The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-29T12:18:44Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollingshttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/110495735?profile=original&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://4freedoms.com/group/Iran/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=1mak4a3dbkila&feed=yes&xn_auth=noPreparing for Nuclear Armageddontag:4freedoms.com,2015-07-24:3766518:Topic:1694642015-07-24T05:28:11.539Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollings
<p>Now that Nobel Peace Prize winning President Hussein Obama has got a nuclear war in the Middle East all lined up, we need to start thinking about its consequences and making our own preparations. </p>
<p>The attached PDF details what the effects of nuclear war between Iran and Israel will be.</p>
<p>The good news is that a nuclear war will not lead to the extinction of mankind - far from it in fact, if you live in the Southern hemisphere:…</p>
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<p>Now that Nobel Peace Prize winning President Hussein Obama has got a nuclear war in the Middle East all lined up, we need to start thinking about its consequences and making our own preparations. </p>
<p>The attached PDF details what the effects of nuclear war between Iran and Israel will be.</p>
<p>The good news is that a nuclear war will not lead to the extinction of mankind - far from it in fact, if you live in the Southern hemisphere:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/82cab/">http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/82cab/</a></p>
<p></p> The Iran Nuclear Dealtag:4freedoms.com,2015-07-23:3766518:Topic:1694552015-07-23T14:29:28.114Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollings
<h1 class="title" id="page-title">OBAMA’S AGE OF <b>NUCLEAR CHAOS</b></h1>
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<h1 class="title" id="page-title">OBAMA’S AGE OF <b>NUCLEAR CHAOS</b></h1>
<div class="region region-content"><div id="block-system-main" class="block block-system"><h3 class="field-subhead">On Tuesday, the world moved into a grim new nuclear era.</h3>
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<p>On Tuesday, we moved into a new nuclear age.</p>
<p>In the old nuclear age, the US-led West had a system for preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. It had three components: sanctions, deterrence and military force. In recent years we have witnessed the successful deployment of all three.</p>
<p>In the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, the UN Security Council imposed a harsh sanctions regime on Iraq. One of its purposes was to prevent Iraq from developing nuclear weapons. After the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, we learned that the sanctions had been successful. Saddam largely abandoned his nuclear program due to sanctions pressure.</p>
<p>The US-led invasion of Iraq terrified several rogue regimes in the region. In the two to three years immediately following the invasion, America’s deterrent strength soared to unprecedented heights.</p>
<p>No one was more deterred by the Americans in those years than then-Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. In 2004, Gaddafi divulged all the details of his secret nuclear program and handed all his nuclear materials over to the Americans.</p>
<p>As for military force, the nuclear installation that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad built in Deir a-Zour with Iranian money and North Korean technicians wasn’t destroyed through sanctions or deterrence. According to foreign media reports, in September 2007, Israel concluded that these paths to preventing nuclear proliferation to Syria would be unsuccessful.</p>
<p>So then-prime minister Ehud Olmert ordered the IDF to destroy it. The outbreak of the Syrian civil war three years later has prevented Assad and his Iranian bosses from reinstating the program, to date.</p>
<p>The old nuclear nonproliferation regime was highly flawed.</p>
<p>Pakistan and North Korea exploited the post-Cold War weaknesses of its sanctions and deterrence components to develop and proliferate nuclear weapons and technologies.</p>
<p>Due to American weakness, neither paid a serious price for its actions.</p>
<p>Yet, for all its flaws and leaks, the damage caused to the nonproliferation system by American weakness toward Pakistan and North Korea is small potatoes in comparison to the destruction that Tuesday’s deal with Iran has wrought.</p>
<p>That deal doesn’t merely show that the US is unwilling to exact a price from states that illicitly develop nuclear weapons. The US and its allies just concluded a deal that requires them to facilitate Iran’s nuclear efforts.</p>
<p>Not only will the US and its allies remove the sanctions imposed on Iran over the past decade and so start the flow of some $150 billion to the ayatollahs’ treasury. They will help Iran develop advanced centrifuges.</p>
<p>They even committed themselves to protecting Iran’s nuclear facilities from attack and sabotage.</p>
<p>Under the deal, in five years, Iran will have unlimited access to the international conventional arms market. In eight years, Iran will be able to purchase and develop whatever missile systems it desires.</p>
<p>And in 10 years, most of the limitations on its nuclear program will be removed.</p>
<p>Because the deal permits Iran to develop advanced centrifuges, when the agreement ends in 10 years, Iran will be positioned to develop nuclear weapons immediately.</p>
<p>In other words, if Iran abides by the agreement, or isn’t punished for cheating on it, in 10 years, the greatest state sponsor of terrorism in the world will be rich, in possession of a modernized military, a ballistic missile arsenal capable of carrying nuclear warheads to any spot on earth, and the nuclear warheads themselves.</p>
<p>Facing this new nuclear reality, the states of the region, including Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and perhaps the emirates, will likely begin to develop nuclear arsenals. ISIS will likely use the remnants of the Iraqi and Syrian programs to build its own nuclear program.</p>
<p>Right now, chances are small that Congress will torpedo Barack Obama’s deal. Obama and his backers plan to spend huge sums to block Republican efforts to convince 13 Democratic senators and 43 Democratic congressmen to vote against the deal and so achieve the requisite two-thirds majority to cancel American participation in the deal.</p>
<p>Despite the slim chances, opponents of the deal, including Israel, must do everything they can to convince the Democrats to vote against it in September. If Congress votes down the deal, the nuclear chaos Obama unleashed on Tuesday can be more easily reduced by his successor in the White House.</p>
<p>If Congress rejects the deal, then US sanctions against Iran will remain in force. Although most of the money that will flow to Iran as a result of the deal is now frozen due to multilateral sanctions, and so will be transferred to Iran regardless of congressional action, retaining US sanctions will make it easier politically and bureaucratically for Obama’s replacement to take the necessary steps to dismantle the deal.</p>
<p>Just as the money will flow to Iran regardless of Congress’s vote, so Iran’s path to the bomb is paved regardless of what Congress does.</p>
<p>Under one scenario, if Congress rejects the deal, Iran will walk away from it and intensify its nuclear activities in order to become a nuclear threshold state as quickly as possible. Since the deal has destroyed any potential international coalition against Iran’s illegal program, no one will bat a lash.</p>
