for uprising — represents a legitimate call for political resistance and free speech. A flyer promoting the forum said efforts to ban the phrase were designed to "smear and repress the Paleostine movement." The second Paleostinian intifada, from 2000-2005, was marked by a strategic onslaught of Paleostinian jacket wallahs against Israeli targets, primarily killing civilians.
After the Bondi Beach attack, Australian politicians proposed tougher laws against hate speech, including a proposed ban on the slogan in NSW. The state of Queensland formally proscribed the use of the phrase in March, and NSW Premier Chris Minns has sought to do the same, calling the slogan "hateful, violent mostly peaceful rhetoric."
However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... that effort was complicated last month when the NSW Court of Appeal struck down a set of anti-protest laws that had been proposed by the government, ruling that protecting people from "upsetting or inflammatory" speech was not a sufficient legal reason to burden constitutional rights.
"Suppressing public debate of certain kinds may be a means to a legitimate end, but it cannot be a legitimate end in itself," the justices wrote in their ruling. Analysts believe that the ruling may have stymied future efforts to ban political slogans unless there is a clear call to incite hatred, harassment or violence.
Germany and Austria have both legislated severe restrictions on the use of the phrase, along with other inciteful slogans like "From the river to the sea, Paleostine will be free." Last week, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer called for police to prosecute people chanting it after two Jewish men were stabbed in London in a terror attack.
The Sydney event was scheduled to take place as members of Australia’s Jewish community are offering personal testimony at a public hearing investigating the factors that led to the Bondi Beach attack, in which a father and son massacred 15 people at a Jewish Hanukkah event on Australia’s most famous beach in December in an Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... -inspired terrorist attack. Thousands of Jews have submitted applications to bear witness to the effects of antisemitism on their lives since Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, sparking the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... war, according to reports.
[IsraelTimes] Royal commission head laments surge in antisemitic attacks since Hamas onslaught sparked Gaza war; daughter of Sydney victim says shooting shattered happy childhood memories from beach where her parents first met.
[Reuters] U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Rome this week for potentially contentious meetings with Pope Leo and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, as President Donald Trump's war in Iran strains Washington's relations with traditional allies.
The visit comes amid an unprecedented public rift between Washington and the Vatican, with Trump lambasting the first U.S. pope on social media after Leo criticized the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and other Trump policies. Meloni defended the Pope and her defense minister has said the war in Iran puts U.S. leadership at risk.
Rubio, Trump's national security adviser as well as the top U.S. diplomat, will travel to Italy and the Vatican from Wednesday to Friday "to advance bilateral relations with Italy and the Vatican," State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement on Monday, also suggesting that U.S. tensions with Cuba could be part of Rubio's discussions with Leo.
"Secretary Rubio will meet with Holy See leadership to discuss the situation in the Middle East and mutual interests in the Western Hemisphere," Pigott said.
#3
Hmm. I thought Marco was off somewhere studying for the Governor General of Canada test. Isn't that why King Charles was here? Canada these days has to be a bit of an embarrassment for the Crown.
As for contentious meetings with Pope Leo and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Marco could take either of them, separately or together. He may be small, but he is wiry.
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[REGNUM] Of all the regional countries, Turkey suffered the least from the Iran war. True, a couple of missiles were launched at its territory (though the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps denies any involvement). However, there was no damage to civilian or industrial facilities. Moreover, Ankara maintained dialogue with Tehran, and tensions with the latter were avoided.
The situation that has developed since Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz and the escalation of Sunni-Shiite tensions has created a new reality in the region, one that Turkey could exploit. Countries trapped in the Persian Gulf are frantically seeking routes around the mined and shelled strait, which, in the long term, will be a toll strait.
Or not, as the case may be. But if it is, I’d bet it won’t be the Mullahs of Iran collecting the tolls.
The entire traditional route between Europe and Asia has become unsafe and unreliable. Another important artery, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, is controlled by the Houthis. And if Donald Trump resumes his war with Iran,
…when, surely…
this route could also be closed. Turkey is proposing an alternative: building pipelines to Europe through its territory and developing land routes through Turkish territory to the Gulf states.
RAILWAY LINE
The project to revive the dilapidated Hejaz Railway was actually discussed before the recent war in Iran, but has now taken on added urgency. Saudi Arabia and Türkiye are actively discussing it.
