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Iranian Alert - April 24, 2005 - Tonight, A FoxNews Special: Iran The Nuclear Threat!
Regime Change Iran ^ | 4.24.2005 | DoctorZin

Posted on 04/24/2005 4:24:59 PM PDT by DoctorZIn

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FOX NEWS SPECIAL Sunday Night - Iran The Nuclear Threat

Tonight, watch the FoxNews Special: Iran The Nuclear Threat, hosted by Chris Wallace at 9PM PST.
Here is a transcription of their promo, airing now:

Stealing technology... Creating facilities ... Building an arsenal...

We expose Iran's nuclear threat.

* Our shocking investigative report uncovers how close they really are.
* What their deadly ties to terrorism mean for us.
* And how American could be on the brink of a nuclear disaster.

"The world has to act decisively..."

Sunday, Chris Wallace hosts a Breaking Point Special, Iran the nuclear threat.

A Daily Briefing of Major News Stories on Iran:



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To: jsbankston

I doubt that, but we will see.


21 posted on 04/24/2005 6:18:29 PM PDT by DoctorZIn (Until they are Free, "We shall all be Iranians!")
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To: DoctorZIn

Well, I wish they'd spent more time on regime change. But I figured that wasn't really the focus of the program.


22 posted on 04/24/2005 7:02:56 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
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To: All

It was expected, a great introduction on the Iranian threat.


23 posted on 04/24/2005 7:04:41 PM PDT by DoctorZIn (Until they are Free, "We shall all be Iranians!")
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To: DoctorZIn; F14 Pilot; Khashayar; nuconvert; MeekOneGOP; Grampa Dave; devolve; potlatch
Good show. Iran 101.

Had to chortle when they mentioned hostages held 444 days--uh, yes, and released after Reagan was getting Inauguration applause.

Oh, and Baradei--"Oh I do not trust any nation; I am on the ground" sniffing like a dog, like a Hercules Poirot very good dog sniff sniff.

It is to laugh.

We go in, we bomb the sites. They squawk, we decapitate the regime in concert with streets filled with democracy advocates.

Biden--[sound of raspberries]--who now blocks Bolton, the only acceptable candidate for UN ambassador.

Biden is a fop, a hack, a hair-implanted foul-mouthed camera hog.

Iran did the Beirut barracks and embassy bombings, Khobar and a whole lot more--letting the mullahs have nukes is just not on--and they played Bush on the subject.

Jeffords whined that an Iran invasion would be contrived to elect a Bush--no, Jim, Iran draws the heat because it lusts to fricasee the Big Apple at a million degrees Kelvin.

24 posted on 04/24/2005 8:18:45 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping!


25 posted on 04/24/2005 9:23:14 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Khashayar

No I haden't. Thanks for the ping.


26 posted on 04/24/2005 11:30:16 PM PDT by GrandmaPatriot
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To: PhilDragoo; DoctorZIn


27 posted on 04/25/2005 2:16:23 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: DrZin

I was listening to radio KSRI and a caller from inside Iran said that they had chosen the color blue as a "revolutionary color" and need us to spread the word!!!


28 posted on 04/25/2005 8:46:31 AM PDT by persiandissident (Free The People, Please)
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To: DrZin

April 24, 2005

Pittsburgh Gazette






How to save Iran
By Dennis Roddy

The Bush administration has a chance to escape its "you-break-it, you-bought-it" mold of foreign policy, now two years and 1,565 American lives old. But first they'll have to drive all the way from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to the Sheraton Inn at Tysons Corner, Va.

On May 1, a coalition of Iranian exiles gathers to chart out ways their nation can be made free before a president who has too often put glory before honor tries to bomb the place into democracy.

"Overt military action is something we definitely don't want," says Iman Foroutan, leader of Iran of Tomorrow, an American-based exile group with reach into the streets of Tehran, a city that, reputation notwithstanding, fairly brims with people who would like nothing more than to hang a few mullahs from the lampposts. They would likely have to clear space. The theocratic madmen who currently pass for government in that woebegone place have a reputation for killing anything that smells of freedom.

