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| Carole Ghosn : « Mon mari est victime d’un complot » Posted: 07 Jan 2020 11:02 PM PST
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| الموقع الإلكتروني لجريدة المنتخب Posted: 07 Jan 2020 10:52 PM PST
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| Boycotts and blame: 'Black and Tans event' descends into farce Posted: 07 Jan 2020 10:34 PM PST
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| News Alert: Ukraine-bound Boeing passenger plane with at least 170 people onboard crashes in Iran Posted: 07 Jan 2020 08:45 PM PST
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| Ugly Betty creator Silvio Horta found dead at 45 Posted: 07 Jan 2020 05:08 PM PST
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| Meghan Markle and Prince Harry step out for their first appearance of the year — to thank Canada Posted: 07 Jan 2020 04:32 PM PST
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| News Alert: More than 12 Iranian missiles launched at two U.S. bases in Iraq, Pentagon confirms Posted: 07 Jan 2020 04:31 PM PST
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| Countering Iran’s Asymmetric Way of War Posted: 07 Jan 2020 03:29 PM PST
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| Russian Reactions to the U.S. Strike (Borshchevskaya | Policy Alert) Posted: 07 Jan 2020 02:17 PM PST RUSSIAN REACTIONS TO THE U.S. STRIKE ON SOLEIMANI by Anna Borshchevskaya Policy Alert State officials and media are condemning the incident, but Putin is well aware that his fragile role as regional mediator depends on treading carefully around Washington's unpredictability. In the days since the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, officials in Moscow have lamented his loss and decried the U.S. operation as an “adventurous” move that will lead to regional destabilization. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the strike a gross violation of international norms, much like his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif. Senator Alexey Pushkov tweeted that the killing was an American attempt to maintain its grip Iraq after “losing” Syria; he also argued that the United States is closer to war with Iran than it has been in the past forty years. President Vladimir Putin has yet to address the crisis publicly, though a Kremlin statement noted that he spoke over the phone with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron after the strike. According to the statement, Macron initiated the call, and both leaders expressed “concern” over the killing. Putin also invited German chancellor Angela Merkel to visit Moscow for discussions on Iran. In the meantime, he made a surprise trip to Damascus today—purportedly to highlight improvements in “restoring Syrian statehood and territorial integrity,” but more likely due to his concerns about fallout from the Soleimani situation. In carrying out Russian policy in the Middle East, Putin has always leaned closer to the Iran-Syria bloc. In particular, deploying forces to protect the Assad regime has brought the Russian-Iranian partnership to unprecedented heights. Putin ordered that move in September 2015, only a few months after Soleimani visited Moscow and presumably helped shape the intervention’s first steps. Fast-forward four years and Russia is still defending Iran’s military presence in Syria, as seen last June when top security advisor Nikolai Patrushev reiterated that stance at a U.S.-Russia-Israel summit in Jerusalem. It comes as no surprise, then, that Russia’s state-controlled press is now highlighting Soleimani’s domestic Iranian reputation as a hero who fought the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. Moscow’s condemnation of the American strike is equally predictable. Putin fears what he perceives as a U.S.-led campaign of regime change around the world, including within Russia itself, and that fear colors his interpretation of U.S. actions. Moreover, being able to predict the moves of rival nations is important to the Kremlin. Thus, Soleimani’s unexpected killing was unnerving both as a possible harbinger of Iranian regime change and as a testament to American unpredictability. Despite the state’s far-reaching control over media coverage of the assassination, some Russian commentators have gone against the grain. Boris Vishnevsky, a deputy from the liberal opposition party Yabloko, wrote that Moscow should not accuse others of breaching international law and killing sovereign officials given its own annexation of Crimea, its assassination-by-poison plots in foreign countries, and its elimination of Chechen officials after signing peace agreements with them. Leonid Gozman, another opposition politician, wrote that America “should be thanked” for taking Soleimani out because he was guilty of killing people and threatening to destroy other states. Journalist Arkady Dubnov offered a different take, suggesting that Moscow’s official reaction hides a more complex reality. According to him, the Kremlin received news of Soleimani’s killing with a mixture of “satisfaction, envy, and admiration”— satisfaction because his elimination will weaken Iran’s position in the region and thus elevate Russia’s; envy because the United States demonstrated it is still the leader of the global order; and admiration because the operation was “efficient, targeted, and lightning fast.” Yet the most relevant question remains unanswered: what will Moscow actually do besides warn of “grave consequences”? Some in the U.S. government and abroad