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<p>Obama will be deeply bitter if Congress rejects his “historic achievement.” He can be expected to do as little as possible to enforce the US sanctions regime against his Iranian comrades. Certainly he will take no military action against Iran’s nuclear program.</p>
<p>As a consequence, regardless of congressional action, Iran knows that it has a free hand to develop nuclear weapons at least until the next president is inaugurated on January 20, 2017.</p>
<p>The other possible outcome of a congressional rejection of the deal is that Iran will stay in the deal and the US will be the odd man out.</p>
<p>In a bid to tie the hands of her boss’s successor and render Congress powerless to curb his actions, the day before the deal was concluded, Obama’s UN Ambassador Samantha Power circulated a binding draft resolution to Security Council members that would prohibit member nations from taking action to harm the agreement.</p>
<p>If the resolution passes – and it is impossible to imagine it failing to pass – then Iran can stay in the deal, develop the bomb with international support and the US will be found in breach of a binding UN Security Council resolution.</p>
<p>Given that under all scenarios, Tuesday’s deal ensures that Iran will become a threshold nuclear power, it must be assumed that Iran’s neighbors will now seek their own nuclear options.</p>
<p>Moreover, in light of Obama’s end-run around the Congress, it is clear that regardless of congressional action, the deal has already ruined the 70-year old nonproliferation system that prevented nuclear chaos and war.</p>
<p>After all, now that the US has capitulated to Iran, its avowed foe and the greatest state sponsor of terrorism, who will take future American calls for sanctions against nuclear proliferators seriously? Who will be deterred by American threats that “all options are on the table” when the US has agreed to protect Iran’s nuclear installations and develop advanced centrifuges for the same ayatollahs who daily chant, “Death to America”? For Israel, the destruction of the West’s nonproliferation regime means that from here on out, we will be living in a region buzzing with nuclear activity. Until Tuesday, Israel relied on the West to deter most of its neighbors from developing nuclear weapons. And when the West failed, Israel dealt with the situation by sending in the air force. Now, on the one hand Israel has no West to rely on for sanctions or deterrence, and on the other hand, it has limited or no military options of its own against many of the actors that will now seek to develop nuclear arsenals.</p>
<p>Consider Israel’s situation. How could Israel take action against an Egyptian or Jordanian nuclear reactor, for instance? Both neighboring states are working with Israel to defeat jihadist forces threatening them all. And that cooperation extends to other common threats. Given these close and constructive ties, it’s hard to see how Israel could contemplate attacking them.</p>
<p>But on the other hand, the regimes in Amman and Cairo are under unprecedented threat.</p>
<p>In theory they can be toppled at any moment by jihadist forces, from the Muslim Brotherhood to ISIS. It’s already happened once in Egypt.</p>
<p>The same considerations apply to Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>As for Turkey, its NATO membership means that if Israel were to attack Turkish nuclear sites, it would run the risk of placing itself at war not only with Turkey, but with NATO.</p>
<p>Given Israel’s limited military options, we will soon find ourselves living under constant nuclear threat. Under these new circumstances, Israel must invest every possible effort in developing and deploying active nuclear defenses.</p>
<p>One key aspect to this is missile defense systems, which Israel is already developing. But nuclear bombs can be launched in any number of ways. Old fashioned bombs dropped from airplanes are one option. Artillery is another. Even suicide trucks are good for the job.</p>
<p>Israel needs to develop the means to defend itself against all of these delivery mechanisms. At the same time, we will need to operate in hostile countries such as Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere to destroy deliveries of nuclear materiel whether transferred by air, sea or land.</p>
<p>Here is the place to mention that Israel still may have the ability to attack Iran’s nuclear sites. If it does, then it should attack them as quickly and effectively as possible.</p>
<p>No, a successful Israeli attack cannot turn back the clock. Israel cannot replace the US as a regional superpower, dictating policy to our neighbors. But a successful attack on Iran’s nuclear program along with the adoption of a vigilantly upheld strategy of active nuclear defense can form the basis of a successful Israeli nuclear defense system.</p>
<p>And no, Israel shouldn’t be overly concerned with how Obama will respond to such actions.</p>
<p>Just as Obama’s nuclear capitulation to Iran has destroyed his influence among our Arab neighbors, so his ability to force Israel to sit on the sidelines as he gives Iran a nuclear arsenal is severely constrained.</p>
<p>How will he punish Israel for defying him? By signing a nuclear deal with Iran that destroys 70 years of US nonproliferation strategy, allows the Iranian regime to grow rich on sanctions relief, become a regional hegemon while expanding its support for terrorism and develop nuclear weapons? Years from now, perhaps historians will point out the irony that Obama, who loudly proclaims his goal of making the world free of nuclear weapons, has ushered in an era of mass nuclear proliferation and chaos.</p>
<p>Israel can ill afford the luxury of pondering irony.</p>
<p>One day the nuclear Furies Obama has unleashed may find their way to New York City.</p>
<p>But their path to America runs through Israel. We need to ready ourselves to destroy them before they cross our border.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259505/obamas-age-nuclear-chaos-caroline-glick" target="_blank">http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259505/obamas-age-nuclear-chaos-car...</a></p>
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</div> Sketch by Comedian Dieudonné ''Mahmoud'' [English Subtitles]tag:4freedoms.com,2014-05-13:3766518:Topic:1475862014-05-13T17:38:58.792Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollings
<p>Part 1: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyS459QkUEo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyS459QkUEo</a></p>
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<p>Part 1: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyS459QkUEo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyS459QkUEo</a></p>
<p></p> Iranian Fascism - as loved by the Western Lefttag:4freedoms.com,2014-02-13:3766518:Topic:1449282014-02-13T11:43:28.108Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollings
<div id="print_content"><h1>Iran's "Enemies of God": Zaniar and Loghman Moradi</h1>
<div class="byline"><p><b>by <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Shadi+Paveh">Shadi Paveh</a><br></br>February 10, 2014 at 4:00 am</b></p>
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<div id="print_content"><h1>Iran's "Enemies of God": Zaniar and Loghman Moradi</h1>
<div class="byline"><p><b>by <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Shadi+Paveh">Shadi Paveh</a><br/>February 10, 2014 at 4:00 am</b></p>
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<p>Zaniar and Loghman Moradi, cousins, were arrested in 2009 on charges of "enmity to God and corruptors on earth," and a year later they were sentenced to death by Judge Salevati, known as Tehran's "Hanging Judge." Both were twenty years old at the time of their arrest.</p>
