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  1. ZEIT ONLINE Israels Albtraum – Im Nahen Osten droht eine militärische Konfrontation mit Iran. Hauptgrund dafür sind Teherans Nuklearambitionen  Von Joschka Fischer
    Die Gefahr einer weiteren großen militärischen Konfrontation schwebt über dem Nahen Osten wie eine dunkle Wolke. Warum? Weil eine verfehlte amerikanische Politik im Irak die Feinde der USA und ihrer Verbündeten in der Region gestärkt und nicht geschwächt hat. Vor allem Iran – immerhin ein Mitglied der Achse des Bösen! – wurde durch die amerikanische Politik in eine hegemoniale Rolle gehievt, die er aus eigener Kraft kaum und vor allem nicht in so kurzer Zeit hätte erreichen können.
    Dadurch wurde ein latent immer schon vorhandener Hegemonialkonflikt im Nahen Osten in einen offenen Kampf um die regionale Vorherrschaft verwandelt. Die beiden Hauptkontrahenten der Region sind Iran und Israel, das sich – erstaunlich genug – in einer objektiven Allianz mit Saudi-Arabien befindet. Sowohl Israel als auch Saudi-Arabien fühlen sich durch den Aufstieg Irans zum regionalen Hegemon existenziell bedroht. Es sind heute im Nahen Osten neue Allianzen entstanden: Iran, Syrien, Hisbollah, Hamas und bizarrerweise die schiitisch dominierte irakische Regierung, die zugleich auch von den USA unterstützt wird, stehen gegen Israel, Saudi-Arabien und die meisten der anderen sunnitisch-arabischen Staaten.

  2. YNET Detained Palestinian: I was trained by Iran

  3. Holocaustleugnung in offiziellen iranischen Medien: Press TV
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    The Walls of Auschwitz – A Review of the Chemical Studies by Nicholas Kollerstrom, PhD  
    In his essay, Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom argues that the alleged massacre of Jewish people by gassing during World War II was scientifically impossible.
    The distinguished academic was dismissed on April 22, 2008 without any explanation and a Holocaust conference held on 16-18 May in Berlin refused his article and warned that he would be arrested if he attended the conference and presented his essay.
    The West punishes people for their scientific research on Holocaust but the same western countries allow insults to prophets and religious beliefs…
    I. The Leuchter Report, 1988
    In February 1988, Fred Leuchter came to the Auschwitz crematoria ruins, with his wife and a team, and took 32 samples chiseled out of the wall. His Report published in April of 1998 contained five maps as appendices which indicated where the samples had been taken from, and in addition a film was made of his sampling‘. The locations are important, because some of the ‚gas chamber‘ locations are postwar-reconstructed, and the obtaining of original brickwork was essential for his purpose.

  4. ots  CSU-Landesgruppe – Pressestelle: Ramsauer zu Gesprächen in Iran
    Berlin  – Die Pressestelle der CSU-Landesgruppe im Deutschen Bundestag teilt mit: Der Vorsitzende der CSU-Landesgruppe im Deutschen Bundestag, Dr. Peter Ramsauer wird sich vom 18. bis 20. Mai in Iran aufhalten. Er wird unter anderem von Außenminister Mottaki und dem Vorsitzenden des Auswärtigen Ausschusses, Borujerdi, empfangen. Für Montag ist ein Kurzbesuch in Isfahan geplant.

  5. FORWARD  Making Iran Into a Jewish Issue Is Fueling an Unhealthy Debate  The Continental Divide – Eric Frey
    RAILING: The Stop the Bomb alliance has summoned memories of the Holocaust to criticize the state-owned Austrian oil and
    When shareholders of the Austrian oil and gas company OMV met in Vienna May 14 for their annual meeting, they were met by a small group of noisy protesters from Stop the Bomb, a mostly Jewish alliance opposed to OMV’s business dealings with Iran. Just 10 days earlier, the alliance held a conference in the Austrian capital where it warned that Iran was seeking an atomic bomb to launch a second Holocaust against the Jewish people — and that companies like OMV were helping Tehran in its quest.
      

