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The Telegraph released pictures on Sunday of the suspected Iranian weapons used to kill Allied soldiers in Iraq: The first picture of an Iraqi insurgent mine, believed to have been responsible for the deaths of 17 British soldiers, has been obtained by The Sunday Telegraph.

After insults against a moderate Iraqi Shiite cleric on Iranian broadcast television, Iraqis stormed the Iranian consulate in Basra and hang an Iraqi flag!Followers of an Iraq Shiite cleric fix the Iraqi flag above the door of Iranian consulate in the southern city of Basra.

As reported yesterday, Iranian authorities beat down and teargassed the brave women who showed up for the Women’s Rights Rally in Tehran!The Spirit of Man has a huge roundup on the shameful violence against the women yesterday.Aryamehr also has a thorough roundup on the brutality.Iran Focus is now reporting today that at least 400 were arrested at the protest.(Kosoof)Publius Pundit also reported on this violent protest against women.Many more violent photos at www.nasiriphotos.com(AP)Freedom in Pictures sends MORE pictures from the protest crackdown on the brave Iranians.Prevously:Iranian Regime Thrashes Women’s Rights Protesters in Tehran!

So much for Women’s Rights!Iranian authorities beat down and teargassed the brave women who showed up at this year’s rally for Women’s Rights in Tehran!The Iranian women were protesting for more rights…But, instead were beaten by the Iranian authorities!

Disturbing news continues to leak out of Iran about the Azeri protests in the northwest region.

The Bawi brothers come from a prosperous Ahwazi family in the Khuzestan region of southern Iran.

A scene from an earlier Azeri protest this month.

Fundamental is the fifteenth album, the ninth of entirely new music, by the British band Pet Shop Boys which was released on May 19, 2006 in Europe and May 22, 2006 in the UK and May 30, 2006 in Canada and is scheduled for release on June 27, 2006 in the USA.The album is dedicated to two executed Iranian youths, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni.Or Does It Explode has this news on the Pet Shop Boys.Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni were Iranian Arab teenagers from the province of Khuzestan who were hanged in Edalat (Justice) Square in Mashhad, northeast Iran, on July 19, 2005.

The ethnic Ahwazis put together a video showing glimpses of the regime’s horrible oppression, HEREHere is a powerful line from the video, “We Resist Without Hate.”The former president of Iran, Hashemi Rafsanjani, had to cut and run from his visit yesterday in Qom after protesters disrupted his speech and started chanting against the Iranian regime:Speech by Hashemi Rafsanjani, head of the regime’s Council for the State Exigency and second powerful man in the clerical regime was disrupted by protests in the holy city of Qom yesterday.

The Iranian Mayor of Ardebil says that the destruction has cost the city 7 billion Rials.

Thank you, Jimmy Carter.Jimmy Carter and the Shah of IranThe current Iranian regime has a history of faithful Leftist support.Much to the surprise of the Ayatollah’s leftist backers, during his first two years in power, Khomeini had most of his secular and religious opponents executed.This Iranian does not want to hear another word of Jimmy’s idiocy.And, here is more on Karl Vick, the Ahmadinejad apologist at the Washington Post.Ayla writes in: Thank you for updating the debunking of the latest barbaric Regime’s propagandist-for-hire, Karl Vick.

** Update: (Saturday June 3, 2006) – Iranian Azerbaijanis are staging protest actions in Tabriz, Sulduz, Miyane, Ardabil, Urmia and Zenjan cities in Iran!Bloody clashes in Tabriz!

But, Pajamas Media is following the story.The Spirit of Man has several rare photos from protests in Orumiye, northwestern Iran.

The latest bunch of suicide bomber hopefuls completed their training and celebrated their graduation in Tehran…

Protesters hurled stones and torched buildings in violent demonstrations on Monday, enraged by an offensive cockroach cartoon.After violent riots erupted over an offensive “cockroach cartoon”, officials in Tehran detained the cartoonist and chief editor of an Iranian newspaper, charged them, and took them to Evin prison.

