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Western News Outlets : Iran is aggressive and has threatened to attack Israel, its neighbours or the U.S. Fact : Iran has not launched an aggressive war in modern history (unlike the U.S. or Israel), and its leaders have a doctrine of "no first strike." This is true of Supreme religious leader Khamenei as well as of Revolutionary Guards. Western News Outlets : Iran is a militarized society bristling with dangerous weapons and a growing threat to world peace. Fact : Iran's military budget is a little over $6 billion annually. Sweden, Singapore and Greece all have larger military budgets. Moreover, Iran is a country of 70 million, so that its per capita spending on defense is tiny compared to these others, since they are much smaller countries with regard to population. Iran spends less per capita on its military than any other country in the Persian Gulf region with the exception of the United Arab Emirates. Western News outlets: Iran has threatened to attack Israel mili...

Iran’s President dismissed Dr. Manouchehr Mottaki for reasons not quite yet known to the public and probably will be considered (as always) a 5 to 12 issue by the "Western Press" who will undoubtedly bore the world over with speculations of internal fighting and imminent disintegration of regimes, countries and continents. Furthermore, Ahmadinejad appointed a Dr A.A. Salehi in an acting capacity. Mottaki has been the Foreign Minister of Iran since 24 August 2005. He was the only Minister who was not replaced in Ahmadinejad's Cabinet after Ahmadinejad's reelection. Salehi will be Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs until Ahmadinejad nominates a person to the Iranian Parliament for approval.(has 6 months time ) Dr. A.A.Salehi is an Iranian politician, diplomat and academic and the current acting Minister of foreign affairs (13 December 2010). He is also the Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran since 16 July 2009. He was Iranian Representative in the IAEA from 1997 ...

Not being a jurist, means one ought to keep oneself from judging. Aristotle is known to have said: Law is reason, free from passion , but in the case of this woman "S. Ashtiani" pro and contra politics seems to have inflamed passions making any reasonable justice impossible. Do not feel obliged to judge, just watch and exhale.

That the Arab rulers are hostile to Iran is not news to Iranians. The hostility is centuries-old. What is disturbing however,is that the U.S. mainstream media has used the recent leaked private sentiments of Arab Kings and rulers by Wikileaks to advance the narrative that the neoconservatives, the Israel lobby, and the War Party have developed about Iran, namely, that Iran is a threat to the non-existent stability of the Middle East and non-existent “peace process” between Israel and the Palestinians, and that its non-existent nuclear weapons program is a security threat to the U.S. allies in that region and beyond. That those Arab rulers do not dare to make the same statement publicly because that would make them Israel’s bedfellows, not to mention the fact that Iran’s tough stance on Israel is hugely popular with the Arab masses, only indicates the utter dishonesty of such U.S. allies. But the mainstream media has also demonstrated its moral bankruptcy by failing to talk about the...

A group of masked assassins/murderers on motorcycles pulls up to an idling car. Inside the car is a nuclear scientist and his wife. One of the assassins/murderers reaches out and attaches a magnetic bomb to the side of the car. The bomb explodes,killing the scientist and wounding his wife. A plume of black smoke rises to the sky as the masked assassins/murderers speed away. No, this is not a sneak peak at the script to the latest Bond movie. This incredible series of events actually happened in Tehran/Iran last Monday. Twice.... Dr. Majid Shahriari, one of Iran's top nuclear scientists, and his colleague at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Dr. Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, were separately but simultaneously attacked by unidentified assassins riding motorcycles. The assailants attached bombs to each man's car and then sped off as the bombs detonated. Dr. Shahriari was killed. Dr. Abbasi-Dayani and his wife, as well as Dr. Shahriari's wife, were all badly injured. Shahriar...

Here are some of the supposed leaks on Iran, mixed with some true ones concerning other countries and their heads of states or controversial ministers (of course harmless ones), making it a bit problematic and that much harder for consumers of such information to "not" believe. Always remember,the most talked about issue amongst all heads of states without exception is and has been the mother of all conflicts (namely the Israeli & Palestinian conflict). Yet there is not a single word issued from anywhere or anyone, not even sworn enemies of one or the other states.... If that did not give you a reason to doubt then nothing else shall. When something smells like a fish, swims like a fish, then it must be a fish.This Wikileaks business has been the target of an article by this site (Here) So needless to emphasize anymore about disbelieving the authenticity of the content of wikileaks concerning Iran. Nonetheless, here are the Iran related ones. US Embassy Ottawa (2008) .. T...

