Posted on 05/12/2006 6:46:33 PM PDT by DoctorZIn
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Ahmadinejad warns that Israel will one day "vanish," and so will the U.S.
- Khaleej Times Online reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that Israel “one day will vanish.” But he has also said the same thing about the US. Photo.
Iranians students clashing with regime over democracy.
- Iran Press News reported that a seminar on democracy and daily life that was organized by the association of social sciences faculty of school of Social Sciences of Tehran University has been cancelled under pressure and threats from the ministry of intelligence and security.
- Iran Press News reported that subsequent to the cancellation of the permit for the Democracy and Daily life seminar university students gathered for a peaceful protest.
- Iran Press News reported that students from the faculty of social sciences while gathering at the main entrance of Tehran University called for other students from the other schools of Tehran University campus to join them. The disciplinary guards who had mobilized on the university grounds assaulted and severely beat students.
Iran's letter to Bush: a prelude to war?
- Amir Taheri, The New York Post examined the ancient and recent history behind the letter Ahmadinejad wrote to President Bush and warned the letter contains a crucial message: The present regime in Iran is the enemy of the current international system and is determined to undermine and, if possible, destroy it.
- WorldNetDaily reported that some Middle East observers believe Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's letter to President Bush could be a precursor to war, based on a traditional Muslim pattern of offering acceptance of Islam before establishing it by force.
- The New York Sun reported that President Ahmadinejad's letter to President Bush is in fact a declaration of war. The key sentence in the letter is the closing salutation. It is left untranslated and rendered as "Vasalam Ala Man Ataba'al hoda." What this means is "Peace only unto those who follow the true path." It is a phrase with historical significance in Islam.
Heritage Foundation: Now is the time to engage the Iranian people.
- Helle Dale, Heritage Foundation reported that now is the time to engage the Iranian people, one of the most pro-American in the Middle East. This is one area where U.S. public diplomacy may have promising contributions to make.
Washington Post: Not all Iranians agree with regime.
- The Washington Post reported the divide inside of Iran between the apocalyptic vision of Ahmadinejad's own spiritual adviser, Ayatollah Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi who recently suggested that future elections were superfluous because a true Islamic government had arisen and those that long for real change inside of Iran.
More worker protests inside of Iran.
- Iran Press News reported that the Iranian workers of Gilan clothing industries gathered in front of the Gilan department of industries to protest 10 months of non-receipt of their wages.
- Iran Press News reported that one hundred employed workers from the Iranian Tide Water and Kaveh companies at the Anzali shipping protested in front of the governor's office of the province of Gilan were arrested and sent to prison.
Russia: Nothing to discuss with Iran.
- Peoples Daily Online reported that the head of the Russian Atomic Energy Agency Sergei Kiriyenko said there is no need to hold talks with Iran on a joint venture to enrich uranium.
French oil bribes Iranian leaders.
- Iran Press News reported that the French oil company Total, which gained extensive profits in Iran, is under investigation for allegedly bribing the Rafsanjani family over the years in order to land the best possible contracts.
Peres: Iran would give nukes to terrorists.
- The Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres said that if Teheran was to achieve nuclear capabilities, it would make its way to terrorist organizations.
US troops move to the Iranian border.
- Zaman reported that in response to the Iranian military attack inside of Iraq against Kurdish forces, the US Army in Iraq is claimed to have increased the military build up of US troops on the Iranian border.
Here are a few other news items you may have missed.
- ABC News reported that Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said he was pleased the U.N. Security Council was holding off from sanctions against Iran and added: "We need compromises from both sides."
- The Financial Times reported that Iran warned that proposals being prepared by European governments to resolve the nuclear dispute must allow Tehran to continue uranium enrichment for “research and development“.
- Iran Press News reported that a university student was suspended for drawing a cartoon of Ahmadinejad.
- Littlebird.com published a cartoon: Iran: tear down that wall!
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Prayers for a free Iran.
Jim Sinclair remarks on MineSet that Ahmadinejad's second letter to Bush, inviting him to convert to Islam, can be interpreted as a threat rather than a pleasant gesture.
Unfortunately, US diplomats and analysts tend not to understand this sort of religious thinking, and therefore to write it off as meaningless. It is far from meaningless, however.
Here are Sinclair's comments:
"President says his letter to President Bush was invitation to Islam"
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-24/0605110155191821.htm
It seems most commentators I've heard or read say he's a loon. I don't think he is. I HOPE the President & his advisors consider this, and pay attention to his actions. Iran seemingly has no fear of us. They have sheltered Al Qaeda for years, that fact alone is reason enough for their regime to end.
And it may happen again in Iran.
Just keep pushing...
I can't believe Mamhoud is still breathing.
If they say they are going to obliterate Israel and replace our constitution with the quaran, then that is exactly what they plan to do.
They keep telling us this, yet we continue to brush it off and laugh.
They have infiltrated us, in fact the world. Their procedures work. They move to a country, raise families, acquire jobs in all sectors, live in all parts of the target country. They start to make demands based on their their religious beliefs (the quaran). Nativity scenes are offensive, require rooms and time for prayer, imposing their beliefs at the expense of others. Softening the target so to speak. By leveraging political ground gained at every turn. Subjugation in any means,some subtle, some not so subtle. Each appeasement is a victory for them.When their population reaches a critical mass they strike. They plan to do this with in our lifetimes.France may well already be lost. There is no such thing as a peaceful islamist, it simply means they have not been activated.
We must not continue to dismiss them in apathetic arrogance.
We should be prepared to bare arms.
Will it take an American Hiroshima to awaken the majority, to mobilize our masses against the Islamic quest of world domination?
Islam must be crushed. Islam must not be recognized as a religion any more than Nazism was. All Mosques should be declared delinquent of taxes owed retroactive from the day they were built. ANY gathering of Islamics should be PROSECUTED as CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MASS MURDER, found guilty and deported. Country by country, state by state, town by town, foot by foot, inch by inch, the Islamic cancer must be eradicated.
ACT NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE:
Dear Representative:
As a registered voter and tax paying legal resident of the United States of America we urge you to provide us with your utmost commitment to providing the citizens of our nation protection of our rights, life, liberties, property, and our hallowed Constitution.
We are under attack by an ideology that demands our demise. We will not stand quiet in the eve of our destruction. And we certainly will not tolerate our elected representative to lead us to the slaughter.
We urge you to introduce a referendum on whether Islam is a religion, or an ideology.
The advantages and protections of tax-exempt status afforded to a religion should not be extended to an ideology determined to replace our Constitution with the Koran.
In spite of what the media reports, the American public is well aware that that the war on terrorism is in reality, our defensive efforts against the Islamic offensive. We are not being provided with the defense of both our rights and the sanctity of our Constitution as long as we allow the enemy to operate freely with in our borders.
Americans are concerned and are in extreme jeopardy and demand you perform your duties as both an American and elected representative.
In Earnest,
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Just so. I remember reading Harold Lamb's book about Genghis Kahn when I was a boy. He would send a message ahead of his march to the next town, saying something like, "Submit, before it's too late."
If the recipient of the message neglected to submit immediately, then he would go in, cut off everyone's head in the whole town, and pile the heads in a pyramid. In other words, he would suggest that when you get an offer to submit, you'd better submit.
Now, what does it mean when Iran sends a letter to the President, as representing all of America, saying "Convert to Islam"? Well, it means, in their view of it, they have now given us fair warning. If we refuse to submit, then they have a perfect right to kill us, as good little Muslims. After all, we neglected their warning. We even laughed at it.
Well, in the end, we could wipe Iran off the map. But that would small comfort for their having killed millions of us first, which is certainly what they intend to do. And I'm not that confident that Homeland Security can stop them from doing it.
The jihadic enemy has one goal, a world wide caliphate, which clearly implies the total destruction of the American led, Western based global economic system.
The Islamic enemy has been abusing our IRS nonprofit 501C3 and that of other Western nations.
"The advantages and protections of tax-exempt status afforded to a religion should not be extended to an ideology determined to replace our Constitution with the Koran."
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