More ginning up of the war fever. Man, I'm deja-vuing.
Who we attacking now, Iraq?
Oh, Iran and the NEW HITLER, that's right!!!
Israel's new greatest enemy!
"Iran touts new missile's long range; It would be able to reach Israeli and US bases" by Ali Akbar Dareini/Associated Press November 28, 2007
TEHRAN - Iran's military said yesterday that it has manufactured a new missile with a range of 1,200 miles and capable of reaching Israel and US bases across the Mideast, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Are you all scared now, Amurka?
Then why did you arm yourself with 7,000 nukes?
They don't make you feel safe?
Not even from Iran's pop gun?
The defense minister, General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, did not say whether Iran had test fired the Ashoura or had plans to do so, according to the IRNA report. The name means "the 10th day" in Farsi, a sacred reference among Shi'ite Muslims to the martyrdom of Islam's third imam.
Sigh! The Zio-bullshit is up to my mouth and I can't glug, glug, glug....
And what do we name our weapons after?
Native Americans that we slaughtered?
Blackhawk, Apache, Chinook?
Iran already had reported improvements in a previous missile that would give it the same range as the Ashoura, and Najjar did not elaborate on whether there are any differences between the two weapons.
Recent weapons development has been motivated by Iran's standoff with the United States over its controversial nuclear program, which Washington says is a cover for developing an atomic bomb. Tehran denies that, saying the program is intended to produce electricity.
Iran is known to possess a medium-range missile known as the Shahab-3, which means "shooting star" in Farsi, with a range of at least 800 miles. In 2005, Iranian officials said they had improved its range to 1,200 miles, equal to the new missile announced yesterday.
Analysts also believe Iran is developing the Shahab-4 missile, thought to have a range of 1,200 to 1,900 miles that would enable it to hit much of Europe.
In Israel, there was no official reaction to Iran's statement. But missile specialist Uzi Rubin, formerly head of the Arrow antimissile project in Israel's Ministry of Defense, said the announcement had long been expected.
Rubin said Israel already was in range of other Iranian missiles, so "the people who need to be really worried about the new missile are in Europe."
Ooooooooh, so NOW ISRAEL'S PROBLEM is EUROPE'S PROBLEM!!!
Pfffffffttttttt!!!
And I guess Bush will have to build that missile defense system ($$) no matter what Russia thinks now!
CUI BONO, readers?
And who would benefit most from a war between AmeriKa and Russia (and Iran, and China, and..)?
Meanwhile, a former Iranian nuclear negotiator was acquitted yesterday of spying charges but convicted of acting against the Islamic government in a case that has become a centerpiece in the feud between hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his top political rival.
The verdict for Hossein Mousavian appeared to be a setback for Ahmadinejad, who had branded the diplomat a "spy" and made a veiled reference to him and other critics of his nuclear policies as "traitors."
Mousavian is a close ally of former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, a powerful figure in Iran's clerical leadership who is seen as a pragmatist. Allies of Rafsanjani have been increasingly public in their criticism of Ahmadinejad, accusing him of mismanaging the nuclear standoff with the West and of lashing out against his rivals.
The case against Mousavian from the start was seen as a part of the rivalry. Ahmadinejad implicitly accused Rafsanjani's camp of trying to influence the judiciary to acquit the negotiator. He vowed to stop them and expose his opponents as traitors, suggesting Mousavian had urged the West to toughen its stance on Iran in the nuclear dispute.
Look at all this Iranian political garbage the Zionist shit-spewers print, when Khamenei is the ONLY POLITICAL VOICE that matters!
People, AmeriKa's Zionist Warv Dailies SUCK!
THEY JUST LIE and LIE and LIE!!!!!!!!
They DISTORT EVERYTHING so they can PUSH THEIR ZIONIST AGENDA and WORLD VIEW, readers!
No longer fooled, shitters!
And I want you to know that, that's why I started the blog!
NO LONGER FOOLED, SHITTERS!!!!!!!!!!!
Also yesterday, Iran's Supreme Court ordered a new investigation into the case of an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist whose death in a notorious Tehran prison severely strained relations with Canada.
Zahra Kazemi was arrested in July 2003 while taking photographs outside Evin prison during student-led protests against the ruling theocracy. She was taken into custody and jailed at Evin and died a few days later. Iranian authorities initially said she had suffered a stroke.
A committee appointed by then-president Mohammad Khatami, a reformist, found that Kazemi, 54, died of a fractured skull and brain hemorrhage caused by a "physical attack." Prosecutors filed charges against a secret agent who interrogated Kazemi while she was in custody.
