The vulnerability of the leaders to all manner of attack has recently been demonstrated in a variety of ways. At least two military aircraft have crashed, and two trains carrying Revolutionary Guards personnel have derailed. Nobody believes these were mere accidents. There have been several gunfights in Kurdistan and Balouchistan. The commander of the border guards, Hossein Zolqafari, announced that “terrorists” had been driven off during the runup to February 11th. He failed to tell his listeners that 9 of his men had been killed.
Meanwhile, the discontent among Iranian workers has intensified. New unions are being formed, even though all unions are illegal, and three of them have appealed to the United Nations Human Rights Commission for help. The Bus Workers Syndicate of Tehran and Humeh (in the province of Lorestan), the Workers Syndicate of Neyshekar Hafttapeh and the Free Union of Iranian Workers wrote to the UN to say: “The Islamic Republic’s security officials have announced their adherence to international protocols. Despite this fact, they have banned unions from forming in the country. Anyone active in a union will be labeled an enemy of the Islamic Republic and prosecuted.” They claimed that the minimum wage is four times less than the poverty line and added, “Millions of families are desperately trying to survive in the most inhumane conditions because their wages are not being paid on time.” They added:
A massive wave of unemployment and the danger of laying off of workers has made life unimaginably hellish for their families. The only way out of these inhumane conditions requires a fundamental restructuring in the economy and society.
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They called for an end to the death penalty, the release of imprisoned labor activists, free speech, the right to strike, and an end to child labor.
Nor have the Green leaders abandoned the fight. Mousavi and Karroubi have met twice since the 11th, most recently on Saturday, when they were joined by a senior cleric and by Ali Albar Mohtashemipour, the “godfather of Hezbollah,” who, it will be recalled, personally intervened to convince Supreme Leader Khamenei to release Mousavi’s top adviser. Karroubi issued a very strong statement, demanding the right of free assembly and a national referendum on the legitimacy of the Guardians Council. Both are provocations.
Faced with such internal difficulties, the regime has increased its assistance to terrorist groups, including both the Haqqanis and Hekmatiar in Afghanistan, and the top international proxies (Hezbollah, Quds, Hamas, Jibril) have been ordered to kill hundreds of Jews in North Africa, Europe and South America.
Finally, in a couple of days, Ahmadinejad will make a day trip to Damascus to coordinate various things with Assad. There is the matter of American and French requests that Assad help gain the release of their hostages. Then there is the joint Iranian-Syrian operation in Iraq, to increase the level of violence and to fund pro-Iranian political groups. Third, is coordination of the Iranian-Turkish war against the Kurds, in which the Syrians share an interest, and finally, they will discuss some new artillery and anti-aircraft systems that the Iranians are delivering.
The bottom line? The regime is fighting a two-front war. At home, they fear their enemies. Abroad, they are fearless, and are stepping up the offensive.
Michael, did you see this news story about an attempted coup: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100223/world/turkey_politics_military_probe_3
It looks like there are some who conclude that rapproachment with Teheran is not in their interests, nor is it in the interests of their country.
Based on my readings of the news, it also looks like MAYBE and only MAYBE the Khamenei side has given in to the demand to weaken the Guardian Council that oversee who will be qualified to run in elections. I think this was allowed only after the Feb. 11 people’s power.
Basically, it looks like Rafsanjani’s Expediency Council has been given such power to dilute the power Guardian Council into another t-be-created body that oversee election related activities. IF this will take place, it appears the Rightwing people now know well that they are against the entire nation. Per JARS site, they also expect prisoners will be released in phases soon before Iranian New Year on March 20th.
Now you want to know about the REAL COUP that took place?
Well, according to Iranian news Abdolmalek Riggi who and his brother in Baluchestan killing people, similar to Alqaida, in a flight in the region, his airplane was forced to land at Bandar Abbas in Iran! He was arrested along with his associates in the plane. Then they allowed the plane to take off to its planned destination!!!!!
Per the news conference held, the Iranians have shown his passports and things that were only allowed by U.S. and other interested parties to provide him with such cover for ease of travel. They also showed pictures of him taken of him meeting with NATO and American forces in the past few days!!!!
