Tegas!! Susi Respons Luhut soal Natuna: Bedakan Sahabat, Investor, dan Pencuri

Beritaterheboh.com - Mantan Menteri Kelautan dan Perikanan Susi Pudjiastuti merespons pernyataan Menko Maritim dan Investasi Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan. Tepatnya, pernyataan terkait invasi kapal ikan asing China yang didukung oleh China Coast Guard (CCG) di perairan Natuna, Indonesia.

Luhut meminta persoalan tersebut tak perlu dibesar-besarkan karena khawatir mengganggu hubungan dengan China, terutama menyoal investasi. Menurut Susi, Luhut harus bisa membedakan antara persahabatan negara, investor, dan pencuri.

Susi menyampaikan pandangannya saat membalas Tweet kumparan. Ia memberikan izin sebagai bahan pemberitaan.

"Kita jaga persahabatan antarbangsa. Kita undang investor untuk investasi. Kita jaga investor. Dan kita akan tetap menghukum pencuri sumber daya perikanan kita. Kita bedakan tiga hal itu dengan baik dan benar," kata Susi, Sabtu (4/1).

Menurutnya, hubungan baik antarnegara merupakan adalah saling menghormati. Termasuk persoalan kedaulatan negara.

"Hubungan baik antarnegara adalah karena dalung (saling) menghormati," tegasnya.
Sebelumnya, Menko Luhut meminta semua pihak untuk tidak meributkan masalah pelanggaran kedaulatan oleh China di Natuna.

Ia khawatir ribut-ribut mengenai persoalan ini mengganggu hubungan ekonomi dengan China, terutama investasi.

"Ya makanya (supaya enggak ganggu investasi), saya bilang untuk apa diributin. Sebenarnya kita juga mesti lihat, kita ini harus membenahi diri kita," kata Luhut usai pertemuan sore bersama Menteri Pertahanan Prabowo Subianto di kantornya, Jakarta Pusat, Jumat (3/1).

Luhut menilai, masuknya kapal-kapal asing dari China ini akibat kurangnya kemampuan Indonesia mengawasi Zona Ekonomi Eksklusif (ZEE). Ia menambahkan, Presiden Jokowi telah memerintahkan untuk menambah kapal-kapal di perairan Natuna.(kumparan.com)

from Berita Heboh https://ift.tt/2FkCYin
via IFTTT

Mendiang Lina Disebut Mati Suri, Ini Jawaban Rizky Febrian

Beritaterheboh.com - Rizky Febrian menceritakan masa-masa terakhir meninggalnya mendiang ibunya, Lina Jubaedah, yang sekaligus mantan Istri Komedian Entis Sutisna alias Sule. Lina meninggal diduga meninggal dunia dalam perjalanan menuju rumah sakit, dari rumahnya di Jalan Neptunus, Margahayu, Bandung, Sabtu (4/1).

Iki, panggilan akrab Rizky, mengatakan setelah dikabarkan meninggal, ada beberapa pihak yang menyebut Lina mati suri. Alih-alih memercayai kabar itu, Iki memilih untuk menyerahkan segala keputusan pada Allah SWT.

"Tadi ada yang ngomong mati suri segala macam, kita lebih percaya sama di atas. Walaupun tadi ada yang bilang badannya kembali anget ini, itu, mungkin Allah punya rencana yang lebih baik," tuturnya saat ditemui di rumah duka, Jumat (4/1)..

1. Bagi Rizky, Lina meninggal bukan karena penyakit jantung

Menurutnya, Lina sebelumnya memang tidak memiliki riwayat sakit jantung. Namun, sempat beberapa kali Lina sempat mengeluh karena sesak nafas dan asam lambung sering kambuh.

"Sebenarnya gak ada sakit jantung, cuma cepat sesak, lambungnya naik, butuh oksigen. Sudah kontrol biasa, ketika check up jantung aman, paru-paru aman," 

Oleh karena itu, dia menilai penyakit jantung bukan penyebab ibundanya tercinta itu meninggal. "Cuma itu balik lagi ke Allah, jadi bukan penyakit jantung.

