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| June 9, 2012
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Canada: Iranian textbook depicts Jews as apes

Intelligence expert says Iranian Education Ministry textbooks preaching violence used in Farsi classes funded by Canadian public school system

By Ynet

 

While Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper believes Iran is the biggest threat to world peace and security, some Canadian school kids taking Persian weekend classes, study from Iranian text books depicting Jews as “sons of apes”, Canadian network Sun News reported.

Overseas indoctrination? Photo: Reuters

Overseas indoctrination? - Photo: Reuters

In an interview with The Source, Director of the International and Terrorist Intelligence Program at INSIGNIS Strategic Research Inc. David Harris noted that textbooks issued by the Iranian Education Ministry have made their way into public Canadian schools. Continue Reading »

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| June 3, 2012
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Iran builds new space center to launch satellites

Iran’s defense minister says that his country will soon be able to launch domestically made satellites into orbit.

Iran is finishing construction of a new space center that will allow it to soon launch more domestically made satellites into orbit, the country’s defense minister said Saturday.

The remarks by Gen. Ahmad Vahidi’s were the first confirmation that Iran is building a new space facility amid the standoff with the West over Iran’s controversial nuclear program. The West is concerned the program masks efforts to make atomic weapons, a charge Iran denies, insisting it’s only for peaceful purposes.

 

Iran space program Feb. 29, 2012 (AP)

Iranian technicians work at the satellite data receiving site of the Alborz station, in Mahdasht 40 miles west of the capital Tehran, Iran.

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| June 2, 2012
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Syrian rebels abduct 5 top Hizballah officers, including Nasrallah’s nephew

Hizballah’s masters in Tehran were dismayed to find their leadership had fallen into hostile hands  – and practically under the nose of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The first group of eleven was captured May 22 in a bus heading home through Aleppo from a pilgrimage to Iran. The second episode sent shock waves rolling as far as Tehran and the Al Qods Brigades command. debkafile’s military and intelligence sources reveal that still unidentified commandos, guided apparently by precise intelligence, this week commandeered a Hizballah vehicle driving through Syria and captured five top-ranking Hizballah officers. A sixth escaped. Upon reaching Beirut, he reported the officers were being held hostage by the SFA.
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| June 1, 2012
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Israeli officials link Tehran to Assad’s massacres

“The Iranian regime is in a very concrete manner lending its support to the Syrian government’s murder of the Syrian people.”

 

A day after Ali Larijani, the speaker of Iran’s parliament, said a Western military intervention in Syria would “engulf” Israel, Israeli government officials tried to shine the light on Iranian involvement in the Syrian bloodshed.“The Iranian regime is in a very concrete manner lending its support to the Syrian government’s murder of the Syrian people, and this is part of their very aggressive and dangerous behavior in the region,” one official said.

 

If this is what Iran does without atomic weapons, the official added, “what would Iranian behavior look like if they had nuclear capabilities?”Meanwhile,

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| May 27, 2012
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Netanyahu: Iran, Syria are part of atrocities in Syria

After Houla massacre, prime minister expresses revulsion over Assad’s forces ongoing violence against civilians

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed disgust Sunday over Friday’s Houla massacre and said that Iran and Hezbollah are part of the atrocities in Syria.

 

Dead bodies following the assault on Houla, Syria on Friday. The UN estimates some 100 people died, including 32 children. (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network. AP cannot independently verify this photo)
Dead bodies following the assault on Houla, Syria on Friday. The UN estimates some 100 people died, including 32 children – Photo: AP/Shaam News Network.

 

He accused Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces of perpetrating ongoing violence against innocent civilians.

“Iran and Hezbollah are an inseparable part of the Syrian atrocities and the world needs to act against them,” Netanyahu added. Continue Reading »

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| May 20, 2012
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Turkey investigates bird for being Israeli spy

Alleged spy bird damned for having a big nostril.

 

An increasing paranoia of Israeli zoological militancy conspiracy theories has turned a small bird with a larger than normal nostril and Israeli foot band into the latest suspected Mossad spy.

“Tell me. If it’s a spy would they put that it’s from Israel? Are they that stupid?” Ohad Hatzofe, an avian ecologist for Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority (NPA), told The Media Line.

Swifts bird at Western Wall - Photo: Marc Israel Sellem

Swifts bird at Western Wall - Photo: Marc Israel Sellem

A farmer in Gaziantep province in southeastern Turkey last week turned the dead Merops Apiaster, commonly known as the European Bee-Eater, to police after he noticed its band read “Tel Aviv University, Israel,” with serial number C43917. Continue Reading »

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| May 19, 2012
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Holocaust history published in Farsi for Iranians

After 15 years of research, four-volume book on Holocaust is released by Iranian-born Jewish author.

WASHINGTON – Ari Babaknia doesn’t expect that Iran’s president will ever read his four-volume series of Holocaust books written in the Farsi language. But the author says he is confident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad knows the books exist.

“I’ve done 10, 11 television interviews,” Babaknia said – interviews that are transmitted via satellite to Iran.

He has sent the four volumes, released in April, to three people in Iran who requested it via the website memorah.com.

The volumes are titled “Man’s Inhumanity to Man,” “America’s Response to the Holocaust,” “The World’s Response to the Holocaust” and “End of the Holocaust and Liberation of Nazi Camps and the Genocides of the Last 100 Years.”

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| May 17, 2012
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Israel ranked alongside Iran as one of countries with most negative global influence

Israel, Iran, Pakistan and North Korea were ranked most negatively by 24,000 people surveyed in an annual BBC poll,

Israel has been ranked in the top four countries that most negatively influence the word, according to a global public opinion poll conducted by the BBC.