First, if what they CLAIM is true and he was arrested this way, indeed this will put Mossad and similar agencies into shame by killing a Hamas man the way they did it!! This news indeed is shocking and a wake up call for such agencies. Although, I suspect U.S. might have done a deal to give up this agent in return for something that Iran wish to give.
Still developing…
Strike!
Did Obama Administration Commit Another Stink Bomb?
According to Iran’s News agency reports (as reported earlier by Mohammad Najjar Interior minister of Iran and a former defense minister of Iran, and later on by Heidar Moslehi the head of Iranian Intelligent Ministry) Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of a Sunni rebel group (Jundallah) was snatched in mid air from Pakistan by Revolutionary Guards.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/23/iran-abdolmalek-rigi-arrest
Considering that Najjar has repeatedly requested the arrest of Rigi, many times in the past, and he visited Pakistan very recently, it is highly speculated that finally Pakistan made a deal with Iran over the delivery of Rigi to Iran. Iranian News Agency has not commented on the details of Rigi’s capture and as such it is highly a suspicious story which does not pass the smell test. If the role of Pakistan in such a deal is given, then it is expected to be with the acknowledgement of US Administration. That probably means soon we will see the release of American prisoners by Ahmadinejad’s cabinet in a very near future. Could it be that Obama administration committed another deal with the rogue government of Mullahs?
If hypothetically the American administration has been left out of the delivery negotiations, then it is even worse that Pakistan (our ally) can freely roam around in such sensitive areas.
By the way…this reminded me of release of Iranian RGs (Ghods group) who were caught red handed in Iraq and imprisoned for almost 2 years…and our administration let them free as a gift to the newly formed fraud government of Ahmadinejad (in June of 2009). Perhaps our highly smart administration was thinking to do that act as a gesture of good will towards mullahs to bring them back to table and start dialogue with the administration…and what a dialogue it was!
Obama must be impeached!
I can’t see the U.S. supporting a murderer like Rigi. Certainly not Obama, who won’t even support the Iranian freedom marchers. As for Pakistan, their intelegence agency does whatever it wants, including supporting the Taliban.
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I don’t think its over and one day we will wake up to the hanging dead bodies of the clerics hanging in the street.
There are NO IRANIAN “FREEDOM” MARCHERS.
There is only the devotees of the newest Iranian/Islamic
power seeker. You will not get “freedom” or “democracy” as
understood by the West. Islam will just go in a great big
cycle. Like it is doing now in Iraq with the people voting
for a Shiite reliqious clique to replace Maliki and fight the
American “devils”.
The only thing you can do with Islam is isolate it, keep it from
getting weapons to reach out to the outside world. Anything else is a dangerous delusion.
to enhunter, you are wrong sir!
Iranians are probably one of the most secular minded people of the world believe it or not. It is nailed in their psyche and their DNA from the times of Ahura Mazda and the teachings of Zoroastrianism.
Islamic regime was shoved down our throat by the works of the Carter administration in 1979 through collaboration of the communists and the leftists of the time. Please read the book: “Jimmy Carter The Liberal Left and World Chaos” written by Mike Evans. This is just one book on Carter’s role in supporting Islamists. There are tens more out there.
For all the crimes that has been inflicted upon us, Carter must be held responsible and hopefully he will be judged for his miss handling of our country and our fate.
An Iranian emigrant, when asked for his opinion on what was going on in Iran, responded that American’s don’t understand how the Mullah’s use their money to stay in power.
They pay millions to politicians and decsion makers for quite support and to prevent anything from happening that will remove them from power.
He derided journalists and leftists as more often than not having a financial interest in ignoring the plight of the Iranian people. And he said it surely paid well to continue engagement and negotiations with Iranian leaders.
To him, no one in any position of influence in the West will do anything to help Iran. They, or their surrogates, are somehow on the payroll.
Please send for Iranians and specially Tehrani fighters, guns, grenades, machineguns, and all the war wares which need to city long time war in streets.
We can bring down and burn this god damn mullah’s regime by ourselves.
Just send us war wares. By any how encrypt and hidden transportation and administration toward Tehran. We will do what should we do.
All the world help us to burn this regime.
Third time lucky for the USSA?
