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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Rejects Terms of United Nations Security Council Resolution
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at Tehran University July 30, 2006
Reuters: Iran rejects terms of UN resolution
The people of Iran are entitled to produce their own nuclear fuel, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday, rejecting the terms of a draft U.N. resolution that demands it give up its nuclear work.
“The people of Iran, in accordance with international norms and laws, have the right to take advantage of peaceful nuclear technology,” he told a news conference in Tehran.
The United Nations Security Council will consider, debate and vote upon the French sponsored Chapter 7 resolution regarding Iran’s nuclear program sometime this coming week.
But, Ahmadinejad has already rejected this resolution before it is EVEN adopted.
And the Iran President is threatening more……surprise…. surprise…….
AFP: Iran warns UN over nuclear resolution
Iran has threatened to bin an international proposal over its nuclear programme if the UN Security Council passes a resolution demanding that Tehran freeze sensitive uranium enrichmen.
Foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi also said Tehran could “revise” its policies — implicitly warning that future access for United Nations inspectors could end — and said the proposed UN resolution would “worsen the crisis in the region”.
“By putting pressure and trying to intimidate Iran, no country will achieve anything. On the contrary, the situation will worsen,” Asefi warned on Sunday.
“If tomorrow they pass a resolution against Iran, the package will not be on the agenda any more,” he said of an international proposal offering incentives to Iran in return for a suspension of uranium enrichment.
The proposal was drawn up by the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany.
How preposterous. This is such a shallow threat……
Iran will NEVER adopt the P-5-Plus-1 proposal because they will NEVER voluntarily cease uranium enrichment?
Why?
They covet nuclear weapons……so they can slip a few to their Hezbollah buddies and wipe Israel off the face of the earth – like Ahmadinejad has said.
Oh, the French Chapter 7 resolution will be adopted this coming week. But, the resolution has NO teeth and Russia and China will NEVER sanction Iran. Where does that leave the United States?
Where America was many months ago.
Israel and the United States will deal with Iran militarily when a “point of no return” is reached for the development of an Iranian nuclear weapon.
Stay tuned…..
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Cox & Forkum: Usual Suspects
Cox & Forkum: Usual Suspects
Three of the shooting survivors were in serious condition, according to Harborview Medical Center; the other two victims were in satisfactory condition, including a woman who is five months pregnant. Police said she was shot in the arm while covering her abdomen. …According to [Police Chief Gil] Kerlikowske, Haq was upset over three world events: U.S. involvement in Iraq; the U.S. backing of Israel; and what Haq said was the mistreatment of the Pakistani people.
Haq found the Jewish center by researching “something Jewish” on the Internet, Kerlikowske said.
Seattle PI article:
“He said ‘I am a Muslim American, angry at Israel,’ before opening fire on everyone,” [Marla] Meislin-Dietrich said. “He was randomly shooting at everyone.”
Any characterization of this attack on something other than a terrorist type attack is ludicrous.
The FBI should be monitoring known Islamic fundamentalists and profiling them in their activities for potential terrorist activism in the United States.
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Israel at War Watch: Israel Agrees to 48 Hour Suspension Of Aerial Activity
Lebanese Shiite children holding anti Israel signs demonstrate in front of United Nations building in downtown Beirut, Sunday, July 30, 2006. Protesters were angry over the deaths of 56 people, more than half of them children, who were killed Sunday in an Israeli airstrike that crushed a building, the deadliest attack yet of the campaign against Hezbollah.
AP: Israel OKs suspension of aerial activity
Israel has agreed to a 48-hour suspension of aerial activity in south Lebanon while it investigates an attack on a Lebanese village that killed a number of children, U.S. State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said Sunday.
The airstrike killed at least 56 Lebanese, mostly women and children, when it leveled a building where they had taken shelter. The deadliest attack in nearly three weeks of warfare forced Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to cut short a Mideast mission and increased world pressure on the United States to back an end to the fighting.
