Yvonne Ridley has said many times that she can not differentiate between a Stealth Bomber and a suicide bomber.Today the British journalist writes a British-bashing piece at the Tehran Times.Yvonne Ridley is a British journalist politician best known for her capture by the Taliban and subsequent conversion to Islam in 2003.
Pot Meet Kettle…An Iranian protests in support of the destruction of Israel at an earlier state sanctioned rally in Tehran.Iran is protesting against the unlawful threats by Israel at the UN.Fars News reports: TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The Iranian ambassador to the UN, in a letter to the secretary-general, complained that the UN Security Council has done nothing to stop Israel’s “unlawful and dangerous threats” against Iran.
Iran Increases Bounty on Rushdie’s Islamophobic Hide!!!After Salman Rushdie’s knighthood earlier this week, Iran bumped up the prize for his death.An Iranian spokesman said the decision to praise the “apostate” showed Islamophobia among British officials.
Three more Iranian diplomats were arrested today in Iraq.US soldiers on Friday reportedly arrested three Iranian diplomats north of Baghdad.
As Kamangir pointed out- Today (June 14, 2007) at a protest in Tehran-(Mehr)Another shot from today outside the British Embassy.(ISNA)And earlier…
The moderate Iranian Ayatollah Boroujerdi was sentenced to death this week on trumped up charges by the regime.
Sex, Lies and Videotape…Former Iranian President was caught on tape actually “touching” the opposite sex in public during his stop in Italy.The hardliners are outraged!The illicit act was caught on tape.YouTube Video HERE (4 minute mark)The video footage is causing quite a stir in Iran where hardliners are blasting him for his immoral actions.So, what is an Iranian cleric to do?…
Former Bolivian Congressman and Ambassador Jose Brechner warned of the courtship of radical Islam with Central-South American Leftists in a discussion this past week at the Democracy and Security Conference in Prague, Czech Republic.
Today’s Iranian threat on the destruction of Israel comes from the Majlis (assembly) leader, Gholam-Ali Haddid-Adel.Bazteb reported:Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel on Wednesday condemned atrocities of the Zionist regime in violating sanctity of Al-Aqsa mosque and destruction of a part of the international culture and civilization.
Former Bolivian Congressman and Ambassador Jose’ Brechner discloses information on the recent infiltration of Bolivia by radical Islamists from Iran, Libya and other Middle Eastern nations.Jose’ Brechner divulges that the first ever Iranian Ambassador to Bolivia is seen out in public often with Bolivian Marxist President Evo Morales.
Iran Press News and The Daily Telegraph reported this latest accusation against the Iranian regime:Tony Blair yesterday accused Iran of arming Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in order to stir “chaos” and inflict more casualties on Western troops.The Prime Minister’s allegation follows the disclosure in The Daily Telegraph that British intelligence believes that Iran has given the Taliban surface-to-air missiles.In an article in The Economist, Mr Blair also conceded that al-Qa’eda had successfully manipulated public opinion of those in the West into believing that their own governments were responsible for provoking the terrorist threat.British troops in southern Afghanistan are heavily engaged against Taliban fighters, many of whom are infiltrating the country from bases in neighbouring Pakistan.Iran’s Shia regime was once an arch enemy of the avowedly Sunni Taliban.advertisementBut common antipathy towards America, Britain and the West appears to have thrust them together.
Students from Tehran’s Amir Kabir University announced that they would hold a rally on campus Monday calling on authorities to release seven of their arrested fellow pupils.Here is the flyer they posted and circulated among students across Tehran that demands the release of their fellow student leaders currently held by the regime:(Iran Focus)The protest was held as scheduled.Pajamas Media has video from the rally- HERE.And…
Ready to rumble…The Iranian regime continues its massive crack down on the youth of Iran in what they claim is a campaign against “street gangs”.Some people woonder “who are the real gang members here?”Kamangir and Iran Press News have video of one “arrest”.Warning- It is very violent:Kamangir has more clips of the regime abuse.It’s just another day’s work for the regime thugs.If AI wasn’t so busy castigating America and Israel and making silly Bush-bashing cartoons maybe they could say something about such outrageous abuse.
Iranian officials deny the recent reports that an Iraqi Shia, linked to the Iranian officials detained by the US in Erbil, was behind the recent blast in Erbil that killed at least 19 Iraqis.Iranian Bazteb News reported:Iran’s Embassy in Baghdad on Friday denied a report by Al-Arabiya satellite channel allegedly linking recent blasts in Iraq’s Kurdistan with Iranian diplomats detained by US forces.
