Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Dabestani University Iran Protest


July 9, 2009

Urgent: plainclothes police attack the residence of Polytechnic

خبرنامه امیرکبیر: نیروهای لباس شخصی مجهز به سلاح های سرد و گرم با همراهی موتورسواران سازماندهی شده به برخی از خوابگاه های دانشگاه امیرکبیر حمله کردند. AUT: plainclothes weapons equipped with hot and cold Mvtvrsvaran organized with the accompany of some attacked the residence of Amir Kabir University.

نیروهای لباس شخصی در حمله به خوابگاه گلشن در خیابان به آفرین، با ورود به خوابگاه، تعدادی از دانشجویان و نگهبانان خوابگاه را مورد ضرب و شتم قرار دادند. Plainclothes attack Afarin accommodation ruined in street, entering a residence, a number of dormitory students and guards in the beating was.

به گزارش خبرنامه امیرکبیر، نیروهای لباس شخصی بخش هایی از ساختمان و امکانات خوابگاه را نیز تخریب کردند. AUT reports, plainclothes parts of buildings and facilities in the destruction of the dormitories. در این حمله این افراد از گاز اشک آور استفاده کرده و به سالن مطالعه، حمام، نمازخانه و طبقات مختلف خوابگاه گلشن حمله کردند. The attack on the people and used tear gas to study hall, bathroom, floors and various accommodation vestryman ruined attacked.

از وضعیت چند تن از دانشجویان این خوابگاه پس از این حملات اطلاعی در دسترس نیست. The status of several of the students after the attacks regarding accommodation available.

همچنین نیروهای لباس شخصی به همراهی نیروهای نظامی به درب خوابگاه یاوری دانشگاه امیرکبیر نیز مراجعه نموده و به تهدید دانشجویان پرداختند. Also plainclothes military forces, with assistance dormitory door and go to the Amir Kabir University students paid to the threat.

نیروهای لباس شخصی اعلام کرده اند که امشب مجددا به خوابگاه ها حمله خواهند کرد. Plainclothes found that again tonight accommodation will attack.


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Protest in the Streets of Iran July 09


dispite burning fires no sounds of attacks

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Iran July 9 Vali Asr SQ. Part 7


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Crowd running in Iran


possible sound of gun shots

Protest in Iran 9 july 09 chanting & clapping


Protesters are by enlarge peacefull

more people in the street - peaceful


peacefull march

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More of Todays protests part 1


Tehran Bolvare keshavarz

More of Todays protests part 2


Tehran Bolvare keshavarz

Iran Protest footage


raw footage - audio of women being attacked

A brief primer on Iran & the US


Student Interview Iran


An Italian interview of Iranian Student

From Iran July 9


Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Youtube violates American Constitution and the 1st Amendment

Youtube. com, under the guise of the copyright law is violating the 1st Amendment (Free Speech) and the American Constitution. During the process of collecting (and archiving) information regarding recent events, several videos (shot by the protesters and comments on the events) were flagged by Youtube as copyright violations. (As noted by this email sent by Youtube to us.

YouTube

Dear iNewsNetworkDE,

Your video, Mike_Pence_on_Fox_News_Regarding_Iran_Protests, may have content that is owned or licensed by FOX News Network.

No action is required on your part; however, if you are interested in learning how this affects your video, please visit the Content ID Matches section of your account for more information.

Sincerely,
- The YouTube Team




Our reply was (and is);

News and information collecting for journalism and academic use is fair use protected by the 1st Amendment. iNN is a new internet news network we are collecting & reporting on events occurring globally and is protected by the 1st Amendment. Please don't betray the American Constitution!


How can we support others in their fight for freedom, when we routinely give up ours? Further, is Independence day, Memorial day, D-day just another day off? Where is our respect for those who fight and die(d) for our freedom?