You said he is on your millioanire site Richmeeting.com, … Richmeeting.com is a rip off site, why it keeps coming up on here is too funny!
11. shiraz:
Alexander the great burned Iran to the ground 2500 years ago and Gengis Khan did it 800 years ago. Were those CIA plots? At what point did Iran lose all control of it’s destany to the US?
The sad truth is that most muslims (and 3rd world countries in general) seem to prefer strong man dictatorships when given the choice. Most Iranians like their islamist mullah overlords it seems. The counter-protests are just as big if not bigger in Iran. We in the West should stop obsessing over the problems in the outside world and trying to help them fix them. It won’t work and it only lowers our own standard of living. We should concentrate on maintaining our own civilization and only swatting problems in the 3rd world when they pose a threat to us. In the case of Iran we should allow and help Israel to take out the Iranian nuke facilities and to give them more free reign to fight against the Iranian terrorist proxies and we should help them in that mission in any low key way possible. For example we should start assassinating, arresting and deporting Iranian terrorists operating in our own neck of the woods such as hezbollah members.
Iran is run by dictators parading as “religious” people. That the press refers to Iran’s leaders as “religious” demonstrates the press is run by the terrorist. If Ledeen believes Iran’s leaders are anything other than tyrant dictators parading as “religious”, I do not believe he is the analyst he thinks he is.
Ruebacca,
As you said correctly, Iran or Persia has suffered from many invasions by the foreign forces in its long 7000 year history. Iran has been a target for such invasions due its rich natural resources and riches and also in ancient times due to much enmity caused by pure jealousy and greed for power grab by foreign leaders. It is something to ponder about. The worst of its kind has been the invasion of the arab moslem forces in the 7th century AD to enforce Islam into the land by the force of the sword and submission. It is interesting to know how the moslem force of Muhammad burned down our largest richest library in the world into ashes. It is also interesting to know how Alexander the Great that strong great Greek General came about loving the land Persia that he had just invaded, wept upon burning Persepolis into the ground and decided to mate with a Persian and decided to reside in Persia falling in love with its rich culture!
These are all thing to ponder. Then we come to our modern history and the ambitions of the Brits and the Russians into their power grab of the warm waters of the Persian Gulf in the 20th century and the role US played into all of this supporting its old rival new ally Brits in their ambitions while keeping Russia’s influence at bay in all of this. The rest of it is history! Carter played into the hands of the anti- Iran’s independence groups and countries such as British, Russia, and the internal communist groups and parties and the newly supported Islamist figures such as Khomeini by the West who all shared the same fear for Iran’s growing economical power and thus Carter sided with the forces of Islamists sharing the same vision with the “left” in spreading propaganda against the so called: “imperialists and their trolls”! History of the world is amazing and the recycling of the historical events must be paid attention to if you want to make a sense of what is really going on behind the scenes, because you never know that by watching MSM or reading worthless modern academic materials.
I understand some people’s reluctance to characterize the protestor’s motives as being for freedom. However what was the final catalyst that precipitated the huge marches? A fraudulent election! What were the motives of prior marches by unions, women, and students? They were economic freedom, women’s rights, and intellectual freedom. Any government that comes out of a regime change will not necessarily be as democratic as we in the west would like, they may not be ready to turn their back on getting nukes, and they may not even be friendly to the United States, but I am certain they will not be exchanging one despotic system with another.
Michael, unfortunately the western governments are shamefully an accomplice to evil, including the government of the Revolutionary American Socialists, the US government.
No doubt, your Government “the government of appeasement and acquiescence” will not be doing anything except SUPPORTING ISLAMIC STATES AND EMBRACE THE TERROR MASTERS!!! THE SAME IS TRUE OF THE REST OF COWARDLY WESTERN GOVERNMENTS. They are just good at criticism of Israelis who are FIGHTING ALONE against terrorism. Alas!
18. Marsh:
“The sad truth is that most muslims (and 3rd world countries in general) seem to prefer strong man dictatorships when given the choice.”
Despite I was born in the terrible Middle East “disgusting world and dirty and horrible”, I totally agree with you, but on the other hand there are a millions of people want peaceful future without tyrannical regimes and without fundamentalist Islam.
