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Skip to comments.Iranian Alert - September 20, 2004 [EST]- IRAN LIVE THREAD - "Americans for Regime Change in Iran"
Posted on 09/19/2004 9:27:58 PM PDT by DoctorZIn
The US media still largely ignores news regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran. As Tony Snow of the Fox News Network has put it, this is probably the most under-reported news story of the year. As a result, most Americans are unaware that the Islamic Republic of Iran is NOT supported by the masses of Iranians today. Modern Iranians are among the most pro-American in the Middle East. In fact they were one of the first countries to have spontaneous candlelight vigils after the 911 tragedy (see photo).
There is a popular revolt against the Iranian regime brewing in Iran today. I began these daily threads June 10th 2003. On that date Iranians once again began taking to the streets to express their desire for a regime change. Today in Iran, most want to replace the regime with a secular democracy.
The regime is working hard to keep the news about the protest movement in Iran from being reported. Unfortunately, the regime has successfully prohibited western news reporters from covering the demonstrations. The voices of discontent within Iran are sometime murdered, more often imprisoned. Still the people continue to take to the streets to demonstrate against the regime.
In support of this revolt, Iranians in America have been broadcasting news stories by satellite into Iran. This 21st century news link has greatly encouraged these protests. The regime has been attempting to jam the signals, and locate the satellite dishes. Still the people violate the law and listen to these broadcasts. Iranians also use the Internet and the regime attempts to block their access to news against the regime. In spite of this, many Iranians inside of Iran read these posts daily to keep informed of the events in their own country.
This daily thread contains nearly all of the English news reports on Iran. It is thorough. If you follow this thread you will witness, I believe, the transformation of a nation. This daily thread provides a central place where those interested in the events in Iran can find the best news and commentary. The news stories and commentary will from time to time include material from the regime itself. But if you read the post you will discover for yourself, the real story of what is occurring in Iran and its effects on the war on terror.
I am not of Iranian heritage. I am an American committed to supporting the efforts of those in Iran seeking to replace their government with a secular democracy. I am in contact with leaders of the Iranian community here in the United States and in Iran itself.
If you read the daily posts you will gain a better understanding of the US war on terrorism, the Middle East and why we need to support a change of regime in Iran. Feel free to ask your questions and post news stories you discover in the weeks to come.
If all goes well Iran will be free soon and I am convinced become a major ally in the war on terrorism. The regime will fall. Iran will be free. It is just a matter of time.
Iran's angry reaction to calls for a sweeping halt to all its enrichment activities may be born partially of a sense of injustice.
Iran argues it has abided by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and allowed spot inspections sometimes at two hours' notice in order to show the intention behind its nuclear programme is peaceful.
Iranian officials repeatedly stress their country has a legal right to nuclear power - and in particular to securing their own source of fuel for power stations rather than being dependent on outsiders.
The international community is mistrustful though - fearing Iran plans to convert fuel into highly enriched uranium for weapons.
Under pressure
By taking a tough stance against the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution, Iran hopes to show the world it will not give in to what it calls international bullying by making concessions outside the framework of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The government is also under pressure from hardliners who dominate the parliament.
More than 200 deputies urged the government to defy the international community and go ahead and enrich uranium.
For the meantime Iran has said it will continue and even extend its co-operation with IAEA inspectors in the hope that it can resolve all outstanding issues by the next meeting in November.
Spot inspections will continue under an agreement known as the Additional Protocol signed last year though parliamentarians have issued a statement saying they will not ratify it.
Disturbing progress
The door was, however, left ajar for compromise when Iran said any further suspension of enrichment activities was a matter for negotiations and could not be achieved by passing resolutions.
What is disturbing for the international community is quite how advanced Iran's nuclear programme already is.
Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rohani, said Iran was already producing uranium hexafluoride gas out of yellow cake in Isfahan and had reached the last stage of uranium enrichment at a site in Natanz.
The latest IAEA resolution called on Iran to reconsider its decision to start building a heavy-water research reactor in Arak - but Mr Rohani told journalists it was almost finished.
He said Iran already had enrichment capability and could complete the fuel cycle any day it wanted.
"The war games were unsuccessful at preventing the conflict from escalating," an unnamed Air Force source told the magazine in its latest issue.
The Central Intelligence and the Defense Intelligence Agency played out the possible results US strikes, the magazine reported.
Hawks within President George W. Bush's administration haev advocated for regime change in Tehran -- through covert operations or force if needed, Newsweek said.
But with US-led forces facing almost daily attacks in Iraq, no one in Bush's cabinet has taken up the cause, the report said.
The United States believes Iran is using a civlian nuclear program to mask a weapons development effort.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is strictly aimed at generating electricity, despite suspicions it is seeking to develop the capability to build nuclear weapons.
Uranium is enriched through centrifuges to make what can be fuel for civilian nuclear reactors but also the explosive material for atomic bombs.
Iran Refuses UN Uranium Demand, Is Rebuked by U.S.(Update3)
Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Iran refused a demand by the United Nations' nuclear watchdog to halt all uranium-enrichment activities, prompting a U.S. rebuke as the Islamic Republic faces possible economic sanctions.
The U.S. reproached Iran today for refusing an International Atomic Energy Agency resolution urging an immediate halt to Iranian enrichment-related activities. The agency, which acknowledged Iran's right to enrich uranium, asked Iran to further open its atomic program to UN inspectors.
``Iran will drag out negotiations with the IAEA and the Europeans, who are unlikely to agree to sanctions because of their oil interests in Iran,'' Youssef Ibrahim, managing director of the Dubai, United Arab Emirated-based Strategic Energy Investment Group, said in a telephone interview.
The U.S. says Iran, which holds the world's second-biggest proven oil reserves after Saudi Arabia, is hiding a nuclear- weapons program and is seeking imposition of UN sanctions on the country. New sanctions may force European oil companies such Royal Dutch/Shell Group to stop working in Iran.
Iran won't accept any UN demand to halt the enrichment of uranium, Hassan Rowhani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said in Tehran, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. Iran's nuclear program is peaceful and is only intended to generate energy, he said.
Iran has had more than 800 IAEA inspections in the last year, Hossein Mousavian, head of Iran's delegation to the IAEA, said this week.
Total SA, Europe's third-largest oil company, OAO Lukoil, Russia's top oil producer, and Norway's Norsk Hydro ASA are among other international oil companies working in Iran. The country is the second-largest oil producer in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries after Saudi Arabia.
The ``clock is ticking'' for Iran to stop its activities and cooperate with the IAEA, U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said today in Vienna.
``We should all expect that Iran should follow the obligations and cooperate with the IAEA,'' Abraham said at a conference of the Global Threat Reduction Initiative, a movement backed by the U.S., Russia and International Atomic Energy Agency seeking to secure radioactive materials around the world.
Iran's suspension of its uranium-enrichment program since October 2003 was voluntary and could be extended, Rowhani said.
``Only dialogue can stop us from resuming (uranium- enrichment) activities,'' Rowhani said.
Doubts about Iran's nuclear program are gone now that the country revealed the goals for the activities, he said. The International Atomic Energy Agency's resolution proved that Iran's nuclear program is peaceful, Rowhani said.
The U.S. has failed to achieve its goal of seeking a UN Security Council resolution to impose sanctions on Iran, he said. The Iranian official didn't rule out the possibility of resuming nuclear talks with the U.S.
The U.S. is pleased the IAEA has set Nov. 25 as a deadline for Iran to cease its pursuit of nuclear weapons, Jackie Sanders, the head of the U.S. delegation, said yesterday.
Trade Sanctions
U.S. companies are prohibited from investing in Iran by government trade sanctions. The U.S. law, known as the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act, hasn't kept European and Asian companies from operating there.
Shell and Spain's Repsol YPF SA signed an accord on Sept. 16 to build a liquefied natural-gas plant in Iran, which may take years to develop. Shell, an Anglo-Dutch oil company, produces oil from two fields in Iran and is bidding to develop more in the country.
``The U.S. sanctions haven't hurt Iran and if the UN sanctions are imposed I doubt they would be respected,'' Youssef said.
Russia, which is helping Iran develop its nuclear program, has also refused to back out of an $800 million project to build a nuclear unit at Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, Youssef said.
Iran recently retested its Shahab-3 missile in the presence of observers to prove it isn't afraid to use force to defend itself from a potential attack, Youssef said.
Israel, a U.S. ally in the Middle East, destroyed the Osirak nuclear reactor in neighboring Iraq in 1981.
