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Quds Force Expanding in Lebanon

Reza Shafa
quds forceA year after the thirty-three day war in Lebanon, the role of the Iranian regime in this country remains a great concern.  Tehran has substantially intensified efforts to fuel conflicts in this war torn nation. 

In May, conflict between Lebanese army and a group known as Fatah Al-Islam near Nahar Al-Bared Camp in Tripoli, home to many Palestinian refugees, entered a new phase. The Fatah Al-Islam took positions in the camp, to fight with Lebanese army using civilians as human shields.

According to credible reports and intelligence received from within the Iranian regime and its Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Fatah Al-Islam has been created by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its subordinate, the Quds Force in 2005.

Iran propaganda campaign in Iraq

Reza Shafa
Iran WarTwo weeks ago, in a classified report leaked from a meeting of the regime’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Iraq Publicity Committee (IPC), the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Crops (IRGC) top commanders, director of Community for Religious Affinity (CRA), and some high ranking members of Organization of Islamic Culture and Communication (OICC) presented their  latest assessment of the developments in Iraq. The SNSC received exasperating reports of the Iraqi people’s enmity towards IRGC and Quds Force meddling in the country’s affairs.

What happens to a Gas Station that doesn’t have any gas?

Stop Fundamentalism, June 30 – Well, here is what the Iranians answered.

Over 50 gas stations were burned over night by Iranians protesting a new fuel rationing law in Tehran and other cities, Wednesday, 27 June.

There had been talks about rationing for the past two months due to shortage of gasoline but no specific starting date had been set.

In a surprise move the Iranian regime announced Wednesday evening that in three hours rationing will take effect.  No prior notice was given.

Shortly after the announcement, thousands of cars lined up in streets hoping for a last chance to fill up.  They found most of the gas stations to be closed.

Iran – Is there an end to cycles of violence and negotiation?

Nima Sharif
Iran no brake trainEver since Iran’s nuclear issue has been handed to the United Nations Security Council for punitive actions, crisis in the region has been flaring up at periods, each time the case is opened or closed for review.

Crisis in Lebanon, the hostage-taking of British sailors, and nowadays the explosions at the holy sites in Iraq and the wave of terror and war in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon, all carry embedded messages from Tehran.

Last year on August 22, Keyhan, a state-run daily published in Tehran wrote “The Iranian dossier will not be resolved at the negotiating table unless when the other party comes to realize that the cost of engaging Iran is so high that the bitterness of compromise will be considered justifiable.”  The paper continues, “The West will only give in to the emergence of a nuclear Iran when it is left with no other choice.”

Information leak worries Iran rulers

Reza Shafa
Mahmoud AhmadinejadIranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) top commanders close to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are warning him over information leaking from the regime’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) under its current secretary, Brig. General Ali Larijani who is also the top mullahs’ negotiator with the West over the nuclear dispute.

The IRGC commanders have put forth as proof of such leakage the following facts:

Can Iran’s terror machine reach U.S. Shores?

Reza Shafa
Ahmadinejad: Playing with the lion's tail!An alarming series of arrests by the FBI alerted everyone wondering how far the arms of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its subordinate Quds Force can extend.

Following the recent revelations about the plan to blow up the JFK fuel pipeline from New Jersey, the mullahs’ fingerprints were found all over.

On June 3, it was announced that two suspects of the JFK bombing were arrested in Trinidad and Tobago. A 55-year-old man identified as Abdul-Qader was on his way to Venezuela to get a visa from Iranian embassy in that country.

Dollar holding strong aginst Iraqi Dinar

Irqi DinarStop Fundamentalism,Thursday June 14 – Iraqi Dinar was sold at 1258 per Dollar Wednesday at Iraq’s Central Bank Auction.  This is three Dinars lower than mid last month’s prices.

The demand for dollar has increased since earlier this month causing the rise in its value against Dinar.

The exchange rate of the Iraqi Dinar rose significantly at the expense of Dollar, last year and earlier this year.

Why Iran arrested its own former nuclear negotiator

Mohammad Amin
Considering his key role in the Iranian foreign policy, the arrest of Mousavian, the former nuclear negotiator of the clerical regime is very significant.

From 1989 to mid 1997, Mousavian held the position of Iran’s ambassador to Germany, the most important representative of the mullah’s regime in Europe. Behind the scene, the mullahs were praising his role for  the logistical support of regime’s terrorist cells in Europe. Terrorism in that period formed the fundamental policy of the Iranian regime as their nuclear strategy does at the present time. The terrorist murder of four Kurdish dissidents in Mykonos restaurant in Berlin is among Mousavian’s records.

Iran hangs seven on the charges of mischief

Stop Fundamentalism, June 7 – The website of the Iranian opposition, NCRI, reported today that 7 people have been hanged in Iran on the charges of hooliganism and mischief.

Five of the victims where hanged in public in the City of Jiroft, the state-run daily Quds reported on June 6.