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The West Needs a Strategy to Counter Iran’s “Ring of Fire”

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 April 2024

This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Iran, Israel and tagged Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, al-Hashd al-Shabi, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Antisemitism, Artesh, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayn al-Asad Airbase, Badr Corps, Badr Organisation, Dawa Party, Donald Trump, French Revolution, Gaza, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Hadi al-Ameri, Hadi al-Amiri, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Houthis, Huthis, invasion of Iraq, Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, Jamal al-Ibrahimi, Jews, Karbala raid, LAF, Lebanese Armed Forces, Lebanon, Mohammad Hadi Haji-Rahimi, Mohammad Reza Zahedi, Mohammed al-Sudani, Nevatim Airbase, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qassem Suleimani, Qods Force, Quds Force, Russian Revolutions, Sanctions, SCIRI, sectarianism, Shaaban Intifada, Shi’a jihadists, Shi’a militias, Shi’ite jihad, Special Groups, Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Syria, terrorism, Unit 3800, velayat-e faqih, wilayat al-faqih, Zionism on April 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Making Sense of the Islamic State Attack in Russia

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 March 2024

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This entry was posted in Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Russia and tagged 1999 Moscow Apartment bombings, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Alexei Navalny, apartment bombings, Austria, Crocus City Hall, Germany, Iran, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, NATO, Russia, Syria, Tajikistan, Tajiks, Taliban, terrorism, Turkey, Vladimir Putin on March 26, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Film Review: Raid on Entebbe (1977)

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 February 2024

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This entry was posted in Film Review, History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Abu Iyad, Abu Jihad, active measures, Air France Flight 139, anti-Zionism, assassination, Baader-Meinhof Gang. Thomas Reuter, Ba’athism, Baruch Bar-Lev, Benny Peled, Black September, Brigitte Kuhlmann, Brigitte Schulz, Bruce MacKenzie, Charles Bronson, Che Guevara Group Gaza Brigade, Colonel Gaddafi, colonialism, Communism, Dan Shomron, David Opatoshu, Dawson’s Field hijackings, Doctor’s Plot, Dora Bloch, East Germany, Eddie Constantine, Egypt, Einsatzgruppen, El Al Flight LY512, Entebbe raid, FATAH, Gamal Abdel Nasser, genocide, George Habash, Greek Orthodox Christian, Horst Buchholz, hostages, ideology, IDF, Idi Amin, Iraq, Israel, Israel Defence Force, John Saxon, Jomo Kenyatta, Jordan, Joseph Stalin, Kenya, KGB, Khalil al-Wazir, Libya, Marxism-Leninism, Menachem Begin, Michel Bacos, Mivtsa Yonatan, MOSSAD, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Munich massacre, Nairobi five, Nazis, October 7 Pogrom, Operation THUNDERBOLT, Operation WRATH OF GOD, Operation YONATAN, Ottoman Empire, Palestine Liberation Organisation, pan-Arabism, Peter Finch, PFLP, PLO, political warfare, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, RAF, Red Army Faction, Revolutionary Cells, Revolutionäre Zellen, Saddam Hussein, Salah Khalaf, Sayeret Matkal, South Yemen, Soviet Union, Special Operations Group, STASI, Stephen Macht, Syria, Uganda, Wadi Haddad, Wilfried Böse, Yasser Arafat, Yekutiel Adam, Yigal Allon, Yitzhak Rabin, Yonatan Netanyahu, Yoni Netanyahu on February 24, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Russia’s Hope Dies With Alexey Navalny

