'Iran' launches cyber-attack on US government website warning 'we're always ready'

Daily Star
January 4, 2020


A group claiming to be working on behalf of the Iranian government has hacked a US government website where they plastered sinister warnings

Hackers who claim to be working for the Iranian government have hacked a US government website in a "revenge" attack.

In a brutal take-down of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) the hackers warned this first move was “only a small part of Iran’s cyber ability”.

The hackers posted: "This is message from the Islamic Republic of Iran.

“We will not stop supporting our friends in the regions, the oppressed people of Palestine, the oppressed people of Yemen, the people, and the Syrian government, the people and government of Iraq, the oppressed people of Bahrain, the true mujahideen resistance in Lebanon and Palestine.

“They will be supported by us.”

Images of a photoshop Donald Trump appearing to be bloodied by a punch to the face, the Iranian flag and the country's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei were also posted onto the page.

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Eastern Powers Align in Show of Force

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!! News
Mark Matheny
December 26, 2019

In what looks to be a show of strength against the Western powers, China,Iran and Russia are coordinating joint naval drills in the Gulf of Oman, set to take place from December 27 to December 30.

The Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman, Wu Qian , stated that the Chinese Navy will be deploying its Xining guided missile destroyer -- nicknamed the "carrier killer" for its array of anti-ship and land attack cruise missiles -- in the drills. However, he did not release specifics about the amount of ships or personnel involved in the military exercise.

Iran's spokesman stated the exercise would be for "international commerce security in the region" as well as to "fight terrorism and piracy".

Back on May 8, 2018 President Trump pulled out of the "Joint Comprehension Plan of Action" also known as the Iran deal set under President Obama, setting heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran. The withdrawal by the U.S. has caused concern among Iran's officials due to possible impacts on Iran's economy.  

An article in the Atlantic Council on May 7, 2018 stated:

The uncertainty Trump has cast over the JCPOA since his inauguration has already deprived Iran of many of the economic benefits it had anticipated. For the United States to quit now would reduce, not increase US leverage and undermine sanctions as an alternative to the use of military force.
China, a rising great power, would likely be the biggest economic beneficiary and Iran’s strategic alliance with Russia would also deepen. (emphasis mine)

Trump has also decided to level the playing field with China as it relates to trade. Trump has always felt that China has been taking advantage of the U.S. causing big trade deficits upon the United States. Some of its effects of the Trade wars are economic tension in China as well. In the second quarter of 2019, China experienced its slowest economic growth rate since record keeping began in 1992. Although China has been strong in Infrastructure projects at home, they have cut down considerably on projects overseas.

The trade war has fostered international political conflicts, sucking focus and energy from the healthy, gradual development of resources and culture in families and local communities and transferring attention to the “eye-for-an-eye” global gladiatorial arena of historical grievances and economic retaliation. - Acton Institute

Not to leave Russia out, The U.S. has put sanctions on Russia consistently since Trump came into office. On December of 2017, the White House put out the "National Security Strategy of the United States" where they identified both China and Russia as adversarial to the United States. Page 2 of the report states:

 The United States will respond to the growing political, economic, and military competitions we face around the world. China and Russia challenge American power, influence, and interests, attempting to erode American security and prosperity. They are determined to make economies less free and less fair, to grow their militaries, and to control information and data to repress their societies and expand their influence.

The report goes on to mention North Korea and Iran as well :

  At the same time, the dictatorships of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Islamic Republic of Iran are determined to destabilize regions, threaten Americans and our allies, and brutalize their own people.

Then again on January 29, 2018, U.S. intelligence officials came out with another assessment of Global threats to National Security, presented to Congress, Identifying cooperation between China and Russia as their top concern. In the forward, the report begins with: 

China and Russia are more aligned than at any point since the mid-1950s, and the relationship is likely to strengthen in the coming year as some of their interests and threat perceptions converge, particularly regarding perceived US unilateralism and interventionism and Western promotion of democratic values and human rights.

As China and Russia seek to expand their global influence, they are eroding once well established security norms and increasing the risk of regional conflicts, particularly in the Middle East and East Asia.

