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PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 9:59 pm    Post subject: Iran Under Mullah Is Country 101 In Human Development Index Reply with quote

Iran Under Mullah Is Country 101 In Human development index

Source: http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/data/indic/indic_12_1_1.html

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. For details on how the index is calculated, see Technical note 1.

HDI Rank Country Human development index

1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2002


1 Norway 0.866 0.886 0.897 0.911 0.935 0.954 0.956
2 Sweden 0.863 0.873 0.885 0.895 0.928 0.943 0.946
3 Australia 0.847 0.864 0.877 0.892 0.932 0.942 0.946
4 Canada 0.869 0.885 0.908 0.928 0.933 0.939 0.943
5 Netherlands 0.865 0.877 0.891 0.907 0.927 0.938 0.942

6 Belgium 0.845 0.862 0.876 0.897 0.927 0.940 0.942
7 Iceland 0.862 0.885 0.895 0.913 0.919 0.939 0.941
8 United States 0.866 0.886 0.899 0.914 0.926 0.935 0.939
9 Japan 0.854 0.879 0.894 0.910 0.924 0.934 0.938
10 Ireland 0.810 0.825 0.844 0.869 0.893 0.926 0.936

11 Switzerland 0.878 0.889 0.895 0.909 0.918 0.932 0.936
12 United Kingdom 0.845 0.853 0.862 0.883 0.921 0.932 0.936
13 Finland 0.839 0.859 0.876 0.899 0.913 0.933 0.935
14 Austria 0.842 0.856 0.870 0.893 0.913 0.931 0.934
15 Luxembourg 0.838 0.850 0.856 0.882 0.908 0.929 0.933

16 France 0.852 0.867 0.880 0.902 0.919 0.929 0.932
17 Denmark 0.872 0.881 0.889 0.897 0.912 0.929 0.932
18 New Zealand 0.847 0.853 0.867 0.874 0.904 0.921 0.926
19 Germany .. 0.860 0.868 0.887 0.911 .. 0.925
20 Spain 0.836 0.853 0.867 0.885 0.903 0.917 0.922

21 Italy 0.841 0.856 0.865 0.887 0.904 0.915 0.920
22 Israel 0.794 0.818 0.839 0.857 0.880 0.907 0.908
23 Hong Kong, China (SAR) 0.760 0.799 0.826 0.862 0.879 .. 0.903
24 Greece 0.832 0.847 0.860 0.870 0.875 0.894 0.902
25 Singapore 0.724 0.761 0.784 0.821 0.859 .. 0.902

26 Portugal 0.785 0.800 0.823 0.847 0.876 0.892 0.897
27 Slovenia .. .. .. .. 0.852 0.883 0.895
28 Korea, Rep. of 0.705 0.741 0.779 0.817 0.852 0.878 0.888
29 Barbados 0.804 0.827 0.837 0.851 0.859 0.888 0.888
30 Cyprus .. 0.791 0.812 0.835 0.855 0.880 0.883

31 Malta 0.726 0.763 0.789 0.824 0.850 0.873 0.875
32 Czech Republic .. .. .. .. 0.843 0.856 0.868
33 Brunei Darussalam .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.867
34 Argentina 0.784 0.799 0.808 0.810 0.832 0.854 0.853
35 Seychelles .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.853

36 Estonia .. .. .. 0.817 0.796 0.839 0.853
37 Poland .. .. .. 0.802 0.816 0.843 0.850
38 Hungary 0.777 0.793 0.807 0.807 0.810 0.837 0.848
39 Saint Kitts and Nevis .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.844
40 Bahrain .. 0.746 0.779 0.808 0.825 0.835 0.843

41 Lithuania .. .. .. 0.823 0.789 0.829 0.842
42 Slovakia .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.842
43 Chile 0.703 0.738 0.761 0.784 0.814 0.835 0.839
44 Kuwait 0.761 0.776 0.778 .. 0.810 0.834 0.838
45 Costa Rica 0.745 0.770 0.774 0.791 0.810 0.829 0.834

46 Uruguay 0.759 0.779 0.785 0.803 0.816 .. 0.833
47 Qatar .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.833
48 Croatia .. .. .. 0.806 0.798 0.823 0.830
49 United Arab Emirates 0.734 0.769 0.785 0.805 0.803 .. 0.824
50 Latvia .. 0.795 0.807 0.807 0.765 0.808 0.823

