Iran will begin injecting gas into centrifuges at its Fordow uranium-enrichment facility in its latest step away from the 2015 nuclear accord it struck with world powers, President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday.
In a televised address, Rouhani said the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran would begin the new measures Wednesday, feeding gas to more than 1,000 centrifuges installed at the plant.
Iran’s envoy to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) later announced that a letter has been sent to inform the United Nations nuclear watchdog that uranium hexafluoride gas would be injected into centrifuges at Fordow, starting the process usually used to produce enriched uranium.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, Republican member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, joins Bret Baier on ‘Special Report.’
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Leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar warned Israel on Monday that the terrorist organization could turn its cities into “ghost towns” and has enough rockets to fire on Tel Aviv “for six months in a row,” Ynet reported.
“We have heard the threats Israeli leaders made towards us, but we will still make them curse the day they were born,” said Sinwar.
“Various intelligence agencies are trying to undermine the stability in the Gaza Strip,” he said, adding that Hamas has “many secret tools to counter the attempts made by Israeli intelligence to infiltrate Gaza.”

The Supreme Court on Monday seemed prepared to say it was reasonable for police to pull over a vehicle registered to someone with a suspended driver license even if officers don’t know for sure who is driving.
The court heard a case from Kansas that could have a big impact on when police may stop a motorist who has not otherwise broken the law, sorting through phrases such as “common sense” (18 mentions), “reasonable suspicion” (44 mentions) and “assume” and “assumption” (25 mentions).
Kansas Solicitor General Toby Crouse said it was “common sense” for sheriff’s deputy Mark Mehrer to stop a truck owned by Charles Glover after a routine license plate check showed that Glover had a suspended license.

Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the government could expel the head of Human Rights Watch’s Israel and Palestine office after accusing him of supporting boycotts against the country.
The ruling represents the likely culmination of the protracted effort to expel Omar Shakir, a U.S. citizen, and marks an escalation in Israel’s determination to prevent critics from operating in the country under new laws that equate support for the boycotts, divestments and sanctions movement (BDS) with challenging Israel’s right to exist.
Others have been denied entry visas under the laws, including two U.S. congresswomen in August, but Shakir, who first had his work permit revoked in May, would be the first to be expelled. He has 20 days to leave the country.

Anti-Semitic hate crimes in Sweden increased by 53 percent last year compared to 2016, according to its government in a report released last week that showed a 69 percent increase in racist or xenophobic hate crimes over that time period.
In the report published on Thursday, the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention stated that there were 280 hate crimes against Jews, compared to 182 a few years ago.
The latest figures are the highest recorded since the council collected aggregated data in 2006.
The report did not list the sources behind the anti-Semitic hate crimes against Jews.
In 2018, 4 percent of hate crimes were anti-Semitic.
An estimated 20,000 Jews live in Sweden, or 0.2 percent of the country’s population.
 
(JNS)

Large red spray-painted swastikas were removed over the weekend at a skate park in the New Brunswick city of Moncton.
The city was notified of the vandalism on Friday night, and cleanup crews mostly washed away the graffiti the following morning.
“It’s unacceptable, and essential that it’s removed right away,” Moncton Mayor Dawn Arnold told CBC. “We have no tolerance for things like this.”
Moncton is one of three urban area in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, along with Saint John and Fredericton. Situated in the Petitcodiac River Valley, it lies at the geographic center of the Maritime Provinces.

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