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Iranian report: Teheran developed anti-cruise missile system By JPOST.COM STAFF Iran has developed an anti-cruise missile system, state-run Press TV reported on Sunday. Announcing the latest milestone in the domestic military industrial achievements, Air Force Brigadier General Ahmad Miqani said, "[Despite] thirty years of military sanctions by the enemy, the armed forces have taken appropriates steps toward self-sufficiency and have been able not only to update their equipment, but also to achieve wide-ranging progress in the military and aerospace sector." The Khatam al-Anbiya Air Base, which operates under the supervision of general Miqani, is the unitary supreme body coordinating and...

Skyscrapercity.com has an interesting thread. It was warned that the Baseej regime thugs would mark homes of suspected rebels with paint. People were tried to be warned to remove it ASAP. CNN has a night time video (the audio is more telling and shocking) of probably these marked homes being stormed by govt. thugs. VIDEO

The United States has stepped back from the notion of "regime change" in Iran, US Sen. John Kerry stressed Wednesday, urging that Iran also moderate its actions. We are not in a regime change mode," said the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing on the Islamic Republic. "Just as we abandon calls for regime change in Teheran and recognize a legitimate Iranian role in the region, Iran's leaders must moderate their behavior and that of their proxies, Hizbullah and Hamas." Kerry praised the Obama administration's focus on diplomacy with Iran, adding that "engagement alone is not...

RESIDENTS at certain addresses in the Gaza Strip have been receiving unusual phone calls since the Israeli air assault began on Saturday - a request that they and their families leave their homes as soon as possible for their own safety.

Iran has blamed Georgia for its confrontation with Russia and in a reference to Israel and the U.S., urged regional countries to unite against foreign interference. Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday Georgia caused the crisis because it miscalculated the reaction to its use of military power in South Ossetia. Speaking earlier on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the conflict would not have taken place had Georgia “not allowed countries from outside the region to interfere in their internal affairs.” Analysts say that wary of U.S. troop presence in...

Last week, the pistachio nut dropped. With adequate missile defense technology, I had questioned the necessity of a preemptive attack on Iran’s nuclear capability. Uncomfortable as living with an Iranian bomb would be, I thought, better to defend ourselves than attack first. And why should Israel – alone – take such risks? Overflowing with dire predictions and warnings, pleas for negotiations and economic and diplomatic sanctions, the media, politicians and ‘experts’ left me confused. Why is an Iranian nuclear arsenal ‘intolerable?’ I wondered, until I attended a press briefing by Dr. Shmuel Bar, Director of Studies at The Institute for...

Iranian President accused of indecency Times Online May 2, 2007 Jenny Booth The President of Iran has been accused of indecency after he publicly kissed an elderly woman who used to be his school teacher. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was photographed and filmed by state media stooping to kiss the woman’s hand and then clasping her arms in an embrace, at a ceremony yesterday in honour of Iranian teachers’ day. According to sharia law, it is forbidden for a man to have any physical contact with a woman to whom he is not related. “The Muslim Iranian people have no recollection of...

Iran bans 'Western' haircuts for men April 30, 2007 TEHRAN'S barbers are to stop offering Iranian men unconventional Western hairstyles amid a nationwide crackdown on dressing deemed to be unIslamic, the Etemad newspaper reported on Sunday. The paper quoted the head of the Tehran barbers' association as saying police had issued a directive forbidding its members from giving men offbeat hairstyles that are all the rage in more affluent parts of the capital. "Currently some salons use Western grooming methods to create styles that are in line with the European and American ones," said the association's head, Mohammad Eftekhari-Fard. "The...

Tehran's standoff with west sees tourists snub Persian treasuresIndustry faces collapse as tension grows over nuclear issue and sailors' detention Robert Tait in Tehran, The Guardian Thursday April 12 2007 Siosepol Bridge in the ancient city of Isfahan. Iran's tourist trade has been badly damaged by recent events. Photograph: Alamy With its enduring relics of a glorious imperial past, spectacular glittering mosques and breathtaking landscapes, Iran lays claim to some of the finest cultural jewels in the Middle East. But a potentially catastrophic collapse in the country's tourist trade is threatening to leave this dazzling array of attractions largely unseen...

Conservative parliamentarian Amir Hassankhani, a former member of the country's Revolutionary Guard and supporter of the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told the country's semi-official Fars news agency: "The arrest and release of the British sailors proved that if Iran's issues and demands are overlooked at the international level, the Islamic republic can create different challenges for the other side."

