A four part video that looks at the Iranian development of nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them anywhere in the world. Iran has been in open warfare against the West for over 30 years and is accelerating its efforts to become the leader of the Muslim world and master of all the non-Muslim world.
Iranium
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Iran is reaching out to Norway to try to impose it's Islamic censorship of anything that "insults" Islam. Fortunately, this time they are not able to intimidate this student group who have published a poster the Iranians find insulting. I find it refreshingly true.
Hopefully the Norwegian government will not decide to take Iran's side and prosecute the students for a "hate crime".
FROM TUNDRATABLOIDS.COM:
IRANIAN EMBASSY IN NORWAY WANTS TO CENSOR NORWEGIAN STUDENTS…….
UPSET OVER AYATOLLAH KHOMEINE PICTURED WITH HITLER AND OTHER DICTATORS
Of course they’re pissed off, the truth is sometimes very offensive. All the more reason to shelve anti-free speech laws. KGS
NRK:
Students ‘and Academics’ International Assistance Fund, SAIH currently conducting a campaign in support of student activists across the world, and the controversial poster hanging for hours in many Norwegian higher education institutions.
The head of the press, public relations and culture department at the embassy in Oslo, Mohammad Javad Hosseini who wrote the letter, which SAIH perceive as an attempt to censor them.
Khomeini is in bad company
The Embassy is put off that Khomeini is pictured with famous dictators, but especially the fact that Hitler is in the picture, the Iranians ask SAIH to remove the picture as quickly as possible.
- You have offended the feelings of a great nation, which we believe is on their agenda, it is stated in the letter.
- For your information it Khomeini was the popular leader of the Iranian history. When he overthrew the king in 1979 supported more than 98 percent of the people to him. Since 1979, Iran held elections for parliament and president several times. Embassy condemns again this regrettable action, and expect that the organization does something with this offensive initiative, it is stated in the letter from the Iranian Embassy.
Surprised by the reaction
Deputy Erik Schreiner Evans in SAIH believes the Iranians do not understand what free speech is.
Deputy Erik Schreiner Evans in SAIH said the inquiry was very surprising.
- It shows not only that the embassy does not respect freedom of speech, but they have not understood it. The inquiry illustrates exactly the problem we are trying to focus on, he says.
SAIH refuses to remove the poster, but assured in its answers to the Embassy that the purpose has been to hurt anyone’s feelings or reduce the importance of the popular uprising against the Shah that Khomeini headed.
- SAIH believe that students and student movements are a key in securing and maintaining democratic society, writes SAIH in the letter that is signed by SAIH deputy Erik Schreiner Evans.
- Known to be brutal
- We did not mean to say that there is another connection between the historical characters on the poster than they are internationally known to be brutal, anti-democratic and authoritarian, and that they all have a well-documented history of persecuting and killing political opponents. That, in addition to having familiar faces, is why we chose them specifically for this campaign, it is stated in the response letter.
The letter ends by stating that it is not necessary to remove the poster
- In fact, we think it is surprising and somewhat provocative that you are trying to censor us in this way.
FROM THERELIGIONOFPEACE.COM:
This Christian pastor in Iran is facing execution for apostasy under Islamic law without a peep of protest from CAIR, which is too busy slamming opponents of Sharia in the West as "Islamophobes". But if Sharia is allowed here, how likely is it that observant Muslims will want to be told which parts of Allah’s law can and can’t be practiced?
The really interesting thing here is that Shia Iran is supporting the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood. Just a few years ago, most Western "experts" believed that Shia and Sunni could never cooperate. The lesson here is that Islam overarches even bitter sectarian rifts within Islam. The West should take heed of the desires of Islamists, both Shia and Sunni for a global Caliphate.
