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Iranian Reisan Sawari was held in solitary confinement for the past year.Iranian teacher and reformist Reisan Sawari died in prison on Tuesday.

“More and more Shiites are not prepared to follow those who want to turn back the clock of history and impose on us medieval traditions and customs,” Ahmad al-Assad Leader of the Lebanese Shiite party, KefayatFebruary 13, 2007 “We Are Like a Bird Born in a Cage – America Broke the Cage Open, but the Bird Does Not Know How to Fly.”Iyad Jamal Al-DinIraqi MP Hat Tip Bryan at HotAir and Jawa Report…Iraqi MP Iyad Jamal Al-Din: “We Are Like a Bird Born in a Cage – America Broke the Cage Open, but the Bird Does Not Know How to Fly.” And…Lebanese Shiite leaders spoke out against Hassan Nasrallh and his Iranian providers today.ADN Kronos reported:Hezbollah’s close ties with Iran are being viewed with suspicion by those Lebanese Shiites who fear their country’s sovereignity is being jeopardised.

Only one is angrier…Two sides of a coin- Another disgusting Newsweek cover….Hidden War?

Diane Sawyer appears transfixed almost unblinking in her interview with the Iranian President Ahmadinejad when he says, “When you heard death to America slogans, I think you know it yourself, it is not related in any way to American public.”Thanks for clearing that up, Mahmoud.Diane Sawyer interviews President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran.(Bazteb News)Bazteb News posted the transcript from Diane Sawyer’s interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that aired on Good Morning America:Sawyer: I can begin.

UPDATE BELOW: Ledeen Responds!The Iranian Regime is Obsessed with Ledeen…Upset with earlier rumors first published at Pajamas Media on the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran published an article today proposing who they think may be the Ledeen source for the story.Pajamas Media contributor, American Enterprise Institute scholar and foreign policy expert Michael Ledeen (left) and his suspected Iranian news source, Manucher Ghorbanifar (on right).Michael Ledeen first reported that the Ayatollah’s health was failing on December 6, 2006.

Iranian officials again treatened the USA today and blasted the policies of the Bush Administration.In protests yesterday, Iranian students held up signs threatening to occupy European embassies in Tehran.** Kamangir has several more photos from the student protests.Sounding like a democratic Congressional leader…Fars News reports on the latest threats to America and insults the Bush policies in the region:Islamic Republic’s Prosecutor General Ghorban-Ali Dorri Najaf Abadi here on Saturday stressed that Iranian nation, in its extensive February 11 rallies, will give a crushing response to the US and its allies.

Iran thinks it’s time to feed the fish…An Iranian student holds a placard that reads, ‘We will feed the American Generals to the Persian Gulf fish’ during an anti-U.S.

“If you solve the Iranian problem, you will solve the Palestinian problem.”Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuFebruary 8, 2007 One Jerusalem scheduled a call today with Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

It’s hard to fool those Iranian officials…

Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned the US today that Iran will strike US interests worldwide if it is attacked.Khamenei visited the Sacred Mausoleum of Imam Khomeini earlier this month.

It was a big day for “Death to Israel” fanatics in the Iranian regime.Their calls came with an assurance that the end is near for the Zionist regime.Parliamentarian Eshrat Shayeq says that only a part of the Muslim power, wealth and population is needed to bring the demise of the Israel.Eshrat Shayeq She also called on the Muslim world to pay attention to the growing hazards of the racist Zionists.Iranian Fars News reported:TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- This is the United States’ support which has given the Zionist regime of Israel the courage to destroy the wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, an Iranian MP said here on Tuesday.

Lost in translation…The Iranian ambassador to Syria says that all evidence points to the destruction of Israel in the near future.

Aryamehr reported on Thursday the news about an armed uprising against the Iranian regime by the Lor, Bakhtiari and Qashqai tribes.

Aryamehr, a terrific Iranian blogger who frequently reports news and video from inside the regime is reporting news of an armed struggle by the Lor, Bakhtiari and Qashqai tribes in Iran against the regime.Isfahan Province in IranSource Ettelaat:According to the latest reports armed struggle against the Islamic Regime occupying Iran has begun by the Lor, Bakhtiari and Qashqai tribes of Iran.

You already heard about the students at Amir Kabir University in Tehran jeer and boo President Ahmadinejad of the Islamic Republic of Iran when he came to their university to speak.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) shakes hands with student supporters while leaving the Amir Kabir University in Tehran.

Kamangir has several photo links from the Iranian Ashura festivities yesterday including this one:As it is Iran, everything is related to the politics; the blue banner reads: “Nuclear energy is our definite right.”That’s a bit of a stretch on an holy day, I think most would agree.Yesterday, Afghan Lord posted video and pictures from the bloody Ashura self flagellation ceremony in downtown Kabul where dozens of men gathered to whip themselves bloody and senseless.Today friend Haider Ajina offers a different view on the Holy Day of Ashura:As a moderate Shiite I find the self flagellation in form of slapping, self chain flogging, or striking ones forehead with a sword, very backward and uncivilized.

