Iran IRGC commander: "We will not rest until we make the United States an Islamic Republic"

In a bitter factional infighting amongst the Iranian elite, one IRGC commander lashed out against any relations with the United States and said: 'Some people say that Sanctions would be lifted tomorrow and our economic situation would improve, none of these comments are credible, don’t believe them. They are just journalistic jargons and political propaganda. The Supreme Leader’s position has always been negotiation just on the nuclear issue. Some people during their speech have said that those who say we are only negotiating for nuclear energy are wrong. We are aiming to solve all the problems with the world. 
'No sir! This is not in your jurisdiction to solve all the problems through negotiations. The country has Supreme leader, constitution and the limits have been defined. War and peace in constitution is the Leader’s responsibility. The Parliament has defined the policies. You have been told from the start of the negotiations to remain within your boundaries...
'What do you want to solve with America? If you are referring to the Imam’s comments, Imam said America is the Great Satan. Has the Satanic nature of America been resolved? Imam said America is naturally a terrorist state. Is the US no longer a terrorist state? America is the world arrogance. Is America no longer the world arrogance? Imam said America is the mother of all corruptions. Is America no longer the mother of all corruptions?
'How can you expect that police not intervene in religious matters? 
'The Supreme Leader said two weeks ago that the negotiation is only limited to the nuclear issue. Considering that our interests are opposite to that of the US in the region, our relationship to the US is only limited to the nuclear issue. What kind of comments have you been making lately? Who says leave the fact sheet and other issues aside, and just concentrate on we are finally sitting at the table with them (the US). No dear friend. It is not right. Just as we defeated the United States’ policies in Syria and Lebanon and Iraq and Yemen in the Middle East, we will not rest until we make the United State an Islamic Republic too.'.

IRAN: Khamenei’s secret plans to occupy Sanaa and takeover Yemen

NCRI - According to reports that have recently reached the Iranian Resistance, last June, Khamenei ordered the terrorist Qods Force (QF) to speed up the plan for occupation of Sanaa and to control Yemen by the Houthis. This measure followed the escalation of crisis in Iraq and the occupation of large swathes of that country by ISIS and the establishment of an international coalition in this respect. Khamenei had stated that since U.S. is preoccupied with ISIS and Iraq, as well as the nuclear talks, it is prone to overlook the Iranian regime’s intervention in Yemen, the reports said. He stressed that this opportunity may be used by the regime to spread its influence to Yemen and thus overshadow the problems it faces in Iraq.

1. On July 12, 2014, speaking to a group of QF commanders, IRGC Brigadier General Esmail Qa’ani, deputy QF commander, announced a new phase of operations by Ansarullah in Yemen. With this operation, we will place Saudi Arabia in a vulnerable position, he elaborated. These statements that were posted in a classified IRGC bulletin followed a series of military preparations and training of the Houthis in Iran, Yemen and Lebanon.

2. As Ansarullah entered Sanaa, regime’s foreign ministry’s assistant for Arabia and Africa Hossein Abdollahian noted in his remarks to a group of foreign ministry officials: “Soon, we are going to witness victories in Yemen and with the least expenditure, the Islamic republic will reap great achievements in Yemen. The future Yemen will enjoy Iran’s all out support.”

3. Based on sources inside the regime, the National Council of Resistance (NCR) issued a statement on October 12, 2014 disclosing: “Khamenei has emphasized that ‘the Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen axis’ is crucial ‘for the Islamic Republic of Iran and there should be no retreat in this regard’... It is through this ring that ‘we can surround the rest of the Arab countries, especially Saudi Arabia and Jordan,’ and put pressure on countries such as Egypt.”

4. On October 19, 2014, Khamenei’s foreign affairs adviser Ali Akbar Velayati, in his meeting with a group of Houthis in Tehran titled “Yemeni scholars and cultural figures”, noted: “In Yemen, Ansarullah should play the very role that Hezbollah is playing in Lebanon.”

5. In January 2015, following the occupation of the presidential palace in Sanaa, a delegation composed of Houthi leaders visited Tehran and met with the Office of Khamenei and the QF, as well as other organs.

6. Concurrent with these meetings, QF wrote in a classified briefing: “The unified and powerful organization of Ansarullah is Iran’s work. They were in Iran for years. For 15 years, