Agents: Gun-smuggling suspect Hezbollah sympathizer ~ By Grant Rogers

Law enforcement officials at Midamar, 1105 60th Avenue SW, during a federal investigation in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday, May 12, 2015.
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On March 26 and May 8 authorities searched shipping containers connected to a company called Herz Enterprises, finding 152 guns and thousands of rounds of ammo hidden inside shipments of Bobcat skid loaders.

The hearing shed new light on the DHS investigation into the family, revealing that Ali Herz reportedly confessed after his arrest Tuesday to organizing two shipments of guns to Lebanon in 2014 and another in 2015.

Special agent Daniel Tigges testified that Herz said in an interview that he expected after the third shipment that the group would have netted $380,000 from the smuggling operation.

Tigges said Herz claimed he took half the profits and split the rest with his son, Adam, and brother, Bassem.

"He admitted that he knew it was wrong to ship guns out of the country," he said.

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While this story covers the who (the four that were arrested), and the where (it happened right here in Cedar Rapids, Iowa), it doesn't cover the "why" or the "what," maybe for good reason. From this story, we only know that many guns and large quantities of ammo were being illegally shipped to Lebanon. We don't know if it was just for profit on the part of the Herz family and others. We also haven't been told here what the ultimate use of the weapons and ammunition could be, and who the ultimate buyers are. It's possible that the Federal agents are keeping that information from the press... or maybe, they don't know, but I really doubt that.

Even if the four that were arrested last week in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were shipping the weapons and ammunition to Lebanon only because they love all the money they're going to make (they thought, until they got caught), is it still possible that they knew that the weapons would end up in the hands of Hezbollah terrorists? It is surprising to me, actually, that we haven't yet heard of any charges for aiding the enemy. Just sayin'...


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• December 1, 2012 ~ U.S. Halal Company Raided, Founder Has Islamist Ties

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Agents: Gun-smuggling suspect Hezbollah sympathizer

By Grant Rogers, The Des Moines Register

May 15, 2015, 10:39 p.m. EDT

From USATODAYcom

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The eldest of four Cedar Rapids family members accused of smuggling firearms into Lebanon is a Hezbollah sympathizer who met with reported members of the terrorist group during a trip abroad, federal agents testified Friday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Murphy called six witnesses to paint Ali Afif Al Herz as loyal to the Lebanese-based Shiite militant and political organization. The United States has classified Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

Murphy intended the testimony from agents with the Department of Homeland Security and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to persuade Chief Magistrate Judge Jon Scoles to keep Herz, 50, in county jail while awaiting trial on charges that he and three other family members tried to smuggle hundreds of guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition into Lebanon, hiding it in storage containers.

Clockwise from top left, Adam Ben Ali Al Herz, 22; Ali Afif Al Herz, 50; Sarah Majid Zeaiter, 24 ; and Bassem Afif Herz, 29.
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Defense lawyer Anne Laverty accused Murphy of using "distraction and fear tactics" with no supporting evidence that ties Herz to any terrorist group. Herz came to the United States in 1984 for college and gave up on religion after watching decades of strife in Lebanon and the Middle East, she said.

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VIDEO: Report on Jade Helm 15

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When the elites wage war on America, this is how they will do it ~ By Brandon Smith

Published on Mar 29, 2015 by World Conflict Films ~ A late night military exercise conducted in a highly-populated urban area of Florida has many residents wondering if there were intentions beyond the training aspect of the operation.

So if Jade is a crisis-planning system for the military and the military is training for domestic operations, what is the crisis it is training to react to? It’s hard to say. I believe it will come down to an economic disaster, but our economic and social structures are so weak that almost any major event could trigger collapse. Terror attacks, cyberattacks, a stiff wind, you name it. The point is the government expects a crisis to occur. And with the advent of this crisis, the ultimate war on the American people will begin.

