tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53786017323735027292012-02-06T23:00:07.794+01:00"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George OrwellZam-Armataynoreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5378601732373502729.post-81938421059932353742007-04-22T18:56:00.000+01:002007-04-23T20:43:58.545+01:00

By Zam Armatay, April 22, 2007After listening to the Wolf Blitzer's interview with The New York Time's foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman in the CNN's Late Edition, I sat on my couch and wondered how stupid a prominent New York Time's columnist can get. In the response to Wolf Blitzer asking:Wolf Blitzer: "You are not very optimistic right now? ... I remember that column you wrote after

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By rian Ross and Christopher Isham, April 03, 2007A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News.The group, called Jundullah, is made up of members of the Baluchi tribe and operates out of the Baluchistan province in

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by Jerome R. Corsi, April 12, 2007While the world press has focused on Iran's plans to move ahead with enriching uranium, Tehran continues to wage economic war against the U.S. dollar behind the scenes.Tehran has reached a decision to end all oil sales in dollars, according to statements by Iran's central bank governor, Ehrabhim Sheibany, in Kuala Lumpur at the end of last month.Zhuhai Zhenrong

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The Guardian, March 31, 2007By Terry JonesNo hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunchTerry Jones is a film director, actor and Python.www.terry-jones.netI share the outrage expressed in the British press over the treatment of our naval personnel accused by Iran of illegally entering their waters. It is a disgrace. We would

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New York Times, April 5, 2007By Vali Nasr and Ray TakeyhThrough the capture of and subsequent announcement that it would release 15 British sailors and marines, the Islamic Republic of Iran sent its adversaries a pointed message: just as Iran will meet confrontation with confrontation, it will respond to what it perceives as flexibility with pragmatism. This message is worth heeding as the United

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March 24-2007Four and a half years ago, I addressed the issue of war in an open letter to our President. Today I would like to again speak to him and his, directly. Mr. President, Mr. Cheney, Ms. Rice et al: Indeed America has a rich history of greatness -indeed, America is still today a devastating military superpower.And because, in the absence of a competent or brave Congress, of a mobilized

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By Peter GalbraithBush wanted a yes man, who'd thank himPresident Bush had one overriding concern. Iraq's new leaders should be publicly grateful to the United States. As he told Bremer in a May 19 meeting of the NSC, "It's important to have someone who's willing to stand up and thank the American people for their sacrifice in liberating Iraq. I don't expect us to pick a yes man. But at least I

باباکوهیnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5378601732373502729.post-13159032544958901602007-03-23T20:40:00.000+01:002007-03-23T20:40:53.094+01:00

By Jimmy CarterThe Israeli Apartheid - part 2The Israeli Apartheid - part 3(The Gaza Strip)Living among 1.3 million Palestinians, the 8000 Israeli settlers were controlling 40 percent of the arable land and more than one-half the water resources, and 12000 troops were required to defend their presence.Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, page 168.A life in constant fearThey [Palestinians in Gaza] are

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By George LakoffThe stories in the major media suggest that an attack against Iran is a real possibility and that the Natanz nuclear development site is the number one target. As the above quotes from two of our best sources note, military experts say that conventional "bunker-busters" such as the GBU-28 might be able to destroy the Natanz facility, especially with repeated bombings. On the other

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First Declaration of Human Rights by Cyrus the Great, inscribed in cuneiform on a clay cylinder discovered in 1879, now on display in the British Museum. Cyrus the Great (585-529 BC), the Iranian emperor, defined the First Declaration of Human Rights on this cylinder. Cyrus is admired more as liberator than a conqueror of his vast empire because of his respect for human rights and the humane

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By Ramzy BaroudMarch 15, 2007It’s never easy, although a sure assertion, to maintain that the Palestinian front, at home as well as abroad remains as fragmented and self-consumed, thus ineffective, as ever before, but most notably during the disastrous post-Oslo period.Such a realization wouldn’t mean much if the inference is concerned with any other polity; but when it’s made in regards to a

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By Peter GalbraithAmericans Incompetence - part 1Americans Incompetence (2)Although President Bush proclaimed America's mission was to bring the blessings of freedom to the Iraqi people, his administration was reluctant to trust them with democracy....Specifically, the Administration proposed to limit the choices of the peoples of Iraq by having the country's permanent constitution writ­ten by

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By Prof. Akbar E. TorbatThe UN Security Council 60 days’ grace period for the sanctions imposed on Iran ended on February 21, 2007. The International Atomic Energy Agency reported on Feb 22, that “Iran has ignored the U.N. Security Council resolution 1737 to freeze its uranium enrichment program and has expanded the program by setting up hundreds of centrifuges.” Iran argues that it produces low

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By Ramzy BaroudThursday 08th of March 2007Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, it was a very familiar encounter: Israeli soldiers storming our house accompanied by shouts of terror and a barrage of insults. Such recollections make me shudder to this day.Just the mere summoning of those memories of my childhood in the Nuseirat refugee camp haunting me not only in childhood