Iran and North Korea are two counties that the U.S. warns are working on nuclear weapons. Earlier this month, an explosion in North Korea prompted speculation, dismissed by U.S. and South Korean officials, that the country may have carried out a nuclear test. North Korea denied making such a test.
IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said the explosion in North Korea didn't appear to be nuclear, based on what he was told by an IAEA sister organization responsible for monitoring explosive devices. ElBaradei said North Korea has the plutonium necessary for a nuclear weapon, and wouldn't rule out the possibility that the country has tested or may be ready to test a nuclear device.
``I do not exclude at all that they have assembled a nuclear weapon or more than one nuclear weapon,'' he said on Cable News Network's ``Late Edition'' program. ``They have the fissile material. They have the industrial infrastructure.''
Iran threatens to halt access for UN nuclear inspectors
Kasra Naji in Tehran and Ian Traynor
Monday September 20, 2004
The Guardian
Iran rejected UN demands that it freeze all aspects of its uranium enrichment programme yesterday, threatening to cancel access for nuclear inspectors and abandon its international nuclear commitments if the issue is taken to the security council.
A day after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted a resolution demanding an immediate and comprehensive halt to the enrichment programme, Tehran declared the call was illegal and signalled it would press ahead.
Hassan Rohani, a senior Iranian official, said no decision had been taken to "expand" Iran's freeze on the enrichment of uranium, the process which is central to building a nuclear bomb but which is allowed under international treaties to run a civilian nuclear programme.
After a week of behind-the-scenes squabbling between the US, the big European countries and non-aligned countries, the IAEA delivered a warning to Iran, ordering a prompt freeze of "all uranium enrichment-related activities" and threatening implicitly to report Iran to the UN security council in November should Tehran remain recalcitrant.
Iran interprets the freeze narrowly, while the Europeans and the US are calling for a suspension of all uranium enrichment processes.
Under Iran's international treaty obligations, it is allowed to enrich uranium, so any suspension has to be voluntary and cannot be compelled by outsiders.
Halting the programme, however, is the fundamental policy aim since that is the best way to ensure that Tehran does not create a nuclear bomb.
Mr Rohani indicated that Tehran remained open to negotiations on the issue and that Iran would not enrich uranium for the moment, but would carry on with ancillary operations which come under the IAEA freeze demand.
The reaction in Tehran to the IAEA calls prefigured several weeks of brinkmanship and playing for time ahead of the next meeting of the IAEA board in November.
The Americans have had enough of arguing over the Iranian programme after almost two years of inspections and reports and want to take the issue to the security council unless Iran makes major concessions.
Mr Rohani declared yesterday that Iran already had the technology to produce nuclear bombs, a view that is shared by many experts and diplomats closely following the saga.
He said production of yellow cake, a treated uranium ore, was continuing, as was the production of feed material for hundreds of sophisticated centrifuge machines used to enrich uranium.
These are some of the processes that the IAEA has demanded should be halted.
Posted Sunday, September 19, 2004
TEHRAN-VIENNA, 19 Sept. (IPS) Hojjatoleslam Hasan Rohani, the Secretary of Irans Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) announced on Sunday 19 September 2004 that Iran refuses any resolution which binds it to suspend its uranium enrichment process
"No organisation, including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), enjoys the authority to deprive a country of its right to use nuclear technologies for peaceful purposes, he told journalists in Tehran.
Earlier on the week, former Iranian president Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had menaced the IAEA to take it to the International Court of Justice in case the Vienna-based United Nations nuclear watchdog decides on preventing the nation of acquiring nuclear energy for civilian uses.
Former Iranian president Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had menaced the IAEA to take it to the International Court of Justice
"Any resolution which seek to bind us to suspension of uranium enrichment is unacceptable and we will not accept such an obligation", Mr. Rohani, a close aid to Irans leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameneh'i, observed, adding that Irans suspension of uranium enrichment had been voluntary, aimed to show the countrys good faith.
"The aim of the suspension which was announced last year ... was to build trust, but the situation today is different from last year since there is no ambiguity regarding our peaceful nuclear activities now," he added, commenting the latest resolution the Agencys Board of Directors had approved on 18 September unanimously, but without vote taking.
The resolution urged Iran to suspend all activities related to uranium enrichment and reconsider its decision to start construction of a research reactor moderated by heavy water.
Mr Rohani repeated that Iran voluntarily suspended uranium enrichment for confidence building and to thwart the propaganda campaign against Iranian nuclear program.
"We will go ahead with confidence-building and will endeavour to build up our technical capability to restore our national rights in the context of the international conventions. This is our diplomacy to proceed with on both directions simultaneously," he said.
The 35 directors also decided that at its November session, it will decided whether or not further steps are appropriate in relation to Irans obligations under its NPT Safeguards Agreement and to the requests made of Iran by the Board in this and previous resolutions.
The document, a compromise between several draft proposals presented by Britain, France and Germany in the one hand, the United States, Australia and Canada on the other, notes with serious concern that as detailed in the Director Generals report, Iran has not heeded repeated calls from the Board to suspend, as confidence building measure, all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities.
The United States had pressed its European allies to adopt a stronger line on Iran, including a so-called trigger mechanism and a 31 October deadline for the automatic transfer of the case to the United Nations Security Council for economic sanctions in case Tehran do not stand up to its obligations.
Washington had pushed to drop mention of countries' right to peaceful nuclear technology.
But under pressures from the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) members plus China, the Board decided to drop both US demands, a move that Mr. Mohammad Hoseyn Mousavian, the spokesman of Irans delegation described as a defeat for the United States.
However, he expressed his dissatisfaction with both the resolution, which he described as illogical and political and the European Unions big 3, that he accused of breaching their part of the Tehran 21 October 2003 Agreement.
But IAEA's General Director Dr Mohammad ElBrade'i said the document was "balanced" and called on Iran to comply, saying that going ahead with the resolution was to "Iran's and the world's interests".
Any resolution which seek to bind us to suspension of uranium enrichment is unacceptable and we will not accept such an obligation
According to the Iranians, foreign affairs ministers of Britain, France and Germany had agreed to close Irans case at the IAEA and make sure that Tehran would get advanced nuclear technologies for civilian purposes against promise by Iran to sign the Additional Protocol to the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and suspend enriching uranium.
But both the trio and the IAEA accuses the Islamic Republic that not only it had not suspended the activities, but has introduced more modern centrifuges and is planning to introduce 37 tonnes of yellow cake at its Uranium Conversion Facility.
"The suspension is not obligatory and is fully voluntary and the Islamic Republic of Iran has not undertaken any commitment for this suspension", the official Iranian news agency IRNA quoted the official, criticising the IAEA for combining the voluntary suspension of uranium enrichment with making it a binding for Iran.
Nevertheless, the resolution recognises the right of Iran to the development and practical application of atomic energy for peaceful purposes, including the production of electric power.
Iran says it plans to generate 7.000 megawatts of electricity from nuclear energy and to this aim; it has under construction a one-megawatt nuclear reactor in the Persian Gulf port of Booshehr with the help of Russia.
But both the Bush Administration and Israel allege that under the cover of producing electricity, Iran is after nuclear weapons.
Both the trio and the IAEA accuses the Islamic Republic that it had not suspended enriching uranium.
Concerning the US and Israels claims that Iran is going to test nuclear bomb in six months, he said that if they have any evidence to prove it they should show it to the board of governors.
"Iran has repeatedly announced that its nuclear program is merely peaceful and not military. We have never been interested in nuclear weapons, insisted Mr Rohani, Europeans trio and the IAEAs main interlocutor.
For his part, Mr. Mousavian told Iran Press Service that Irans main objective was to prove to the world that the US allegations about Irans nuclear program were false.
We have been successful to the effect up to the present day", he noted.
"We want to prove to the international community that our nuclear program is for civilian purpose. We have done a lot to do so, and will go on taking such actions in future too, because we are willing to develop better relationship with the international community. We dont like confrontation and crisis", Rohani said.
Offering an olive branch, he referred to Irans nuclear case as a conflict and said that every conflict may either end up in victory or failure. So far Iran has been successful, he said, announcing at the same time that Iran has not shut the door yet to nuclear talks with the United States.
"We have already held negotiations with the Americans on various issues such as Afghanistan and Iraq in the presence of the United Nations and such negotiations on (Irans) nuclear file is not totally out of question" Rohani said, according to IRNA.
"If America drops its position of threats and asks for negotiations there will be room for consideration, but when they use their bullying approach, they spoil their own work, he went on, adding, "Perhaps, when the three European countries announced their readiness for negotiations concerning Irans nuclear file, if the Americans had made similar announcement, we would have entered into negotiations with them".
Meanwhile, Iran's conservative-controlled Majles, or parliament again warned that it would not ratify the Additional protocol that allows tougher UN nuclear inspections after the International Atomic Energy Agency passed a tough resolution against the Islamic republic.
"The continued defiance of principles by the IAEA's board of governors leaves no room for us to ratify the additional protocol, and will lead us to question what is the point for the nation to leave its doors open for IAEA inspectors," said the statement read out in parliament. ENDS IRAN NUCLEAR 19904
Jerusalem, Israel, Sep. 19 (UPI) -- Azerbaijani police have arrested an Iranian who allegedly was spying on the Israeli embassy in that country's capital, Baku.
An Israel security team guarding the embassy Sept. 1 saw the Iranian stop his car outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel that houses the Israeli and Japanese embassies, and video-tape the site.
The guards alerted local policemen who arrested the man and found pictures of Dubai's airport, all the hotel's entrances, and footage of an unoccupied police post in the area.
The detainee reportedly said he filmed the buildings for their beauty. However, the Israeli prime minister's office, which speaks for the Mossad and Shabak intelligence services, said Sunday it believes the Iranian was gathering intelligence on potential targets for attacks.
Argentina's government found Iranian diplomats had been involved in preparations for the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992 and the Jewish community building there in 1994, the prime minister's office noted.
ASHINGTON, Sept. 19 - Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld have raised sharp complaints in recent days that Iran is providing support for the insurgency in Iraq, expressing concerns over what they say are Iran's attempt to shape Iraq's future.
Pentagon, State Department and military officials, describing intelligence reports that are fueling those concerns, say money, weapons and even a small number of fighters are flowing over the border from Iran to assist Shiite insurgents commanded by Moktada al-Sadr, a rebel cleric. But there is no consensus on the exact scale of Iranian activities.
Mr. Powell, in an interview with the editors of The Washington Times released by the State Department on Friday, said that Iran was "providing support" for the insurgency but that the extent of its influence was not clear. Most of the insurgency, he added, was "self-generating" and drawing support from indigenous sources.
Mr. Rumsfeld, speaking Tuesday during a visit to Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., said, "We have no doubt that the money comes in from Syria and Iran and undoubtedly other countries as well." He also cited reports that a shoulder-launched, antiaircraft missile had been smuggled into Iraq from Iran.
Bush administration officials, in addition to their charge that Iran is supporting the insurgency, described new concerns that Iran is financing medical clinics, hospitals and social welfare centers in Iraq, especially in areas where the interim government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and American forces are not in control.
"Now that these folks are starting to provide services that should be provided by the Iraqi government, their purpose is to provide a political base to extend Iran's influence in Iraq," one administration official said.
Such support is seen in Washington as akin to Iran's support for Hezbollah, the organization in Lebanon that runs social welfare centers and carries out attacks on Israel.
The extent of Iranian support for Iraqi insurgents has been debated within the administration since last spring, American officials said. While blaming outside support could be viewed as a convenient explanation for a tenacious insurgency, officials who spoke of the intelligence from Iraq made clear that the most serious threats to security there remained home-grown: Iraqis still loyal to Saddam Hussein, Iraqi Shiite militants and criminals, although the effects of foreign influence and foreign terrorists remain significant.
Administration and military officials say financial support from Iran is especially vital in allowing Mr. Sadr to challenge the new Iraqi leadership and the American military.
Mr. Sadr still can attract fighters from among the tens of thousands of disenfranchised, poor Shiite youths. But Pentagon and military officials say he has alienated the business class of Shiite moderates in southern Iraq, where the economy was disrupted by the fighting to dislodge his forces.
"He is not popular in Karbala and Najaf," said one senior military officer. So the money from Iran is critical in keeping Mr. Sadr's movement alive, officials say.
Weapons smuggled into Iraq from Iran are also a concern, but officials note that Iraq remains awash anyway in Baathist-era automatic rifles and domestic military ordnance.
In a new assessment of the changing face of the Iraqi insurgency, Pentagon and military officials now speak of what appears to be a small but worrisome alliance with Iraq's Sunni insurgents - mostly loyalists to Mr. Hussein's ousted government and Hussein-era military officers - who may be offering tactical combat training to the Sadr militia.
Senior military officers cite reports that a small number of Sunni insurgents have assisted Mr. Sadr's militia with explosives and sniper training.
Although the Sunni minority fears Shiite majority control of a unified Iraq, the new reports of cooperation indicate that the Sunni insurgency in a triangle of central and north-central Iraq is aided by Shiite fighters tying down thousands of American soldiers in the Najaf region.
"There are alliances of convenience," a partment official said.
Iraqi leaders, including Dr. Allawi and Defense Minister Hazim al-Shalaan, have contended in past public statements that Iran is providing weapons and material support to Mr. Sadr. Shiite clerics run Iran, and Shiites make up most of Iraq's population. But Dr. Allawi, asked in an interview with ABC News whether Iranians were causing trouble in Iraq, responded in a more tepid fashion.
"Well, we don't know," Dr. Allawi said, according to a transcript of the full interview provided by the ABC News program "This Week." "There are some people, some elements, who are coming and still are coming from Iran into Iraq." Dr. Allawi, who will travel to the United States this week in his first visit as acting prime minister, said the issue was of sufficient concern that he sent a deputy to meet with Iran's president and foreign minister.
For its part, Iran has denied accusations of interference in Iraq's affairs, repeatedly called for the withdrawal of all American-led forces from Iraq and officially invited Dr. Allawi to visit. Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency, reporting Saturday on the arrival of Iraq's first ambassador to Iran since 1980, when the two countries began an eight-year war, said Dr. Allawi's visit would be a "positive step."
Some Bush administration officials remain skeptical of the extent of Iranian actions. Even Mr. Powell has noted that, while some limited support for Mr. Sadr is likely, Iran would not necessarily want to support a group like Mr. Sadr's, which also sees itself as a rival to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most powerful Shiite cleric in Iraq. Mr. Sistani was born in Iran and has strong links to its clerical leaders.
"There are reasons for them to cooperate with one another and there are strong reasons why there is a limit to that cooperation," Mr. Powell said in the Washington Times interview.
Mr. Powell also said the administration was concerned about support for Iraqi insurgents from Syria. That concern was raised with Syrian leaders on a recent trip to Damascus by two administration officials, William J. Burns, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, and Peter W. Rodman, assistant defense secretary for international security affairs.
The chroniclers tell us that the Ottoman sultan Abdul-Hamid II (ruled 1876-1909) made a habit of keeping a small child on his knee in his weekly appearances in public. The 34th sultan of the House of Osman assumed that no decent assassin would willingly gun down a child. From the discotheques of Tel Aviv to the nightclubs in Bali and the schools in Beslan, the assassins are now of a different breed. The moral limits of our world have been stretched to the breaking point. The political ideologies of terror, armed with a religious warrant, have been defining our limits of tolerance, our morality itself, downward. "We love death," said that quintessential merchant of death Osama bin Laden, "as much as the infidels love life." Alas, this is not an idle boast, and terrors in the name of a radicalized, aggrieved Islamism have become a rebuke to claims of progress in our contemporary world.
The Russians now claim a 9/11 of their own; Spain had been given a signal day of mourning six months earlier, when commuter trains were blown apart by bombs assembled by Arab drifters and jihadists. In truth, Israel had been the first battleground in this ongoing war between civilized life and terror: It was there that pizzerias and buses and discotheques became targets of terror. It was there that the cultists of death cut their teeth and developed their rituals of mass murder--the videotapes, the boys (and then the young women) with headbands proclaiming their zeal for "martyrdom," the posters lionizing mass killers. And it was there, too, that religious preachers bent the faith to their will. In distant lands, it was said that the ferocity of these attacks derived from Palestinian "grievances," that this conflict was sui generis. But the ruin soon spread to other lands.
