1. Rafsanjani to give Friday sermon, Mousavi and Khatami to attend: “The semiofficial Iranian Labor News Agency reported Sunday that Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will deliver the nation’s weekly keynote religious sermon. Rafsanjani, who chairs powerful boards that oversee the office of the supreme leader and adjudicate disputes between government bodies, is the highest-profile backer of opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who lost to Ahmadinejad in an election marred by allegations of vote-rigging. Mousavi’s Facebook page said that he and his ally, former President Mohammad Khatami, would attend the prayer sermon. The Facebook page invited supporters who poured into the streets in recent weeks to attend, though Mousavi’s website, Ghalamnews.ir, carried no such announcement. News of the return of reformists and moderates to the official Friday prayer ceremony could serve as a challenge to hard-liners, led by supreme leader Ali Khamenei, on their home turf. Alternately, it could be a sign that the two sides have brokered a truce in their continuing political conflict. The election and subsequent demonstrations, attended by hundreds of thousands of Iranians, have led to numerous deaths and arrests.”
2. Has Ahmadinejad lost his global following?: “For 30 years, Iran has cast itself as a leader of resistance to Israeli and Western policies, and few of its leaders have done as much for that image as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Under Mr. Ahmadinejad, Iran’s ‘resistance’ brand has gone global, challenging Western hegemony in the name of defending the globally downtrodden and winning allies from Lebanon to Venezuela while drawing harsh criticism from the United States. But analysts say Iran’s resistance image has been challenged by Ahmadinejad’s controversial June 12 reelection, after which hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the street to protest what they say is a fradulent vote. Even so, the idea of ‘resistance’ is hard-wired into the Islamic Republic, and many expect the president to strongly reassert it by turning up verbal attacks on Israel and the West.”
3. Israeli Warships Send Signal to Iran: “Two Israeli warships have sailed through the Suez Canal between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, Israeli and Egyptian officials say. Israeli media described the passage of the two Saar class missile boats as a ‘message’ to Iran.”
4. Defeated Conservative Warns of Iran Disintegration: “The defeated conservative candidate in Iran‘s disputed presidential election warned the government and opposition protesters that more postelection turmoil could lead to the country’s disintegration. In remarks published on his Web site late Sunday, Mohsen Rezaei urged the other two defeated candidates — both of them reformists — to drop their push for a new vote and work with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The former commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guard may be trying to position himself as a neutral figure in the dispute who could work to bring Iran’s divided camps together.”
5. “Bush Deserves More Credit on Iran”??? It’s almost as if this former Cheney adviser is taking credit for the demonstrations in Iran. Read the article here.
6. Israelis Speak about Iranians… “Fuck ’em”: See the video here.
That’s great Pouya, out of the everything out there, you bring a video and take it completely out of context you idiot. You really do have an agenda and your concern has nothing to do Palestinians and their rights and humanity.
Why don’t you post pictures, articles, or even letter of Israelis gathering in Robin Square for Iranian?
The level of stupidity and hypocracy is amazing; until a month you wouldn’t say a word about Iranian and their struggle to achieve freedome, now out of the sudden you are their sympathizer?! If that’s not enough you bring a video and take it completely out of context made by people with hidden agendas and try to portray that Israelis feel that way. Completely stupid!
1. Its Rabin square, not Robin square, you mentally disabled person
2. Its spelled hypocrisy, not hypocracy, you illiterate retard.
3. The phrase is “all of a sudden” not “out of the sudden”, you no brained twit.
4. Stalin killed more Jews than Hitler, according to you. Enough said.
Concerning “mistakes” made by the reformists, the professor made several observations: “First, Mousavi should have never called himself the winner before the results were in, and then he sent Mohsen Makhmalbaf [a famous filmmaker] to Europe where he lied by claiming that the Interior Ministry had called and congratulated Mousavi [for winning the election]. That is impossible and the Interior Ministry would never do that and everyone in Iran knows that.
“Third, instead of following the legal channel, in his first statement after the elections, Mousavi called on people to resist, and by doing this he pretty much stepped outside the legal bounds and then made it more complicated for himself by denying any legitimacy to the Council of Guardians. But Mousavi had agreed to participate in this election and the procedures dominating it and unfortunately not only did he not respect the procedures and the verdict, he also failed to see the sinister foreign hands that were fanning the fires.”
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KG15Ak02.html
By Chris Hedges
Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. They have long embodied this struggle. It is we who need to be taught. It was Washington that orchestrated the 1953 coup to topple Iran’s democratically elected government, the first in the Middle East, and install the compliant shah in power. It was Washington that forced Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, a man who cared as much for his country as he did for the rule of law and democracy, to spend the rest of his life under house arrest. We gave to the Iranian people the corrupt regime of the shah and his savage secret police and the primitive clerics that rose out of the swamp of the dictator’s Iran. Iranians know they once had a democracy until we took it away.
The fundamental problem in the Middle East is not a degenerate and corrupt Islam. The fundamental problem is a degenerate and corrupt Christendom. We have not brought freedom and democracy and enlightenment to the Muslim world. We have brought the opposite. We have used the iron fist of the American military to implant our oil companies in Iraq, occupy Afghanistan and ensure that the region is submissive and cowed. We have supported a government in Israel that has carried out egregious war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza and is daily stealing ever greater portions of Palestinian land. We have established a network of military bases, some the size of small cities, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Kuwait, and we have secured basing rights in the Gulf states of Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates. We have expanded our military operations to Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Egypt, Algeria and Yemen. And no one naively believes, except perhaps us, that we have any intention of leaving.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090622_iran_had_a_democracy_before_we_took_it_away/
Hi Pouya,
Nice website.Have you read any articles by Paul Craig Roberts on the “Green Revolution”? I opined on my website that this is a Soros-sponsored farce and that it would fizzle out as an inordinately large number of the demonstrators are “fifi-joons” and MTV-watching metrosexuals.
IFA