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PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 7:16 pm    Post subject: Author of "Millionaire Mullahs" Shot Dead Reply with quote

Author of "Millionaire Mullahs" Shot Dead
July 10, 2004

For Paul Klebnikov's, "Millionaire Mullahs" article, click here

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MOSCOW — The American editor of Forbes Magazine's Russian edition and author of a book about tycoon Boris Berezovsky (search) was shot to death late Friday, the magazine said.

Paul Klebnikov (search), 41, was hit four times outside the magazine's office and died in a rescue-squad vehicle, Russian news reports said. The radio station Ekho Moskvy said shells of two different caliber were found at the scene, indicating at least two assailants.

Police could not be reached for comment, but the killing was confirmed in a statement by Forbes publisher Steve Forbes.

"Paul was a superb reporter -- courageous, dedicated, ever-curious," the statement said. "He knew Russia well. It was a country he deeply loved."

Alexander Gordeyev, editor of the Russian edition of Newsweek magazine, which has offices in the same building, said he came to Klebnikov's side as he lay outside the building.

He was still conscious and able to speak, "but he couldn't say anything about what could have been the cause of the attack," Gordeyev told The Associated Press.

The Interfax news agency quoted Leonid Bershidsky, the publisher of Russian Forbes (search) and Newsweek, as saying that Klebnikov recently "had not dug up anything sensitive."


Forbes started its Russian-language edition in April. Klebnikov, U.S.-born of Russian heritage, previously had been a senior editor with the U.S.-based Forbes.

In a statement late Friday, Klebnikov's family said it expected Russia to bring the assailants to justice, and urged "U.S. and international authorities" to make sure that happens.

"Paul was a fighter for the truth," the statement said. "Even more, he believed in being positive and looking for ways to make the future better. We mourn his death."

In May, Forbes attracted wide attention by publishing a list of Russia's wealthiest people, claiming that Moscow had more billionaires who worked there or amassed their fortunes there than any other city in the world.

"Here people fly and fall with staggering speed," Klebnikov said at a news conference when the list was released.

His 2000 book "Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia" described how Berezovsky, now living in exile in Britain, allegedly siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars out of Russia.

After Klebnikov wrote a profile of Berezovsky for Forbes in 1996, Berezovsky filed a libel suit against the magazine in Britain.

He withdrew the suit in 2003 after the publication acknowledged it was wrong to allege he was involved in the murder of a television personality.

Klebnikov in May said that he believed the chaotic post-Soviet years, when business disputes were often settled by gunfire and car bombs, were a thing of the past.

"The era of so called bandit-capitalism is already in the past. In the mid-90's it was a very, very dirty process ... I think the participants of our list themselves are pleased to leave this era behind," he said.

Klebnikov was a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the London School of Economics.

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Millionaire Mullahs
Paul Klebnikov, 07.21.03

A looming nuclear threat to the rest of the world, Iran is robbing its own people of prosperity. But the men at the top are getting extremely rich.
It's rumble time in Tehran. At dozens of intersections in the capital of Iran thousands of students are protesting on a recent Friday around midnight, as they do nearly every night, chanting pro-democracy slogans and lighting bonfires on street corners. Residents of the surrounding middle-class neighborhoods converge in their cars, honking their horns in raucous support.

Suddenly there's thunder in the air. A gang of 30 motorcyclists, brandishing iron bars and clubs, roars through the stalled traffic. They glare at the drivers, yell threats, thump cars. Burly and bearded, the bikers yank two men from their auto and pummel them. Most protesters scatter. Uniformed policemen watch impassively as the thugs beat the last stragglers.

These bikers are part of the Hezbollah militia, recruited mostly from the countryside. Iran's ruling mullahs roll them out whenever they need to intimidate their opponents. The Islamic Republic is a strange dictatorship. As it moves to repress growing opposition to clerical rule, the regime relies not on soldiers or uniformed police (many of whom sympathize with the protesters) but on the bullies of Hezbollah and the equally thuggish Revolutionary Guards. The powers that be claim to derive legitimacy from Allah but remain on top with gangsterlike methods of intimidation, violence and murder.

