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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said Iran must be held accountable for its latest military satellite launch, which he says could have violated a United Nations resolution. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps hours earlier said it had successfully launched a multipurpose military satellite into orbit, marking a first for the paramilitary group. The “Noor” satellite — whose name means “light” — is orbiting 425 km (264 miles) above the earth’s surface, according to state-run media. “I think every nation has an obligation to go to the United Nations and evaluate whether this missile launch was consistent with that Security Council resolution,” Mr. Pompeo said during a press conference. According to a 2015 UN resolution, Iran has been “called upon” to stop working on ballistic missiles that are made to deliver nuclear weapons as part of a deal with six global leaders. However, some nations have said the language of the charter does not apply to the latest launch, Reuters reported. Despite Iran’s repeated claims that it is not developing nuclear warheads, the U.S. has maintained concerns that the long-range ballistic missile technology used to launch the satellites could be part of a longer-term effort to launch nuclear weapons. Mr. Pompeo added that he does not think that the launch was “remotely” compliant under its UN agreement, “and I think Iran needs to be held accountable for what they have done.” https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/22/pompeo-iran-must-be-held-accountable-military-sate/ |
SenecaTheYonger:Bullshit. Give us your definition of help. You've placed a country under harsh economic sanctions for 40yrs because she refused to be your puppet now you think it's time to offer them help lolssss. America should help herself first cause they have the highest death rate in the world now. |
Edusouls:The man does not have what it takes to be a leader. So childish, he keeps exposing his ineptitude. |
Mr Trump is confused at the moment. Pressure is on him to do something about the corona virus that has brought America to its knees so he just need to distract Americans from the important issue the way he tried to distract the public from his impeachment trial by ordering a military strike on Iranian general. Mr Trump is just speaking like a confused man as usual, how will America handle a war with Iran and fight corona virus at the same time. It is a lie he didn't give U.S. military any order to sink any Iranian boat. You couldn't retaliate when Iran smashed your military base in Iraq injuring over 100 troops it is now that you are struggling with a virus that has killed 45,000 people in your country that you want to engage a country in a war. Mr Trump is a clown |
Mightymanna:Mr Trump is confused at the moment. Pressure is on him to do something about the corona vurus that has brought America to its knees so he just need to distract Americans from the important issue the way he tried to distract the public from his impeachment trial by ordering a military strike on Iranian general. |
MightySparrow:Lmao |
incogni2o:Youve said it all bro. That "thank God" ehn i'll listen to that song till ............. I'm a strong christian but if you have good lyrics i'll sing your song i don't care if you are a smoker even if all your lyrics aren't pure i'll look for the pure ones and sing them. May his soul rest in peace. |
Eteka1:My brother just leave that dullard alone. The guy na clown. |
OgogoroDegree:Hahaha. Even when Mr Trump even said i heard they had headache.. The leftist media bla bla is what you guys use to console yourselves. No problem it's even on bbc, fox voa it's all over the internet I'm surprised you didn't hear Iran fired missiles at U.S. base in Iraq. Well just give me that your location that is cutting you from the world me sef need a rest from all these sad news I'm hearing everyday. ![]() |
OgogoroDegree:Oh. I'm sorry it was stick Iran threw at the base then. So pentagon was lying. Are you sure you are on planet earth https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pentagon-tbi-exclusive/exclusive-more-than-100-u-s-troops-diagnosed-with-brain-injuries-from-iran-attack-officials-idUSKBN2041ZK That's a cure for your ignorance. |
Lostz:You guys are just shouting the killing of soleimani. Did you remember Iran retaliated by firing dozens of missiles into U.S base in Iraq injuring over 150 troops some have been diagnosed with life long brain injury. Who knew Iran would do that. America wasn't even expecting it. |
beamtopola:The question you should be asking is what happened after Iran rained missiles on American base in Iraq injuring over 150 troops the pentagon has said some sustained life long brain damage. Remember Mr Trump threatened to destroy Iran should the country retaliate the killing of Soleimani. We are still expecting Mr POTUS to do something since January ![]() |
