IRAN NEWS BRIEFS

Many of you may have been wondering with all the activity in Iraq by the Mad Mahdis (Moqtada Al-Sadr's Shia, pro-Iran forces) what has happened to Mookie (al-Sadr) himself. Previous reports had Mookie in a coma in a Tehran hospital with dire undercurrent remarks about his death being a strong possiblity - including what could be described as a "goodby letter" released by his office in Iraq. AntiMullah sources were informed Mookie was not coming back to Iraq alive. However, apparently the decision to kill him has been cancelled and he is curently UNDER HOUSE ARREST in the holy city of Ghom, where he had recently gone to visit. These reports indicate that the Islamic leaders of Iran have become worried that his continued attacks on Coalition forces, specially in South Iraq, though orchestrated by Iranian Ghods special forces who command and fight alongside the Mad Mahdis, will result in triggering an attack on Iran by the USA. He has BECOME A BARGAINING CHIP and a hostage to apply leverage to his forces in Iraq.

************

Islamic Iran has been tagged as the country with the second highest number of executions in the world (more than one per day) after China (a bit over 400 a year). Saudi Arabia was next in line. If you compare the population of Iran (about 70 million) with China's 1.3 Billion people, Iran's 377 executions proportionally kill vastly more of their own population than China as a percentage. Amnesty International statistics can only reflect official executions while informal ones in Islamic Iran triples those numbers when events among the100 UNOFFICIAL prisons and torture chambers operated by various splinters of "security" groups are considered.

****************

TWO HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS in Oil Sales seem to have placed Islamic Iran and its population into financial and mental bankruptcy instead of comfort and easy life that the revenue should have provided. Mismanagement is only one reason. A majority of military and industrial projects are being awarded to or funnelled through the Revolutionary Guards for already high amounts and then allowing virtually unlimited, uncontrolled cost overruns. Moving payments around with UN banking restrictions increasingly taking hold, costs the Islamic Republic more but buying tons and tons of USELESS and defective imports from China at dumping prices - at the expense of local Iranian industry - to the extent of factories closing down throughout Iran - adds to the spending deficit. Sometime ago, North Korea sent North Korean goods as barter payment for money they owed Iran. ALL of it went straight into dumpsters as none of it was usable! But the money was gone. The other is the huge amounts used to fund terrorists and terrorism in general. Hezbollah alone received over a BILLION dollars from Islamic Iran. Syria has been given huge amounts to buy arms and to pass on to Hamas and Palestinian groups. But it's not only Middle Eastern spending. Huge amounts flow into Russia, India and into South American Communist regimes: Venezuela, Cuba - and Sandanista Ortega just received $400 million. The 70 million Iranians are governed by a few crooked, inept, thugs in charge, who waste the money the land produces on their own agendas and not those actions that are best for the populace. Tired of sifting in garbage dumps to eat while the Mullahs waste money and live luxuriously, the people are ready to rise up BUT for whom? With whom? What leader is there for them to espouse, follow and expect to survive the Mullah suppression brigades and take over the country for them? There is nobody prominent enough or in the pipeline nor does the monarchy, at best an umbrella referee in future politics, appear to want to step into the breach. And until there is, don't expect Iranians to flood into the streets to literally face certain death and maiming, arrest, torture and rape, just for the sake of "freedom". Their love for survival is currently stronger than their love for freedom.