They proved as much two years ago when police yanked Zahra Kazemi, a 55-year-old Iranian-born Canadian photojournalist, off the streets outside Evin Prison, where she was spotted snapping pictures of women protesting. Kazemi quickly died in that prison. The Iranian government has refused requests to return her body to her family in Montreal. One reason might be that an exile doctor who claims to have examined Kazemi's body when it was brought to his hospital from the prison said it showed signs of beating, torture and rape.

If there were any doubt that this is a government that needs overthrowing, the fate of Zahra Kazemi is all the proof the world needs.

But, to borrow an observation from the late S.I. Hayakawa, when tempted to fight fire with fire, it is a good thing to remember that the fire department uses water. War against Iran drops bombs not only on mullahs, but on the people we must rely upon to overthrow them.

"We believe we are very close to being able to support the Iranian people themselves to replace the Iranian regime," says Foroutan. He has a case to make here, and none of it is based on firepower. Foroutan's group has connections throughout Iran, built into small cells of people who agitate for democracy, sometimes take to the streets, and often enough take to the jails, but whose general theory is that the impulse for liberty is its own weapon. His group broadcasts by satellite television and shortwave radio into Iran.

To measure just how deep his group reaches, and how openly defiant his members are of the regime, consider: When I last wrote about Foroutan's group, I received a telephone call of thanks from a woman in Iran. I have no idea how she managed this, but it is pretty clear that in an age of instant information, Internet connections and satellite television, there aren't enough prisons to hold back people determined to rid themselves of monsters.

But military intervention by the United States, which argues that Iran is seeking weapons-grade uranium, would likely create its own chain reaction. Moderates and the unconvinced of Iranian society are likely to react to an attack by the United States much the way American isolationists reacted to Pearl Harbor or, more pointedly, the way a surprising number of Iraqis are currently behaving.

Unlike the assortment of bagmen and chancers the current administration decided to back as the instant government in Iraq, the Iranian opposition has some history of democracy within its ranks, to the point that dissent is welcome even as they try to unify. Both Foroutan's group and the Washington-based Alliance for Democracy, an exile organization with some lobbying heft in the Capitol, have managed to form a coalition with some other splinter groups. They meet May 1 to lay out plans for the future of their nation. Among the speakers will be Reza Pahlavi, the self-styled Shah in exile, and son of the man the Islamic extremists of Ayatollah Khomeni chased out of Tehran in 1979.

As exiled kings go, Reza has been a disappointment. His book about Iran's future is mush. He surrounds himself with sycophants and avoids hard questions. But as a human Liberty Pole he could be very useful.

The coalition has invited him to speak at next month's gathering. He has yet to reply.

"We believe he could be a powerful figure to bring all of the opposition groups together," Foroutan sighs. "But so far he has not taken a strong stand against the mullahs."

Much speculation about Reza centers on whether the U.S. government is counseling him to go slow as the Bush administration fumbles its way toward what could be another disastrous intervention. Simply throwing a few dollars toward the transmission costs of the opposition broadcasts and putting Foroutan and his counterpart in the Alliance for Democracy in the Rose Garden might send a message where it needs to be heard.

Our enemies in Iran already know we hate them. Our friends in Iran need to know we love them. A high-profile visit to the Sheraton in Tysons Corners next Sunday might send that message. If Iran must be occupied, there will be far less pain if it's carried out by Iranians.


Link to the article


29 posted on 04/25/2005 8:50:22 AM PDT by persiandissident (Free The People, Please)
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To: DoctorZIn

Hope they paint a bit more of a historical picture on Iran / U.S. tensions. We've been fighting these guys in some fashion since 1979. They really need to show Iran's terror history and how much American blood they have on their hand, even show the quasi war we fought against them in the late 1980's in the Persian Gulf. Iran is an enemy, and this needs to be made clear. My VCR will be running.


30 posted on 04/25/2005 9:02:54 AM PDT by Mac94
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To: Mac94

There have been some serious confrontations in the past 26 years between the US and Iran.

They took the US embassy staff hostage in 1979, the US supported Iraq in the war of 1980s against Iran.

They bombed our Marines, we shot down their passenger airliner over the Persian Gulf and so on...


31 posted on 04/25/2005 12:04:42 PM PDT by F14 Pilot (Democracy is a process not a product)
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To: DoctorZIn
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32 posted on 04/25/2005 4:01:51 PM PDT by DoctorZIn (Until they are Free, "We shall all be Iranians!")
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