"I am just coming from a meeting with the US Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice.
US should remove Iranian Resistance from terror list – Tanter
Saturday, 21 January 2006
NCRI - In an interview aired by the AlJazeera Television netword, Professor
Raymond Tanter of the Georgetown University, and a former White House
National Security advisor said in addition to the referral of Iran's nuclear file to
the UN Security Council to deal with mullahs' nuclear ambition, the PMOI's
name must be removed from the terror list.
Professor Tanter said: "I am just coming from a meeting with the US
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. I admired her efforts to build a consensus among
the 5 UN Permanent members. Her efforts are not only limited to bringing the
United States and the Europeans together on this subject (Iranian regime's
nuclear crisis), but to bring closer together other powerful nations such as
Russia and China. The fact of the matter is the Iranian regime by breaking the
seal to the Natanz nuclear facility has violated its agreement with
Europeans and is therefore trying to acquire nuclear weapons."
When questioned on whether the referral of the Iranian nuclear file to the
UN Security Council would change anything, the Former White House National
Security advisor said: "I think referring to the Security Council is a done deal
and as far as the diplomatic steps are concerned it is finished. What
remains on the table is to be able to gain more information on the Iranian
regime's nuclear project including information on the secret tunnels and the
underground facilities the mullahs have recently built. In order to do that, we need
to remove the PMOI and the NCRI from the list of terrorist organizations.
When the west distances itself from the Iranian regime and changes its policy
in favor of the opposition and the Iranian people, it indicates that the
mullahs' rule in Iran is towards its end."
_IRAN USING BANNED MACHINERY TO FURTHER NUCLEAR PROGRAM _
(http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/909/75/
) Friday, 20 January 2006 By Chris Moncrieff
Press Association - Claims that the Iranian regime was using “banned”
machinery to further its alleged nuclear weapons programme were made at a
Westminster news conference today.
Ms Dowlat Nowrouzi, the United Kingdom representative of the National
Council of Resistance of Iran, said that at a site 25 miles west of Teheran, the
regime was using machines specially designed to shape and mould enriched
uranium as part of the secret production of atomic bombs.
_Time has come to abandon Iran regime's appeasement - Rajavi _
(http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/908/1/ ) Friday, 20 January 2006 NCRI – The
following is the full text of a message by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect
of the National Council of Resistance of Iran to the rally of Iranian in
front of the White House on Thursday. Participants called for the clerical
regime's immediate referral to the UN Security Council for its secret nuclear
weapons program. They also expressed support to Mrs. Rajavi's third option for
regime change in Iran through people and their resistance:
I salute all of you for your magnificent and lively rally in Washington
today.
You have come together at a time when the world has attested the
righteousness of the Iranian people's demands and moved closer to an international
consensus to refer the clerical regime's nuclear file to the United Nations
Security Council.
_Iran may have received advanced centrifuges: diplomats _
(http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/907/75/ ) Friday, 20 January 2006 Agence France
Presse - Iran may have received three shipments of sophisticated P-2 centrifuges
capable of enriching uranium, diplomats said Friday, which could support
Western claims that Tehran is hiding sensitive nuclear work.
There were reportedly three shipments of one centrifuge each from the
black-market network of disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan in
1997, one diplomat said.
_It is time to support resistance in Iran – US Congressman _
(http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/906/70/ ) Friday, 20 January 2006 NCRI – In a
message to the White House rally by thousands of supporters of the Iranian
Resistance on Thursday, Congressman Bob Fillner from San Diego California,
underlined the need to remove the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran from the
terror list. Excerpts of his message are as follows:
Without the regime change in Iran you are not going to have a chance for
world peace. You have come here at a very important time. Now Mullahs are
moving Very rapidly towards nuclear Weapon.
_Protesters want Iranian group removed from list of terrorists _
(http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/905/48/ ) Friday, 20 January 2006 By Philip
Dine
St. Louis Post-Dispatch -- Iranian-Americans rallied in front of the White
House Thursday to urge U.S. support for efforts by opposition forces in Iran
to overthrow what they view as an oppressive regime in Tehran intent on
acquiring nuclear weapons.
The demonstrators, including about 200 from Missouri, said that negotiations
with the Iranian government won't succeed, and that U.S. military action
should be avoided. The third - and best - solution, they said, is for the
United States to remove Iranian opposition forces from the State Department's
terrorist list, unfreeze their assets and allow them to rearm and take on the
Iranian government.
_Iranian Americans Rally for a Different Approach _
(http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/904/48/ ) Friday, 20 January 2006 By Nick Timiraos
Los Angeles Times - Hundreds of Iranian Americans rallied at the White House
on Thursday to urge the Bush administration to step up its efforts against
Iran's rulers, and to voice support for an organization banned by the U.S. as
a terrorist group.