Earlier this month, a thoughtful and brave Saudi columnist, Abdul Rahman al-Rashed, in the London-based Arabic daily al-Sharq al-Awsat, ignited a storm with a piece of writing of extraordinary daring entitled "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!" It was time, he said, to acknowledge that the terrorist attacks of the past decade, in "buses and schools and houses" the world over, were carried out by Muslims. There is a "malady" in Islamic lands, he wrote, and a cure for this malady begins with "self-knowledge" and the end of denial. "Our sons, the terrorists," he wrote, "are loose in the world, the natural products of a deformed culture." In his autopsy, al-Rashed took on the preachers and the muftis, the religious judges, who have found in the Scripture warrant for this deadly radicalism. He singled out Sunni Islam's most influential preacher, the Egyptian-born cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi. That cleric rules the airwaves with his access to television and the Web. He had issued a fatwa authorizing attacks on American civilians in Iraq, and al-Rashed saw in this ruling the ruinous ways of the radical preachers: "Imagine a man of religion encouraging the murder of civilians, a man in the fullness of old age inciting young boys to murder when two of his daughters are studying in the United Kingdom under the protection of a presumably 'infidel' power. We can't redeem our youth unless we take on the men of religion who have turned into revolutionaries who send other people's kids to war while they send their own to European and American schools."
Roots of rage. We don't know when this new terribleness was ushered into the world of Islam. But we know that at its roots lie the forces of envy and resentment, an attraction to the emancipated ways of an encircling global culture that Muslims can neither master nor reject. The young homicide bomber walking into a Tel Aviv discotheque has come to serve a warrant of death on people his age whose ways he yearns for yet cannot have. Cunning in their reading of the bewildered and the vulnerable, the preachers and the entrepreneurs of death have given this terrible rage sanctity. In the safety of England, a Syrian-born preacher, Omar Bakri Mohammad, recently opined to the Sunday Telegraph that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a "just cause." With the heartbreak of Beslan in the background, this man said that "if an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out acts of terrorism in Iraq."
In our innocence, we think that a battle ought to be waged for Muslim hearts and minds, that perhaps if we refined or amplified our message, this hate would be driven away. It is in this spirit that the 9/11 commission recently recommended the launching of a campaign of public diplomacy in the Muslim world. But this is illusion. For at heart, this war for Islam is one for Muslims to fight. It is for them to recover their faith from the purveyors of terror.
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Posted on 09/19/2004 1:50:57 PM PDT by GIJoel
The Iranian government spends over $158 million on propaganda in the US and has over 5,000 journalists, agents, etc. in the US.
What is your source for these stats?
I've heard the hundred million dollar figure on various discussion boards and a couple of articles. As far as the agents at 5,000, that's not surprising considering 15% of the Iranian populace support the current government and there are over 1.4M Iranians in the US.
The Alavi Foundation:
Among the properties Iran held in America that Berger's office declared was fair game was a 36-story office complex at 52nd St. and Fifth Ave. in Manhattan, worth an estimated $135 million. Built in the 1970s with Iranian government money, today it is owned by the non-profit Alavi Foundation of New York, the successor of the Iranian government-controlled Pahlavi Foundation.
In addition to the skyscraper, the Alavi Foundation owns four "Islamic Education Centers" in Potomac, Md.; Queens, N.Y.; Houston, Texas; and Carmichael, Calif. The Maryland property alone is valued at more than $5.7 million, according to real estate records. The Houston property is worth an estimated $3.2 million.
In Queens, N.Y., the foundation has pumped more than $10.4 million into its Imam Ali Islamic Education Center since March 1991. The foundation has an assortment of other real estate holdings around the country, including 20 acres of prime development land in Catharpin, Va., assessed at $1.9 million but potentially worth several times that amount to developers.
Several Iranian-Americans have attempted to gain control of the Alavi Foundation in the U.S. courts over the past decade. Who controls the foundation, established by the shah's government in 1975 to provide scholarships to young Iranians studying in the United States, has become a cause celebre among Iranian-Americans.
"These properties belong to the people of Iran," said Aryo Pirouznia, an Iranian-American activist who has spearheaded an Internet-based support group for the pro-democracy student movement that has rocked the ruling clerics with demonstrations over the past year. "These assets do not belong to the regime."
Attempts by the Flatow lawyers to attach the Alavi Foundation properties and other assets have been blocked by the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., at every step of the way, despite President Clinton's repeated claims that he is helping the families. Separate lawsuits filed in Houston, Texas, and San Diego, Calif., to attach Iranian government properties and state-owned banks were also rejected, after Justice Department lawyers objected.
In February 1999, Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey set up another meeting for Flatow with the president on the sidelines of a National Prayer Breakfast. Despite having personally blocked Flatow's efforts to attach Iran's assets, Clinton oozed sympathy and continued to ask what he could do to help.
"We told him he could help by unfreezing the Nations Bank account where the rent from Iran's diplomatic properties is being held," Flatow said. "Clinton turned to Berger, and told him to get on it."
Once again, Flatow says, he was tricked into believing he had the president's support. When his lawyers filed a motion to attach the Nations Bank account, the Justice Department once again opposed them, filing a motion to quash. By November 1999, the Justice Department had assigned 14 government lawyers to the case.
"That's more than they assigned to the Microsoft anti-trust suit," said Flatow family attorney Thomas Fortune Fay.
The Alavi Foundation
The Pahlavi Foundation in New York and its parent, the Pahlavi Foundation in Tehran, were seized by the revolutionary government of Ayatollah Khomeini in a decree dated Feb. 28, 1979.
The Shah's assets and those of his supporters were placed under the direct legal control of the supreme leader, in theory to be managed "in favor of the needy." Today, the foundation is controlled by law by his successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamene'i, who appoints a chairman to manage its day-to-day affairs.
In Iran, the foundation controlled vast real estate holdings, factories and luxury resorts. It had share-holdings in major joint-venture corporations set up in Iran with foreign partners, including General Motors and Jeep.
In the United States, its main asset was the 36-story mid-town Manhattan office building. Back in 1979, it was valued at approximately $50 million. The revolutionaries forced the resignation of the foundation's pro-Shah Board of Directors in 1979, replacing them with persons loyal to Ayatollah Khomeini. Top among them was Mohammad Hadi Nejad Hosseinian, who assumed control of the Foundation on Aug. 27, 1979.
Nejad-Hosseinian today serves as the Islamic Republic's ambassador to the United Nations, after 20 years in various government positions in Tehran. Under his leadership, the foundation proceeded to establish "Islamic Education" centers around the U.S., with the aim of spreading pro-regime propaganda.
In recent years, the centers have become a magnet for the Iranian community by offering Farsi-language primary school classes that are fully accredited with the Iranian national educational system. But they continue to spread virulent anti-American and anti-Semitic propaganda, including videotaped speeches of neo-Nazis such as Ahmed Huber, who praises Ayatollah Khomeini as the living embodiment of Adolf Hitler.
Over the past five years, the foundation has financed a Farsi-language satellite TV network in the United States known as Aftab television, which rebroadcasts state-run television programs from Tehran. Aftab is controlled through a New York agency, Cina Productions.
Despite the foundation's clear ties to Tehran, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control failed to include it in lists of Iranian government assets it published following President Clinton's trade embargo in May 1995.
Officials at the Office of Foreign Assets Control said in interviews that they had not been able to establish Tehran's "day-to-day control" over the foundation in a manner that would hold up in a U.S. court. A U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York agreed, and in late 1995 rejected an effort by an Iranian-American to attach assets of the Alavi Foundation to satisfy a claim against the government of Iran.
These rulings came despite a May 18, 1988, investigation by the New York district office of the Internal Revenue Service. An IRS memo documenting the probe, obtained by this reporter, concluded that the Alavi Foundation was controlled by Tehran. (It was then called the Mostazafan Foundation, after its parent foundation in Tehran).
On page 1, the IRS notes that the entire capital of the original foundation, $42,000,000, was provided in 1975 by the Central Bank of Iran "on instructions from the Shah." The money was used to construct the building at 650 Fifth Ave. The Central Bank "used another bank in Iran, Bank Melli, as its agent for transfer of funds to the United States."
The report goes on: "The entire $42,000,000 was given interest-free to the Mostazafan Foundation and is secured by a mortgage on the property at 650 Fifth Avenue." It was to be repaid in "15 annual installments of $2,800,000 each, commencing in December 1978 ..."
After repeated defaults by the foundation following the revolution, they re-negotiated the repayment schedule with Bank Melli.
"The debtor-creditor relationship in this case is cloudy and does not appear to be an arms length relationship," the IRS concluded. "Trustees of Mostazafan Foundation historically have been appointed by the government of Iran and it has been demonstrated that the Bank Melli is an instrument of the government of Iran. Therefore, Mostazafan Foundation and Bank Melli both may be controlled by the government of Iran."