     

    1. WIENER OMV mit wilden Protesten überhäuft
      Die OMV steht im Kreuzfeuer von Aktivisten. 
       Iran-Projekt und MOL Streitthemen in Hauptversammlung.
      Wien. In der Jahres-Hauptversammlung der OMV gestern, Mittwoch, ist es alles andere als gemütlich zugegangen. Wie erwartet musste sich der Vorstand unbequemen Fragen von Kritikern eines geplanten Gas-Geschäfts mit dem Iran sowie eines Zusammenschlusses mit dem ungarischen Ölkonzern MOL stellen.

    1. Reuters Deutschland Bush löst mit „Appeasement“-Vorwurf an Obama Entrüstung aus
      Washington/Jerusalem (Reuters) – US-Präsident George W. Bush hat Präsidentschaftsbewerber Barack Obama eine Appeasement-Politik gegenüber dem Iran vorgeworfen und damit in der Demokratischen Partei einen Sturm der Entrüstung ausgelöst.
      In einer Rede vor dem israelischen Parlament verglich Bush Obamas Aufruf zu Gesprächen mit der Regierung in Teheran mit der Politik Großbritanniens gegenüber Adolf Hitler vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.

    2. FR-online.de Iran wird US-Wahlkampfthema
      Washington. „Bullshit!“, wütete Senator Joseph Biden. „Unter der Würde des Präsidentenamtes!“, fauchte Nancy Pelosi, Sprecherin des Repräsentantenhauses. „Es ist traurig, dass Präsident Bush seine Rede vor der Knesset zum 60. Jahrestag der Unabhängigkeit Israels benutzt, um eine unaufrichtige politische Attacke zu reiten“, klagte Barack Obama. Weil Bush am Donnerstag ausgerechnet beim wichtigen verbündeten Israel Obamas Gesprächsangebot an „Schurkenstaaten“ in die Nähe des Nazi-Appeasements gerückt hatte, brach unter US-Demokraten ein Sturm der Entrüstung los.

  6. Tages-Anzeiger Online Bush: Obama zu tolerant mit dem Iran
    George W. Bush hat Präsidentschaftsbewerber Barack Obama eine Appeasement-Politik gegenüber dem Iran vorgeworfen und damit einen Sturm der Entrüstung ausgelöst.
    In einer Rede vor dem israelischen Parlament verglich Bush Obamas Aufruf zu Gesprächen mit der Regierung in Teheran mit der Politik Grossbritanniens gegenüber Adolf Hitler vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.
     

     

  7. FIFA.com – Iran untermauert regionale Vorherrschaft
    Iran gewann mit einem glatten 4:0-Sieg gegen Thailand zum neunten Mal die asiatische Futsal-Meisterschaft. Für die im Finale unterlegenen Thailänder winkt …

  8. RIA Novosti – Iran bezeichnet Atomverhandlungen mit IAEO als positiv
    Nach seinen Worten wird IAEO-Generaldirektor Mohammed ElBaradei den Fortschritt und die Ergebnisse in seinem neuen Iran-Bericht festhalten, …

    1. RIA Novosti – Atom-Verhandlungen: Iran rechnet mit positivem IAEO-Bericht
      Iran und die Internationale Atomenergiebehörde (IAEO) haben bei ihren von April bis Mai stattfindenden drei Verhandlungsrunden über das umstrittene …

  9. video
    A soldier, a young woman, a colonel, and an old woman board a train. Nobody, save one of them, can explain what happens next A soldier, a young woman, a colonel, and an old woman board a train. Nobody, save one of them, can explain what happens next.
    Directed by Ehsan Amani (Iran)
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  10. Africasia Iran rights group speaks out against violations
    The rights group of Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Sunday warned against a „systematic violation“ of human rights in Iran and criticized the government over its treatment of dissidents and activists.
    The Defenders of Human Rights Centre, formed by five prominent lawyers and headed by the 2003 Nobel peace prize winner, said in its annual report it „deplores and denounces the systematic violation of human rights in Iran“.

  11. derStandard.at Interview mit Shell-Chef: „Auch ich erhalte Benzin nicht gratis“
    Interview mit Shell-Chef Routs: „Auch ich erhalte Benzin nicht gratis“
    Wer an Spritpreisen am meisten mitschneidet und warum Biosprit nicht an den Lebensmittel­preisen schuld ist, erklärte Shell-Vorstand Rob Routs im STANDARD-Interview
    Wer an Rekord-Öl und Spritpreisen am meisten mitschneidet, warum Biosprit nicht an den Lebensmittelpreisen schuld ist und Shell seine Gaspläne im Iran auf Eis gelegt hat, erklärte Shell-Vorstand Rob Routs beim St.-Gallen-Symposion auf Fragen von Andreas Schnauder.

  12. Yemen Post Liberation Movement Warns Against Expansion of Iran in Yemen
    He went on to say that the last uprising was on April 15 of 2005 when Ahwazi Arab people took to streets in all cities in protest against the practices of …

  13. Los Angeles Times IRAN: Tehran accuses West of waging war on its turf
    IRAN: Tehran accuses West of waging war on its turf
    Washington’s and Tehran’s allegations against each other have a curious symmetry.
    Each side blames the other for causing unrest in the region. Both huff and puff through the media. They make arrests. They claim confessions. They point to unspecified evidence, which they never make public.
    After weeks of facing escalating allegations that it was arming and training insurgents in Iraq to fight U.S. military forces, Iran is now stepping up its own allegations that the U.S. and Britain were behind a recent attack on a mosque in southern Iran.
    This week judiciary spokesman Ali-Reza Jamshidi announced that Iran planned to file international lawsuits against the U.S. and Britain for backing insurgents allegedly involved in the bombing of the mosque that killed 13 people during a religious ceremony.

  14. RIA Novosti Iran verärgert über Russlands Sanktionsbeschluss – „RBC Daily“
    MOSKAU, 12. Mai (RIA Novosti). Am 7. Mai brachte der iranische Botschafter in Russland, Gholamreza Ansari, die Hoffnung zum Ausdruck, dass Dmitri Medwedew als neuer Präsident die „goldene Periode“ in den Beziehungen zwischen Teheran und Moskau fortsetzen werde, schreibt die Zeitung „RBC Daily“ am Montag.
    Doch einen Tag später wurde der Erlass über Maßnahmen zur Erfüllung der Iran-Resolution des UN-Sicherheitsrats Nr. 1803 vom 3. März bekannt gegeben, den der mittlerweile aus dem Amt geschiedene Präsident bereits am 5. Mai unterzeichnet hatte. Dieses Dokument bedeutet, dass Russland sich zum dritten Mal den Wirtschaftssanktionen gegen Iran angeschlossen hat. Als Ausnahme gelten nur Anlagen, Materialien und Technologien für Leichtwasserreaktoren, die für den Abschluss des Baus des Atomkraftwerks Bushehr notwendig sind.

  15. RIA Novosti Medwedew und Iran: Süße Last der Nachfolgerschaft
    MOSKAU, 14. Mai (Pjotr Gontscharow, RIA Novosti). Aus geheimen Aufzeichnungen: „Ich will es Ihnen gleich sagen, Dmitri Anatoljewitsch, Iran ist nicht gerade ein Geschenk des Himmels.“
    „Ja, Wladimir Wladimirowitsch, es ist nun einmal nicht anders. Aber Ihre Idee mit den Sanktionen – das war ganz große Klasse. Sollen die sich jetzt Gedanken machen.“
    Die Anordnung Wladimir Putins in den letzten Tagen seiner Präsidentschaft „Über Maßnahmen zur Erfüllung“ der Resolution des UN-Sicherheitsrates Nr. 1803 – zu Iran – hat viele aufhorchen lassen. Schließt sich Russland den Sanktionen an? Soll das heißen, dass Russlands Iran-Politik unter dem neuen Präsidenten merklich zugunsten des Westens korrigiert wird?


     
  16. HC – NEUE ANTISEMITISCHE KARIKATUR AUS DEM IRANISCHEN STAATSORGAN KAYHAN….

    Titel: Arabisches Öl
    Kayhan, 15. Mai 2008
    http://kayhannews.ir/870226/3.HTM

  17. MEMRI IRANIAN MEDIA BLOG Islamic Revolution Martyrs Foundation Rep In Beijing: Hizbullah Proved Israel’s Vulnerability
    Mohammad-Hassan Rahimian, representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at the Islamic Revolution Martyrs Foundation, said in Beijing yesterday to mark Israel’s 60th anniversary that Hizbullah had proven the vulnerability of Israel’s Zionist regime by its heroic resistance, which had led to the humiliating defeat of the Zionist enemy.
    He said, „Today we are witnessing the destabilization of the Quds- [Jerusalem-] occupying regime, thanks to the path laid by the late Imam Khomeini, and the goal to annihilate Israel has been met by 50 percent…. The late Imam Khomeini declared that Israel should be wiped off the map, and now we are almost approaching this point.“
    He added that the issue of Palestine did not belong to the Palestinian nation and the Arab world alone, but concerned the entire world of Islam and the Muslims.
    Source: IRNA, Iran, May 16, 2008

  18. MEMRI IRANIAN MEDIA BLOG ‚Kayhan‘: Iran’s Nuclear Project Has Reached Point Of No Return
    In its editorial, the Iranian daily Kayhan, which is close to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, stated that Iran’s proposal package to the 5+1 signifies „its strong belief that technically speaking, Iran’s nuclear project has reached the point of no return, and it cannot be turned back in any way, not even if Iran could be made to pay a very high price for its stubbornness.
    The paper added that the proposals package would help the 5+1 to recognize this reality.
    Source: Kayhan, Iran, May 17, 2008

  19. MEMRI IRANIAN MEDIA BLOG Iran Judiciary Authority Official: Stoning Is Acceptable As Punishment
    In an interview that was censored by Iranian authorities, Iranian Judiciary Authority human rights director Mohammad Javad Larijani told the Iranian news agency ISNA that the punishment of stoning, customary in Iran, does not contravene international covenants to which Iran is signatory.
    He said that human rights activists in Iran are „deceivers trying to fight the regime.“
    Source: Rooz, Iran, May 18, 2008

  20. MEMRI IRANIAN MEDIA BLOG Iranian MP: International Boycott Damaging Us
    In a speech at the Majlis (parliament), conservative MP Ahmad Tavakkoli, head of the Majlis Strategic Studies Center, said that the sanctions and boycott on Iran by international banks is causing much greater damage to Iran than to the bodies carrying out the boycott, and is also increasing inflation in Iran.
    He called on the Iranian government to adopt a foreign policy that would lead to a reduction in the price paid by Iran.
    Source: Shahab News, Iran, May 18, 2008

  21. MEMRI IRANIAN MEDIA BLOG Pro-Palestinian Demonstration in Tehran
    The following are images from a May 16 pro-Palestinian demonstration at Palestine Square in Tehran. The images were posted on the Iranian website Tabnak, under the heading „60 Years Of Occupation And Betrayal.“


    On yellow banners: „Oh Qods [Jerusalem], We Are Coming“


    Source: Tabnak (
    http://tabnak.ir/pages/?cid=10819), Iran, May 16, 2008

  22. MEMRI IRANIAN MEDIA BLOG Iranian MPs Criticize Russian Efforts To Stop Uranium Enrichment
    Members of Iran’s Parliamentary National Security and Foreign Policy Committee have rejected a proposal, put forth by Russia last week, that the 5+1 countries give Iran security guarantees in exchange for Iran’s halting uranium enrichment.
    Iranian MP Talai-Nik criticized Russia and „its secret efforts“ to force Iran to stop its uranium enrichment program. He stated that despite its rhetoric, Russia does not want Iran’s nuclear program to advance.
    Source: Tehran Times, Iran, May 19, 2008

  23. MEMRI IRANIAN MEDIA BLOG Iran Stops Bomb Attack on Russian Consulate

    Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi
    Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi
    Iran’s intelligence minister, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi, said that a terrorist group with links to the US and Britain that bombed a religious center in the southern city of Shiraz last month also planned to attack a Russian consulate in Rasht city, in the northern part of the country.
    Ejehi announced that 15 people, all Iranian nationals, had been arrested in connection with the deadly explosion in Shiraz that killed 13 people and injured 200 others.
    „Their next target was the Russian consulate general in Rasht. They obviously hoped that the explosion would strain Iran’s relations with its neighbors,“ Ejehi said.
    […]

  24. MEMRI IRANIAN MEDIA BLOG Kurdish Political Prisoner Dies In Jail In Iran
    Kaveh Azizpour
    Kurdish political activist Kaveh Azizpour, 25, who was jailed by Iranian authorities about two years ago on charges of affiliation with a Kurdish opposition organization, died May 16.
    Azizpour’s family is claiming that his death was caused by torture in prison.
    Source: Gooya News, Iran, May 16, 2008

  25. MEMRI IRANIAN MEDIA BLOG Iranian Ambassador To Russia: U.S. Needs Security Guarantees, Not Iran
    In response to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s statements that the 5+1 countries should supply Iran with security guarantees that it will not be attacked, Iranian Ambassador to Russia Gholam-Reza Ansari said in Moscow that it was the U.S., not Iran, that needed security guarantees.
    Source: Kayhan, Iran, May 16, 2008

  26. MEMRI IRANIAN MEDIA BLOG Iranian Finance Minister: Gov’t Of „Unpredictable“ Ahmadinejad To Blame For Inflation
    In a May 16 interview on Iranian TV, outgoing Iranian finance minister Danesh J’afari attacked Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying that he was „unpredictable,“ made decisions on economic matters without J’afari’s knowledge, and that Ahmadinejad’s government was to blame for the increased inflation in the country, and not what Ahmadinejad termed „the economic mafia.“
    Sources: Rooz, Iran, May 18, 2008; Tabnak, Iran, May 17, 2008

  27. MEMRI IRANIAN MEDIA BLOG Iran Arrests Baha’i Leaders
    Iranian security forces have arrested seven leaders of the Baha’i community in Iran, for suspected involvement in last month’s Shiraz mosque bomb blast.
    Source: Qods Daily, Iran, May 17, 2008

  28. MEMRI IRANIAN MEDIA BLOG Iranian Official: India-Iran Cooperation Will Neutralize Western Scheming
    In a meeting with India’s ambassador to Iran, Iranian Guardian Council Chairman Ahmad Jannati pointed out the importance of increasing India-Iran political and economic cooperation aimed at „neutralizing the schemes of the West… and saving humanity from the evil of the Americans…“
    Source: ISNA, Iran, May 17, 2008

  29. MEMRI IRANIAN MEDIA BLOG Friday Sermon: Iran’s Nuclear Package To Foster Global Peace; Hizbullah Owes Victory To Muslim Unity; Bush’s Claims About Iran Endangering Region Aimed At Desensitizing Arabs To Israel
    Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani
    In his Friday sermon, Tehran interim Friday prayer leader Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani said that the recent victories of Hizbullah in Lebanon against the Zionist regime belonged to the whole Islamic world, not just the Shi’ite community, and that all Muslims should be proud of Hizbullah.
    He said Hizbullah owes its victory today to unity among all Muslims, and that Muslims in turn must take that into consideration.“To Iran, there is no difference between Shi’ites and Sunnis.“
    Likewise, he noted, when an Islamic country achieves some scientific, political, economic or military gain, others must consider it an honor for the whole Islamic world, and that Iran’s nuclear accomplishments were a source of honor for the whole world of Islam. He added, „Any time a warrior in any corner of the Islamic world takes a step against Israel, other Islamic countries are expected to honor it.“
    He added that Iran’s proposed nuclear package is aimed at restoring peace and security worldwide.
    Touching on recent claims by U.S. President George W. Bush that Iran endangers the region, Kashani said, „Bush’s goal in raising these claims is to portray Iran as an enemy of the regional states and making the Arabs less sensitive to the Zionist regime.“ He said that it was precisely Iran’s sincerity and engagement with the countries of the world, especially the Muslim countries and the countries of the region that had led Bush to make such statements.
    He said that gestures by some political officials in the Islamic world were serving the interests of the U.S. and Israel, and that „Muslim states are expected to think of their own nations.“
    Sources: IRNA, IRIBnews, Iran, May 16, 2008
    (For the MEMRI TV page on Ayatollah Mohammad Emami-Kashani,
    click here. )

  30. MEMRI IRANIAN MEDIA BLOG Palestinian Ambassador To Iran: Friday Prayers At Al-Aqsa Mosque Will Be Led By Khamenei
    Palestinian Ambassador to Iran Salah Al-Zawawi told the Iranian news agency Fars in an interview that the day would come when Friday prayers would be held at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as prayer leader.
    Source: Fars, Iran, May 13, 2008

  31. MEMRI IRANIAN MEDIA BLOG Iranian Dissident Journalist: Criticize Entire Regime, Not Only President Ahmadinejad
    Iranian dissident journalist Ahmad Zeidabadi has said that reformists‘ focus on criticizing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a mistake, because his removal would not solve Iran’s problems.
    Instead, he said, criticism must focus on the functioning of the government and the entire conservative camp.
    Source: Rooz, Iran, May 15, 2008

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