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Iran wants to dominate Mid-East nations

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Stop Fundamentalism – A top ranking official of Iranian regime admitted a nuclear Iran would be able to “dominate 17 Muslim countries” in the Middle East.

“The West believes that if we master nuclear technology, we will be transformed into a regional superpower and will dominate 17 Muslim countries in this neighborhood”, Mohsen Rezai, the secretary general of the State Expediency Council, told the paramilitary Bassij forces in the south-western city of Masjid Soleiman on Friday, according to the news agency IRNA.

Major General Rezai, who for years headed Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and is close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that the West was trying to prevent Tehran from making industrial and technological progress.

“We have reached a very important stage and we need to pay a price for making Iran powerful,” Rezai said.

With U.N. negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program deadlocked Friday, the United States and Britain voiced alarm that Tehran’s uranium-enrichment program is advancing.

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Iran: first stop to establish democracy in the Middle East

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In the past few weeks, many European and American officials have acknowledged that the path to a free Middle East passes through Tehran.  In another words, the only way to see peace and freedom prevail in the Middle East and especially in Iraq, is to see a democratic government taking power in Iran.

Although the Iranian people have been saying this for the past 3 years while being pretty much ignored by the Westerners but coming to this conclusion is by itself a sign of reaching a new and deeper understanding of the region by Western leaders.

Before the war in Iraq, Americans believed that they could some how get along with the Iranians as the biggest neighbor to that country.  To be sure, the US, through diplomatic channels, officially asked the Iranians not to meddle in the war and for the duration of the operations and they did actually succeed to keep them out.  Later on, it turned out that the Americans had actually met with the Iranians a few times in Europe to discuss the matter.

In return for not meddling during the war, Iran asked the allies to bomb and annihilate their longtime enemy, the Peoples Mujahedin Orgnization of Iran (PMOI) that was based in Iraq.  PMOI is recognized as the biggest and the most organized dissident Iranian movement that exists outside the country and has vowed to overthrow the mullahs in Tehran.  Just before the war the PMOI declared non-partisan to the war nevertheless their basis were bombed and many of their members were killed.

Soon after though, the PMOI and the American Command in Iraq reached a peace accord putting the PMOI at the protection of the US forces in accordance with the Geneva conventions.

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Issue 38

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Issue 38 March 17 2006
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  • Iranian Women and the Path to a Free Iran
  • Terrorism and Muslim Women
  • Iraq, ocean of violence
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    The Iranian regime took a number of foreign diplomats from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Canada on a stage-managed tour of the dreaded Gohardasht prison in Karaj (west of Tehran) on March 17. The move came after the February 7 hanging of Hojjat Zamani, a member of the Iranian Resistance and expressions of international outrage over increasing physical and psychological torture applied to political prisoners. None of the political prisoners, however, was allowed to meet the delegation. The regime had also given the prison a face-lift in an attempt to conceal the horrendous conditions of the prison.

    Meanwhile, reuters reported last week that prison officials in Iran are now threatening to execute another political prisoner during the Persian New Year holidays that begin on March 21.

    Reuter identified this prisoner as Mr. Valiollah Feyz Mahdavi, 28 and added that the prison chief and his executive deputy over the past two weeks have repeatedly told him that he will be executed during the Persian New Year holidays.

    According to reports, after the regime’s nuclear file was referred to the Security Council, it has stepped up the torture and pressure on political prisoners, threatening to hang them as happened to Mr. Hojjat Zamani.

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    Gohardasht Prison’s Ward 2 supervisor has told prisoners in the ward that if the Security Council decided to take action against the regime, “We will eliminate you before anything else.”

    On be half of the families of the political prisoners in Iran, we urge all human rights organizations and activists to take immediate action to save the lives of prisoners in Iran.

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    		Iranian Women and the Path to a Free Iran

    By: Roya Johnson

    Since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presidency, the Iranian regime has increased its oppressive tactics at home. The government is indeed tightening its fascist fist around the Iranian people, particularly women. It plans to segregate Iran’s pedestrian walkways on a gender basis, according to a deputy in Iran’s Parliament.