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD RAMPS UP THREATS!”Once Iran is established as a nuclear state, All the world nations would come under the political flag of Iran!”(I thought they said it was a peaceful nuclear program?)Yesterday he threatened to eliminate the “Zionist Criminals”.Today Mahmoud warns that…
Maybe during talks next week with Iran the US could ask about this…While speaking to an assembled crowd in Isfahan, Iranian President Ahmadinejad again threatened to Eliminate the Zionist Regime!Iranian News reported:IRNAPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here on Thursday that the Zionist regime will face other nations’s anger if repeats its past mistakes such as Lebanon’s invasion.
An Iranian website offers more details on the latest American arrested in Iran.Kian Tajbakhsh joins three other Americans detained by the Iranian Regime.Iran Press News reports on the Soros consultant working in Iran who was arrested recently:Another Iranian-American arrested in Iran The regime-run site Baztab reports: Following the arrest of Haleh Esfandiyari in Iran and the White House’s claim that 3 other women were also arrested in Iran; American newspapers now claim a 4th arrest, and they blame the Islamic Republic of trouble-making on the verge negotiations between Iran and America.The Washington Post claims that Kian Tajbakhsh, the 4th Iranian-American who has been imprisoned in Iran in recent weeks.
The Regime in Iran is now holding 4 Americans.Iran alleges that the involvement of Soros and his Iranian consultant Kian Tahbakhsh in a plot to overthrow the regime was revealed in a full confession by another American detainee Haleh Esfandiari.Kian Tajbakhsh joins three other Americans detained by the Iranian Regime.
** BEATEN BLOODY BY THE “MODESTY” POLICE!
In Iran, marriage is not the biggest human rights concern for gays…Death and flogging top the list.Farshad and Farham (jtwnetwork.nl)In the Islamic Republic of Iran, male homosexual acts, or lavat, are punishable by death.
IT WAS A YEAR AGO TODAY…
This is just awesome!You don’t need to speak Farsi to get this…Iranian rappers bash the regime for their brutal crackdown on women.IT IS POWERFUL!(5 minutes 29 seconds)Via Iran Press News
THEY’RE BEATING THE WOMEN SENSELESS IN IRAN!!Masih blog has more photos from the bloody attacks in Tehran on unveiled women.Kamangir has the rundown from the Iranian blogosphere.The Iranian blogosphere is all over this…Will America ignore this brutality??????????Iran Press News released this photo yesterday on the crackdown against women.Kamangir translated this gruesome story of abuse against the Iranian woman.Good God!UPDATE: Here’s the video.Previously:Mullah Compares Unveiled Women to Buses: “Anyone Can Ride Them” Despite Protests Iran Begins Massive Crackdown On Women Pajama Wars Heat Up at Iranian Campus Iran Continues Crackdown…
Iranian police get prepared for a raid…Iran Focus has updates on the continuing crackdown across Iran.
Here is the latest on imprisoned American-Iranian scholar- Dr.
At least six students, four of whom are connected with student publications, from Amir Kabir Polytechnic in the capital, Tehran, have been arrested and are believed to be held in the city’s Evin Prison:Bejaz Ahmad Qasabian (m)Moqdad Khalilpour (m)Pooya Mahmoudian (m) Majid Tavakkoli (m) Majid Sheikhpour (m)Babak Zamanian (m)(Payvand News) This week students at the university protested for the release of their classmates.Is Mahmoud listening?Iran Focus reported on the latest protest against the Iranian regime at Amir Kabir Polytechnic University in Tehran this week:Students from Tehran’s Amir Kabir University held a protest on campus on Tuesday, demanding that authorities release fellow pupils who had been arrested for taking part in anti-government demonstrations.The students held photos of seven of their classmates who had been detained along with a black-and-white banner with the words, “Hey President!
And, for some reason the authorities believe he is somehow connected to the disappearance of missing Iranian spy Alireza Asghari.ADN Kronos reported:Mehdi Boutorabi, the CEO of Persian Blog, a service company for Iranian bloggers, was arrested Sunday in his Tehran office, reports said Monday.
The economic situation in Iran is dreadful and Hugo Chavez is responding.Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, left, embraces Bolivia’s President Evo Morales at the inauguration of the Alba Games in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Saturday, April 28, 2007.
A very brave Iranian woman rips off her veil and imposed Islamic dress in public to protest against the Iranian Regime’s modesty laws!
Hundreds of Afghan protesters carried signs condemning “Devil” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his forces for dumping refugees back into Afghanistan.Iran evicted 25,000 Afghan refugees in the span of a few days.An Afghan demonstrator holds a banner, which says ‘ Islam has no border’ during a protest in front of the Iranian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, May 1, 2007.
