Iranian Alert - January 1, 2006 - Rebel group captures 9 Iranian soldiers - Arabiya TV

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Rebel group captures 9 Iranian soldiers-Arabiya TV

Reuters:

A little-known Sunni rebel organisation says it has abducted nine Iranian soldiers to pressure Tehran to free imprisoned members of the group, Al Arabiya television said on Sunday.

A caller speaking for the Jundollah (God's Soldiers) said the soldiers were seized near Iran's border with Pakistan, and demanded the release of 16 group members, the satellite television channel said.

Iranian officials were not immediately available to comment. In July, the group said it beheaded an Iranian security agent it had abducted the previous month.

Iran's remote southeastern areas on the border with Pakistan have seen sporadic unrest involving the Baluchi minority, and are a major drug trafficking route used by armed smugglers.

Some 90 percent of Iran's nearly 70 million people are Shi'ite Muslims. Sunnis among the Kurdish, Turkmen and Baluchi ethnic minorities have often complained of discrimination.

A Daily Briefing of Major News Stories on Iran:

• Adnkronos International reported that the Iranian government will set aside funds in its next annual budget to prevent what it says are "American plots."
  
• Iran Focus reported that a top Iranian official said on Friday that Iran viewed the right to enrich uranium on its own soil as a “red line” not to be crossed.
• IranMania.com reported that Pakistan will take a final decision about the multi-billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project in two months.
• Itar-Tass reported that the Director of Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency, Sergei Kiriyenko, is scheduled to visit Iran, in February.
• Radio Free Europe hosted a roundtable discussion in December about "women and power" in Tajikistan, Iran, and Afghanistan.
• WSTM-TV reported that the Bush administration will be looking to 2006 for the fulfillment of its foreign policy goals.
• SMCCDI reported that hundreds of Bassji and militiamen have been deployed in the central City of Shiraz and were on maneuvers for taking back the city from 'unidentified' forces.
• SMCCDI reported that the Iranian National Soccer Team has been re-selected for the upcoming June's World Cup in Germany. Each of its scheduled games are believed to lead to more hostile demos against the Islamic republic regime, both inside and outside the country.
• Iran Focus reported that some 200 workers from the Miral glass factory held a demonstration and set fire to tires south of Tehran Saturday morning in protest to their employers’ refusal to pay their overdue salaries. SMCCDI also published a report.
• And finally, Fars News Agency published photos of a Glass workers protest in Tehran.

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[REDWOOD99]

Your thoughts, please, on this, my friend.

[Wiz]

Interesting move in Iran ping

[MJY1288]

The days of the Mullah are coming to an end in Iran. Unlike Saudi Arabia, the young people in Iran are pro western and it is only a matter of time before the youth of this once great country figures out that the way to defeat the Tyrants who now control the country, is to enter the belly of the beast and take it over from the inside

[MJY1288]

I pray often for the good people of Iran. I have several customers that are Iranian, some have been here since before 1979, and some, after the fall of the Shah. Everyone of them I've met are extremely warm and gracious people. Back in 1979 I considered all Iranians my enemy.... My goodness how ignorant I was back then. In 1998 I bought my Cousins Body Shop which had quite a few loyal Iranian customers who I have had extensive conversations with over the years since then, and the Iranians I have come to know over the years are some of the nicest people I have ever met in my life. Their love of their country and their wish for their people to be free is a compelling story, and my biggest wish is that we will not have to go to war with Iran, because too many innocent Iranians will be casualties in a ground conflict.

Prayers for our Iranian friends

Mike

[nuconvert]

" My goodness how ignorant I was back then"

We all were. We were brainwashed by Ted Koppel and the rest of the msm who led us to believe that all Iranians (who had been our allies for yrs) suddenly hated Americans. Their brainwashing reports were so effective, that people still believe them to this day.

[MJY1288]

What amazes me about the MSM is that they almost all refer to Iran as an Arab Nation, when in fact that they've been a Persian Nation from the start

[DoctorZIn]

Thanks for your story...

[MJY1288]

My Pleasure Doc, Keep up the great work, our friends in Iran need you and the others who are spreading the word

Happy New Year!

Mike

[Khashayar]

I guess it is either Al-Qaeda related groups or Drug trafickers.

All I know is that the Mullahs are very strict on such news and we may never know who or what are behind these actions

What I can tell you is that Iran is now like a volcano ready to erupt!

[REDWOOD99]

Any chance this is part of an organized resistance?

[Khashayar]

I don't know

May be, may be not

[AdmSmith]

A little-known Sunni rebel organisation says it has abducted nine Iranian soldiers to pressure Tehran to free imprisoned members of the group, Al Arabiya television said on Sunday.

Actually Jundullah is a well known al Qaeda outfit see the old Nek-thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1155685/posts?page=1058#1058

[Valin]

We grow and learn.

[Khashayar]

It is something very good to hear!

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