2. Lina masih sempat bercanda sesaat sebelum kejang dan pingsan

Dia pun menuturkan hal terakhir kali yang dilakukan oleh mendiang Lina. "Iki dengar cerita putri (adik kandung Iki) yang lihat langsung. Mamah sehat, jam 03.00 WIB itu mamah masih keluar untuk makan, bercanda, kemudian salat subuh," ungkapnya.

Setelah salat subuh, Putri, adik kandung Iki melihat langsung Lina dalam posisi kejang-kejang kemudian Lina pingsan di atas kasur.

3. Lina meninggal dalam perjalanan menuju RS Al-Islam

Keluarga pun mencoba membawa Lina ke rumah sakit namun Lina dikabarkan sudah meninggal dalam perjalanan menuju RS Al-Islam.

"Cuman Putri gak bilang, Putri ngabarinnya setelah azan (subuh) mamah udah gak ada," tambahnya.(Idntimes.com)

from Berita Heboh https://ift.tt/35moKby
via IFTTT

China Replaces Its Top Representative in Hong Kong With an Enforcer - The New York Times

China Replaces Its Top Representative in Hong Kong With an Enforcer - The New York Times

BEIJING — The Chinese government abruptly replaced its top representative in Hong Kong on Saturday evening, installing a senior Communist Party official with a record of difficult assignments in inland provinces that involved working closely with the security services.

The top representative, Wang Zhimin, was replaced as the head of the powerful Central Liaison Office in Hong Kong by Luo Huining, the official Xinhua news service said. The move came two months after the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee called for measures to “safeguard national security” in Hong Kong, although few details have been released.

Mr. Wang became the first senior official to lose his job after seven months of often-violent protests in the city and a stinging rebuff to pro-Beijing political parties in local elections six weeks ago.

He had devoted most of his career to Hong Kong issues and had worked closely for decades with the city’s business and political elite. But he attracted broad criticism in Hong Kong and Beijing alike for failing to anticipate the broad-based groundswell of hostility provoked by an extradition bill last spring.

Mr. Wang then made no move to stop scheduled elections for neighborhood district councils in November, in the mistaken confidence that pro-Beijing candidates would maintain their longstanding dominance. Pro-democracy candidates captured 87 percent of the seats.

“The massive defeat of the pro-establishment camp at the district council elections sealed his fate, but I think even before then, they had decided to remove him because he repeatedly failed to predict the mood of the city,” said Willy Lam, a specialist in Chinese factional politics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Yet until Saturday, Beijing had at least publicly stood by Mr. Wang. When Reuters reported after the elections that he might be removed, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Hong Kong dismissed the report as “false news.”

Mr. Wang’s successor, Mr. Luo, has served as the top official, Communist Party secretary, in two provinces. Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, has found in him a representative whose main qualification appears to be political loyalty and experience in tough security measures, but who has little familiarity with Hong Kong.

From 2003 to 2016, Mr. Luo rose through the ranks in Qinghai Province, in western China, where Beijing has pursued increasingly stringent policies toward a large Tibetan minority. Mr. Luo became governor there in 2010 and then Communist Party secretary in 2013, according to his official biography.

In 2016, Mr. Xi put Mr. Luo in charge of cleaning up Shanxi Province, a northern coal-mining area plagued by corruption scandals. Mr. Luo oversaw a purge of the party’s senior ranks there, as a series of investigations documented broad misconduct.

Mr. Luo is an unexpected choice to run the Central Liaison Office because of his relatively advanced age, 65, and because he has already worked as a provincial-level leader in mainland China. He was also only a month into his latest job, in China’s national legislature, suggesting that the decision to send him to Hong Kong came together fast.

The Beijing leadership previously selected younger men with more expertise in the unique issues posed by Hong Kong, which has a different legal and economic system from mainland China because it was a British colony until its return in 1997 to Chinese sovereignty.

Like other Chinese provincial leaders, Mr. Luo has had some dealings with Hong Kong, especially over investment and business. He held talks with his predecessor, Mr. Wang, at least once, leading a delegation from Shanxi Province to Hong Kong in late 2018. On that visit, Mr. Luo also met the city’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, to discuss investment opportunities. But he appears to have no public record of ideas for ending the unrest in Hong Kong.