Ok, lets take a look at why Qana Village was attacked by Israel in the first place.
Cities on which rockets were fired from Qana.
Israel apologized for the deaths but blamed Hezbollah guerrillas, saying they had fired rockets into northern Israel from near the building. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the campaign to crush Hezbollah would continue, telling Rice it could last another two weeks.
“We will not stop this battle, despite the difficult incidents this morning,” he told his Cabinet after the strike, according to a participant. “If necessary, it will be broadened without hesitation.”
The fact is the Israeli Defense Forces bombing of Qana Village resulted from the continuing Hezbollah rocket barrage into northern Israeli cities. These rocket attacks originated from the region around Qana.
The Israeli Defense Force reiterates “All the villages in the area, including Qana, were warned in advance against staying in areas from which rockets are fired.”
It is regrettable that Lebanese civilians, including children are paying Hezbollah’s price for an “assymetric” war with Israel. Hopefully, during this 48 hour pause additional civilians can be escorted out of the battle zone, if Hezbollah allows them to leave.
The Israeli campaign MUST continue and with more ground troops to clear out Hezbollah strongholds – to disarm Hezbollah.
Any cease-fire without meeting this objective is a defeat for Israel.
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Israel at War Watch: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Calls For An Immediate Cease-Fire in Lebanon
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Israel at War Watch: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Calls For An Immediate Cease-Fire in Lebanon
Israeli soldiers look at smoke rising from Lebanon, in the northern Israeli town of Metula Sunday July 30, 2006. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expressed ‘great sorrow’ Sunday for the airstrikes that destroyed houses in the Lebanese town of Qana and killed dozens of people, many of them children, but blamed Hezbollah guerrillas for using the area as a base for launching rockets at Israel.
AP: Annan calls for end to fighting in Lebanon
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called again for an immediate halt to violence between
Israel and Hezbollah, telling the U.N. Security Council he was “deeply disturbed” that his previous appeals went unheeded.Annan condemned an Israeli airstrike that killed at least 54 people in Lebanon early Sunday, telling an emergency council meeting that it must demand an end to the violence.
“We meet at a moment of extreme gravity first and foremost for the people of the Middle East but also for the authority of this organization and especially this council,” Annan said. “Action is needed now before many more children, women and men become casualties of a conflict over which they have no control.”
The council been unable to take a stand on the fighting since it began three weeks ago. That is partly because the United States, unlike other members of the council, has refused to back Annan’s calls for an immediate cease-fire.
The United States should and MUST veto any resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire against Hezbollah. Will calling for Israel to lay down its arms be reciprocated by the terrorist Hezbollah?
There is NO gurantee.
There is NO international force that will fight and disarm Hezbollah.
An immediate cease-fire assures Hezbollah a VICTORY in the Global War on Terror.
Red Cross paramedics evacuate an injured Lebanese man recovered from the rubble of a demolished building that was struck by Israeli ware plane missiles at the village of Qana near the southern Lebanon city of Tyre, Sunday, July 30, 2006. At least 50 people, including scores of children, were killed Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on this southern Lebanon village _ the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting. Infuriated Lebanese officials canceled a planned visit by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, adding a major new hurdle to efforts to bring a cease fire.
In unusually frank terms, Annan said the council risked undermining its own authority if it does not take action.
“People have noticed its failure to act firmly and quickly during this crisis,” Annan said.
Lebanese special envoy Nouhad Mahoud criticized the council for its lack of action.
“Israel is committing atrocities against humanity,” Mahoud said. “The fact that such massacres are yet … to be taken up by resolutions of this august council,condemning an israeli airstrike that killed at least 54 people and that fact does not mean that the truth is to remain hidden.”
Israel is NOT committing atrocities against humanity.
Hezbollah started the conflict and continues to shoot rockets ATTEMPTING to kill Israeli civilians. Israel did not attempt purposely to kill these Lebanese civilians but why the hell are there still civilians in southern Lebanon anyway?
