Massive Explosion In Tabriz, Iran– Possible Missile Facility?
There was a massive explosion today in Tabriz, Iran.
There was a massive explosion today in Tabriz, Iran.
British MG Graham Binns sat with Basra governor Muhammam Musbih Al-Waili at the handover ceremonies of Basra from the Brits in December.
Iran claims that UN nuclear watchdog agency chief will clear the regime with his report that is due out in hours.The Iranian Fars News reported:The UN nuclear watchdog agency chief will, thus, announce the end of IAEA’s four-year-long probe into Iran’s case, the diplomats said, adding, “ElBaradei will likely announce that according to the survey findings, Iran’s nuclear activities have been peaceful, and thus, the country’s case should be normalized.” After four years of allegations by the US-led West about the non-peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear activities and after a long-time ploy by the western countries that the IAEA has not been able to wrap up a probe into the nature of Iran’s nuclear programs, the report to be presented by ElBaradei within hours seems to play a decisive role in annulling west’s claims about Iran’s nuclear drive.
Iranian human right’s activists are outraged that regime sympathizer Trita Parsi (pictured) will be included on Amnesty International’s Iranian Human Rights panel in Beverly Hills on Friday night.
Iran claimed that it fired a missile into space earlier this month.
An Iranian man and his buddy stoned the man’s 14 year-old daughter to death after suspecting that she was having a relationship.AKI reported:A man known as Sharif has reportedly stoned his fourteen-year-old daughter to death in southeastern Iran because for allegedly having a relationship with a man.
New Threats from the Iranian Regime…The Iranian Regime joined Hezbollah and vowed the destruction of Israel today.Fars News reported:A senior Iranian commander said that billions of the oppressed and justice-seeking people worldwide will soon be filled with much joy and happiness when they hear the news of the eventual victory of Islam over the devilish front of Zionism.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addresses a crowd during a rally to celebrate the 29th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution at Azadi Square, Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb.
Congratulations to Power Blog for hosting their First Annual Book Award ceremony at the Four Season’s Restaurant in New York City.The event was a great success:Scott Johnson and Paul Mirengoff from Power enjoy some conversation with Andrew Breitbart from Breitbart.com and The Drudge Report.Henry Kissinger spoke to the gathering at the Four Season’s.Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was the distinguished speaker tonight and congratulated his friend Norman Podhoretz on his award.Paul Wolfowitz congratulates Scott Johnson of Power and John Hinderaker’s wife, Loree.John Hinderaker from Power posed with his children for a picture before the gala.The first annual Powerline Book Award is being held tonight at the Four Season’s Restaurant in New York City.Again, here is the background on the first Power Book Awards:This year the award went to Norman Podhoretz for his outstanding analysis on the war against radical Islam: World War IV: The Long Struggle Against IslamofascismPowerline reported the exciting news about this award last week:We proudly announce our selection of World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism by Norman Podhoretz as the Power book of the year (2007).
Eyeballs and all.The Iranian Regime claims it has made a mouse from stem cells.Fars NewsBazteb News reported on this monumental stem cell breakthrough:Scientists of the Royan Research Center has successfully produced a mouse using embryonic stem cells, it was reported on Saturday.
Iran says that Turkey’s approval of the Hijab law shows Islam has prevailed in the country.Yeah!After all…
Another child is about to be executed in Iran…The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s judiciary Ayatollah Shahrudi has approved the execution of Behnam Zare.
The bitter cold this winter has forced the Iranians to beg the regime for heating fuel.
A new low for the mullahs….She wants to see her ailing father but the mullahs say they will kill her if she steps foot in Iran.Stefania reported…Former Iranian pornstar Aylar Lie says she wants to go back to Iran to see her ailing father.
Chomsky is a hit in Iran.Noam Chamsky goes on an anti-Israel tirade during his interview with the Iranian news service.The Iranian Mehr News is reporting on their exclusive interview with America-hating Leftist Noam Chomsky:Noam Chomsky, a widely known intellectual and political activist, says an immediate punishment of Palestinians started “for the crime of not following orders” by Israel and U.S.