Buoyant Teheran warns of further kidnappings By Gethin Chamberlain, Philip Sherwell and Tim Shipman, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 11:56pm BST 07/04/2007 Hardliners in the Iranian regime have warned that the seizure of British naval personnel demonstrates that they can make trouble for the West whenever they want to and do so with impunity. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: a PR bounce The bullish reaction from Teheran will reinforce the fears of western diplomats and military officials that more kidnap attempts may be planned. The British handling of the crisis has been regarded with some concern in Washington, and a Pentagon defence official...

Teheran agents smuggled in missile that shot down RAF helicopter in Iraq, inquiry finds By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:48am GMT 04/03/2007 A missile which brought down an RAF Lynx helicopter and killed five British Service personnel was smuggled into Iraq by Iranian agents, an official inquiry into the attack will reveal. The Sunday Telegraph has learnt that a British Army Board of Inquiry (BOI) into the events surrounding last May's attack will state that the weapon, a shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile known as an SA14 Strella, came from Iran. The attack, which was also responsible for...

Iran defiant as anger mounts over Holocaust forum Dec 12 9:37 AM US/Eastern Iran has pressed on with a controversial Holocaust conference as international outrage mounted over its hosting of "revisionist" historians who cast doubt on the mass slaughter of Jews in World War II. British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday slammed the conference as "shocking beyond belief", a sentiment echoed by his Israeli counterpart Ehud Olmert and German Chancellor Angela Merkel A host of Western "revisionists" who doubt the slaughter of six million Jews in World War II took place, including a former Ku Klux Klan leader and...

Teheran police order 64,000 women to cover up in the heat of summer By David Blair (Filed: 29/08/2006) Police in Iran's capital, Teheran, have stopped almost 64,000 women and warned them against breaching strict Muslim dress codes in the last month alone. The authorities have chosen the height of summer for a new crackdown to ensure that women cover their heads with veils and their bodies with long, heavy overcoats whenever they can be seen in public. For years, Iran's police turned a blind eye when young women pushed the boundaries of the rules by wearing the flimsiest of veils,...

Dr. Jerome Corsi will be on WCTC 1450 AM to discuss Atomic Iran tomorrow afternoon (Saturday, July 22) Dr. Jerome Corsi will be the guest of Keith Rasmussen and Maggie Glynn who host Loud & Clear on Central Jersey 1450 Saturdays 3 pm - 6 pm Eastern. Dr. Corsi will join Loud & Clear at 4:15 pm Eastern. Jerome Corsi, Ph.D. Harvard University, co-author (with John O'Neill) of the New York Times #1 bestseller, Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, is the author of 2005's Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and...

Tel Aviv (AsiaNews) – Once more the inherent instability of the Middle East has been violently revealed by the military attack on Israel from Lebanese territory, which is viewed in Israel as a declaration of war on Israel by the Lebanese State itself. "It is not a terrorist attack," Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insisted, "it is a military attack by one State - Lebanon - on another: Israel." Hizballah, the armed Shiite organisation that actually carried out the attack - and is continuing it at the time of writing - is now an integral part of the Lebanese State -...

The grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini, the inspiration of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, has broken a three-year silence to back the United States military to overthrow the country's clerical regime. Hossein Khomeini's call is all the more startling as he made it from Qom, the spiritual home of Iran's Shia strand of Islam, during an interview to mark the 17th anniversary of the ayatollah's death. "My grandfather's revolution has devoured its children and has strayed from its course," he told Al-Arabiya, an Arabic-language television station. "I lived through the revolution and it called for freedom and democracy - but it has...

Teheran mocks PM over polls drubbing By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 08/05/2006) Iran mocked Tony Blair yesterday, saying Labour's drubbing in last week's local elections was caused by his close alliance with President George W Bush. On the eve of a meeting of the world's major powers to decide how to respond to Teheran's nuclear defiance, the regime took comfort in the humiliation of one of its major foes. Show of strength: President Ahmadinejad stands with commanders of the Basij Militia in Tehran yesterday "The people's vote showed their opposition to Mr Blair's policies of following those of...

Are you an arab-muslim terrorist? then You are welcome to mullahs' hotel in Iran. U.S. intelligence officials believe that part of Osama bin Laden's family has now moved to Iran, which is playing host to an ever growing contingent of al-Qaida members. The Iran-based branch of bin Laden's clan includes three of the terror mastermind's sons, according to the Los Angeles Times. Several of bin Laden's wives and other relatives are suspected of being there as well, U.S. officials told the paper. The bin Laden information was gathered through the use of electronic eavesdropping and satellite surveillance that can monitor...

