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MEAN STREETS MEDIA

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Iran's Khamenei Says no Room for Any Compromise or Negligence with U.S (Ok to take U.S money)?



TEHRAN - The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, said there is no room for "any compromise or negligence" in keeping a distance from the United States.

"Keeping a distance from the head of the arrogant movement, i.e. the US, is one of the most important definitive principles of the great founder of the Islamic Republic (the late Imam Khomeini) and there is no room for any compromise or negligence in this regard," Khamenei said Tuesday night in a meeting with Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi and other senior military personnel, according to local media outlets.

The supreme leader, who praised his country's intelligence ministry, described it as a "very important and crucial bastion" and "the wakeful and observant eye of the Islamic establishment".

"The Intelligence Ministry is the hard shell of the Islamic establishment and should never become vulnerable," Khamenei added.

"The defensive force that has sustained the country throughout all these years has been the power of faith and if this strong and efficient weapon is undermined, it will lead to many plights," the Supreme Leader said.

U.S-Bound Cocaine Shipment Seized in Bolivia (7 tons )



LA PAZ – The more than seven tons of cocaine chlorhydrate found by Bolivia’s anti-drug force in a shipment of ulexite that was being exported to Honduras and then was to have been shipped to the United States is valued at $379 million, authorities said on Monday.

The drug was packaged in large sacks and displayed on Monday at the police academy by Interior Minister Carlos Romero, who said that the total weight of the shipment was 7.58 tons (about 16,700 pounds).

“This shipment is said to have obtained an export license through Tambo Quemado ... for Honduras, where the value of these drugs would be more than $160 million, and for later shipment to the United States,” Romero said.

Meanwhile, the commander of the FELCN anti-drug trafficking force, Santiago Delgadillo, said that in the United States, a kilogram of chlorhydrate costs $50,000, and thus the confiscated shipment would have a value of about $379 million.

Initially, the Attorney General’s Office said on Saturday that the cocaine was hidden within a shipment of 22 tons of the mineral ulexite.

The drug was found in the town of Patacamaya, 109 kilometers (67 miles) from La Paz in a truck being driven to the town of Tambo Quemado, on the border with Chile, from where it was to have been shipped overseas.

Three Bolivians were arrested and searches were mounted in the cities of Santa Cruz and Cochabamba based on documentation found in the truck.

With this shipment, so far this year Bolivia’s anti-drug force has seized more than 22.5 tons of cocaine, exceeding in just seven months the total of 20.5 tons seized during all of 2015.

Bolivia, Colombia and Peru are the main producers of coca leaf and its illegal derivative, cocaine.

In Bolivia, the plant has traditional, medicinal and industrial uses and is protected under the Constitution, but a certain percentage of the total cocaine crop is also diverted by drug traffickers to produce cocaine.