51 Bahamas .. 0.809 0.820 0.825 0.812 .. 0.815
52 Cuba .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.809
53 Mexico 0.688 0.734 0.753 0.761 0.776 0.800 0.802
54 Trinidad and Tobago 0.735 0.768 0.786 0.791 0.793 0.806 0.801
55 Antigua and Barbuda .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.800

56 Bulgaria .. 0.768 0.788 0.795 0.784 0.791 0.796
57 Russian Federation .. .. .. 0.813 0.771 .. 0.795
58 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.794
59 Malaysia 0.614 0.657 0.693 0.720 0.759 0.789 0.793
60 Macedonia, TFYR .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.793

61 Panama 0.708 0.735 0.746 0.748 0.771 0.791 0.791
62 Belarus .. .. .. 0.785 0.752 0.775 0.790
63 Tonga .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.787
64 Mauritius .. 0.658 0.689 0.723 0.747 0.775 0.785
65 Albania .. .. 0.691 0.702 0.702 0.740 0.781

66 Bosnia and Herzegovina .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.781
67 Suriname .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.780
68 Venezuela 0.716 0.730 0.739 0.759 0.768 0.776 0.778
69 Romania .. .. .. 0.771 0.769 0.773 0.778
70 Ukraine .. .. .. 0.798 0.751 0.762 0.777

71 Saint Lucia .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.777
72 Brazil 0.644 0.680 0.695 0.714 0.739 0.771 0.775
73 Colombia 0.661 0.689 0.706 0.727 0.751 0.771 0.773
74 Oman 0.493 0.546 0.640 0.696 0.733 0.761 0.770
75 Samoa (Western) .. .. .. .. 0.741 0.762 0.769

76 Thailand 0.613 0.651 0.676 0.707 0.742 .. 0.768
77 Saudi Arabia 0.602 0.656 0.671 0.707 0.741 0.764 0.768
78 Kazakhstan .. .. .. 0.767 0.725 0.744 0.766
79 Jamaica 0.687 0.695 0.699 0.726 0.737 0.752 0.764
80 Lebanon .. .. .. 0.673 0.732 0.752 0.758

81 Fiji 0.659 0.683 0.698 0.722 0.744 0.751 0.758
82 Armenia .. .. .. 0.751 0.708 .. 0.754
83 Philippines 0.653 0.686 0.692 0.719 0.735 .. 0.753
84 Maldives .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.752
85 Peru 0.642 0.672 0.696 0.706 0.733 .. 0.752

86 Turkmenistan .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.752
87 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.751
88 Turkey 0.590 0.614 0.651 0.683 0.713 .. 0.751
89 Paraguay 0.667 0.701 0.708 0.719 0.738 0.751 0.751
90 Jordan .. 0.639 0.663 0.682 0.707 0.741 0.750

91 Azerbaijan .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.746
92 Tunisia 0.516 0.574 0.623 0.656 0.696 0.734 0.745
93 Grenada .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.745
94 China 0.523 0.557 0.593 0.627 0.683 0.721 0.745
95 Dominica .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.743

96 Sri Lanka 0.613 0.648 0.674 0.698 0.719 .. 0.740
97 Georgia .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.739
98 Dominican Republic 0.617 0.648 0.670 0.678 0.699 0.731 0.738
99 Belize .. 0.707 0.717 0.747 0.768 0.773 0.737
100 Ecuador 0.630 0.674 0.696 0.710 0.719 .. 0.735

101 Iran, Islamic Rep. of 0.565 0.569 0.610 0.649 0.693 0.723 0.732

102 Occupied Palestinian Territories .. .. .. .. .. .. 0.726
103 El Salvador 0.590 0.590 0.610 0.648 0.686 0.713 0.720
104 Guyana 0.677 0.683 0.679 0.697 0.706 0.724 0.719
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Notes :
The human development index values in this table were calculated using a consistent methodology and data series. They are not strictly comparable with those in earlier Human Development Reports. For detailed discussion, see Statistical feature 2, Note to table 1: About this year's human development index.

