⋯ The latest victim was Imam Mahdi Center in Münster-Hiltrup (North Rhine-Westphalia).

It was closed due to claims that it was a meeting place for Lebanese Hezbullah members. Two apartments where searched but nothing was found. This persecution is abetted by Israel and Jewish NGOs.

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🇸🇦🇬🇧 Just one day after Saudi Arabia beheaded its 100th prisoner this year (a majority of them being dissidents), the British PM Boris Johnson visited the kingdom to stabilize the oil market.

USA officials are expected to visit KSA soon.

OTD in 1988, Saddam Hussein carried out the Halabja chemical attack, killing up to 5000 people on the day

The CIA aided Saddam's chemical attacks in the Iran-Iraq war, two-thirds of chemical attacks happened in the last 18 months of the war when CIA-Iraq cooperation peaked.

Photo: Donald Rumsfeld meets Saddam Hussein, he was acting as an envoy of US President Ronald Reagan at the time.

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An hour ago, clashes took place in Bir Al-Abed near Farouj Al-Tazag.

According to locals, the clash was between private generator owners from Mikdad and Jamal-Eddine families.

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Chemical weapons during Iraq's war on Iran (1980-1988).

From at least 1983, Saddam Hussein used prohibited chemical weapons against Iranian troops, civilians & Kurdish population, such as the “Tabun nerve agent (GA)”. Iraq could not produce them itself and was “heavily dependent on foreign equipment”, e.g. from Italy. (RT)

In March 1988, “Iraq launched a nerve gas attack on separatist Kurdish village of Halabja, some 240km northeast of Baghdad, killing 5,000, while 7,000 more suffered long-lasting health problems”. It was dubbed the ‘Blessed Ramadan Offensive’ and became the largest use of chemical weapons in modern history. (RT)

Iran refrained from using such weapons, as Iran's leader Ruhollah Khomeini wanted, but research was initiated in 1983 and development was later publicly acknowledged. The US DoD said Iran used chemical artillery shells/bombs, but it had also accused Iran for Halajba (a lie, now dismissed). In 1997, Iran became a party of the Chemical Weapons Convention.

President Aoun received UNIFIL’s new commander, Aroldo Lazaro: "Lebanon is committed to implementing Resolution 1701, and Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty threaten stability in the south."

Tonight is the 15th of Shaaban month, where Shia Muslims celebrate the night of the birth of the 12th imam, Mohammed Ibn Al-Hassan Al-Mahdi. Sunni Muslims also celebrate and pray tonight for different reasons.

Video: Al-Huja prayer by Hezbullah's martyrs.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, known for nothing but lies, is falsely claiming Russia will recruit Lebanese Hezbullah to assist in the war in Ukraine.

That's false, no Hezbullah (active, reserve, or ex) will participate in Ukraine.

Death of the general manager of the Mokatof Exchange Company, Michel Moktif.

He was part of a scheme by politicians to smuggle billions of dollars from Lebanese banks to foreign accounts.

📊 The “unhappiest” country in the world is Afghanistan, according to the UN.

Lebanon is ranking second, followed by Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Botswana. (In 2020, Lebanon ranked 4th). On the opposite, Finland is the “happiest” country, Israel is 9th and Bahrain 21st.

The World Happiness Report is a composite index, based on data from Gallup World Polls, that weights six factors: levels of GDP, life expectancy, “social support”, “freedom”, “generosity” and “perception of corruption”. “Dystopia” is a Cantril value (1.83) with an average residual for 2017-2019.

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Note: This index is greatly arbitrary, notably the weighting of the six factors; the GDP for 2021 is not available yet and is an extrapolation; life expectancy is an interpolation & extrapolation; “generosity” is a regression of answers to “Have you donated money to a charity in the past month?” relatively to GDP/capita; social support is the average of binary answers to “Do you have relatives or friends you can count on to help you (...)?”; “freedom” is the same for “Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with your freedom to choose what you do with your life?”. The value of “Dystopia” (1.83) is “the predicted Cantril ladder [0 to 10 scale] for a hypothetical country with the world's lowest values for each of the six variables”, and it is used “as a benchmark against which to compare contributions from each of the six factors”, according to the report.

The mathematical models of economy (also epidemiology or climatology) are not science, but pseudo-science. They don't fit the criteria of science.

In a non-televised meeting with Hezbullah's scouts, Hezbullah's SG denies the involvement or possible involvement of Hezbullah soldiers or advisors in the Ukrainian war alongside the Russian army.