On page 5, the report goes on to say this concerning China, Russia, North Korea and Iran:

Our adversaries and strategic competitors will increasingly use cyber capabilities—including cyber espionage, attack, and influence—to seek political, economic, and military advantage over the United States and its allies and partners. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea increasingly use cyber operations to threaten both minds and machines in an expanding number of ways—to steal information, to influence our citizens, or to disrupt critical infrastructure.

At present, China and Russia pose the greatest espionage and cyber attack threats, but we anticipate that all our adversaries and strategic competitors will increasingly build and integrate cyber espionage, attack, and influence capabilities into their efforts to influence US policies and advance their own national security interests.  

And of course we have Kim Jong Un back in the headlines just a couple days ago threatening to deliver "a Christmas gift" to the U.S. Christmas has passed however, with no follow through by the North Korean Dictator.  According to the Hill:

North Korea has set a year-end deadline for the U.S. to change its nuclear policy, and analysts have predicted a return to intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and nuclear tests if no progress is made between the two countries.

In the run-up to the deadline, North Korea has hurled insults at Trump, calling him a “dotard” and saying “foolish” U.S. actions have already helped it make a “definite decision” on its next steps.

President Trump is facing the Democrats and the Deep State here on our shores, as well as a growing threat from the Eastern powers since his entrance to office. 

Islamic Terror Threats on the Rise Before Mid Term Elections: Just a coincidence?

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS !!! News
Mark Matheny
August 17, 2018


With the recent firing of FBI Agent Peter Stzrok, we have seen more and more pressure fall upon the Mueller Probe to produce results. Up to now, no evidence that there has been any illegal conduct between the Trump administration and Russia has surfaced.

Liberals, the DNC, and the Deep State have since the election, tried to oust President Trump from his duly elected office as the President of these United States. - and with good reason (in their minds),  that is because Donald J. Trump has come into office as a determined Patriotic Warrior, resolute on "Making America Great Again".

The Elites are furious that decades of social engineering on their part, in order to "fundamentally transform America" (as Barack Obama once put it), is in danger of all but collapsing under the new Nationalist President Donald Trump.

All attempts at destroying him have so far failed.

During the campaign, as Trump gained momentum and became the primary candidate, the Elites were confident that their carefully fed propaganda through their bought and paid for media whores would surely make Donald Trump look like a clown, as well as a racist, misogynist,homophobic and incompetent,etc.

However,  ( and that's a big HOWEVER) the Elites underestimated the one main thing they should have NEVER underestimated - WE THE PEOPLE.

Trump battled like a fierce warrior and won the Election. All of the propaganda of the Left, and the accusations of the Swamp creatures as well as the attempted soft coup by the Deep State could not stop the will of the silent majority.

The other mistake of the Deep State was their underestimation of the power of the alternative media!

No matter how much "fake news" the Deep State "ministry of truth" tried to petal, the alternative news media was there to shine light upon their mischief.

One of those voices was Alex Jones of course and his organization - Infowars.

Although Alex Jones has been doing his radio shows and later video broadcasts for years, he has only now began to really force the New World Order Elites to take drastic action. recently his You Tube channel was shut down. Apple, Spotify and other social media apparatuses who favor the Left decided to also shut down Infowar's ability to broadcast or publish as well.

This only goes to show that Infowars as well as other alternative media are a severe threat to the social engineering plan of the Elites to destroy freedom here in our great country.

So far, President Trump has been able to come into office and do wonders for the economy, handle Rogue dictators like Kim Jung Un, put China on notice that we are not going to be the "stupid nation" that our leaders have in the past been, as well as admonishing all Muslim countries in the Middle East to "wipe Extreme Islamic Terrorism" from the face of the earth - all while being assaulted daily by the Fake News media whores and falsely accused of somehow collaborating with the Russians to influence the 2016 Elections!

But now that all of these attempts have failed miserably, and the President's popularity rate is climbing steadily 50% over all, and 36% among Black Americans, the Elites must turn back to Islamic Terrorism in order to make the President look ineffective at keeping us safe.

