Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran’s weblog
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SMCCDI Note: The Islamic republic regime uses, often, false labels in oder to justify the extermination of those of its exasperated opponents who resort to retaliate against its brutal rule.
Public execution is used in order to increase the fear among the population, on what can be the price for daring to really stand against the “holy popular regime”.
News report here.
SMCCDI Note: The Islamic republic regime uses, often, false labels in oder to justify the extermination of those of its exasperated opponents who resort to retaliate against its brutal rule.
Public execution is used in order to increase the fear among the population, on what can be the price for daring to really stand against the “holy popular regime”.
SMCCDI – Special Report
Dec 30, 2007Several secret and non official meetings have taken place, in the last days, between the Islamic regime’s Ali Larijani and the French President Nicolas Sarkosy in Egypt.
These meetings have taken place due to the intermediation of the Egyptian Government and following several days of tractation.
Officially, both men are simply visiting Egypt, and without meeting each other, but informed dissident sources, among the Islamic republic regime, have reported the existence of the secret tractations.
Larijani is supposedly visiting Egypt, with his family members, and has had several meetings with Egyptian officials; and Sarkosy is passing his holidays with his new girlfriend, while having, also, meetings with Egypt’s President and officials.
Iraq, Iran Dispute 1975 Border Agreement (SEE SMCCDI Note…)
United Press International – World News
Dec 26, 2007
SMCCDI Note: American and/or British governments must avoid mixing any policy, against the Islamic republic regime, with the interest of the Iranian Nation; They must especially avoid showing any kind of support, for the “very fragile” Iraqi Government, or to push its shaky leaders, in order to think being able to formulate any kind of illegitimate claim, in order to try to contest any part of the 1975 Algiers Accord; which is a well known UN recognized treaty.
An American and/or British governments’ move, in that wrong line, will only help the Islamic regime propaganda machine, in order to harvest in Iranians’ well known patriotic feeling.
Also, the new and very fragile Iraqi Government must remember of the fate of Saddam and of the agressive Iraqi Army, when they tried to disregard the very same 1975 Algiers accord, by invading the Iranian land in 1980. In addition, the Iraqi leaders must also remember that their country still owes billions of dollars, to the Iranian Nation, for the destruction caused by their countrymen’s repealed agression.
Iranians have shown, massively, on how they can unite in order to fight for the respect of their borders, and of the very same UN recognized 1975 Algiers Accord, which re-established Iran’s sovereignty over half of Arvand-Rood.
Without any doubt, “everyone” must expect that Iranians will rise, once again, in order to demonstrate their firm determination to protect any small part of their country!
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Iraqi and Iranian officials are in dispute over a 1975 agreement that defined their common border. While Iraqi President Jalal Talabani rejects the Algiers Accord, most Iranian officials uphold it, the Fars News agency reported. But Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki apparently accepts the accord, at least as a basis for discussion.
The accord set the border at the center of the waterway known as Arvand Rood in Iran and Shatt-al-Arab in Iraq.
A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that Iraqi officials who talked of rejecting the accord are speaking without legal foundation.
Saddam Hussein and the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi signed the accord in 1975. In 1980, after the shah had been deposed, Saddam tore up a copy of the document on national television five days before he attacked Iran, launching an eight-year war. Fars said.
This agreement was between Saddam and the Shah of Iran not between Iran and Iraq. We want good and excellent relations with our Islamic republic neighbor of Iran and we have talked with our brothers Iranians before about it, the Iraqi government Web site reported.
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SMCCDI Note: Please read the Movement’s point of view and position, in reference to any gas deal made with the UAE or with any Arab country of the Persian Gulf region, at: http://daneshjoo.org/article/publish/article_2397.shtml
Read the whole piece here.
SMCCDI Note: The absolute majority of Iranians reject the backwarded and terrorist Marxist-Islamist group named as “PMOI” or “MKO”. Without doubt, this group and its political umbrella nor represent Iranians, nor are a credible and accepted Iranian opposition.
PMOI or MKO group is known to have been involved in the crushing of several Iraqi rebellions, as mercenaries of Saddam Hussein, at the issue of the first Persian Gulf war.
UK Justice’s questionnable decision, will only serve the Islamic regime’s propaganda machine. Indeed, it will be very easy for the Mullahs regime to claim about the existence of double standards in the “war against terror”.
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SMCCDI Note: The Islamic republic regime uses, often, false labels in oder to justify the extermination of those of its exasperated opponents who resort to retaliate against its brutal rule.
Public execution is used in order to increase the fear among the population, on what can be the price for daring to really stand against the “holy popular regime”.
TEHRAN – Iran hanged three convicted drug smugglers in the central city of Qom on Sunday, Iranian media said, in the latest public execution in the Islamic state.
European countries and Western rights groups have criticised a growing number of executions this year in Iran, which Amnesty International says has one of the highest rates of capital punishment in the world.
Iran says it is prosecuting criminals under its Islamic sharia law and rejects criticism of its human rights record, accusing Western countries of double standards.
Iran is a transit route for drugs smuggled from Afghanistan to the West and elsewhere. Iranian forces often clash with well-armed smugglers of drugs and other contraband.
“Police in Qom are firmly following its anti-narcotics programme by acting against trafficking networks,” provincial police commander Rahim Khorshidvand was quoted as saying by the Mehr News Agency.
“The Qom prosecutor supports our efforts by issuing heavy punitive verdicts against those criminals,” he said.
The number of executions in Iran, many in public, has risen since July with the launch of a crackdown on “immoral” behaviour. Police say they have arrested many murderers, rapists and drug traffickers.
Murder, rape, adultery, armed robbery, apostasy and drug smuggling are all punishable by death under Iran’s sharia law, imposed after the 1979 Islamic revolution. Five drug dealers were hanged in the city of Birjand on Nov. 20.
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SMCCDI Note: MKO is a terrorist and backwarded Islamo-Marxist group, which was not only involved in the murders of several American Military advisors before 1979, but was also a major tool in service of Saddam Hussein once it lost the battle of taking power from the Mullahs, which it contributed, to their take of power.
This group is rejected by an absolute majority of Iranians and it’s astonishing to see how some media and lobbies are trying to portray it as Iran’s Main Opposition.
Without doubt, the decision of British judiciary, inspired by the bad principle of “my enemy’s enemy, is my friend”, will only help the propaganda machine of the Islamic republic regime on the ingenuity of the “War Against Terror”.
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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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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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