Wary Of War, Persian Gulf Eyes Ahmadinejad Visit For Clues (SEE SMCCDI Note…)

Reuters – World News
Nov 15, 2007SMCCDI Note: The term PERSIAN has been inserted, by SMCCDI, in front of each meaningless word “Gulf”.

Reuters Editorial, like most British media, shows, here and one more time, of its lack of integrity and of reporting low morality by trying systematically to avoid using the histrical and UN recognized full name of the Persian Gulf, in order to accomodate some backwarded Naserian Pan-Arab circles of the region.

What a shame!!!

MANAMA  - PERSIAN Gulf Arab states hope Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will use a visit to Bahrain on Saturday to show his country is not seeking to escalate a standoff over its nuclear program, analysts say.

Ahmadinejad’s visit comes amid mounting concerns in the PERSIAN Gulf  that the United States could launch military action against the Iran, though Washington says it is committed to resolving the crisis over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions diplomatically.

“The (PERSIAN) Gulf  will be watching for reassurance that Iran is not seeking escalation, and will talk about its nuclear ambitions within international laws,” said Mansoor al-Jamri, editor of Bahrain’s independent al-Wasat newspaper.

British newspapers quoted Bahrain’s Crown Prince Sheikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa earlier this month as saying Iran was developing nuclear weapons, a view shared by the West but rarely expressed in public by Iran’s Arab neighbors.

Iran says its nuclear program is for electricity.

Bahraini officials later denied the British newspaper reports, and an official account of the interviews he gave them said he had called for diplomacy to ease tensions.

PERSIAN Gulf  Arab states, including Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have strong cultural links with non-Arab Shi’ite Iran through their own Shi’ite populations or the large Iranian community in the region.

They also have close trade links. Iran will sign an agreement on Saturday to supply natural gas to Bahrain.

But rulers in the largely Sunni-ruled and U.S.-allied region are wary of what they see as growing Shi’ite influence.

Bahrain is Sunni-ruled, with a majority Shi’ite population. Sectarian strife has flared in the past, but reforms such as pardoning prisoners and exiles have eased tensions.

However comments by an Iranian newspaper editor in July that Bahrain, home to the U.S. navy’s fifth fleet, was an Iranian province and should be returned sparked outrage and protests on the island. Iran swiftly rejected the comments.

PERSIAN GULF ARAB ROLE

PERSIAN Gulf  Arab countries have consistently warned against any slide into war over Iran’s nuclear program yet their input in dampening the mounting tension has been relatively small, analysts say, even though the region has the most to lose.

The PERSIAN Gulf  is the world’s top oil exporting region, and its economies are booming on a near five-fold increase in oil prices since 2002.

About 40 percent of the world’s globally traded oil skirts Iran’s coast through the Strait of Hormuz in the PERSIAN Gulf , and an Iranian commander last week said “martyrdom-seeking” militia could disrupt PERSIAN Gulf  transport routes in the event of war.

Talks to resolve the impasse have centered on the U.N. nuclear watchdog in Vienna, and among the United States, Britain, France and Germany under the auspices of the U.N. Security Council.

A Saudi proposal this month to set up a consortium that would provide Iran with enriched uranium for peaceful purposes has not helped defuse the standoff as Iran said it would not halt its own enrichment program.

“Ahmadinejad’s trip is a very good opportunity for Bahrain to open frank discussions on many fronts,” former Bahraini government minister Ali Fakhro said.

“I’m disturbed that not enough direct discussion with Iran has taken place, because it is a very important player in the region, politically, economically, militarily and culturally.”

This week, a Bahrain state news agency report quoted Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki as saying Ahmadinejad’s visit aimed to enhance bilateral ties, and reiterated Iran’s stance that it is complying with international nuclear law.

Mottaki was also quoted repeating an offer made in May to share nuclear technology with PERSIAN Gulf  countries under the supervision of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog.

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Jerusalem Post mentioned SMCCDI’s Coordinator

On September 2006, a JPost article reported some statements by the SMCCDI Coordinator, Aryo B. Pirouznia, regarding Israel’s concerns on the Islamic regime’s nuclear activities and other topics regarding Iranians’ real feelings as opposed to the regime’s anti-semitic propaganda.

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Three terrorists killed in western Iran (SEE SMCCDI Note…)

AFP – World News
Nov 8, 2007SMCCDI Note: Unfortunately, there are some American circles that are trying to make believe that PJAK terrorists are looking to establish a kind of “democracy” in Iran.
This is a baseless claim which is rejected by a mojority of Iranians who are well aware that members of this separatist group, mainly non Iranians and recruited among Turkish and Iraqi Kurdish minorities, are simply tools in the hands of some foreign circles which are mixing hostility, toward the Islamic republic which is rejected by most Iranians, with the interest of the Iranian People and especially with Iranian Kurdish.

That’s why PJAK has no real success or popularity inside Iran and is doomed to carry limited terrorist attacks mostly limited to Iranian Kurdish provinces.

Such ill-policies are fueling the propaganda machine of the Islamic republic on the real attention of the US and Israel governments and their claims to be friend of the Iranian People.

TEHRAN  – Iranian security forces have killed three Kurdish rebels in the western province of Kordestan, the government daily Iran said on Thursday.

“Three armed members of the PJAK terrorist group were killed in Kamyaran county, Kordestan province,” the report said, without specifying when the incident took place.

The rebels were identified as “nationals of a neighbouring country.”

Iran’s Kordestan, Kermanshah and West Azarbaijan provinces, which border northern Iraq, have substantial Kurdish populations.

