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News round-up & update for August 8th & 9th »

Posted by Zand-Bon on Aug 8th, 2010 and filed under News, PLANET IRAN NEWS FOCUS, Photos, Video, video gallery. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

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One of the posters for the Iranian regime’s women’s dress code crackdown known as the .

* * Below: A video from Fars News, the media arm of the Revolutionary Guards claiming that the Iranian regime has dug graves for all the “foreign soldiers” who they will kill on Iranian soil.


Armed members of Sarollah during Tehran protests

* * Seven members of Iranian reformist parties, the Islamic Iran Participation Front and Mujahedeen of the Islamic Revolution pressed charges against a group of military and intelligence officers. of complaint which was addressed to Sadegh Larijani, the head of judiciary and Mohammad Kazem Bahrami the head of judicial branch of the armed forces was published in various reformist websites today and signed by reformist leaders Mohsen Aminzadeh, Mostafa Tajzadeh, Abdollah Ramzanzadeh, Feizollah Arabsorkhi, Mohsen Safai-Farahani, Mohsen Mirdamadi and Behzad Nabavi.

The letter alleges that on July 22, an audio file surfaced revealing the voice of one Commander Moshfeq who during a security meeting, explains methods of identifying and dealing with opposition forces in the aftermath of the fraudulent June 2009 presidential election. In the letter Moshfeq, a senior intelligence officer at Sarollah base (an Iran Revolutionary Guards and Basij militia base that controls the Greater Province of Tehran’s security matters) is named and it clarifies that his statements are “proof of illegal actions of a despotic group in the course of elections and the coup d’etat through election.”The signatories maintain: “According to this document (the audio file), the speech reveals that this group has taken illegal actions, which are also against the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s ideals, in the name of the current leadership. The speaker in the file repeatedly attributes his statements to the Supreme Leader and justifies his statement by referring to approval of the leader.”

The Iranian regime denies the charges and accuses the opposition of fomenting sedition.  The seven members of Iran’s reformist parties claim that a military and intelligence group planned Ahmadinejad’s opponents’ defeat just as soon as their presence in the presidential race was approved.

The letter also ascribes nine charges of various forms of tampering  in the 2009 presidential elections against the commanders of Sarallah Base.

AUDIO : Moshfeq’s speech, & (in Persian)

Hassan Qashqavi

* * Brain drain, what brain drain? In yet another denial by the Iranian regime’s authorities, Hassan Qashqavi, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister proudly announced: “There is high rate of highly trained people immigrating to Iran and there are certain statistics available to that effect”. He claimed that a greater number of expert minds are immigrating to Iran than the those migrating abroad.

Qashqavi’s comment comes at a time when the shows that Iran ranks first amongst 91 developing and underdeveloped countries that are faced with brain drain.  The report states that this rate of migration is equal to a loss of 50 billion dollars a year for Iran. For example, the report states that currently 250 thousand Iranian engineers and physicians and more than 170 thousand Iranians with higher education live in the US.  According to official reports, 1.2 million Iranians graduate from Iranian universities and 15 percent of them leave Iran.

In May, Iranian Minister of Science, Kamran Daneshjoo, like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, also refuted this fact.

* * Below: A video of Iranian-Canadian, residents of Toronto on urgent action for Iranian political prisoners on hunger strike and death row.

Ali Al Shami (left), Manouchehr Mottaki (right)

* * Iranian regime-run Television reported: “Manouchehr Mottaki, Iranian Foreign Minister announced that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be traveling to Lebanon following the holy month of Ramadan, as planned.” As reported, following a meeting between Mottaki and Ali Al Shami, Foreign Minister of Lebanon who is visiting Iran, Mottaki said: “During this trip, we spoke about the relations between our countries, further expanding our cooperation, economic interaction and regional issues. The Foreign Minister of Lebanon thanks the Islamic Republic of Iran for its determination and resistance in protecting Lebanon against the incursion of the Zionist regime.”

* * Below: And here is a video of Keystone Cops driving and traffic adventures in Iran.

* * Iranian regime’s own media outlet reports that a majority of Iranians do reject Tehran’s nuclear policies. According to a report by the state-run Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), based on a poll taken by their own Center for Polling and Opinion and conducted among 1172 Iranians, only 22.1% have a positive view of the Iranian regime’s nuclear tract. This ratio in comparison to the polling conducted last year, this time, where 45.2% of the respondents supported the nuclear tract, is a noticeable decrease. Also 41% regarded the government as less capable vis a vis the nuclear tract whereas the previous poll showed that 21% viewed it as such.

These numbers come at a time when the Iranian government continues to claim that a large cross-section of the Iranian public supports the nuclear policies.

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