New threat in Corsica. A clandestine group called "Ghjuventu Clandestina Corsa" (GCC, Corsican Clandestine Youth) announced its creation on Tuesday evening in a press release sent to the daily Corse-Morning and consulted by AFP. Presenting itself as "the armed wing of a revolutionary movement", this group, whose acronym is associated with some twenty arson attacks that have occurred in recent months on the Mediterranean island, claims to be walking "in the footsteps of the FLNC" (Front de Corsican National Liberation).According...
Immediately before the EU foreign ministers' conference on Monday, Iran warns against implementing the EU Parliament's demand and classifying the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group. Last week, the majority of MPs spoke out in favor of stricter sanctions against representatives of the regime. The decision of the EU Parliament is not legally binding for the member countries.The EU foreign ministers now want to decide which sanctions against the Iranian regime will be tightened. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian...
The head of the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, warned the European Union on Saturday against the "error" that it would constitute in his eyes to add them to the list of terrorist organizations as claimed by the European Parliament."If the Europeans make a mistake, they will have to bear the consequences," Revolutionary Guards Commander-in-Chief Hossein Salami said, according to Sepah News, the entity's official website. This was Hossein Salami's first comment after the European Parliament's...
The European Union will impose new sanctions on 37 Iranian individuals or entities involved in the crackdown on the protests, but has not yet taken a decision on listing the Revolutionary Guards as a "terrorist" group, the report said. said several diplomats on Friday. The new individual sanctions are to be adopted on Monday during the meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels. "A signal will be sent to Tehran with this new set of sanctions," said a diplomat.The Iranian regime...
On Monday, four members of the Revolutionary Guard security forces died in a "terrorist" attack in southeastern Iran, in the province of Sistan-Balochistan, located near the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan.This region, affected by episodes of violence in recent months, is one of the poorest in Iran and is home to the Baloch minority, which mainly adheres to Sunni Islam and not to the dominant Shiism in the country. Faced with the "powerful presence" of the security forces, the attackers...
revolutionary court Iran announces first execution of protester A woman's hand, painted red, rises between placards during a demonstration. photo © Onur Dogman/SOPA/ZUMA/dpa According to the state media, the first person has been executed after the mass protests in Iran - for "waging war against God". According to the state news agency IRNA, a demonstrator has been executed in Iran for the first time since the mass protests began almost three months ago. The man was arrested in Tehran at...
STORY: A phase 3 study of an experimental Alzheimer's drug is being described as "revolutionary" by medical professionals. The drug lecanemab slowed breakdown in the brain in patients in an 18-month study involving nearly 1,800 participants with early-stage Alzheimer's. The data was presented earlier this week. dr Stephen Salloway is Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Brown University. "This is the first time we've had a study showing clearly positive results, a drug that reduces amyloid plaques, a key element...
A first official report, which mixes demonstrators and police, to share responsibility for the violence. Iranian authorities have for the first time reported the deaths of more than 300 people in the unrest following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd. Arrested by the morality police for non-compliance with the strict dress code of the Islamic Republic, her death had sparked a wave of demonstrations, first in the provinces and then in Tehran, which had been...
A colonel of the Revolutionary Guards, Iran's ideological army, was killed on Monday in Syria, near Damascus, by a homemade bomb blamed on Israel, which has been waging a shadow war for years against Tehran to counter its influence in the region. "Colonel Davud Jafari, one of Iran's advisors in Syria and a member of the Guardians' Aerospace Force, was killed by associates of the Zionist regime (Israel) with a roadside roadside bomb near Damascus," it said on Wednesday. Iranian...
Of Willie WinklerIn between there was one of those good news that the viewers are craving so much between war and climate collapse, and here it is: Christian Lindner is not as Lindner-like as it is always said, he also thinks of others from time to time. It was Karl Lauterbach from the SPD who brought the good news. Lauterbach may have left the Catholic Church, but as a good Christian he continues to practice charity and therefore asked for...
