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PostPosted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I kinda missed what the deal with the black 'security' T-shirts was. If someone knows, please do tell.

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UN is "siezed of the matter" as far as security is concerned...as it has been said so eloquently by Hamid Karzai "Without security, nothing can be built."

The IRI presents the antithisis of security in the threat it poses to peace and stability, globally.

Perhaps this is the subtle message sent in wearing the shirts.
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Thousands protest Ahmadinejad's presence at UN

SMCCDI (Information Service)
September 15, 2005

Thousands of Iranians and Iranian-Americans gathered,
yesterday, in order to protest against the Islamic republic
regime and the presence of its symbol at the United Nations
in New York. Activists from most opposition groups and
members of the "Iran UN Protest 2005" (IUNP2005) Coalition
called on World's leaders to back the Iranian Nation in its
legitimate aspiration for ending the tyrannical and
terrorist rule of the Islamic republic regime and to elect
a secular political frame in a "direct" UN and US monitored
referendum.

The gathering took place from 09:00 AM till 05:00 PM at the
New York's "Dag Hammarskjold Plaza" which is located by the
UN at the junction of 1st Ave and 47th East.

Activists of the IUNP2005 Coalition and the SMCCDI's
Coordinator, Aryo B. Pirouznia, spoke to the crowd, members
of several delegations and reporters from 09:30 AM till
11:00 AM time. The rest of the program was focused on
displaying the Islamic regime's crimes and to show its evil
nature.

The regime's secularist opponents denounced, in a common
voice, the presence of Mahmood Ahmadinejad as the self
proclaimed 'symbol of Iranian Nation' and the persistent
human rights' abuses by his illegitimate and unpopular
regime which is usurping the Iranian People's Chair at the
UN. The Islamic regime's newly appoint President was also
part of the Islamist group which stormed the US Embassy in
Tehran and took 52 American diplomats as hostage for 444
days.

Loud speakers and powerful sound systems echoed the cry for
freedom of thousands of Iranians in the area by making
impossible for various delegations, present in UN, to
declare "not knowing what's going on in Iran".

Tens of banned "Lion & Sun" flags were decorating the area.
Distributed flyers and placards were showing the horrible
scenes of the Islamic republic's "justice", such as,
practice of Stoning, Amputation and barbarian public
execution of youth and women by using lift trucks.

The IUNP2005 Coalition is formed by the National-Secular
Party, Iran Society, Marzeporgohar Party, Alliance of
Iranians (TX), National Iranian Congress, Social-Democrats,
Iranian Council, Free-Thinkers, Pan-Iranist, Iran of
Tomorrow and the SMCCDI which was the main organizer of the
gathering at the UN.

More protest actions have been planned for the next days.

Several other Iranian groups, such as, the "National
Council of Resistance" (NCR), which is the political
umbrella of the Marxist-Islamist Mojahedin of People (MKO
or MEK) group, and some Monarchist groups protested also
the same day.

The NCR leadership showed a powerful but controversial
management by bringing from most N. American and European
cities about five thousands supporters which was including
several hundreds of paid professional foreign participants.
It intended to use the occasion in order to promote its
controversial leaders and to request from the US State
Dept. to remove their terrorist label. In that line,
various invented names, such as, "New York Committee
Against Ahmadinejad" or the self called "Iranian Americans
of Texas" or "Iranian Americans of California" were used to
attract more Americans and to help the organization to
reach its goals.

Such policy resulted in reaction of some Monarchist groups,
which lined up pictures of Prince Reza Pahlavi in order to
avoid any possibility for the NCR to claim them as their
members. Many Iranians had hoped, till the last minute,
that the NCR group would have learned from its past
mistakes and would have avoided using such symbolic day for
its well known goal of imposing itself as the only viable
alternative for the future of Iran.

But despite such minor problems, thousands of Iranians were
able to show that they do share the same aspiration of
seeing an end to the illegitimate rule of the Islamic
regime.

http://www.daneshjoo.org/publishers/currentnews/article_2794.shtml

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Protesters Request "Closure of Terror House" in New York

SMCCDI (Information Service)
September 16, 2005

Several Iranian political activists gathered, yesterday
evening, in front of the residence of the Islamic regime's
Ambassador at the UN, in order to protest against the
Islamic regime and its tyrannical and terrorist rule. The
house which benefits of diplomatic status is located at the
junction of New York's 5th avenue and 84th street.

