More MemriTV video clips of Iranian TV

Three more clips of interest:

"Zahra's Blue Eyes" - Episode 5: Zahra Escapes Evil Zionist Palace. and transcript

Russian Ambassador to Iran on Nuclear Cooperation between Moscow and Tehran. and transcript

Hamid-Reza Asefi Spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry. and transcript

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Triangulating the War

Victor Davis Hanson highlights the folly of this generations fixation on instant success. He provides needed perspective.

Reading the pages of foreign-policy journals, between the long tracts on Bush's "failures" and neoconservative "arrogance," one encounters mostly predictions of defeat and calls for phased withdrawal — always with resounding criticism of the American "botched" occupation.

Platitudes follow: "We can't just leave now," followed by no real advice on how a fascist society can be jumpstarted into a modern liberal republic. After all, there is no government handbook entitled, "Operation 1A: How to remove a Middle East fascist regime in three weeks, reconstruct the countryside, and hold the first elections in the nation's history — all within two years." Almost all who supported the war now are bailing on the pretext that their version of the reconstruction was not followed: While a three-week war was their idea, a 20-month messy reconstruction was surely someone else's. Yesterday genius is today's fool — and who knows next month if the elections work? Witness Afghanistan where all those who recently said the victory was "lost" to warlords are now suddenly quiet. more

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Iran's Rafsanjani tells Muslims to 'kick' Americans out of region

Iran's influential former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani:

"The Muslims should take advantage of the political openness and kick the Americans out of the region," Rafsanjani said in a sermon broadcast on state radio.

"The United States cannot mislead people any more and claim that they want to bring about freedom and the democracy... the shame of Abu Gharib and Guantanamo still trails the US and it cannot claim to speak about human rights," said Rafsanjani, now the head Iran's arbitration body. more

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Parts bound for Iran nuclear plant seized

German investigators have seized four special motors they suspect were about to be illegally exported to an Iranian nuclear power plant and hope to intercept another shipment en route to Iran, prosecutors say.

Customs officers found the high-voltage engines, each weighing around seven tonnes and imported from South Korea, when they raided an unnamed trading company in Hanover on Wednesday. more

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Human Rights 2005 Report Iran

HRW has just released their lastest report on Iran.

Respect for basic human rights in Iran, especially freedom of expression and opinion, deteriorated in 2004. more

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Iraq War 2003: Background, Lessons and Follow-On

ISSA has published a sobering report on Iraq.

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Iran and Osama: Match Made In Hell

Ryan Mauro writes:

While the world remains fixated on the situation in Iraq, the Bush Administration seems equally concerned with Iran. As the world’s most intense (in quantity and quality) sponsor of international terrorism, and a rogue state in search of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, the specter of an alliance between Al-Qaeda terrorists and the fundamentalist Iran is indeed a scary one. Accusations by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush show that this is indeed the case. This article will examine if the evidence has been stretched or even falsified. more

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Honoring Democracy

Recently President Bush gave us a glimpse into the direction of his foreign policy for the next four years. He said:

"If you want a glimpse of how I think about foreign policy read Natan Sharansky's book, The Case for Democracy. . . . For government, particularly--for opinion makers, I would put it on your recommended reading list. It's short and it's good. This guy is a heroic figure, as you know. It's a great book." more

A worthwhile read.

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Soros supports mullahs: The left embraces yet another enemy

Dr. Jerome Corsi writing for the WorldNetDaily reveals:

the pro-mullah American-Iranian Council joined forces with George Soros's Open Society Institute to host Javad Zarif, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, to give a talk titled, "The View from Tehran." ...

The key story here was not that the mullahs and their cohorts in America were dissembling – that was old news. What this event signaled was that George Soros and the American far left were ready to spend millions more supporting America's enemies, including radical Islamic extremists from a terror-supporting rogue state like Iran. more

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Defeating the Woman-Haters

FrontPageMag reports:

The clerics’ version of sharia law imposes a crushing system of gender apartheid on Iranians based on the premise that women are physically, psychologically, intellectually, and morally inferior to men. Men are legally granted all decision-making power within the family, including control of the movement and employment of women and the custody of children. A public dress code or hejab is mandatory and violations result in reprimands, arrests, whippings, imprisonment, and even summary executions have been documented. All public activities are segregated, and women are banned from attending sporting events in which men’s legs are uncovered. Women are banned from associating with men who are not their relatives. The age of marriage was lowered to nine years of age for girls. Polygamy was legalized. And stoning to death became a legal form of punishment for sexual misconduct.