believe that Russia and Iran have increasingly been competing against one another in Syria. On the military front, Syria’s irregular National Defense Forces and Shia militias have become more beholden to Tehran, while the Assad regime’s regular army forces are still working closely with Moscow. On the economic front, Moscow monopolized Syria’s phosphate industry in June 2018 and reportedly pushed Iran out of that market. Despite such competition, there were no indications prior to Soleimani’s death that Moscow wanted to push Iranian forces out of Syria (assuming it was even capable of doing so). Whatever the complexities of their bilateral relationship, Russia and Iran’s common geostrategic goal of reducing American influence has kept them together and will likely continue to do so in the future, despite their tactical differences and periodic friction. Yet Soleimani’s killing will still present challenges to Putin given his reliance on Iran’s help in propping up Bashar al-Assad. If Iran is weakened, Moscow risks getting bogged down in the type of costly quagmire it has worked hard to avoid. Recent articles in state-run media indicate that this issue is on the Kremlin’s mind; for instance, RIA Novosti quoted Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi’s statement that Soleimani’s death will not affect bilateral coordination in Syria. Yet Putin’s biggest worry right now is who the United States might come after next. Despite his unequivocal support for Assad’s “legitimate” government, Putin generally presents himself as a neutral arbiter in the Middle East, and going too far in openly supporting Iran or any other side risks upsetting that balance. Thus, even amid the chorus of anger over Soleimani’s killing, RIA Novosti took care to highlight that regional players Bahrain, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia have each called for restraint despite their “difference in positions...regarding Iran.” Going forward, Putin will likely keep trying to play mediator, contrasting his efforts with the instability and conflict that the United States supposedly brings. His success may depend on how Washington manages the aftermath of its hit on Soleimani. And insofar as Moscow can burnish its powerbroker credentials without committing too many resources, Soleimani’s death might also give it further leverage over Iran in Syria. All in all, however, the latest twist leaves Putin with more problems than opportunities Anna Borshchevskaya is a senior fellow at The Washington Institute and author of its 2019 paper “Shifting Landscape: Russia’s Military Role in the Middle East.”THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY 1111 19TH STREET NW, SUITE 500 WASHINGTON, DC 20036 202-452-0650 202-223-5364 (fax) www.washingtoninstitute.org Copyright 2020. All rights reserved. Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook.   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Canada relocates troops from Iraq to Kuwait amid safety concerns Posted: 07 Jan 2020 01:58 PM PST
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| BREAKING NEWS: Rep. Duncan Hunter resigns from Congress Posted: 07 Jan 2020 01:45 PM PST GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter formally submitted his resignation letter to Congress, a month after the California lawmaker pleaded guilty to conspiracy to misuse campaign funds. Hunter had said he would leave Congress after the holidays. His resignation will take effect Jan. 13, according to a copy of the letter sent to Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/07/rep-duncan-hunter-resigns-from-congress-095725 To change your alert settings, please go to https://secure.politico.com/newsletter-settings This email was sent to kamal.sahim5.news@blogger.com by: POLITICO, LLC 1000 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA, 22209, USA  Please click here and follow the steps to unsubscribe.  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iran Wants Revenge, But May Need Restraint Instead (Henderson | The Hill) Posted: 07 Jan 2020 11:45 AM PST IRAN MAY WANT REVENGE FOR SOLEIMANI, BUT IT MAY NEED RESTRAINT INSTEAD by Simon Henderson The Hill The incident might convince Khamenei and his advisors that their meddling in the Middle East is jeopardizing the regime's domestic stability. Iran’s Supreme Leader has promised “hard revenge” for the killing of commander Qassem Soleimani. We don’t know whether, in Shia Islam, revenge is a dish best served cold—but it would be foolish not to expect an early response. The oil market signaled fears of interruption, with Brent crude hitting a six-month high of $69 per barrel and U.S. crude climbing marginally less in percentage terms. Last September’s devastating attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq processing plant is an indication of what Iran can do. The response, so far, of the Gulf states has been understandably cautious... Simon Henderson is the Baker Fellow and director of the Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy at The Washington Institute. THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY 1111 19TH STREET NW, SUITE 500 WASHINGTON, DC 20036 202-452-0650 202-223-5364 (fax) www.washingtoninstitute.org Copyright 2020. All rights reserved. Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook.   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Who Is Esmail Qaani, Iran’s New Qods Force Commander? (Alfoneh | PolicyWatch 3236) Posted: 07 Jan 2020 10:42 AM PST WHO IS ESMAIL QAANI, THE NEW CHIEF COMMANDER OF IRAN'S QODS FORCE? by Ali Alfoneh PolicyWatch 3236 Given the IRGC's recent restructuring, the Qods Force will likely see more continuity than change under Qaani, though his bureaucratic background is a far cry from Soleimani's brand of charismatic, risky leadership. On January 3, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appointed Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani as chief commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force, just hours after his predecessor, Qasem Soleimani, was killed by a U.S. drone strike. The new commander’s background and military activities are not nearly as well known as Soleimani’s, so taking a closer look at them can help determine whether and how the IRGC’s main extraterritorial branch might change under his leadership. EARLY LIFE AND MILITARY BACKGROUND Interestingly, even the basic details of Qaani’s birth are a matter of dispute. According to the short biography released by the Islamic Republic News Agency, he is a native of Mashhad, but the opposition Green Movement claims he was born in Bojnourd. The IRNA report also indicates he was born in 1959, which would make him around sixty-one years old—but the U.S. Treasury Department claimed he was born in 1957 when designating him as a terrorist in 2012 (an action spurred by his alleged role in financing Qods Force arms shipments to Gambia). Persian-language open-source material does not provide much information about Qaani’s family background, but he appears to have at least one son, Ali Qaani, who was a student of electrical engineering at the Mashhad branch of Azad University in 2010. According to the Green Movement, Ali was arrested for participating in anti-government rallies in 2009 at university campuses in Mashhad, a claim his father dismissed. Most biographies of Islamic Republic officials include detailed commentary on their contributions to the 1979 revolution, but not so with Qaani. In a rare autobiographical interview published in the October 2015 edition of the news journal Ramz-e Obour, he admitted he did not play a prominent role: “I was present [in the revolution] like the rest of the people.” Just as remarkably, he admitted he did not join the ranks of the revolutionaries right away—instead, he enlisted with the local branch of the nascent IRGC in his native Khorasan region in March 1980, a full year after the revolution, but a few months prior to the Iraqi invasion. At the time, the Khorasan branch of the IRGC was led by a command council composed of young local clerics, including Ali Khamenei. There is no evidence of a direct relationship between Qaani and Khamenei at that point, but the two were destined to get to know each other. According to the Ramz-e Obour interview, Qaani was then sent to Tehran, where he underwent thirty-five days of paramilitary training at the IRGC garrison in Saadabad, currently known as Imam Ali Garrison. The training was probably carried out by officers of the 23rd Airborne Special Forces Brigade. There he became friends with two fellow Khorasanis: Mohammad-Mehdi Khadem al-Sharieh (who would later be killed in the war with Iraq in 1982) and Vali-Allah Cheraqchi (killed in 1985). Following his training, Qaani returned to Mashhad, where he formed the nucleus of the eventual 5th Nasr Division alongside Cheraqchi, Khadem al-Sharieh, Muhammad Baqer Qalibaf (who would later become mayor of Tehran), and Nour-Ali Shoushtari (a highly influential IRGC officer assassinated in 2009). Before long, the Mashhad unit was deployed to Gonbad-e Kavus in Golestan province to suppress leftist and ethnic Turkmen unrest. There is no evidence Qaani took part in that operation or subsequent policing of the city. Yet he admitted to Ramz-e Obour that he had been deployed in Iran’s Kurdistan province to suppress Kurdish separatists. According to the 5th Nasr Division’s website, 100 IRGC members from Khorasan were stationed in the Kurdistan province town of Sanandaj under Mahmoud Kaveh’s command from March 1980 onward. Many IRGC members who later rose to prominence, including Soleimani, served in that area at one point or another, but there is no evidence of contacts between Soleimani and Qaani. By the time Iraq invaded in September 1980, the Khorasan unit in Kurdistan had expanded to 250 men under Baba-Mohammad Rostami’s command and was relocated to Ahvaz to slow the enemy advance. RELATIONSHIPS WITH SOLEIMANI AND KHAMENEI It was on the southern front that Qaani befriended Soleimani in March 1982. Qaani commented on the relationship in a 2015 interview: “We are all war kids. What connects and relates us and our camaraderie is not based on geography and our hometown. We are war comrades, and it was the war that made us friends...Those who become friends at times of hardship have deeper and more lasting relations than those who become friends just because they are neighborhood friends.” Indeed, the two men faced plenty of hardship during the war. The 5th Nasr Division played an active role in the conflict, and Qaani personally took part in successful operations such as Ashura, which liberated the Fasil and Garkoni heights north of Meimak (October 18-22, 1984); Valfajr VIII, which captured al-Faw Peninsula (February 9-April 29, 1986); Karbala I, which liberated Mehran (June 30-July 10, 1986); Nasr VIII, which stabilized Iranian positions around Maoot (November 20-21, 1987); and Karbala V, which liberated Shalamcheh (January 9-March 3, 1987). Yet he also participated in the disastrous Beit al-Muqaddas VII operation in Majnoon (June 25, 1988)—a defeat for which he is at least partially