Slogans, such as, "This House of Terror, Must be Closed",
"Down with Islamic Republic", "Down with Terrorist", "He He
Ho, Islamic Republic Must Go" and "Down with Ahmadinejad"
were shouted for several hours in front of the building.

Informative discussions were made between the Ambassador's
neighbors and the SMCCDI's Coordinator, Aryo B. Pirouznia,
who was one of the rally's organizers.

Flyers denouncing Islamic regime's persistent human rights'
abuses in Iran and its involvement in terrorist activities
were distributed to tens of Americans and foreign tourists
who often echoed the slogans.

Camera flashes coming from the building's dark windows were
showing the degree of the tension, fear but also the
repressive nature of its occupants. The New York Police
Department (NYPD) had to mobilize several officers and
security patrol cars in order to avoid any harm made to
freedom fighters.

More actions are planned for the next days in New York.

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RE: CORRECTED: Rice says EU, US might delay Iran confrontation

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Dear Cyrus,

There's a lot going on, and a lot of speculation in the press....going directly to the source of these reports is essential to fully understanding the dynamics involved....so I'm going to be posting a lot of full unedited interviews and statements like the following....I know you all have great and legitimate concerns regarding the UN, and what is transpiring.

I do urge you to use the link above to review statements, and to review Koffe Annan's document "In Larger Freedom" which SMCCDI's letter to John Bolton was based upon.

http://www.un.org/

Regards,

Oppie

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Foreign Press Center Briefing on Ongoing Diplomatic Activities at the UN and
Other Current U.S. Foreign Policy Issues


R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Foreign Press Center
New York City
September 15, 2005

UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: Good afternoon. It's a pleasure to be with all of you. I
thought what I would do is talk a little bit about what the Secretary of State
did today and then also about the upcoming election in Afghanistan. I'll be
happy to take your questions. And then when we've exhausted that subject, by
about 5:20 or so, we'll then talk about the drug certification announcement
that is being made today at the White House and at the State Department, if
that's agreeable to all of you.

And I'll just be very brief. The Secretary had another good day here at the
United Nations. She met, as all of you know, with President Yushchenko earlier
this morning, President Yushchenko of Ukraine, and expressed to him our very
strong support for Ukrainian democracy and to the continuation of excellent
relations between our two countries.

She also had this afternoon a series of meetings. The first with the Prime
Minister of India, Prime Minister Singh, where they reviewed the new strategic
partnership between the U.S. and India, the steps that we need to take to
implement the agreements that we made on July 18th and also reviewed the
situation with the Iranian Government and the nuclear question and talked about
our hope for continued improvement in India's relations with Pakistan.

She next met with the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. It was the first time they
had the opportunity to meet, talked about the good relations between our two
countries, the recent rise in extremist activity and violent activity in
Bangladesh itself. And Secretary Rice put forward our view, and that is that we
are a good friend of Bangladesh, we will help them through this difficult
period and we hope that the wave of attacks can subside and that the government
can take firm action against them, and we also hope that the democratic process
will continue and as the Bangladeshi people approach their next election that
there can be, obviously, a free and fair election.

She then met with the President of Ecuador, President Palacio, had a very good
meeting with him about the challenges that Ecuador faces given the recent
turbulent events in the country of several months ago and the fact that Ecuador
is also facing elections in the future.

So it was a busy afternoon and I think running through all these meetings in
the conversations the Secretary has had, and certainly those that I have had
here in the meetings that I've been in, is the very great desire to see United
Nations reform continue. We felt that the summit document that's going to be
formally agreed to tomorrow, and all of you have seen, was a very good first
step in trying to strengthen the United Nations and make it a more effective
institution.

But we believe that more needs to be done, particularly in management and
budget reform, in filling out the requirements for membership and the
functioning of a new human rights council and in agreeing on a comprehensive
convention on terrorism. Those would be the three initiatives that were left
unfinished by this week's summit meeting and that require good work ahead.