In my opinion, I believe the Deep State will and is falling back to "terrorism" in order to create chaos before the midterm elections. The Democrats have overplayed their hand and the American people are seeing them for the Socialist that they are! They will somehow blame the President for his "hateful and bigoted rhetoric" which has inflamed the vengeance of  of the "Islamic freedom fighters" who are only trying to free their people from the oppression of our Capitalistic Bigoted and racist Isolationist nation under our Fascist Dictator Trump.

In the news over the Past day or so we have the following headlines...

Iran General 'Ready for Jihad'; Posts White House Explosion... :

On July 28, 2018, Soleimani posted a graphic of himself using a walkie-talkie in front of the White House as it explodes. Text on the photo reads: “We will crush the USA under our feet.” Soleimani’s caption on the photo reiterates: “We will crush America under our feet” and asks readers to follow the account’s Telegram channel.

According to the same article Gen. Qassem Soleimani

 who since 1998 has commanded Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) extra-territorial special forces unit, the Qods Force, [...] In a July 26, 2018 speech,[...] responded to a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump directed at Iranian President Hassan Rohani, stating that President Trump has the rhetoric of man in a casino or a bar, compared him to a gambler, and warned the U.S. not to threaten Iran. Soleimani declared: “Know that we are near you, in places that don’t come to your mind. We are near you in places that you can’t even imagine. We are a nation of martyrdom… You know that a war would mean the loss of all your capabilities. You may start the war, but we will be the ones to determine its end.”

Clearly, Iran is not too happy with the new President who recently tweeted in retaliation to threats made by Iran: 

 “NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE.”

Also in the news today, is the report that "Iranian Sleeper Cells" are ready here in the United States to carry out a  "a large-scale attack on the American homeland, according to testimony before lawmakers."

According to the article, Iranian agents who are tied to Hezbollah have already been discovered here in the U.S. attempting to carry out terrorist attacks.

The article goes on to show that Iran is "a direct threat to the Homeland" and supports Hezbollah which is active here in the U.S. as well as other countries:

There is mounting evidence that Iran poses "a direct threat to the homeland," according to Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee and chair of its subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence.A chief concern is "Iranian support for Hezbollah, which is active in the Middle East, Latin America, and here in the U.S., where Hezbollah operatives have been arrested for activities conducted in our own country," King said, referring the recent arrest of two individuals plotting terror attacks in New York City and Michigan."Both individuals received significant weapons training from Hezbollah," King said. "It is clear Hezbollah has the will and capability."

Apparently the Iranians are furious at Trump for abandoning the Deal Barack HUSSEIN Obama made with them, and the fact that Trump has  reinstated sanctions upon them for their continued nuclear ambitions.

We also just had a taste of what is to come if the onslaught of illegal immigration and the never ending refugee agenda of the Left is kept in play. Just in the news was the New Mexico compound that was raided where five Islamic extremists were teaching children to fire weapons in order to carry out school shootings:

Police have arrested five adults and taken 11 children into protective custody following the discovery of a buried child’s body in the aftermath of an Aug. 4 SWAT raid on the rural property just a stone’s throw from the Colorado border. The 11 kids were in various states of dehydration and emaciation, authorities said.Police said they intervened after intercepting a message from one of the people in the compound begging for help.All of the adults face child-abuse charges, and one of the men is also being detained on a December kidnapping warrant from Georgia. He’s accused of spiriting his chronically sick son, Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, across state lines without access to adequate health care. The boy’s body was discovered on the property during a raid by SWAT officers last week. The cause of death has not yet been released.

According to Fox News, it was a New York City Imam who was linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that tipped them off about the compound where "where his son was allegedly training school shooters, he told reporters Thursday."

According to prosecutors for the case  the group was training children to use firearms for an anti-government mission and should remain in jail pending trial.

And although it seems that the prosecutors presented clear reasons for not releasing these dangerous extremists (one of the men had murdered his own child shortly after kidnapping him), Judge Sarah Backus released them on bail.

With all for this being presented, my contention is that in the words of Rahm Immanuel:

"Never let a crisis go to waste, and what I mean by that is  you can do things you wouldn't ordinarily be able to do."

The Elite will cease upon these crisis in order to further restrict gun rights, and also to possibly disrupt the coming elections somehow blaming it on the need for extreme security measures of some sort, or by blaming Trump and the Republicans for their failure to stop such attacks. Maybe they will accuse Trump of inciting these attacks by his hateful violent rhetoric.

Just be sure.... The Elites have something up their sleeves...

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." - Franklin D Roosevelt

U.S. Reported to Back Assassination Plot by Israel

The New American
January 6, 2018

 Major General Qasssem Soleimani, the top military officer in Iran 

During the Cold War, it was an accepted policy of the U.S. government to covertly remove foreign leaders from power — or even kill them. There is even some speculation that the assassination of President John Kennedy was in retaliation for multiple U.S. efforts to assassinate Cuba’s communist dictator, Fidel Castro.

While it is now officially against U.S. government policy to kill foreign leaders, it was reported earlier this week by The Times of Israel that America has told the Israeli government it would not object if they assassinated Major General Qasssem Soleimani, the top military officer in Iran for the past 20 years. Soleimani also is in charge of Iran’s foreign covert operations, and answers only to Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran. Soleimani’s Revolutionary Guards are promising to stifle dissent inside the country ruled by Shia Islamic mullahs.

The reported decision of the Trump administration to support the assassination of an Iranian military leader is in sharp contrast with the actions of the previous Obama administration. During the term of Barack Obama, three years ago, Israel probably would have succeeded in killing Soleimani while he was in Syria, but the Obama administration alerted the Iranians.

The Obama administration was at the time in intense negotiations with the Iranians on a nuclear weapons deal that has provoked strong opposition within the United States. The Obama intervention, which apparently saved Soleimani’s life, “sparked a sharp disagreement between the Israeli and American security and intelligence apparatuses,” according to a report in Al-Jarida, a Kuwaiti newspaper.

While the United States has had an official policy of not assassinating a foreign head of state or other top official of a foreign government for several years (although the United States did kill Osama bin Laden during the Obama tenure), Israel has continued to use the killing of selected personalities of known enemies of Israel. In one daring operation, Mossad agents killed a top Hamas leader in a Dubai hotel in 2010. They apparently suffocated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in his hotel room, and left the country undetected.

In addition to the danger of assassination from the Israelis, Soleimani, a Shiite Muslim, is strongly disliked by Sunni Muslims. He is accused of having committed multiple human rights violations with Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria.

Since taking office, President Trump has threatened to scrap the Iran nuclear deal, and has publicly backed the dissidents in Iran, arguing on Monday that it was “time for a change,” adding that the country’s population is “hungry” for freedom.

U.S. law does not directly prohibit an order by a president to kill a foreign leader, unless the “hit” occurs inside the United States or in a foreign nation outside of the leader’s own borders. President Gerald Ford issued an executive order during his tenure that stated, “No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination.” Although President Ronald Reagan expanded this provision with his own executive order, which prohibited even those “acting on behalf of the United States Government" from engaging "in, assassination,” he did order the 1986 bombing of Libya, in an apparent attempt to kill Moammar Gadhafi. This was shortly after the bombing of a Berlin nightclub by Gadhafi agents, an attack that targeted American military personnel, several of whom were murdered.

During the 1950s, when John Foster Dulles was secretary of state and his brother, Allen Dulles, was the top man at the CIA, it was standard practice to target foreign rulers for removal, sometimes by assassination, if necessary.

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Iranian vessel points weapon at U.S. helicopter: officials

Reuters
November 28, 2016

A U.S. Navy MH-60 helicopter prepares to land in a file photo. REUTERS/Alberto Lowe

A small Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard vessel pointed its weapon at a U.S. military helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, two U.S. defense officials told Reuters on Monday, an action they described as "unsafe and unprofessional."

The incident is the latest in a series of similar actions by Iranian vessels this year, but the first reported since Republican Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 8.

During his campaign, Trump vowed that any Iranian vessel that harassed the U.S. Navy in the Gulf would be "shot out of the water," if he was elected. Trump is due to take office on Jan. 20.

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Bombshell: President Of Argentina Says Obama Secretly Sought Nuclear Fuel For Iran

Mediaite
November 6, 2016

Note from SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS !!! News: this article was originally published back in 2015, but we feel it needs to be spread near and far considering Obama is campaigning for Hillary, and both are corrupt. Please share this article.

From reports:

On Monday afternoon, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who has served as the President of Argentina for nearly eight years, spoke for forty minutes during the 70th session of the General Assembly. Whilediscussing the nuclear arms agreementinvolving several world superpowers in relation to Iran, Kirchner dropped what seems like a bombshell claiming that Gary Samore — the former White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of mass Destruction under Obama — tried to convince the Argentinians to provide the Iranians with nuclear fuel in 2010.

From President Cristina Kirchner UN speech:

In 2010 we were visited in Argentina by Gary Samore, at that time the White House’s top advisor in nuclear issues. He came to see us in Argentina with a mission, with an objective: under the control of IAEA, the international organization in the field of weapons control and nuclear regulation, Argentina had supplied in the year 1987, during the first democratic government, the nuclear fuel for the reactor known as “Teheran”. Gary Samore had explained to our Minister of Foreign Affairs, Héctor Timerman, that negotiations were underway for the Islamic Republic of Iran to cease with its uranium enrichment activities or to do it to a lesser extent but Iran claimed that it needed to enrich this Teheran nuclear reactor and this was hindering negotiations. They came to ask us, Argentines, to provide the Islamic Republic of Iran with nuclear fuel. Rohani was not in office yet. It was Ahmadinejad’s administration and negotiations had already started.

In 2010, as the Republican’s swept into the Congress after the birth of the Tea Party, Obama and Valerie Jarrett had to ponder his legacy-as Obama was facing one term.  It was not the interests of the US Obama was concerned with-but his legacy-and his own desires based on his personal beliefs.  This would lead us to take risks to help Iran, the number one sponsor of terrorism, to obtain a clear path with their nuclear program. Iran, that huge theocracy devoted to Islam.

Iran has a timeline.  As the Israeli special forces reported along with US CIA, Iran was getting close to having all they needed to produce a nuclear weapon.  However Obama was having problems with Iranian President Ahmadinejad. Negotiations had stalled-and Ahmadinejad wanted fuel.  Thus, the whole Gary Samore debacle.  When Argentina said “put it in writing”(as the rules required per the UN) they never saw Samore again.  This deal had to be secret.

Parents and loved ones of those who died in the Middle East are looking at the US relinquishing our status and interests there may feel betrayed – as all Americans should. What did their children die for?  For Obama may say he is a Christian, his actions and the actions of his staffers, like Samantha Powers tell a different story.  From the Arab Spring which destabilized the region and peaked with the massacre at Benghazi, to present day with the Iranian nuclear deal to Russia taking charge of the Middle East, Obama has done so much damage, it cannot be “accidental”. It may look like chaos, but there was a plan.

Obama now has his legacy.  He has changed the face of America.  He has emboldened Muslim extremists, his comrades the Russians, and leaves America poised for the take over by our enemies.  He may have forgotten one thing-the American spirit.  Americans will not go quietly into the good night, and now we look to place Donald Trump into the White House, which should drive a spear into the plans to completely demolish our country. Still, even with the promise of placing a real American in the White House, we are all looking at though times ahead.

Source: Mediaite

Houthi rebels fire 2 missiles at US Navy destroyer in Red Sea

FOX News
October 10, 2016

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels fired two missiles at a U.S. Navy destroyer operating off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea on Sunday -- though neither missile hit the ship, the Pentagon said in a statement.

Though the American warship wasn't struck, the ship was definitely targeted, a U.S. defense official told Fox News. This dramatic escalation comes a week after the U.S. Navy sent warships to the area when a United Arab Emirates flagged auxiliary ship was destroyed off the coast of Yemen by the Houthis.

"We assess the missiles were launched from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen," Pentagon spokesman Capt Jeff Davis said. "The United States remains committed to ensuring freedom of navigation everywhere in the world, and we will continue to take all necessary steps to ensure the safety of our ships and our servicemembers."

