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Italians, Jews and Iranians protested against the visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today.Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Spanish Steps to rally against the Israel-hating/America-hating/Bush-hating president of Iran:(Click on the photos to enlarge them.)Keep Your Burka, Mahmoud!The black ninjas gathered on the steps.These photos were sent directly from the protest today at the Spanish Steps.At 8 pm, tonight in Rome there will be another demonstration organized by the Italian newspaper IL RIFORMISTA in the Piazza del Popolo in Rome where thousands of people, including members of parliament are expected.Freedom!Photographs are by Andrea Loquenzi Holzer in Italy at the request of Iranian human rights activist Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi.

(ISNA)The Iranian regime again called on Muslims to erase Israel.The Gulf-Daily reported: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki yesterday called on the world’s Muslims to work to “erase” Israel, in the latest verbal attack by Tehran against the Jewish state.”As the Imam Khomeini said, if each Muslim even throws a bucket of water on Israel, Israel will be erased,” said Mottaki in Tehran, recalling a saying by Iran’s late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparked international outrage when called for Israel to be “wiped from the map”.While Ahmadinejad and top military commanders regularly predict the demise of Israel, such virulent attacks from the foreign ministry are relatively unusual.

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The moderate Iraqi Ayatollah remains moderate.On Saturday, the Iranian regime’s propaganda department reported that Iraqi Ayatollah Ali Sistani would not allow a ‘security accord’ between the US and Iraq as long has he was alive.This accord will include agreements and guidelines on US bases in Iraq.Iranian Press TV reported:Iraq’s most revered Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has strongly objected to a ‘security accord’ between the US and Iraq.

An Iranian cleric called feminists whores and foreign spies out to destabilize the regime.AKI reported:A top Iranian cleric from the northeast, Ayatollah Ahmad Elmalhoda, has reportedly called feminists “whores and foreign spies”.

A car bomb exploded in Tehran today.There were no immediate reports of casualties.Iranian Fars News reported:A car bomb exploded in a western suburb of the Iranian capital Tehran on Monday.

Either Jimmy Carter is really, really stupid or he really, really hates Israel.Jimmy Carter bashes Bush- wants US to give Iran nuclear fuel.Iranian Fars News reported:Carter Urges US to Resume Ties with Iran TEHRAN (FNA)- Former US President Jimmy Carter urged Washington to establish friendly ties with Tehran, reiterating the need for his country to resume trade relations with Iran, which he described as a “rational” nation.

On Thursday there was a bogus story from Iraq published by the Associated Press.

It’s not just US soldiers the regime is killing.Mahdi Army fighters gesture as they stand next to a burning Iraq armored police vehicle.

More Hope and Change—“The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways.

In 2007 Iran led the world in executing gays.In 2005, in a highly publicized case, Iranian gay teens Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni (pictured) were hanged by the regime.International Gay Rights Day passed by yesterday on May 17th without much fanfare.The date was chosen because it marks the anniversary of the removal on May 17 1990 by the General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) of homosexuality from their list of mental disorders.

The Iranian regime celebrated the 60 year birthday of the “stinking corpse” of Israel with tombstones…(ISNA)Iranian President Ahmadinejad promised the end of the “dying regime” is near and said that celebrating Israel’s birthday will not give life to the dead body.Al Bawaba reported:Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday denounced the 60th anniversary of Israel’s establishment.

Iranian activist Ardeshir Dolat discovered the source to Obama’s 57 states!-Here-Of course!

The Iraqi Shiite government is fighting back against the illegal practices of the Iranian Shiite regime.Iraqi-American Haider Ajina sends the following article from Voices of Iraq: Shiites Maintain Strong Nationalistic Ties to Iraq Wednesday , 07 /05 /2008 Time 10:24:36 Baghdad, May 7, (VOI)- Iraqi ambassador in Washington said on Wednesday that the majority of Iraqi Shiites maintain strong nationalistic ties to Iraq, noting that they in fact present a threat to the Iranian state rather than the other way around.

A group of Iraqi Sunni leaders on a trip to Egypt urged Arab States to help against the “Iranian Occupation” of Iraq.The AFP reported:An Iraqi Sunni delegation on a visit to Cairo on Wednesday urged Arab countries to act against what it called the “Iranian occupation” of Iraq.

An Iraqi policeman examines a weapon, one of scores seized by Iraqi security forces in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 3, 2008.

