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The New Yorkerin tähtireportteri Seymour Hersh kertoo Yhdysvaltain rahoittaneen ja kouluttaneen salaa iranilaisten maanpakolaisten järjestöä nimeltä Kansan mujahedin, joka on Yhdysvaltain virallisella terroristijärjestöjen listalla. EU poisti järjestön omalta terroristilistaltaan vuonna 2009. Ryhmän jäsenten koulutus olisi alkanut George Bushin presidenttikaudella vuonna 2005.

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Iran can never be threatened in its very existencence. Israel can. Indeed, such a threat could even grow out of the current intifada. That, at least, is the pessimistic opinion of Martin van Creveld, professor of military history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

"If it went on much longer," he said, "the Israeli government [would] lose control of the people. In campaigns like this, the anti-terror forces lose, because they don't win, and the rebels win by not losing. I regard a total Israeli defeat as unavoidable. That will mean the collapse of the Israeli state and society. We'll destroy ourselves."

In this situation, he went on, more and more Israelis were coming to regard the "transfer" of the Palestinians as the only salvation; resort to it was growing "more probable" with each passing day. Sharon "wants to escalate the conflict and knows that nothing else will succeed." But would the world permit such ethnic cleansing?

"That depends on who does it and how quickly it happens. We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother."

I consider it all hopeless at this point. We shall have to try to prevent things from coming to that, if at all possible. Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/sep/21/israelandthepalestinians.bookextracts/print

Numerous prominent politicians from both major political parties in the United States have not only been enthusiastically promoting and advocating on behalf of a designated terrorist organization, the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK/MKO/PMOI), but they have been receiving substantial amounts of cash from that terrorist group as they do so. There is only one list of "designated terrorist organizations" under the law, and MEK is every bit as much on that list as Kashimiri Lashkar-e-Taiba or Al-Qaeda are. Yet you will never, ever see those politicians being indicted by Obama's Department of Justice for their far more extensive -- and paid -- involvement with MEK.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/09/04/speech/

The Finnish crane manufacturer, Konecranes, has announced that it would stop selling new equipment and services to Iran. The advocacy organisation, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), urged the company to leave Iran because one of the regime's preferred methods of execution is public hanging from construction cranes.

Konecranes follows four other crane manufacturers, -- Tadano, Terex, UNIC, and Liebherr, -- which ended their business in Iran following public calls from UANI. Another Finnish company, Cargotec, has exported ship cranes to Iran. UANI launched its "Cranes Campaign" in May 2011 to exert pressure on crane manufacturers.

http://t.uani.com/noivr6

An Iranian former non-Marxist revolutionary activist asserted that Iran's communist Tudeh Party is reorganizing among factory and government workers, and intellectuals. He claimed that many former Tudeh sympathizers hold positions in the bureaucracy and elsewhere, and opined that many still privately support the movement. He mentioned one organizer who has re-emerged behind the scenes of recent bus worker and other labor strikes.

The US has agreed to sell high-end fighter jets, helicopters, radar and missiles to Saudi Arabia. The deal is one of the biggest single US arms deals ever. Mouin Rabbani, independent writer and analyst, sees the deal as a way of "solidifying the strategic alliance between the US and Saudi Arabia" with the "underlying message" that "Iran will not be able to attack Saudi Arabia without eliciting an American response."

But Rabbani does not see the arms deal itself fulfilling Saudi defense needs. "I think with all due respect that the people who try to understand the arms purchase on the basis of Saudi military needs fundamentally misunderstand" the situation, he said. "Any military objective is entirely secondary. What this is really about is to buy regime security. Military acquisitions are an important way of recycling petrodollars."

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/saudi-arabia/101022/why-saudi-arabia-stockpiling-us-weapons

Maryam Rajavi, one of the leaders of the Iranian terrorist organisation, People's Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), was on a visit to Finland on 11-12 March 2010. Ms Rajavi met with many Finnish politicians, public officials, church leaders, and other public figures.

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I wrote several letters to Finnish politicians and public officials urging them not to have any contact with the Iranian terrorist leader Maryam Rajavi and her representatives. Below is my letter to former Conservative MEP Piia-Noora Kauppi, who has a long-standing relationship to Ms Rajavi's organisation. Ms Kauppi is now Managing Director of the Federation of Finnish Financial Services.

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