Iranian Alert -- February 6, 2004 -- IRAN LIVE THREAD --Americans for Regime Change in Iran

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The US media almost entirely ignores news regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran. As Tony Snow of the Fox News Network has put it, “this is probably the most under-reported news story of the year.” But most American’s are unaware that the Islamic Republic of Iran is NOT supported by the masses of Iranians today. Modern Iranians are among the most pro-American in the Middle East.

There is a popular revolt against the Iranian regime brewing in Iran today. Starting June 10th of this year, Iranians have begun taking to the streets to express their desire for a regime change. Most want to replace the regime with a secular democracy. Many even want the US to over throw their government.

The regime is working hard to keep the news about the protest movement in Iran from being reported. Unfortunately, the regime has successfully prohibited western news reporters from covering the demonstrations. The voices of discontent within Iran are sometime murdered, more often imprisoned. Still the people continue to take to the streets to demonstrate against the regime.

In support of this revolt, Iranians in America have been broadcasting news stories by satellite into Iran. This 21st century news link has greatly encouraged these protests. The regime has been attempting to jam the signals, and locate the satellite dishes. Still the people violate the law and listen to these broadcasts. Iranians also use the Internet and the regime attempts to block their access to news against the regime. In spite of this, many Iranians inside of Iran read these posts daily to keep informed of the events in their own country.

This daily thread contains nearly all of the English news reports on Iran. It is thorough. If you follow this thread you will witness, I believe, the transformation of a nation. This daily thread provides a central place where those interested in the events in Iran can find the best news and commentary. The news stories and commentary will from time to time include material from the regime itself. But if you read the post you will discover for yourself, the real story of what is occurring in Iran and its effects on the war on terror.

I am not of Iranian heritage. I am an American committed to supporting the efforts of those in Iran seeking to replace their government with a secular democracy. I am in contact with leaders of the Iranian community here in the United States and in Iran itself.

If you read the daily posts you will gain a better understanding of the US war on terrorism, the Middle East and why we need to support a change of regime in Iran. Feel free to ask your questions and post news stories you discover in the weeks to come.

If all goes well Iran will be free soon and I am convinced become a major ally in the war on terrorism. The regime will fall. Iran will be free. It is just a matter of time.

DoctorZin

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Reformists in Iran Yield to Ban

February 06, 2004
The Star-Ledger
Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

TEHRAN, Iran -- Leaders of Iran's reformist parliament conceded defeat to the country's ruling clerics yesterday and predicted that this month's elections would go forward with a sweeping ban on liberal candidates in place.

The ban clears the way for conservative clerics to retake the parliament and end legislative efforts to secularize the Islamic republic.

The reformers' admission of defeat came on the final day of a sit-in by incumbents to protest the mass blacklisting of candidates for the elections Feb. 20.

"It has gotten to the point where it is impossible to accomplish political reform within the system," said Fatemeh Hagighatjou, who represents Tehran in parliament. "The fate of the country will be either dictatorship or collapse, although they (the clerics) should remember that the outcome of a dictatorship is also collapse."

The unelected Guardian Council rejected a last-minute deal brokered by President Mohammad Khatami that would have reinstated a quarter of the banned candidates despite the apparent approval of the deal by Iran's most powerful ruling cleric. The council agreed to reinstate only 51 of the 600 names that Khatami's Intelligence Ministry had forwarded for vetting.

While the council usually follows Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's lead, it can ignore a decree meant only as "guidance," the lawmakers said. The outcome suggests that Khamenei's support for the compromise deal was halfhearted at best.

In defeating the reformers, the hard-liners are likely to lose any hope of gaining widespread public support for the elections or acceptance of the next parliament. Iranians elected a reform-minded president twice and voted in a majority of reformers in the last parliamentary elections.

Turnout this month is likely to be extremely low, as the head of Iran's largest reformist party said its members wouldn't take part, nor would the 127 members of parliament who resigned in protest over the ban.