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Source :
calculated on the basis of data on life expectancy from UN (United Nations). 2003. World Population Prospects 1950-2050: The 2002 Revision. Database. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. New York. ; data on adult literacy rates from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). 2003. Correspondence on adult and youth literacy rates. March. Montreal. ; data on combined gross enrolment ratios from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). 1999. Statistical Yearbook 1999. Paris. and UNESCO Institute for Statistics (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). 2004. Correspondence on gross, net enrolment ratios and children reaching grade 5. March.. ; and data on GDP per capita (1995 PPP US$) and GDP per capita (PPP US$) from World Bank. 2004. World Development Indicators 2004. CD-ROM. Washington, DC. .




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PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The proof is unfortunately in the pudding.. Too bad the US government is not even doing close to enough to help the Iranian people and end the fanaticism..
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tehran Fears Possible "Tough" Measures From Bush

Iran Press Service- By Safa Haeri
Jul 23, 2004





PARIS - Is Washington really planning a "tough" action against the Islamic Republic?

The question haunts many Iranian political analysts inside and outside, with most of them giving a positive answer.

"Deducting from what comes out from Washington these last weeks and days, I seriously would say that the Bush Administration is considering serious measures against Iran", one prominent analyst told Iran Press Service on condition of anonymity.

He was referring to the latest report released on Thursday 22 July by the bi-partisan, independent 9/11 Commission pointing to "contacts" between Iranian security officials and senior al-Qa'eda operatives.

According to the 19 months long investigations, the Islamic Republic allowed eight to 10 of the Sept. 11 hijackers to pass through its territory on their way from Afghanistan and other countries without stamping their passports.

"We believe this topic requires further investigation by the U.S. government", the commissioners said, adding however that no evidence had been found that the Iranian government was aware that the terrorist network was planning the attacks on New York and Washington.

The internet newspaper "Baztab" that belong to Mr. Mohsen Reza'i, the former Commander of the Revolutionary Guards has warned that the report "might serve (the Americans) as a pretext for preparing a military action against the Islamic Republic".

The report also says that there are signs indicating that the Iranian supported Lebanese Hezbollah organisation had a role in the bombings in 1996 at the Khobar Towers housing complex in Dharan, Saudi Arabia.

Following the operation, American press, quoting unidentified intelligence community sources, cited a high-ranking Revolutionary Guard's officer as the coordinator of the Khobar attack.

President George W. Bush on Monday said Washington was probing the possibility that Tehran had offered assistance to some of the terrorists who conducted the 11 September attacks against the United States.

"The United States is investigating possible ties between Iran and al-Qa'eda, and wants to know if the Iranian government played a role in the attacks", President Bush said, adding, "We will look to see if the Iranians were involved".



However, he made it clear that there was no definite proof yet that this had occurred, and he didn't mention any possible consequences for Iran.

Shooting back, former Iranian president Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Friday 23 July that the United States created al-Qa'eda to destabilise the Islamic Republic and Americans should blame their government for failing to uncover the plot and protect Americans instead of pointing fingers at others.

"Every day, thousands of people come and go. ... Such people usually carry false passports. Moreover, many can illegally cross the border. It has been always like this", Mr. Hashemi Rafsanjani, considered as the regime's number two man after Ayatollah Ali Khameneh'i said, referring to the report.

"Not only the report says it was not certain that the hijackers passed through the country, but also even if it's true that they have passed through Iran, can you really incriminate Iran with this bit of information?" he asked worshippers bussed to the traditional Friday Prayer in Tehran amidst chants of "Death to America!"

In fact, the Commission's report points also to "deep institutional failings" and missed opportunities to thwart the hijacking by al-Qa'eda of four American airliners crushed on the World Trade Center twin towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, killing more than 3,000 people.

While rejecting all links with the al-Qa'eda, Tehran has admitted the arrest of up to 450 operatives of al-Qa'eda that had fled Afghanistan immediately after the massive military intervention of American forces.

However, the Islamic Republic is suspected to shelter some senior al-Qa'eda leaders, including Sa'd Ben Laden, the elder son of Osama Ben Laden, the leader of al-Qa'eda and Saif al Adl, the Organisation's intelligence boss.

Commission Chairman Thomas Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, said of Iran and al-Qa'eda, "We know of a relationship. We don't know how deep that relationship is and whether it exists to this day".



