Cruz: Obama is ‘not interested’ in protecting the U.S.

The Hill – Nov. 14, 2015 - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) says he thinks President Obama is “not interested” in protecting the United States from terror attacks. 

“I recognize that Barack Obama does not wish to defend this country. He may have been tired of war, but our enemies are not tired of killing us,” Cruz said in a “Fox and Friends” interview. 
 
 He said Obama’s foreign policy has driven the world more in to the hands of terrorists.  
 
Cruz, a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, accused the president of ignoring the threats posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in light of a coordinated set of attacks in Paris on Friday. 
 
He said Obama “doesn’t recognize that enemies of America want to kill us.”
 
Cruz’s interview came after an attack in Paris left at least 129 people dead Friday. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack. 
 
Cruz said as president, he would focus on attacking and destroying ISIS and other terrorist groups. 
“It is not random, unconnected extremism, it is a particular form — radical Islamism — that takes the view that anyone that doesn’t embrace their radical psalmist view should be murdered or forcibly converted,” he said.  
 
“That’s what we’re seeing happening in Paris, it’s what we’re seeing happening in Israel, and I’m sorry to tell you, this will be coming to America. ISIS plans to bring these acts of terror to America.”

Iran - Female Journalist get's 3 year's in prison for insulting Khamenei

On Tuesday, an Iranian judge who is well-known for handing down harsh sentences for journalists sentenced Solmaz Ikdar, 33, to three years in prison for allegedly insulting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and promulgating propaganda against the state.


According to reports, Judge Mohammad Moghiseh handed down the sentence. Ikdar has reportedly worked for a range of publications in Iran, including Farhikhtegan, Mardom-e Emruz, Aseman, Bahar, and Sharq. She was stopped at an airport on June 18 of this year and taken to Gharchak Prison, where she spent one night and was reportedly hit with another charge of insulting regime officials.
Solmaz was formally convicted on November 10. 
Solmaz was taken to Gharchak Prison, where she stayed one night. There they charged her with insulting regime officials, and she was convicted by a non-criminal court and ordered to pay a fine, which her family could not afford.
Her mother, Shahrzad Garschi, said that while she intends to appeal against the verdict, they “do not have much hope.”
This latest arrest is reportedly part of a “new crackdown on freedom of expression and the media” by Iranian intelligence and security officials, according to Ahmed Shaheed, U.N. special rapporteur on Iran. Iran’s human rights record has grown significantly worse under Hassan Rouhani .
Judge Moghiseh is known to be among six judges–four with Iran’s revolutionary court and two appeal judges–who are complicit in violating international treaties to which the Islamic Republic of Iran is a signatory. Some of these violations include holding trials behind closed doors which last mere minutes, intimidating defendants, depriving prisoners of access to lawyers, and even going so far as refusing to disclose the date and time of the actual trial to the defendants’ attorneys.
These judges have reportedly also violated Iran’s own Constitution, which calls for a fair trial.
According to The Guardian, these judges are Abolghassem Salavati, Mohammad Moghiseh, former justices Yahya Pirabbasi and Hassan Zareh Dehnavi (known as Judge Haddad), and appeal judges Hassan Babaee and Ahmad Zargar.
“This group is among the most notorious judges in Iran,” Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, an Iranian human rights activist in Norway, told the paper. “They are known for their politicized verdicts, unfair trials [and] sentencing prisoners based on confessions made under duress.”
The U.N. special rapporteur on Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, told Reuters that at least 45 journalists were in custody in Iran as of this April, one of the highest rates worldwide.
On Wednesday, several United Nations human rights investigators reportedly called on Iran to cease arresting, harassing, and prosecuting journalists and other activists to pave the way for free debate ahead of February’s parliamentary elections. Reuters notes that they called upon the Islamic Republic to release all journalists.
Additionally, Reuters notes that five journalists were arrested on November 2 by plainclothes members of the IRGC’s intelligence units and accused of taking part in an infiltration network and seeking to undermine Iran on behalf of Western governments.