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Zaniar Moradi had gone with his cousin to Iraq to visit his father, a member of a banned Kurdish opposition group, only to find the trip arbitrarily linked, with no evidence, to the murder of the son of member of Iran's senior clergy, as well, allegedly, to work with a British intelligence agency and opposition groups -- activities all punishable by death in the Islamic Republic.<br />
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<p>In a letter dated February 7, 2012 from the dreaded Rajai-Shahr Prison, they wrote that they had "been subjected to unspeakable forms of torture for thirty months; kept in solitary confinement and had no access to family or lawyers." They said that due to repeated physical, psychological and sexual torture, they were finally forced to confess to the murder. In the same letter; the cousins simply ask for a fair trial -- an impossibility in the courts of the Islamic Republic, where trials routinely last only a few minutes, with no evidence, no lawyers and no jury. The accused can be sentenced to hang publicly at any time, most likely from a crane, commonly used for hangings there to ensure the slowest and most painful suffocation. The method does not use a trap door, but instead the accused is hoisted up slowly so that death will not be instantaneous.</p>
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<p>According to reports received by HRANA News Agency, Zaniar Moradi is now paralyzed as a result of the torture he suffered, and can only move by crawling or with the help of other prisoners. He is also apparently in excruciating pain from a spinal infection and serious testicular damage, both sustained during torture. He is denied medication. As stated by HRANA News Agency's latest report on January 8, 2014, Mr. Mardani, the warden of the prison, has stated: "We do not pay any costs for inmates who are sentenced to death." Aside from lack of painkillers or basic medical care, prison officials have offered no aid for his paralysis.</p>
<p>Both men risk further punishment by writing letters to various human rights organizations and United Nations representatives -- to no avail. Both await execution at any time.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4165/iran-zaniar-loghman-morad">http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4165/iran-zaniar-loghman-morad</a><br/>i</p>
</div> Iran's Srebrenica: Fascists Massacred their Enablerstag:4freedoms.com,2013-02-08:3766518:Topic:1185102013-02-08T12:05:49.356Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollings
<p>You really have to laugh at the stupidity of the left in Europe.</p>
<hr></hr><p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/irans-srebrenica-how-ayatollah-khomeini-sanctioned-the-deaths-of-20000-enemies-of-the-state-8485984.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/irans-srebrenica-how-ayatollah-khomeini-sanctioned-the-deaths-of-20000-enemies-of-the-state-8485984.html…</a></p>
<p>You really have to laugh at the stupidity of the left in Europe.</p>
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<p>The horrors visited on tens of thousands of Iranians in the years after the Islamic revolution were spelled out as the Iran Tribunal published its final judgment. Described as “a great achievement... a miracle,” by one of the survivors, the Tribunal found that during the 1980s the Islamic Republic was guilty of the murder of between 15,000 and 20,000 political prisoners.</p>
<div class="body"><p>Inspired by the Russell Tribunal set up by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre to investigate American war crimes during the Vietnam war, the Tribunal, sitting in The Hague, set about documenting and publishing the crimes against humanity committed by the Islamic regime that have been referred to as Iran’s Srebrenica after the massacre by Ratko Mladic’s Bosnian Serb forces on Muslims during the Balkan wars. British QC Sir Geoffrey Nice, a member of the Tribunal’s Steering Committee, told <em>The Independent</em>: “There are a number of such tribunals around the world, but what is particularly striking about this one is that it was started and seen to fruition not by lawyers but by the Iranian diaspora itself, by people who had themselves been tortured.”</p>
<p>It was in 1981 that Iran’s new Islamic government, with Ayatollah Khomeini as its figurehead, rounded on the leftists and others who had come together with the Islamists to bring down the autocratic rule of the Shah two years earlier and gave them two choices: convert or be liquidated.</p>
<p>Mrs Shekoufeh Sakhi, today writing a PhD thesis in Political Philosophy at the University of Toronto, told the Tribunal how she had been forced to sit blindfolded and motionless in a sort of coffin from dawn to late at night while her jailers bombarded her with Islamist propaganda and recordings of the “confessions” of fellow-prisoners who had been broken by the torture. Sir Geoffrey Nice described her as “a quite inspirational figure”.</p>
<p>“In the 1980s the Islamic Republic of Iran went about arresting, imprisoning and executing thousands upon thousands of Iranian citizens because their beliefs and political engagements conflicted with the regime,” the judges wrote. “The religious fervour of these crimes makes them even more shocking: for instance, a woman’s rape was frequently the last act that preceded her execution in Iran, as under the ‘Sharia’ law guidelines, the execution of a virgin female is non-permissible.”</p>
<p>As Mrs Sakhi explained, there was nothing haphazard or unconsidered about the regime’s long reign of terror. As a left-wing 14-year-old in Tehran she had taken part in the uprising against the Shah alongside the Islamists, but by 1982 things had changed. “Iran was now at war with Iraq, and now the mood of the regime was, ‘if you’re not with us you’re against us.’ Revolutionaries like me came to be seen as counter-revolutionaries and fifth columnists. They rallied their base support against us and divided the country in two.”</p>
<p>In June 1981 there was a wave of arrests and summary executions. Ms Shekoufeh went underground but the following February the Revolutionary Guards arrested her. “It was amazing and bewildering,” she recalled. “Those who had been in jail during the Shah’s time said this was much worse. The big difference was that they weren’t going after big organisations – my organisation had already fallen apart – but were collecting everybody who had the motivation to be ‘different’. The jail was so full of high school students you could hardly move. The project was mass conversion.” The executions had been a way of softening up the youth for conversion.</p>
<p>Those like Shekoufeh who proved stubborn were given the “coffin” treatment – nine months of sensory deprivation and complete immobility. “It was a horrible psychological torture,” she said. “You couldn’t move, talk, cough, sneeze, if you did they’d beat you up. There were constant sermons and Islamic teaching classes through the loudspeakers. The whole point was to empty the person of their own identity, making you an empty shell then filling you up with their garbage. After two or three months I felt I was losing my mind, losing control of my sense of reality. A lot of people had nervous breakdowns.”</p>
<p>Sir Geoffrey Nice commented, “The Tribunal is a very major thing. The most important thing is that people can say what happened, they can put it on the record. Now the UN could be pressed to have their own commission of enquiry.” Iran’s government was invited to the Tribunal but neither replied nor took part.</p>