The Shi'ia Muslim Iran was at odd with the staunchly anti-Shi'ate Taleban who had killed nine Iranian diplomats and a journalist when they stormed the northern city of Mazar Sharif on August 1998.

As well as its concerns about Iran's support of terrorism, Washington also accuses the Iranian ruling ayatollahs to be in the process of creating a nuclear arsenal aimed at destroying Israel.

Tehran rejects the charges and insists that the atomic project it has under construction, including facilities for enriching uranium, is for civilian uses, mostly producing electricity.

But both the Americans and the Israelis do not accept the explanations, claiming that the nuclear-powered plant that is under construction in the Persian Gulf port of Bushehr with Russian help is a cover for developing an atomic bomb.
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Iran Next on US Hit List?

July 24, 2004
China Daily
People's Daily

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200407/24/eng20040724_150648.html

US President George W. Bush has found a new target for his second term if he is re-elected in November. It is Iraq's neighbour, Iran. Tensions between the United States and Iran are building.

On Thursday the bipartisan panel probing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington cleared Iraq of links to the "operational" masterminds, which was previously used as an excuse to justify war against Baghdad. But the panel's report spotlighted Iran's links to the al-Qaida organization.

The commissioners ruled out any direct involvement by Iraq or its former President Saddam Hussein in the attacks, instead reserving their most accusatory tone for Iran another member of Bush's so-called "axis of evil."

The panel said Iranian operatives maintained contacts with al-Qaida for years and may have provided transit for at least eight of the 19 men who crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The commission said that "intelligence indicates the persistence of contacts between Iranian security officials and senior al-Qaida figures" after Osama bin Laden returned to Afghanistan from Sudan in 1996.

Before the report was released, Iran's alleged links were widely covered by the US media.

Time and Newsweek, in similar reports quoting congressional, commission and government sources, reported that Iran relaxed border controls and provided "clean" passports for the so-called "muscle hijackers" to travel to and from bin Laden's camps between October 2000 and February 2001.

Newsweek said the Iranian finding in the commission's report is based largely on a December 2001 memo discovered buried in the files of the US National Security Agency.

The memo, according to Newsweek, says "Iranian border inspectors were instructed not to place stamps in the passports of al-Qaeda fighters from Saudi Arabia who were travelling from bin Laden's camps through Iran."

Still, we heard similar ruses the US gave for targeting Iran with what it did to Iraq.

"We are digging into the facts to determine if there was an Iranian connection (to September 11)," Bush told reporters this week, adding that he had long expressed his concerns about Iran.

"After all, it is a totalitarian society where free people are not allowed to exercise their rights as human beings," he said.

Iraq was labelled "totalitarian" too, before it was "liberated" by the US-led coalition forces.

Virtually from the moment of the attacks of September 11, 2001, the White House began searching for substantive links between Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network and Saddam Hussein.

After the search for weapons of mass destruction one of the US justifications for invading Iraq proved futile, the Bush administration turned to other defenses such as forcibly ousting Hussein.

Earlier this month the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is conducting a separate investigation of the administration's rationale for launching the war against Iraq, reported finding "no credible information" that Iraq possessed "foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks or any other al-Qaida strike."

All the motives for the war on Iraq have fallen apart.

Now the US is pointing its fingers at Iran and threatening to get tough.

Since May, the US Congress has been moving towards a joint resolution calling for punitive action against Iran if it does not fully reveal details of its nuclear arms programme.

In language similar to the pre-war resolution on Iraq, a recent House resolution authorized the use of "all appropriate means" to deter, dissuade and prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weaponry terminology often used to approve pre-emptive military force. The resolution passed 376 to 3, exhibiting Washington's growing anxiety about Iran.

At a media briefing on Wednesday, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the US is working to get Iran to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons.

McClellan claimed the US is engaged in a broad war on terrorism thanks to the threats it faces in the world.

"It's a strategy that recognizes that we must confront threats before it's too late, before they fully materialize," McClellan said. "And that's what we're doing around the world in not only Iran, but North Korea and elsewhere. And we've been pursuing these efforts for quite some time."

Tough tones were also heard from American politicians.

In a forceful address at the Knesset's Christian Allies Caucus in Jerusalem on Monday, US Senator Sam Brownback (Rep., Kansas) labelled Iran the leading supporter of terrorism around the globe.

