The Week in Israel vs The Week in Iran

Update: 11/02/05

Regime Change Iran reports; "How Dangerous is Iran?" - Full text of the Cicero article on Iran

Winds of Change: Here is the full English text of the recent Cicero article on Iran as provided by the brave men and women of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) A few excerpts of this must read article:

The author of this article was able to look at a list of the holy killers who have found safe refuge in Iran. The list reads like the Who's Who of global jihad, with close to 25 high-ranking leadership cadres of Al-Qaida -- planners, organizers, and ideologues of the jihad from Egypt, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, North Africa, and Europe. Right at the top in the Al-Qaida hierarchy: three of Usama Bin Ladin's sons, Saad, Mohammad, and Othman. Al-Qaida spokesman Abu Ghaib enjoys Iranian protection, as does Abu Dagana al-Alemani (known as the German), who coordinates cooperation of the various jihadist networks throughout the world from Iran. They live in secure housing of the Revolutionary Guard in and around Tehran . "This is not prison or house arrest," is the conclusion of a high-ranking intelligence officer. "They are free to do as they please." ... For years, according to the findings of Middle Eastern and Western intelligence services, Iranian intelligence services have already worked together repeatedly with Sunni jihad organizations of Al-Qaida. "As an Islamist, I go to the Saudis to get money the Jordanian GID man outlines the current practice of Islamist holy warriors. "When I need weapons, logistical support, or military terrorist training and equipment, I go to the Iranians." ...

The practical consequences of this answer make Western intelligence services shudder: "If anyone, the United States or even Israel, gets the idea to bomb the Iranian nuclear weapons program back 10 years into the past, then God help us says a Western intelligence officer. "Then the Mullahs will unleash their guard dogs worldwide. They will equip and support all Shiite terrorist networks with the Sunni networks globally, that is, with everything that they have. For us it would be the ultimate worst-case scenario, one for which we are not prepared." READ MORE

 

This is the author and publication that was raided by the German authorities earlier this year for publishing classified German intelligence information. It is credible. A definite must read. It needs to be widely read.

 UPDATE: 11/02/05: "Shari'a Punishment" Photos Misattributed
hat tip LGF

According to my original source,

Note: There have been questions as to what exactly is occuring in these photos. I have attempted to contact the original source and will post all updates on Bareknucklepolitics.com..........

UPDATE: More here:

I have been investigating the photos of the Iranian boy and the truck.  I have confirmed it to be a performance, a stunt.  This information is directly from the the Peykeiran News service, the initial publisher of the picture.

 

links to orig pictures: http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=22394, http://web.peykeiran.com/new/iran/iran_news_body.aspx?ID=22395

 

Here is the complete email exchange from yesterday and today.  It unequivocally states that it was photographed as a stunt, performed many times for bread.  Perhaps there was an early mistranslation of what was going on, converting the story to "stealing bread."  I tried for hours to translate the Farsi while waiting for a response from Iran. 

 

So this is what? A PSA for Vocational training? Although I was surprised, I was under the impression they cut off hands for stealing.

THOUGHT THIS MIGHT BE A SOFTENING IN PUNISHMENTS.
Bottom line: Punishment, stunt, whatever. it's child abuse. Sorry fellas it's still a horror to me

Iran: Israel is a scar on the United Nations, a terrorist country

UPDATE 10/31/05: 8 Year Old Iranian Boy [previously thought to be -Atlas] caught stealing bread......

hat tip: Spider Boris     Bare Knuckle Politics

The Iran-al Qaeda Axis> Peter Brookes

The most immediate threat Iran poses to American national security isn't its nuclear (weapons) program. It's the safe haven Tehran is giving al Qaeda terrorists, who are planning and directing jihad across the globe.

If the United States and its allies in the War on Terror don't take firm action against Iranian support to al Qaeda, the price in blood and treasure attributable to Osama bin Laden's killers - in Iraq and elsewhere - will continue to soar.

Iran had a busy busy week

Tehran, Oct. 30 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the latest cabinet meeting in the Iranian capital that “if we were permitted to hang two or three persons, the problems with the stock exchange would be solved for ever”, according to a Tehran-based newspaper.

