New Study of Napoleon Highlights Ramifications for the 21st Century
Former French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte -- Napoleon I -- in exile on Elba, blaming Talleyrand and Fouche for his predicament, said: "If I had hanged Talleyrand and Fouche, I would have been still today on the throne." When the news reached Talleyrand, he said: "Napoleon, instead of of hanging me, should have listened to me."
[By Dr Assad Homayoun, Senior Research Fellow, ISSA.]
Send Email To Atlantic Council: WE PROTEST DIALOGUE WITH THE ROGUE REGIME OF MULLAHS...
"...they will have you dancing to any tune they will play for you and treat you in the same embarassing way they've treated the 3 European turbo-grabbing coloniaslists (Straw, de Villepin & Fischer) who come begging for cheap oil."
[Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi]
Time To Engage The Iranian People, not the Mullahs!
"...in an interview on Fox television network, Rice intensified the U.S. rhetoric, saying the regime in Iran "has to be isolated in its bad behavior, not 'engaged.'"
[Radio Free Europe]
VOTE FOR REZA!!
"Born in 1979 in Tehran, Iran, Reza and his family had to flee the country amidst the Iranian Revolution to save their lives. While leaving the country, one of his uncles was executed by the governing regime because of his political beliefs and aspirations."
[Choose Or Loose!]
Iran Under Islamist Mullah's Regime Is Ranked As Country 101 By UN
"HDI Rank Country Human development index - A composite index measuring average achievement in three basic dimensions of human development?a long and healthy life, knowledge and a decent standard of living."
[by UN 2003]
The 9/11 Vision Better,
"but not there yet."
[by Michael Ledeen]
KERRY's FOREIGN POLICY
" A Kerry administration would abandon Bush's commitment to promoting democracy, including by military pressure and/or action. Instead, the US will adopt the "soft power" method, using public diplomacy, battle of ideas, education, development aid, and human rights. (Here, the document echoes themes developed by Carter in 1976 .) This takes us back to detente during the Cold War in which preserving the status quo was more important than reshaping the world on the basis of democratic ideals. "
[by Amir Taheri ]
Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily
"Growing Disenchantment With Iranian Nobel Laureate Ebadi, Role as Apologists for Ruling Clerics Emerging "
[Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi and Elio Bonazzi]
Telephone & Fax John Kerry... Democrats: Don't Be Fooled
"The United States must in the long run maintain and expand its global presence through decency, fair play with real respect and compassion for the people of these nations. With Iran especially, the United States does have a debt of decency. Consider Eisenhower's CIA backed coup to eliminate democracy in Iran (1952); Or Carter's active assistance in the demise of the Shah and promotion of Islamic militants (1979). Or even Reagan's back room deals with the same Islamic militants to swing them against Carter and delay the release of the hostages to win the 1980 presidential elections. And the subsequent arm sales to both sides extending the Iran-Iraq war resulting in 1 Million deaths and injured."
[ Bamdad B.]
The Necessity For Change in Iran: My Vision
"There is now no hope for a softening of posture nor moderation from within the oppressive clique ruling Iran today. It does not make much difference whether 'moderates' or 'conservatives' lead. The ultimate control always rests with the fundamentalists' version of interlocking directorates."
[Dr Assad Homayoun]
EXECUTIONS CONTINUE THROUGHOUT IRAN!
"Young Iranians who are struggling for freedom are continually being arrested by the Islamist regime's thugs, falsely accused (They are freedom fighters!), and then executed by hangings! What is the American Administration doing?"
[American People Unite Behind Iranians!]
Mullah's Islamist Regime Accused of Complicity in World Trade Center Attack
[Telegraph]
MULLAHS ARE ARRESTING WOMEN AND YOUNG GIRLS THROUGHOUT TEHRAN!
[Contact President Bush NOW!]
In Memory of Dr. Constantine C. Menges
[A TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT]
ZERO TOLERANCE FOR TERROR SPONSOR SITES!
[The Wall Street Journal]
Needed: A Firm European Position on Human Rights in Iran!
"With such timid positions by the EU, students in Tehran's streets feel more and more abandoned in a world where international support is imperative for any serious movement for democracy."
[Intellectual Conservative]
Author of "Millionaire Mullahs" Murdered!
[In Memory of Paul Klebnikov]
Latest News From Iran on 18 Tir (BREAKING NEWS)
[ActivistChat.com Translation]
DoctorZin (Freeper) on Iranian Satellite Television LIVE! (MIDNIGHT EST, 9PM Pacific)
[XTV - SOSIRAN.COM!]
Roger Simon on Iranian Satellite Television! (2PM EST, 11AM Pacific)
[XTV - SOSIRAN.COM!]
HAPPY 4th OF JULY - LET FREEDOM REIGN!
[Words of support and unity from the blogosphere!]
President Bush Slams Mullahs!
(TIME TO DEFEND THE IRANIAN PEOPLE IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST FANATICISM)
"We see the struggle in Iran, where tired, discredited autocrats are trying to hold back the democratic will of a rising generation"
[George W. Bush]
The Fears of the Terror Masters
"If we want a peaceful Iraq we will have to confront the mullahs...Just as in the case of terrorism, if you want to win the war against the world's leading executioners, you must fight for the spread of freedom."
[American Scholar - Dr. Michael Ledeen]
My Fellow Iranians..
"The anniversary of the 18 Tir, the Iranian Students National Uprising, is once again upon us. The 18th of Tir (July 8th) has become a symbolic struggle and resistance against the tyrannical, totalitarian and barbaric regime of the Islamic Republic. Our very brave and courageous freedom lovers have been challenging the very fabric of the foreign occupiers of the Iranian nation. Iranian people have demanded a total annihilation of this Totalitarian State of Islamic Barbarity and Terror, which lacks even the most basic human compassion and human rights."
[Amil Imani]
Iran's Summer Persecution
"As the anniversary of the anti-government uprising of July 1999 approaches, widespread arrests of students and women are taking place. Some students are nabbed from their dormitories by plainclothes Revolutionary Guard agents, while many others are served arrest warrants."
[Nir Boms and Reza Bulorchi]
THE MULLAHS ARE ABUSING, RAPING & SELLING IRANIAN FEMALES (Young Girls)!
"In Iran for 25 years, the ruling mullahs have enforced humiliating and sadistic rules and punishments on women and girls, enslaving them in a gender apartheid system of segregation, forced veiling, second-class status, lashing and stoning to death."
[Donna M. Hughes]
Human Rights Crisis in Iran
"'The European Union's weak response to continuing human rights violations in Iran is deeply disturbing," said Whitson, "It's time for the European Union to condemn Iran's record of persecution and torture and to set real benchmarks that the government must meet.' Human Rights Watch called on the Iranian government to release all political prisoners and effectively prohibit torture immediately."
[Human Rights Watch]
Mullahs' Reign Of Terror in Iran
"There are several reasons for their (Mullahs) longevity. Iran's geography, its oil and natural gas resources, and the European Union's policy of engagement are among them. In this article, however, my focus is on the main factor: the unbridled, systematic, and highly organized suppression of Iranian citizens and dissidents. Iran's democracy movement must bring this structure of terror down before genuine change can be realized."
[Roya Johnson - American Thinker]
What Can I Do?(It's the West's soft power we need)
"We need your soft power, and all of it. We need it in a barrage of heavy-media artillery, think-tank platforms, and the solidarity of Western NGOs. We need U.S. and EU campus events with young Iranians "yearning for freedom" standing hand in hand with Western students. We need Western artists lending their music and their voices to the Joyless Generation."
Iran's May 2004 Human Rights Violations!