<p><strong>Ayatollah rejects US talks</strong></p>
<p>Iran’s supreme leader has strongly rejected proposals for direct talks with the United States, effectively quashing suggestions for a one-on-one dialogue on the nuclear standoff and potentially other issues.</p>
<p>The statement posted on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s website echoes previous remarks opposing bilateral talks with Washington in parallel with stop-and-start nuclear negotiations with world powers, including the US, which are scheduled to resume later this month.</p>
<p>But the latest comments marked Khamenei’s first reaction since the idea of direct talks received a high-profile boost earlier this week from US Vice President Joe Biden during a security summit in Munich attended by Iran’s foreign minister.</p>
<p>Khamenei’s statement also could spill over into the negotiations in Kazakhstan later this month between Iran and a six-nation group comprising the permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany. His apparent references to US sanctions - saying Washington was “holding a gun” to Iran - suggests Iranian envoys will likely stick to demands for relief from the economic pressures before considering any nuclear concessions.</p>
<p>The US this week further tightened sanctions on the Islamic Republic, which have already cut Iran’s oil revenue by 45 per cent. <em>AP</em></p>
</div> Iran Uses Racist Intimidation to Suppress Arab proteststag:4freedoms.com,2012-05-01:3766518:Topic:1007842012-05-01T12:12:05.267Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollings
<p>Here is the article from the Peter Tatchell Foundation ;…</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="justify"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Tehran's media promotes racist anti-Arab propaganda</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Iranian regime is using racist propaganda, intimidation and violent repression to deter protests by its persecuted Arab citizens. It has imposed martial law and resorted to arrests, imprisonment, torture and extra-judicial killings to suppress mass demonstrations.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ahwazi Arabs have staged anti-government protests every April since 2005, the date of the Ahwazi intifada that saw scores killed and hundreds arrested by the Iranian regime. The protests in April 2011 were the strongest since 2005, encouraged by the April Spring revolutions that toppled governments in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen and rocked the Iranian-allied Assad regime in Syria.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This year, the Tehran government prepared well in advance to preempt any uprising; <span>rounding up prominent members of the Ahwazi community</span></span> <a style="font-size: 12pt;" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001c2i_N7N2aWRT0Ctp1zZY4Yy4YoV0z0Vn8eECYQ2AimkHEUjuuq_ZthrQ0uBnTyXhtL7BPJdj49n01Hb-1Cu8UkkaekNqolUSPYqouzBXestdtmQJLxvdKauap8uP3C4_6vsy4k08BJ58Y-PeF5OAzZeRIcwiXLgyl0-pa5YRmvTC72Th7aAqfGsW1faa1ON6nJYQBeVY12dKqL3eDSSRRKcLfUXoMgSXxoqhkCiG4XA=" target="_blank">http://ahwazsolidarity.org/1/post/2012/02/iran-arrests-tortures-and-kills-ahwazi-arabs-in-new-clampdown.html</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, killing some under torture,</span> <a style="font-size: 12pt;" shape="rect">broadcasting forced confessions on its international Press TV network</a> <a style="font-size: 12pt;" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001c2i_N7N2aWTx2GG9MH63LatNom_29sfqbdtN-oIhb3SUKb93FdC4nJxfq5LgBXLlxLhJG6kacVWU4GbGafG5u3o-vz5yCZcqH3GDx7rPI_LgVpv15vn4o8ntm0k8Cx_fBCJBDYb41A0H6192se2dQnNMDVIKQgXi9HrTKcVuFroyxzdSooYEBdXfUR27LUlF1MGG5-FnVA8=" target="_blank">http://ahwazsolidarity.org/1/post/2012/03/anti-arab-propaganda-on-irans-press-tv.html</a> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">and imposing martial law on Arab-majority districts. Around 100 people were arrested in the run-up to the planned protests last month,</span> <a style="font-size: 12pt;" shape="rect">according to the Ahwaz Centre for Human Rights</a> <a style="font-size: 12pt;" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001c2i_N7N2aWRXs6qlTfQHHz5-XgBktjcjDdCgclm7SVoWGM4bjekhssW17bS_9HYU5jwuRru6vd_-hcKto5f_c6FBxz2vIkT3CStqOsy_p4WwHXIcXBJVH0SKVU5fhjhHZvgqKmKafymXdZH7xqx4cA0vyrc_anaynUM5MUvLNjN8zm3MmW59Leh26FanPPKV54guf0kFiC53nIWTF2gebxFZreKq8JxgDxBIIWvD3b854eHg-mYq-tS-m9SlZaxu" target="_blank">http://acfh.info/ahwaz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=132:ahwaz&catid=44:2010-09-16-17-14-58</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, in a clear attempt to intimidate the Arab population.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Iranian media distributed pro-regime propaganda to provide a justification for the violent repression of Arabs in the weeks leading up to the April 2005 intifada anniversary. In March 2012, the state-controlled Press TV broadcast a documentary which used political prisoners, who had been detained for months in secret prisons without charge or trial, to construct an outlandish conspiracy theory. Ahwazi Arabs were portrayed as "simple people with simple minds" and therefore vulnerable to mysterious "mind termination" brain washing techniques that turned them into violent unthinking killers. The documentary narrator talked of ideas instilled by the former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, being "grounded firmly into the Arab psyche"; implying that Arabs are an enemy within and inherently untrustworthy. Such racist assumptions have underpinned the regime's policy of discrimination against Arab citizens and are also used to justify violent repression. The documentary infantilised Arabs, suggesting that unrest in the region is due to Arab tribes fighting each other "to secure their interests" rather being as a result of the regime's harsh persecution of Arab people. A previous documentary, broadcast by Press TV in December 2011, aired forced confessions from three Ahwazi Arabs following months of incarceration in a secret Ministry of Intelligence detention centre.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Some of those shown in the TV reports are among those facing execution. In March,</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a shape="rect">Amnesty International sent out an appeal</a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <a shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001c2i_N7N2aWR_2BoqR6zzkoMVz0oH96Fdi5M5gAV6_GYymy2-kMmAu_Xl4tJ0FTsiOhrqY3RElNsXqRCwX6Oadptxx_BPMr1fzuxXPn7ucaeuJ-Ty4sMeIMI8Izf78tmjFUTPzFIcouJzpHZDU5ldYdR9Iu73sXFyE6PnDuGojy7BR6LzEzcOoPvCbntwIkrgm7AbRmV_0jEPwJmoIDNgEqY79t08bKBTNGkWbcAmVmPuvtCkb7t7gt37PAkbXRC7" target="_blank">http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE13/013/2012/en/0e6bb54f-85aa-435f-980e-63042c3da37f/mde130132012en.html</a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">on behalf of five Ahwazi Arabs, including three brothers, their cousin and another man, who were believed to be at imminent risk of execution after their death sentences were upheld by the Supreme Court. Amnesty warned that the death sentences were apparently intended to deter 15 April mass demonstrations.