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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Killer of Yemeni Jew gets death sentence

Abdul-Aziz al-Abdi was first deemed mentally ill but the court of appeal found him guilty of man slaughter
Abdul-Aziz al-Abdi was first deemed mentally ill but the court of appeal found him guilty of man slaughter

SANAA (AlArabiya.net, Reuters)

An appeals court in Yemen sentenced to death a Muslim man who shot dead a Jewish compatriot on Sunday as 16 Yemeni Jews arrived to Israel in a secret exodus.

The ruling overturned a previous sentence in March in which the court deemed Abdul-Aziz al-Abdi, a retired pilot in the Yemeni air force who killed a Jewish Yemeni, "mentally unstable." It ordered him to pay a fine of 50.5 million riyals ($250,000.)

However the victim's father appealed the verdict and now Abdi's attorneys said they would file an appeal to the country's supreme court, the highest judicial body.

Yehiya bin Yaeesh said his son Mashaa was in the company of four Muslim men when he was shot in the town of Raida in December and had clearly been targeted.

There are 200-300 Jews in Yemen. About 50,000 moved to Israel in an airlift begun in 1949.

Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, is struggling with a Shiite revolt in the north, a secessionist movement in the south and growing militancy among Sunni al Qaeda sympathisers.

The unrest has raised fears that Yemen will slip into chaos and provide a base for al Qaeda or pirates operating in the Indian Ocean.

Sunni Muslims make up the majority of Yemen's 23 million inhabitants, while most of the rest are from the Zaydi branch of Shiite Islam.


Jewish secret exodus

Also on Sunday, 16 Yemenite Jews arrived to Israel in a secret exodus planned by the Jewish Agency, whose representatives were spotted in Yemen in the previous weeks, Arab media reports said.

Yemenite Jews enjoy special protection from Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Salah but covert exoduses out of Yemen continue as a result of occasional violent attacks against the native Yemeni population.

A previous operation carried out by the Jewish Agency saw the transportation of 10 Yemenite Jews who were allegedly threatened by al-Qaeda in the country.

Original Source: http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/06/21/76604.html





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Israeli Arabs face more racism in Gaza aftermath

Palestinian Arabs living in Israel face growing racism and extremism in the Jewish state
Palestinian Arabs living in Israel face growing racism and extremism in the Jewish state

CAIRO (Marwa Awad)

In the Middle East’s “only democracy” discrimination is a way of life for a sizeable portion of its population. Israel’s Arab sector has faced inequity since the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948 but recently racism has been on the rise, say Arab and Palestinian residents.

Israel's Jewish community increasingly supports the discrimination and even deportation of Arabs, say Palestinian human rights activists in Israel.

Anywhere you go in Israel you will not find Arabs represented or integrated. And this holds for all aspects of life, from basic representation on the street to that of public institutions,” Jafar Farah, director of the Haifa-based Mossawa Advocacy Center, told AlArabiya.net.

Israel’s more than one million Arab citizens make up 18 percent of the population. While 90 percent of the Arab community lives in the entirely Arab towns and villages of Galilee, Triangle and Negev, some 10 percent live in mixed Arab-Jewish cities like Tel Aviv, Jaffa, and Acre.

Despite having a distinct national, ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic character, Arab Israelis are treated as second-class citizens.

Discrimination is regularly apparent in state resource allocations in every field, and Palestinian Arabs continue to be excluded from the centers of power and underrepresented in decision-making public institutions, and in the general public sphere,” Yousef Jabareen, law lecturer at Haifa University and director of the Nazareth-based Arab Center for Law and Policy told AlArabiya.net


Gaza war widens gaps

Palestinian Arabs in Israel rallied squarely behind their brethren in Gaza during the war

The recent war on Gaza was the latest fissure between Arab and Jewish sectors in the society.

An overwhelming percentage of Arab-Israelis opposed the 22-day-war on Gaza which claimed the lives of 1,300 Palestinians at a time when most Jewish Israelis supported the assault.

Polls showed that more than 94 percent of Israel's Jewish population backed the war, while 85 percent of the Palestinian sector opposed it.

