Persian Gulf update 10/31/2017..19 activists given lengthy jail sentences in Bahrain

19 activists given lengthy jail sentences in Bahrain

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Saudi Crown Prince Going Paranoid for Fear of Life

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has ordered triple security checks and body search on visitors as he is deeply afraid of assassination attempts on his life by not just visitors, but even close relatives and aides, Arab media said. “Bin Salman is living in horror. All those who want to meet him (even the closest ones) should go through three inspection rooms and all their belongings and whatever they carry are taken away from them, even a small pen in the second room,” al-Ahd al-Jadid wrote on its twitter page on Tuesday.

Anyone who wants to meet bin Salman is thoroughly checked from top to toe and this is done on everyone even close relatives and family members.

Other Arab media outlets also reported in August that bin Salman has escaped an assassination attempt at one of the royal family palaces in Jeddah. Arabic language Mer’at al-Jazeera quoted sources close to the royal family as saying that bin Salman was targeted by an assassination attempt in Jeddah by one of the Saudi princes.

Also, a western diplomat in Riyadh said that the Saudi crown prince wasn’t harmed in the failed attempt and the prince who made the move was arrested. Bin Salman’s ambitious acts in recent months and his attempts to dethrone the rivals have created wroth among other Saudi princes. The Arab media have been reporting recently that Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud is much likely to step down in favor of his son Mohammed, the new crown prince, within the next few months.

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Top Commander: US, Israel’s Defense Shields Not Able to Resist Iranian Missiles

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Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri underlined that the country’s missiles are so much powerful that the US and Israel’s defense shields cannot resist them. “The deterrence power of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s missiles is updated and efficient,” General Baqeri said on Tuesday. “The anti-missile power of enemies, including the criminal US and the human-killer and child-killer Zionists, cannot overcome our missile power no matter how much they strengthen it,” he added.

General Baqeri explained the religious ban on the production and use of nuclear warheads (as Weapons of Mass Destruction), and said that’s why Tehran has focused on boosting the precision-striking power of its missiles with the aim of preventing damage to the innocent people. In relevant remarks in July, General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri underlined his country’s high missile power one day after the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launched missile strikes against the ISIL bases 700km away in Syria. “Iran is among the world’s big powers in the missile field,” General Baqeri said, addressing a meeting in Tehran on June 19.

He stressed the arrogant powers’ weakness in confrontation with Iran, and said, “They don’t have the capability to engage in clashes with us for now and of course, we don’t intend to involve in clashes with them but we are in permanent rivalry with them in different fields, including the missile sector.”

The IRGC launched 6 missile strikes at ISIL centers in Syria’s Deir Ezzur in retaliation for the June 7 twin terrorist attacks in Tehran, it said in a statement issued on June 18, adding that the mid-range ballistic missiles were fired from bases in Western Iran and flew through Iraq’s airspace before hitting the targets in Syria.