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Former President Obama gave away the store, including $1.7 billion in cash, in a desperate, narcissistic attempt to create a legacy with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Iran is nonetheless moving forward with a long-range missile program, and late last month it unveiled the Khorramshahr ballistic missile at a military parade in Tehran that commemorated the 36th anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war. The missile supposedly has a range of approximately 1200 miles and contains a warhead weighing 4,000 lbs. ZeroHedge  reported  that the Iranian regime continues its defiant posture. [President] Rouhani addressed [the September 22] parade in Tehran, noting that Tehran would not halt its missile program and would continue to boost military capabilities, despite US threats to scrap the landmark 2015 agreement that capped Iran’s nuclear activities in return for the lifting of international sanctions on Iran. Shortly after Rouhani’s remarks, Iran released foot...

FILE IMAGE: mod.gov.sy The Syrian Arab Army and its allies have liberated an area of 8,000km2 and taken control over the entire Jordanian border with Rif Dimashq Governorate,  the Syrian state-run media outlet SANA reported on Tuesday . According to SANA, government forces fully cleared the area from terrorists. However, these reports have still to be confirmed. If the report is confirmed, this will allow the army and its allies to free a signficant force that could be used on other frontlines across Syria. The ISIS-held city of Mayadin  and the T-2 Pumping Stations are obvious targets for the government operations.

PHOTO: The U.S. Capitol in Washington is pictured on Oct. 31, 2016 Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned international news network,  admitted  on October 9 that it had installed an undercover reporter inside pro-Israel organizations last year in Washington, D.C., and that it is planning to air a documentary film based on the reporter’s work. The announcement came shortly after a British government regulation agency  rejected  the complaints against an earlier documentary broadcast by Al Jazeera, in which an undercover reporter joined pro-Israel organizations in the United Kingdom, which resulted in the resignation of an Israeli Embassy official who had been filmed plotting to “take down” British lawmakers. The official, Shai Masot, was recorded by an undercover Al-Jazeera reporter discussing his wishes to engineer the downfall of several British Members of Parliament, including Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan, a supporter of a Palestinian state and outspoke...

A spokesman for the US-led coalition announced on October 10 that the so-called Raqqah Civil Council [a political group linked to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces] and “Arab tribal elders” work to protect and evacuate remaining civilians from the ISIS-held part of Raqqah city. The released statement says that the Raqqah Civil Council “is leading discussions to determine the best way to enable civilians trapped by Daesh to exit the city, where some are being held as human shields by the terrorists.” The statement came amid continued clashes in Raqqah where the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are still unable to break the ISIS defense in the city center. View image on Twitter  Follow OIR Spokesman   ✔ @OIRSpox # Raqqa  Civil Council & Arab tribal elders work to protect/evacuate remaining civilians trapped by  # ISIS  terrorists in Raqqa.  # defeatDaesh 21:21 - 10 Oct 2017   9 9 Replies     97 97 Ret...