FROM YNETNEWS.COM:
MI chief sees hope for Assad yet
Military Intelligence chief says Syrian president promoting worthwhile reform packages, retaining loyalty of army; also notes Iranian role in 'Nakba', Naksa' Day border riots as well as Tehran's influence over Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
Moran Azulay
Latest Update: 07.05.11, 15:13 / Israel News
Military Intelligence chief Major-General Aviv Kochavi said Tuesday Iranian influence was growing in Middle Eastern countries experiencing unrest or upheaval – such as Egypt and Syria.
"Assad understands today that his solution cannot only come from military responses, and that is why he is turning to reform," Kochavi told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, referring to the protest-plagued president of Syria.
In Egypt, meanwhile, Tehran is trying to influence the outcomes of elections by tightening relations with the Muslim Brotherhood, the MI chief added.
"We must not belittle the reform package Assad has begun to promote. These reforms regard the improvement of wages, subsidies, and the opening up of more jobs," Kochavi said.
Article continues HERE:
An interesting and revealing look at Muslim tolerance toward Muslims. As long as Muslims continue to deal with each other in such an intolerant and hateful manner, they will have less energy to impose Islam on the West.
FROM PAYVAND.COM:
06/05/11
Iran Says Baha'i University Illegal
Source: Radio Zamaneh
BIHE The Baha'i Institute of Higher Education (BIHE) in Iran has been declared an "illegal" organization by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
ISNA cites the ministry's announcement that "the online university BIHE has not received any ministry permits for operation, and all its activities are illegal."
The ministry also maintained that all diplomas and degrees issued by this institution "lack legal validity."
Iranian security forces had previously shut down science and research facilities at the Baha'i Open University in Tehran and arrested a number of its staff in several cities.
The international Baha'i community reports that at least 30 Baha'is were arrested on May 22 in Tehran, Karaj, Esfahan and Shiraz in.
Iran's Baha'i community established the Baha'i Open University in 1987 to offer higher education to Baha'is, who face discrimination under the Islamic Republic system.
While Baha'ism was founded in Iran and Baha'is form the largest religious minority there, the government does not recognize it as a legitimate religion. Baha'is are denied access to higher education and discriminated against in all walks of life.
In March, a number of Iranian Baha'is were arrested in Bam, Kerman and Tehran, charged with "promoting their projects under the guise of educational and cultural programs in daycares."
Seven Baha'i community leaders, who had already been incarcerated for two years, were recently sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges of espionage.
Like a cancer that has metastasized, Iranian terrorists have infiltrated Colombia in South America.
FROM ANSAMED.COM:
GULF: PRESS, IRAN TRAINS FIGHTERS IN COLOMBIA
28 April , 15:12
(ANSAmed) - ROMA, APRIL 28 - Iran's revolutionary guards are training many citizens of the Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in a special camp locates in the Colombian province of Alwahira, a very remote area on the border with Venezuela. The report was made by Kuwait's "Assiyasa" newspaper which quoted one of the fighters who abandoned training.
The newspaper stated that in recent months courses focused on the fabrication of explosives, lethal ambushes, hostage taking and moving the latter from one place to another.
According to the newspaper, in case of a war against Teheran the Iranian military instructors have plans to attack the embassies of Gulf countries in Latin America.(ANSAmed)
Is there no end to Iranian Islamic barbarity and fanaticism?
This poor woman has already received 100 lashes for alleged adultery. Then she was sentenced to stoning for alleged complicity in murder, now possibly commuted to hanging, maybe. She has undergone several mock executions and now is facing another 100 lashes based on a supposed photo of her without a head scarf published in England.
Where is the international outcry from the "moderate" Muslims around the world?
It's time to carpet bomb the Mullahs.
FROM BREITBART.COM:
Iran 'stoning woman' to be lashed over photo: son
Sep 4 01:08 PM US/Eastern
Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has also been sentenced to 99 lashes for a photo published of her without a headscarf, according to her son.
In an interview published on the website of the French magazine La Regle du Jeu and the blog Dentelles et Tchador, Mohammadi-Ashtiani's son Sajjad said they learned of the new punishment from released inmates.
He said that a prison judge confirmed that she was to be lashed for spreading "corruption and indecency" by the publication of a photograph of her without a headscarf that appeared in a British newspaper.
The Times of London published on August 28 a photo of a woman without a headscarf that it said was Mohammadi-Ashtiani, however on September 3 it said the attribution of the photo, which it received from one of her lawyers that has fled Iran, was incorrect.
The photo "... is certainly not that of my mother," said Sajjad.
Mohammadi-Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, was given the death penalty for an extramarital relationship.
Iran has subsequently said she was also convicted of being an accomplice in her husband's death, though she has denied that was the case.
Her plight has prompted protests in Europe and an international campaign to spare her. Tehran has provisionally suspended the death sentence.
Animals. That's the only description that fits the current Iranian governing body. The sooner this bunch of monsters is eliminated, the better for all of humanity.
FROM DAILYMAIL.CO.UK:
Iranian sentenced to death by stoning for adultery 'subjected to mock execution'
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 10:47 AM on 1st September 2010
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was told she would be hanged at dawn on Sunday, but she was not
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was told she would be hanged at dawn on Sunday, but she was not
An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning was subjected to a mock execution by hanging.
In preparation for her death, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani wrote her will and embraced her cellmates in Tabriz prison.
But the mother-of-two, who was acquitted of murdering her husband but found guilty of adultery, was not led to the gallows.
Her son told The Guardian: ‘Pressure from the international community has so far stopped them from carrying out the sentence but they’re killing her every day by any means possible.’
The latest development comes after prison authorities denied family and legal visits, falsely telling them Ashtiani was unwilling to see them. In turn, she was told no one had come to see her.
Ashtiani has already received 99 lashes for reportedly having an illicit relationship with two men.
The stoning sentence was suspended pending a judicial review but could still be carried out, an Iranian judiciary official has said.
Murder, adultery, rape, armed robbery, apostasy and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Iran's Sharia law, enforced since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The 43-year-old’s lawyer, Houtan Kian, has accused the government of inventing the charges against her.
Sajad, whose mother’s plight has resulted in protest rallies in hundreds of cities, believes the international outcry is the only reason his mother is still alive.
A protester, dressed with a costume to depict a woman stoned to death in Iran, participates in a demonstration organised by the National Council of Resistance of Iran in France
A protester, dressed with a costume to depict a woman stoned to death in Iran, participates in a demonstration organised by the National Council of Resistance of Iran in France
He added: ‘I beg everybody in the world to continue their support for my mother. That is the only way she might be spared from the death sentence.’
French First Lady Carla Bruni became involved in the row for protesting against the case.
The wife of President Nicholas Sarkozy ‘deserves to die’ for supporting an 'adulteress', according to leading Iranian paper Kayhan.
In an open letter, Ms Bruni wrote: 'Spill your blood, deprive your children of their mother? Why?
'Because you have lived, because you have loved, because you are a woman, an Iranian? Every part of me refuses to accept this.'
The paper responded by dubbing her a marriage-wrecking ‘prostitute’ because of her affairs with high-profile celebrities who already had partners.
Another look at the face of conservative Islam. Iran never ceases to amaze with their fanatical adherence to the pure interpretation of 7th century Islam. This gives an accurate picture of what Islam portends for the West if the Shia sect of Islam comes to power.
FROM GOOGLE.COM:
Iran slaps 20-year jail terms on seven Bahai
PARIS — Iran has sentenced seven leading members of its Bahai religious minority to 20-year jail terms, French and US members of the faith told AFP on Monday.
The United States and the European Union had criticised Iran's detention of the Bahai members, and their reported jailing will revive calls for Tehran's Islamic regime to respect religious freedom.
"On Sunday, authorities announced 20-year sentences orally to the defendants' lawyers," said Sophie Menard, spokeswoman for the Bahai community in France, adding that the group was awaiting confirmation of the terms.
"The lawyers have begun proceedings to seek an appeal, which ought to allow them access to the written judgements," she explained.
Iran arrested seven Bahai leaders in May 2008 and this year put them on trial on charges ranging from spying for foreigners, spreading corruption on Earth, undermining Islam and of cooperating with Israel.
All those accused denied the charges.
"If this news proves to be accurate, it represents a deeply shocking outcome to the case of these innocent and harmless people," declared Bani Dugal, who represents the Bahai faith in contacts with the United Nations, in a statement.
The statement identified the detainees as two women, Fariba Kamalabadi and Mahvash Sabet, and five men: Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Behrouz Tavakkoli and Vahid Tizfahm.
They "were all members of a national-level group that helped see to the minimum needs of Iran's 300,000-strong Bahai community, the country's largest non-Muslim religious minority," the statement said.
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This is an account of what has happened to Mohammad Mostafaei, the lawyer who dared to defend Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman convicted of adultery in a Iranian court. This brave man is now in hiding in fear of his life from the Iranian authorities. His wife and brother have been arrested to force him to surrender himself.
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is on death row waiting to the sentence of stoning for the alleged crime of adultery. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's story is HERE.
Both cases illustrate how the barbaric and inhumane Islamic regime in Iran operates. There is no room in the world for such a regime. Every aspect of Iranian Islam is an affront to humanity.
FROM AMNISTY.ORG:
Iran must end harassment of stoning case lawyer
Mostafaei is defending Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who was sentenced to stoning
28 July 2010
Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to stop harassing human rights lawyers amid continuing uncertainty over the whereabouts of the defence counsel in a recent controversial stoning case and the arrest of two of his relatives.
Mohammad Mostafaei’s whereabouts have been unknown since shortly after he was released from questioning by judicial officials last Saturday.
Late that evening, the Iranian authorities detained his wife and brother-in-law, prompting fears that they are being held to put pressure on Mohammed Mostafaei to turn himself in to the authorities, if he is not already being detained.
The acclaimed lawyer is defending Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, whose case became the subject of an international outcry when it was reported that she was soon to be executed by stoning.
He has also defended many juvenile offenders, political prisoners and others sentenced to stoning. Mostafaei has been a vocal critic of the administration of justice in Iran.
"Mohammad Mostafaei is a thorn in the side of the Iranian authorities and we fear that he is being persecuted in an attempt to stop him carrying out his professional activities as a defence lawyer and in support of human rights," said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa director.
Mostafaei was summoned for questioning by judicial officials at Tehran's Evin prison on Saturday but released after several hours. However he later received a telephone call summoning him back to the prison. It is not known whether he complied with this summons or not.
Mohammad Mostafaei’s wife, Fereshteh Halimi, and her brother, Farhad Halimi, were arrested on Saturday evening. They remain held and have been denied access to their lawyer.
Following his interrogation on Saturday, Mostafaei wrote on his blog that he was questioned mainly about his defence of juvenile offenders. He also wrote on his Facebook account: “It is possible they will arrest me".
"The Iranian authorities appear intent on silencing anyone who speaks out against stoning or other issues where Iran’s international human rights obligations are clearly being violated," said Malcolm Smart.
"Mohammad Mostafaei should be allowed to get on with his job as a lawyer rather than face arrest himself for trying to defend victims of human rights abuses.
"If Fereshteh and Farhad Halimi are held solely because they are related to Mohammad Mostafaei, or in order to place pressure on him, they are prisoners of conscience and must be immediately released."
Fereshteh Halimi and Mohammad Mostafaei have a young daughter who is said to be in the care of her maternal grandmother.
There is a longstanding pattern of harassment and imprisonment of human rights lawyers in Iran. In 2002, Nasser Zarafshan was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, partly on trumped-up charges of possessing a firearm and alcohol offences.
Abdolfattah Soltani was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in 2005 for disclosing public documents and “propaganda against the system”. The sentence was overturned on appeal on 2007 but he was arrested again in 2009 and held for two months before being released on bail.
Other lawyers currently held for their human rights work include Mohammad Olyaeifard, who is serving a one-year prison sentence imposed for comments he made criticizing the judiciary after the execution of one of his clients, juvenile offender Behnoud Shojaee.
Other Iranian human rights lawyers such as Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and Shadi Sadr, recipient of various international human rights awards, now work outside of Iran, fearing to return.
Mohammad Mostafaei was briefly detained following the disputed 2009 presidential election before being released on bail.
Well there ya go. Who says Islam can't change. Iran now requires a thief to have been convicted of over 100 thefts before lopping off a hand. Used to be, just one theft could get you separated from your hand, (Still can in Saudi Arabia)
FROM TORONTOSUN.COM:
Iran cuts off hands from five thieves
By Reuters
Last Updated: July 22, 2010 9:01am
TEHRAN - Iran amputated the hands of five convicted thieves inside a prison in the western city of Hamedan on Thursday, the semi-official ILNA news agency said.
“The average age of the five thieves on whom the hand amputation verdict was carried out was over 25 and they had committed major thefts,” the agency quoted local judiciary official Akbar Biglari as saying.
Biglari said the amputation verdict is not automatic for all those who commit a theft and some 14 criteria should be met before the punishment is carried out.
“When a hand gets used to robbery and causes harm to people it must be shortened,” Biglari said.
He said the amputation verdict is usually performed on a thief who has committed more than 100 instances of theft. It serves as a deterrent to others, he said.
Under Iran’s Islamic sharia law, theft can be punished by amputation.
The rabid mullocrocy of Iran knows no bounds. Stoning women, hanging homosexuals, whipping those with the "wrong" hairstyle are all par for the course. Now we find they may execute a Christian preacher for simply being a Christian preacher.
FROM BOSNEWSLIFE.COM:
BREAKING NEWS: Iran Pastor Facing Execution, Church Official
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 (8:50 am)
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reportedly said the government needed to halt the growing movement of house churches across Iran.
TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- A well-known Iranian pastor faces execution after two judges agreed to make him "liable to capital punishment," as part of a crackdown on the growing Protestant church movement in the Islamic nation, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, July 13.
Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was detained in June along with wife Fatemeh Pasandideh in the city of Rasht in northwestern Iran because of their Christian activities, Iranian Christians said.
A senior pastor of the Church of Iran movement, which includes house churches across the country, told BosNewsLife that judges had "already signed" an Islamic order that would potentially allow a death sentence for Nadarkhani, pending further investigations. The pastor usually speaks on condition of anonymity to BosNewsLife amid security concerns.
News of the execution overshadowed joy over the release of two Church of Iran Christians, a man and a woman, and the expected release this week on bail of two other members, who the movement only identified as "brothers Mehdi and Afshin."
MORE DETENTIONS
They were part of a group of eight Church of Iran members detained June 18, the senior pastor said. One of them, a pastor's wife identified as Fatemeh Kojouri Tork, remained in Tehran's notorious Evin prison Tuesday, July 13, while her husband, Behrouz Sadegh Khanjani, was kept in isolation in a security prison in the southwestern city of Shiraz, the Christian leader said.
"We still do not hear from Reverend Behrouz Khanjani..." Iranian Christians have also expressed concerns about reports of other detentions, including last month's capture of Pastor Behnam Irani in the city of Karaj, 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) west of Tehran.
Several believers have allegedly been mistreated. "We have learned that information that [security forces] have been using substances to extract confessions from Christians," the senior pastor said.
Iranian officials have not commented on the cases.
AUTHORITIES CONCERNED
Rights groups have linked the crackdown to concern among authorities about growing churches and the spread of Christianity among Muslims in the country.
Church sources say the number of Christians in Iran has grown from 500 known believers in 1979 to at least 100,000 today.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reportedly said the government needed to halt the growing movement of house churches across Iran.
Under Iran's strict interpretation of Islam, "apostasy" -- or the formal renunciation of religion-- is punishable by death.
Iran refuses to enter the 21st century and stays hidebound to 7th century barbarity. This is the same Iran Obama is willing to negotiate with without preconditions. so Obama must approve the stoning to death of women.
FROM THEAUSTRALIAN.COM.AU:
Wed at 14, 'adulterous' girl, Azar Bagheri, awaits stoning
* Hala Jaber
* From: The Australian
* July 12, 2010 12:00AM
SHE was only 14 when she was forced into marriage with an older man.
Yet within a year of her wedding, Azar Bagheri was charged with adultery and sentenced to be stoned to death.
The sentence could not be carried out until she was 18. So for the past four years, Ms Bagheri has been languishing on death row while the courts waited for her to reach maturity so she could be put to death.
According to Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi, Ms Bagheri was denounced by her husband, who accused her of committing adultery with two men.
Ms Ahadi said the teenager had been subjected to two mock stonings. On each occasion she was taken out of her cell and buried up to her shoulders in the yard of Tabriz prison, in northwest Iran, as if being prepared to be pelted to death with stones.
Ms Bagheri's lawyers are now planning to ask the judges to reduce her sentence to 99 lashes. Buoyed by an international campaign against Iran's death sentence for women convicted of adultery, they hope the court will show mercy.
After widespread condemnation of the sentence of stoning passed on another woman, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, the Iranians backed down last week. The Iranian embassy in London said that according to information from the judicial authorities in Tehran, the stoning of Ms Ashtiani would not go ahead.
But campaigners warned that Ms Ashtiani could still be executed by other means.
Amnesty International noted that three Iranians sentenced to death by stoning last year had been hanged instead.
"A mere change of the method of execution would not address the injustice," said Amnesty's deputy director for the Middle East, Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui.
Ms Ashtiani was sentenced in 2006 for having an "illicit relationship" with two men, for which she has already received a public flogging of 99 lashes. She was convicted of adultery even though she was a widow at the time -- her husband was killed before the alleged affair started.
Her family claims that during the trial of the two men accused of murdering her husband, another court found her guilty of adultery with the suspects, even though no evidence was given.
Her lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, said: "She has been waiting to be stoned to death for six years. She is having repetitive endless nightmares about death mixed with people stoning her."
Under Iran's penal code, adultery is the only crime punishable by stoning as an offence "against divine law". The death sentence may also be imposed for murder, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking, but offenders are usually hanged.
Stoning is intended to cause a slow and painful death. Iran's penal code states: "The size of the stone . . . shall not be too large to kill the convict by one or two throws, and shall not be too small to be called a stone."
This is an important analysis of Iran's global expansion through terrorism.
FROM POLITICALMAVINS.COM:
Iran’s Global Terrorist Reach
By Walid Phares
Summary: Dr Walid Phares journal article “Iran’s Global Terrorist Reach” was published in the summer 2010 edition of InFocus Periodical. The article shows the geopolitical expansion of the Iranian regime as well as its terrorist and strategic reach around the world. Iran has developed weapons, created terror networks and established a system of alliances, challenging and threatening the region and the international community.
The United States became painfully aware of the threat posed by global jihadism after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. Until that day, Iranian-backed terrorist networks, such as Hezbollah, were responsible for killing more American citizens than al-Qaeda. In the years since, the balance has been gradually tilting back towards Iran. In the words of former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, al-Qaeda may be the ‘B’ team of international terrorism, but Hezbollah is the ‘A’ team. Indeed, Iran’s Khomeinists began their war on the U.S. and other democracies years before Osama bin Laden began his jihad.
The takeover of Iran’s government in 1979 by radical Islamist forces faithful to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was the breakthrough after which the so-called Islamic Revolution spread throughout the Middle East and beyond. The Khomeinist revolution is ideologically rooted in a radical Islamist doctrine that stands in opposition to the more traditional “Quietist” school of thought among Shia clerics. In a sense, the Khomeinists are the Shia world’s equivalent of the Salafists within the Sunni world. The Islamist Shias are also jihadists, in the sense that they call for the establishment of a future Imamate, a Shia form of Islamic Caliphate, by any means necessarily, including what they coin as “Jihad,” which practically means war.
Because it cannot project much conventional military power, Iran threatens the United States, Israel and other democracies by unconventional means. Through the use of its terrorist surrogates—such as Hezbollah—Tehran’s reach extends around the world.
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Iran carries on the barbarim of Islam with stonings. Despite international outrage, Iran perpetuates the 7th century practices of backwards nomads.
FROM CNN.COM:
Human rights activist tries to stop death by stoning for Iranian woman
By the CNN Wire Staff
(CNN) -- A veteran Iranian human rights activist has warned that Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a mother of two, could be stoned to death at any moment under the terms of a death sentence handed down by Iranian authorities.
Only an international campaign designed to pressure the regime in Tehran can save her life, according to Mina Ahadi, head of the International Committee Against Stoning and the Death Penalty.
"Legally it's all over," Ahadi said Sunday. "It's a done deal. Sakineh can be stoned at any minute."
"That is why we have decided to start a very broad, international public movement. Only that can help."
Ashtiani, 42, will be buried up to her chest, according to an Amnesty International report citing the Iranian penal code. The stones that will be hurled at her will be large enough to cause pain but not so large as to kill her immediately.
Ashtiani, who is from the northern city of Tabriz, was convicted of adultery in 2006.
She was forced to confess after being subjected to 99 lashes, human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei said Thursday in a telephone interview from Tehran.
She later retracted that confession and has denied wrongdoing. Her conviction was based not on evidence but on the determination of three out of five judges, Mostafaei said. She has asked forgiveness from the court but the judges refused to grant clemency.
Iran's supreme court upheld the conviction in 2007.
The majority of those sentenced to death by stoning are women
--Amnesty International
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Good news that Iran is postponing it's attempt to run the Israeli blockade of the Gaza strip. However, there is a note in the article that indicates that Iran is planning to send a "hospital" ship to Gaza which would be a major escalation of the propaganda war. Israel would have no choice but to turn away the ship which would be a major propaganda victory for Iran and Hamas. The political ramifications would be horrific.
Israel must find some way to stop this ship before it ever gets to the Mediterranean sea.
FROM ANSAMED.INFO:
MIDEAST: GAZA,DEPARTURE IRANIAN SHIP POSTPONED TO LATER DATE
(ANSAmed) - TEHRAN, JUNE 21 -
The departure of the first Iranian ship that will carry humanitarian aid to Gaza, defying the Israeli blockade, has been postponed to an unspecified date, the head of the juvenile organisation of the Iranian Red Crescent, Javad Jafarian, told press agency ISNA. Early in June, after the bloody Israeli raid on an international flotilla headed for the Gaza Strip, in which nine people were killed, the Iranian Red Crescent announced that it was ready to send two ship to the Palestinian territory. One ship with basic needs and one with volunteers, and the organisation also announced to send a hospital ship at some point in the future. On Monday last week, Iran said that this week one of its ships would weigh anchor, and that the country would send more aid to Turkey, to load it in Istanbul. The departure of the ship, according to Jafarian, has been postponed by "problems with international coordination and a change of the cargo to send" to Gaza. (ANSAmed).
2010-06-21 14:52
There are large cracks in the Mullocracy in Iran. If only the West would capitalize on the popular revolution going on against the ruling Mullahs, we might have a half a chance to stop Iran's nuclear program.
It's a pity that Obama and George Bush before him did not capitalize on the student uprisings and general unrest. According to these folks, the regime was on the brink of collapse a year ago.
Guards Of The Revolution - Iran
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