"A group of Iranian boys and girls will be sold in an auction today in Fojeyreh, United Arab Emirates."
Thousands arrested in Iran!
"It's to note that the Islamic regime uses often false labels, such as, "Drug Trafficker", "Spy", "Rapist", "Hooligan" or "Bandit" in order to qualify its opponents. Such policy helps the UN and the Mullahs' European and Japanese Collaborators to justify the continuation of their relations with a repressive and terrorist regime vis a vis their public opinions."
UK has no problem continuing and building ties with the Murderous Mullahs!
"The British government has taken a different view with American government over the relationship with Iran. We believe we ought to have in a process of engagement, frank discussion; some of it is pretty robust," Symons said.
No Way Out!
"Wake-up Call: Iran is at war with us.."
[American Scholar, Dr. Michael Ledeen]
THE MURDEROUS MULLAHS!!
"'The apple is ripe and ready to fall - and, if the Americans and the British don't help us to shake the tree, I can assure you that they won't get any slice of the economic action after the regime falls!'. We have been duly warned."
[Ann Leslie]
Keep Out of Iran So Long as The Mullahs Reign..
"Britain is widely hated in the Middle East and is seen as the principal architects of all the misery in the region, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and puppet sheikdoms in the Persian Gulf. Today, after failure, the British are trying to leverage the United States' vast resources to achieve their own strategic goals.."
[Jalil Bahar]
Give The Youth A Chance
"Any political movement that aims to overturn the power and machinery of a State requires united perseverance, strong leadership, hopeful determination and adequate resources. Resources are the intellectual capabilities and mental stamina of the group coupled with expertise, experience and connections and fortified by financial strength. The former is vested in the young patriots, while the latter relies upon the elders. The ultimate success of this movement is dependent on this formula."
[Shahla Samii]
Our message: Cooperate or face the consequences.
"The Iranian mullahs' support for terrorism, their repression of their own people who so obviously yearn to be free, and their appalling human rights record are reasons enough to change the regime. Their ambitious nuclear weapons program makes regime change in Iran more than desirable; it makes it necessary -- now. And to achieve that, we should deploy every lever we have -- diplomatic, economic, and even military -- until we get the necessary result.."
[McInerney & Vallely]
Prevailing Principles
"Britain's effete diplomats are wrong. Their belief that Muslim countries should not be held to basic human-rights standards is racist."
[Michael Rubin]
The Summer of Discontent Looming in Iran
Iran's democracy movement offers the only chance for real change in Iran through peaceful means. The United States' security concerns could only be alleviated if and when the rule of law and democracy prevail in Iran. We should, therefore, give priority to efforts aimed at ensuring respect for the human rights of Iran's citizens and Iranian dissidents striving to establish secular and representative governance in that country.
[US Alliance for Democratic Iran]
Mistakes Mustn't Halt March!
We should not abandon Iraq because of the actions of a few individuals. Nor should we abandon the oppressed throughout the Middle East. It is that that would be most unforgivable.
[Michael Rubin (American Scholar)]
Transcript of Resolution Passed by House Of Representatives!
[House of Representatives]
Velvet Hand, Iron Glove
Young people constantly told me how they scolded their parents for backing the Islamic Revolution in 1979. As a young woman, Sogand Tayebi, put it, "Those who backed the revolution are now sorry about that."
[Nicholas D. Kristof]
Radio interview with Richard Perle.
[KRSI Radio]
Dr. Constantine C. Menges discusses the regime in Iran
[KRSI Radio]
Those Friendly Iranians
"That was in a teahouse near the Isfahan bazaar, where I was interviewing religious conservatives. They were warm and friendly, but a group of people two tables away went out of their way to be rude, yelling at me for being an American propagandist. So I finally encountered hostility in Iran, from a table full of young Europeans." (More Evidence That Europeans Prefer Continuation Of Islamic Regime Slavery!)
[The New York Times]
Torture Ban in Iran: "Mullahs' PR Ploy is Dead on Arrival
"Today as Iranian men and women, students and teachers, young and old, are standing up to this regime, we have a huge responsibility to expose the EU's reprehensible dealings with Iran which is legitimizing the mullahs' reign of terror, and compromising the human rights of Iranian people."
[Hamid Namvar]
Kerry's main Iranian fund raiser sues SMCCDI!!
[SMCCDI Information Services]
Fallujah Is a Key War-on-Terror Battleground
[The Wall Street Journal]
Iran's Iraq War
"The Bush administration may believe it can play hardliners against moderates in Iran, but there is no question whose side Iranian leaders are on. Not surprisingly, the diplomatic effort failed—just as they would like the overall U.S. campaign in Iraq to fail. "
[World Magazine]
American Patriot Senator Sam Brownback Criticizes UN and EU!
[Senator Brownback]
Freedom Movement Slams EU
" France along with Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece and UK are among the closest backers of the Islamic regime and are benefiting from the plight of the Iranian nation.."
[SMCCDI]
RETHINKING THE ALLIANCE
"As the battle wages, the only "wrong policy" is to accuse the United States of being "naive" in our struggle to bring freedom to those who shed tears of blood as they await their liberation."
[Dariush Shirazi]
Very Different Playbooks
"We have to expose the hollowness of the mullahcracy and support the Iranian people."
[Michael Ledeen]
[Urgent Appeal From 75-year-old journalist Siamak Pourzand's Daughter...]
Iran and The Future of Freedom
"So not as Americans, but as human beings, we ask that the governments of all countries who currently have relations with the terrorist regime in Iran actively work with the United States to facilitate the transfer of power from the Mullahs in Iran to the Iranian people, or accept the consequence that their government be held accountable and complicit in whatever travesty lay ahead."
[Dariush Shirazi]
The Iranian Hand
[WallStreet Journal]
Bad Neighbor (re: Mullahs)
"In the wake of Sadr's uprising, Washington is faced with the same choice: End Iran's infiltration through forceful action, or wish it away. How long can we afford to keep choosing the latter?"
[Michael Rubin]
Gen. Abizaid: Syria and Iran are involved in Iraq!
"Speaking to reporters in Washington via video-link from Baghdad, Abizaid said there were signs that Iran's involvement is not designed to assist US efforts in Iraq." [Jerusalem Post]
Time for Regime Change in Iran
"Certainly, as much as a free, democratic and secular government in Iran would discourage the fundamentalist elements in Iraq, it would inspire the democratic forces in that country. The road map to democracy in Iraq passes through Tehran and not the other way around."
[Hedayat Mostowfi]
U.S. State Dept. Iran Human Rights Report (MUST READ!!)
[US State Department]
Watch Empress Farah Pahlavi on BOOK TV!
[CSPAN-2 BOOKTV]
Signals & Background Noise
But then Clarke goes on. He says "any objective observer looking at the evidence in 2002 and 2003 would have said that the U.S. should spend more time and attention dealing with the security threats from Tehran than those from Baghdad."
[Michael Ledeen (American Scholar)]
Iran Behind Iraq Unrest?
"For months, Iran has been building a secret underground network of military and intelligence cells that has put it in a position not only to challenge the U.S. and others, but also to gradually gain control the reigns of power after the June 30th handover."
[FOX Fan Central!]
US Fears Tehran is Spreading Influence in Iraq!
"US intelligence officials believe Iran's hard-line and fiercely independent security services are providing support - directly or through proxies - to Iraqi militia forces loyal to the Shiite Muslim imam Moqtada al-Sadr that have been clashing with the US-led occupation forces all week."
[Boston Globe]
Iran, Hezbollah Support al-Sadr (EUROPE MUST END SUPPORT OF ILLEGAL KILLER REGIME)
"Military sources said Sheik al-Sadr is being aided directly by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, which plays a large role in running that country, and by Hezbollah, an Iranian-created terrorist group based in Lebanon."
[Washington Times]
The Mullahs Have Declared War On America!
"Iran has clear objectives in Iraq. The only question is whether the United States still has clear objectives in Iraq and whether Washington recognizes that this war front just got wider."
[WorldNetDaily.com ]
Time to Confront Clerical Regime In Iran On All Fronts
As long as Iran is ruled by a theocratic regime there will be no specter of freedom and popular governance for Iranians, no end to the meddling in Iraq, and no relief from Irans nuclear and terrorist threats.[IntellectualConservative.com]
Regime funded Arabic Satellite TV Networks Enflame Iraq
"The two Islamic republic's funded Arabic Satellite TV Networks, Al Manar and Al Alam, are enflaming Iraq by increasing their flow of Anti American propaganda..."
[SMCCDI News Services]
Tyranny@25 Oppression reaches a milestone in Iran.
"Twenty-five years after Khomeini declared the Islamic Republic, nearly 70 million Iranians struggle to be free. It's imperative that we do not abandon them."
[Michael Rubin (American Scholar)]
Zarqawi, Getting Around
"But now that Zarqawi's name has surfaced in connection with Madrid, anyone who is serious about waging war against terrorism must find a way to deal effectively with the mullahcracy in Tehran."
[Michael Ledeen (American Scholar)]
Who rules Iran?
"Westerners often meet with assorted officials who, they are led to believe, run Islamist Iran. They don't.."
[Amir Taheri]
Iran Hiding Its Nuclear Activities
"The report is being viewed seriously because it originates from outside U.S. intelligence sources," said the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "It has contributed to a greater sense of frustration, both in the U.S. and within the IAEA."
[LA Times]
Drifting, Dangerously
And so we drift on, led by a president with uniquely good instincts and rare courage, but who seems not to understand that many of his people are weakening the strength of his message and even, on occasion, acting in a direction counter to what he has long said was our national mission.
[Michael Ledeen]
Time for Regime Change in Tehran (FREEDOM IS COMING!)
If we are going to win the war on terror, the liberation of Iran is not an option. It is a prerequisite. The Bush administration should be saying so -- and living up to its words.
[Boston Globe]
Democracy or Islamocracy
"Unfortunately, it is illusory to think that the change in Muslim societies will come from within, alone. Four interrelated factors are hindering a successful internal and autonomous change: oriental despotism, the rentier economy, the domination of Islam, and external interventionism. These elements constitute a Gordian knot which can only be cut off by Alexander's sword. The USA's intervention in both Afghanistan and Iraq must be understood as an imperative chirurgical intervention to break this vicious chain."
[Iran va Jahan]
Families of political prisoners celebrated Nowruz in front of Evin's (Prison) walls
Families celebrated the coming of the New Iranian year by conducting the age old New Year ceremonies outside of the prison walls amidst an unusual snowfall.
[SMCCDI Information Services]
Festival of Light and Fire, A Defiance of Ruling Clerics
In Yazd, between 7000-8000 people gathered in Atlasi Sq and attacked the known regime agents. In Booshehr, one revolutionary guard is reported killed. In Shiraz, the people attacked government agents who were filming them and broke their cameras. In Kerman, the people were shouting, Referendum, Referendum, This is the cry of nation. In Sarab, Azarbijan, where the people have a fierce reputation for their fighting capabilities, the local Baseejis were on the run while shouting Allah-Akbar.
[Iran va Jahan]
A Plea for Help, on Behalf of the Iranian Freedom-Loving People
"Human beings are all members of one body. They are created from the same essence. When one member is in pain, The others cannot rest.If you do not care about the pain of others, You do not deserve to be called a human being." - famous Persian poet Saadi Shirazi
[ActivistChat.com]
Regime anti-riot forces start attacking
[SMCCDI Newswires]
Unsung Heroes (MUST READ)
"We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down". Sir Winston Churchill - Feb 9, 1941
[Nicole Sadighi]
IRAN: Dead Regime Walking!
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has been put on Death Row, not by the hawks on the Bush administration or what its rulers call their 'Zionist Enemies', but but by the dint of its own internal contradictions."
[FrontPageMag.com]
Iraq's Terror Sources Reside Next Door (Clerical Regime)
We will never have true freedom and stability in Iraq until the terror masters in Tehran and Damascus have been defeated and removed from power.
[Michael Ledeen]
Renaissance in Tehran
But it will become increasingly difficult for European governments to sell any policy of support for an ugly regime to their own respective citizens, who have come to loathe Islamist fascism.
[Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi & Elio Bonazzi]
Can the EU Afford to Support the Mullah$?!
[by Dariush Dana / Comments via Spenta]
US Senator, John Cornyn (R - TX), reiterates support of Iranian freedom lovers.
[SMCCDI News Services]
Why do the British plan on sending more Iranians to their deaths?
[Sunday Herald]
Iran Ranked at the Bottom of Globalization Index
[Iran Institute for Democracy]
Congressman Andrews' House Speech on Iran (PRO-Regime Change/Iranian Freedom)
[Congressman Andrews]
More Protests & Crackdowns throughout Iran!
[SMCCDI News Services]
Going Soft on Iran
[Reuel Marc Gerecht]
Listen to the Iranians, They Know
[Michael Ledeen]
Iran Operates 100 Military Contracts in Libya
[Middle East Newsline]
Europe's Iran Wimpout
[The Wall Street Journal]
Now Tehran's Pushing Buttons
[Australian Financial Review]
To: Leaders of the European Union and the People of Europe
Europe Should Stand Up!
Protest wave rocks more provincial cities!
Iranian Lashed To Death In Mafia Clerical Regime Prison.
US State Dept Calls Oil Cos' Iran Investments 'A Mistake'
Iran has racked up $4bn of international energy investment in just a week thanks to deals with France, Malaysia and Japan.
[Newswires]
"I Am in Permanent Contact with Iran" -Reza Pahlavi
Iranians take matters into their own hands.
Iranian Election Fiasco
"Finally, perhaps our enterprising journalists could ask the administration how it can be, three years after inauguration, that we still have no Iran policy."
[Michael Ledeen]
What the BBC Didn't Report from Iran Elections
[Iran va Jahan]
The Virus Must Be Stopped!
[Dariush Shirazi]
Stalinist Mullahs
[Michael Ledeen]
Death Train was Carrying Explosives to Afghanistan
[News Alerts]
LISTEN: to Senator Brownback's Statements Regarding SCAM Elections
[If does not open, right click and then download the audio file.]
FP Interview with Richard Perle and David Frum
"Iran is governed by a small bunch of corrupt mullahs who dictate every aspect of their people's™s lives, support terrorist groups and seek nuclear weapons. The people of Iran want the mullahs back in the mosques and out of power. We should help the people.."
[FrontPageMag.com]
Liberate Iran in order to win the terror war in Iraq
[American Scholar - Michael Ledeen]
Zahra Kazemi's Murder..
"Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi died after being beaten while in Iranian custody and prevented from receiving the medical help she desperately needed, says a BBC investigation into her death. ."
[Toronto Star]
Toadying to the Mullahs
"The British policy of working with the status quo is, of course, in direct opposition to the Bush Doctrine, according to which the democratization of the Middle East is a vital security interest of the United States and other Western democracies."
[Amir Taheri]
Reza Pahlavi Foresees Democratic Iran
[CNSNews.com]
ISLAMIC CLERICAL VIRUS is spreading into Afghanistan!