Who controls today's Iran? Certainly not Mohammad Khatami, the twice-elected moderate president, or the reformist parliament. Not even the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei--a stridently anti-American but unremarkable cleric plucked from the religious ranks 14 years ago to fill the shoes of his giant predecessor, Ayatollah Khomeini--is fully in control. The real power is a handful of clerics and their associates who call the shots behind the curtain and have gotten very rich in the process.

The economy bears more than a little resemblance to the crony capitalism that sprouted from the wreck of the Soviet Union. The 1979 revolution expropriated the assets of foreign investors and the nation's wealthiest families; oil had long been nationalized, but the mullahs seized virtually everything else of value--banks, hotels, car and chemical companies, makers of drugs and consumer goods. What distinguishes Iran is that many of these assets were given to Islamic charitable foundations, controlled by the clerics. According to businessmen and former foundation executives, the charities now serve as slush funds for the mullahs and their supporters.

Iran has other lethal secrets besides its nuclear program, now the subject of prying international eyes. Dozens of interviews with businessmen, merchants, economists and former ministers and other top government officials reveal a picture of a dictatorship run by a shadow government that--the U.S. State Department suspects--finances terrorist groups abroad through a shadow foreign policy. Its economy is dominated by shadow business empires and its power is protected by a shadow army of enforcers.

Ironically, the man most adept at manipulating this hidden power structure is one of Iran's best-known characters--Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has been named an ayatollah, or religious leader. He was the speaker of parliament and Khomeini's right-hand man in the 1980s, president of Iran from 1989 to 1997 and is now chairman of the powerful Expediency Council, which resolves disputes between the clerical establishment and parliament. Rafsanjani has more or less run the Islamic Republic for the past 24 years.

He played it smart, aligning himself in the 1960s with factions led by Ayatollah Khomeini, then becoming the go-to guy after the revolution. A hard-liner ideologically, Rafsanjani nonetheless has a pragmatic streak. He convinced Khomeini to end the Iran-Iraq war and broke Iran's international isolation by establishing trade relations with the Soviet Union, China, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In the 1990s he restarted Iran's nuclear program.

He is also the father of Iran's "privatization" program. During his presidency the stock market was revived, some government companies were sold to insiders, foreign trade was liberalized and the oil sector was opened up to private companies. Most of the good properties and contracts, say dissident members of Iran's Chamber of Commerce, ended up in the hands of mullahs, their associates and, not least, Rafsanjani's family, who rose from modest origins as pistachio farmers. "They were not rich people, so they worked hard and always tried to help their relatives get ahead," remembers Reza, a historian who declines to use his last name and who studied with one of Rafsanjani's brothers at Tehran University in the early 1970s. "When they were in university, two brothers earned money on the side tutoring theological students and preparing their exam papers."

The 1979 revolution transformed the Rafsanjani clan into commercial pashas. One brother headed the country's largest copper mine; another took control of the state-owned TV network; a brother-in-law became governor of Kerman province, while a cousin runs an outfit that dominates Iran's $400 million pistachio export business; a nephew and one of Rafsanjani's sons took key positions in the Ministry of Oil; another son heads the Tehran Metro construction project (an estimated $700 million spent so far). Today, operating through various foundations and front companies, the family is also believed to control one of Iran's biggest oil engineering companies, a plant assembling Daewoo automobiles, and Iran's best private airline (though the Rafsanjanis insist they do not own these assets).

None of this sits well with the populace, whose per capita income is $1,800 a year. The gossip on the street, going well beyond the observable facts, has the Rafsanjanis stashing billions of dollars in bank accounts in Switzerland and Luxembourg; controlling huge swaths of waterfront in Iran's free economic zones on the Persian Gulf; and owning whole vacation resorts on the idyllic beaches of Dubai, Goa and Thailand.

But not much of the criticism makes its way into print. One journalist who dared to investigate Rafsanjani's secret dealings and his alleged role in extrajudicial killings of dissidents is now languishing in jail. He's lucky. Iranian politics can be deadly. Five years ago Tehran was rocked by murders of journalists and anticorruption activists; some were beheaded, others mutilated.

