Posted on 05/03/2005 1:40:04 PM PDT by DoctorZIn
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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 $25 billion dollars worth of military equipment. India has been a major producer of military equipment for Russia and Iran is a new source of military sales. This new relationship has resulted in a secret deal:According to Jane's Defense Weekly and Defense News, Tehran and New Delhi inked a secret defense agreement in 2003 providing India with access to Iranian military bases in the event of a war with regional rival Pakistan. This is hardly surprising; both nations have mutual concerns regarding security threats that could emerge from Pakistan, particularly if Islamic radicals ever succeeded in toppling Gen. Pervez Musharraf from power.
- Iran Focus reports that a young man was hanged for "acting against the state."
- The Financial Times reports that the EU3 need to manage the recent crisis with Iran over its threat to resume its uranium enrichment.
- The Jerusalem Post reports on Iran's Monty Python nuclear negotiation strategy.
- UPI just published 7 reasons "why they hate us," to explore the reasons for Middle East hatred of the U.S.
- And finally, Deutsche Welle reports Germany is warning Iran, that if the Islamic regime restarts enrichment, "this would lead to a collapse of the talks." Then Koffi Annan warns Iran. Even, Mohamed ElBaradei warns Iran.
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Not really surprising. It appears India will, like Russia, attempt to extract every yuan, dollar, yen, and riyal it can from the respective countries.
Lovely (sarcasm).
That's fine, we're not exactly tied to them if Pakistan starts whoopin their ass.
It's called enlightened self interest and everyone does it. If we don't like it we have to make it worth their while not to, either in potential benefits or problems which make the deal less attractive to them.
Until then, good for them.
We could pay off the Indians to not open the pipeline until the Iranian regime is gone. True, they want energy, not cash.
We could always sabotage the pipeline and blame the Pakistanis. Foster some more chaos between the two, now that Kashmir seems to have quieted down somewhat.
This is a serious development. The Iranian Mullahs are vermin.
India is only helping to prop us these despots with these actions. $25 billion in defense deals??? What the heck will India sell to Iran. Hopefully not the BrahMos Cruise missile.
The people of India should also see the difference between an Islamic dictatorship like Iran and a genuine democracy like Israel. While the former are opportunists, Israel is a genuine friend of India. India should understand that any weapons sold to Iran will be pointed towards Israel and the free world.
http://www.globenet.org/rsf/voteblog.php?cat=6&lang=en
Some Persian blogs!
Iran derange hostile radio systems
Persian Journal
May 3rd, 05
The Islamic Republic of Iran's experts designed a system that can deranged hostile radars, information and communication systems.
The head of management board in the Islamic Republic of Iran's Defense Ministry said that 'making secure information systems, setting a strong information link between forces and deranging enemies' information systems are crucial in modern wars'.
Ali Hakim-javadi added the Defense Ministry's experts designed the information system for the Iranian armed forces and they did not receive any help from other countries.
He said that our experts can build all kinds of sophesticated military and communication systems inside the country.
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_6630.shtml
Anyway, "It's the gas, stupid." When the need for gas makes our President hold hands with a Saudi Prince, we shouldn't be surprised when an energy deficient India looks to Iran for energy sources. What are we gonna tell the Indians - Let your economy slow down because we don't like Iran?!
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Mr. "R": A Candidate with a Record!
May 04, 2005
Iran va Jahan
Shaheen Fatemi
As the 17 June 2005 approaches, there is more and more noise about Mr. Rafsanjani as the regime’s last hope for the ninth so-called presidential elections. As it is normal in democratic countries, anyone running for the first time for public office needs to present a platform. But if this person has already served in public office, it is his record of the past achievements that can serve as a basis of judgment for the electorate. Mr. “R” has been continuously in-office for the past quarter-of-a-century and indeed has a “record!”
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 power for one day. While Khomeini was alive, he held many influential positions such as speaker of the parliament and he was always the main manipulator of the old man.
When Khomeini died Mr. Rafsanjani was elected as president in 1989 and re-elected in 1993. After 8 years, because of term limitation, he could not run again but he refused to retire. Instead, he invented a new office for himself which in effect placed him in control of real power. This new position was chairmanship of the ‘Council of Expediency” which was supposedly there to resolve any disagreement between the Majlis (the parliament) and the “Guardian Council.” In other words, the newly created body, headed by Mr. R. has had the final say!
In short, Mr. “R” is the embodiment of every aspect and every action of the Islamic Republic and therefore, responsible for its wrong doings. Unfortunately no one inside the country is able to raise any charges against this candidate. One very courageous journalist, Akbar Ganji, who in a very limited manner tried to do some investigative reporting about the Rafsanjani Financial Empire, has been rotting in solitary confinement for the past four years.
The following list is only a partial and incomplete summary of charges related to the three areas of violation of human rights, practice and encouragement of terrorism and identification with corruption that are often associated with Mr. Rafsanjani:
Violation of Human Rights
Mass killings of political prisoners
Political serial killings in Iran
Holding thousands of political prisoners
Political oppression against the opposition
Jailing of Akbar Ganji and other dissident journalist who tried to expose his corrupt practices.
