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Originally posted by casenately
reply to post by Xcathdra
No they don't say that, where did they say they endorse that site...people like you say they have ties to the government....explain those ties please...that should be fun....
Calling Israel a danger to Islam, the conservative website Alef, with ties to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the opportunity must not be lost to remove “this corrupting material. It is a “‘jurisprudential justification” to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.”
The article, written by Alireza Forghani, an analyst and a strategy specialist in Khamenei’s camp, now is being run on most state-owned sites, including the Revolutionary Guards’ Fars News Agency, showing that the regime endorses this doctrine.
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps, already an economic, political and military power, is quietly pushing into a new domain: the media.
By March, the Revolutionary Guards plan to launch Atlas, a news agency modeled on services such as the Associated Press and the British Broadcasting Corp., according to semiofficial Iranian news sites. The move comes as the Guards are increasing control over the conservative Fars News Agency, which has become the mouthpiece of the Iranian regime. Fars denies that it is linked to the Guards.
Iran’s Fars News agency is among the media outlets that was mobilized by the Islamic Passdaran Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) following the tenth presidential election to support the Ahmadinejad administration and combat the green movement. In January 2008 when the former Fars president Mehdi Fazayeli, who was close to the international affairs secretary at the National Security Council Javad Vaeedi under Ali Larijani, was replaced by an unknown face, Hamidreza Moghaddamfar (who is known at the IRGC as “Hajj Hamid Naseri”), Fars workers could not imagine that the news agency would turn into the interrogators’ main outlet in 2009.
Reporters and Photographers Fired
Moghaddamfar, whose resume carries only the two titles of “media expert” and “strategic management PhD student,” dismissed more than 20 reporter, photographers and staff members soon after taking charge of Fars news agency. He replaced the dismissed staff with unknown faces from amongst student Basij propaganda activists and titled them “reporters” and “analysts.”
One of the dismissed Fars reporters, Yousef Asadi, wrote in his personal blog, “A Village Correspondent’s Blog,” about the dismissal of Fars reporters and staff members following the appointment of the new president: “After the arrival of the new manager, the editor of the political division and many other hard-working Fars reporters including myself suddenly realized that we had been fired. When speaking with the new president, I heard that he had said, ‘No one has the right to protest here, even you, who are my friend.’”
Since his dismissal, this reporter has written articles about attempts to secure a “return to work permit” from legal channels, but then a day after the presidential elections he completely stopped writing about Fars and the internal disputes in the state-affiliated news agency.
Ahmadinejad’s Victory Announcement the Night Before the Election
One night before the election, Fars news agency quoted a fabricated “public opinion” center to have predicted Ahmadinejad’s victory with more than 60 percent of the vote. The report was disconcerting to Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi’s campaigns regarding the integrity of the election results. On the evening of June 12, the results of the same opinion poll were announced by the head of the government election body as the official final election results.
Fars news agency’s report on the night before the election is referenced in the report published by Mir-Hossein Mousavi’s Committee to Preserve Election Integrity, headed by Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, as “an instance of the election’s fabricated nature.”
Participation in the Confessions Project
One informed source tells Rooz about the news agency’s role in confronting detained political prisoners. “Within three days after the million-people rally on June 15, Amir Hossein Mahdavi, member of the Mujahedin of Islamic Revolution’s central committee, along with Hamed Talebi and Abbas Kolahdouz, two reporters from Fars’ political desk, visited the office of ISNA news agency and held a press conference in which Amir Hossein Mahdavi criticized Mousavi and identified himself as having been “misled.” After the first confession project, which involved Amir Hossein Mahdavi, ended, he left ISNA’s office for an unknown destination along with the two reporters, who acted as his interrogators, and this evidence reveals the role of Fars agents in the confession extraction project.”
During the July sham trials, Fars reporters and photographers were the only “media representatives” allowed into the court room to interview detainees. For this reason, photographs of detained political prisoners were published for the first time by Fars news agency. The photographs were taken by unknown photographers at the news agency.
It is interesting that during the sham trials of hundreds of political activists, carried out under the direction of then Tehran’s prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi, Fars reporters and photographers were present and active everywhere, and continued to publish fabricated interviews as detainee confessions after the trials, which on two occasions were denied by families of political prisoners.