Michele Sharkasi, an Arab Israeli who preferred not to give her real name, told AlArabiya.net she and all Arab Israelis opposed the war.

“We were squarely behind our people in Gaza, demonstrating and showing support while Jewish public opinion attacked us,” said Sharkasi.

“The worst feeling was that of helplessness, as we could not do anything to stop the massacre of our people in the face of an overwhelming Jewish support for this war.”

Lack of contact between Palestinian Arabs in Israel and Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza was apparent during recent events.

“We are not able to keep strong ties with Palestinians in Israel because the communication is scarce,” said Auraib Ali, Al Arabiya TV’s correspondent in Jenin.

Demonstrations in Palestinian villages in Israel brought together tens of thousands of people who protested in the towns of Galilee and Baka al-Gharbiya in what some said were the biggest protests ever staged by Palestinians in Israel.


Marginalizing Arab political parties

" The Palestinians in Israel don't count, not in the politics of peace and not in the politics of war "
Dr Adel Manna, historian and director of Center for the Study of Arab Society in Israel

In the last week of Israel’s devastating Gaza offensive, Israel’s parliament banned two Arab-Israeli parties from running in the upcoming elections, in a move to have an all-Jewish Knesset.

"The Palestinians in Israel don't count, not in the politics of peace and not in the politics of war," Dr. Adel Manna, a historian and director of the Center for the Study of Arab Society in Israel was quoted as saying by the Haaretz.

The Knesset accused its Arab political parties of inciting anti-Zionism and supporting terrorist groups, allegations that came in response to Arab Knesset members' opposition to the war.

Ahmed Tibi, a member of the Israeli Knesset, described the ban as "a political trial led by a group of Fascists and racists."

Jabareen said the ban comes at time when middle ground no longer exists in Jewish public opinion.

"The ban comes when public opinion in Israel is less and less moderate and increasingly extremist,” he told AlArabiya.net.


Preserving the character of the Jewish state

Arabic is banned in the public sector to preserve the Jewish character of Israel

A 2008 report on racism in Israel by the Mossawa Center found the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was the main source of increased racism in public opinion, with ideas like population exchange and racial segregation gaining currency amid growing paranoia over Israel's Jewish character.

“Creating and preserving the Jewish character of Israel always trumps the rights of the native community," Farah said.

For one, Arabic is banned from all areas of the public sector in order to preserve the “Jewish character” of Israel, although its official primary languages are Hebrew and Arabic.

“Something as simple as street names cannot be printed in Arabic, because this would somehow reduce the “Jewishness” of Israel’s public space,” said Jabareen.

Michele Sharkasi, an Arab Israeli who preferred not to give her real name, told AlArabiya.net she felt uncomfortable with national symbols like the flag, with a Star of David, and the anthem, which speaks of the "Jewish soul."

"These were made and meant for the Jews, not for the Arab minority," she said. "If Israel wants to integrate us fully, then we need an anthem and flag that can do that.”.

“The majority of Jews here claim they are against full equality for Arabs; two-thirds think Arabs should be encouraged to emigrate,” Sharkasi explained, noting that the workplace environment where Arabs and Israelis work together is often a very tense one.

“Incidents of conflict at work increase in such times of tension. I know people who stopped working in public places where Jews work to avoid any confrontation,” she said.


Poverty

Three times as many Arab families than Jewish ones in Israel live below the poverty line

Inequality extends throughout the economy, with three times as many Arab families than Jewish ones living below the poverty line. Average earnings among Arab Israelis are two-thirds that of Jews while the unemployment rate is four times as high.

And as the socio-economic state of Arabs in Israel worsens because of neglect, hate and stereotypes control the public sphere.

A recent report of Haifa University shows that 75 percent of Jewish pupils think that Arabs are ignorant, uncivilized and dirty,” said Jabareen.

In 2006 the National Committee of the Heads of the Arab Local Authorities in Israel issued a declaration highlighting the aspirations of the Palestinian Arabs in Israel.

