Alle Jahre wieder: Ahmedinejad in New York

While the United Nations is doing its best to legitimize the forthcoming Durban III “anti-racism” bash, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears intent on blowing the U.N.’s cover. Each year for the past five years, Ahmadinejad has chosen to speak on the opening day of the General Assembly’s so-called general debate, when all the presidents, prime ministers, and foreign ministers annually descend on New York City. According to a U.N. schedule, however, this year the Iranian president will speak on a different day – the same day as Durban III.

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Hilfe unter Freunden XI?

Stratfor Meldung:

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Commander General Brig. Gen. Qasem Soleymani said the Iraqi National Alliance must support Syrian President Bashar al Assad with $10 billion, according to a source in the alliance, Al-Sharq al-Aswat reported Aug. 2. According to the report, the source said Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Danayeefar conveyed the message to the alliance. The demand came in the form of orders that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki accepted in his capacity as the leader of the Iraqi government, the report added.

Türkei soll Waffenlieferung aus Iran gestoppt haben

Die Türkei hat nach einem Bericht der „Süddeutschen Zeitung“ eine Waffenlieferung aus Irangestoppt. Der Vorfall habe sich bereits am 30. April ereignet. Mindestens ein Lastwagen mit größeren Mengen Waffen oder Munitionsbestandteilen habe die Grenze passieren wollen.

Die Zeitung beruft sich auf westliche Diplomatenkreise. Die Lieferung sollte offenbar nach Syrien gehen und war vermutlich für die mit Teheran verbündete Hisbollah-Miliz im Libanon bestimmt. Die radikale Schiiten-Organisation unterhält demnach auch Depots in Syrien.

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Neue Proteste in Syrien

Trotz aller Versuche des syrischen Regimes, die Proteste in Syrien mit brutalster Gewalt zu unterdrücken, sie gehen weiter überall auf die Straße in Syrien. Gerade jetzt im Moment, wie Now Lebanon in seinem Liveblog meldet:

22:30 A massive protest began in Homs’ Karm al-Shami neighborhood. Protesters are calling for the fall of the regime. (S.N.N)

 22:29 A protest began in the Latakia neighborhood of Al-Qalaa. Protesters are demanding freedom and the fall of the regime. (S.N.N)

 22:28 Many protests began outside Hama’s mosques. (S.N.N)

To Punish Iran, Seize Its Embassy

American policy makers must make it clear that the United States is serious about forcing Iran to change its behavior. Tehran has yet to develop a nuclear weapon, but sanctions have only delayed its efforts, not quashed its ambitions. Seizing Iran’s assets and barring its officials from the United States would send a strong message that Washington aims to stop Iran’s nuclear program by any peaceful means necessary.

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Zeichen der Schwäche bei der Hizbollah

Signs of Hezbollah’s weakening have already started to emerge. This past week, in an unprecedented challenge to the Party of God by residents of the South, shops in the city of Nabatiyeh, which Hezbollah prohibited from selling alcohol four months ago, have started selling liquor again.

People in the South expect Hezbollah to react forcefully to things like this. But this time it did not, and now one can find alcohol in Nabatiyeh, a major Hezbollah hub in the South.

Instead, Hezbollah forces attacked a store in the southern town of Houla for selling alcohol and tried to force the owner to close shop in an attempt to compensate for its defeat and humiliation in Nabatiyeh. However, members of the Communist Party, normally an ally of Hezbollah, intervened to protect the owner of the shop, also an unprecedented incident in the South, at least since the early 1980s.

Hezbollah has been hurt by the stupidity of its ally, Bashar al-Assad, whom the party’s local allies are beginning to question. With Assad’s actions, and with the sword of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon at its neck, the party is standing alone, bleeding. Not a pleasant situation for a party that is still more or less in control of Lebanon and its state institutions.

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Ärger unter Freunden I

Wenn schon die Sadristen, einentlich enge Verbündete der Ayatollahs, Maßnahmen gegen den Iran fordern:

The head of the Ahrar bloc urged the Iraqi government today to sever diplomatic and trade relations with Iran until the latter ceases its shelling of border territories in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.

Speaking to AKnews, Amir Kanani – who heads Ahrar under the umbrella of the Sadrist Current led by radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr – condemned the Iranian bombardments, describing them as a “violation of Iraq’s sovereignty”.

“The Iraqi government should seriously consider cutting diplomatic and trade relations with Iran, as it appears that the diplomatic measures so far taken have proved futile in settling the issue,” he said.

Iran has stepped up its bombardments of the Kurdish territories over the past week, following ferocious clashes that broke out two weeks ago between the Iranian border guards and Kurdish separatist rebels, the PJAK.

So far, three Iraqi civilians have been killed, four others injured and almost a thousand villagers displaced because of Iran’s shelling.