Category: IRAN

11:52pm: Oppressed peoples of the world unite! Funny — sort of. The Chinese Falun Gong are helping those fighting for liberty in Iran. Regular Atlas readers rememberrepressive Chinese government despises them, persecutes them and harvests their organs. Yes, harvests their organs. CHINESE FALUN GONG HELP IRANIANS BREAK REGIME'S CENSORSHIP Reliapundit ABC-OZ: Computer software invented to…

out to "rally" for Ahmadinejad are pasty faced, lipstickless sows. Just sayin') All Atlas previous Iran: The Revolution archives (liveblogs, etc.) 11:52 pm: Ashkan Sohrabi, an 18 year old teenager who was shot by Basij/Security forces, passed away last night.

Day 19 coverage of the revolution continues here. 10:00 pm: SHOCKA!  They said it was the Jooooooos! Israel's grand Twitter conspiracy. Via NIAC, a major hard-right newspaper in Iran, Kayhan, "reports" that Israel posted 18,000 Twitter messages urging people to complain about voter fraud two days before 9:38 pm: Press TV reports "The killers and…

Oh, those pious mullahs! So righteous! Is this what they mean by sharia finance? I guess this is their idea of a  "green revolution". And you have to love those little Swiss piggies. Neutral? Yes, just like during World War II. Neutral for Nazis. Neutral on the bloody backs of millions. This century's Nazis………………. Foreign…

I have the lead article at The American Thinker today (and Saturday too!): The Case for Iran: Fighting for Freedom. The ultimate question is what a regime change, or even modification of the regime with a Mousavi as president, would mean to Iran's nuclear program. More It articulates quite clearly my take and thinking on…

New Pictures from today's bloodshed (and the media keeps talking about the addict MJ) 7:28 pm: Perhaps the impotent and perfidious media can stop saying alleged. Check out this video, where you see the Basij firing at people from rooftops. It was shot on the 20th, giving a stark aerial view of the chaos at…

Back when sanity was in order, fine, decent men governed. Today they stand on the sidelines, hoping against hope that free men will wake up and heed their words of caution, much like  Churchill when he too was cast into the wilderness. John Bolton wrote such words yesterday in the LA Times in his exceptional…

10:00 pm: The Guardian is reporting: Iran opposition alleges plot to implicate Mir Hossein Mousavi Jailed Iranian reformists have been tortured in an attempt to force them into TV “confessions” of a foreign-led plot against the Islamic regime, it was alleged today, as the country’s guardian council buried hopes for any significant revision of the…

THE revolution goes on…. updates, day 15 here A goodbye on Facebook. “I got a very disturbing good bye message on Facebook from my cousin (who has been active in the Tehran protests). Please share my cousin’s words with the world because I don’t think people will know how many people are being killed and…

As sad as the passing of Farrah Fawcett (anal cancer) and Michael Jackson (drug abuse) is, the media is breathing a heavy sigh of relief (as I am sure the jihad US President is as well). The media is devoting their entire newscasts – yesterday the death of Ed McMahon, today Farrah and then Michael…

I asked great American Lt Colonel Allen West for his thoughts on the terrible events in Iran. This, dear readers, best embodies American exceptionalism. This best represents our future. I have sat and watched the situation in Iran post the fraudulent elections and just shake my head. When I departed Kandahar Afghanistan in late October…

This map shows the how the Iranian government is organized. (hat tip DJM)

Day 13 updates here 11:17 pm: Jane spoke to my friend with family in Iran – she can't call her family on their cells – everything has been shut down. 10:52 pm There has surely been a terrible blackout, as the most reliable Iranians on twitter, whom I have been following for days, have gone…

Earlier today I posted Ahmadinejad and Yazdi Going Nuclear? and had asked for a translation of this video. The video first posted on translation of the video here: This is a summary transcript of the conversation that took place between Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi and others in Qom immediately after the elections (23/3/88 Persian calendar)….

The following story was sent to the left wing web site Salon, a site I can barely tolerate (so, no, I won't link). What is so irksome is why these stories are being sent to left wing sites. The comments are vile. This horrible story of torture and beating generated comments like this: We're worse…

The prevailing wisdom in Middle Eastern circles is that the Iranian protests will only grow …………. here is a translation of an influential editorial in CAIRO. I have reviewed a number of pieces like this …. EDITORIAL EXPECTS FURTHER ESCALATION OF IRANIAN PROTESTS CAIRO AL-AHRAM IN ARABIC 23 JUN 09 P 11(U) Editorial: "Escalation of…

How lovely …………and Carter threw it all away with both hands in assisting the Ayatollah Khomeini. The second worst President US history, Jimmy Carter, did not back our ally. Here we are 30 years later ….. and in what is shaping up to be the worst Presidency in the history of the US, we will…

Earlier this morning I posted this video asking for translation. It has been attributed to Twitter, when in fact it was first posted on the blog Raye Man Kojast blog (where is my vote?): Ahmadinejad and Yazdi preparing a coup (unconfirmed), an excellent blog I have been watching since the start of the revolution.It has…

Obama's silence in the face of the violent and brutal Islamic crackdown on the Iranian people peacefully demonstrating for freedom is in keeping with Obama's previous silences: 1.  Silent on the Black Muslim Riverdale bombers.2.  Silent on the release of the Black Panthers voter intimidation case. His department of justice ordered the case dropped.3.  Silent…

Obama and the Rogues WSJNorth Korea and Iran intrude on his diplomatic hopes. President Obama took office loudly promising to be the anti-George W. Bush of foreign policy, vowing to "extend a hand" to adversaries "willing to unclench" their fists. What he has received instead is an education in the reality of global rogues, and…

26 year old murdered by Islamic rulers in Iran. Her name, Neda, means "voice" or "the call"………….. The most extraordinary aspect of the Iranian revolution is the leading role women have taken — indeed, the leadership role they have assumed. They are the heart, the soul, the fuel of this enormously courageous effort. I do…

There is, it seems, a power struggle going on behind the scenes, between wannabe Islamic dictators. Is there no voice for Persian nationalism? That would be discouraging; it remains to be seen. This is a tipping point; we don't know what is happening. Firstoff, on Mousavi, I wrote of who and Mousavi really is 10…

If the mad mullahs crush dissent…….what will become of those freedom fighters and citizen journalists who beamed those messages, tweets, pics and reportage, without which the world would never have known of the brutal oppression and violence of Islam? Iran's Web Spying Aided By Western Technology WSJ …………..in confronting the political turmoil that has consumed…

Iranian riot police block protesters. "Iranian state radio said Monday that 457 people were arrested in clashes between demonstrators and security forces in Tehran that took place late Saturday. The arrests were made around the Iranian capital's Azadi square, the radio report said, quoting the police." Forty police officers were wounded and 34 government buildings…

I hope to see a struggle, with the Persians winning out over the Islamic supremacists. The people who supported the Westernized lax-Sharia Pahlavi regime haven't gone away or all been killed.  A secularized Western Iran — what a wonderful turn that would be.  There is a leadership vacuum and a scramble by Iran's Islamic leaders….

Actual Caption: President Barack Obama steers the cart with his golfing partner, Vice President Joe Biden, left, as they finish 18 holes at the Fort Belvoir Golf Club together on Father's Day, Sunday, June 21, 2009. Think about the howls of outrage from the Left if George W. Bush played golf while people were being…

Dear Atlas, First of all, thank you for showing the pictures of the casualties in Iran. They are graphic and disturbing but their exposure is necessary. People need to see what is happening in there. My heart goes out to those brave people in Iran, they are fighting for freedom and I admire them. They…

"The word is a simple one: freedom."  Israel Matzav had this: On Sunday's Meet the Press, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu came out in favor of the student demonstrators in Iran. Let's go to the videotape. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Netanyahu is masterful – he's everything the…

Wow, I just got my daily alert from CAIR, and not so much as a word on Iran's bloodiest day yet. Just their daily Islamic obsession with the Jewish people. Muslim Jew hatred — they cling to it, like the "Palestinians" cling to "occupation," even though there is not so much as an Israeli toenail…

I do not believe that people are dying in the streets for this Islamist Mousavi. He sounds like Ahmadinejad. It's like switching your panties that say "Monday" for the ones that say "Tuesday". Why bother? I wrote about this thing  here last week when the Iranians first took to the streets: It Has Always Been…

From the tweetdeck, tweeting the revolution. Unconfirmed reportage from the street, as the leftists and their media handmaidens in America hold their noses and pray this goes away. President Pantywaist: come out, come out, wherever you are. Ugh. Latest tweets: UPDATE: 6:54 PM Iran Press News FB friend says: Iran source: there is a military…

UPDATED ALL DAY PLEASE SCROOL FOR NEW VIDEO AND UPDATES "President" Obama VIDEO UPDATE: TEHRAN, Iran: wounded girl dying in front of camera (hat tip Kitten) Katherine provides these details: “A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a…

Every once in awhile I risk incurring Robert Tracinski's wrath by running his whole column from TIA Daily (which is worth the price of subscription). Today is such a day, because it is so fundamentally important that everyone should read it and send it to their email lists. What is happening in Iran is historic….