The clerics made laws on how to control, punish, torture, and kill women and girls. Misogyny and violence against women were institutionalized. more

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Interview with Bat Ye'or

Here’s a fascinating and disturbing audio interview (Real and
Windows Media formats) with Bat Ye’or, author of the forthcoming book Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis: Crosstalk Programs.

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Iranian Bloggers frustration with Internet filtering

Iranian bloggers are often intelligent and articulate and increasingly frustrated with their regimes efforts to block their access to western thought. For instance, one blogger, Brooding Persian. In an interest post he laments:

How would I keep track of what mischief Mr. Ledeen is up to if the authorities here insisted on filtering sites so comprehensively? Is it too late to ask Santa to deliver Ledeen's writings via email? ...

The only serious thinker in the lot consistently making me think is Mr. Hanson. And I know where to find his writings. Although I must admit, I was a bit concerned after reading his latest piece. Geopolitical wars come and go. But that other more important, perpetual war on imbecility might suffer if Mr. Hanson continues being a Disenchanted American. more

I recomend reading his entire post.

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European Parliament resolution censures Iran rights violations

The European Parliament adopted a resolution by majority vote today condemning human rights violations in Iran in the second such move over the past six months.

The toughly-worded resolution denounced practices such as execution of juveniles and stoning carried out by the Iranian regime.

Parts of the resolution read, "the European Parliament … strongly condemns death sentences against and/or the execution of juvenile offenders, pregnant women and mentally handicapped persons”.

The EP resolution also expressed deep concern over "the worsening situation with regard to freedom of opinion and expression and freedom of the media, especially the increased persecution for the peaceful expression of political views, including arbitrary arrests and detention without charge or trial".

The European Parliament censured “the campaign by the Judiciary against journalists, cyber journalists and webloggers leading to the closure of publications, imprisonment and according to reports widespread torture and forced false confessions.” more

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Iranian agent arrested for al-Qaida ties

Aaron Klien, writing for WorldNetDaily connects Tehran to Osama bin Laden's terror network.

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Iran Revolutionary Guards Commander: US presence a threat

Iran Focus reports:

In an apparent reference to the presence of US troops in Iraq, a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Corps (IRGC) official called for Iran to mobilize its troops against the "dangerous Zionist threat".

Speaking to Revolutionary Guards and Iran's Bassij (paramilitary police) forces in Khuzestan on Tuesday Deputy IRGC Commander Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr said, "The Islamic Republic will not tolerate American presence in the region".

"The presence of this country('s forces) poses a dangerous threat to our nation's interests", Zolqadr said.

"The (Revolutionary) Guards cannot ignore their presence", he added. more

Let's not forget that Iran's Supreme leader Khamenei has already said Iran is at war:

"We are at war with the enemy," Iran's Supreme Guide Ali Khamenehi told a meeting of mullahs in the city of Hamadan, west of Teheran, last Monday. "The central battlefield [of this war] is Iraq."

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Nuclear units of Bushehr plant complete

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov in a recent meeting with US President George W Bush said the construction phase of the nuclear units of Bushehr Atomic Power Plant has been completed. more

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Australia deports Iranian man

An Iranian who converted to Christianity has been forcibly returned to Iran by the Australian goverment. It is highly possible tht this man will be murdered by the Iranian regime. What is wrong with the Australians? more

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Bush and Bolton

In an editorial in the NY Sun:

If personnel is policy, one man to watch as Mr. Bush forms his second term administration is John Bolton, the undersecretary of state for arms control. As the most prominent Bush loyalist and conservative voice at Foggy Bottom, his fate in the current reshuffle of senior administration posts will be tracked most keenly by friend and foe alike. ...

If he is fired or, at best, shifted sideways, it will be taken as a signal in Tehran and elsewhere that it's business as usual. They will conclude that the pseudopragmatists of the American foreign-policy establishment are in the ascendant and that the so-called true believers in the "Bush revolution" have had their day. If the administration cannot reward someone like Mr. Bolton, what signal does that send out inside the Beltway? more

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Fearing the Shia

Tom Donnelly writing for the Daily Standard (the online version of the Weekly Standard) explains, why the world of pseudo-realpolitik wants to postpone the Iraqi elections.

