By David Amess
Source: The Washington Post

Tehran's brazen approach to nuclear negotiations has been fueled in part by its thus-far correct presumption that the West does not have the resolve to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons. The West's strategic blunder is in its determination to pressure the regime into changing its behavior rather than to seek a long-term change of regime.

It is in the interest of the international community and financial markets for Iran to have a democratic stable government. This, however, cannot be achieved by foreign military intervention or maintaining the status quo as Tehran speeds up its illegal nuclear activities in defiance of the Security Council and the UN's nuclear watchdog.

A number of the percipients were arrested in the ceremony

NCRI - On Friday, the mullahs' regime dispatched thousands of the State Security Forces (SSF)—mullahs' suppressive police -- to stop the memorial service held by the families of the victims of the 1988 massacre in Khavaran cemetery in suburban Tehran. A number of the participants were arrested.

NCRI – In a clear insult to Iranian women, Ali Borhan, a prayer leader on Thursday compared Iranian women who refuse to wear the traditional chador to "bare-back donkeys," in the central city of Mehriz, reported the state-run website Asriran.

"Residents in Mehriz will not tolerate women wearing anything but chador. The way women appear in public is worse than appearing naked," Borhan said.

"We will not accept tapes [music cassettes] distributed in our city and will not tolerate women with improper outfits. They would be better off not wearing anything," he added.

Excerpts from the article "inside the ring" appearing in the Washington Times Thursday edition

A European-based Iranian exile group reports that there are major divisions within the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the Islamic shock troops that the U.S. government has linked to international terrorism.

he group, the People's Mujahideen of Iran, stated in a report that its sources inside Iran think there is major discord within the paramilitary force that is believed to have a major role within the regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The August report stated that both the leadership and the structure of the IRGC are undergoing widespread transformation.

By Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: Fox News

Over the weekend, in a knockout punch to the fanciful myth of a rupture between Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and his hand-picked president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the mullahs’ top leader not only defended his embattled president, he endorsed him for a second term. So much for the much-touted schism and preposterous inferences shaping policy toward Tehran. Is Denver listening?

By Mostafa Naderi

On Wednesday, the Iranian regime hanged a minor, identified as Behnam Zare, whose alleged crime was committed at the age of 15. Roughly a week ago on August 19, 2008, another minor, Reza Hejazi, was hanged for an alleged crime committed at the age of 15 as well.