Teheran park 'cleansed' of traces from nuclear site By Con Coughlin, Defence and Security Editor (Filed: 06/03/2006) Iran's Revolutionary Guards have taken the extraordinary step of cutting down thousands of trees in Teheran to prevent United Nations inspectors from finding traces of enriched uranium from a top-secret nuclear plant. News of last month's cleansing operation comes as the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-member board meets in Vienna today to decide whether Iran should be reported to the United Nations Security Council for failing to comply with its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Dr Mohamed ElBaradei: scathing report on Iran...

Iran’s Leader, Ahmadinejad, Calls on Nations to “Remove Israel” 16:49 Feb 12, '06 / 14 Shevat 5766 By Scott Shiloh At a rally in Teheran, commemorating the 27th anniversary of the revolution that created the Islamic republic, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated his call for Israel’s destruction. "We ask the West to remove what they created sixty years ago, and if they do not listen to our recommendations, then the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do this for them," Ahmadinejad said. "Remove Israel before it is too late and save yourself from the fury of regional nations," proclaimed...

Do not believe Teheran, Britain warns Russia By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 18/01/2006) Britain warned Russia yesterday not to be fooled by "vacuous" Iranian offers of 11th-hour negotiations to avoid being reported to the United Nations. As diplomats began a campaign to raise support for reporting Iran to the UN Security Council, Moscow held out the prospect of talks with Teheran on a Russian compromise deal. Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, also warned the West of the dangers of imposing UN sanctions on Iran. "We remember the history of sanctions against Iraq and know how it all...

Teheran 'providing refuge for al-Qaeda terrorists' By Philip Sherwell in Washington (Filed: 06/11/2005) About 25 al-Qaeda leaders, including three of Osama bin Laden's sons, are running terrorist operations from their refuge in Iran rather than languishing under house arrest as the Teheran regime claims, intelligence officials have said. The disclosure comes as Maj-Gen James Dutton, the commander of British forces in south-eastern Iraq, reiterated on Friday that the technology for lethal new rebel bombs was crossing into the country from Iran. A "top-ranking Western secret service agent" has told Cicero magazine that the senior al-Qaeda operatives, who fled across the...

Iran 'sponsors assassination' of Sunni pilots who bombed Teheran By Toby Harnden in Suleimaniya, Aqeel Hussein in Baghdad and Colin Freeman (Filed: 29/10/2005) Iran is backing a Shia insurgent campaign of systematically assassinating former elite Iraqi air force pilots as part of a covert sectarian war against Sunnis, according to senior politicians in Baghdad. The spate of murders of pilots has prompted an intervention from Jalal Talabani, Iraq's president, who has offered them safe haven in his native Kurdistan even though some of them were involved in dropping chemical weapons there. Alleged Iranian involvement in the killings has heightened sectarian...

Teheran 'lied' over plutonium production By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 17/06/2005) Iran falsely reported the timing of experiments to produce plutonium, a fissile material used in nuclear weapons, a report by the United Nations watchdog said yesterday. The International Atomic Energy Agency said that Teheran had earlier admitted that it had produced plutonium in breach of the international rules, but claimed that the work had ended in 1993. But IAEA inspectors have now forced Teheran to admit that the work continued until 1998. The quantities involved are small, but in a statement, the American representative to the IAEA,...

The Iranian government has given approval for the establishment of a secret nuclear research centre to train its scientists in all aspects of atomic technology, The Telegraph can reveal. Recent reports received by Western intelligence show that Teheran has recently approved the establishment of a faculty of applied nuclear engineering that will be attached to the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI). The faculty will provide post-graduate courses for Iranian scientists in nuclear engineering and the production of nuclear materials. Intelligence officials believe that the creation of the facility is yet further evidence that Iran is involved in a...

TEHERAN - One hundred members of Iran’s exiled armed opposition group, the People’s Mujahedeen, have quit their base in Iraq and returned to the Islamic republic, press reports said Tuesday. “These people had requested the Red Cross officials to return to Iran after fleeing the camp in Iraq,” the governor of the Iranian border town of Qasr Shirin was quoted as saying. Press reports said a further 233 members of the group had also asked to return to Iran, with the next group due to enter the country next week. But the People’s Mujahedeen said “75 percent” of those seeking...