[National Review]
Female students arrested in south Tehran (President Bush: Please Help The Iranian People!)
[SMCCDI News Services]
US Senator, John Cornyn (R - TX), reiterates support of Iranian freedom lovers.
[SMCCDI News Services]
Why do the British plan on sending more Iranians to their deaths?
[Sunday Herald]
Iran Ranked at the Bottom of Globalization Index
[Iran Institute for Democracy]
Congressman Andrews' House Speech on Iran (PRO-Regime Change/Iranian Freedom)
[Congressman Andrews]
More Protests & Crackdowns throughout Iran!
[SMCCDI News Services]
Going Soft on Iran
[Reuel Marc Gerecht]
Listen to the Iranians, They Know
[Michael Ledeen]
Iran Operates 100 Military Contracts in Libya
[Middle East Newsline]
Europe's Iran Wimpout
[The Wall Street Journal]
Now Tehran's Pushing Buttons
[Australian Financial Review]
To: Leaders of the European Union and the People of Europe
Europe Should Stand Up!
Protest wave rocks more provincial cities!
Iranian Lashed To Death In Mafia Clerical Regime Prison.
US State Dept Calls Oil Cos' Iran Investments 'A Mistake'
Iran has racked up $4bn of international energy investment in just a week thanks to deals with France, Malaysia and Japan.
[Newswires]
"I Am in Permanent Contact with Iran" -Reza Pahlavi
Iranians take matters into their own hands.
Iranian Election Fiasco
"Finally, perhaps our enterprising journalists could ask the administration how it can be, three years after inauguration, that we still have no Iran policy."
[Michael Ledeen]
What the BBC Didn't Report from Iran Elections
[Iran va Jahan]
The Virus Must Be Stopped!
[Dariush Shirazi]
Stalinist Mullahs
[Michael Ledeen]
Death Train was Carrying Explosives to Afghanistan
[News Alerts]
LISTEN: to Senator Brownback's Statements Regarding SCAM Elections
FP Interview with Richard Perle and David Frum
"Iran is governed by a small bunch of corrupt mullahs who dictate every aspect of their people’s lives, support terrorist groups and seek nuclear weapons. The people of Iran want the mullahs back in the mosques and out of power. We should help the people.."
[FrontPageMag.com]
Liberate Iran in order to win the terror war in Iraq
[American Scholar - Michael Ledeen]
Zahra Kazemi's Murder..
"Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi died after being beaten while in Iranian custody and prevented from receiving the medical help she desperately needed, says a BBC investigation into her death. ."
[Toronto Star]
Toadying to the Mullahs
"The British policy of working with the status quo is, of course, in direct opposition to the Bush Doctrine, according to which the democratization of the Middle East is a vital security interest of the United States and other Western democracies."
[Amir Taheri]
Reza Pahlavi Foresees Democratic Iran
[CNSNews.com]
ISLAMIC CLERICAL VIRUS is spreading into Afghanistan!
[National Review]
25th Anniversary of (Islamic Clerical Virus) Revolution
" The United States has now the historic opportunity to side with the millions in Iran in their call for a United Nations supervised referendum as the last peaceful recourse to regime change in Iran."
[Alireza Jafarzadeh]
The Mullah's New Draconian Agenda
" Nevertheless, far from being a thorn on the side of the regime (as he is portrayed by the Western media) Khatami has a proven record of commitment to the preservation of the country's dictatorial system. He himself is a full member, as it were, of the theocratic ruling club. This ruling club is now panic-stricken about losing its grip on the country."
[Iran va Jahan]
Royal Gift To The Ayatollah (ISLAMIC MAFIA CLERICS)!
"After all, one of the key themes in the mullahs' attempts to demoralise the Iranian opposition has been that the West talks big about freedom, but that when the chips are down, democracy is the least of its concerns. The regime asserts that the Europeans, in particular, will do business with whoever is in power in Teheran. As of today, it is hard to disagree with the Islamists' cynical analysis."
[telegraph.co.uk]
Iran In Focus: 2004-02-06
[Winds Of Change.net]
Islamic Clerical Regime 'Has Secret Atomic Bomb Project'
"But the presence of US troops either side of Iran - in Iraq and Afghanistan - is a reminder to the regime that Washington retains the declared option of "pre-emptive" military action. Clear-cut proof of a secret nuclear weapons programme in Iran would be an acute embarrassment for Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, who has invested heavily in "engagement" with the clerical regime."
[telegraph.co.uk]
Proof That Islamic Regime in Iran Backed Terrorism
"As the war on terror progresses, the Bush administration is seeking to put pressure on hard-line clerics in Iran, deter their use of terror, stop weapons of mass destruction and encourage pro-democracy forces - at least, that is what the president says. But the message sent by the repeal of the Flatow amendment, and by the refusal of the State Department to back up the president's promise to support the pro-democracy movement in Iran, suggests a policy process the president does not control, say former National Security Council officials.."
[Kenneth Timmerman]
Iran's Islamic Republic Faces Moment of Truth
"The so-called "reformers" do not propose to reform anything. They are not asking for the Guardians Council to be abolished. Nor do they propose that the council lose its constitutional power to vet and, if necessary, veto candidacies. All that the "reformers" want is for the Guardians Council to dance to their tune."
[Amir Taheri]
Inelegant Lies - Making sense out of mullahs.
"The talk about "improved relations" has a double objective: to delay our support for democratic revolution in Iran, and to discourage the democratic revolutionaries b showing them that even the ferocious Bush administration is seeking a modus vivendi with the regime itself."
[Michael Ledeen]
Why Throw a Lifeline To a Sinking Regime?
"How is this to be explained to the people of Iran who have been listening to the President of the United States and his message of hope for the future of democracy in the region?"
[Iran va Jahan]
Iran's Threat to Coalition Forces
"Iran's support for anti-American terrorism is not limited to Hizballah, however. According to the State Department, some al-Qaeda operatives have obtained safe haven in Iran. U.S. intelligence believes that one such operative is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.."
[Washington Institute-Near East Policy]
Badly Played..Badly Played
"And with this visit, a thoroughly illegitimate regime is being granted authenticity by the world's mightiest democratic republic. In return, the US is likely to get . . . nothing out of the visit. The Islamic regime will still harbor and foster terrorism, it will still incite hatred against Americans and American interests, and it will make dismantling Iran's burgeoning nuclear program as easy as pulling teeth from a rhinoceros."
[Pejmanesque.com (BLOG)]
Iran Becomes Top Funding Source for Fatah
"Israeli military sources said that over the last year Iran and its Hizbullah ally have supplied the ruling Fatah movement with as much as 90 percent of the organization's requirements to maintain the Palestinian war against the Jewish state."
[World Tribune]
Tehran Terrorfest
"..militants from some 40 countries spread across the globe were trekking to Tehran for a 10-day "revolutionary jamboree" in which "a new strategy to confront the American Great Satan" will be hammered out."
[Amir Taheri]
Turn Up the Heat on Terror Central
"Iran's hard-liners are still in charge, and they are expert at playing the good cop (moderate)/bad cop (hard-line) routine to win advantages. Make no mistake, this clerical dictatorship is a principal source of terrorism around the world today."
[Steve Forbes]
Iran and the Lingering Myths in Western Media
"..a list of some of these lingering myths that persists in some sectors of western and in particular the European media."
[Iran va Jahan]
Call For Democracy In Iran
"Any political analyst worth his salt knows that without a regime change in Iran and the restoration of civil and political rights to the people of that country, peace in the Middle East is bound to remain a piecemeal peace, in constant threat of danger destruction."