Crimea’s head denies homicide attempts rumours as nonsense

SIMFEROPOL, November 10 /TASS/. Sergey Aksyonov, the head of the Republic of Crimea, has described as nonsense the allegations of Ukrainian parliament deputy Refat Chubarov that the Russian security services were preparing homicide attempts on some Crimean officials.

"I am refusing to comment this nonsense," Aksyonov told journalists.

Earlier, Chubarov, a leader of the Crimean Tatar Mejilis, which is unregistered in Russia, wrote on his page in social networks that the Russian security services were nurturing a plan of extermination of prominent Crimean leaders, including First Vice-Premier Mikhail Sheremet and Crimean Parliament Vice-Speaker Remzi Ilyasov.

Earlier, the leader of the Crimean Tatar Mejilis wrote on his page in social networks that the Russian security services were nurturing a plan of extermination of prominent Crimean leaders

Criminal proceedings have been initiated against Chubarov on charges of calls for changing Russia’s territorial integrity. At first, a court banned Chubarov from entering Russia for five years but later the republic’s prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya ordered to lift the ban.

Chubarov and his associates initiated the idea to impose a food blockade on Crimea. The Mejilis activists and their supporters from Ukraine’s Right Sector extremist movement, which is banned in Russia, have been blocking all Ukrainian trucks bound for Crimea since September 20. The Crimean authorities, in turn, have said that the blockade has produced no impact either on the range of goods or the prices.

Shock in Argentina over 13-Year-Old Who Will Be Mother for 2nd Time

BUENOS AIRES – The pregnancy of a 13-year-old girl who has already given birth once before is rocking Argentine society, given that – in addition – authorities are investigating whether her situation was brought about by being raped by her mother’s partner, local media reported.

The girl, whose name has not been made public, had been living with her 32-year-old mother, her stepfather and an 11-year-old sister in a rural part of central Santa Fe province.

She had become pregnant before at age 12 and the father of the first baby is not known, but it is suspected that this second pregnancy could be the result of rape committed by “an in-law, the partner of her mother,” prosecutor Paula Borello told Radio Venado Tuerto.

Borello said that the case was opened “because the school reported it, as a result of the girl’s absence.”

From interviews conducted with the girl and her family, authorities developed the hypothesis that she has a link with an adult male, Borello said.

The prosecutor’s office is investigating “how long the relationship has been going on,” since the girl “evidently was abused earlier than the incident about which we learned,” she said.

In addition, the prosecutor ordered DNA studies to determine the paternity of the first baby, who was born a few months ago, and authorities are waiting for the second birth to perform genetic exams on the newborn.

Furthermore, authorities decided – in an unusual move – to remove both the girl and her sister “from the home where they lived” and have them transferred to the house of a relative, the prosecutor said.

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NCRI- Iranians plan to denounce Rouhani’s trip to Paris

On November 16, the Iranian regime’s President Hassan Rouhani will arrive in France for a two-day visit. A major rally and march have been organized to coincide with the visit. Protestors will seek to draw attention to the dramatic increase in the number of executions since Rouhani took office, as well as the recent rocket attack on Camp Liberty, where thousands of Iranian dissidents reside in Iraq.

Demonstrators will also address the Iranian regime’s export of terrorism and its all-out support of Bashar al-Assad and massacre of the Syrian people.

The rally will be led by Iranian expatriates, who will be joined by French citizens and international supporters of the Iranian resistance. Several renowned human rights organizations have joined in sponsorship of the event.

Cross-party French lawmakers will be among the speakers at the event, as will political and social dignitaries from France and from across Europe.

Elaborate street performances and exhibitions have been planned for the event, to depict examples of Iranian human rights violations.

The human rights situation has been deteriorating rapidly in Iran. More than 2,000 individuals have been executed during Rouhani’s tenure. This is the highest rate of executions in the past 25 years, and it reflects an increase over figures that had already secured Iran’s place as the nation with the most executions per capita.

Camp Liberty, the place of residence in Iraq for more than 2,000 members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), was targeted on October 29 by the Iranian regime. The barrage of 80 rockets killed 24 residents of the camp and wounded dozens of others.

Venue of the rally: Trocadéro, Paris
Date and time: Monday, November 16, 2015, 13:30