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By Jimmy CarterThe Israeli Apartheid - part 1The Israeli Apartheid - part 2(During Carter's and his wife's Rosalynn's regular visits to the Middle East in the first ten years after leaving the White House)There was a unanimous complaint among Palestinian political leaders and others that the worst and most persis­tent case of abuse was in Hebron, about twenty miles south of Jerusalem, where the

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By Peter GalbraithThe End of Iraq - part 1The End of Iraq - part 2The End of Iraq - part 3Americans Incompetence (1)At the end of April, Rumsfeld told Garner that his services were no longer required. John Sawers, the British ambassador to Egypt who was in Baghdad as the eyes and ears of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, cabled Downing Street about the change: "Garner's outfit, ORHA [Office for

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by Seymour M. HershNew Yorker, 2007-02-25Funding Sunni extremists against ShiitesSeymour Hersh on 24 hour plan to attack IranThe United States has also given clandestine support to the Siniora government, according to the former senior intelligence official and the U.S. government consultant. “We are in a program to enhance the Sunni capability to resist Shiite influence, and we’re spreading the

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William Scott Ritter, Jr. (born July 15, 1961) served from 1991 to 1998 as a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq in the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), which was charged with finding and destroying all weapons of mass destruction and WMD-related manufacturing capabilities in Iraq. He was chief inspector in fourteen of the more than thirty inspection missions in which he

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by Seymour M. HershNew Yorker, 2007-02-25The role of SaudisLast November, Cheney flew to Saudi Arabia for a surprise meeting with King Abdullah and Bandar. The Times reported that the King warned Cheney that Saudi Arabia would back its fellow-Sunnis in Iraq if the United States were to withdraw. A European intelligence official told me that the meeting also focused on more general Saudi fears

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by Seymour M. HershNew Yorker, 2007-02-25A strategic shiftIn the past few months, as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated, the Bush Administration, in both its public diplomacy and its covert operations, has significantly shifted its Middle East strategy. The “redirection,” as some inside the White House have called the new strategy, has brought the United States closer to an open confrontation

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By Sarah Baxter and Michael SmithFrom The Sunday Times, February 25, 2007Some of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly placed defense and intelligence sources.Tension in the Gulf region has raised fears that an attack on Iran is becoming increasingly likely before President George Bush

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By Peter GalbraithThe End of Iraq - part 1The End of Iraq - part 2Tuwaitha is a sprawling complex south of Baghdad where Iraq once did its research into nuclear power and nuclear weapons. After the first Gulf War, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) supervised the destruction of some of the nuclear-related materials at Tuwaitha while making a careful inventory of other materials that

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By Glenn Kessler, Washington Post Staff WriterWednesday, February 14, 2007The Swiss ambassador to Iran informed U.S. officials in 2003 that an Iranian proposal for comprehensive talks with the United States had been reviewed and approved by Iran's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; then-President Mohammad Khatami; and then-Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, according to a copy of the

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The Role of The Israeli Lobby and AIPAC in American Middle East policyIn U.S. there are two weapons of choice, whenever a distinguished individual publishes a soundly researched paper or book critical of Israel or its powerful lobby.The first weapon of choice is silence. If it's a book, it rarely gets reviewed and it's author never gets interviewed. If it's a paper, there are no news stories in

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By Jimmy CarterPalestine Peace Not Apartheid - part 1Palestine Peace Not Apartheid - part 2The Israeli Apartheid - part 1(When visiting King Hussein in 1983)Hussein emphasized to us that about 12,000 Palestinians a year were being induced or forced to leave their ancestral homes and move east, either into Jordan or to join the many wandering refugees in other countries....They [King Hussein and

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By Peter GalbraithRead the first part of this article here.On US support of SaddamSaddam Hussein meets with Donald Rumsfeld in Baghdad in 1983In March 1984, the U.N. secretary-general submitted an experts' re­port to the Security Council on Iraq's use of chemical weapons. The Dutch and British representatives to the U.N. circulated a resolution condemning the use of chemical weapons (without

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By Jimmy Carter Read the first part of this article here.Palestinian villages and Zionist colonists in Palestine at the beginning of the British Mandate, 1920. Click on the map to enlarge.A succession of Turks, Kurds, and European Crusaders ruled Palestine until the Ottoman Turks incorporated Pales­tine into their empire in 1516. They were on the losing side in World War I, and France and Great

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A political bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush is seeking a pretext to attack IranBy Barry Grey in Washington DC, 2 February 2007Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser in the Carter administration, delivered a scathing critique of the war in Iraq and warned that the Bush

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From the article "Bush Was Set on Path to War, British Memo Says" published in New York Times in March 27, 2006.By Don Van Natta Jr.LONDON — In the weeks before the United States-led invasion of Iraq, as the United States and Britain pressed for a second United Nations resolution condemning Iraq, President Bush's public ultimatum to Saddam Hussein was blunt: Disarm or face war. But behind closed