[Reza Bayegan]
Four Killed in Protest by Striking Workers in Iran
"Special forces attacked the village and the clashes spread to Shahrebabak, where four people were killed, he said."
[AFP]
Reading Iran Wrong
"And neither faction is proposing any radical reform of any aspects of the Khomeinist system. Both reject the almost unanimous call of the opposition parties and movements for a constitutional referendum. Both claim legitimacy on the basis not of the people's will but of their fidelity to the teachings of Khomeini."
[Amir Taheri]
US Seeks Interrogation of al-Qaida Suspects currently in Regime's custody.
The United States said Friday it opposes Iranian plans to put suspected al-Qaida members on trial. Bush administration officials say they should he handed over to the United States or their countries of origin to be interrogated about knowledge they have about terrorist attacks.
[Voice Of America]
Germans study claims by source tying Regime to 9/11
"..(the)..Bush administration, ..has vowed repeatedly to punish any foreign government--as it did the Taliban in Afghanistan--whose fingerprints are found on the attack.
[Chicago Tribune]
Islamic Republic's Regime Connection To 9/11?
"The mysterious witness, who goes by the name Hamid Reza Zakeri and claims to have been a longtime member of the Iranian intelligence service, is said to have told German investigators that the Sept. 11 plot represented what one termed a "joint venture" between the terrorist group al-Qaida and the Iranian government."
[Chicago Tribune]
Iran Continues Work at Uranium Enrichment Plant
"Iran claims it will not enrich uranium, as required by an agrement reached last month with the IAEA, but adds it will continue its construction work on the Natanz site."
[Ha'aretz]
Freedom in Iran
"We strongly advise the Bush administration to consistently support the cause of freedom, and decline to listen to the siren song of "openings" with tyrants proffered by the diplomats at the State Department."
[National Review Online]
Sunday: January 18, 2004:
(Click To Watch Program)
A Plan for the peaceful removal of the Islamic Regime of Iran was announced during a live program broadcast on most Iranian satellite TV and Radio stations. Stay tuned for additional news briefs. [BestOfIran.com]
How to Deal with Iran's Mullahs? Recall Reagan
"Without a free press, a democracy would wither and die; with a free press a dictatorship would crumble. In the annals of history, no dictatorship has survived the onslaught of a free press. The newspapers that have been shut down and the journalists and students who have been imprisoned and routinely tortured seek a civil, democratic society based on the ideals of peace, equality, justice, transparency and a genuine representative government."
[Reza Ladjevardian]
Iran: A "Sort" of Democracy
"Even if the Council of Guardians allows all the so-called "reformists" to stand as candidates the forthcoming election would still be far from democratic. The reason is that no one who is not a Khomeinist of one sort or another is allowed to stand for election to anything."
[National Post - Amir Taheri]
Bringing Democracy to the Arab World
"It (Democracy In Iraq) will have just as much effect on neighboring Iran, not an Arab country but one that significantly influences and is influenced by its Arab neighbors. The replacement of Iran's theocracy by a genuine democracy would also reverberate loudly across the region."
[FrontPageMag.com]
SIGN NEW PETITION NOW!:
WE, the undersigned, as members of the civilized world, call urgently on the UN and leaders of the free world to set up a committee to investigate the involvement of the clerical regime in crimes of Bam genocide, crimes of conspiracy to commit genocide and crimes against humanity according to the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and established International Law.
[Important Petition]
Out of Misery, Hope
Lastly, Mr. President, please do not forget that what you and your allied forces have begun in Iraq and Afghanistan can only bear fruit if the Iranian problem is solved. We can do it: Trust us, not the mullahs. Invest in the real Iran, not the Islamic occupying regime. Allow us to make this plague the last to afflict the Iranians; allow us to make 2004 the year of Iran's liberation.
[National Review - Koroosh Afshar]
Let My Father Go!
The United Nations has become nothing more than a tool for the festering European coterie of imperialists who fancy themselves to be the arbiters of propriety. But what propriety? The Europeans may pride themselves on their intellectual heritage, but a continent whose citizens often loathe each other from country to country and who does not practice what it preaches is nothing more than duplicitous.
[Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi]
No Belle Prize
"Shirin Ebadi did not mention that atrocity, neither did she criticize the rigid Iranian regime. Rather, she lambasted the United States, accusing America of violating 'universal principles and laws of human rights by using the events of September 11th and the war on international terrorism as a pretext.'"
[Sally Pipes]
More Earthquakes in Iran
Four more mild earthquakes had jolted a major oil and gas producing area in south-west Iran, seismologists said, days after the region was put on maximum alert.
[TheAge.com - AAP]
Jane Kokan Q&A
On January 9th, Jane Kokan ("Forbidden Iran" Journalist) hosted a questions and answer session. Click on the link if you would like to read what was said.
[Washington Post Discussion]
Aftershocks
"..ask our leaders what in the world we are waiting for, and why we insist on believing that a regime so demonstrably evil deserves to have good relations with the United States, and why a people so demonstrably on our side, and so demonstrably worthy of freedom, does not deserve our full support."
[American Scholar - Michael Ledeen]
Report: Iran sent arms to Hizbullah on aid planes.
Via Israeli Intelligence Sources. Clerical regime is now denying that they used aid planes to ship weapons to Syria. Syria currently has no comment on the matter.
[Jerusalem Post - Arieh O'Sullivan]
Regime Change In Iran
"President Bush stated in his September 2002 national security Strategy that America's war on terror is with those who conduct terrorist acts and with those who support terrorists. Iran, as many experts will tell you, does both."
[Washington Times / Op-Ed]
Iran Quakes
"Khatami and Khamenei's visits to Bam, however, lasted no more than a scant hour each. Though they were surrounded by 'walls' of bodyguards, they could not be shielded from harangues and insults hurled at them. 'It is your fault this happened to us,' one woman cried. 'You knew that this could happen and you liars never warned us.'"
[NRO - Geesou Atasheen]
Forbidden Iran (Frontline/World)
Watch Canadian journalist Jane Kokan as she goes undercover in Iran to expose the regime's brutality and repression, as well as investigate the murder of Zahra Kazemi.
[PBS/Frontline Special]
Civil Disobedience Tiptoes Across Tehran
"The time has now arrived to put an end to this myth and all the charades that the Islamic Republic has conveniently employed to prolong its unnatural life by showing the Islamic dictatorship for what it truly is."
[New York Sun - Mehrdad Khonsari]
The "Manual For Victory"
"The book calls for tough action against France and its dreams of offsetting US power. "We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington," it states. Britain's independence from Europe should be preserved, perhaps with open access for British arms to American defence markets."
[Telgraph - David Rennie]
Quake Fear Spreads!
"The Bam earthquake has sent shockwaves of fear rippling through Tehran with chilling visions of what may happen to the capital if the 'big one' hits."
[Reuters]
Iranian Ruler Faces "Looking Glass" Refracture.
"As an extremist fanatical fundamentalist whose repressive and suppressive reign and regime makes one scream. Khamenei crushes democracy and freedom at every opportunity."
[Gary Fitleberg - American Daily]
The Regime's Total Incompetance with Bam Aid
[The Post and Courier]
But then Clarke goes on. He says "any objective observer looking at the evidence in 2002 and 2003 would have said that the U.S. should spend more time and attention dealing with the security threats from Tehran than those from Baghdad."
[Michael Ledeen (American Scholar)]
Iran Behind Iraq Unrest?
"For months, Iran has been building a secret underground network of military and intelligence cells that has put it in a position not only to challenge the U.S. and others, but also to gradually gain control the reigns of power after the June 30th handover."
