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Iran, Iraq Sign MoU On Defense Cooperation

Iran and Iraq Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on defense cooperation. The MoU has called for expansion of defense cooperation between the two countries in line with harmonizing all-out ties between Tehran and Baghdad to help further bolster peace and stability in the region.
Iran Shadow Over US-Iraq Security Pact

US ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker has accused Tehran of throwing a monkey wrench into the sensitive US-Iraq security discussions by trying to "complicate" them, as if the denunciation of the said accord by the Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and numerous other leading Iraqi clergy and politicians, both Sunni and Shi'ites, has not already rendered it nearly impossible to realize.
Iran's Supreme Leader: US Dreams On Iraq Will Not Come True

Presence of occupation forces, particularly the US troops are now regarded as the main threat to the country's unity, said the Supreme Leader, adding that the occupation forces who have employed all their military and security power to interfere in Iraq's internal affairs are now the main obstacle in the way of the Iraqi government and nation.
No, I Can't! Obama And The Israeli Lobby

Attack Iran? Cheney's Already Tried

INS correspondent describes how Cheney tried to start a war against Iran in 2007. The interesting part is to see how the various functionaries in government dealt with the issue. Call is history or background for further study.
U.S. Seeking 58 Bases In Iraq, Unacceptable Shiite Lawmakers Say

"The points that were put forth by the Americans were more abominable than the occupation," says a leading lawmaker from the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq. "We were occupied by order of the Security Council," he said, referring to the 2004 Resolution mandating a US military occupation. "But now we are being asked to sign for our own occupation. That is why we have absolutely refused all that we have seen so far."
McCain Again Pledges To Send Unlimited US Troops To Iraq (VIDEO)

NBC's Brian Williams: "[G]iven your support for the surge and where you believe this nation is in Iraq today, where do you see it going and will your support be there for however many U.S. troops are required?" McCain answered flatly: "Yes. And the fact is we are winning in Iraq."

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Iranian Dissident's Case Throws Light on a Key Defection -March 29, 2008 -Los Angeles Times -Borzou Daragahi -
DAMASCUS, SYRIA -- A diplomatic standoff over the fate of an Iranian dissident temporarily detained this week at a Turkish airport has revealed new clues about the defection of a high-ranking Iranian military official in late 2006 and exposed lingering tensions between Ankara and Tehran over the incident.The dissident, Amir Farshad Ebrahimi, was held for nearly 18 hours over Thursday and Friday in a cell inside Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport amid a tug-of-war over whether he would be sent back to Germany, where he lives, or deported to Iran, human rights activists and Western officials said.He was finally placed on an airplane to Berlin on Friday afternoon, his lawyer said.In a series of phone calls from his cell, Ebrahimi said Iranian officials wanted him to answer for his role in the defection of Brig. Gen. Ali Reza Asgari, a former Iranian deputy defense minister and Revolutionary Guard commander who disappeared during a trip to Turkey.Ebrahimi said Asgari now lives in the United States, where he is believed to have provided intelligence about Iran's military capabilities and operations.Turkey is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and a U.S. ally but maintains strong diplomatic and economic ties to Iran, which has been locked in a conflict with Washington since its Islamic Revolution in 1979.A U.S. official reached Friday in Ankara said American diplomats were aware of Ebrahimi's detention and had followed developments in the case. German consular officials were also in contact on the matter with Turkish authorities, a German diplomat said on condition of anonymity.Ebrahimi, 32, arrived in Istanbul from Germany on Thursday night to meet relatives coming from Iran for a holiday. Ebrahimi said he was taken from the passport counter, searched and physically abused by Turkish authorities and confronted with his involvement in the Asgari defection. He said he was threatened with deportation to Iran."A police officer came and said, 'Every time you come here, you do political work and create problems for us with Iran,' " said Ebrahimi, who was allowed to keep his cellphone while he was held.Ebrahimi said a man claiming to be an Iranian official demanded to be allowed to take him back to Iran, which Ebrahimi had fled after being released from prison in 2003.Asgari is believed to be the highest-ranking Iranian official to defect to the West. Analysts say he served as an intelligence official in Lebanon during the 1990s and became deputy defense minister under then-President Mohammad Khatami.After a business trip to Syria in 2006, Asgari left for Turkey, and then dropped out of sight. "Because of the intelligence he had he was very much in danger," Ebrahimi said. "He had very precious intelligence about the Iranian nuclear program."Ebrahimi said he coordinated with international organizations and U.S. officials to help Asgari leave Turkey for the West in late 2006. The two met in Nicosia, Cyprus, immediately after Asgari left Turkey, he said."I did nothing illegal," Ebrahimi said. "I helped him. We didn't get him out illegally."Reports in Western media suggest that Asgari has proved a gold mine for intelligence services seeking information about Iran's nuclear program and support for militant Islamic groups throughout the Middle East.Iranian authorities and Asgari's relatives blamed Turkey and Iranian opposition groups for the defection.Istanbul lawyer Nasrine Hosseinzadeh, who oversaw Ebrahimi's case at the airport, said Turkey and Iran had an agreement requiring each to hand over wanted political criminals. But international law requires that deportees be returned to the country where their flight originated."The law is very clear," Hosseinzadeh said in a phone interview from the airport. "I don't think they will allow him into Turkey, but they can't send him to Iran."Like Asgari, Ebrahimi turned against Iran's Shiite Muslim clerical government. He was once a government enforcer and an attache at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut.In a videotaped statement, he described connections between political leaders and pro-government militias in the violent crushing of student protests in 1999. He was arrested and imprisoned for several years in Tehran's Evin prison, including 18 months in an infamous solitary confinement ward for political dissidents. Since fleeing Iran, he has worked as a journalist and blogger.