It was not immediately clear how close the missiles came to the destroyer.
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Fmr. CIA Agent: Obama Displayed ‘High Level’ of Deception On $400 Million Iranian Payment

Law Newz
August 9, 2016

Phil Houston is CEO of QVerity, a training and consulting company specializing in detecting deception by employing a model he developed while at the Central Intelligence Agency. He has conducted thousands of interviews and interrogations for the CIA and other federal agencies. His colleague Don Tennant contributed to this report. 

As the debate rages over whether the payment of $400 million to Iran was a ransom to secure the release of four Americans being held prisoner by Iranian authorities, our analysis of the behavior exhibited by President Barack Obama in explaining the payment suggests that it was almost certainly a precondition for the prisoners’ release.

In an Aug. 4 press conference held at the Pentagon, President Obama made a concerted effort to disassociate the payment from the release of the prisoners. He argued that the payment, which had been announced in January, constituted an agreement to release Iranian assets that had been frozen by the U.S., following a legal review that concluded that not returning the assets could cost the U.S. billions of dollars in litigation fees. The timing of the payment, President Obama insisted, was simply a consequence of having diplomatic negotiations with Iran for the first time in several decades. “So the issue is not so much that it was a coincidence, as it is that we were able to have a direct discussion,” the President said. “John Kerry could meet with the Foreign Minister, which meant that our ability to clear accounts on a number of different issues at the same time, converged.”

What was never directly addressed was the key question as to whether the $400 million payment was a precondition for the release of the Americans. The high level of deceptive behaviors exhibited by President Obama during the press conference has left little doubt in our minds that it was.

First and foremost was the evasion behavior exhibited by the President, in the form of denial problems associated with the ransom question. We never heard the President explicitly state, “We did not pay ransom to secure the release of these four Americans.” Instead, the President relied on the non-specific denial, “We do not pay ransom for hostages.” At one point the President did say, “We do not pay ransom, we didn’t here, and we don’t, we won’t in the future.” But the denial issue here is its isolated delivery, buried in the long narrative of his argument. These denial problems are classic deceptive indicators.

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Erik Prince: Hillary Clinton ‘Very Likely Caused’ Iranian Nuclear Scientist’s Death

Breitbart
August 8, 2016

Former Navy SEAL and former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince addressed the controversy surrounding President Obama’s secret $400 million payment to Iran on Monday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon.

“For the administration to deny that it was a ransom payment is a complete lie,” said Prince, adding:

When you have the aircraft holding on the deck in Iran – pilots there, crew there, flight plan filed, everything waiting until the fee arrives – and of course, the administration doesn’t do it in dollars because that would be another violation of federal law, so they did it in euros and Swiss francs, once again with America paying off Iran.

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PROPAGANDA FILM SUGGESTS IRAN DID VIDEOTAPE CASH-DROP PLANE

Daily Mail
August 6, 2016

Could Trump have been right?

Iranian state-run media in Tehran did indeed videotape the arrival of a January 17 flight carrying $400 million in cash from the United States – and the money itself – judging from a documentary that aired the following month in the Islamic republic.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been in a firestorm of controversy since first claiming on Wednesday to have seen ‘secret’ footage of money being offloaded from an aircraft.

He admitted Friday morning on Twitter what his campaign had said more than a day earlier, that he had seen ordinary archival footage of a different plane, carrying American hostages freed from Iran arriving in Geneva Switzerland after the money changed hands.

But it turns out he may have been right without knowing it.

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Iran: ‘We Welcome War with the United States’

PJ Media

January 21, 2016

John Kerry said Monday that “the world is safer today” because of the Iran nuclear deal. Details of how loud and long the mullahs laughed have not been released.

In reality, the world is more threatened than ever by an aggressive and assertive Iran, confident and swaggering after besting Kerry at the negotiating table.

As the International Atomic Energy Agency certified Iran’s compliance with the stipulations of the nuclear deal and the U.S. and EU ended sanctions against the Islamic Republic, the head of Iran’s armed forces, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, was not in a conciliatory mood. After Iran seized two U.S. Navy boats and briefly held ten American sailors hostage, Firouzabadi declared:

This incident in the Persian Gulf, which probably will not be the American forces’ last mistake in the region, should be a lesson to troublemakers in the U.S. Congress.

And Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), crowed:

American sailors started crying after arrest, but the kindness of our Guard made them feel calm.

He added:

Since the end of the Second World War, no country has been able to arrest American military personnel.

There was more. Said IRGC commander Ahmad Dolabi:

I saw the weakness, cowardice, and fear of American soldiers myself. Despite having all of the weapons and equipment, they surrendered themselves with the first action of the guardians of Islam.

American forces receive the best training and have the most advanced weapons in the world, but they did not have the power to confront the Guard due to weakness of faith and belief.

They did not have the power to confront the Guard. One might almost get the impression that Dalabi thought of the incident as a battle in a larger war.

Indeed, Iranian spokesmen have been declaring their willingness, and even desire, to confront the U.S. militarily for quite some time. On February 11, 2014, the 35th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said:

The Defense Ministry is working to ensure that the Iranian people are armed and ready to confront any enemy threat. Yesterday’s successful test of Iranian-made ballistic missiles was also a crushing response to the nonsense of the American officials who frequently threaten Iran. It is a clear answer to their military option.

The Defense Ministry and the Iranian nation are always ready, and Iran will welcome it if the Americans again put themselves to the test and face the consequences. The Americans will again be defeated, just as they were in the Iran-Iraq war. If they implement their nonsense, the Iranian nation will hand them a crushing defeat.

This saber-rattling has long been common among Iranian officials. Firouzabadi once boasted:

Iran is prepared for the decisive war against the U.S. and the Zionist regime. … Iran has been making plans, conducting maneuvers, and preparing its forces for this battle for years now.

In May 2014, senior Iranian commander Massoud Jazayeri warned that if the U.S. attacked Iran, not only would the result be “the annihilation of the Israeli regime,” but war in the U.S. itself:

[The Americans] know that aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran would mean annihilation of Tel Aviv and spread of war into the United States.

Fadavi added:

Today the Americans and the entire world know that one of our operational goals is destroying U.S. Navy Forces.

A specific target would be aircraft carriers:

[Carriers] provide U.S. airpower in combat; therefore it is natural that we want to sink them … destroying, annihilating, and sinking U.S. boats has and will be in our plans.

In February 2015, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps conducted a drill dubbed Great Prophet 9 in which Iranian forces destroyed a replica of an American aircraft carrier. IRGC commander Jafari said that the drill was intended to be a “message of (Iran’s) might” to “extraterritorial powers.”

Iranian TV coverage of the drill focused on a banner that read:

If the Americans are ready to be buried at the bottom of the waters of the Persian Gulf -- so be it.

This is a direct quotation from the father of the Islamic Republic, the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Iranian Parliament Chants “Death to America” – Votes to Ban Nuclear Inspections

Gateway Pundit
June 23, 2015

The Iranian parliament voted overwhelmingly to ban nuclear inspections as part of a future deal with world powers.

Several members of parliament shouted 

It doesn’t seem to matter what they do.
Obama’s going to go ahead with a meaningless treaty, regardless.

Israel National News reported:

"With some lawmakers chanting “Death to the America,” Iran’s parliament voted Sunday to ban access to military sites, documents and scientists as part of a future deal with world powers over its contested nuclear program.

The bill, if approved into law, could complicate the ongoing talks in Vienna between Iran and the six-nation group — the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany — as they face a self-imposed June 30 deadline. The talks are focused on reaching a final accord that curbs Iran’s nuclear program in return for the lifting of economic sanctions.

Of 213 lawmakers present on Sunday, 199 voted in favor of the bill, which also demands the complete lifting of all sanctions against Iran as part of any final nuclear accord. The bill must be ratified by the Guardian Council, a constitutional watchdog, to become a law.

The terms stipulated in the bill allow for international inspections of Iranian nuclear sites, but forbid any inspections of military facilities.

Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani read the bill aloud in a session broadcast live on state radio. It states in part, “The International Atomic Energy Agency, within the framework of the safeguard agreement, is allowed to carry out conventional inspections of nuclear sites.”

However it concludes that “access to military, security and sensitive non-nuclear sites, as well as documents and scientists, is forbidden.”