An article posted at an Iranian website associated with the Revolutionary Guard brags about how easy it is to abduct Americans!Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, reviews Basij female paramilitary volunteers, affiliated to the elite Revolutionary Guard, during their parade ceremony, as he is accompanied by Revolutionary Guard’s commander Yahya Rahim Safavi, left, in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov.

More than 700 Germans rallied in Berlin today against Iranian President Ahmadinejad who continues to threaten the destruction of Israel.SOS Iran has the flyer for the anti-Ahmadinejad demonstration.The protest was held near the Holocaust Memorial.A demonstrator covered with Israel’s national flag walks through the concrete field of the Holocaust Memorial Site in Berlin January 28, 2007.

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah says the Iranian government is putting the whole region in danger!

US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad reported today that the US is holding a leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard!The AP is reporting:The U.S.

There are more reports coming from Iraq about the capture of wanted Iranian Revolutionary Guard member, Mohammad Jaafari Sharoudi(Sahraroudi) at the “consulate” in Erbil, Iraq last week.Abdol Rahman Ghassemlu was assassinatied in Vienna, Austria in 1989.

“Iran’s deputy head of Supreme National Security Council for Internal Security Affairs Mohammad Jaafari” lashed out at Arab states for the violence in Iraq in an interview in Tehran today.Payvand Iran News reports: “The US wants to hold Iran responsible for insecurity in Iraq, while knowing it quite well that Iran is not accountable for the issue because it would not be logical for Tehran to support the Iraqi government strongly on the one hand and cause troubles for it on the other hand.” He said that those committing suicide operations in Iraq are Arabs.

It was just rumors a couple of days ago…

Forget Israel, with spiraling inflation and unemployment Iranian President Ahmadinejad may be the one wiped off the map!Critics say that Ahmadinejad and the central government have been strong on populist slogans but weak on achievement.An Iranian woman carries her shopping in a supermarket in northern Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan.

Iranian laborers took to the streets again this week after one of their coworkers was murdered by the regime during last week’s protest.Daneshjoo.org reports:Tens of Gazvin’s “Poochineh Baft” textile workers protested, yesterday in Tehran, against the murder of one of their collleagues and their poor conditions.Their colleague was killed, last week, following the brutal attack of local militiamen who were sent to smash the workers peaceful protest.Thousands of Iranian workers, especially of Textile industry, have lost their jobs in the last years due to officials poor management and rampant corruption.

Last week Iran’s Fars News reported that a massive “UFO” smashed into the Barez Mountains of central Iran and caused a massive explosion so big that it was witnessed by people from several cities, 100 kilometers north of the capital city of Kerman!Today, there are reports of another UFO hovering over Western Iran!After the UFO blast last week in the mountains of central Iran witnessed by citizens from 7 cities, comes the news today of another UFO spotted in the vicinity of Bouyer Ahmad in western Iran.Fars News reports:TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A radiant unidentified flying object was observed in the sky of Central Sepidar in the vicinity of Bouyer Ahmad in western Iran at 19:00 hours local time (15:30 GMT) Monday.

Iranian authorities had sentenced her previously to death for murdering an attacker during an attempted rape.She will still be asked to pay “blood money” for her release in the amount of 260 million Iranian riyals ($30,600) to the victim’s family.SOS Iran (Persian) and Help Nazanin report:Nazanin Afshin-Jam and Mina Ahadi spoke with Nazanin Fatehi’s lawyers today regarding her retrial that took place on January 10th 2007.They have received verbal confirmation from the court that she will be exonerated from the charge of murder.

Iranian cellphone subscribers woke up to reports that US and Iranian battleships clashed in the Gulf.

The crowds came out to cheer the Jew-Hating Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his slum tour on Sunday.Ortega and Ahmadinejad agreed that they share common enemies during Ahmadinejad’s stop in Nicaragua:MANAGUA (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a U.S.

Update: The US Military confirmed today that the five Iranians arrested in northern Iraq last week were indeed connected to an Iranian Revolutionary Guard faction that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq.

The Nation newspaper out of Pakistan reported back in June 2006 that the editor of Jyllands-Posten burned alive in his sleep and the Danish government was covering it up!Today, these rumors resurfaced and the news is sreading like wildfire.This cartoon of a man and his donkey caused mass rioting and the deaths across the Muslim World.Kamangir originally reported this news from the Iranian Fars News Agency.Jack’s Newswatch did some followup research.Iraqi TV channel of Al Forat may have reported this today as well.

In the Iranian Regime, UFO events are common- No big deal!As reported here yesterday, the Iranian Fars News Service reported on Wednesday that a massive “UFO” struck down in the mountains of Central Iran!Fars News even included this picture with their story of a “UFO Crash in Central Iran”:Here is the account from Iran News:An Unidentified Flying Object crashed in Barez Mounts in the central province of Kerman Wednesday morning.

