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Iranian Alert -- DAY 33 -- LIVE THREAD PING LIST [Breaking News... Jamming Source Identified]
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| 7.12.2003
| DoctorZin
Posted on 07/12/2003 12:16:45 AM PDT by DoctorZIn
The world media has all but ignored this week's dramatic events in Iran. The regime has masterfully handled the world media. The regime appears to have a new ally in their efforts to silent the media, Cuba.
BREAKING NEWS
Several days ago we reported the jamming of LA based Iranian broadcasters, the key link of communication of the Iranian protest movement. The regime had been jamming the signals in the past within Iran using equipment purchased from France.
But days before the July 9th protests were to begin the broadcaster began reporting that their uplink signal was being jammed as well. This would require jamming equipment either in the US or nearby. We have been seeking confirmation of this story. We now have it.
Loral Skynet, hired a firm to investigate the source of the jamming. The result was that they have narrowed the probable source of the jamming to be in the vicinity of Havana Cuba.
The following is the text of a letter from Loral Skynet to Atlanta Direct-to-Home, the service providing satellite broadcast services to several Los Angeles based Iranian broadcasters. The matter is now in the hands of the FCC.
Loral Skynet 500 Hills Drive P.O. Box 7018 Bodminster, NJ 07921
Peggy A Courter Director , Client Services Tel:(908) 470-2362 Fax:(908) 470-2459 Email: pcourter@loralskynet.com
July 11, 2003
Mr. Michael Day President Atlanta Direct-to-Home (ADTH) 5388 New Peachtree Rd. Chamblee, GA 30341
Dear Mr. Day,
As reported in the news media, it appears that an unknown entity is blocking certain signals into Loral Skynet's Telstar 12 satellite, which signals carry Farsi language and Iranian programming. Skynet is taking all appropriate actions to resolve the interference, and regrets any inconvenience to Atlanta DTH ("ADTH") and its customers caused by the interference. This letter summaries our understanding of the source of the interference and our efforts to resolve it.
Interference into Transponder 10 on Telstar 12 was first reported to Skynet by one of ADTH's uplinkers on July 5, 2003 at approximately 5:35 p.m. EST, and ADTH spoke with Skynet operations personnel within minutes thereafter to discuss the problem. Skynet immediately instituted its standard procedures for detecting the cause of the interference, including investigating any cross-pole carrier or adjacent operator issues and any recent uplinking activity that may have adversely affected the carrier. Skynet determined that none of those factors contributed to the interference, and that the Telstar 12 satellite and Transponder 10 were, and had been, operating properly (and, in fact, continue to operate properly). As a result, Skynet concluded that the interference was caused by a third party.
Similarly, ADTH instituted several procedures to attempt to resolve the interference, including reducing its bandwidth and splitting capacity among three carriers. Despite these procedures, intermittent interference continued.
Accordingly, Skynet contacted a transmitter geo-location service, TLS, Inc., to attempt to locate the transmit source of the interference. TLS was able to provide an ellipse of the most probable location of the source of the interference, which it identified as being in the vicinity of Havana, Cuba. As the services being interfered with are licensed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the probable source of the interference is not within United States boundaries, on July 9 Skynet forwarded the information concerning the interference and TLS's investigation to FCC personnel. The FCC has contacted TLS for further technical discussions.
As Skynet continues its efforts to eliminate the interference into Telstar 12, I want to reassure you that Skynet understands ADTH's concerns and those of its customers regarding their broadcasting integrity, and Skynet remains full committed to resolving the issue as quickly as possible.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like to discuss this matter further.
Sincerely,
Peggy A. Courter Director, Client SErvices
cc: Wei Hu, Esq. Jacky Hse
Copies of the original fax can be seen at:
http://members.cox.net/iranazad/Skynet1.jpg
http://members.cox.net/iranazad/Skynet2.jpg
This story has national security implications. We need to write the media and ensure they cover this breaking story. We need to contact our elected officials and demand they investigate this immediately.
These efforts by the regime, while successful in the short term, do not resolve the fundamental reasons why this regime is crumbling from within.
As Michael Ledeen posted recently, "...we can already say that the regime's intimidation was not successful. And you have to admire the courage of these young Iranians..."
Iran is a country ready for a regime change. If you follow this thread you will witness, I believe, the transformation of a nation. This daily thread provides a central place where those interested in the events in Iran can find the best news and commentary.
Please continue to join us here, post your news stories and comments to this thread.
Thanks for all the help.
DoctorZin
TOPICS: Breaking News; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: F14 Pilot
You had a link to SUMKÂ.
here is something from their web site:
Fellow Iranian (Aryan) Compatriots
The SUMKÂ (NATIONAL SOCIALIST IRANIAN WORKERS PARTY) is a political and educational party dedicated to the preservation of the Iranian peoples, and our Superior Iranian cultural heritage and Civilization.
As the world enemy wages war against the Iranian peoples, and our ancient Civilization in every corner of the world, we have found that the ONLY WAY to shock our people awake is through BOLD ACTION. Too many others would rather try to TALK the problem away, while we realize that the time has come to FIGHT!