When hearing about this for the first time about a week ago, I didn't get many details about it.  The friend telling me about it, as always, suggested that I Google it.  I saw no reason to get too worked up about it, and thus, avoided running to the computer and tripping over my cat in my mad scramble.  However, the very next day, Jade Helm 15 was being mentioned in an email from PersonalLiberty.com.  The article being linked to was this one. 

This column, of course, then got me thinking. "The point is the government expects a crisis to occur. And with the advent of this crisis, the ultimate war on the American people will begin." Hmmm... Crisis... Crisis? Okay, how big of a crisis? Economic meltdown and all of the banks are shut down (along with all of the ATMs)? Natural catastrophes in the realm of civilization-ending magnitude, such as the Yellowstone caldera blowing sky high? How about a massive terrorist attack where our seven largest cities are nuked and there's nothing left but ashes? And finally, my personal "favorite" longstanding is the EMP, whether natural or man-made, that ends our civilization as we know it.

I've had conversations with like-minded associates on many occasions where we've discussed ways in which Obama would stay in power after his term would end in January 2017.  Every mention of the scenario included some type of crisis as a way for BHO to declare martial law and "postpone" the 2016 election.   Rahm Emanuel, before he returned to Chicago, had said, "Never let a crisis go to waste."  I am sure that his good friend Barry still remembers those malevolent words.

Not that I'm expecting everyone who reads this column to go into prepper mode, but like me, you're probably going to have to consider what may be facing us in the near future.  If we were to be placed in harm's way regarding our freedom by a tyrannical President, it's a sure bet that is just one step closer to a one world government.   And if you choose to bury your head in the sand, you'll most likely be unaware of what is being done to end our freedom, and this country as we know it.  Just sayin'...

For now, the establishment chooses to sway public opinion with carefully crafted disinformation. But what is the best way to deal with public opinion when fighting a modern revolution? Remove public opinion as a factor entirely so that the power elite are free to act as viciously as they wish. Engineered crisis, and economic crisis in particular, creates a wash of other potential threats, including high crime, looting, riots, starvation, international conflict, etc. In such an environment, public opinion counts for very little, if people even pay attention at all to anything beyond their own desperation. Once this is achieved, the oligarchy has free reign to take morally questionable actions without fear of future blowback.

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When the elites wage war on America, this is how they will do it

By Brandon Smith

Posted on May 5, 2015

From Personal Liberty

In September 2009, more than 4,000 police and National Guard troops locked down Pittsburgh for the Group of 20 summit. Only one route was open for travel.

The consequences and patterns of war, whether by one nation against another or by a government against the citizenry, rarely change. However, the methods of war have evolved vastly in modern times. Wars by elites against populations are often so subtle that many people might not even recognize that they are under attack until it is too late. Whenever I examine the conceptions of “potential war” between individuals and oligarchy, invariably some hard-headed person cries out: “What do you mean ‘when?’ We are at war right now!” In this case, I am not talking about the subtle brand of war. I am not talking about the information war, the propaganda war, the economic war, the psychological war or the biological war. I am talking about outright warfare, and anyone who thinks we have already reached that point has no clue what real war looks like.

The recent exposure of the nationwide Jade Helm 15 exercise has made many people suspicious, and with good reason. Federal crisis exercises have a strange historical tendency to suddenly coincide with very real crisis events. We may know very little about Jade Helm beyond government admissions, claims and misdirections. But at the very least, we know what “JADE” is an acronym for: Joint Assistance for Deployment and Execution, a program designed to create action and deployment plans using computer models meant to speed up reaction times for military planners during a “crisis scenario.” It is linked with another program called ACOA (Adaptive Course of Action), the basis of which is essentially the use of past mission successes and computer models to plan future missions. Both are products of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

As far as I know, no one has presented any hard evidence as to what “HELM” really stands for, but the JADE portion of the exercise explicitly focuses on rapid force deployment planning in crisis situations, according to the government white paper linked above. This fact alone brings into question statements by the Department of Defense that Jade Helm is nothing more than a training program to prepare military units for “foreign deployment.” This is clearly a lie if Jade Helm revolves around crisis events (which denotes domestic threats), rather than foreign operations.

