Atlas Shrugs

Alleged Israeli Attack on Iranian Missiles in Syria Prompts Threats "Declaration of War"

Israel has not confirmed or denied the series of strikes early Sunday morning, which the Syrian foreign ministry said had targeted three military sites: a "research center" at Jamraya, a "paragliding airport" in the al-Dimas area of Damascus, and a site in Maysaloun.

Israel Targeted Iranian Missiles in Syria Attack NY Times

The airstrike that Israeli warplanes carried out in Syria overnight on Thursday was directed at a shipment of advanced surface-to-surface missiles from Iran that Israel believed was intended for Hezbollah, American officials said Saturday. That strike was aimed at disrupting the arms pipeline that runs from Syria to Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese organization, and it highlighted the mounting stakes for Hezbollah and Israel as Syria becomes more chaotic.

Iran and Hezbollah have both backed President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war, now in its third year. But as fighting in Syria escalates, they also have a powerful interest in expediting the delivery of advanced weapons to Hezbollah in case Mr. Assad loses his grip on power and Syria ceases to be an effective channel for funneling weapons from Iran.

The missiles that were the target of the Israeli raid had been shipped from Iran and were being stored in a warehouse at Damascus International Airport when they were struck, according to an American official.

Syria: Attack on military facility was a 'declaration of war' by Israel

Syrian Minister: All Possibilites Open After Israeli Attacks INN
Syria's Information Minister says that alleged Israeli attack "opens the door to all possibilities."

Syria responded angrily to the overnight air strikes on military targets that it accused Israel of carrying out, warning that the attack "opens the door to all possibilities."

"We will not accept to be humiliated," Syrian information minister Omran al-Zoubi said at an afternoon press conference, according to ABC News.

"We are all in a state of anger. We are abused by this attack," he added.

Israel has not confirmed or denied the series of strikes early Sunday morning, which the Syrian foreign ministry said had targeted three military sites: a "research center" at Jamraya, a "paragliding airport" in the al-Dimas area of Damascus, and a site in Maysaloun.

Syria accused Israel of "coordination" with the extremist rebel groups it is fighting, including Jabhat al-Nusra, which has pledged allegiance to al Qaeda's leadership.

Zoubi’s warning came after Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Feisal al-Mekdad, earlier called Israel's bombing of a weapons transport in Syria a “declaration of war.”

Speaking in an interview on CNN, al-Mekdad said that Israel was siding with “Islamist terrorists” to unseat President Bashar al-Assad, and that Syria would respond “at the time and in the manner that it chooses to.”

President Barack Obama, who has faced growing questioning over the American role in the conflict that has left more than 70,000 dead, did not confirm the Israeli attacks, but said on Saturday that Israel has a right to stop its enemies from getting advanced weapons.

Iran: "American empire" will fall in 2013

And the genius in the White House is pursuing nuclear disarmament and advancing more "talks" -- the same talks that have failed for the past 8 years.

"Hollow America" -- Obama yes, but Iran is underestimating the greatest and most powerful force in the world, the American, freedom.

Iran: "American empire" will fall in 2013 Jihadwatch

"'America should not think that with some diplomatic dialogue it can solve its dossier (problem) with the nation of Iran,' Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naghdi said. 'The path of this land is directed by the martyrs. America with its hollow slogans … thinks the Iranian nation will believe it.'" But no one in Washington is willing to listen to this statement or consider its implications.

"Iran: 2013 will be 'fall of American empire,'" by Reza Kahlili for WND, March 31:

The “American empire” will fall this year, the head of Iran’s Basij forces claimed Sunday, a message that was approved by the Islamic regime’s supreme leader.

“America should not think that with some diplomatic dialogue it can solve its dossier (problem) with the nation of Iran,” Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naghdi said. “The path of this land is directed by the martyrs. America with its hollow slogans … thinks the Iranian nation will believe it.”

The Basij commander was speaking to an audience of the 10th conference of “Journey of Enlightened Land” commemorating the “martyrs” of the eight-year war with Iraq, according to the Journalist Club, an outlet run by the Revolutionary Guards intelligence division.

Naghdi called President Obama’s actions deceitful, saying, “Obama in letters sent to the Islamic Republic promised to put an end to the Iranian nuclear dossier but … reacted in a different way.”

The Real Story: Khamenei: Iran Will 'Annihilate' Tel Aviv, Haifa

While the lovesick media fawns over Obama's fantasy rhetoric in Israel today (during which jihadists fired rockets from Gaza):

Khamenei: Iran Will 'Annihilate' Tel Aviv, Haifa INN, March 21, 2013

Iran will "annihilate" Tel Aviv and Haifa if it comes under attack by the Jewish state, warned supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iranians with nuclear components arrested

Annihilationists with nukes. Genocide in the name of Allah, most beneficent, most merciful, doncha know? Sleep softly, kids.

