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Iran – Here comes Sahraroodi

Mousa Afshar
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad"The international community must recognize participation rights of all countries, especially when it comes to problem solving for the whole world. They cannot eliminate one or two countries," Manouchehr Mottaki, the Iranian foreign minister stated on Iranian media on May 4, 2007.

This was the mullah’s foreign minister’s assessment of the recent Sharm El-Sheikh Conference. This conference has been the largest international gathering about Iraq so far. The mullahs complain they were excluded from the conference even though they were allowed to attend.

The head of the Guardian Council, the top council above parliament, mulla Jannati made an even bigger objection and called the Sharm El-Sheikh conference “invalid”. He said: "Do the people of this region want their guardians to be from the US and the UK?  Do they want these countries to make decisions for Iraq?" 

Iranian assassin, member of delegation to Sharm El-Sheikh

Sahraroudi in egypt

Iranian delegation to the Sharm El-Sheikh Conference. Sahraroudi can be seen at front to the left of the picture.

Stop Fundamentalism, May 16 – Iranian opposition sources reported today that a member of the Iranian delegation to the Sharm El-Sheick Conference in Egypt, May 3-4, had an international warrant issued to his name for taking part in 1989 assassination of Iranian Kurdish dissident leaders in Vienna, Austria.

“Mohammad Jafari-Sahraroudi was sent by the Mullahs regime to attend the international conference and was seated on the same table with about 50 Foreign Ministers of different countries,” the Naitonal Council of Resistance of Iran reported today on its website www.ncr-iran.org.

Sahraroudi attended the conference as the delegation’s number two. 

Has MySpace Become MyBully

Jeffrey A Solochek
MySpace has recently gone out and shut down any US based company that had software addons for helping people to use MySpace. One company they shut down was Spacepromoter which had software to allow marketers to create multiple MySpace profiles. Shutting down a company like this makes a lot of sense because in their terms they say you are only allowed to have one MySpace profile.

Iraqi Dinar rising slowly against Dollar

The New Iraqi DinarStop Fundamentalism, May 15 – Iraqi Dinar closed just above 1261 Dinars per Dollar Tuesday at Iraq’s Central Bank Auction. 

Moving up slowly for the past two months, the exchange rate of the Iraqi Dinar has risen significantly at the expense of Dollar since the start of the daily auctions at Iraq’s Central Bank and the introduction of new Iraqi Dinar. The currency has demonstrated great potential in gaining value against Dollar.

Why Iran wants War

Ahmadinejad & Co. starring in Armageddon

Slater Bakhtavar

Ahmadinejad Loves America

Source: www.coxandforkum.com

“The Iranian nation will wipe the strain of regret on the foreheads of those who want to bring about injustice”, President Ahmadinejad scorned at a recent rally in the province of Zanjan. Iran “will cut off the hands of any aggressor”, any attack would be met with a response that is double-fold including suicide attacks across Europe and the United States, he warned. “Israel should be wiped off the map”, the predominately Jewish nation “cannot survive” and is headed “towards extinction” quipped the fanatical President.

If one were to listen to his rhetoric alone, even the most astute political intellectuals would think Iran is a nation equipped with the most dangerous military arsenal capable of hallenging any nation. But Iran’s rhetoric has little to do with their outdated and dismal military, their fledging economy or their detested government. The root of the government’s fiery tone may be traced to their Shi’te ideology messianic belief in a mysterious, mystical twelfth imam who ventured into hiding over a thousand years ago.

The Spring of Discontent In Iran

Ali Safavi
iran discontentSpring in Iran was marked by the outbreak of protests nationwide by virtually every sector of Iranian society, beginning with demonstrations and strikes by tens of thousands of workers in March. By April and May, the level of discontent had escalated dramatically as tens of thousands of workers kept their pledge to turn out en masse.

More than one hundred thousand staged a rally in Tehran on May Day, making it one of the largest protests in Iran in the past two decades. Chanting "death to oppressors" and "freedom is our inalienable right," they displayed their burning desire for change.