Iran Press News and The New York Times reported Monday that Basij (regime) thugs beat the students with clubs as they went to vote for the democracy association at Amir Kabir university in Tehran.Amir Kabir is where students booed Ahmadinejad when he visited the university in December and set fire to posters with his picture.So far 3 student leaders have been arrested by the regime at Amir Kabir in the last month.
Iranian officials continue their brutal crackdown on university students…The BBC reported today that another student leader at AmirKabir University was arrested by the regime after violent anti-regime protests last week.
Azeri reporter Rafiq Tagi (pictured below) brought hatred against Islam and the Prophet Muhammad by writing an article comparing Islamic countries to Europe.
Iranian students at Amir Kabir University held protests this past week on campus until regime thugs came in and beat them with chains.Iran continues to persecute the university students in Tehran and arrested another student leader on Friday.ADN Kronos reported:A student of top Tehran university Amir Kabir Polytechnic was arrested Friday amid campus rallies.
Nazanin is the voice for the voiceless…Iran Press News (Farsi) posted this amazing video by the beautiful former Miss World Canada Nazanin Afshin-Jam.Born in Tehran during the turmoil of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Nazanin’s family was forced to leave all their worldly possessions behind and flee to freedom, when her father had been jailed and tortured by the Revolutionary Guard under the new regime.
Pakistan has misplaced some nuclear material.Now they are advertising for any information leading to the discovery of the material.Not surprisingly, the ad is garnering some attention.A Pakistani ad for “lost or stolen” nuclear material.Pakistan says there is really no cause for concern.Dawn Internet reported:Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority has said there is no cause for concern after it published advertisements in newspapers for information on ‘lost’ radioactive material.The advertisements urged members of the public to inform officials if they found any ‘lost or stolen’ radioactive material.They were published in major Urdu-language newspapers.According to a report on BBC Online, a spokesman for the authority said that there was a ‘very remote chance’ that nuclear materials imported 40-50 years ago were unaccounted for.Officials on Wednesday were keen to reassure the outside world that no radioactive material had been stolen, lost or gone missing.But officials say they need to heighten public awareness of nuclear issues to ensure that decades-old nuclear material is fully accounted for.
The Iranian worker’s protest this week included this bold message to the mullahs:”Keep your nukes!
Bazteb News is carrying a report tonight from “usually reliable sources” that American Robert Levinson was turned over to American officials in Iraq:Usually reliable Iranian sources(?) say that detained American, Robert Levinson, was turned over to American officials in the last 24-hours.
Yesterday, several hundred Iranian workers took to the streets of Tehran to protest against the brutal regime.The protesters chanted, “Death to the Oppressors!”The workers hoisted a coffin symbolising their demands which the police then tried to break.Clashes ensued with the police after that.The police then shut down the rally.Here are pictures from that worker’s protest from the Iranian news (via Winston):The Spirit of Man has more thoughts on the rally.Previously:Violent Clashes at Iranian Labor Protests!
The protesters shouted…
MORE NEWS on the student protests and the violent crackdown by the pro-mullah supporters yesterday is being reported today…An Iranian website, Autnews, posted this call for the regime to release Amir Kabir University student leader Babak Zamanian who was arrested last week by the regime!Student protesters were severely beaten by pro-Ahmadinejad thugs yesterday while holding a protest for the release of Babak.
Iranian students were stabbed and beaten with chains today while peacefully protesting for the release of Babak Zamanian, a student leader who was arrested last week by the regime!Babak Zamanian, a student at Amir Kabir, in Tehran, is on crutches in this earlier photo (New York Times) because of a beating by supporters of President Ahmadinejad.
Here is a helpful guide for the Iranian people to help you deal with the latest modesty crackdown by the regime.The following will not be tolerated inside the regime:Beautiful women with hair showing.Beautiful women with blond hair showing.Beautiful women with blond hair showing who talk back to members of the Bassiji militia.Mothers with children with hair showing…Even if the children start crying.Women’s Rights activists.Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani (Nooshin Ahmadi Khorasani) was sentenced to two years in jail for protesting for women’s rights this week.Satellite dishes.Young men with long hair.Young men with short sleeves.Oops!
This is a SHOCKING video captured inside the regime!!The regime began detaining women this week for violating strict new Islamic dress code rules.The mullahs are not winning any new friends on this one.Kamangir links to a sad and shocking video talked about by blogger Malakut of police arresting a screaming woman for breaking the dress code.