The Austrian police force stopped two Iranian nationals suspected of wanting to acquire apparatuses of night vision on behalf of the Iranian army, indicated to the ministry for the Interior dimanche."Ces two Iranians, woman a 27 year old and man a 39 year old, is suspected of having wanted to buy illegally to 3.000 apparatuses of night vision of third generation on behalf of the Iranian army", indicated to AFP a spokesman of the ministry, Rudolf Gollia. "They are imprisoned in Vienna", has it ajouté.L' arrest took place on November 30 at the end two years of investigation of the...

The Lessons of History How “Uncle Joe” Bugged FDR Gary Kern In recent years, the statesmanship of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in particular his handling of Soviet affairs, has come under attack in historical studies. The situation has reached such a pass that even a psychiatrist who examined FDR’s medical records has opined that toward the end of World War II the US President ceded the better part of Eastern Europe to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin because he was “gripped by clinical depression.1” Certainly the President’s moves can be questioned, but questionable policy can be founded on factors other than...

Tehran, April 18, IRNA -- In a one-day conference to be held in Tehran on April 25, numbers of lawyers and prominent activists of human rights from Iran and abroad will participate, including Maria Terresa Doutli, Deputy Secretary General of International Committee of Red Cross in Legal Affairs. Ms. Doutli will make a speech titled:" National Execution of Humanitarian Law". She will convey her 25 years experiences on facing the wars and conflicts to Iranian governmental and non-governmental organizations. In the conference, the role of International Red Cross and Red Crescent in support, execution and promotion of humanitarian law would...

A few scientists associated with Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme used German go-betweens to sell their secrets to Iran, according to a high-level source in Islamabad quoted in the Sunday Times. This makes sense if one recalls that a few Pakistanis had been detained in Munich quite a few years ago when allegedly caught carrying stolen fissile material from Russia. Later, it was said the German Intelligence officers had caught them during a sting operation. The Times report also said the scientists were " motivated entirely by money". Two Sri Lankan businessmen based in Dubai helped the scientists when they passed...

Iranian cleric urges Teheran to defy West's nuclear curbs By David Wastell and Behzad Farsian (Filed: 21/09/2003) A call by a leading Iranian cleric for his country to consider withdrawing from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty has raised fresh fears that Iran will ignore an international deadline to curb its nuclear ambitions. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, a hardliner who heads the Guardian Council, the most powerful governing body, said during prayers at Teheran University that Iran should defy demands for tougher nuclear inspections. He said Iran should not sign an extra protocol to the treaty, demanded by the International Atomic Energy Agency,...

Sep. 5, 2003 Editorial: The eagle and the phoenix Yesterday's flight of three Israel Air Force F-15 fighter planes above the Auschwitz death camp has been derided by some, both within and beyond Poland, as inappropriate. The site, went their argument, should not be desecrated by such a display of military prowess, and the commemoration of its victims should not exclude, even passively, the large number of non-Jews who were also murdered there alongside more than a million Jews. We disagree. For one thing, it is naive to suggest that the abuse of power that made Auschwitz happen means that...

June 17, 2003 The National Review Online Koorosh Afshar TEHRAN, IRAN — During the past few nights, we Iranian youth have been agitating — at great risk to our lives — to remove the 24-year-old plague that has stricken our homeland. Our goal is to topple the theocratic regime of the mullahs. Our opponents are barbarian vigilantes — members of Ansaar-e-Hezbollah — who are backed by heavily armed Iranian riot police. Westerners may have difficulty imagining what these people are like. In fact, it's quite easy: Simply remember the Taliban. The only difference is that they don't wear Afghani clothes....

Gunfire heard in Teheran during student protest By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 14/06/2003) Pro-regime militiamen armed with Kalashnikov rifles moved last night to crush student protests against Iran's ruling clergy, beating reformist demonstrators with iron bars and clubs on the fourth night of unrest in Teheran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei The sound of automatic gunfire rang out near Teheran University's campus after the militiamen jumped out of lorries and from motorcycles to disperse hundreds of students holding street protests. It was not clear whether there were any casualties from the gunfire. "Most were armed with sticks and chains but...

London, Saturday, Dec. 4--The Moscow radio announced early this morning that President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin had met in Teheran, Iran, "a few days ago" to discuss questions relating to the war and the post-war period. "A few days ago," the Moscow radio said shortly after midnight, "a conference of the leaders of the three Allied nations--President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin--took place at Teheran. "Military and diplomatic representatives also took part. The questions discussed at the conference related to the war against Germany and also to a range of political questions. Decisions were taken...