    Early this March, security forces removed several hundred women spectators from an indoor stadium by force as they were watching athletes performing in the 2006 Gymnastics World Cup tournament being held in Tehran, eye-witnesses have reported. A few days earlier, State Security Forces attacked female soccer fans in Tehran after they held a defiant protest against the government decision to ban them from soccer stadiums.

    		Terrorism and Muslim Women

    BY: Ghazal Omid

    Recent articles about a Muslim woman doctor, who received death threats after speaking out on Al- Jazirah network against Muslim hardliners and terrorists, has been generating publicity for the right people and for a well justified cause that seldom gets enough attention, even though it would work to our advantage in the war against terrorism.

    Everyone wants to fight terrorism but we seldom see any mention of Muslims who are fighting against hardliners and terrorists. That is what causes many people to question whether Muslims really mean what they say.

    The reality is: fighting terrorism is neither easy nor will it end overnight. Most certainly, Muslims should be called upon to help because the war against terrorism is not about ones faith; it affects all of us as part of the human family. As a modern, moderate Muslim freedom fighter, a human and women’s rights advocate, I rally behind women who extend their arms in help and stand united to stop the terrorists.

    		Iraq, ocean of violence

    The Washington Times – By Hatem J Mukhlis, M.D.

    Iraq is part of the much wider sociopolitical order of the Middle East. For solutions to be successful, Iraqi problems therefore need a much broader approach.

    A domestic approach, albeit plausible in the past, is impossible today. Foreign forces with contradicting interests entered Iraq and changed the sociopolitical order. The former balance of power had to change. More serious regional problems have to be addressed before expecting the Iraqi crisis to be solved.

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    Iranian Women and the Path to a Free Iran

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    Women freedom iranSince Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s presidency, the Iranian regime has increased its oppressive tactics at home. The government is indeed tightening its fascist fist around the Iranian people, particularly women. It plans to segregate Iran’s pedestrian walkways on a gender basis, according to a deputy in Iran’s Parliament.

    Early this March, security forces removed several hundred women spectators from an indoor stadium by force as they were watching athletes performing in the 2006 Gymnastics World Cup tournament being held in Tehran, eye-witnesses have reported. A few days earlier, State Security Forces attacked female soccer fans in Tehran after they held a defiant protest against the government decision to ban them from soccer stadiums.

    And in another example of mullahs’ “justice,” an Iranian court has sentenced a female teenage rape victim named Nazanin, 18 to death by hanging after since she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her 16-year-old niece.

    Iran’s theocratic government has devised a system that is unequivocally stacked against Iranian women, yet they still manage to organize and confront their oppressors. Stories of Iranian women resisting their ruling theocracy to achieve equality, justice and social rights are very compelling. This year’s commemoration of international women’s day was no different.

    On the evening of the March 8th, hundreds of Iranian women took a stand in Tehran’s Laleh Park. Risking their lives, they held their defiant rally and asked that the West not pursue a policy of appeasement with the Iranian government – and instead help the Iranian people to determine their own destiny. They said that their government was spending incredible resources to develop a nuclear program while basic social imperatives go unmet. Admonishing the advocates of appeasement abroad, they said that conduct of such a tyrannical system can not be changed unless the entire ruling regime in Iran is brought down.

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    Terrorism and Muslim Women

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    Women struggle for freedomRecent articles about a Muslim woman doctor, who received death threats after speaking out on Al-Jazirah network against Muslim hardliners and terrorists, has been generating publicity for the right people and for a well justified cause that seldom gets enough attention, even though it would work to our advantage in the war against terrorism.

    Everyone wants to fight terrorism but we seldom see any mention of Muslims who are fighting against hardliners and terrorists. That is what causes many people to question whether Muslims really mean what they say.

    The reality is: fighting terrorism is neither easy nor will it end overnight. Most certainly, Muslims should be called upon to help because the war against terrorism is not about ones faith; it affects all of us as part of the human family. As a modern, moderate Muslim freedom fighter, a human and women’s rights advocate, I rally behind women who extend their arms in help and stand united to stop the terrorists.

