Prominent cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah commented in a statement issued on Sunday on the subject of US threats against Iran, saying that the “doves in the US administration have turned into vultures overnight, to such an extent that we can no longer differentiate between the threats issued by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and those made by US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.”
“Iran is more united than at any other time against foreign threats,” his eminence added, stressing that the Islamic republic does not intend to possess nuclear weapons.
Sayyed Fadlallah warned that the US would be committing a “fatal strategic error” if it believed that it could easily break Iran and the Resistance.”
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Gathering against Shia torture in Egypt Muslims chant "Death to Mubarak" in London
Muslim slogan in Mass demonstrations outside the Egyptian embassy in London: “Death to Mubarak! Will not succumb! Will not bow! Shiism is coming to Egypt. The protestors shouted anti Egyptian slogans and chanted freedom for Shia prisoners. A group of scholars and cultural figures and social and human rights and active students from British universities have participated in the demonstration. There were many speeches, which expressed outrage at the excesses of the oppressor against Shias. They demanded the Egypt’s governor to give full right to Shias and asked Mubarak “Why Christians and other religions have full rights in Egypt but Shia Muslims deprived from their basic rights and under various forms of persecution and discrimination?! They pointed out that there was not a Shia mosque or any Husayniyah or places of worship in Egypt, despite Shias requested for permission to build mosques for them, but the government refuses these requests, whereas Christians, Jews and other non-Muslim communities have churches and temples and has access freely to it, but it is only Shia Muslim deprived of that! Mr. Haider al-Musawi and Mr. Hashim Al-Majid, condemned Egypt’s government and Hosni Mubarak and described him as responsible for torturing Shias and called him as traitor and Israel’s stooge.
The crowd chanted: “Death to Mubarak”, “Death to Tantawi”, “Death to the Qardavi”, Will not be silent! Will not bow! Will not succumb! Shiism is coming to Egypt, despite the amended.
IRAQ:SADR WARNS OF WEST'S PLOT TO RIG IRAQI ELECTIONS
Iraqi religious leader, Seyyed Moqtada as-Sadr, has warned of the conspiracy of certain western regimes to meddle in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Iraq.
According to the UAE daily “al-Khalij” he said the American occupiers are planning to rig the vote in order to put their allies in power, destabilize the country, and spread sedition.
He appealed to the Iraqi people to maintain unity and thwart the plots of the US and other western regimes.
Trial of Iran detainees held
| TEHRAN, Aug. 1 (MNA) — The first court trial of the detainees arrested during the post-election unrest was held on Saturday. | |
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According to the indictment, a number of the accused confessed that the post-election unrest was preplanned and the plan was following the timetable of the velvet revolution to the extent that over 100 stages of the 198 steps of Gene Sharp were implemented in the foiled velvet revolution. The indictment said that despite warnings by the Supreme Leader, certain groups propagated the idea of the possibility of fraud in the election without presenting any documentation, a claim which was widely disseminated by the enemies of the Islamic Revolution.
It said one of the political groups guilty of this offense is the Islamic Revolution Mojahedin Organization, which began making claims about the strong possibility of vote-rigging months before the presidential election.
The indictment said that forged documents were found at the house of former industries minister Behzad Nabavi, who is a leading member of IRMO, that were intended to raise concerns among the people. It added, in coordination with enemy groups and hostile media outlets, the Islamic Iran Participation Party (IIPP) and certain members of the Association of Combatant Clerics tried to put into question the validity of the poll before and after the election. The detainees admitted that they were absolutely certain that there was no election fraud but insisted that there had been vote-rigging in order to create doubts about the validity of the election. The indictment quoted Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari as saying that Western media outlets intentionally promoted the idea of the possibility of vote fraud before the election.
