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GENEVA – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the West of using the Holocaust as a "pretext" for aggression against Palestinians, prompting walkouts Monday by every European Union country at a U.N. conference on racism.
The meeting turned chaotic almost from the start when two protesters in rainbow wigs tossed red clown noses at Ahmadinejad as he began his speech with a Muslim prayer. A Jewish student group from France said it had been trying to convey "the masquerade that this conference represents."
Ahmadinejad — the first government official to take the floor — restarted and delivered his speech for more than a half-hour, saying the United States and Europe had helped establish Israel after World War II at the expense of Palestinians.
"They resorted to military aggression to make an entire nation homeless under the pretext of Jewish suffering," he said.
That prompted the walkout by some 40 diplomats from Britain and France and other European Union countries. The Europeans had threatened to leave the conference if it descended into anti-Semitism or other rhetoric harshly critical of Israel, which marred the U.N.'s last conference on racism eight years ago in South Africa.
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President Barack Obama is reaching out to the Iranian people in a new video with subtitles, saying the U.S. is prepared to end years of strained relations if Tehran tones down its bellicose rhetoric.President Barack Obama is reaching out to the Iranian people in a new video with... more
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Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has announced that he will run against current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June elections. Khatami, leader of the reformers, visited the US in 1997 and says he regrets the 1979-1981 hostage crisis.Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has announced that he will run against... more
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Iran has launched its first homemade satellite into orbit.
10th of Fajr (February 3), is the anniversary of the date in 1959 when Ayatollah Khomeini created the Council of the Islamic Revolution.Iran has launched its first homemade satellite into orbit.
10th of Fajr (February... more
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"Mutual Respect" were key words in Obama's talk about the US relationship with the "Muslim World." It clearly referenced to the future negotiations with the Iranian government. I am glad somebody noticed it."Mutual Respect" were key words in Obama's talk about the US... more
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The main thesis of the ones offering a "truce" and an Plan B with diplomacy in the UN is that military actions have to stop before missiles destroy every administrative infrastructure of the Hamas government leaving a "void of power" that will end up being costly to Israel which will have to assume the control of the region without having a structure for that purpose.The main thesis of the ones offering a "truce" and an Plan B with diplomacy... more
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The strategy is the same as followed in Lebanon with Hezbollah: Give time to Israel so they can advance all they can in destroying infrastructure and operative capacity of Hamas, and then call for a cease to bring "peace".The strategy is the same as followed in Lebanon with Hezbollah: Give time to Israel so... more
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad broadcast a Christmas Day message on Britain's Channel 4 television at 7:15 p.m. GMT.
He congratulated all the followers of Abrahamic faiths, particularly the followers of Jesus Christ, and the people of Britain on the auspicious birth anniversary of Jesus Christ. The following is a translated version of the full text delivered by the Iranian president:
In the name of God the Compassionate the Merciful.
On this anniversary of the birth of Jesus, son of Mary, the word of God, the messenger of mercy. I would like to congratulate the followers of Abrahamic faiths, especially the followers of Jesus Christ, and the people of Britain.
The Almighty created the universe for human beings and human beings for Himself. He created every human being with the ability to reach the heights of perfection. He called on man to make every effort to live a good life in this world and to work to achieve life everlasting. On man's difficult and challenging journey from dust to the divine, He did not leave humanity to its own devices. He chose from those He created the most excellent as His prophets to guide humanity. All prophets called for the worship of God, for love and brotherhood, for the establishment of justice and for love in human society.
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We wish you a merry jihad and a land with no gays
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I never thought I'd have to choose between the Queen or Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but Channel 4 are putting us in that predicament, by having him deliver this year's 'alternative' Christmas message.
Breaking 15 years of tradition, Channel 4 are not going to be pitting their message against the BBC's traditional Queen's message, but instead will be running it at 7:15pm.
Apparently he will blame the world's current problems on a lack of spiritual belief with his message being preceded by a 'short introduction designed to place his speech in context.'