[FOX Fan Central!]
US Fears Tehran is Spreading Influence in Iraq!
"US intelligence officials believe Iran's hard-line and fiercely independent security services are providing support - directly or through proxies - to Iraqi militia forces loyal to the Shiite Muslim imam Moqtada al-Sadr that have been clashing with the US-led occupation forces all week."
[Boston Globe]
Iran, Hezbollah Support al-Sadr (EUROPE MUST END SUPPORT OF ILLEGAL KILLER REGIME)
"Military sources said Sheik al-Sadr is being aided directly by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, which plays a large role in running that country, and by Hezbollah, an Iranian-created terrorist group based in Lebanon."
[Washington Times]
The Mullahs Have Declared War On America!
"Iran has clear objectives in Iraq. The only question is whether the United States still has clear objectives in Iraq and whether Washington recognizes that this war front just got wider."
[WorldNetDaily.com ]
Time to Confront Clerical Regime In Iran On All Fronts
As long as Iran is ruled by a theocratic regime there will be no specter of freedom and popular governance for Iranians, no end to the meddling in Iraq, and no relief from Irans nuclear and terrorist threats.[IntellectualConservative.com]
Regime funded Arabic Satellite TV Networks Enflame Iraq
"The two Islamic republic's funded Arabic Satellite TV Networks, Al Manar and Al Alam, are enflaming Iraq by increasing their flow of Anti American propaganda..."
[SMCCDI News Services]
Tyranny@25 Oppression reaches a milestone in Iran.
"Twenty-five years after Khomeini declared the Islamic Republic, nearly 70 million Iranians struggle to be free. It's imperative that we do not abandon them."
[Michael Rubin (American Scholar)]
Zarqawi, Getting Around
"But now that Zarqawi's name has surfaced in connection with Madrid, anyone who is serious about waging war against terrorism must find a way to deal effectively with the mullahcracy in Tehran."
[Michael Ledeen (American Scholar)]
Who rules Iran?
"Westerners often meet with assorted officials who, they are led to believe, run Islamist Iran. They don't.."
[Amir Taheri]
Iran Hiding Its Nuclear Activities
"The report is being viewed seriously because it originates from outside U.S. intelligence sources," said the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "It has contributed to a greater sense of frustration, both in the U.S. and within the IAEA."
[LA Times]
Drifting, Dangerously
And so we drift on, led by a president with uniquely good instincts and rare courage, but who seems not to understand that many of his people are weakening the strength of his message and even, on occasion, acting in a direction counter to what he has long said was our national mission.
[Michael Ledeen]
Time for Regime Change in Tehran (FREEDOM IS COMING!)
If we are going to win the war on terror, the liberation of Iran is not an option. It is a prerequisite. The Bush administration should be saying so -- and living up to its words.
[Boston Globe]
Democracy or Islamocracy
"Unfortunately, it is illusory to think that the change in Muslim societies will come from within, alone. Four interrelated factors are hindering a successful internal and autonomous change: oriental despotism, the rentier economy, the domination of Islam, and external interventionism. These elements constitute a Gordian knot which can only be cut off by Alexander's sword. The USA's intervention in both Afghanistan and Iraq must be understood as an imperative chirurgical intervention to break this vicious chain."
[Iran va Jahan]
Families of political prisoners celebrated Nowruz in front of Evin's (Prison) walls
Families celebrated the coming of the New Iranian year by conducting the age old New Year ceremonies outside of the prison walls amidst an unusual snowfall.
[SMCCDI Information Services]
Festival of Light and Fire, A Defiance of Ruling Clerics
In Yazd, between 7000-8000 people gathered in Atlasi Sq and attacked the known regime agents. In Booshehr, one revolutionary guard is reported killed. In Shiraz, the people attacked government agents who were filming them and broke their cameras. In Kerman, the people were shouting, Referendum, Referendum, This is the cry of nation. In Sarab, Azarbijan, where the people have a fierce reputation for their fighting capabilities, the local Baseejis were on the run while shouting Allah-Akbar.
[Iran va Jahan]
A Plea for Help, on Behalf of the Iranian Freedom-Loving People
"Human beings are all members of one body. They are created from the same essence. When one member is in pain, The others cannot rest.If you do not care about the pain of others, You do not deserve to be called a human being." - famous Persian poet Saadi Shirazi
[ActivistChat.com]
Regime anti-riot forces start attacking
[SMCCDI Newswires]
Unsung Heroes (MUST READ)
"We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down". Sir Winston Churchill - Feb 9, 1941
[Nicole Sadighi]
IRAN: Dead Regime Walking!
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has been put on Death Row, not by the hawks on the Bush administration or what its rulers call their 'Zionist Enemies', but but by the dint of its own internal contradictions."
[FrontPageMag.com]
Iraq's Terror Sources Reside Next Door (Clerical Regime)
We will never have true freedom and stability in Iraq until the terror masters in Tehran and Damascus have been defeated and removed from power.
[Michael Ledeen]
Renaissance in Tehran
But it will become increasingly difficult for European governments to sell any policy of support for an ugly regime to their own respective citizens, who have come to loathe Islamist fascism.
[Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi & Elio Bonazzi]
Can the EU Afford to Support the Mullah$?!
[by Dariush Dana / Comments via Spenta]
US Senator, John Cornyn (R - TX), reiterates support of Iranian freedom lovers.
[SMCCDI News Services]
Why do the British plan on sending more Iranians to their deaths?
[Sunday Herald]
Iran Ranked at the Bottom of Globalization Index
[Iran Institute for Democracy]
Congressman Andrews' House Speech on Iran (PRO-Regime Change/Iranian Freedom)
[Congressman Andrews]
More Protests & Crackdowns throughout Iran!
[SMCCDI News Services]
Going Soft on Iran
[Reuel Marc Gerecht]
Listen to the Iranians, They Know
[Michael Ledeen]
Iran Operates 100 Military Contracts in Libya
[Middle East Newsline]
Europe's Iran Wimpout
[The Wall Street Journal]
Now Tehran's Pushing Buttons
[Australian Financial Review]
To: Leaders of the European Union and the People of Europe
Europe Should Stand Up!
Protest wave rocks more provincial cities!
Iranian Lashed To Death In Mafia Clerical Regime Prison.
US State Dept Calls Oil Cos' Iran Investments 'A Mistake'
Iran has racked up $4bn of international energy investment in just a week thanks to deals with France, Malaysia and Japan.
[Newswires]
"I Am in Permanent Contact with Iran" -Reza Pahlavi
Iranians take matters into their own hands.
Iranian Election Fiasco
"Finally, perhaps our enterprising journalists could ask the administration how it can be, three years after inauguration, that we still have no Iran policy."
[Michael Ledeen]
What the BBC Didn't Report from Iran Elections
[Iran va Jahan]
The Virus Must Be Stopped!
[Dariush Shirazi]
Stalinist Mullahs
[Michael Ledeen]
Death Train was Carrying Explosives to Afghanistan
[News Alerts]
LISTEN: to Senator Brownback's Statements Regarding SCAM Elections
[If does not open, right click and then download the audio file.]
FP Interview with Richard Perle and David Frum
"Iran is governed by a small bunch of corrupt mullahs who dictate every aspect of their people's™s lives, support terrorist groups and seek nuclear weapons. The people of Iran want the mullahs back in the mosques and out of power. We should help the people.."
[FrontPageMag.com]
Liberate Iran in order to win the terror war in Iraq
[American Scholar - Michael Ledeen]
Zahra Kazemi's Murder..
"Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi died after being beaten while in Iranian custody and prevented from receiving the medical help she desperately needed, says a BBC investigation into her death. ."
