Iran : Note from " Blogger or Editor "

Who are the United States Citizen's to believe when they see women ( stabbed for not wearing a veil ) or a man chained to a truck getting 45 lashes. And the recent acid attacks on women is very disturbing and there was no suspect's arrested. The Iranian Government has released a few Human Rights activists in the last few months but I would like to see more released . I stay clear of any religious issue's or how Iran handles their punishment of their offender's . There are many American's that like the idea of hanging sex offenders or violent criminals.

Iran is keeping Syira’s Assad in Power, Saudi Prince tells Europe ??

The Iranian regime’s backing is keeping Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in power, Saudi Arabia's Prince Turki Al-Faisal Al-Saud has told a meeting of the European Council.

Prince Turki, chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, said Assad remained in power because of the Iranian backed militia including Hezbollah and the regime’s Revolutionary Guards.

He told the European Council on Foreign Relations: "As long as Iran continues interfering in Arab affairs, our relations will remain strained and belligerent.

"Remove the Iranians and I would bet that it wouldn’t take more than a few weeks to bring Assad to his knees. We have to negate Assad’s military superiority because he won’t negotiate until then.

"Dilly-dallying is what allowed [Al-Qaeda linked] Jabhat Al-Nusra to enter the fray. Had the US and Europe listened to the kingdom and provided the opposition with anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons, we would not have had to deploy our air force against ISIL now."

Prince Turki, the former director-general of the Kingdom’s General Intelligence Directorate, had also said in October: "It is up to the Iranians to show that their sweet and sensible talk is going to be translated into action. When and if that happens then there is a chance for the situation between, not just the Kingdom and Iran, but also between Iran and the rest of the world to improve."

Prince Turki added that the kingdom had been direct in its dealings with Iran, and had told its officials: "You can’t have it both ways. You can’t deal with us and then go and support somebody who wants to overturn us."

He added: "And this is what they’ve been doing in Lebanon, this is what they’ve been doing in Syria, this is what they’re doing in Bahrain, and what they’re doing in Iraq. So this is how we deal with Iran."

Iran – photos: Man lashed in public while chained in back of pickup truck

 

NCRI - The Iranian regime's State Security Forces (police) lashed a young man 45 times in public on a back of pickup truck while his hands and feet were chained.

The torturous and degrading punishment was carried out by the State Security Forces on Sunday in a village with a population of fewer than 700 inhabitants.

The prosecutor general of Lamrood County in the southern province of Fars where the village is located pledged to continue carry out more such sentences.

Reza Rahimian quoted by a local website: “Such sentences will be carried out in the area to reach a sustainable security.”

According to a report, since April there has been six cases of police lashing prisoners in public in the county.

The young man had been arrested on drug related charges and sentenced to 4 years in prison, two years in exile and 45 lashes.

Iran - Iranian hacker team called 'thinkers' or 'innovators'

Iran regime hackers target airports and infrastructure in 16 countries

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State-sponsored Iranian hackers have launched cyber attacks on major infrastructure including oil and gas companies in 16 countries, according to a new report.

The regime's campaign of computer warfare has been named Operation Cleaver after the named of some of its malicious software, an 87-page dossier by US group Cylance revealed.

The report said: "As Iran's cyber warfare capabilities continue to morph, the probability of an attack that could impact the physical world at a national or global level is rapidly increasing.

"This team displays an evolved skillset and uses a complex infrastructure to perform attacks of espionage, theft and the potential destruction of control systems and networks."

Over a two-year period, researchers at Cylance claim to have documented at least 50 attacks by Operation Cleaver on energy infrastructure, airports and airlines, as well as governments across 16 countries.

Earlier attacks from Iran have focussed on American and Middle East targets, but now the geographical footprint is wide, the report said, ranging from Canada to South Korea, with a notably heavy concentration in the oil-rich Gulf.

Cylance CEO Stuart McClure added: "Such broad targeting demonstrates to the world that Iran is no longer content to retaliate against the US and Israel alone. They have bigger intentions: to position themselves to impact critical infrastructure globally."

The type of access the hackers obtained inside various organizations and the data they stole varied widely. In the case of universities, they targeted research data, student information, student housing, as well as identifying information, pictures and passports. In the case of critical infrastructure companies, they stole sensitive information that could allow them or affiliated organizations to sabotage industrial control systems and SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) environments, the Cylance researchers said.

The report continued: "Perhaps the most bone-chilling evidence we collected in this campaign was the targeting and compromise of transportation networks and systems such as airlines and airports in South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

"The level of access seemed ubiquitous: Active Directory domains were fully compromised, along with entire Cisco Edge switches, routers, and internal networking infrastructure.

"They achieved complete access to airport gates and their security control systems, potentially allowing them to spoof gate credentials.