Despite this and numerous other documents presented to U.S. District Court in New York, the administration continues to allow the Alavi Foundation to finance propaganda activities in the United States with impunity.
Real estate
The Iranian government still owns a 6-story Manhattan townhouse that used to serve as the residence of the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations. Located at 34 East 69th St., it was appraised for tax purposes at $5 million in 1995.
The Treasury Department has managed the property on behalf of the Iranian government since the 1979-81 hostage crisis. At one point, the Office of Foreign Assets Control rented the house to a criminal lawyer named Ivan Fisher for $50,000 per month. That money went into an escrow account for the Iranian government, which the Clinton administration has prevented the Flatow lawyers from attaching.
On April 14, 1997, the Alavi Foundation purchased land in Queens from the Korean Presbyterian Church for $405,000. That transfer occurred despite U.S. regulations banning financial transactions by the government of Iran in the United States.
In Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., the Alavi Foundation purchased six separate lots located on Georgia Lane, in the Waldwoods subdivision. The foundation transferred ownership through an insiders deal to a private corporation, repurchased it, refinanced it, and flipped the properties in the early 1990s.
U.S. government investigators believe profits from this and numerous other real estate transactions were done as a means of financing undeclared activities by the Alavi Foundation and the Iranian government in the United States. Bank Melli and Bank Saderat -- both agencies of the Iranian government -- also engaged in a variety of real estate holdings across America. Bank Melli recently purchased property assessed at $694,000 at 135 Puritan Ave. in Flushing, N.Y. In Los Angeles, a 1995 court judgment against four rug and furniture companies gave it liens worth several million dollars.
Bank Saderat has won title to numerous properties in California over the past five years as a result of mortgage defaults. These include a $2 million villa located at 515 North Rodeo Drive in the center of Beverly Hills, condominiums, lots, a convenience store, and more.
In February 1995, just three months before President Clinton's executive order, Bank Saderat established a separate corporation, the California Land Holding Corporation, to manage its real estate portfolio.
Bank Saderat's New York agency director, Ibrahim Bahmaie, was listed as the company's president. Following the trade embargo, the company transferred its assets to a series of front companies, which have continued to shuffle them to throw investigators off the scent.
A preliminary review of corporate and real estate documents relating to these holdings shows that the California Land Holding Corporation may control as much as $10 million in property through various front companies. Because they are a direct subsidiary of Bank Saderat, their holdings are the property of the Government of Iran and could be seized under the anti-terrorism legislation -- if President Clinton had not taken steps to protect them.
But the mother lode has been hiding beneath the noses of the Flatow attorneys since day one. And it makes all these other holdings -- even the Fifth Ave. skyscraper -- look like small potatoes by comparison.
When the cat's away, the mice will play. In this case, the cat is America and the mice are two members of George W Bush's "axis of evil", Iran and North Korea.
While not exactly absent, the cat is distracted by the third member of the axis, Iraq, and its own presidential election on November 2. In the breathing-space before that poll, the mice are proving ever more defiant over their long-term ambitions to become nuclear-armed powers.
The lack of progress within the six-nation forum discussing North Korea and the heightened confrontation between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), indicate that the two proliferators are playing for time diplomatically while pushing ahead with weapons development.
Yesterday, Iran rejected an IAEA resolution calling on it to stop activities relating to the enrichment of uranium and threatened to ban random checks by the agency were its case to be referred to the UN Security Council. Teheran said that if the council decided on sanctions it might follow North Korea and withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The clerically dominated regime has long deceived the IAEA over its nuclear activities.
Now it is daring the UN, and in particular, its most powerful member, the United States, to do its worst.
Nothing much is likely to happen until after the American election. The agency's board of governors next meets on November 25, when it may refer the matter to the Security Council, though Washington failed to get a "trigger" clause for such a move inserted into Saturday's resolution. At that stage, the way forward will obviously depend on whether Mr Bush or John Kerry has won the presidential election.
Whoever prevails, America will be faced with a would-be nuclear Iran which supports terrorism, denies Israel's right to exist and, in the words of its extremists, would like to destroy the liberal democracies.
Such a power has to be contained, by negotiation, military intervention or the fomenting of an internal uprising. Despite the rhetoric, there could be an opening for the first. The second, given the dispersal of Iran's nuclear activities, might only be partially successful. The third runs the risks of savage reprisals by the conservatives.
Whatever the result on November 2, Iran will be high on the next Administration's agenda. Both there and in North Korea, determined and wily mice have placed the cat in an unenviable dilemma.
| (IsraelNN.com) Security sources in Israel believe that Hamas politburo leader Khaled Meshal was quietly relocated from Syria by President Bashar el-Assad and moved to Iran in response to mounting American pressure against Damascus. Syrian officials also feared an Israeli attempt to eliminate Meshal, contributing to the decision to have him leave the country.
At this time, security sources are hesitant to predict just how long Meshal will remain exiled to Tehran.
Iranian Control of Hamas Opens Gaza Strip to Iranian Surface Missiles
DEBKAfile Exclusive Military Report
September 20, 2004, 11:42 AM (GMT+02:00)
Luna-2 on which Iran`s Zelzal-2 is based
The missile in the photo with this article is the Luna-2 short-range ground-to-ground missile, known to NATO from Soviet times as FROG-7, which Iran has developed as its Zelzal-2/Mushak-200. In the hands of Irans Lebanon-based Revolutionary Guards, it has extended the Iranian-Hizballahs missile range due south to Israels coastal cities of Haifa, Hadera and Netanya. The missile, its launchers and infrastructure are well-hidden in special storehouses in the port town of Sidon in the care of Revolutionary Guards specialist teams. A Lebanese urban center was chosen for their hiding places to reduce the weapons vulnerability to an Israeli air strike. With Tehran already issuing operational orders to the Palestinian Hamas fundamentalist terrorist group, it is only a question of time before these missiles are transferred to the Gaza Strip, so bringing southern Israel, Tel Aviv and the cities in between, such as Rehovot, Rishon Lezion and Ashdod, within striking range.
This looming menace finally drove Shin Beit Director Avi Dichter and IDF chiefs this week to openly challenge prime minister Ariel Sharons plans for the removal of Israeli settlements and military units from the Gaza Strip in the framework of his disengagement blueprint.
According to DEBKAfiles military sources, Zelzal-2/Mushak-200 is 8.3 meters long with an estimated range of between 100 and 400 km effective most probably at 200 km. It is armed with a 600 kg warhead. Iran is known to have developed chemical and biological payloads but not to have located them in Lebanon. On the other hand, intelligence sources estimate that Syria has perfected the right chemical warheads for attachment to the Zelzal missiles deployed in Lebanon and they can be fitted within hours. These weapons may be delivered through the Palestinian gunrunning routes from Sinai into the Gaza Strip whenever the rulers of Iran and Syria so decide.
Israeli security chiefs fear that the Hizballah, aka Iran, is already shipping 240mm Katyusha and Iranian Fajr-3 and Fajr-5 rockets across the Mediterranean to northern Sinai. Egyptian security authorities, who are similarly concerned by the heavy weaponry Iran is landing on their territory, are known to have seized one delivery of Katyusha 220mm upgraded to 240 mm before it was smuggled into the Gaza Strip. But there is no knowing how much was not intercepted before reaching destination.
In readiness for their post-disengagement schemes, Tehran and Damascus have ordered Hamas to veto any Egyptian or other programs for securing the Gaza Strip after Israels evacuation. The military and defense chiefs in both Israel and Egypt have concluded that the implementation of against Sharons evacuation plan will open the door wide to Gazas transformation into a second South Lebanon in the heart of Israel.
Sunday, September 19, DEBKAfile discussed the controversy over a more immediate threat: Evacuation under fire.
The simmering argument between Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and Israels military chiefs over the feasibility of his evacuation plan came to a head at the Israeli cabinet meeting Sunday, September 19. Sharon, who failed to offer the traditional New Years greetings to the nation this year, finally admitted that which the military, security and police chiefs as well as DEBKAfile - have been saying for months: the unilateral evacuation of some 9,000 Israelis living in the Gaza Strip cannot be accomplished, if at all, without a substantial cost in military and civilian lives. Conditions on the ground, say these authorities, make disengagement unfeasible.
But the conclusion they elicited from the prime minister was unexpected: I am sticking to my disengagement guns and not budging one whit from my timetable, he told the ministers and army chiefs: it is up to the military to make it possible; they had better start preparing for evacuation under enemy fire.
