Iranian Alert - December 20, 2006 - Iran is manufacturing four civil wars in the Middle East

Regime Change Iran ^ | 12.20.2006 | DoctorZin

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Iran is manufacturing four civil wars in the Middle East

• Middle East Online reported that the Iranian regime is manufacturing four civil wars in the Middle East and some experts believe that the cost of maintaining Mahdi Army is more than 100 million dollars a month.

 

Israeli intelligence warns Hamas gunmen being trained in Iran

• Haaretz reported that Israeli military officials said dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Hamas militants recently left the Gaza Strip to receive advanced military training in Iran.

 

Islamic republic sends another $275 million in aid to the Mahdi army

• Iran Press News reported that an Iraqi official revealed that the regime in Tehran recently sent another $275 million to Moghtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army in Iraq.

 

Jesus, Mahdi both coming, says Iran's Ahmadinejad

• WorldNetDaily reported that in a greeting to the world's Christians for the coming new year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he expects both Jesus and the Shiite messianic figure, Imam Mahdi, to return and "wipe away oppression."

 

Blair to urge Middle East states to rein in Iran

• Yahoo News reported that Tony Blair will call on Wednesday for Middle East states to rein in what he calls the threat from Iran.

 

A New Weapon of Mass Communication

• Wendy Haig, Family Security Matters reported on only on the utmost importance of addressing the challenge to win the hearts and minds of citizens of the Middle East, and particularly of those who live in Iran. But suggests an answer to that challenge.

 

Regime’s authorities’ new and pathetic efforts to smear student protesters

• Iran News Press reported that the conservative first deputy speaker of the Islamic parliament called the students who recently objected to Ahmadinejad’s speech "promoters of sex and alcohol."

 

Here are a few other news items you may have missed.

• Jay D. Homnick, The Spectator ponders the question: Should we view the Islamic movements as the primary historic force guiding the Arab world at this time? Or should we accept the Baker view halfway, namely that the Islamic enemy is rootless and stateless and our best ally in defeating it is the sitting Arab hierarchy?
• Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that the White House does not want the public to know that in May 2003, the Iranian Foreign Ministry floated the prospect of a wide-ranging dialogue with America according to former Middle East director of the National Security Council, Flynt Leverett, is saying after the CIA's publication review board would not approve an op-ed he wrote.
• IranMania reported that Iran has 1,400 uranium mines, an official at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said.
• You Tube featured a new video from David Zucker on James Baker's "Negotiate with Iran Plan."
• Eric Allie, Town Hall published a cartoon: What Realists Want for Christmas.

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[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

We are and have been at war with the muslims in Iran and Saudi Arabia. We need to stomp them into the ground and commandeer their oil reserves (to defray the costs) yesterday.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Iran has 1,400 uranium mines, an official at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said.

Good grief!

[Valin]

A Weapon of Mass Communication

We Invented It. Let's Use It
Tech Central Station ^ | 8/24/05 | Hampton Stephens

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1469701/posts
Posted on 08/24/2005 10:33:32 AM CDT by Valin


As the "global war on terrorism" enters its fifth year, it has become increasingly evident that the United States and its allies are involved in an ideological war, in which propaganda and moral suasion will play a large part. Some Bush administration officials, such as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have recently jettisoned the "GWOT" moniker in favor of the less martial and more comprehensive "struggle against violent extremism." National security advisor Stephen Hadley has also begun emphasizing the ideological nature of this conflict, recently telling a reporter that the United States is involved in "more than just a military war on terror" and must offer an alternative to the "gloomy vision" of Muslim extremists.
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Iran bloggers test regime's tolerance
The Boston Globe ^ | 12/18/06 | James F. Smith and Anne Barnard

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1755206/posts
Posted on 12/18/2006 9:28:44 AM CST by Valin
(snip)
She and hordes of other Iranian bloggers are pushing the envelope of the permissible. Technorati, a Silicon Valley search engine for blogs, said in October that Farsi has moved into the top 10 languages worldwide for bloggers. Most estimates put the number of active blogs in Iran at 70,000 to 100,000, and growing fast.

Iran has a long tradition of controlling the airwaves and the print media, banning papers and jailing journalists who criticize official policies.

Online voices Newton women blog the Middle East PASSPORT: Praying and voting in Iran

But Iran's online activists have proved harder to quash. They have used fast-changing Web addresses, proxy sites, and other technological tricks to get around the restrictions.

"They block us and we evade the blocks," Samiei said. "It goes on every day. They code, we decode."
(snip)

[bruinbirdman]

Soon to be stoking up Kenya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan.

yitbos

[Valin]

And then what?

[AdmSmith]

It is nothing new in the article by Eli Lake.

We discussed in in 2003:

Al-Sharq al-Awsat," reported that: "On 23 July Iranian and American officials met on the sidelines of a recent seminar in London on 'Investment Opportunities in Iran' that was organized by the Royal Institute for International Affairs." "Representing the Iranian side were individuals acting as envoys of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani. The Iranian envoys tried to convey the impression that only Hashemi-Rafsanjani can secure acceptance of Washington's demands, and this would be done in exchange for U.S. backing of Rafsanjani's bid for the 2005 presidential election. The U.S. side --reportedly represented by an unofficial White House envoy named Kurt Wilden, an anonymous American "close to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice" and an anonymous "senior U.S. intelligence officer" -- was unenthusiastic about the offer and about such secret dialogues."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/956243/posts

[tcrlaf]

So.....

Can we drill for Oil in AMERICA, yet?
Can we build Coal-Fired Powerplants in America, yet?
Can we build Nuclear Powerplants in America, yet?
Can we build Hydro-Electric Powerplants in America, yet?
Can we build any Refineries in America, yet?

Or will the Radical Enviros still force us to finance these loons???

[sheik yerbouty]

"What is best in life?" To smite the jihadists, to drive ther minions before you, and to hear the lamentations of their mullahs! allahu fubar!

[tkathy]

Moderate muslims better stop "neville chamberlain" appeasing the extremists. Being nice to the extremists will never work. The extremists will not moderate, they will become more and more violent, more and more genocidal, more and more crazy.

[arthurus]

Smash Iran

Colonize Arabia

Smash Pakistan

[Eagle of Liberty]

But Iran's online activists have proved harder to quash. They have used fast-changing Web addresses, proxy sites, and other technological tricks to get around the restrictions.

Perhaps one example of the US standing with the Iranian people? Maybe we are helping them in their attempts at communication.

[Valin]

Smash Indonesia
Smash Mexico
Smash Uzbekistan
Smash Tanzania
Smash Honduras
Smash The Cocos Islands
Smash Janesville Wis. (Russ Feingold's hometown)
Oh heck let's just smash everyone

[arthurus]

Iran is the primary target for obliteration. Pakistan needs to lose its military potential. We need to colonize Arabia until oil is not the lifeblood of our civilization any more. Indonesia needs help(and some strong persuasion) in clearing out its Wahhabis and Salafis. The rest of the Islamic world will sink back into fatalist lethargy once those things are taken care of.

[Valin]

We need to colonize Arabia

As ideas go, that is one. And that's the best I can say about it.

[bruinbirdman]

"Can we build Coal-Fired Powerplants in America, yet?"

Can we dig clean coal in Clinton's Escalante Area?

yitbos