[DoctorZIn]

Iranian Alert -- DAY 19 -- LIVE THREAD PING LIST

Live Thread Ping List | 6.28.2003
Posted on 06/28/2003 6:55 AM PDT by DoctorZIn

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/937208/posts

[DoctorZIn]

SMCCDI: Freedom Fighter, "Bagher Parto" dies under torture

SMCCDI (Information Service)
June 28, 2003

"Bagher Parto", a courageous and brave Fredom Fighter, has died under torture made by the Intelligence unit of the Shiraz Pasdaran Corp.

Aged 36, he was an active member of the Iranian Secularist forces. He was arrested on June 16th.

Sources within the Islamic regime are stating that he was tortured in order to denounce other members of the "Azarakhsh" (Thunder) network and to make false televised confessions on links with the Israeli and US Intelligences.

It's to note that several other scholars of the city, such as the 2 Ghahremani brothers and Gheyssar Barani are kept in an unknown location under the management of this special unit responding to the offices of the Supreme leader.

Their families have been pressured to cut off any contact with their friends and especially with anyone inquiring on their status.

Ms. Barani has requested following being called: "To avoid calling their home anymore as this way might save her husband".

http://www.iran-daneshjoo.org/cgi-bin/smccdinews/viewnews.cgi?category=5&id=1056800929

[DoctorZIn]

Instigators deserve tough punishments: Spokesman

Saturday, June 28, 2003 - ©2003 IranMania.com

Tehran, Jun 25 - Government spokesman Abdollah Ramezanzadeh said here Wednesday that willful moves should be strongly confronted for being a threat to (social) freedom and the Constitution, IRNA reported.

Ramezanzadeh told reporters after the weekly cabinet meeting that the country is in need of a safe atmosphere for the public to raise their overall demands on condition of security and freedom.

He said government is determined to use all possible means to confront such measures and the Intelligence Ministry would definitely identify agent(s), if any, responsible for the incidents.

Asked whether Tehran has arrested all al-Qaeda members, Ramezanzadeh said just a handful have been identified.

He declined to give further details.

He said naturally, it is difficult to tackle or identify the al-Qaeda operatives, who hold ample forged documents and are well trained by the CIA, and given the complexity of the al-Qaeda network.

He added that Iran has asked others to give it a helping hand to it in that respect.

Asked to comment on massive crackdown on the terrorist Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) by Paris, Ramezanzadeh said French government's move is positive. "We welcome the fight against terrorism by anybody anywhere," declared the spokesman.

He said the MKO has been at the fore of massive crimes in Iran and it is hoped that its members will be meted out necessary punishment.

Asked to comment on the MKO extradition, Ramezanzadeh said it is a natural demand of any country to demand extradition of the criminals, who have acted in the country or elsewhere against its interests. "We have not yet brought up any official request to that end," said the official.

He said studies are underway when to lodge the official request.

Elsewhere at the press conference, Ramezanzadeh commented on the impact of the US officials' allegations against Tehran, saying the US intervention in Iran's internal affairs darkens any hope for improvement of two-way ties. He strongly advised the US officials to reconsider their attitude and position on Iran.

He also commented on recent claims of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair on Iran, saying the UK Ambassador Richard John Dalton had been summoned to be informed of Iran's protest to the claims, an issue is awaiting a response from London.

http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=16521&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs

[DoctorZIn]

OSAMA'S NO. 2 IS 'SEIZED' BY IRAN

By NILES LATHEM, NY Post

June 28, 2003 -- WASHINGTON — Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's right-hand man, was reported last night to be in custody in Iran along with several other top al Qaeda leaders.

The Arabic news channel Al-Arabiyah said the fanatic Egyptian-born doctor is under arrest in Iran along with bin Laden's son Saad and al Qaeda's infamous spokesman Abu Ghaith.

The report said they may be sent back to their home countries.

Al-Zawahiri has been sentenced to death in Egypt for his role in the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.

Saad bin Laden is considered to be a rising star in the terror organization, while the fat-faced, bearded Abu Ghaith, a close bin Laden aide, frequently appeared on video broadcasts during the war in Afghanistan.