By contrast, Mr. Wang had spent most of his career as a Hong Kong specialist before he was named to run the office in Hong Kong in 2017.

When Mr. Luo stepped down as party chief in Shanxi, in November, he said he took pride in helping to clean up the province’s “political ecology” and overhaul its economy, two tasks that Mr. Xi may also want him to take on in Hong Kong. Mr. Luo also said then that he was most grateful to have the backing of Mr. Xi and other central leaders.

Mr. Wang and Mr. Luo are among the roughly 200 members of the Chinese Communist Party’s elite Central Committee, which gathers roughly once a year to discuss policy and review the performance of China’s political leadership.

The extradition bill supported by Mr. Wang last spring would have allowed Hong Kong residents to be sent to the opaque and often-harsh justice system in mainland China. Mrs. Lam suspended legislative consideration of the bill in mid-June and her secretary of security, John Lee, formally withdrew it in October.

There was no public indication on Saturday night of what, if any, role Mr. Wang might play in the future.

Chris Buckley contributed reporting. Claire Fu contributed research.

Let's block ads! (Why?)

2020-01-04 13:30:00Z
https://ift.tt/2ZPLyiF
CAIiEBVgI9oZX2EmFPvN8inLOOEqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAzCWrzwwt4QY

Iran's President says US committed a 'grave mistake' in killing top general - CNN

Iran's President says US committed a 'grave mistake' in killing top general - CNN

His remarks came on the same day mourners in neighboring Iraq were chanting "Death to America" at a funeral procession for Soleimani and an Iraqi militia leader who died with him in a US airstrike in Iraq Friday morning.

"The Americans did not understand what grave mistake they committed," Rouhani said while visiting the house of Soleimani's family in Tehran, according to a statement his office released.

The strike killed Soleimani, head of Iran's Quds Force, at Baghdad International Airport, along with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy head of the Iran-backed Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces. At least six people were killed in the strike, an Iraqi security source told CNN on condition of anonymity.

It marks a major escalation in regional tensions that have pitted Tehran against Washington and its allies in the Middle East.

President Donald Trump on Friday said he ordered the death of Soleimani, one of Iran's most powerful men, to stop a war, not start one, as tensions between the two nations were already escalating.

Trump said Soleimani was plotting "imminent and sinister attacks" on Americans.

The Pentagon blamed Soleimani and his Quds Force for recent assaults on coalition bases in Iraq, including a December 27 strike that culminated in the deaths of an American contractor and Iraqi personnel. It also blamed him for hundreds of protesters storming the US Embassy compound in Baghdad on December 31.

After the embassy attack, the US sent to the Middle East 750 troops from the Immediate Response Force of the 82nd Airborne Division. On Friday, the US announced it was sending the rest of the brigade -- about 3,000 soldiers.

Soleimani was the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and became the architect of Tehran's proxy conflicts in the Middle East.

The Trump administration viewed Soleimani as a ruthless killer, and the President told reporters Friday that the general should have been taken out by previous presidents.

The Pentagon blamed Soleimani for hundreds of deaths of Americans and their allies. "General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region," the Pentagon said, calling the strike "decisive defensive" action aimed at deterring Iranian attacks.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the strike had thwarted an "imminent" attack in the region but declined to give details.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat and member of the Appropriations Committee, said Friday the strike will increase threats to US interests.

"Today the administration announced we're sending 3,000 more troops to the region," he said. "So, clearly the administration recognizes that this action has actually dramatically increased the risks in the Middle East, increased the risks of an attack from Iran. And it should be no surprise to anybody who has followed these issues that Iran does mean what it says when it says this is essentially tantamount to an act of war."

Iran says it will fight back

During Rouhani's visit with Soleimani's family Saturday, Soleimani's daughter asked him: "Who will take revenge for my father?"

"Everyone will take revenge," he replied, in video aired by Iranian state television.

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has vowed "harsh revenge," according to a statement on his official website.

"His pure blood was shed in the hands of the most depraved of human beings," Khamenei said.

In a letter to the United Nations, Iran described the attack as state terrorism and an unlawful criminal act.