[Toronto Star]
Toadying to the Mullahs
"The British policy of working with the status quo is, of course, in direct opposition to the Bush Doctrine, according to which the democratization of the Middle East is a vital security interest of the United States and other Western democracies."
[Amir Taheri]
Reza Pahlavi Foresees Democratic Iran
[CNSNews.com]
ISLAMIC CLERICAL VIRUS is spreading into Afghanistan!
[National Review]
Female students arrested in south Tehran (President Bush: Please Help The Iranian People!)
[SMCCDI News Services]
US Senator, John Cornyn (R - TX), reiterates support of Iranian freedom lovers.
[SMCCDI News Services]
Why do the British plan on sending more Iranians to their deaths?
[Sunday Herald]
Iran Ranked at the Bottom of Globalization Index
[Iran Institute for Democracy]
Congressman Andrews' House Speech on Iran (PRO-Regime Change/Iranian Freedom)
[Congressman Andrews]
More Protests & Crackdowns throughout Iran!
[SMCCDI News Services]
Going Soft on Iran
[Reuel Marc Gerecht]
Listen to the Iranians, They Know
[Michael Ledeen]
Iran Operates 100 Military Contracts in Libya
[Middle East Newsline]
Europe's Iran Wimpout
[The Wall Street Journal]
Now Tehran's Pushing Buttons
[Australian Financial Review]
To: Leaders of the European Union and the People of Europe
Europe Should Stand Up!
Protest wave rocks more provincial cities!
Iranian Lashed To Death In Mafia Clerical Regime Prison.
US State Dept Calls Oil Cos' Iran Investments 'A Mistake'
Iran has racked up $4bn of international energy investment in just a week thanks to deals with France, Malaysia and Japan.
[Newswires]
"I Am in Permanent Contact with Iran" -Reza Pahlavi
Iranians take matters into their own hands.
Iranian Election Fiasco
"Finally, perhaps our enterprising journalists could ask the administration how it can be, three years after inauguration, that we still have no Iran policy."
[Michael Ledeen]
What the BBC Didn't Report from Iran Elections
[Iran va Jahan]
The Virus Must Be Stopped!
[Dariush Shirazi]
Stalinist Mullahs
[Michael Ledeen]
Death Train was Carrying Explosives to Afghanistan
[News Alerts]
LISTEN: to Senator Brownback's Statements Regarding SCAM Elections
FP Interview with Richard Perle and David Frum
"Iran is governed by a small bunch of corrupt mullahs who dictate every aspect of their people’s lives, support terrorist groups and seek nuclear weapons. The people of Iran want the mullahs back in the mosques and out of power. We should help the people.."
[FrontPageMag.com]
Liberate Iran in order to win the terror war in Iraq
[American Scholar - Michael Ledeen]
Zahra Kazemi's Murder..
"Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi died after being beaten while in Iranian custody and prevented from receiving the medical help she desperately needed, says a BBC investigation into her death. ."
[Toronto Star]
Toadying to the Mullahs
"The British policy of working with the status quo is, of course, in direct opposition to the Bush Doctrine, according to which the democratization of the Middle East is a vital security interest of the United States and other Western democracies."
[Amir Taheri]
Reza Pahlavi Foresees Democratic Iran
[CNSNews.com]
ISLAMIC CLERICAL VIRUS is spreading into Afghanistan!
[National Review]
25th Anniversary of (Islamic Clerical Virus) Revolution
" The United States has now the historic opportunity to side with the millions in Iran in their call for a United Nations supervised referendum as the last peaceful recourse to regime change in Iran."
[Alireza Jafarzadeh]
The Mullah's New Draconian Agenda
" Nevertheless, far from being a thorn on the side of the regime (as he is portrayed by the Western media) Khatami has a proven record of commitment to the preservation of the country's dictatorial system. He himself is a full member, as it were, of the theocratic ruling club. This ruling club is now panic-stricken about losing its grip on the country."
[Iran va Jahan]
Royal Gift To The Ayatollah (ISLAMIC MAFIA CLERICS)!
"After all, one of the key themes in the mullahs' attempts to demoralise the Iranian opposition has been that the West talks big about freedom, but that when the chips are down, democracy is the least of its concerns. The regime asserts that the Europeans, in particular, will do business with whoever is in power in Teheran. As of today, it is hard to disagree with the Islamists' cynical analysis."
[telegraph.co.uk]
Iran In Focus: 2004-02-06
[Winds Of Change.net]
Islamic Clerical Regime 'Has Secret Atomic Bomb Project'
"But the presence of US troops either side of Iran - in Iraq and Afghanistan - is a reminder to the regime that Washington retains the declared option of "pre-emptive" military action. Clear-cut proof of a secret nuclear weapons programme in Iran would be an acute embarrassment for Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, who has invested heavily in "engagement" with the clerical regime."
[telegraph.co.uk]
Proof That Islamic Regime in Iran Backed Terrorism
"As the war on terror progresses, the Bush administration is seeking to put pressure on hard-line clerics in Iran, deter their use of terror, stop weapons of mass destruction and encourage pro-democracy forces - at least, that is what the president says. But the message sent by the repeal of the Flatow amendment, and by the refusal of the State Department to back up the president's promise to support the pro-democracy movement in Iran, suggests a policy process the president does not control, say former National Security Council officials.."
[Kenneth Timmerman]
Iran's Islamic Republic Faces Moment of Truth
"The so-called "reformers" do not propose to reform anything. They are not asking for the Guardians Council to be abolished. Nor do they propose that the council lose its constitutional power to vet and, if necessary, veto candidacies. All that the "reformers" want is for the Guardians Council to dance to their tune."
[Amir Taheri]
Inelegant Lies - Making sense out of mullahs.
"The talk about "improved relations" has a double objective: to delay our support for democratic revolution in Iran, and to discourage the democratic revolutionaries b showing them that even the ferocious Bush administration is seeking a modus vivendi with the regime itself."
[Michael Ledeen]
Why Throw a Lifeline To a Sinking Regime?
"How is this to be explained to the people of Iran who have been listening to the President of the United States and his message of hope for the future of democracy in the region?"
[Iran va Jahan]
Iran's Threat to Coalition Forces
"Iran's support for anti-American terrorism is not limited to Hizballah, however. According to the State Department, some al-Qaeda operatives have obtained safe haven in Iran. U.S. intelligence believes that one such operative is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.."
[Washington Institute-Near East Policy]
Badly Played..Badly Played
"And with this visit, a thoroughly illegitimate regime is being granted authenticity by the world's mightiest democratic republic. In return, the US is likely to get . . . nothing out of the visit. The Islamic regime will still harbor and foster terrorism, it will still incite hatred against Americans and American interests, and it will make dismantling Iran's burgeoning nuclear program as easy as pulling teeth from a rhinoceros."
[Pejmanesque.com (BLOG)]
Iran Becomes Top Funding Source for Fatah
"Israeli military sources said that over the last year Iran and its Hizbullah ally have supplied the ruling Fatah movement with as much as 90 percent of the organization's requirements to maintain the Palestinian war against the Jewish state."
[World Tribune]
Tehran Terrorfest
"..militants from some 40 countries spread across the globe were trekking to Tehran for a 10-day "revolutionary jamboree" in which "a new strategy to confront the American Great Satan" will be hammered out."
[Amir Taheri]
Turn Up the Heat on Terror Central
"Iran's hard-liners are still in charge, and they are expert at playing the good cop (moderate)/bad cop (hard-line) routine to win advantages. Make no mistake, this clerical dictatorship is a principal source of terrorism around the world today."
