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POPSProtest Movement in Iran: Fighting the Arrogance of Power Deutsche Originalfassung: Protestbewegung im Iran - Gegen die Arroganz der Macht (de.qantara.de) Im Iran spricht niemand mehr von Wahlbetrug. Längst drehen sich die Debatten um die Ignoranz des Regimes gegenüber der Bevölkerung und die Geringschätzung ihres Denkvermögens.
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POPSNeda's Murder Was Not Staged
But, according to Iran's Press TV, police chief Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moqadam declared Wednesday that the shooting was a "prearranged scenario" — a "premeditated act of murder" that could not have been committed by Iranian police. The White House called that allegation part of Iran's "ongoing campaign of misinformation" about the country's widely-disputed June 12 presidential elections, which returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to office and sent hundreds of thousands into the streets in fury over what they claim was a stolen election. "I think the notion that the death of an innocent woman would be staged is — even with them — it's shocking," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday. Moqadam led the investigation following an order from Ahmadinejad inquiring about the "suspicious" nature of the shooting. The Iranian president said even before the investigation that anti-government "elements" were behind the killing — presumably fingering either foreign agents or even the
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POPSMAJOR MULLAH GROUP CALLS ELECTION ILLEGITIMATE
at Stanford University. “Remember they are going against an election verified and sanctified by Khamenei.” The announcement came on a day when Mr. Moussavi released documents detailing a campaign of fraud by the current president’s supporters, and as a close associate of the supreme leader called Mr. Moussavi and former President Mohammad Khatami “foreign agents,” saying they should be treated as criminals. The specific charges of fraud included the printing of millions of extra ballots before the vote. Since the election, the bulk of the clerical establishment in the holy city of Qum, an important religious and political center of power, has remained largely silent, leaving many to wonder when, or if, the nation’s most senior religious leaders would jump into the controversy that has posed the most significant challenge to the country’s leadership since the Islamic Revolution. With its statement Saturday, the association of clerics " formed under the leadership of
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POPSThe Dictatorship Regime Lead By Supreme Leader By doing so, the regime lead by supreme leader Ali Khamenei, hoped to silence the last remaining (moderate) opposition leaders who themselves count as prominent figures of the Islamic regime, and complete his grand scheme of creating an Islamic state rather than a republic. However, this so called election 'coup' failed as the courageous people of Iran took to the streets to let the world know what is happening and make their cries for justice and basic rights be heard throughout the globe. Once again, a dictatorship has failed to tame the brave and free people of Iran. The Islamic regime has lost all credibility. This is the beginning of the end for this corrupt, backward and violent regime.
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POPSPlease Sign "Where Is My Vote?" Petition via http://twitter.com/Iran_Translator:: As we all know our Supreme Leader or so called Father of the Country, A. Khameneh-e, who is supposed to be behind his people and protecting us as well as nurturing us all, has been doing the exact opposite for more than 20 years since the beginning of his leadership position. You should hear and see what is going on in our mass-media locally these days. It is shameful to see that some of our local channels are showing some entertainment programs and our news channel is misusing our people's voices against them and against what is the truth. Our Dictatorial government has done nothing for the country or for the benefit of the people who need more than just money, candy and pistachio. The government with hands of Ahmadi-nejad has been feeding lowest class in Iran, who can't even read and write, and brainwashing them so they will be tricked into believing that Ahmadi-nejad and Khameneh-e stand for peace and Democracy in the country;
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POPSAftermath of Iran Elections Iran 'disqualifies' EU from talks Britain has denied allegations of involvement in the Iranian riots The EU is no longer qualified to take part in talks on Iran's nuclear programme, Iran's military chief says. Maj-Gen Hassan Firouzabadi, Iran's chief of staff, accused the EU of "interference" in riots which followed June's disputed presidential elections. EU states, meanwhile, are considering withdrawing their ambassadors from Iran in a growing diplomatic row. Britain proposed the step after Iran detained nine of its embassy staff last week. Eight have since been released. The BBC's European affairs correspondent Oana Lungescu says senior officials from EU capitals will discuss the request in Stockholm on Thursday. But diplomats say that Germany and Italy - Iran's biggest trading partners in the EU - oppose it, arguing that channels of dialogue with Iran should be kept open.
