Iran Disappearing

Iran's birthrate is as low as Nazi Germany's, and anti-Semitism is the common factor

 "Iran's birthrate has been plummeting (and that its STD rates are staggeringly high.)"

This Is Rich...

...Khamenei: 'American Sniper' encourages harassment of Muslims

Why, it was only a few years ago the Mad Mullahs were killing Muslims on the streets of Tehran for not being Muslim enough.

"June 12 is the fifth anniversary of the birth of Iran's democratic Green Movement. Though the open resistance of this popular movement has been suppressed, it has been morally vindicated in the intervening years and remains as a constituency imbedded in Iran's body politic, ready to emerge once again when the opportunity arises.

And the opportunity will surely arise. The Islamic Republic of Iran is not your usual authoritarian state. As a hybrid of religious dictatorship and competitive elections, the regime generates its own opposition, see-sawing back and forth between conservatives and reformists. One day, the balance of power will shift decisively toward democracy and against the Ayatollahs.

It is precisely because competitive elections within a religious dictatorship are so meaningful that the election five years ago in 2009 was so passionately contested.

On that day in 2009 Iran's 10th presidential elections were held. Over 39 million people, representing about 85 percent of the eligible voters, cast their votes. According to the government's claims, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received 62.6 percent of the votes, while his main opponent, former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi received 33.75 percent. The disbelief that these results were accurate ignited the widespread protests of the Green Movement."

You Can Run...

...but you cannot hide - at least not in Uruguay:

Uruguay Expels Iranian Diplomat After Bomb Exploded Near Israeli Embassy

"Alberto Nisman, an Argentinian prosecutor, who has documented Iran’s extensive terror ties in South America, was found dead under suspicious circumstances nearly three weeks ago as he was preparing to present evidence that Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was conspired with Iran to cover up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires."

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"In recent years the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah has been implicated in targeting Jews or Israeli interests in Peru, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Nigeria and Thailand."

Does That Include Me, I Wonder

IRAN MINISTER SAYS ALL WEB SURFERS TO BE ‘IDENTIFIED’

Islamic Regime in Iran Is Planning for a System to observe the Identify of all Internet Users in Iran !

Come and get me, assholes.

You Go Girls!!

Iranian Cleric Beaten by Women after Ordering Them to Wear Hijab

"An Iranian cleric has claimed he was beaten by two women outside a mosque after he warned one of them to cover up.

Hojatoleslam (a middle ranking cleric) Ali Beheshti told the semi-official Mehr news agency that he advised one of the women, whom he believed was not properly dressed, to cover her eyes.

"She responded to me by saying: 'You [should] close your eyes," the cleric said, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Ali Beheshti, a leading religious figure in the city of Shahrmirzad, repeated the warning to the woman, saying their attire did not follow the Islamic dress code that became compulsory after the 1979 revolution.

"Not only didn't she not cover herself up but she also insulted me. I asked her not to insult me any more but she started shouting and threatening me," Beheshti said.

"She pushed me and I fell to the ground on my back. From that point on, I don't know what happened. I was just feeling the kicks of the women who were beating me up.""

Erdogan: Women are not equal to men

"Lawyer and women's rights activist Hulya Gulbahar said Erdogan's comments were in violation of Turkey's constitution, Turkish laws and international conventions on gender equality and didn't help efforts to stem high incidences of violence against women in Turkey.


"Such comments by state officials which disregard equality between men and women play an important role in the rise of violence against women," Gulbahar said. "Such comments aim to make women's presence in public life - from politics to arts, from science to sports - debatable."


Erdogan, a devout Muslim, often courts controversy with divisive public comments. He has previously angered women's groups by stating that women should bear at least three children and by attempting to outlaw abortion and adultery."

There is hope yet.

Oooooh. We're Being Rather Tight Lipped, Aren't We?

UPDATED AND BUMPED: Satellite images show damage to Parchin buildings believed used for nuclear weapons

"Satellite images have confirmed that a leading Iranian nuclear facility was bombed.