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Meanwhile, at least two young Ahwazis - <span>Nasser Derafshan Alboshokeh and Mohammad <span>al-Ka'bi -</span></span></span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a shape="rect">arrested by the security forces in January were killed under torture</a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <a shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001c2i_N7N2aWRzRXYmOMC8qFyPPhFfXUW7DBPVDO5qDAC-avWmPguzBn0quhG6Hj1CyItQoDvxcZBFJ5LeNNKeGRwivs_3BJppEnCrQoANQASNQ04hLBk5IFqlPOFpKh9RJZsfcGrryBG4IDC_xeEryA==" target="_blank">http://www.amnesty.org.au/news/comments/27850/</a></span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">following a round-up of Arab youth, teachers and others. Nineteen year-old Alboshokeh had been rushed to hospital with a broken neck and torture wounds but was confirmed dead. Al-Ka'bi's death sparked huge protests in his home town Shush, but the authorities refused to return his body and instead buried it in order to prevent further disclosure of the torture he'd suffered.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As security operations began and martial law was enforced in March and April, targeting the restive Hay al-Thawra district of Ahwaz City in particular,</span> <a style="font-size: 12pt;" shape="rect">the regime imposed a media blackout</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, Joe Stork, said: <span>"Security operations in Khuzestan province since protests there last April have resulted in the largest number of deaths and injuries since the crackdown that followed the disputed 2009 presidential election. With the province under an information blackout and the history of secret convictions and executions, we have reason to be very worried about the people the authorities have been snatching up and carrying off there."</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Protests did take place in some districts such as Hay al-Thawra, Hamidiya, Kut-Abdullah and Zewiyah with protesters carrying banners and Ahwazi flags, but were quickly put down by the regime. In one disturbing development,</span> <a style="font-size: 12pt;" shape="rect">the Iranian Revolutionary Guards besieged the Shohada High School in Amaniyah</a> <a style="font-size: 12pt;" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001c2i_N7N2aWSRqOa8Un7KwCOj5jG8RDJl41NaWsMpo6MAonWcPkC4sHm84SVvM8vNy85H-sJbXI-3xnK7b13igeO6pumUnOgDa5uFkjRuiNeq-Bhqg89_9rkHUeBIPaTOxUOdudvtJSYiVObb1aejvY93e2diRXJhYmXIQ0ZGlsQ=" target="_blank">http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/15/207872.html</a> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">district after some Arab children hoisted the Ahwazi flag in the school. Children were detained and interrogated for days while their parents were denied access to them.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The consequences of the repression of protests will be felt for many months, with activists expecting more show trials and executions. These deaths will be in vain if the international community and the global media continue to ignore the plight of the long suffering Ahwazi Arabs.</span></p>
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<p>Iran: convert awaits execution, refuses last chance to revert to Islam</p>
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<p>An Iranian Protestant pastor, sentenced to death in 2010 for apostasy, refused to renounce his Christian faith and revert to Islam during a third and final court hearing this week on September 28.</p>
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<blockquote>When asked to “repent” by the judges, Yousef [Nadarkhani] stated, “Repent means to return. What should I return to? To…</blockquote>
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<p>An Iranian Protestant pastor, sentenced to death in 2010 for apostasy, refused to renounce his Christian faith and revert to Islam during a third and final court hearing this week on September 28.</p>
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<blockquote>When asked to “repent” by the judges, Yousef [Nadarkhani] stated, “Repent means to return. What should I return to? To the blasphemy that I had before my faith in Christ?” The judges replied , “To the religion of your ancestors, Islam.” To which he replied, “I cannot.”</blockquote>
<p>“I deplore reports that Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, an Iranian church leader, could be executed imminently after refusing an order by the Supreme Court of Iran to recant his faith,” said British Foreign Secretary William Hague. “This demonstrates the Iranian regime’s continued unwillingness to abide by its constitutional and international obligations to respect religious freedom. I pay tribute to the courage shown by Pastor Nadarkhani who has no case to answer and call on the Iranian authorities to overturn his sentence.”</p>
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<p>US House Speaker John Boehner also denounced the Iranian court proceedings.</p>
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<h2>Iran: Pastor Nadarkhani refuses to recant at final court session, awaits verdict <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">28/09/2011</span></h2>
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<p>Iranian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani refused the final opportunity to renounce his faith at the last hearing of his court case in Rasht, Gilan province, which took place today. He had previously refused to renounce his faith during sessions held on 26 and 27 September.</p>
<p>At today’s hearing, the pastor’s lawyer, Mohammed Ali Dadkhah, presented the final defence, however, the judges have yet to decide on Pastor Nadarkhani’s future. Some sources close to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) indicate the judges could take up to a week to issue their final ruling and announce a timeframe for execution while others fear it could be announced and implemented within a much shorter period of time. There are also fears that the death sentence could be implemented without any official announcement.</p>
<p>Pastor Nadarkhani is facing the death sentence for apostasy (abandoning Islam), after being found guilty in September 2010 by the court of appeals in Rasht. The sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court of Iran on appeal, but the written verdict of the Supreme Court included provision for annulment of the death sentence if Pastor Nadarkhani renounced his faith.</p>
<p>The court in Rasht, which issued the initial sentence, was asked by the Supreme Court to re-examine whether or not Pastor Nadarkhani had been a practicing Muslim adult prior to converting to Christianity. In a session earlier this week, the court ruled that Pastor Nadarkhani had not practiced Islam as an adult prior to conversion, but nevertheless upheld the charge of apostasy because the pastor has Muslim ancestry.</p>
<p>In a statement released today, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said, “I deplore reports that Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, an Iranian Church leader, could be executed imminently after refusing an order by the Supreme Court of Iran to recant his faith. This demonstrates the Iranian regime’s continued unwillingness to abide by its constitutional and international obligations to respect religious freedom. I pay tribute to the courage shown by Pastor Nadarkhani who has no case to answer and call on the Iranian authorities to overturn his sentence.”</p>
<p>CSW’s Chief Executive Mervyn Thomas said, “We welcome the Foreign Secretary’s intervention. We urge others in the international community to raise Pastor Nadarkhani’s case with the Iranian authorities with the utmost urgency, and to seek the annulment of the death sentence against him. CSW continues to call for Pastor Nadarkhani’s immediate and unconditional release. The conviction and sentence are illegal under Iranian law and in violation of the covenants to which Iran is signatory, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which guarantees freedom of religion and the freedom to change one’s religion.</p>
