Iranian Alert -- DAY 8 -- LIVE THREAD PING LIST

LIVE THREAD PING LIST | 6.13.2003 | DoctorZin

[DoctorZIn]

We are getting so many excellent stories coming in about the protests in Iran that it is time to create a live thread.

Please post all news stories in this thread and ping your lists to this thread so we can increase the overall awareness of what exactly is going on.

[ellery]

Cross-link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/930498/posts

SPECIAL FORCES PREPARE FOR IRAN ATTACK [CIA Already In Country]
UK Evening Standard ^ | June 17, 2003 | Robert Fox

British and American Intelligence and Special Forces have been put on alert for a conflict with Iran within the next 12 months as fears grow that Terhan is building a nuclear weapons program.

Iran has been constructing a nuclear civil power program for some years. It is due to start generating electricity for the national power grid in two years.

However, United Nations, American and European Union experts have become alarmed at the extent of nuclear power plants in Iraq and many are of a sophistication that suggests they are for a weapons program rather than for civil use.

A full report by the International Atomic Energy Authority is due to be published within days. It points at discrepencies in what Iran has officially disclosed about its nuclear facilities.

Already CIA agents are known to have been working inside Iran to establish the full range of the Iranian nuclear program.

[Poohbah]

Rock the Casbah bump

[DoctorZIn]

...On the orders of France's leading anti-terrorism judge, some 1,300 police poured into the streets and blew down doors of offices of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran early Tuesday in a vast sweep of sites north and west of Paris...


The Mujahedeen do not have a good reputation with most Iranians. Saddam supported them in their fight against the government. They are essentially socialist. But France wants to support the Mullahs right now. So the arrests.

[DoctorZIn]

"Anti-regime protests must not destabilize Iran" Russia says

MOSCOW, June 16 (AFP) - Russia said Monday it hoped that six days of student-led anti-regime protests in Iran would not destabilize the political situation in the Islamic republic.
"We hope that the internal political situation is not destabilized in Iran," Interfax quoted foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko as saying.

Yakovenko said that Russia was closely monitoring the violence, while noting that the demonstrations were "Iran's internal affair."

"We are saddened that the political disputes are leading to violence and bloodshed," Yakovenko added.

Iran lashed out Monbday at the United States -- which has welcomed the demonstrations -- and sent a "vigorous protest" over Washington's "interference" in its internal affairs.

Separately, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Yury Fedotov called on the IAEA governors to take a "measured and non-politicised" decision after receiving the report on Iran by its director general Mohamed ElBaradei.

"We believe the reaction of the council of governors to this report must be measured and non-politicised, and take all aspects into account," he said, as quoted by the Interfax news agency.

"The reaction should correspond to the parts of the report where it is a matter of activities discovered in Iran that were not known by the IAEA previously," he said.

ElBaradei said earlier in his report to the 35 IAEA governors, the body's regulatory body, that Tehran had "omitted to mention certain of its nuclear activities."

Iran, which is building its first nuclear power plant with Russia's help, is suspected by some countries, including the United States, of secretly working on a nuclear weapons program. It insists the plant is purely for civilian purposes.

Washington has been pressing the IAEA to condemn the program.


Source: Iranmania

[Allegra]

Thanks for the ping and please keep us posted. It sounds like you're getting some good inside information on this. Please let them know they have a lot of people praying and pulling for them. A democracy in Iran would be a dream come true for so many of them...

[DoctorZIn]

Will do.

[DoctorZIn]

France to invest 650 M$ in Iran
SMCCDI (Information Service)
June 16, 2003

The French government has pushed for more investments in the Iran of the Ayatollahs. These new investments are for a package of 650 Millions of dollars.

France is known to be one of the main backers of the Clerical leadership and suporter of the rule of repression in Iran. This country is also known for having avoided the trial of several of the hit squads members of the Islamic regime who killed several Iranian opponents placed under its protection.

Many Iranians are hoping to put an end to the economic presence of this country as soon as they will overthrown the theocracy.

Source: SMCCDI

http://www.iran-daneshjoo.org/cgi-bin/smccdinews/viewnews.cgi?category=5&id=1055855726

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[DoctorZIn]

SMCCDI (Information Service)
July 17, 2003
Tens of demonstrators were injured and arrseted in the clashes which rocked the western City of Hamedan.

Special units of the regime came into action, yesterday evening, to smash the protesters who had gather near the university which has been at several occasions the scene of bloody crackdowns.


Source: SMCCDI

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[FairOpinion]

Time to add France to the Axis of Evil list. There is a vacancy, not that we toppled Saddam's regime.

New, "improved" Axis of Evil: Iran, N. Korea, Syrian, France.