Robert Frisk decries in an article... "In any other country, the current American bribe to Israel, and the latter's reluctance to accept it, in return for even a temporary end to the theft of somebody else's property would be regarded as preposterous. Three billion dollars' worth of fighter-bombers in return for a temporary freeze in West Bank colonisation for a mere 90 days? Not including East Jerusalem – so goodbye to the last chance of the east of the holy city for a Palestinian capital – and, if Benjamin Netanyahu so wishes, a rip-roaring continuation of settlement on Arab land. In the ordinary sane world in which we think we live, there is only one word for Barack Obama's offer: appeasement. Usually, our lords and masters use that word with disdain and disgust. Anyone who panders to injustice by one people against another people is called an appeaser. Anyone who prefers peace at any price, let alone a $3bn bribe to the guilty party – is an appeaser. Anyone wh...

President Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877) He was, as the symbol of Union victory during the Civil War, their logical candidate for President in 1868. When he was elected, the American people hoped for an end to turmoil. Grant provided neither vigor nor reform. Looking to Congress for direction, he seemed bewildered. One visitor to the White House noted "a puzzled pathos, as of a man with a problem before him of which he does not understand the terms." As money and land grants were given to railroad companies in the West, it was discovered that members of Congress were bribed to vote in the interests of the Union Pacific Railroad. In the Whiskey Ring Scandal, a group of distillers and tax officers defrauded the U.S. Treasury out of revenue tax on whiskey. Grant was not found personally responsible in either scandal, but lost support by appointing people who turned out to be dishonest, and continuing to back them after their dishonesty was revealed. After retiring from the Presid...

Some time ago, somebody took a cab . As chance would have it, the driver was also born in 1966, in Tehran. Iran’s revolution erupted when he was 13. At the age of 20, he immigrated to Israel, mainly because he did not want to serve in the Iranian army during the Iran-Iraq war. His parents remained there. About two years ago, his father came to Israel for six months. By fall, at the end of his visit, he decided that Tehran suits him better and returned to Iran. The driver described an Iranian reality unlike what most people imagine. Months of unrest, night time curfews and troubles with the family store preceded the Islamic Revolution, but calm and order immediately followed it. Numerous restrictions on economic life were lifted; Jews won state protection; and the store came back to life and prospered. Every Thursday a party was held in the city. Many young men and women would come to a private, spacious private home. A special room was set aside for all the veils and Chadors. The young...

Wikileaks is one hell of an entity, we all know and appreciate it. The latest release of documents are without doubt one of the most antiwar, anti establishment and pro humanitarian act an entity as such could possibly have done. There is a “but“ here and by looking at the index of theses documents and the summery of its statistical highlights, it causes an inevitable feeling of seeing an elegant flow of disinformation….. We all know and have seen enough evidence to know the atrocities and injustices that have occurred in the past decade, irretrievably that of one of USA’s sixteen secret service establishments or carried out by private security militia organizations a la “Xe” better known as “BlackWater”, not to mention the audacity with which the professional US military interpreted/twisted international law beyond recognition, by legalizing torture through their highest elected/appointed officials…etc.etc.etc. Now, if we were an officer of one of the countless (sixteen) intelligence...

The classical definition of democracy is “a form of Government in which governing power is derived from the people, either by direct referendum or by means of elected representatives of the people” but try asking individuals on the streets of different western democracies regardless of them being new democracies or old ones, none would or could give you a unified or half decent definition. In the last 10 years, better said as of the 9/11 events, now authentic or induced, certain political streams based invariably in different Western democracies owing all they know and posses to the very Western democracies they live in yet, ruthlessly busy remodeling and re defying these democracies only to secure their economical and political interests. Generating fears amongst populations by bombarding them with 24 hour multidimensional reporting systems using their since the 80’s as corporate overtaken and managed news outlets. Freedoms of expression was slowly shepherded into a one sided propagan...

There is an interesting and hugely disturbing documentary made by Mercury Media called This is my land Hebron. It is a film made by Jews over another group of Jews who are holding a very large group of Palestinians hostage in Hebron (Israel/Palestine). This particular group of no more than 500 excessively fanatical and fascistic Jews claim that Hebron is the birthplace of the Jewish faith and is therefore rightfully theirs as God supposedly have said so. The Israeli government expectedly lets them hold over 120.000 Palestinians hostage. They (Israeli soldiers) close off street, shut shops and drive families from their homes under the guise of national security. These Israeli soldiers are officially there to make sure both the Jewish settlers and the Palestinian inhabitants come to no harm, but unofficially they let the settlers do what they want - throw stones at schoolchildren, prevent farmers from harvesting their crops, beat up kids, calls people Nazis and etc. The most disturbin...

