Iran: the damning nuclear evidence
By Damien McElroy, Adrian Blomfield:
The research by the UN’s watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, will add a substantial layer to seven years of investigations that is likely to inflame tensions in the Middle East.
Yukiya Amano, the organisation’s director-general, is unlikely to draw a definitive conclusion that Iran is making nuclear weapons, but according to Western diplomats the facts will make any other conclusion implausible.
They believe the IAEA has substantiated evidence from intelligence reports, interviews with Iranian scientists and on-the-ground inspections that Iran is carrying out a nuclear weapons programme in parallel to its civilian energy goals.
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The insane
There is a site on FB which advocates for the release of Iranian pastor Nadarkhani who is a Christian convert from Islam, although his conversion was years ago when he was 19 he is now being threatened with execution for heresy. On this site is a link to a video which graphically films the horrific execution of another Christian whose only ‘crime’ was to leave islam. You cannot watch this and remain the same. I will not list the link because it’s too horrifying. Folks, we are witnessing the rapid rise of Satanic islamism. If you do not pressure your political representatives this medieval strain of islam will soon be a direct threat here in Canada. A plot was already uncovered by the authorities to behead our PM Stephen Harper. If you fail to act you will unwittingly invite terror to our peaceful national community.
Iranian Banker With Terror Ties Living in Canada, No Action from Country’s Law Enforcement
by Sun Tzu:
As details of the Iranian terror plot to blow up the Saudi Embassy in Washington DC become clearer, the U.S. and other Western allies will look to punish Iran. One of the most powerful ways to influence Iran is through the banking sector. Through an interesting turn of events, Canada is in a position to exert significant financial leverage through one individual in particular.
One of the world’s most important international bankers is currently residing in Toronto after fleeing his country of origin. Mahmoud Reza Khavari was until recently the head of Iran’s Bank Melli, an institution notorious for assisting in Iran’s proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and financing of terrorism. Canadian authorities have yet to take action against Mr. Khavari, who represents a potential gold mine of information regarding how Iranian banks raise and move money around the globe.
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Could the Thai floods be a black swan in the making?
John Shmuel:
With market attention locked onto Europe for the past month, the global impact of the flooding crisis in Thailand hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves, one economist warned Wednesday.
Jimmy Jean, economist strategist with Desjardins Capital Markets, said in a report that investors would do well to watch the developments in the South East Asian nation more closely.
“The impact on global growth could be more significant than what is currently expected,” Jimmy Jean, economist strategist with Desjardins Capital Markets, said. “Thailand is a small economy, to be sure, but a significant player in the auto industry and the top rice exporter.”
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Will Barack Obama betray Britain again over the Falklands?
By Nile Gardiner:
The Obama administration has slapped Britain in the face over the Falklands on a number of previous occasions, most notably when Hillary Clinton held a joint press conference with Cristina Kirchner in Buenos Aires, backing Argentina’s call for UN-brokered negotiations over the sovereignty of the Islands – a position that is completely unacceptable to London as well as the vast majority of Falkland Islanders, who wish to remain British. On past evidence, there is little reason to think this won’t be the case again when Barack Obama meets with Kirchner in France this week. The White House has already previewed the meeting with the following statement by Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser for communications, who made it clear that Washington wishes “to cooperate with Argentina on issues in the hemisphere”.
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Video: ACORN Front Group Pays Homeless People ‘$10 a Hour, $100 a Day’ to Protest at Occupy Wall Street
by Publius:
Lee Stranahan and Brandon Darby have released the latest video clip from their visit to Occupy Wall Street.
In the video, an activist named Channing, who has been at the Occupy Wall Street protests from the beginning, volunteers the information that the former ACORN organization–through its new front group, New York Communities for Change–is paying $10 per hour and $100 per day to homeless people to attend the demonstrations.
She suggests that ACORN’s involvement is unwelcome, alleging that its homeless employees are “being paid to come here and mess things up.”
Channing’s information corroborates reporting by Big Government on ACORN’s role in the Occupy movement.
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Somali bomber urged Muslims to ‘do jihad in America’
by: ALLIE SHAH, Star Tribune:
Whether or not the suicide bomber who killed at least 10 people this past weekend in Somalia is from Minnesota, he left a farewell message sure to chill American listeners.
