Door: Marc E. Putto
December 2011
Door: Ingezonden
Dit is de voortzetting van de nieuwsdraad, welke ooit op www.joostniemöller.com begon, over het verzet van de groene beweging in Iran. Tevens worden hier links, video's en nieuwsberichten gepost over ontwikkelingen rond de nucleaire ambities van dit land. De draad wordt per 2 weken vernieuwd. Een chronologisch overzicht kunt u vinden in de categorie "Ondertussen in Iran".
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Ze zijn al goed bezig met het ontmantelen van hun atoomprogramma. Eerst die explosie op de raketbasis en nu een explosie bij een nucleaire faciliteit in Isfahan.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/report-explosion-rocks-iran-city-of-isfahan-home-to-key-nuclear-facility-1.398312
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16122101
The final Iranian diplomats have left Britain after the US and European Union imposed tougher sanctions on the country over its nuclear programme.
The Government had set a 2pm deadline for staff to leave, after an attack on the British embassy in Tehran on Tuesday.
And a Foreign Office spokesperson said: “I can confirm that, earlier this afternoon, all diplomatic staff of the Iranian Embassy in London took off from Heathrow airport.”
http://nos.nl/artikel/318174-nederlandse-ambassadeur-iran-terug.html
Minister Rosenthal van Buitenlandse Zaken heeft de Nederlandse ambassadeur in Iran voor overleg teruggeroepen. Aanleiding voor die zware diplomatieke maatregel is de bestorming, gisteren, van de Britse ambassade in Teheran. Ook Duitsland heeft de ambassadeur in Teheran tijdelijk teruggehaald voor consultatie.
Volgens Buitenlandse Zaken moet het besluit worden beschouwd als politiek signaal en een blijk van solidariteit met de Britten. Volgens het ministerie heeft het terugroepen van de diplomaat niets te maken met de veiligheid van het personeel op de ambassade in de Iraanse hoofdstad.
Mannen hadden het al goed in Iran. Nu is er echter een wetsvoorstel die er voor zorgt dat ze zonder goedkeuring van hun eerste vrouw, een tweede vrouw kunnen trouwen. Daarnaast staat er in het wetsvoorstel dat je een tijdelijk huwelijk kan sluiten van bijvoorbeeld 10 minuten zodat je legaal naar de hoeren kan.
http://www.mohabatnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3446:agencies-question-need-for-irans-family-protection-bill&catid=35:inside-iran&Itemid=278
Het lijkty er idd op dat er al militaire acties tegen Iran gaande zijn, van de stuxnet worm, via het doden van atoomgeleerden, tot nu dus deze ontploffingen, waarbij o.a. een groot aantal hoge gardisten omkwam,
http://tinyurl.com/7csq6na
Britain’s ambassador to Iran last night revealed how seven of his staff were seized by protesters during the terrifying attack on UK compounds in Tehran.
Dominick Chilcott said some workers and their relatives were sent to the embassy’s residential complex in the north of the city before the protests for their safety, but ended up being taken by demonstrators who surged through security.
He spoke out as the last Iranian diplomats left the UK following a decision to close their London base in response to the attacks.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068990/Iranian-diplomats-quit-Britain-today-students-storm-Tehran-embassy.html#ixzz1fSQktnhc
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16122586
Britain’s ambassador to Iran has described how seven of his staff were seized by protesters during a “very frightening” attack on UK compounds in Tehran.
Dominick Chilcott said some workers and their relatives were sent to the embassy’s residential complex in the north of the city for their safety before the protests -- but ended up being taken by demonstrators who broke through security.
One worker barricaded himself in one of the “keeps” -- parts of the compound designed to block out intruders until police arrive -- for 45 minutes before he was overcome.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2069764/Was-Iran-blame-bomb-attack-near-British-Embassy-Bahrain.html?ITO=1490
Was Iran to blame for bomb attack near British Embassy in Bahrain?