Israel was attacking Hezbollah “cowardly blended” terrorists who were using this area to stage rocket attacks on Israel civilians.
A cease-fire?
NO WAY – until Israel continues their campaign to seriously weaken and disarm Hezbollah. Anything less will be a defeat for Israel and protracted, yet postponed, continuing warfare with Hezbollah, Syrian and Iran.
Stay tuned…..
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Day By Day by Chris Muir July 30, 2006
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Israel at War Watch: Hezbollah Cowardly Civilian Blending Questioned?
Suburban warfare: Hezbollah fighters are ready for action in a residential area.
Australia Herald-Sun via Captain’s Quarters: Photos that damn Hezbollah
THIS is the picture that damns Hezbollah. It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon’s battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia.
The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy-calibre weapons.
Dressed in civilian clothing so they can quickly disappear, the militants carrying automatic assault rifles and ride in on trucks mounted with cannon.
The photographs, from the Christian area of Wadi Chahrour in the east of Beirut, were taken by a visiting journalist and smuggled out by a friend.
Anti-aircraft gun: these pictures were taken by a visiting journalist and smuggled out by a friend.
The images include one of a group of men and youths preparing to fire an anti-aircraft gun metres from an apartment block with sheets hanging out on a balcony to dry.
Others show a militant with AK47 rifle guarding no-go zones after Israeli blitzes.
Another depicts the remnants of a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket in the middle of a residential block blown up in an Israeli air attack.
On guard: A militant watches over a no-go zone.
The Melbourne man who smuggled the shots out of Beirut and did not wish to be named said he was less than 400m from the block when it was obliterated.
“Hezbollah came in to launch their rockets, then within minutes the area was blasted by Israeli jets,” he said.
“Until the Hezbollah fighters arrived, it had not been touched by the Israelis. Then it was totally devastated.
“It was carnage. Two innocent people died in that incident, but it was so lucky it was not more.”
The release of the images comes as Hezbollah faces criticism for allegedly using innocent civilians as “human shields”.
Mr Egeland blasted Hezbollah as “cowards” for operating among civilians.
“When I was in Lebanon, in the Hezbollah heartland, I said Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending in among women and children,” he said.
Hezbollah is waging a guerilla war and a “cowardly” one at that. They are using the poor Lebanese people as cannon fodder and human shields.
Israel has a unique opportunity to eliminate these terrorists.
Let’s hope the Israeli Defense Forces use it…….
Stay tuned…..
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Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: Challenger Lamont Earns New York Times Endorsement
Ned Lamont, left, who is challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman for the U.S. Senate nomination speaks at a news conference across the street from the Connecticut Supreme Court in Hartford, Conn., Friday, July 28, 2006. Listening at right, is Michael Schiavo, the husband of the late Terry Schiavo. Michael Schiavo was in Hartford to campaign for Lamont.
New York Times: A Senate Race in Connecticut
Mr. Lamont, a wealthy businessman from Greenwich, seems smart and moderate, and he showed spine in challenging the senator while other Democrats groused privately. He does not have his opponent’s grasp of policy yet. But this primary is not about Mr. Lieberman’s legislative record. Instead it has become a referendum on his warped version of bipartisanship, in which the never-ending war on terror becomes an excuse for silence and inaction. We endorse Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary for Senate in Connecticut.
Of course…….
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Israel at War Watch: Iran – “This War is Our War”
***Welcome all commenters…..Note that there is continuing Israel-Hezbollah war coverage and commentary at the home of this site here. ***
Iranian female protestor, holds a poster of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, during a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli demonstration in front of the U.N office in Tehran, Iran , Wednesday, July 26, 2006.
Ottawa Citizen: ‘This war is our war’
A former CSIS informant who once kept tabs on terrorists says the Iranian regime is “mentally and spiritually” preparing its people for war against Israel.
The Ottawa man, now in Tehran, says the hate campaign against Israel is “everywhere” on the streets of the capital.
