News from Iran

News & Issues from Iran

Iran is in a collision course with the West. Iran wants a war with US and is not afraid to do so. Iranian Mullahs seeing the failure of US policy in Iraq, think they can win a war against the US.

Aug.27, 2007: Iran vowed to use a new 2,000-pound "smart" bomb against its enemies and unveiled mass production of this bomb. This statement is aimed at the GCC countries to scare them.
Aug.27, 2007: Latest intelligence reports suggest that Israel is still selling spare parts to Iran , since Iran have mostly US made Fighter planes and other weapons . The US does not sell or give support to Iran or have any diplomatic communication. Most of the Military parts are transported from Israel to Syria , then finally by air to Iran. Just forget about the strong rhetoric of the Iranian President it is only for local consumption. Iran is always supporting Israel , and will not take any steps to threaten the Jewish state. Hamas are just there for propaganda purpose and to fool the large Palestinians and Arab people and also to suck money from the rich Arabian Gulf State.
Aug.2, 2007: Iran's crazy mullahs are happy with themselves as they made a deal with Russia that would provide 250 Sukhoi-30 fighter-bombers along with 20 aerial refueling tankers that would make all of the Mideast within easy range. This is on top of the antiaircraft systems Russia has already sold Tehran. Now, what is the intent of The Mullahs for such a deal is it for peaceful purposes, according to their claim with the Nuclear Energy!! How is stupid enough to believe them???
May 18, 2006: An Iranian member of parliament has just woken up to the fact the UAE is building offshore developments. The parliamentarian, allegedly Head of the Environment Bloc, claims he will send a letter to the UN Secretary-General complaining of the islands, on the basis of environmental damage.

Jan.27,2006: An expert indicated that Tehran not only has the nuclear bomb, it is seeking to "duplicate them in large numbers before revealing their existence to the world". Other experts , are sure that Iran is very close to making the A-Bomb. Once it is made and ready to be used , Iran Mullahs will not hesitate to use it against Arab countries in the Gulf, so that they will spread their domination , for Oil, and occupy their citizens with a huge war with the west. Iran is planning to start a war , so the Mullahs can survive and dominate political power in Iran.
Jan.15, 2006: Iran could have an atomic bomb as early as 2009 and could eventually manufacture 25 to 30 weapons a year based on its past research efforts, two US arms experts say. This should not happen, as the Mullahs of Iran can not be trusted and are not wise to understand the implication of using an atomic weapon or even threatening to use it. There first target will definitely be the GCC countries (Kuwait, Saudia Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Oman, Qatar).
Jan.6, 2006: Iran president is making some wrong decision by confronting the world and insisting in development of Nuclear Fuel in Iran. Many countries including neighboring GCC countries are afraid from Iran taking such a step. Iran government is considered hostile and corrupted and will not hesitate to threaten GCC countries , and even use Nuclear weapons against any country in The Middle East. This put a threat on the interest of the US and the rest of Western World since Iran will control over 50% of the world oil production.

Jan.3, 2005: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who sparked international condemnation by calling the Holocaust a "myth", has likened Zionism to fascism and said Israel was created in order to expel Jews from Europe. He stated that: "Zionism is a Western ideology and a colonialist idea ... and right now it massacres Muslims with guidance and help from the United States and a part of Europe ... Zionism is basically a new [form of] fascism,". He also stated that: The objectives achieved by creating Israel is Sweeping the Jews out of Europe and at the same time creating a European appendix with a Zionist and anti-Islamic nature in the heart of the Islamic world,". He is right to a certain extent and in accordance with British secret document about Palestine.

Dec.9, 2005: The Iranian government closed all schools and kindergartens in Tehran for two days beginning Tuesday because air pollution had reached dangerous levels. State television broadcast requests for people to stop driving to work in the capital and to use the city's public transport system. The television did not give the pollution level in Tehran, but it said the quantities of carbon monoxide, suspended particles and other pollutants had increased considerably in recent days. All kindergartens and schools will be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday throughout Tehran and its suburbs, the broadcast said. Tehran has been suffering from dangerous levels of pollution and smog since the beginning of the month. No one cares , as the dictatorship government abuse the people and suck the money out of the poor population. The Mullahs are making money and the people are suffocating for air.
Nov.21, 2005: Iran has rejected UN censure of its human rights record, saying it will not give in to such pressure. This is another proof that Iran-government do not have any respect for human rights, this is evident by the huge number of Iranian living outside Iran, especially the educated ones.