A high ranking Iranian official said it could make “nowhere safe” for the US if Iran is attacked and that it will bomb Israel if it is attacked by the US.ADN Kronos reported:Iran will attack Israel if Washington decides to launch a military strike against the country over its nuclear programme, the Iranian deputy interior minister Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr said on Thursday.
Only 21 this Kurdish-Suuni man had been working for the Iranian regime facilitating attacks on fellow Iraqis.Osman Ali Mustafa – former Kurdish police officer recruited by Iranian intelligence to facilitate attacks inside Iraq, 2004-2005.Before the invasion he worked as a police informant inside Al-Qaeda in Iraq and later he found work with the Iranians.Pajamas Media has the amazing and tragic story of Osman Ali Mustafa.
Unlike American rappers, Iranian rappers sing about the Persian empire before it was “invaded by Arab bedouins to be converted to Islam”.Hichkas is one of the Iranian rap groups targeted by the regime.Iran continued its “moralization” campaign this week and is now targeting underground musicians.The regime is going after the most popular underground rappers.ADN Kronos reported:Police in the Iranian capital Tehran are cracking down on underground musical groups in a ‘moralization’ campaign which kicked off over the weekend.
The Iranian regime continues its brutal crackdown on women.Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani (Nooshin Ahmadi Khorasani) sentenced to two years in jail for protesting for women’s rights.Parwin Ardalan (Parvin Ardalan) – two years in jail.Pictures from KosoofHat Tip Banafsheh Zand-BonazziADN Kronos reports on the continued violence against women by the regime in Iran:Tehran, 24 April (AKI) – A court in Tehran issued on Tuesday a suspended jail sentence for two women’s rights activists who had taken part in a rally last June in favour of legislation changes promoting equal opportunities for women.
Firemen hose down burnt vehicles after a car bomb attack in Baghdad April 23, 2007.
The mullahs figured out the reason behind the rising crime and divorce rates……Now they’re taking action.
On Friday 700 Iranian women protested at Tehran Polytechnic University against new regulations enabling police as of 21 April to arrest women who do not abide by the Islamic dress code.
Don’t mess with Mahmoud!Iranian Mehr News reports:The Iranian Army will “cut off the hands of any invader”, President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said here on Wednesday.
The BBC Persian is now covering the student protests in Mazandaran Province.** Kamangir has the latest news on the Iranian student protests in Mazandaran Province.Iranian student protesters set up a blog a couple of days ago to communicate their courageous stand against the Iranian Regime.The blog is already getting record traffic as the word spreads about the student’s efforts against the brutal regime…Click to EnlargeThis is cool…Click to EnlargeThe blog is even getting traffic from the USA which is terrific!But, about those threats to the regime…Kamangir reports that this was posted on one of the websites:The hidden organization:Release Mr Bijan Sabbagh [one of the student’s arrested by the authorities]The north committee is impatiently waiting for the release of other arrested students.
Student protests are escalating in northern Iran!A video was posted on a student website that shows the regime kidnapping one of the student protest organizers.Here is the clip of the student leader being whisked away:The video is also posted on YouTube (HERE) for more exposure.15 students were arrested at a Babol University in northern Iran Sunday.Now this is different and bold…Kamangir reported on Monday that the students set up their own blog to document their protests against the regime.http://eteraz-e-daneshjoo.blogfa.com/ Kamangir also included pictures from the protests.
The students are restless in Iran…15 more students were arrested this weekend in northern Iran.These signs were displayed at an earlier student protest in December.The situation in Iran is deteriorating as the regime continues to escalate its repression of human rights.ADN Kronos reports on the latest student arrests:Police on Sunday evening arrested 15 students at the University of Babol, in Mazanderan province, bordering the Caspian Sea in the north.
-Updated Below-Democrats and “Maverick” (anti-Bush) Republican Senators held private talks recently with a representative of Iranian Regime.A group of US senators even met with the Iranian UN ambassador last night!Fars News reported this today:”We take the United States responsible for the abduction of our diplomats and we take the Iraqi government responsible for their release,” Mottaki stressed.
Iranian Bazteb News confirmed today that despite the US Administration’s stance, democrats have offered to travel to Iran for talks:A leading Iranian parliamentarian said in Tehran Saturday that currently there existed no ground for negotiations between the Iran and the US.
Released Iranian diplomat Jalal Sharafi says the CIA drilled holes in his feet while he was held hostage in Iraq.Diplomat Jalal Sharafi shows injuries on his legs after a news conference at the Foreign Ministry office in Tehran April 11, 2007 to speak about his experience of being held in Iraq.
