Offensive Cyber Attacks Via Generative AI

Microsoft said Wednesday it had detected and disrupted instances of U.S. adversaries — chiefly Iran and North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia and China — using or attempting to exploit generative artificial intelligence developed by the company and its business partner to mount or research offensive cyber operations.


The techniques Microsoft observed, in collaboration with its partner OpenAI, represent an emerging threat and were neither “particularly novel or unique,” the Redmond, Washington, company said in a blog post.  READ MORE...

Iran Soon Can Send Nuclear Bomb to Israel

Iran is drawing closer to possible conflict as it simulates attacks on an Israeli base and signals that it could create a nuclear weapon if officials ordered it..

"Iranian braggadocio about their nuclear program is reaching new and unprecedented levels," Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital.

"Iran’s former atomic energy chief is essentially hinting that Tehran has all the pieces of a nuclear weapon in place but disassembled," Taleblu said. "This commentary should be raising red flags for anyone who thought diversion of fissile material was the only thing that needed to be prevented and accounted for with international monitoring."  READ MORE...

Iran Increases Its Nuclear Program

VIENNA (AP) — Iran has increased the rate at which it is producing near weapons grade uranium in recent weeks, reversing a previous slowdown that started in the middle of this year, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report to member states.

Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in the report that Iran “in recent weeks had increased its production of highly enriched uranium, reversing a previous output reduction from mid-2023,” according to an IAEA spokesperson Sunday.

Iran had previously slowed down the rate at which it was enriching uranium to 60% purity. Uranium enriched at 60% purity is just a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%.  READ MORE...

US Ship Attacked

Above, te guided missile destroyer USS Carney patrols the waters of the Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch. The Pentagon said on Sunday that the USS Carney had come under attack in the Red Sea.   © FELIX GARZA/US NAVY/AFP via Getty Images


The Pentagon on Sunday announced that attacks had been carried out on a United States warship as well as commercial vessels stationed in the Middle East, which could be a significant escalation in the ongoing war in the region.

"We're aware of reports regarding attacks on the USS Carney and commercial vessels in the Red Sea and will provide information as it becomes available," the Pentagon told Newsweek. The news was first reported by the Associated Press.

The U.S. has strongly backed its longtime ally Israel in the aftermath of an October 7 attack carried out by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which left some 1,200 dead. 

Israel's government declared war on Hamas, which is backed by Iran, and has bombarded Gaza, which the group governs, while also cutting off fuel, food and electricity to the densely populated area. More than 15,000 Palestinians have died since the bombing began.  READ MORE...

Far Worse Than Imagined

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Hamed Esmaeilion with wife Parisa and 

daughter Reera on her ninth birthday. 

Courtesy Hamed Esmaeilion

Hamed Esmaeilion has to watch his back wherever he goes — unable to escape the oppressive and violent regime that rules his homeland of Iran, even when he’s in Canada.  When he first arrived in 2010 with his wife Parisa and daughter Reera, Esmaeilion thought he had come to the safest country in the world.  “But it’s not,” he says.

His wife and daughter were among 176 people killed, including 55 Canadian citizens, when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 on Jan. 8, 2020. That shattered any illusions the Ontario man had that his family would live happily ever after in Canada.  READ MORE...

Biden's Policies Embolden Iran's Islamic Regime

Prince Reza Pahlavi (LEFT), Advocate for a Secular Democratic Iran, speaks at the 2023 Women’s Forum U.S.A. hosted by Vital Voices and the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society at Vital Voices Headquarters on March 29, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images)

The exiled crown prince of Iran called out the Biden administration's weak policies after Iran's president issued an ominous warning that Israel's actions in Gaza "may force everyone to act."

"The [Iranian] regime… is trying to push the envelope, trying to see whether they can take advantage of a weakness, which currently seems to be the case. That's why they've become emboldened every time the West hesitates or doesn't apply the necessary pressure, as it should have, to at least contain this," Reza Pahlavi told FOX News' Steve Doocy on Tuesday.

"Right now you have a situation where you encourage the regime that, if you take hostages, you will be rewarded and get some more cash in your hands," he continued later.  READ MORE...

Iran Will Destroy Israel

The New York Times is facing intense backlash for a report focusing on whether Iran will "live up to its fiery rhetoric" and follow through with its vow to "destroy Israel."

The Times suggested Iran was at a crossroads, running the headline, "After Years of Vowing to Destroy Israel, Iran Faces a Dilemma."

"With Israel bent on crushing Iran’s ally Hamas, Tehran must decide whether it and the proxy militias it arms and trains will live up to its fiery rhetoric," The Times report said Wednesday.  READ MORE...

IRAN Tries to Suppress Free Speech

A group of Iranian teen girls are being sought by police for posting a TiKTok video of themselves dancing to a Selena Gomez song.


The video, being widely shared online, shows five teen girls dancing without headscarves in front of tower blocks in western Tehran to the song "Calm Down" by Selena Gomez and Nigerian singer Rema.
The song was released last Wednesday, March 8, which was International Women’s Day.


Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari said the video would be considered ordinary in most cities around the world but in Iran, "it’s an act of defiance."
"I wonder if @heisrema knows that his song #CalmDown is the backgrop of an incredibly courageous act of defiance by young Iranian women?" tweeted Nahayat Tizhoosh, a Canadian journalist. "It started when 5 girls danced to his music in @shahrak_ekbatan- risking persecution by a regime that has murdered women for simply protesting."  READ MORE...

Protests in Iran

Two members of Iran's security forces have been killed in continuing protests against the authorities, state media have said.

Videos on social media show students and schoolgirls joining the demonstrations across the country.

Dozens of protesters have been killed since unrest began last month following the death of a young woman in custody.

Mahsa Amini was detained in Tehran by the morality police for allegedly not covering her hair properly.

The 22-year-old Iranian Kurd died in custody on 16 September, three days after her arrest.

One member of the Basij paramilitary militia was "killed by rioters with a gunshot" at one of the protest sites in Tehran, according to Basij News, the official website run by the Basij organisation.  READ MORE...

Protests in Iran

DUBAI, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Protests continued in several cities across Iran on Thursday against the death of young woman in police custody, state and social media reported, as a human rights group said at least 83 people had been killed in nearly two weeks of demonstrations.

Mahsa Amini, 22, from the Iranian Kurdish town of Saqez, was arrested this month in Tehran for "unsuitable attire" by the morality police that enforces the Islamic Republic's strict dress code for women.

Her death has sparked the first big show of opposition on Iran's streets since authorities crushed protests against a rise in gasoline prices in 2019.

"At least 83 people including children, are confirmed to have been killed in (the) #IranProtests," Iran Human Rights, a Norway-based group, said on Twitter.  READ MORE...

Ancient Writing Finally Deciphered

Artists and archeology

(photo credit: ITSIK MAROM)

The ancient language of Linear Elamite may have finally been deciphered, according to a peer-reviewed paper recently published in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie (Journal of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology).


The findings, based on a set of ancient silver vessels, propose a new method for decoding Linear Elamite's symbols, according to the Smithsonian magazine.


“This is one of the major archaeological discoveries of the last decades,” said Massimo Vidale, an archaeologist at the University of Padua who was not involved in the research. “It was based on the same approach of Champollion’s breakthrough – identifying and reading phonetically the names of kings.”


The language originates in the 5000-year-old city of Susa, in what today is southwestern Iran. An ancient urban oasis and the capital of Elam, Susa was one of the first places to use written symbols in its bustling society.


French archeologists in the early 20th century uncovered the first evidence of a writing system nearly as old, or older, than Sumerian cuneiform that used a different set of symbols. 

The system appeared to have fallen out of use, but after a few hundred years a new written language popped up which scholars have named Linear Elamite. The previous Elamite writing system was called Proto-Elamite.  READ MORE...

Iran Wants US to Lift Sanctions

VIENNA, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday that talks in Vienna on reviving Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers cannot succeed unless the United States is prepared to lift sanctions on the Islamic Republic.