Report: Iranians with nuclear components arrested Jerusalem Post, March 12, 2012

Germany and Turkey arrested seven suspected Iranian smugglers who were transporting materials for that country’s nuclear program from India and Germany, according to a UPI report about an article in the Turkish Haberturk newspaper.

The components were to be delivered to the Iranian nuclear facility in Arak, Iran.

According to the report, Turkey apprehended two of the suspects at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport. One was an Iranian with Turkish citizenship and the other was an Iranian, who was suspected of being one of the leaders of the operation.

Security officials also captured a trove of documents related to the operation.

Germany arrested five Iranians, according to the report.

All together it is estimated that the smugglers shipped 900 deliveries of nuclear material to Iran using front companies in Turkey. The search continues for others suspects.

This follows a report in February by The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) that Iran was trying to smuggle magnet components for its nuclear program from China.

Iranian Pastor Nadarkhani Believed to be Dead UPDATE: Unconfirmed SECOND UPDATE: "Alive and well"

NEW UPDATE from ASSIST: New Reports: Iranian Pastor Nadarkhani Is 'Alive and Well'
Controversy Surrounds Claim that Iranian Pastor Nadarkhani Believed to be Dead

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (ANS) -- Earlier reports that Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is dead are now being refuted by sources in Iran who have made contact with the persecuted pastor and who say he is 'alive and well.'

Thank Gd. The death notice came from Islamic leaders, so it is in itself an implied threat.
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UPDATE: Assist is reporting: Mystery Surrounds Claim that Iranian Pastor Nadarkhani Believed to be Dead

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (ANS) -- Mystery now surrounds earlier news that Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is dead. Earlier today, an Anglican vicar in Iraq said that Iranian Pastor Youssef Nadarkhani was dead. The vicar said reports and pictures existed of Nadarkhani’s fate.

Writing on his Facebook page today (Thursday, March 7), Canon Andrew White, who serves St. George’s Church in Baghdad, said he was meeting with Muslim leaders today and came home to the news of Nadarkhani’s death.

At the time this story first went to press, the news had not been independently confirmed or verified.

While two independent ministries, both working in the region, had no working knowledge of the claim, Jason DeMars of www.Presenttruthm.com , told ANS late this evening, “Youcef is alive and he is doing fine.”

The original information about the status of Pastor Nadarkhani came from Canon White who wrote: “A truly wonderful day with my dear, dear friend the Grand Ayatollah Hossain Al Sader. With us were many of the other Islamic leaders. We spent 4 hours together had lunch and talked about the Almighty and His love that unites us.

If the Pastor is indeed alive, he and his family should be secreted out of the Islamic Republic of terror with the help of the US government.

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Last summer, our organization AFDI and SIOA held a Human Rights vigil for Pastor Youcef, during which fifteen former Muslims came to share their harrowing stories of their escape from Islam and the sharia.

Of course the enemedia didn't deign to report on the unprecedented event -- because it might reflect badly on jihad and sharia. The Pastor's crime? Apostasy. He refused to renounce Christianity, and under Islam, leaving Islam is punishable by death. The evangelical pastor in Iran had been killed. He had been sentenced to death many months ago. He had been given four chances to return to Islam and he had refused. We organized this SRO conference to raise awareness of the Pastor's plight and the plight of non-Muslims living in Muslim countries.

All the schools of Islamic law, without exception, mandate death for those who leave Islam. We dedicated the Town Hall to Pastor Youcef because he was in imminent danger of being murdered for his beliefs, and we invited numerous apostates from Islam to speak about the death sentence they must live under every moment because they have dared to leave Islam. We called upon Muslims in the USA to stand up for Pastor Youcef and other victims of Islam’s apostasy law. Under the guise of ‘civil rights,’  subversive Hamas-groups like CAIR, ICNA, ISNA, MSA, MSU et al seek to undermine the unalienable rights guaranteed to every individual under the Constitution. Their ruse must be exposed, their Sharia agenda renounced.

What Islamic supremacist groups in the U.S. speak for Pastor Youcef?

And Pastor Youcef is believed dead. It appears his release from prison was a deliberate plan so that Islamic supremacists could act in accordance with the brutal sharia away from the eyes of the world.  

It is Obama's silence and sanction that paves the way for these monstrous crimes. Despite the plaintive cries from vicitms the world over, President Obama has gone so far as to remove the sections covering religious freedom and religious peresecton from the Country Reports on Human Rights that the State department releases.