Omotaday:@ the bolded Iran has always catered for its citizens from the beginning. In the 50's Mossadegh expropriated the oil industry that was being exploited by British and American oil companies and gave it back to the people he did that because of the love he had for the Iranians but it's a pity that America and Britain had to unseat him in a coup and replaced him with a dictator that looted the country dry. America hasn't forgiven them since they took the country back from U.S exploitation in 1979 revolution. That is why uncle Sam is still waging economic warfare on the country. Don't swallow western propaganda every nation has the right to defend itself from aggression. It is western sanction that is making life difficult for ordinary Iranians and they won't give up their military programme for the removal of western sanctions it's suicidal. The military programme is the only thing deterring America from invading. |
basilico:Why would the yanquis shoot it down? They have their own sats in space. Well anything can happen during wartime but for now they have no right to shoot it down. The outer space belongs to no country under the international law of the outer space so every nation is free to place anything up there except weapons of mass destruction. |
Flyingngel:You've said it all. This successful launch is another evidence that shows that those sanctions have little effect on their military programme. Very soon America will start barking and calling for UN security council meeting on this latest launch from Iran. |
Righteousness89:Whenever Israel does things like this people would shout. Israelis are God's people, God bless Israel this and that but if Iran does the same thing it becomes a problem. As long as America continues its hostility towards Iran the country would feel compelled to defend herself. Iran sees America and its western thugs as threat and a nuclear armed foe like Israel in the region will only make the country to go on the defensive. Iran is not out there to bully any country project like this has kept America and other hostile actors from invading the Islamic republic. They will continue to advance their military programme to defend themselves. |
Nbote:Exactly. Sanctions or no sanction they are hell bent on advancing their military capability. The country has good scientists only God knows how far they would have gone without these crippling sanctions. |
ignis:For intelligence gathering and the ability to guide intercontinental ballistic missiles to their target in the near future if they are ready to build them. As world powers are eyeing the outer space for power projection regional actor like Iran does not want to be left out. Iran now has the ability to spy on any country from the outer space. |
Iran has announced it successfully launched the country's first military reconnaissance satellite after months of failures, a programme the United States alleges is a cover for missile development.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/iran-launches-military-satellite-200422062126491.html
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E b lyk say Lagos sef go sue China ![]() |
Rest on Dagrin, Barrack Ogrin, Akogun loju ogun. I'll be playing his "Thank God" with Omawumi today. You remain a legend. Thank you Dagrin. mynd44 lalasticlala |
A Russian Su-35 fighter jet conducted an "unsafe" intercept on Sunday of a US Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime reconnaissance aircraft operating over the Mediterranean Sea, the US Navy said in a statement. For the second time in just four days, a Russian fighter jet conducted an "unsafe" intercept of a US aircraft over the Mediterranean Sea, the US Navy said Sunday. According to a Navy press release , in a period of roughly an hour and a half on Sunday, a Russian Su-35 fighter twice intercepted a US Navy P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft operating in international airspace over the Mediterranean. While the first intercept was acceptable, the Navy considered the second to be "unsafe and unprofessional." During the risky intercept, the Navy says the Russian fighter executed a "high-speed, high-powered maneuver that decreased aircraft separation to within 25 feet, directly in front of the P-8A, exposing the US aircraft to wake turbulence and jet exhaust." The P-8A descended in order to create space between it and the Russian fighter jet. The Navy accused the Russian pilot of "seriously jeopardizing the safety of flight of both aircraft." The service captured the incident on video. Sunday's intercept follows a similar incident on April 15, when a Russian Su-35 intercepted a P-8A over the Mediterranean, conducting "a high-speed, inverted maneuver, 25 ft. directly in front of the mission aircraft," the Navy said in a statement issued at the time. The Navy said the actions of the Russian aircraft were "irresponsible" and accused Russia of putting "our pilots and crew at risk." In both cases, the Navy said, the US aircraft did not provoke the Russian fighters. https://www.businessinsider.com/video-russian-fighter-jet-unsafe-intercept-of-us-navy-aircraft-2020-4 |
