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“With great honor, I declare that as of today our dear country has joined the nuclear club of nations and can produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale.” Mahmoud AhmadinejadApril 9, 2007 ** BREAKING **The Iranian Fars News Service is reporting that the Islamic Republic of Iran is producing nuclear fuel on an industrial scale!45 foreign ambassadors and representatives of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) were in attendance for the announcement.What is more frightening?…

Iranian protesters shouted “Death to America and Israel” at a National Nuclear Technology rally in Tehran today.Coincidence?Iranian students hold placards during a rally at Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization to mark the country’s national day of nuclear technology April 9, 2007.

The Leftist creator of the Huffington Post is already praising the Jew-hater Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his stellar week…

The most powerful speech on American foreign policy this week comes from an Iranian, the Crown Prince of Iran.Reza Pahlavi is the former Crown Prince of Iran, the older son of late Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his Empress Consort, Farah Diba.In 1978, he moved to the United States to complete his higher education.

Mahmoud lifted the spirits of the Iranian weightlifting team by holding a “nuclear energy is our indispensible right” pep rally today.Pumping iron for blessed nuclear rights.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad joined two time Olympic gold medalist Hossein Rezazadeh for a “nuclear energy is our indispensible right” pep rally today.

Guess who’s back in the news having a party after the Iranian regime promised they would not release any more confessions?Barefooted Leading Seaman Faye Turney is without her veil today.

Iran insists it is calling the shots and Bush better get used to it.Iranian Foreign Ministry Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini is lecturing Bush on the British hostage standoff, via Fars News:TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Seyed Mohammad Ali Hosseini here on Monday called on US President George Bush to act upon the recommendations of his Undersecretary of State and refrain from uttering improvised and illegal words.

The Registan reports that despite the Iranian Regime’s crusade against the movie “300” in recent speeches and letters to foreign embassies, the Western psychological warfare is working….Bootleg versions of the movie are reportedly selling well in Iran.Previously:”300″ …An Excellent Movie, But Not For Everyone Oh Brother!

-Updated and Bumped-Not only does a pro-Ahmadinejad website advertise the embassy protest to hardliner student groups…But, the regime sends in a truck load of bricks for the Basij members at the protest to chuck at the British Embassy!

It really meant a lot to the hardliner students today that their clergy showed up to support them as they chucked bricks at the British Embassy.The Iranian clergy like to make it their business to support their students outside of the classroom…

(This post was bumped)Just released photos from the protest/attack on the UK Embassy today in Tehran…A picture just released by Fars News of the protest today (Noon CST)Another shot from today’s protest against the UK in Tehran.

Ria Novosti reports that the US has already practiced the maneuvers recently in the Persian Gulf.The Russian source said it will be up to America’s political leadership to decide if and when to attack.The Jerusalem Post is reporting:The United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps “from 4 a.m.

It must have been a hell of a sermon!Iranian Fars News is reporting this from Tehran:Following increased tensions between Tehran and London over the detention of 15 British marines who entered Iranian waters illegally and likely gatherings by protestors in front of the embassy compound, the police increased security measures and arrangements around the embassy here in Tehran on Friday.

Iranian hardliners claim the Brits were 500 meters over the international boundary….Now they must die.And, in case the British audience does not read Farsi…An Iranian protester holds a banner during a protest in front of the Iran’s Foreign Ministry in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, March 29, 2007.

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Here is more on the Iranian divestiture bill, Assembly Bill 221, being discussed in the California State Assembly today:March 27, 2007Iranian Monarchist Movement:Dear Assembly Anderson:As Iranians striving for the freedom of our country and countrymen from the hands of this terrorist regime for the past twenty-eight years we strongly support your proposed legislation, Assembly Bill 221, that would stop California state pension funds from investing in companies that do business in Iran.

The BBC interviewed British sailor Faye Turney just hours before she was kidnapped by the Iranian regime- VIDEO HEREBritish mother Faye Turney is the only woman out of the 15 who are being held by the Iranian regime.

