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From Ynet News
Iran’s Ahmadinejad seeks political comeback
Former president launches campaign ahead of parliamentary elections in February, in an attempt to lay the groundwork for his return to the presidency in 2017; analyst: Khamenei using Ahmadinejad as counterbalance to moderates and reformists in Tehran.
Associated Press
08.03.15, 22:44
TEHRAN – Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched a political campaign ahead of February’s parliamentary elections in what could prove a challenge to the moderates behind a landmark nuclear agreement reached last month.
Few expect a rerun of Ahmadinejad’s surprise victory in the 2005 elections, which kicked off an eight-year presidency marked by confrontation with the West, incendiary rhetoric toward Israel and refusal to compromise on the disputed nuclear program. Many former allies have turned on Ahmadinejad, and two of his former vice presidents have been jailed for corruption.
But the unapologetic populist is believed to command strong support in the countryside, and could be seen by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a counterbalance to the reformers who have tried to reverse Ahmadinejad’s confrontational legacy since the election of President Hassan Rouhani, a moderate, two years ago.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Photo: AP)
At a gathering of his supporters Thursday, Ahmadinejad, 58, broke two years of silence, vowing to “redefine revolutionary ideals” laid out by the leader of Iran’s 1979 revolution, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Survey: Nearly 1 in 4 Romanians want their country free of Jews
(JTA) — Nearly a quarter of Romanian respondents on a survey on Jews said their country should have no Jewish residents.
The results of the survey among 1,000 Romanian adults were published last week by the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Holocaust Studies in Romania, which commissioned the Centre for Opinion and Market Studies to conduct the poll in June.
Eleven percent described Jews as “a problem for Romania” and 22 percent said they would like them only as tourists. Media reports about the poll did not specify its margin of error.
Romania had a Jewish population of over 750,000 before its pro-Nazi regime, led by Ion Antonescu, collaborated in the murder of about half of Romanian Jewry in the Holocaust. Antonescu’s troops also massacred 120,000 Jews in present-day Ukraine.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Polish tribunal to take up restitution law on Warsaw property
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal will consider legislation that sets a six-month deadline for the rightful pre-World War II owners of Warsaw properties or their heirs to participate in administrative proceedings.
President Bronislaw Komorowski referred the legislation to the tribunal on Monday. The World Jewish Restitution Organization, which objects to the legislation passed in June by the Parliament, said Tuesday that it welcomed the president’s decision.
The law would end the practice of appointing a trustee to represent an anonymous heir and take away the right of an owner to seek the return of properties in public use.
It would result in the termination of any remaining claims filed under the 1945 Warsaw Decree, which transferred ownership of properties within the prewar boundaries of Warsaw to the municipality, unless all the owners of the property participate in the administrative proceeding. The City of Warsaw would be required to publish an announcement, and property owners would have six months to come forward. After six months, the presiding official would dismiss the proceeding and the property would be formally registered as belonging to the state treasury.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Obama, Jewish leaders exchange concerns about distortions and attacks in Iran deal debate
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Barack Obama and pro-Israel leaders exchanged concerns about how each side distorts the other’s arguments in the debate over the Iran nuclear deal, and how the distortions are creating divisions in the Jewish community.
The meeting Tuesday evening at the White House between Obama and an array of Jewish leaders lasted more than two hours.
Participants said it was civil and friendly — Obama got a round of “happy birthdays” when he walked in the room — but that the president forcefully expressed his frustrations with how the deal has been presented in the Jewish community. In contrast with previous meetings, they said, much of the discussion focused on the effect the debate was having on American Jews, as opposed to the details of the agreement.
Pro-Israel officials confronted Obama about the impression they said he leaves that his opponents are “warmongers” and his suggestions that there is something untoward about their lobbying.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Does Israel give Jewish extremists a pass on violence against Arabs?
(JTA) – There are some striking similarities between last week’s arson attack on a Palestinian home that killed an 18-month-old boy and last summer’s kidnapping and immolation of a 16-year-old Palestinian, Mohammed Abu Khdeir.
Then, as now, Jewish extremists were the prime suspects in the attack. Then, as now, the murder horrified many Israelis and was condemned by Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Then, as now, Netanyahu used the incident as an opportunity to drive home the argument that Palestinian society celebrates murder whereas Israeli society deplores it.
“There, murderers are received as heroes, and city squares are named in their honor,” Netanyahu said of Palestinians after the killing of Abu Khdeir, which was later acknowledged by the perpetrators to be revenge for the kidnapping and abduction of three Israeli teens in the West Bank whose bodies had been found two days earlier. “I know that in our society, the society of Israel, there is no place for such murderers.”
Netanyahu sounded a nearly identical note this time after the attack in Duma, a West Bank village, left Ali Dawabsheh dead and his 4-year-old brother and parents in critical condition. The two masked perpetrators scrawled the Hebrew words for “revenge” and “Long live the king messiah” at the site. (Nobody has taken responsibility for the attack, which some have speculated was revenge by Jewish extremists for the Israeli government’s demolition last week of two illegal buildings in the West Bank settlement of Beit El.)
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Kahane’s grandson, 3 other suspected Jewish terrorists to stay in administrative detention
(JTA) — The suspected Jewish terrorist arrested as part of the Shin Bet’s investigation of a firebombing that killed a Palestinian toddler will be held in custody for at least six days.
Officials said Tuesday that Meir Ettinger, a grandson of Meir Kahane born after the far-right Jewish extremist’s assassination, will stay in administrative detention until at least Sunday by order of a closed-door judicial proceeding, the Times of Israel reported.
Ettinger, who Israeli authorities believe oversees a Jewish terrorist group, was arrested Monday in the northern Israeli town of Safed. It was not clear whether he is a suspect in the firebombing or is being interrogated for information he might have that could lead to the perpetrators.
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From PressTV
1,130 Israelis stormed al-Aqsa Mosque in July: NGO
A Palestinian NGO says over 1,000 Israeli settlers and officers forced their way into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) during the month of July.
On Monday, the head of Wadi Hilweh Information Center, Jawad Siyam, told the state-run Turkish Anadolu Agency that 1,130 Israelis stormed the compound last month.
Hilweh said about “930 Jewish settlers and 200 Israeli” officers forced their way into the mosque compound in July.
Hilweh added that in the same month Israeli authorities issued bans for 28 Palestinians, including six women, barring them from entering the holy site for time periods ranging from 15 to 180 days.
According to the NGO’s head, Israeli forces also carried out an arrest campaign in July in the area, detaining “130 Palestinians, including six women and 55 minors.”
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From Russia Today
Russia not planning to send troops to fight ISIS in Syria – Putin’s spokesman
“No, this isn’t being discussed in any way. This issue isn’t on the agenda,” Peskov told reporters on Tuesday when asked about the possibility of Russian military involvement in Syria.
The press-secretary also told the media that Syrian President Bashar Assad, had never asked his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to send troops to battle IS (formerly ISIS/ISIL).
Peskov was commenting on the words of Russia’s Airborne Troops commander, Colonel-General Vladimir Shamanov, who said earlier on Tuesday that his men are eager to help Syria in countering terrorism.
“Of course, we will execute the decisions set forth by the country’s leadership, if there is a task at hand,” Shamanov said, in response to a Syrian reporter’s question.
From the Daily Mail
Ted Heath ‘raped me when I was 12’: Former Prime Minister accused of attacking a boy in 1961 as it is also claimed police dropped case against brothel madam to ‘cover up his child abuse’
- Former Tory Prime Minister Ted Heath accused of raping a 12-year-old boy
- The man claims he reported the alleged attack but was called a ‘fantasist’
- Only recognised MP four years later when pictured with Margaret Thatcher
- Wiltshire Police accused of ignoring other sex abuse claim in the 1990s
- Brothel keeper may have been let off after threat to expose Sir Edward
- Scotland Yard now looking at Sir Edward as part of VIP paedophile probe
Sir Edward Heath was today accused of raping a 12-year-old runaway as police faced a corruption investigation into whether they let off a brothel madam who threatened to expose him in the 1990s.
The alleged rape victim, now 65, claims he was walking along the A2 in north Kent in 1961 when the former prime minister slowed down and asked if he wanted to stay at his flat in Mayfair.
It was only four years later he recognised Sir Edward as his alleged abuser when he saw a photo of him in the paper sharing a joke with Margaret Thatcher and Tory peer Dame Pat Hornsby Smith.
He claims two months after the alleged attack he went to the authorities who dismissed him as a ‘fantasist’ and a ‘liar’.
It also emerged today Sir Edward is being investigated by Scotland Yard as part of Operation Midland, an inquiry into claims a VIP paedophile ring operated in the 1970s and 1980s,
Allegation: Ted Heath has been accused of raping a 12-year-old boy who said he worked out his identity after seeing a picture of him with Margaret Thatcher (right) and Dame Pat Hornsby Smith (left). This appears to be the picture he described
From The Times of Israel
Teenage girls for sale for $124 — IS circulates slave price list
‘Girls peddled like barrels of petrol’ as wealthy Middle Easterners bid; children aged 1-9 fetch highest price
The Islamic State terror group has been circulating a slave price list for children and women, according to a United Nations official who saw the document and spoke to Bloomberg on Tuesday.
The prices differ depending on if those captured are sold to Islamic State’s own fighters or wealthy Middle Easterners who come to bid on slaves
Boys and girls between the ages of one and nine years fetch about $165 from an IS terrorist and thousands from outsiders. Teenage girls “cost’ $124 while women over 20 are priced the cheapest for the fighters.
“The girls get peddled like barrels of petrol,” Zainab Bangura, the UN special envoy on sexual violence in conflict, said in the interview with Bloomberg. “One girl can be sold and bought by five or six different men. Sometimes these fighters sell the girls back to their families for thousands of dollars of ransom.”
Bangura said the the terrorist group’s leaders have first pick of the women and children, after which the wealthy outsiders place their bids. Those who remain are offered at the listed prices to IS fighters, she said.