Some of the family's wealth is out there for all to see. Rafsanjani's youngest son, Yaser, owns a 30-acre horse farm in the superfashionable Lavasan neighborhood of north Tehran, where land goes for over $4 million an acre. Just where did Yaser get his money? A Belgian-educated businessman, he runs a large export-import firm that includes baby food, bottled water and industrial machinery.

Until a few years ago the simplest way to get rich quick was through foreign-currency trades. Easy, if you could get greenbacks at the subsidized import rate of 1,750 rials to the dollar and resell them at the market rate of 8,000 to the dollar. You needed only the right connections for an import license. "I estimate that, over a period of ten years, Iran lost $3 billion to $5 billion annually from this kind of exchange-rate fraud," says Saeed Laylaz, an economist, now with Iran's biggest carmaker. "And the lion's share of that went to about 50 families."

One of the families benefiting from the foreign trade system was the Asgaroladis, an old Jewish clan of bazaar traders, who converted to Islam several generations ago. Asadollah Asgaroladi exports pistachios, cumin, dried fruit, shrimp and caviar, and imports sugar and home appliances; his fortune is estimated by Iranian bankers to be some $400 million. Asgaroladi had a little help from his older brother, Habibollah, who, as minister of commerce in the 1980s, was in charge of distributing lucrative foreign-trade licenses. (He was also a counterparty to commodities trader and then-fugitive Marc Rich, who helped Iran bypass U.S.-backed sanctions.)

The other side of Iran's economy belongs to the Islamic foundations, which account for 10% to 20% of the nation's GDP--$115 billion last year. Known as bonyads, the best-known of these outfits were established from seized property and enterprises by order of Ayatollah Khomeini in the first weeks of his regime. Their mission was to redistribute to the impoverished masses the "illegitimate" wealth accumulated before the revolution by "apostates" and "blood-sucking capitalists." And, for a decade or so, the foundations shelled out money to build low-income housing and health clinics. But since Khomeini's death in 1989 they have increasingly forsaken their social welfare functions for straightforward commercial activities.

Until recently they were exempt from taxes, import duties and most government regulation. They had access to subsidized foreign currency and low-interest loans from state-owned banks. And they were not accountable to the Central Bank, the Ministry of Finance or any other government institution. Formally, they are under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Leader; effectively, they operate without any oversight, answerable only to Allah.

According to Shiite Muslim tradition, devout businessmen are expected to donate 20% of profits to their local mosques, which use the money to help the poor. By contrast, many bonyads seem like rackets, extorting money from entrepreneurs. Besides the biggest national outfits, almost every Iranian town has its own bonyad, affiliated with local mullahs. "Many small businessmen complain that as soon as you start to make some money, the leading mullah will come to you and ask for a contribution to his local charity," says an opposition economist, who declines to give his name. "If you refuse, you will be accused of not being a good Muslim. Some witnesses will turn up to testify that they heard you insult the Prophet Mohammad, and you will be thrown in jail."

Other charities resemble multinational conglomerates. The Mostazafan & Jambazan Foundation (Foundation for the Oppressed and War Invalids) is the second-largest commercial enterprise in the country, behind the state-owned National Iranian Oil Co. Until recently it was run by a man named Mohsen Rafiqdoost. The son of a vegetable-and-fruit merchant at the Tehran bazaar, Rafiqdoost got his big break in 1979, when he was chosen to drive Ayatollah Khomeini from the airport after his triumphal return from exile in Paris.

Khomeini made him Minister of the Revolutionary Guards to quash internal dissent and smuggle in weapons for the Iran-Iraq war. In 1989, when Rafsanjani became president, Rafiqdoost gained control of the Mostazafan Foundation, which employs up to 400,000 workers and has assets that in all probability exceed $10 billion.

Theoretically the Mostazafan Foundation is a social welfare organization. By 1996 it began taking government funds to cover welfare disbursements; soon it plans to spin off its social responsibilities altogether, leaving behind a purely commercial conglomerate owned by--whom? That is not clear. Why does this foundation exist? "I don't know--ask Mr. Rafiqdoost," says Abbas Maleki, a foreign policy adviser to Ayatollah Rafsanjani.

A picture emerges from one Iranian businessman who used to handle the foreign trade deals for one of the big foundations. Organizations like the Mostazafan serve as giant cash boxes, he says, to pay off supporters of the mullahs, whether they're thousands of peasants bused in to attend religious demonstrations in Tehran or Hezbollah thugs who beat up students. And, not least, the foundations serve as cash cows for their managers.