Iranian Human Rights Activist Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi said today that the Statement by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki at the UN Security Council was a “Red Herring Speech”:”He (Mottaki) basically practiced the same regular taqiyya which is the Islamic rule of lying and dissimulation in order to protect the regime and the autocratic rule.

** Winston has posted this and other Google Earth images that show where the British sailors and soldiers are being held in Tehran:However, Great Britain says it does not know where the soldiers and sailors are being held.It’s show trial time in Tehran…Like they did in 2004, the Iranian regime is planning on holding a show trial to prove that the 15 captured British sailors and soldiers, including one woman, were spies for Great Britain.The Telegraph reports:FIFTEEN British sailors and marines arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards off the coast of Iraq may be charged with spying.A website run by associates of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, reported last night that the Britons would be put before a court and indicted.Referring to them as “insurgents”, the site concluded: “If it is proven that they deliberately entered Iranian territory, they will be charged with espionage.

Yesterday, Iranian officials said they knew nothing about the 15 British soldiers and sailors they kidnapped in Iraqi waters.Today, Iran says the Brits confessed to entering Iranian waters and were transferred to Tehran!** Iran also said a female marine was among those captured.Accoring to Fars News, Alireza Afshar (pictured here) confirmed the arrest of 15 British marines by the naval force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps within the Iranian territorial waters on Friday and added that the said individuals are under prosecution and have confessed that they have aggressed against the waters of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

“Six Iranian girls disguise themselves as boys in order to enter Tehran’s Azadi Stadium to watch the 2006 World Cup Asian zone qualifier between Iran and Bahrain.

Two women’s rights activists, Shadi Sadr (left) and Mahboubeh Abbasgolizadeh, who had been arrested on 4 March for taking part in a peaceful demonstration were released today.The two Iranian women’s rights activists who were being held in Evin prison in Tehran were released earlier today:Marzieh Khazari Ghahe, a woman’s rights activist who was arrested from her home by plainclothes officials on 11 March, has been missing since then and her parents have been unable to obtain any news of her, Iran press news reported on Monday.

An anonymous Bush-hating American mother who lost her son in Iraq and who hates war as much as she hates the illegitimate Bush regime wrote Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at his blog this week.Winston has more on the anonymous woman’s praise of the pious and logical Ahmadinejad.Here’s the letter from the Bush-hater to the pious Ahmadinejad:A Reply to an American Mother`s Message 2007/03/16 Mr.

Iranian Bazteb News reports that Iran shot down a UFO with anti-aircraft missiles earlier today!It was a further proof that the regime is ready to tackle any foreign challengers foolish enough to take on the regime.Bazteb reports:A bright object was sighted in the sky of Arak, Iran’s Central Province, Friday night, and was shot down by the Iranian anti-aircraft missiles, BAZTAB reported.The Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) was completely destroyed by the country’s new air defense system, the report said.

(Update Below)** Former Miss World Contestant Speaks Out For Detained Iranian Activists!

Iranian Al Quds officer is still missing…

Activist Kianoosh Sanjari in his first interview since his release describes his horrific torture at Iran’s notorious Evin Prison.The Belfast Telegraph and Iranian Press News reported today that Iranian activist and blogger Kianoosh Sanjari has been released from Evin Prison.

Iranian teachers held their 6th protest in 2 weeks today in Tehran.An Iranian teacher holds up a placard that reads: ‘Teachers of the country.

YNET News reported today that another Iranian senior officer disappeared three weeks ago, this time in Iraq:Three weeks ago the Iranian armed forces command in Teheran lost contact with a senior officer who had been serving in Iraq with the al-Quds unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, according to a senior Iranian official cited in the Wednesday edition of the London-based Arabic daily al-Sharq al-Awsat.

