Gerri weve got a big show for you tonight, starting with the war going on in your living room. Netflix is fighting the Cable Companies over streaming video speeds. Consumers already suffering with slower downloads and youre about to get hit again in the form of higher cable bills. Joining me now, glen duren from consumer reports. Thanks for coming on the show. We just heard in the last hour on our network some people in washington are saying this isnt a big deal with consumers. Theyre not getting throttled on spee downloading like house of cards from netflix. What are you hearing . We heard probably what you heard, there obviously have been a lost complaints. A lot of them surfaced especially this past weekend when house of cards launched and netflix takes up an enormous amount of internet traffic. So netflix has been saying that basically theres a lot of congestion and that there is potentially even throttling going on by the isps, the Internet Service providers. Hard to know what is
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Blame Game Intensifies Over Iranian Accomplice To Assassination Of Top Nuclear Scientist
February 17, 2021 16:49 GMT
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A blame game has intensified in Iran more than two months after the assassination of Iran s top nuclear scientist and the purported mastermind of an alleged atomic-weapons effort, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
The 59-year-old Fakhrizadeh was killed on a highway outside the Iranian capital in broad daylight in November in what was regarded as a major security failure.
Tehran has blamed the attack on Israel but also acknowledged the likely role of Iranian infiltrators in the killing of Fakhrizadeh, who officials say was also a deputy defense minister.
The Fakhrizadeh assassination: A major failure for Iranian intelligence
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The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the most important figure in Iran s nuclear program, in late November 2020 is a major failure for Iran s intelligence services. Fakhrizadeh was a general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the chief of the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND) at the Iranian Ministry of Defense, and was known as the head of the military section of Iran s nuclear program.
Fakhrizadeh is no stranger to Iran’s political elite. In recent weeks, websites affiliated with the Iranian government have published images showing him secretly receiving a high-ranking award from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in 2016. That year, after the signing of the nuclear deal between Iran and the group of world powers known as the P5+1 (the U.S., U.K., France, China, Russia, and Germany), 28 Iranian officials involved in the deal and Iran s n