“We are the Palestinian Arabs in Israel, the indigenous peoples, the residents of the States of Israel, and an integral part of the Palestinian People and the Arab and Muslim and human Nation,” it said.

Three years later, however, the declaration remains a dream unfulfilled.





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Obama's Clout with Israel - Settlements expand as Palestinians re-pitch tents

A Palestinian Bedoin woman in the West Bank stands by her recently demolished shack
A Palestinian Bedoin woman in the West Bank stands by her recently demolished shack

CAIRO (Marwa Awad)

Israel said Sunday it has allocated $250 million to West Bank settlements in defiance of American pressure to freeze expansion even as Israeli bulldozers raze the homes and lands of Palestinian Bedoins.

Israel plans to allocate the money over the next two years, with the vast majority of it, $125 million, to be used for security expenses and most of the rest for housing construction, army radio said, basing its report on the 2009-2010 budget that has yet to be approved by the Knesset.

Razing shacks and shelters to the ground is a familiar sight to Palestinian Bedouins of the West Bank, dozens of whom have been displaced as Israeli bulldozers destroy homes and livelihoods in a matter of minutes, putting in force the Israeli government's plans to expand existing settlements at the expense of Palestinian land.

"An Israeli bulldozer came in the morning and flattened my shack, my two animal pens and now my family and I are homeless," Abu Faqr Hemdany, a Bedouin herder living in Ras al-Ahmar with his family of three children and a wife, told Al Arabiya.

This was the third time Hemdany’s shack was demolished and his tattered furniture flattened, only this time the bulldozers razed his newly-acquired animal pens, leaving him without livestock.

Hemdany said Israeli soldiers told him he was dwelling in a military zone that must be cleared. "But everywhere we go they come up with something and force us to leave," he said.

So he pitched his fourth tent a few hundred meters (a few thousand feet) away from his latest demolished dwelling and plans to build another shack once he gets more goats to herd.


Military Zone

" The Israeli military warns Palestinian herders of the danger of living in military zones and that they must move to a safer place "
Spokesman of Israeli Civil Administration of West Bank

The latest eviction notices were issued to two dozen families in 24 hours and carried out two weeks ago on June 4, the day President Obama demanded from Cairo a halt on Israeli settlement expansion.

The Jewish state has allowed close to 400,000 Jews to settle in the occupied West Bank in addition to 180,000 in Israel’s Arab sector in Israel according to Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement watchdog group.

Palestinian activist groups said about 200 families, all nomadic herders who have grazed their stocks in the area for decades, are set to be displaced in the coming months, while the U.N. said that 128 Palestinians with 66 children and 34 women were displaced from this agricultural land over the past years.

Israel's Civil Administration in the West Bank, however, said the evictions were legal and necessary as Bedouins continued to pitch their tents in dangerous military zones used for weapons training.

"The Israeli military warns Palestinian herders of the danger of living in military zones and that they must move to a safer place," a spokesman told Al Arabiya.


Land rights

" We help nomadic herders and their families pick up the broken pieces of their remote lives because we are determined to stay in the land and fight illegal displacement from the Jordan Valley "
Sareen Suwayfta, Jordan Valley Solidarity

Israeli has six army camps in Ras al-Ahmar, where two army training areas take up 60 sq. miles (90 km) of land. Although Israel has full control of the area under the Oslo peace accords, the demolitions take place on land in the way of Jewish settlements like Rotem, Roi, Maskiyyot and Mehola. All Jewish settlements are illegal under international law.

And as no other relocation options exist, Bedouins end up re-pitching their tents and building their shacks from scratch, in an ongoing cycle of displacement and relocation.

"We help nomadic herders and their families pick up the broken pieces of their remote lives because we are determined to stay in the land and fight illegal displacement from the Jordan Valley," Sereen Suwayfta from Jordan Valley Solidarity group, told Al Arabiya.

Fifty-year-old farmer Abu Abdul Allah Khadry, is determined to remain where he is and said his determination is a matter of surviving the occupation.