The Iranian Regime recorded 15,000 drug busts in the first month of the Iranian New Year which began on March 20th.Iranian Rooz Online reported:Though the chief of Iran’s national police force, Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam, had ‎previously announced a sharp reduction in the volume of drug imports into Iran, the ‎police commander for drug control reported this week the discovery of 35 tons and 299 ‎kilograms of various kinds of drugs and 15-thousand drug related arrests in the first ‎month of the Persian new year (which began on March 20th, 2008) alone.

The Iranian Regime along with Algeria and Egypt blocked a Jewish NGO from attending the UN’s conference on racism.Iran is very proud of this.Iranian Fars News reported:A Canadian pro-Israeli group was forced to withdraw its application to attend the United Nations conference on racism after repeated objections by Iran.

Hundreds of Iranian students at Amir Kabir University protested “Dictator” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he made a visit to campus back in November.17 Iranian students were taken to the hospital after going on a hunger strike at Amir Kabir University in Tabriz.AFP reported:Seventeen Iranian students have been hospitalised after going on a hunger strike to protest strict rules at a university in the northwestern city of Tabriz, press reported Wednesday.

Oh, Brother…

“We’re going to burn you naked or put a bullet in your mouth.”Islamists to Dutch Artist Sooreh HeraAfter her photos of gay men with Mohammad masks were displayed Times Online Dutch artist Sooreh Hera is still in hiding and her photos are still not on display.Sooreh HeraStrike Three…

Thank you, Carl!Anne Bayesfsky, the editor of EYE on the UN and representing the Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, tees off on the Iranian and Syrian UN delegates at the Durban Review Preparatory Committee in Geneva.

The Iranians got within 200 yards of the US ship!Coastal Patrol Ships (PC)- USS Typhoon PC 5 (OKNAPC)FOX reported that there were two Iranian boats involved.The USS Typhoon tried unsuccessfully to establish radio contact with a small Iranian boat after it came within an estimated 200 yards of the Typhoon on Thursday April 10, 2008 outside Iranian territorial waters.

Human Rights expert Anne Bayefsky from EYE on the UN is attending the Preparatory Committee meetings for the Durban Review Conference.

On Saturday April 12, 2008 a bomb blast ripped through a crowded mosque in Shiraz, Iran.

Hillary went there…She threw in the Osama Bin Laden shot in her latest TV ad!Here’s Hillary’s new Republican TV ad:The image didn’t slip by CNN:With only one day left until voters in Pennsylvania head to the polls, Hillary Clinton launched a television ad there that includes images from the attacks on Pearl Harbor, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Osama Bin Laden…”Harry Truman said it best – if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Last year Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed there were no gays in Iran.Last year Iran also led the world in executing gays.Iranian Rooz News reported that Iran leads the world in persecuting gays:According to Amnesty ‎International, Iran had the highest number of execution of homosexuals in that year.

Former President Jimmy Carter met with Hamas terror leaders today….Once again the worst ex-President in history, Jimmy Carter, undermined a sitting US President for his own selfish and foolish agenda.

The regime continues to erase evidence of the rich and historic Iranian culture.A photo taken inside one of the Jewish synagogues in Tehran.

Kamangir found this poster of Iranian Leader Ayatollah Khameneii handing over the flag of the “Shia armies” to the Mahdi.

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At least 9 are dead in the mosque explosion!–Iran Press News received an email that there may have been 3 explosions.Iranians gather near the scene of a bomb explosion in a mosque which killed several people, in the city of Shiraz, 559 miles (990 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Saturday, April 12, 2008.

Arrrooooooooooh!!!Top Iranian cleric says that unveiled women turn men into beasts and cause a very serious problem to a society.AKI reported:Mashad, 10 April (AKI) – A top Shia cleric in Iran has said that unveiled women are a serious danger to Iranian society as they cause men to be “transformed into beasts”.

MAHMOUD IS A TRUTHER.And, there are no gays in Iran.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the official reporting on the 9-11 attacks yesterday in Tehran on National Nuke Day.

The regime in Iran is starting work on a movie response to Fitna.

In January, bloated drug-addicted former soccer star and communist Diego Maradona sent a sweaty T-shi(r)t to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad President of the Iranian Regime.Maradona left this message:”I have already met [Cuban President] Fidel [Castro], [Venezuelan President Hugo] Chavez, now I just want to meet your president, Ahmadinejad”, Maradona told the ambassador.