[Constitution Day]

"Many Iranians are hoping to put an end to the economic presence of this country (France) as soon as they will overthrown the theocracy."

Excellent news.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #47

D*mn, frogs! Fry them and feed them to dogs.:)

[DoctorZIn]

No kidding...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They must have defective goods, can't sell them anywhere else!

[Constitution Day]

They must have defective goods, can't sell them anywhere else!

I'm thinking "Peugeot" and "Renault". :)

[ellery]

Attach Chirac and Villipan to trees!

[ellery]

Cross-link:

Colin Powell Encourages Iranian Protest, US Not Fomenting
Reuters ^ | June 17, 2003 11:56 AM | Arshad Mohammad

US Secretary of State Colin Powell encouraged Iranians on Tuesday to demonstrate for their rights and dismissed Tehran's criticism that Washington was interfering it is internal affairs.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/930585/posts?page=1

[SevenofNine]

Rackkkk the Iranian student protest

RACK THEMMMMM


HEY DOCTOR I am here hey if you hear anything post it here I be around off and on ON FR

[DoctorZIn]

News from within Iran has been thin today only because the regime is gettng better at shutting down comunication. But I expect to hear more soon.

I will keep you posted.

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[DoctorZIn]

Here is a firsthand account from one of the protesting students....

Tuesday, June 17, 2003

The Blood of Iranians, Fighting our way to Regime Change

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.


In the past few nights, my peers — and our mothers and sisters — have poured into the streets of our city. Some of us have been arrested and many have been injured by the ruthless attacks of Ansaar-e-Hezbollah. These people attack whomever they see in the streets with tear gas, sticks, iron chains, swords, daggers, and, for the last two nights, guns.


It has become almost routine for us to go out at night, chant slogans, get beaten, lose some of our friends, see our sisters beaten, and then return home.


Each night we set to the streets only to be swept away the next dawn by agents of the regime. Two nights ago, on Amirabad Street, we wrote "Down with Khomeini" on the ground. Before long, the mullah's vigilantes attacked us on their motorcycles. They struck a female student before my eyes so harshly that she was no longer able to walk. As she fell to the ground, four members of Ansaar-e-Hezbollah surrounded her, kicking her. When I and two other students threw stones at them so that they would leave her alone, they threatened us. We escaped into a lane and hid in a house whose owner, an old lady, had left the door open for us. A few minutes later, we saw the young lady being carried away by riot police, her feet dragging on the ground, her shattered teeth hanging out of her still-bleeding mouth.


At least three of my best friends have been detained; nobody knows anything about their fate.


Yesterday I heard that the prosecutor of Tehran has announced that most of the detainees are hooligans with criminal records. What sort of criminal record does he mean? Perhaps the crime of walking with a person of the opposite sex? Of wearing Western clothes or playing a cassette in the car?


I was just talking to a friend who lives in a dormitory called Allammeh tabatabayee. He told me about what happened three nights ago when Ansaar-e-Hezbollah attacked the dormitory:


It started just before 10 P.M. We were chanting slogans against the regime, specifically the so-called leader. At first we were behind the gate of the dorm, inside the yard. When we went to the highway in front of the dormitory, a group of around 100 riot police arrived and started throwing stones at us. We retaliated from the roof of the dormitory building. At 2 A.M. Ansaar arrived.


They got shields from the police and entered the dormitory. There were about 600-700 of them — armed with swords, sticks, daggers, iron chains, and tear-gas guns — to 700 of us students, mostly in pajamas. We had run out of stones to resist any longer….


They entered the dormitory and shot tear gas, sending all the students fleeing to their rooms; then they entered the buildings, and started kicking in and breaking down the doors....


They were shouting "Rahbaraa az maa bepazir" — "Leader accept this from us." They captured my roommate and tried to stab him in the stomach with a dagger. He managed to grab the blade of the dagger, holding it tightly in his hands. His attackers pulled it out and struck him on the back. He now has a wound 15 centimeters long and 3 centimeters deep. As a result, he has been hospitalized, his thumbs almost detached from his hands....


Three attackers found an unlucky student alone in his room. Two held his hands at his sides while a third sodomized him with a dagger, inflicting a wound 12 centimeters deep. The student was taken to a Shariati hospital and bled for hours. He is still fighting for his life....


In another room, a student jumped from a third-floor balcony to the ground when he saw the tip of an attacker's sword breaking through the door to his room....


I visited the dormitory myself. The blood spots were still there. The doors were mostly broken. But we will continue to shed our blood, if that is what it takes to obtain the freedom we seek.


— Koorosh Afshar is a pseudonym for a student in Tehran. His name has been changed for his protection.

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