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Global View on Iran
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Saturday, 22 March 2008 |
By: Goesta Groenroos, Researcher in philosophy at Stockholm University and an expert on Iran
In the past, media coverage of elections in Iran has mostly been geared towards the process and the results giving the impression that the Islamic Republic was a kind of democracy. At last, the reality has paved its way to the head lines. The reality is that all elections in this country in fact are, and have been, cheap shams and masquerades put together by a few unelected clerics running the country in order to accomplish two objectives: to disarm growing demands by the Iranian people as well as the international community for establishing democratic rule in Iran, and to purge unwanted elements of in the power structure. |
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Friday, 14 March 2008 |
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 By: Lord Robin Corbett
Source: Middle East Times
Parliamentary elections in Iran today will see radical Islamists consolidate their domination of the political landscape and any form of so-called "moderation" shunned away. Such has been dictated by Iran's chief ayatollah, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Up for grabs today are 290 seats in the regime's consultative body called the Majlis. Under the Islamic republic's hard-line constitution, all candidates must go through several levels of strict vetting including by the ultra-conservative Guardians Council. The GC, whose clerical members are hand-picked by the supreme leader himself, must be convinced that the individual is loyal in both heart and mind to the notion of velayat-e faqih (rule of the supreme jurisprudent, otherwise known as Khamenei) in order to give its approval. |
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
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 by Rt. Hon. Lord Waddington, former UK Home Secretary under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Source: Human Events
Back in 2002 the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) told the world that the Mullahs had embarked on a nuclear fuel programme and now the NCRI says it has evidence of a research site in the country where a nuclear warhead for use on Iran’s medium range missiles is being developed.
It is on a number of occasions that the NCRI has spoken of and produced evidence of Iran’s intentions and it clearly gets its information from the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK), which has substantial support within the country and a wide intelligence network. |
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
 By: Roger Gale, a member of the British Parliament
Source: Middle East Times
Iran's Guardians' Council, the body put in place to vet candidates standing for the upcoming parliamentary elections on March 14 has reinstated 280 individuals who were originally banned. Among them is Ayatollah Khomeini's grandson, Ali Eshraghi. The original list of banned candidates included some further significant figures in Iranian politics, including senior cleric Ayatollah Mousavi Tabrizi who served as general public prosecutor under Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
 By: David Storobin
Source: Global Politician
Lord David Charles Waddington served in the UK Parliament from 1968 to 1974. He returned to Parliament in 1979. Lord Waddington was a junior minister under Margaret Thatcher, Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of Employment (1981-83), Minister of State at the Home Office (1983-87) and Chief Whip from 1987 until his elevation to Cabinet level, becoming Home Secretary in 1989. In 1990 he was created a life peer as Baron Waddington, of Read in the County of Lancashire. He served as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords until 1992. He later served as Governor of Bermuda. Lord Waddington is currently Chairman of the European Reform Forum. David Storobin, the Senior Editor of the Global Politician, interviewed him on the recent legalization by the UK courts of the Iranian opposition group MeK.
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
By: Ali Safavi
Source: Middle East Times
The Iranian regime seems adept at assigning paradoxical functionalities to certain political or economic tools and mechanisms. Construction cranes, for example, are meant to help erect buildings and further economic progress everywhere else in the world. But, in Iran, they are used to hang people.
Likewise, political elections are the cornerstone of the world's representative governments, but in Iran, they are used to uphold the rule of an unelected few.
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Saturday, 01 March 2008 |
By LORD CORBETT OF CASTLE VALE
LONDON, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- Feb. 11 marked the 29th anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yet, as nations across the world have made huge technological and scientific advancements over the past three decades, Tehran's rulers have taken the people of ancient Persia back to the closest thing to the Middle Ages.
Once the cradle of civilization, Iran under the mullahs' rule is today a state of repression and terror. In January, authorities announced they had amputated the arms and legs of five prisoners for taking part in activities against the state. More than 30 people were executed and two sisters sentenced to stoning during the same period. Despite the atmosphere of heightened repression, Iranian youths are ready for change. Millions like them demand the freedoms offered by Iran's parliament-in-exile, the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
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Friday, 29 February 2008 |
Commentary by U.S. Alliance for Democratic Iran
Ahmadinejad's government is clearly a lot better at spinning centrifuges than it is at spinning the IAEA report released last Friday. The report paves the way for the third round of UN Security Council sanctions due for vote on Saturday and ayatollahs' spinning of the report as a "great and historic victory" is mocked in Iran.
The clerical regime's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei who is bent on solidifying and expanding political dominance of the faction representing the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) weeks before the March parliamentary elections, joined the "nuclear victory" bandwagon. Few days after the IAEA report, he reaffirmed his support for his hand-picked president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the IRGC's handling of the nuclear program.
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
 By: Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: FoxNews
The bombshell revelations by Iran's parliament-in-exile, the National Council of Resistance (NCRI), about a working nuclear warhead development facility and a new command and control center for Iran's nuclear bomb-making only two days before the release of the report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) proved to be a major blow to the ruling Ayatollahs in Tehran.
In a news conference in Brussels on February 20, 2008, Mohammad Mohaddessin, the Chairman of the NCRI's Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that in April 2007, the Iranian regime's nuclear project entered a new phase. For the first time, a command and control center, known as Mojdeh site, was established to head up the drive to complete a nuclear bomb. A development facility called the "Field for Expansion of Deployment of Advanced Technologies" was set up in the Lavizan 2 site (see satellite imagery).
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