Zitat:Iran cuts support for Iraq groups

There are signs that Iran has reduced its support for militant Shia groups in Iraq, say US and Iraqi officials.

The US says there has been a big drop in the number of Iranian-made bombs in recent months, suggesting Iran has decided to rein in militants.

An Iraqi official said Iran had restrained its activities because it believed that the US-Iraqi security pact posed no threat to Tehran.

Zitat:US plot to nail Iran backfires
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The official list of weapons captured in Karbala includes nine mortars, four anti-aircraft missiles, 45 rocket propelled grenade (RPG) weapons, 800 RPG missiles and 570 roadside explosive devices. The failure to find a single item of Iranian origin among these heavier weapons, despite the deeply entrenched Mahdi Army presence over many months, suggests that the dependence of the Mahdi Army on arms manufactured in Iran is actually quite insignificant.

The Karbala weapons cache also raises new questions about the official US narrative about the Shi'ite militia's use of explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) as an Iranian phenomenon. Among the captured weapons mentioned by Major General Raied Shaker Jawdat, commander of the Karbala police, were what he called "150 anti-tank bombs", as distinguished from ordinary roadside explosive devices.
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Soon after that, however, senior US military officials conceded that EFPs were in fact being manufactured in Iraq itself, although they insisted that EFPs alleged exported by Iran were superior to the home-made version.

The large cache of EFPs in Karbala which are admitted to be non-Iranian in origin underlines the reality that the Mahdi Army procures its EFPs from a variety of sources.
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Zitat:US again misfires on Iranian arms in Iraq
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The task force database identified 98 caches over the five-month period with at least one Iranian weapon, excluding caches believed to have been hidden prior to the 2003 US invasion.

But according to an e-mail from the MNFI press desk last week, the task force found and analyzed a total of roughly 4,600 weapons caches during that same period.

The caches that included Iranian weapons thus represented just 2% of all caches found. That means Iranian-made weapons were a fraction of 1% of the total weapons found in Shi'ite militia caches during that period.

The extremely small proportion of Iranian arms in Shi'ite militia weapons caches further suggests that Shi'ite militia fighters in Iraq had been getting weapons from local and international arms markets rather than from an official Iranian-sponsored smuggling network.
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Zitat:Die Freiheit der Mörder

Von Ulrich Ladurner | © DIE ZEIT, 31.01.2008 Nr. 06
Schlagworte: Iran Konflikt Ausland Internationale Beziehungen

Die Basidschi verstehen sich als Religionswächter in Iran. Sie töten nach Belieben. Ein Mord in der Provinzstadt Kerman zeigt, mit welcher Brutalität sie vorgehen. Politik und Justiz schützen sie

Zitat:EXCLUSIVE: Iraq Weapons -- Made in Iran?
Intelligence Officials Say Weapons Responsible for Increasing U.S. Deaths in Iraq

By BRIAN ROSS, RICHARD ESPOSITO and JILL RACKMILL
March 6, 2006

U.S. military and intelligence officials tell ABC News that they have caught shipments of deadly new bombs at the Iran-Iraq border.

They are a very nasty piece of business, capable of penetrating U.S. troops' strongest armor.

What the United States says links them to Iran are tell-tale manufacturing signatures -- certain types of machine-shop welds and material indicating they are built by the same bomb factory.

"The signature is the same because they are exactly the same in production," says explosives expert Kevin Barry. "So it's the same make and model."

U.S. officials say roadside bomb attacks against American forces in Iraq have become much more deadly as more and more of the Iran-designed and Iran-produced bombs have been smuggled in from the country since last October.

Zitat:Die IEDs müssen noch nicht mal mit Wissen der iranischen Regierung geliefert worden sein, korrupte oder übereifrige, fanatische Befehlshaber der iranischen Armee oder Pasdaran können dafür verantwortlich sein. Gerade die Pasdaran haben sich ja offenbar in eine Art "Staat im Staate" verwandelt...

Seleukos schrieb:Da fliegen vor allem deshalb keine Schuhe durch den Raum, weil der Schuhwerfer 5min danach hinter dem Gebäude an die Wand gestellt würde...
Der Schuhwerfer im Irak ist bekennender Baathist und hätte seine Tat gegen Saddam keine 10min überlebt...

Doch zum Deiner These:
Wieso werden bewußt oppositionelle Gruppen aufgerüstet?

Zitat:TEHERAN

Polizei schließt Büro von Nobelpreisträgerin Ebadi

Die Polizei hat in Teheran ein Menschenrechtszentrum der Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Schirin Ebadi geschlossen. Vorwurf der iranischen Behörden: Von dem Büro gehe "Propaganda gegen das System" aus.

Zitat:Reliance to Stop Gasoline Sales to Iran under US Pressures

TEHRAN (FNA)- Reliance Industries Ltd has decided to stop gasoline supplies to Iran after fulfilling all contractual obligations.

