The Guardian – Excerpt: “Iranian MPs lifted a blanket of official denial on the country’s post-election upheaval today by blaming a Âsenior regime insider for abuses that led to the deaths of at least three prisoners in a detention centre. In the first publicly documented Âadmission that abuses occurred in the weeks after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election, the majlis, Iran’s parliament, identified Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran’s former chief Âprosecutor, as the main culprit in the scandal over the Kahrizak facility. A report read out to MPs said 147 prisoners had been held in a 70-square-metre room for four days without proper ventilation, heating and food on ÂMortazavi’s orders. The prisoners were sent to ÂKahrizak after being arrested at a demonstration on 9 July, less than a month after ÂAhmadinejad’s victory.” Read on here.
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Real news is the green movement has emboldened the US government to make regime change the real strategy while pretending to extend an olive branch to the regime in talks.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126300060937222569.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_Popular
“In recent weeks, senior Green Movement figures—who have been speaking at major Washington think tanks—have made up a list of [Revolutionary Guard]-related companies they suggest targeting, which has been forward to the Obama administration by third parties…”
Jay dutifully notes that the senior officials he interviewed stressed that President Obama “isn’t moving toward seeking a regime change as its policy for Iranâ€. But, whether President Obama and his advisers want to call their policy “regime changeâ€, that is precisely the direction in which they are moving. Their efforts, in this regard, will not only fail to produce regime change in Tehran—they will further undermine the already tattered credibility of American diplomatic representations toward the Islamic Republic.
Israeli Lobby on Iran
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/01/07/another_invite_lost_in_the_mail
The level of stupidity and ignorance on this site is staggering. It seems like the average IQ of people who write their comment must be about 60.