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[DoctorZIn]

The regime is working hard to keep the news about the protest movment in Iran from being reported.

From jamming satellite broadcasts, to prohibiting news reporters from covering any demonstrations to shutting down all cell phones and even hiring foreign security to control the population, the regime is doing everything in its power to keep the popular movement from expressing its demand for an end of the regime.

These efforts by the regime, while successful in the short term, do not resolve the fundamental reasons why this regime is crumbling from within.

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.

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[nuconvert]

" Canada is sending its ambassador back to Iran,..."

Well, that's their response.
Never cease to amaze.
Oh, Canada.

[nuconvert]

"Will it allow our missiles in?
Do we care?"

Running out of time.
Something happens soon or Israel will dare.

[nuconvert]

"U.S. journalists have no guts"

I wish guts was all it was, PD. Unfortunately, it goes deeper than that. To their very essence. (and it's not just U.S. journalists). These are their fellow reporters;
their colleagues. Yet they say nothing.
Heard any of this reported?

"Reporters Without Borders said today the plight of Iran's journalists was worsening, with further arrests, police summonses and threats ..." (8/28/03)

"More than 50 journalists were summoned between mid-July and mid-August, according to Reporters Without Borders."

"The current risky situation for journalists was shown by the 16 August kidnapping of Hassan Raghifar, the elderly editor of the regional weekly Asan (in the northern city of Tabriz), who was tortured by his four kidnappers who interrogated him about his work and threatened to kill him for what had written. His paper had reported on the arrest and torture of journalists."

"Iran is the biggest prison for journalists in the Middle East"

Unethical Journalists > Oxymoron

[F14 Pilot]

Iran Officially Opens Border Crossing With Iraq

VOA News

Iran has officially opened a border crossing with Iraq for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion, allowing pilgrims to visit Muslim Shi'ite holy shrines.
Seventy-six pilgrims crossed the border opening in southern Iran Monday, becoming the first to do so legally since the fall of Saddam Hussein. They are expected to spend about a week in Iraq visiting shrines in Najaf and Karbala.

The officially sanctioned journeys resumed after news that nine religious travelers died during an illegal crossing attempt on Saturday. The Islamic Republic News Agency said they stepped on land mines left over from the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

Officials said they opened the crossing near the Iranian city of Khorramshahr in an effort to curb illegal crossings. Thousands have attempted the crossing in the past five months, and about 200 have been killed.

Several Imams revered by the Shi'ite branch of Islam are buried in Iraq. Visiting their tombs is considered an essential religious duty.

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=CE381E97-33FF-486A-834ED331550235CE

[F14 Pilot]

Shahroudi praises firm stance in opposing IAEA resolution

Tehran, Sept 29, IRNA -- Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi
Shahroudi said here Monday that the firm stance taken by Iranian
officials against recent resolution of the International Atomic Energy
Agency`s Board of Governors has left a positive impact on regional and
Muslim states, drawing their applause.
Public Relations Department at the Judiciary quoted Shahroudi as
saying that however, the stances taken by certain officials against
the US threats had been humiliating.
"God`s tradition is that any tribe and nation showing weakness
against the enemy and not defending logic and justice would be
humiliated," said Shahroudi.
He said it has become clear for regional people and states that
the US follows no logic by resorting to aggression, force and
distorting realities.
He added that unity is the salient feature and characteristic of
Iranian nation against bullying and the more US exerts pressure, the
more Iranian people and officials would become united.
Shahroudi criticized international communities and organizations
for their indifference towards illegitimate actions by the Zionists
and said charges of developing nuclear weapons is levelled against
Iran because of its scientific progress, while no such stance is taken
against Israel which possesses a huge arsenal.
He said even some independent European states too take measures as
a result of the US pressure.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Shahroudi pointed to failure of the US
war machine in Afghanistan and Iraq and also to protests inside the US
and UK against the performance of the US President George W. Bush,
saying that undoubtedly, the US will fail if it intends to attack
Iran.

http://www.irna.ir/#2003_09_2919_02_493

[PhilDragoo]

Unethical Journalists > Oxymoron

Roger that. They had about thirty seconds of silence for Daniel Pearl, and ten for Michael Kelly.

There are tens of thousands of them content to read the most blatant propaganda of AP, AFP, BBC, Reuters every half hour on-air.

I think their ethos is that of Leni Riefenstahl and Josef Goebbels: propaganda, not journalism.

The closest thing to a treatment of the phenomenon has been Medium Cool or Network.

[Pro-Bush]

He added that unity is the salient feature and characteristic of Iranian nation against bullying and the more US exerts pressure, the more Iranian people and officials would become united.

I am confident that the average Iranian can see through this propoganda. Wishful thinking by the Iranian fundamentalist rulers.

[DoctorZIn]

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[blackie]

Maybe it's almost time for good guys to take out the nuke plants.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!