Reuters reported last week that a U.S.-Iranian deal is taking shape in Vienna after months of indirect talks to revive a pact Washington abandoned in 2018 under then-President Donald Trump. read more

"The United States must prove its will to lift major sanctions," Raisi said in a joint news conference with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in Doha.  "To reach an agreement, guarantees are necessary for negotiations and nuclear issues."

The draft text of the agreement also alluded to other issues, including unfreezing billions of dollars in Iranian funds in South Korean banks, and the release ,of Western prisoners held in Iran.

"Aggression is bound to fail. Resistance has brought results and none of the regional issues have a military solution," Raisi said.  Raisi was more cautious than Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh, who said earlier that the Vienna negotiations had made "significant progress".

Khatibzadeh also said that "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed" in the Vienna talks. "The remaining issues are the hardest," he told a weekly press briefing.  READ MORE...

The Iran Nuclear Deal

Tehran, Iran – Representatives of Iran and world powers will reconvene in Vienna to try to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal whose fate is set to affect the region and beyond.

Political delegations from Iran, China, Russia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States are expected back in the Austrian capital on Tuesday to engage in the final stretch of negotiations that began in April last year.

Iran and the US are not engaging in direct talks since the latter’s withdrawal from the deal in 2018 that followed imposing harsh sanctions that are still in place.

The two sides have bridged some gaps since the start of the eighth round of talks in November last year but differences remain, especially on what sanctions the US must lift.

Iran wants all sanctions imposed by the administration of former US President Donald Trump lifted, while the Joe Biden administration has said it is prepared to lift those “inconsistent” with the deal.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the deal is formally known, provided sanctions relief for Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme.

A year after Trump started imposing sanctions, Iran gradually grew its nuclear efforts and is now employing advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium up to 60 percent while maintaining it will never use it to make weapons. READ MORE...

Luristan Bronzes

Presented  by Phillip R. Tucker

When exquisite bronze figurines began to flood the antique market in the late 1920s, no one knew much about them. Artworks depicting figures and animals, embossed bronze cups and delicate pins delighted merchants, who were impressed with their beauty. Inquiries have been made as to their origins, but the answers were somewhat vague. Rather than naming a particular colony or civilization, traders would only point to one region of the Zagros Mountains: Luristan (located in western Iran and known today as Lorestan).

The Luristan Bronzes Flood began in the fall of 1928 in the sleepy town of Harsin, about 20 miles east of Kermanshah. A local farmer discovered several beautiful bronze objects in his fields and sold them. Word of his finds spread and soon the city filled with merchants who bought these works of art and then resold them to museums and private collections. It was a profitable arrangement that suited many parties, and very little was done to stop it.

Great interest in the excavation of these bronzes arose among academics and locals. André Godard, the director of the Iranian Archaeological Service in 1928, described the method used by the inhabitants to detect a site to be excavated. They first found a source. Once this was located there was a high probability of finding a nearby settlement with a cemetery. The formula was simple and effective: look for a source of water, and an ancient necropolis will not be far away.  (The first superpower in history arose out of ancient Iran.)

Archaeologists in the air
The first Western archaeologist to investigate the bronzes was German-born archaeologist Erich Schmidt, who began exploring Luristan in 1935. His work at the site was innovative thanks to his wife, Mary Helen. The two shared a passion for archeology: they first met while visiting the Tepe Hissar site in Iran.

Mary Helen advocated the use of airplanes to explore sites from above, and she purchased one for missions. Name it Friend of Iran, the plane surveyed Luristan and other Iranian sites, including Persepolis (the former capital of the Persian Empire), which Schmidt would study. After obtaining clearance from Iran, reconnaissance flights flew in 1935-36 and again in 1937. Schmidt’s aerial photography would prove invaluable not only for documenting sites but also for methodically planning them. excavations.

Revenge is Coming

The leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has warned that revenge for Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s death will come for the United States from "within" the country itself.

Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Forces, was killed in a Jan. 3, 2020, U.S. strike in Baghdad, days after Iranian-backed militia supporters stormed the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.

Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, head of Iran’s elite Quds force, gives a speech during a ceremony to mark the one-year anniversary of the killing of senior Iranian military commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. attack, in Tehran, Jan. 1, 2021. (Reuters)

Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, who replaced Soleimani, spoke during the second anniversary of Soleimani’s death, which Iran has labeled as "martyrdom." Ghaani underscored the republic’s dedication to avenging the general’s death, saying that the "ground for the hard revenge" will come from "within" the homes of Americans.

"We do not need to be present as supervisors everywhere, wherever is necessary we take revenge against Americans by the help of people on their side and within their own homes without our presence," Ghaani said, according to Tasnim News.

Iran's Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. attack in Baghdad in January 2020.

He urged the United States to "deal" with those involved in Soleimani’s "assassination" itself before the "children of the Resistance Front" need to take matters into their own hands.

"This revenge has begun," Ghaani added. "Americans will be uprooted from the region."

The Tasnim News Agency is a private agency owned by the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization, which claims to defend "the Islamic Revolution against negative media propaganda campaign and providing … readers with realities on the ground about Iran and Islam."

Iran Nuclear Deal

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Iran's chief negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani says the West "needs to pay a price" for its actions


Critical talks with Iran to prevent the collapse of a nuclear deal have resumed in Vienna after a five-month pause.


Officials are discussing the possible return of the US to the 2015 accord, which limited Iran's nuclear activities in return for the lifting of sanctions.


Iran has violated key commitments since then-President Donald Trump pulled out in 2018 and reinstated US sanctions.


Joe Biden is willing to lift them if Iran reverses the breaches. But Iran wants the US to make the first move.


Western diplomats have warned that time is running out to negotiate a solution because of the significant advances Iran has made in its uranium enrichment programme, which is a possible pathway to a nuclear bomb.


Iran insists that its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful.


ANALYSIS: Could Iran talks succeed?
ANALYSIS: Threat of Israeli strike on Iran nuclear sites grows
BACKGROUND: Iran nuclear deal: What it all means


Diplomats from Iran and the five countries still party to what is known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - China, France, Germany, Russia and the UK - met at a hotel in the Austrian capital on Monday afternoon, with US representatives participating indirectly.  READ MORE...

Iran's Nuclear Program

AN OPINION BY Abu Yehuda...

Recently I have been hearing that Israel can’t stop Iran’s nuclear program, and America is our only hope. 

For example, here is Daniel Gordis:

[Former PM Ehud] Barak wrote that Israel no longer has a viable military option for preventing Iran from crossing the nuclear threshold, and that the Mullahs are marching steadily forward on their quest. Israel needs the US to develop military plans to stop Iran (Barak said that not only does the US have no such plans, it also has no interest in developing them); furthermore, he said, Israel is going to have to recognize its increased dependence on the US, and to work hard to deepen its ties to America.

But Barak does not draw the appropriate conclusion from the facts that he presents, and neither does Gordis, who thinks that Israel must “mend fences with American Jews” to help influence the US “to do the right thing” and act against Iran. Barak’s argument (Hebrew link) actually implies that we cannot depend on America.

Barak wrote that Iran’s “breakout time” – the time it will take to produce enough enriched uranium for a bomb once Iran has decided to do so – has been reduced to about 30 days. Of course there are other technological hurdles to pass before that uranium can be made into a deliverable weapon, but still, Israel’s moment of decision is closer than ever.

There is a lot of discussion of whose fault this is, with Barak and others placing the blame on Netanyahu and Trump. I don’t want to expend too many words on this, but I disagree. Trump is accused of precipitously ending the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran (with Netanyahu’s encouragement), which allowed the Iranians to increase their uranium enrichment activities significantly. But Iran was already violating the too-weak deal, and Trump’s policy of “maximum pressure” – both economic and covert, as in the assassination of Qassem Soleimani – was causing the regime great distress. The policy’s failure was assured by its early termination: Trump was not reelected, and Biden chose to scrap it. But it doesn’t matter who’s to blame; the question is what to do about it.  TO READ MORE OF THIS OPINION, CLICK HERE...

Global Concerns

The USA has the following serious ENEMIES...

1. Russia
2. China
3. North Korea
4. Iran 
5. Syria
6. Afghanistan

BUT, the liberals, the progressives, and the Democrats do not see these 6 countries as enemies to the US of A...

