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Iranian fatwa approves use of nuclear weapons

 
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 9:39 pm    Post subject: Iranian fatwa approves use of nuclear weapons Reply with quote

Massoud Osanlou tongue cut out as a warning to be quiet


Iranian fatwa approves use of nuclear weapons
By Colin Freeman and Philip Sherwell in Washington
(Filed: 19/02/2006)

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/19/wiran19.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/19/ixnewstop.html

Iran's hardline spiritual leaders have issued an unprecedented new fatwa, or holy order, sanctioning the use of atomic weapons against its enemies.

In yet another sign of Teheran's stiffening resolve on the nuclear issue, influential Muslim clerics have for the first time questioned the theocracy's traditional stance that Sharia law forbade the use of nuclear weapons.


Missiles beside a portrait of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

One senior mullah has now said it is "only natural" to have nuclear bombs as a "countermeasure" against other nuclear powers, thought to be a reference to America and Israel.

The pronouncement is particularly worrying because it has come from Mohsen Gharavian, a disciple of the ultra-conservative Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, who is widely regarded as the cleric closest to Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Nicknamed "Professor Crocodile" because of his harsh conservatism, Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi's group opposes virtually any kind of rapprochement with the West and is believed to have influenced President Ahmadinejad's refusal to negotiate over Iran's nuclear programme.

The comments, which are the first public statement by the Yazdi clerical cabal on the nuclear issue, will be seen as an attempt by the country's religious hardliners to begin preparing a theological justification for the ownership - and if necessary the use - of atomic bombs.

They appeared on Rooz, an internet newspaper run by members of Iran's fractured reformist movement, which picked them up from remarks by Mohsen Gharavian reported on the media agency IraNews.

Rooz reported that Mohsen Gharavian, a lecturer based in a religious school in the holy city of Qom, had declared "for the first time that the use of nuclear weapons may not constitute a problem, according to Sharia."

He also said: "When the entire world is armed with nuclear weapons, it is permissible to use these weapons as a counter-measure. According to Sharia too, only the goal is important."

Mohsen Gharavian did not specify what kinds of "goals" would justify a nuclear strike, but it is thought that any military intervention by the United States would be considered sufficient grounds. Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi has previously justified use of suicide bombers against "enemies of Islam" and believes that America is bent on destroying the Islamic republic and its values. The latest insight into the theocracy's thinking comes as the US signals a change in strategy on Iran, after the decision earlier this month to report it to the United Nations Security Council for its resumption of banned nuclear research.

While Washington has made it clear that military strikes on Iran's nuclear sites would be a "last resort", White House officials are also targeting change from within by funding Iranian opposition groups.

The secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, said the Bush administration would seek an extra $75 million (£43 million) from Congress to help to support Iran's fractured pro-democracy movement and fund Farsi-language satellite broadcasts.

The announcement is the clearest public indication that Washington has adopted a two-track approach to Iran, combining the diplomatic search for a united international condemnation of its illicit nuclear programme with efforts to undermine the regime's status.

The new tactic amounts to the pursuit of regime change by peaceful means, although that phrase is still not stated as official US policy. Washington hopes that a dedicated satellite channel beamed into Iran will encourage domestic dissent, such as the current strike by bus drivers - the most significant display of organised opposition since the 1999 and 2003 student protests.

Ms Rice unveiled the change of tactics a week after a visit to Washington by a senior British delegation that pressed for a co-ordinated Western policy on using satellite television and the internet to bolster internal opposition. The State Department had previously been wary of the two-track strategy.

As the Sunday Telegraph reported last week, Pentagon strategists have been updating plans for a another policy of "last resort" - blitzing Iranian nuclear sites in an effort to stop the regime gaining the atomic bomb.

The bus strike, which has led to the jailing of more than 1,000 drivers, was originally sparked by an industrial dispute over unpaid wages benefits. But the robustness of the state response has indicated the nervousness of the Ahmadinejad regime over any internal dissent.

Reports from Iran say that Massoud Osanlou, the leader of the bus drivers' union, was arrested at his home by members of the Basij, the pro-regime militia, and had part of his tongue cut out as a warning to be quiet.

But the dispute already risks disillusioning Mr Ahmadinejad's core of working class support - among them municipal workers - who voted him into power on his promises to improve the lot of Iran's poor.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:32 pm    Post subject: Iranian Solidarity? Reply with quote

Iranian Solidarity?

