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Feds move to seize 4 US mosques and NY skyscraper over alleged ties to Iranian government
LA Times ^ | Nov 12, 2009 | AP

Posted on 11/12/2009 2:09:09 PM PST by VRWCTexan

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To: VRWCTexan

OCTOBER 25, 2007 : (US DEPT OF THE TREASURY DESIGNATES THE BANK MELLI See IRAN, WMD PROLIFERATION, ASSA CORP, QODS FORCE {See HEZBOLLAH, THE TALIBAN, PFLP, PIJ, HAMAS}) Bank Melli was previously designated under E.O. 13382 on October 25, 2007. E.O. 13382 is aimed at freezing the assets of proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their supporters.
Bank Melli provides financial services, including opening letters of credit and maintaining accounts, for Iranian front companies and entities engaged in proliferation activities. Further, Bank Melli has facilitated the purchase of sensitive materials utilized by Iran’s nuclear and missile industries, and has handled transactions for other designated Iranian entities, including Bank Sepah, Defense Industries Organization, and the Shahid Hammat Industrial Group.
Bank Melli has been designated as a proliferator by the United States and the European Union for its role in Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1803 calls on all member states to exercise vigilance with regard to activities between financial institutions in their countries and all Iranian banks, particularly Bank Melli.
Further, Bank Melli provides banking services to Iran’s military vanguard, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Qods Force, which is a branch of the IRGC that has been designated under Executive Order 13224 for providing support to terrorist groups, including the Taliban, Hizballah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command. -————Treasury Designates Bank Melli Front Company in New York City
TREAS.GOV - THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY ^ | December 17, 2008 | TREAS.GOV PRESS RELEASE HP-1330
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp1330.htm ; Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 3:18:09 AM by Cindy


41 posted on 11/12/2009 4:40:33 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: VRWCTexan

I can’t wait to hear CAIR explain this one.


42 posted on 11/12/2009 4:43:29 PM PST by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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To: VRWCTexan

Ok....

I support this...

then Give all the money to the Familys of American Soldiers
and Jews killed By Islamo Facists


43 posted on 11/12/2009 4:45:23 PM PST by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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To: VRWCTexan

I bet that Obama will stop the raids.


44 posted on 11/12/2009 4:48:00 PM PST by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: dervish
Not going to happen. Obama is a sunni muslim and bows to the King of Saudi Arabia. The Saudis also own many office towers and land in Manhattan, along with building countless mosques which preach wahabbi hatred all over the United States.

Another wonderful jihadist hate factory that should be shutdown immediatly is the "Islamic Saudi Academy" funded by the U.S. Saudi embassy and located in Alexandria, Virginia.

Highlights of this wonderful facility include:

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the ISA's 1999 valedictoria, indicted on terrorism charges that he joined Al-Qaeda and had plotted to assassinate President George W. Bush.

U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom urged the US State Department to shut down ISA on the grounds is teaches religious intolerance thats a danger to the USA and the school refused to provide its teaching materials for review.

Later analysis of textbooks at ISA found they teach students that it is okay for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, and also teach that, "The Jews conspired against Islam and its people."

Mohammed Osman Idris and Mohammed el-Yacoubi, former students of ISA, were denied entry to Israel in Dec 2001, under suspicion of planning to carry out a suicide martyr attack. Idris was later charged with lying to a federal grand jury investigating terrrorism.

45 posted on 11/12/2009 4:49:34 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: MestaMachine

bam won’t like this. It will get monkeywrenched by holder just like the black panther crap. Watch.
+++++++++++++++++++

Oh...we’re watching...


46 posted on 11/12/2009 4:49:56 PM PST by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: VRWCTexan

Here’s some further info:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/1109/US_seizing_mosques_office_tower_over_Iran_ties.html

A couple excerpts:

[While the action to seize a half-billion dollars in assets of the Alavi Foundation is dramatic, suspicions that the organization is controlled by Tehran date back for more than a decade. A 1995 article by Iran researcher Ken Timmerman cited an FBI report from a year earlier which concluded that the foundation was “entirely controlled by the government of Iran.”]

[The complaint also says a current foundation board member named Ali Ebrahimi kept a series of supsicious notes pertaining to the foundation. Elbrahimi’s notes, seized from his home and office in May, are somewhat cryptic but include the phrases: “conspiracy,” “it is illegal,” “mafia,” and “I cannot sleep at night.”]


47 posted on 11/12/2009 4:53:32 PM PST by khnyny
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
Is he off our soil? LET’S PARTY!!!

...or lock the door.

48 posted on 11/12/2009 5:03:22 PM PST by madison10
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To: tet68
How long till we see Rage Boy rioting in Islamabad? ...

Not long.

49 posted on 11/12/2009 5:09:13 PM PST by jaz.357 ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." W.Churchill)
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To: tet68
How long till we see Rage Boy rioting in Islamabad?


50 posted on 11/12/2009 5:12:54 PM PST by ScottinVA (The arrogance of this Congress is staggering. November 2010 can't get here quickly enough.)
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To: VRWCTexan

and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!

51 posted on 11/12/2009 5:14:39 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org Date: 11/12/2009 8:15:29 PM

ALAVI FOUNDATION (AF)
500 Fifth Ave. Suite 2320
New York, NY
10110
Phone :212-944-8333
URL :http://www.alavifoundation.org

FBI official calls it a “front organization for the Iranian regime,” which is hostile to the United States

A not-for-profit organization formed in New York State in 1973, the Alavi Foundation was originally set up by the former Shah of Iran's government to promote Iranian language and culture in the United States. With the fall of the Shah, the multi-million-dollar building where the Alavi Foundation has its offices became the property of the Mostazafan Foundation, a non-profit which was established by the Ayatollah Khomeini's revolutionary Islamic government in Iran.