Don’t expect to see any plucked eyebrows from this bunch!The 2006 World Cup Iranian National TeamOr Does It Explode has news on the latest Iranian sporting uproar.

Boy, this guy just won’t quit!

Stefania has this shocking news at Publius Pundit.

It’s a Qaddafi Family News Week!First, the Qaddafi family gathers at the Qaddafi palace ruins and invites Lionel Richie to sing “It’s Easy Like Sunday Morning” in remembrance of the Libyan palace bombings 20 years ago.Then, Saddam’s ex-attorney, the beautiful Aisha Qaddafi, the Claudia Shiffer of North Africa, marries her father’s cousin.Then…

In its quest for energy independence America ought to look east to Iran for a few pointers.First before you announce your plan, make sure you have a vast amount of oil deposits.

Here it is…Well, Halleluiah!…

Yes, the Muslim World has a very special place for homosexuals.Juan Cole at Informed Comment suggests that homosexuality has a warm place in the heart of Islam.

The afternoon protest in Bahrain went downhill from here…(al Sanabis)Bahraini blogger Chan ad Bahraini was at Dana mall where this protest took place.(al Sanabis)Chan ad Bahraini…There is basically a pitched battle currently taking place near Dana Mall.

Dozens of women had bought tickets and hoped to cheer on the Iranian National team, were all banned from entering Tehran’s Azadi Stadium last Wednesday.Iranian police officers stand as Iranian girls hold a banner sign which reads in Persian ‘We want to watch a match of our national soccer team’ as they wait to enter the Azadi stadium during a world cup friendly match between Iran and Costa Rica in Tehran, on Wednesday March, 1, 2006.

The Golden Dome blasts heightened Sunni and Shiite Muslims tensions in the area,VIDEO HEREOver 130 people have been killed across Iraq from sectarian violence since the Golden Mosque blasts, but protests have spread beyond the Iraqi border…Kashmir Shia Muslims stand behind burning tires during a protest in Srinagar February 23, 2006, against the bombing of Samarra’s Golden Mosque.

Gee, you’d think that this would have made a few headlines…

Your Daily Kos does not disappoint:Turns out that the three most offensive of the fifteen cartoons currently being circulated by the Islamic Society of Denmark are blatant fakes that were not among the twelve originals published in September of last year:Here they are.

Iran sends in children to guard nuclear facilities.Iranian athletes form a human chain around the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) to show support for Iran’s nuclear program in Isfahan, 430 km (267 miles) south of Iran’s capital Tehran, January 22, 2006.

Now, an Iranian Exiled Opposition member says Iran has thousands of secret centrifuges!This satellite image obtained from the private company DigitalGlobe shows a close-up view of facilities near the town of Nantanz, Iran, some 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Tehran.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted that Israel is inherently Anti-Muslim in nature and compared Zionism to fascism today:He also said that Israel was the result of European “ethnic cleansing”.

Irani Opposition protesters gather in Vienna before EU nuclear talks with Iran.

THE US RENEWED ITS COMMITMENT TO THIS HEALTH CRISIS ON WORLD AIDS DAY,VIDEO HEREHIV/AIDS Is a global health crisis which has killed at least 20 million men, women, and children worldwide.

IRAN HOLDS A MASSIVE ANTI-ZIONIST RALLY!VIDEO HEREArab nations remain quiet on the threats.

A scene from the “World Without Zionism” conference today in Iran.These trained Iranian female fighters hope to spread Basiji thought to defeat the U.S.

Iran’s most prominent political prisoner has ended his hunger strike!An Iranian woman brandishes a picture of journalist Akbar Ganji during a protest outside Tehran’s Milad hospital 11 August.

IRANIANS HIT THE STREETS TO PROTEST THE WEST AND THE IAEA AFTER FRIDAY PRAYERS,VIDEO HEREJust what are they saying at Friday prayers that gets these guys so fired up?Iranian men shout slogans in support of Iran’s nuclear program after Friday prayers at Tehran University today.