Iran is facing a harsh winter this year.At least 60 people have died in the freezing temperatures.
The Iranain Regime murdered imprisoned student activist Ebrahim Latfollahi.
It was actually “Joseph and Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”, but what the heh.Maybe Andrew Lloyd Webber could do the music?Sean Penn could play Joseph for the regime?…In a cool multi-colored coat!After the great success of the Iranian production of the blonde poodle-like Jesus production on the life of Jesus sans the Crucifixion, the Iranian Fars News reported:CMI execs have even bigger plans for their follow-up skein, a $20 million version of the life of Joseph and his multi-colored coat, helmed by Farajollah Salahshoor, that is set to be one of Iran’s biggest-budget productions ever.
The Iranian regime sent out their marching orders to the media.U.S.
UPDATE: Kamangir has more on Ebrahim Lotfollahi’s brutal murder by the Iranian Regime.A leaflet announcing a service for Ebrahim, published by his family.UPDATE 2: The Iranian Regime says that imprisoned student Ebrahim Lotfollahi committed suicide!Iranian regime murders student activist.Kurdish student Ebrahim Lotfollahi died in custody of Iranian regime after 10 days of detention.
(Updated and Bumped)The Iranian Fars News service plagiarized their story from FOX News about a group of useful peacenuts who took an organized trip to Iran planned by the regime.Iranian Fars News has this article posted today about a group of Indiana peace activists who traveled to Iran to find a land of honey and sweets and lovely meadows filled with buttercups.Funny…
Iran beat a Kurdish prisoner bloody and then hung him while he was still on a stretcher.Kurd Net says that Hassan Hikmat Demir was arrested last year during demonstrations against the regime in Iran and hung late last month.
Weasel Zippers reported this movie news today…Jesus the poodle.Iranian actor, Ahmad Soleimani Nia plays the role of Jesus in Iran’s latest version of “Jesus, the Spirit of God.” (AFP)Iran released their own version of “The Passion of Christ” but without the Crucifixion and bleached hair.AFP reported: A director who shares the ideas of Iran’s hardline president has produced what he says is the first film giving an Islamic view of Jesus Christ, in a bid to show the “common ground” between Muslims and Christians.Nader Talebzadeh sees his movie, “Jesus, the Spirit of God,” as an Islamic answer to Western productions like Mel Gibson’s 2004 blockbuster “The Passion of the Christ,” which he praised as admirable but quite simply “wrong”.”Gibson’s film is a very good film.
They’re doing more than praying in the Iranian Holy City of Qom.
I couldn’t have said it better myself…”The No.
Mitt Romney was terrific in defending his Massachusetts record on Right to Life issues.
Iran Human Rights reported that this latest sentence is carried out by packing the victim in a bag and throw it off a cliff.In 2004 a 14 year-old Iranian boy was tortured publicly by whipping him to death.
Iran Press TV released their own version of the incident on Sunday in the Strait of Hormuz.
Kamangir is reporting that the regime in Iran is now claiming that the the boats that harassed the 3 US Ships on Sunday were ACTUALLY AMERICAN SHIPS!Here is a photo of the incident from Iranian Fars News:The audio of the Iranian threats to explode the American ships is posted HERE.The Iranian regime also said the so-called documented footages was a “clumsy fabrication.”UPDATE: Sadly, the Left believes the Iranian regime that the video was bogus.UPDATE 2: Kamangir has updates on the Iranian boats.
The US Navy released video and audio on Tuesday that confirmed the explosive threats made by the Iranian regime against the US ships in the Strait of Hormuz -Herald Sun.Here is the threatening audio by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats that the US Navy released Tuesday:Iranian Fars News said it was just an “ordinary incident” with US ships…That is before the audiotape was released.The Iranian voice on the audiotape says:”I am coming to you…
They chugged his backwash like it was grape Kool-Aid!Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his water at the podium.(ISNA )President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad showed up at the Iranian Parliament today.Kamangir explained the giddy reaction by the Parliamentarians to this festive occasion:A large group of MPs were lined up in order to greet him.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats threatened US ships in the Strait of Hormuz this weekend.(Iran Press News Photo)The Times Online says the Iranians were threatening a suicide mission on the American ships.Iranian Revolutionary Guard members confronted and harassed three US ships in the Strait of Hormuz this weekend.Reuters reported:In what U.S.