And finally, let me say that as all of you know, on September 18th there will
be parliamentary elections in Afghanistan. The United States and our allies are
fully supporting those elections. There are 20,000 American troops in the
country. There are about 12,000 NATO European troops in the country and both
NATO and the American coalition forces are providing security along with the
Afghan National Army forces for the elections themselves. You have seen over
the last couple of weeks some violence by the Taliban and al-Qaida, acts of
intimidation, trying to convince people not to register to vote or to vote. We
obviously believe that those actions are going to fail. These elections will be
held. We believe they will be held on a democratic basis and they'll provide a
parliament for the first time in a very long time for the Afghan people. And
it's another very important step in the quest of President Karzai and the
Afghan people to establish a fully functioning democracy.

The United Nations has been very much involved in supporting the administration
of the elections. The United States is the largest single donor to the United
Nations effort. We're providing $40 million in funds of the $161 million that
the United Nations have asked for. There are 12 million people who have
registered to vote. There are 5,800 candidates. There are 28,000 polling
stations. And there will be roughly 6-7,000 observers at these elections. It's
an important event and with the full support of the United States and certainly
of the United Nations.

With that, I'll be happy to take any questions you might have. Barry.

QUESTION: The meeting with Ukraine. There's a lot of turmoil. There's some
question whether our guy is on a democratic course. The skirmishing and all was
kind of dismissed by the State Department early on as the way things are,
democracy evolving, there are ups and downs in the process. Do you still not
fault the president, the leader of the Orange Revolution, for what is going on?
Do you not see corruption? You generally know what I'm asking. How do we --
what do we make of him?

And the second thing, of course, is India, or the public appeal by the
Secretary Friday for their support for a unified message on Iran nuclear. Did
she reiterate that appeal even if she did not mention sanctions immediately at
hand, and what was their response?

UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: On the first question, Barry, we continue to believe
very much that the Ukrainian Government is heading in the right direction. It's
a democratically elected government. It's a reformist government. President
Yushchenko and his associates have said time and again to the United States and
to their other friends that they intend to maintain a reform course in the
country. It's a very important country for all the world and we wish to see the
democratic revolution succeed.

What you have seen in Ukraine is what you have seen in many other countries
that are trying to make this transition from an authoritarian order to a
democratic order. It's not surprising to see this kind of turbulence inside a
government. And it really isn't for us to comment on that. It's the Ukrainians,
I think, to comment themselves.

The job that we have is to be a good friend to Ukraine, to support the reforms,
to encourage private investment, to encourage a reform of their economy, to
encourage Ukraine to work with us on the priority political and security issues
that are so important to the future of the world. And so the meeting today was
a good meeting and we don't seek to cast judgment against Ukraine. What you've
seen over the last few weeks you've also seen in lots of different democratic
governments in many regions of the world. Not entirely unusual.

On your second question, Secretary Rice had an excellent meeting with the
Indian Prime Minister. The Indian Foreign Minister was there and a number of
their associates. She made the point that we very much believe in the new
strategic between the U.S. and India and there was a discussion about both of
us implementing the July 18th agreement on the civil nuclear question and the
other questions.

In addition to that, the Secretary raised the issue of Iran and said that it
was a great desire, a strong desire of the United States to see India join with
us and with the European countries, with China and Russia, to seek to join
together to convince Iran to shut off its nuclear activities, the conversion of
uranium at Isfahan, and to come back to the talks with the European Union. Iran
broke those talks unilaterally. They ruptured them. And so the Secretary made
the point that none of us want to see Iran acquire nuclear weapons capability
and we do want to see a peaceful and diplomatic solution to this problem.

We were gratified to hear once again from the Indian Government that India does
not wish Iran to become a nuclear weapons state, and India believes it has
spoken clearly about this in public statements that various Indian officials
have made over the last several days.

QUESTION: (Off mike.)

UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: I think that might be -- I think it wouldn't be
appropriate for me to answer that question. You'll have to ask the Indian
Government that question. I said what I wanted to say and I described what we
heard and we were gratified by what we heard. But our expectation is, and
Secretary Rice spoke of this yesterday, our expectation now is that there's
going to be a major effort made by a number of governments in Europe, in Asia,
in our hemisphere, to combine together to convince the Iranian Government that
it doesn't have a single country supporting it in its unilateral rupture of the
Paris Agreement; that it is acting in such a way that is producing concern and
doubt in the international community about what the intentions of the Iranian
Government are; that it ought to be much more transparent and the Iranian
Government ought to open itself up to international oversight so that all of us
can be assured that Iran is not going to produce a nuclear weapon or seek a
nuclear weapons capability.