Dive desk.
Removed previous photo in question. Above photo is authentic here

Tehran "Bounty" for Rocket Attack on Israel from West Bank - Uzi Mahnaimi
Iran has promised a reward of $10,000 to Islamic Jihad if the militant group launches rockets from the West Bank towards Tel Aviv, a senior Palestinian intelligence official said last week. Speaking in his Ramallah office, the official produced a fat wad of $100 notes which he said had been confiscated from a pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad activist. The money was said to have gone from Iran to Damascus

High Tribunal of the regime sentences Shahla Jahed to death

 

According to a report from the regime-run newspaper IRAN, 5 judges from branch 15 of the Council of Assessment who investigated the murder charges in a unanimous vote found Shahla Jahed  guilty. In the last stages of the judicial process, the council of assessment confirmed that Jahed would be hung. BBC

hat tip: Iran Press News

The people of Mahaabad protest the execution sentence of a local youth

>The Society of Political Prisoners in Exile

 

Based on reports from the town of Mahaabad (Province of Kurdistan) thousands of locals starting from noon on Tuesday, Oct. 25th poured into the streets of this town, honking their car horns and shouting, expressed their rage at the execution sentence imposed on local youth, Mustafa Rasoulinia who was arrested in the summer clashes between the people of Kurdistan with the disciplinary forces of the regime. People rioted in Esteqlaal Square and the surrounding streets. People from other parts of town joined the crowd that had already gathered at Hasanzadeh School and took the protest from neighborhood to neighborhood.

The regime has blamed the murder of one of the regime's disciplinary officers on the Mahaabadi youth and therefore sentenced him to death. The young man rejected the charges during his trial and said that he had been severely tortured by his captors and was pressured into making a confession.

Hat tip Iran Press News

Female Iranian militia.

Iran won't return to nuclear freeze: Ahmadinejad<

Iranian President calls for death to Israel and America (see post below)

<What Iran desires is a nuclear weapon--the better to threaten and annihilate the impious in the West and in Iran's neighborhood. Iran declares its anti-Western ambitions stridently. At an official parade in 2004, Iran flaunted a missile draped with a banner declaring that: "We will crush America under our feet." (Its leaders, moreover, have for years repeated the demand that "Israel must be wiped off the map.")

IRAN FATWAH! Crackdown on  Store Mannequins

Israel had an even busier week;

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Bill Gates - Israel is a high tech superpower    During his lightning visit last week, legendary Microsoft chairman Bill Gates called Israel a major player in the high tech world, and praised the country's collective commitment to research and education. He even went one step further by meeting with 45 Israeli 'whiz kids' who have been participating in a Microsoft-sponsored advanced high school computer studies program, which prepares the high tech leaders of tomorrow. More...   Health | Scoping out a clearer future for AMD sufferers     The Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT), invented by Israeli doctor Isaac Lipshitz is offering hope to the eight million Americans who suffer vision loss due to age-related macular degeneration, known as AMD. In clinical trials, VisionCare's revolutionary device drastically improved the vision of almost 200 patients, with the results paving the way for its imminent FDA approval. More...   Technology | Israeli technology facilitates extensive clinical study in Mali    The Israeli-developed Hygiea software system has the potential to speed up the process of clinical trials for diagnostics, vaccines and drugs. The University of Maryland's Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) recently deployed the system in Mali, Africa where large scale epidemiological research is uncovering health trends and impact of new vaccines introduced to the impoverished country's infants. As a result of utilizing this exciting new tool, health care solutions could reach the market more quickly, benefiting millions of children and adults worldwide More...   Profiles | Israeli designer Yigal Azrouel follows his passion    Israeli born-and-bred designer Yigal Azrouel has been taking the fashion world by storm. Everyone from Natalie Portman to Sarah Jessica Parker to Lenny Kravitz has been spotted in his designs, which have been featured magazines like Vogue, Interview, and Harper's Bazaar and are showcased in his boutiques around the world. He has no formal training in fashion - his success is a product of his inborn talent and his upbringing, which fostered his sense of independence, confidence and willingness to follow his own unique vision. More...   Global Democracy | Women leaders gather in Israel to combat crime of trafficking    Israel was recently the meeting ground for more than 50 women leaders from around the world - including ministers, members of parliament, judges, representatives of the World Bank, and UN agency officials - who gathered to address a host of common concerns, including a problem that is becoming a world-wide plague: trafficking in human beings. They discussed their common struggle against the crime that Israel is fighting in an increasingly aggressive fashion. More...   Culture | Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian DJs create bridge for peace Health | Children with ADHD may need sleep, Israeli study finds Health | Pfizer puts funds behind team of Israeli all-star scientists to change traditional diabetes research Global Democracy | Israel's developmentally disabled receive a loving home Culture | The 'Chicago Bulls of Israel' invade North America Health | Israeli device increases rate of hip fracture recovery Culture | Israelis sing it in fluent English

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Comments

[Digitaleye]

The first photo of the Iranian hanging looks photoshopped. Body language all wrong.