Images taken by the French satellite Pleiades showed considerable damage at the Parchin military complex near Teheran. The satellite showed that an explosion confirmed by the Iranian regime took place in the facility closed to the International Atomic Energy Agency for nearly a decade."

So what is it? An explosion within or a bomb from above? Maybe the Joooos didn't do it. But maybe they did. All eyes have been diverted to ISIS in northern Iraq. Perfect time for Israel to launch a strike.
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Report: Two dead after explosion in Iranian nuclear facility

"Two workers were killed in an explosion that took place at a military explosives factory southeast of Tehran, near the suspected nuclear reactor in Parchin, IRNA, the official Iranian news agency, reported Monday.

The agency quoted Iran’s Defense Industries Organization, which said a fire occurred Sunday night, killing two people. The agency did not provide additional information."

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"The Saham opposition website reported that a huge explosion occurred at the large facility in Parchin, located 30 km. southeast of Tehran.

According to the report, the powerful explosion blew out the windows of buildings located up to 15 km. away from the base, and eyewitnesses could observe the blast from a distance.

Parchin is a controversial military base where Israel and the International Atomic Energy Agency suspect the Islamic Republic is attempting to develop a nuclear explosive device. IAEA inspectors have not been permitted to enter the site since 2005."

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"Channel 2 News reported that in the past it was claimed that Qazvin hosted an “unreported nuclear site” that contained stored uranium. In January of last year, Israeli intelligence officials confirmed that an explosion damaged Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility, which is being used to enrich uranium.

Three years ago, Iran said a massive explosion at a military base 45 km. west of Tehran killed 17 Revolutionary Guards members, including the head of the elite force’s missile program. It said the blast was caused by an accident while weapons were being moved.

On Oct. 5, Iran’s Defense Industries Organization said a fire erupted in a factory that produced explosives in Teheran and killed two employees. Later, the Iranian opposition said the explosion took place near Parchin, located 30 kilometers southeast of Teheran.

The satellite images, taken 24 hours after the blast, showed that Parchin was the target of the bombing. The images, analyzed by an Israeli specialist, Ronen Solomon, disclose the destruction of several buildings at Parchin, including that of a purported nuclear weapons testing site.

“The explosion wiped several testing units off the face of the earth while inflicting collateral damage on adjacent buildings, with traces of fire clearly visible in a section located in a sparsely afforested area,” Solomon said in the Israel Defense magazine on Oct. 8.

IAEA has raised the prospect that Parchin was used to test fuzes for nuclear warheads. Iran has denied the suspicions but refused access to the United Nations agency.

“Before and after images indicate that a complete section of structures was simply eliminated by an unexplained explosion,” Solomon said."

(Emphasis mine, throughout) The Joooos did it.

I Didn't Know This Was Before The Courts

UPDATED AND BUMPED: Drat.

Zahra Kazemi's son blocked by Supreme Court from suing Iran

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Sure hope he wins:

Supreme Court to rule whether Zahra Kazemi's son can sue Iran

I just have two things to say. One, it sure takes a long time. Two, I hope Iran loses.

Iran: Ruled By Madmen

‘Happy in Tehran’ Dancers Are Given Suspended Sentences

"A group of young Iranian men and women known as the “Happy in Tehran” dancers, arrested in May for videotaping themselves cavorting to Pharrell Williams’s popular dance hit, were informed on Thursday of their punishments: 91 lashes and six months of imprisonment for each."

You're not allowed to have fun, I guess. When will that regime fall?

Sooooo...

...Is this a trumped up charge or is it true:

"Egypt state media is reporting that the top prosecutor has referred Morsi to trial for conspiring with foreign groups with the intention of carrying out terrorist operations in the country.

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"Egypt state media is reporting that the country's top prosecutor has referred ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to trial for conspiring with foreign groups with the intention of carrying out terrorist operations in the country.

The state news agency reported Wednesday that Morsi and 35 others, including the Muslim Brotherhood's top three leaders, are charged with revealing state secrets to a foreign country, sponsoring terrorism and carrying out military training and other acts that undermined Egypt's stability and independence.

Morsi is already under investigation over allegations he and the Brotherhood worked with the Palestinian militant group Hamas on a prison break that freed him and other members of the group during Egypt's 2011 uprising."

I can believe it

More here:

"Prosecutors claim that while president, Morsi and his aides revealed state secrets to the militant groups and to Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Morsi and 35 others, including the Muslim Brotherhood's top three leaders, are also accused of sponsoring terrorism and carrying out combat training and other acts to undermine Egypt's stability.

The charges, which refer to incidents as far back as 2005, carry the death penalty.

Mohammed el-Damaty, a defense lawyer for Muslim Brotherhood members, said the lawyers have not attended any of their clients' interrogations and have no idea about the details of the charges."

That last little bit is interesting, isn't it? Don't know quite what to think about i, but that stench has a familiar quality. Sleaze, I think it is. Or maybe fear. If I was legal counsel for the Muslim Brotherhood, I'd be looking over my shoulder. And it looks like they are:

"At least 17 of the 35 people charged Wednesday with Morsi are on the run, prosecutors said."

I think I'll quit complaining about the snow.

Was It Ahmadinejad?

Iran 'sends monkey to space for second time'

Earlier.

Uh-Huh

Khamenei to IRGC: Nuclear weapons against our beliefs

Thing is, is he scared of some "collateral damage" coming out of the situation in Syria? Is he reflecting the fact that Iran has been crippled and isolated? Or is he just feigning innocence while plotting evil? Or something else? In any case it sure is an about face.

Only His Hairdresser Knows For Sure

(Okay. Okay. Ya, it sucks, but it's the best title I could come up with for now.)

Netanyahu won't confirm that Israel attacked Syrian port

"The explosions that rocked the Syrian port city of Latakia last week, destroying a weapons cache, continue to reverberate in regional politics as accusations and denials abound.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to say Sunday whether Israel was responsible for the July 5 attack, as has been reported. "I am not in the habit of saying what we did do or didn't do," he told CBS' Bob Schieffer on "Face the Nation."

What Netanyahu would say was that his policy is "to prevent the transfer of dangerous weapons to Hezbollah and other terror groups ... and we stand by that policy.""

I wonder how the Mad Mullahs in Iran are doing these days. Shitting their drawers, I bet.

All Eyes On Iran

Iranians go to the polls again, today (or boycott them). Since the choices they will have to select from on the ballot are preselected by the Mad Mullahs, I don't expect much to change. BUT there is the possibility that the electorate will stay home in droves. Of course, the Mad Mullahs will take pains to ensure that isn't acknowledged. There are several sites in my blogroll where the reader can learn what really happens. I am a dinner jacket's (Ahmadinejad) replacement will be a key factor to watch for.

You go, John Baird!!

An interesting website hosted by the U of T: Global Dialog on the future of Iran, and some great videos of same.

Time For Another...

...sham election in Iran approaches. To keep up on events there try these websites:

For a democratic secular Iran. For peace and prosperity in the Middle East

The Green Voice of Freedom

The Spirit of Man

Moving Right Along

Blast hits key Iranian nuclear site?

Sure hope it's true.

Next one should go right up Ahmadinejad's ass before it explodes.

PS: I can't believe there aren't several, if not legions of, insiders in Iran who are working with Israel and the West.

I Wonder What's Happening In Iran?

How many of those young people who were protesting in the streets a few years ago are rotting away in jail.

Uh-huh. Tell us something...

...we don't know and would never have guessed:

Iran Congratulates Palestinian Resistance over Victory

"Iran congratulated the Palestinian resistance and people for their victory against the Zionist entity, criticizing Arab and international silence."

Keywords here are "Arab" and "Silence". The Arabs seem to have found a new ally, but aren't too vocal about it. But their silence does speak volumes.

Bummer!

Best we can hope for is The One will approve the Keystone XL fairly quickly, so as not to damage the Dems hopes for the next cycle. Employed people will be happier with the status quo. And Putin is happy. We already know, the Mullah's are down with this. What more could we want?

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA

The Mad Mullahs are shitting their drawers over the prospect of a Romney win! Obama is their man.

Sorry folks, but Romney is our man!

The Noose Tightens

EU tightens sanctions against Iran