Of course, if you also consider the reality that special operations forces always train like they fight and train in environments similar to where they will fight, the entire notion of Jade Helm as a preparation for foreign theaters sounds absurd. If special operations forces are going to fight in Iraq, Iran or Syria, they go to training grounds in places like Kuwait. If they are training in places like Fort Lauderdale, Florida (including “infiltration training”), then there is no way around the fact that they are practicing to fight somewhere exactly like Fort Lauderdale with a similar culture and population.

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VIDEO: Why would ER visits for synthetic marijuana (known as Spice or K2) be surging?

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VIDEO: The LOCUST Swarm Is Coming

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VIDEO: Sen. Rand Paul calls out DNC Chairwoman on abortion

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Clinton ‘surprised’ to learn small businesses are struggling ~ By Sam Rolley

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, meanwhile, called Clinton out for expressing such surprise about the state of small businesses.

“At every turn, Hillary Clinton has supported top-down Washington-driven policies that have stacked the deck against small businesses,” Priebus said. “Hillary Clinton can’t possibly be a champion for everyday Americans when she doesn’t understand their most basic economic concerns and was ‘surprised’ to learn that small businesses are struggling.”

There is no way, if you are a small business owner, or if you even work for one, that you should ever consider voting for Hillary Clinton, let alone any other liberal Democrat, for any national, state or local government. This is really all you need to know in order to understand my position:

Not only was she "supposedly" ignorant about the fact that small businesses are struggling, she never mentions the key reasons: Too much government regulation, the tax preparation burden, employment taxes, the estate tax, and even something called "Operation Choke Point." It is actually a sarcastic twist to the story on her part, as the Left is all about taking away personal initiative to create a small business, and she is fully aware of that. Just sayin'...

Clinton ‘surprised’ to learn small businesses are struggling

By Sam Rolley

Posted on April 21, 2015

From Personal Liberty

In the most recent example of her extreme ignorance, Hillary Clinton said that once she “began to dig,” she was surprised to find that U.S. small businesses are struggling.

From goprapidresponse

“I want to be sure we get small businesses starting and growing in America again. We have stalled out. I was very surprised to see that when I began to dig into it,” she said during a speech in New Hampshire. “Because people were telling me this as I traveled around the country the last two years, but I didn’t know what they were saying and it turns out that we are not producing as many small businesses as we use to.”

The White House has refused to say whether it agrees with Clinton that U.S. small businesses are stalled.

“We’ll take a look at the statistics and get back to you,” spokesman Josh Earnest said.

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VIDEO: It's Only Right to Repeal the Estate Tax

It is my fear that the Estate Planners will have a very large and wealthy contingent of lobbyists that will attempt to keep this bill from passing in the U. S. Senate now that it has passed in the House of Representatives. We should soon find out if Senator McConnell is going to do his job as the Senate Majority Leader and get it through. They will need some Democrats to vote for the bill to get it through the Senate which makes it even more complicated, especially if Obama follows through with his threat to veto the repeal of the Estate Tax.

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Obama's legacy: A nuclear Iran ~ By Armstrong Williams

Iran’s supreme leader spoke in recent days of “devilish” actions by the United States, underscoring the Iranian belief that our nation is “the Great Satan.” As always, the crowd began a familiar chant, “Death to America.” The administration did not condemn these vile realities. Instead, it asserted that this was intended for a “domestic political audience” and that it somehow proved that the United States needs to negotiate a deal with Tehran.

When someone, or in this case an aspiring dominator of the Middle East with a track record of supplying money, arms, training and other support to terrorist organizations, says that our death is their goal, we should take them at their word. The best way to safeguard our national security, stand with our allies and protect our interests in the Middle East would be actually preventing the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism from acquiring nuclear weapons, not merely creating delays. 