Setting the Stage for Mousavi and Karoubi’s Trial
This news agency, which is referred to by many activists as the “media headquarters of the coup,” started a new project known as “public request for trial of rebellion leaders” following the coup government’s failure in the confession project.
In this connection, this news agency reported in the last weeks that a complaint signed by 144 Majlis lawmakers was sent to the head of the judiciary. The claim was previously made by Hamidreza Rasaei, current Majlis lawmaker and one of the most radical supporters of the coup government, who currently serves as an advisor to the Fars news agency’s president.
One political activist spoke with Rooz about the news agency’s efforts to support the coup government. “Fars only carries the name of a ‘news agency’; while it has been turned into a fabrication room to produce false news and analyses against the green movement and its leaders,” he said.
Another political activist who was released from prison recently revealed that the news agency’s reports are used during interrogation. However, he asked Rooz not to publish the information he had gathered about the news agency during his detention for security reasons.
Originally posted by casenately
you are talking about speeches in 1979,,,,who is reaching for straws...If I look to what any one person from any country said in 30 years I will find ANYTHING I WANT....
he was making his own speech....not quoting....did he say, hey here is a speech from 1979 you might like?
Originally posted by casenately
and finally. why not KILL THE JEWS IN IRAN...why are their schools and sinagogs still standing? why is their Jewish community still there if they are being persecuted? They wouldn't be forced to convert? or die?
Originally posted by casenately
reply to post by Xcathdra
funny how the term WIPE OFF MAP is not found in their language....huh
Originally posted by casenately
reply to post by Xcathdra
who???
I am me thank you....are you the countless shills that have been found out before...you guys are like a cancer....I don't think you should die, just stop. Find another job.
Originally posted by casenately
reply to post by Xcathdra
and have admitted to misquoting him, as well as journalists worldwide, are THEY all lying...that's a big accusation, PROOF?
again I say they are not to be trusted....another source? that did not base their translation off that site?
edit on 9-2-2012 by casenately because: (no reason given)
The owners / managing director is the former head of the Iranian Judicial System PIO.
Criticism
Mahmoud Shahroudi has received criticism from a number of Iranian scholars and lawyers. Mostafa Mohaqqeq Damad, a well known Iranian scholar and expert on Islamic law, wrote a letter of criticism in August 2009.[24][25][26]
What Khatami and the reformist ulama’s discourse purported to was to limit the powers of the Supreme Leader and create a synthesis between the concept of the Islamic state and democracy
Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad
Ayatollah Seyyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad is an Iranian Shia cleric, and reformist who has been called "a leading instructor" in Iran's major seminary city of Qom.[1] He gained some prominence in English-language news sources after he was reported by "reformist Web sites"[2] to have "sought to rally other clerics to oppose the use of moharebeh charges against political protesters," following the conviction and death sentence of Mohammad Amin Valian, a student who threw rocks at a 2009 election demonstration.[1]
According to his web site he received his traditional Islamic education in Arabic language and literature, Qur’an and hadith, Islamic philosophy, theology and jurisprudence at the Fayzieh School at Qom and achieved the status of Mujtahid (Ayatollah) in 1970. In addition he "pursued a modern academic education", receiving a B.A. in Islamic Philosophy (1969) and an M.A. in Islamic Jurisprudence (1980) from Tehran University. Following that he earned a Ph.D. in Law (Doctorat en Droit) at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium in 1996. As of 2007 he was a professor in Faculty of Law at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, and has been a fellow member of The Iranian Academy of Science since 1988. [3] He reportedly has held such posts in Iran as Chief of the State Inspectorate Organization, head of the Department of Islamic Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Iran, head of Commission of Judicial Bill Collection of Iran, and head of Commission of Compiling Judicial Acts.[4]
At a September 2005 speech in the United States written up by an Iranian American doctor, he gave his opinions that there are no irreconcilable differences between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Islamic jurisprudence, that no compulsion is permissible in religion, that apostasy should be punished only if it involves undertaking actions to destabilize the social order, and that "nothing should be forced on the people by the government, not even daily prayers."[4]
Originally posted by casenately
reply to post by jennybee35
we say at ball games KILL THE UMPIRE....are we celebrating the sporting event and disagreeing with the call he made, or do we in fact call for his life to end?