NEW: "I'm directing Sec of State Mike Pompeo to notify the @UN Security Council that the #UnitedStates intends to restore virtually all of previously suspended United Nations sanction on #Iran" per @POTUS "It's a snapback. Not uncommon"
"If and when I win the election, within the 1st month, #Iran will come to us and they are going to be asking for a deal so quickly cause they are doing very poorly" predicts @POTUS
Calls #JCPOA "a short-term" deal where US got "nothing"
"Mark it down" says @POTUS "#Iran will never have a nuclear weapon"
"When the #UnitedStates entered into the #IranDeal it was clear that the United States would also have the right to restore the UN sanctions that would prevent #Iran from developing a nuclear weapon" per @POTUS
"Here at home through Operation Legend we are confronting the wave of crime in Democrat-run American cities that's absolutely shocking" says @POTUS "They're a mess because they don't get it"
#QAnon-"I don't know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate" per @POTUS
"I have heard that it is gaining in popularity...I've heard that these are people who just love our country" &don't like seeing protests like in #Portland
"I haven't heard that" says @POTUS when told by reporter that some #QAnon supporters see him as secretly saving the world from a Satanic cult of pedophiles & cannibals
"Is that supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing?"
"If I can help save the world from problems I'm willing to do it" adds @POTUS "And we are, actually. We're saving th world from a radical left philosophy that will destroy this country and when this country is gone, the rest of the world would follow"
Some background on the @FBI's views regarding #QAnon
"We're largely out of #Iraq. We're down to a very few soldiers" per @POTUS asked about mtg w/#Iraq PM Thursday "We're getting out of these endless wars, these ridiculous endless wars"
"It's very sticky getting out" he adds
"A lot of times, we makes deals, they don't have ten cents, these countries" per @POTUS about deal with #UAE for #F35s
"They have the money" he says, praising the fighter jets as "totally stealth - can't see it"
Also, research by @AmarAmarasingam & @_MAArgentino published by @CTCWP: "QAnon is arguably no longer simply a fringe conspiracy theory but an ideology that has demonstrated its capacity to radicalize to violence individuals at an alarming speed" ctc.usma.edu/the-qanon-cons…
Some have noted a similarity between some of what President Trump said- "...when this country is gone, the rest of the world would follow..." -and a #QAnon post from 2018: "If America falls, the world falls"
"Some Q drops are fairly generic in their language and, because there are so many of them, could sound like some things that Trump says" @AmarAmarasingam tells me "But that’s not important"
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"What’s important is that Trump is not openly & clearly disavowing what should be a fairly easy belief system & community to disavow" @AmarAmarasingam adds "And this bizarre reluctance is only feeding the confidence of this community that they are on to something"
NEW: Islamic State-Somalia getting boost from an "influx of foreign fighters"
A just-issued UN sanctions monitoring team report warns the foreign fighters "have expanded and enhanced the group’s capabilities against al-Shabaab"
Influx of foreign fighters to IS-Somalia " has coincided with the re-emergence of the Al-Karrar office as a
key administrative and financial hub for [ISIS] globally" per the UN report
IS-Somalia being led by "a cadre of former al-Shabaab
militants based in the Bari region of Puntland" per UN report
Abdirahman Fahiye Isse Mohamud is the emir of IS-Somalia, per report, "responsible for [ISIS] operations in Somalia"
NEW: Senate Democrats ask @DeptofDefense @TheJusticeDept to look at Elon Musk's reported contact w/Russian officials - "determine whether this behavior should force a review of Mr. Musk’s
continued involvement in SpaceX’s varying contracts" w/the US government
"Communications between Russian government officials and any individual with a security
clearance have the potential to put our security at risk" per @SenatorShaheen @SenJackReed
"We urge you to take appropriate action immediately"
Musk's alleged contacts with Russian officials was first reported by @WSJ, which cited current and former U.S., European and Russian officials
JUST IN: Iranian, 2 men from New York charged in connection with plot to kill Americans, including President-elect Donald Trump & a US journalist of Iranian origin
.@TheJusticeDept filed charges against 51yo Farhad Shakeri of Iran, 49yo Carlisle Rivera & 36yo Jonathon Loadholt
Shakeri remains at large in Iran
Rivera & Loadholt have been detained pending trial
@TheJusticeDept US Atty General Merrick Garland, in statement, calls Shakeri "an asset of the Iranian regime who was tasked by the regime to direct a network of criminal associates to further Iran’s assassination plots against its targets, including President-elect Donald Trump"
Pentagon assesses since February 2022, Russia's suffered 600,000 casualties
This September, "Russian forces sustained more casualties in terms of both killed & wounded in action than in any other month" per a sr US defense official
"#Russia|n losses, again, both killed & wounded in action in just the 1st year of the war exceeded the total of all Russian losses or Soviet losses in any conflict since World War Two combined" per sr US defense official
#Ukraine "have sunk, destroyed or damaged at least 32 medium to large #Russia|n Federation navy vessels in the #BlackSea" per sr US defense official
NEW: US charges American TV presenter for Channel One #Russia & his wife in scheme to evade US sanctions
@TheJusticeDept unsealed the indictment vs 76yo Dimitri Simes & 55yo Anastasia Simes Thursday
They have a home in #Virginia but "remain at large...believed to be in Russia"
Dimitri & Anastasia Simes each charged w/1 count of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), 1 count of violating the IEEPA & 1 count of conspiracy to commit int'l money laundering
Per @TheJusticeDept, it's a maximum of 20 years per count
Dimitri Simes alleged to have violated sanctions by "serving as a presenter & producer of programming, & by receiving over $1 million, a personal car & driver, a stipend for an apartment in #Moscow... a team of 10 employees from Channel One Russia" per DOJ