Oct.27, 2005: Iran's hard-line president marched in the streets of Tehran on Friday alongside tens of thousands of people supporting his call for the destruction of Israel remarks that have been condemned around the world. The rally was one of several state-organized anti-Israel demonstrations across the country that drew more than a million Iranians.
Oct.26, 2005: Iran is permitting around 25 high-ranking Al Qaida members to roam free in the country's capital, including three sons of Osama Bin Laden.
April 2, 2005: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vowed to defend the country’s nuclear program, warning the United States of great defeat if it decided to attack the Islamic republic.
March 27, 2005 : Iran is quietly building a stockpile of thousands of high-tech small arms and other military equipment from armour-piercing snipers' rifles to night-vision goggles through legal weapons deals and a UN anti-drug program, according to an internal UN document, arms dealers and Western diplomats. The buying spree is raising Bush administration fears the arms could end up with militants in Iraq. Tehran also is seeking approval for a UN-funded satellite network that Iran says it needs to fight drug smugglers, stoking US worries it could be used to spy on Americans in Iraq or Afghanistan - or any US reconnaissance in Iran itself.
March 17, 2005: A MAN convicted of raping and murdering 16 boys in Iran was lashed 100 times yesterday, then hanged in front of a large, angry crowd, who pelted him with stones and scuffled with police.

March 16, 2005: Iran’s Foreign Minister, Kamal Kharazi, warned the EU not to use “threats” in its nuclear talks with the Islamic republic, stressing that Tehran was determined to resume its uranium enrichment program. It seems Iran is following the footsteps of N. Korea. Soon the Iranian regime will realize that the world can not tolerate a dictatorship and radical regime and the fall of the Mullah's is coming soon and Iran will be free and prosperous.
Feb.23,2005: US intelligence indicate that Tehran is trying to expand its influence over whatever government emerges in Iraq. According to U.S. officials familiar with the latest intelligence, the Iranian government has been secretly directing its agents inside Iraq to plant themselves in influential positions throughout the Iraqi government—into agencies that handle economic affairs, like the ministries of Oil, Public Works and Finance, as well as departments like the Interior Ministry that handle national security. The Iranians also are directing their agents to infiltrate Iraqi security agencies on the by taking jobs in regional or local government offices and particularly local police forces. According to the most pessimistic U.S. analysts, the ayatollahs' ultimate goal: "Taking over the government of Iraq."
Feb.22,2005: Rescuers in central Iran searched for survivors Tuesday after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake flattened villages and killed at least 400 people. Iranian officials told state-run television that at least 950 people were injured in the quake, which struck near Zarand, a city of about 135,000 people in Kerman province. Provincial officials told Iranian television that about 40 villages were affected, with seven more than 90 percent destroyed and 25 others more than half destroyed.
March 23, 2004: Iranians and Kurds saw in their New Year either with good cheer or gloom. While Iranians began holiday trips or hosted family gatherings, Kurds in Syria cancelled their Now Rouz celebrations after the killing of at least 25 people in riots, and some Kurds in Turkey threw stones at police.
"I feel happy and proud to observe Now Rouz, a festival we have inherited from our ancestors," said Hamid Doosti, a clerk in Tehran . "It's our identity, our history."
Now Rouz dates to the pre-Islamic religion of the Zoroastrians. Celebrations began on Tuesday evening in Iran where people jumped over bonfires in public parks to symbolize the purification of the soul for the New Year.
The actual New Year began at 10:19 am on Saturday, according to the Iranian calendar. For Kurds in Turkey and Syria , the year begins today.
Turkish Kurds threw stones at police in the southern city of Adana on Thursday, and in the eastern city of Van on Friday, when police tried to enforce a ban on early celebrations of Now Rouz.
Anatolia news agency reported at least six people were wounded in the clashes.
In Iran , people thronged the shopping precincts on Friday evening to buy flowers, goldfish, sweets and dried fruits - essential parts of feasting and house decoration at Now Rouz.
Young members of families visited their elders across Iran . It is a tradition that adults give children new banknotes.
March 14, 2004: The International Atomic Energy Agency adopted a resolution Saturday criticizing Iran for hiding nuclear activities, although it acknowledged the Islamic republic's increasing openness in the U.N. inspection process. An Iranian official, saying his country's nuclear program is "exclusively peaceful," issued a statement indicating that the United States was trying to impose its will on the IAEA. Iran announced a freeze for now of U.N. inspections to show its displeasure with the resolution. The resolution said declarations made by Iran about its program in October "did not amount to the complete and final picture of Iran 's past and present nuclear programs."
Feb.26, 2004: International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have discovered that Iran produced and experimented with polonium, an element useful in initiating the chain reaction that produces a nuclear explosion, according to two individuals familiar with a report the inspectors will submit to the UN this week. Iran reportedly acknowledged the experiments but offered an explanation involving another of polonium's other possible uses, which include power generation. The discovery is the latest example of a nuclear activity that Iran had not previously disclosed.