Oppression of religious minorities
Suppression of civil liberties
Censorship and closure of publications
Gross violation of women’s rights
Jamming satellite TV and radio stations
Practice and Encouragement of International and Domestic Terrorism
Involvement in terrorist activities in the Middle East, Europe and Argentina
Playing a key role in the 1979 Occupation of the US Embassy in Tehran and holding hostages for 444 days.
Murdering of journalists and other opponents
Execution, flogging, stoning and amputation of limbs in public
Assassination of political dissidents outside of Iran
Intimidation of opponents and forcing them to flee the country resulting in millions of Iranian refugees throughout the world.
Pursuit of weapons of mass destruction
Engaging in xenophobic and anti-somatic oratory as “temporary Friday-Prayer leader.”
Involvement in Massive Corruption
Amassing a phenomenal personal fortune from corrupt practices and transfer of funds abroad.
Promotion of corruption, prostitution and addiction.
Expropriation of private property
Setting up phony foundations for personal gains
Setting up phony corporation for receiving stolen government property and contracts.
Engaging in fraudulent privatization schemes for private gains
In a free and democratic society any politician faced with such a long list of accusations would be answering charges in a court of law and if convicted serving time in jail instead of running for the highest office in land.
Allert ! The lives of two political prisoners in Danger !
Allert ! The lives of two political prisoners in Danger !
Based on a report from Karim Mohammadi , The brother of Esmail Mohammadi from the city of Bukan( Kurdistan province) who spent three years in Islamic Republic's prison , On Thursday April 21 he has recieved an order from the judiciary power and is sentenced to death. Ismail Mohammadi is 38 years old and has 5 children and is accused of sympathizing with " Kumeleh" ( A political group in Kurdistan province ) .Ismail Mohammadi is a political prisoner who is in a prison in "Urumieh" . This news have been endorsed by " Centre for Political Prisoners in Iran (Exile ) " .
In another news based on a report the regime as well decided to execute another political prisoner . His name is Hojat Zamani and he is one of those prisoner who recently went on hunger strike in " Rejai Shahr " prison .
IRAN WATCH CANADA
Allert ! The lives of two political prisoners in Danger !
Allert ! The lives of two political prisoners in Danger !
Based on a report from Karim Mohammadi , The brother of Esmail Mohammadi from the city of Bukan( Kurdistan province) who spent three years in Islamic Republic's prison , On Thursday April 21 he has recieved an order from the judiciary power and is sentenced to death. Ismail Mohammadi is 38 years old and has 5 children and is accused of sympathizing with " Kumeleh" ( A political group in Kurdistan province ) .Ismail Mohammadi is a political prisoner who is in a prison in "Urumieh" . This news have been endorsed by " Centre for Political Prisoners in Iran (Exile ) " .
In another news based on a report the regime as well decided to execute another political prisoner . His name is Hojat Zamani and he is one of those prisoner who recently went on hunger strike in " Rejai Shahr " prison .
IRAN WATCH CANADA
Pakistan will start wooping India's ass as soon as it realizes what struct it before its @SS vanished
2005 Wednesday 04 May
Iran judiciary sentences people to prison every 47 seconds!
Iran Press News: According to the regime news agency ILNA, Nasser Jafarqoli, the dirctor of the programming and planning for the Islamic Republic's prisons declared that in Iran every 47 seconds another person is jailed!
Iran’s ex-Foreign Minister hints at official role in terror abroad Wed. 4 May 2005
Iran Focus
Tehran, May 04 - In an interview with a government-run website, Ali-Akbar Velayati, Iran’s former Foreign Minister and a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is also a candidate in the forthcoming June 17 presidential elections, hinted at official responsibility for terrorist operations abroad against its opponents.
In an interview with the Baztab website yesterday, Velayati referring to the events in the 1990s, said, "Relations with Europe, through much work and the use of diplomatic techniques over a long period, were such that it maintained our national honour and dignity, however with the chain of events, such as the murder of Bakhtiar, the Mykonos case, and the events in Austria and Belgium, these initiatives suffered a setback."
Shahpour Bakhtiar was murdered in Paris in August 1991, while in September 1992 four Iranian Kurdish opponents of the regime were killed in a Greek restaurant called Mykonos in Berlin. Abdolrahman Ghasemlou, head of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan was murdered in Vienna in 1989. Velayati's allusion to the Belgian "event" refers to the discovery of three huge 320-mm mortars inside an Iranian ship in the port of Antwerp in Belgium in 1996. Consequent investigations by Belgian police determined that the regime's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) was planning to use these mortars to attack the residence of Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance (NCRI), north of Paris.
Following a three-year review, a Berlin court announced in 1997 that a special committee, made up of Khamenei, former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Velayati, and Ali Fallahiyan (then Intelligence Minister), was directly responsible for the terrorist activities by the Iranian regime abroad and issued an international warrant for these individuals' arrest.
Velayati’s acknowledgement was greeting with alarm by Iran’s state-run media, with one news outlet stating that the admission would have dire consequences for the regime.
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