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		<title>By: Anne Applebaum &#187; Blog Archive &#187; A Good Month for Bad News</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anne Applebaum &#187; Blog Archive &#187; A Good Month for Bad News</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Iran. There are show trials going on right now in Tehran. The revolution is devouring its children: Dozens of mid-level opposition leaders, many of them members of the former elite, are acting out [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Michael Ledeen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Ledeen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>thanks, much appreciated.</description>
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		<title>By: Sara</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great Article!!!
specially I like the ending which says.

&quot;the Islamic Republic has died in the past two months.  It is time for the West to bury it.&quot;

It is time for appeasers to understand this SENTENCE and STOP this &quot;appeasment policy&quot;.

Great article, Mr. Ledeen, appreciate your efforts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great Article!!!<br />
specially I like the ending which says.</p>
<p>&#8220;the Islamic Republic has died in the past two months.  It is time for the West to bury it.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is time for appeasers to understand this SENTENCE and STOP this &#8220;appeasment policy&#8221;.</p>
<p>Great article, Mr. Ledeen, appreciate your efforts.</p>
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		<title>By: kabud</title>
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		<dc:creator>kabud</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Any military action there will stop the oil traffic 

then Price of oil can easily reach $200 or $300

That will mean a collapse of the western economy. Not just USA economy but most of the global economic practices based so heavily on this fuel

It could be very possible that it is exactly what kremlin is planing to do.

If this happens there going to be a war with Russia because kremlin will never waste an opportunity to destroy USA in a time of our economical collapse. By the way they have more then enough oil to fuel bombers, ships, submarines, and even tanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Any military action there will stop the oil traffic </p>
<p>then Price of oil can easily reach $200 or $300</p>
<p>That will mean a collapse of the western economy. Not just USA economy but most of the global economic practices based so heavily on this fuel</p>
<p>It could be very possible that it is exactly what kremlin is planing to do.</p>
<p>If this happens there going to be a war with Russia because kremlin will never waste an opportunity to destroy USA in a time of our economical collapse. By the way they have more then enough oil to fuel bombers, ships, submarines, and even tanks.</p>
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		<title>By: John  "birther" Samford</title>
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		<dc:creator>John  "birther" Samford</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Michael, you are a nice guy and a swell fellow, but you are wrong about Iran.  NO Theocracy has ever been overthrown by internal elements.  The Mullahs, high priests, whatever, come and go but the regime remains the same.
Replacing the old Mullahs with new mullahs won&#039;t change a thing.  Bouncing the Mullahs out of the palace and back to the Mosque will require military force.  
NOTHING else will work,
It would be nice if you did some research and found a theocracy in history that was replaced by internal elements of a secular nature.  You will be at that a while, since there aren&#039;t any.  
Once you accept the fact that military action is required, we can move on to a discussion of just what sort of military action would be most suitable.
I&#039;m in favor of a sustained air campaign.  Take down the power grid, ALL bridges big enough to hold a donkey cart, the palaces, military bases, etc.  
Not enough targets there to keep the US Air Force busy for a whole year, so if the people won&#039;t pull down the mullahs we will pound the rubble until they do.  Maybe we will get lucky and get the Mullahs.  Tell them what we are doing.  Drop leaflets waring the civilians that we are bombing certain targets because of their military value.  That will leave us in compliance with several treaties and lower civilian casualties.  If civilians chose to ignore the warnings, then death was their choice.  The Mullahs will run out of human shields before we run out of bombs.
At the worst the Mullahs will go underground.  Once they do that they are through, since you cannot run a country from a bomb shelter.  Hitler found that out.

The current plan is waiting and hoping they don&#039;t nuke anything important.  Important being relative.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael, you are a nice guy and a swell fellow, but you are wrong about Iran.  NO Theocracy has ever been overthrown by internal elements.  The Mullahs, high priests, whatever, come and go but the regime remains the same.<br />
Replacing the old Mullahs with new mullahs won&#8217;t change a thing.  Bouncing the Mullahs out of the palace and back to the Mosque will require military force.<br />
NOTHING else will work,<br />
It would be nice if you did some research and found a theocracy in history that was replaced by internal elements of a secular nature.  You will be at that a while, since there aren&#8217;t any.<br />
Once you accept the fact that military action is required, we can move on to a discussion of just what sort of military action would be most suitable.<br />
I&#8217;m in favor of a sustained air campaign.  Take down the power grid, ALL bridges big enough to hold a donkey cart, the palaces, military bases, etc.<br />
Not enough targets there to keep the US Air Force busy for a whole year, so if the people won&#8217;t pull down the mullahs we will pound the rubble until they do.  Maybe we will get lucky and get the Mullahs.  Tell them what we are doing.  Drop leaflets waring the civilians that we are bombing certain targets because of their military value.  That will leave us in compliance with several treaties and lower civilian casualties.  If civilians chose to ignore the warnings, then death was their choice.  The Mullahs will run out of human shields before we run out of bombs.<br />
At the worst the Mullahs will go underground.  Once they do that they are through, since you cannot run a country from a bomb shelter.  Hitler found that out.</p>
<p>The current plan is waiting and hoping they don&#8217;t nuke anything important.  Important being relative.</p>
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		<title>By: Marie Claude</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marie Claude</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ira Zad:
 
&lt;i&gt;Sarkozy is saying ouch for 2 reasons:

1) EU/US idiotically conducted “Green Coup” has failed.
and;&lt;/i&gt;

not at all, it ain&#039;t our business, but of the american&#039;s certain iranian lobbies

Besides, &quot; France recognized only states and not governments. &quot;

&lt;i&gt;2) French oil giant “Totale” has lost its control of the southern Pars oil field in southwestern Iran to the–get this: Chinese national oil compnay, CNPC.&lt;/i&gt;

WTF, Total is on many other places, like EXXon, BP, Shell...

&lt;i&gt;(yep, Ahmadinejad creaming Rafsanjani clan who were the traditional beneficiaries of the French oil oligarchy so far–) &lt;/i&gt;

WTF, France hasn&#039;t a favorite tyran, they can all stand in the crabs basket as far as our consideration

&lt;i&gt;So, that’s why the Cries of “Merde” coming out of “Shorty” in France, and EU in general — nothing to do with anything else–
Otherwise, Sarkozy or Merkel, or Brown do not give a damn about, or are not concerned in the least with secular democracy for Iranian people!
Hell with Iranian people! LOL&lt;i&gt;

you&#039;re an idiot who is brainwashed by an administration that had convenient interests for doing so, where France &amp; EU are severe commercial concurrents

We take care of the iranian population if she isn&#039;t practicing the same cheating propaganda like Palestinians and Hezbollah are in use to.

But I have experienced that some Iranians that have access to the medias, especially the anglo-saxons&#039; do exert the kind of manipulation, ie using some fake images (funny, some of them come from the palestinian library)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ira Zad:</p>
<p><i>Sarkozy is saying ouch for 2 reasons:</p>
<p>1) EU/US idiotically conducted “Green Coup” has failed.<br />
and;</i></p>
<p>not at all, it ain&#8217;t our business, but of the american&#8217;s certain iranian lobbies</p>
<p>Besides, &#8221; France recognized only states and not governments. &#8221;</p>
<p><i>2) French oil giant “Totale” has lost its control of the southern Pars oil field in southwestern Iran to the–get this: Chinese national oil compnay, CNPC.</i></p>
<p>WTF, Total is on many other places, like EXXon, BP, Shell&#8230;</p>
<p><i>(yep, Ahmadinejad creaming Rafsanjani clan who were the traditional beneficiaries of the French oil oligarchy so far–) </i></p>
<p>WTF, France hasn&#8217;t a favorite tyran, they can all stand in the crabs basket as far as our consideration</p>
<p><i>So, that’s why the Cries of “Merde” coming out of “Shorty” in France, and EU in general — nothing to do with anything else–<br />
Otherwise, Sarkozy or Merkel, or Brown do not give a damn about, or are not concerned in the least with secular democracy for Iranian people!<br />
Hell with Iranian people! LOL</i><i></p>
<p>you&#8217;re an idiot who is brainwashed by an administration that had convenient interests for doing so, where France &amp; EU are severe commercial concurrents</p>
<p>We take care of the iranian population if she isn&#8217;t practicing the same cheating propaganda like Palestinians and Hezbollah are in use to.</p>
<p>But I have experienced that some Iranians that have access to the medias, especially the anglo-saxons&#8217; do exert the kind of manipulation, ie using some fake images (funny, some of them come from the palestinian library)</i></p>
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		<title>By: Marie Claude</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marie Claude</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>uh, exterpt from Iran_Resist</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>uh, exterpt from Iran_Resist</p>
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		<title>By: Marie Claude</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2009/08/09/the-death-of-the-islamic-republic/#comment-12325</link>
		<dc:creator>Marie Claude</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>(sorry google translation, if you have a better one that can do it)

&lt;i&gt;Last Saturday, when the Clotilde Reiss trial began, Alaeddine Boroujerdi, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Islamic Parliament, welcomed the detention and trial of a young Frenchwoman who should he be the trial of the interference of foreign powers in Iran. The objective was clear:&lt;b&gt; do the trial of the french State&lt;/b&gt;. In a hostage taker who keeps the dark about the fate of his victim (death or liberation), the Islamic Revolutionary Court had deliberately omitted to state the charges and penalties required to the pressure at the french state. 

