“Iran is prepared for the decisive war against the U.S. and the Zionist regime”

Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

“The Americans will know [Iran's true power] when their warships, with over 5,000 aboard, sink during a confrontation with Iran, and when they have to search the depths of the sea for their bodies.” Yes, this nuclear agreement with Iran certainly looks like Peace In Our Time has been secured. Can Obama be given another Nobel Peace Prize? He certainly deserves it as much as he did the first!

“On Iranian Revolution Day 2014, Commander of IRGC Navy Says: The Americans Will Understand When Their Warships With Over 5,000 Crew Aboard Sink To The Depths Of The Sea And They Have To Search For Their Bodies,” from MEMRI, February 27 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

On February 11, 2014, Iran celebrated Revolution Day, the 35th anniversary of the regime of the Islamic Revolution, against the backdrop of the start of permanent agreement nuclear talks between Iran and the superpowers, and of the ongoing struggle within Iran between the ideological stream led by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and the pragmatic stream led by Hashemi Rafsanjani, on the issue of how Iran should deal with the U.S. Revolution Day 2014 was marked by regime officials’ harsh anti-U.S. statements and by calls for maintaining Iranian hostility towards the U.S.

In two separate speeches, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei stressed that the main enemy of the revolution was the U.S. and extolled fighting it as the revolution’s central value. He added that the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was “an even greater revolution than the first one,” that is, greater than the removal of the Shah and the seizure of power by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Khamenei also called on Iranians not to be taken in by the U.S.’s overtures, and not to trust it, because its aim – that is, to topple the revolutionary regime – remains unchanged.

As part of the Iranian regime’s dismissal of the U.S. military threat, many of this year’s Revolution Day marches and demonstrations featured signs bearing the slogan in English, “We Are Eager For The Options On The Table,” – a slogan praised by both Khamenei’s and Rafsanjani’s circles. Moreover, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) naval commander Ali Fadavi stated that the U.S. would understand Iran’s might when Iran began to sink U.S. warships, with their crews of over 5,000. At the same time, Iranian Navy Adm. Rezai Haddad announced that an Iranian flotilla was en route to the Atlantic for “a first approach of U.S. maritime borders”[1] and that this was meant to be a “message” for the U.S [2]

In his Revolution Day message, both Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan and Iranian Army chief of staff Hassan Firouzabadi stressed that Iran longs for the decisive battle with the U.S., in light of the latter’s threat to use the military option if the nuclear talks fail. In other speeches, government officials stressed that hostility towards the U.S. – “the Great Satan” – would continue even if the nuclear issue were resolved, and that Iran’s smiles at the negotiating table were merely a tactical move aimed at obtaining Iran’s nuclear rights.

Following are excerpts from Iranian government officials’ statements for Revolution Day 2014. (For photos from the demonstrations and marches, see Appendix.)

Iranian Military Officials: “The Americans Will Know [Iran's True Power] When Their Warships, With Over 5,000 Aboard, Sink During A Confrontation With Iran”; We Are Prepared With Ballistic Missiles, Swift Boats, And Mines; “The Iranian Nation Will Hand Them [The Americans] A Crushing Defeat”

In a February 11, 2014 interview with the Fars news agency, Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan said: “The Defense Ministry is working to ensure that the Iranian people are armed and ready to confront any enemy threat. Yesterday’s successful test of Iranian-made ballistic missiles was also a crushing response to the nonsense of the American officials who frequently threaten Iran. It is a clear answer to their military option. The Defense Ministry and the Iranian nation are always ready [for battle], and Iran will welcome it if the Americans again put themselves to the test and face the consequences. The Americans will again be defeated, just as they were in the [1980-1988] Iran-Iraq war. If they implement their nonsense [i.e. their threats], the Iranian nation will hand them a crushing defeat.”[3]

The next day, February 12, Iranian Chief of Staff Hassan Firouzabadi told Fars: “Iran is prepared for the decisive war against the U.S. and the Zionist regime.” He added, “Iran has been making plans, conducting maneuvers, and preparing its forces for this battle for years now.”[4]

Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) naval commander Ali Fadavi threatened that in battles at sea, his forces would sink American warships: “The Americans can spot swift boats, sea mines, and anti-ship missiles but they cannot grasp axioms such as… ‘God, the Islamic Revolution, and the Supreme Leader [Khamenei].’ On the chest of the IRGC is the [Koran] verse that clearly says that the use of measures against the infidels and the enemies must be promoted. The Americans notice only some of our capabilities; only on the battlefield will they fully internalize the bulk of our capabilities.