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POPSWhat Is Freedom Worth? These are moments in history whose salience it is simply impossible to know as they happen. But today has already demonstrated both the total bankruptcy of the current Iranian regime and the immense bravery, humanity and genius of the Iranian people. 1.45 pm. Shiraz erupts. 1.44 pm. Via NIAC, translation of the chants: “I welcome death I welcome death But not subjugation But not subjugation” 1.36 pm. Kristol and Hayes want Obama to say what the regime now falsely accuses him of saying. No, they won't learn. Their ideology is too rigid for actual judgment and their partisanship too deep to support the president at a moment like this. 1.33 pm. Kevin Sullivan: "There is a list of embassies in Tehran floating around, as injured protesters are being encouraged to go to them instead of hospitals. The hospitals are very like stocked full of Basijis. Question: If the embassies become overwhelmed, what happens then? In 1906, over 10,000 Persian constitutionalists occupied
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POPSAFP: "US Afghan strikes kill 100, 'mostly civilians'" The killing of ordinary Afghans in the fight against extremists is a main source of tension between Karzai and the US, on which fragile Afghanistan depends for security and aid. Tensions peaked in August last year when Afghan and UN investigation teams found that more than 90 civilians, including 50-60 children, were killed in US-led coalition air strikes in western Afghanistan. The US military, which initially said 5-7 civilians and 30-35 Taliban were killed, reopened an investigation after an outcry, finding 33 civilians and 22 militants died. There are roughly 70,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, more than half of them from the US, which has pledged an extra 21,000 to tackle the extremist threat. ... fta
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POPSPakistan: Four Children, One Adult Charged With ‘Blasphemy’ All it takes is a local boob CLAIMING you defamed the pedophile muhammad or insulted islam. That alone gets you your very own case number. This is “freedom” under the shackles of islam. And imbecile apologists in the West keep droning on about how islam is peace, and make excuses for the barbarians that commit these heinous acts on a daily basis. They refuse to admit, either out of cowardice, or collusion with the enemy, that islam offers nothing resembling the right to free speech guaranteed by the Bill Of Rights. Related Posts # New York mosque’s live in janitor molests 13 year old boy # Pakistani Christian man, daughter arrested, almost lynched for blasphemy # Christian shepherd dies after muslim owner denies him medical treatment # Pakistani sentenced to die for blasphemy
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POPSAHMADI MUSLIM MURDERED IN PAKISTAN Ahmadis still suffer persecution and this is wrong. Human-rights supporters need to support this religious minority. In Islam, religious minorities should be protected, so why are self-professed Muslims murdering them?
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POPSThe Taliban Will 'Never' Negotiate With West "If increase the soldiers in Afghanistan, the jihad against will become serious." When asked if he had a message for Canadians, Ahmadi called on Canada not to "kill their sons" by sending troops to fight in Afghanistan. "I tell them to let Afghans to make their future by themselves and decide by themselves," he said. "Afghanistan does not belong to America or Canada." Prime Minister Stephen Harper has pledged to pull all Canadian combat forces out of Afghanistan by 2011.
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POPS It's A Party! -- Kinda' [& NO Applause for Ahmadinejad] While the United States and Israel left their ambassadorial seats empty, here is the Jew-hatred greeted by enthusiasm at today’s U.N. In its entire history, the United Nations General Assembly has never adopted a resolution dedicated to denouncing and combating the scourge of antisemitism in all its forms. Now we know why. Less than half of U.N. members are fully free democracies and among them there is no consensus that discrimination and demonization of Jews and the Jewish state is wrong. On the contrary, at the U.N. vicious antisemitism is met by a round of applause. — Anne Bayefsky is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and at Touro College. She is also editor of www.EyeontheUN.org..
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POPS Tehran Calls Iranian Kurds "Terrorists" In an exclusive interview with Newsmax recently in Berlin, Ahmadi says that Iran was now working hand-in-glove with Turkey to get PJAK labeled as a terrorist organization. “Iran knows they can’t make trouble for us directly because they have such bad relations with Europe. That’s why they are going through Turkey.” The Iranian regime has been telling journalists and diplomats that PJAK and the PKK (the Kurdistan Workers Party) are the same. “But we are an Iranian party, and have nothing to do with Turkey,” he says. PJAK has become a serious threat to the regime in Tehran because it is fighting to overthrow the clerical regime in favor of a secular republic and because it favors equality between men and women, Ahmadi asserts. The group has around 2,500 armed guerilla fighters, 40 percent of whom are women.
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POPS "Ahmadi-Pinochet, Iran Will Not Become Chile!" A new demonstration at Tehran University on Sunday, damaging the main gate to allow outsiders into the campus and denouncing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, news agencies reported. The protesters chanted slogans against the president and carried banners calling for the release of three fellow students who have been held since May in a high-profile case, the Fars news agency state-run IRNA reported. Arabshahi said the protest lasted for more than two hours after starting at 12:00 pm (0830 GMT) and that it was peaceful. "We are gathered here to say students are alive and are critical of wrong polices," IRNA quoted another unnamed student as saying. The demonstration came a day after the intelligence ministry said it had arrested an unspecified number of people using "fake student cards to hold an illegal demonstration" at Tehran University. The timing of those arrests was not given, but it is likely that they took place before Friday which was annual students' day in Iran
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POPSConflict on a Second Kurdish Front Like the P.K.K., the Iranian Kurds control much of the craggy, boulder-strewn frontier and routinely ambush patrols on the other side. But while the Americans call the P.K.K. terrorists, guerrilla commanders say P.J.A.K. has had “direct or indirect discussions” with American officials. They would not divulge any details of the discussions or the level of the officials involved, but they noted that the group’s leader, Rahman Haj-Ahmadi, visited Washington last summer. Biryar Gabar, one of 11 members of the group’s leadership, said there had been “normal dialogue” with American officials, declining specifics. One of his bodyguards said officials of the group met with Americans in Kirkuk last year.
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POPSFreedom is flowing at highest level in Iran "Shirli, who hopped a flight to New York Monday night, said he wanted to condemn the president's visit and make sure Americans watching the spectacle are aware of the violence and oppression Ahmadinejad has championed in Iran."
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