Bahari said illegal rallies were held that were similar to velvet revolutions in other countries with the goal of seizing control of important government institutions. The Newsweek journalist added that rallies in front of the Interior Ministry, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) headquarters, and the parliament were all planned with this purpose. Mostafar Tajzadeh, a former deputy interior minister during the Khatami administration, said he was totally convinced that Mir-Hossein Mousavi had lost the election in the provinces. “After the results were announced, nobody heard me saying that there was (election) fraud,” Tajzadeh said. Behzad Nabavi also confessed that there is no documentation proving that the election was rigged. “We had no document proving fraud and we should accept to the ruling of the Guardian Council,” he added. Abdollah Ramazanzadeh, the government spokesman during the Khatami administration, also said that vote- rigging is “impossible” in Iran. “I have always said… (vote) fraud is impossible in Iran,” Ramazanzadeh, the deputy secretary general of the IIPP, stated. He also said other members of the IIPP are of the opinion that there is no possibility of election fraud in the Iranian system.
Former lawmaker Mohsen Farahani, a leading member of the IIPP, said, “It cannot be accepted under any circumstances that there was vote-rigging in the election.” Even if it is assumed that there had been vote-rigging, it could be “one million or two million” and not 11 million, he added. According to the indictment, Farahani said he was surprised that people like Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who is a member of the Expediency Council and whose record is clear to everyone, and Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour and Abdolvahed Mousavi Lari, who had served as interior ministers, could make claims of election fraud. At a joint press conference, former vice president Mohammad-Ali Abtahi and Mohammad Atrianfar, a senior member of the Servants of Construction Party, answered reporters’ questions.
Abtahi said Mousavi did not recognize the reformist movement and thought that since he was a follower of Imam Khomeini, he would win the election. He also said the IIPP and some other parties invited U.S. doves to hold dialogue with Iranian doves. He said the 40 million votes cast in the June 12 election could have turned Iran into one of the most influential and powerful countries in the region and the world. He added, “I am happy that I am expressing my views bravely.” “Mousavi’s worst act was his insistence on fraud in the election despite an 11 million vote difference.” He also said Khatami had no right to “sacrifice the great and historic reform movement.” If the Supreme Leader did not announce that he would not back down one step from the election results, a triangle of insecurity in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan would have arisen in the region, he added. He went on to say that if he were Mousavi, he would have used his 13 million votes to strengthen democracy and promote hope in society and would have congratulated Ahmadinejad on his election victory. For his part, Mohammad Atrianfar said certain persons acted in a way that put the country’s independence to question. He described solitary confinement as very hard but said it is a necessity and it is the Judicial system’s right to interrogate prisoners and put them under pressure. However, Atrianfar said prison officials were compassionate toward him and other inmates. He also stated that the Supreme Leader is the standard bearer in defense of the revolution and regards the preserving the revolution as his duty. |
Grand Ayatollah Sistani's Fatwa about Swine Flu
Shia religious authority, Grand Ayatollah Sistani, issued Fatwa about Swine Flu:
Q: In spite of anxieties about expansion of swine flu among pilgrims in rituals of Hajj, which would lead to a big tragedy, what is your opinion about necessity of performing rituals of Hajj in this year?
Ans: it is obligatory to performing Hajj, but if its harms confirmed by wise people, after that it is not obligatory to performing it.
Iraqi PM,Maliki:Allaince is our choice, which is irreversible by the coalition is a ship to escape to the Iraqis
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Iraqis remain at the option of forming a coalition in Iraq, said during his meeting with Vice President Dr. Adel Abdul-Mahdi said the Iraqi Alliance is a rescue ship for the Iraqis and that the option of an irreversible
He said I assure everyone that we are with the coalition the first place. Sir, referring to the direction of the coalition and the building of a common citizenship, justice and equality
Saudi extremists arrested three Shia citizens in al-Ahsa
On Thursday , july 30, 2009 , some members of the Saudi security forces arrested three Shi’a citizens ( Sayyid Anwar Salman al-Ali , 17 years , Abdullah Hussain al-Salman , 20 years , Wa’el Abdul Jaleel al-Shaqaq , 21 years ) from village of Rumaila of Al-Ahsa .
Saudi authorities never charged the three citizens with a crime, but apparently arrested them solely on the basis of their religion and under the orders of ( Badr bin Muhammad bin Jalawi ) the governor of Al-Ahsa , due to their participating in the celebration of the last Ashura in the eastern province city of al-Ahsa .