The president seems to think the American public is stupid. He campaigned on promises of “hope and change.” Lofty rhetoric, but we never saw much of either. Now, if the president signs an agreement that legitimizes and permits an Iranian path to a nuclear weapon, the only change he will have made is that we will have no hope left.

It is probably a good thing that Congress is stepping in, and legislating a role in the Iran nuclear agreement, and sanctions against Iran.  For Obama, it is probably a very good thing.  It was a lousy deal, and everyone knew it.  When everything falls apart before June 30, 2015, Obama will probably blame Congress for interfering. And if you ask me, I think he was hoping that Congress would get him out of such a bad deal for all of the reasons that Armstrong writes about.  But, now what?  Just sayin'...

Obama's legacy: A nuclear Iran
Armstrong Williams rips BHO for allowing Tehran to walk radioactive path

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By Armstrong Williams

Friday, April 10th, 2015

From wnd.com Commentary

As if the Islamic Republic of Iran’s determined pursuit of nuclear weapons, track record of bloody terrorism, aggressive geopolitical power grabs, abhorrent human-rights violations and history of lies were not enough – President Obama’s recent interview should prove to everyone just how dangerous the framework agreement announced in Lausanne on April 2 really is.

In an interview with Tom Friedman, President Obama said, “I’ve been very clear that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon on my watch.” That last bit bears repeating: “… Iran will not get a nuclear weapon on my watch.” This confirms what many of us have suspected all along: The framework agreement will enable Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon; the mullahs in Tehran will just have to wait a little while.

Hiding under skillful rhetorical cover, Obama basically said that he believes a 10-year agreement keeps nuclear weapons out of Iran’s hands until dealing with the Islamic Republic becomes someone else’s problem. He essentially told the American public that our fears are true: He apparently cares about the fate of America’s national security and the security of American allies only while he’s sitting in the Oval Office.

As we all know, Iran has mastered the tactics of intransigence, deceit and waiting the Western powers out over the years. Indeed, a key component of Iran’s strategy has always been to buy more and more time through extensions of diplomatic talks and the stonewalling of transparent inspections and verifications of its nuclear facilities.

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Long arm of the law closing in on Hillary! ~ By Larry Klayman

Obviously, Hillary Clinton’s private email server in the basement of her Chappaqua, New York, mansion was not secure from hacking or surveillance. Hillary’s emails often crossed international boundaries while she was traveling around the world. More than likely, Hillary was emailing to foreign countries and foreign businesses.

So I figure the NSA, CIA, like America’s enemies around the world, already have copies of Clinton’s insecure emails. The intelligence services of Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, for example, were freely reading Hillary’s mail. Our enemies knew our negotiating positions as soon as Hillary Clinton hit “send.” One wonders what opportunities those emails will provide for foreign countries to blackmail Hillary Clinton if she is elected president.

If the NSA and CIA refuse to look in their database of intercepted emails, we will have yet another opportunity to challenge in court the flawed reasoning and empty excuses being used to engage in this illegal surveillance in the first place. Heads I win, tails you lose is a useful strategy.

On the eve of the anointed one announcing her candidacy for President of the United States, I feel really bad that I'm going to spoil Hillary's celebrated grand announcement that she will be the first female U. S. President.  Umm, no.  Actually, I don't. 

I'm sorry for the lack of a spoiler alert, but in order to make a point, I need to have you see this last paragraph in Larry Klayman's column:

Bottom line: The long arm of the law is finally closing in on the Clintons! Forget Gowdy and Congress! Forget the mainstream media reporting the whole truth! We the People are taking matters into our own legal hands! It’s past time that Hillary, the “Wicked Witch of the Left,” be put behind bars, where she can do no further harm to our nation.

