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When anti-regime protests spread like wildfire throughout Iran in mid-October of 2022, the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was quick to lay the blame on the usual foreign suspects. “I say explicitly that these riots and this insecurity were a design by the U.S. and the occupying, fake Zionist regime and those who are paid by them,” he told a class of cadets at a police college in Tehran. He suggested that the ultimate goal of the U.S. and Israel was regime change in Iran. This elicited a response on Twitter from Iranian rapper Hichkas, who defended foreign support for...

Baby girl on suspect's mind Gomez-Garcia's aunt says he wanted to see infant daughter By Maria Avila And Gwen Florio, Rocky Mountain News June 10, 2005 CULIACÁN, Mexico - While hiding out in Mexico, suspected cop-killer Raul Gomez-Garcia had one recurring thought. "He wanted to go back to his baby girl," said Veronica Perez, Gomez-Garcia's aunt. Gomez-Garcia spent nearly a month in Mexico while authorities in the United States sought him in connection with the slaying of Denver police officer Donald Young. Yet, for much of that time, said relatives with whom Gomez-Garcia stayed, the fugitive talked of little else...