"We know elections are needed in a democracy, but that does not mean we have to participate in every election," said Mohammad Reza Khatami, the president's younger brother, who heads the party called the Islamic Iran Participation Front.

The Guardian Council argued that Iran's 46 million eligible voters still would have an average of 19 candidates to choose from for each parliament seat. But reformers say the ban prevents them from running for more than half of the seats, making victory impossible.

Many reformers are angry with President Khatami for not backing them more forcibly in the acrimonious political dispute, one of the worst in the Islamic republic's 25-year history.

"The president swore to respect the constitution," said Hossein Ansarirad, a reformist cleric and banned incumbent whose colleagues yesterday responded with fervent applause. "He doesn't have the right to hold the elections."

Blame lies with parliament itself for not standing up to the hard-liners all along, said Baha'oddin Adab, who represents the northwestern city of Sanandaj in Iranian Kurdistan. "We should have done this two years ago," he said, gesturing to the dozens of parliament members staging the sit-in outside the main chamber.

Even now, few reform politicians advocate changing Iran's political system, in which unelected clerics hold supreme power and can overrule the president and parliament. The reformers have virtually ignored demands for a referendum on the constitution by many younger Iranians, for fear of altogether eliminating an Islamic republic established by revolution 25 years ago.

That hesitancy played into the hands of the hard-liners, who used public disillusionment with the reformers as an opportunity to silence their movement.

Khamenei's speech Dec. 16 on the U.S. capture of Saddam Hussein set the tone. In an apparent reference to Khatami's government, he alluded to a need to remove people from power who were thinking about improving relations with the United States.

With parliamentary elections then only two months away, the reformist parliament became the first target. Disillusioned reform voters had stayed away from last spring's municipal elections and left local governments in the hands of hard-liners. That suggested to ruling clerics that the time might be ripe to take back control of the parliament.

Four weeks after Khamenei's speech, some 83 incumbents and more than 3,500 other candidates received letters from the Guardian Council saying they were banned from running because they had violated tenets of Islam and Iran's constitution, charges they vehemently deny. The council eventually reinstated 1,160 lower-profile candidates, but raised the number of banned incumbents to 87.

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1076051719113320.xml

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Over 46 million Iranians eligible to vote

Payvand's Iran News ...
2/5/04

The latest statistics released by the Ministry of Interior shows that some 46,351,032 individuals of the entire population are eligible to vote at the seventh parliamentary elections slated for February 20, IRNA reported from Tehran.

According to the report, the figure excludes the population of the quake-hit Bam city.

A closer look at the statistics revealed that Tehran province with 8,261,061 voters accounting for 17.82 percent of the total nationwide balloters has the highest rank.

The report said that Khorassan and Isfahan provinces with 4,542,980 and 3,116,665 eligible voters respectively rank second and third.

"Fars province with 2,933,764 individuals ranks forth and Kohkilouyeh-Boyer Ahmad province scores fifth with 398,067.

"The statistical reports available at the sixth Majlis show a total of 38,726,431 eligible voters at the sixth term parliamentary elections," it added.

The report said that in accordance with the election law, having Iranian nationality, being 15 years of age and sanity are among the qualifications of the voters.

"According to the law, those born on February 20 1988 will vote in the upcoming elections for the first time in their lifetime," it concluded.

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/feb/1040.html

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Iran's judiciary chief: Resignations 'criminal act'

IranMania News
February 06, 2004

TEHRAN, Feb 6 (AFP) -- Iran's hardline judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi has warned that officials who resign with the aim of impeding parliamentary elections in protest at the barring of reformist candidates face prosecution, state news agency IRNA reported.

"If any of the government bodies impedes the Majlis elections process in violation of legal and religious boundaries, then it would be considered a criminal act and would be prosecuted," Shahrudi was quoted as saying late Thursday.

It was the latest warning to pro-reformist officials, including dozens of members of parliament, from hardliners following the disqualification by a conservative vetting body of hundreds of mainly reformist candidates for the February 20 elections.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday, "It is the duty of the government to organize the elections and nobody can, in dispute, fail to carry out their legal duty and dispense with their responsibilities."

Such an act would be against the law and prohibited by Islam, he said.

Khamenei also ruled it was the pro-reform government's duty to hold parliamentary polls on schedule despite the crisis sparked by the disqualifications ordered by the Guardians Council vetting body.

Reformists had called for a delay in polling after the conservative Guardians Council vetting body ruled out some 2,500 candidates out of 8,000, most of them reformists and including some 80 sitting MPs.

Several resignations have been announced among ministers, deputy ministers and all 27 provincial governors, while 125 MPs confirmed Saturday that they were quitting, depriving the Majlis of a quorum.

"Those current MPs whose qualifications have been rejected by the Guardians Council are US spies and were implementing US rules instead of Islamic rules," the chief editor of the hardline Resalaat paper, Mohamad Kazem Anbarloui, told the congregation in a mosque in Iran's clerical capital of Qom Friday, IRNA said.

http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=22346&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs

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http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_1635.shtml

A link to an article titled Iranian Underground Cinema by Jason Silverman. I found the descriptions interesting.

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"It has gotten to the point where it is impossible to accomplish political reform within the system," said Fatemeh Hagighatjou, who represents Tehran in parliament. "The fate of the country will be either dictatorship or collapse, although they (the clerics) should remember that the outcome of a dictatorship is also collapse."

That scary part of this is that if we changed the word 'clerics' to 'liberal/socialists'; this very statement could be applied in some ways to the U.S.

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"Those current MPs whose qualifications have been rejected by the Guardians Council are US spies and were implementing US rules instead of Islamic rules," the chief editor of the hardline Resalaat paper, Mohamad Kazem Anbarloui, told the congregation in a mosque in Iran's clerical capital of Qom Friday, IRNA said.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. If Anbarloui knew that the average American living in Iowa never even THINKS about Iran, would he blinded by impotent rage? Or, does he think that the average Iranian believes that America is that powerful, that our government would be in the position to place operatives within the parliament? IF we were, why wouldn't we just use our powers to assassinate the leadership in Iran?! Amazing. I know that propaganda is the source of Anbarloui's argument, but couldn't he come up with a scenario that reads as being plausible?

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I think you are somewhat right but remember that there are huge differences between the system in the US and their system.
The US government can tolerate the critics but theirs kills, tortures and jail the critics.

[Paul C. Jesup]

I think you are somewhat right but remember that there are huge differences between the system in the US and their system.

Yes there is, there they make no bones about being a one party, while here we pretend there are two parties, and bash those who try to create a third option.

The US government can tolerate the critics but theirs kills, tortures and jail the critics.

You must have missed the Clinton years when the Clintons used the media, the IRS, the EPA, the ATF and there criminal connections to bankrupt, demonize, destroy and/or kill their critices.

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Ah, Forgot to tell you then that the situation inside the US during the clintons' were much better than theirs in the past 25 years.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Ah, Forgot to tell you then that the situation inside the US during the clintons' were much better than theirs in the past 25 years.

That depends on where you live, for example, I am sure those who live in or near U.S./Mexican border towns would disagree with you.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Please note, I am not saying we are as bad off as the Iranians, but we are must closer to their situation (dealing with tyranny) than what most people would like to admit.

[F14 Pilot]

Yes, not as bad as their government.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

My Name is Iran
Series Chronicles Personal Journey, Struggle for Change in Iran

Feb. 2, 2004 -- Her great-grandfather -- Ali Akbar Davar -- created Iran's legal code in the late 1920s. NPR's Davar Ardalan has lived in Iran under both the Shah's reign and that of the Ayatollahs. In a three-part Morning Edition series produced with American RadioWorks, she traces her personal journey and Iran's struggle for a lawful society, 25 years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

A century ago, Iran became the first country in the Middle East to bring together secular and religious law. In 1979, an Islamic revolution made Iran a theocracy and enshrined religious law as supreme. The changes were dramatic: women were stoned for adultery, children could be tortured, and the age of marriage for girls reduced to nine. Now, a movement is growing within Iran to create a society that ensures human rights.