The Americans will know [Iran's true power] when their warships, with over 5,000 aboard, sink during a confrontation with Iran, and when they have to search the depths of the sea for their bodies.”[5]…

Signing off until this evening...Wild Bill and I are off to Tampa for the GREAT AWAKENINGS rally. Looking forward to meeting so many great patriots...will post pics either late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. Now behave you guys...LOL

When Will America End Cash-for-Visas Racket?

Michelle Malkin / Townhall Columnist

 

This may be the first and last time I ever write these words: America, follow Canada. 

 

Our neighbors to the north finally have wised up to the international cash-for-visas scam. Last week, the country ended its foreign investor program that put residency up for sale to the highest bidder. We should have done the same a long time ago.

Canada's Immigrant Investor Program granted permanent residency to wealthy foreigners who forked over 800,000 Canadian dollars for a five-year, zero-interest loan to one of the country's provinces.

The scheme turned out to be a magnet for tens of thousands of millionaires from Hong Kong and China. But as the Canadian Ministry of Finance concluded in its annual budget report this year, the program "undervalued Canadian permanent residence" and showed "little evidence that immigrant investors as a class are maintaining ties to Canada or making a positive economic contribution to the country."

In several provinces, the foreign investor racket was riddled from top to bottom with fraud.

Whistleblowers in the Prince Edward Island immigration office exposed rampant bribery among bureaucrats and consultants, who helped their clients jump the queue. The government failed to monitor immigrant investors or verify the promised economic benefits of the "investments." The program didn't just fast-track supposed business people with dubious business backgrounds, but also their entire extended families, who walled themselves in segregated neighborhoods.

Ads in Dubai bragged that investors didn't even need to live in the country to take advantage of the citizenship-for-sale deal -- and that their dependents could avail themselves of full health care and education benefits.

Fifteen years ago, an independent auditor hired by the Canadian government warned that he had "found that in many cases there was no investment at all or that the amount of that investment was grossly inflated." The auditor nailed the expedient commodification of citizenship: "Canadians gave up something of real value -- a visa or passport -- and received very little in return." He concluded: "A lot of people made a lot of money, mostly lawyers and immigration consultants who set up these bogus investments. It's a massive sham. The middlemen made hundreds of millions of dollars."

I've been issuing the very same warnings about America's EB-5 immigrant investor visa program, created under an obscure section of the 1990 Immigration Act, for more than a decade. The details of the U.S. program vary, but the facade is the same: trading residency on the cheap for the shady promise of economic development. Just as in Canada, the U.S. racket's alleged economic benefits are largely hype.

Who has profited? As I've reported previously, the real winners are former federal immigration officials who formed lucrative limited partnerships to cash in on their access and politically connected cronies. An internal U.S. Justice Department investigative report revealed years ago that "aliens were paying $125K" instead of the required $500,000 to $1 million minimum, and "almost all of the monies went to the general partners and the companies who set up the limited partners."

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., has been pressing EB-5 middlemen who operate a network of regional centers to cough up data on how many jobs these immigrant investor schemes are creating, lists of current and former corporate officers at the centers, and details of consulting services and other contracts into which the centers have entered. Where's the rest of Capitol Hill?

Just as in Canada, American whistleblowers also have been raising red flags for years. Most recently, immigration officials in Laguna Niguel, Calif., last fall spilled the beans on how they "often rushed or skipped altogether economic reviews of applicants to the EB-5 visa program." They did so under orders from senior managers pandering to wealthy and politically connected foreign applicants. The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General is investigating government retaliation against employees who reported the misconduct. "In essence," Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, noted in a public letter, "high-level officials in the (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services bureau) are accused of creating an environment hostile to those who insist on following the law."

That fish rots right down from the head of USCIS, Alejandro Mayorkas, who was confirmed for the job in December -- despite remaining under investigation by the DHS Inspector General for his alleged role in intervening on behalf of GreenTech, a crony company with ties to Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Hillary Clinton's other brother, Anthony. The alleged scam involved special treatment to the company, which wanted special treatment and EB-5 visas for, you guessed it, deep-pocketed Chinese investors.

Recklessly peddling foreign investor visas for the precious privilege of entry into our country is bad for our sovereignty, bad for workers and good for corruptocrats. Moreover, history shows that government is always bad at picking economic winners and losers. If Canada can come to its senses on this, why not America?