"It usually works like this," explains this businessman. "Some foreigner comes in, proposes a deal to the foundation head. The big boss says: ‘Fine. I agree. Work out the details with my administrator.' So the foreigner goes to see the administrator, who tells him: ‘You know that we have two economies here--official and unofficial. You have to be part of the unofficial economy if you want to be successful. So, you have to deposit the following amount into the following bank account abroad and then the deal will go forward.'"

Today Rafiqdoost heads up the Noor Foundation, which owns apartment blocks and makes an estimated $200 million importing pharmaceuticals, sugar and construction materials. He is quick to downplay his personal wealth. "I am just a normal person, with normal wealth," he says. Then, striking a Napoleonic pose, he adds: "But if Islam is threatened, I will become big again."

Implication: He has access to a secret reservoir of money that can be tapped when the need arises. That may have been what Ayatollah Rafsanjani had in mind when he declared recently that the Islamic Republic needed to keep large funds in reserve. But who is to determine when Islam is in danger?

As minister of the Revolutionary Guards in the 1980s, Rafiqdoost played a key role in sponsoring Hezbollah in Lebanon--which kidnapped foreigners, hijacked airplanes, set off car bombs, trafficked in heroin and pioneered the use of suicide bombers. According to Gregory Sullivan, spokesman for the Near Eastern Affairs Bureau at the U.S. State Department, the foundations are the perfect vehicles to carry out Iran's shadow foreign policy. Whenever suspicion of complicity in a terrorist incident turns to Iran, the Tehran government has denied involvement. State Department officials suspect that such operations may be sponsored by one of the foundations and semiautonomous units of the Revolutionary Guards.

Iran's foundations are a law unto themselves. The largest "charity" (at least in terms of real estate holdings) is the centuries-old Razavi Foundation, charged with caring for Iran's most revered shrine--the tomb of Reza, the Eighth Shiite Imam, in the northern city of Mashhad. It is run by one of Iran's leading hard-line mullahs, Ayatollah Vaez-Tabasi, who prefers to stay out of the public eye but emerges occasionally to urge death to apostates and other opponents of the clerical regime.

The Razavi Foundation owns vast tracts of urban real estate all across Iran, as well as hotels, factories, farms and quarries. Its assets are impossible to value with any precision, since the foundation has never released an inventory of its holdings, but Iranian economists speak of a net asset value of $15 billion or more. The foundation also receives generous contributions from the millions of pilgrims who visit the Mashhad shrine each year.

What happens to annual revenues estimated in the hundreds of millions--perhaps billions--of dollars? Not all of it goes to cover the maintenance costs of mosques, cemeteries, religious schools and libraries. Over the past decade the foundation has bought new businesses and properties, established investment banks (together with investors from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) and financed big foreign trade deals.

The driving force behind the commercialization of the Razavi Foundation is Ayatollah Tabasi's son, Naser, who was put in charge of the Sarakhs Free Trade Zone, on the border with the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan. In the 1990s the foundation poured hundreds of millions of dollars into this project, funding a rail link between Iran and Turkmenistan, new highways, an international airport, a hotel and office buildings.

Then it all went wrong. In July 2001 Naser Tabasi was dismissed as director of the Free Trade Zone. Two months later he was arrested and charged with fraud in connection with a Dubai-based company called Al-Makasib. The details remain murky, but four months ago the General Court of Tehran acquitted him.

Iran's most distinguished senior clerics are disgusted by the mullahcrats. Ayatollah Taheri, Friday prayer leader of the city of Isfahan, resigned in protest earlier this year. "When I hear that some of the privileged progeny and special people, some of whom even don cloaks and turbans, are competing amongst themselves to amass the most wealth," he said, "I am drenched with the sweat of shame."

Meanwhile the clerical elite has mismanaged the nation into senseless poverty. With 9% of the world's oil and 15% of its natural gas, Iran should be a very rich country. It has a young, educated population and a long tradition of international commerce. But per capita income today is 7% below what it was before the revolution. Iranian economists estimate capital flight (to Dubai and other safe havens) at up to $3 billion a year.