"They gained access to PayPal and Go Daddy credentials allowing them to make fraudulent purchases and allowed unfettered access to the victim's domains. We witnessed a shocking amount of access into the deepest parts of these companies and the airports in which they operate."

The Iranian hacker team has been dubbed Tarh Andishan - translated into English as 'thinkers' or 'innovators' because some of its operations were traced back to blocks of IP addresses registered to an entity called Tarh Andishan in Tehran.

The report added: "The net blocks above have strong associations with state-owned oil and gas companies. These companies have current and former employees who are industrial control system experts."

The Tarh Andishan hackers used common SQL injection, spear phishing or watering hole attacks to gain initial access to one or more computers of a targeted organization. They then used privilege escalation exploits and other tools to compromise additional systems and move deeper inside its network. However, no zero-day exploits, which are exploits for previously unknown vulnerabilities, were observed, Cylance said.

Somalia car bomb targets UN convoy near airport

At least six people have been killed in a car bomb blast next to a UN convoy in Somalia's capital, police say.

The vehicle packed with explosives blew up as the convoy travelled along the road near the international airport in Mogadishu, police said.

A second blast targeted African Union (AU) vehicles about 25km (15 miles) from the city, a BBC reporter says.

Al-Shabab, an Islamist militant group linked to al-Qaeda, has claimed responsibility for the airport attack.

On Tuesday, the group said it killed 36 quarry workers near the northern Kenyan town of Mandera because of the involvement of Kenyan forces in Somalia.

'Smoke all around'

The United Nations and the British and Italian embassy compounds are based near Mogadishu's heavily fortified airport.

United Nations- Condemns Massacre in Kenya, Asks for Justice for Those Responsible

UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the killing of 36 workers in Kenya by the Al-Shabaab Somali terrorist group and demanded that those responsible be brought to justice.

In a statement issued Tuesday by his spokesperson, the secretary-general denounced the “horrific” terrorist attack and expressed his “deep condolences to the families of the deceased and to the people and the Government of Kenya.”

Ban also reiterated the U.N.’s “full support” in aiding Kenya’s efforts “to fight terrorism and to provide security to the population consistent with international law and Kenya’s human rights obligations.”

The attack that took place Tuesday in a quarry in northeastern Kenya claimed the lives of 36 people shot in the head reportedly for being non-Muslims.

It occurred just a few kilometers from the site where Al-Shabaab killed 28 people in similar attack 10 days ago.

In the latest attack a heavily armed group of men burst into the enclosure and tried to identify Muslim workers.

Those who did not profess to being Muslim were shot in the head and some were beheaded, police sources said.

Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack through the Somali radio station “Al Andalus” in which it said, “In another successful operation carried out by the mujahideen, close to 40 Kenyan crusaders were killed after a unit of the Saleh Nabhan brigade attacked them at midnight.”

The Islamist extremist group justified the attack as a response “to the Kenyan occupation of Muslim lands” and warned that “it is part of a series of planned attacks” in this country.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates- American school teacher stabbed to death in Abu Dhabi

This image made from video released by the Abu Dhabi police department on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, shows a veiled suspect in the stabbing of an American teacher in a shopping mall restroom as seen on security camera footage in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

 

 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - An American school teacher was stabbed to death in a public restroom at a mall by a suspect wearing the traditional black robe, full-face veil and gloves commonly worn by local women throughout the Arab Gulf region, local police said Tuesday.
A statement posted on the Abu Dhabi Interior Ministry's website said the victim was stabbed Monday with a sharp tool that has been confiscated by police. The statement said the American woman was 37 years old. Her name has not been made public.
The victim had 11-year-old twins who are now in the custody of police until their father, who is the victim's ex-husband, arrives from abroad.
Col. Rashid Borshid, head of the Criminal Investigation Department, said the attacker remains at large. He said police are investigating possible motives and the gender of the attacker.
He said a fight broke out between the victim and the attacker in the women's restroom just before the stabbing, which took place on the upscale Reem Island in Abu Dhabi.
"The Abu Dhabi Police will spare no effort in order to unveil this heinous crime and bring the culprit to justice," he was quoted as saying in the statement.
The U.S. Embassy in the United Arab Emirates said they are aware of the incident that took place Dec. 1 and are in contact with Emirati authorities. The embassy said it stands ready to offer all possible consular services.
The UAE is a Western-allied, seven-state federation that includes the glitzy commercial hub of Dubai and the oil-rich capital of Abu Dhabi. It is home to a sizable Western population where foreigners outnumber Emirati citizens.
The UAE prides itself on being a safe haven in the turbulent Middle East. It is part of the U.S.-led coalition conducting airstrikes against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria fighters in Iraq and Syria.