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.

Why did Iran's Seyyeds pull out of Manama Dialogue?

THE credibility of a major security conference talking place in Bahrain has been thrown in doubt after Iranian officials pulled out at the last minute.

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=202283&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=30263

One of the more interesting twists to this whole nuclear saga with the Seyyeds is what The Economist stated in its last paragraph when it states:

But to keep the world on side, America may have to show new flexibility. For example, while tightening sanctions, it could offer to talk to Iran about all aspects of their troubled relations, even before work at Natanz stopped. Iran might refuse. But that would at least make it clear which side was the spoiler.

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10251997

Now here is the first time, since the US decided to declare a slightly softer tone towards the Seyyeds, with the publication of the NIE report. AhMADinejad has welcomed the US's more positive outlook. So why don't the Seyyeds show up at the Manama Dialogue?

The reason I think is that they have no excuse to blame the US for anything now. The Seyyeds have had to rewrite the speech for Manama. All that anti-US stuff cannot work anymore.

Weaponization vs Enrichment

For that very reason, however, relieved doves who think the spectre of a nuclear Iran or of an American attack has now disappeared had better read the report again. Its final sentence says ("high confidence") that Iran has the scientific, technical and industrial capacity eventually to produce nuclear weapons if it chooses. As to what "eventually" means, the assessment has not changed: it was always late 2009 at the earliest but more probably the middle of the next decade.

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10251997

We know that the so called "spies" of United States, had seen some notes of some whisperings from some Seyyed thugs. That led them to deduce that the weaponization program, which is not that hard, has been halted. The world press, of course, the ones inside United States to begin with, and then the ones outside United States, used this as ammunition to beat neocons like Dick Cheney. What a shame that none of these correspondents actually know much about the nuclear cycle. As you can see from the article above, the crucial part of the nuclear cycle is the enrichment process. That bit has not stopped, and those centrifuges in Natanz have cost Iran so much both financially and internationally. We have let the Seyyeds ruin our reputation as the Birth Land of Human Rights. The fact that the enriched Uranium has no use for any power station in Iran, means that the Seyyeds want to use it for their own global Armaggeddon in respect of their Mahdi. They will press the button. The MAD (Multually Assured Destruction) principle does not apply for the Seyyeds. They see themselves as over and above UN or any international body that exists, has existed, or will exist. So what is the solution? The solution is that the world press should spend more time praising the Iranian diaspora, that has managed to create a new understanding of Iran for the future. We have people of incredibly high intellectual calibre who are keeping the dignity and respect of Iranians. These professionals are the future of Iran. We all want peaceful regime change. The one power we do not have is a world press that understands and appreciates the simplest way to get rid of the Seyyeds without bloodshed. We need the world press to not ask about the nuclear programs, but to ask what the Seyyeds could do in light of a non violent general strike. Once the Seyyeds are faced with questions centred on General Strikes, then they will realise that their bandits, can do nothing against a population of 65 million, if it decided to shut down Iran for even a couple of days. Our problem is not the Seyyeds, but the world press's blackout on forces of peaceful regime change in Iran.

Diplomacy with false teeth

"We will now press for a further sanctions resolution,'' the British minister wrote in the opinion piece published today. ``We cannot be afraid of diplomacy with teeth. The alternatives are all worse.''

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aQKIB92PC240&refer=uk

What is the point of diplomacy with teeth that does not include oil trading? The Chinese have clearly stated, that they will not be party to any aggreement, that would stop the flow of oil. And then you have the UK being the centre of military precurement. Unlike the US, the UK is not forcing companies to choose between the Seyyeds and UK.