The decision came after eight US congressmen wrote to the US Export-Import Bank to suspend all financial assistance to Reliance until it agreed to halt sales to Iran, the Business Standard newspaper reported on Wednesday, without naming its sources.

The move will not impact Reliance's business as sales to Iran were not substantial, the newspaper said.
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Zitat:Iran Buys 3 mln Barrels of Gas Oil from Singapore

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran has secured a deal to import 3 million barrels of gas oil from Singapore trader Hin Leong, as it moves quickly to cover a loss of supply from Indian suppliers, industry sources said on Wednesday.
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From 2008 to 2010, Iran will need an average of nearly 70,000 bpd of gas oil imports to help meet power generation needs during cold weather, said FACTS Global Energy.

Iran's demand for diesel, included in gas oil in 2008, was pegged at about 560,000 barrels per day, said Washington-based consultancy PFC Energy.

Demand for gasoline was around 412,000 bpd.

Diesel demand growth of 8 percent per year has outstripped increases in production and forced imports to rise to over 55,000 bpd, PFC said.

Zitat:5th Development Plan only way forward

TEHRAN, Jan. 12 (MNA) -- Proper implementation of the general policies of Iran’s Fifth Five-Year Development Plan (2010-2015) is the only way to run the country, Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said here on Monday.

He made the remarks in a meeting with members of the Association of Clergymen MPs.

On Saturday, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei outlined the general policies of the Fifth Development Plan, which center round cultural, scientific, social, economic, political, defense, and security issues.

Rafsanjani said lawmakers bear a great responsibility with regard to the plan and called on all officials to adopt the plan’s policies when it is approved by parliament.

“The Majlis, with its lofty position, has an important duty in this respect,” he noted.

The EC chairman criticized the government for its excessive dependence on oil and gas revenues, adding that with an economy that is not diversified, fluctuations in oil revenues seriously affect the national budget.

He also called for the effective privatization of state-run companies as envisaged in Article 44 of the Constitution, saying this is the right way to solve the country’s problems.

“Legal obstacles have been removed” but the problem is properly managing the resources of the country’s private sector, Rafsanjani noted.

Zitat:Khatami says either he or Mousavi will run for president

TEHRAN, Jan. 12 (MNA) – Iran’s former president Mohammad Khatami announced on Monday that either he or former prime minister Mirhossein Mousavi will run for presidential post in the June election.

He told people in the western province of Ilam that he does not intend to “evade responsibility” and that he has been reflecting upon candidacy.

Khatami is under pressure by reformists to run in the presidential election.

Zitat:Iran wirft USA Umsturzversuch vor - Vier Festnahmen

Teheran (Reuters) - Kurz vor dem Amtsantritt des neuen US-Präsidenten Barack Obama hat der Iran nach eigenen Angaben einen US-finanzierten Umsturzversuch vereitelt.

Die Sicherheitsbehörden hätten vier Iraner verhaftet, die in die Umsturzpläne eingebunden gewesen seien, berichteten die Behörden am Dienstag. Ein Justizsprecher sagte, die vier seien in der Hauptstadt Teheran festgenommen worden. Das Urteil gegen sie werde bereits in Kürze bekanntgegeben. Ihr Ziel sei es gewesen, ein Netzwerk aufzubauen, mit dessen Hilfe die islamische Führung gestürzt hätte werden sollen. Einzelheiten würden in den nächsten Tagen mitgeteilt, sagte der Justizsprecher.

Zitat:JUSTIZ IN IRAN

Menge steinigt zwei Männer wegen Ehebruchs

Archaische Bestrafung: In Iran sind zwei Männer wegen Ehebruchs zu Tode gesteinigt worden. Einem dritten Verurteilten gelang die Flucht - er konnte sich selbst aus dem Erdloch befreien, in dem er sterben sollte. Nach islamischem Recht wurde er dann freigesprochen.

Zitat:IRAN

Ahmadinedschad spricht Israel Existenzrecht ab

Der iranische Präsident Mahmud Ahmadinedschad hat seine Drohungen gegen Israel erneuert. Das "zionistische Regime" habe in der Region des Nahen Ostens keinen Platz.

Schneemann schrieb:Im West...äh, in Teheran nichts Neues... :roll:

Shahab3 schrieb:Der Mann im Teleshopping und der Laden brummt.

Zitat:16. 01. 2009
Iran: Russland will 2009 Atomkraftwerk Bushehr fertigstellen

Bereits in den 70iger Jahren begann der Bau von Irans erstem Atomkraftwerk, die Fertigstellung wurde jedoch wieder verschoben. Mit Russlands Hilfe soll es nun endlich den Betrieb aufnehmen: In diesem - oder im nächsten Jahr.
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