Op-ed:

Another cyber attack...and this time it was personal

By: Diane Sori

While NO one person or government controls what goes out over the internet...even though Barack HUSSEIN Obama and his minions like to think they do...and because of the 2013 NSA spying scandal, this spring Brazil will host an international summit on internet governance to address the many internet concerns, including hacking done by both governments and individuals.

And when you think about it, this is, in NO uncertain terms, bigger than the NSA scandal itself because the internet is public domain open to any and all anywhere in the world. And this brings with it the opportunity for international hackers as well as homegrown hackers to target, hack into, and crash sites and internet broadcasts they don't like or have been 'paid' to crash for whatever reason the person hiring them deems appropriate.

As most of you know by now, this past Wednesday's debut of Craig Andresen's and my Right Side Patriot radio show on CPR Worldwide Media was hacked into and shutdown half an hour into our broadcast. It appears the hackers did their damage by sneaking into the server through the corresponding website chat/comment room, crashing us through the IP address, and then running through the entire website into the radio server. And Craig took a personal attack to his computer as well, which caused it to crash completely, inflicting major damage to the unit that he and our CPR family is still working on to repair and restore...if they can that is.

Also, besides our show, 14 other CPR broadcasts were also hit and crashed on Wednesday. And shows on PNN have been hit, shows on WRAM have been hit, shows on Blogtalk Radio have been hit, other internet sites and shows have been hit, and even sites and shows 'of name' have been hit...all within this past week or two.

Many cyber attacks in the past have been traced directly back to Turkey, to Saudi Arabia, to the Dominican Republic, to the UK, and to Germany amongst other countries, and Wednesday's attack did indeed come from one of these countries as well.

And we all know that cyber attacks are one of the calling cards of the left, and this attack on us and on the 14 other CPR shows was a calculated pre-planned attack. And that is NOT unusual for ever since Barack HUSSEIN Obama assumed office, the fact is that left-wing liberals and islamic extremists have increased the use of cyber attacks to silence any and all conservative voices and any and all who criticize islam or mohamed,

Whatever the reason for the attacks or whomever the attacks are perpetrated on, please know that cyber attacks are NOT a joke nor are they harmless pranks as they are indeed 'virtual vandalism' of the worst kind for they shut down the all important critical flow of information...meaning they shut down the truth the government does NOT want you to know. And these attacks cause those targeted to have to pay for expensive repair costs or be forced to shut down and be silenced completely.

Sending what's called 'packets' (usually consisting of 'so-called' normal innocuous information, but in our case the 'packets' were used to open a port then install a virus which crashed our show and the other CPR shows), these cyber attacks are directly used to pinpoint and silence the conservative press, bloggers, and media (radio, TV, video) as we are NOTHING but a thorn in the side to Obama and to the islamist regimes that he so loves, placates, and bows down to. And the sad part is that if these hackers do succeed in disabling and silencing those of us who expose this administration's dirty little secrets and cover-ups, Obama will indeed have total control over what 'We the People' are told or NOT told...what 'We the People' can access and what we cannot access...and that is something we can NEVER allow to happen. 

Remember, one of Obama's Executive Orders called 'Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions' gave him and the feds the power to seize all communication lines in an emergency under the guise of national security.  In fact, on the government’s official website for the National Communications Systems (NCS), it says those powers encompass the “infrastructure includes wireline, wireless, satellite, cable, and broadcasting, and provides the transport networks that support the Internet and other key information systems,” which translates into Obama indeed giving himself control of among other things the internet, and the American people be damned for it will be Obama and Obama alone who decides what constitutes an emergency and what does NOT constitute an emergency.

And with Obama you just know that he will turn the simplest thing into an emergency...or he will outright fabricate an emergency if need be...to further his socialist/islamic agenda.

And that brings me back to Wednesday's attack on the 14 CPR shows in addition to our Right Side Patriots show. While we know the attack on us was NOT done by Obama...obviously...his lase-faire attitude concerning internet safety and security has allowed hackers to run rampant and gain fairly easy access to even the most secured of sites. And with Obama NOT doing a thing to help stop these attacks or to help secure America's internet airwaves...it becomes obvious that he needs the internet as part of his quest to control us.

A catch-22 situation that unfortunately 'We the People' are at the receiving end of.

And as for all the nonsense that is done against we conservative talk show hosts as Obama and his people try to silence us, let it be known that those efforts will be met with a brick wall for we do NOT run from a fight nor do we cower in fear of him or his minions. We...and in this case Craig, I, and our CPR family...will fight back in the manner and way we do best...by continuing to get the truth out to the public...the truth that Obama wants silenced at all costs...period.