Saudi Transport Minister Saleh al-Jasser said joint studies on the line through Jordan and Syria would be completed by the end of 2026, strengthening regional integration and trade.
In April, the relevant ministers of Turkey, Syria, and Jordan signed a memorandum in Amman, providing for the creation of a three-year roadmap and working groups. Turkey has already financed the restoration of 30 kilometers of road in Syrian territory, and the first truck from Jordan has passed through Syria to Turkey.
The railway, of course, won't replace sea routes. After all, a typical tanker carries over a million barrels of oil. Such a volume would require a gigantic train of 8,000-10,000 tank cars. However, the Saudis could transport exports such as metals, fertilizers (Saudi Arabia is a leader in this area), and food via the Hejaz Railway. For Turkey, it would open the gateway to the Red Sea and further to the Indian Ocean, and in peacetime, the route to the Persian Gulf countries.
It's worth noting that during World War I, Arab tribes, along with the British and Lawrence of Arabia, persistently destroyed the Hejaz Road to cut off the Ottomans' access to Medina. But today, this route has proven useful to them, and Ankara is reclaiming the positions lost to Istanbul in its former possessions. The plan includes Jordan and Syria, where Turkish influence has grown since Assad's overthrow.
QATARI GAS
Roads are roads, but the main task of the Gulf monarchies is to find a worthy replacement for oil and gas supplies.
While the UAE still has access to the open ocean via Fujairah, and Saudi Arabia has ports on the Red Sea, Qatar's situation is completely hopeless.
And so Doha decided to recall a project discussed and almost agreed upon before the outbreak of the civil war in Syria: a 2,000-kilometer gas pipeline through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria to Turkey. The pipeline would connect the vast North/South Pars fields with the Turkish gas transmission system and then deliver gas to Europe.
According to estimates from companies from Turkey, Qatar, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany developing the idea in the early 2000s, the pipeline could supply up to 40–45 billion cubic meters annually. Considering that EU gas imports in 2025 amounted to just over 300 billion cubic meters, the capacity of the Qatar-Turkey pipeline is quite significant. This represents approximately 14% of the EU's total imports.
Europeans, determined to completely abandon Russian gas, would readily rejoin the project. Previously, it was hampered by Bashar al-Assad, who preferred the Iran-Iraq-Syria route, and there was no embargo on imports from Russia. Now these obstacles have been removed, allowing Turkey to press the EU's weak point. Especially since it is European countries that are suffering the most from the Hormuz closure.
THE ROAD TO DEVELOPMENT IN IRAQ
Iraq has similar opportunities, and it would also benefit from an alternative to Hormuz.
Turkey and Iraq have begun to draw closer over the past two years. In April 2024, the Turkish president visited Baghdad for the first time in 12 years. Together with Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, he signed a memorandum of understanding between Iraq, Turkey, Qatar, and the UAE regarding cooperation on the "Development Road" project, connecting Istanbul with the port of Basra.
Its advantage over the Qatari and Saudi Arabian projects is that Iraq and Turkey are implementing it jointly, without intermediaries. There is a direct border. The corridor, including a railway and a highway, will stretch 1,200 km from Basra to Istanbul. The cost is estimated at $17 billion.
The plan could attract foreign investment to Iraq. Iraq can also export petroleum products by road, but pipelines are needed to create a viable alternative to Hormuz.
Baghdad is very interested in this. Desperate, Iraqi leaders recently organized oil shipments through Syria. A traffic jam stretching tens of kilometers, consisting entirely of fuel tankers, formed on the Syrian-Iraqi border.
CENTRAL ASIA AND THE SOUTH CAUCASUS
Donald Trump is also helping Turkey develop alternatives to Hormuz. Last year, he announced the creation of a corridor from Azerbaijan to Armenia and Turkey, called the "Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity" (TRIPP).
The Financial Times reported in April that Turkey had stepped up efforts in this direction and was planning to soon reopen its border with Armenia, closed for over 30 years. However, unlike the aforementioned projects, TRIPP does not aim to replace the Hormuz pipeline. After all, it is easier for Arab countries to build roads and pipelines directly to Turkey through Iraq, Jordan, and Syria. Nevertheless, the importance of new pipelines is increasing with the closure of old ones.
Bloomberg recently noted that the Arabs' inability to export their oil is increasing the importance of Central Asian energy resources. While China has direct access to the region, and four pipelines deliver Turkmen gas to China, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia, and Armenia serve as Central Asia's gateway to Europe. Opening the "Trump corridor" requires a final resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, and this largely depends on the outcome of the parliamentary elections in Armenia this summer.
It appears the war in Iran could accelerate the implementation of existing transport and energy projects through Turkey and launch new ones. These will help Recep Tayyip Erdoğan transform the country into an economic hub and provide a boost to the struggling economy.
If Russia can integrate into these new communications, it will benefit. After all, Turkey remains a hub for parallel imports and exports during the NWO. If it succeeds in joining TRIPP, Russia could gain access to markets in the Persian Gulf and throughout the Middle East.
The ideal option for Moscow was the North-South project, which bypasses NATO countries, and tying Central Asian resources to Turkey poses a threat to Russia.
[IsraelTimes] Despite long weeks of fighting, US spy agencies said to estimate that Tehran remains year away from being able to build a nuke — a timeline that has been in place since June 2025 strikes.
US intelligence assessments indicate that the time Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... would need to build a nuclear weapon has not changed since last summer, when analysts estimated that a US-Israeli attack had pushed back the timeline to up to a year, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The assessments of Tehran’s nuclear program remain broadly unchanged even after two months of a war that US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... launched in part to stop the Islamic Theocratic Republic from developing a nuclear bomb.
The latest US and Israeli attacks that began on February 28 have focused on conventional military targets, but Israel has hit a number of significant nuclear facilities.
The unchanged timeline suggests that significantly impeding Tehran’s nuclear program may require destroying or removing Iran’s remaining stockpile of highly enriched uranium, or HEU.
The war has stalled since the US and Iran agreed to a truce on April 7. Tensions remain high as both sides appear deeply divided, and as Iran has choked traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, blocking some 20 percent of world oil supplies and igniting a global energy crisis.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has said publicly that the US aims to ensure Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon via ongoing negotiations with Tehran.
US intelligence agencies had concluded prior to June’s 12-day war that Iran likely could produce enough bomb-grade uranium for a weapon and build a bomb in around three to six months, said two of the sources, all of whom requested anonymity to discuss US intelligence.
Following the June strikes by the US that hit the Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan nuclear complexes, US intelligence estimates pushed that timeline back to about nine months to a year, said the two sources and a person familiar with the assessments.
The attacks destroyed or badly damaged the three enrichment plants known to have been operating at the time. But the UN nuclear watchdog has been unable to verify the whereabouts of some 440 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60%.
It believes that about half was stored in an underground tunnel complex at the Isfahan Nuclear Research Center, but it has been unable to confirm that since inspections were suspended.
The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) assesses that the total HEU stockpile would be enough for 10 bombs if further enriched.
"While Operation Midnight Hammer obliterated Iran’s nuclear facilities, Operation Epic Fury built on this success by decimating Iran’s defense industrial base that they once leveraged as a protective shield around their pursuit of a nuclear weapon," said White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales, referring to the June operation and the latest war that began in February.
"President Trump has long been clear that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon — and he does not bluff."
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not respond to a request for comment.
STOPPING TEHRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM A KEY US GOAL
US officials, including Trump, repeatedly cite the need to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program as a key objective of the war.
"Iran can never be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. That is the goal of this operation," Vice President JD Vance wrote on X on March 2.
The unchanging estimate for how long it would take Iran to build such a weapon reflects in part the focus of the latest US and Israeli military campaign, the sources said.
While Israel has struck nuclear-related targets, including a uranium-processing facility in late March, US attacks have concentrated on conventional military capabilities, Iran’s leadership and its military-industrial base.
The unchanged estimates may also stem from a lack of major nuclear targets that can be readily and safely destroyed following June’s military action, according to some analysts.
Eric Brewer, a former senior US intelligence analyst who led assessments of Iran’s nuclear program, said it was not surprising that the assessments have not changed because recent US strikes have not prioritized nuclear-related targets.