Winston reported that the regime in Iran arrested 400 individuals celebrating today at Chahar-Shanbeh Soori, Iranian Festival of Fire, celebrations.ISNAThe ancient Iranian festival dates back to at least 1700 BC of the early Zoroastrian era.

Reeling from the news that Former Iranian deputy defense minister Ali Reza Asgari has defected, Iranian News is now reporting that Asgari was kidnapped and is being tortured by the Americans, Brits and Israelis:”A joint committee formed of the US, Israeli and British agents are torturing Asgari both mentally and physically with the same style US troops torture prisoners in Guantanamou and Abu Ghreib.” Apparently, the Iranian regime believes that reporting that Asgari is suffering from the same “torture techniques” as those prisoners at Abu Ghraib…

Iranian sources today claim that Western Intelligence Agencies are trying to make a propaganda of defector former Iranian deputy defense minister Ali Reza Asgari and that’s why they are torturing him.Fars News Service reports:TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Former Iranian deputy defense minister Ali Reza Asgari who was kidnapped by the western intelligence agencies during a personal visit to Turkey is being tortured to testify against Iran, an informed source said on Monday.

Well, it looks like the Iranian defector Brigadier General Ali Reza Asgari (Askari) did not get his family out of Iran after all…Today they made the news…

Deemed a threat to Iran’s National Security, the two jailed Women’s Rights Defenders were placed in solitary confinement this weekend.Two women remain imprisoned in Iran after the Women’s Rights protests from last week…Shadi Sadr is a prominent lawyer, journalist, and activist.

The Iranian general who deected to the West this week has been spying on Iran for years.Brigadier General Ali Reza Asgari is understood to be undergoing debriefing at a Nato base in Germany.

Kamangir is continuing to follow the story on the Women’s Rights Activists arrested this week in Tehran.Earlier today Women’s Field reported that one of the women activists, Zhila Baniyaghoub, was released leaving two women still imprisoned by the regime:Only couple of minutes after the International Women’s Day (Esfand 17), Zhila Baniyaghoub who was arrested during a peaceful gathering in front of Revolutionary Court at Esfand 13, was released.So, Maboubeh Abbasgholizadeh and Shadi Sadr still remain in prison.

** Last week the Iranian insurgent group killed two Iranian Guard members and kidnapped four others in an attack near Zahedan.They captured four more Iranian soldiers earlier today!Iranian aid workers and Revolutionary Guards secure the site of the bomb blast in Zahedan on February 14, 2007.

Iranian women get violently beaten with batons at their rally today!** More Mass Protests in Tehran!

The Australian is reporting tonight that former Iranian General Asghari has defected to the US:A RETIRED Iranian general who went missing in Turkey last month has defected and sought asylum in the US, according to a well-connected Arabic newspaper published in London.The newspaper, al-Shark al-Awsat, cited “high-profile” sources saying former Iranian deputy defence minister and Revolutionary Guard commander Ali Reza Asghari had gone over to the West.

**Iranian officials broke the teeth of a prominent womens rights activist, Nahid Jafari, when they bashed her head on a police van on Saturday.

** Update: A Second Teacher’s Protest Was Held Today in Tehran!Thousands of teachers rallied in front of Parliament for the second time this week!An estimated 15,000 to 20,000 teachers protested against the government in Tehran on Saturday!Winston carried the “Angry Teachers” news on Saturday.Iranian Kosoof.comIranian Kosoof.comISNA Iran Focus Reported on the protest:Thousands of teachers took to the streets outside the Iranian Majlis, or Parliament, on Saturday in an anti-government protest despite preventative measures by state security forces.The protestors complained of rampant corruption and mismanagement in the Education Ministry and demanded their overdue salaries.The demonstrators, some of whom held Farsi and English banners, chanted slogans including, “Oh teachers rise to end discrimination”, “If our troubles are not resolved, schools will be shut down”, and “We will not stay calm until we get our rights”.They also called for the resignation of Iran’s Education Minister, chanting, “Incompetent minister, resign, resign”.At one point the teachers began to chant “Come out Haddad, come out”, referring to Majlis Speaker Gholam-Hossein Haddad-Adel who has been accused of turning a blind eye to economic mismanagement by the hard-line government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Minutes after the protest began, a large number of agents of the state security forces swarmed around the Majlis building and prevented people in the vicinity from joining the protestors.

