stopfundamentalism.com, 22 December 2005
Tehran has built a network of tunnels and underground facilities to conceal parts of its nuclear program.
This was the typical reaction of most Iranians a day after the first round of presidential elections in Iran, when they heard that the two candidates facing each other in the run-off were veteran politician and previous president Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and the little-known, ultra-conservative mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
 |
 |
Friends of Humanity Newsletter |  |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Iran exports terrorism and fundamentalism for a reason. It is to conceal its internal Human Rights record. While Iran’s nuclear and terrorism activities have been getting a lot of international attention during the past months the Human Rights records seem to be forgotten. Last week, the European Union issued a statement calling for “using United Nations instruments†to stop Tehran’s violations. Iran’s Human Rights record should be taken before the Security Council as the nuclear and terrorism file and at the same time. We must remember one thing, getting more time is all this government wants and that should not be given to it. Editor
stopfundamentalism.com, 22 December 2005 Tehran has built a network of tunnels and underground facilities to conceal parts of its nuclear program. The facilities conceal nuclear research workshops, atomic equipment and missile command and control centers. These underground facilities have been constructed in at least 14 sites near Tehran, Isfahan, and Qom.
35 Iraqi political groups demand international probe into alleged vote-rigging, threaten to boycott new parliament. Middle East Onlne, 22 December2005 BAGHDAD – Thirty-five Iraqi political groups, including secular Shiites and Sunni Arabs, on Thursday rejected early results announced in the wake of last week’s general elections and called for a new poll. The groups, including the main Sunni Arab coalition, a secular Shiite bloc headed by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, and the National Congress headed by former minister Ahmed Chalabi, also demanded an international probe into alleged vote-rigging and threatened to boycott the new parliament.
Stop Iran’s exporting fundamentalism and terrorism into Iraq stopfundamentalisn.com, 22 December 2005 FoH supported a seminar in Huston, Texas calling for a halt on exportation of terrorism and fundamentalism into Iraq by the Iranian regime. The speakers included, Mr. John Gibes representing Congressman Mr. Alan Green, Mrs. Mary Castle an economist and Mr. George Hernandez a Human Rights activist. Mrs. Sheila Jackson Lee also addressed the seminar in a written message.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
MIDDLE EAST ONLINE
HE INDEPENDENT, ONLINE EDITIONIraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions.
By Mark Heinrich
 |
|
Friends of Humanity Newsletter | |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Iranian theocratic regime, during 27 years of its rule, has gained quite an experience on how to play with words, values and concepts. One such concept is “democracy.†Through out all the years, mullahs have managed to disguise themselves as a democratic government, at least partly to the west while Iranian people have been experiencing one of the darkest era of their history. All these years Mullahs have managed to show votes and people participation where there were actually boycotts and defiance. Mullahs also managed to show improvements and Human Rights where there was actually torture and executions and show peaceful technical acquisition while they were actually perusing nuclear weapons. Well for now it seems like they were able to use their 27 years of experience in Hypocrisy in Iraqi elections. As one Iraqi said a few weeks ago, “Iraq is being occupied not by the coalition, but by Iran. The coalition will go someday but Iran is here to stay.†Editor
MIDDLE EAST ONLINE Khalilzad urges Iraqi leaders to form broad-based cross-ethnic and cross-sectarian government. BAGHDAD – The US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, on Tuesday issued a stark warning to Iraq’s interior minister over the importance of impartiality, his second such rebuke within a week. “For a police force to be credible it has to have the confidence of all the communities,” he said. “You can’t have someone regarded as sectarian as a minister of the interior,” he said in his year end address.
THE INDEPENDENT, ONLINE EDITION, By Patrick Cockburn 21 December 2005 Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions. Religious fundamentalists now have the upper hand. The secular and nationalist candidate backed by the US and Britain was humiliatingly defeated.
Ruling slate leads in early returns; Sunni predicts `disaster’ Chicago Tribune, December 20, 2005 BAGHDAD — Iraq’s ruling Shiite religious bloc has taken an overwhelming lead in last week’s election and appears destined to retain a strong grip on the government, according to early vote results released Monday by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq. Sunni leaders expressed deep disappointment in the partial results from 11 of the 18 provinces and charged that there had been voter intimidation by the United Iraqi Alliance, the leading Shiite religious bloc that has ties with Iran.
December,21 VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran reaffirmed its determination to pursue a fully-fledged nuclear programme on Wednesday as the top three European powers reopened dialogue with Tehran over concerns that it is secretly trying to make atomic bombs. Confrontation rather than compromise has been brewing after declarations from Iran that the Holocaust is a myth and Israel should be wiped out, and a European Union accusation on Tuesday that Tehran has systematically violated human rights at home.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
Chicago Tribune, December 20, 2005
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s ruling Shiite religious bloc has taken an overwhelming lead in last week’s election and appears destined to retain a strong grip on the government, according to early vote results released Monday by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq.
December 20, 2005
Los Angeles Times