“We should concentrate on maintaining our own civilization and only swatting problems in the 3rd world when they pose a threat to us.”
Dear Sir, believe me! Your civilization and values will NOT be safe as long as the terror masters and their supporters freely move in the Middle East. Your life and values are threatened as long as the jittery arbitrariness regimes and illegitimate monarchies in Muslim world are in alliance with puritanical clerics who control the religious establishments and rudely intervene in the affairs of state. For example, the Al Saud royal family “Saudi Arabia” in deep alliance and strong with clerics from the strict Wahhabi school of Islam those who have granted the biggest carte blanche in outrageous interference in the affairs of State.
A few days ago, a top Saudi cleric, Abdul Rahman al-Barak who is close to Saudi royal family has issued a fatwa:
http://www.awid.org/eng/Women-s-Rights-in-the-News/Women-s-Rights-in-the-News/Saudi-cleric-backs-gender-segregation-with-fatwa
The great philosopher Machiavelli “the leader may have to enter into evil in order to achieve the noble accomplishments.”
IN PERSON I call strongly to assassinating every member of the terror network and every cleric issues a fatwas urging to hatred and scorn toward others. If they issuing a fatwas calling to kill dissidents and modernizers, we also calling to assassinating them and to cleanse the face of earth from them and from their hellish thoughts. THEY MUST BE DEAD!!! Since the assassination of the senior leaders of terrorist organizations “Hamas, Jihad, Aqsa” rarely you heard about a suicide bombing or terrorist attack in Israel. Therefore the US and Israel MUST CLEANSE the face of earth from the terror masters, and every leader of every cell of the terror network MUST BE DEAD or locked securely away!!! THE WORLD WITHOUT THEM WILL BE HAPPIER AND SAFER.
Here is also the horrible statement of the MAD STUPID Gaddafi Libya called for a jihad, or holy war, against Switzerland:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/25/muammar-gaddafi-libya
It is a happy day when we see the hanging dead bodies of the clerics and the tyrannized leaders hanging or to see their bodies charred such as Saddam and his sons. So we need Machiavellian wisdom and leadership.
Jassem Othman, Syrian, Poland.
“A massive wave of unemployment and the danger of laying off of workers has made life unimaginably hellish for their families. The only way out of these inhumane conditions requires a fundamental restructuring in the economy and society.”
This is the real face of islam…a society of malcontents that first ruin their own people, countries, economies, freedom and hope. it’s the same in all islamist societies. Ruin, incompetence, starvation…and they want to bring it upon us?
shiraz:
Obama must be impeached!
Well said, we all in danger as long as that Marxist remains in power. Too bad most Americans are too concerned with watching football and believing that Santa Claus will stop the Mullahs from sailing a nuke into Manhattan to take action.
It doesn’t matter. What some people don’t seem to understand is that from the POV of the USA, there is no difference between the current regime in Iran and the green movement. BOTH are despots that want nuclear weapons to secure their power.
It might matter to the citizens of Iran but that is not any business of the USA.
As we say here in the South; “We have no dog in that fight”.
@ Rosinante
How can you say that current regime in Iran AND the green movement are BOTH despots? The first we know about and it is despotic, the second has not ruled yet so no-one can predict how it will rule.
Also Iranians may want nuclear power but in the case of Ahmadinejad and Khamenei they will use it to attack others, in the other case Green Movement will use it for peacefull purposes.
Would you also be against France or Turkey having nuclear power?
As for Iranian nuclear power/bombs being no business of the USA – it is US business if Iranian government wants Iranians to should “marg bar Amrika” (death to USA) and conducts its policy accordingly.
@Rosinante:
It might matter to the citizens of Iran but that is not any business of the USA.
As we say here in the South; “We have no dog in that fight”.
Sir, the USA MUST defend its vital interests in the region and protects its National Security. If you really have no dog in that fight, then will be there a lot of dogs for the communist neutral opportunists “Chinese and Russians”!!!
My friend, please do NOT forget that “Mullahs want WMD in order to destruct “the Great Satan” and to wipe Israel from the map. The USA duty as the ONLY GREAT POWER on the earth, to maintain the World peace, even if requires using the HARD-POWER!!!
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