In Iran, young Iranians are called to sign up for Hezbollah martyrdom operations.
"Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – Fliers calling for young people to sign up for Hezbollah suicide attacks against the U.S. were distributed recently in Tehran and elsewhere in Iran.
The Iranian Web site Tabnak reported that the fliers called on young Iranians to sign up for Hezbollah “martyrdom operations,” according to a translation provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Tabnak is linked to Mohsen Rezai, the secretary of Iran’s Expediency and Discernment Council, which advises the country’s supreme leader. Rezai is the former commander of the elite Islamic Republican Guard Corps.
The fliers called for those interested to sign up for “the worldwide front against the Global Arrogance,” i.e., the U.S.
Iran has supported Hezbollah with weapons and training for years. The radical Islamic movement, which now has veto power in the Lebanese parliament, is ideologically aligned with the regime in Tehran.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has said he would talk with the Iranian leadership without precondition. The Bush administration has tried to isolate Iran over its nuclear pursuits.
Iranian officials have indicated that they would prefer Obama over Republican Sen. John McCain for president.
Iranian state radio broadcast a commentary on Monday in support of Obama, the Associated Press reported.
But, wait. There's more!
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev orders missiles deployed in Europe as world hails Obama.
"President Dmitri Medvedev took advantage of the euphoria in America today to order the deployment of missiles inside Europe as a response to US plans for a missile defense shield.
Speaking within hours of Barack Obama's election as the new US President, Mr Medvedev announced that Russia would base Iskander missiles in its Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad next to the border with Poland.
He did not say whether the short-range missiles would carry nuclear warheads. Mr Medvedev also cancelled earlier plans to withdraw three intercontinental ballistic missile regiments from western Russia.
"An Iskander missile system will be deployed in the Kaliningrad region to neutralise if necessary the anti-ballistic missile system in Europe," Mr Medvedev said in his first state-of-the-nation address.
He added that Russia was also ready to deploy its navy and to install electronic jamming devices to interfere with the US shield, which involves the deployment of a radar station in the Czech Republic and 10 interceptor missiles in Poland.
His announcement prompted a burst of applause from government ministers and parliamentary deputies assembled in the Kremlin. The President failed to congratulate Mr Obama or even to mention him by name during his 85-minute state of the nation address televised live across Russia.
Instead, in a criticism directed at the US, Mr Medvedev declared: "Mechanisms must be created to block mistaken, egoistical and sometimes simply dangerous decisions of certain members of the international community."
He accused the West of seeking to encircle Russia and blamed the US for encouraging Georgia's "barbaric aggression" in the war over South Ossetia in August. He issued a warning that Russia would 'not back down in the Caucasus'."
Yup. Obama had expressed similar sentiments.