Urging the world to identify and then expose evil, Brownback called on Iran, Syria, Sudan and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to renounce terrorism, singling out Iran as what he attempted to make others to believe to be the "epicentre" of international terrorist funding.

A decision on how to deal with Iran will not be made until after the US elections in November, the Kansas senator said, noting that America is awaiting the findings of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Iran's nuclear activity.

In his address, Brownback, who serves on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, noted that 46 non-democratic countries are left in the world, with the bulk of them in the Middle East.

With the US presidential election around the corner, the Bush administration's Iran policy may remain unclear.

However, President Bush has promised that if re-elected in November he will make regime change in Iran his new target.

As early as almost three years ago Iran was blacklisted with Iraq, Syria, Sudan and the DPRK.

A US government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the London Times that military action would not be overt in changing Iran, but rather the US would work to stir revolts in the country and hope to topple the current conservative religious leadership.

"If George Bush is re-elected there will be much more intervention in the internal affairs of Iran," the official was quoted as saying.

He hinted at a possible military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, explaining there was a window of opportunity for destroying Iran's main nuclear complex at Bushehr next year that would close if Russia delivered crucial fuel rods.

Should all these mean that Iran will come into the military crosshairs of the United States? Following the US and Britain, Australia released its reports on Thursday admitting it used "thin, ambiguous and incomplete" intelligence on Iraq's WMD to justify waging war on Iraq.

How could the intelligence services in these countries have been so wrong about Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction?

All these countries' reports ignored the role of politicians and laid all the blame at the door of the intelligence agencies.

It is a travesty of justice.

How can the US trust the reliability of its intelligence on Iran after the information on Iraq turned out to be so incomplete?
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 9:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Iran Says U.S. Senators 'Daydream' of Regime Change

Reuters
July 25, 2004




TEHRAN -- Iran's Foreign Ministry on Sunday branded as "daydreamers" U.S. senators who have sponsored a bill aimed at toppling Tehran's clerical rulers by supporting opposition groups inside and outside the country.

Republican senators Rick Santorum, representing Pennsylvania, and John Cornyn of Texas introduced the "Iran Freedom and Support Act of 2004" earlier this month.

The bill authorizes the U.S. president to provide $10 million to foreign and domestic Iranian pro-democracy groups such as radio and television networks in order to promote regime change in the Islamic state.

"Those who draft such plans lag behind the times, they live in their daydreams," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told a weekly news conference.

"They neither know Iran, nor the Iranian opposition," he said adding that arch-foe Washington had been "plotting against Iran ever since the (1979) Islamic revolution" without success.

While disillusionment with the 25-year-old Islamic revolution is widespread among Iran's disproportionately youthful population, opposition to the ruling establishment is weak and disorganized.

Despite appeals by California-based satellite channels run by Iranian exiles for mass demonstrations last month to mark the fifth anniversary of student protests brutally crushed by security forces, there were no large gatherings in Iran.

Nor were there any mass protests in February when Islamic conservatives fiercely loyal to the country's clerical rulers swept to victory in elections denounced as a sham by reformists allied to moderate President Mohammad Khatami.

Political analysts say exile opposition groups such as supporters of the former monarchy or the Iraq-based People's Mujahideen Organization enjoy negligible support within Iran itself.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another public execution in Iran

SMCCDI (Information Service)
Jul 25, 2004


Another public execution has been made in the Iranian capital as reported by regime's official sources.

The name of this new victim of the Mullhacracy has been anounced as Kazem, aged 23, accused to have shot Mehdi Atiedan, a 22-year-old university student, in October 2003 and stolen his car.

While the regime claims that the execution had lead to "popular joy", on Sunday, other confirmed reports are stating about sporadic clashes as many south residents of Tehran tried to save the victim from execution.

It's to note that the Islamic regime uses often false labels for qualifying its armed opponents and especially those who have retaliated against the brutality of the young Bassij force involved in Iranian universities and acting as student.

Other qualifications, such as, "Bandit", "Hooligan", "Spy", "Drug Trafficker" or "Rapist" are used as well and which help the regime's European and Japanese collaborators to justify the continuation of their business relations with a repressive regime.
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