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 February 2024

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This entry was posted in Russia and tagged Alexander Mishkin, Alexander Petrov, Alexei Navalny, Alexey Navalny, Amnesty International, Anatoliy Chepiga, Andrei Karlov, Anti-Corruption Foundation, assassination, autocracy, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Benigno Aquino, Beslan school siege, Charlie Rowley, CIA, Cold War, Communism, corruption, Crimea, Dawn Sturgess, democracy, Dmitri Medvedev, Donald Trump, Donbas, Dozhd, FBK, FSB, Georgia, Gospels, Grigory Yavlinsky, GRU, Harry Potter, honour, Igor Girkin, Igor Strelkov, Illegals, Institute of Forensic Science, Intelligence, Iran, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Jews, jihadism, Kirovles case, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, liberalism, Little Green Men, Luna Lovegood, Maksym Kuzminov, Maxim Ustinov, Mikhail Kasyanov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Mikhail Zygar, NAROD, National Russian Liberation Movement, nationalism, Nikita Isaev, Nikolai Patrushev, Novichok, Oleg Navalny, opposition, Orthodox Christianity, PARNAS, People’s Alliance, People’s Freedom Party, political protests, Progress Party, Ramzan Kadyrov, repression, Republican Party of Russia, Rick and Morty, Rick Sanchez, RT, Ruslan Boshirov, Ruslan Magomedragimov, Russia, Russia of the Future, Russia Today, Russian liberals, Russian March, Second Chechen War, September 11, Sergey Skripal, Shamil Basayev, Soviet Union, Spetsnaz, Syria, Timur Kuashev, tragedy, Ukraine, ultra-nationalism, Valery Boyarinev, Vasili Mitrokhin, Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Zolotov, Vladimir Putin, Voldemort, War on Terror, Yabloko Party, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Yulia Navalnaya, Yulia Skripal on February 20, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The “Genocide” Case Against Israel at the International Court of Justice is a Political Sham

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 January 2024

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This entry was posted in History, Israel and tagged active measures, Adolf Eichmann, African National Congress, ANC, Antisemitism, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, China, Communism, crimes against humanity, Cyril Ramaphosa, Dreyfus affair, Gaza, genocide, Genocide Convention, HAMAS, Holodomor, human rights, humanitarian aid, ICC, ICJ, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, international humanitarian law, international law, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Jeremy Corbyn, Jews, Khaled Mashal, Khaled Meshal, Khaled Qaddoumi, Kurt Waldheim, lawfare, Leonid Brezhnev, Moscow Trials, Muslims, Nazis, Nelson Mandela, Nuremberg Trials, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Omar al-Bashir, Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, political warfare, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Russia, Second World War, show trial, South Africa, Soviet Union, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Umar al-Bashir, United Nations, United States, UNRWA, Vladimir Putin, war crimes, World Court, Yemen on January 27, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Evidence is Now Clear: Iran Was Behind Every Aspect of the October 7 Pogrom in Israel

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 January 2024

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel and tagged Afghanistan, Al-Aqsa Mosque, al-Hashd al-Shabi, Alawis, Alawites, Ali Khamenei, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Ansarallah, Artesh, Axis of Resistance, Barack Obama, Basel Mahadi, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Cold War, Communism, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Esmail Qaani, Ezzatollah Zarghami, Five Eyes, Gaza, Gaza War, Ghazi Hamad, Gholam Ali Rashid, HAMAS, Hassan Hoballah, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Houthis, Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Islamism, Ismail Haniyeh, Ismailism, Israel, Joe Biden, Joint Operations Chamber, Khaled Mashal, Khaled Meshal, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Liwa Fatemiyoun, Liwa Fatemiyun, Liwa Zainebiyoun, Liwa Zaynabiyun, missiles, Mohsen Rafighdoost, Muslim Brotherhood, National Defence Forces, NDF, October 7 Pogrom, Osama Hamdan, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, PFLP, PIJ, Popular Committees, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qods Force, Quds Force, Ramazan Sharif, Resistance Axis, Saleh al-Aruri, Shabiha, Shi'a militias, Shi’a jihadism, Soviet Union, Syria, terrorism, Yemen, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Ziyad al-Nakhala on January 24, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Strikes in Yemen Avoid the Real Issue: Iran

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 January 2024

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This entry was posted in Iran, Yemen and tagged America, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Britain, CENTCOM, Donald Trump, HAMAS, Harakat Hizballah al-Nujaba, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hodeida, Houthis, Hudayda, Huthis, Iran, Iraq, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, jihadism, Joe Biden, misinformation, NATO, Operation DECISIVE STORM, Operation PROSPERITY GUARDIAN, Rishi Sunak, Saudi Arabia, Shi'a militias, Stockholm Agreement, Syria, totalitarianism, United Arab Emirates, United Nations, Yemen on January 12, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The CIA: In Theory and In Practice