And that is -- this has been one of the most prominent issues that's been
discussed on the margins of the UN summit and I think there will be quite a lot
of discussion in days and indeed the weeks ahead.

Yes.

QUESTION: Can you update us -- I'm sorry, Teri Schultz with Fox News. Can you
update us on what you are hearing from your European counterparts regarding
their attempts to engage Ahmadi-Nejad here at the summit? And could you clarify
whether you see a difference between your statement that India does not want
Iran to become a nuclear weapons state and whether India does support Iran's
desire to have civilian nuclear power?

UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: Well, we have not heard from the European Union, as of
today at least, on its activities but I think we'll be hearing from them in the
next hour or two. And we have had very close contact with them in the past
several days and so we've given very strong support to the EU-3 and to the EU
in general that the negotiations that they wish to have on Iran should be --
should continue, or should be resumed -- should resume. Excuse me. And that's
up to the Iranians now. The ball is in their court. The Iranians are the ones
that broke off this agreement. The Europeans clearly have signaled a desire to
continue talks and we hope the Iranians will choose that path.

QUESTION: (Off mike.)

UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: Well, I don't want to -- I can't -- I'm not the
spokesman for the Indian Government. But I can tell you that the Indian
Government has made it clear to us that they do not wish Iran -- that it does
not wish Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. That's for sure.

QUESTION: Kristen Matthews (ph) from Danish Broadcasting. Some time ago,
Ambassador Bolton tried to take out any references to the MDG from the outcome
document. Yesterday, President Bush commits himself to the MDG. How do we
interpret that?

And one -- another question. I heard the U.S. mentioned among the spoiler
states. Could I have a comment on that, please?

UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: I'm not sure I understand your second question.

QUESTION: A group of countries were mentioned as spoiler states by media, by
some of the delegations in the negotiations about the outcome document.

UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: First, let me just say that the summit document has been
agreed to by the heads of government and that will be formalized tomorrow. It's
quite a good document. It is a step forward for the imperative of reform of the
United Nations. We hope it will make the UN stronger and more effective.

Second, we've received a lot of positive comments from governments all around
the world, and both Secretary Rice and I have heard that throughout our talks
today about President Bush's statement yesterday about his proposal on trade,
about his proposal on agricultural subsidies -- which is quite far-reaching,
about his clear statement in support of development in the poorest countries in
the world, the fact that we, the United States, is one of the largest conveyers
of development assistance all over the world, and about our clear and
unequivocal support for the Millennium Development Goals.

Two weeks ago, Ambassador Bolton told all the assembled countries that the
United States does agree to the Millennium Development Goals. He put down
language, compromise language that would narrow the divide. We do not
subscribe, for instance, to the goal of 0.7 percent of a country's GDP but we
decided that in a negotiation among 191 countries that point of view ought to
be represented, as well as our point of view, which is much more holistic, we
think, and comprehensive about the Monterrey Consensus.

So what you have as a result was a big tent agreement where the views of
countries all over the world were represented, and that is the best way to
negotiate among 191 countries. So Ambassador Bolton was the one who put down
the key compromise on Millennium Development Goals and he said two weeks ago
that the United States would support these unequivocally, and of course our
President said that yesterday.

QUESTION: Just a quick follow-up. Did you have a reaction from the EU on the
subsidies?

UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: I don't believe we've seen a reaction yet today. We look
forward to one. It's a very important proposal.

MS. NISBET: If you wouldn't mind us going to Washington for one question.

UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: Sure.

MS. NISBET: Washington, go ahead.

QUESTION: Good evening. Can you hear me?

UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: Yes, I can. Thank you.

QUESTION: Good evening, Mr. Secretary. Dmitri Kirsanov (ph) with Russian News
Agency TASS here. Sir, I have sort of softball question. Can you give us an
update on U.S.-Russian bilateral? I'm hesitant to ask you to dive into
specifics because you probably would refer to me the White House, but you know,
just a broad picture. Thank you.

UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: Thanks for that softball question. What I can say is
that the relationship between the United States and Russia is fundamentally
important to both countries. President Bush is looking forward to welcoming
President Putin to the White House tomorrow morning. Secretary Rice is going to
be leaving New York to return to Washington to attend those meetings. And we'll
also have a series of U.S.-Russian meetings here at the UN throughout the
weekend with Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak. Sergei Kislyak is going to be
here for a meeting of the U.S.-Russia Counterterrorism Working Group, which I
head for the American side.

But by far the most important of these encounters will be the meeting with
President Bush and President Putin and we remain united in that relationship by
a number of common initiatives that we've undertaken together and common points
of view, and we also have issues on which we disagree. And that's the reality
of our current relationship and it's a very important one.

Thank you for your question.

QUESTION: Are you backing down from your initial sort of threat to refer Iran
to the Security Council and was that because of pressure from the Europeans
because there were not going to be enough votes for that to happen? Did they
ask you to lower the rhetoric on Iran?

UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: Well, you know, it's our view that there is a very
strong wave of international opinion that wishes to see Iran return -- to stop
their nuclear activity, stop the uranium conversion and return to talks. And
it's certainly our view that there is a majority in the IAEA in support of
that.

As Secretary Rice said yesterday, the important thing is that there be a major
international effort made by the leading countries of the world to convince
Iran to return to these talks and there are a number of discussions underway
this week. The EU-3 are in the lead because, after all, it was the EU-3 that
had the negotiating process underway with Iran. It was not the United States.
We supported those negotiations but weren't part of them.

And so it's our view that what is less important is perhaps some of the minor
tactics of how we achieve the end results. What is more important is that we
get to that end result and it be a positive one, and that would be that Iran
would cease and desist the uranium conversion process at Isfahan, first;
second, that Iran would agree to return to the talks with the Europeans. And
we'll have to see what the Iranians decide to do, but we are convinced that
there will be increasing pressure on the Iranian Government over the period of
the next week or two or three to come to that decision. And that's what
Secretary Rice said in her remarks to the Fox Television Network yesterday and
that remains our position today, of course.

QUESTION: (Off mike.)

UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: We'll have to wait and see. You know, I believe that
those talks are underway as I came over here so I'm not in a position to
comment on them. But we're looking forward to, obviously, learning about them,
as you are.

QUESTION: Robert McMann (ph) of Radio Free Europe. On Afghanistan, you
mentioned the coalition and U.S. forces now deployed. Is the U.S. satisfied
with the Pakistani deployment on the border there, which Afghanistan has been
very concerned about some of the infiltration ahead of the elections?

UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: You know, both President Bush and Secretary Rice met
with President Musharraf this week here at the UN and we expressed, the United
States expressed, our strong appreciation for the efforts of the Government of
Pakistan. The Government of Pakistan has made extraordinary efforts to try to
secure the border. It's a difficult thing to do. It's a mountainous border.
It's a very long one. It's not easy to do that. But there is very good
cooperation among Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United States military forces
in the region to coordinate our actions along the border. And as you know, the
great bulk of the 20,000 American troops are active on the eastern border
between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

We appreciate our relationship with Pakistan. It's a country of enormous
importance to us. We understand the challenges it faces and we believe that,
obviously, efforts made by the Pakistan Government to strengthen the border are
going to help Afghanistan, help with the elections and help in the period
beyond the elections.

MS. NISBET: We only have time for one more question but this is, obviously, up
to the Under Secretary.

QUESTION: You say that there is a strong wave of international opinion that
wants Iran to stop reprocessing and return to the talks. It's my understanding
that President Hu demurred in his summit with President Bush in offering to
refer to the Security Council. The Foreign Minister -- Russian Foreign Minister
Lavrov today at the UN said he would be against referral. You came out very
strongly in describing the Indian position that Iran does not want nuclear
weapons but you were less certain of their position on referral. How do you
square those realities that there's a strong wave of opinion for them to return
yet no enthusiasm among three critical countries that you need?