Surely, he jests. Does Larry really believe that Hillary will ever be put behind bars? Seeing former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell go down for similar acts does not mean the same fate waits for Hillary. The "long arm of the law" couldn't ever be stretched far enough to reign in the "Wicked Witch of the Left." (I thought that was Nancy Pelosi!)  Bill and Hillary have always been "above the law."

It can just about be guaranteed that while Obama is President, no action will be taken by the Justice Department concerning Mrs. Clinton's seemingly shady ethics. And why would that be? Well, one plausible scenario that we could consider might be that - and this isn't a big stretch - Hillary has something on Obama. However, that may not be that much of an enviable position to be in for the "anointed one" if things go down hill, and Obama decides to go into tyrant mode. Should that happen, people who can cause trouble for the dear leader, like Hillary, have a tendency to mysteriously disappear. Just sayin'...


Long arm of the law closing in on Hillary!
Larry Klayman calls on media to cover latest legal actions against Clinton

Larry Klayman

By Larry Klayman

Friday, April 10th, 2015

From wnd.com Commentary

Thursday, my organization, Freedom Watch, went where no congressional committee had the guts to go before: We took real action to get a federal court to immediately seize the hard drives of Hillary Clinton’s private email server. (See freedomwatchusa.org.)

I asked the court to appoint a forensic expert to inspect and recreate the missing email evidence from Clintons’ tenure as secretary of state. We did this without any of the power or funding of Congress and without the years of delay on Capitol Hill. Forget about Trey Gowdy and the Government Oversight and Reform Committee. Unlike Gowdy, who has accomplished little to nothing and indeed dithered as Hillary was busy destroying evidence, we are not pursuing Hillary for show, but to uncover her illegal dough!

Are we watching on a snow-covered mountain the first moments of an avalanche beginning to slide down hill? Following our early lead at Freedom Watch, mainstream journalists are now being forced to pursue the story that Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, traded official U.S. Government favors in return for donations to the Clinton Foundation, often from foreign governments, companies, or interests. If it didn’t involve the Clintons, these journalists would not be shy to already call it bribery.

The Hill, a good conservative-leaning publication, is reporting the same story as WND, under the headline: “Clinton changed stance on trade deal after donations to foundation.” Hillary Clinton reversed her position as secretary of state on Colombia’s record of human rights abuses after a company and its owner donated heavily to the Clinton Foundation. That’s what former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were recently sentenced to two years in prison for. At The Hill and International Business Times, the story is mainstream now. But the McDonnells were small-time in comparison.

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VIDEO: Is the Iran Nuke Deal Bad For America?

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VIDEO: Here's some Common Sense for ya: Break the budget!!

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Scientists Say New Study Is A ‘Death Blow’ To Global Warming Hysteria ~ By Michael Bastasch

But incorporate the Max Planck study results and warming would only be as high as 1.8 degrees Celsius — less than half what the IPCC originally predicted.

Michaels and Knappenberger say Lewis’s findings basically eliminate “the possibility of catastrophic climate change—that is, climate change that proceeds at a rate that exceeds our ability to keep up.”

“Such a result will also necessarily drive down estimates of social cost of carbon thereby undermining a key argument use by federal agencies to support increasingly burdensome regulations which seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” write Michaels and Knappenberger.

Being that I am not a scientist, I'm not sure that I understand everything discussed in this article, so I can not say with complete confidence that the global warming theories have been disproved. But what I can say with absolute conviction is that Global Warming doesn't appear to have the unanimity of everyone in the various fields of science, as the various academic and government authorities want us to believe.

Forgive me, then, for being a global warming denier or climate change skeptic. I always have been since the AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) agitators first came on the scene. Or, maybe I should say, ever since everything changed and they went from fear mongering about global cooling to somehow transforming into global cooking. And when that didn't work, especially after the East Anglia Climate Research Unit fraud was revealed, it was reverted to Plan C: Climate Change. However, when Al Gore profited big-time off of the global warming thing known as carbon credits, and that cutting back on American industrialization efforts to limit carbon emissions was a Marxist ruse to transform America and set up a global government, that should eliminate ALL doubts of what a scam it is. Just sayin'...