[Susan]

Digitaleye: It is, I saw reference to it elsewhere on the net.

[Kvatch]

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the latest cabinet meeting in the Iranian capital that “if we were permitted to hang two or three persons, the problems with the stock exchange would be solved for ever”, according to a Tehran-based newspaper.

Damn! Bet that would work here as well. Wonder what Kenneth Lay (or maybe the Rigas family) would have to say about that?

[Pamela aka "Atlas"]

Photo in question removed until origin determined

Pamela

[PartamianPartamian]

I hope we invade them from both sides ASAP. And I say this as one who would likely have to take part. Let's just take care of all of these a$$holes.

[Ed Minchau]

Well now... seeing as how there are American soldiers (and LOTS of them) now stationed in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran is already surrounded. I'm thinking that by the time Iraq has its next national elections, the Iraqi security forces will be largely able to police their own nation, thus freeing up those stationed in Iraq to move on to Iran.

[Kvatch]

I'm thinking that by the time Iraq has its next national elections, the Iraqi security forces will be largely able to police their own nation, thus freeing up those stationed in Iraq to move on to Iran.

Don't bet on it. First, at the rate Iraqi security forces are becoming prepared and properly equipped, it may be a decade before they are able to take on the insurgency. Second, Iraqi security forces, so far, are largely not integrated and are based in their own ethnic areas. This is not a posture that can support security operations in the decentralized state defined by the Iraqi constitution.

[Ed Minchau]

Variation on a theme - check out what happens to an 8 year old Iranian boy caught stealing bread (graphic content):

http://bareknucklepolitics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=126#126

[David Foster]

Meanwhile, some people are starting to argue that if/when Iran gets nuclear weapons, we should provide them with "Permissive Action Lock" technology to insure that the weapons don't fall into the wrong hands...

As if the government of Iran was not already the wrong hands

http://www.digitalnpq.org/articles/nobel/29/10-27-2005/thomas_c._schelling

[monkyboy]

Talk about ungrateful!

We remove Iran's biggest enemy from power and we're about to hand over Iraq to their Shiite brethren and they still complain.

Maybe we should shoot down another one of their passenger jets...

[quark2]

I've looked at hundreds of photos showing the
cruelty of moslims. This one made me physically ill. The juxtaposition of the adult male holding that childs arm making sure it's completely run over was the most inhuman thing I personally have witnessed.
If I were the mum of that boy, I'd be dreaming of what I could do to put a stop from future child abuse.
Eight years old, and needed to be scolded, sent to his room, plus embarrassed by having to apologize to whomever he stole the bread from. Instead he's tortured.
May those who dealt this out to him recieve in return the same 10 fold.

[wxjames]

We should put that picture on fliers and dump them all over Iran with a promise that the US will put a stop to this and soon. And, that the Iranians should be prepared to join us or stand in the way. The forces of hell are coming soon to avenge the treatment of that child. Welcome us or die.

[Angel Elf]

According to a person that calls himself Mohammad this is a staged event sort of like a carnival side show sword swallowing act:

"I'm an Iranian and I've seen these pictures in a report in a local newspaper before. It's not a 'punishment' or anything like that. If it was a punishment they wouldn't put the soft thing under the boy's arm.

According to the report, the man in the picture is making a show of the boy's abilities just to make money from the people standing there. This is their everyday activity. Very Very sorrowing.

Please be careful not to post anything that you don't have enough information about. And don't post such things which are to make hate in the hearts of the people rather than sympathy."

Staged or real it is still a case of child abuse.

http://bareknucklepolitics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=126#126

[John C. Randolph]

Actually, I find it plausible that this is just a carnival-geek act. Looking at those pictures, I don't see the kid crying, and he doesn't look scared in shots #1 and #2, where the tire is just getting close to his arm.

The people around him don't look like they have the kind of bloodlust I'd expect if they were, say, stoning someone to death for adultery. The sharia punishment for theft is amputation, not running over the arm with a car.

Does anyone have a link to video of this event?

-jcr

[Judah HaKohain]

Awesome! I am putting a link to your blog on my site at: http://hamikdash.blogspot.com

Regards,

JHK