US – Iran talks in Sharm El-Sheikh: Whose change of behavior?

Mohammad Amin

Sharm Al-Sheiq Conference  US Iran TAlks

Source: www.coxandforkum.com

In the eve of the Sharm El-Sheikh conference in Egypt, the Iranian mullahs have raised voice about the recognition of their hegemonic role in Iraq.

Keyhan newspaper (a paper in Iran run by the official representative of the Supreme Leader, reflecting regime’s political snrategy) in its editorial of April 22nd states: “Not only Americans have had no impact on limiting our operations in Iraq but the Iranian and Iraqi governments have strengthened their ideological, and political-security pacts.”

Anther article published on April 30th in Keyhan reaffirms: “No guarantees about the future of Iraq will succeed or work unless Iran agrees to its principles.”

In an unprecedented manner the Iranian theocratic official papers published a Washington Post article in its entirety on April 27th. The article titled: “Signs of a Spring Thaw, Interest on both sides on U.S.-Iran Talks” says: “The decisions the Iranian leadership makes over the next several weeks about diplomatic strategy will shape Iran’s future, as well as that of the Middle East…. But a process of bargaining is underway between Iran and the USA. That’s what became clear this week, in two different diplomatic channels…. To reassure the Iranians, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took the unusual step of disavowing any U.S. plans for regime change. "It [regime change] was not the policy of the U.S. government. The policy was to have a change in regime behavior.”

Iran – Dhul-Qarnayn besieged by Gog and Magog

Sanabargh Zahedi

Cyrus the Great

Cyrus the Great

“I will release water into Sivand Dam personally,” announced Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s hard-line president, on April 17.  Two days later, on April 19, with his orders the process began.

Although it may seem that this is a simple routine to start filling a dam with water, the announcement was actually the end of a quarrel that had lasted many years.  This was a subject that has been one of the main headlines in Iran’s media during the past few months.

The Sivand Dam has been built in an area that if filled, the water will cover some of the greatest and most precious world known, ancient and historical sites that still exist today such as the Pasargadae (Cyrus’ tomb) and the Morghab fields in Iran.  In fact the Pasargadae will be completely submerged in water.

Iran – Tehran’s domestic and foreign impasse

Ali Safavi

Ahmadinejad no brakes

Ahmadinejad on Iran nuclear issue: No brakes and no turning back

Since the adoption of Resolution 1747 by the UN Security Council imposing harsher sanctions against the Iranian regime, signs are emerging that the mullahs are feeling the heat. Earlier this week, the former President and head of the powerful State Expediency Council Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani warned of the precarious situation with which Tehran is faced.

He urged rival factions to maintain unity, adding, "The issue of the use of nuclear energy is a serious and real problem between the Islamic Republic and our interlocutors, especially those in the West," according to the state news agency IRNA on April 15.

Rafsanjani’s concerns are not without reason. Aside from the resolution, the past few days have seen several significant political developments pointing to further isolation of the ruling theocracy.

The European Union agreed that it should toughen up sanctions. Reuters reported on April 17 that EU member states were preparing to impose harsher sanctions against the Iranian regime.

Iran – International menace; tormenter of Iranian people

Nima Sharif

Iran human rightsAs the row over Iran’s hostage-taking of British sailors is now officially over, once again, it seems, that this countries nuclear ambitions are taking the center stage and the new UN 1747 Resolution on Iran further pressures Ahmadinejad’s government into a self-initiated countdown to a complete international isolation.

Domestically, however the mullahs are stepping up oppression on the Iranian people to ward off the effects of external pressure, materializing at home as a rapidly growing dissent amongst Iranians.

There have been many reports of defecting officials among the government ranks some of whom have received considerable media attention.  One of the most media-covered was the sudden disappearance of a senior intelligent officer by the name of Alireza Asghari last month in Turkey.  Other reports of defect, some in groups, have been popping up periodically.