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As you can see from the spelling, the site is French language based. Safa Haeri used to work for French Daily - Journal de Teheran - in the "good old days" of the M onarchy and has followed this profession ever since, though he was always somewhat oriented to the left. // Protocols of the Mollahs of Qom Aims At Annihilating Sunnis As religious and sectarian killings in Iraq intensifies, with major Arab nations uniting their forces to stop the growth in strength and popularity of the Sh’ia Muslims, but particularly non Arab that is aiming at becoming the Middle East’s super power, Arab historians, intellectuals, journalists and ulemas have started a vigorous anti-Iranian, anti Shi’a campaign. By Safa Haeri // UN Sanctions To Affect Bushehr Plant, Cost Might Rise To US 3 Billion: IRNA In an article critical to the Russian firm in charge of the construction of Iran’s first nuclear-powered electricity plant, the Iranian official news agency IRNA indirectly blames the Russians for “repeated delays” and hints that possibly, the whole of the project could be stopped because of the sanctions decided by the United Nations Security Council against Iran. By Safa Haeri // Iran - Ready to Attack American military operations for a major conventional war with Iran could be implemented any day. They extend far beyond targeting suspect WMD facilities and will enable President Bush to destroy Iran's military, political and economic infrastructure overnight using conventional weapons. By Dan Plesch // Smart Sanctions Needless to mention, a free and democratic Iran needs rapid development and advanced technology, including nuclear technology. Nevertheless, the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) stubbornly needs this technology for the bomb, and maybe, under appropriate form, to put it in the hands of its Islamist terrorists. Who knows, maybe one day, the brutal IRI regime, in order to defend its “divine” lif, would use atom against our “profane” people. By Jahanshah Rashidian // Ali Akbar Velayati, Advisor To The Leader: “Everything is negotiable” Special Advisor to Ayatollah Ali Khameneh’i, the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who as the last word on every major issue, Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati can be considered as the de facto spokesman for the leader. Foreign Affairs minister of the regime for 17 years, he granted an exceptional interview to Bernard Guetta, the special correspondent of the Italian daily “La Republica”, which was also carried out by the French leftist daily “Liberation” and other publications. By Bernard Guetta // Office Of Mohammad Khatami Raided The office of former reformist president of Iran Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Khatami has been “raided” overnight by unidentified people who have taken away all the computers, documents, fax machines and other equipments at the “Baran” and the International Centre for Dialogue among Cultures and Civilisations, it was reported. Safa Haeri // Iran Again Double Speaks Once again, Iranian clerical leaders resorted to their old “double speak” tactics dear to George Orwell, presenting two versions for one single speech, that of Mr. Ali Larijani at the international security meeting of Munich. By Safa Haeri // Iran Suppresses Free Speech While observers speculate about the risk of Iran developing nuclear weapons and the possibility of a U.S. military attack against Iran, we seem not to be giving adequate attention toward the actual situation of ordinary Iranian citizens. Iranians live under significant oppression from their government, including restrictions on the freedom of expression and many instances of suppression of other basic democratic norms. By Amit Pyakurel // Iran’s Ahmadi Nezhad Crackdown Opponents Growingly unpopular at home and pressed and isolated internationally, the government of the fanatical Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi Nezhad is increasing pressures and crackdown on Iranian political dissidents. By Safa Haeri // Between State And Revolution "Mizanan, ya na?" (Will they hit or not?) In Tehran these days, this question is the talk of the town. The "they" is seldom spelled out. Yet everyone knows that it refers to the United States. The question is wreaking havoc on Iran's fragile economy by fomenting an atmosphere of uncertainty even before the sanctions imposed by the U.N. Security Council start to bite. Many in Tehran expect the Security Council to decree even tougher sanctions in March when the ultimatum for the Islamic Republic to halt its uranium enrichment program will end. By Amir Taheri // Iranians Do Not Want American Style Democracy // Iran's Top Dissident Cleric Urges Open Politics, // Iran's Plans: Sticks & Carrots // Saudi Arabia To Iran: Don’t Interfere In Arab’s Affairs. // Iran To Offer Security Council New Proposals // Iranian, Venezuelan Don Quichote To Fight US Super Power // Seismic Dangers Obstacle To Iranian President's Atomic Dreams // Winds Definitely Turning Against Ahmadi Nezhad // Saddam Was A Captured Dictator. // In Iran the Debate is Over Escalation // Iraq – A Lesson In Abject Political Failure: How To Make A Martyr Out Of A Monster // Risks, Perils and Potential Disasters of 2007 // Wounded But Alive: Could Ahmadi Nezhad Become More Dangerous? // Shadow Of Sanctions // The Reformers Are Back // What The Muslim Nations Should Learn From The Holocaust // Circus Of Hate: The Holocaust Conference Shames Iranians // In Iran, All Politics Are Local Alan Note: In editing and removing a double post of this article, I may have also deleted the two comments from a very passionate Garduneh, so to ensure they are not lost, I have added them to the main article. The anger shown results from frustration of the West "turning the other cheek", with often decades of "irrelevant" negotiation and loss of life by Jihadist murder - and not from a bloodthirsty desire to kill Moslems. It is the Moslems who carry this fanatical desire to kill every infidel - including "infidel Moslems", who follow a different persuasion of Islam! Not just Sunni and Shia but splinter sects within each of those main denominations. Garduneh Mehr said... Who the hell are these f**king TAAZI's presuming to speak for Iranians with bull-shit like "Iranians Do Not Want American Style Democracy"? What does a barbarous desert roaming goat-molesting TAAZI know about the true culture and civilization of the Iranian people? The Arabist-Islamist TAAZI's really need to shut the f**k up! For Christ's sake when are you Americans going to nuke these f**kers? What are you wainting for? Isn't it enough that they murdered some three thousand of your civilians on 9/11 and some three thousand more of your best sons and daughters in Iraq? What more provocation do you need? You know as well as I do that if these Islamo-Arab savages had the tiniest fraction of the might of the U.S. they would subject not just your country but all of humanity to such torture and torment that the beasts of the wild would cry rivers for us. For Goodness' sake you've already paid for those Trident missiles; so let your tax-payer get his money's worth. Put those Tridents to good use and nuke Mecca, Medina, Ryadh, Damascus, Cairo, Alexandria, Moroco, the area between the Litani river and the Israeli border, Yemen, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Indonesia. Let's have done with it. 9:36 AM Garduneh Mehr said... ... Oh yeah, also nuke strikes on each of the bases of the "Pasdaran" IRGCstarting with "Bandar-Abbas" and the one south of Tehran.