From left, Mohammed Asghar: Originally from Bangladesh, ex-Muslim author and an authority on the Qur'an. Nonie Darwish: Ex-Muslim and human rights activist raised in Gaza; director of Former Muslims United; author of Now They Call Me Infidel; Cruel and Usual Punishment; and The Devil We Don't Know. Amani Mustafa: Ex-Muslim from Egypt, TV producer and host of a Christian show, The Muslim Woman, appealing to Muslim women in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula. Her show reaches 300 million households globally with 50 million viewers per live program. Ibn Warraq: Pakistani ex-Muslim and renowned scholar; author of Why I Am Not A Muslim; The Quest for the Historical Muhammad; Leaving Islam; Why the West Is Best; and many other books. Ramin Parsha: Iranian NajatTV host who was born and raised as a devout Shiite Muslim is Shiraz, Iran. He is associate Pastor at Nejat Church with Pastor Reza Safa, who also was an Islamic supremacist in Iran and is now one of the most prominent ex-Muslim Christian pastors in America. Dr. Bushra Qader: Originally from Iraq, she is an activist for the rights of former Muslims. Walid Shoebat: Palestinian former jihad terrorist and member of the Muslim Brotherhood; now a Christian and a peace activist.

Walid Shoebat

Iranian Pastor Nadarkhani Believed to be Dead By Michael Ireland Special Reporter, ASSIST News Service (hat tip Claude)

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (ANS) -- An Anglican vicar in Iraq has said that besieged Iranian Pastor Youssef Nadarkhani is dead.

Writing on his Facebook page today (Thursday, March 7), Canon Andrew White, who serves St. George's Church in Baghdad, said he was meeting with Muslim leaders today and came home to the news of Nadarkhani's death.

U.S., Canada and Australia Walk Out of Nuclear Meeting over Iran's Blood Libel Against Israel

The Fourth Reich speaketh.

Annihilationists libel, it's what they do -- here, there, everywhere (see Ahmed Rehab).

Remark - Fredrik Dahl
The U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Joseph Macmanus, walked out of an agency meeting on Wednesday in protest when Iran's representative accused Israel of "genocide," diplomats said. Officials from Canada and Australia also left the meeting. Earlier, Macmanus had accused Iran of a "commitment to deception, defiance, and delay" in addressing IAEA concerns about possible nuclear weapons-related research. (Reuters)

Despite Obama's Seditious Opposition, Beirut bombing victims win judgment in court

The 1983 attack on American Marine barracks in Beirut was the largest non-nuclear bombing post-World War II.  The jihadi attack that killed 241 was Iranian prozxy, Hezbollah's,  coming-out party.

To this day, the attack is lauded on its TV channel Al-Manar. A Hezbollah "poet," Atef Moussa, appeared on May 22, 2005, and said,"Who says we are afraid of war? ... Who can compare to the men of Hezbollah? ... These enemies [the American military] turned out to be as light as cardboard. Bush knows it. Beirut remains dangerous for the Marines. Our proof is here, they left in shame. Our people sail the seas of martyrdom."

In an anti-American speech mocking the American military on March 8, 2005, Hezbollah's leader, Sheik Nasrallah, also referred to the attack: "I address the following to America ... to President Bush ... to Condoleezza Rice ... and to American-Lebanese field commander Satterfield ... Lebanon will not ... throw its heart to your soldiers' dogs so they will eat it ... You can make yourself heard by the commander of the American forces in the region, who is of Lebanese origin, John Abizaid ... Are you Lebanese afraid of the American naval fleets? These naval fleets have come in the past, and were defeated, and if they come again, they will be defeated again..."

Since Hezbollah's founding, its leadership has threatened America openly. In a March 1985 Newsweek article about Hezbollah, an Islamic teacher at the Bir Al-Abed Mosque in Beirut, Alia Hamden, promised a future attack by the terror organization within America. Similarly, in a July 2003 interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Shiek Nasrallah said that if America tried to dismantle his organization, American interests throughout the world will be at risk, "through any means and at any time and any place."

Al-Manar is Hezbollah's main vehicle for spreading its anti-American ideology. Such messages surface in news programs, music videos, and even game shows. (More at here at  New York Sun)

So this win for the victims' families is wonderful news, despite Obama's pro-jihad opposition. Victims triumph in one of the worst Islamic attacks on Americans in the late twentieth century.

Despite Obama opposition, Beirut bombing victims win judgment in court The Examiner, March 3, 2013, Jim Kouri

Surviving family members of the U.S. Marines and soldiers killed in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983 had reason to celebrate good news on Friday in New York City, in spite of President Barack Obama's opposition to their court case, according to a spokesperson for the victim's families.