"I was here for as long as I remember. This land I live on is all that I know," Khadry, who said he has documented papers proving his West Bank origins and ownership of the land he lives on, told Al Arabiya.

Khadry believes the evictions are solely based on Israel’s attempts to demographically manipulate the West Bank by displacing Palestinians to make way for more Jewish settlers.

"There will always be excuses and explanations for why we have to move from this spot and leave this area, but in the end, it is a matter of sticking to your land rights," said Khadry.

A recent report by the U.K.-based charity Save the Children found that an average of three houses are demolished every day, while some villages like Wadi al-Maleh have been given blanket demolition orders.

But despite the frequency of these demolitions, they fail to garner enough attention from the international community.

"Unlike the demolitions of actual building structures like the homes of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the demolitions here are a shady business because there are no permanent concrete structures but shacks and pens of pastoral peoples," Suwayfta explained, adding that the herders are remote, poor farmers who rank as the poorest among Palestinians in the Occupied Territories

Original Source: http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/06/21/76629.html





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Transcripts - Larry King Live June 21 2009 - "I remember when Israel went into Lebanon. President Reagan was in office."

Good evening to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer sitting in for Larry tonight

ROGER COHEN, "NEW YORK TIMES" (via telephone): Well, extreme tension in the city, Wolf. I was in the downtown area around Revolution Street; clusters of militia and of police in camouflage, in green uniforms, in black uniforms, in plain clothes, many of them wielding clubs, some with rifles.

And the killings of at least a dozen people the previous night kept most people off the street. But you can feel there are protesters as soon as it gets dark. The cry of "Allahu Akbar" God is Great goes-up.

"PAUL WOLFOWITZ, (now a) VISITING SCHOLAR, AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE"

GERGEN: ... I remember when Israel went into Lebanon. President Reagan was in office. And there was a huge pressure on him not to say anything about the Israeli presence there.

And then those pictures came back from Beirut. And Mike Beaver took those pictures in the President Reagan and showed him these kids were being shut up and the president sort of said, "I cannot say something."

And he called the Israeli prime minister and said call it off and it ended. But there are times when even they're best friends like Israel, the United States has to stand up for a more humane set of principles.



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Al Arabiya's Tehran bureau closed indefinitely



Nabil Khatib said Al Arabiya would continue reporting on Iran even after its Tehran bureau was closed (File)
Nabil Khatib said Al Arabiya would continue reporting on Iran even after its Tehran bureau was closed (File)

DUBAI (Courtney C. Radsch)

The Dubai-based television channel Al Arabiya said on Sunday that its Tehran bureau has been ordered to remain closed indefinitely for "unfair reporting" of last week's disputed presidential election.

"The authorities accuse Al Arabiya of diffusing news that is not necessarily fair from their point of view," said channel's executive news manager, Nabil al-Khatib, adding that the channel had not done anything that was in violation of Iranian law and had appealed to the government about what it saw as a campaign against the station in the official Iranian media.

"They have ordered that we do not broadcast any news about Iran, saying Al Arabiya in Dubai does not comply with what Al Arabiya's office in Tehran was ordered to do," he said.

The move followed a decision by the Ministry of Information to shut Al Arabiya's Tehran bureau last Sunday for a week just as the protests over disputed presidential elections were getting underway.

Khatib said Al Arabiya had hoped the Iranian authorities would reverse their decision last Sunday to close the bureau for a week and was “surprised” when he was informed that it would be closed indefinitely.

Nonetheless, he said, the station would continue covering Iran from its headquarters in Dubai.

“It makes the original reporting, using our resources in Tehran, being close to the real story, impossible and we will need to continue covering Iran,” he said, explaining that. Like other foreing media barred from reporting in Iran, the station would have to rely on its sources inside Iran and rely on eye witnesses as well as videos posted online by Iranian activists and journalists.