Scientists Say New Study Is A ‘Death Blow’ To Global Warming Hysteria

Michael Bastasch

By Michael Bastasch

March 31, 2015 @ 10:07 PM

From DailyCaller.com

A new study out of Germany casts further doubt on the so-called global warming “consensus” by suggesting the atmosphere may be less sensitive to increases in carbon dioxide emissions than most scientists think.

A study by scientists at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Meteorology found that man-made aerosols had a much smaller cooling effect on the atmosphere during the 20th Century than was previously thought. Why is this big news? It means increases in carbon dioxide emissions likely cause less warming than most climate models suggest.

What do aerosols have to do with anything? Well, aerosols are created from human activities like burning coal, driving cars or from fires. There are also natural aerosols like clouds and fog. Aerosols tend to reflect solar energy back into space, giving them a cooling effect that somewhat offsets warming from increased CO2 emissions.

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Netanyahu: Obama's Iranian Nuclear Deal Worse Than Israel Feared

Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz, the Israeli official who has been spearheading efforts to lobby world powers against the Iran deal, voiced cautious hope that the negotiations would collapse as they have in the past.

"We may still have a chance. We are not alone. There are still great doubts in the United States as well as in France, even in England," Steinitz told Israel Radio, referring to disputes with Iran over the scope of nuclear projects it might be allowed to retain.

But Steinitz said Israel, which is not a party to the talks and whose hardline demands have not been welcomed in Western capitals, was in an "uphill battle".

If Israel were to attack Iran, would the U.S. (Obama) defend them, or condemn them? I think that is the question that needs to be asked. We probably know the answer to that as long as Obama is still President!  But then, there is another question, the other side of the coin: Would Iran be defended or condemned by the United States (Obama) if they were to attack Israel? Do you think that Israel is asking these questions? Of course they are, as inferred in this column.

The options for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel are quickly running out.  Just today, the nuclear negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland, are being extended past today's deadline.  Who will have to make concessions in order to get a deal hammered out?  What will Israel do should there be no deal or a bad deal, which Bibi has already warned us about?  And what will Arab nations in the Middle East do?  It is speculated that they will enter the nuclear arms race in order to keep Iran from controlling the whole region. 

Now, just throw in one more precarious scenario that jeopardizes peace on this planet.  Should there be a nuclear arms race, those countries in the Middle East involved in oil production will need a higher oil price in order to fund their efforts.  So, if you think what happens "over there" will not affect you, think again.  A war, or even rumors of war, even if this country is not involved, will have its consequences on us.  Just sayin'...

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Netanyahu: Obama's Iranian Nuclear Deal Worse Than Israel Feared

By Staff at Newsmax.com

Sunday, March 29, 2015 @ 05:36 PM

From Newsmax.com Newsfront

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned on Sunday the framework Iranian nuclear agreement being sought by international negotiators, saying it was even worse than his country had feared.

Israel has mounted what it terms an "uphill battle" against an agreement that might ease sanctions on the Iranians while leaving them with a nuclear infrastructure with bomb-making potential. Tehran says its nuclear program is peaceful.

"This deal, as it appears to be emerging, bears out all of our fears, and even more than that," Netanyahu told his cabinet in Jerusalem as the United States, five other world powers and Iran worked toward a March 31 deadline in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Noting advances made by Iranian-allied forces in Yemen and other Arab countries, Netanyahu accused the Islamic republic of trying to "conquer the entire Middle East" while moving toward nuclearization.

"The Iran-Lausanne-Yemen axis is very dangerous to humanity, and must be stopped," he said.

Netanyahu's campaigning against the nuclear negotiations crested on March 3 with his speech to the U.S. Congress at the invitation of its Republican speaker, John Boehner, that angered President Barack Obama and many fellow Democrats.

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