No wonder so many students turn to the streets in protest. The dictatorship has been robbing them of their future.

Discontent Unveiled
Disaffected, denied opportunity and just plain bored, Iran's youth have taken their frustrations with the clerics' regime to the streets.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:30 pm    Post subject: God bless him! Reply with quote

God bless him!
Mr Klebnikov very elegantly exposed the IRI for what it is in his article entitled "Millionaire Mullahs". May a 1000 other Klebnikov's step forth and without fear expose the Islamic Republic for the terrorist entity full of thieves that it is!

I extend my condolences to Mr Klebnikov's family.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

May Paul Klebnikov rest in peace.. GOD BLESS HIM - and GOD BLESS ALL IRANIANS AND OTHERS WHO SPREAD THE WORD OF TRUTH, JUSTICE & FREEDOM!
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 2:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now you know why the western press keeps quiet about the Mullah$. It started with the Salman Rushdie Fatwa back in the '80s.

The Mullah$ have enough money to hire the Russian mafia to have taken out this brave and courageous man. This is a very real tragedy. Sad

My deepest Condolences to the family and friends of this brave reporter.

May he rest in peace.

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PS. On the press silence issue, not to worry: western Press was totally silent about the crumbling structures of the Soviet empire in its last days too. Correspondents in Moscow in the last days were criticised later for not reporting on how bad things were, and the result of the silence of the west was the sudden and surprise total collapse of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, western press gave alot of play to the Chinese Students and Tiannemon Square and even the subsequent crackdown of the freedom movment there and it got them nowhere. So given a choice for Iran, silence of the western press may not be such a bad thing, seems to make for a better and faster guaranteed collapse of the regime, becasue when they paid attention as in the Chinese students the movment was wiped out, when they ignored it as in the Soviet Union, the empire collapsed.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:01 pm    Post subject: mullah killers Reply with quote

Author of 'Millionaire Mullahs' Shot Dead?



wonder who would order such terrorist act, and why?


I bet it's gonna become another unsolved crime, much like
princess dianna's murder, or tens of Iranian activists and other political figures murdered in cold blood in European cities. As usual neither the European politicians nor their Police will rush to cover up the facts and help the terrorists flee!

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oops! sorry. I mean:



As usual neither the European politicians nor their Police has any motive to solve such IRI crimes!! and they will likely rush to cover up the facts and help the terrorists flee this time around as well!

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:21 pm    Post subject: Fascism on the Rise Reply with quote

Headlines: Author of "Millionaire Mullahs" Shot Dead

Just close your eyes, and walk away! As usual!

You think one guy dead is important? This is NOTHING! It's become the sad reality of our world today! So is Walking away from one disaster after another; It's become the NORM to IGNORE!

Just turn your face and walk away; SHUT UP & COVER UP!
Keep up the Trades, keep the Bribes, Sell yourselves. Sell you children, Sell out your Nation, or Humanity at large!
Whatever you do is just fine, as long as you IGNORE THE SOURCE OF ALL TERROR & TYRANNY!
IGNORE THE SOURCE:
IGNORE FASCSIM!




Fascism is very much alive, and we continue to ignore it.

We help in cover ups, we help it to continue and spread, by keeping quiet about the root of all this Terror & Tyranny around us.

We don't dare go there; but if we do, we'll see but one SOURCE in all recent disasters! the good old PURE GREAD & FASCISM!


THe FORCES OF FASCISM ARE VERY MUCH ALIVE.


there are only two choices before us today: Face it once and for all, or close our eyes and let it take us, the next generations, and the Glove down with it!

Forces of Fascism were behind most Disasters of our Time, and we keep quiet about it and continue to cover up to this day:

they've bombed the hell out of millions in recent history! and we kept quiet. Their tyrant butchers continue their tortures, massacres and wars, but we only yell 'peace' when it is all over!
They topple peaceful governments and replace them with brutal tyrants and we jump on the wagon and congratulate them for it!

they have created Hitlers and Khomeinis before, and while we are busy writing about these puppets, they will create more tyrants, more fascists, and more wars under different banners: nationalism, religion or even differences in races and cultures!