Bush administration officials, who have accused Iran of harboring several al Qaeda leaders, said they could not confirm the report of al-Zawahiri's presence in Iran.

The officials said it remains questionable whether Iran plans to detain al Qaeda henchmen — or is allowing them to establish a new base of operations.

The possibility of al Qaeda operatives in Iran has prompted a review of White House policy toward that country, and officials said they are debating options that include covert operations aimed at toppling the ayatollahs who rule Iran.

Al-Zawahiri, whom many consider the real brains behind al Qaeda and who often has appeared at bin Laden's side during videotaped statements, is perhaps the most wanted man in the world after bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

He has been missing since the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, where his wife and other family members were killed during U.S. bombing raids on the Tora Bora mountain fortress in December 2001.

U.S. intelligence officials said they've had conflicting reports about al-Zawahiri's movements.

Some reports suggest he is still traveling with bin Laden in the lawless no man's land along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, while other reports suggested the two al Qaeda leaders have agreed to travel separately in order to preserve the organization in the event that either is captured or killed.

"There has been some raw reporting several months back that he did in fact stray into Iran, but we have not been able to verify it," said a U.S. intelligence official.

http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/37223.htm

[DoctorZIn]

Iran Student Leaders Say Crisis Deepening

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
The Associated Press
Saturday, June 28, 2003; 9:44 AM

TEHRAN, Iran - Public opposition to Iran's ruling clerical establishment is deepening, a student leader said Saturday, as officials reported that more than 4,000 people were arrested during this month's pro-reform protests.

The count of arrests was dramatically higher than authorities' earlier reports, which had only 520 people - mostly "hooligans" - as a result of the June 10-14 protests against the hard-line clerics.

Among the 4,000 arrested were about 800 students and 30 key student leaders, Iran's prosecutor general, Abdolnabi Namazi, said, according to the state-run daily Iran.

Namazi said about half of those detained were almost immediately freed, while some 2,000 remained in jail, the paper reported Saturday.

"The confirmation of 4,000 arrests shows how insincere the rulers are and how the crisis has deepened in Iran," student leader Saeed Allahbadashti told The Associated Press.

The protests, which were the largest in months, began as students demonstrations against plans to privatize universities and snowballed into broader displays of opposition to Iran's hard-line clerical establishment, led by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The demonstrations largely ended after the deployment of hundreds of security forces and unleashing of pro-clergy thugs - armed with knives and batons - to attack protesters.

Allahbadashti, one of few student leaders not imprisoned during the protests, said the establishment has lost its legitimacy through its crackdown on the protests.

"The judicial authorities are openly lying to the nation. First, they said few hooligans been arrested. Now, they confirm the arrest of 800 students. They are buying only greater hatred from the people whose call for change has been ignored," he said.

Meanwhile, authorities are trying to prevent a new round of student protests to mark the fourth anniversary of a July 9, 1999 attacks on Tehran University dormitories by pro-clerical militants.

Those attacks killed one student, injured at least 20 others and triggered six days of nationwide anti-government protests, the worst since the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the pro-U.S. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Authorities have banned any marches to remember the raid. "An incident took place a few years back and there is no necessity to mark the anniversary," the Iran quoted Namazi, the prosecutor, as saying.

Students have vowed to defy the ban and warned that their accumulated wrath was about to explode.

Protesters have long focussed their anger toward Iran's unelected hard-line clerics, while supporting President Mohammad Khatami, who was elected by a landslide on promises of delivering social, political and economic reforms.

But this month's student-led protests not only called for the conservative establishment's ouster but also denounced Khatami for failing to fulfill his promises.

Political analyst Mostafa Kavakebian said the government's iron-fisted approach to dealing with pro-reform students would make matters worse.

"History shows that use of force against civil protests only backfires. It's not logical for the establishment to get harsh with students," said Kavakebian, who also heads a reformist political party.

[dixiechick2000]

Thanks for the updates.

I'm sorry to hear about Bagher Parto. Prayers for his family.

I'l check in later!

[DoctorZIn]

We have a new member of the FreeRepublic community.
Khashayar is an Iranian Student in Iran who is risking his life to post on the FreeRepublic.

