Israel to Attack Iran? Washington Gives the Green Light to the ‘Military Option’

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 By Philip Giraldi: 10/28/2021

Some might recall candidate Joe Biden’s pledge to work to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) which was a multilateral agreement intended to limit Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon. The JCPOA was signed by President Barack Obama in 2015, when Biden was Vice President, and was considered one of the only foreign policy successes of his eight years in office. Other signatories to it were Britain, China, Germany, France, and Russia and it was endorsed by the United Nations. The agreement included unannounced inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities by the IAEA and, by all accounts, it was working and was a non-proliferation success story. In return for its cooperation Iran was to receive its considerable assets frozen in banks in the United States and was also to be relieved of the sanctions that had been placed on it by Washington and other governments.

 

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 یکی از واژه‌هایی که در قرآن بسیار استفاده شده "خَسران" است. این کلمهٔ عربی به پارسی ضرر یا زیان معنی شده است، که البته با توجه به جمله‌هایی که این واژه در آنها مورد استفاده قرار گرفته‌اند، معادل پارسی "از دست دادن" و یا "از کف رفتن" شاید ترجمه بهتری باشند. زیان دیدگان به اشخاصی اطلاق شده که به دلیل عدم اجرای قوانین اسلامی به بهشت نخواهند رفت. جالب اینجاست که با مقایسه قرآن با انجیل و تورات، دقیقا همین مفاهیم و به همان دفعات در آن کتب نیز یافت میشوند. ا

بنابراین، برای هر انسانی تلاش برای ورود به بهشت ضروری به نظر می‌رسد. نتیجه آنکه چنانچه گفته شده و ما همه شنیده‌ایم، این دنیا دار مکافات است، و هر آینه تلاش هر انسانی باید بدین معطوف شود که فرامین دینی را، که هزار و چهارصد، دو هزار، پنج هزار، و شاید قدیم‌تر به ما ابلاغ شده اند، به نحو احسنت انجام دهیم. دلیل اینکه ما هم اکنون در بهشت زندگی نمی‌کنیم، و باید قوانین مذهبی را که چنانکه گفته شد، به ما در طول قرون و اعصار توسط اشخاصی که خود چون ما تولد یافته‌اند، ولی ادعا کرده‌اند که با نیروئی که این جهان را آفریده در ارتباط هستند اجرا کنیم، گویا به اکثر اذهان خطور نمیکند. قوانینی که هیچ جنبه علمی نداشته، و در بسیاری جهات با علم در تضاد هستند، و از نظر اجتماعی نیز با دنیای امروز هم‌خوانی ندارند. کسانی را که با چنین اصول ابلهانه‌ای مخالفت میکنند، یا این قوانین بدوی را مورد پرسش قرار میدهند، همواره و در هر مذهبی نابود کرده‌اند. یعنی مذاهب شما را به دلیل عدم علاقهٔ شما به باور کردنِ دنیای دیگر، از تنها دنیای شناخته شده و قابل زندگی، که چه از نظر عقلی و چه از نظر علمی یگانه دنیائی است که با اطمینان می‌توان آنرا ادعا کرد، محروم میسازند.  ا 

Another Look at 9/11: Ask Not 'What Happened?' But 'Who Did It?'

 By: Philip Giraldi: September 17, 2021

The twentieth anniversary of 9/11 last Saturday has raised many of the usual issues about what actually happened on that day. Were hijacked airliners actually crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or was the damage in New York City attributable to explosives or even some kind of nuclear device? These are fundamental questions and the so-called “Truthers” who raise them have been inspired by their reading of the 585 page 9/11 Report, which is most charitably described as incomplete, though many would reasonably call it a government cover-up.

 I have long believed that unless one actually sees or experiences something first hand the description of any event is no better than hearsay. The closest I came to “seeing” 9/11 was the panicked evacuation of a CIA office building, where I was working at the time. Another related bit of 9/11 narrative also came from two close friends who were driving into work at the Pentagon when they each independently observed what appeared to be a large plane passing over their cars and striking the building. I consider the sources credible but was it an airplane or a missile? And I was not there to see it with my own eyes, so I am reluctant to claim that my friends actually saw something that in retrospect might have been misconstrued.