The women were protesting the arrest of 5 women from last year’s Womens Rights protest.25 women were arrested outsid a courthouse in Tehran earlier today.The BBC reports:Iran’s authorities have arrested more than 25 women activists protesting outside a courthouse in Tehran.

Jules Crittenden has a cluster of today’s Iranian related news.

More trouble on the homefront…Fighting continued is northwest Iran this week- Several deaths were reported.13 Iranian Revolutionary Guards members were martyred in northwest Iran on Sunday when their helicopter was downed.

Today, Iran threatened to chase counterrevolutionaries across the border into Pakistan and Turkey!The Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Brigadier General Rahim Safavi, threatened on Wednesday to hunt down armed bandits and counterrevolutionaries across the border if they have to.Bazteb reports:Three commanders of PEJAK terrorist group were killed in Sero region in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, by the Islamic Republic armed forces Tuesday, he said.According to the report, the IRGC Commander said that the US is funding the terrorists groups to act against Iran and the Zionists are training the Iranian counterrevolutionary bandits in northern Iraq.”Today, the US and the Zionists allocate millions of dollars of funds for equipping and supplying PEJAK with weapons and ammunitions and providing them with satellites and television networks in order to create insecurity in Iran,” General Rahimi told the audience.

More on the Kharnival of the Iranities…Iran reported yesterday the news of a blessed rocket launch into space.Kamangir captured the picture designed and used by the ISNA depicting this blessed space launch…Space rockets are the Iranian people’s divine right after all.Wait!…

A minibus packed with explosives blew up in front of the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad today killing two people.Iraqi firefighters douse a fire at the site where a minibus packed with explosives blew up outside the Iranian embassy in central Baghdad, amid rising tensions over Tehran’s relations with its war-torn neighbour.(AFP/Wisam Sami) A minibus exploded across from the Iranian Ministry in Baghdad earlier today.Iranian Bazteb News is reporting:A minibus bomb exploded outside the Iranian embassy in central Baghdad early on Sunday, killing two people and wounding eight, a defence official said.The blast occurred around 8:45 am (0545 GMT) during peak morning traffic and the site, less than 50 metres (yards) from the Iranian embassy complex in the Karrada Miriam district, was immediately sealed off.“The police told us that it was a Kia minibus, and that two people were killed.

Payvand Iran’s News is carrying the latest on jailed Iranian activist Ahmad Batebi.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour is tragically beclowned by the mullahs today.CNN’s Christiane Amanpour recently traveled to Iran and came back to report that Iran says the US is its “natural ally”…

Today’s British news is not negative, and not new…Back on March 13, 2006 the Brits previously announced their plans of reducing troop levels in southern Iraq.BBC reported:The planned reduction of 800 British troops serving in Iraq announced by the UK Defence Secretary John Reid is not the first such withdrawal nor the biggest.

UPDATE: Batebi’s wife has been abducted.Iranian student activist Ahmad Batebi who has been imprisoned since the Student Protests in July 1999 suffered a second stroke this week…It was known back in December that Ahmad Batebi, the imprisoned student leader in the infamous Ward 209 of Evin Prison, was being detained in the most unspeakable condition; his family, after visiting him in prison, described the status of his health to be extremely worrisome.Following the sad news from Sunday, Iranian bloggers today are reporting that Ahmad Batebi has suffered a second stroke at Evin Prison…Student Activist Ahmad Batebi has been in prison for more than 2,774 days.Via Serendip and Bereft:Batebi had several seizures on Friday night and was in a coma for a few hours.