The U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York's Judge Katherine B. Forrest ruled that the victims of the 1983 Beirut bombing were entitled to collect $1.8 billion of their $2.65 billion judgment against Iran for its role in the terrorist bombing in Beirut.

Iran's culpability stems from the fact that the terrorist group responsible of the deaths of U.S. servicemen was the Lebanese-based Hezbollah, an organization funded and armed by the Iranian government. Hezbollah is a known "proxy" for Iran's war on the West.

While the families received bi-partisan support from U.S. Senators and House members, President Barack Obama, in a bid to reconcile with the Teheran regime, has blocked legislation that would hold Iran accountable for the Hezbollah bombing that killed 241 U.S. Marines in 1983, according to journalist and anti-terrorism activist Pamela Geller.

As a result of the Judge Forrest's ruling, the 1,300 immediate families and survivors of the 241 members of the American military who were killed in the Iran-sponsored bombing are significantly closer to receiving approximately $1.8 billion in Iranian funds held in an account in Citibank in Manhattan.

Judge Forrest's court decision on Friday came as a component judgment in a lawsuit filed against Clearstream Banking SA. The families claimed in that suit that Clearstream illegally diverted $250 million from frozen Iranian funds from the Citibank account, a suit originating in 2008.

Lynn Smith Derbyshire, the national spokesperson for the Beirut bombing victims, said, "This is a wonderful day. After 30 years of seeking justice against the murderers in Iran, who killed the brave U.S. Marines and other servicemen in 1983 in Beirut, we are almost there. That bombing was vile. It was evil. Iran should by every measurement be made to pay for its crimes, and Judge Forrest has shown wisdom in her ruling."

Ms. Derbyshire's brother, Marine Captain Vincent Smith, was killed in the bombing.

Forrest's ruling was made easier by a bi-partisan provision inserted into the Iran Sanctions Bill of 2012, which clarified the enforcement of existing laws governing how Iranian funds located in the United States can be attached in cases involving American victims of terrorism.

Iran Teaches Toddlers to Wear Islamic Veils

Because under Islam, little baby girls are sex objects, doncha know? Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone.

Baby steps? Toddlers in Iran taught chastity, hijab lessons

Al Arabiya, 27 February 2013 (thanks to The Religion of Peace.com)

The welfare office of the Iranian city of Qom is reportedly “training 400 experts on hijab and chastity who will be sent to kindergartens across the city.” (AFP)

Islamic dress and notions of chastity will be taught to toddlers in Iran, as part of a move by the country to instill Islamic teachings into the younger generation, a report on Wednesday revealed.

The governor of Tehran, Morteza Tamadon, has recently stressed the importance of “popularizing” chastity and hijab among Iranians, advising that kindergarteners be taught, “before reaching those in higher education,” the Guardian reported.

“We cannot expect to see hijab and chastity exist in society without proper cultural work,” he said. “Our goal in the social transformation plan devised by the government is institutionalizing chastity and hijab as a natural [demand] in society,” he said.

Islamist rulers in Iran have recently ordered stricter enforcement measures from the Iranian Moral Police and the Revolutionary Guards.

Recently, Iranian police have bolstered the enforcement of modesty laws. Women wearing mandatory headscarves improperly or in “vulgar” dress are usually warned before being fined or detained in police stations.

As for a program targeting toddlers, the welfare office of the Iranian city of Qom is reportedly “training 400 experts on hijab and chastity who will be sent to kindergartens across the city,” according to the Guardian.

The report added that 1,530 kindergartens under the jurisdiction of a north-eastern province have already held “chastity and hijab exhibitions” in recent months.

“Research has found that indirect methods have more effect on kids,” welfare officer Tahereh Bakhtiyari said in comments to the newspaper. “Using art expression is one of these methods.”

During the spring and summer months, Iran’s morality police scour the country’s streets in search for inappropriately dressed women.

Iranian Officials: The Jews Are Responsible For The Massacre Of Muslims In Myanmar

More Islamic crazy driven by the Jew-hatred in their "holy" book.

And don't get me started on Myanmar, where the indigenous population is actually fighting back against Islamic aggression and violence.

Iranian Officials: The Jews Are Responsible For The Massacre Of Muslims In Myanmar MRMRI

As part of their policy to present the Jews and Zionists as aspiring to take over the world, Iranian officials consistently claim that they are involved, overtly or covertly, in every international event and crisis. For example, Iranian Vice President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi said in June 2012 that the Zionists were to blame for the Bolshevik revolution and for spreading drugs in the world, and added: "Every war and conflict worldwide necessarily have Zionist roots." In August 2012, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the Jews of planning World War I and II, and explained, "the Zionists are behind every [act of] widespread moral destruction, war, conflict or massacre."