The Iranian national soccer team is under great pressure to win.And, Iranian sports reporters are under their own kind of pressure.Iran Press News (Persian) reports on the challenges of reporting soccer in Iran:And, that took place in front of the bleachers.It’s a good thing he was only reporting on sports.
Mahmood Ramtin & Atish Pareh grind out the beat in Tehran: I am hoping to find more on this video which was posted on Iran Press News (Persian).
Back in 2005(?) the Iranian regime held one of their blessed nuke protests.This photo was originally taken at one of those nuke protests:Iranian human rights activist Banafsheh Zand Bonazzi translated:I got to see the picture with the original slogan on the placard…
Being a regime that hates Israel has its drawbacks…You are more likely to find a photo on wiping out Israel:Or, stomping out the Jews:Than pro-Jewish photos.So, what does a Jew-hating regime do when they need a “pro-Jewish” photo for a propaganda piece?They swipe it from a satire website!The People’s Cube posted this “Iran Hearts Jews” spoof back in 2005:After 40 Iranian Jews escaped to Israel earlier this week the regime in Iran needed a pro-Jewish photo for their propaganda piece:So they swiped this Photoshopped protest picture from The People’s Cube.The People’s Cube wrote in with this:We are a popular satirical website in the US, standing for freedom and capitalism, making fun of the radical Left in America and worldwide.
The regime in Iran would find some likely supporters back in the USA.The leader of the Iranian Parliament Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said today that the Western powers are acting like the anti-Christ.Fars News reported: Iran’s Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said measures and actions of the western powers are against the teachings and aspirations of the holy Jesus Christ, stressing that western powers stand against the Christ as they are a symbol of war and animosity.
This is probably not the best endorsement for Mike Huckabee…It’s not too often that a Republican gets good press in Iran.Huck did today.Top Republican Candidate Wants Dialog with Iran Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki said yesterday that by holding direct talks with the Islamic Republic the US would show that they have gotten a better understanding of Iran’s key role in the region and its determination to obtain its legal rights.
Mullah Meltdown…The regime in Iran is still perplexed over how pornographic images were able to be broadcast from the downtown Karaj billboard.This didn’t tie-in too well with their modesty campaign.For those who missed it- Here’s the video of the prank that was originally posted by the Iranian Press News Persian website:(Caution: May not be appropriate for work!)NOTE– If this gets pulled again there’s always JewTube(FYI: This was the third YouTube video link to this that I’ve posted…
First the regime in Iran cracked down on:* Beautiful women with hair showing* Beautiful women with blond hair showing* Women with hair showing who talk back* Women’s rights activists* Satellite dishes* Young men with long hair* Young men with short sleeves* Pajamas and shorts in the hallway* Iranian rappers* Manly makeup, ties and bowties* Breasts on mannequinsNow, the regime ruling Iran is banning all smoking in public places including: public organizations, hotels, restaurants, tea houses and coffee shops.
Yesterday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated that Islam’s ultimate goal is the “establishment of a global Islamic government.”Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also promised a strong victory over the Zionist regime during his spiritual pilgrimage to Mecca this week.
In April, top Iranian cleric Gholam-Reza Hassani compared unveiled women to buses– “Anyone can ride them.”Now, he wants them dead.The Iranian regime continues their crackdown on women.Gholam-Reza Hassani, one of Iran’s most fervent Muslim clerics, keeps a machine gun as artwork in his office.
Maryam Hosseinkhah is a Women’s Rights activist who was imprisoned by the regime for her efforts towards the “One Million Signature Campaign to change Discriminatory laws towards women.” Additionally, Jelveh Javaheri, another women’s rights activist, was imprisoned as well.They are being held at the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran.Noted Iranian photographer Arash Ashoorinia took pictures at the protest.
Sadly, someone played a video switcheroo on the Iranian hardliners.This probably didn’t sit too well with the mullahs and their battle against immodesty and women.The billboard video display was certainly not cleric approved but it was a big hit on the streets of Karaj as you can tell by all of the background noise.Iranian Press News posted the video from YouTube:(Caution: Raw Nakededness!