The Kurdish rebel group PJAK (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan), which is linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighting the Turkish army, has been behind a string of deadly attacks in northwestern Iran in recent months.

Iran has repeatedly accused the United States of seeking to stir up ethnic unrest by giving material support to PJAK and outlawed rebel groups in other sensitive border regions.

Iran has echoed Turkey’s frustration over the failure of the authorities in northern Iraq to crack down on Kurdish rebels, but says it wants a peaceful end to the standoff.

Tehran does not back Ankara’s threats of military action in northern Iraq, where both PJAK and the PKK have bases from which they launch cross-border attacks into Iran and Turkey.

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Iraq declares new agreement on border demarcation as “premature” (SEE SMCCDI Note…)

Kuwait News Agency – World News
Nov 7, 2007SMCCDI Note: Bristish and American governments must avoid mixing any hostility toward the Islamic regime, with the legitimate interest of the Iranian People. They should avoid letting the Iraqi government believe that it can seize the moment, in order to disreagard the treaty which established, in 1975, the Iran-Iraq border and the median sovireignity line over Arvand-Rood (Shat El Arab in Arabic).

Saddam Hussein tried to disreagard this accord, in 1979 and by attacking Iran, but faced the expression of Iranian Nationalism; Without doubt, millions of Iranians are ready, one more time, to defend their borders; and this fact will only contribute to buy more time for the Islamic regime while it will plunge the region into another chaos.

Instead, British and Americans must request from Iraq to be ready to pay the billions of dollars, that it owes to Iranians People, for the damages this country caused during the 1979-1987 agression. Such legitimate indemnity should be paid to the future Iranian regime upon the liberation, by Iranians, of ther country from the Islamic regime.

Anything else, and ill policies such as helping separatists, like Pejak, or pushing the Iraqi regime to play such game, will only contribute to put an end toward Iranians friendship.

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that it was premature to sign a new border demarcation agreement between Iraq and Iran in place of the Algeria agreement that was signed in 1975.

Iraqi Foreign Undersecretary Mohammad Al-Haj Hmoud told KUNA that the Iraqi government considers the Algeria agreement invalid, adding that a delegation would head to Iran soon to discuss the issue of divergence of Shatt Al-Arab river and nothing else.
He stressed that all pending issues between the two countries should be resolved before signing any new agreement reactivating the Algeria one.

He said the issue of Shatt Al-Arab river divergence was a very significant topic and concerns interests of both countries.

He denied that the mission of the Iraqi delegation was to reactivate the Algeria agreement of 1975 as Iranian assistant Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Mohammad reda baqeri had mentioned.

He said that Iraq and Iran had formed a joint committee to discuss the issue of restoring Shatt Al-Arab river back to its normal track, removal of sunken ships and removal of mines.

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The shameful comments of Debra Cagan

I hate all Iranians, US aide tells MPs (SMCCDI Note: What a shame….!)
Daily Mail – By Simon Walters
Nov 6, 2007

Hard line: Debra Cagan stunned the MPs with her comments

Britsh MPs visiting the Pentagon to discuss America’s stance on Iran and Iraq were shocked to be told by one of President Bush’s senior women officials: “I hate all Iranians.”

And she also accused Britain of “dismantling” the Anglo-US-led coalition in Iraq by pulling troops out of Basra too soon.

The all-party group of MPs say Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs to Defence Secretary Robert Gates, made the comments this month.

The six MPs were taken aback by the hardline approach of the Pentagon and in particular Ms Cagan, one of Mr Bush’s foreign policy advisers.

She made it clear that although the US had no plans to attack Iran, it did not rule out doing so if the Iranians ignored warnings not to develop a nuclear bomb.

It was her tone when they met her on September 11 that shocked them most.

The MPs say that at one point she said: “In any case, I hate all Iranians.”

Although it was an aside, it was not out of keeping with her general demeanour.

“She seemed more keen on saying she didn’t like Iranians than that the US had no plans to attack Iran,” said one MP. “She did say there were no plans for an attack but the tone did not fit the words.”

Another MP said: “I formed the impression that some in America are looking for an excuse to attack Iran. It was very alarming.”

Tory Stuart Graham, who was on the ten-day trip, would not discuss Ms Cagan but said: “It was very sobering to hear from the horse’s mouth how the US sees the situation.”

Ms Cagan, whose job involves keeping the coalition in Iraq together, also criticised Britain for pulling out troops.

“She said if we leave the south of Iraq, the Iranians will take it over,” said one MP.

Another said: “She is very forceful and some of my colleagues were intimidated by her muscular style.”

The MPs also saw Henry Worcester, Deputy Director of the Office of Iranian Affairs, who said he favoured talks with Iran.

The Pentagon denied Ms Cagan said she “hated” Iranians.

“She doesn’t speak that way,” said an official.

But when The Mail on Sunday spoke to four of the six MPs, three confirmed privately that she made the remark and one declined to comment. The other two could not be contacted.

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U.S. Navy starts exercises in Persian Gulf waters (SEE SMCCDI Note…..)

SMCCDI Note: The term PERSIAN has been inserted, by SMCCDI, in front of the meaningless term of GULF used in the below Reuters report. This article is another prove of British and European media abusive and discriminatory behavior in reference to the well known name of PERSIAN Gulf;

It should be also a good prove for the Iranian People of the low morality of those supposed to be attached to “Ethic” or “Etiquette” and how they are ready to disreagard or steal, so easy, others cultural heritage, when their immoral interest in the region can be in line.

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