<h3>For further information or to arrange interviews please contact Kiri Kankhwende, Press Officer at Christian Solidarity Worldwide on +44 (0)20 8329 0045 / +44 (0) 78 2332 9663, email <a href="mailto:kiri@csw.org.uk">kiri@csw.org.uk</a> or visit <a href="http://www.csw.org.uk/">www.csw.org.uk</a>.</h3>
<h3>Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is a Christian organisation working for religious freedom through advocacy and human rights, in the pursuit of justice.</h3>
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<p>1. CSW is asking those who wish to take action to email the Iranian embassy in their home country. Please <a href="http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=88&ea.campaign.id=12209">click here</a> for our appeal. <br/>2. Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, of the Church of Iran denomination, was arrested in his home city of Rasht on 13 October 2009, while attempting to register his church. His arrest is believed to have been due to his questioning of the Muslim monopoly on the religious instruction of children in Iran. He was initially charged with protesting; however the charges against him were later changed to apostasy and evangelising Muslims. His lawyer, Mr Mohammed Ali Dadkhah, a prominent Iranian human rights defender, is also facing legal difficulties. On Sunday 3 July, a court in Tehran sentenced Mr Dadkhah to nine years in jail and a ten-year ban on practicing law or teaching at university for "actions and propaganda against the Islamic regime". He is currently appealing the sentence.<br/>3. The death sentence for apostasy is not codified in the Iranian Penal Code. However, using a loophole in Iran’s constitution, the judges in Rasht based their original verdict on fatwas by Ayatollahs Khomeini, the “father” of Iran’s revolution in 1979, and Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, and of Makarem Shirazi, currently the most influential religious leader in Iran.<br/>4. The use of fatwas as a basis for the verdict on Nadarkhani is provided for under Article 167 of the Iranian Constitution, which states that while judges have a duty to find a basis for their rulings within the legal code, “if such a basis does not exist, they must cite reliable Islamic sources or a valid fatwa from which they have drawn a judgment in order to issue a verdict. Judges may not refuse to hear cases or issue rulings only because the case before them is not covered in the legal code, or there may be shortcomings or conflicts in the law.”<br/>5. Mohammed Ali Dadhkah is a founding member of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre, an Iranian organisation, along with Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi.</p> The Mullahs Ruling Iran Are Not Iranianstag:4freedoms.com,2011-09-09:3766518:Topic:797092011-09-09T14:05:52.493Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollings
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Iranians are proud spiritual descendants of King Cyrus the Great, the author of the first charter of human rights. Some of Cyrus’ children live in the patch of land called Iran. The overwhelming majority—free humans with human beliefs—live in every country, city, and village of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11"><u><font color="#009900">the earth</font></u></span>.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">These world-wide people, one and all, irrespective of nationality, color, or creed are Iranians because they all adhere to the Cyrus Charter; they practice and defend its lofty tenets; and, transfer this precious humanity’s treasure to the next generation.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Unequivocal genetic findings have clearly established that biologically there is only one human race; that the genetic variation within a single troop of chimpanzees, for instance, is greater than that of any two human groupings, no matter how different they may appear physically.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">What makes people different is not their biology, but the “software” that runs them. There is ample proof to support the above assertion. A case in point is the present menace posed by the people whose life is programmed by the software of Islam: an ideology anathema to the Cyrus Charter. And the results are self-evident. Hate, superstition, violence, and a raft of other inhuman beliefs drives these religious fascists. These captive followers of the primitive Islamic Charter are both the perpetrators and the victims of much suffering. The result is backward Islamic societies that are intent at dragging the rest of the world into the same sorry state. Misery likes company, it is said.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">We recognize that the dysfunctional Islamic software is deeply engrained in the minds of many Muslims who opt to remain in mental bondage rather than purge their minds of the Islamic software and join the rest of the human family with a new emancipating program for life—liberty.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Islamic clergy, the parasitic prime <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8"><u><font color="#009900">beneficiaries</font></u></span> of Islam, are master practitioners of the carrot and stick strategy. By drawing heavily from the Quran and the Hadith, the conniving mullahs and imams have assembled a potent arsenal of threats and promises to keep the faithful in line. They had little trouble in so doing, since Islamic scripture is replete with graphic horrific punishment awaiting the wayward and the unbelievers, while the rewards for the obedient docile, if he is male, are described as endless variety of sensual pleasures. Anyone daring to leave the corral of Islam is apostate and automatically condemned to death. And that’s just for <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1"><u><font color="#009900">starters</font></u></span>. The punishment awaiting the ungrateful deserter of the one and only true path, Islam threatens, is a raft of horrific <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9"><u><font color="#009900">eternal</font></u></span> torment in Allah’s hell.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">And for the true faithful—the mindless robot—the promised rewards, all physical pleasures, are infinite and eternal.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">In spite of these horrid threats and empty promises, more and more people are beginning to recognize Islam for what it is. It is difficult, but not impossible to leave the fraudulent Islam’s captivity. Hundreds of thousands have done so successfully and have enjoyed the blessings of liberty.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">A great threat facing free people is the recently petrodollar energized Islam embarking on a campaign of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6"><u><font color="#009900">recruiting</font></u></span> more people under its dark banner. Millions of disenfranchised underclass in the non-Islamic world, and millions more mentally under-developed may flock to Islam, deluded by its empty promises.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Islam is no longer in its own self-made cage. It has broken out and has established powerful presence in much of the non-Islamic world. Islam is a charter of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12"><u><font color="#009900">submission</font></u></span>. It is a sworn enemy of freedom and views the Cyrus Charter as heresy. Freedom and tyranny are incompatible. Free people must do all they can to preserve their birthright of liberty and assist others to break from the bondage of Islamic captivity.