    When I hear these concerns, my first impression is: this will feed the terrorism agenda. Terrorism is about a minority exercising power over a majority’s peace of mind. It is a modern form of mental slavery causing fear that can paralyze an economy. As Persians say, “Fear is the twin brother of death.” Fear can immobilize as effectively as a chain. Those who can’t face their fear become a slave of terrorism and that is precisely what the terrorist wants to achieve. After 9/11, people hesitated to fly and go shopping. Even though the number of victims, on a national scale, was moderate, the White House admitted that 9/11 negatively affected the economy and peoples mindset more than the terrorists had even dreamed.

    Americans ask why moderate Muslims, particularly Muslim women, don’t stand upto the radical Muslims.

    To fight terrorist ideology we need people of the terrorist’s faith to rally behind our cause. Terrorism’s stratagem is for one class of individuals, through indoctrination, intimidation and force to impose its’ will on another class. The empowered class enslaves the underclass, whether by chains on their hands and feet or chains on their minds. In the second instance, it is not an act of vengeance for transgressions against their ancestors but is intended, through threat, abuse and violence, to force a majority to bow to the will of the minority and accept and obey the dictates of a man who calls himself, not a terrorist, but a Soldier of God.

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    Iraq, ocean of violence

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    Iraqi police or...The Washington Times – By Hatem J Mukhlis, M.D.
    Published March 14, 2006

    Iraq is part of the much wider sociopolitical order of the Middle East. For solutions to be successful, Iraqi problems therefore need a much broader approach.
     
    A domestic approach, albeit plausible in the past, is impossible today. Foreign forces with contradicting interests entered Iraq and changed the sociopolitical order. The former balance of power had to change. More serious regional problems have to be addressed before expecting the Iraqi crisis to be solved.

    The Iraqi fire is constantly fueled by our neighbor to the east. This violence will never cease without a major change in the Iranian policies. Blowing up the Holy Shrine in Samara is a blunt example of a disgraceful attempt to stoke religious strife and block progress of political process in Iraq, widely exploited by the Iranian regime to foment sectarian frictions.

    Day by day, as more and more groups of Iraqis engage in the political process, the road to democracy looks rosier.

    The achievements so far are very frail and could easily be shattered, unless the main threat is addressed and overcome.

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    Issue 37

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    Issue 37 March 11 2006
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  • Iran uproots trees to hide sneaky nuke activity
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    Iran’s nuclear dossier is finally out of the hands of the IAEA and on March 13, the UN Security Council will meet to set the direction for the future of this matter.

    >From unofficial meetings last Thursday and Friday, and what some anonymous diplomats, have said, it seems that the Unites States has prepared a strong statement calling for Iran to cease all nuclear activities within two weeks or else face sanctions.

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    Meanwhile, Iranian officials openly brag to one another about their success in fooling European Union negotiators into believing they had stopped their efforts to produce nuclear fuel, according to Hassan Rowhani, who until last year headed talks with the European Union 3 — Britain, France, and Germany.
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    		Iran uproots trees to hide sneaky nuke activity

    Smiling for the cameras, Ahmadinejad, the Iranian hard-line president, planted an olive tree as asymbol for celebration of “Plantation Day” in Iran on Monday, March 6. The same day in Lavizan Natural Park located in north of Tehran, security forces under his command managed to cut down and remove over 7000 trees overnight, Iranian dailies reported. What did those trees do?

    The trees were removed from the root by bulldozers in order to cover-up extensive nuclear activities in Lavizan nuclear plant.

    Lavizan was a clandestine military nuclear site revealed in 2003 by Iranian dissidents. However, right after the revelation and before IAEA managed to have access to it, the site was completely wiped out, and even six inches of earth was removed to conceal the real extent of the activities there. Satellite before and after images show how extensive this cover-up was.

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    United Nations Security CouncilIran’s nuclear dossier is finally out of the hands of the IAEA and on March 13, the UN Security Council will meet to set the direction for the future of this matter.

