Community | September 29, 2009 | 16 comments

Iran student protests and the return of nuke inspectors

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When demonstrators took to the streets after Iran’s disputed Presidential election, many of them were students. That’s why, as Iran’s universities opened back up to students this week, many expected widespread student demonstrations.

The NY Times Lede Blog links to this great first-person video walking along with protests at Tehran University.

As for the other big Iran story: potential threats to the regime’s reputation from abroad. As news from the US is that Obama is preparing to set up a new round of sanctions, Tehran announced today that it will allow inspectors from the IAEA to come in and take a look around the Qom facility revealed last week. What will they find? A facility for purely civilian use? More roadblocks? We’ll see…
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  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • irans oil is the supply for the soviets. so your theory is that israel is trying get the us to invade iran (who has military pacts with russia) to get thier oil for israel. so that israel can make the money off the oil?
      irans influence in the region is what again?
      saudi arabia egypt and jordan went against iran to make peace with israel and afganastan and iraq always were not aligned with iran.
      irans influence extends to syria and lebanon through hizbollah. not really a scary think tank or arab brain trust.

    • 2 years ago
  • maasanova
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      maasanova  
    • Iraqis could go into the street and fire AK-47s in the air and didn't have a graduated income tax imposed on their people by private banks. I'm sure they just love their new found "freedom".

      http://www.rebuilding-iraq.net/portal/page?_pageid=95,77685&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

      They were also a first world country with clean running water, schools and hospitals and their women were better off before the santions of the 1990s.

      http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1017-09.htm

      And now?

      And also freecrack, I'm talking about Iranian influence in the region. That is what threatens the Zionist government, just like Iraq's former 1st world status was a threat to Israel. Plus there's oil and lots of other resources for the West to divvy up.

    • 2 years ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • what influence in the region?
      israeli influence? there is none everytime israel does something beneficial for anyone in the region that leader pretends they didnt because israel isnt allowed to do anything independantly no less in a manor that supercedes a muslum nation

    • 2 years ago
  • Birdmanbob4
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    • Massinova said "Freecrack, bombing Iraq's nuclear facilities in '81 wasn't enough for the Israelis which was guiding US foreign policy and still is.

      The US had to go over and bomb them in '91, then there were sanctions which killed over 500,000 Iraqis and then then the Netanyau crafted
      “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” which is what brought Iraq to their current fate.

      If you think this has anything with Iranian nukes, and has nothing to do with their resources and influences in the region then all I can say is lay off the Kool-Aid." My response is Iraq had a long hard road to it's People finally being Free now that we are returning control of Iraq back over to the Iraq people who are free to make their own history going forward with out Saddam and his Brutal regime....We can all see that Iran wants what Iraq now has!.....Freedom from the repressive regime who beat the People Blody in the street who only wanted what Bush dilivered to it's Neighbors..i dont care if you agree with the War or not the People of Iraq would not want to turn back the clock and have Saddam back!

    • 2 years ago
  • yonie
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    • Birdmanbob4:

      Birdmanbob, did you ask the Iraqi people? I have seen stories running the last years that anti-American sentiments are running so high in Iraq that they say they rather have Saddam back instead of this mess.

      For instance read the article i linked.

    • 2 years ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • wasnt enough? how? israel and iraq never had a conflict of any significance. it apparently was enough being that israel didnt hit military intalations or communication instalations or anything else besides the target.
      the us involvement in 91 had nothing to do with israel.iraq was trying to take over a country that is a major oil producer for us. that was our interest had nothing to do with israel remotely. not only that we denied israel flight codes to insure they could get involved thus preventing a regional holy war wich would garuntee massive oil shortages for us.

    • 2 years ago
  • yonie
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      yonie  
    • I gotta say the whole thing makes me kind of remember how the tension build up was prior to the Iraq invasion.

    • 2 years ago
  • maasanova
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    • Freecrack, bombing Iraq's nuclear facilities in '81 wasn't enough for the Israelis which was guiding US foreign policy and still is.

      The US had to go over and bomb them in '91, then there were sanctions which killed over 500,000 Iraqis and then then the Netanyau crafted
      “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” which is what brought Iraq to their current fate.

      If you think this has anything with Iranian nukes, and has nothing to do with their resources and influences in the region then all I can say is lay off the Kool-Aid.

    • 2 years ago
  • Birdmanbob4
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    • Massinova is in the pocket of the people who shot NEDA he supports The unelected non leaderchip in Iran there is Nothig Green supporter about him! he is on the other side .....Oh Hi Massinova " Stay, Neda ~

      Look at this city

      At the shaken foundations of palaces,

      The height of Tehran’s maple trees,

      They call us "dust," and if so

      Let us sully the air for the oppressor

      Don’t go, Neda "

      Let the world witness this horrible crime

      through the lens of the World Wide Web,

      Stay, Neda ~

      Look at this country,

      At the chafing limitations of a tottering

      Theocracy.

