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Remembering Flight IR655

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July 3, 1988. Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down by USS Vincennes on the Iranian Port "Bandar Abbas"-Dubai rout, which resulted in the loss of 290 civilians from 6 different nations including 66 children. It was declared a tragic mistake by the US admin.. and later compensated. But what was never forgotten , was the fact that The Capt of the vessel Cap. Will Rogers III was shortly afterwards decorated by Reagan the US President. Question is, why would one decorate a Captain that has murdered (by mistake) 290 innocent civilians...??? One usually gets a medal when one carries out a very difficult mission. The Iranian side declared, later that the Americans had warned Iran not to pursue the Iraq war and leave Saddam Hussein alone... and that was a warning which is documented. The gang of Neocons running the present US admin now (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Pearl and Wolfowitz ) were then1988, also in charge. Make your own thoughts.

Irans Nuclear odyssey

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This Blogger believes, Iran and as a whole any country has the right to the knowledge of creating Nuclear fuel, why explicitly Iran... ??? well I tell you. Iran has the mines Iran is extracting (on their own) Iran is converting ( Uranium ore is milled and purified into a powder called yellow cake) Iran is producing uranium hexafluoride (by heating the yellow cake up to 64°) Iran produces Gas Centifuges called IR2(it is a cylindrical chamber, in which uranium hexafluoride gas is spun at high speed This causes the slightly denser isotope u-238 to separate from the lighter u-235) The enriched u-235 is then fed into another centrifuge. The process is repeated many times through a chain of centrifuges known as a cascade. Iran can enrich its u235 up to 3-4% for its power plants or enrich with the above mentioned process further and eventually have enough uranium to produce a Bomb. Iran Promised not to do so (by signing the additional protocol)still not ratified. So far so good....but "I

Remembering Amir Kabir

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Amir Kabir was born in 1807, his real name was Taghi AmirNezam, was the son of a Cook that worked for Prime Minister Farahani a Minister in the Kajar dynasty , as a consequence of which, he learned a lot of how to deal and weal in the political arena of those days, where the British were enjoying a superpower status and the Russians were trying to catch up.... and Iran was somewhere in between being mercilessly squeezed out of its potential. At some point he reached Diplomatic status where he was dispatched to resolve long standing border issues with the Ottoman Empire with success. There are many stories about him, which some are true and some are not. True is that he was very Anti-British and later in life when he became the Iranian Prime Minister, he tried to play the British and the Russians out against each other. He did open a few Modern Schools, but lost Herat (Afghan City) to the British colonial rulers of Afghanistan, where they needed a safe haven before the Iranian Borders

Bureaucratic absurdity ??

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The Transportation Worker Identification Credential, which is issued in the USA by the Transportation security administration, is supposed to safeguard against Terror attacks. It is needed to acquire jobs after your studies are over at the University or Academic institutes one has studied. Lately almost 5000 applicants, who need these ID Cards in order to get Jobs as exotic as oceanography,,, students at the M.I.T. and elsewhere , were turned down by a certain John M Busch with these unbelievable sentence “I have determined that you pose a security threat.” all those who have received this Blunt letters of rejection, are educated, intelligent and bright students who might have written a blog or taken part in some anti-Bush demo either to be in,, or score by some tutor, relying totally on the right to object and demonstrate their political views in a supposedly free society in the USA. Almost every aspect of the American Civil system is being affected by this so called security para

Remembering Lumumba

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Patrice Lumumba was savagely murdered over 45 years ago, his body mutilated and dissolved in acid, by the order of the US President Eisenhower and approval of the Belgian Govt. Lumumba was the Prime minister of what today the DR Congo is, he brought his country independence from Belgian colonial rule and on its anniversary made a very famous speech in which he signed his own death warrant, which by now according to documents, we all know it was President Eisenhower that issued the order. Lumumba said, as long as other countries respect the 100% and real independence of Congo, we shall deal with them regardless of it being the USA or the Soviet Union. In those days wanting to deal with the Soviet Union was an unforgiving taboo, The Iranians can sing a lead or two about their stories with their Prime Minister in the 1950's. Congo is one of the richest countries in the world and they have 70% of a certain raw material that is vital to the communication and Computer industry, although

The Crusade

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The crusades started taking shape due to the lose of a certain Christian emperor called Alexois to Muslim advances in different battles. He(Alexois) tried to get support form the church and started to make it all look like an attempt by the Moslem's to destroy the Catholic church . Thus Pope Urban II started to fall for it and in around 1095 AD the preaching was out. First Crusade 1095-1099 AD (Fall of Jerusalem to the Christians) Second Crusade 1147-1149 AD (Fall of Edessa to the Moslems and Lisbon to the Christians) Third Crusade 1187-1192 AD ( Fall of Jerusalem to the Moslems through Saladin) Forth Crusade 1202-1204 AD ( Failed attempt to recapture Jerusalem through Egypt ) Fifth Crusade 1217-1221 AD (Failed attempt to recapture Jerusalem and heavy losses ) Sixth Crusade 1228-1229 AD (Through diplomacy Emperor Frederik II secured the administrative management of Jerusalem by the Christians, after failing militarily) Seventh Crusade 1248-1254 AD (Failing to militarily br

Play it Cool Tehran.....

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A while ago, The New Yorker warned of how Bush was planing tactical Nuclear strikes against Iran. They naturally demented... but ever since the systematic campaign of demonizing has started relentlessly. The Bush regime with the help of a weakened western press propagates an Iranian shia atom Bomb that wants to destroy America, as one reporter once wrote, Iran is the new "Alkaeda". The Bush regime, shall 100% attack Iran, and cause a lot of damages, and thus leave a new war on the hands of the incoming US Govt. They (Bush and Chenney) have no worries, they are already the most unpopular authorities in the history of US which is actually only a couple of centuries, but still a lot to the US people. They don't need to win anyones hearts and minds,,,but they can guaranty the prolongation of this latest crusade (according to Bush). What can Iran do ??actually nothing, except getting ready for it, once again the Iranians, have to pay heavily for being who they are, simply f