On International Human Rights Day the Iranian regime arrested 20 student leaders who led campus protests on Sunday.
Tehran University Erupts!!”Live Free Or Die!”(ISNA)Iranian human rights activist Banafsheh Zand Bonazzi passed on that the students said there were attacks on the Basij guards who attack them.The AP questions that clashes took place however they were chanting against Ahmadinejad.(ISNA)(ISNA)”Ahmadi-Pinochet, Iran will not become Chile!” the students shouted!The AFP reported:Hundreds of Iranian students held a new protest at Tehran University on Sunday, damaging the main gate to allow outsiders into the campus and denouncing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s news agencies reported.The protesters chanted slogans against the president and carried banners calling for the release of three fellow students who have been held since May in a high-profile case, the Fars news agency and state-run IRNA reported.”The students marched on the gate and damaged it, and this allowed several non-students to enter the campus.
The regime in Iran broke up another student protest today at Tehran University.Iranian university students protested outside of Allameh University after Ahmadinejad’s trip to the US.
Members of Iran’s navy force shout anti-U.S.
19 year-old Makwan Moloudzadeh was hung on Wednesday for having gay relations when he was 13.The 19 year-old was pardoned by an Iranian judge in November but the regime hung him anyway.Today, 6,000 Iranians attended his funeral in Paveh.The lawyer representing Makwan Moloudzadeh said neither he nor Makwan’s family had been warned of the imminent execution.The final days of Makwan’s life were absolutely horrible:Prior to his execution, Makwan engaged in a hunger strike of ten days to protest the physical and psychological torture he’d been subjected to while in custody to make him confess…
For some odd reason…
Makvan Mouloodzadeh was executed in Kermanshah Central Prison at 5 a.m.
An obviously outraged John Bolton is making the rounds this week pounding the intelligence community for putting politics before intelligence gathering in reporting on the Iranian nuclear threat.Today Former UN Ambassador John R.
Earlier today The Wall Street Journal reported on the anti-Bush authors of the NIE Report:Our own “confidence” is not heightened by the fact that the NIE’s main authors include three former State Department officials with previous reputations as “hyper-partisan anti-Bush officials,” according to an intelligence source.
The National Intelligence Estimate Report released yesterday claiming that Iran gave up on nukes in 2003 caused quite an uproar.Now, the Iranian Regime is demanding an apology from the US for its “belligerent statements against the Islamic Republic.”But, unlike the NIE Report authors, not everyone is ready to join in the Iranian nuke dance just yet.Saudi Arabia and Kuwait fear that the Iranian regime is not developing its nuclear program for peaceful purposes.
The Iranian Regime continues its crackdown…Kamangir has the story and more photos.Iran is also going after the Iranian rap artists…
Iran announced that it launched its second domestically produced submarine, equipped with an anti-sonar system that they claim is completely undetectable to sonar.Bazteb News proudly displayed the new sub:Click to EnlargeShe’s a beauty!Too bad the new submarine is an old Soviet submarine!The submarine they picture has been around awhile, via DIA:SOVIET DELTA SUBMARINE FIRING SS-N-18 MISSILES – Edward L.
Finally, Archbishop Tutu is called out on the carpet.Sudanese Human rights activist and former slave Simon Deng blasted Archbishop Desmond Tutu for his outrageous remarks at an anti-Israeli conference in Boston.Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, right, and Desmond Tutu, left, the Archbishop of Cape Town shmooze at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations meeting at United Nations headquarters Tuesday, Sept.
It’s especially rough when other bloggers are snitching on you to the Iranian regime.Hossein Derakhshan, or Hoder, is sometimes called the “Blogfather of Iran” and is responsible for being the brains behind the thousands of blogs in Iran.
300,000 Iraqis, including 600 Shiite leaders, condemn Iran in a petition.”The most poisonous dagger stabbed in us, the Iraqi Shi’ites, is the (Iranian) regime shamefully exploiting the Shi’ite sect to implement its evil goals.