Speaking in English in a taped message broadcast over the Internet, the voice urged other young Muslims to “do jihad in America, do jihad in Canada, do jihad in England, anywhere in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, in China, in Australia.
“Anywhere you find [unbelievers],” the voice continued, “fight them and be firm against them.”
On Monday, the bomber’s identity remained a mystery, despite reports from some in Minnesota’s Somali community who say they recognize the voice as that of a Minneapolis college student who left in November 2008 to fight in Somalia.
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Why Does the Crucifix “Provoke” Muslims?
by Raymond Ibrahim:
The same “provocation,” a crucifix, that prompted Muslim students in the United States to complain about “human rights” abuses at a private Catholic university, prompted Muslims in Egypt to murder a man.
First, the American incident. According to Fox News:
The Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights confirmed that it is investigating allegations that Catholic University violated the human rights of Muslim students by not allowing them to form a Muslim student group and by not providing them rooms without Christian symbols for their daily prayers. The investigation alleges that Muslim students “must perform their prayers surrounded by symbols of Catholicism – such as a wooden crucifix, paintings of Jesus, pictures of priests and theologians which many Muslim students find inappropriate.”
Representing the lawsuit is John F. Banzhaf III, a George Washington University professor, whose website boasts that his “enemies” call him a “Legal-Terrorist” and “the Osama bin Laden of Torts.” He asserts that Muslim students are “particularly offended” because they have to “meditate” at the school’s chapels and cathedral, where they pray while “having to stare up and be looked down upon by a cross of Jesus.”
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UNDER PERSECUTION
Vahik Abrahamian
Location: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Arrested: September 2010
Days Imprisoned: 359
Released Monday, Aug. 29, 2011
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06/20/2011 Update
09/01/2011 Update
Pastor Vahik Abrahamian and his wife Sonia Keshish-Avanesian were with their friends, Arash Kermanjani, and his wife, Arezo Teymouri, when all four friends were detained on September 4, 2010.
The two couples were arrested at the Abrahamians’ home in Hamadan, west Iran, and taken to the Ministry of Islamic Guidance prison.
For the first 40 days, they were held in solitary confinement and reportedly suffered physical abuse and psychological pressure.
The four have been accused of various offenses, including propagating Christianity, opposing the Islamic Republic of Iran, and having contact with exiled opposition figures. They have not yet been charged.
Over six months have passed since the two men and two women were arrested. They are under pressure and intense interrogation, according to Mohabat News. They were transferred from Hamadan prison to Iran’s notorious Evin prison in Tehran.
Their families are concerned for their health, but have not been able to find news of their loved ones. They are also worried about the children of the believers.
Pastor Vahik was arrested once before, on Feb. 20, 2010, on charges of conducting activities among Muslims. He spent two months in prison before being released on bail. Pastor Vahik has dual citizenship in Iran and the Netherlands, but because of his passion for the Iranian people, he chose to live in Iran.
Pastor Vahik Released
After being released from prison on Aug. 29, 2011, Pastor Vahik Abrahamian and his wife, Sonia, were exiled to the Netherlands. Uri Rosenthal, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Netherlands, called their release a “positive step ahead,” according to Mohabat News.
Iran had refused to allow the Netherlands to contact Pastor Abrahamian while he was imprisoned, despite his dual citizenship. Although Iran does not normally recognize dual citizenships, both the Netherlands and Iran approved Abrahamian’s exile to Holland.
Iran’s nuclear activity under scrutiny as evidence of weapons threat emerges
Julian Borger:
A report by the UN’s nuclear watchdog due to be circulated around the world next week will provide fresh evidence of a possible Iranian nuclear weapons programme, bringing the Middle East a step closer to a devastating new conflict, say diplomats.
The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the latest of a series of quarterly bulletins on Iran’s activities, but this one will contain an unprecedented level of detail on research and experiments carried out in Iran in recent years, which western officials allege could only be for the design and development of a nuclear warhead. “This will be a game-changer in the Iranian nuclear dossier,” a western official predicted. “It is going to be hard for even Moscow or Beijing to downplay its significance.”
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