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 2:29 AM on 5th December 2011
A bomb exploded just 50 yards from the British Embassy in Bahrain yesterday as fears grew that Iranian-backed aggression against the West was spreading through the Middle East.
A canister containing powerful explosives blew apart the front of a minibus in the capital, Manama, but there were no injuries or serious damage.
The scare came less than a week after mobs stormed the British Embassy in Tehran, leading Foreign Secretary William Hague to pull diplomats from Iran and expel Iranian envoys from the UK.
Bereidt Iran zich op oorlog voor?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/iran-moves-forces-war-alert
D.G.
Een kleine verduidelijking dat Iran al sinds zijn ontstaan een oorlog aan het voorbereiden is.
The Iran Threat
In retrospect, weakness in the face of aggression is almost impossible to understand — or forgive. Why did the West do so little while the Nazis gathered strength in the 1930s? While the Soviet Union enslaved half of Europe and fomented revolution in China in the late 1940s? And, again, while Al Qaeda gathered strength in the 1990s? Those questions will forever haunt the reputations of the responsible statesmen, from Neville Chamberlain to Bill Clinton.
The answer to the riddle — why did the West slumber? — becomes easier to grasp if we think about present-day relations with Iran.
The Islamic Republic has been attacking the West, and in particular the United States, since the day of its birth. A central feature of the 1979 revolution, after all, was the storming of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. The resulting hostage crisis allowed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to consolidate power and drove out more moderate leaders. This is the direct inspiration for Tuesday’s storming of the British Embassy in Tehran. If violating diplomatic immunity worked once, why not again?
http://www.cfr.org/iran/iran-threat/p26656?cid=rss-iran-the_iran_threat-120111&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+region%2Firan+%28CFR.org+-+Regions+-+Iran%29
UberLOL.
British ‘most secret’ invasion plans seized at Iran embassy -- 70 years on
Amid the mayhem when the British embassy in Tehran was stormed last Tuesday, a mob destroyed antique oil portraits of Queen Victoria and Edward VII, made off with a poster from the film, Pulp Fiction, but narrowly missed dog-napping the ambassador’s terrier, Pumpkin.
However, the Basij commanders and Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) officers said by western diplomats to be in the crowd, must have thought they had hit the jackpot when the raiders came across embassy documents in the ambassador’s office marked “most secret” in red ink, giving details of a gigantic invasion plan.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2011/dec/05/julian-borger-security-iran
Iran Election Watch #1
What is Iran’s parliamentary election schedule until the March poll?
Election activities began in December as Iran’s Election Commission announced that the Ministry of Interior established election headquarters in all 31 provinces. The key dates are:
•December 24: The candidate registration period begins.
•December 30: The registration period ends.
•January: The Guardian Council reviews the credentials of all candidates, a process that usually takes about a month.
•Late January or early February: The final list of eligible candidates – and disqualified candidates — should be released. In the past, the majority of candidates have been disqualified for not meeting vague criteria.
•February 22: The official campaign period begins and lasts eight days.
•February 29: The official campaign ends.
•March 2: Election Day.
http://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2011/dec/06/iran-election-watch-1
‘Virtual’ US Iranian embassy opens online
The US embassy in Tehran has been closed for more than three decades, but now an online equivalent offers services including visa information.
The “virtual embassy” went online on Tuesday in English and Farsi, but the US says it is not intended to replace an official diplomatic mission to Iran.
In a statement, the state department said the virtual embassy should “work as a bridge” between America and Iran.
The West fears Tehran is developing a nuclear weapon, but Iran denies this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16061178
Iran Blocks U.S. ‘Virtual Embassy’
Iranian Internet users say the country’s authorities have blocked a web-based U.S. “embassy” to Iran, less than a day after it went online.
The English- and Persian-language website, designed by Washington as a “virtual embassy,” had been briefly available to Iranian Internet users after it was launched on December 6.
