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[DoctorZIn]

The regime is working hard to keep the news about the protest movment in Iran from being reported.

From jamming satellite broadcasts, to prohibiting news reporters from covering any demonstrations to shutting down all cell phones and even hiring foreign security to control the population, the regime is doing everything in its power to keep the popular movement from expressing its demand for an end of the regime.

These efforts by the regime, while successful in the short term, do not resolve the fundamental reasons why this regime is crumbling from within.

Iran is a country ready for a regime change. If you follow this thread you will witness, I believe, the transformation of a nation. This daily thread provides a central place where those interested in the events in Iran can find the best news and commentary.

Please continue to join us here, post your news stories and comments to this thread.

Thanks for all the help.

DoctorZin

[nuconvert]

"Young Iranians are now trying to change the rules, and the question is whether the system will bend to accommodate them."

It needs to do a lot more than "bend".

[dixiechick2000]

"While children play on flight simulator video games which say US State Department, I wonder who they think the enemy is being bombed out of existence on the screen."

I found this comment to be very interesting, and something I had not thought of before.

I am surprised at the extent to which the teen girls go in their dress. I thought they had to be more discreet than that.

[DoctorZIn]

Cuba denies jamming U.S. broadcasts to Iran

Saturday, July 19, 2003 Posted: 7:41 PM EDT (2341 GMT)

HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuba's foreign ministry Saturday denied U.S. allegations it has been deliberately jamming satellite transmissions from the United States into Iran.

It indicated, however, the government would investigate if any unintentional interference may be taking place.

"This is part of a new pack of anti-Cuban lies, and the foreign ministry says it is precisely the government of the United States that is violating flagrantly the norms and regulations established by the International Union for Telecommunication by maintaining and, in fact, increasing its illegal radio and television broadcasts toward Cuba," the ministry said in the government's first official statement on the matter.

Earlier this week, Kenneth Tomlinson, chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, an independent federal agency that oversees the Voice of America and other non-military international broadcasting, said Cuba was jamming satellite transmissions from the United States into Iran.

The BBG said the jamming was detected July 6 when the government-funded Voice of America launched a daily half-hour Persian language television news and analysis program.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejects this new defamatory campaign against Cuba and the shameless statements made by Mr. Tomlinson," the ministry said. "Cuba has never and would never carry out this type of corruption of satellite transmissions of U.S. television."

The statement said the only broadcasts Cuba jams are those it considers illegally beamed from the United States into Cuba, in reference to Radio and TV Marti, actions it considers violations of international law.

The United States government funds Radio and TV Marti, which are broadcast from Miami and beamed into Cuba in an effort to undermine Cuba's communist government.

Havana successfully jams TV Marti but manages to only partially black out Radio Marti.

In response to a diplomatic note from the U.S. government, the Cuban foreign ministry said it has notified the United States that Cuba is making a detailed investigation to determine whether any transmissions originating from the island "could be interfering unintentionally with transmissions from the United States."

The BBG said the jamming was "deliberate and malicious" effort by Cuba to block Iranian audiences from having access to truthful news and information.

Tomlinson called the alleged jamming "illegal" and she said it "interferes with the free and open flow of international communications."

CNN Havana Bureau Chief Lucia Newman contributed to this story.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/07/19/cuba.jamming/index.html

[nuconvert]

"...Cuba is making a detailed investigation to determine whether any transmissions originating from the island "could be interfering unintentionally with transmissions from the United States"

Lourdes? Bejucal?...we don't know what you're talking about.

[DoctorZIn]

New U.N. Team Enters Iran

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

TEHRAN, July 19 — Iran said a team of International Atomic Energy Agency representatives began a new round of inspections of Iran's nuclear sites today, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

The team arrived to start its work "within the framework of the nonproliferation treaty," said the spokesman for Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Khalil Moussavi. A previous team, accompanied by the agency's head, Mohamed ElBaradei, left on Wednesday, he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/20/international/middleeast/20TEHR.html?ex=1059278400&en=59ff6ca8b9e95d2c&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

[DoctorZIn]

India content with democracy in Iran

IRIB News Department
2003/07/19
04:01:06 È.Ù
New Delhi, July 19 - Speaker of the Lok Sabha of the Indian parliament Manohar Joshi on Saturday said that the people and Indian authorities are closely following developments in Iran and are happy seeing the process of democracy in the country constantly developing since the triumph of the Islamic Revolution.

The Lok Sabha (lower house) speaker made the comment during a meeting with Islamic Republic of Iran's ambassador to India Siavash Zargar Yaghoubi in New Delhi.

Joshi said: "The basis of the civilizations of the two countriesis one," adding that the "numerous cultural commonalties between the two countries are natural."

He also emphasized the prominence of the role of the Persianlan guage and literature in promoting the countries' commonalties.

Joshi, while showing keen interest in Iranians and referring to India and Iran as two democracies in the region, emphasized the importance of the relations between the parliaments of the two countries.

http://www.iribnews.com/Full_en.asp?news_id=183974&n=17

[Eala]

How would we find out which businesses are owned by the regime or mullahs? Does anyone have a list of major businesses in larger cities across the country?

It would be interesting to see such a list. Perhaps the nature of the properties would help in generating ideas...

[DoctorZIn]

I am working on it.

If anyone else has a source, let us know.

[Grampa Dave]

Please ping me or free[ mail if you find or develop a list of American Businesses owned by the murdering mullahs of Iran.

That will be the tip of the iceberg re a lot of political behavior in America that is pro Islamofascist Mullahs.

[DoctorZIn]

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