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Blood money saves Iranian woman who killed attacker

A woman who spent seven years on death row in Iran has been spared execution by the family of the police chief she stabbed to death and mutilated for trying to rape her.

The death sentence for Afsaneh Nowrouzi had raised an outcry from activists in Iran and abroad. This week, following mediation by Iran's judiciary, the family of Behzad Moghaddam agreed to accept compensation of $62,500 instead of Nowrouzi's execution. ... more

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Iran orders Nobel winner to court

The BBC reports:

Iranian Nobel Peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has been summoned before a Revolutionary Court in Tehran.

Ms Ebadi, a lawyer and human rights activist, told the AFP news agency that she had no idea what the specific reason for the summons was. She said she has not yet decided how to respond to the summons, which she has until Sunday to answer. more

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A Look At Iran's Sponsorship Of Terror Groups

Bill Samii of Radio Free Europe provides a brief introduction to Iran's terrorist organizations and their leaders.

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Iran warns IAEA not to spy on military sites

Iran warned on Wednesday it would not allow UN nuclear inspectors to “spy” on a suspect military site which the United States claims may be involved in covert nuclear weapons activities. ...

“We are watchful. We have allowed inspections into our military installations but we will not allow any espionage or the theft of information from our military sites,” Hossein Mousavian, the spokesman for Iran’s nuclear negotiations team, said in remarks carried by the Mehr news agency.

“It is not necessary for the inspectors to enter the installations. They are authorized to take samples outside (the buildings) using their equipment.” ...

“Iran will not allow other countries to halt its enrichment program, and we will soon resume uranium enrichment under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency,” more

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Israeli think tank: Only U.S. can neutralize Iran

The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies said an Israeli attack on Iran would fail to either destroy all of its nuclear facilities or halt the program. The report said Teheran could retaliate by launching massive rocket and missile strikes on the Jewish state — from either Iran or Lebanon. more

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Blogging Iran: A Case Study

Here's a interesting link to someone's thesis at the U
University of Oslo on Iranian blogging in english.

Thanks to Nema of Iranian Truth.

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Good news: Iran filtering updates

An update on the regime's effort to shut down Iranian blogs.

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Halliburton Unit Wins Contract in Iran

Eli Lake of the NY Sun takes a look at the recent Iran/Halliburton contract and the Vice President. more

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The Counterterrorism Blog

An important new blog has joined the blogosphere: The Counterterrorism Blog.

The first multi-expert blog dedicated solely to counterterrorism issues, serving as a gateway to the community for policymakers and serious researchers. Designed to provide realtime information about cases and policy developments.

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How soon to Syria?

Chester asks, "What is afoot in Syria?" [An attempt at aggressive pattern-spotting.]

Belmont Club had an interesting post yesterday, examining the status of the counter-insurgency campaign in Iraq. Wretchard used several mainstream sources to raise the following
(paraphrased) possibilities ... more

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The Method in Nuke Madness

Business Week:

Understanding nations' reasons for and against such arms can help maintain stability, even with North Korea and Iran in the nuclear club. more

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Iran Will be Able to Enrich Uranium in 6 Months

"According to estimates, Iran is not currently capable of enriching uranium to build a nuclear bomb, but it is only half a year away from achieving such independent capability - if it is not stopped by the West," Ze'evi said in a lecture at Haifa University's National Security Studies Center. more

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EU Lessens Nuclear Issue in Iranian Trade Talks

The Wall Street Jouranl reports:

Trade talks between the European Union and Iran to be reopened today won't be linked directly to progress on controlling Iran's nuclear ambitions, EU officials said. ...

Even if nuclear watchdogs were to catch Iran cheating, however, the EU wouldn't automatically abandon trade talks, EU officials said yesterday. "There is no mechanical link between the two," the official said. more

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US and Iraq All Set for Strike against Syria.

Debka is reporting that the US has made nine demands of Syria for significant internal changes in Syria. In addtion they are reporting :

General Casey, commander of US forces in Iraq has already received orders from the commander-in-chief in the White House to pursue military action inside Syria according to his best military judgment. more

If this report is accurate then Syria is the next target of the US. Iran has military treaties with Iran that may bring them into the conflict as well. Debka believes US action against Syrian targets until after the Iraqi elections.

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Shilling for the Mullahs

Kenneth Timmerman writes for the NY Post:

LEFT-WING billionaire and Bush-hater George Soros was not content to spend millions to thwart a Bush victory in last November's presidential election. Now his Open Society Institute in New York is joining forces with pro-Tehran lobbying group to promote the interests and the viewpoint of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In tandem with the American-Iranian Council, an industry-supported group that favors opening trade and diplomatic ties with Iran, the Open Society Institute will host Iran's ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday at the Open Society Institute's offices in New York.

The talk by Ambassador Javad Zarif is benignly titled, "The View from Tehran," and can be expected to present the regime's outlook on Iran, Iraq and the War on Terror. more

Things just a little more complicated.

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How Do You Say Hate in Persian?

Hilary Krieger writer with the Jerusalem Post takes a look at the new Iranian TV program Zahra's Blue Eyes.

the dramatic series "reveals" how Israeli doctors are harvesting organs from Palestinian children and focuses on the campaign of fictional prime-ministerial candidate Yitzhak Cohen, who is particularly interested in seizing young Zahra's arresting eyes.

To this end, Israelis pose as United Nations employees who come to a Palestinian school and check children in order to "prevent the spreading of an eye disease" but really want to inspect the class for students with the best eyes. In the end, Zahra is left blind by the Israeli doctors. more

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Protests rock governor’s office in western Iran

Angry residents from the town of Baneh in Kurdistan province (Western Iran) attacked the governor’s office with stones and sticks at the start of the New Year after hearing of the murder of an individual by State Security Forces (SSF). more

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Iran: Lawmakers Considering Proposal To Introduce National Dress

Iranian deputies are considering designs for a national dress. The idea was first proposed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a way of countering the influence of Western fashion. Supporters -- including Khamenei -- point out other countries have a national dress and that it reinforces pride. Detractors say the idea is not likely to catch on among young people -- and may simply be a way for officials to tighten enforcement of existing Islamic dress codes for women. more

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Despite false claim, Robert G. Joseph's star rises

Bryan Bender a writer for the Boston Globe provides an interesting backgrounder on Robert G. Joseph, selected by Condi Rice to assume a top State Department job that would make him the lead US arms negotiator with Iran and North Korea. more

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Iran may resume uranium enrichment in March

Parisa Hafezi reports for Reuters:

Iran may resume uranium enrichment -- which can be used to make atomic bombs -- in March if talks with the European Union fail to yield satisfactory progress...

Mousavian said Iran would never scrap its nuclear fuel cycle work and was only prepared to give "objective guarantees" that it will not divert nuclear fuel into bomb making.

"If the Europeans' problem is the fuel cycle, then negotiations are useless," he said.

the Russians are encouraging us to become more and more independent and produce our own fuel," Mousavian said. more

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Circle Squared - Iran, Iraq, Syria.

Michael Ledeen discusses the recent broadcast interview of a terrorist named Moayad Ahmed Yasseen, the leader of Jaish Muhammad (Muhammad's Army.

Yasseen had been a colonel in Saddam's Army, so he was a fighter of some importance. He told Alhurra that two other former Iraqi military officers belonging to his group were sent "to Iran in April or May, where they met a number of Iranian intelligence officials." He said they also met with Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and were provided with money, weapons, "and, as far as I know, even car bombs" for Jaish Muhammad. more

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Iran Won't Allow Military Gear Inspection

Iran will allow U.N. nuclear experts to take environmental samples at a military site the United States links to an alleged nuclear weapons program but won't allow them to inspect military equipment.

``The discussion is not about visiting military installations,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters Sunday.

``The IAEA had asked to take environmental samples from the complex's green spaces,'' Asefi said, apparently referring to landscaped areas outside the huge complex's ammunition production workshops. ...

U.S. intelligence officials said that a specially secured site at Parchin may be used in research on making high-explosive components for use in nuclear weapons. more

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Prosecutor blames Turkey, Iraq for illegal flow of handguns into Iran

Tehran Prosecutor General Dorri Najafabadi said on Sunday that handguns are being smuggled into Iran from Turkey and Iraq.