The more conservative judiciary rejected the presidential finding, saying Kazemi had died in an accidental fall when her blood pressure dropped during a hunger strike.
A former Iranian Army doctor has said he examined Kazemi and observed horrific injuries that could have been caused only by torture and rape. The doctor later received political asylum in Canada.
Lawyers representing Kazemi's relatives have repeatedly said they did not believe the secret agent was guilty, accusing prison official Mohammad Bakhshi of inflicting the fatal blow to Kazemi and the judiciary of illegally detaining her.
The Canadian government has blamed Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi for Kazemi's death. Iranian reformists accused Mortazavi of trying to stage a coverup because he was the one who reported that Kazemi died of a stroke. No charges have been filed against Mortazavi in the case."
Now this is unbelievable!
They took up seven paragraphs to get the Canadians and all westerners fired up about Iranian torture!
You know what?
I could care less what other countries do, because MY COUNTRY IS RUNNING SECRET PRISONS with SECRET TORTURE, doing ABSOLUTELY ABOMONABLE and ATROCIOUS things to people (you forget the Abu Ghraib pics)!!!!!!
And it is all KEPT HIDDEN and SECRET, even in the AmeriKan MSM!
So don't fill me full of what other people do, Zionist shitbags!
How about LOOKING IN YOUR OWN MIRROR, assholes?
Convinced a war is coming yet?
Of course, the Times gives the Iranian torture the full article treatment:
Case fucking closed on these Zionist shitbags, readers!
"Iran Reopens Investigation Into Killing of Journalist" by NAZILA FATHI
TEHRAN, Nov. 27 — The Iranian Supreme Court has ordered a new investigation into the death of an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist who was killed in Tehran in 2003 while in custody, the judiciary spokesman said Tuesday.
The spokesman, Alireza Jamshidi, told journalists on Tuesday that the court had objected to the acquittal in 2004 of an intelligence agent accused of inflicting the fatal blow to the photojournalist, Zahra Kazemi, who was 54, the Iranian news agency ISNA reported.
“The Supreme Court found flaws,” he said, adding that it had questioned the investigation by a different court. “It has sent the case to a new court for investigation,” he was quoted as saying.
The decision was made after a lawyer for Ms. Kazemi’s family, Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel Peace laureate, appealed the ruling and threatened to take the case to international organizations.
The case has caused tension between Iran and Canada. The Canadian government recalled its ambassador in 2003 in protest, and it has repeatedly championed United Nations resolutions condemning Iran’s human rights record. Relations between the countries have yet to return to normal.
Ms. Kazemi was arrested while she was photographing outside the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. The authorities first said that she had died of a stroke and then claimed that she had fallen and hit her head, but a committee appointed by Mohammad Khatami, the reformist who was president at the time, announced that she had died of a fatal blow to her head that had caused her brain to hemorrhage.
The judiciary charged an intelligence agent, Muhammad Reza Aghdam Ahmadi, with semi-intentional murder, and he was eventually acquitted. But lawyers representing Ms. Kazemi’s family have said that Mr. Ahmadi was just a scapegoat, and they have accused a prison official, Muhammad Bakhshi, of inflicting the blow.
John A. Terry, a lawyer in Toronto who represents the Kazemi family, said they doubted that the court’s decision would lead to any meaningful action.
“We have very low expectations,” he said. “We have no indications that this is part of some reform push or transparency push that wants to get to the heart of the matter.”
Mr. Terry said he had asked the Canadian government to try to take part in the new investigation.
The family has filed a civil lawsuit in Montreal against the Iranian government and several of its officials. Hearings are expected to begin next fall.
In the Canadian Parliament, Helena Guergis, the secretary of state for foreign affairs, repeated the government’s call “for a new and credible investigation.”
“Iran has an obligation to the Kazemi family to ensure that the perpetrators of this terrible crime are brought to justice and the rights of the family are upheld,” Ms. Guergis said.
In a separate case, ISNA reported Tuesday that Hossein Moussavian, a former nuclear negotiator who was arrested in May, had been cleared of charges of spying and the possession of confidential documents. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said this month that Mr. Moussavian was a spy, and the minister of interior accused him of passing information to the British.
The spokesman for the judiciary, Mr. Jamshidi, told the news agency that although those charges had been dropped, Mr. Moussavian had been found guilty of “propagating against the regime.” He did not elaborate on the charge, but said the case would be completed within the next three to four days."
Hey, Times, how about the reporter the U.S. held for 18 months?
Story Iraq: Terrorist Reporters
Huh?