He's a few cheeky snippets to wet your whistle:
"If Christ was on earth today undoubtedly he would stand with the people in opposition to bullying, ill-tempered and expansionist powers," he will say. "If Christ was on earth today undoubtedly he would hoist the banner of justice and love for humanity to oppose warmongers, occupiers, terrorists and bullies the world over."
"If Christ was on earth today undoubtedly he would fight against the tyrannical policies of prevailing global economic and political systems, as he did in his lifetime," he will say. "The solution to today's problems can be found in a return to the call of the divine prophets."I never thought I'd have to choose between the Queen or Iranian president Mahmoud... more
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Channel 4 has opted to end the year on a controversial note by inviting the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to give the broadcaster's alternative Christmas message tomorrow.
But the channel has shied away from scheduling the president's address against the Queen's Christmas speech at 3pm. It has broken with a 15-year tradition of airing its alternative Christmas message at the same time as the Queen by scheduling Ahmadinejad's message at 7.15pm.
Channel 4 has said that the Muslim president, who has a hostile relationship with many western countries, will deliver a spiritual address that will feature a message of seasonal goodwill.
It will be preceded by a short introduction designed to place his speech in context, the broadcaster added.Channel 4 has opted to end the year on a controversial note by inviting the president... more
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If Iran’s Westernised youths were given the choice of Barack Obama or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a free election, an overwhelming majority would back the American.
That, at least, may be the sneaking suspicion of Tehran’s ossified leaders who harbour a gnawing, corrosive mistrust of their own people. Why else would they obsessively screen candidates in their bogus elections to prevent the annoyingly popular liberal reformers from standing?
Yet in a nation where two thirds of the population are younger than 30, Iran’s authorities have almost ended their fruitless efforts to ban satellite dishes. They turn a blind eye while countless teenagers enjoy American films and music.
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The regime denounces the United States as the "Great Satan", but bookshops outside Tehran University sell dictionaries of "American idiom" and even guides to adopting American accents.
This is American cultural power, perhaps the most important dimension of national strength. Until this week, America’s "soft power" was confined to the appeal of its fashion, music and films. Young Iranians could still unite behind their regime in reviling America’s leaders, especially President George W Bush.If Iran’s Westernised youths were given the choice of Barack Obama or Mahmoud... more
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the West for the global financial crisis on Saturday, saying other countries were being dragged in to help resolve Western problems.
"Leaders of the Western bloc ... are trying to extend their own crisis to the rest of the globe to portray it as global," Ahmadinejad told a U.N. aid conference in the Qatar's capital Doha.
"They dispatch different delegations to other countries and hold regional meetings and conferences in order to force other governments to get involved in this crisis to cover a part of their loss."
The credit crunch has frozen lending markets, forced trillions in government bailouts and sent a raft of nations into recession with many others hovering on the cusp of a severe economic downturn. The crisis has taken a heavy toll on poorer nations through trade and an inability to access credit markets.
According to World Bank estimates, 40 million people will be dragged into poverty in 2009 as a result of the global financial crisis and related economic meltdown.
The Iranian president, who often rails against the West, said the capitalist era had come to an end and said the world should adopt a new system based on "religious, spiritual and non-usury" principles.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the West for the global financial crisis... more
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday congratulated US president-elect Barack Obama on his success - the first time an Iranian leader has offered such wishes to a U.S. president-elect since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday congratulated US president-elect... more
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Babak Yektafar: ElBaradei's statement will not change minds of those who want to confront Iran.
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei stated this week that Iran did not have the nuclear material, low enriched uranium, to develop a nuclear weapon. In 2007 The National Intelligence Estimate concluded that Iran is years away from acquiring the technology necessary to produce a nuclear weapon. The UN, the EU and the United States believe Tehran is working towards a nuclear bomb, an assertion Iran denies. Babak Yektafar believes that to properly solve the issue Washington needs to stop treating Tehran with a carrot and stick approach.
Babak Yektafar, Editor-in-Chief of Washington Prism is a graduate of Farleigh Dickinson University with a B.A. in Communications. From 1999 to 2005, Babak was a producer with C-SPAN network’s national live morning program, Washington Journal.Babak Yektafar: ElBaradei's statement will not change minds of those who want to... more
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WASHINGTON: They wake before dawn, with time to exercise, eat and pray before the first class of the day in firing Kalashnikov rifles.
