Iran: IRGC shedding crocodile tears for Lebanon

Monday, 04 February 2008

By: Reza Shafa Ordinary Iranian citizens living under poverty line by the mullahs' regime own estimates -- more than 80 percent of the country's population do not make enough to feed their families -- often ask themselves what do our government has to do with Lebanon's  reconstruction when we have barely enough to get by. There is an old saying that charity begins at home. However, the roots of the problem are much deeper than it first appears. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is probably the only source that has the real answer to that question.

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Anticipating the third UN resolution against tehran

Thursday, 31 January 2008

By Alireza Jafarzadeh Source: FoxNews It turns out that the hasty jubilance of Tehran following the release of the key judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate was just wishful thinking. Last week, in what the ayatollahs' foreign minister called a "surprise" move, the United States and five other world powers dealing with Iran's nuclear issue agreed on a new UN Security Council sanctions resolution. The new resolution, if adopted, will severely tighten the existing UN sanctions and add new punitive measures targeting Tehran's financial and military institutions.

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Iran: Ahmadinejad's economy

Tuesday, 29 January 2008

By Mohammad Amin In the context of the Iranian crisis, the mullahs' president's name, "Ahmadinejad," has become a pseudonym for internal repression, adventurism and export of fundamentalism, all of which are used to cover up the political instability in Iran. In the context of Iran's economy, Ahmadinejad represents disorder, chaos and disastrous policies. During thirty months of Ahmadinejad's presidency, oil revenues alone have reached at least $150 billion.  The figure amounts to more than half of Iran's total oil revenues for the 16 years before his presidency. One might have expected that all this money would rejuvenate domestic production, reduce unemployment (which has hit 6 million people, or one fourth of the working population), and improve education and public health.

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Iran: IRGC and nuclear weapons - Part III

Thursday, 24 January 2008

By: Reza Shafa Rafsanjani's guidelines for the IRGC to obtain nuclear weapons  In a report to Rafsanjani, mullahs' president in the early 1990s, the IRGC's Research Unit (RU) complained of insufficient cooperation by other countries in supplying the Iranian regime with important technical help it needs in developing nuclear weapons.

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The Ayatollahs' Illusion of Invincibility

Wednesday, 23 January 2008

By: Alireza Jafarzadeh Source: FoxNews Proponents of conciliation maintain that engaging Tehran is the only practical way to counter the nuclear and regional threats posed by the ayatollahs. Why? Because, they say, Iran under the ayatollahs' rule is a "rising regional power," stable at home and hugely influential in Iraq. So the West must tread carefully. Never mind that engaging a religious dictatorship hell-bent on erecting an Islamic fundamentalist empire is nothing short of capitulation and appeasement of the worst kind.

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Iran: IRGC and nuclear weapons - Part II

Friday, 18 January 2008

By: Reza Shafa Khomeini and the chalice of poison   On July 16, 1988, only two days before the cease fire, in a letter, Khomeini  stated the reasons why he accepted the UN Resolution 598 ending the eight-year-long Iran-Iraq war which only on Iranian side left more than one million causalities and according to Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, then deputy commander-in-chief, one trillion dollars in economic losses.   Khomeini determined that the nation could not afford, politically or economically, to continue the war, and in a famous public statement compared the decision to "drinking a chalice of poison."

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Iran: IRGC and nuclear weapons - Part I

Thursday, 17 January 2008

By: Reza Shafa In 1980, the mullahs setting their eyes on the atomic bomb to guarantee the future of their regime assigned the newly formed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to open a center for research in nuclear weapons. In 1981, in a briefing for the brand new Research Unit (RU) of the IRGC, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti, the number two man after Khomeini, described in great length the newly formed Islamic Republic's absolute necessity for obtaining nuclear weapons.

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Iraq: Khomeini's first step in realizing his Islamic empire - Final

Thursday, 10 January 2008

By: Reza Shafa What role do Hezbollah and other Qods Force's protégés play in Iraq? One should not overlook the role Qods Force's proxies play in its bloody campaign against the Iraqi people in that country. It is no doubt a battle for survival for those national forces who want to salvage Iraq from the devastating outcome of a hidden occupation by the mullahs' regime and its different proxies, now called by the US "Special Groups," under the Qods Force command in Iraq.

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Who is Iranian Brig. Gen. Ahmed Foruzandeh

Wednesday, 09 January 2008

By: Reza Shafa The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on an Iranian general from the elite Qods force. The U.S. Treasury Department, which made the announcement, named the general as Ahmed Foruzandeh (Ahmad Forouzandeh), who it said "leads terrorist operations" against U.S. forces in Iraq and directed assassinations of Iraqi figures, Reuters reported. On January 11, 2007, Brig. Gen. Ahmed Foruzandeh and Brig. Gen. Mohammad Jafari Sahraroudi of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and current deputy Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) traveled to Iraqi Kurdistan for briefing the terrorist groups belonging to IRGC. However, when the US forces raided and arrested a number of IRGC officers and operatives in Arbil, the two were on their way back to Tehran.

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