&lt;b&gt;The objective was to obtain a relaxation of the French position vis-à-vis the regime on the nuclear issue.&lt;/b&gt; Currently, to block the negotiations, the regime wants to simulate a crisis around the political scenario in the absence of the legitimacy of the elected president, an illegitimacy that removes any value to future negotiations. 

This scenario can only work if you believe: that was never the case of France. It had initially ignored Moussavi, the leader of this protest, before giving a legal framework for this choice by saying that&lt;b&gt; France recognized only states and not governments&lt;/b&gt;. Which meant that challenge or not, Iran would have to respond in a timely manner to requests addressed to it by the international community. 

Clotilde Reiss was arrested when France made the act of ignoring Moussavi, went on trial for serious reasons, just after France had legalized his refusal to leave board in the scenario of contesting the legitimacy feint of &#039;Six interlocutor in the nuclear dossier. 

Although aware of the stakes of this content without judicial trial, France has not satisfied the mullahs, it is not immediately changed his speech on the scenario of contesting the legitimacy of Ahmadinejad. This refusal has put Tehran in a major embarrassment because it sees this challenge the only way to block the negotiations and must obtain international support before the next meeting of the Six on 15 September 2009 on the sidelines of the 64th General Assembly the United Nations. Now Tehran is just a month to realize its scenario. For urgent international support to challenge his scripted, he had the crazy idea to mention the rape of prisoners of movement to act on the nerves: get humanitarian support to protesters persecuted as an alternative to a political recognition of their action. 

Although the latter initiative was independent of the case of Clotilde and that the rape had been located in a prison now closed, these overmediatised revelations  by senior officials of the regime have also increased tension around the pretty young French left to its even in Iranian jails as an easy target for such abuse. It is hard to imagine the French remain on good terms with such a regime.  This has reduced the scheme yesterday suggested that &quot;a parole for young Frenchwoman by the end of his trial on condition that it lies at the French embassy in Tehran&quot;: it needs a hostage to put pressure on France and not a new symbol of female repression as was Neda. This is a reversal of situation that gives the advantage to France. 

Explanations of benefit french &#124; When the revelations of rape have been published by the regime, it became impossible for France to continue its policy of patience about this detention does not give guarantees to mullahs, each day more in prison was a day of more concern to the French, anxiety mean a decline in presidential popularity in opinion polls. France had then dropped the land on its position by expressing his &quot;deep concern about the brutal measures of repression against a large part of the Iranian people peacefully challenging the sincerity and the results of presidential elections on 12 June. 

After the embarrassed gesture to Tehran, it adopted the silence to put pressure on the mullahs. It hopes to grow in their corner for a simple release of the young Frenchwoman who will blow this theater at its touching beauty, its dignified expression during the trial, the accuracy of the maneuvers and especially French recklessness a system made in the throat which improvised and therefore increases the errors &lt;/i&gt;

Samedi dernier, quand a débuté le procès de Clotilde Reiss, Alaeddine Boroujerdi, chef de la commission des affaires étrangères du Parlement islamique, s’est félicité de la détention et du procès de la jeune Française qui devait selon lui être le procès de l’ingérence des puissances étrangères en Iran. L’objectif était clairement défini : faire le procès de l’Etat français. Dans une logique de preneur d’otage qui garde le flou sur le sort de sa victime (la mort ou la libération), le tribunal révolutionnaire islamique avait d’ailleurs délibérément omis d’énoncer les chefs d’accusation et les peines requises pour mettre la pression à l’Etat français.

L’objectif était d’obtenir un assouplissement de la position française vis-à-vis du régime sur la question nucléaire. Actuellement, pour bloquer les négociations, le régime veut simuler une crise politique autour du scénario de l’absence de la légitimité du président élu, une illégitimité qui ôte toute valeur aux négociations à venir.

Ce scénario ne peut fonctionner que si l’on y croit : ce qui n’a jamais été le cas de la France. Ce pays avait d’abord ignoré Moussavi, le leader de cette contestation, avant de donner un cadre légal à ce choix en affirmant que la France reconnaissait uniquement les Etats et non les gouvernements. Ce qui voulait dire que contestation ou pas, l’Iran allait devoir répondre en temps et en heure aux demandes qui lui étaient adressées par la communauté internationale.

Clotilde Reiss a été arrêtée quand la France faisait acte d’ignorer Moussavi, elle est passée en jugement pour des motifs gravissimes, juste après que la France ait légalisé son refus de se laisser embarquer dans le scénario de la contestation feinte de la légitimité de l’interlocuteur des Six dans le dossier nucléaire.

Bien que consciente des enjeux de ce procès sans contenu judiciaire, la France n’a pas donné satisfaction aux mollahs : elle n’a pas changé immédiatement son discours sur le scénario de la contestation de la légitimité d’Ahmadinejad. Ce nouveau refus a mis Téhéran dans un grand embarras car il voit dans cette contestation l’unique moyen de bloquer les négociations et il doit obtenir un soutien international avant la prochaine rencontre des Six prévue le 15 septembre 2009 en marge de la 64e assemblée générale de l’ONU. Désormais, Téhéran a tout juste un mois pour concrétiser son scénario. Pour obtenir un soutien international urgentissime à sa contestation scénarisée, il a eu l’idée folle d’évoquer les viols des prisonniers du mouvement contestataire pour agir sur la corde sensible : obtenir un soutien humanitaire aux contestataires persécutés comme une alternative à une reconnaissance politique de leur action.

Bien que cette dernière initiative était indépendante du cas de Clotilde et que les viols avaient été localisés dans une prison désormais fermée, ces révélations surmédiatisées par des hauts responsables du régime ont fait aussi monter la tension autour de la jeune et jolie Française livrée à elle-même dans les geôles iraniennes comme une cible facile pour ce genre de sévices. On imagine mal des Français rester en bons termes avec un tel régime.  C’est ce qui a fait reculer hier ce régime qui a proposé « une liberté conditionnelle pour la jeune Française d’ici à la fin de son procès à condition qu’elle réside à l’ambassade de France à Téhéran » : il a besoin d’un otage pour faire pression sur la France et non d’un nouveau symbole féminin de sa répression comme l’a été Neda. C’est un retournement de situation qui donne l’avantage à la France.

Explications de l’avantage français &#124; Quand les révélations des viols ont été publiées par le régime, il est devenu impossible pour la France de continuer sa politique de patience à propos de cette détention pour ne pas donner de gages aux mollahs : chaque jour de plus en prison aurait été un jour de plus d’inquiétude pour les Français, une anxiété synonyme d’une baisse de popularité présidentielle dans les sondages d’opinion. La France avait alors lâché du terrain sur sa position en exprimant ses « vives préoccupations au sujet des mesures brutales de répression visant une large partie de la population iranienne contestant pacifiquement la sincérité et les résultats du scrutin présidentiel du 12 juin ». 

Après le geste gêné de Téhéran, elle a adopté le silence pour mettre la pression aux mollahs. Elle espère les pousser dans leurs derniers retranchements pour obtenir une libération pure et simple de la jeune Française qui devra ce coup de théâtre à sa beauté touchante, à son expression digne pendant le procès, à la justesse des manœuvres françaises et surtout à l’imprudence d’un régime pris à la gorge qui improvise et par conséquent multiplie les erreurs