      Let the the dust of a million women's voices

      choke the air

      demanding freedom.

      Don't go, Neda

      Your name means Voice in Persian,

      Now many call you

      the voice of Iran.

      Stay, Neda ~

      There was no weapon in your soft hands

      or a grenade in your pocket

      You wanted only freedom,

      freedom for everyone.

      Don't go, Neda

      Your underground singing lessons

      are over.

      You are now the voice of an Iran

      struggling for freedom

      and it's being heard throughout

      the world.

      Let go, Neda ~

    • 2 years ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • absolutely nobody is claiming anyone wishes to attack thier countrymen and women. unless you believe thier countrymen and woman live at the nuclear facilities?
      to use your favorite example, the bombing of iraqs nuclear facility had ZERO FATALITIES.
      not a single iraqi countryman or woman killed.

    • 2 years ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • really?
      seriously?
      they dont even endorse bagels in iran im not kidding. in a society where "jewish" food is despised you think somehow jewish politics would be accepted?
      iran is in the middle of a social conversation under intense oppression and censorship by its govt.
      the views represented are the views of these people and these people alone.dont higjack thier attempts at progressing thier society for your narrative

    • 2 years ago
  • maasanova
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    • Freecrack you still need public opinion and favor for war because those guns, planes and tanks aint gonna fire themselves.

      I think it's just disgusting that these organizations are using Iranian students and staging anti-Iranian rallies to rally the support of the American public for an attack on their contrymen and women.

    • 2 years ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • yup israel pulling the strings of our citizens the mindless marianettes.
      with all that israel has on its plate(hamas hizbollah gaza west bank settlements soviet union) organizing kids to yell hardly seems reasonable.
      what were they like heres how we get i ran we stick ny college kids on em then well have no problem bombing.
      isnt bombing countries based on policy not public opinion.
      i seem to recall endless streams of people against the war in iraq through out bush's terms but i dont recall that mattering to anyone who made policy decisions.
      actually i recall dick cheney explicitely stating he didnt care what the people think.

    • 2 years ago
  • maasanova
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    • Avigdor Lieberman: ‘If Everyone is Worried About Iran, Everyone Forgets Palestinians’

      Would Israel go to all the trouble it has pumping up a death match with Iran, all in order to distract the world from its oppression of Palestinians? Avigdor Lieberman made precisely such a statement to Haaretz after his visit to the UN:

      Lieberman said he met with Arab foreign ministers while at the United Nations last week and said they expressed their alarm over Iran’s nuclear program to him.

      “Nobody is worried about the Palestinian problem, everybody in the Muslim and Arab world, and first and foremost in the Gulf states, are worried about the Iranian problem,” he said.

    • 2 years ago
  • maasanova
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    • Now the whole process is repeating itself. This time the target is Iran.

      As there is no real case against Iran, Obama took a script from Bush's playbook and fabricated one.

      First the facts: As a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, Iran's nuclear facilities are open to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which carefully monitors Iran's nuclear energy program to make certain that no material is diverted to nuclear weapons.

      The IAEA has monitored Iran's nuclear energy program and has announced repeatedly that it has found no diversion of nuclear material to a weapons program. All 16 US intelligence agencies have affirmed and reaffirmed that Iran abandoned interest in nuclear weapons years ago.

      In keeping with the safeguard agreement that the IAEA be informed before an enrichment facility comes online, Iran informed the IAEA on September 21 that it had a new nuclear facility under construction. By informing the IAEA, Iran fulfilled its obligations under the safeguards agreement. The IAEA will inspect the facility and monitor the nuclear material produced to make sure it is not diverted to a weapons program.

      Despite these unequivocal facts, Obama announced on September 25 that Iran has been caught with a “secret nuclear facility” with which to produce a bomb that would threaten the world.

    • 2 years ago
  • maasanova
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      maasanova  
    • The NY student protest was sponsored by Israeli ad Zionist hardliners who would prefer a unilateral attack on Iran's civilian nuclear facilities. More liberation for Muslim countries? Sounds like a repeat of Iraq to me, with all the same players calling for war.

      Here were the sponsor and co-sponsors of the Stand For Stand for Freedom in Iran pro-anti-Iran rally with keynote speaker Rudy "9/11 Cover-up Specialist" Guiliani:

      http://www.jewishinstlouis.org/calendar/index.aspx?startdate=9/24/2009%2011:30:00%20AM&enddate=9/24/2009%201:00:00%20PM&id=103&eventid=371600&recurrenceid=0

      Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC),

      Co-sponsors:
      American Jewish Committee
      American Jewish Congress
      Hadassah
      JCC
      St. Louis Hillel
      NCJW
      Anti-Defamation League Missouri/Southern Illinois
      Central Agency for Jewish Education (CAJE)
      Rabbinical Association
      Rabbinical Council
      With support from the Jewish Federation of St. Louis

      http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/09/24/giuliani-keynotes-jewish...

    • 2 years ago
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