UNDER SECRETARY BURNS: As Secretary Rice said yesterday, there is strategic
agreement, I think among every country with which we have spoken this week,
that there should not be an effort by the Iranian Government to acquire a
nuclear weapons capability. There is agreement that Iran has not been
transparent. There is agreement that the best way for Iran to move forward with
the international community is to be more transparent, to be more open about
what its intentions are and to submit itself or to return to the negotiations
it had previously committed with the European Union. I don't find -- in all the
discussions we've had with all the countries you mentioned, I don't find any
disagreement on all those issues.

But as Secretary Rice said yesterday, there may be -- there is -- a difference
with some of these countries over tactics. Tactics are less important in this
case than the strategy. And so we are convinced that Iran is going to find
itself in an increasingly isolated state and that it would behoove the Iranians
to listen to what people are saying. We have not heard a single country this
week defend the Iranian Government for having ruptured unilaterally the
negotiation with the European 3. Not a single country has defended them. Nor do
we expect any country to come forward to defend them.

So what is less important is when meetings are held. What is more important is
that we have a process that is designed to convince the Iranians to return to
the talks. The IAEA has its responsibilities. We expect there to be an IAEA
meeting. We expect there to be a lot of discussion about the Iranians and we
expect ultimately the Iranians to listen to the will of the countries that are
on the IAEA Board of Governors and to return to the talks. That is a prediction
that I would make about where this is going to end up.

Thank you very much.



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dear Spenta,

thank you for the pictures! they are great!

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Nice article Spenta,

You put a human touch on the political entre', with a side of humor...
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks dear Spenta for great report.

one thing to remember about Mojahedin's rallies, is that many diff. groups always join them, although they don't fully support the mojaheds -even hate the leaders. but that's the way it usually is: many groups who are for a republic in Iran usually join with Mojaheds in important events.

I know of many who strongly critisize mojahedin's leaders and 'cultish ways', yet never fail to join their important rallies!

I think the reason is that being a military group they've developed more discipline and being active for 40 years they developed valuable organizational skills.

the last factor is $$$, and they always manage to attract large funds from diff. sources - Russia in their early years, Saddam, other governments and sources.

anyways, seems they've paid for the ticket/ hotel, and that's how they've managed to bring many along, from other groups, countries.

so at the end, although Monarchists maybe much greater in number both inside and outside Iran, the anti-monarchists seem to be more involved in politics. and that's got to change, and soon.

now if you keep an open mind here, my suggestion is we should actually mingle more, and gain some of the hard found organizational skills from them.

I could give you a list of what I know already. and I'm sure you'll be amazed, yet it's no easy example to follow. what do you think? let me know.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 2:24 am    Post subject: ahmadinejad in NY mosque Reply with quote

Ahmadinejad leads the muslims in friday prayer in " NY Islamic Institute" !

http://www.baztab.com/news/29088.php

Did he leave the 25 mile radius? I believe this is the one:



Islamic Institute of New York

Address: 55-11 Queens Blvd, Woodside, NY 11377

Tel: (718).651.5888
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

4.0 miles by road, right over the Queensboro Bridge. Good idea though, if they caught him outside the limit they could probably forcibly escort him to the airport! Smile
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 10:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I asked before, but I'm still wondering where RP was...
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

so if he violates the 25 mile rule, all they do is take him to airport. not just take him, escort him. lol

they should just arrest the guy. they can hold him at least for a few hours even for some questioning about his role in 79.



this is so pathatic. the guy is a hostage taker and he's walking around freely in New York City!

think about it. this gives the totally wrong message. it means anyone can mess with Americans and not face any sort of consequence. it actually sets an example for other terrorists!

the fact that not enough americans are gathering in support of the x-hostages and around this terrorists' hotel, sends the wrong message to the terrorists around the globe.

that you can take our people hostage and then go chek into Hyat, we'll even hire security forces to protect you!

the heck if I were a terrorist I would let go all other nations, and just focus on Americans too.

no wonder why U.S is the main target !

I mean, come on. let's say someone beat the hell outta this terrorist. what is he gonna do? sue the guy for a black eye or so? lol

somebody should at least beat the crap out of him. otherwise he'll go tell all other terrorists that Americans are such pussies.

anyone?
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:37 am    Post subject: CNN interview Reply with quote

anyhow, here's Christian Amanpour's interview with the new celebrity figure in NY!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/09/17/iran.president/index.html

scroll down to video section
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Hilton, Shame on You! Banquet of Terror Must End!"

