es, it seems North Korean hacking attempts of pharmaceutical companies in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and elsewhere will escalate.
It's grimly amusing that they don't trust Chinese-made vaccines, given how much they depend on China. Are the Chinese aware of this slight on their scientific competence?
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Hjelmer Hammeken drives his dogs across the sea ice at Kangertittivaq (formerly Scoresby Sound), eastern Greenland, 2013
Near a settlement at Uunarteq (formerly Cape Tobin), east Greenland, a sled dog senses the presence of a polar bear, 2014
A polar bear’s tracks imprinted on the ice at Kangertittivaq, 2007
It’s -45C as this dog rises from a hard night at Kangerlussuaq in northwest Greenland, 2019
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From Arctic Heroes: A Tribute to the Sled Dogs of Greenland.
t. This was allegedly used by the regime as leverage in forcing her to help lure Zam to his doom.
“We think it was she who lured Ruhollah Zam into this trap,” Vafa Nikfar, a wealthy businessman and close friend of Zam, told France’s Le Point magazine after his abduction. […]
The case was one of several recent examples of opposition exiles being kidnapped by Iranian state security agents after they were lured to third countries. In August, a prominent member of an Iranian militant opposition group based in California was kidnapped by Iranian agents in Dubai. This month Habib Chaab, another militant leader, was caught in what Turkish officials believe was a “honey trap” operation by a female spy who lured him to Istanbul from his exile in Sweden.
“The numbers are increasing and it’s happening the whole time, and no one notices,” said Roya Hakakian, author of Assassins of the Turquoise Palace, a book about Iran’s assassinations abroad. “When in 1989 there was a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the world heard about it. Now . . . targets are not well known enough or famous enough to garner the world’s attention.”
It's obviously a message to Iranian dissidents abroad that, wherever they are, they're never safe from Tehran's reach. It's also a message to the world that Iran has no concern for the normal rules of international diplomacy, and will do whatever it wants.
Let's hope Joe Biden is getting the message, and isn't looking to follow Obama's route with some kind of JCPOA mark 2..
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of Mecca, that affirmed peace for a period of 9 years, 9 months and 9 days. In fact Mecca was conquered by the Muslims a couple of years later.
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tional waters, launching missiles at foreign states, funding illegal militias and trafficking weapons all over the Middle East. No other regime in the world does this. Iran’s point is that international laws don’t apply to it.
Second, Iran wants to deter any protests during the current lead-up to the Biden administration. Iran killed the wrestler because he had protested. It kidnapped and murdered the journalist to send a message to dissidents. The message is that it can kill any dissident, anywhere. It has hunted them down in Europe as well, and it has had almost no pushback from European countries.
Iran killed the journalist days before a major economic conference full of pro-Iran sycophants was supposed to take place. The regime timed this on purpose: It wants to see what the reaction will be. There has been some pushback, so now Iran knows that kidnapping journalists and hanging them may receive some critique.
Iran also kidnapped a British-Australian academic and then traded her for its own detainees abroad. The Islamic Republic is showing that it can kidnap academics, hang journalists and athletes, and ultimately, its extensive lobbying arm abroad will not turn on it.
The message to dissidents is that they should be in fear. Iran wants them quiet while the new US administration comes into office. No more embarrassing protests or crackdowns. Iran’s people generally abhor the regime. However, they know that Western governments won’t help them.
They have been asking for help for years, going back to the protests that erupted after elections in 2009. The protesters hoped the Obama administration would do something; instead, they got the cold shoulder and saw the regime get welcomed by a Washington eager for a “deal” and a change in US policy that would see the US seek to work with Iran.
Iran’s calculation now is that dissidents won’t operate from Iraq or Turkey, and they likely will live in fear throughout Europe. This is laying the groundwork for Tehran’s next move, which will be more military escalation in the region and outreach to further bond itself with allies in Turkey and Russia, seeking to counterbalance the US and also work with China.
font-size: 11pt”>As ever, though, the acute sensitivities of the trans community are placed above the need to publicise the permanent damage done to vulnerable young girls by unnecessary and irresponsible medical intervention in the cause of a social media fad.