Check out his post and invite him to join our thread...

Iranians want the USA to invade, why they don’t invade?
Posted on 06/28/2003 1:19 AM PDT by Khashayar

There is a big question while the protests and opposes rised in Iran last week, Why the USA which is next to Iranian borders, dont come in to support or in other words why we Iranians do not see any effective behavior from the US officials. Me, as a citizen of any other country , do not like to see my country to be invaded or collapsed but the real fact in Iran is that the mullahs will not go or over thrown with out any military intervention or support from a powerful source. This is what you can hear in Iran now, I think those men in the Pentagon or the white house should take a decision fast. Are they taking care of the fate of the Iranians? So They have to be more responsible as well. We do not need just words, we need action. The great help America can give us now is to support us more and more not just by words but by actions. Please do something!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/937130/posts

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[FairOpinion]

For those who think that supporting the Iranian freedom fighters is not enough reason for the US to help them, here is some information about Iran's (Iranian government's) support of terrorism and being a direct threat to the US.

Bush did name as one of 3 countries on the Axis of Evil.

Check out this thread:

Evidence Fuels Iran Terror Debate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/937311/posts?page=1

[DoctorZIn]

Four Iranian MPs launch sit-in

From journalist Shirzad Bozorgmehr

Saturday, June 28, 2003 Posted: 12:41 PM EDT (1641 GMT)

Iranian students protest in the hall of parliament on June 22.

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Four Iranian members of parliament launched a sit-in Saturday, protesting the government's treatment of university students who were arrested during recent demonstrations throughout Iran.

The protests, which began June 10 and lasted nine consecutive nights, called for reforms and increased freedoms in the strict Islamic government. Many turned violent, as government authorities and vigilantes attacked the protesters, who in some cases fought back.

Iran announced that more than 4,000 people were arrested during the protests, including about 800 students.

The four members of parliament taking part in the sit-in were all supported by student organizations in their election campaigns.

They began the sit-in in the parliament lobby at 1p.m. Saturday (5:00a.m.ET), and plan to remain for 48 hours.

The four risk losing their parliamentary seats, and could be prosecuted by the government, which has threatened to punish any members found to be acting in a fashion contradictory to the ruling clerics.

There was no immediate comment on the sit-in from the country's religious leaders or supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Fatemeh Haqiqatjoo, people's representative from Tehran and the only woman in the group of four, is an outspoken reformist who completed a university Ph.D. program last year.

The other three are Reza Yousdefian, representative from Shiraz in southern Iran, and two representatives from Tehran, Ali Akbar Musavi-Khoeini and Maysam Saeedi.

A fifth member of parliament, Ali Tajernia of the holy city of Mashhad, planned to join the four late Saturday, after returning form a trip to Germany.

Source

[DoctorZIn]

I posted this on another thread but may be of interest here give the topic of the moment...

"Why doesn't the USA come in militarily and support a regime change?" I have heard it many times from Iranians.

Reason #1: Our policy makers have been told repeatedly by Iranians leaders not to have a policy of invasion, but a policy of support of for the people of Iran to end the regime themselves.

Reason #2: It appears most fear that a US invasion of Iran would have the effect of fracturing the support for change that currently exists in your country. Most people tend to rally around their leaders, even bad ones, if they feel they are being invaded.

Reason #3: We have not yet made the case to the world that such an invasion would be legitimate. Our invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq both had international law on our side. The US may act if it feels it must, and is it building a case in the international community for this, ie. the nuclear weapons development issue.

Reason #4: There does not yet exist a leader or organization within Iran that we can work with if such a need were to arise. It would be much easier for us if we were invited in by a legitimate group under attack in Iran.

I think a regime change will likely come when your own military chooses to support a regime change. Many Iranians believe that Iran’s military will support the people’s desire for freedom, when push comes to shove. If and when the do, this will be the turning point. I can only assume that our government is attempting to encourage this in Iran just as we did in Iraq.

[DoctorZIn]

And another question came up that may stimulate some conversation here...

"Why should we send our sons and daughters to die in Iran?"

I don't think now is the time to send in our troops in, but there are a few reason's why we must consider it.

Reason#1: Ending the regime in Iran will make it easier for us to rebuild Iraq. The Iranian regime is undermining our efforts there. They have sent in thousands of militants back into Iraq for the purpose of pushing us out. If the regime ends, and Iraqi's hear how Iranians hated the Islamic Republic, the support for an Islamic Republic in Iran will wither up and die. The result fewer US soldiers would die in Iraq.

Reason #2: The Iranian regime has an aggressive program for the development of nuclear weapons and they are developing a missile delivery system with the help of the Chinese. This is the regime that has said that an attack with a nuclear weapon to destroy Israel, would be worth it, even if Israel were to retaliate and kill 10 million Iranians.

Reason #3: The end of the Iranian regime will end the support for Hezbollah, the terrorist organization that has killed more Americans than any other group prior to 911.

Reason #4: Iran is the largest supporter of terrorism in the world today, even giving refuge to Al Qeada.

Reason #5: In Iran we would have the support of nearly the entire nation, unlike Afghanistan and Iraq and would end Iranian efforts to undermine our work in both nations. Few US soldier would likely die in such a effort.

Reason #6: A change of the regime would send the loudest message to the middle-east that the change is permanent.

These are just a few of the reason why it would be in our best interest to support the people of Iran at this time.

DoctorZin

[Valin]

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/breaking_news/6192665.htm

Iran Student Leaders Say Crisis Deepening
ALI AKBAR DAREINI
Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran announced that more than 4,000 people were arrested during a month of violent pro-reform protests, and a student leader warned on Saturday that the crackdown was only fueling hatred of the ruling clerics.

Iran's prosecutor general, Abdolnabi Namazi, said about 800 students and 30 key student leaders were among the 4,000 arrested as a result of the June 10-14 protests, the state-run daily newspaper Iran reported Saturday.

Namazi said about 2,000 people remained in jail.

Authorities had earlier said only 520 people - mostly "hooligans" - had been detained.

"The confirmation of 4,000 arrests shows how insincere the rulers are and how the crisis has deepened in Iran," student leader Saeed Allahbadashti told The Associated Press.

Also Saturday, four reformist lawmakers began a 48-hour sit-in inside parliament to protest the "violent and illegal continuing arrest of students."

The recent protests, the largest in months, began with students demonstrating against plans to privatize universities then snowballed into broader displays of opposition to Iran's hard-line clerical establishment, led by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The demonstrations largely ended after the deployment of hundreds of security forces and the unleashing of pro-clergy thugs - armed with knives and batons - to attack protesters.

Allahbadashti, one of few student leaders not imprisoned during the protests, said the establishment had lost its legitimacy through the crackdown.

"The judicial authorities are openly lying to the nation. First, they said few hooligans been arrested. Now, they confirm the arrest of 800 students. They are buying only greater hatred from the people whose call for change has been ignored," he said.

Meanwhile, authorities are trying to prevent a new round of student protests to mark the fourth anniversary of a July 9, 1999 attacks on Tehran University dormitories by pro-clerical militants.

Those attacks killed one student, injured at least 20 others and triggered six days of nationwide anti-government protests, the worst since the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the pro-U.S. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Authorities have banned any marches to commemorate the raid. "An incident took place a few years back and there is no necessity to mark the anniversary," Namazi said, according to the Iran newspaper.

Students have vowed to defy the ban and warned that their accumulated wrath was about to explode.

In a gesture of support for students, lawmakers Fatemeh Haqiqatjou, Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoeini, Meysam Saeidi and Reza Yousefian began their sit-in protest at parliament.

"We are here to protest the very inappropriate arrests of students, with guns pointed at their throats by unidentified agents, including some students who were not part of recent protests," Haqiqatjou told a news conference before the sit-in.

Haqiqatjou, one of 11 female lawmakers in the 290-seat parliament, said at least 30 more students were missing Saturday. "More names are added every few hours while unannounced arrests of students continue in provincial cities," she said.

Khoeini said the judiciary prevented lawmakers from visiting detained students. "We want to talk freely to detained students without interrogators, the judge and the prosecutor. But judiciary officials are preventing this," he said.

