April 18, 2010 — Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday extolled the country’s military might during an annual army parade, saying the country is so powerful today that no one would dare attack it.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has praised Iran’s military might, saying it deters all enemies from daring to attack the country.
Iran’s armed forces have such strength that the enemies will not even harbor the thought of attacking the country, Ahmadinejad said on Sunday during the annual military parade commemorating Iran’s Army Day.
The Iranian president stated that the best way to establish peace and security in the region is through cooperation and empathy among regional countries.
Experience shows that foreign interference in regional affairs is the root cause of all the tension and insecurity in the region, he added.
Israeli President Simon Peres publicly charged Syria on Tuesday with transferring Scud missiles to the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah. Israeli and Syrian officials have publicly charged each other with preparing for war. The U.S. official said Syria’s arms transfer could have been a form of deterrence against Israel.
Opponents of the White House’s policy that engagement with Damascus can convince Syria to reduce its strategic alliance with Iran, exclaimed the news Tuesday was evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad has no intention of breaking Syria’s strategic ties to Tehran and Hezbollah.
The Obama Administration has reversed its push for sanctions against Iran by the end of March, with or without the UN Security Council. On February 25, 2010 Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak was given ‘the end of March’ in his talks with administration officials regarding sanctions against Iran. On March 2, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Security Council action would take ‘several months.’ The sudden reversal has taken tension off Tehran and left Israel in an uncertain situation.
Iran executed by hanging Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour, accused of involvement in an armed anti-government group, as the public prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi announced that death sentences have been issued against opposition activists involved in protests over June’s disputed presidential election. The new verdicts brings to nine, the number sentenced to death over the protests. The two were hanged at dawn on Thursday.
Over 100 dissidents were placed on trial after the disputed election in June 2009.
Mir Hossein Mousavi’s statement that murdered Tehran University scientist Mehsoud Ali-Mohammad was a victim of Iran’s enemies, namely US and Israel, is reported to be a gesture of reconciliation toward Iran’s regime. Other opposition citizens are convinced that Tehran has framed the scientist’s murder on external forces only as a cover-up for a Ministry of Intelligence plot to incriminate the opposition.
The streets of Tehra, Iran erupted in massive and fiery morning-to-dusk protests Sunday December 27, 2009 as tens of thousands of demonstrators clashed with security forces on the occasion of an important Shiite Muslim holiday — Ashura.
Several witnesses told Los Angeles Times reporters that Iranian security forces opened fire with live ammunition against unarmed protesters near College Bridge in in the capital Tehran. At least five protesters were killed, including Ali Mousavi, the nephew of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi. A stabbing was witnessed in front of the City Theater in downtown Tehran.
Screen shot of Twitter.com home page as it was defaced by ‘Iranian Cyber Army’
Twitter blackout. Twitter down. Tweets did not go through early Friday morning. The tweet failure on Twitter was accompanied by defacement of the front page of Twitter using some method of DNS re-assignment most likely.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran announced Wednesday it successfully test fired an upgraded version of its longest-range, solid-fuel missile, which is claimed to be faster and harder to shoot down. The high-speed, surface-to-surface missile with a range of 1,200 miles would serve as a “strong deterrent” against any possible foreign attack.