It could not be accessed the next day. Instead, the Internet address displayed a message saying access was “not possible.”
The United States said it wanted to use the “virtual embassy” to reach out to Iranians, despite the absence of official ties.
http://www.rferl.org/content/iran_blocks_us_virtual_embassy/24414660.html
The Gulf Between Washington and Jerusalem Over Iran
William Galston, who attended the Saban Forum this past weekend (along with Goldblog), on how the Iranian threat is perceived in the two capitals:
By far the gravest issue, though, was how to proceed in the face of a looming Iranian nuclear threat. I came away from the two days with a dark and disturbing conclusion: There is a gulf between Israel and the United States that could have momentous consequences in 2012. When American officials declare that all options are on the table, most Israelis do not believe them. They have concluded, rather, that when the crunch comes (and everyone thinks it will), the United States will shy away from military force and reconfigure its policy to live with a nuclear-armed Iran. This is an outcome that no Israeli government can tolerate. For Israel, the Palestinian issue is an identity question: What kind of country will Israel be and what kind of life will Israelis lead? But the Iranian issue is an existential question: Will Israel and Israelis survive?
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/the-gulf-between-washington-and-jerusalem-over-iran/249626/
Prince Hints Saudi Arabia May Join Nuclear Arms Race
A Saudi prince, in a remark designed to send chills through the Obama administration and its allies, suggested that the kingdom might consider producing nuclear weapons if it found itself between atomic arsenals in Iran and Israel.
The prince, Turki al-Faisal, who has served as the Saudi intelligence chief and as ambassador to the United States, made the comment on Monday at a Persian Gulf security forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The remark confirmed Western fears about the potential for an arms race in the Middle East if Iran moves to produce a nuclear weapon.
But it also reflected the hardening views among the Persian Gulf’s Arab states that they must rely on themselves — and not just on Western protection — as tensions with Iran grow worse.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-may-seek-nuclear-weapons-prince-says.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Special Reports
Iranian general steps out of the shadows
Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, commander of the covert action wing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, is stepping out of the shadows as a leading hard-liner, and as tension with the United States heats up, that’s a really bad sign.
There is a school of thought among Iran-watchers that Tehran believes the United States and Israel, backed by Britain, are gearing up for a showdown with the Islamic Republic.
The Iranians, several seasoned analysts say, are getting ready for trouble as hard-line conservatives in the ruling elite demonstrated when they stormed and sacked the British Embassy in Tehran Nov. 29.
Some of the so-called students who swarmed over the embassy walls carried portraits of Suleimani, underlining his growing iconic status among the radicals, and more importantly in the Revolutionary Guard, one of the regime’s most powerful institutions.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2011/12/07/Iranian-general-steps-out-of-the-shadows/UPI-82761323279969/
Iranian-Americans Launch Television Ad Campaign About Camp Ashraf, Iraq, Home to Iranian Dissidents -- IACNORCAL
The campaign to prevent another massacre at Camp Ashraf, Iraq, home to the 3,400 Iranian dissidents, at the hands of the Iraqi forces took a major step today with the launch of a television ad campaign running in the Washington, DC metropolitan area in the days leading up to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s December 12th visit to the White House.
The advertising campaign hopes to make the public aware about the imminent danger facing unarmed men, women and children in Ashraf and to make sure that President Obama and Secretary Clinton intervene to resolve the situation peacefully and protect the residents.
The ad, titled People of Ashraf, contains images from the attacks on Camp Ashraf in both 2009 and in April of 2011 and urges President Obama to honor America’s promise to protect the people of Ashraf.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/iranian-americans-launch-television-ad-campaign-about-camp-ashraf-iraq-home-to-iranian-dissidents—iacnorcal-135185143.html
Iran’s Supreme Leader Says Reformists Must Admit They Were Wrong
Iran’s Supreme Leader says reformists can participate in the coming election if they “admit to being in error” in the last presidential election, the head of Iran’s Assembly of Experts has reported.
