Iranians

According to Shadi Sadr, a lawyer and women’s activist, eight women and one man convicted of adultery are set to be stoned to death in Iran. Shady Sadr: “Six of the nine were convicted based solely on judges’ decisions with no witnesses or the presence of their lawyers during their confessions. Most of the nine come [...]

Amidst reports that President George W. Bush has been sending in covert military teams to infiltrate Iranian religious and leadership groups, comes the news that Iran's military claims that they are going to dig some 320,000 graves within the bordering provinces of Iran for the bodies of the enemy soldiers that they are seemingly going to face in the next few months. As George W. Bush prepares to

The memri blog - According to the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Yemen authorities have arrested Somali nationals fighting with the Houthi rebels.Yemen security sources said that each fighter had received $100 for his services.The paper also stated that four Iranians who were engaging in intelligence activity in Yemen were also arrested, and that the four were found with documents attesting that

Read Tim Graham’s point-by-point skewering of the article at NewsBusters. Funny, I think radical Muslims are more like the loonies at the far left of the political spectrum. Similar Posts:None Found

The Foreign Office has cleared dozens of Iranians to enter British universities to study advanced nuclear physics and other subjects with the potential to be applied to weapons of mass destruction.In the past nine months about 60 Iranians have been admitted to study postgraduate courses deemed “proliferation-sensitive” by the security services. The disciplines range from nuclear physics to some areas of electrical and chemical engineering and microbiology. More...

At first I was planning to turn this picture into a joke somehow. But I quickly was struck instead with just how sad it is. This is the ideology that is at war with us. This is what we're facing.

A sociologist in the Iranian Ministry of Welfare, Sa’id Madani, believes that over the past three decades the level of poverty in Iranian society has widened greatly. According to Madani, 50% of Iranians lived under the poverty line in the 1980s, but since then this level has continued to rise, reaching 70-80% in recent years.In a newspaper article, Madani wrote that the Iranian national income per capita at fixed price (excluding inflation) was lower in 2003 and 2004 than in 1977 and 1978 (before the Islamic revolution). More...

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will make the United States "regret" its detention of five Iranian officials in Iraq, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Tuesday. Oh really. And how would they propose to do that? Perhaps by using the Iraqis as proxies and developing nuclear weapons? Naahh. Only Bush wants war.

The Bush administration has said they are not going to release the five Iranian intelligence agents that were captured in Iraq despite pressure from Iran and Iraq to do so. The White House, according to US officials, has overruled recommendations by the State Department to release the prisoners and that they would remain captive and undergo a periodic six month review.  This is the same review that is used for the other 250 foreign captives that are being held in Iraq. The decision by the Bush administration came at the same time Iraq’s spokesman asked US for better ties with Iran.  Ali Dabbagh said, “We feel that the improvement and the better relations between the United States and Iran could minimize — could make the interference less.” Even Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, advised the Bush administration to release the Iranians because they are no longer useful.  However, Vice President Richard Cheney’s office says that they need to keep the

The Iranian Navy captured 15 Brtitish Royal Marines. This is not the first time this has happened, but it comes at a very suspect time. The UN is still trying to figure out what to do with Irans Nuclear Program....

The relationship between the United States and Iran has been torn even worse than it already was because President Bush approved Iranian raids which ended up with the detaining of five Iranians from an Iranian government office.  Condoleezza Rice told the press that bush approved these raids because there was an “increasing lethality” of what the Iranians in Iraq where producing. Rice also said the Iranians are trying to further destabilize Iraq by providing help to the militia, and that the US raids were actually a defensive “force protection mission”.  As of now US officials do not have an immediate plan to attack Iran, but they also are not denying that military action will be used against Iran. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the US is trying to prevent Syria and Iran from disrupting the US forces in Iraq.  Gates, along with President Bush and Gen. Peter Pace are stressing that using military action in Iran would be a last resort option. Ho

Finally the US troops will be permitted to capture and kill any Iranian Operatives inside of Iraq working hard to destablize the country as they have been doing for pretty much all of the war. All I can say is, it's about friggin time!From the Washington Post article:The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran's influence across the Middle East and compel it to give up its nuclear program, according to government and counterterrorism officials with direct knowledge of the effort.[With Iranian efforts in Iraq doing much damage to destabilize, but losing very few Iranian lives] "There were no costs for the Iranians," said one senior administration official. "They are hurting our mission in Iraq, and we were bending over backwards not to fight back." Three officials said that about 150 Iranian intelligence officers, plus members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Command, ar

Viewpoint: Iranians speak outIt is very interesting to see these opinions. Provided is a basic summary of what each of these people said.Reza (journalist in Tehran): Yes, I support the nuclear program because we need nuclear power. That doesn't mean we need a bomb. There is a media spin against Iran in the West. But Iran is the strongest (and more democratic) country in the region so the West is afraid that if Iran gets nuclear energy then more countries in the region will rely on it. Sounds like an Ahmadinejad apologist and loyalist. Defends Ahmadinejad with respect to the Holocaust comments.Eftekar (teacher in Isfahan): Yes, he supports the peaceful purpose of the nuclear program. He is an idealist and sees it as an opportunity for Iran to prove that it can be trusted in the international community. Feels there is a media spin against Iran in the West. Iran doesn't want problems. Ahmadinejad has not fulfilled promises to the international community. People in Iran don't care what