Feb.22, 2004: Iran acknowledged on Sunday that it bought nuclear components on a shady black market amid mounting concern that the Islamic Republic may still be concealing sensitive nuclear research. Western diplomats in Vienna say Iran has given the IAEA the names of five European middlemen and six Pakistani scientists who helped Tehran acquire nuclear technology. Diplomats also say the IAEA has found parts usable in advanced "P2" centrifuges to produce enriched uranium in Iran . Iran late last year admitted to an 18-year cover-up of sensitive nuclear research and signed up to snap inspections of its nuclear facilities. There are still concern about Iran Nuclear weapons as it seems Iran is holding its own secret agenda.
Feb.19, 2004: A massive explosion aboard runaway train carriages hauling fuel and industrial chemicals killed more than 300 people in north eastern Iran yesterday, including top local officials, fire fighters and rescue workers who were extinguishing a blaze that began when the cars derailed. The explosion outside Neyshabur, an ancient city 650 kilometers (400 miles) east of the capital, Tehran , was so powerful that residents thought it was an earthquake. An estimated 350 to 400 people were also injured.
Feb.1, 2004: Ahead of elections later this month, 117 reformist lawmakers resigned from Iran's parliament Sunday, protesting the conservative Guardian Council election commission's disqualification of reform candidates. Iran is headed to a huge internal conflict that can escalate to a civil war between reformists and the hard-liners Mullah.

Jan 20, 2004:Farah was the only woman ever to be crowned in the history of Iran . As she lived in royal splendor. Today, as she continues her life in exile, and lives under police protection, she faces a death sentence in her own country if ever she dared to return. Tragedies followed tragedies in her life. Her father had died when she was barely nine. The Islamic Revolution overtook Iran and exiled her husband Shah and his family in 1979 in a most humiliating way. He passed away almost alone in Cairo in 1980. Then came the death of her mother Madame Farideh Didba, to whom she was emotionally attached, in Paris in 1999. Two years later, came the death of her youngest daughter, Leila, at the tender age of 31. Farah lived to see and experience it all, and yet gathered enough of her spirits to release her memoirs, marking the still beautiful lady's 65th birthday.

Jan.8, 2004: A 56-year-old man has been rescued alive, but in poor health, after spending 13 days beneath the rubble in Bam which was razed by an earthquake on 26 December. The man was unable to speak, the radio said. Aid workers said the rescued man, whose first name is thought to be Jalil, had travelled from a nearby village to stay with his sister in Bam the night before the earthquake struck. At least 30,000 people were killed by the earthquake in Bam, an ancient Silk Road city in southeastern Iran . Ninety percent of its buildings were also ruined.