Inside Iran's courtrooms, Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and other lawyers are fighting for change. They've been successful in raising the age of marriage for girls from nine to 13 and divorced women now can have custody of male children up to the age of seven. But they are confronting hard-line clerics who are adamant that the legal system remain based on their interpretation of the word of God.

Ardalan and co-producer Rasool Nafisi explore the ferment in today's Iran at a time when other nations in the Islamic world are debating how to balance secular and sacred law in a modern society.

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1626512

(From this link, you will find multiple embedded links to access for more information.- PYW)

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Thanks

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Nasrallah, the Pawn

February 02, 2004
Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies
Yoram Schweitzer

The recent Israel-Hizbullah prisoner exchange appears to be Act I of an ongoing drama. The next chapter, if it is played out, will also star Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah, acting on behalf of the Government of Iran and with the backing of the Syrian and Lebanese Governments.

But Act II will shine the spotlight on the symbiotic relationship between several state sponsors of terrorism and the Hizbullah organization that serves as their proxy. And it will also highlight the West's continued willingness to tolerate the ongoing exploitation of that relationship by the state sponsors, especially Iran.

In light of previous experience, the declared intention of Nasrallah and his Iranian patrons to seek a solution to the riddle of the missing Israeli navigator, Ron Arad, must still be treated with caution. But even if Nasrallah does come up with new information about Arad's fate in exchange for what he hopes will be a bigger payoff than he received in Act I of the exchange, it is clear that Nasrallah is only a pawn, however slick, in a typically crafty Iranian game.

Iran's role in all this is reflected in the arrival in Beirut of a delegation headed by Ali Akbar Muhtashampur, one of the founders of Hizbullah, and Hadi Khamenei, the younger brother of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Their presence at the lavish ceremonies marking the return of Lebanese prisoners symbolized Iran's honored status and the image it wants to project to the world as the party that worked diligently behind the scenes to make the deal possible. The high-level delegation was also meant to communicate the seriousness of Iran's intention to play a constructive role (along with Hizbullah and Syria) in the joint mechanism set up by German mediators to find a humanitarian solution to the problem of MIAs in Lebanon.

The public commitment and cautious optimism voiced by German mediator Ernst Uhrlau about the chances of sustaining the process and succeeding where his predecessor had failed raised hopes that this time, in contrast to their performance in the mid-1990s, the Iranians will honor their promises to end the suffering of the families of Arad and the four Iranian diplomats missing in Lebanon since 1982. But if that is the case, it is still unclear what brought about a change in Iranian policy on this matter. The answer may lie in the realm of strategy and geo-politics, that is, in Euro-American pressure on the matter of Iran's nuclear program and the presence of American forces around Iran's borders. It may also lie in domestic pressure to get this troublesome issue off Iran's international agenda.

Whatever the case, the protracted negotiations about the question of Ron Arad, many of whose details have already been made public, clearly indicate that the Iranians and their central partner in Lebanon, Nasrallah, have known about Arad's fate for a long time. Consequently, the effort they will ostensibly make now in order to justify the unreasonable payoff they are demanding is a fraud. For the brief period of time given to the "Humanitarian Search Mechanism" can only be an elegant "escape hatch" from the charge that they have deliberately concealed the Israeli airman for 16 years (since he was transferred to the Iranians by Amal dissidents in 1988); otherwise, there is no reason to expect that it will suffice after so many similar "efforts" have failed in the past.