March 02, 2006
The Wall Street Journal
Roya Hakakian

http://online.wsj.com/public/us

The bomb that Tehran's mullahs are allegedly building has already done its damage. For two years now, it has decimated the headlines. In the mushroom cloud of its anticipation, some of the most critical stories in Iran have vanished. "The bomb" is an ingenious design by which to divert any global interest in the country's domestic matters, giving the ruling clerics free rein to devastate opposition with all the brutality they can muster. Among the ruins is an event unprecedented in 27 years: A major strike by the workers of Sherkat-e Vahed, the Union of Workers of the United Bus Company of Tehran.

The union issued a call for a strike to be held on Jan. 28 to demand the release of their leader, Mansour Ossanloo, who has been in prison since December 2005, and to call for legal recognition of the union and a pay increase. The historic significance of the strikers' intentions becomes clear only in light of history: After the 1979 revolution, the regime banned the formation of all independent labor unions, and instead established Islamic guilds, run by the government itself. The guilds failed at gaining the workers' trust, and, therefore, never grew in membership. The bus union, conceived in 1968, disbanded in 1979 and reestablished in 2004, is one of Iran's truly labor-driven entities.

The executive committee's first meeting came under fire. Baton-wielding thugs shouting "The bus syndicate, the monarchs' hideout!" charged in, set their office on fire, beat everyone in attendance, and promised to cut off the tongue of Mr. Ossanloo if he continued his activities. As a sign of their seriousness, they ran a blade over his tongue, shaving a layer off. He has spoken with a lisp ever since.

In every flier and in every interview, the workers emphasized that they were apolitical and did not wish to topple the government, asking only to have some very basic demands met. And their initial demands, as posted on their spartan Web site, moves even the most casual browser: the delivery of two sets of winter and summer uniforms, plus two pairs of shoes, basic stationary for record keeping, a less than a dollar a day raise to subsidize lunches and an assistant for every driver. "In the name of He who created justice," write the organizers, "we hope for the people of the world to hear our plea: Death or Syndicate!"

Days before the strike, several members of the executive committee were summoned to appear before the Revolutionary Court, where they were ordered to call off the strike. When they refused, they were arrested and taken to prison. The officials had declared the strike illegal and threatened to fire all participants. In the days that followed, security forces launched mass arrests of the union members. Those who showed up on the day of the strike were beaten while watching members of the security forces cross their picket line to take their places behind the wheels. In the last week of January, an estimated 1,000 workers were arrested and taken into prison. Though hundreds were released upon signing guarantees that they would not participate in any strikes again, and received permission from the Revolutionary Court to return to work, the company itself refuses to let them back. On the eve of the Iranian New Year, hundreds of these workers have become unemployed. The six union leaders remain in prison incommunicado.

President Ahmadinejad, who fashioned himself in the image of an Islamic Robin Hood during last year's presidential campaign, has profoundly betrayed the poor who rallied behind him in the hopes of better living standards. In the process, he has proved to have no regard for any convention, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to which Iran is a signatory, or even Iran's own constitution, whose Article 26 allows "the formation of parties, societies, political or professional associations." This is the man who, some pundits would have us believe, will honor an agreement over the purpose of Iran's nuclear activities.

What did enlightened people do to support the strikers? Very little. Most Iranian intellectuals, former Marxist activists included, were consumed by polite electronic debates over the Dutch cartoons. Hundreds of striking drivers were arrested, as the cameras of the world's biggest news agencies shot images of the couple of dozen government-paid hoodlums throwing rocks at the Danish embassy in Tehran. Wives and children, even distant relatives of the activists, were hauled off into detention to force the union leaders to turn themselves in, as India's Communist Party threatened to leave the ruling coalition in New Delhi if India voted to refer Iran to the Security Council. Clearly, workers of the world ought to postpone uniting until other scores are settled.

The war against terror is, above all, a war of ideas. But if the terrorists' ideas, be they in the form of the 1979 hostage crisis, the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the nuclear issue or the fury over the depiction of Muhammad, so intensely occupy us -- our headlines and our airwaves -- doesn't geographical territory become irrelevant? Can we still say that the terrorists have not conquered us? Historians agree that the most significant blow to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was delivered by the 1978 strike of the oil workers, which sparked other unions to join, and ultimately brought Iran's economy to a halt. But when the current regime systematically suppresses information, and the free press of the free world cannot be cured of its chronic fetish for uranium, will Iran's movement for democracy have any hope of gathering momentum?

Ms. Hakakian is the author, most recently, of "Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran" (Crown, 2004).
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PostPosted: Thu May 18, 2006 3:04 am    Post subject: IRI Savagery-Ghesaavaat Jomhori e Eslami (Bilingual ) Reply with quote

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Interview and description of IRI thugs’ assault on Mansour Osanlou.
Massoud Osanlou, is the leader of the bus drivers' union.
He was attacked by members of the Basij, the pro-regime militia, and
had part of his tongue cut out as a warning to be quiet.

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This is to all who have sold their soles to the devil:

Is this your Islamic justice?
If you are in it for money, can you look into the face of your family and friends?
If you are religious, is this god’s work?
This is to the silent majority:
Is this what you or another human being deserves?
Does humanity means anything to you?
Do you feel the pain and suffering?



منصور اسانلو
دبير زندانی سنديكای شركت واحد
جرمش آن بود كه می گفت:
كارگران سنديكا می خواهند، مزد بران حقوق


اين عكس‌ها از منصور اسانلو دبير زندانی سنديكای شركت واحد، پس از يورش به مجمع عمومی سنديكای شركت واحد به يادگار مانده است. ماجرا مربوط به يك سال پيش از اعتصاب رانندگان شركت واحد است. در آن يورش- همانگونه كه در عكس ديده می شود- اوباش و همان ها كه در شبيخون به كوی دانشگاه فاجعه دانشگاهی 1378 را آفريدند، سعی كردند زبان اسانلو را با چاقو ببرند و پس از آن كارد بر گلويش كشيدند كه اگر نبود داد و فرياد او و ديگر كارگران، كار را تمام كرده بودند. همان ها كه قصد جان او را داشتند، حالا زندانبان او در زندان اوين شده اند و سرگرم گفتگو – از همان نوع گفتگوهای حسين شريعتمداری با قربانيان سياسی و قاضی مرتضوی با زهرا كاظمی و عباس عبدی و...- و ارشاد وی هستند. شايد هم كاری را كه در ساختمان مجمع عمومی سنديكای شركت واحد نتوانستند تمام كنند، می‌خواهند دراوين تمام كنند.


Reports from Iran say that Massoud Osanlou, the leader of the bus drivers' union, was arrested at his home by members of the Basij, the pro-regime militia, and had part of his tongue cut out as a warning to be quiet.

منصور اسانلو
دبير زندانی سنديكای شركت واحد
جرمش آن بود كه می گفت:
كارگران سنديكا می خواهند، مزد بران حقوق
اين عكس‌ها از منصور اسانلو دبير زندانی سنديكای شركت واحد، پس از يورش به مجمع عمومی سنديكای شركت واحد به يادگار مانده است. ماجرا مربوط به يك سال پيش از اعتصاب رانندگان شركت واحد است. در آن يورش- همانگونه كه در عكس ديده می شود- اوباش و همان ها كه در شبيخون به كوی دانشگاه فاجعه دانشگاهی 1378 را آفريدند، سعی كردند زبان اسانلو را با چاقو ببرند و پس از آن كارد بر گلويش كشيدند كه اگر نبود داد و فرياد او و ديگر كارگران، كار را تمام كرده بودند. همان ها كه قصد جان او را داشتند، حالا زندانبان او در زندان اوين شده اند و سرگرم گفتگو – از همان نوع گفتگوهای حسين شريعتمداری با قربانيان سياسی و قاضی مرتضوی با زهرا كاظمی و عباس عبدی و...- و ارشاد وی هستند. شايد هم كاری را كه در ساختمان مجمع عمومی سنديكای شركت واحد نتوانستند تمام كنند، می‌خواهند دراوين تمام كنند.


تصویری از رفتار مزدوران رژیم اشغالگر اسلامی با زنان ایرانی


رژيم آخوندي ايران امروز در منطقه كوههاي بم و نصرت آباد زاهدان ، دست به بمباران هوايي زده و تا كنون نيز ادامه دارد ، كه در اين حوادث حدود ۱۸ نفر از مردم بيگناه بلوچ جان سپردند


ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN BOMBED ITS INNOCENT BALUCHI CITIZENS BY HELOCOPTER GUNSHIPS
AND FIGHTER JETS

رفتار مزدوران رژیم اشغالگر اسلامی با زنان ایرانی به بهانه "بدحجابی"

Oppression
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