Dec.29, 2003: Some 1,000 people were pulled out of the ruins of the quake-devastated southeastern Iranian city of Bam on Saturday and Sunday. Hopes of finding more earthquake survivors in Iran ’s ancient city of Bam faded Sunday as the sharp, foul smell of death permeated the pulverized rubble where mud-brick houses became instant tombs for more than 20,000 people. More than 20,000 bodies, including one American killed while visiting the city’s 2,000-year-old citadel, have been retrieved since Friday’s 6.6-magnitude earthquake shook the city and surrounding region in southeast Iran, a local government spokesman said. Another 10,000 people were hospitalized, the spokesman Asadollah Iranmanesh said. Other officials have expressed fears that the death toll could rise as high as 40,000.
Nov.27, 2003: The former head of Iran's revolutionary courts, reputed to have sent hundreds of people to the gallows, has died. Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali died aged 76 after battling health problems. He became known as the "hanging judge" for the number of people he sentenced to death in the first months after the 1979 Islamic revolution. He was seen on television poking with a stick the burnt corpses of US soldiers who were killed trying to rescue 52 hostages from the US embassy in Tehran. He should be labeled as a war criminal or just a cruel criminal. No honor should be given to such a man.
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July 20, 2003: UN inspectors have found enriched uranium in environmental samples taken in Iran, which could mean Tehran is purifying uranium without informing the UN watchdog, diplomats said.
July 18, 2003: Iran has issued over 15,000 visas to Saudi tourists during the past twenty days, said Iranian Charge d'Affaires in Riyadh. A huge number of tourists form the Persian Gulf countries have sounded very eager to travel to Iran for pilgrimage and recreational purposes in recent years.
July 12, 2003: an unexpected move, President Mohammad Khatami said he would resign if people want him to go, amid growing public dissatisfaction over his failure to fulfill promises of democratic reforms. Khatami has come under increasing pressure in recent months to stand firm against un-elected hard-liners and fulfill election promises of freedoms and democratic change.
April 22,2003: Iranian-trained agents have crossed into southern Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein and are working in the cities of Najaf, Karbala and Basra to promote friendly Shiite clerics and advance Iranian interests, according to defense and other United States government officials.
March 14,2003:Iran intends to continue expanding its civilian nuclear energy program despite U.S. allegations that it is a cover for a secret nuclear weapons program.
Feb.21,2003: As many as 280 feared dead in crash of Iranian airliner being used by military.
Feb.19,2003: Iranian-backed Iraqi opposition forces have crossed into northern Iraq from Iran with the aim of securing the frontier in the event of war, according to senior Iranian officials. The forces, numbering up to 5,000 troops, with some heavy equipment, are nominally under the command of Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, a prominent Iraqi Shia Muslim opposition leader who has been based in Iran since 1980 and lives in Tehran.
Feb.12,2003: Iranian police have launched a massive crackdown on Valentine's Day celebrations in a bid to limit Western influences. Shops were ordered to remove heart-themed decorations from their windows and Valentine cards were confiscated. That is the limited mind of Iranian Ruling government, trying to control and limit the freedom of people.
Dec.31,2002: Iran acknowledged on Tuesday that its air industry was suffering from U.S. sanctions and warned there will be more air disasters if sanctions on purchase of U.S.-made planes were not lifted.
Dec.26,2002:Hundreds of people are living in tents in western Iran after an earthquake damaged 3,000 houses.
Nov. 12 -- Students at Tehran University today protested the death sentence of a popular professor for a fourth straight day in a mounting challenge against the conservative judiciary that has sought to prevent liberalizing reforms in Iran. Several thousand young people have participated in Tehran, the sources said, and the protests were reported to have spread to the provincial cities of Hamadan, Oroumieh, Isfahan and Tabriz.

Oct. 15,2002: Iran said today that it planned to create 16 camps along its border with Iraq to shelter refugees fleeing a possible war there, but vowed not to let them enter the country.
Oct.11,2002: Iranian anti-drug forces have confiscated 72 tons of drugs since January as part of a campaign to combat narcotic smuggling from Afghanistan.
Some 137 tons of narcotics were confiscated last year.
Sept.8,2002: Iran has successfully test fired a ballistic missile potentially capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. Iran has built a number of missiles, including the Shahab-3 which was first tested in 1998, has a range of 1,300 kilometers (810 miles) and is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.Iran is believed to have received missile technology from Russia, China and North Korea, but Tehran has denied this.
August 26, 2002: Iran's reformist Parliament has approved a bill that would grant women a right to seek a divorce equal to that of men for the first time since the Islamic revolution in 1979.
August 15, 2002: Iran government has deported over 400 people to Saudi Arabia & Kuwait and some other countries. Most of these people are suspect of being Al Qaeda members. Nationalities include also Pakistani , French , British.
April 5,2002: Iranians burn an Israeli flag during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Tehran . Iran today , also became the second OPEC country to call for an oil embargo against Israel’s allies,
March 24,2002: Iran is showing more sign that it want to have more control over Afghanistan..recently Iran announced that it will pay the salaries of all [Afghan] university teachers for the first six months.
March 4,2002: Iran intends to purchase 10 new Airbus passenger aircraft and phase out around 30 Tupolev and Yak airliners leased from former Soviet states.
Jan.22,2002: Iran release 192 Iraqi men who had been detained in Iran since the 1991 Gulf War.