SMCCDI (Information Service)
September 18, 2005

Several Iranian political activists gathered, yesterday
evening, in front of the New York's "Hilton Hotel" in order
to protest against the presence of Islamic regime's
officials and a banquet organized for its terrorist
president.

This rally which marks the end of "Iran UN Protest 2005"
(IUNP2005) Coalition's "New York Program" was held at the
junction of 6th Avenue and 54th street. It started by 06:15
PM despite rain and heavy winds by displaying two long
banners which were denouncing the Islamic regime's crimes
and sponsorship of terrorism.

Slogans, such as, "Hilton, Shame on You", "Banquet of
Terror Must End", "Banquet of Blood Must be Closed", "Down
with Terrorist", "Down with Islamic Republic", "He He Ho,
Islamic Republic Must Go", "Down with Ahmadinejad" and
"Human Rights for Iran" were shouted for several hours in
front of the hotel.

Informative discussions were made between tens of concerned
Americans and members of the IUNP2005 Coalition Group, such
as, the SMCCDI's Coordinator. Flyers denouncing Islamic
regime's persistent human rights' abuses in Iran and its
involvement in terrorist activities were distributed to
tens of Americans and foreign tourists who often echoed the
slogans or took pictures with the Freedom fighters.

Protesters of IUNP2005 intended to alarm the world's
opinion and especially the New Yorkers about the kind of
support of terrorists by some US corporations, such as
Hilton Hotels, and the persistent human rights abuses in
Iran. Hilton's management had ignored hundreds of requests
made by Iranian-Americans or concerned Americans in order
to cancel the event and to avoid selling its service to a
regime which has the blood of many Iranians and Americans
on its hands.

Several Islamic regime's Intelligence officers were seen
filming the protesters but were filmed themselves by
members of the IUNP2005. The New York Police Department
(NYPD) had mobilized several officers and security patrol
cars in order to avoid any harm made to freedom fighters by
the regime's agents and some of the two hundred guests,
mainly composed by foreigner Islamists, such as,
Pakistanis, Afghanis or Arabs.

The other IUNP2005's New York Program's actions were a
massive gathering in front of the UN and protests in front
of the Islamic regime's UN Ambassador's residence and the
Islamic regime's office of representation at the UN. These
actions, coordinated and by SMCCDI, have helped to tarnish
the regime's propaganda and have contributed to shed the
light of hope in many Iranians' mind.

The IUNP2005 Coalition was formed by several secularist
groups, which had set aside their personal preferences,
such as, promoting a specific leader. They intended to set
aside any sign of differentiation and to make a maximum use
of the occasion offered by the presence of Ahmadinejad, for
echoing Iranians' legitimate aspiration for freedom and
ending the theocratic rule in their country.

Such common decision resulted in the yesterday's
unprecedented fact that some MKO members, Monarchists and
Republicans were seen holding the very same two available
long banners and were showing a fantastic show of unity in
front of the Hilton Hotel.

http://www.daneshjoo.org/publishers/currentnews/article_2828.shtml

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Comments / Nazariat:
Tel: +1 (972) 504-6864
Fax: +1 (972) 491-9866
E.mail: smccdi@daneshjoo.org

www.daneshjoo.org www.iranstudents.org

The "Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy
in Iran" (SMCCDI) / "Komite e Hamahangui e Jonbesh e
Daneshjoo i Baraye Democracy dar Iran"
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From Stefania's site:

Photos of the gala organized, in New York's Hilton Hotel, by Islamists in honor of Islamic Regime' s selected terrorist "president" Ahmadinejad (Antarinejad).

It's to note that while they were partying, Iranian Freedom Fighters were protesting in front of the Hotel in order to let the world know that the Iranian Nation and people reject the Islamic regime and its leaders.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/barkeshli

Every single one of these people should be under surveillance, and be considered as "sleeper cell".

http://freethoughts.splinder.com
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am not sure if you can open this up. It is a picture of Miss Europe. She is Iranian........


http://us.f326.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=5419_11430551_257561_1632_163422_0_5717_216069_3404462176&Idx=6&YY=62903&inc=25&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b&box=Inbox
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