Dorri said that smuggling handgun into the country is an organized crime being orchestrated by colonialist states. ...

He said that entry of personal weapons through the western borders causes unrest and crimes in the country. more

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Halliburton wins drilling tender in Iran

The company insists it is not illegal for it to work in Tehran. more

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The prosecution of a woman who cared for cats!

The Islamic regime's judiciary, in an exceedingly inhumane and appalling attempt which is indicative of unprecedented extents of intrusion in the private lives of the Iranian people, has prosecuted a Tehrani woman whom they have charged with caring for cats! The helpless woman has been charged with keeping six cats in her one bedroom apartment; the judge interogated her for the "comings and goings" of the cats and later in the context of the prosecution, ferociously questioned the woman's elderly father as well.

This case was tried in the second circuit court of Tehran's district 19; the proceedings were broadcast on the Islamic regime's television in order to make an example of this innocent woman and further intimidate the people of Iran.

In the end of this prosecution, the medieval Islamic regime's inquisitor indicted the woman for mental illness and ordered her to be institutionalized in an asylum. The Razi mental asylum is reputed to be extraordinarily unsanitary and it is a know fact that indeed mentally stable people are committed, as punishment to this facility in order to mentally destabilize them! more


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Iranian Leader Khamenei: Iran's Enemies Want to Destroy it with Miniskirts

Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei said:

More than Iran's enemies need artillery, guns and so forth, they need to spread cultural values that lead to moral corruption. They have said this many times. I recently read in the news that one of them, a seniorofficial in an important American political center, said: "Instead of bombs, send them miniskirts." He is right. If they arouse sexual desires in any given country, if they spread unrestrained mixing of men and women, and if they lead youth to behavior to which they are naturally inclined by instincts, there will no longer be any need for artillery and guns against that nation.

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World Famous Iranian Singer Googoosh Joins S.O.S. Iran Freedom Movement

The important announcement can be watched via the XTV Video Stream below. Googoosh called Ms. Homa Ehsan (S.O.S. Iran/XTV HQ) on Thursday 1/5/2005 to announce her decision to join the S.O.S. Iran freedom movement and Persian Gulf Commitee. more

She is loved by Iranians world-wide. This will have an impact on Iranians everywhere.

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A message regarding a call for a National referendum - Reza Pahlavi

The following is an important statement by the son of the former Shah of Iran regarding the current effort inside of Iran to hold an referendum on the Iranian constitution.

The recent student movement supported by groups of human rights and political activists petitioning support for the conduct of a national referendum, has been supported by a wide spectrum of organizations, political parties and personalities whose unity of direction seemed unlikely prior to the failure of regime’s vow to reform itself. ...

However, it is evident that the current regime's nature and rule prevent the realization of the necessary preconditions for holding a referendum, which is acceptable only when all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience are freed, freedom of press is guaranteed and all groups, political parties and proponents of all ideologies have the right to organize, freely engage in political activity, and enjoy freedom of speech and equitable access to the media.

Mobilizing the public and organizing resistance in all directions, in order to force the regime to yield to the nation’s demands and the creation of the aforementioned conditions comes with great risks and dangers. Calls for violence and unrealistic slogans are but a few of such dangers that will only lead to further violence by the regime. Similarly, insisting on a particular form or structure for the future political order will only breed disunity and benefit the ruling regime. more

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Iran To Grant Limited Access To Military Site

Radio Free Europe reports that Iran has finally decided to grant "limited access" outside a military site. The site has be accussed by opponents of the regime of being used for secret military nuclear develeopment program. But it is access is quite limited:

"The discussion is not about visiting military installations," AP quoted Asefi as saying today. "To show that nothing other than peaceful nuclear activities are carried out in the Islamic Republic of Iran, we agreed to allow the taking of environmental samples from the green spaces in the complex." more

This sounds like a bad joke. But it is typical of the UN.

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A New Middle East

Amir Taheri takes a look at the democratic trends expected in 2005. Here is an excerpt:

The political vocabulary of the Arabs, Iranians, Afghans and Pakistanis is changing to welcome new words and phrases such as opening, accountability, good governance, human rights, pluralism and diversity. Arab and other Muslim elites' fascination with the ideological triplets of Marxism, fascistic nationalism and Islamism is coming to a close, opening the space for the advance of liberal and democratic ideas. more

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