It was "tantamount to opening a war," Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran's ambassador to the UN, told CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" on Friday.

"The response for a military action is a military action. By whom? When? Where? That is for the future to witness," he said.

He said the strike had escalated a war that started when the US pulled out of a nuclear deal with Tehran in 2018.

"The US has started the economic war in -- in May 2018. Last night, they started a military war. By assassinating, by an act of terror, against one of our top generals," he told CNN.

Iran and its allies condemned the strike as an "assassination," while European officials and the UN called for de-escalation.

Maj. Gen. Ismail Qaani, who served for years alongside Soleimani, has been appointed his replacement.

Some US officials are bracing for Iran to retaliate with a cyber-attack, but Iran has shown it is also capable of engaging in another form of online warfare: social media disinformation campaigns. Authorities were on Saturday increasing vigilance and fortifying defenses.

Mourners chant 'Death to America' at funeral procession

In Iraq on Saturday, thousands of people attended a funeral procession, mourning Soleimani and al-Muhandis as they chanted "Death to America."

Mourners wept as they walked alongside the vehicle carrying his coffin down the streets of Baghdad. Some carried signs that read, "We are all Muhandis and Soleimani."

Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi was among the crowd of mourners walking next to the cars carrying the coffins.

Funeral processions will be held for Soleimani in both Iran and Iraq, Iranian state media reported. Iran will observe three days of national mourning, with people also gathering in Baghdad on Saturday to pay tribute to all the officials killed.

CNN's Jason Hanna, Steve Almasy, Ryan Browne, Zachary Cohen, Sharif Paget and Hamdi Alkhshali contributed to this report.

Let's block ads! (Why?)

2020-01-04 13:47:00Z
https://ift.tt/2szw8D7
52780536809258

China Replaces Its Top Representative in Hong Kong With an Enforcer - The New York Times

China Replaces Its Top Representative in Hong Kong With an Enforcer - The New York Times

BEIJING — The Chinese government abruptly replaced its top representative in Hong Kong on Saturday evening, installing a senior Communist Party official with a record of difficult assignments in inland provinces that involved working closely with the security services.

The top representative, Wang Zhimin, was replaced as the head of the powerful Central Liaison Office in Hong Kong by Luo Huining, the official Xinhua news service said. The move came two months after the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee called for measures to “safeguard national security” in Hong Kong, although few details have been released.

Mr. Wang became the first senior official to lose his job after seven months of often-violent protests in the city and a stinging rebuff to pro-Beijing political parties in local elections six weeks ago.

He had devoted most of his career to Hong Kong issues and had worked closely for decades with the city’s business and political elite. But he attracted broad criticism in Hong Kong and Beijing alike for failing to anticipate the broad-based groundswell of hostility provoked by an extradition bill last spring.

Mr. Wang then made no move to stop scheduled elections for neighborhood district councils in November, in the mistaken confidence that pro-Beijing candidates would maintain their longstanding dominance. Pro-democracy candidates captured 87 percent of the seats.

“The massive defeat of the pro-establishment camp at the district council elections sealed his fate, but I think even before then, they had decided to remove him because he repeatedly failed to predict the mood of the city,” said Willy Lam, a specialist in Chinese factional politics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Yet until Saturday, Beijing had at least publicly stood by Mr. Wang. When Reuters reported after the elections that he might be removed, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Hong Kong dismissed the report as “false news.”

Mr. Wang’s successor, Mr. Luo, has served as the top official, Communist Party secretary, in two provinces. Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, has found in him a representative whose main qualification appears to be political loyalty and experience in tough security measures, but who has little familiarity with Hong Kong.

From 2003 to 2016, Mr. Luo rose through the ranks in Qinghai Province, in western China, where Beijing has pursued increasingly stringent policies toward a large Tibetan minority. Mr. Luo became governor there in 2010 and then Communist Party secretary in 2013, according to his official biography.

In 2016, Mr. Xi put Mr. Luo in charge of cleaning up Shanxi Province, a northern coal-mining area plagued by corruption scandals. Mr. Luo oversaw a purge of the party’s senior ranks there, as a series of investigations documented broad misconduct.