Iran’s decision came as officials gave the BBC’s Tehran bureau chief 24 hours to leave the country after he was accused of "supporting the rioters."


original source: http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/06/21/76600.html





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Monday, June 22, 2009

"Mousavi's calling for illegal protests...Such criminal acts should be confronted firmly

Mousavi suporters during a silent protest on Thursday (Courtesy of Farzad Boluri)
Mousavi suporters during a silent protest on Thursday (Courtesy of Farzad Boluri)

TEHRAN (Agencies)

Around 1,000 pro-reform Iranians gathered in a central Tehran square on Monday as a senior Iranian politician said the ground was ready to legally pursue the moderate defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi for the illegal protests.

"Mousavi's calling for illegal protests and issuing provocative statements have been a source of recent unrests in Iran ... Such criminal acts should be confronted firmly," said Ali Shahrokhi, head of parliament's judiciary committee, semi-official Fars news agency reported.

"The ground is paved to legally chase Mousavi," he said shortly after the elite Revolutionary Guards warned they would crack down on any election-related unrest.

Witnesses said protesters were gathering late in the afternoon and riot police were trying to disperse them.

Mousavi had urged supporters Monday to stage more protests over the re-election of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Mousavi made a veiled appeal to the security forces to show restraint in handling demonstrations -- a move likely to be viewed with deep suspicion by a conservative leadership that has vowed to use force wherever necessary to quell opposition.

State radio said on Monday that the capital had been calm overnight for the first time since the June 12 election.

Mousavi, 67, reiterated his demand for a new election, and told his supporters on Sunday: "The revolution is your legacy. To protest against lies and fraud is your right. Be hopeful that you will get your right and do not allow others who want to provoke your anger... to prevail."

"In your protests, continue to show restraint. I am expecting armed forces to avoid irreversible damage," he said.


Mass arrests

Mousavi made a veiled appeal to the security forces to show restraint during demonstrations

Iranian state radio said at least 457 people were arrested in the violent clashes in Tehran on Saturday that killed between 10 and 13 people wounded 100.

State television said a daughter of former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, a rival of Ahmadinejad, had been released after being detained together with four other relatives during the Saturday rally in Tehran.

The authorities have branded the protesters as "terrorists" and rioters. Tehran's police commander Azizullah Rajabzadeh said police would "confront all gatherings and unrest with all its strength," the official IRNA news agency reported.


Gunfire and chanting

State radio said at least 10 people were killed on Saturday and more than 100 wounded

In pro-Mousavi districts of northern Tehran, supporters took to the rooftops after dusk Sunday to chant their defiance, witnesses said, an echo of tactics used in the 1979 revolution.

There were no immediate reports of casualties and the shooting appeared an attempt to break up unsanctioned protests.

Government restrictions prevent correspondents working for foreign media from attending protests to report. Iran closed Al Arabiya's Tehran bureau and ordered BBC correspondent, Jon Leyne, out of the country.


Analysis shows "irregularities"

A new analysis said the election results show irregularities

Independent British think tank Chatham House said the election results show "irregularities" in the turnout and "highly implausible" swings to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to an analysis published on Sunday.

It said that in a third of all provinces, official results would have required Ahmadinejad to take all former conservative, centrist and all new voters, and up to 44 percent of reformist voters, "despite a decade of conflict between these two groups."

There would have to have been a radical shift in rural voting patterns and a "highly unlikely" change in heart among former reformist voters for Ahmadinejad to win as he did, the study concluded.

The authorities reject charges of election fraud. But the highest legislative body has said it is ready to recount a random 10 percent of votes cast.


Air force exercises

Meanwhile Iran began three days of airforce exercises in the Gulf and the Sea of Oman that were planned last month to raise operational and support capability, Iranian media said.

State broadcaster IRIB's website said the exercises were also aimed at raising the force's ability to use intelligence aircraft "to send signals and analyse threats" but did not mention Iran's disputed presidential election in its report.

Iran often holds war games or tests weapons to show its determination to counter any attack by the United States or Israel on sites where they believe nuclear weapons are made.


Original Source: http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/06/22/76668.html





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