As reported previously by DEBKAfile, the Palestinians are in the midst of massive preparations, including training special operations units and procurement of fresh supplies of upgraded weapons, for hammering the evacuating forces and Gush Katif evacuees and making the operation a bloodbath. Egypt has virtually retired from its post-disengagement security role in the Gaza Strip and is only half-heartedly blocking Palestinian arms supplies through Sinai.
Until now, Sharon and defense minister Shaul Mofaz said that if the evacuation cannot be accomplished without an unacceptable level of bloodshed, then it will not be implemented at all. But now, Sharon appears determined to go forward regardless.
With the onus of a predictable disaster on their heads, Israels military and security chiefs explain: If this plan goes ahead, it will not be disengagement, but total war, a tornado of terrorist attacks, gunfire and missiles blasting the Gaza Strip, the western and southern Negev and Gush Katif. Instead of pulling back, the army will be forced to drive back into the large sections of the Gaza Strip controlled by Palestinians in order to subdue their war offensive. Many lives will be lost in these maneuvers.
Addressing the same cabinet meeting, Shin Beit director Avi Dichter limited his warning to a single issue: If Israel pulls out of the Philadelphi corridor on the Gaza Strip-Egyptian border it will open the door to an avalanche of advanced weapons the like of which was prevented from reaching the Palestinians in all four years of their warfare against Israel.
Sept. 27 issue - Unprepared as anyone is for a showdown with Iran, the threat seems to keep growing. Many defense experts in Israel, the United States and elsewhere believe that Tehran has been taking advantage of loopholes in the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and is now within a year of mastering key weapons-production technology. They can't prove it, of course, and Iran's leaders deny any intention of developing the bomb. Nevertheless, last week U.S. and Israeli officials were talking of possible military actioneven though some believe it's already too late to keep Iran from going nuclear (if it chooses). "We have to start accepting that Iran will probably have the bomb," says one senior Israeli source. There's only one solution, he says: "Look at ways to make sure it's not the mullahs who have their finger on the trigger."
After the Iraq debacle, calls for regime change without substantial evidence of weapons of mass destruction are not likely to gain a lot of traction. But if the allegations are correct, Iran is only one of the countries whose secret nuclear programs hummed along while America waged a single-minded hunt for WMD in Iraq. Another is North Korea, which hasn't stopped claiming that it's turning a stockpile of spent fuel rods into a doomsday arsenal. And arms-control specialists are increasingly alarmed by Brazil's efforts to do precisely what Iran is doing: use centrifuge cascades to enrich uraniumwith a couple of key differences. Unlike Iran, Brazil has never signed the NPT's Additional Protocol, which gives expanded inspection rights to the International Atomic Energy Agency. And unlike Iran, Brazil is not letting the IAEA examine its centrifuges. If the Brazilians go through with their program, it's likely to wreck the landmark 1967 treaty that made South America a nuclear-free zone. But the White House has shown scant concern about the risk.
The Iran crisis is more immediate in the eyes of the Bush administration, in part because Iran is among the president's "Axis of Evil." Israel, which has long regarded Iran as a more dire threat than Iraq, is making thinly veiled threats of a unilateral pre-emptive attack, like its 1981 airstrike against Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor. "If the state decides that a military solution is required, then the military has to provide a solution," said Israel's new Air Force chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Elyezer Shkedy, in a newspaper interview last week. "For obvious reasons," he added, "we aren't going to speak of specifics." U.S. defense experts doubt that Israel can pull it off. Iran's facilities (which it insists are for peaceful purposes) are at the far edge of combat range for Israel's aircraft; They're also widely dispersed and, in many cases, deep underground.
But America certainly could do itand has given the idea some serious thought. "The U.S. capability to make a mess of Iran's nuclear infrastructure is formidable," says veteran Mideast analyst Geoffrey Kemp. "The question is, what then?" NEWSWEEK has learned that the CIA and DIA have war-gamed the likely consequences of a U.S. pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. No one liked the outcome. As an Air Force source tells it, "The war games were unsuccessful at preventing the conflict from escalating."
Instead, administration hawks are pinning their hopes on regime change in Tehranby covert means, preferably, but by force of arms if necessary. Papers on the idea have circulated inside the administration, mostly labeled "draft" or "working draft" to evade congressional subpoena powers and the Freedom of Information Act. Informed sources say the memos echo the administration's abortive Iraq strategy: oust the existing regime, swiftly install a pro-U.S. government in its place (extracting the new regime's promise to renounce any nuclear ambitions) and get out. This daredevil scheme horrifies U.S. military leaders, and there's no evidence that it has won any backers at the cabinet level. ...
September 20, 2004, 8:36 a.m.
Iranian Tales
An evil regime.
As our leaders, hypnotized by the cobra's fatal dance and entranced by the fakir's music, stand immobile while the mullahs complete their nuclear program, it may be useful for the rest of us to maintain a clear-eyed understanding of the nature of the most formidable terror regime in the world. Would that our oxymoronic intelligence community and the feckless foreign service paid attention, but that would be more difficult than liberating Iran itself. Two recent events provide the basic profile.
First is the story of Sheikh Rasini of Tehran, a religious leader of middling importance who attracted the attention of some of the more sober officials of the Revolutionary Guard in the mid-Nineties. It seems Rasini was spending a lot of time in the intimacy of young boys, and showed other signs of corruption. The Guardians of the Revolution objected, and took their complaints to the Ayatollah Milani, who duly issued a fatwa authorizing a violent death for the sheikh. But Rasini turned the tables on his accusers and had them thrown into the nightmarish Evin Prison in Tehran, where Milani and the others were killed.
Rasini continued his active support of gay marriage until, a couple of months ago, he was surprised en flagrante and hauled before an Islamic tribunal for his conjugal activities with one Amir. The situation looked grave for the sheikh until the mullahs came up with an imaginative solution. Amir was "converted" to the opposite sex by some of Tehran's finest surgeons, thereby removing quite literally the basis for the accusation.
Amir is now Zohreh, and she and her sheikh may well live happily for the foreseeable future.
Then comes the story of Mehdi Derayati, also of Tehran, whose midadventures were reported a couple of days ago by ILNA, the Islamic Labor News Agency. Mehdi Derayati is a young Iranian who worked for a while with some internet news sites that apparently published some stuff that offended the mullahcracy. Like hundreds of young Iranians who enrage the mullahs, Mehdi was summarily rounded up and carted off...who knows where. It's a very common occurrence in the country that our Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage, calls a "democracy," and it would hardly be worth mentioning were it not for Mehdi's lineage. For he is the son of Mustafa Derayati, the personal adviser on clerical affairs to President Khatami.
Mustafa Derayati was so upset at the mistreatment of his boy that he gave a public interview. "All we have had is a few phone calls from him, we know he has been arrested but no law-enforcement authority is telling us where he is. They just say we have acted in accordance with our duties."
To which my pen pal Potkin Azarmehr neatly adds, "Well there you go. So much for Khatami's "Civil Society" which fooled so many gullible anti-Americans in Europe. Here is an example of an Islamic Civil Society where the president's adviser is unable to find out where his son is incarcerated. What hope for the ordinary Iranian parents searching for their abducted sons or daughters?"
When people ask me why the Iranian people so hate the regime, I begin telling them stories like these, because no list of adjectives, no amount of statistics on social misery, child prostitution, unemployment, corruption of the elite, or drug addiction can convey the horror of this murderous tyranny. If a mullah is caught committing an act that would automatically lead to the death penalty for an ordinary citizen, the problem is "fixed" by a sex-change operation on his partner. But even the son of a counselor to the president can be "vanished" without any accountability.
Can you imagine these creatures with atomic bombs? And yet the U.N. issues yet another "deadline" for the end of November, the European Union preens itself on its avoidance of conflict, even with evil, the president speaks bravely but does nothing to support freedom in Iran, and his challenger lets it be known that, if elected, he will offer the mullahs the same misguided nuclear deal that has already failed in North Korea.
Michael Ledeen, an NRO contributing editor, is most recently the author of The War Against the Terror Masters. Ledeen is Resident Scholar in the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute.
Iranian Tales
Michael Ledeen
The legislation - which would apply to holdings of more than 49% and would be backdated to 20 March 2004 - is now set to come up for a vote on Tuesday.
Its language singles out airports and telecoms deals for special attention.
