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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.

Iran meddling: Octopus in Palestine this time

Reza Shafa
New details are unfolding on the mullahs’ meddling in bloody rival factional fightings in Palestine.

A document leaked out just recently from the Qods Force headquarters in Tehran elaborates how the force is busy meddling in the affairs of that troubled region.

The Qods commanders are trying vehemently to derail the peace process with Israel and by the same token stir unrest among the Palestinians. The force’s headquarter in Tehran is planning round the clock now and has just issued new directives for its agents within the Palestinian groups to make as much trouble as possible.

In a specific highly classified order, the force has instructed that its operatives on the ground simultaneous with attacks on Fattah movement should continue with firing of Qassam missiles into the Israeli territories. This is carried out by Hamas forces.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards publication: Americans will be sitting ducks all over the world

Reza Shafa
In its issue number 288, IRGC’s Sobh-e Sadegh weekly, published under the supervision of the Political Office of the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, expressed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) frustration over Arbil arrest of five of its top commanders posed as diplomats by the U.S. forces in Iraq. 

The weekly quoted Brig. Gen. Reza Zaker as saying, “I think the U.S. [authorities] are psychologically mature enough to realize the degree in which their forces are scattered in Afghanistan and Iraq. Not to mention those U.S. citizens in East Asia, Pakistan, India, Africa, Latin America, and Europe just to name a few locations where they can be reached when the need arises. Getting to those targets and locating them is much easier than buying a few ship-loads of cheap Chinese made goods.”

Iran regime: Regional superpower or a theocracy on the demise?

Mohammad Mohaddessin
The recent euphoria over the outcome of upcoming talks between Washington and Tehran, scheduled for May 28 in Baghdad, has given the die-hard proponents of conciliation with the Iranian mullahs a glimmer of hope. As illusory as they are, these expectations reveal a blurred understanding of the state of affairs in Iran and the essence of the Iranian mullahs’ foreign and domestic policy.

A fundamental question needs to be answered in order to see through the fog that hangs over the policy on Iran: are we witnessing the emergence of a regional power or the demise of a troglodyte theocracy?  

Iran meddling: Is Yemen not off limit to Quds Force?

Reza Shafa
This question does not have a simple yes or no answer because the mullahs’ regime sees no geographical boundaries to its expansion in the Islamic world. The mullahs’ Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei considers himself as God’s sole representative on Earth who has the responsibility of leading his subjects. Yemen is no exception to this rule.
  
It has been quite sometime now since slowly, but effectively, the Iranian regime is supporting the insurgent Shiite groups logistically in Yemen. With the mullahs, the task would be to stir violence and unrest in the country.

US and Iran talks

Kazem Kazerounian
It has now become undeniably apparent that Iran’s government is not only an avid sponsor of terrorism in the world but is actively engaged in terrorist acts of sabotage inside Iraq and murdering innocent ordinary Iraqi citizens as well as Iraqi politicians and coalition forces.   U.S. ambassador to Iraq, U.S. politicians as well as U.S. commanders on the ground have time after time echoed this fact.  Just last week, Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, in an interview on CNN talked about a terrorist act by Iran in which  Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and their proxy forces disguised as American soldiers, driving American vehicles and speaking English raided a government compound in Karbala, killed one U.S. soldier at the scene and captured four others who were later slain. "We know they had built a mock facility in Iran and, in fact, it helped conduct the training and planning over there before they came back and executed that here in Iraq" Caldwell said.

Remarks by ElBaradei encourage Iran to pursue nuclear ambitions

Nima Sharif
Mr. ElBaradei, in a surprising remark, has invited the international community to accept the fact that Iran has now achieved nuclear know-how and can produce enriched uranium at industrial levels.  Such remarks, from someone at ElBaradei’s position, are unconstructive and can not help in any way but to embolden the Iranian regime to continue its defiance.

The International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA) recently-published report stresses that not only has the Iranian regime defied the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1696, 1737 and 1747 calling for the immediate suspension of its uranium enrichment program, it has also started up and expanded the production of its centrifuges. The Iranian mullahs have utilized at least 1,300 centrifuges to enrich uranium on a much larger scale.
 

Iran: 10-year-old girl makes thousands cry

Mohammad Amin
Iran freedom“Hello. I am Alireza Akbari’s daughter. My father is a teacher who is in jail right now. I used to think that jail was a place for bad people, now I know that jail is a place for teachers. I have not seen my father for 20 days. I haven’t even heard his voice. I have not heard from him for 20 days and I don’t know what he is doing. What is he thinking about? I only want to have a short conversation with him and hear him say that he is well. That is all… just, only that,” said Elahe Akbari to a crowed of teachers in Tehran.

On May 2nd when 10 year-old Elahe made those statements at a gathering of teachers, thousands cried. They cried because of her innocent voice, because of the brutality of the mullahs and Revolutionary Guards, and because of the countless unwarranted expulsions and detentions.
 
Teachers are protesting and demanding the immediate release of their imprisoned colleagues. The protests began as a battle against low wages and discrimination against teachers compared to other government employees. 

Persepolis: Growing up in Iran draws attention at Cannes Film Festival

Nima Sharif
Amid rising tensions between Iran and the international community over this country’s nuclear ambitions and its involvement in Iraq, Iranian dissidents are making headways in Europe and the United States, distancing themselves from the ruling fanatic mullahs’ in Tehran.

This year’s debut of an Iranian born film maker, Marjane Satrapi, and her creative animation about a child girl growing up in Iran, at the Cannes Film Festival is one of such instances.

Even before the screening of the movie, the Iranian censor machine started screaming at the Festival organizers and the French government for allowing this movie to enter the competition.