to blame because he served as the division’s commander at the time. During these campaigns, Qaani also got to know then-president Khamenei. As a native of Mashhad, Khamenei often visited the 5th Nasr Division at the front. The two men were further connected through Shoushtari, who knew Khamenei before the revolution. RESPONSIBILITIES WITHIN THE IRGC Immediately after the war, Qaani was promoted to deputy chief of the IRGC Ground Forces. In that capacity, he was likely involved in operations against drug cartels infiltrating Khorasan from Afghanistan. He also helped support Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance against the Taliban in the late 1990s. These activities no doubt brought him in close contact with Soleimani, who was pursuing a similar path in neighboring Kerman province at the time. Open-source information does not indicate when Qaani joined the Qods Force. The earliest documented reference to his service there appears in the 1993 edition of the book Islamic Fundamentalism: The New Global Threat, which identified him as the force’s Ansar Corps commander responsible for IRGC activities “in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Asian Republics.” Soleimani probably appointed him as his deputy upon taking leadership of the force sometime between 1997 and 1998. The author’s 2012 survey of Qaani’s activities likewise found that his primary responsibilities as second-in-command centered around Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia. This explains his presence in eastern parts of Iran and his frequent visits to Qom, where the leaders of Iran’s Afghan Shia proxy militias receive political indoctrination. Qaani may also have been in charge of Qods Force operations in Africa and South America. For example, when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flew from Gambia to Brasilia in November 2009 accompanied by “200 business leaders,” Qaani was reportedly part of the delegation—a controversial move given that Brazil regards the Qods Force as a terrorist organization. After a twenty-four-hour stay, the delegation continued on to Bolivia, Venezuela, and Senegal. Few other details are available about Qaani’s activities as Soleimani’s deputy, but the two appeared to establish a rough division of labor after the 2003 coalition invasion of Iraq, if not earlier. Iran’s strategic focus shifted westward at the time, with Soleimani working primarily on the western front and Qaani concentrating on Iran’s eastern borders. Just as important, Soleimani soon emerged as the charismatic public face of the Qods Force, while Qaani apparently attended to the organization’s day-to-day bureaucratic and administrative affairs. CHANGE IN STYLE? The Qods Force will likely see more continuity than change under Qaani’s leadership. In recent years, external factors compelled the IRGC to reorganize its foreign operations in a manner that insulated them somewhat from a major loss like Soleimani’s death. Due to the high fatality rate among Qods Force members in Syria, Tehran began deploying members of the regular IRGC there, thus removing many barriers between the two branches and gradually transforming the entire IRGC into one large extraterritorial force. Even so, the Qods Force will likely change in at least one significant respect. In becoming the pubic face of a once-secret organization, Soleimani exposed himself to considerable danger, which eventually led to his killing. But he also managed to become a heroic figure capable of mobilizing many people behind a cause he considered sacred. It is difficult to expect Qaani, the bureaucrat, to emulate this brand of charismatic leadership. That said, Qaani will still exert substantial influence over Iran’s foreign activities due to the institutional power of the force he now commands. Ali Alfoneh is a senior fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY 1111 19TH STREET NW, SUITE 500 WASHINGTON, DC 20036 202-452-0650 202-223-5364 (fax) www.washingtoninstitute.org Copyright 2020. All rights reserved. Follow us on Twitter. 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| BREAKING NEWS: McConnell prepares to move forward on impeachment trial rules without Democrats Posted: 07 Jan 2020 09:07 AM PST Senate Republican leaders are preparing to move forward on a set of impeachment trial rules without Democratic support. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is on the verge of having sufficient backing in his 53-member caucus to pass a blueprint for the trial that leaves the question of seeking witnesses and documents until after opening arguments are made, according to multiple senators. That framework would mirror the contours of President Bill Clinton's trial and ignore Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's demands for witnesses and new evidence. No final decision has been made, but in a brief interview, McConnell said he would address the possibility of spurning Democrats on Tuesday afternoon. GOP leaders are expected to finalize their vote counts at their first party lunch since the holiday break and Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) said on Tuesday that McConnell's leadership team is "trying to get consensus among Republicans about how to go forward." This email was sent to kamal.sahim5.news@blogger.com by: POLITICO, LLC 1000 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA, 22209, USA  Please click here and follow the steps to unsubscribe.  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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