The government of President Mohammad Khatami, which backs increased foreign investment, said it could do little to block the move.
"The government frankly opposes the bill, but it is obliged to implement any law passed by parliament," Abdollah Ramezanzadeh, the cabinet secretary, told AFP.
"The proposed bill would paralyse the foreign policy apparatus and those economic apparatuses with dealings abroad."
Thrown out
The bill's progress comes just four months after an Austrian-Turkish consortium was ejected from the airport it had been contracted to build and run.
Tepe-Akfen-Vie (TAV) had spent $15m (£8.4m) on Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport before Revolutionary Guards shut it down in May, saying that TAV's business with Israel made its presence a security risk.
The guards have occupied the premises ever since.
Turkcell, Turkey's biggest mobile operator, has been awarded a contract to build a second GSM phone network in Iran with the assistance of Sweden's Ericsson, but has yet to sign the $3bn deal.
Turkcell, too, is accused by hardliners in parliament of having business links to Israel.
The bill represents the latest twist in the ongoing power struggle between the parliament, dominated by conservatives since February elections, and the more reform-minded government of President Khatami.
It is currently reviewing a five-year economic plan presented by President Khatami, who has been in office since 1997.
The plan, the original version of which called for privatisation - particularly of banks - and outside investment, had been thrown out by the Guardian Council, a religious legislative watchdog.
The Council had blocked much of the legislation put forward by the previous parliament, a majority of whose members had backed President Khatami.
The argument over investment meant that talks with the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in late July ended without the signing of the investment deals which had been intended as the centrepiece of the visit.
|World Powers Urge Iran to Comply With IAEA
VOA News
20 Sep 2004, 12:26 UTC
The United States and other world powers are urging Iran to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency and freeze all work on uranium enrichment.
The European Union and Russia joined Washington in saying Tehran should abide by an IAEA resolution adopted Saturday.
Russia's Foreign Ministry says Moscow backs the resolution as a way for Iran to answer questions about the aim of its nuclear program.
Russia is helping Iran to build a nuclear reactor, over objections from the United States, which has accused Iran of striving after nuclear weapons.
Iran denies that charge but on Sunday, it rejected the IAEA's demands as illegal under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Monday, an Iranian spokesman said Tehran's earlier decision to suspend uranium enrichment was voluntary, and the program could be resumed at any time.
Security fears spark Linux drive in Iran
September 20 2004 at 02:57PM
By Stefan Smith
The reason has nothing to do with the guilt of using pirated software (a cracked Windows XP CD costs the same as a blank CD), but more pragmatic considerations - not least because of the irony that Iran's information technology (IT) backbone is based on software from its arch-enemy, the United States.
Firstly, Iran is trying to gain entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO), a step that would entail respect of international intellectual property laws.
"We would have to pay a lot of money," said Sephery-Rad, noting that most of the government's estimated one million personal computers (PCs) and the country's total of six to eight million computers were being run almost exclusively on the Windows platform.
"Secondly, Microsoft software has a lot of backdoors and security weaknesses that are always being patched, so it is not secure. We are also under US sanctions. All this makes us think we need an alternative operating system."
The alternative selected is Linux - an operating system adapted by computer makers and other users to meet their own specifications.
Derived from the Unix system by a Finn, Linus Torvalds, it has become one of the biggest competitors of Microsoft, even if Windows is still used on nearly 90 percent of the world's computers.
Whereas Microsoft's code is a closely-guarded secret, the Linux core code - or Kernal - is the subject of ongoing development and is available for free download and adaptation, hence the term "open-source".
"Our strategy is to have the option to change over if we have to. We need to have a solution that is ready, otherwise one day we may be caught with our hands in the air," Sephery-Rad told AFP in an interview.
"Then we will try to convince people it is the best option. We want to switch over as much as we can."
Around the world, several governments have been embracing Linux as a way to save money, break free from Microsoft's virtual monopoly and evade the daily barrages of viruses that bombard Windows systems.
Linux advocates also tout what they say is superior stability, fewer crashes and those "Blue Screens of Death" that drive many Windows users to despair - hence the already widespread use of Linux in server applications.
"Microsoft is a national security concern. Security in an operating system is an important issue, and when it is on a computer in the government it is of even greater importance," said the official.
"Even with Linux, security is an issue - but maybe less so."
But if there is one weak point with Linux, it is user-friendliness when ported to the desktop. Sephery-Rad acknowledged that you may not need to be a geek to use Linux, but it certainly helps.
"It is very promising. Students and universities are showing great enthusiasm, but for older people it is difficult," he explained, adding that graphical environments such as KDE or Gnome were getting close to matching the easy task manipulation that a Windows-based PC provides.
"It is not as easy as we thought. We will have to get people used to changing over. People are used to using Microsoft, so we'll need courses and seminars."
Iran's Linux initiative is now three years old, but the idea is beginning to catch on. A Farsi-language Linux "Live CD" - a preview that does not interfere with a computer's hard drive - has just become available in what is the first concrete step to a changeover.
Sephery-Rad, who also works as a physics professor, said the project should really get going in the next two to three years, with inspiration coming from similar efforts in Latin America, Europe and East Asia.
"Most people have come to the conclusion that sticking to an operating system controlled by one company is dangerous," said Sephery-Rad.
"Microsoft is like having a car where the bonnet is welded shut." - Sapa-AFP
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One of those mysterious North Korean explosions and the intractability of Iran dramatize, if more evidence were needed, just how dangerous the world [again!] has become in the post-Soviet era. The events of 9/11 only served to focus the nature of that new jungle out there. Grappling with it is as complex as only a worldwide phenomenon could be. But the threats posed by North Korea and Iran do segment and dramatize it.
Pyongyangs explanation of a planned hydroelectric construction explosion is not only ridiculous, but further evidence of the rickety nature of the regime. Big events are always trumpeted as obeisance to The Dear Leader. Certainly not a hydroelectric project in an area notorious for its aridity but known to have underground weapons installations. It does demonstrate the dichotomy of Communist regimes relatively efficient weapons production accompanied by starvation, in living memory in a revisionist China and continuing today in ultra-Stalinist North Korea. [Note even the less than prosperous post-USSR Russia and Ukraine are grain exporters; the extent of the perennially failing Soviet crop used to be a measurement hotly debated among the Kremlinologists.]
Tehrans conflicting statements and the International Atomic Energy Agencys equivocation about its snooping is only matched by the wishful thinking [again!] among the US allies in Western Europe now Britain as well as Germany, and, of course, France. They are holding out for diplomacy [appeasement?] to halt what has to be the mullahshellbent effort at producing nuclear weapons. There is no logic, as they maintain, in an impoverished society with some of the worlds largest petroleum reserves seeking a full nuclear fuel cycle for electricity even for obscurantist Islamicists drowning in their 7th Century tribalism.
It is no accident, as the Communists used to say, joint development of missiles and perhaps nuclear technology bind the two pariah states. They have not only abetted each other. But their external support for diverse but equally deadly terror organizations notoriously continues. North Korea has graduated from aiding student revolutionaries in Mexico City, airport massacres in Israel, public assassination in Burma, and kidnapping in Japan, to peddling high tech weapons for its survival.
The Iranian mullahs are still in the same old business: arming terrorists working out of Syria [again!], to Iraq, Lebanon, and Pakistan. But their ambitions are now grander. With nuclear arms, a large population base, nascent industrialization, and a strategic position, they see themselves as the dominant Mideast power. These dreams are not new. But in the Shahs time [with the exception of a little problem of OPEC and higher oil prices for the US and the West] nostalgia for past Persian glory was within the bounds of a U.S. alliance -- and a modernization toward more universal values.
Its there all the efforts for compromise founder. Compromise is the product of diplomacy and a shared reasoning. But in neither instance is there much hope of that.
Its proponents argue were the U.S. to negotiate on a one-on-one basis with Pyongyang, it would produce disarmament agreement which would remove the threat of a nuclear clad North Korea, and, worse, its selling such weapons, possibly even non-state terrorists like Al Qaida. Yet that logic dictates North Korea would have to transform itself, at least as far as Communist China has, into a more viable society with access to and dependence on foreign investment, trade and technology transfers. There is no evidence North Koreas leadership does not see such developments as the regimes death warrant. It seeks nuclear weapons to maintain the dictatorship of a military elite. The Bush Administrations strategy, limping perhaps through the untrustworthiness of its allies [again!], is to seek the help of North Koreas neighbors. They all have an interest in a North Korea without nuclear weapons, at least in theory. The threat of an economic blockade is the alternative to a compromise which would include economic aid for the regime. The problem is our allies South Korea, and to some extent, Japan are unwilling to consider applying those sanctions. China, the principle player, while mouthing platitudes, continues to be the main prop of the regime. Moscows Putin, ever ambivalent, blames U.S. rhetoric for the impasse.