Mr. Luo is an unexpected choice to run the Central Liaison Office because of his relatively advanced age, 65, and because he has already worked as a provincial-level leader in mainland China. He was also only a month into his latest job, in China’s national legislature, suggesting that the decision to send him to Hong Kong came together fast.

The Beijing leadership previously selected younger men with more expertise in the unique issues posed by Hong Kong, which has a different legal and economic system from mainland China because it was a British colony until its return in 1997 to Chinese sovereignty.

Like other Chinese provincial leaders, Mr. Luo has had some dealings with Hong Kong, especially over investment and business. He held talks with his predecessor, Mr. Wang, at least once, leading a delegation from Shanxi Province to Hong Kong in late 2018. On that visit, Mr. Luo also met the city’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, to discuss investment opportunities. But he appears to have no public record of ideas for ending the unrest in Hong Kong.

By contrast, Mr. Wang had spent most of his career as a Hong Kong specialist before he was named to run the office in Hong Kong in 2017.

When Mr. Luo stepped down as party chief in Shanxi, in November, he said he took pride in helping to clean up the province’s “political ecology” and overhaul its economy, two tasks that Mr. Xi may also want him to take on in Hong Kong. Mr. Luo also said then that he was most grateful to have the backing of Mr. Xi and other central leaders.

Mr. Wang and Mr. Luo are among the roughly 200 members of the Chinese Communist Party’s elite Central Committee, which gathers roughly once a year to discuss policy and review the performance of China’s political leadership.

The extradition bill supported by Mr. Wang last spring would have allowed Hong Kong residents to be sent to the opaque and often-harsh justice system in mainland China. Mrs. Lam suspended legislative consideration of the bill in mid-June and her secretary of security, John Lee, formally withdrew it in October.

There was no public indication on Saturday night of what, if any, role Mr. Wang might play in the future.

Chris Buckley contributed reporting. Claire Fu contributed research.

Let's block ads! (Why?)

2020-01-04 13:30:00Z
https://ift.tt/2ZPLyiF
CAIiEBVgI9oZX2EmFPvN8inLOOEqFwgEKg8IACoHCAowjuuKAzCWrzwwt4QY

Qassem Soleimani, top Iranian military commander, killed in U.S. airstrike in Baghdad; Iran vows revenge and thousands mourn him - follow live updates - CBS News

Qassem Soleimani, top Iranian military commander, killed in U.S. airstrike in Baghdad; Iran vows revenge and thousands mourn him - follow live updates - CBS News

A former U.S. intelligence official described Soleimani as "most experienced guerrilla fighter operating globally," running operations with Iranian forces and proxy militias in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. The official described his death as "devastating," and said the "very disruptive" assassination would likely cause a power struggle in Iran.  

Former acting CIA director: There will be “dead civilian Americans” as a result of Qassem Soleimani killing

In April 2019, the U.S. designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including the Quds Force, a "foreign terrorist organization." In making the announcement, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo singled out Soleimani. 

"With this designation, we are sending a clear signal, a clear message to Iran's leaders, including Qassem Soleimani and his band of thugs, that the United States is bringing all pressure to bear to stop the regime's outlaw behavior," Pompeo said at the time. 

Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser under Barack Obama who was instrumental in the 2014 Iran nuclear deal, said there's "no question that Soleimani has a lot of blood on his hands."

"But this is a really frightening moment," he added. "Iran will respond and likely in various places. Thinking of all US personnel in the region right now." 

More than 700 Army paratroopers are headed to Kuwait, and as many as 5,000 more paratroopers and U.S. Marines were expected to be sent to the Persian Gulf in the coming days.

While speaking to reporters off camera earlier Thursday, Esper said there were indications militias loyal to Iran were planning further attacks against Americans. 

"Do I think they may do something? Yes, and they will likely regret it," he said.

Let's block ads! (Why?)

2020-01-04 12:58:00Z
https://ift.tt/2tsHys6
52780537689798

Iran's President says US committed a 'grave mistake' in killing top general - CNN

Iran's President says US committed a 'grave mistake' in killing top general - CNN

His remarks came on the same day mourners in neighboring Iraq were chanting "Death to America" at a funeral procession for Soleimani and an Iraqi militia leader who also died in a US airstrike Friday morning.

