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  • Iranian Alert - May 22, 2005 - Eye of the Storm: The Buzz in Teheran - MUST READ!

    05/22/2005 5:03:45 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 28 replies · 2,367+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.22.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Eye of the Storm: The Buzz in Teheran Amir Taheri, The Jerusalem Post:While the world is focused on Iran's alleged efforts to build a nuclear arsenal, the more immediate debate about its regional strategy may have been sidelined. This, at least, is the opinion of Ibrahim Asgharzadeh, one of the mullahs and politicians who have registered to become candidates in Iran's presidential election next month. In speeches in Teheran this week Asgharzadeh warned that a coalition of military commanders and mullahs is in the making with the aim of provoking "a direct confrontation" between the Islamic...
  • Iranian Alert - May 21, 2005 - Iran douses hope of compromise in nuclear talks

    05/21/2005 2:31:05 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 5 replies · 927+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.21.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Iran douses hope of compromise in nuclear talks Reuters:Iran said on Saturday it had not considered a proposal that Russia enrich uranium for it -- an idea floated as a way out of a deadlock in talks with the EU over Tehran's nuclear program. Britain, France and Germany were due to resume talks with Iran next week, aiming to persuade it to abandon uranium enrichment -- a process needed to make nuclear bombs -- in return for economic incentives. Though Tehran has said repeatedly that it will not give up uranium enrichment, diplomats said one idea...
  • Iranian Alert - May 20, 2005 - Iran smuggling graphite compound for nukes

    05/20/2005 4:25:34 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 3 replies · 897+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.20.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Iran smuggling graphite compound for nukes-exile 20 May 2005 19:35:24 GMT Source: Reuters By Louis Charbonneau VIENNA, May 20 (Reuters) - Iran has been using front companies to skirt international export controls and purchase a graphite compound that can be used in nuclear and conventional arms, an Iranian exile said on Friday. The latest allegation from Alireza Jafarzadeh, an Iranian dissident who has reported accurately on Iran's hidden nuclear facilities and activities in the past, comes days before the European Union meets Iran's top nuclear negotiator in Geneva to persuade Tehran not to resume sensitive atomic...
  • Iranian Alert - May 19, 2005 - Iran Won't Give Up Nuke Program, will endure U.N. economic sanctions

    05/19/2005 1:59:25 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 5 replies · 1,024+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.19.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Official: Iran won't give up nuke programExcerpt: By Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will endure U.N. economic sanctions rather than give up nuclear fuel development, the vice president said Wednesday ahead of a new round of meetings with European countries trying to rein in its nuclear program. Iran is vowing to restart its uranium reprocessing activities, an early stage in preparing raw uranium for either power reactor fuel or a nuclear weapon. At the same time, it has agreed to meet with European countries for one last discussion on the issue...
  • Iranian Alert - May 18, 2005 - Have Iranian Agents infiltrated Washington DC?

    05/18/2005 2:55:30 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 15 replies · 1,548+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.18.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Standing Up at the Muslim March Against Terror Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi, FrontPageMagazine.com:Despotic Islamist regimes that brutally terrorize their own people today have no qualms about exporting their brand of terror to the West. Iran serves as a clear example of this phenomenon: Both domestically and internationally, terrorism has become the main policy instrument of the mullahs, who have hijacked Iran’s natural resources to finance their culture of death. These Islamist tyrants recruit innocent and devoted believers who have been coerced into doing their dirty work for them. This was demonstrated only a few weeks ago when Palestinian...
  • Iranian Alert - May 17, 2005 - Tehran's Conservative Bazaar Now Reject the Whole System

    05/17/2005 9:40:36 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 6 replies · 1,443+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.17.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Tehran's Conservative Bazaar Now Reject the Whole System Robert Tait, The Guardian:With polling a month away, those in Tehran's conservative bazaar now reject the whole system Sitting in Tehran's grand bazaar, once the spiritual heart and financial lifeblood of Iran's Islamic revolution, the man fidgeting with the prayer beads ventured a fiercely uncompromising opinion of his country's ruling elite. "We won't vote for any of them, they are all robbers," he declared, his voice rising with indignation. "All of them have been lying to us." The trenchant views of Hasan, 50, a textile wholesaler, might have...
  • Iranian Alert - May 16, 2005 - Iran has developed advanced cannons, missiles

    05/15/2005 7:22:33 PM PDT · by freedom44 · 10 replies · 1,474+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5/16/05 | freedom44
    Top News Story Iranmania LONDON, May 15 (IranMania) - Commander of the Navy Rear Admiral Abbas Mohtaj said on Saturday Iran has developed advanced cannons and different types of missiles. According to Fars News Agency, Mohtaj, told reporters after the parades of surface, undersea and aerial units of the Navy during Unity-84 Wargames, “We tell the people that they should rely on us as reliable forces in the same way that the armed forces rely on the people as their source of support.“ He noted that the Iranian naval forces are present along the Sea of Oman, Persian Gulf...
  • Iranian Alert - May 15, 2005 - Iran-EU talks cannot continue without some nuclear activities

    05/15/2005 2:41:59 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 9 replies · 925+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.15.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Iran-EU talks cannot continue without resumption of some nuclear activities Tehran Times Political Desk:The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said here on Sunday that Iran has made a firm decision to resume some of its nuclear activities. “We cannot continue nuclear negotiations with Europe without resuming some of our nuclear activities,” Hassan Rowhani told the Mehr News Agency. READ MOREOn the European Union’s recent request to hold talks on Iran’s nuclear issue, Rowhani said that the British, German, and French foreign ministers had asked him in a letter to delay the resumption of nuclear...
  • Iranian Alert - May 14, 2005 - US Citizen wants to become Iran's President?

    05/14/2005 4:27:47 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 13 replies · 1,272+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.14.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story US Citizen wants to become Iran's President? MPG:Hooshang Amirahmadi is leaving the U.S. for Iran to register as a candidate in Islamic Republic's upcoming presidential elections, according to an academic source. Amirahmadi is the president of the American Iranian Council, which has tried to improve relations between Islamic Republic and the U.S. Mr. Amirahamadi who holds American passport in an interview with Farda Radio mentioned, there is no reason for Guardian council to reject his candidacy since he has never done anything against Islamic Republic. DoctorZin:I have been told Mr. Amirahmadi has made a recent appearance...
  • Iranian Alert - May 13, 2005 - Iran Works to Get Out the Vote, but the Disillusioned Aren't Biting

    05/13/2005 2:19:32 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 11 replies · 4,573+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.13.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Iran Works to Get Out the Vote, but the Disillusioned Aren't Biting Excerpt:By Nahid Siamdoust, Special to The Times TEHRAN — Under a white tent in the central square of the Polytechnic University, historically the most politically active of Iran's campuses, students are lured to an evolving exhibition to read the daily news on next month's presidential election. It's a bid to entice students to vote, funded by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Fearing low turnout, the regime has begun an ambitious campaign to get citizens to the polls. Meeting with university students in the...
  • Iranian Alert - May 12, 2005 - Blair backs referring Iran to U.N.

    05/12/2005 12:28:19 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 6 replies · 969+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.12.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Blair Backs Referring Iran to U.N. An Excerpt:CNN.com:British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he would support Iran being referred to the U.N. Security Council if Tehran breached its nuclear obligations. "We certainly will support referral to the U.N. Security Council if Iran breaches its undertaking and obligations," Blair said Thursday at his first news conference since his Labour Party won a historic third term in last week's elections. Iran has said it would resume some uranium reprocessing activities that Washington and the European Union fear could be used to make a nuclear weapon. The U.N.'s...
  • Iranian Alert - May 11, 2005 - The Wily Shark Resurfaces for Another Bite at Iran Presidency

    05/11/2005 4:53:44 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 8 replies · 1,055+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.11.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Wily Shark Resurfaces for Another Bite at Iran Presidency An Excerpt: Richard Beeston, The Times UK:A founding leader of the Iranian revolution, who promoted militant Islam in the Middle East and led his country through a war, yesterday became the favourite to be elected President. Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 70, who left the presidency eight years ago, announced last night that he had joined the field for the election on June 17. “I am proud to be a candidate,” he said in a three-page statement. The new President, he added, would need to tackle “unemployment,...
  • Iranian Alert - May 10, 2005 - Secret Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program Suspected

    05/10/2005 5:32:54 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 10 replies · 1,040+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.10.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Secret Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program Suspected BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun May 10, 2005 WASHINGTON - A secret, parallel military program to produce nuclear weapons may be behind Iran's announcement yesterday that it will break its agreement to suspend uranium enrichment. Western intelligence agencies, including the CIA, suspect the Islamic republic has been hiding the program from the International Atomic Energy Agency's inspectors during the last two years of negotiations.A Western diplomat with access to sensitive real-time intelligence told The New York Sun yesterday that America, Israel, and some European intelligence services...
  • Iranian Alert - May 9, 2005 - FrontPageMag.com has made a wrong turn on Iran!

    05/09/2005 1:08:31 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 18 replies · 1,729+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.9.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story FrontPageMag.com: A Third Option for Iran - A Major Mistake!! By DoctorZin,I have long been a reader of David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com. So I was surprised today their editors appear to have taken a wrong turn on Iran. Yesterday, they published a report by David Johnson, co-founder of the US Alliance for Democratic Iran and its Director of Operations. The article entitled: A Third Optionfor Iran suggests that the current thinking in Washington D.C. sees only two options: either appeasement of Iran's Islamic Republic or a military strike. On this I agree, and like David I believe...
  • Iranian Alert - May 8, 2005 - Iran: A Close Shave Connects American to Iranians

    05/08/2005 5:00:31 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 12 replies · 1,806+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.8.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Iran: A Close Shave Connected Traveler to People Eager for Answers about US Excerpt: Matt Mossman, Sun-Sentinel:I was at the bus station in Shiraz, slumped in an orange plastic chair. I'd been in Iran for a week and was getting frustrated. Few locals wanted to talk to me, let alone offer the hospitality that I'd heard about from other travelers -- whisked off to family dinners, thrust into wedding ceremonies, or even offered someone's daughter to marry. None of that for me. I had four hours before my bus left, so I trudged over to the...
  • Iranian Alert - May 7, 2005 - Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle East - Bernard Lewis

    05/07/2005 7:19:18 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 4 replies · 1,077+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.7.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Freedom and Justice in the Modern Middle East Bernard Lewis, Foreign Affairs: To speak of dictatorship as being the immemorial way of doing things in the Middle East is simply untrue. It shows ignorance of the Arab past, contempt for the Arab present, and lack of concern for the Arab future. Creating a democratic political and social order in Iraq or elsewhere in the region will not be easy. But it is possible, and there are increasing signs that it has already begun. Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at...
  • Iranian Alert - May 6, 2005 - Iran Ready to Accelerate Nuclear Activities

    05/06/2005 4:19:54 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 14 replies · 1,108+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.6.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Iran Ready to Accelerate Nuclear Activities AFX UK Focus:Iran is ready to accelerate its nuclear activities if agreement is not reached quickly with the European Union over the Islamic republic's controversial nuclear programme, a chief negotiator said Friday. "A long-term suspension or an end (to uranium enrichment) is stupid, bad and irrational," Syrus Nasseri was quoted as saying by student news agency ISNA. ...If negotiators from Britain, France and Germany "use threats, the response in terms of threats is perfectly ready", said Nasseri. "If we see that an agreement with the European three is not possible,...
  • Iranian Alert - May 5, 2005 - EU, Iran nuclear talks near collapse-diplomats

    05/05/2005 3:04:22 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 16 replies · 1,230+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.5.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story EU, Iran nuclear talks near collapse-diplomats 04 May 2005 19:32:33 GMT Source: Reuters By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, May 4 (Reuters) - Talks between Iran and the EU's three biggest powers on the future of Tehran's nuclear program are near collapse as Iran threatens to resume sensitive atomic activities, European diplomats said on Wednesday. In a deal reached with Britain, Germany and France last November, Tehran agreed to suspend all nuclear fuel-related activities while both sides tried to negotiate a long-term solution regarding Iran's atomic ambitions. But Iran, unhappy with the slow pace of talks, said...
  • Iranian Alert - May 4, 2005 - Mr. Rafsanjani: A Candidate with a Record! The MSM needs to read this!

    05/04/2005 2:50:08 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 9 replies · 1,155+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.4.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Mr. "R": A Candidate with a Record! Iran va Jahan reminds the western media that former Iranian President Rafsanjani has "a record." While the Europeans vainly hope that Rafsanjani will transform himself into a "pragmatic moderate," writer Shaheen Fatemi reminds us what his record consists of. If there is one person who should be held totally responsible for every major decision that has been taken by this regime for the past 26 years, that person is Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. He has been in charge from day one and has not let go with control of...
  • Iranian Alert - May 3, 2005 - WSJ: Iran's Secret Deal with India!

    05/03/2005 1:40:04 PM PDT · by DoctorZIn · 23 replies · 2,392+ views
    Regime Change Iran ^ | 5.3.2005 | DoctorZin
    Top News Story Iran's Secret Deal with India An excerpt: Iran is looking to India to frustrate U.S. efforts to isolate Iran economically. Iran has made significant progress in developing a pipeline from southeastern Iran through Pakistan into India. The deal will provide India with 7.5 million tons of natural gas annually. India needs the energy as its economy is growing by 8% annually. The U.S. has been trying to convince India not to conclude the deal, but it appears unlikely to succeed. But the deal does not end there. According to the Wall Street Journal it also includes...