Over the next eight hours, they practice using bazookas or laying roadside bombs, with a break for lunch and mandatory religious instruction.
There is free time in the evening to watch television or play Ping-Pong.
Lights out at 11 p.m.
Such is a typical day at a dusty military base outside Tehran, where for the past several years members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Force and Lebanese Hezbollah operatives have trained Iraqi Shiites to launch attacks against American forces in Iraq, according to accounts given to American interrogators by captured Iraqi fighters.
American officials have long cited Iranian training and weapons as reasons for the lethality of attacks by Shiite fighters in Iraq. Iranian officials deny that such training takes place.
Now, more than 80 pages of newly declassified intelligence documents for the first time describe in detail an elaborate network used by Iraqis to gain entry into Iran and train under Iranian supervision. WASHINGTON: They wake before dawn, with time to exercise, eat and pray before the... more
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There's been a lot of talk about whether the U.S. and Iran are going to war. But the real question may be whether the U.S. and Iran are already at war... a war through proxies.
The Bush administration has long claimed that Tehran is supporting radical Shiite groups who are attacking American troops in Iraq. Recently, we traveled to the Iraq-Iran border for Current's "Vanguard" to investigate claims that the U.S. is supporting its own groups who are attacking Iran.
Our journey took us from the streets of Erbil, the capital of the relatively peaceful and pro-American Kurdish north of Iraq, to the volatile foothills of the Qandil Mountains. Along the way, we talked politics with Iranian bootleggers, drank Johnny Walker with aging communist revolutionaries and even palled around with some terrorists.There's been a lot of talk about whether the U.S. and Iran are going to war. But... more
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Iran has reportedly released two Iranian Christians from Muslim backgrounds who could have received the death penalty on charges of apostasy.
The well-informed Italian news agency Adnkronos said Mahmoud Matin Azad, 52, and Arash Basirat, 44, were released Tuesday, September 30, after a tribunal ruled that charges of "offense to Islam" and "diffusion of falsities" were "invalid", apparently after international pressure.
Both men were detained in May by intelligence officials in the city of Shiraz, in southwestern Iran during a meeting with 13 other who were later interrogated and released. The prosecution requested the death penalty for Azad and Basirat, according to documents obtained by Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN), which has close contacts with Christians in Iran.
Their release followed a statement last Friday, September 26, by the European Union saying it was "very worried" about the apparent deterioration of religious freedom in Iran, following the arrests of Christians as well as followers of the Baha'i religion and Sunni and Sufi Muslims.
CHURCH LEADERS
German-based evangelical news agency IDEA quoted well-informed observers as saying that a meeting between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and church officials last week in New York also contributed to the release of both Christians.
However at least some 43 other 'converts' remain jailed in Iran, Adnkronos quoted unidentified sources as saying. Many of them are believed to be Christians and there have been international concerns about their situation.
Several converts have in the past died in mysterious situations, or were sentenced to death, including evangelical pastor Hossein Soudmand, who was hanged in 1986 in Mashad prison.
CONTROVERSIAL PROPOSAL
The government of Iranian President Ahmadinejad recently presented to parliament a proposal to modify the penal code and include in it the crime of abandonment of Islam, which could carry the death penalty.
About 99 percent of Iran's 65 million people are Muslims, while a quarter of a million Muslims converted to Christianity, according to conservative estimates. Other sources suggest that the number of Christian converts in Iran is much higher and rising, adding to concerns among Muslim leaders.
There are also at least some 150 Armenian and Assyrian Christians, church observers said.
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It's a great achievement for grass roots media when people like Ahmadinejad will grant an interview. Here, Amy Goodman talks to Ahmadinejad about US building up their military presence on Iranian borders and Iran's record on human rights.
What do you think of Ahmadinejad during this interview?It's a great achievement for grass roots media when people like Ahmadinejad will... more
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It's interesting to get an international perspective on America. Read this article to read more on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's response. It's interesting to get an international perspective on America. Read this... more
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