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By Peter W. GalbraithIraq's deadliest terrorist attack killed no one.The Askariya shrine, one of the holiest Shia sites in Iraq, was severely damaged by a large explosion in Samarra in February 22, 2006, 60 miles (95km) north of Baghdad.In the early morning hours of February 22, 2006, armed men stormed the Askariya shrine in Samarra, sixty miles north of Baghdad. They handcuffed the four guards,

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By Jimmy CarterThe Bible says that when the fist blood was shed among His children, God asked Cain, the slayer, "Where is Abel thy brother?" And he said, "I know not. Am I my brother's keeper?" And the Lord said, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And now art thou cursed ..." (Genesis4:9-11). The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen,

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By Zam Armatay, 24 January, 2007In the first part of this article I pointed out that the policy of continuing the current nuclear program by the Iranian government might be justified considering the geopolitical situation of Iran, while in the second part of the article I argued that it is not the right strategy concerning the national security of Iran. In this part of the article we'll have a

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By Arash Norouzi, January 20-2007Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran's President has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, "Israel must be wiped off the map". Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made, as this article will prove.BACKGROUND:On Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 at the

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Facts about Israel's nuclear arsenal:In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu an Israeli civil servant who worked in the state-owned nuclear industry, in a meeting with Sunday Times reporters in London revealed the Israel's top secret of having gained control of a growing stockpile of nuclear warheads. Some weeks later after revealing the Israelis top secret, Vanunu was abducted by Israeli's espionage in Rome

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Dear Mr. President: Send Even MORE Troops (and you go, too!) ...from Michael MooreWednesday, January 10th, 2007Dear Mr. President Thanks for your address to the nation. It's good to know you still want to talk to us after how we behaved in November.Listen, can I be frank? Sending in 20,000 more troops just ain't gonna do the job. That will only bring the troop level back up to what it was last

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By Zam Armatay, 7 January 2007As I pointed out in the first part of this article the Iranians nuclear program can from the Iranians point of view be justified considering the geopolitical situation of Iran. But the relevant question for Iranians is whether it is the right path for the country with respect to the country's national security and it's economic growth now and in

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Why Saddam wasn't tried for his war crimes against Iran? From the article "He takes his secrets to the grave. Our complicity dies with him" by Robert Fisk, published 31 December 2006 in "The Independent" (online)....One frosty day in 1987, not far from Cologne, I met the German arms dealer who initiated those first direct contacts between Washington and Baghdad - at America's request."Mr Fisk...

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Shahram Chubin, born in Iran and educated in Britain and the US is a Swiss national. Currently he is a member of The Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), which is an international foundation that was established in 1995 under Swiss law to "promote the building and maintenance of peace, security and stability". The GCSP was founded by the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection

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By EDITH M. LEDERERThe Associated Press Wednesday, December 20, 2006; 4:21 AMUNITED NATIONS -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Tuesday for key parties to seek a negotiated settlement with Iran over its nuclear program and warned that military intervention would be "unwise and disastrous."Annan, who steps down as U.N. chief Dec. 31, issued the warning as the Security Council debated a

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19 Dec 2006 03:28:31 Source: ReutersWASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is planning a major buildup of U.S. naval forces in and around the Gulf as a warning to Iran, CBS News reported on Monday.A senior Defense Department official told Reuters the report was "premature" and appeared to be drawing "conclusions from assumptions." The official did not know of plans for a major change in

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I just read the article "The New Hegemon" by Vali R. Nasr, Adjunct Senior Fellow for MiddleEast Studies and author of The Shia Revival, Democracy in Iran, and The Islamic Leviathan. I definitely recommend everybody with interest in Middle East politics to read the entire article. Definitely one of the best analyses of the Iran' s role and ambitions in the region and in the current Iraq crisis and

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Zbigniew Brzezinski the national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter is one of the brightest minds in the international politic with a great wisdom and understanding of the international relations.He is currently a professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and

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From the article "The military’s problem with the President’s Iran policy", Seymour Hersh 2006-07-03... The generals and admirals have told the Administration that the bombing campaign will probably not succeed in destroying Iran’s nuclear program. They have also warned that an attack could lead to serious economic, political, and military consequences for the United States....The military

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By Zam Armatay, 12, December 2006There are few in the world who believe that Iranians' nuclear ambitions are just for peaceful economic purposes. The truth is that even if they don't have any nuclear weapon programs or intentions of having such programs today, the technology and know-how that Iranians achieve by continuing their uranium enrichment, will make them able to switch and upgrade some

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Iraq Study Group report is already doomed to fail. Right from the beginning I don't think anybody, even the ISG members themselves believed that the Bush administration would have the capacity, flexibility and intelligence to make any effort in order to change their catastrophic policy.On the other hand I think that the report is somewhat naive to think they can make Iranians help USA to get out

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