Only the DRAFSH-e KÂVIÂNI, the AGE OLD SYMBOL OF IRANIAN RESIDENCE against evil forces, has the SHOCK- POWER to shatter the Aniranians and force Iranians to THINK ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON.
Here at SUMKÂ, we are gathering the best and most ACTIVE of our fighters for the Iranian Peoples (Aryans), men and women who realize that this is not a game or a club, rather a DEADLY FIGHT for the struggle of our way of life, the SCHOOL IRANIANISM.
Persons who would like to join us in this all-out fight for the survival of our Race and Nation may email us to request an OFFICIAL SUPPORTER OR MEMBERSHIP form.
To qualify you must be a member of Iranian Family, believe in the School of Iranianism, and willing to obey the principals of the SUMKÂ party. After completing training courses, and success in a written examination, the desirous will be able to join as a member, and their duties and stations will be decided by Executive Committee.
The SUMKÂ party wish to attract only those Iranians who are willing to fight and sacrifice their lives for something greater and more meaningful than themselves...our BELOVED IRAN and IRANIAN PEOPLES.
A Statue of an Iranian Princess of Parthian Dynasty, in Iranian Hail Posture. (3rd Century BCE, from the occupied province of Khvarvaran "Today known as Iraq")."
This is not something we want. I suppose we all want a market oriented society based on the middle class. Anybody have info on the strength of these crackpots and other revolutionary nuts?
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posted on
07/12/2003 5:04:28 AM PDT
by
AdmSmith
To: F14 Pilot
Thanks for the ping
good morning
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posted on
07/12/2003 5:06:08 AM PDT
by
firewalk
To: AdmSmith
This is not against you.
This is against Mullahs.
Please watch the pictures, and I didnt mean to say that one is good, other is bad.
The main point is that Iranians do not want Mullahs, they'd like to overthrow them even by force.
Sorry for any misunderstandings
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posted on
07/12/2003 5:10:01 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(Locked on Targets!)
To: DoctorZIn
DoctorZIn, Thanks for being the voice for the voiceless.
This treachery beween Iran, Cuba and France is a subset of the original Axis of Evil.
It is useful that they have exposed themselves this way.
And may I say, Fidel, that the clock is ticking on you too.
tick...tick...tick...
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posted on
07/12/2003 5:18:15 AM PDT
by
happygrl
To: DoctorZIn
It said among those arrested in Tehran are "corrupt street women" ...ad...
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posted on
07/12/2003 5:22:39 AM PDT
by
happygrl
(Iran Azad....until they are free, we are all "corupt street women"!!!!!!)
To: DoctorZIn
"We are not masters of people but servants of this nation. If this nation says we don't want you, we will go," Khatami was quoted as saying by the government-owned daily, Iran. This is getting so little play in the news.
To: TigerLikesRooster
"Iran: Khatami Offers to Resign if Iran Wants"
Gee...I wonder if that's what Iran wants.
For some reason everyone in the country knows except
Mr. Khatami. Even though he's offered to resign a dozen times before.
YES!!! IRAN WANTS! NOW GO ALREADY!
To: F14 Pilot
"National Socialist" has a cetain, shall we say, TAINT about it.
I think that this was the concern.
My impression of Iranians is that they are waaaaay too entrepenuerial and business-oriented to be Socialists.
This is the hyperbole of the young.
Get rid of the Mullahs and this will sort itself out.
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posted on
07/12/2003 5:44:04 AM PDT
by
happygrl
(Iran Azad....until they are free, we are all "corrupt street women"!!!!!!)
To: nuconvert
Oh. One more thing.
When you finally resign, Mr Khatami,
take Khamenei & Rafsanjani with you.
BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IRAN WANTS!
To: DoctorZIn
I see we're back on breaking news forum. What was up yesterday?
To: happygrl
I agree with you to some extent.
But I just wanted to show that Iranian Youth wanna hit the regime with force and extremism, and The major goal of me to show them was those pictures about Iran.
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posted on
07/12/2003 6:45:36 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(Locked on Targets!)
To: nuconvert; DoctorZIn; risk; ewing; Eala; yonif; norton; RaceBannon
The Iranian Officials confirmed that more than 250 have been arrested on 9th of July.
(( According to the latest news on BBC Persian Section ))
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posted on
07/12/2003 6:52:07 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(Locked on Targets!)
To: DoctorZIn; risk; nuconvert; Eala; RaceBannon; ewing; yonif; rontorr; happygrl; norton; freedom44
FORMER IRANIAN EMPRESS LAUDS IRANIAN STUDENTS AND PEOPLE
PARIS 11 July (IPS) Former Iranian Empress Farah Diba-Pahlavi praised the "courageous and brave" Iranian students and people "struggle for democracy and freedom in Iran and expressed her "full support" for their "admirable" action.
Talking briefly to some Iranian journalists covering her visit on Friday to an exhibition of photographs from old and contemporary Iranian painters, she assured "all her compatriots, all the fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, old and younger ones, but mostly the students and all those who, in these days, fight for the restoration of freedom and democracy in Iran that they have the full support of all Iranians anywhere in the world".
Mr. Abdolhamid Eshraq, a Paris-based architect and political activist organized the Exhibition, a collection of some hundred of photographs of paintings covering the past century up to modern times, including some portraits of herself, her late husband at the age of 12, former kings and princes, political personalities and musicians, as well as portraits of female dancers, some of them with nude breasts, village and towns sceneries, religious festivities or scenes of beheading culprits or martyrs, representation of epic stories etc.
"On these days, when brave Iranian students and people, writers and intellectuals, artists and journalists who are in prison, I want to tell them that they are always in our thoughts, hearts and minds, that we fully support their struggle, each of us according to his possibilities and his position, and Im sure and certain that the day freedom would return to our nation is not that far", she said, referring to the past weeks anti-regime and anti-clerical rulers protests, led by hundreds of students joined by thousands ordinary people.
As the former empress, better known by Iranians as "Shahbanoo" (the wife of the Shah) was describing the courage and tolerance of the Iranian youths as "a lesson of morality and struggle, "at least for myself", in Tehran, former president Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani tagged the protesters as "pawns and mercenaries" for American "plotters", saying that the protest movement was "so insignificant" that the authorities saw it enough to let unarmed Law Enforcement Forces deal with the demonstrators.
"It is unfortunate that some of our compatriots fall in traps laid by the Americans and the Britons, using some local tribunes, taking unwise moves in line with enemy wishes", the cleric said, acknowledging however that "mistakes on the part of the people or provocations by improper domestic elements for certain political and factional ends had given rise to the unrest".
"He also ridiculed certain publicity by Americans, Britons, and domestic media that people have given up support for the establishment", the official news agency IRNA quoted the Chairman of the influential Expediency Council, without explaining that why the authorities had arrested 8.000 demonstrators all over the country or shouts of "death to Khameneh'i, death to Hashemi" or "Khatami, resign, resign".
Meanwhile, Dr Abdolkarim Soroosh, a prominent Islamist thinker and philosopher in a letter to his old friend Mohammad Khatami, accused him to be "the main responsible" for the fiascos suffered by the reformists in the past years.
In his letter, entitled as "Sorooshs Pains" the dissident intellectual says Iranian peoples peaceful revolt against religious dictatorship was a "sweet experience" that Mr. Khatami "did not honoured, respected nor understood it".
The open letter is a follow up to the past missives written by Iranian personalities, organisations or groups to Iranian clerical rulers or international community, the last one being the letter sent to the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan by 30 leaders of students associations covering all Iranian universities, in which they inform him that the Islamic Republic violates "systematically" the Universal Declaration for Human Rights.
"Here we are, prisons in full development and expansions and universities ruined; an ill society in the grips of the cancerous rogue elements of Ansar Hezbollah that suffocates breathing", Mr. Soroosh tells a lamed and powerless President
http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles_2003/Jul-2003/students_unrests_shahbanoo_11703.htm
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posted on
07/12/2003 6:58:14 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(Javid Shah!)
To: DoctorZIn
The Big Three broadcasters won't lift a finger on this story and try to keep it "limited to cable" because it doesn't affect their satellites. They need to keep the adgenda focused on the failure of George W. Bush and not the comming collapse of the Iranian regime and all that entails.
If the mullahs are thrown from power by mere students , Americans and those in the West may start asking - why couldn't this happen sooner and at fewer years of human misery, oppresion and death. This revolution is making a lot of people as a lot of questions in the East and West.
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posted on
07/12/2003 7:09:31 AM PDT
by
jriemer
(We are a Republic not a Democracy)
To: yonif; risk; ewing; RaceBannon; rontorr; Eala; nuconvert; freedom44; DoctorZIn; Texas_Dawg
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posted on
07/12/2003 7:11:23 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(Javid Shah!)
To: jriemer; nuconvert; Texas_Dawg
I think Medias are busy with WMD in Iraq.
No time for DMDs.... right?
<<<< DMD: Dictators of Mass Destruction......... >>>>
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posted on
07/12/2003 7:15:10 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(Locked on Targets!)
To: F14 Pilot
The major goal of me to show them was those pictures about Iran. You got he message across here.
The Mullahs are so Moral - NOT!!!!!!!
They are a disgrace to God and all that is Holy.
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posted on
07/12/2003 7:25:41 AM PDT
by
happygrl
To: DoctorZIn
Hmmmm, wonder exactly which prisoners they will be allowed to "interview". I'll bet the mad mullahs go through those arrested and find all the dredges they can find and won't let the press even near the intelligent, articulate students. If I were in the press over there, I would go in armed with a list of students and their pictures.
To: happygrl
(Iran Azad....until they are free, we are all "corupt street women"!!!!!!) Ummm, happygrl... that's going to be a bit difficult for some of us to pull off...
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posted on
07/12/2003 7:41:43 AM PDT
by
Eala
(Freedom for Iran -- http://eala.freeservers.com/iranrally)
To: F14 Pilot
I like that
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