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In August, the Erasmus University Rotterdam fired Professor Tariq Ramadan. Well, strictly speaking, they didn’t fire him, but rater withdrew the invitation to be a guest professor. Since December 2006 Ramadan had a contract with the City Council of Rotterdam to advise the City Council on civic integration & multicultural policies . At the same time he was invited as Iran’s precarious ruling power bloc, centered around Ayatollah Ali Khamene’i and Pres. Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, continues to use detention as a means of silencing the opposition. The Green Path of Hope movement started by Ahmedinejad presidential rival, the opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, has continued to stage protests and demands the release of leading politicians being held for protesting the legitimacy of the 12 June election. In the month of September, the arrest of leading dissidents

Ironic Surrealism posted a transcript of Ahmadinejad’s speech. I have selected some significant excerpts to attack. Transcript: Ahmadinejad Speech at the UN General Assembly 9-23-09 I have talked about the two conflicting outlooks prevailing in our world; one that is based on the predominance of its materialistic interests through spreading inequality and oppression, poverty and deprivation, aggression, occupation and deception, and tends to bring the entire world under iAbbas Kargar Javid, the killer of Neda Agha-Soltan, the 26-year-old Iranian woman who was shot and killed in the streets of Tehran on June 20, 2009, during the protests following the rigged 2009 Iranian presidential election, was reportedly confronted by angry bystanders while walking with an associate in Iran. Below is a video said to be of that confrontation. VISIT OUR HOMESITE www.polijam.com FOR ALL THE LATEST HEADLINES AND NEWS Share This

Press Release, National Lawyers Guild September 25, 2009 Pittsburgh --National Lawyers Guild members witnessed first-hand yesterday the unwarranted display and use of force by police in residential neighborhoods, often far from any protest activity. Police deployed chemical irritants, including CS gas, and long-range acoustic devices in residential neighborhoods on narrow streets where families and small children were exposed. Scores of riot police formed barricadeIf you happened to miss out what Iranian protesters are doing in New York let me share these videos with you. This is a good report about protests in New York on September 23 from NYPost that shows different Iranian fractions protesting Ahmadinejad and it is not all green supporting Mousavi & Karroubi. Well mostly green, I guess. Iranian protesters angry at Ahmadinejad and his atrocities didn’t want him to enjoy a good night sleep in New York. They took the protest behind his wi“The Iranian Green Movement does not want a nuclear bomb, but instead desires peace for the world and democracy for Iran. The Green Movement in Iran furthermore understands the world’s concerns and in fact has similar concerns itself.” Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf • Regarding the disclosure that Iran has another nuclear facility, and where it fits in with the Green Movement behind the Iranian election protests earlier this year.  •  SOURCE Related posts: On Twitter an

Of course I thought I knew it all back then. I was young, idealistic, and more than willing to put my life at risk for my convictions. It was 1947 and I wasn’t quite 18 when the Iraqi authorities caught me for smuggling young Iraqi Jews like myself out of Iraq, into Iran, and then on to the Promised Land of the soon-to-be established Israel. I was an Iraqi Jew in the Zionist underground. My Iraqi jailers did everything they could to extract the names of my co-conspirators. Fifty years later

Unidentified members of Iran’s august Assembly of Experts, purported under Iran’s revolutionary constitution to oversee and be capable of removing that nation’s ’supreme leader’ who never faces the verdict of the average voter. and “Along Came A Spider” . Cumulatively, Maziar’s documentaries have helped bring greater attention to the vibrant creative cultural, intellectual, and social life in Iran. Shiva Balaghi is a historian of the modern Middle East, with smore photos from the G20 by robjdlc The True Evil Doers [In order for an American resistance movement, or any resistance, to actually challenge the "True Evil Doers," connected with Rockefeller and Rothschild, they must first overcome the political divisions which have been created, that is the hallmark of The Beast network. Republicans and Democrats, capitalists and communists, right and left, Heritage Foundation and MoveOn...these are not natural divisions, they are

Evidently, Obama missed that part in the preamble where it says, “Provide for the common Defense.”  Perhaps we should start calling Obama, “Neville Chamberlain.” The Disarmament Illusion Obama pursues arms control treaties; Iran builds the bomb Wall Street Journal President Obama appreciates “teachable moments,” so let’s all discuss this week’s lesson in arms control theory and practice. The President brought his soaring sermon about “a world without weapons” before th

U.S. President Barack Obama holds a news conference with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the G20 Summit in the Pittsburgh Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 25, 2009. Iran has told the U.N. nuclear watchdog that it has a second uranium enrichment plant under construction, a belated disclosure sure to heighten Western fears of a stealthy Iranian quest for nuclear arms capability. REUTERS/Brian Snyder Obama Accuses IrHCHR - Senator Baucus has Pushed Back the Vote on the Public-Option Amendments - nhinsider.com 09/26/2009 Developing Story: Senator Baucus has pushed back the vote on the Public-Option amendments propsed by Senators Jay Rockefeller and Charles Schumer from today to Tuesday, September 29, 2009.  Baucus used time constraints to delay the vote back.    Read the developing story ObamaCare’s Choice: Get an Insurance Or Go To Jail - poligazette.com 09/26/2009 No joke . That’s th

BY HELENE COOPER and MARK MAZZETTI The New York Times PITTSBURGH — On Tuesday evening in New York, top officials of the world nuclear watchdog agency approached two of President Obama’s senior advisers to deliver the news: Iran had just sent a cryptic letter describing a small “pilot” nuclear facility that the country had never before declared. The Americans were surprised by the letter, but they were angry about what it did not say. American intelligence had come across the hidden tuMost American presidencies come to be associated with specific foreign policy approaches . For FDR it was internationalism by stealth followed by open anti-fascism; for Truman, it was containment. Ronald Reagan wanted to actively confront, bankrupt, and rollDozens of black-clad anarchists were conspicuous among the demonstrators , but there was no sign of the disturbances that had resulted in arrests and property damage a day earlier. The main message of the so-called Peoples' March to the G-20 was a demand for solutions to the world's economic and environmental challenges that are different from those the richest countries are pursuing. But there also was a strong contingent of antiwar protesters and those interested in such diverse issues asNuclear Sites Lashkar Ab’ad – Laser enrichment Lashkar Ab’ad – Laser enrichment Lashkar Ab’ad was Iran’s pilot plant for laser isotope separation until 2003.  This site contained equipment including copper vapor lasers that were designed to produce enrichment levels of 3.5-7%.  The IAEA reported that the facility would have been capable of HEU production once all planned equipment was installed.  There were several foreign suppliers to the laser enrichment program, including

Western leaders demand Iran open nuclear site PITTSBURGH: US President Barack Obama and the leaders of France and Britain said Friday that the existence of a previously secret Iranian nuclear facility ups the ante on Tehran in international talks next week, declaring that Iran must cooperate on its suspected weapons development ‘or be held accountable.’ Chavez: Iran Helping Venezuela Detect Uranium – Myfoxdc.comPresident Hugo Chavez’s government says Iran is helping to detect reserves of I keep hearing how Iran might get nuclear weapons – It looks like they’ve had them since 1993. Putting a search in Google for Iran 1993 nuclear – and it yielded this - http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Iran/1825_1870.html February 1993 The International Atomic Energy Agency confirms that Argentina will export a shipment of 20% enriched uranium to Iran in 1993. —Claude van England, “Iran Defends Its Pursuit Of Nuclear Technology,” The Christian Science Monitor , 18 February 1993

Reuters reported scuffles at Tehran university today ahead of the speech by President Ahmadi-nejad. This picture grabbed my attention. The poster held by the male student asks for the release of three Tehran University students from prison and the one held by the female student asks "We have questions too, why just Columbia?" The question is one asked by Iranians all the time. For the SS-lamic ... with dress codes.** Iranian-American filmmaker Ardeshir Arian at Pajamas Media has more on the growing teacher's protests in Iran.Previously:Mullah Compares Unveiled Women to Buses: "Anyone Can Ride Them" Despite Protests Iran Begins Massive Crackdown On Women Pajama Wars Heat Up at Iranian Campus Iran Continues Crackdown... Women's Rights Activists Sentenced Regime Cracks Down on Music... ...

Seriously anxious at the prospects of the fundamentalists represented by fanatic President Mahmoud Ahmadi Nezhad loosing the next presidential elections, Ayatollah Ali Khameneh’i was again compelled to come down personally in the political arena, acting not as the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic who stands above political lines, but as the champion of a political party fighting for ... See footage of Mashad Protests on youtube. The peaceful protest was against the corruption and the stranglehold of the financial mafia on Iran's economy resulting in the deteriorating economic conditions for ordinary people. See how baton wielding guards on motor bikes smash the old man in the crowd on to the ground. It is also interesting to see the sheer hatred of people against the troops

... , former Turkish President Suleyman Demirel mentions another typical argument against Iran:They keep asking me: What is happening to us? Are ... seem to have an underlying motive of stoking hostility against Iran. In fact, barring some exceptions, even the religious extra-parliamentary ... change, down to the details of “hit-and-run” protests with “swarming” mobs of Buddhists in saffron, internet blogs, ... ... the most weak willed, spineless, shitassed cowardly act of "diplomacy", Britain has sent protests over the blatant kidnapping of fifteen British sailors in "disputed waters" Let's ... , members of the Iranian "Revolutionary Guard" take fifteen British naval personnel hostage in IRAQI waters at gunpoint..and Britain sends "protests" Iran has committed an act of war. There should be one, and ONLY one, ... Some video footage of the student protests in Iran last weekend: http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=81hdjcm&s=1 http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=6wnb12b&s=1 http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=8509b4j&s=1 http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=6yck9qv&s=1

... of them described the astonishment of fundamentalist students in Iran. Hello Mr. Wolf Shafieyan says that fundemetalist students ... of presidential and parliamentary buildings. One student asked how Iran can relate to oppressed people after negotiations with the ... Several bloggers protested against this policy. Elnaz, for example, protests against the government’s decision to expel Afghan ... Thank heavens for Youtube or we would still be relying on BBC correspondents sitting in their offices waiting for official newsfeed from the Islamic Republic for news about Iran. See film footages of Mashad protests against the plunder of Iran by the financial mafia of the ruling clerics on you tube by clicking on the links below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHW7Zh9_HyI http://

Iran security forces clashed with supporters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi and arrested at least 10 of them as they marched at the annual anti-Israel Quds Day rally in Tehran on Friday, witnesses said. Israel said it sent letters to the UN. secretary-general and the president of the General Assembly urging the international community to speak out against human rights abuses in Iran."The international community cannot be silent in situations where the violation of human rights is systemic, grave, and widespread, and where states dismiss issues of human rights and refuse to engage in ... ABC's Senior Foreign Correspondent Jim Sciutto reports: It had been weeks since anti-government protesters gathered in large numbers in Iran. Today, they were out again not just in the capital Tehran but in several large cities.Iran news updated daily from Iran Quest in English, Persian and Spanish.Heated Protests Continue in Unstable Iran, June 12 Election Outcome Still Unsettled.The protest movement in Iran continues to defy the Islamic Regime in different ways, from shouting 'Allaho Akbar' from rooftops at night to demonstrating on Quds Day. ...

Thousands of opposition supporters carried out fresh protests today to coincide with the government-backed Quds day ceremony. As president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeated anti-Israeli rhetoric, his leading…Iran: Videos from Quds Day Protests - Global Voices Online # 2009-09-19 at 6:19 am. ﺍﺮﺘﺶ١٨ﺘﯿﺮ - ﺍﺮﺘﺶﺪﺍﻨﺠﺸﻮﯿﺎﻦ ﺪﺍﻨﺸﮕﺎﻫﺎﻯ ﺍﯿﺮﺍﻦ. ﺍﺮﺘﺶ١٨ﺘﯿﺮ Attention!!The Goverment and mojtaba khamenei want Ahmadinejad as the Eternal President. ...To supplement coverage of opposition protests on Friday in Iran by our colleagues Alan Cowell and Robert Worth, The Lede is tracking reports of the events online.

MASSIVE PROTESTS IN IRAN On Qods Day . MASSIVE PROTESTS IN IRAN TODAY ON QODS DAY-- It is the first mass demonstration in two months. Here is video from Tehran-- Tens of thousands are marching: ...As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prepares to speak to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, a trove of photographs most of which have never before been published documenting the summer's uprising against the disputed ...