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Iran Watch – November 30, 2007

November 30, 2007 by ncpda

[spoiler title=”Court tells UK to remove Iran opposition from terror list”]

Staff and agencies
Friday November 30, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Iran’s main opposition movement should be removed from the British government’s list of banned terrorist organisations, a court ruled today.
The decision by the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission (Poac) is a major victory for the People’s Mujahideen of Iran, which […]

Filed Under: Iran Watch Newsletter Tagged With: Al Qaida, British Government, Cautious Approach, Guardian Unlimited, Home Office Minister, Home Secretary, Iran Opposition, Judgment, Kurdistan, Kurdistan Workers Party, Mujahideen, Opposition Movement, Perversity, Pkk, Poac, Proscription, Spoiler, Terrorist Act, Terrorist Organisation, Tony Mcnulty

Shiites in S. Iraq Rebuke Tehran

November 22, 2007 by ncpda

Petition Calls for U.N. Probe Into Iran’s Influence, Sheiks Say
By Amit R. Paley and Sudarsan Raghavan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, November 22, 2007; A25
BAGHDAD, Nov. 21 — More than 300,000 Shiite Muslims from southern Iraq have signed a petition condemning Iran for fomenting violence in Iraq, according to a group of sheiks leading the campaign. “The […]

Filed Under: Iran, Iraq & Camp Ashraf, News, Terrorism Tagged With: Diwaniyah, Iranian Opposition Group, Iranian Regime, Iraqi Affairs, Military Protection, Mujaheddin, Petition Organizers, Sheiks, Shiite Muslims, Shiite Religion, Shiites In Iraq, South Iraq, Southern Iraq, Southern Province, Southern Provinces, Stab In The Back, Sudarsan, Violence In Iraq, Washington Post, Washington Post Foreign Service

Iran Watch – November 16, 2007

November 16, 2007 by ncpda

[spoiler title=”Ayad Allawi: PMOI’s presence is in accordance with Iraqi values and principles”]

Mr. Ayad Allawi, The former Iraq prime minister, and leader of the Iraqi National Accord in an interview with Al-Zaman daily, said that Iranian regime’s meddling in Iraq are dangerous and emphasized on the legitimacy of presence of the Peoples Mojahedin of Iran […]

Filed Under: Iran Watch Newsletter Tagged With: Ali Khamenei, Blacklisting, Clerical Establishment, Clerical Regime, Democratic Change, Force Banks, Former Prime Minister, Global Politician, Iranian Opposition, Iranian Regime, Iranian Resistance, Iraqi National Accord, Iyad Allawi, Maryam Rajavi, Necessary Prelude, Nuclear Weapons, Opposition Force, President Elect, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, Revolutionary Guards

Iranians named over Buenos Aires bombing

November 11, 2007 by ncpda

Iran Focus
Tim Shipman & Phillip Sherwell
The Sunday Telegraph
Posted: November 11, 2007

Iran’s deputy defence minister is one of five top Teheran officials placed on Interpol’s most wanted list for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina that killed 85 people, The Telegraph can reveal.
Ahmad Vahidi, a brigadier-general in the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards, […]

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Iran Watch – November 9, 2007

November 9, 2007 by ncpda

[spoiler title=”The Bush-Sarkozy Agenda for Iran?”]

by Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney and Raymond Tanter
Human Events
11/07/2007
In 1776, Benjamin Franklin went to Paris as America’s first ambassador to gain support for American independence. Franklin convinced Paris to recognize U.S. independence and concluded an alliance. Scholar Leo Lemay wrote: “There is no doubt that America would not have won […]

Filed Under: Iran Watch Newsletter Tagged With: American Independence, Benjamin Franklin, Clerical Regime, French Relations, International Crisis, Iranian Regime, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Lemay, Maiden Voyage, Military Aid, Nicolas Sarkozy, No Doubt, Nuclear Clock, Nuclear Weapons, Raymond Tanter, Revolutionary Guards, Security Council Resolution, Tom Mcinerney, Un Security Council, Western Diplomacy

Iran Watch – November 2, 2007

November 2, 2007 by ncpda

[spoiler title=”How Europe can pressure Iran”]
By: By PATRICK CLAWSON and MICHAEL JACOBSON
Source: The Wall Street Journal
The U.S. ratcheted up the financial pressure against Tehran last week, unilaterally slapping sanctions on Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp, three state-owned banks, and a number of key officials for their involvement in the regime’s terrorist financing and WMD-related […]

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Iran Watch – October 30, 2007

October 30, 2007 by ncpda

[spoiler title=”Iranian Revolutionary Guards are Terrorists as Designated”]
NCPDA Statement
October 27, 2007
A 3 decades long wish of the Iranian people has come to pass, and a step forward towards democracy in Iran has been taken. After decades of unabated oppression, terrorism, and murder, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and its Qods Force are at last recognized […]

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UK court tells UK government to lift Iran opposition ban

October 30, 2007 by ncpda

Iran Focus
Selina Williams
Dow Jones Newswire
Posted: October 30, 2007
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- A U.K. court Friday ordered the U.K.’s home secretary to lift a six-year ban on Iran’s Peoples Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, which is part of a broader coalition group that forms the main opposition to the current regime in Tehran.
The PMOI, which last October […]

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Iran Watch – October 19, 2007

October 19, 2007 by ncpda

[spoiler title=”Time to bring Iran’s PMOI opposition in from the cold”]

Henry Jackson Think Tank Website
By Brian Binley MP
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, 11th October 2007
The Iranian regime brutalizes its own citizens through human rights abuses, operates an aggressive foreign policy towards its neighbouring states and is developing nuclear weapons as a strategic menace. All three of these aspects […]

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Iran Watch – October 12, 2007

October 12, 2007 by ncpda

[spoiler title=”Tehran’s Ruling Clerics Scramble for Survival”]

By Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source : FoxNews
As expected, the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brought a briefcase full of denials to New York last month. When asked about providing training and weapons to militias in Iraq, he said, “Why would we want to do that?” Commenting on Iran’s long-term, clandestine nuclear program, […]