Iranian Alert -- September 30, 2003 -- IRAN LIVE THREAD PING LIST

The Iranian Student Movement Up To The Minute Reports ^ | 9.30.2003 | DoctorZin

[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.

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[Pan_Yans Wife]

Many students beleive that Iran's living the last year of dictatorship.

That is my hope.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

The State Dept. does little about illegal elections and censorship in Zimbabwe. I doubt they will rise to the occasion for Iran.

However, I think the case can be made that our national interests are threatened by Iran, not Zimbabwe.

Nuclear weapons is the key to joining the Axis of Evil.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I may be muddled due to the late hour and a crazy day (WILSON, WILSON, WILSON!), however... does Iran have a large oil or gas supply? And, if so... why do they need nuclear power?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Ping

(You probably already read this, but just in case...)

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Ooops... pinging you to number 30.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thank you. ((Hugs))

Have to give up my computer for the night, but will direct the ping list to #30 tomorrow.

[nuconvert]

"does Iran have a large oil or gas supply"

YES. BOTH.

"why do they need nuclear power?"

To keep the lights on.
They're afraid they'll run out with all they're selling, trading and using. (some time in the next millenium, I think.)

[nuconvert]

"On Monday, Tehran said it would limit access for IAEA’s inspectors, due to arrive in Tehran on Thursday, to declared nuclear sites, including its controversial uranium enriching plants that were built secretly."

Doesn't sound very cooperative.

[PhilDragoo]

For Iran, resistance and obstinance are illogical and self-defeating--and so are assured.

[PhilDragoo]

Tehran's Tantrum

[nuconvert]

"They're afraid they'll run out with all they're selling, trading and using"

This is the line they use, anyway.

Doesn't quite explain uranium enrichment sites.

They need a line for those, too

[F14 Pilot]

Iran-Contra figure under SEC scrutiny

Bloomberg Business News

Richard Secord, a former Air Force general and Iran-Contra defendant, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department for possible illegal insider trading, his company said in its annual report.

Secord, 71, chief executive of Computerized Thermal Imaging, sold $127,058 of the company's stock on Dec. 9 and Dec. 10. The last sale came hours before the price fell 63 percent in one day, after an advisory panel recommended that the Food and Drug Administration not approve the company's flagship breast cancer scanning machine.

The Ogden, Utah-based company said costs related to the probes, more than $800,000 to date, could force it to halt operations.

"The investigations are ongoing," the company wrote in the report, which was filed with the SEC this week. "The expenses we may incur in the future could substantially and adversely affect our working capital, distract management from day-to-day operations and retard capital formation, which may result in us having to materially reduce or terminate our operations."

Secord didn't return calls seeking comment. Spokesmen for the SEC and the U.S. attorney's office in New York said agency policies prohibited them from commenting.

Secord pleaded guilty in 1989 to lying to Congress about the Reagan administration's funding of Nicaraguan rebels with funds raised from Iranian arms sales. He was deputy assistant secretary of defense in the administration. The U.S. District Court in Washington expunged his conviction in 2000, at his request.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2130018

[Pro-Bush]

Secord pleaded guilty in 1989 to lying to Congress about the Reagan administration's funding of Nicaraguan rebels with funds raised from Iranian arms sales.

This guy can't stay out of trouble!

[DoctorZIn]

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[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!