“It is not good. It is sad,” he told the Citizen.
“There are posters at intersections of (Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah) saying Israel must be erased from the map.”
Iran has already supplied Hezbollah with rockets and now Fajr-5 missiles (renamed Khaibar-1 for the Hezbollah assault on Afula). Other Iranian influences on the war include the use of a silkworm missile on an Israeli ship and the supply of other arms.
Opponents of the Iranian government in Canada say they have received similar reports describing huge posters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Hezbollah leader alongside the slogan: “This war is our war.”
“I had some reports where people said that they do not care what the government of Iran wants to do,” said Shahram Golestaneh, president of Committee for Defence of Human Rights in Iran. “They are concerned about the possibility of more bloodshed in the Middle East and (concerned) that the government uses all Iran’s money to help fight against Israel by its own Hezbollah.”
A portrait of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen at the southern border village of Aita Al-Shaab. Israel said it killed 26 Hezbollah fighters in clashes around a flashpoint border town in south Lebanon, as the air force hit a succession of targets in a new wave of deadly strikes.
Iran, which backs Hezbollah, has repeatedly denied Israeli claims that it also arms the organization established in the 1980s to combat Israeli forces.
“Our support has been spiritual. If we had military support, we would announce it. … We don’t have any hidden business,” ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said on state-run television yesterday, a day after U.S. President George W. Bush sharply criticized Iran’s role in the bloody fighting.
“They don’t have any right to tell us why Iran supports Hezbollah at all. The question is, why do they support Israel?” Mr. Asefi said.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi has said that the Iranian regime supports Hezbollah ‘spiritually,’ if not militarily.
Earlier this week, about 60 Iranian volunteers left the country with the hopes of joining Hezbollah in the war against Israel. They called it a holy war, were unarmed and hoped to gain entry to Lebanon from Syria.
According to Mr. Golestaneh, some Iranian dissidents were pleased to see the militants, ranging in age from teens to grandfathers, leave the country.
“In one instance,” according to the human rights worker “one person said ‘In fact I rather they send all their loyalists to the war so we can breathe more easily.’ ”
Iranian volunteer militiamen, join hands as they pray, in a meeting at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery, just outside Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, July 26, 2006. Surrounded by yellow Hezbollah flags, more than 60 volunteer militiamen set off Wednesday to try to join the fight against Israeli forces in Lebanon in what organizers called the first convoy of ‘Islamic warriors’ offering their help from Iran. Iran says it will not send regular forces to aid Hezbollah, but apparently will not attempt to stop volunteer guerrillas.
Iran is involved but do they have the “CAJONES” to overtly aid Hezbollah and a formal declaration of war against Israel. Or will Iran’s Mullahs continue to hide behind their terrorist lackeys, Hezbollah?
Probably the latter…
NO GUTS and NO GLORY……..
Stay tuned…..
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Representative Cynthia McKinney Watch: Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young Endorses McKinney
U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, flanked by members of the local clergy, speaks at a news conference she held Thursday to announce former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young’s endorsement of her. Her opponent, former DeKalb Commissioner Hank Johnson, dismissed the endorsement.
AJC: Young backs McKinney
‘Congress needs controversy,’ former mayor says
The day a poll showed her trailing in a 4th Congressional District runoff race, U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney rallied Atlanta ministers, including former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, to her cause.
Young’s endorsement Thursday could help in McKinney’s uphill battle to keep her office. A close aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and an ordained minister, Young also endorsed Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor earlier this year, helping him win the Democratic nomination for governor by appealing to black voters.
What McKinney needs win is stop being a MORON, debate Hank Johnson and adopt more mainstream Democrat Party talking points. The problem is:
McKinney is a MORONIC EXTREMIST
“Congress needs controversy,” Young said in his endorsement, a recording of which was played at the news conference. “The last thing we need in a democracy is people who don’t think for themselves. … I don’t always agree with Cynthia McKinney, but I always agree with her right to express her opinions because that creates a dialogue that makes democracy work.”