Tehran Police Chief, Reza Zarei, was caught in a bed with six prostitutes.He liked to watch them to take all their dresses and pray completely nude.Tehran’s police chief, Reza Zarei, led the modesty crackdown on women in Tehran.

Iranian law provides punishments up to death for homosexuality.”Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both,” an Iranian official Mohsen Yahyavi, told British MP’s in 2007.Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni were two gay teens hanged by the regime in 2005.Police in Esfahan, Iran arrested 30 men at a private party and have been holding the men in jail for four weeks without access to a lawyer.The police examiner is looking for evidence that the men are homosexual.Iran Press News reported:The arrest of more than 30 men attending a party in a private home in the city of Esfahan signals renewed efforts by Iranian authorities to enforce “morality” codes, and highlights the fragility of basic rights in a country where police powers routinely undermine privacy, Human Rights Watch said today.

Iranian human rights activist Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi sends this news:The Center for American Studies in Rome whose Libyan Director, Karim Mezran, is a good friend of the Mullahs among other diabolical Islamo-Imperialists for whom he works very hard.Karim MezranThe president is Giuliano Amato who is one of the most corrupt ex-Italian Senators and Minister of Interior of the now ousted Romano Prodi administration– who were all disgracefully impeached 7 weeks ago.Giuliano AmatoThese men are planning the below sham of a conference on Islam-Catholicism and politics (click here for conference details).

Colombian authorities tipped off Costa Rican officials about a huge stash of FARC cash in an old safe house earlier this month.

Pope Benedict XVI baptises journalist Magdi Allam (R) as he celebrates a Easter Vigil mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican March 22, 2008.

Iranian Fars News was excited to report this interview with former failed UN leader and Elder Kofi Annan:At a wide-ranging round-table with journalists, Annan said he didn’t have enough information to comment on the justification for the UN Security Council’s demand that Iran suspend uranium enrichment until it allays Washington’s suspicions about its nuclear program.

Young women dared to discard their veils during the youth parties this week.A woman dances with men during the “Chaharshanbeh Soori” festival in Tehran March 18, 2008.

The US media ignored today the 20 year Anniversary of the Halabja Massacre.ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, AP and Reuters did not run reports on this historic anniversary.

Iranian students held a 90 minute silent protest against Israel and in honor of the victims of Gaza violence.(ISNA)(ISNA)(ISNA)”Christ is again on the Cross in Gaza”Hmm…

When you got it- You got it…Some guys just have a way with the ladies.

The Shiraz students are chanting, “Long live freedom!”More than 3,000 students protested against the regime at Shiraz University in Iran.The students have been protesting daily for the last 9 days.Here is one of the many video clips that the students are loading on the internet: (33 seconds)The brave students at Shiraz University continued their protests against the regime yesterday- the 9th day of continuing protests.

Next They Came For the Faces…Iran bans “the face”– It causes unnecessary waste.(Flickr)The regime in Iran banned faces on political posters today.Iranian Fars News reported:Iranian politicians may find it tougher to reach out to voters in this month’s parliament election when campaigning started on Thursday because of a ban on posters bearing their photographs.

Not everyone was happy about Ahmadinejad’s trip to Iraq…Iraqis continued their protests against Mahmoud today in Baghdad.A demonstrator holds a sign that reads “Your visit underestimates the price we paid in our blood” as she chants slogans during a protest in Baghdad’s Adhamiya district March 3, 2008.

A demonstrator chants slogans as he holds the former national Iraqi flag during a protest in Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, March 2, 2008.

The Iranian students are restless…Shiraz University students marched and threatened the regime with an uprising.The students at Shiraz University in Iran promised to rise up against the regime during protests this week.

In 1988 the Iranian regime slaughtered from 3,000 to 8,000 political prisoners in a vicious campaign during the end of the Iran-Iraq War.

12 Iranian labor leaders were sentenced to 91 days in jail and 10 lashes for holding a union rally on May Day last year.The regime in Iran is cracking down on organized labor.12 union leaders are sentenced to 91 days in jail and 10 lashes for holding a protest last May Day.Radio Farda reported:Sedigh Amjadi, a worker from Sanandaj in Kurdistan province was subject to 10 lashes on February 16, 2008 for participating in the May Day celeberations two years ago.

Iranian shoppers took to the streets of Shahrud to protest against the regime this week.YouTube Video of the protest was posted at Iran Press News: In the video the shoppers are chanting against the regime after the arrest of a young female.Ardeshir Arian at Pajamas Media has more on the protest against the regime.In related news…