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Iran: We still fund Hamas as fighting Israel is our policy
Times of Israel ^
| February 8, 2016, 6:33 pm
| (Staff)
Posted on 02/08/2016 8:42:48 AM PST by Olog-hai
An Iranian official on Monday rejected reports that Tehran has ceased funding the Palestinian terror group Hamas, claiming that supporting the fight against Israel remains a "principled policy," the semi-official Tasnim news agency said.
Speaking at his weekly press conference in Tehran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari rejected media reports that funding for the Gaza-based group ceased in 2009.
Ansari said that supporting "Palestinian resistance movements" is part of Iran's foreign policy, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.
He called the Palestinian issue "pivotal and basic" for Muslims, according to the agency. ...
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TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
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02/08/2016 8:42:48 AM PST
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Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:48:21 AM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
Ban Ki-Moon keyword (selections):
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posted on
02/08/2016 8:51:09 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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02/08/2016 8:51:50 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: Olog-hai
Yet another Obama “success” ( in his campaign to destroy America and our allies in the Free World)
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02/08/2016 8:53:27 AM PST
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faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
To: Olog-hai
If this were a Tom Clancy novel, it would be too unbelievable.
A sitting US president releases tens of billions of dollars to Iran...Iranian mullahs go on a European weapons shopping spree...and btw, they also get nukes.
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02/08/2016 8:57:47 AM PST
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lacrew
To: BenLurkin
Would he be wearing such a grin if he sees a giant mushroom sprouting a few miles away from him?
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02/08/2016 9:00:54 AM PST
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Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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02/08/2016 9:03:37 AM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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02/08/2016 5:17:38 PM PST
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SJackson
(What I’m watching in him (O), is uncertainty...a leader doesn’t give sh*t...he gets it don)
To: SJackson
Knock me over with a feather. No./s
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02/09/2016 10:13:21 AM PST
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Eleutheria5
(End the occupation. Annex today.)
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