[Steve Forbes]
Iran and the Lingering Myths in Western Media
"..a list of some of these lingering myths that persists in some sectors of western and in particular the European media."
[Iran va Jahan]
Call For Democracy In Iran
"Any political analyst worth his salt knows that without a regime change in Iran and the restoration of civil and political rights to the people of that country, peace in the Middle East is bound to remain a piecemeal peace, in constant threat of danger destruction."
[Reza Bayegan]
Four Killed in Protest by Striking Workers in Iran
"Special forces attacked the village and the clashes spread to Shahrebabak, where four people were killed, he said."
[AFP]
Reading Iran Wrong
"And neither faction is proposing any radical reform of any aspects of the Khomeinist system. Both reject the almost unanimous call of the opposition parties and movements for a constitutional referendum. Both claim legitimacy on the basis not of the people's will but of their fidelity to the teachings of Khomeini."
[Amir Taheri]
US Seeks Interrogation of al-Qaida Suspects currently in Regime's custody.
The United States said Friday it opposes Iranian plans to put suspected al-Qaida members on trial. Bush administration officials say they should he handed over to the United States or their countries of origin to be interrogated about knowledge they have about terrorist attacks.
[Voice Of America]
Germans study claims by source tying Regime to 9/11
"..(the)..Bush administration, ..has vowed repeatedly to punish any foreign government--as it did the Taliban in Afghanistan--whose fingerprints are found on the attack.
[Chicago Tribune]
Islamic Republic's Regime Connection To 9/11?
"The mysterious witness, who goes by the name Hamid Reza Zakeri and claims to have been a longtime member of the Iranian intelligence service, is said to have told German investigators that the Sept. 11 plot represented what one termed a "joint venture" between the terrorist group al-Qaida and the Iranian government."
[Chicago Tribune]
Iran Continues Work at Uranium Enrichment Plant
"Iran claims it will not enrich uranium, as required by an agrement reached last month with the IAEA, but adds it will continue its construction work on the Natanz site."
[Ha'aretz]
Freedom in Iran
"We strongly advise the Bush administration to consistently support the cause of freedom, and decline to listen to the siren song of "openings" with tyrants proffered by the diplomats at the State Department."
[National Review Online]
Sunday: January 18, 2004:
(Click To Watch Program)
A Plan for the peaceful removal of the Islamic Regime of Iran was announced during a live program broadcast on most Iranian satellite TV and Radio stations. Stay tuned for additional news briefs. [BestOfIran.com]
How to Deal with Iran's Mullahs? Recall Reagan
"Without a free press, a democracy would wither and die; with a free press a dictatorship would crumble. In the annals of history, no dictatorship has survived the onslaught of a free press. The newspapers that have been shut down and the journalists and students who have been imprisoned and routinely tortured seek a civil, democratic society based on the ideals of peace, equality, justice, transparency and a genuine representative government."
[Reza Ladjevardian]
Iran: A "Sort" of Democracy
"Even if the Council of Guardians allows all the so-called "reformists" to stand as candidates the forthcoming election would still be far from democratic. The reason is that no one who is not a Khomeinist of one sort or another is allowed to stand for election to anything."
[National Post - Amir Taheri]
Bringing Democracy to the Arab World
"It (Democracy In Iraq) will have just as much effect on neighboring Iran, not an Arab country but one that significantly influences and is influenced by its Arab neighbors. The replacement of Iran's theocracy by a genuine democracy would also reverberate loudly across the region."
[FrontPageMag.com]
SIGN NEW PETITION NOW!:
WE, the undersigned, as members of the civilized world, call urgently on the UN and leaders of the free world to set up a committee to investigate the involvement of the clerical regime in crimes of Bam genocide, crimes of conspiracy to commit genocide and crimes against humanity according to the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and established International Law.
[Important Petition]
Out of Misery, Hope
Lastly, Mr. President, please do not forget that what you and your allied forces have begun in Iraq and Afghanistan can only bear fruit if the Iranian problem is solved. We can do it: Trust us, not the mullahs. Invest in the real Iran, not the Islamic occupying regime. Allow us to make this plague the last to afflict the Iranians; allow us to make 2004 the year of Iran's liberation.
[National Review - Koroosh Afshar]
Let My Father Go!
The United Nations has become nothing more than a tool for the festering European coterie of imperialists who fancy themselves to be the arbiters of propriety. But what propriety? The Europeans may pride themselves on their intellectual heritage, but a continent whose citizens often loathe each other from country to country and who does not practice what it preaches is nothing more than duplicitous.
[Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi]
No Belle Prize
"Shirin Ebadi did not mention that atrocity, neither did she criticize the rigid Iranian regime. Rather, she lambasted the United States, accusing America of violating 'universal principles and laws of human rights by using the events of September 11th and the war on international terrorism as a pretext.'"
[Sally Pipes]
More Earthquakes in Iran
Four more mild earthquakes had jolted a major oil and gas producing area in south-west Iran, seismologists said, days after the region was put on maximum alert.
[TheAge.com - AAP]
Jane Kokan Q&A
On January 9th, Jane Kokan ("Forbidden Iran" Journalist) hosted a questions and answer session. Click on the link if you would like to read what was said.
[Washington Post Discussion]
Aftershocks
"..ask our leaders what in the world we are waiting for, and why we insist on believing that a regime so demonstrably evil deserves to have good relations with the United States, and why a people so demonstrably on our side, and so demonstrably worthy of freedom, does not deserve our full support."
[American Scholar - Michael Ledeen]
Report: Iran sent arms to Hizbullah on aid planes.
Via Israeli Intelligence Sources. Clerical regime is now denying that they used aid planes to ship weapons to Syria. Syria currently has no comment on the matter.
[Jerusalem Post - Arieh O'Sullivan]
Regime Change In Iran
"President Bush stated in his September 2002 national security Strategy that America's war on terror is with those who conduct terrorist acts and with those who support terrorists. Iran, as many experts will tell you, does both."
[Washington Times / Op-Ed]
Iran Quakes
"Khatami and Khamenei's visits to Bam, however, lasted no more than a scant hour each. Though they were surrounded by 'walls' of bodyguards, they could not be shielded from harangues and insults hurled at them. 'It is your fault this happened to us,' one woman cried. 'You knew that this could happen and you liars never warned us.'"
[NRO - Geesou Atasheen]
Forbidden Iran (Frontline/World)
Watch Canadian journalist Jane Kokan as she goes undercover in Iran to expose the regime's brutality and repression, as well as investigate the murder of Zahra Kazemi.
[PBS/Frontline Special]
Civil Disobedience Tiptoes Across Tehran
"The time has now arrived to put an end to this myth and all the charades that the Islamic Republic has conveniently employed to prolong its unnatural life by showing the Islamic dictatorship for what it truly is."
[New York Sun - Mehrdad Khonsari]
The "Manual For Victory"
"The book calls for tough action against France and its dreams of offsetting US power. "We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington," it states. Britain's independence from Europe should be preserved, perhaps with open access for British arms to American defence markets."
[Telgraph - David Rennie]
Quake Fear Spreads!
"The Bam earthquake has sent shockwaves of fear rippling through Tehran with chilling visions of what may happen to the capital if the 'big one' hits."
[Reuters]
Iranian Ruler Faces "Looking Glass" Refracture.
"As an extremist fanatical fundamentalist whose repressive and suppressive reign and regime makes one scream. Khamenei crushes democracy and freedom at every opportunity."
[Gary Fitleberg - American Daily]
The Regime's Total Incompetance with Bam Aid
[The Post and Courier]