The Iranians demonstrated as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice demanded
that the United Nations take action against Tehran for its nuclear development
ambitions.
_US bill urges international sanctions, isolation for Iran _
(http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/903/71/ ) Thursday, 19 January 2006 Agence
France Presse - A US senator announced legislation that would urge the
international community impose tough sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
Democratic Senator Evan Bayh said he plans to introduce his resolution
Friday calling for Iran to be excluded from international forums, events and
organizations, and calling on foreign governments to sever economic relations
with Tehran.
The legislation also calls on the administration of President George W. Bush
to cut assistance to countries whose companies are investing in Iran's
energy sector, including pipelines to export Iranian crude, and to block supplies
of refined gasoline to Iran.
_White House demonstration calls for democratic change in Iran _
(http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/902/48/ ) Thursday, 19 January 2006
NCRI – Thousands of Iranians demonstrated in front of the White House today,
January 19, expressing support to Maryam Rajavi's proposal for democratic
change in Iran.
Demonstrators also called for immediate referral of the religious
dictatorship's nuclear file to the UN Security Council for adoption of sanctions.
_Iran: Workers under growing economic pressure _
(http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/901/71/ ) Thursday, 19 January 2006 NCRI – In 27 years of
clerical rule in Iran the minimum wage for workers has dropped by half. The
minimum monthly pay for workers has gone down to about 135 USD, according to an
expert on labor affairs in Iran quoted by the state-run labor news agency,
INLA.
The clerical regime's expert admitted that wages under different
governments have steadily dropped over the years and at the same time payments for
education and welfare have been eliminated making life even more difficult for
the workers.
_The sensible option on Iran _ (http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/900/1/ )
Thursday, 19 January 2006 By Leanne Piggott
THE AUSTRALIAN - A nuclear-armed Iran under an Ahmadinejad regime is a
terrifying prospect. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad believes he is being
divinely guided to help bring about the reappearance of the Imam Mahdi, the
Shia Muslim equivalent of the Messiah, which would herald the Last Judgment and
the end of the world.
_Clinton Calls for Sanctions Against Iran _
(http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/899/71/ ) Thursday, 19 January 2006 By GEOFF MULVIHILL
The Associated Press - Sen. Hillary Clinton called for United Nations
sanctions against Iran as it resumes its nuclear program and faulted the Bush
administration for "downplaying" the threat.
In an address Wednesday evening at Princeton University, Clinton, D-N.Y.,
said it was a mistake for the U.S. to have Britain, France and Germany head up
nuclear talks with Iran over the past 2 1/2 years. Last week, Iran resumed
nuclear research in a move Tehran claims is for energy, not weapons.
_World Opposed to Nuclear Iran, Rice Says _
(http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/898/71/ ) Thursday, 19 January 2006 By BARRY SCHWEID
The Associated Press - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday
condemned Iran's decision to resume its nuclear program, saying the Islamic republ
ic and its current leaders are not trusted with such technology.
"I think we have a good deal of coherence in the view of the major powers
about the fact that Iran stepped over a line" when it resumed reprocessing
nuclear fuel, she said at a foreign policy forum.
_IAEA confirms February 2nd meeting on Iran nuclear standoff _
(http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/897/71/ ) Thursday, 19 January 2006 NCRI
(agencies) - The International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN atomic watchdog,
announced that it would hold an emergency meeting on Iranian regime's nuclear
program on February 2nd as it was requested by EU3.
In a desperate gesture, the Iranian regime expressed confidence that it
would avoid referral to the UN Security Council, but diplomats refuted, saying
that the regime is almost certain to be referred to the Security Council when
the IAEA's board of governors meets in Vienna on February 2nd.
_Doing nothing in Iran is not an option _
(http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/896/1/ ) Wednesday, 18 January 2006 By Simon Heffer
The Daily Telegraph - As we survey, with appropriate unease and foreboding,
the events now unfolding in Iran, we might like to reflect on one of Enoch
Powell's less well-known, but most universal, obiter dicta. "The supreme
function of statesmanship," he once wrote, "is to provide against preventable
evils."
_Rajavi: End Tehran’s challenge with democratic change by the Iranian
people and Resistance _ (http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/895/69/ )
Wednesday, 18 January 2006 The mullahs' Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei stressed
today, “The Islamic Republic of Iran is now a member of the world nuclear club”
and insisted on continuing the regime’s nuclear program. The world “cannot
influence our resolve,” he boasted.
In a transparent attempt to buy time, Tehran brazenly proposed the
resumption in nuclear talks with European countries, which was promptly rejected by
the Europeans and the United States.
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