Nidra graces us with her unique insight into the Iranian election bloodbath. On these frail shoulders the world might turn Paris 19 June 2009 Nidra Poller Something is missing from most of the analyses floating around this week as Iranians one by one proclaim liberty against overwhelming odds. So many commentators seem to be afraid…

And Obama swats flies. Obama doesn't meddle unless it's to destroy Israel. Them thar's the rules, brothuhs and sistuhs. Much thanks to Jan, who put the numbers into a spreadsheet.  The total is 250, as against the reported 7.  Here it is:   Tehran 23 Shiraz 11 Isfehan 7 Qum 4 Arak 2 Mash'had 9…

The President of United States does not want to meddle in Iranian affairs, but he has no compunction about telling the Jews where they can or can't live, telling the Jews they can't have babies, and telling the Jews they can't build on their land. But he can't meddle in the mullahs' outrageous crimes against…

If there is violence in the Middle East, rest assured the "Palestinians" are there, doing a-what comes naturally.  I live for they day when I see a good and decent Palestinian contribution to man. Until then, duck. And where's Obama? Having a pedicure while Brian Williams collects the cuttings for an extra special insider NBC…

It Has Always Been the Mullahs Pamela Geller Obama was "deeply troubled by the violence" in Iran. In contrast, he was "shocked and outraged" when late-term abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered.

I feel for those terrified souls marching through Tehran blindly acting out in hope that it might effect any change. An exercise in futility. If they value their lives, they will flee the country. We should have backed the reformers and the dissidents years ago when free men had a shot …………. now we are…

I guess the ACORN affiliate and the SEIU branch in Iran used the Obama's presidential election as their template. SAVVY MULLAHS SURPRISE "EXPERTS" INFURIATE OPPONENTS Consider: U.S. analysts find it "not credible" that challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi would have lost the balloting in his hometown or that a third candidate, Mehdi Karoubi, would have received…

Jonathan Galt saw this interview on Fox News this morning, and his points on understanding the significance of the Iranian election are very important… "particularly interesting that John Bolton made a distinction between the extremist and the moderate… take a listen and note the distinction starts around minute marker 1:30 in which he says the…

The most notorious terrorist,  the barbarian behind the mass murder is being honored by the terror stae Obama wants to talk with, dialogue down with, you, chat on, Iran. The stamp, which features a smiling picture of Imad Mughniyeh wearing a military uniform, was unveiled at a ceremony attended by the Iranian minister of post…

Hal posits, "Iran has just received their 7th shipment of 11 tons of nuclear fuel from Russia.  That brings their total amount of fuel received from Russia to date to 77 metric tons of nuclear fuel rods.  The news says they need around 82-85 tons total.  (I’m thinking 88 tons total, 8 shipments of 11…

Since Jimmy Carter helped install the Ayatollah Khomeini,  Iran has been behind  major Islamic terrorist acts and major Islamic terrorist groups, Iranian foreign legions as it were. They declared war on the West in ’79 and have never looked back. It is the caliphate they want and the caliphate they mean to inflict on the…

The footage of the British hostages thanking Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his hospitality and forgiveness, like the footage of Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi covering her head in a scarf while on a visit to Damascus, was enough to make you sick. Must we lose this war? Read it all….

Iran’s mission accomplished, the British soldiers were released last night and sent home sans their military garb  and instead clad in Iranian cheap suits. As if  Iran could remove their honor, dignity, courage. The fifteen Royal Navy sailors and marines held captive by Iran returned home Thursday to a nation relieved at their freedom but…

excellent on UN reform. He continues to carry the torch and make the tough calls. Most impressive indeed.  “For the sake of our national security, the U.S. must ensure that the sensitive nuclear technology that we share with partner countries does not fall into the hands of the Iranians,” said Coleman. “The Iranians have demonstrated…

The Democrats pick, pick, pick, pick at the national psyche with their tiny but sharp beaks, distracting us from the enemy’s march to war. Iran has no intention of halting their uranium  enrichment program and building their nuclear arsenal while one of their great benefactors,  China has gone thermo. It is (if true) a real…

***TOP THREAD TODAY*** Scroll for Updates So Rice is capitulating to the euroweenies on Iran whilst Iran continues its aggression against the West. The US and the rest of  the West may pretend not to notice but Israel has no choice. Hizbollah is Iran. Hamas is Iran. Backed, funded, owned by Iran. More disgusting (and…

Ahmadinejad has vowed, “To stop Christianity in this country” [i.e., Iran] here and his recent “letter”  to President Bush emulates the jihad war precept (originally formulated by the Muslim prophet Muhammad) of calling infidel powers—often Christian powers—to accept Islam, prior to initiating a jihad war against them. hat tip Andrew. Make no mistake, this is…