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  • IRANIAN ARRESTED IN ERBIL IS WANTED IN AUSTRIA

    01/17/2007 6:19:37 AM PST · by Valin · 41 replies · 989+ views
    AKI ^ | 1/17/07
    Tehran, 17 Jan. (AKI) - One of the five Iranians arrested last week by the US army in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil is wanted in Austria in connection with the assassination of Kurdish leader Andol Rahman Ghassemlu in 1989. Mahommad Jaafari Sharoudi was one of five Iranian officials detained last week in the Kurdish-controlled city on charges of being connected to a faction of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq. Abdol Rahman Ghassemlu, the historic leader of Iranian Kurds, was killed in an apartment in the outskirts of the Austrian capital...
  • Iranian Embassy hostages being funnelled through smoke to safety next door 40 years after siege

    05/01/2020 7:58:45 PM PDT · by mairdie · 8 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | May 2020 | David Wilkes
    Pictures of SAS soldiers abseiling down the walls of the Iranian Embassy moments before they rescued hostages inside have become synonymous with the regiment. But ahead of Tuesday’s 40th anniversary of the assault, which made the elite regiment a household name, rarely seen images of a different part of the daring mission have emerged – and nor was that without its own intense drama. Our pictures show the 19 freed hostages being funnelled through the smoke out of the embassy in central London and into the safety of a holding area in the garden of the building next door.
  • Iraq protesters burn Iranian Consulate as deadly unrest continues

    11/27/2019 6:58:14 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 23 replies
    Fox News ^ | 11/27/2019 | By Louis Casiano |
    Anti-government protesters in Iraq burned down an IranianConsulate Wednesday, as unrest continues to grow against Iraqi lawmakers and Tehran's growing influence in Iraqi affairs. The consulate building in Najaf was torched and the Iranian flag was removed and replaced with an Iraqi one. Staffers inside were not harmed and escaped through a back door. One protester was killed and 35 were wounded when police opened fire to prevent them from entering the facility. Protesters previously attacked an Iranian consulate in Karbala earlier this month. No one was harmed in that attack.
  • Iran condemns what it calls Saudi-led airstrike that struck its Yemen embassy

    01/07/2016 4:57:07 AM PST · by McGruff · 13 replies
    CNN ^ | January 7, 2016 | Greg Botelho and Schams Elwazer
    Iran's foreign ministry claimed that warplanes from the Saudi Arabia-led coalition involved in Yemen's ongoing war struck and damaged its embassy in Sanaa, yet another incident that could inflame tensions between Tehran and Riyadh. Iran condemned the strike, according to foreign ministry spokesman Hussein Jaberi Ansari. But it was not immediately clear if the Iranian embassy was targeted or if it got struck unintentionally amid the broader conflict within Yemen. That war pits the Shiite Muslim rebel Houthis supported by Iran against forces loyal to President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, which are being backed militarily and otherwise by the overwhelmingly...
  • Iranian Terrorist Attack Against U.S. Revealed-How Bill Clinton concealed it from the public

    10/07/2015 5:13:10 AM PDT · by SJackson · 20 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | October 7, 2015 | Arnold Ahlert
    Iranian Terrorist Attack Against U.S. Revealed How Bill Clinton concealed it from the public and U.S. intelligence. October 7, 2015 Arnold Ahlert    A bombshell report by the Washington Times reveals that fecklessness in the face of terror isn’t a condition exclusive to the Obama administration. "Bill Clinton’s administration gathered enough evidence to send a top-secret communique accusing Iran of facilitating the deadly 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist bombing,” the Times states, "but suppressed that information from the American public and some elements of U.S. intelligence for fear it would lead to an outcry for reprisal, according to documents and interviews.” Nineteen American...
  • Iranian embassy 'fomenting unrest': Toews

    07/13/2012 8:19:11 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 7 replies
    CANOE CA ^ | July 11, 2012
    OTTAWA -- Calls for the Iranian embassy to be closed grew louder Wednesday following claims it is abusing its diplomatic immunity and using intimidation tactics to invigorate loyalty among Iranian-Canadians. "We're very concerned about the role of Iran in fomenting unrest and inappropriate violent behaviour," Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said. "We don't approve of any foreign country recruiting Canadian nationals for the type of purposes described by some of the media." The Iranian embassy's cultural counsellor recently posted a message on a Farsi-language website noting the need "very concentrated cultural programs to enhance and nurture the culture in this...
  • Iran’s long reach into Canada

    06/22/2012 5:57:44 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 3 replies
    MacLeans ^ | June 20, 2012
    The Iranian government, through its embassy in Ottawa and various friendly or affiliated organizations, is aggressively reaching out to the Iranian diaspora in Canada, as well as to other potentially sympathetic Muslims in the country. This July it is funding an “Iranian Students Convention” at the large and well-appointed NAV Centre in Cornwall, Ontario. According to the conference website, guests must be students and members of a “cultural community” or they will not be permitted to attend. Attendees will have their accommodation and meals paid for, as well as a portion of transportation costs. -excerpt- According to the Department of...
  • Show diplomats the door

    01/23/2011 7:30:32 PM PST · by nuconvert · 4 replies
    Toronto Sun ^ | Jan. 23, 2011 | Ezra Levant
    Here’s a thought on handling attempts at censorship from foreign governments: Kick them out The Iranian Embassy sent a formal request to Canada’s national Library and Archives last week demanding they cancel the screening of a movie that criticizes Iran’s nuclear program. And the Library agreed. It’s a Canadian government institution, owned by the federal government and funded by taxpayers. And they actually took instructions from a foreign tyrant. Canada imposes trade sanctions against Iran. We are among the most vocal critics of that country’s dictatorship. A Canadian delegation, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon, even walked out of...
  • Protesters storm Iranian embassy in Sweden

    06/27/2009 6:23:48 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 27 replies · 1,212+ views
    MSNBC/AP ^ | June 26, 2009
    Smash windows, tear down fence in protest against Tehran regime STOCKHOLM - Angry demonstrators broke into the Iranian Embassy outside Stockholm on Friday, climbing in through shattered windows and injuring one embassy worker, police said. More than 150 people had gathered outside the embassy to protest against the Iranian regime, when some of them attacked the building with rocks and tore down a fence to enter the embassy grounds, police spokesman Ulf Hoglund said.
  • Iran row looms over release of Fowzi Badavi Nejad

    10/09/2008 7:25:09 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 244+ views
    TimesOnline - UK ^ | Oct.10, 2008
    Iran row looms over release of Fowzi Badavi Nejad Oct.10, 2008 The only surviving terrorist from the 1980 siege of the Iranian Embassy in London is to be freed within days amid fears that his release will trigger a diplomatic row with Iran. Fowzi Badavi Nejad will be released and allowed to stay in Britain, but Iran wants him returned to Tehran to face trial for the murder of two hostages killed during the siege. The Foreign Office has failed to win assurances that Nejad would not suffer torture or death if he were returned on his release after serving...
  • No badges for Jews, Christians, says Iran

    05/20/2006 6:19:31 PM PDT · by Man50D · 17 replies · 767+ views
    WorldNetDaily ^ | May 20, 2006
    The Iranian Embassy in Ottawa is denying a story published yesterday by Canada's National Post that Tehran has legislated color-coded badges for Jews, Christians and other religious minorities, and several experts on the workings of the Islamic regime have concurred, saying evidence of such a scheme cannot be found. According to the reports, Jews were to be required to wear yellow cloth strips, called zonar, while Christians were to wear red and Zoroastrians blue. The initial information for the reports came from Iranian expatriates living in Canada. The Simon Wiesenthal Center reported that it had confirmed the story that the...
  • Are we at War with Iran? (VANITY)

    01/24/2006 8:01:12 AM PST · by AmericanDave · 13 replies · 601+ views
    The American Spectator ^ | 24 Jan 2006 | AmericanDave
    A letter to the Editor makes the statement that Iran declared war on the U.S. "Concerning Jed Babbin's "Iran Showdown" I remind you all that Iran declared war on the U.S. in 1979 (it was under a Democratic administration), and has never, to the best of my knowledge, rescinded that declaration.
  • Guerrillas Kill Two U.S. Troops, Blasts Hit Baghdad

    12/26/2003 12:39:15 AM PST · by bdeaner · 14 replies · 268+ views
    Reuters ^ | 12/26/03 | Reuters
    Guerrillas Kill Two U.S. Troops, Blasts Hit Baghdad Fri December 26, 2003 03:25 AM ET By Joseph Logan BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Guerrillas killed two U.S. soldiers in a mortar attack north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Friday, as rockets shook the Iraqi capital in the biggest insurgent attacks since the capture of Saddam Hussein.Insurgents also wounded two Polish soldiers in an ambush in southern Iraq, the latest in a string of attacks on the forces of countries which have answered Washington's call for troops to help it secure the country it invaded to topple Saddam.The U.S. casualties brought to...