Hooman Majid has written an interesting article, which I would like to reflect here for your attention. "At a time when there is great debate about the efficacy of the latest round of sanctions on Iran -- pressure intended to change Iran’s behavior -- the question shouldn’t be whether sanctions are having a painful effect, which of course they are, but whether sanctions will achieve the intended result. Essentially the sanctions, imposed by both the U.N. and individual countries, seek to force Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and bow to the West in its demands that it prove its nuclear program is entirely peaceful. There is no reason to believe that sanctions, or any other form of pressure on Iran, will bring this result. The Islamic Republic’s foreign policy is founded on the principle, etched into tile at the entrance to the Foreign Ministry, that Iran is a truly independent nation. “Neither East nor West; Islamic Republic,” the slogan reads, written at a time when most cou...

Maziar Jobrani is no stranger to the Iranians across the world and we had a post on him Feb 2009. Click here!to refresh your memory. However his new DVD seems quite hilarious and highly recommended…underneath some excerpts. He also has a Homepage you might like to visit. http://mazjobrani.com

Whether it is envy or threat that feeds into Arab fear of Iran, but the pathological insistence of reducing Iran into an emotive adversary whose behavior is solely shaped by Shiite doctrine, as done by some Arab news outlets, points at a high degree of “envy” . Some of Iran’s virtues, Arab literature would like to have credited Arabs with, seems reason enough to constantly attack and ridicule Iran and Iranians with, amongst them that plural source of self-regeneration and self-belief. The lack of which is not an Iranian problem but an Arab problem. The pages of “some” Arab dailies have for sometimes been drumming up public hysteria over the Iranian nuclear project. For instance the ‘Al-Sharq Al-Awsat’ (Arab Paper) has been itching for a war with Iran for some time. By deploying a psychology of fear and ‘demonization’, These Arab war-mongers impel their audiences toward a stand-or-die attitude in the defense of entrenched and often mindless positions. To this end, some hawkish voice...

Believe or not to believe. That is the bloody question! One hears so much lies and BS on the media that we get difficulties recognizing the truth even if right there in front of us. Politicizing the understanding of a. truth seems to have become the predisposition of neo-fascism in certain political and media spheres of the USA .When left-wing commentators denounce 9/11 truth activists, the activist/s are derided as right-wing conspiracy freaks -- lumped in with the Tea Party and various hate groups. When it is the Right's turn to attack, those seeking answers about 9/11 are uniformly painted as Bush-burnt America haters, the very worst of the left-wing losers. Today we wake up to a new media frenzy over Iranian President Ahmadinejad, apparently being now a 9/11 denier. By reading his actual and unedited speech, one realizes Ahmadinejad to have simply echoed what has been rumoured by everyone, everywhere. It could however be a wanton attempt by established news outlets in pretendin...

H.A.A.R.P (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is a fancy name for a project that has to some opinion developed itself into a weapon of mass destruction, without the smoking gun, so to say. Enough reason to take a simplified look at it, by leaving out the usual unnecessary word play that is supposed to intimidate and see what and how it actually works. This project was initially a joint effort from the US air force and the US navy, plan was to build large transmitters for bettering their communication technology by generating and experimenting with radio frequencies, so large antennas were needed since it would have needed a very large area to build and experiment,Alaska was chosen. At the beginning there were 48 antennas, around 22 Meters high and wide crossed poles on them, by 2005 there were around 180 antennas and when the project is complete, there will be around 360. The idea might have been totally different at the beginning, but it has now developed itself into ...

Mr Teymoor Nabili has published an article, which exactly defines the kind of philosophical and scientific manipulations that can and has taken place far too often in history than us, being ready to accept and anticipate. I shall publish the whole article underneath and leave it to you for further interpretations, regarding other historical facts that might have been changed /rewritten by intellectual rapists with Anglo-Zionist orientations. May be such editions have been done on other historical facts, maybe even the outcome of wars in history have been changed over night all to for agitating one and hailing the other civilization sympathetic towards them. Whatever the case, Iran's civilization shall not be tampered with even if this very important humanitarian historical discovery is redefined by wanton idiots on the “Wikipedia” as an unimportant piece of discovery… The article is as follows; ” The British Museum has finally lived up to its promise to lend the Cyrus Cylinder t...