The poll, which surveyed citizens from 22 countries around the world, places Iran in first place, with 55 percent of those surveyed rating it as a negative country. Pakistan ranked second with 51 percent, and in joint third place were Israel and North Korea, with 50 percent of respondents negatively evaluating both countries.

Anti-Israel demonstrators in Tehran, May 15, 2012.
Anti-Israel demonstrators in Tehran, May 15, 2012.
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| May 16, 2012
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Iran to Hezbollah: Don’t strike Israel

Iranian media: Commander of al-Quds Force spoke with Nasrallah, said war against Israel would ‘hurt Iran and Hezbollah’; Revolutionary Guards later deny reports

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Iran scared of war against Israel? A senior Iranian official ordered Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah to refrain from striking Israel, several media outlets in Iran reported Wednesday.

Iran warns Hezbollah? Photo: EPA

Iran warns Hezbollah? - Photo: EPA

Websites affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards quoted the commander of Iran’s al-Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, as warning Nasrallah not to strike Israel during a phone conversation.

According to reports, Soleimani told Nasrallah that a war against Israel would “hurt Iran and Hezbollah.” Continue Reading »

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| May 16, 2012
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Israeli group wins terror suit against Syria, Iran

Washington court finds Iran, Syria guilty of supporting Islamic Jihad in attack which claimed 11 lives; awards Israeli advocacy group $323 million in damages

 

An Israeli advocacy group won a $323 million judgment in a US court against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian militants that killed an American teenager and ten others in a 2006 bombing, the group’s director said Tuesday.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center that represents victims of Palestinian violence said Tuesday that the group had won courtroom victories against Iran but never before against Syria.

The center was representing the family of 16-year-old Daniel Wultz of Florida, who was among 11 killed when an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber set off his explosives at a Tel Aviv restaurant six years ago. Continue Reading »

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| May 16, 2012
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‘Israeli prison 5-star hotel compared to Syria jail’

Turkish journalist recently released from Syrian prison and formerly held in Israel over participation in flotilla compares jailing experiences

 

A Turkish journalist compared his experiences in Israeli and Syrian jails having recently been released from a Syrian prison after a two-month detention period.

Adam Özköse returned to Turkey on Monday and gave his account about his incarceration experiences in Syria and Israel, where he was briefly held in June 2010 together with other activists who arrived in Israel on board the Marmara ship.

Israeli prison (archive) Photo: Ido Erez

Israeli prison (archive) - Photo: Ido Erez

“Compared to Syria, Israeli prisons are 5-star hotels,” he said. Continue Reading »

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| May 16, 2012
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Israel’s Military Intelligence chief visited U.S. for secret talks on Iran, Syria

Maj. Gen. Kochavi, warns against Hezbollah’s increasing strength in south Lebanon, says he sees possibility for convincing Russian President Vladimir Putin to cooperate with the west against Assad.

 

Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi made a secret visit two weeks ago to Washington and to UN headquarters in New York, where he discussed the Iranian nuclear program, the Syria crisis and Hezbollah’s increasing power in Lebanon, a senior Israeli official has said.

Kochavi met in Washington with senior White House and State Department officials, as well as senior officials in the Defense Department Intelligence agency and the CIA.

Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi

Military Intelligence chief Maj.

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| May 12, 2012
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Ahmadinejad: Cut ties with Zionists

Israel will be destroyed if regional states cut their ties with Jewish state, Iranian president says; Western powers arrogant, bad-tempered, Ahmadinejad says

 

More hostile words from Iran: Regional states can destroy Israel by cutting their ties with the Jewish state, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday.

Archive photo: EPA

No fan of Israel – Ahmadinejad Photo: EPA

Speaking to locals during a tour, the Iranian leader said that regional countries do not need to purchase arms in order to “fight the Zionist regime of Israel.”

“If the rulers are wise enough, they will not sell their petrol to pay 60 billion dollars to others for arms,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the IRNA news agency. Continue Reading »

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| May 10, 2012
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How Dangerous Are Tehran’s Subs?

Iran has a flotilla of 20 submarines, most of them domestically built in the last fifteen years; untested in war, do they pose a threat?

Iran’s fleet of twenty submarines poses a dangerous and unpredictable force in the Persian Gulf region.

The United States – with its Fifth Fleet is based in Bahrain and carrier groups frequently deployed in the region – has not revealed what it knows about Iran’s capabilities.

Iranian Kilo class submarine.

Iranian Kilo class submarine. Wikimedia Commons / US Federal Government photo

Military analysts believe the U.S. has been using aircraft, satellites, subs, and underwater sensors to monitor the activities of Iranian subs at sea. Continue Reading »

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| May 6, 2012
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‘Couple behind Israel Loves Iran campaign deserves Nobel’

Iranian Facebook activist initiates petition pushing for Nobel Peace Prize nomination for Israelis Ronny Edry and Michal Tamir

 

A new Facebook initiative is pushing for a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for the Israeli couple behind the Israel Loves Iran campaign. An online petition called on web surfers to support Ronny Edry and Michal Tamir as Nobel nominees.

“If Ronny Edry and Michal Tamir would be honored with the Nobel Peace Prize this would be a significant affirmation for all those who seek peace. It would be an historic example,” the petition read.
הכרזה הצבעונית שהציתה את קמפיין האהבה עם איראן. רוני אדרי ובתו
Ronny Edry and his daughter in poster for campaign

 

“Internet gives new chances for democracy and also for the international peace movement and this prize could encourage people to join us and become activists as well,” Roya Mobasheri, the woman behind the petition, wrote. Continue Reading »

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