I'm sure you don't even want to go there. You're happy to just scratch the surface. It's scary enough to even the surface! why go deeper? why look beyond the terrorists, and tyrants? when it's dangerous enough to deal with the puppets, deadly even to expose some Millionaire Mullahs! Let alone the Masters of Global Fascism!

But deep down you know there are the puppets, and then there are the puppet makers! And the Terrorists and Tyrants are nothing without their masters.

And you rather keep your eyes closed, in a fear that they will come after you one day! and so your children will have to face the same fears.

So the Forces of Fascism will continue to destroy the world for more power. Even if it takes another war or dozen more, or WWIII.

they will look down on a Globe in Blaze from their 'International Station', if need be!

They can't stop now! they will not change their ways.
Fascism & gread is in their nature; there is no cure for Fascism!

and you can't just wish it away!

but don't worry, we've come a long way getting used to Fascism and it's tyrant puppets and terrorist thugs!

and be sure we will have to get used to much worst soon!

more journalists will be dead, millions more will be torn inside out under chemical attacks. nations may even disappear from the map!

but you just keep your eyes closed. and as long as you don't expose the SOURCE, you MAY stay alive through it all. and see the Glove in blaze one day, with your child in your hand.

and they will be looking down, laughing at you while enjoying world's best Caviar, in their 'international station'.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When Canadian -Iranian's Blood is worth $hit for "REAL" Politicians:


Maybe This will $hake them up a little bit:



or Maybe NOT!

Afterall, Real Politics hates noisy journalists! don't it?

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RIP Mr Klebnikov
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:51 pm    Post subject: Moscow IRI Mafia : Reply with quote

IRI Mafia of Trades/ Corruptions/Terrorism in MOSCOW are controled by the Northern Iran Gang, namely: Ayatollah JAVADI & his Sons, and LARIJANI Brothers.

Ayatollah Javadi is the one who met with Gorbachev to give him Khomeini's Messege directly!

Larijani is Leader's choice for next presidential election!

Both figures are known as british Links and agents by Iranians.


Who is ayatollah Javadi?

[quote]http://www.irib.ir/Special/dey/gorbachof/html/en/payam.htm
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Following the drastic changes which occurred in the communism’s world due to the appointment of Gorbachev Dec 1988 (dey, 1367) Imam Khomeini sent a mission to Moscow, leaded by Ayatollah Javadi Amoli. To deliver the Imam Khomeini’s message to Gorbachev and to ask them to convert to Islam was the reason of this mission. Here comes the summary of the message:



http://www.iran-e-azad.org/english/boi/04500709.96
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We have a huge position in the Islamic world. No country other than Iran can lead the Islamic world; this is a historical position.

Cleric Hopes for More Bombing Against U.S., State-run Television, July 6, 1996

Qom, Iran - Javadi Amoli, Khamenei's representative in city of Qom, Friday
sermon: "Now, it has been announced that our Revolutionary Guard brothers in
Qom and central provinces... have set a camp in oath of allegiance with the
leadership... You see, it is their blessing... that America will fail...
She tried to campaign for sanctions against Iran. It was neutralized.
Occasionally you see their forces... yesterday in Riyadh, and [today] in
Dhahran they were in discomfort. Their base was exploded. These are the
products of cries of... rising from Iran....
Well, what islands are safer for the U.S. than Riyadh and Dhahran? But,
you saw that neither Riyadh, nor Dhahran was a safe place for them... We
hope there are more... God willing, there won't be any safe place for
them... and everywhere events, similar to that of Riyadh and Dhahran happens
to them so that [U.S.] leaves the oppressed Iran and other countries alone..."


Who are Larijani Brothers?


recent head of Iranian national Media, and one of the candidates by the leader for presidency! He is a well-known British Link.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/682908/posts
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U.S. Should Reconsider Its Anti-Iran Rhetoric: Larijani
TEHRAN -- Shortly after being appointed as the advisor to Judiciary Chief, Mohammad Javad Larijani, has proposed to slam Tehran's door to talks with the United States until Washington quits its language of evil and bullying against the Islamic Republic.

-Muhammad-Javad Larijani, August 7,1989, principal foreign policy advisor to Rafsanjani.


[url]
http://freethoughts.org/archives/000315.php[/url]

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