The Khabar-on-line website reports that in an interview, Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani said: “[Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei] says anyone that comes and says I believe in these principles, the constitution, the Revolution, Islam and the leadership, even if they have different tastes, they should not be churned away from the Revolution.”
Kani added that he had inquired specifically about the reformists and the Supreme Leader had responded: “If they came and admitted that they were in error, then it is not a problem. They can come and say at a certain time, we made a mistake and now we understand and do not want to repeat those errors.”
http://www.payvand.com/news/11/dec/1059.html
Call for Solidarity with Iranian Women’s Movement: Coming Together with The Butterflies for Peace
The following statement has been endorsed by over 160 prominent Iranian women’s rights advocates, activists and scholars living abroad. This was meant to show solidarity with women’s rights activists inside Iran and echo their voices internationally. Despite the continuous repression of civil rights advocates inside Iran, over 70 courageous women from different political backgrounds came together and issued a statement against domestic and state violence in Iran. Faced with the latest rising tension and threat of military clash between the Iranian regime and the western powers over the nuclear issue, these activists impel the Iranian authorities and warmongers at home and internationally to engage in negotiation and dialogue rather than violence and war.
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is seared into our memory by the example of the “Unforgettable Butterflies,” three brave sisters from the Dominican Republic burnt in the fire of dictatorship.
http://www.payvand.com/news/11/dec/1058.html
Iranian journalist arrested at his home
Iranian journalist Farshad Ghorbanpour was arrested after a raid on his home in Tehran, the Human Rights House of Iran reports.
Ghorbanpour previously had been sentenced to one year in prison and $5,000 in fines for the charge of “acting against national security through propaganda against the regime” as well as “collaboration with the Rooz-on-line website.”
The appellate court has reportedly upheld the sentence, and Ghorbanpour has been transferred to Evin Prison.
http://www.payvand.com/news/11/dec/1054.html
Confessions of Attackers on the British Embassy in Tehran: We Were Used
With the passage of five days since the attack on the British embassy compounds in Tehran, which has so far met with silence from the leader and the president of the Islamic Republic, a senior cleric condemned the attack, amid the strong condemnations that have been made by the British and other governments. Newspapers in Iran too are now commenting on the event as have some of the attackers on the embassy.
Among the most astounding responses were the remarks of Assembly of Expert’s member Ahmad Khatami who at Tehran’s weekly Friday prayer sermon initially strongly attacked Britain and called last week’s attack on the British embassy in Tehran as a “necessary slap” on Britain while in a subsequent interview criticized the attackers and pretended that he had always been against this type of activity!
On his return to the UK, the British ambassador to Tehran said that Iran’s Majlis speaker Ali Larijani and Alaeddin Borujerdi wanted tension in the air for their own personal ambitions. He also said that Iran was not the sort of country “where spontaneous demonstrations congregate and then attack a foreign embassy. That sort of activity, he wont to say, takes place only with the acquiescence and the support of the state.”
http://www.payvand.com/news/11/dec/1050.html
http://nos.nl/tekst/325984-vs-waarschuwt-iran-na-dreigement.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nosnieuws+%28NOS+Teletekst%29
De VS heeft Iran gewaarschuwd dat het geen olieblokkade moet beginnen bij de Straat van Hormoez, de toegang tot de Perzische Golf. Daardoor wordt eenzesde van de wereldolieproductie vervoerd.
De Amerikaanse reactie volgt op het Iraanse dreigement van gisteren om de vaarweg af te sluiten als het Westen met oliesancties komt. De Amerikaanse vloot staat klaar om in te grijpen, zei een woordvoerder van de marine.
Overigens heeft Iran het dreigement vandaag alweer afgezwakt. Volgens een regeringswoordvoerder is er momenteel geen enkele reden om de Straat van Hormoez af te sluiten.