Protesters have long focussed their anger on Iran's unelected hard-line clerics, while supporting President Mohammad Khatami, who was elected by a landslide on promises of delivering social, political and economic reforms. But this month's student-led protests also denounced Khatami for failing to fulfill his promises.

[DoctorZIn]

This is an important article by one of the middle-east's leading journalists. I highly recommend taking the time to read this. -- DoctorZin

IRAN'S SEEDS OF LIBERTY

By AMIR TAHERI for the NY Post

June 27, 2003 -- AS the Iranian opposition to the mullahs gathers momentum, a chorus of self-styled experts in the United States is trying to belittle the pro-democracy movement, presenting the Khomeinist regime as a solid and urging Washington to seek détente with Tehran.

These "experts" present the pro-democracy movement as a student revolt with no popular base, no program and no leaders. In fact, it has a strong popular base. Its support cuts across class, religious, ideological and generational boundaries.

* Over the past six months, Iran has seen dozens of industrial strikes in which urban workers came out with exactly the same demands as the students. Workers at the nation's largest gas refinery, in Agha-Jari, and in the Mahshahr petrochemical complex (the biggest in the Middle East) have also organized symbolic walkouts in support of democratic demands.

* Teachers have engaged in a series of strikes, One last month closed 50 percent of the schools for several days.

* In the past three weeks, sections of the traditional bazaars in Tabriz, Rasht, Isfahan and Shiraz have also organized one-day shutdowns in solidarity with the students.

* Even the clerical establishment is broadly supportive of the pro-democracy movement. There are three Grand Ayatollahs in Iran today: Hassan Tabatabi Qomi, Hussein-Ali Montazeri and Muhammad Sadeq Ruhani. All three have endorsed the movement and publicly called for an end to Khomeinist tyranny.

* Scores of lesser ayatollahs, including many who once worked with the regime, are also calling for its overthrow. Ayatollah Jalaleddin Taheri-Khorramabadi, the main spiritual leader of Iran's second most populous city Isfahan, has described the regime as "an enemy of Islam and humanity."

* So strong is clerical opposition to the Khomeinist regime that the "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei has been unable to visit Qom, the theological center of Iranian Shi'ism, for almost a year. Today, there are more mullahs and students of theology in prison in Iran, on political charges, than any other stratum of society.

* Iran's intellectual elite is even more solidly behind the pro-democracy movement. In the past three weeks, dozens of petitions signed by writers, poets, novelists, filmmakers, artists and academics have been published in support of the students' demands. Today, not a single prominent Iranian intellectual remains in the Khomeinist camp.

* The movement has support within the establishment itself. Almost two-thirds of the members of the Islamic Majlis (Parliament) have published a petition demanding constitutional change to transform Iran from a despotic-theocratic regime into a democratic one. This is especially significant, for all candidates for the Majlis must win the approval of the state-security services and the "Supreme Guide" before they can stand for election.

* The movement also has the support of several members of President Muhammad Khatami's Cabinet plus many of his closest advisors. (Khatami himself has tried to sit on the fence in the hope of acting as an interface between the regime and its opponents. But some analysts believe that he may have become marginalized in the process.)

As for lacking a program and a leadership, the movement has the first and is developing the second.

Its main program is to force the regime to accept constitutional change through a popular referendum. The idea is that parts of the Constitution that contradict the principle of people's sovereignty - notably by giving unlimited powers to the "Supreme Guide" and a number of un-elected bodies - should be struck out. Khomeini's outlandish claim that a single man should exercise power on behalf of God and, when necessary, even against the will of the people, will be consigned to the ashcan of history.

The idea of reforming the Constitution has been at the center of debate in Iran, and in the Iranian community abroad, for years. Scores of seminars have been held and countless papers and articles published on the subject. There is broad consensus among Iranians of all shades of opinions that peaceful change is still possible and that the regime, weakened by its contradictions, cannot maintain its despotic hold on power for much longer.

No one knows how much longer the regime may manage to hang on to power. One thing, however, is certain: It now faces a strong, growing and determined opposition that will not simply fade away.

