It was just reported that a 26 year old American woman that was kidnapped around a year ago in Syria is being held by ISIS. She was said to have been there doing humanitarian relief work when she got abducted. The terror group has asked for either $6.6 million in ransom or the release of Aafia Siddiqui, an MIT-trained neuroscientist ... Read More »
An Iranian Grand Ayatollah has said high speed internet is unethical and contrary to humanitarian principles, Iranian media sources reported on Tuesday. Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, a prominent Shia scholar, made the remarks in response to a question put to him by cyber activists, via his website. Although Iran has the highest total number of internet users in the Middle East, ... Read More »
On Tuesday, Pentagon officials claimed that the Coast Guard patrol vessel Monomoy fired the warning shot after a machine gun on the Iranian fishing boat was aimed at the US forces. Apparently one warning shot was fired and that did the trick, the small boat sped away. U.S. military officials said the trouble started when the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter ... Read More »
One day after the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps announced that it had downed an Israeli drone, the IRGC reported that the operation range of the drone indicates that it did not come from Israel but rather was launched from one of the countries in the region. Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh told reporters that investigations into the downed drone were ... Read More »
Carlos Queiroz said that he will extend his contract with the Iranian football team or say goodbye on Tuesday. The Iranian Football Federation (IFF) has not yet extended contract with the Portuguese. Queiroz had already said the Iranian federation has added the new terms to his contract. “I will go to the Federation on Tuesday to sign the new ... Read More »
Fars News reported that Senior Generals in Tehran said on Tuesday that Iran will not give a diplomatic response to the violation of its airspace by an Israeli spy drone which was shot downed near Natanz nuclear site a few days ago, and warned that Tel Aviv should wait for Iran’s retaliatory moves in battlefield. “Our response to this aggression ... Read More »
The editors of ClassicAutomobiles.info has just created a list of eleven of the greatest iconic muscle cars of this amazing era. From very first official muscle car, the 1964 Pontiac GTO, which inspired the pop song hit “Little GTO” by the Ronnie &The Daytonas to its end of the decade 1969 GTO Judge, of which got its name from a ... Read More »
Railway enthusiasts with a taste for nostalgia will soon be able to indulge their Orient Express fantasies after Hungarian Railways said it was launching a luxury Budapest-Tehran train service.With ticket prices of between 10,000 and 23,000 euros per person, guests will receive ‘five-star’ treatment including complimentary alcohol right up to the Iranian frontier, after which only ‘soft drinks and non-alcoholic ... Read More »
An ISIS attack against the West is a question of timing — “not of inevitably, not of intent,” according to the former head of the CIA, retired Gen. Michael Hayden Speaking to CNN’s Jim Sciutto on “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Hayden said he expects ISIS to attempt an attack on targets in the United States or Europe. “ISIS is a very ... Read More »
A Surrey, B.C. man is straining the limits of British Columbia’s ID guidelines, saying it’s his religious right to wear a colander on his head for his driver’s licence photo. Obi Canuel, an ordained minister in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, says the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia is denying him the right to wear his religious headgear ... Read More »