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">The interdependent world community faces great challenges that demand a united effort, uncompromisingly based on justice, to meet the various ills it faces. We can no longer be complacent about events in distant world affecting alien people. Distances are bridged and alien people are now diverse members of the human family.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">We honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for proclaiming from a Birmingham jail, “Injustice anywhere is threat to justice everywhere.” To demand justice for others, he risked his life, left his native Georgia, and ended in jail of the-then-bigoted south—Birmingham, Alabama. We “Iranians” of the world—free humans—must do no less. We must demand justice for our belief-kin who are suffering under the yoke of Islamofascism in Iran or anywhere in the world.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">We also do well to recall the example of an Irish-American President—John F. Kennedy—looking at the Communists’ Wall of Shame in Berlin, proclaiming, “Ich bin ein Berliner”—“I am a Berliner.” By so <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3"><u><font color="#009900">claiming</font></u></span>, he helped rally free people of the world that brought down the wall and created a momentum that eventually swept the totalitarian Communist wall-builders into the dustbin of history.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now the world is facing wall-builders of a different kind: the Islamofascists who have been at their shameless work for centuries. As their walls built with superstition, discrimination and blood are crumbling; they are intent at building walls in new territories.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">But once again, human decency is rising to the challenge. This time in the voice and actions of billions of free people who proclaim: we are also children of Iran in the spirit of Cyrus the Great; “we meet any challenge and pay any price” to defeat Islamofascism; and, we will not rest until humanity is completely free of the despotic rule of Islam.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">We Iranians in spirit—free people of the world–greatly cherish liberty, where the mind is imbued with enlightenment, and every individual by the virtue of being born human is afforded measured freedom. It is within <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7"><u><font color="#009900">the open</font></u></span> expanse of liberty that each and every person can be at his or her best. And when the individual person is at his best, humanity is at its best.</span></div>
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<p class="readerComments"><a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10330/pub_detail.asp">http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10330/pub_detail.asp</a></p> The Iranian Death Spiral Resumes - by Michael Ledeentag:4freedoms.com,2011-05-15:3766518:Topic:546202011-05-15T20:33:10.602Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollings
<p id="aeaoofnhgocdbnbeljkmbjdmhbcokfdb-mousedown">So now the Ahmadinejad people and the Khamenei people are fighting it out in the streets of Tehran, <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/rift-in-iranian-leadership-spreads-to-the-streets-of-tehran/">as Reza tells us</a>. Those who have followed this blog for some time will recognize it as the latest phase in what I call “The War of the Persian Succession,” a nasty fight over who will be the next Supreme Leader of Iran, after the passing of…</p>
<p id="aeaoofnhgocdbnbeljkmbjdmhbcokfdb-mousedown">So now the Ahmadinejad people and the Khamenei people are fighting it out in the streets of Tehran, <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/rift-in-iranian-leadership-spreads-to-the-streets-of-tehran/">as Reza tells us</a>. Those who have followed this blog for some time will recognize it as the latest phase in what I call “The War of the Persian Succession,” a nasty fight over who will be the next Supreme Leader of Iran, after the passing of Khamenei.</p>
<p>Remember, too, that Mousavi — the leader of a Green Movement that is very much a player in this struggle — designed a strategy that would lead to the implosion of the regime, not its overthrow in a dramatic confrontation. He believes that the internal conflicts are so severe, that if only pressure can be maintained, the system will come down. He hoped that pressure would come from the West, but it didn’t (even though the sanctions have made life more difficult). So the process is slower than it might have been, but still moving along the lines he designed.</p>
<p>I think it is unlikely that one “faction” will definitively prevail over the other. The leader and the president are siamese twins, fused at a vital part of their anatomies, and separation might well be fatal to both. Each has weapons aimed at the other’s heart, and the weapons consist of information of massive fraud and theft.</p>
<p>The Greens issued a lengthy report on these practices, and on the skullduggery the contending forces are practicing on each other. It’s quite spectacular (h/t Michael Rubin and Ali Alfoneh):</p>
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<li>“Following clerical criticism of Ahmadinejad’s behavior and the policies of his government, Ahmadinejad supporters have pressured the theologians through the Counter Espionage Directorate of the Revolutionary Guards… By installing listening devices in their classes and their offices, they have tried to force them to cooperate with the government and approve of his [Ahmadinejad's] initiatives… In reaction, some theologians threatened to react and put the government in its place, which led the Revolutionary Guards to station special forces units in Qum to suppress any unpredictable movement… This has further angered the theologians.”</li>
<li>“Following the Office of the Supreme Leader’s decision to transfer the main part of the oil revenue to a special account supervised by a three man group headed by Mojtaba Khamenei… Ahmadinejad used the first cabinet session following this decision to attack Mr. Khamenei and his entourage. He called this decision insulting and restriction of the cabinet’s access to the oil revenue. He [Ahmadinejad] called the Supreme Leader ‘ignorant’ and a ‘tool.’”</li>
<li>“Ahmadinejad has recently sent [Intelligence Minister] Heydar Moslehi the names of 45 senior Intelligence Ministry officials and has demanded their dismissal… Ahmadinejad had also said that according to the investigations of the Revolutionary Guards Counter Espionage Directorate, these individuals had not shown the necessary loyalty towards the cabinet and must be replaced with a number of individuals soon to be identified by the cabinet… Heydar Moslahi had in his report to Ayatollah Khamenei called ‘acceptance of this demand’ a ‘serious blow to the body of the Intelligence Ministry.’”</li>
<li>“In Moslehi’s report, there is also account of surfacing of a number of microphones in the wake of infiltration of the ministry by members of the Revolutionary Guards Counter Espionage units… According to the report, with Ahmadinejad’s knowledge, the Office of the Supreme Leader too was tapped.”</li>
<li>“In February, a group of internal security forces close to Ahmadinejad visited Dubai as a trade mission….They also met with two American political/military authorities in the United Arab Emirates. In the report, the Intelligence Ministry has strongly warned the Leader of the consequences of such deeds.”</li>