As part of the demonizing of Jews and Judaism in Iran, officials and mainstream media have accused the Jews of playing a considerable role in the massacre of Muslims in Myanmar in the summer of 2012. This report will review some of these statements, as well as Iranian cartoons conveying the same message.

Click here to read the full report. 

 

Three Nigerians Arrested for Spying on Prominent individuals and targets for Iran

The head of the snake strikes again. Iran in ..... Nigeria. Lest we forget, Obama made sure these bloodthirsty killers stayed in power when the only freedom revolution took place in the Middle East in Iran. Obama stood by when women and children were slaughtered in the cause of freedom. Instead, Obama worked to oust our allies in the region (like Egypt), making the world a far more dangerous place.

Three Nigerians Arrested for Spying for Iran
Nigerian secret police on Wednesday announced the arrest of Islamic Shiite cleric Abdullahi Mustapha Berende and two accomplices for spying on prominent individuals and targets for Iran. Berende underwent training in Iran and then returned to Nigeria "to identify and gather intelligence on public places and prominent hotels frequented by Americans and Israelis to facilitate attacks," state security service spokeswoman Marilyn Ogar said. Berende admitted seeking information about the U.S. aid mission and the Jewish Cultural Center (Chabad) in Lagos. (AFP)

Sharia Law: Iran Sentences Pastor to 8 Years for leadership in Christian house churches

More extraordinary lessons of tolerance, interfaith harmony and pluralism from the religion of slaughter.

Iran Sentences Pastor to 8-Years for Evangelism... Answering Muslims (thanks to the Religion of Peace)

Pastor Saeed Abedini is in prison for starting house churches in Iran several years ago. We see the results of Sharia every day. Yet if we say, "Such laws must never be enforced in the West," we are immediately labeled racist, Islamophobic, hate-mongering bigots. Is Pastor Abedini a "racist" for thinking that Sharia is a threat to his rights and safety?

FoxNews--Christian pastor Saeed Abedini, an American imprisoned in Iran on charges of evangelizing, was sentenced this morning to eight years in prison.

According to the American Center for Law and Justice, Abedini was verbally sentenced in Tehran by Judge Pir-Abassi, known as the “hanging judge,” to eight years in prison for threatening the national security of Iran through his leadership in Christian house churches. He will serve the time in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, known as one of the most brutal.

The evidence, the ACLJ reports, was based on Abedini’s activities primarily during the early 2000s, when house churches were not considered a threat in Iran. (Continue Reading.)

Key Nuclear Facility Hit in Iran

Civilized man - 1, Savages with nukes - 0. Let us hope that this continues. WND had the exclusive:

An explosion deep within Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility has destroyed much of the installation and trapped about 240 personnel deep underground, according to a former intelligence officer of the Islamic regime.

The previously secret nuclear site has become a center for Iran’s nuclear activity because of the 2,700 centrifuges enriching uranium to the 20-percent level. A further enrichment to weapons grade would take only weeks, experts say.

The level of enrichment has been a major concern to Israeli officials, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly has warned about the 20-percent enriched stockpile. The explosion occurred Monday, the day before Israeli elections weakened Netanyahu’s political control.

The mainstream media has been absent on this. But then again, they have been perpetuating the Islamic lies that Iran has no nuclear weapons program, so how can you report on something that doesn't exist, eh? The enemedia, happily steppin and fetchin for the Islamic nuke program (despite reports that Iran's nuclear bomb program is complete).

Iran successfully has built a nuclear bomb with the help of Russia and North Korea and has enough weapons-grade uranium and plutonium for more, according to a source in the Revolutionary Guards intelligence unit.The source, who has access to Iran’s nuclear program, said the Islamic regime is working out of seven nuclear sites, most unknown to the IAEA, and that its nuclear bomb program is complete.North Korea has provided the regime with plutonium for nuclear warheads, the source verified, and the last obstacle to overcome is arming missiles with those warheads.

The Times of Israel provides confirmation here.

Kudos to WND for breaking the story.

WND report blows Iran nuke program wide open

Islamic regime scrambles as news of explosion catches fire worldwide WND

News of an explosion at one of Iran’s nuclear facilities – broken exclusively by WND – is exploding around the world, with independent confirmation and international response pouring in.

Israeli intelligence officials have confirmed the explosion to the Times of London, which is now reporting: “Sources in Tel Aviv said yesterday that they thought the explosion happened last week. The Israeli Government is investigating reports that it led to extensive structural damage and 200 workers had been trapped inside.

“Israel believes the Iranians have not evacuated the surrounding area. It is unclear whether that is because no harmful substances have been released, or because Tehran is trying to avoid sparking panic among residents.”