"The Americans did not understand what grave mistake they committed," Rouhani said while visiting the house of Soleimani's family in Tehran, according to a statement his office released.

The strike killed Soleimani, head of Iran's Quds Force, at Baghdad International Airport, along with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy head of the Iran-backed Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces. At least six people were killed in the strike, an Iraqi security source told CNN on condition of anonymity.

It marks a major escalation in regional tensions that have pitted Tehran against Washington and its allies in the Middle East.

President Donald Trump on Friday said he ordered the death of Soleimani, one of Iran's most powerful men, to stop a war, not start one, as tensions between the two nations were already escalating.

Trump said Soleimani was plotting "imminent and sinister attacks" on Americans.

The Pentagon blamed Soleimani and his Quds Force for recent assaults on coalition bases in Iraq, including a December 27 strike that culminated in the deaths of an American contractor and Iraqi personnel. It also blamed him for hundreds of protesters storming the US Embassy compound in Baghdad on December 31.

After the embassy attack, the US sent to the Middle East 750 troops from the Immediate Response Force of the 82nd Airborne Division. On Friday, the US announced it was sending the rest of the brigade -- about 3,000 soldiers.

Soleimani was the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and became the architect of Tehran's proxy conflicts in the Middle East.

The Trump administration viewed Soleimani as a ruthless killer, and the President told reporters Friday that the general should have been taken out by previous presidents.

The Pentagon blamed Soleimani for hundreds of deaths of Americans and their allies. "General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region," the Pentagon said, calling the strike "decisive defensive" action aimed at deterring Iranian attacks.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the strike had thwarted an "imminent" attack in the region but declined to give details.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat and member of the Appropriations Committee, said Friday the strike will increase threats to US interests.

"Today the administration announced we're sending 3,000 more troops to the region," he said. "So, clearly the administration recognizes that this action has actually dramatically increased the risks in the Middle East, increased the risks of an attack from Iran. And it should be no surprise to anybody who has followed these issues that Iran does mean what it says when it says this is essentially tantamount to an act of war."

Iran says it will fight back

In a letter to the United Nations, Iran described the attack as state terrorism and an unlawful criminal act.

It was "tantamount to opening a war," Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran's ambassador to the UN, told CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront" on Friday.

"The response for a military action is a military action. By whom? When? Where? That is for the future to witness," he said.

He said the strike had escalated a war that started when Iran pulled out of a nuclear deal with Tehran in 2018.

"The US has started the economic war in -- in May 2018. Last night, they started a military war. By assassinating, by an act of terror, against one of our top generals," he told CNN.

Iran and its allies condemned the strike as an "assassination," while European officials and the UN called for de-escalation.

Mourners chant 'Death to America' at funeral procession

In Iraq on Saturday, thousands of people attended a funeral procession, mourning Soleimani and al-Muhandis as they chanted "Death to America."

Mourners wept as they walked alongside the vehicle carrying his coffin down the streets of Baghdad. Some carried signs that read, "We are all Muhandis and Soleimani."

Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi was among the crowd of mourners walking next to the cars carrying the coffins.

Funeral processions will be held for Soleimani in both Iran and Iraq, Iranian state media reported. Iran will observe three days of national mourning, with people also gathering in Baghdad on Saturday to pay tribute to all the officials killed.

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has vowed "harsh revenge," according to a statement on his official website.

"His pure blood was shed in the hands of the most depraved of human beings," Khamenei said.

Maj. Gen. Ismail Qaani, who served for years alongside Soleimani, has been appointed as his replacement.

Some US officials are bracing for Iran to retaliate with a cyber-attack, but Iran has shown it is also capable of engaging in another form of online warfare: social media disinformation campaigns. Authorities were on Saturday increasing vigilance and fortifying defenses.

CNN's Jason Hanna, Steve Almasy, Ryan Browne, Zachary Cohen and Hamdi Alkhshali contributed to this report.

Let's block ads! (Why?)

2020-01-04 13:15:00Z
https://ift.tt/2szw8D7
52780536809258