2021-10-18: News Headlines

Staff (2021-10-18). Iranian Oil Supertanker Leaves Venezuela with 2 Million Barrels of Heavy Crude. orinocotribune.com An Iranian supertanker is ready to set sail from Venezuela with two million barrels of heavy crude, under an agreement that strengthens bilateral strategic cooperation between Venezuela and Iran. | As part of an agreement forged between Tehran and Caracas, the Venezuelan national oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) will exchange heavy Venezuelan crude with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) for Iranian condensate, as was revealed last month by the news outlet The Cradle. | The Dino I supertanker, operated by NIOC, arrived in Venezuela in September with 2.1 million barrels of Iranian condensate. On…

Middle East Monitor (2021-10-18). Israel Stops Hundreds of Jews from Moving to Iran as Asylum Seekers. globalresearch.ca

Markela Panegyres (2021-10-18). Family of Wayne Fella Morrison forces parliament to ban spit hoods. greenleft.org.au The family of Wiradjuri, Kokatha and Wirangu man Wayne Fella Morrison, who died in custody, has forced the SA parliament to ban spit hoods. Markela Panegyres reports.

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-18). Warplanes from 14 nations: NATO launches nuclear "deterrence" exercise. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO launches annual deterrence exercise NATO kicked off its annual deterrence exercise on Monday (18 October 2021), with dozens of aircraft from across the Alliance practicing the defence of NATO's European Allies. The week-long exercise, called "Steadfast Noon", is taking place over southern Europe, and involves aircraft and personnel from 14 NATO countries. Steadfast Noon …

Daniel Ellsberg (2021-10-18). To Avoid Armageddon, Don't Modernize Missiles—Eliminate Them. zcomm.org Land-based nuclear weapons are world-ending accident waiting to happen, and completely superfluous to a reliable deterrent…

Anonymous103 (2021-10-17). IRGC Naval Forces To Be Armed With 2,000-Km-Range Cruise Missiles In Near Future: Cmdr. southfront.org Originally published on VeteransToday. Chief Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami says the naval units of his…

Anonymous669 (2021-10-17). Iranian Sources Reveal New Information On Secret Short-Range Air Defense System. southfront.org File image. | Iranian sources have revealed new information on a domestically-made short-range air-defense system that was showcased for the first time during the On October 16, Fars News Agency journalist Mohammad Shaltouki revealed that the system is dubbed "Zubin". According to Shaltouki, the system is the land-based variant of the "Nawab" air-defense…

Anonymous669 (2021-10-17). Iranian-Backed Forces Are Setting Up Weapons Workshops In Syria's Raqqa — Report. southfront.org Illustrative image. | The Iranian-backed Iraqi group Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba is building a number of weapons workshops in the eastern countryside of Syria's Raqqa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on October 16. | According to the London-based monitoring group, the workshops are being built in several farms located around the town of Madan. | The workshops will reportedly manufacture mortar rounds, rocket launch rails and bullets of different calibers for Iranian-backed forces. | Harakat Hezbolla…

teleSUR, JCM (2021-10-17). Seis jefes militares maltratadores pasarán a retiro en Colombia. telesurtv.net Las dependencias por las que responden giran en torno a la inteligencia militar, el Comando General y varias divisiones.

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