daragahi@latimes.com


Seeing Iran's Shadow in Iraq Unrest
Black smoke swirled over central Baghdad on March 23, disturbing the fragile calm of the Iraqi capital. The attack on the Green Zone, which killed at least 13 Iraqis (NYT), was followed by the eruption of internecine Shiite violence in Baghdad's Sadr City and the southern oil port of Basra. Taken together the attacks renewed fears that a year of reduced violence, attributed in part to a beefed-up U.S. presence and a Shiite militia cease-fire, had ended. But in the eyes of U.S. military officials the attacks also highlighted another aspect of Iraq's security roller coaster: Iran's complicity in the conflict.
Dempsey to Become Central Command Chief
WASHINGTON -- One of the Army's most Iraq-savvy generals is taking charge, at least temporarily, of arguably the .most important command in the U.S. military, with responsibility for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
McConnell's Top Worry: Iran Getting Nukes
Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell urged a Furman University audience today to consider a life of public service, providing an overview of his path from a Greenville childhood and defending the U.S. Senate version of controversial surveillance legislation pending in Congress
Iran, Not al-Sadr, Leading Shi'a Attacks In Iraq
As Shi’a militias and armed groups strike out at US and Iraqi targets from Baghdad to Basra, it is curious to note how many news reports attribute the attacks to Muqtada al-Sadr, either directly or indirectly.

Empire strikes back - US draws on its dominion to wreak havoc in Iran -

(CNN) -- The United States Treasury Department announced sanctions Wednesday against a Who is, politically, in better shape? Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad or his implacable opponent, US President George W. Bush? Both leaders are conservative hawks....

U.S. forces drawn deeper into Iraq crackdown

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Bush: Iraqi PM Showing Leadership in Basra

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Coalition forces join fighting in Basra

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US Forces Launch Airstrikes in Iraq

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The Duel in Islam, Turkey's New Model VS. Iran's : January 04, 2008
New York Post : Amir Taheri

For centuries, Iran and the Ottoman Empire, of which modern Turkey and Egypt were parts, fought for influence in the Muslim world. That changed when Turkish westernizers under Kemal Ataturk and their Iranian counterparts under Reza Shah Pahlavi decided that religion was the cause of their nations' decline. Ataturk adopted the legend that the Turks descended from the Celts while Reza Shah promoted the idea of Iran as an "Aryan nation." For a while, Egypt (thanks to its Al Azhar theological center) remained influential. But that, too, changed in 1952 when the so-called Free Officers staged a coup under Col. Gamal Abdul-Nasser and declared that socialism, not Islam, was the future. With the three nations that had shaped Muslim opinion for centuries thus knocked out of the picture, attention focused on new centers of Islamic inspiration in the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent. But these versions of Islam weren't developed enough to fill the gap left by the withdrawal of Turkey, Iran and Egypt to the sidelines of the Muslim world. Arabia and India offered militant energy but little philosophical and theological guidance, let alone a political model. The picture may be changing: Turkey and Iran have reverted to their traditional roles by offering rival models of political Islam. (Egypt is still out under what is left of the Nasserist regime.) The Iranian model began to emerge after the mullahs seized power in 1979 and proceeded to invent a narrative influenced by European ideologies such as fascism and communism. The Turkish model grabbed the limelight when the Justice and Development Party (AKP) won a landslide election victory almost five years ago. Represented by the AKP, the Turkish model is inspired by European right-of-center political parties with an added liberal varnish.
At least four fundamental differences distinguish the two models:
Provenance: The Iranian model was shaped in Shiite theological schools of Qom and Najaf (in Iraq) by mullahs mainly of peasant backgrounds with little or no experience of the modern world. The Turkish model was the handiwork of engineers, medical doctors, businessmen and economists with urban, middle-class backgrounds. The Iranian Islamist movement entered into a strategic alliance with Marxist-Leninist and Maoist elements as early as the '60s and was heavily influenced by their worldview, culture and methods. The Turkish model shunned the left from the start and even joined the army against the leftists from the '50s onward.
Method of gaining power: The Iranian model won power through insurrections, assassinations, guerrilla attacks, strikes and massacres (such as the burning of the Rex Cinema in Abadan in 1978) - not in free and fair elections. The Turkish model, by contrast, won power via free and fair elections conducted by its ideological rivals. It never had recourse to violence, never murdered opponents, never robbed banks to finance itself and never burned hundreds of people alive to terrorize public opinion.
Record in power: The Iranian model forced almost 4 million Iranians into exile, caused the deaths of a million more in civil and foreign wars and mass executions, filled the prisons with dissidents, disbanded the national army and cancelled a constitution for which generations of Iranians had fought and, at times, died. The Turkish model forced no one into exile, didn't fill the prisons with opponents, provoked no wars and did not tear up the constitution. Nor did it destroy the Turkish state's institutions, notably the armed forces.
Road map for the future: The Iranian model claims to be seeking to revive the rule of Ali Ibn Abi-Talib, the fourth Caliph of Islam and the first Imam of Shiism, whose rule ended with civil war and his own assassination. (No one quite knows what that rule looked and felt like, for there are no reliable historical records.) The Iranian model could be summed up in the concept of the walayt faqih, or the guardianship of the theologian. This means that a single theocrat has the power to decide what is and isn't Islam. The Iranian model rejects modernity as a creature of the western "Infidel" powers. It sees globalization as a cover for American hegemony and dreams of uniting under its leadership all anti-western elements. The Turkish model has no such hang-ups. It has embraced globalization, wants to lead Turkey into the European Union as fast as the EU allows and maintains privileged relations with the United States.

Under the Iranian model, the average Iranian is at least 40 percent poorer than in 1977. The Turkish model has presided over the fastest economic growth rates the nation has known in modern times. By World Bank estimates, Turkish gross domestic product has risen by almost 50 percent under the AKP. Turkey no longer exports masses of hungry hands seeking low-paid jobs in the west. Iran, meanwhile, loses hundreds of educated people each day. In Turkey, political parties operate freely; in Iran only parties loyal to walayt faqih are allowed. The Iranian model is represented in 17 Muslim countries through branches of the Hezbollah (Party of God), founded by the mullahs in Tehran in 1975. The movement, controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, acts as a mini-version of the old Soviet Comintern. The Turkish model is only now finding imitators in other Muslim countries such as Indonesia, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Algeria and Morocco. In some cases, such as Jordan and Morocco, these parties use the very name of their Turkish model. In others, the names that echo that of the AKP.

Last month, the AKP also found an Iranian imitator - the newly formed Justice and Development Party of Iran (Etedal va To'seeh), which unites elements disillusioned with Khomeinism. The new party has yet to make its position clear on the key issue of walayat faqih, but the outline of its program for next March's general election is an almost verbatim translation of the election manifesto of Turkey's AKP.

Recently, the new party received a wink and a nod from Hashemi Rafsanjani, the businessman-cum-mullah who's emerging as a challenger to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's radical faction. ( TO FOOL THE IRANIAN ELECTORATE TO ONCE AGAIN GO TO THE POOLS AND TAKE A RABBIT OUT OF A HAT PROVIDED BY THE SYSTEM )This has led some commentators to assert that the mullahs are trying to set up their version of the AKP to prevent a genuine one from emerging.

Whether or not that is the case, what matters is that no one in Turkey is trying to imitate the Iranian model.

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ANOTHER MULLAH LOVING APOLOGIST BLURBS ON ABOUT HIS BELOVED HEZBOLLAH MASQUERADING AS PASDARANS, IRGC.