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From The Times of Israel
Iran’s deputy FM brands nuclear program ‘big loss’ economically
In leaked briefing, Abbas Araqchi tells journalists that P5+1 backed down on Iran’s terror support
Iran’s deputy foreign minister and senior nuclear negotiator has called the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program “a big loss” economically, but necessary to defend the country’s honor.
In a leaked off-the-record meeting with journalists Saturday, Abbas Araqchi stressed that “if we want to calculate the expenses of the production materials, we cannot even think about it.” But, he said, “we paid this price so we protect our honor, independence and progress, and do not surrender to others’ bullying.”
Yet, he explained, “If we value our nuclear program based only on the economic calculations, it is a big loss.”
Meeting with the country’s news chiefs under the direction of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Araqchi said the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s public diplomacy and media relations have so far been unable to sell the agreement to the Iranian people and “the national broadcasting [service] has to help so the people do not feel frustrated with the agreement.”
During the meeting, which was leaked by the Iranian media soon after, the deputy foreign minister suggested that the Iranian parliament should only review the agreement reached in Vienna, and not present it for ratification.
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From The Times of Israel
Livni: Line between extremists and mainstream blurred long ago
Zionist Union MK slams lack of leadership, accuses Netanyahu of allowing extremists to control the public agenda
Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni said Tuesday that a spate of hate crimes in recent days, one of which killed a Palestinian toddler, could not be solely blamed on those on the margins of society, because the line between the extremists and those in the mainstream was blurred by the government long ago.
Livni, speaking at an emergency Knesset session called in response to the attacks, charged that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has allowed Jewish extremists to take over the public agenda and accused right-wing ministers and MKs of downplaying their role in creating an atmosphere where Jewish extremism has been tolerated.
“It’s the easiest thing to come and say ‘it’s the extremists, we have no part in this.’ This is unacceptable. Extremists exist only when there is a clear line between them and the mainstream. This line was blurred long ago, with the help of those here [in the Knesset],” Livni said at an emergency parliamentary session in the wake of the attacks.
“The reason the lines were blurred is because there is no authority here. There is no [real] prime minister in Israel… when he has for years refused to mark the line between extremists and those in the center and when he has allowed these extremists to take over the public agenda,” she charged.
Livni’s comments came after two terror attacks last week shook Israel. On Friday, 18-month-old Palestinian toddler Ali Dawabsha was burned to death and his family members were left fighting for their lives after their family home in the West Bank village of Duma was attacked by suspected Jewish extremists armed with Molotov cocktails. A day earlier, six people were stabbed at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade by an ultra-Orthodox man who had previously served 10 years in prison for a similar attack in 2005. One of his victims, a 16-year-old girl, Shira Banki, died of her wounds on Sunday.
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From The Times of Israel
US: Iran’s threats on Israel, terror support never part of talks
Senior administration official says Israel knew these issues weren’t included, but is using their absence to fight the deal
WASHINGTON – The United States never considered including Iran’s sponsoring of terrorism and calls for Israel’s annihilation into the nuclear agreement, a senior US administration said Monday. Israel knew this all along but decided to turn these issues into make-or-break conditions for support of the deal, the official told Israeli reporters.
Jerusalem’s insistence that any deal address these issues would have killed any prospects to reach an agreement, the senior official continued, adding that the conditions that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined in his March Congress speech made plain that Israel would object to any nuclear deal with Iran.
“This has been a nuclear negotiation for over two years with the P5+1 and Iran, with very vigorous consultations with successive Israeli governments about the details of that negotiation,” the senior official said, referring to the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany. “Frankly, in none of our conversations with Israel over the years about the Iran nuclear negotiations were we contemplating bringing in those other elements of Iranian behavior,” the official said.
Iranian nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi had a different take on the matter, telling Iranian journalists on Saturday: “We said during the talks that we cannot not provide weapons to Hezbollah, and we are not willing to sacrifice them for our nuclear program. Therefore, if you want to keep the weapon sanctions as part of the agreement, we will continue with our efforts. We discussed this matter for a while.”
Netanyahu moved the goalposts
From The Times of Israel
Iran: Sanctions regime has collapsed, never to return
The structure of sanctions is ‘destroyed,’ foreign minister Zarif says in Tehran speech, and ‘no one’ will accept its revival
The international sanctions regime against Iran has collapsed and will never be restored, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said.
“The structure of the sanctions that the US had built based on the UN Security Council’s resolutions was destroyed,” Zarif told a meeting of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations in Tehran on Monday, according to the semi-state Fars news agency. “And like the 1990s, when no other country complied with the US sanctions against Iran, no one will accept the return of the sanctions (in the future).”
Zarif dismissed the notion that the sanctions could be reimposed against Iran in a short period of time, Fars reported. Such a process would need several years, the agency paraphrased him as saying, while Tehran’s return to its past nuclear activities could be done in a shorter time if the world powers don’t remain committed to their undertakings.
A deal reached July 14 between Iran and world powers aims to curtail Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for easing international sanctions.
Critics, including American Republicans, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a majority of Israeli coalition and opposition leaders, worry that the limits on that program do not go far enough, and that Iran will not face meaningful ramifications if it breaks the agreement.
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