The mullahs present an even more horrendous predicament. They see themselves as instruments of a higher power for world domination, justifying all prevarication and obfuscation with infidels. At their furtherest reaches, they pursue a fanaticism in which their followers death is only the entrance to paradise. But the Europeans base their hopes for the kind of change which came in Central and Eastern Europe under the Communists on a policy of engagement with these same mullahs. Meanwhile, the threatening clock ticks louder, not only for Irans Mideast neighbors, but for Europe as the range of their missiles lengthens.
Iraq, with all its problems, is only the opening act of the drama now ahead of us.
Sol W. Sanders, (email@example.com), is an Asian specialist with more than 25 years in the region, and a former correspondent for Business Week, U.S. News & World Report and United Press International. He writes weekly for World Tribune.com.
Sep 20 2004 2:46PM
MOSCOW. Sept 20 (Interfax) - Russia has called on Iran to fully meet a resolution of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors adopted in Vienna on September 18.
"The appeal to resume moratorium on enrichment projects is, in particular, addressed to Tehran. We support this appeal. Russia hopes that the maximum possible will be done to resolve problems and meet the resolution in full by November, when the IAEA Board of Governors will have another meeting," says a Monday report of the Russian Foreign Ministry received by Interfax.
The Choice on Iran
The Washington Post ^ | September 20, 2004
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September 22, 2008 06:25:29 Posted at September 22, 2008 06:25:29
On live tv it was spectacular. Even more so because Brooke Shields is not a weak woman. Not physically at least. Brooke is not a waif. She looks strong but not herm. Feminine but not tarty. And pretty but not frozen. Brooke Shields is younger than Nicole Kidman. Two years.
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I've lost some respect for Russell Wilson
by Radio Joe
posted Sep 25 2012 1:19PM
I hope Russell Wilson saw the instant replay when he got home last night.
I have had admired this player since he came to Wisconsin. Playing quarterback at NC State and being a talented second baseman for the Colorado Rockies minor league system, Russell Wilson is the definition of an 'athlete'. And while his athleticism has proved wonders, he's only 5'11 in a sport that demands size. Moreover, he earned his undergraduate degree at NC State in just three years. After transferring to Madison just a couple of months before the football season started, they made him a team captain. If you follow him on Twitter, you learn he is religious man; many of his tweets come from scripture. He's always well dressed for interviews, and has more positives than negatives to share with the media. Did I mention he's married?
Russell Wilson needs to come to his senses, though.
Wilson is humbled to be playing in one of the greatest sporting leagues in the world. He also knows that his actions on and off the field have consequences. The last thing Wilson wants is to say something he is going to regret…Well? Does he regret what he said last night?
When asked if he was 100% sure Golden Tate caught that TD, Wilson replied in the post game presser, "Of course. Why wouldn't I be?" That comment followed with the some laughter from the media.
In a Yahoo Sports article by Michael Silver, RB Marshawn Lynch saw the instant replay at a Seattle restaurant, along with family and friends after the game. According to the article, somebody at the table said "We didn't win that game." Then, while waiting for his ride on Second Avenue, Lynch told passing Packer fans that their team 'would bounce back from this bitter defeat' in a rather apologetic tone. If one leader on this football team knows the truth, why can't the other leader see it as well?
I've lost some respect Russell Wilson. How can you take credit for that TD pass? As much as he's filled with joy that his team won a big game against a tough opponent, he cannot be thrilled that the replacement refs did not make the correct call. After all, this was perhaps the worst call in NFL history. If Wilson is at smart as what he appears, he should be honest with all of us by using his brain to guide his heart. Based on all of his outstanding values and traits, how can Russell Wilson be this out of touch?
While the city of Seattle watches his every move, Wilson needs to keep an eye on himself. It's important that he keeps a positive and likeable image both in the locker room and towards his fans. Maybe he's too concerned about damaging that image. Not to mention, Matt Flynn is breathing down his neck. Does he want to deal with any of that controversy? I don't blame him that he wants to keep the peace, but reality is reality. That was an INT by M.D. Jennings. The simultaneous catch rule is simply a loophole. The replay showed it.
And now the NFL has come out and said they won't overturn the final play. It gives the Seahawks more ammunition to say they won that game fair and square. Truthfully, it's not fair.
While he's a man filled with integrity, spirit, and athleticism, Russell Wilson, ironically, is blinded by the truth. I hope he forfeits some of the comments he made last night. I hope he speaks from the heart with help from his brain. I hope he shows the world who Russell Wilson
By the way, this was a great feature story about Russell Wilson's life by Elizabeth Merrill of espn.com.
. Perhaps this source will further prove how outstanding and intelligent this man really is.
Follow me on Twitter @RadioJoeZenzola
Until next time, Milwaukee…
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I'm a Packer fan (and Badger Football supporter) and even I think this is utter rubbish. Take the blinders off Joe. What do you expect Wilson to say publicly: "I threw a terriblepass that was most likely intercepted, but thanks to the incompetence of unqualified game officials it counts as a TD and a win for my team that we didn't truly deserve."?? As the presumed leader of that football team, his answer was 100% the right thing to do. He doesn't owe anything to the state of Wisconsin, he's the starting QB of the SEATTLE Seahawks. Those fans and his teammates are the only people that he has to answer to.
Simply saying, "From what I saw, Tate came down with the ball and the officials ruled TD. Game over and we win" would have been more honest and accurate.
you are some sort of dummy, you were actually waiting for the NFL to overturn the ruling? do you realize how crazy this makes you sound? believe it or not the world does not revolve around the Packers. the comment above states the simple truth, Wilson owes nothing to Wisconsin it is unfortunate but true. I respect other peoples perspective but you are an fool plain and simple. have a great day
What a load. Your nonsense here is really just you saying, "Wah-wah-wah, my team lost and I can't be a man about it." I was sitting less than 40 feet from that play, on the first row at CLink Field, with an unobstructed view and what I saw was two guys battling for the ball and winding up with four hands on it. Golden Tate did what ANY Packer would have done in a similar situation: he kept on fighting for the ball. If any Packers receiver had been in a situation like that and DIDN'T do what Tate did, he'd be benched or traded the next day. Your haughty dismissal of the simultaneous catch rule as a "loophole" is childish and pathetic. It's a RULE, an real NFL rule. So, any rule that you don't like is a "loophole"? Grow up. Several websites have run photos that show other angles of the play besides what we saw on TV; angles that clearly show that Tate had two hands on the ball and, in fact, touched it FIRST. Golden Tate did EXACTLY what he should do as a professional and Russell Wilson said EXACTLY what he should have said. And, thanks a lot, but we Seattle fans don't need you to tell us how to feel about our amazing new QB. We love everything about the guy and I suspect that, in a test of character and manhood, you'd compare to him about the way a garden slug would compare to the Pope. This piece SHOULD be a huge embarrassment to you, if you had the sense and maturity to realize what an joke you made of yourself. I'm certain you don't, so let me encapsulate this for you; You're dismissed.
Oh my.
I think this article ruined your entire career. Notice all the comments here and the lack of any other on all other articles. Atta way "Radio Joe"
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When I was a vegan teenager in the late 90s, Little Lad's was the only spot in southern Maine offering healthy, inexpensive, animal-free food. Portland's vegan scene has expanded rapidly in the last decade, but Little Lad's remains a constant, serving $5 buffet lunches at their Congress Street location. They also have a restaurant in lower Manhattan.
Every meal comes with a helping of popcorn tossed with dill, garlic salt, and vitamin-rich nutritional yeast. This salty, buttery, cheesy snack is so much more than the sum of its simple ingredients. When I have a bag at home, I cannot tear myself away. I shamelessly stuff my mouth and reach for more, until I'm staring at an empty bag the size of my pillowcase. I ate at least ten cups at lunch today, and then I licked the herbs from the bottom of my bowl.
In Bangor, the Natural Living Center and Giacomo's carry Little Lad's Herbal Popcorn. It is also available at many Whole Foods locations across the country. If you can't find it near you, Avery Yale Kamila posted an improvised recipe a while back.
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