The Alavi Foundation claims that its goals are to “promote understanding and harmony among people of different religions”; “promote the study of the humanities, arts, and pure and applied sciences”; “giv[e] assistance to public charitable organizations during times of hardship and deprivation caused by war or natural disasters”; and “provid[e] financial assistance to not-for-profit organizations that are involved in the teaching of Islamic culture and the Persian language.”

The Alavi Foundation owns numerous properties in the United States, including a 36-story New York City office complex worth an estimated $135 million; 20 acres of prime development land in Catharpin, Virginia; and four "Islamic Education Centers" in Potomac (Maryland), Queens (New York), Houston (Texas), and Carmichael (California).

The Potomac location serves some 1,500 Muslim families and was directed for 14 years by Islamic cleric Mohammad Asi, who called the 9/11 attacks "a grand strike against New York and Washington" launched by "Israeli Zionist Jews" who had advised the 5,000 Jews employed at the World Trade Center to skip work on that fateful day. Asi has also praised and supported the activities of Hezbollah, which is an arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

Former FBI official Oliver Revell has stated that the Alavi Foundation is "a front organization for the Iranian regime that is engaged in covert intelligence activity on the part of a hostile foreign government." That intelligence consists, in part, of monitoring Iranian dissidents in the U.S. by means of technological espionage. David Cohen of the New York Police Department intelligence division says the Alavi Foundation is "totally controlled by the government of Iran" and "funds a variety of anti-American causes" including the Potomac Center and other mosques. U.S. intelligence officials characterize Alavi as a vehicle through which the Iranian regime “keeps tabs on Iranians [in the United States], obtains data about U.S. technology, promotes Tehran's views on world affairs, provides gathering places for pro-Iran activists, and channels money to U.S. academics to gain a friendly reading on Iran.”

53 posted on 11/12/2009 5:17:19 PM PST by SJackson (In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom, In water there is bacteria.)
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To: Mojave; MestaMachine; All

Alavi Foundations 2007 Tax return record:

“Fair market value of assets $121,180,330.00”

http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/Alav_2007_taxes.pdf


54 posted on 11/12/2009 5:55:49 PM PST by 444Flyer ("Permission to engage the enemy Sir! " " Permission denied." (Under CIC Obamao.))
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To: 444Flyer

55 posted on 11/12/2009 5:57:00 PM PST by 444Flyer ("Permission to engage the enemy Sir! " " Permission denied." (Under CIC Obamao.))
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To: VRWCTexan
Steve Emerson was at the forefront a decade or more ago investigating the funneling of funds. Our very own Freeper Laura Mansfield has been invaluable in her years of investigating. Rita Katz began the investigative group.

Strategic Translations from Laura Mansfield

Steven Emerson's Blog

Rita Katz Executive Director of the SITE Intelligence Group

56 posted on 11/12/2009 5:57:33 PM PST by JustPiper (You think about revolution...Well...)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican
Not going to happen. Obama is a sunni muslim and bows to the King of Saudi Arabia.

Thanks...I was about to post the same thing.
So basically, soetoro/obama is doing what he does best -- removing the competition.

57 posted on 11/12/2009 5:58:19 PM PST by Just A Nobody ( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
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To: 444Flyer

This is truly beyond comprehension. Iran had nothing to do with the Ft. Hood Massacre. That was Wahhabi Sunni dammit. We are so screwed up we don’t know who is on 1st!!!


58 posted on 11/12/2009 6:00:00 PM PST by londonfog
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To: Mojave; MestaMachine

June 17, 2009

“5th Avenue Skyscraper Center of Iranian Mystery”

“When anyone enters the gleaming stone skyscraper on New York’s Fifth Avenue, they have no idea they have walked into the middle of an international mystery.

Just blocks from Rockefeller Center, 650 Fifth Avenue is at the center of a federal probe, involving the FBI, two firms linked to Iran ‘s national bank and a wealthy U.S. foundation that supports Islamic charitable causes — whose former president has been accused of obstruction of justice.

In December, the Department of Justice charged the building’s co-owners, the Assa Corporation and Assa Limited, of being front companies for Iran ‘s national bank, Bank Melli. The bank had been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for allegedly helping fund Iran ‘s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

The other owner of the building is the Alavi Foundation, which was founded by the Shah of Iran and has been operating as a New York state charity for 35 years. Alavi owns 60 percent of the building and bills itself as a charitable effort to “support Interfaith harmony and promote Islamic culture and Persian language, literature and civilization.” It claims assets of more than $121 million.

A look at its donation list from tax records shows some of America ‘s most prominent institutions have benefited from Alavi’s largess, from Harvard and Columbia universities, to former President Clinton’s work. Tax records show the William J. Clinton Foundation was given $30,000 in 2006. Alavi has also distributed millions to schools, mosques and Islamic Centers through the years...”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526766,00.html


59 posted on 11/12/2009 6:00:19 PM PST by 444Flyer ("Permission to engage the enemy Sir! " " Permission denied." (Under CIC Obamao.))
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To: SJackson; MamaDearest

The truth about Extremism from the koran itself

Offering a search engine for finding Masjids, Islamic organizations, Muslim businesses, prayer time schedules, and more.

Came across a website on this search engine. It is The Sharia Supervisory Board of Guidance Residential includes Sharia scholars who are among the world’s leading experts in the Islamic law of financial transactions.

60 posted on 11/12/2009 6:02:34 PM PST by JustPiper (You think about revolution...Well...)
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