It is often referred to Iran & Iraq as the 2 devils , the reason are:

Their attitude to the Western countries & its neighboring countries.
Its political instability and their cruel and inhumane governments that they have in power.
They also support terrorism and give financial and military aids to many terrorist organization and individuals around the world especially in countries like: Saudia Arabia , Kuwait , Bahrain , UK , France , USA , Afghanistan , Egypt and many other countries.
They are next to each other , yet they hate each other.
The way they treat their citizens.

It is expected that by the year 2002 , that Iran will obtain the atomic bomb and long missile technology to build missile that could reach Europe and west coat of USA....What will USA & Israel do in this regard ...perhaps start another Gulf War!!???

Iran has started to mass produce mines sweepers. Iran plans to clear millions of mines that the Iraqi have planted during the Iran / Iraq 8 years of war.

Iran is spending billions of Dollars from Oil revenue on Arms purchases. Iran have purchased 3 advanced submarines , long range Rockets and even Weapons of Mass destruction. Iran Military is to buy Nuclear Technology from the old Soviet Unions countries.

There are some intelligent sources that say Iran already have the A bomb!!!

Iran is developing long range missile ( 800 Km) and over , these missile is not targeted or threatening Israel, but Iran want to threaten its Arab neighbors , as it continue with its expanding and domination policy.

The year 2000 Election in Iran:

In Iran the reform camp is wining?!!

MAJOR YOUTH VOTE
Approximately 38 million Iranians are eligible to vote in Friday’s election. A majority of Iran’s 62 million inhabitants are under 25—the voting age is 16—and many are impatient with the strict Islamic social rules, censorship and security restrictions under which they have grown up. Many have tales of being hassled or jailed for being found with videos or CDs from abroad.

The aim, said Mohammed Reza Khatemi, the president’s younger brother and a leader of the reform group’s parliamentary ticket, is a civil and democratic society open to the rest of the world, including the United States.

Internet Revolution in Iran:

Over 200,000 Iranians are actually surfing the net.

Neda, Iran’s first Internet Service Provider. Access to the Web is widespread in universities. Tens of thousands of individuals and businesses have signed up for e-mail service, and Iranian companies are increasingly posting their own Web pages.

Iran's press is heavily presented in the web.

Look at Hamshari, the biggest Tehran daily it gets 8.5 million hits a month. Also visit www.fatthnews.com.

http://www.president.ir is a site for President Khatami , was shut down by conservative religious authorities.

Mullahs with Modems!!!The Mullahs love the net and they think they can control it. Neda ,the only ISP in Iran is controlled by Mullahs.

The Mullahs have a lot of money and nothing to do but surf the net...

Eventually a new revolution will take over , supported by the Internet as the days of dictatorships of the Mullahs are over soon...

Student revolt in Iran: The students in Iran have demonstrated for over a week. They want freedom of speech and freedom of choice. The people in Iran are fed up with corruption and the increase of unemployment's and poverty. The control of the Mullah ( Islamic Clergy) have proved a disaster to Iran. They hold all top Government , banking and companies jobs. They have Iran under the grip of their hand. They are not really Islamist but opportunist , who want to use Islam to control the population of Iran. Sooner or later they will be overthrown by the free people of Iran. The student movement might strike the match of a new revolution , just look at what happened in Indonesia. The Mullahs in Iran will not give up power without a fight , therefore expect another bloody revolution.

The student revolution might as well spread to other countries in the area as the young generation discover how they can change the history and the way their country is ruled and governed and look forward for a better future.

The ruling Mullah's are not giving up easily and they are threatening to execute the leaders of the revolt. Do not they recognize that Iranian population are sick and tired of their rule. It is time to change. Iran can really prosper to be a wealthy nation , if there is a real democracy and corruption is put to an end.

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