The detainees were sentenced to seven days in prison .
Baghdad mosque blasts claim over 27
The death toll from Baghdad’s multiple car bombings has risen to more than 27 with over four dozen people injured across the Iraqi capital.
The six explosions, which were apparently coordinated, struck Iraqi
worshipers in Baghdad’s Shia dominated neighborhoods as they were
leaving mosques after the weekly Friday prayers.
Four people lost their lives in Diyala bridge, 10 km (six miles) south of Baghdad, where twin bombings left 10 others wounded.
Attacks in Baghdad’s southeastern Zafaraniyah and eastern Kamaliyah
neighborhoods killed two people and left nine people wounded while a
separate blast in al-Elam in western Baghdad injured four others.
The northeastern Baghdad district of al-Shaab witnessed the
bloodiest of Friday blasts when a car bomb detonated, leaving 21 people
killed and 35 others wounded, an interior ministry official said.
In a separate incident earlier in the day, two police officers lost
their lives in a bombing that targeted their patrol in the northern
Iraqi city of Mosul.
Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul Freight Train from August 14
TEHRAN (FNA)- Director of Pakistan Railways Shafiqullah said Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul international freight train will leave Islamabad on August 14. Speaking to the Islamic republic news agency on Thursday, the official said that planned train service will be operated as pilot project of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in line with agreement signed by the three countries in March this year.
“The train will run on trial basis and in future after removing all the bottlenecks the project would be finally started,” he made it clear.
“We want to make it a ceremonial occasion to launch the container train service from Islamabad on August 14, the independence day of Pakistan,” he added.
He said the service would be of great advantage to the business community of Pakistan, Turkey and Iran because earlier the containers used to be sent to Karachi by ship and after unloading were sent forward to respective destinations in the country either by road or rail and this was costing them quite high.
Earlier Pakistani Minister for Railways Haji Gholam Ahmed Bilour had said that Iran will provide trans-shipment facilities in Zahedan till a standard gauge line is laid between Zahedan and Mirjaveh.
Bilour said that Pakistan Railways is trying to improve the section, but it requires massive investment.
He said out of total 6,506 kilometers Islamabad-Istanbul rail track, the train service covers about 1,900 km of the distance in Pakistan, 2,570 km in Iran and 2,036 km in Turkey.
The minister said that Turkey and Iran already have railway link up at their borders and both have freight and passenger train services.
“We are trying to line up soft credit with international financial institutions to resolve the issue related to rail gauge between Pakistan and Iran before it is made a full-grown train service,” Bilour added.
He said that the freight train would initially be dedicated for the transportation of cargo containers and would eventually include other goods and passenger services.
Bilour said that by the time, the pilot freight train service got matured; other ECO member countries including Afghanistan might also join it.
IRAN:TEHRAN'S FRIDAY PRAYERS SERMONS
Tehran’s Interim Friday Prayers Leader, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, has stressed that the recent presidential elections in Iran, were the fairest, most free and healthiest elections in the Islamic Republic’s history.
Addressing a huge crowd of the faithful and Friday prayers worshippers in Tehran, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati referred to suggestions of fraud in the 10th presidential elections, saying these suggestions were a plan hatched by some people both inside and outside of the country. He pointedly added: “If the recent elections are not valid as some have claimed, then all the elections held in the Islamic Republic of Iran during the past 30 years have not been valid, but if those elections were free, fair and healthy, then the 10th presidential elections held recently were also free, fair and healthy.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Tehran’s interim Friday prayers leader urged President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to select qualified, capable, experienced, highly committed and principled individuals who are adept at handling the ministerial cabinet-level responsibilities they are given.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati also urged Iranian lawmakers in the Majlis to cooperate in giving a vote of confidence to all individuals who are nominated for ministerial positions.
Referendum can end Iran poll crisis: Khatami
TEHRAN: Former president Mohammad Khatami has called for a nationwide referendum on the legitimacy of the government, saying Iranians have lost faith in their political leaders after last month’s disputed election, according to reports posted Monday on several reformist Web sites.