Also on Sunday, Israel’s acting defense minister called the news “welcome,” and a German newspaper said its own source in Tehran confirmed the report, even while Iran is trying to keep the news under wraps.

WND’s exclusive report revealed an explosion last Monday deep within Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility destroyed much of the installation, trapping scores of people, including scientists and workers, many of whom are foreign nationals.

According to a member of the security forces at the site, both elevators and the emergency exit had collapsed, and the regime fears loss of lives due to possible radiation after the explosion.

The information comes through Hamidreza Zakeri, a former member of the regime’s intelligence ministry.

The Iranian regime further believes the blast was sabotage and the explosives could have reached the area disguised as equipment or in the uranium hexafluoride stock transferred to the site, the source said. The explosion occurred at the third centrifuge chambers, with the high-grade enriched uranium reserves below them.

At midnight Sunday, Tehran time, however, all regime-controlled media published a two-line announcement by the deputy of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Shamsoldin Berberoodi, that no explosion had taken place at Fordow.

Iran does not want word of the sabotage to leak out because it would badly damage its negotiating position in talks with the 5+1 (the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany), WND’s source said. Indeed, the two-line announcement said the reports of the explosion are meant to bring pressure on Iran at the talks.

The regime’s defense ministry, which runs the country’s nuclear program, has dispatched the drill team from the Revolutionary Guards Khatam al-Anbia base to the site, the source said, but as of today no progress had been made to reach those trapped within.

According to the source, the regime has enforced a total blackout on the media and the families of the employees who work at the site. The security forces have also created a security zone around the site to control access and manage the rescue efforts.

The source said the regime’s security forces have attacked many moderate media offices, shutting down their activity and Internet sites. There is no information if these attacks were related to the Fordow explosion.

The site, which is about 300 feet under a mountain and immune to airstrikes and most bunker-buster bombs, is the Islamic regime’s main site, with its more than 2,700 centrifuges to enrich uranium to the 20 percent level, raising international concern about Iran’s nuclear bomb program.

WND’s Jan. 24 report on the sabotage was covered internationally on Sunday with Israeli Acting Defense Minister Avi Dichter stating that, “Any explosion in Iran that doesn’t hurt people but hurts its assets is welcome.”

Israel’s biggest daily, Yediot Ahronot, led its Sunday paper with a headline: “The most significant incidence of sabotage in the Iranian nuclear program to date.”

As reported by Globes Online out of Israel, “Yediot Ahronot cites U.S. conservative website ‘WND’ as reporting … that former Iranian Republican Guard commander Reza Kahlili, recruited by the CIA and who defected to the U.S., claimed that Iranian sources reported a huge explosion last Monday at Fordow’s centrifuges room. They claim that the explosion destroyed a significant portion of the facility and that 240 workers were trapped underground.”

Read the rest.

#myjihad in Iran: Ahmadinejad urges Muslims to Mobilize to Destroy Zionism on International Holocaust Day.

More tolerance, pluralism and inter-faith fabulosity from the religion of pieces:

Ahmadinejad: Muslims Should Mobilize to Destroy Zionism By Elad Benari Arutz Sheva, 1/28/2013, (thanks to FG)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that all Muslims should mobilize their resources to uproot Zionism. 

He made the remarks in his speech to the 26th international conference on Islamic Unity, saying that the prime goal of the Muslims should be terminating the issue of Zionism.

“Under the circumstances that the corrupt, uncultured and murderous Zionists are occupying and killing oppressed people, we should not sit idly by,” Ahmadinejad was quoted by PressTV as having said.

 Elsewhere in his speech, he said that it is not possible to attain unity without having a unique leadership, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported.

The only leader who can guide the Muslim world is the prophet Mohammad, he underlined.

“All differences and discords among Muslims have roots in our misunderstanding of Holy Quran and the guidelines of the prophet Mohammad,” said Ahmadinejad. “Today we need leadership similar to the prophet to get the Muslim world united.”

Criticizing the management of the global economy led by the U.S., he said the U.S. has taken helm of global economy which aims to transfer the wealth of world nations into the pockets of certain governments.

“Enemies of humanity claim they are administering the world. They claim to be advocates of freedom and democracy around the world but under such circumstances, they should not say that they advocate freedom of Muslims. They must call for liberation of all world nations as well as the U.S. people from the rein of Zionists,” said Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad’s hateful remarks were made on the same day that countries around the world marked International Holocaust Day.

The Iranian president, who is notorious for his hateful comments against Jews and Israel, has several times denied the Holocaust occurred. Last March he surpassed previous acts of chutzpah and told German television the Holocaust “was a colonialist plan that resulted from a lie” that Israel exploits to suppress Palestinian Authority Arabs.