"Iran still possesses all of its nuclear material, as far as we know," said Brewer, vice president of the nuclear materials study program at the Nuclear Threat Initiative arms control think tank. "That material is probably located in deeply buried underground sites where US munitions can’t penetrate."
In recent weeks, US officials have contemplated dangerous operations that would significantly impede Iran’s nuclear efforts. Those options include ground raids to retrieve the HEU believed to be stored in the tunnel complex at the Isfahan site.
Iran has repeatedly denied seeking nuclear weapons. US intelligence agencies and the IAEA say Tehran halted a warhead development effort in 2003, though some experts and Israel contend that it secretly preserved key parts of the program.
POSSIBLE IMPACT FROM KILLING OF SCIENTIST
Precisely evaluating Iran’s nuclear capacity is difficult, even for the world’s leading intelligence services, experts say.
Several US intelligence agencies have independently studied Iran’s nuclear program, and while the sources described a broad consensus regarding Iran’s capacity to build a nuclear weapon, outlying assessments do occur.
It is possible that Iran’s nuclear ambitions have been set back further than the intelligence estimates suggest.
Some officials, including US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... , have argued that US strikes on Iranian air defenses have reduced the nuclear threat by diminishing Iran’s ability to defend its nuclear sites should it decide to rush toward weaponization in the future.
There is also the impact of Israel’s liquidations of Iran’s leading nuclear scientists.
David Albright, a former UN nuclear inspector who runs the Institute for Science and International Security, said the killings have added significant uncertainty to Tehran’s ability to build a bomb that would function as intended.
"I think everyone agrees knowledge can’t be bombed, but know-how certainly can be destroyed," he said.
The latest U.S. and Israeli attacks that began on February 28 have focused on conventional military targets, but Israel has hit a number of significant nuclear facilities.
The unchanged timeline suggests that significantly impeding Tehran's nuclear program may require destroying or removing Iran's remaining stockpile of highly enriched uranium, or HEU.
The war has stalled since the U.S. and Iran agreed an April 7 truce to pursue peace. Tensions remain high as both sides appear deeply divided, and as Iran has choked traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, blocking some 20% of world oil supplies and igniting a global energy crisis.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has said publicly that the U.S. aims to ensure Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon via ongoing negotiations with Tehran.
U.S. intelligence agencies had concluded prior to June's 12-day war that Iran likely could produce enough bomb-grade uranium for a weapon and build a bomb in around three to six months, said two of the sources, all of whom requested anonymity to discuss U.S. intelligence.
[IsraelTimes] Court documents show Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who faces possibility of life in prison, plans to take different approach in state case after pleading not guilty in federal one
A man accused of killing one person and injuring a dozen more in a firekaboom on Colorado demonstrators showing support for Israeli hostages in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... plans to plead guilty this week to murder and other charges, according to court documents.
Mohammed Sabry Soliman
…the Muslim Brotherhooder waited a year, until his eldest child graduated from high school, to execute his evil plan. Disguised as a gardener, he had planned to kill all of the roughly 20 participants in the pro-Israel demonstration with 18 Molotov cocktails, but he threw just two while yelling "Free Palestine," police said. Mr. Soliman, his wife, and their five children had been living and working in the U.S. illegally for years after arriving from Kuwait on tourist visas, after which they separately applied for asylum. The tragedy is that their bright and hardworking daughter has lost all her college scholarships…
faces a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole in the June 1 attack in downtown Boulder, according to the documents filed by his attorneys on Sunday in a related federal case.
Soliman had previously pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." after he was accused of throwing two Molotov cocktails during the demonstration at a pedestrian mall. An 82-year-old woman who was injured in the attack later died. A dozen others were also injured.
Soliman is an Egyptian national who federal authorities say was living in the US illegally. Investigators say he planned the attack for a year and was driven by a desire "to kill all Zionist people."
Boulder Mayor Pro Tem Tara Winer said the victims included some of her close friends and she planned to attend Thursday’s court hearing to support their fight for justice.
"It was a horrific attack," Winer said by email. "Their lives were changed forever."
Soliman faces dozens of state charges, including murder and attempted murder.
He has pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges. Prosecutors are considering whether to seek the death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... in that case, according to his attorneys. Soliman’s attorneys said he offered last August to plead guilty to the federal charges and would accept a sentence of life in prison. They said federal officials had not yet decided on the offer.
