Iranin tukemat shiia-kapinalliset ja wahhabiittisen Saudi-Arabian joukot ja sen tukema Jemenin hallitus ovat likipitäen täydessä sotatilassa.

The rebels invaded Saudi Arabia in November and took control of a small mountainous border region.

Some 133 Saudi troops died pushing the rebels back over the border.
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The UN refugee agency says 250,000 Yemenis have been displaced by fighting in the region over the past five years.

Aika vähän tuo on maailmalla herättänyt mielenkiintoa. Wahhabismi ja shiialainen islam ottavat matsia toisistaan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8499217.stm
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/08/200981294214604934.html

IRAN: As many as 3 million protesters anticipated at Thursday rally

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylon ... tions.html

Tehran - Iran has for the first time banned foreign media from covering Thursday's street marches marking the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution, amid opposition plans for anti-government protests.
http://www.news24.com/Content/World/New ... ed_in_Iran

EDIT:
We’re live blogging from Iran’Streets
http://www.astreetjournalist.com/2010/0 ... %8C%D8%B1/

Iran ilmoitti sulkevansa googlen palvelut .

Iran now has more journalists in prison than any other country in the world, with at least 65 in custody, according to Reporters Without Borders.
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Though the government does not report the numbers of those arrested, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a group based in New York, calculated that in the past two months at least 1,000 people have been imprisoned, many arrested under a blanket detention order issued in June that empowers the police to take anyone into custody for any reason.
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Lately, the authorities seem to have singled out two groups in particular: journalists, including political and cultural reporters and editors, and women’s rights activists, who have years of experience in organizing and maintaining a movement in the face of a hostile government.
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The pace of arrests, which soared in the summer, picked up again at year’s end after tens of thousands of demonstrators filled the streets around the country during the national observance of Ashura, a religious day of mourning observed by Shiite Muslims. At least 10 people were killed when government forces opened fire on unarmed protesters. But in scenes circulated around the world on the Internet, protesters were seen fighting back, chasing after government gunmen, blocking roads and burning government vehicles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/world/middleeast/10arrests.html?ref=middleeast

Toisinajattelijoiden rajoitukset kiristyvät Iranissa. Se ei koskaan ole itsestään varman diktatuurin merkki. Iran vangitsee journalisteja tehokkaammin kuin Kiina!

Onko Iran kolmenkymmenen vuoden jälkeen taas vallankumouksen partaalla? Vahvalla johtajalla olisi taas kysyntää.

“A revolution usually needs a charismatic leader, which is missing in Iran at the moment,” he told The Media Line. “The majority of people are against the regime, no doubt in that, however, I believe that this movement cannot be successful without the full support of some cleric or military authorities.”

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/OpinionAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=167962

Ahma pitää puhetta.
http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html

Kirjallisuuden nobelisti Elie Wiesel julkaisi muutama päivä sitten kirjeen New York Timesissä koskien Iranin ydinasehanketta ja valtion yleistä politiikkaa. Iranin nykyhallinto sortaa raaasti ja järjestelmällisesti toisinajattelevia kotimaassaan ja esittää uhkauksia toisille valtioille. Allekirjoittajina on useita kymmeniä nobelisteja.

Reflecting international concern, 44 Nobel Prize winners, including Elie Wiesel, published a letter in the International Herald Tribune urging Obama and other world leaders to implement harsher sanctions and take steps to stop Iran's nuclear work as well as its crackdown on pro-reform protesters.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/09/world/AP-Iran-Nuclear.html?scp=2&sq=elie%20wiesel&st=cse

Kirje:
http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/inthenews.aspx

Guardian.co.uk on julkaissut sivustollaan tämän vuoden tammikuussa osion, jossa se kerää Iranin viime vaalien jälkeen pidätettyjen tai surmattujen ihmisten nimiä ja kuvia. Heitä on satoja, ellei jopa tuhansia.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interac ... d-detained

http://marja.posterous.com/

Tää on kyllä niin vitsi: "The majority of people are against the regime, no doubt in that"

"toisinajattelia" = länsimielinen terroristi

Etkö sinäkin pidättäisi terroristeja tukevia "journalisteja"?

“One of the CIA officers said that it was too difficult for them to attack Iran militarily but they plan to give aid and support to all anti-Iranian groups that have the capability to wage war and create difficulty for this Islamic state.” http://rt.com/Politics/2010-02-27/iran-sunni-insurgent-arrest.html

CIA tukee terroristeja Iranissa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy0DY6D9-uI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwPKUDHL7zM

Brazil won't sanction Iran over nukes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBp3hmnzLhY