And, of course, this is BULL.
What Andrew Young is saying is that Cynthia McKinney IS a MORON but a lefty nutter like myself and it is OK that you vote for her because she WILL march in lock-step with the left – while sometimes trying to hide it – just like me.
Campaign manager John Evans (in white T-shirt) escorts U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney after her news conference Thursday at Elegance restaurant in Decatur.
Johnson dismissed Young’s endorsement, saying, “Nothing that Andy Young does surprises me anymore. The ultimate endorsement will come from the voters on Aug. 8.”
A new poll by InsiderAdvantage shows Johnson leading McKinney 46 percent to 21 percent, with one-third of voters undecided. The survey recorded the responses of 480 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
McKinney has a large Johnson lead to surmount. Will she win?
Probably not…..
Captain Ed has McKinney Equates Security Stop With Bush-Merkel Neckrub
Cynthia McKinney has decided to go down swinging in the runoff for her primary seat. However, she’s not swinging at Hank Johnson, the man trying (and so far succeeding) in squeezing her out of Congress. Instead, McKinney keeps trying to use Bush Derangement Syndrome as a lever with her constituents, and has attempted to explain away her assault on a police officer by claiming molestation — and using Bush as an excuse…
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Venezuela President Hugo Chavez Meets in Tehran with Iran President Ahmadinejad Pledging Mutual Support
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, greets Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, during an official welcoming ceremony in Tehran, Iran , Saturday, July 29, 2006. Chavez arrived in Tehran Saturday on his fifth visit to the Islamic country where he will meet with his Iranian counterpart and fellow critic of the United States, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. Chavez’ two-day visit comes as Iran faces renewed international criticism for its nuclear program and as a backer of Hezbollah guerrillas, engaged in fighting with Israel since they captured to Israeli soldiers July 12.
CNN: Iran’s Ahmedinejad meets ‘brother’ Chavez
Anti-U.S. leaders Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad met in Tehran on Saturday, pledging mutual support for one another, state media reported.
Chavez’s two-day visit came as Iran faces renewed international criticism for its nuclear program and as a backer of Hezbollah guerrillas, engaged in fighting with Israel since they captured two Israeli soldiers July 12.
The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council on Friday reached a deal on a resolution that would give Iran until the end of August to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions.
Following talks, Chavez pledged that his country would “stay by Iran at any time and under any condition,” state television reported.
Now, might this be a message to the Democrats in the United States Congress – allow more domestic oil drilling (e.g. ANWR) while the United States weans itself of depenence on Middle East and Venezulean oil.
Might this be a message to the American people? Conserve energy with minimal sacrifices today and empower your Congress to develop alternative fuels that remove American suscepibility to oil-based foreign policy blackmail.
In this photo released by Venezuela’s Miraflores Press, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, center, visits with Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 29, 2006.
Ahmedinejad said he saw in Chavez a kindred spirit.
“I feel I have met a brother and trench mate after meeting Chavez,” Ahmedinejad was quoted as saying by state-run television. “We think Iran and Venezuela should share all experiences of each other, stay by each other and they have to be supporters of each other.”
So, is Hugo Chavez becoming the new Fidel Castro of North America?
Probably.
With plenty of oil revenue, Venezuela could purchase missile and nuclear technologies from Iran.
Venezuela could also squeeze the United States by restricting oil exports to America and selling their oil to China.
“We do not have any limitation in cooperation,” Ahmedinejad was quoted as saying. “Iran and Venezuela are next to each other and supporters of each other. Chavez is a source of a progressive and revolutionary current in South America and his stance in restricting imperialism is tangible.”
Chavez and Ahmadinejad are cooperating sources for exporting terror. Venezuela has joined the Axis of Evil.
This message is loud and clear.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) walks with Venezualan President Hugo Chavez in front of an honour guard in Tehran July 29, 2006.
Stay tuned…..
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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