The Iran-Hizbullah terrorism conglomerate has a long record of successfully hiding hostages, managing embellished crises, and waging psychological warfare aimed at maximizing Iran's political dividends. This game, in which Hizbullah functions as the operational arm for Iran's policy of extortion and serves as its fig-leaf, was first played out in 1984-1991. During that period, about a hundred hostages were kidnapped in Lebanon, most of them from Western countries. Some were held in Lebanon for several years in inhuman conditions, paid a heavy psychological cost, and were released when their countries paid a huge ransom; some died in captivity. The kidnapping chapter in Lebanon ended only when Iran forced Hizbullah to desist in return for Western support for a UN Security Council resolution condemning Iraq as the aggressor in the Iran-Iraq War. An attempt to include the release of Ron Arad in that package deal failed, and his fate has remained a mystery ever since.

In this theater of the absurd, the current effort to resolve the puzzle of Ron Arad is presented as a new play, though it stars precisely the same actors. Nasrallah is willingly cast in the lead role, but Iran is feeding him his lines. Iran itself, as is its wont, insists on projecting a fair and neutral demeanor even as it extracts the full price in return for undoing what were its own actions. Iran expects to get a hefty commission from Germany and France for its effort and good will in resolving the issue and through them will demand the release of terrorists it, itself, dispatched. The payoff most highly prized by Iran and Hizbullah is Kazem Darbi. According to the findings of a German court, Darbi was an Iranian studying in Germany who, on the orders of Iranian intelligence, recruited a group of Hizbullahis living there to murder Iranian Kurdish dissidents in the Mykonos Restaurant in Berlin in 1992. Other targets for release include one of the hijackers of TWA flight 847 in June 1985 who murdered US Navy diver Robert Stethem and was jailed by Germany, some of those involved in the murder of former Iranian Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, and five members of the Hizbullah cell active in a wave of murders carried out in France in the late 1980s on behalf of Iran.

If French and German leaders have to respond to demands to release terrorists convicted and jailed in their own countries, they will be helping Iran to reap its own profit from another Israel-Hizbullah exchange and to avoid punishment for its past actions. In return, they would do well to demand a drastic change in Iran's support of terrorism and to make it clear that if Iran refuses to comply, they will follow the precedent set in the confrontation over Iranian nuclear activities and push the European Union to join in American-led sanctions through the Security Council.

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Published by TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY
The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies
& The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies
through the generosity of Sari and Israel Roizman, Philadelphia

http://www.accessmiddleeast.org/index.aspx?source=Google&keyword=Iran%20attacks

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Iran Guardians Council ends review; reformist hopes dashed for election

6 February 2004
Channel News Asia

TEHRAN : Iran's conservative Guardians Council has completed its review of the thousands of candidates it barred from standing in February 20 elections, clearing only another 200 to stand and dashing reformist hopes.

"The work of the review of the cases finished last night and we reported our work to the office of the supreme leader and today we will report it to the ministry of the interior," Ayatollah Ahmad Janati, head of the Guardians Council, was quoted by the student news agency ISNA as saying Friday.

"A number of the disqualified candidates have been reinstated, due to the reasons that the supreme leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) deemed fit," Janati said, adding: "I do not see the necessity to give out the figures of those who have been reinstated."

The agency quoted Ali Mohammad Hazeri, coordinator of the 2nd of Khordad Front -- the body encompassing all the reformist groups loyal to President Mohammad Khatami -- as saying 200 more candidates had been cleared to contest the parliamentary poll. They joined the 51 given approval on Thursday.

"Based on the information we got today, the Guardians Council reinstated another 200 of the candidates presented from a list by the intelligence ministry to them, and we have heard that some prominent names are among them," said Hazeri.

He did not say who the "prominent names" were.

On Thursday the main reformist party announced it would boycott the election and some 130 deputies, who have been holding a sit-in at parliament since January 11, said they would now make good their threat to resign their seats.

"It's the worst possible outcome," said Islamic Iran Participation Front leader Mohammad Reza Khatami, brother of the president, as he announced his party's decision to boycott the parliamentary elections.

The Guardians Council, a conservative-controlled vetting body, precipitated the crisis with the news on January 11 it had rejected some 3,500 candidates for the election. It subsequently reinstated around 1,000 but was then instructed by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to review the remaining 2,500 cases.

Most of those rejected were reformists, including more than 80 sitting members of parliament seeking re-election, on the grounds that they did not respect Islam or the constitution.

The crisis is seen by many as the most serious faced by the Islamic Republic since it was founded in 1979.

The reformists now control both government and parliament but believe they could lose out to the conservatives if the poll goes ahead on February 20. They have been seeking a postponement.

But earlier this week, Khamenei ordered that the government must go ahead with the organisation of the elections. He also warned that resignations by officials in protest at the barring of candidates were "against the law and prohibited by Islam" and could incur heavy penalties.

Iran's hardline judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi backed up the warning, saying late Thursday that those who resigned with the aim of impeding the elections faced prosecution, state news agency IRNA reported.

Several resignations have been announced among ministers, deputy ministers and all 27 provincial governors, as well as the MPs.

"Those current MPs whose qualifications have been rejected by the Guardians Council are US spies and were implementing US rules instead of Islamic rules," the chief editor of the hardline Resalaat paper, Mohamad Kazem Anbarloui, told the congregation in a mosque in Iran's clerical capital of Qom Friday, IRNA said.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/69898/1/.html

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Their game which was a set up is over now and they don't know how to start another game to get the people's vote.

[DoctorZIn]

Menashri Analyzes Israeli-Iran Relationship

February 06, 2004
The Hoya
Cynthia Osueke

Dr. David Menashri, a distinguished professor at Tel Aviv University, analyzed the progression of the Israeli-Iran relationship since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, in ICC on Wednesday.

Menashri said he hoped that “one day adults will learn from the youth … to cooperate and work with other groups.”

In Biblical times, Jews had friendly ties to the Persian State, he said, but today both states consider the other a main threat.

In the 25 years since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, relationships between both states have deteriorated, and Menashri said he hoped to “evaluate the success of the revolution … two main aims, first to hold power, institutionalize the Islamic Regime and perpetuate its rule elsewhere.”

But he said that the revolution had failed on many of its promises. It had succeeded in bringing a particular interpretation of Islam from the minority, to the center and then to power.

Describing a number of cases where Iran had abandoned its ideology for more pragmatic state needs, Menashri turned to the current hostility between Israel and Iran.

Without a common border and no experience of war between the two states, Iran has nothing to lose opposing Israel, he said, adding that the anti-Israel policy is also quite practical. “It’s the only issue the Islamic regime can claim success [on],” he said. “The country has many problems. It’s good to have an enemy from the border.”

Additionally, Iran has equally, if not more hostile views toward America, he said, calling America “the great Satan” and Israel a “lesser Satan.” It has found the prospect of Jews ruling over Muslims “impossible to digest,” when historically the reverse has happened.

Still, Menashri noted there are “impressive signs of openness.”

The women and youth groups of Iran engage in active civil society, including the recent awarding of the Nobel Prize to advocate for reform in Iran. And the nation produces what Menashri called a “diversity of views, and published books critical of the government.” Very daring leading intellectuals debate over fundamental questions of their society and question the rule of clerics and produce liberal newspapers, Menashri said.

“Don’t make the mistake, in Iran there is a great deal of freedom of expression, there is no freedom after expression,” he said. “Free speech has a price. Critics speak out, go to jail, come back and speak out again. At the end of their life, most leaders are in jail.”

The flow of ideas is not limited to the elite, Menashri said.

“Iran’s usage of the Internet is more than any nation in the Middle East, except Israel. On Sept. 11 young Iranians lit candles to identify with the U.S.,” he said.

Iran’s nuclear weapons program and its support of terrorists have embittered Israel, he said. Moreover, Menashri said that signs of openness do not necessary mean milder views toward Israel.

Despite supplying the Iranians with arms in the Iran-Iraq war, Israel highlights Iran’s radical political ideology and weapons programs as key offenses, he said, concluding that only a change in the Iranian power structure and resolving the Palestinian issue will change relations between the states.

The Hoya george Town's University's Newspaper of Record Since 1920

http://www.thehoya.com/news/020604/news15.cfm