Oddly enough,

China, Russia, and North Korea just formed a coalition against the USA

Russia and Iran just formed a coalition against the USA

AND,

the Biden Administration is considering reducing the MILITARY BUDGET to help pay for his spending increase...

It has been reported by reliable sources that:

• China has a bigger Army than the USA
• China has a bigger Navy than the USA
• China has a bigger Air Forces than the USA
• China has more missiles than the USA
• China has more fiber optic cable laid than the USA
• China's economy is growing faster than the USA

The Middle East has SWORN JIHAD against America and to America's DEATH...  and, terrorists continue to plan attacks against the USA and/or it allies.

The moment we reduce our military we are letting the rest of the world know that AMERICA is VULNERABLE...

BIDEN's focus is on:

1. Increasing government spending
2. Increasing immigration
3. Increasing taxes on corporations
4. Censoring the conservative voice
5. Making sure conservatives never have a majority

IRAN: Tehran's Nuclear Deal

 According to Aljazeera:

Iran’s foreign ministry has rejected any new negotiations or changes to the participants of Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers, after French President Emmanuel Macron said any new talks should include Saudi Arabia.

“The nuclear accord is a multilateral international agreement ratified by UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which is non-negotiable and parties to it are clear and unchangeable,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh was quoted by state media as saying on Saturday.

Iran began breaching the deal’s limits on uranium enrichment activity after Washington withdrew from the pact in 2018 under then-President Donald Trump and re-imposed economic sanctions on Tehran.

President Joe Biden’s new administration has said it will rejoin the deal but only after Tehran resumes full compliance with its terms.

But Iran has rejected US demands to reverse its acceleration of the nuclear program before Washington lifts sanctions on Tehran.

Saudi Arabia and its ally the United Arab Emirates have said that Gulf Arab states should be involved this time in any talks, which they say should also address Iran’s ballistic missile program and its support for proxies around the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia, which is locked in several proxy wars in the region with Tehran including in Yemen, supported Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran.

A New Decade Soon To Begin

In just a few days, that too will quickly pass, our nation, our world, will step into a new decade where changes will take place faster than ever before...  and, this new decade will be ushered in by the Democrats, not the Republicans which will allow this new decade to be focused on labor and not on management...  even though there are many, many incredibly wealthy Democrats who have invested their fortunes in the absolute growth of technology.

HOWEVER...

and let me be clear...

• labor does not hire people
• labor does not invest
• labor does not create jobs
• labor does not expand companies
• labor does not create new markets
• labor does not innovate
• labor does not provide capital
• labor does not negotiate contracts
• labor does not deal with other countries
• labor does not manage themselves
• labor does not work for free
• labor does not wear nice clothes to work
• labor does not live in big houses
• labor does not drive expensive cars
• labor does not keep their money in offshore bank accounts
• labor does not avoid paying taxes
• labor does not send their children to private schools
• labor does not dine in fancy restaurants
• labor does not use good grammar
• labor cannot afford to miss a day of work
• labor does not read the Wall Street Journal
• labor does not fly around in private jets
• labor cannot afford to purchase cocaine
• labor cannot afford to purchase the finest bottled water

AND NOW ABOUT THIS NEW DECADE...

• It will be a decade of growth for EMERGING COUNTRIES
• It will be a decade of growth for the CHINESE ECONOMY
• It will be a decade of growth for the CHINESE MILITARY
• It will be a decade when IRAN goes nuclear
• It will be a decade when NORTH KOREA goes nuclear
• It will be a decade when RUSSIA expands its territory
• It will be a decade when INDIA's economy surges to #3
• It will be a decade when TERRORISM rebuilds its influence and strength
• It will be a decade of Medicare for ALL in the USA
• It will be a decade of unprecedented immigration into the USA
• It will be a decade where USA Blacks are given more and more
• It will be a decade of spending on the USA's environment
• It will be a decade of restructuring USA law enforcement
• It will be a decade of rubbing the USA's white man's face in slavery

AND...

do you really believe that the DEMOCRATS will stop any of this from happening?