IMO01:Yea you are right, i once read about the Berbers that conquered the Iberian peninsula. People like Tarif Ibn Malik and Tarq Ibn Ziyad. According to English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-1794). Tarif accompanied by 400 African berbers successfully carried out mission in South Iberia. An important port city in Tarifa in southern Spain is named after him. This city was the first port in history where fees were charged from merchants for the use of berths. This is where the term "tariff" comes from. On the basis of Tarif's intelligence operation, Arab general also of Berberian origin from the Nafza tribe, Tariq ibn Ziyad (670-720) Tariq commanded an army of 10,000 people, mostly berbers from Sanhaji union. In 711, brave Tariq with his expeditionary forces of 7,000 berbers crossed the strait and landed near a rock that was latwr named in his honour, Gibraltar. The word "Gibraltar" is a hispanicized version of an Arab phrase "Jabal Tariq". In August of 711, Tariq won a decisive victory over the European army. Topic like this should be making front page but NL mods won't do the needful. |
tempex88:She fit be christ embassy member na. Na dem dey dress like dat to do evangelism. |
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Amujale:Imhotep the greatest sage of all time. |
Evangelist Dino Melaye |
Olominira:Don't mind the hypocrite. |
The U.S. Space Command said Wednesday it is tracking a direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missile test Russia conducted to prove if it can interfere with or destroy satellites in low earth orbit. "Russia's DA-ASAT test provides yet another example that the threats to U.S. and allied space systems are real, serious and growing," Gen. John "Jay" Raymond, SPACECOM commander and U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations, said in a released statement. "The United States is ready and committed to deterring aggression and defending the nation, our allies, and U.S. interests from hostile acts in space." Space Command officials said the most recent test follows unprofessional behavior observed in February when two Russian satellites, Cosmos 2542 and 2543, tailed an American satellite, USA 245, also known as the KH-11. Time Magazine reported the Russian satellites loitered within 100 miles of KH-11, activity Raymond called "unusual and disturbing," similar to Russia's past risky, high-velocity confrontations in international airspace. The U.S. Space Command said Wednesday it is tracking a direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missile test Russia conducted to prove if it can interfere with or destroy satellites in low earth orbit. "Russia's DA-ASAT test provides yet another example that the threats to U.S. and allied space systems are real, serious and growing," Gen. John "Jay" Raymond, SPACECOM commander and U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations, said in a released statement. "The United States is ready and committed to deterring aggression and defending the nation, our allies, and U.S. interests from hostile acts in space." Space Command officials said the most recent test follows unprofessional behavior observed in February when two Russian satellites, Cosmos 2542 and 2543, tailed an American satellite, USA 245, also known as the KH-11. Time Magazine reported the Russian satellites loitered within 100 miles of KH-11, activity Raymond called "unusual and disturbing," similar to Russia's past risky, high-velocity confrontations in international airspace. "This test is further proof of Russia's hypocritical advocacy of outer space arms control proposals designed to restrict the capabilities of the United States while clearly having no intention of halting their counterspace weapons programs," Raymond said. After its deactivation in 2002, Space Command reactivated in August to become the military's 11th combatant command. "Space is critical to all nations and our way of life. The demands on space systems continue in this time of crisis where global logistics, transportation and communication are key to defeating the COVID-19 pandemic," Raymond said. "It is a shared interest and responsibility of all spacefaring nations to create safe, stable and operationally sustainable conditions for space activities, including commercial, civil and national security activities." The Russian test follows two new reports that infer disruptive anti-satellite actions by adversary nations are on the rise. According to a March 30 Center for Strategic and International Studies analysis, "Space Threat Assessment 2020," more countries, including big players like the U.S., Russia and China, are launching or experimenting with next-generation technologies in space; some are gradually normalizing non-kinetic ways to disrupt operations. Those methods include