For any regime to be overthrown, several conditions must exist simultaneously. Some are already present, at least in part, in the Iranian context.

The regime must lose its legitimacy: This is already largely the case in Iran. The regime lost its initial revolutionary legitimacy by crushing most of the other forces that had coalesced to overthrow the Shah, and by establishing a narrowly based theocracy. But it has also lost its religious legitimacy by persecuting many leading religious leaders.

A substantial section of the regime's original constituency must part ways with it: This is also happening. As already noted many members of the Majlis and Cabinet have publicly taken side with the pro-democracy movement, as have thousands of technocrats who have served the regime over the years.

The regime " must lose the support of at least part of the coercive forces at its disposal: This too is happening in Iran. The regular army (which the Khomeinists never trusted) will certainly not turn its guns against the people to preserve the present bankrupt system. Even the Revolutionary Guard, created by Khomeini to counter-balance the army, can no longer be trusted.

Earlier this year a senior Guard commander was dismissed after he made it clear he would not shoot unarmed protestors. Some 30 junior commanders have been moved to "less sensitive" positions in the remoter provinces. It is not at all certain that the regime would be able to count on the loyalty of all the guard units in a major confrontation with the people.

An alternative leadership must emerge: It begins by exercising moral authority and, then, develops into a government-in-waiting.

This last condition is not yet present in Iran. But some of the elements that might form it are identifiable. These include a number of clerics who have broken with the regime and fought it in the name of democracy. To these will be added scores of technocrats, members of parliament, journalists, university teachers and students, business managers and trade union leaders.

Right now the pro-democracy movement has a strong cadre of leaders at local levels. A movement with no leaders would not have been able to mobilize hundreds of thousands of people in more than 20 cities to come out in simultaneous demonstrations and with identical slogans and demands. As the struggle intensifies, leadership is bound to emerge at the national level also.

Both President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair are right in their public expression of support for the pro-democracy movement in Iran. This is the least that the great democracies can do for those who are risking their lives by fighting one of the world's most vicious regimes in the name of values that the American and European peoples claim as their own.

Email: amirtaheri@benadorassociates.com

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/59222.htm

[DoctorZIn]

Exiled leader poised to mount popular revolt against Iran's mullahs

The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 06/29/03 | Damien Mcelroy
Posted on 06/28/2003 5:58 PM PDT by Pokey78

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/937415/posts

[visualops]

I think in this country we should show some visible support and solidarity. I remember well the events in Poland and how much our support meant to the Poles during the Solidarity movement. We must do the same for the Iranians. I don't have the resources to make and/or distribute stuff, but certainly we could come up with something simple that people could make by hand, such as a ribbon that folks could wear.
Anyone with a website could also show a banner.
It's too late tonight, but tomorrow I'll make one and upload it so folks can download it and display on their own sites, with a link back to the Iranian pro-democracy website.

[DoctorZIn]

From BobtheNailer...

The regular army (which the Khomeinists never trusted) will certainly not turn its guns against the people to preserve the present bankrupt system. Even the Revolutionary Guard, created by Khomeini to counter-balance the army, can no longer be trusted.

Earlier this year a senior Guard commander was dismissed after he made it clear he would not shoot unarmed protestors. Some 30 junior commanders have been moved to "less sensitive" positions in the remoter provinces. It is not at all certain that the regime would be able to count on the loyalty of all the guard units in a major confrontation with the people.

Here it tis, ladies and gents. Without the support of the military, NO REGIME can withstand a grassroots widespread revolution.

The historic and strategic implications of this are beyond calculation. Syria is already between Iraq and a hard place (pun intended). The Bekaa valley is asking for a cleansing of Hezbollah and Hamas. We may even get the high ranking Al Qaeda supposedly in Iranian detention and they are the big ones.

If Iran falls to a popular democracy movement, the whole middle east changes overnight. Write your congressmen, call them, email them.

The Iranians need our support and they need it NOW.July 9 is just around the corner, so are tens of thousands of former Iraqi weapons, the Iranians can defend themselves with, against the foreign mercenaries who make up the sole remaining loyal force mechanism for the current ruling elite.

[DoctorZIn]

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