Sunday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 10.22.2005:

Ahmadinejad's own site: “More and more classified intelligence escapes the country”

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

According to Ahmadinejad's own site, FARDA (named as such in order to confuse people with Radio Farda which is the Persian Broadcast of Radio Free Europe) the ever increasing amount of classified intelligence and information escaping Iran has become a major source for worry and anxiety for the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) of the regime. It is rumored that during the recent months, more than ever, the regime's intelligence service has lost the equivelant of approximately 10 years worth of the most classified information.

Based on unconfirmed reports, it has come to the regime’s attention that a significant amount of said information and intelligence was removed by a high-ranking official of the regime itself, who was taking a trip abroad in order to report to foreign intelligence officers.

A political analyst claimed: "one of the ways to obtain intelligence and information about the goings on inside Iran, for foreign intelligence organizations or opposition groups is contact between directors, experts and officials inside Iran. Unfortunately several of the middle-management types of the regime do not heed the warnings and due to inexperience and guilelessness, they make the mistake of thinking that everyone in the world is as kind, innocent and well meaning as the authorities of our regime (!). They are then tricked by deceitful foreigners into parting with the classified intelligence and high-level security information.”

Great News!

Here are a few other news items you may have missed.

• Iran Press News reported that Seyed Ahmad Seyed Seraajee imprisoned blogger who is currently being detained at the Tabriz prison, will receive 30 lashes.
• Iran Press News reported that orderlies from medical centers and hospitals around the township of Baabol (Mazandaraan/Capsian Province) gathered to protest 6 months non-receipt of their wages and their benefits.
• Iran Press News reported that out of fear of being arrested many Iranians have begun to remove their own satellite dishes.
• Iran Press News reported that 53,000 Iranian students have no school buildings to attend school in; but are forced into tents and shipping containers as makeshift classroom space.
• Iran Press News reported that the Workers of Kurdistan have reported on the 3 week long strike by the Kurdish Textile workers and that the workers show up to work but they simply refuse to work.
• Iran Press News reported that according to the Deputy of the Food and Drug Ministry of the regime: Most of the food and drug products imported to Iran are counterfeit.
• Iran Press News reported that several campaign supporters of Rafsanjani's presidential campaign, whose campaign financed loans for advertisement, etc. have not been reimbursed, are claiming bankruptcy.
• Iran Press News reported that Ahmadinejad said: Political pressure on us might increase but ultimately Westerners are forced to accept our stance ... Westerners do not have the heart to take us on ... Putting the centrifuges to work will change all the equations and it will allow us to take over the world and will give us supremacy.
• Iran Press News reported on a clandestine strike and work stoppage under way in the Ministry of Oil.
• Iran Press News published a collection of clippings and new items from the regime's own media.
• Iranian.ws provided a detailed explanation for Iran's internet surfers on how to find their way to restricted or censored Iranian sites.
• The Committee to Protect Bloggers reported that Omid Sheikhan has been sentenced by the Iranian court to one year in prison and 124 lashes.
• The Telegraph UK discussed bringing democracy to Syria and Iran.
• Iran Daily reported that the governor of the Central Bank of Iran said he is hopeful that the stock market situation will return to normal and that contrary to earlier reports that the country has not severed trade ties with Britain and South Korea.
• The Washington Post reported that a report by the United Nations that compellingly links the Syrian government to the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri provides the Security Council has a rare opportunity to enforce consequences for a state-sponsored act of political murder.
• The Associated Press, China Daily reported that a senior U.S official said Iran has been "fairly isolated" and must return to negotiations with European countries.
• Amir Taheri, Arab News examined the challenges facing Musharraf.
• And finally, New York Review of Books provided excerpts of the Soldiers of the Hidden Imam, by Timothy Garton Ash. A Must Read.