Read the full article here: http://tinyurl.com/3x46og
AND THIS IS RASMAN JANI TALKING IN FRIDAY PRAYER 39-11-2007
http://www.iranpressnews.com/media/571022007.mp3


Conclusion: Defusing the Guards

Bahramerad says: There is only one way of getting ride of cancer- operate.
Cut it, and burn it - take it out of the patients body and sling it in the dustbin and then destroy it !
The notion that direct negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran legitimize its authority is to ignore the basic truth that the fundamental source of legitimacy of the Iranian regime lies with the Iranian people.
AND THEY DO NOT RECOGNISE THE LEGITIMACY OF THE FASCIST MULLAH MAFIAS.
A crisis of legitimacy has already been in process in Iran since the election of Mohammed Khatami in 1997.
THAT'S TRUE - BUT IT ACTUALLY EVEN BEGAN MUCH EARLIER - IN 1979 - WHEN IRANIAN PEOPLE WERE DECEIVED IN VOTING FOR THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IDIOTS !
What a policy of engagement consists of is not the Shi'ite "appeasement" of the Iranian government but its recognition as a regional power, and the understanding that the best way to contain Iran would depend not on external forces of pressure (eg UN sanctions or military attacks), but the weakening of the most radicalized faction of the IRGC, which seeks to keep Iran isolated for its own economic interests.
DO NOT BE A FOOL ! IRGC IS THE STORM TROOPERS, THE SS- OF THE SAME SNAKE LYING IN JAMKARAN WELL AND GHOM !
In this sense, the most effective way to chip away at the IRGC's power is to vigorously integrate it into the global economic and political system rather than isolate it.
NO ITS NOT - JUST BANKRUPT IT - TAKE ITS MONEY AWAY AND THEY WILL JOIN THE MILLIONS OF IMPOVERISHED , POOR AND DESTITUTE IRANIANS- BEGGING FOR THEIR NEXT MEAL !
Similar to the Chinese military, the IRGC is now a major financial enterprise, but its economic power is unevenly distributed among its members.
BOLLOCKS ! - YOU WISH !
DO NOT COMPARE YOUR SILLY SONS OF HAJI'S 'IRGC' WITH A BILLION CHINESE ENTERPRISES USING SLAVE LABOURS TO MAKE GOODS FOR THE AMERICAN MARKET AND POURING ALL THE PROCEEDS BACK INTO WALL STREET AS A FORM OF LOANS TO PROP UP 'THE DOLLAR'!
Many lower-ranking Guard militants come from the low-income sector of Iranian society and have leanings toward the reformist camp. Offering younger IRGC officers an opportunity to participate in regional and global markets could create division between senior and middle ranks within the Guard's economic community.
THAT'S ALREADY HAPPENING AND THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE AFRAID OF ! FOR THE MASS UPRISING OF THOSE THAT YOU TRAINED TO PROP UP THE MULLAH'S TO NOW TURN AGAINST THEM! ( REMEMBER THE HOMA FARA'S IN 1978)
An obsession with force threatens to unite the IRGC against a common enemy and brings the younger, more impoverished generation closer to the older, wealthier generation.
THE COMMON ENEMY OD ALL THE TRUE IRANIANS ARE THE MULLAH CLASS AND THEIR STOOGES LIKE YOU !
As the sound of the drum-beat of confrontation increases, the call for unity within Iran also gets louder.
YES THAT'S THE SOUND OF NO - NO- NO - TO THE MULLAH'S- THAT'S WHAT THE NATIONS SAYS.
The consequence of the policy of disengagement is that Iranian influence in Afghanistan and Iraq is enhanced by the growing military threat on Iran; this accordingly follows the empowerment of Iranian hardliners in the country's domestic political circles with the looming threat of an invasion by a foreign force already occupying two of Iran's neighbors.
NO YOU IDIOT. YOUR GOD DAMNED POLICY OF KILLING INNOCENT WOMEN , CHILDREN AND ALL AND SUNDRY WITH BOMBS AND ROCKETS HAVE TURNED THE IRAQ'S AND AFGHANS AGAINST ALL THE TERRORIST LIKE YOU !
The irony of the US policy of disengagement is that the more it aims to weaken the IRGC through sanctions, the more it strengthens its military influence, and hence increases the chance of conflict in a region the United States has sought to stabilize for many years.
LET'S SEE AT THE SHOW TIME, THE ZERO HOUR, WHICH ONE WILL COME UP TOPS!
Hussain Mousavi writes on the Middle East.
In support of Islamic Republic of Idiots ( IRI )
BAHRAMERAD WRITES FOR HIMSELF
AND THE GREAT PEOPLE OF IRAN!

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