Recent Iran News Headlines
Iran to Forbid UN Inspectors from Entering the Country
January 22, 2007 Bloomberg Ladane Nasseri
Iran will forbid 38 inspectors from the United Nations nuclear agency from entering the country, the state-run Iranian Students News Agency said, citing a lawmaker. Iran has decided ``not to give permission for 38 inspectors to enter Iran and this restriction has been officially announced'' to the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of the parliament's national security and foreign policy commission, was quoted as saying by ISNA. The Iranian parliament last month passed a law forcing the government to review its cooperation with the IAEA, following a resolution by the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt uranium enrichment work.
UPDATE: Iran bars 38 U.N. IAEA inspectors
US Plans to Foment Strife in Iran
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The United States wants to incite a popular uprising in Iran, a senior Iranian official has been quoted as saying, adding that a confrontation between Washington and Tehran is "inevitable".
US President George W. Bush "pursues a strategy hostile to Iran... The coming two months will show the world this strategy," Mohsen Rezai, secretary of Iran's Expediency Council, told the Dubai-based Al-Bayan newspaper. "America will exploit (sanctions) against Iran to incite people to rise up against the (Islamic) revolution, provide aid to movements hostile to Iran, carry out operations inside Iran and promote a sectarian war," said Rezai, a former commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). "An Iranian-US confrontation is inevitable," he said, adding that he would not rule out US missile strikes against Iran's nuclear installations. Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, said in remarks reported Saturday that Iranian armed forces were ready to face any threat to its nuclear installations, amid speculation Washington may be planning a military strike. The United States and Israel have not ruled out military action to thwart Iran's nuclear program, which they suspect is aimed at developing a nuclear arsenal that would radically change the balance of power in the Middle East. Iran insists its nuclear ambitions are peaceful although it was hit with UN sanctions under the heavy pressures exerted on the Council by the United States in December. The Expediency Council is a constitutional body that resolves legislative disputes. It also doubles as an advisory body to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.
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7 comments:
So they forbid U.N. inspectors. I wonder how come? U.N. inspectors have never been very dependable anyway. If they were U.S. inspectors I would be able to understand where they're coming from but U.N. Inspectors? Puhleeeeeze!
On another subject: Cold enough for you? Global warming hit Southern Arizona! Wow! My daughter is in Phoenix and has never before seen snow in her life. She'll be a lot happier about that development than most folks.
Stay warm and dry! :)
What arrogance, classic case of the prisoners running the prison.
You may have known about this site, Joel's Trumpet - http://www.joelstrumpet.com/
pretty darn informative.
Dear Gayle: It's more like Global Cooling...I'm freezing my butt off...LOL
Joe: Absolutely, most of the educated people left Iran many years ago all is left are bunch of thugs running the country. Thanks for the link. It's an awesome site.
How to foment strife: remove money.
KSA, by announcing its entire reserve pumping capacity is equal to that of all of Iran's current exports just pulled the floor out from under Iran. Now they have declining export capaibility and steadily declining price it can get on the world market. This causes the economy to get less money *in*.
What happens when you remove money from a regime that lives on cash flow and not sustained production and investment?
Yes! Strife!
No wonder they are having Hezbollah act up now in Lebanon... the money is running out. Use 'em or lose 'em.
Now the only question is when that tipping point gets reached on the entire affair... for KSA is, indeed, rocking the boat. And Iran has been leaning way over the edge and we now see its feet flailing in the air as their head slowly tips downwards. And why, exactly, is Sadr trying to use his government cards *now*? Could it be the pressure from the US and the Iraqi Government and the threat of loss of funds from Iran? Probably more the former and cowardice, from what I've seen of Sadr, but the latter must now be factored into things. I wonder how much cash flow Hezbollah has from South America and North American criminal activities...
A Jacksonian: Al sadr people are less toxic to me than the Al Hakim of SCRI and Sistani. I don't trust Al Hakim of SCRI. I think as soon as they feel that they don't need American's protection against the sunnis, they will call for a revolution to overthrow the Maliki's government. Al Hakim and Sistani's tactics are pretty remniscent of Khomeini's who promised Carter he wouldn't try to get involve in running the government. This is purely based on my intuition...
Forbidding UN inspectors...
that is sure to engender trust in the Iranian regime.
Except, of course, that the appeasers in the UN will find way to shrug it off...
Serendip - I do agree with Sistani, and remember that Austin Bay had pointed out that Sistani was acting like a Mafia Don... which is why I characterized him as such in a bit of fictionalizing from there... Sadr, to me at least, is the small-time hood with big-time ideas that is going to get slowly crushed between opposing forces. He dances well between them, but that day is coming. Sadr's game is dicey in the pay of one side and facing up to the other mostly on his own. That does not make him in any way admirable or romantic, but recognizes that his position is self-made. He made his choices and now he has to live with them.
And like dealing with any Mafia Don, you make sure all your bases are covered and keep aware of what *he* thinks the 'business' is... he is serious about being the major if not only figure in the region for the Shia. His reach may exceed his grasp, but only time can tell. But, just as a Don understands that too much violence or bloodshed extracts harsh revenge, Sistani also knows that blood bought now can come with interest back at him in the future. He has seen it and knows it...
The major worry is, for the long run, that Sistani is old and his ability to lead is leaving a vacuum behind him. He can decide who *doesn't* fill it... but has very little say on who can or will. At times that is cross-purposes to overall stability, at other times it can work together.
The mosaic of Iraq is more scattered pieces in some places than whole picture. That picture is slowly coming clearer and some pieces just will not fit into it... a hard job to figure out for an outsider and, from what is seen, just as bad for those in the know. And yet it is still solidifying, slowly... and the places for loose pieces are diminishing.
And the similar mosaic of Iran is now starting to look less solid than previously. The faultlines are shifting and hard across the region. And Peace can only be built, not given. I hope that Iran does not implode nor explode... that Nation does not deserve that after what America has not done there.
Would that more saw this not as making war, but making amends for past neglect.
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