Divest Terror Initiative - Starving Iran's Seyyeds

I really cannot believe this. Some people are seriously waking up to what I have been crying out about for such a long time.

Read this:

But there is a way to strike hard at Iran and encourage a change in regime or at least in policies: We can stop investing in companies that invest in Iran. Frank Gaffney, a former Reagan Pentagon official, and his group disinvestterror.org list 485 companies that do business in Iran.

More at:

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2007/06/26/starving_the_mullahs

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http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=56&categoryid=56&subcategoryid=57&newsid=11567

Brave Amir Kabir Students

A student holds a sign reading, "Fascist President, Polytechnich is not your place", as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, speaks at the Amir Kabir Technical University, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 11, 2006 in a rare demonstration against the president. Ahmadinejad claimed to be delighted when reformist students disrupted his visit to the elite university, saying it showed the world that Iranians can protest "with an absolute, total freedom," the hard-line president wrote on his Web site. But at least eight of Amir Kabir University's leading reformists have been arrested since May 2007, according to their lawyers and activists inside and outside Iran. (AP Photo)

Why do US companies trade with Seyyeds in Iran?

It is about time the US Treasury showed, which companies in the US at least, that do trade with the Seyyeds in Iran.

Most of the companies listed on the site are foreign, although the list includes some US firms including Baker Hughes, Marathon Oil and Mastercard which have disclosed ties to Sudan, according to the links on the SEC's website.

The SEC said the appearance of a company on the list, however, does not mean "that the company directly or indirectly supports terrorism or is otherwise engaged in any improper activity."

The new link on the SEC's website comes after US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson last week urged US allies to help cut off Iran's banks from the global financial system, accusing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard of funding and training Middle East militant groups.

more here:

http://www.petroleumworld.com/story07062605.htm

You're wrong Prof Zucker

Professor Zucker, in comparing Iran with Poland, thinks that the only opposition group of Iran is the MEK. Can you believe this? He ignores all the people who want a new democracy, be it as part of a Constitutional Monarchy, or a Republic. He then advocates an attack on Iran. He would rather have people, who are in many respects, even more confused than the Seyyeds, take over with the help of US.

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Instead of assisting the largest, best organized, oldest, and most popular of all Iranian opposition groups, the United States and the EU have placed the National Council of Resistance of Iran and its principal member, the Mojahedin-e Khalq, on their Foreign Terrorist Organizations list, thereby once again bowing to political pressure from Tehran and aiding the mullahs instead of the Iranian people. Whether it is political naiveté, or financial greed and a desire for lucrative deals with the Islamic Republic, the West has so far done nothing of substance to aid the Iranian people's best chance at regime change.

More at:

http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=2996&cid=2&sid=4

US snookered by China on Iran

You would think that the US could just hint at the US companies in China to protest at the Chinese government for their dealings with the Seyyeds.

The United States is also stepping up international efforts to isolate Iran over its defiant nuclear program but it is quietly concerned over China's potential oil and gas dealings with the Islamic republic, experts say.

Beijing has signed a 100-billion-dollar agreement to import 10 million tonnes of Iranian natural gas over the coming decades. In return, Chinese companies will become key stakeholders in Iran's oil fields.

But no, the Chinese have got the US by the balls, and there is nothing the US can do. Too much is made in China. The world needs to diversify away from China, that has an awful Human Rights record, and turns a blind eye to horrible regimes like the Seyyeds in Iran.

Left wing and Seyyeds against Iran secular nationalism

Media such as the Observer appeased the fanatic Islamists in the late 70's against USA, that led them to support the downfall of the sovereignty of Iran. Now I read this:

What was Britain hoping to achieve? How did a country under a left-of-centre government expect to influence religious rightists? Did it hope that a conversation with Foreign Office ministers would persuade them to repent and become converts to the noble cause of the emancipation of women?

It took them nearly thirty years to see what the Shahanshah of Iran called, "the alliance of red and black". Truly the naive left wing did not know what they were doing, and many still blindly support the Seyyeds against the US, just for the sake of being against the US, not that they really care about Iranian secular nationalism.

The First Persian Equities Fund invests in TSE

Mehr, a subsidiary of the Bank Melli Iran, is establishing a $402.3m fund to enable foreigners to invest in the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), reported the UK's Financial Times. The First Persian Equities Fund already has commitments totalling $134.1m and Mehr's MD Stephen Austen described the Iranian bourse as 'highly undervalued'. The launch of the fund comes as more stringent economic sanctions are aimed at Iran due to its nuclear policy.

Sanctions, what sanctions?

With all the time it takes to agree to sanctions, the even longer time to apply sanctions, and the various exemptions, you wonder why the UNSC bothered at all.

More at:

http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1756705&Language=en

How naïve was Carter?

Carter viewed Khomeini as more of a religious holy man in a grassroots revolution than a founding father of modern terrorism. Carter's ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, said "Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint." Carter's Iranian ambassador, William Sullivan, said, "Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure." Carter adviser James Bill proclaimed in a Newsweek interview on February 12, 1979 that Khomeini was not a mad mujahid, but a man of "impeccable integrity and honesty.

More below

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181813077590&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Can you believe that Carter & company were so naïve?

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