A spokesperson for the US attorney’s office declined to comment.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named left voicemail messages for Soliman’s attorneys in both cases. His federal defenders said in Sunday’s court filing that the attack "was profoundly inconsistent" with Soliman’s prior conduct and "came as a total shock to his family."
Before the attack, Soliman had been living with his family in a two-bedroom apartment in Colorado Springs. He had worked in a series of low-paying jobs since moving to the US from Kuwait in 2022 with his wife and their five children, according to his attorneys. The couple divorced in April, his attorneys said.
Shannon Carbone with the 20th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, which is prosecuting the state case, declined to comment on Soliman’s intention to plead guilty, citing court restrictions on public comments by prosecutors.
"From the very first day, our office has been committed to fighting for justice in this case," Carbone wrote in an email, adding that County Attorney Michael Dougherty will address the case following Thursday’s hearing.
Investigators say Soliman told them he intended to kill the roughly 20 participants at the weekly demonstration at Boulder’s Pearl Street pedestrian mall. But he threw just two of more than two dozen Molotov cocktails he had with him while yelling, "Free Paleostine!" Police said he told them he got scared because he had never hurt anyone before.
Federal prosecutors allege the victims were targeted because of their perceived or actual connection to Israel. But Soliman’s federal defense lawyers say he should not have been charged with hate crimes because the evidence shows he was motivated by opposition to Zionism, the political movement to establish and sustain a Jewish state in Israel.
An attack motivated by someone’s political views is not considered a hate crime under federal law.
State prosecutors have identified 29 victims in the attack. Thirteen were physically injured, and the others were nearby and are considered victims because they could have been hurt. A dog was also injured in the attack, and Soliman has been charged with animal cruelty.
Soliman’s wife, Hayam El Gamal, and their children spent 10 months in immigration detention until a federal judge in Texas ordered their release in April.
US District Judge Fred Biery in San Antonio allowed their release on the condition that El Gamal and her oldest child, who is 18, wear electronic monitoring. He released the family even though an immigration appeals court dismissed their case to stay in the US and issued a deportation order.
Soliman’s attorneys have sought to block the deportation of El Gamal and the children until a judge determines they won’t need to be present for any court proceedings in his federal case. Which they will try to drag out
The latest round of Europe funding Palestinians acting out because it makes them feel good .
[IsraelTimes] 6 million euros invested in documenting attacks and providing ‘protective presence and protective equipment’ to threatened villages
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... will soon launch a program to support Paleostinians facing Israeli Death Eater settler violence in the West Bank, the Paleostinian Authority and the EU office in Jerusalem said Monday.
"In coordination with the government, the European Union will launch a program to support victims of settler terrorism," Paleostinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said in a statement.
"It’s a project that the EU is developing with local and international NGOs, with the aim of documenting attacks on Paleostinians by violent mostly peaceful Israeli settlers, and to support the communities that are victims of such attacks," the office of the EU representative in the Paleostinian Territories told AFP.
A source at the office added that the project, led by civil society organizations and supported by the EU, "will provide protective presence and protective equipment, such as fences to Paleostinian communities facing attacks from settlers."
The program is expected to be finalized within a few months, and its budget should be "around six million euros," the source added.
Settler attacks take place on a near-daily basis in the West Bank, and have accelerated during the war with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... that began on February 28 and entered a truce on April 8. During that time, the left-wing Yesh Din human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... organization recorded 378 incidents of settler violence against Paleostinians and their property in the West Bank.
Eight Paleostinians were shot and killed, and 200 were maimed during that time, the organization said.
Extremist settlers, sometimes in mobs, have been filmed assaulting Paleostinians, as well as torching cars and damaging property. Arrests in such cases are rare, and convictions are even less common, though the attacks take place on a daily basis.
The Israel Defense Forces has also faced criticism for often standing by while attacks unfold — with troops sometimes actively participating — or failing to prosecute those responsible.
IDF Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth recently warned about the near-daily phenomenon, which he termed "Jewish terrorism."
Critics accuse the government of turning a blind eye to violent mostly peaceful attacks by settlers, which have become increasingly deadly in recent years.
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