Posted on 06/21/2006 8:44:10 PM PDT by DoctorZIn
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Iranian Dissident Akbar Ganji: "We need the spiritual support of the world."
- Rooz Online reported that Akbar Ganji, the imprisoned Iranian journalist who was released last month and who is currently on a European trip said that there is absolutely no possibility to reform the Iranian system under its legal structure. "I agree with civil disobedience. This is a method that is used all over the world. But in Iran civil disobedience bears a very high price. We need the spiritual support of Europe and the world."
- Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that one of Mr. Bush's staunchest intellectual supporters (former Soviet dissident) Natan Sharansky, said: "We need to understand the [Iranian] opposition are our real allies and not repeat the mistakes of the Clinton administration."
US/Russian close ranks on Iran?
- MosNews reported that U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone and agreed to close ranks on Iran.
- Bloomberg reported that President George W. Bush will seek to maintain western unity in the confrontation with Iran during a summit with European Union leaders Wednesday in Vienna.
EU offers more talks with Iran.
- The Guardian reported that the EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, has made an unexpected private offer of last-minute talks to persuade the Iranian government to accept the west's nuclear package.
- Amir Taheri, Gulf News argued that talking about talks [this time with Iran] is an old tactic used whenever adversaries run out of ideas about their next move.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard ready to replace Iran's Foreign Ministry.
- Radio Free Europe reported that with the recent purge of Iran's diplomatic corps, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard spokesman said should the new ambassadors and the Foreign Ministry stumble, the IRGC is ready to fill the vacuum.
Tehran's bloody Prosecutor lectures the West on human rights to the UN's Human Rights body.
- SMCCDI reported that Tehran's infamous Prosecutor General "Saeed Mortazavi" is currently the guest of the newly formed UN Human Rights body in Switzerland.
- IRIB News reported that Tehran Prosecutor General Saeed Mortazavi said that Iran is concerned over the violations of human rights in the West.
Oil prices could triple with an attack on Iran?
- Reuters reported that Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States said world oil prices could triple if the diplomatic standoff over Iran's nuclear program escalates into a military conflict.
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Yeah? Good luck with that.
Seeing as how this is coming from a guy who favors regime change in Iran, he's got mine.
While Sharansky is one of the most relevant and accessible democracy advocates of our time he is self centric in his assessment of dissidents. In choosing dissidents, he associates with Iranian dissidents that have little significance when it comes to challenging Iranian theocracy. While there are some strategic similarities between winning the Cold War (Where Sharansky Matters) and solving the Iran Crisis, one mustn’t copy and paste strategy. The USSR sought to challenge the USA in technological innovation and was unable to do so without freedom of thought. The USA crushed the USSR in such pursuits based on the fundamental advantages offered to a free society as opposed to a fear society. Iran has no ambition to compete with the US technologically and therefore has no such constriction. Iranian officials only seek to keep up with weapons designs primarily by purchase, not by self sufficiency. Through officially sanctioned control of the media in Iran, Iranian officials claim technological progress is indigenous when it is obviously not.
The successful Iranian dissident will be markedly different from Sharansky and his Soviet dissident crew at least because the fight is significantly different.
Keep up the great work Dr.
He's got my support too, my comment is about Europe. The only way to get Europe's support is to blow up Jewish civilians.
Ah, yes. Got it now.
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