disguising information and communications through GPS spoofing, jamming connections and even dazzling, or blinding, satellites with lasers. The report warned of increased co-orbital adversary activity, such as close inspection of satellites in geostationary orbit, and said that "the rate of satellite jamming and spoofing incidents will only increase as these capabilities continue to proliferate and become more sophisticated in the coming years." That report followed another study released last month by the Secure World Foundation, which stated countries around the world should not discount the reality that some bad actors may be stepping up both offensive and defensive measures in space. "The evidence shows significant research and development of a broad range of kinetic (destructive) and non-kinetic counter-space capabilities in multiple countries," according to the annual Global Counterspace Capabilities study, as reported by Space News. According to a 2019 SWF report, Russia has been working on stepping up its on-orbit experiments -- to include anti satellite weapons -- since at least 2011. Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-space-command-denounces-russian-215709476.html
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The US Navy released video that it says shows Iranian naval vessels repeatedly conducting "dangerous and harassing approaches" towards US Navy warships in the North Arabian Sea on Wednesday and claimed that one Iranian vessel came within 10 yards of colliding with a US ship. The video of the incident appears to show multiple Iranian flagged vessels, with men manning guns at the front of those ships, passing in front of a US naval vessel. The guns do not appear to be pointed at the ship, which sounds a horn multiple times as the Iranian vessels approach. According to a statement from US Central Command, 11 Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy vessels "repeatedly conducted dangerous and harassing approaches" of the USS Lewis B. Puller, USS Paul Hamilton, USS Firebolt, USS Sirocco, USCGC Wrangell and USCGC Maui "while the US vessels were conducting joint integration operations with US Army AH-64E Apache attack helicopters in the international waters of the North Arabian Gulf." "The IRGCN vessels repeatedly crossed the bows and sterns of the U.S. vessels at extremely close range and high speeds, including multiple crossings of the Puller with a 50-yard closest point of approach (CPA) and within 10 yards of Maui's bow," the statement said. The dangerous encounter comes as tensions between Iran and the US remain high after more than a year of the Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign against Tehran and its January killing of Iran's second most powerful leader, Gen. Qasem Soleimani. President Donald Trump tweeted in early April that the US believed that "Iran or its proxies are planning a sneak attack on U.S. troops and/or assets in Iraq" and warned that "if this happens, Iran will pay a very heavy price, indeed!" US military commanders have developed options for Trump to respond in the event of other incidents, according to two defense officials. In the meantime, Iranian leaders have accused the US of economic terrorism, saying Washington's sanctions have made it hard to get medical supplies even as the country struggles with the coronavirus. Most recently, the US has moved to block the International Monetary Fund from providing aid to Iran to respond to the pandemic. Wednesday's Navy statement said US crews "issued multiple warnings via bridge-to-bridge radio, five short blasts from the ships' horns and long range acoustic noise maker devices, but received no response" from the Iranian vessels for approximately one hour until they "responded to the bridge-to-bridge radio queries, then maneuvered away from the U.S. ships and opened distance between them." CNN has asked the Iranian government for comment. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday that the US has been closely monitoring the behavior of Iran and other adversaries amid the coronavirus pandemic. "While we continue to support the whole-of-nation, whole-of-government response to this global pandemic, we continue our very important national security missions such as performing counterterrorism missions from Africa through the Middle East to Afghanistan; conducting freedom-of-navigation operations and patrolling the high seas to ensure freedom of navigation around the globe; monitoring North Korean weapons tests; improving our defensive posture in Iraq; escorting Russian bombers out of U.S. airspace; deterring Iranian bad behavior," Milley said at a Pentagon press conference. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/15/politics/us-iran-ships-arabian-sea/index.html
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beardlessdude:I have the hard copy but let me search internet for the electronic version. |
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