<li>“The Ministry of Industries has in a confidential report to the parliament – officially also submitted to the Intelligence Ministry – reported that it is not capable of explaining the oil and industrial agreements between Iran and China and Iran and Malaysia and is not aware of their content. The Ministry of Industries has also reported that it has not played any role in those activities. Following the disclosure of the report in the parliament, Ahmadinejad sarcastically tells the Industry Minister: ‘This is why we have decided to dissolve the Ministry of Industries.’”</li>
<li>“The Oil Ministry has in a report to the parliamentary Energy Committee stressed that it is completely ignorant of the level of fuel exports through the tenth countrywide pipeline and is not willing to accept any responsibility in this regard since this pipeline is not at all under the ministry’s control and its revenues are not sent to the government….The report also discloses that the Kish subsea pipeline – built by the Revolutionary Guards and Chinese companies – exports great amounts of fuel which has resulted in $3 billion discrepancy in the oil revenue, which the Oil Ministry no longer desires to be accountable for. According to the Intelligence Ministry, the 600 kilometers long Ahwaz-Dehgolan pipeline, has resulted in $580 million embezzlement by the Revolutionary Guards. The amount has been tracked to two personal accounts in Malaysia. There is also report of $2 billion embezzlement in the Neka-Jask pipeline. The amount has been traced to personal bank accounts – in China – of several senior Revolutionary Guards commanders.”</li>
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<p>The entirety of the country’s oil and gas business is now<a href="http://www.iranpressnews.com/english/source/097614.html"> in the hands of Khamenei’s son</a>. There is no oversight from the “government,” and when the deputies in the Majlis tried a bit of earmarking, they found the cupboard was bare:</p>
<blockquote><p>IranChannel reported on March 18 that the mullahs in parliament found $11 billion missing from the state-controlled petrodollar fund in Iran’s foreign exchange account. On April 29, Asriran.com reported that a member of parliament declared that not even a dollar was left in that account. Reviewing the current budget, the head of the parliamentary agricultural committee proposed $2 billion from the foreign reserve account to fund water projects, to whom the head of the joint (talfigh) committee replied that nothing, not even a dollar, remained.</p>
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<p>No surprise, then, that there is still no approved national budget for the year that began in March. There are varying reports of whether food subsidies will be extended, cancelled, reduced or increased. The numbers we have on the economy are impressively negative. The government’s<a href="http://bit.ly/lCQ0zq"> bank debt has risen 35%</a> in the last 9 months; unemployment is up, labor protests are increasing…</p>
<p>Indeed, aside from stealing, the only thing this regime is still able to do is torture and kill. There are many reports of the Iranian involvement in the Syrian slaughter, most recently a story — which I have confirmed — that Khamenei has ordered the Iraqi-based “Sadr Army” (you remember Muqtadah al Sadr, surely) to send thousands of killers into Syria to save the Assad regime. Previous stories identified Hezbollah killers as snipers in Syrian cities, and Revolutionary Guards officers acting as commanders in the field and advisers in Damascus.</p>
<p>The evil visited upon the Iranian people continues apace. Here is a recent letter from a prisoner that gives us a sense of how bad the jails are:</p>
<blockquote><p>What occurs behind these prison walls is “indescribable” and impossible to convey! Until I was forced to live it, I had never in my life experienced such a thing, read about it or heard about anything quite like it. Such a prison has never been depicted in any movie or any book. It was inconceivable to me that such a place cold even exist! I suppose this tragedy stems from individuals being forced to spend every single living moment under such unbearable conditions, in a small, confined and contaminated environment, overcrowded with conflicting prisoners of all kinds. I have a hard time describing a place that lacks even fresh air or a small area where prisoners can take a few steps.</p>
<p>In the past months I have spent in this prison, I have sometimes spend night and day pondering on my thoughts and behavior; a process that has made me come to surprising conclusions. I feel as though my life is slowly drifting from one in which I live like a human to one in which I am being treated like an animal; the instinct for self preservation and the desire to survive having become my main drive and concern. It feels as though there is nothing else to worry about except to stay alive. When I leave my room, for example, I try very hard not to look at anyone, to avoid making eye contact. If anyone sleeping in the courtyard addresses me, I pretend as always not to hear their request and ignore them rudely. When in line for the showers or the use of toilets, I find myself fighting like prehistoric humans, while trying at all times to limit contact as much as possible. Believe me when I say that though I am not a picky person in the least bit, here I feel as though one must be fearful of even breathing the air. On winter nights, when I would stare at the prisoners sleeping exposed to the piercingly cold winter air, two or three squirming under one damp, dirty blanket, I was left shocked at my lack of pity and compassion for others. It felt as though I had completely accepted that this is and will always be the fate of the world and humanity at large. How can one be ethical in a place where humans don’t have the courage, if only for one moment, to put themselves in the place of others?</p>
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<p>We have heard a lot of verbiage from Obama and his moralistic Valkyries ever since they bragged of saving our national soul by preventing mass murder in Libya. Remember? There was even a doctrine according to which America could and would not stand by while a tyrannical regime slaughtered innocent civilians seeking freedom. If there ever was such a doctrine, it has long since become a laughing stock. We stand by as Syria and Iran — totalitarian and barbaric regimes that kill their own as well as our own — conduct precisely the sort of mass murder we claimed we would not tolerate.</p>
<p>Members of Congress — who busy themselves with laudable bills calling for support of the Iranian people and the Syrians as well — should be unstinting in their insistence that America call for the overthrow of Assad and Khamenei/Ahmadinejad. Never mind doctrines. Just say it: Assad must go. Khamenei and Ahmadinejad must go. Now.</p>
<a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2011/05/09/the-iranian-death-spiral-resumes/?singlepage=true">http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2011/05/09/the-iranian-death-spiral-resumes/?singlepage=true</a> Iran's Petrodollars for Nuclear Bombs, not Schools or Shoestag:4freedoms.com,2011-04-28:3766518:Topic:519912011-04-28T22:20:06.217Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollings
Also, thanks to a stupid promise from Khomeini (which was broken - deceit is ok after all), the population has doubled from 35 million to an unsustainable 70 million since…
Also, thanks to a stupid promise from Khomeini (which was broken - deceit is ok after all), the population has doubled from 35 million to an unsustainable 70 million since 1980.<br/>
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