Ahmadinejad asserted that Jews “never were rulers of this land. They made a story named Holocaust, and the Palestinians have to pay the price for it.”

Several months ago Ahmadinejad labeled Israel “the axis of unity of the world hegemonic powers.”

“It has now been some 400 years that a horrendous Zionist clan has been ruling the major world affairs, and behind the scenes of the major power circles, in political, media, monetary and banking organizations in the world, they have been the decision makers...” the Iranian president claimed.

The Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has also repeatedly expressed hope that Israel would be wiped off the map. 

Last summer Khamenei expressed confidence that the “Palestinians” will eventually retake control of their motherland.

“The light of hope will shine on the Palestinian issue, and this Islamic land will certainly be returned to the Palestinian nation, and the superfluous and fake Zionist (regime) will disappear from the landscape of geography,” Khamenei said.

#myjihad in Technology: Iran unveils machine for amputating thieves' fingers, sharia justice

Ah, the technology! The science! An actual invention from the Muslim world. Finally, an original invention. I hope we see its inclusion in the 1001 Muslim Inventions, a traveling museum exhibit.

Iran unveils machine for amputating thieves' fingers Jihadwatch

Sharia meets technology

"Publishing these photos is a way to instil fear in the population so as to avoid any protests." Because fear is at the heart of any Sharia regime. Why fingers for robbery and not the whole hand, as per Qur'an 5:38? Unclear. Perhaps the jurists involved were "moderates."

"Iran unveils machine for amputating thieves’ fingers," from France24, January 25 (thanks to Alan of England):

One of Iran’s official press agencies published photos showing the public amputation of a thief's fingers on Wednesday. These show a man getting his finger chopped off with a machine resembling a rotary saw.

#myjihad: Iran publicly hangs 2 in Tehran convicted of "waging war against allah"

All the Hagels, Kerrys, Brennans, Jarretts, and leftists support the Islamic state of Iran. Imagine the world they would have us live under. This is not surprising. Robert Spencer says, "Only Westerners who have swallowed the smooth lies of Islamic supremacist deceivers such as the Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf and Reza Aslan about Islamic law will find this odd."

Iran publicly hangs 2 in Tehran (PHOTOS) Daily News thank to Pamela Hall

The executed men's crime was caught on video and shown on YouTube and state television in December, sparking outrage across the country. Iranian authorities found the doomed pair guilty of 'waging war against God.' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday, January 21, 2013,

Amir Pourmand/AP

Alireza Mafiha, second from left, leans his head on the shoulder of a security officer moments before his execution in Tehran on Sunday. His accomplice, Mohammad Ali Sarvari, is second from the right.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran state radio says two men have been hanged publicly after posting a video on YouTube showing them robbing and assaulting a man with a machete on a Tehran street.

The execution was carried out Sunday after officials called for a speedy investigation and trial because of public outrage.

The video emerged in early December and was later shown on state TV.

The two men, both 24, were convicted of "waging war against God," a broad charge that can cover actions ranging from anti-state organizing to violent assaults.

Amir Pourmand/AP

Iranian policemen prepare to hang Mohammad Ali Sarvari. Iran publicly executed the two men after posting a video on YouTube in December showing them robbing and assaulting a man with a machete on a street in Tehran.

Amir Pourmand/AP

Alireza Mafiha is hung in public from a crane. Judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani called it a "moharebeh" crime, which Iran's legal code defines as 'defiance of God.'

The semiofficial ISNA news agency says nearly 300 people witnessed the hangings.

ISNA said two accomplices received sentences that included 10 years in prison and 74 lashes each.

According to ISNA, one of the men said they mugged the man because they were poor.

Ebrahim Noroozi /AP: Iranian women react during the execution.

Read more: The NY Daily News

A Question of humanity: Good vs Evil, Israel vs. Iran

Take a look at the reactions of these two countries in response to the monstrous massacre in Newtown. And then consider how contemptuosly Obama treats Israel, while respectfully defering to Iran:

On a side note, I love Prime Minister Netanyahu's use of the word savage.

"Israeli leaders extend condolences to the American people" MFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Our hearts are with the bereaved families of the victims, the mourning community in Newtown, Connecticut and the people of the United States of America.

Letter from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to US President Barack Obama

I was shocked and horrified by today's savage massacre of innocent children and adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

We in Israel have experienced such cruel acts of slaughter and we know the shock and agony they bring.

I want to express my profound grief, and that of all the people in Israel, to the families that lost their loved ones.

May you and the American people find the strength to overcome this unspeakable tragedy.