The opposition charges that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the June 12 election through mass fraud.
“Durability of order and continuation of the country’s progress hinge on restoring public trust,” Khatami, a popular reformist, said, according to the sites.
“From the start, we said there is a legal way to regain that trust. I openly say now that the solution to get out of the current crisis is holding a referendum.”
Khatami, according to the Web sites, also accused hard-liners of undermining democracy and challenging the foundations of the Islamic republic when they chose to stand by the election results.
“We need to ask the people whether they are satisfied with the current situation? If a majority of the people are happy with this situation, we will submit (to their vote),” he said, referring to the referendum.
It is too early to say whether Khatami’s call for a referendum would be adopted by authorities, but it constitutes the latest challenge to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader who has the last word on state matters. Khamenei has declared the results of the elections valid.
Under Iran’s constitution, a referendum has to be ordered by Khamenei himself. All popular votes in Iran are monitored by an oversight body, the Guardian Council. Khatami, however, proposed that a neutral body, such as the Expediency Council, should monitor the proposed referendum instead.
Reformists have accused the Guardian Council of openly supporting Ahmadinejad in the election dispute.
The Expediency Council is a powerful clerical body that arbitrates disputes between the legislature and the government. It also advises Khamenei.
Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi claims he won the election, saying official results showing a landslide victory for Ahmadinejad are fraudulent. Hundreds of thousands of Mousavi’s supporters have staged street protests to denounce the results.
At least 20 protesters have since been killed and hundreds detained in clashes with security forces.
Khatami’s suggestion that a referendum be held as a way out of the ongoing crisis comes just days after another former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, criticized the government’s response to the election dispute in his first public comments since the election.
Rafsanjani denounced the government’s violent crackdown against protesters and demanded the release of those detained. Instead of suppression, he said the government should work to address the concerns Iranians have over the legitimacy of the vote.
27 militants killed in 24 hours: ISPR
RAWALPINDI: In the operation against militants in Malakand division 27 militants were killed during last 24 hours and 22 others were arrested. A security man was also martyred and nine others injured in the fighting against militants.
According to the ISPR spokesman, search and cordons continued in various parts of Peochar valley and 14 militants were killed and 22 captured during skirmishes in various areas.
Six security men were injured in clashes. A tunnel also found in the area, in which the arms and ammunition was concealed which has also been captured.
The forces have taken back Darmai village in Sakhara valley from the militants.
Moreover, a security man was martyred in militants’ attack over Kalpani check post, while three security men were injured in clashes with militants in Achraisar area.
The spokesman further said that a Lashkar of local tribesmen has expelled militants from four villages in Upper Dir. The Lashkar also killed 13 militants. The tribesmen have surrounded Shatkas and Ghazigai to push the militants out of these villages, spokesman said.
The spokesman said that the military has distributed 1060 tonnes of ration among the displaced persons.
President takes notice of vandalism against Christians in Toba Tek Singh
ISLAMABAD, Jul 31 (APP): President Asif Ali Zardari Friday expressed serious concern over the reported incident of setting the houses of Christian residents on fire in a Toba Tek Singh village, and called for an immediate inquiry report from the provincial government. Spokesperson to the President former Senator Farhatullah Babar said the President took serious note of the media reports of the incident and asked the provincial government to send him a report and also ensure the security of life and property of the villagers.
The President also advised the federal government to send the Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti to express sympathy with the victims.
The President said there were laws of the land to deal with complaints and accusations against anyone and no one should be allowed to take the law into his own hands to settle scores.
It is against the spirit of Islam and the norms of a civilized society when laws are taken into one’s own hands and members of the minority community are vandalized for real or imagined crimes, he said.
The President asked for a thorough investigation into the incident and to bring the culprits to justice in accordance with the law.
He also took notice the reports of some lawyers manhandling the policemen and journalists, and called for a report from the provincial government.
The President called for mutual tolerance, respect for dissent and reconciliation. Tolerance for plurality and respect for the views of others is part of the culture of democracy, he said.
“It is therefore our responsibility to promote democratic values and culture as a necessary tool of promoting tolerance and harmony,” he said.
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