Payback!…

“A World Without a Zionist Moon”With the news this week that Zionists were planning to colonize the moon…Iranian President Ahmadinejad announced that Iran would wipe the moon off the map.The Iranian regime recognized it will not be as easy as packing busloads of suicide bombers to fight Zionists in Lebanon.But, after their nuclear gains and finding the cure for AIDS using “Heavy water” – deuterium oxide (2H2O) in 2006, Ahmadinejad felt they were up to it.

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Azarmehr reported that several Iranian Christians won’t be celebrating Christmas with their families and friends this year…The regime arrested the Christians during their worship ceremonies and several remain locked up in one of the brutal Iranian prisons.NCR-Iran now reports that the Iranian regime has confiscated computers, CDs, tapes, Bibles and literature found in the homes of these Iranian Christians.NCR-Iran reported:Compass Direct News – Iranian secret police began to raid and arrest leaders of one of the Islamic republic’s indigenous house church movements on Sunday, December 10, arriving unannounced in the early morning hours to search their homes in Tehran, Karaj, Rasht and Bandar-i Anzali.

Noted Iranian activist Kiaoosh Sanjari was re-arrested in early October with supporters of the senior Shi’ite Muslim cleric, Ayatollah Boroujerdi, who was challenging Iran’s system of clerical rule.

These Iranian Christians were arrested on Christmas Day in Iran during their Christmas service:- Shirin Sadeq Khanjani- Behrooz Sadeq Khanjani- Hamid Reza Toloii-nia- Behnam Irani- Bahman Irani- Shahin Taqi-zadeh- Yussef Nourkhani- Parviz Khalaj-Zamani- Mohammad Beliad- Payman Salarvand- Sohrab SayyadiAzarmehr has this holiday story.

Ahmadinejad’s letter writing campaign continues…Pope Benedict XVI meets Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki (C) and Iranian vice president Rahim Mashaee (R) during a private audience at the Vatican.

There are reports that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad promised he will stop Christianity in his country.Was the death of Ghorban Tori part of that plan?Ghorban Dordi Tourani (above), an Iranian Christian of Turkmen origin, was assassinated in late November, 2005 by an unnamed group of militant Muslims.

Iran is formally protesting the US over the arrest of its diplomats in Iraq this week:Iran has formally protested to the US over the arrest in Iraq of two Iranians that Tehran said were diplomats invited there by the Iraqi government.

There were mass executions by the Iranian regime this week.A total of 11 Iranians were executed in just this one week.Included in this 11 were three political prisoners executed on Tuesday December 19, 2006 who were sentenced to death for “Waging a War on God.”This picture was taken at the executions this week in the Khuzestan area of Iran.Ali Matouri Zadeh (pictured on left), Malek Bani Tamim (centre) and Alireza Asakre (right) were executed by the regime on trumped of charges after months of torture and abuse.Ahwaz.org reported:The regime has prevented relatives of the men from burying them in accordance with Islamic custom and is instead burying them in a mass, unmarked grave site called Lanat Abad or “place of the damned” (warning very gruesome).The death sentences against 11 men, including the three executed on Tuesday, were condemned in a unanimous vote by the European Parliament as well as an Early Day Motion in the British Parliament.Ali Matouri Zadeh, 30, had been forced to confess to heading an insurgent group after months of torture and threats to the lives of his wife and baby daughter, who were also imprisoned by the regime.

So much for fresh Danish,…

Update: At least two bomb blasts went off in Iran in the last 24 hours.

Students smashed Iranian state television cameras installed to cover the event!!The students lit firecrackers and burnt his picture while he spoke!

American David Duke will give a keynote speech at the Iranian Holocaust Conference in Tehran today.

** Thousands of Iranian students rallied against the regime today in Tehran!

Student Ahmad Batebi is being detained in the most unspeakable conditions.His family, after visiting him in prison, describe the status of his health as extremely worrisome.Please remember those students who are being persecuted in Iran today…Iran Press News reports on this year’s “Student’s Day” protests in Iran:This year on the anniversary of “students’ day” many students still remain in prison run by agents of the ministry of intelligence and security and others are on the verge of imprisonment.

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Iran offers to assist the Great Satan!Ahmadinejad called on Mideast nations to expel the “enemies who are against humanity from our countries and our sacred lands.”Is this the help the US is wanting?Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, reviews Basij female paramilitary volunteers, affiliated to the elite Revolutionary Guard, during their parade ceremony, as he is accompanied by Revolutionary Guard’s commander Yahya Rahim Safavi, left, in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov.

Winston and Azarmehr are reporting that Tehrani university students are clashing with thugs from the Iranian regime.Abbas Hakimzadeh, Ali Azizi and Majid Tavakoli, staged a sit in at the university entrance after they were kicked off campus for their reporting on the regime.Azarmehr reported:Three students from Amir Kabir university, Abbas Hakimzadeh, Ali Azizi and Majid Tavakoli, staged a sit in at the university entrance today.

During Friday prayers in Tehran the Iranian Regime claimed that the US and Zionists were behind the assassination of Pierre Gemayel in Beirut:Tehran’s substitute Friday prayers leader Hojjatoleslam Ahmad Khatami on Friday held the US and the Zionist Regime of Israel responsible for assassination of Lebanese Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel.