Cordesman's Iran

So there you have it. All the numbers, that lead to little less than Armageddon. But Armageddon is what the Seyyeds want.

IAEA lies for Iran's Seyyeds

In his report, the IAEA Director General closes his eyes on the military involvement in Tehran's nuclear program and takes Tehran's claims at face value. Any military involvement is a red flag by any standard; A clear indication that the program is for military purposes and not for civilian use.

The struggle of the Haft-Tapeh workers in Iran

Workers at Iran's Haft Tapeh sugar factory have been engaged in a struggle since they first went on strike in October. The state responded with repression, arresting organizers, and the workers have been engaged in action in response.

Why Iran's Seyyeds would never block the Straits of Hormuz

The US and its allies have enough power in the Persian Gulf to stop and monitor any traffic through the Straits of Hormuz. It would not take that long for the world to realize that the oil is better used if it is all piped across to the Mediterranean, Arabian Sea or Red Sea. The price would jump, but it would fall even more, as the contingency plans would kick in, and the whole world would be in the Persian Gulf. Heck they would seal off Iran.

Iran's Seyyeds caught buying nuclear bomb materials

Iran has tried 75 times in the last five years to buy materials that could be used for making a nuclear weapon, it has been reported, as Teheran vowed "never" to give up the pursuit of nuclear power. ... Diplomatic sources told the New York Times that the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, an off-shoot of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, had refused repeated Iranian requests to buy "dual-use" products - useful for peaceful or military ends.

USA losing grip on Pakistan, AQ Khan, and Iran's Seyyeds' nukes

Still, the Pakistani government’s reluctance to provide access has limited efforts to assess the situation. In particular, some American experts say they have less ability to look into the nuclear laboratories where highly enriched uranium is produced — including the laboratory named for Abdul Qadeer Khan, the man who sold Pakistan’s nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya.

IAEA did not state non-existence of Iran's Seyyeds' nukes

"It must be stated that the agency says in its report that it is not in a situation in which it can carry out its mandate and reliably state the non-existence of undeclared nuclear activites and/or materials by Iran," it said. ... The IAEA report, which said that Iran's "cooperation has been reactive rather than pro-active," allows the Islamic republic to buy time in its drive to produce a nuclear weapon, Whbee charged. ... "ElBaradei is aware of Iran's selective cooperation. He knows the truth that it wants to carry on enriching uranium," he said.

Thank you Japan in not dealing with Iran's Seyyeds

Japan Post Bank said it will suspend cash remittances to Iran because its intermediary bank stopped doing so as a result of U.S. financial sanctions on the country.

Iran's Seyyeds split the world

The question then will be whether Russia and China will agree, and the answer at the moment must be that it is doubtful.

US General praises Iran's Seyyeds

The comments by Maj. Gen. James Simmons marked rare U.S. praise for Iranian cooperation in efforts to stabilize Iraq. Washington has repeatedly accused the Islamic Republic of aiding Shiite militias and trying to foil U.S. goals in Iraq and the region.

China warned not to help Iran's Seyyeds

"I don't think China would want to be in a position to cause a failure of diplomacy to deal with this issue," he told reporters as he commented on the release a report by the UN nuclear watchdog agency on Iran's compliance with UN demands that it come clean on the nature of its nuclear program.

ElBaradei helps Iran's Seyyeds slip UN deadlines, raises suspicion

Under the terms of a "work plan" concluded by Iran and the agency last summer, Iran was to have met a series of deadlines to resolve all unanswered questions about suspicious nuclear activities dating back two decades. ... But the report today, while outlining a number of limited disclosures about the centrifuge program, noted that Iran has yet to answer some key questions. One mystery, it said, concerns "the role of the technical university at which uranium particle contamination was found." ... Now officials close to the agency are saying that the deadlines could slip into January or February. ... The agency’s limited access meant that it could not say with certainty that Iran does not have a secret weapons-related uranium enrichment program.

Iranian Seyyeds tried to convert Putin to Islam

"The president found his Iranian interlocutor weird, to say the least. The Iranians mouthed a lot of eschatological nonsense and came close to urging Putin to convert to Islam. It was clear they lived in a world of their own." ... "The Iranians think they have already won," reports one Russian source who witnessed the visit. "So intoxicated they appeared with hubris that they did not even ask Putin to help them ward off further United Nations sanctions."

Iranian Horoscope Match

I was looking at the list and photos of all the Iranians that want to meet Iranians, and I thought of Horoscope matching. Yeah maybe I can help.

So I created this:

http://disc.yourwebapps.com/Indices/239844.html

Iran's Seyyed sanctions hitting hotmail and yahoo

Yahoo! and Microsoft have removed Iran from the country lists of their webmail services as stronger US sanctions against the Islamic republic begin to bite. ... So essentially, you can't choose Iran as a country option because we are restricted from conducting business there – all US companies must comply with this policy." She was unable to tell us exactly when Yahoo! applied the rules.

ElBaradei likes Iran's Seyyeds

For over three years, the quarterly IAEA reports on Iran contained the details of violations, obstruction of inspector's visits, important inconsistencies between official claims and the results of tests from samples taken from various facilities, and other forms of non-compliance. ... But the final assessment in each report, signed by the director-general, absurdly concluded that this evidence did not demonstrate that Iran was seeking nuclear weapons. This process delayed the imposition of sanctions that might have dissuaded Iran from this path. ... Instead, if the IAEA and ElBaradei were to join in the effort to warn and deter the Iranian regime, it might still be possible to halt the uranium enrichment and similar activities without needing to use force. This is the only way that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty will survive, and the world will be spared the dangers of a radical Iranian regime armed with nuclear weapons.

Iran's Seyyeds feeling cornered warn western firms

Iran has given Royal Dutch Shell and Total, who were both on the list, a deadline of June 2008 to announce their final investment decisions on two LNG projects. Iran has extended the deadlines several times.

Funding secular Iranians

So this means that the funds to true secular Iranians needs to go via HSBC or Standard Chartered Bank or some other bank in Indonesia or Malaysia or parts of EU, that are not trading in US dollars and are trading in tranches less than $ US 20 million. Hopefully no IRGC thug is involved, and the funds can reach the proper Iranians. Ya Ahuramazda!

A 3000 year old part of Iran just got wiped out

The destruction of one of the biggest historical sites in the Chahar-Mahal Bakhtiari province by the Ministry of Road and Transportation was reported by the Persian service of ISNA on October 22. "Overnight 60 of the architectural and archeological remains of Pol-Borideh in Chahar-Mahal Bakhtiari province have been destroyed to construct a road. The ancient site was registered on the National Heritage List", said Aliasghar Noruzi, an archeologist with provincial CHTO. He stated: "The Ministry of Road and Transportation acted irresponsibly, and ignored all the previous warnings of the Chahar-Mahal Bakhtiari Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organisation, prior to launching the new Khuzestan Highway project."

Iran's Seyyed terms uranium enrichment abroad "unacceptable"

Fact is that the Seyyeds want to escalate the situation. That is their Holy manadate for the return of their Mahdi. I mean, can you imagine Mahdi turning up and asking, 'Why have you got that Saudi stuff here?'

Chinese hint for Iran's Seyyeds

... and he hoped that Iran could further demonstrate its flexibility ...

Why do the Chinese and Russians want two more week for Iran's Seyyeds to come clean?

The United States said on Thursday Russia and China had been blocking tough U.N. sanctions against Iran for months and pledged a drive to impose them if Iran did not halt nuclear activity within two weeks.

Seyyeds in Iran are losing friends and they know it

But Mr Ahmadinejad said: "If they plan to cooperate with the enemy of the Iranian nation, we cannot interpret this as a friendly behavior. We will show reaction." ... He added: "You, Europeans, know well what will happen in the economic sphere if Iran takes a serious move in this matter."