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 December 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Muharib al-Muhaji, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Adolf Hitler, Adolf Tolkachev, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad Chalabi, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmad Shah Masud, Ahmed Chalabi, al-Qaeda, Albania, Aldrich Ames, Anatoliy Golitsyn, Augusto Pinochet, Australia, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bay of Pigs, Bill Browder, Bosnian jihad, Cambridge spies, Camp Chapman bombing, Canada, Central Intelligence Agency, Charles Dolan, Cheka, Chile, China, Christopher Steele, Church Committee, CIA, Cold War, Communism, counter-intelligence, Cuba, Cuban missile crisis, dangle, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, defectors, Dmitri Polyakov, Donald Maclean, Donald Trump, double agent, Dr. Wael al-Rawi, Duncan Chaplin Lee, Edward Lee Howard, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fidel Castro, FISA, FISC, Five Eyes, Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Frank Church, Fusion GPS, George Blake, George Tenet, Glenn Simpson, GRU, Guatemala, Guy Burgess, Haqqani Network, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, HUMINT, Igor Danchenko, Illegals, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, invasion of Iraq, IRA, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi National Congress, IRGC, Irish Republican Army, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, J. Edgar Hoover, Jacobo Arbenz, Jalal Talabani, James Jesus Angleton, Jihadi John, Jordan, Josip Broz Tito, KDP, KGB, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Kim Philby, Korean War, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Magnificent Five, Marshal Tito, Masud Barzani, MI5, MI6, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mohammed Emwazi, MOSSAD, Natalia Veselnitskaya, National Security Agency, NATO, Nawaf al-Hazmi, North Korea, Northern Alliance, NSA, nuclear weapons, Office of Strategic Services, Oleg Deripaska, Oleg Gordievsky, Oleg Penkovsky, Olga Galkina, Omar Bradley, Operation REDCAP, Operation ZAPATA, Osama bin Laden, OSS, Pakistan, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Pete Bagley, Philip Agee, Pike Commission, Prague Spring, Provisional Irish Republican Army, PUK, Pyotr Deriabin, Pyotr Popov, Rolando Cubela Secades, Ronald Pelton, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Salvador Allende, Secret Intelligence Service, Security Service, Shah, Sharif Ali bin Zeid, SIGINT, SIS, Soviet Union, spies, Steele Dossier, Syria, Taha Falaha, Taha Subhi Falaha, Tal’at Fu’ad Qasim, Taliban, Tennent Bagley, terrorism, Turkey, ULTRA secret, Usama bin Laden, Vasili Mitrokhin, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vitaly Yurchenko, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Wael al-Ta’i, Wafiq Samaraii, weapons of mass destruction, Wild Bill Donovan, William Colby, William Donovan, William F. Buckley, Winston Churchill, WMD, Yugoslavia, Yuri Nosenko on December 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Iran Was Behind the Massacre in Israel

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 October 2023

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel and tagged Ali Akbar Velayati, AMIA, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Antisemitism, Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Cold War, Gaza, HAMAS, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Houthis, Huthis, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, IRGC Network, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Ismail Qaani, Israel, Jews, Khobar Towers bombing, Lebanon, media, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, PFLP, PIJ, pogrom, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, propaganda, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qods Force, Quds Force, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saleh al-Aruri, Soviet Union, Syria, terrorism, Ziyad al-Nakhala on October 10, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Iran Admits Responsibility for the 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Iran, Iran and Sunni jihadis and tagged Abd al-Salam Arif, Abolhassan Banisadr, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, Ali Khamenei, Amal movement, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, ASALA, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ba'ath Party, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Ba’th Party, Bekaa Valley, Black September, Captive Nations, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, Cuba, drones, East Germany, fedayeen, Fidel Castro, Guardianship of the Jurist, Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Dehghan, Houthis, Husayn al-Musawi, Huthis, Imad Mughniya, Imad Mughniyeh, Imam Musa al-Sadr, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, IRNA, Islam, Islamic Government, Islamic Republic News Agency, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic Party, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Issa Tabatabai, Japanese Red Army, jihadism, KGB, Khobar Towers bombing, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Lebanon, Libya, Masoud Rajavi, Masud Rajavi, MEK, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Mojahedin-e-Khalq, Mostafa Chamran, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Beheshti, Musa Sadr, Mustafa Badreddine, Operation DESERT STORM, Osama bin Laden, Palestine Liberation Organisation, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PFLP, PKK, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ruhollah Khomeini, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Shah, Shi'a militias, South Yemen, Soviet Union, Special Groups, Syria, the Party of God, Tudeh, Turkey, Ukraine, Usama bin Laden, Vanished Imam, velayat-e faqih, VEVAK, White Revolution, wilayat al-faqih, Yasser Arafat, Yemen on October 4, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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