+ UK activists to call for Justice in Egypt
UK's Justice in Egypt campaign called on the people to join the activists on Edgware Rd. tube station at 11:00GMT and march to the Egyptian embassy.
While backing No to Military Trials campaign, the protesters will ask for a timeline for transferring power to civilian government.
As Egypt is approaching to its 28 November parliamentary election, thousands of people staged their anti-military junta demonstrations across the country.
Some 24 protesters have been killed since violent clashes began between security forces and protesters, and 1,830 have been injured, Egypt's Health Ministry reported.
Meanwhile the country's military council announced that the protesters will face tougher reaction if they continue their demonstrations.
Activists and political groups are becoming increasingly vocal in their criticism of the failure of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to live up to its promise to hand over power to a civilian ruling structure within six months of the February revolution.
Protesters have also censured the chairman of the council, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, for his reluctance to implement sweeping change and dismantle elements of the former regime.
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+ UK tries to save face on Iran
Earlier this month, Iran's parliament (Majlis) assigned the Foreign Policy and National Security Commission to review a motion to cut all the country's relations with Britain.
The motion was flouted in response to the UK's hostile approach, which was exacerbated after the release of the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tehran's nuclear activities.
In the report, IAEA chief Yukio Amano accused Iran of seeking to develop a clandestine nuclear weapons program after receiving intelligence from sources hostile to the Islamic Republic, mainly from Israeli regime, whose hostility towards the Iranian nation and government is crystal clear to the international community.
Irrespective of the facts on the ground, British authorities were the first to threaten Iran with military action after the politically-engineered IAEA report against Iran was released.
Soon after the release of report, newspaper said in a report that British military authorities were considering contingency plans for launching an invasion on Iran.
The authorities said Britain would endorse any U.S. action plan aimed at launching an invasion on Iran amid decisions made in Washington to fast-forward missile strikes at the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities, the report said.
Iran has been considering breaking off relations with the UK several times before due to London's interference in the country's internal affairs and its undiplomatic approach towards Tehran.
The motion to cuts UK ties was first brought up in 2009, following Britain's conspiracies and direct involvement in Iran's post-elections unrests.
It was again in 2011 that Iranian lawmakers decided to review the motion to severe UK ties, in response to the country's anti-Iran measures at the international arena.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast told a press conference in Tehran that the Islamic Republic have currently the lowest level of trade exchanges with the UK and US, adding that fresh unilateral sanctions will have “no impact on Iran's trade and economic ties with other countries”.
Britain ranked 10th among Iran's trade partners in the European Union with Tehran-London's bilateral trade topping nearly £230 million in 2010.
The country has, for the first time, severed an entire country's banking system off from London's financial sector.
Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani reacted to the latest UK's anti-Iran move by announcing that Tehran would hit back.
"This will not go unanswered and we will review our ties with them ... there will be a tit-for-tat reaction," he said.
Russia has also condemned the unilateral sanctions as "extraterritorial measures unacceptable and contradictory to international law".
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+ Israel steals Press TV equipment
Press TV correspondent Hassan Ghani explained the takeover of the equipment when he was in Israeli custody earlier this month.
Ghani, who was reporting on an attempt by two ships to break Tel Aviv's economic blockade of the Gaza Strip, was detained with 26 other activists and journalists.
The Press TV reporter said that he was forced to throw his laptop into the sea.
He added that he was under intensive search about two hours and that the army took all of Press TV's equipment and his personal effects.
Ghani said the items taken by the Israeli army included a camera, memory cards, batteries, a satellite phone, two personal mobile phones and other recording and electronic devices.
This year's incident was the second time that Tel Aviv has ordered an attack on flotillas carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, which has been under Israeli siege since 2007.
In May 2010, Israeli forces attacked the Freedom Flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea, killing nine Turkish nationals and injuring about 50 other activists who were part of a six-ship convoy.
+ Occupy march arrives in DC
After a grueling 230-mile march, a group of Occupy protesters arrived in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, finishing a journey that for some in the group began in New York City two weeks ago.
The marchers arrived at McPherson Square at approximately 3 p.m., finishing the last leg of their march that began in College Park, M.D., earlier on Tuesday.
Last week, when Politico visited the marchers in Wilmington, Del., the group consisted of about two dozens protesters - some were from the original group that began their journey in Zuccotti Park, while others had joined the team somewhere along the way. On Tuesday, about 50 marchers walked into the nation's capital.
The official purpose of the group was to arrive in Washington D.C., by Nov. 23 - the official deadline of the congressional super committee on deficit reduction to reach an agreement - to "protest retaining the Bush tax cuts for the rich." By Monday, the panel had already announced that its dozen members were unable to come to an agreement.
In a "General Assembly" meeting held Tuesday following the marchers' arrival at McPherson Square - the park in downtown D.C. that a group of protesters has been using as their home base since October - some of the Occupiers, joined by members of the press, held a discussion of upcoming events.
On Wednesday, the protesters plan to "canvas" all over the city to spread the message of the Occupy movement. Canvassing will present the opportunity to spread the word in "every ward in D.C.," one Occupier explained, as well as invite everyone in the city "to come and make [D.C.] their occupation." Politico
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+ Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza again
+ Mossad has only state-terrorism unit
In an interview with This is My Story, Thomas said the assassination that was carried out in late 2010 in Tehran was a classic example of a Mossad operation.
On November 29, 2010, Dr. Majid Shahriari was targeted by a bomb attached to his car by terrorists on a motorcycle. He was killed immediately but his wife narrowly escaped death.
In a similar attack on another university lecturer on the same day, terrorists tried to assassinate Fereydoun Abbasi. However, Abbasi and his wife survived with only minor injuries.
Abbasi and Shahriari were both professors at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran.
Thomas said the Mossad has a group of engineers and scientists who design and produce various types of weapons, adding that one of these weapons is a small fist-sized bomb equipped with a suction pump.
Mossad's experts spent weeks to figure out how to make this bomb and how to attach it to a moving car and decided motorcycles should be used as the getaway vehicles in the assassination attempts in Tehran, Thomas explained.
The preparations for the terrorist attacks in Tehran took four to six weeks, he stated.
Thomas added that the Mossad's goal is to overthrow the Iranian establishment.
Thomas says Israfilm, Mossad's media arm, contacted him to write a report about Israel's intelligence agency, adding that the first person he interviewed was Rafi Eitan, a former commander of operations for the Mossad.
Eitan was in charge of the operation that led to the capture of Adolf Eichmann.
Thomas said when he asked Eitan whether he was a murderer, the former Mossad agent answered coolly “yes.”
Britain's Channel 4 broadcast Thomas' interview with Eitan, but the state-run BBC was too timid to air the show.
Thomas said that in his book Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad, a 700-page tome about the Mossad with a picture of Meir Amit on its cover, he has narrated all of the incidents just as they happened.
In the book Secret Wars: One Hundred Years of British Intelligence Inside MI5 and MI6, Thomas writes about Britain's intelligence operations inside Iran.
In the beginning of the book, he describes how a senior Iranian intelligence official was installed by MI6. This official now lives in the United States under protection.
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