Don&#039;t forget that the net and infos are filtered, that we happen to know what they want us to do.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(sorry google translation, if you have a better one that can do it)</p>
<p><i>Last Saturday, when the Clotilde Reiss trial began, Alaeddine Boroujerdi, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Islamic Parliament, welcomed the detention and trial of a young Frenchwoman who should he be the trial of the interference of foreign powers in Iran. The objective was clear:<b> do the trial of the french State</b>. In a hostage taker who keeps the dark about the fate of his victim (death or liberation), the Islamic Revolutionary Court had deliberately omitted to state the charges and penalties required to the pressure at the french state. </p>
<p><b>The objective was to obtain a relaxation of the French position vis-à-vis the regime on the nuclear issue.</b> Currently, to block the negotiations, the regime wants to simulate a crisis around the political scenario in the absence of the legitimacy of the elected president, an illegitimacy that removes any value to future negotiations. </p>
<p>This scenario can only work if you believe: that was never the case of France. It had initially ignored Moussavi, the leader of this protest, before giving a legal framework for this choice by saying that<b> France recognized only states and not governments</b>. Which meant that challenge or not, Iran would have to respond in a timely manner to requests addressed to it by the international community. </p>
<p>Clotilde Reiss was arrested when France made the act of ignoring Moussavi, went on trial for serious reasons, just after France had legalized his refusal to leave board in the scenario of contesting the legitimacy feint of &#8216;Six interlocutor in the nuclear dossier. </p>
<p>Although aware of the stakes of this content without judicial trial, France has not satisfied the mullahs, it is not immediately changed his speech on the scenario of contesting the legitimacy of Ahmadinejad. This refusal has put Tehran in a major embarrassment because it sees this challenge the only way to block the negotiations and must obtain international support before the next meeting of the Six on 15 September 2009 on the sidelines of the 64th General Assembly the United Nations. Now Tehran is just a month to realize its scenario. For urgent international support to challenge his scripted, he had the crazy idea to mention the rape of prisoners of movement to act on the nerves: get humanitarian support to protesters persecuted as an alternative to a political recognition of their action. </p>
<p>Although the latter initiative was independent of the case of Clotilde and that the rape had been located in a prison now closed, these overmediatised revelations  by senior officials of the regime have also increased tension around the pretty young French left to its even in Iranian jails as an easy target for such abuse. It is hard to imagine the French remain on good terms with such a regime.  This has reduced the scheme yesterday suggested that &#8220;a parole for young Frenchwoman by the end of his trial on condition that it lies at the French embassy in Tehran&#8221;: it needs a hostage to put pressure on France and not a new symbol of female repression as was Neda. This is a reversal of situation that gives the advantage to France. </p>
<p>Explanations of benefit french | When the revelations of rape have been published by the regime, it became impossible for France to continue its policy of patience about this detention does not give guarantees to mullahs, each day more in prison was a day of more concern to the French, anxiety mean a decline in presidential popularity in opinion polls. France had then dropped the land on its position by expressing his &#8220;deep concern about the brutal measures of repression against a large part of the Iranian people peacefully challenging the sincerity and the results of presidential elections on 12 June. </p>
<p>After the embarrassed gesture to Tehran, it adopted the silence to put pressure on the mullahs. It hopes to grow in their corner for a simple release of the young Frenchwoman who will blow this theater at its touching beauty, its dignified expression during the trial, the accuracy of the maneuvers and especially French recklessness a system made in the throat which improvised and therefore increases the errors </i></p>
<p>Samedi dernier, quand a débuté le procès de Clotilde Reiss, Alaeddine Boroujerdi, chef de la commission des affaires étrangères du Parlement islamique, s’est félicité de la détention et du procès de la jeune Française qui devait selon lui être le procès de l’ingérence des puissances étrangères en Iran. L’objectif était clairement défini : faire le procès de l’Etat français. Dans une logique de preneur d’otage qui garde le flou sur le sort de sa victime (la mort ou la libération), le tribunal révolutionnaire islamique avait d’ailleurs délibérément omis d’énoncer les chefs d’accusation et les peines requises pour mettre la pression à l’Etat français.</p>
<p>L’objectif était d’obtenir un assouplissement de la position française vis-à-vis du régime sur la question nucléaire. Actuellement, pour bloquer les négociations, le régime veut simuler une crise politique autour du scénario de l’absence de la légitimité du président élu, une illégitimité qui ôte toute valeur aux négociations à venir.</p>
<p>Ce scénario ne peut fonctionner que si l’on y croit : ce qui n’a jamais été le cas de la France. Ce pays avait d’abord ignoré Moussavi, le leader de cette contestation, avant de donner un cadre légal à ce choix en affirmant que la France reconnaissait uniquement les Etats et non les gouvernements. Ce qui voulait dire que contestation ou pas, l’Iran allait devoir répondre en temps et en heure aux demandes qui lui étaient adressées par la communauté internationale.</p>
<p>Clotilde Reiss a été arrêtée quand la France faisait acte d’ignorer Moussavi, elle est passée en jugement pour des motifs gravissimes, juste après que la France ait légalisé son refus de se laisser embarquer dans le scénario de la contestation feinte de la légitimité de l’interlocuteur des Six dans le dossier nucléaire.</p>
<p>Bien que consciente des enjeux de ce procès sans contenu judiciaire, la France n’a pas donné satisfaction aux mollahs : elle n’a pas changé immédiatement son discours sur le scénario de la contestation de la légitimité d’Ahmadinejad. Ce nouveau refus a mis Téhéran dans un grand embarras car il voit dans cette contestation l’unique moyen de bloquer les négociations et il doit obtenir un soutien international avant la prochaine rencontre des Six prévue le 15 septembre 2009 en marge de la 64e assemblée générale de l’ONU. Désormais, Téhéran a tout juste un mois pour concrétiser son scénario. Pour obtenir un soutien international urgentissime à sa contestation scénarisée, il a eu l’idée folle d’évoquer les viols des prisonniers du mouvement contestataire pour agir sur la corde sensible : obtenir un soutien humanitaire aux contestataires persécutés comme une alternative à une reconnaissance politique de leur action.</p>
<p>Bien que cette dernière initiative était indépendante du cas de Clotilde et que les viols avaient été localisés dans une prison désormais fermée, ces révélations surmédiatisées par des hauts responsables du régime ont fait aussi monter la tension autour de la jeune et jolie Française livrée à elle-même dans les geôles iraniennes comme une cible facile pour ce genre de sévices. On imagine mal des Français rester en bons termes avec un tel régime.  C’est ce qui a fait reculer hier ce régime qui a proposé « une liberté conditionnelle pour la jeune Française d’ici à la fin de son procès à condition qu’elle réside à l’ambassade de France à Téhéran » : il a besoin d’un otage pour faire pression sur la France et non d’un nouveau symbole féminin de sa répression comme l’a été Neda. C’est un retournement de situation qui donne l’avantage à la France.</p>
<p>Explications de l’avantage français | Quand les révélations des viols ont été publiées par le régime, il est devenu impossible pour la France de continuer sa politique de patience à propos de cette détention pour ne pas donner de gages aux mollahs : chaque jour de plus en prison aurait été un jour de plus d’inquiétude pour les Français, une anxiété synonyme d’une baisse de popularité présidentielle dans les sondages d’opinion. La France avait alors lâché du terrain sur sa position en exprimant ses « vives préoccupations au sujet des mesures brutales de répression visant une large partie de la population iranienne contestant pacifiquement la sincérité et les résultats du scrutin présidentiel du 12 juin ». </p>
<p>Après le geste gêné de Téhéran, elle a adopté le silence pour mettre la pression aux mollahs. Elle espère les pousser dans leurs derniers retranchements pour obtenir une libération pure et simple de la jeune Française qui devra ce coup de théâtre à sa beauté touchante, à son expression digne pendant le procès, à la justesse des manœuvres françaises et surtout à l’imprudence d’un régime pris à la gorge qui improvise et par conséquent multiplie les erreurs</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget that the net and infos are filtered, that we happen to know what they want us to do.</p>
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		<title>By: Ira Zad</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ira Zad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sarkozy is saying ouch for 2 reasons:

1) EU/US idiotically conducted &quot;Green Coup&quot; has failed.
and;
2) French oil giant &quot;Totale&quot; has lost its control of the southern Pars oil field in southwestern Iran to the--get this: Chinese national oil compnay, CNPC. 
(yep, Ahmadinejad creaming Rafsanjani clan who were the traditional beneficiaries of the French oil oligarchy so far--) 

So, that&#039;s why the Cries of &quot;Merde&quot; coming out of &quot;Shorty&quot; in France, and EU in general -- nothing to do with anything else-- 
Otherwise, Sarkozy or Merkel, or Brown do not give a damn about, or are not concerned in the least with secular democracy for Iranian people!
Hell with Iranian people!  LOL</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sarkozy is saying ouch for 2 reasons:</p>
<p>1) EU/US idiotically conducted &#8220;Green Coup&#8221; has failed.<br />
and;<br />
2) French oil giant &#8220;Totale&#8221; has lost its control of the southern Pars oil field in southwestern Iran to the&#8211;get this: Chinese national oil compnay, CNPC.<br />
(yep, Ahmadinejad creaming Rafsanjani clan who were the traditional beneficiaries of the French oil oligarchy so far&#8211;) </p>
<p>So, that&#8217;s why the Cries of &#8220;Merde&#8221; coming out of &#8220;Shorty&#8221; in France, and EU in general &#8212; nothing to do with anything else&#8211;<br />
Otherwise, Sarkozy or Merkel, or Brown do not give a damn about, or are not concerned in the least with secular democracy for Iranian people!<br />
Hell with Iranian people!  LOL</p>
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		<title>By: Jassem Othman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jassem Othman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, Dr Ledeen, the wars always kept peace. The war it is the right  good option to get rid of the evil dictators!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, Dr Ledeen, the wars always kept peace. The war it is the right  good option to get rid of the evil dictators!</p>
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