Divestment from Iran

The employee fund will further consider divestment — probably focused on Iran — at its Feb. 26 meeting.

http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/other/01/03/0103sudan.html

With the overwhemling majority vote in the UN against Capital Punishment and condemnation of the state of Human Rights in Seyyed Iran, many of the US investment funds are having to sell shares in companies that do business in Iran. The Chinese companies are getting hit most. The Chinese have tried to delay the UN Security Council, but the real course of action, is within the US itself. So ironically the US's problem with the Seyyeds can be solved right from the US.

No Gas

"Turkmenistan reduced its exports to Iran by half two days ago but since Sunday afternoon, the exports have completely ceased," said a spokesman for the National Iranian Gas Company, quoted by the state broadcaster.

Turkmenistan normally exports between 20 to 23 million cubic metres (706 to 812 million cubic feet) of gas daily to Iran, the spokesman said.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g8kprmWTGdlprL...


Total madness, that we have proven reserves second to Russia, and the only thing the Seyyeds are interested in, is siphoning the Oil income to make centrifuges.

And what are the Iranian people's reaction to all this? A lot. But is it being reported by anyone in the West? Does AFP go further than this? No. After all they don't want the French interests to be influenced in any way do they.

Gossip without water

The authorities insist the drive against water pipes is on grounds of health alone, but it comes amid one of the toughest moral crackdowns in years, which has seen thousands of women warned for attire or behaviour deemed un-Islamic.

The clampdown has also targeted trendy coffeeshops, book-cafes and Internet cafes, which are among the few places where young men and women can hang out together in the Islamic republic, which frowns upon the mixing of the sexes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071230/wl_mideast_afp/iransocialsmokingprotest

This just another excuse for the Seyyeds, to poke around Iranian culture, which alien to them. But more importantly this their pathetic attempt to stop the chattering crowds. They can't influence the spread of The Good Truth which stems from the Iranian Spirit. Their alien thoughts no longer attract Iranians' attention.

Iranian Business in Dubai

"There are 48 European banks based here that have started imposing restrictions on companies that do business with Iran, even though they know the merchants very well and have a history with them," says Hadi Motameni, president of the Iranian Business Council. "When businesses don't get loans from banks, they can't function."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_on_re_mi_ea/gulf_iran_s_boomtown

It is about time that Iranians were a little more responsible about their dealings with the Seyyeds.

UN is with the Iranian Opposition

The UN General Assembly approved a Canadian draft resolution Tuesday expressing "deep concern" at alleged systematic human rights violations in Iran, including torture, flogging, amputations, stoning and public executions.

The 192-member world body adopted the resolution by a vote of 73-53 with 55 abstentions.

The resolution is not legally binding but carries moral weight and reflects the majority view of world opinion.

http://www.thecanadianpress.com/english/online/OnlineFullStory.aspx?filename=w121896A&newsitemid=19460015&languageid=1

Thank goodness most of the world is with the Iranian Opposition. But the Seyyeds think that they are over and above the UN don't they.

Include Iranians, but Seyyeds will exclude

It's now time to pursue an inclusive strategy that attempts to bring both the Arab center and Iranian periphery into a comprehensive peace arrangement and a framework for regional security.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1198517212331&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

What is utterly amazing is how no matter what strategy the Israelis, neocons, or whoever else has, they do not see the real problem. The real problem is that the Seyyeds, especially the likes of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi and his echelon, will never be seen with the Israelis or American, agreeing about anything.

Now the Israelis and the US neocons know this. So all this rapproachment, is a precursor to the next and perhaps ultimate phase. They want to make sure that they cannot be critisized for not trying to be reasonable with the Seyyeds.

But we all know that they all could remove the Seyyeds in a week if they wanted to. So all this is political theatre. Why don't they recognise the true Iranians in opposition, and help the non violent regime change.

The reason is very clear. The last thing they want is for Iran to be run by an intelligence that would compete in all spheres of human activity. The brain and monetary drain must continue, and Iran must become a pariah state.

But the people of Iran are fighting this inhibition internally. Every Seyyed has been ear marked and is avoided. People will deal only with those who are not part of the ruling oligarchy. The change is already taking place and the so called coming Seyyed election will be totally ignored by all.

Unless of course the US President says something like the Iranians do not know how to vote, and gets everyone's back up. That would help the Seyyeds just like it did the last time. But the people of Iran will see through this.

Seyyeds buying friends with oil

Iran and Malaysia signed a $16 billion agreement to develop two Iranian gas fields, state-run television reported Wednesday, describing the deal as the largest energy contract in Iran.

http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=afxnews&articleid=6464495&action=article

And the US has threatened the Malaysians with withrawing the preferred trading status, and Malaysians didn't twitch. It is amazing how the Chinese and Malaysians have absolutely no regard for Human Rights. How can they be so materialistic?

Stop that Chinaman

“We were very concerned to see the announcement and we have followed up and communicated that concern to the Chinese government . . . at multiple levels,” said a senior US official, who added the US was still waiting for “further details” from China about the transaction.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9b1abb3e-af22-11dc-880f-0000779fd2ac.html

That's right, the root of the problem are the Chinese. Force them to choose between trading with the US or the Seyyeds. But of course we all know, for China you must read US companies in China like Wal-Mart. They use prisoners, together will cheap oil from Iran, to export to the West. Do you buy "Made in China"? Think before you buy.

Perverse Double Negative

U.S. intelligence agencies are reporting that Iran is not currently building nukes. I am by no means advocating for war as a solution, nor do I intend for it to be an element of this question. But would these be the same "intelligence" agencies that reported that Iraq DID have weapons of mass destruction?

http://www.stevenspointjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071215/SPJ06/712150388/1713/SPJopinion

Truly we live in a perverse world. So the US agencies are betting, that once the next media campaign to the pre-emptive strikes gets going, they are off the hook. The world would rather not blame them for getting involved in politics. But that's the whole point. If the US "intelligence" agencies gave credit to Iranian patriots, that are not involved with the Seyyeds, then maybe we Iranians could change our country in our own sweet peaceful way. But they would rather try to get themselves in that llittle spot where the newspapers write about Iran. Not one word is written about how, a public dialogue on the ways and means of non violent resistance, in itself would show up the Seyyeds weaknesses, and show the strength of non violent general strike.

Re-write that speech ElBaradei

"They scattered the weaponization program to other locations and restarted in 2004," Mohammad Mohaddessin, the NCRI's foreign affairs chief, told the Journal.

"Their strategy was that if the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) found any one piece of this research program, it would be possible to justify it as civilian. But so long as it was all together, they wouldn't be able to."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/933444.html

For the past many years it used to be the case, that every time the IAEA came around to give an "A OK" to the Seyyed stealth nuke program, someone - either a "defector" or the NCRI would release some new piece of information, and poor old Ayatollah ElBaradei would get pissed off that he had to rewrite his anti-US speech.