    From unofficial meetings last Thursday and Friday, and what some anonymous diplomats, have said, it seems that the Unites States has prepared a strong statement calling for Iran to cease all nuclear activities within two weeks or else face sanctions.

    Meanwhile, Iranian officials openly brag to one another about their success in fooling European Union negotiators into believing they had stopped their efforts to produce nuclear fuel, according to Hassan Rowhani, who until last year headed talks with the European Union 3 — Britain, France, and Germany.

    "When we were negotiating with the Europeans in Tehran, we were still installing some of the equipment at the Isfahan site," where Iran was attempting to process yellowcake — a key stage in the nuclear-fuel process, Rowhani said in a recent speech.

    In Tehran, Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader, told a gathering of senior religious figures on Thursday that the Islamic Republic would go ahead full force with its nuclear program.

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    Iran uproots trees to hide sneaky nuke activity

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    Smiling for the cameras, Ahmadinejad, the Iranian hard-line president, planted an olive tree as asymbol for celebration of “Plantation Day” in Iran on Monday, March 6.  The same day in Lavizan Natural Park located in north of Tehran, security forces under his command managed to cut down and remove over 7000 trees overnight, Iranian dailies reported. What did those trees do?

    The trees were removed from the root by bulldozers in order to cover-up extensive nuclear activities in Lavizan nuclear plant.

    Lavizan was a clandestine military nuclear site revealed in 2003 by Iranian dissidents.  However, right after the revelation and before IAEA managed to have access to it, the site was completely wiped out, and even six inches of earth was removed to conceal the real extent of the activities there.  Satellite before and after images show how extensive this cover-up was.

    With all the work that was done, test by Iranian scientist recently showed high traces of enriched uranium in the leaves and branches of trees in the area. 

    Lavizan nuclear site was located at a corner of military site surrounded by natural parkland. 

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    Issue 36

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    Issue 36 March 03 2006
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  • The Atomic Suicide Bomber
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    The Iranian regime publicly hanged two opponents, Ali Afravi and Mehdi Navaseri, Wednesday March 1, 2006, for alleged bombing in the southern city of Ahwaz.

    A crowd consisting of members of the Revolutionary Guards and paramilitary Basij forces gathered at the scene of the execution and chanted rhetoric against the US, UK, and the Israel, according to a report. The trial of the two prisoners did not meet minimum international standards.

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    The two victims were brought on television the night before their execution to confess. Their confessions, obviously dictated to them by regime officials, were ambiguous such as being in contact with Canada and United States.

    Although not much is known about these two victims, from their TV interview it seems obvious that they were political activists or at least they were charged with such crimes.

    Besides the above, there were many reports of executions, some public, in Iran. The victims were all under the age of 30.

    Ruz, a state-run daily, reported that last month, the regime’s Judiciary issued more than 30 death sentences.

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    		The Atomic Suicide Bomber

    After two failed meetings with Russians last week, the Iranian officials head to Vienna this Friday to try their chances one more time with the EU-3 countries.

    Amazingly, the Iranians have managed to come out of each meeting conveying to the media that the meetings were positive and successful. The best example would be last Monday’s meeting with Russia.

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    You may remember that suddenly on Monday morning all media started talking about a breakthrough agreement that Iran had reached with Russia. It was only until the afternoon that the Russians came on television and completely denied everything that was said all morning by the Iranians: “What agreements?”

    		Mullahs and Nukes

    Pars News agency, with close ties to the Iranian supreme leader, Khamanei, on February 21 revealed the complete text of a speech by the former head of regime’s Security Council, cleric Hassan Rohani.

    The speech contains revealing information about how the mullahs’ have been trying to acquire nuclear weapons.

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    “According to our agreements we had to present an overall and complete picture of what we were doing to the International Atomic Energy Agency.” Rohani, who was also Iran’s head negotiator with the Europeans and the IAEA before Ahmadinejad became president, said adding, “If we did present a complete picture, we would be sent to the Security Council automatically. If we did not present a complete picture, then we would be sent to the Security Council for not meeting our obligations. So you see, no matter what choice we made, our dossier would go to the Security Council anyway.”

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