Posted on 07/16/2007 12:34:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
In the background of new reports about Iran's ability to produce its own nuclear centrifuges and while Olli Heinonen, the International Atomic Energy Agency's No. 2 is making his way to Tehran in order to observe the "transparency" of its nuclear program, Iran's security forces appear busy with more pressing matters.
The regime's agents broke up a sit-in marking last week's anniversary of the mass student protest that started on July 9, 1999. Loyal to the Iranian tradition, the police responded to the demonstrations by breaking into a university dormitory and storming the offices of a pro-democracy student group, killing one person and injuring 20. A day earlier, Iran's judiciary confirmed that a man convicted of adultery has been stoned to death in the province of Qazvin. Jafar Kiani, a man in his late 40s, was stoned to death following his adultery conviction. Mr. Kiani spent the last decade in jail and the sentence was carried out despite a moratorium on stoning that was declared by Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi, the head of Iran's judiciary, in 2002.
The hardline administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faces rising pressure for failing to deliver on promises of greater prosperity from soaring oil revenue. Iran's current economy is so stressed that although Iran is the world's second-largest oil exporter, last week it began rationing gasoline. At the same time, the nuclear standoff with the West threatens to bring new economic sanctions. Hence Tehran is using American support for a change in government and the possibility of military attack as a pretext to further liquidate its opposition.
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*BUMP*!
I believe we heard the same about Iraq and it’s WMD programs. Sorry, but I’ll require more than speculation from defectors bent on revenge for me to go in with guns blazing this time around.
A man was stoned to death?
Well, who threw the stones?
His neighbors, most likely. As much as people say the Iranians want to be free, they are still savage Islamic animals.
If they caught a guy on my street for adultery and had a ‘stoning’, nobody would show up to cast a single stone.
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