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Iranian Alert -- May 23, 2004 [EST]-- IRAN LIVE THREAD -- "Americans for Regime Change in Iran"
The Iranian Student Movement Up To The Minute Reports ^ | 5.23.2004 | DoctorZin

Posted on 05/22/2004 9:04:06 PM PDT by DoctorZIn

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To: F14 Pilot

Iran Chides Spain for Hosting Iranian Royals

May 23, 2004
Islamic Republic News Agency
IRNA

Tehran -- Iran sternly admonished Spain Sunday for inviting the son and widow of the defunct shah to the wedding of Crown Prince Felipe.

"Inviting such individuals, who have been banished by the Iranian people, was not a suitable move," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters here in a weekly news briefing.

Iran`s embassy in Madrid, he said, had formally protested to the Spanish government for inviting Reza Pahlavi and Farah Diba to the wedding.

"These individuals have no place not only among our people, but among other people around the world and the Spaniards will realize later that the individuals invited are not used as delegates in any such ceremonies," Asefi added.

Crown Prince Felipe married former television presenter Letizia Ortiz Saturday amid tight security in the wake of the March 11 train bombings, which killed 191 people.

The 36-year-old heir to the crown exchanged vows with Letizia, a 31-year-old divorcee, before 1,400 guests at the Roman Catholic Almudena Cathedral.

There were reports of protests held before wedding, including by several hundred republicans who staged a parody of a wedding and chanted sloagans "Tomorrow Spain will be a republic!".

According to AFP, the protest passed off without incident under the watchful eye of a large police presence.

Another grouping, the news agency said, denounced this `waste of money`.

Iran`s `Peacock Throne` was overthrown following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which was led by late Imam Khomeini and forced Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to flee.

He died one and a half years later after being denied asylum by one after another government, including by his own closest ally -- the United States.

http://www.irna.ir/?SAB=OK&LANG=EN&PART=_NEWS&TYPE=HE&id=20040523182858F03


41 posted on 05/23/2004 11:38:02 AM PDT by DoctorZIn (Until they are Free, "We shall all be Iranians!")
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Chalabi Denies Giving U.S. Intelligence to Iran

Sun May 23, 2004 11:28 AM ET
By Tabassum Zakaria

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ahmad Chalabi, once a favored Iraqi exile of the Bush administration, on Sunday denied accusations that he passed along U.S. secrets to Iran and challenged the CIA director to a duel before Congress.

Some U.S. government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, have accused Chalabi of giving U.S. intelligence to Iran, which the United States considers to be part of an "axis of evil."

"It's not true. It's a false charge," Chalabi said on ABC's "This Week" television program. "It's a smear."

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said suggestions that Chalabi had passed sensitive U.S. intelligence to Iran were baseless. "We have not received any classified information, neither from Chalabi nor any member of the Iraqi Governing Council," Asefi said.

The Baghdad headquarters of Chalabi, a council member, were raided last week, and his lawyers have written to Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator of Iraq, condemning the raid and demanding financial restitution.

Chalabi said the CIA, which had viewed his Iraqi National Congress group with skepticism for years, was trying to discredit him and that CIA Director George Tenet was behind the accusation that he gave American secrets to Iran.

"We never provided any classified information from the U.S. to Iran, and neither I nor anyone in the INC. And that is a charge being put out by George Tenet," Chalabi said on CNN's "Late Edition."

"I say, let him bring all his charges, all his documents. We also will bring all our charges and all our documents to the U.S. Congress, and let Congress have hearings and resolve this issue. We believe that the Congress is the place to resolve this issue, and I think our record will be cleared," he said.

Chalabi acknowledged that the Iraqi National Congress had met with representatives of the Iranian government.

"Indeed we have had many meetings with the Iranian government, but we have passed no secret information, no classified documents to them from the United States," Chalabi said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"Furthermore we have not had any classified information given to us by the United States," he said.

U.S. officials last week said the Pentagon had stopped the monthly payments of about $340,000 to Chalabi's INC group.
Chalabi on Sunday said he believed the Bush administration had turned on him because while he had favored the U.S.-invasion of Iraq, he opposed the subsequent occupation.

"I have become a person who is calling for complete sovereignty in Iraq," he said on ABC.

Chalabi also deflected criticism that he misled the U.S. government before the war by introducing defectors who made a strong case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, the main justification given by the Bush administration for invading Iraq. No stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction have been found since the invasion.

"We gave no information about weapons of mass destruction, we introduced the U.S. government agencies to defectors at the request of the U.S. government agencies -- three defectors," Chalabi told ABC.

"It was up to them to analyze this (information), and the responsibility for reporting to the president after analyzing the information is not mine," he said.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5227903


42 posted on 05/23/2004 11:43:47 AM PDT by DoctorZIn (Until they are Free, "We shall all be Iranians!")
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43 posted on 05/23/2004 4:19:38 PM PDT by DoctorZIn (Until they are Free, "We shall all be Iranians!")
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Very well put.


44 posted on 05/23/2004 7:39:25 PM PDT by Valin (Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat)
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45 posted on 05/23/2004 9:39:44 PM PDT by DoctorZIn (Until they are Free, "We shall all be Iranians!")
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Idiots' regime!


46 posted on 05/23/2004 9:40:00 PM PDT by F14 Pilot (John ''Fedayeen" sKerry - the Mullahs' regime candidate)
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