Iran's subprime crisis looming

However, now it has become clear to all that massive liquidity and constant rises in government expenditures are the driving forces behind inflation.

All this occurred because the billions of dollars that poured into Iran's coffers due to the unprecedented oil prices of the past few years were converted into rials and injected into the economy.

To create more jobs, the banks started providing easy loans, but the money was channeled into speculative real estate and commercial activities rather than production activities, which drove prices up.

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=168384

Wow doesn't this have similarities to what has just happened to the US?

Hizballah received 35 new Iranian speedboats shortly before current crisis

Hizballah received 35 new Iranian speedboats shortly before current crisisThe DEBKAfile's military sources report that three weeks before the recent Hizbullah takeover of western Beirut, the Shiite terrorist group recieved 35 speedboats from Iran. The speedboats have the capability to threaten international shipping in the region and could also be used to approach US and Israeli Navy ships near the Lebanese coast. The DEBKAfile reports that the speedboats were made for Hizbullah by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards shipyards at Bandar Abbas

http://www.infolive.tv/-/infolive.tv-22236-israelnews-debkafile-hizballah-received-35-new-iranian-speedboats-shortly-curren

Think of the money that went into making these. Then think of them being given to the Hezbollah in Lebanon for free.

How much better it would have been if the money was spent on the poor secular Iranians instead.

China's proxy

At the meeting, Mahmoud Salahi noted that one of Iran's major policy is to attract foreign investments.

"Iran's free trade and special economic zones have proper potentials for foreign investors," he said, noting, "All foreign investors are welcome in the FEZs."

Salahi further noted that the anti-Iran resolutions by United Nations Security Council had no effect on deals with European countries.

http://www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=591828

Obviously Salahi is being seriously dellusional. Someone should remind him of the effect of the German banks pulling out of Iran, and the recent pull out of Shell gas deal.

Basicaly Iran has become part of the Chinese economy.

The Poor in Iran

"We are staying here," said a protester who gave his name as Abu Rish. "We have money and support from Iran and Syria and we can go on like this for another 50 years."

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=11E107F08E5E992C7A7D4BB922D2444E.w6?a=163297&f=20&p=1

Fact is that the oil fund is being siphoned, and used more in Lebanon than on the poor secular Iranians. The poor in Iran abstained en-masse from the recent Seyyed selection process in Iran.

The rest of Iran barely survive, and are bombarded by propaganda everyday; on how the Seyyeds are winning the Nuclear argument for secular Iranians on the world scene. It creates a false sense of success, when less and less funding is available, and the economic depression worsens.

Quo Bene? Peak Oil advocates, and all those corporations making use of the cheap oil contracts, that the Chinese have established for the world corporations in China with all those prisoners.

Obliteration a phone call away?

We could obliterate Iran’s infrastructure and architecture with a simple phone call.

If you are an Iranian, ask yourself this. Why should Iran be in such a situation, to have people say such things?

What have the Seyyeds done to bring on this kind of reaction from your average commentator?

Why don't we have a decent group of people representing Iran, outside Iran, to bestow the respect this ancient nation deserves?

Who represents Iran?

Members of the United Iraqi Alliance had said the delegation was sent to Tehran to tell Iran to stop backing Shi'ite militias fighting U.S. and Iraqi security forces, underscoring Iraq's unease over the influence of its powerful neighbor.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080503/ts_nm/iraq_iran_dc

The Seyyeds oligarchy in Iran, are hardly in control of Iran, let alone some die-hards who have gone to Sadr City. But they are in control of the essential machinery of the state in Iran, to stop the regular army and the true Iranians to stop them.

I have already written at great length, about how Iranians can realise that they have the real power. Fact is that Iran has yet to have a social fabric on which it can create a instantaneous public outrage against the Seyyeds.

How do you create such a social fabric? Iranians are very good at making carpets, so why can't we weave one for all of us to stand on, and use to express our nationalistic sentiments? It is all part of being a primitive democracy. At the moment we have gone from voting to not voting.

Remember the first time the people of Iran went and voted; after Khomeini asked them to decide to trash Iran for an Islamic Republic. And they did, we are told. No one really knows. Nowadays people just abstain. So people do not participate socially any more.

Social participation will take time, but the new channels for it are being build along the modern networks such as internet blogging, and text messaging, which the Seyyeds are fighting. In this age of Aquarius the world will move forward via concensus. There really is no mouth piece such as a King anymore. So threads are started and concensus is sought.

Iranians have set up forums such as Iranian.com and the like, and are able to assimilate their thoughts. This process is fine for mutual understanding, but strategies to put into action any opposition for confrontation is difficult. It requires one of the Seyyeds to be part of the forum, and be defeated in a debate. That does not happen. And none of us can go on the Seyyed TV, to take them on and live.

So there needs to be as I have said, an appointment of a selected group of Iranians who are the best in the world at this time; who want to put Iran First and represent Iran in Exile. All forums will be linked in and concensus achieved. The UN needs to recognise this body, and kick out the Seyyed Rep.

It seems like a crazy idea, but there is no other non violent solution. Once the world listens and accepts this body, the Seyyeds, who are well known will be surrounded in their bunkers and faced with the threat of a General Strike. The rest is academic. No blood is spilled.

Disinformation for US attack on Iran

The immediate purpose of this disinformation campaign is apparently to help justify the planned US attack on a wide range of Iranian industrial and military targets.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8880

One the cleverest form of disinformation is to talk about disinformation.

Ultimately any nation can do whatever it likes to do. Media can write whatever. But people have the knowledge more than ever in human history to judge and share via internet. The world media is crumbling with the power of bloggers.

Politicians and their petty media supporters are playing a losing game. I am glad to say that we Iranians are the largest community of bloggers in the world. We know how the BBC put Khomeini in power.

It won't happen again. We are winning every day against the Seyyeds in Iran. The people of Iran have discovered a new Iran, after a lot of soul searching. Our new deeper roots have had to go to the realms of Vendidad in Zend Avesta to reignite the old Iranian flame that is 20000 years old which will inspire us forth. We happily ignore the Seyyeds.

No media mogul can pull the wool over our eyes anymore.

US warns China without mentioning the Seyyeds

"If Beijing begins to accept greater responsibility for the health of the international system -- as all global powers should -- we will remain on a constructive, even if competitive, path. If not, the rise of China begins to look more adversarial," he said.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2008/05/01/CIA_director_0501.ART_ART_05-01-08_A6_D8A33T3.html?sid=101

Why doesn't Hayden not mention the Seyyeds' collusion with China? Fact is that it is not the Chinese, but the US corporations and other western companies, that are using China's cheap industrial zones, that are to blame.

Warmonerging US vs Non Violent Regime Change

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that sending a second U.S. aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf could serve as a "reminder" to Iran, but he said it's not an escalation of force.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/gates_iran

I suppose the best way to change the regime officially and respectively, is to first contain it, and then threaten it with gun boat diplomacy.

Normally that pisses off the liberals all over the world; starting from India, who are naturally anti-US, indirectly benefits the Seyyeds.

And that's been the story all along since the Seyyed take over. And that is why the oil price has gone through the roof and Exxon makes 1 billion a day.

Put all that together and you can see why they would rather not have a peaceful non violent regime change.

Mass Abstention of Seyyed selection in Iran will happen

Some 21 million Iranians are eligible to vote in the Friday run-offs.

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200804250921.htm

No one but the Seyyeds and Basij will vote.