With my deepest condolences,

Benjamin Netanyahu,
Prime Minister of Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's message to the American people following the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut

And this letter from President Shimon Peres to US President Barack Obama

Dear President Obama,

On behalf of the people of Israel, as friends and as parents, we stand with you today in contemplation and grief over the atrocious, incomprehensible massacre of 20 children and six adults - educators - at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

No experience with death can be likened to that of a parents’ loss of their child. No crime is more heinous than the killing of a child.

Our hearts are with the bereaved families of the victims, the mourning community in Newtown, Connecticut and the people of the United States of America. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

Shimon Peres President of the State of Israel

And Iran's take on the mass slaughter in Newton:

Iran: Newtown massacre was Israeli conspiracy YNET

Tehran news website quotes 'expert' alleging horrific Connecticut shooting that claimed lives of 20 children, six adults was Israeli scheme meant to exert revenge on US following 'humiliation at UN'

"The Newtown massacre was the result of an Israeli conspiracy" an Iranian news website proclaimed Tuesday. 

The United States is still reeling from the murderous rampage that left 20 children and six adults dead in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday. Tehran – which on Sunday offered its condolences to the victims and their families – is now promoting an alternative explanation to the horrific event.

Iran's Press TV website quoted Michael Harris, former Republican candidate for governor of Arizona and GOP campaign finance chairman, as saying that "An Israeli death squad was involved in the Sandy Hook shooting."

According to the report, Harris called the Newtown tragedy a "terrorist attack," adding that it was "Israel's revenge" and that it was meant to "teach the US lesson," following the Palestinian's status upgrade in the UN.

According to the report, the shooter, Adam Lazna, was meant to be the scapegoat. The report further quoted him as linking the Connecticut incident to Anders Behring Breivik's murderous spree in Norway, in 2011.

"This is exactly what Israel did in Norway; the political party that voted for sanctions against Israel was retaliated against by a 'lone gunman' who killed 77 children.

"This is what Israel always does, they go after the children… The same thing happened at Sandy Hook. Nobody buys the lone gunman story anymore, not with the Gabby Giffords’ shooting, not with the Aurora 'Batman' shooting, certainly not with Breveik, and certainly not in Connecticut," he said.

Harris, reportedly citing the "numerous inconsistencies" in the shooting's "cover story," said that "This is another case where Israel has chosen violence and terrorism where their bullying in Washington has failed."

Michael Harris must pleasure himself watching old Auschwitz and holocaust news reels. That's what it meant by "sick with hate."

Kahlili: Iran thrilled over Obama re-election

Iran is not alone. The jihadists across the world, from Gaza, Egypt, and Libya, to Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco et al, and Hamas organizations here in the States, feel the very same way.

As Ambassador John Bolton said the day after the election, "our adversaries are breathing a sigh of relief" over the re-election of President Obama.

As for Iran, nothing stands in the way of their genocidal aspirations, save for the tiny Jewish state.

"Kahlili: Iran thrilled over Obama re-election" Washington Times, Reza Kahlili, November 23, 2012

Smooth sailing ahead for nuclear ambitions

In his first news conference after re-election, President Obama said there was still time for a diplomatic solution on Iran’s nuclear program and that Iran could enjoy “peaceful nuclear power” if it meets international obligations.

Diplomacy has failed and international sanctions, though having some effect, have not persuaded the radicals ruling Iran to stop their illicit nuclear program. The economic screws must be tightened.

#savage Iran quickly rearming Hamas

This is the point of the hudna, is it not? Regroup and rearm. More of Obama's pro-jihad foreign policy. It's as if Obama wants Israel backed into a corner -- a point of no return.

"'Satellites show Iran moving quickly to rearm Hamas'" Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2012 (hat tip Van)

Israeli intelligence satellites have spied the loading of rockets and other material in Iran believed to be destined for the Gaza Strip, the UK-based Sunday Times reported, citing Israeli officials.

According to the report, Iran began preparing the weapons shipment around the same time Israel and Hamas negotiated a cease-fire late last week.

The shipment is said to include Iranianmade [sic] Fajr-5 medium-range rockets, the same model that was fired toward Tel Aviv and Jerusalem during Operation Pillar of Defense, the Sunday Times reported.

Last month, following an air attack on a weapons plant near Khartoum, the Defense Ministry’s director of policy and political-military affairs accused Sudan of acting as a transit point for weapons shipments to Gaza. Amos Gilad accused Khartoum of aiding and abetting terrorism, and said the Sudanese regime was “supported by Iran” and was used as a route to transfer weapons to Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip via Egypt....

The official added that Tehran would act to re-arm Hamas and other Gaza groups quickly, as it sees them as a necessary part of its response to a possible Israeli attack against Iran.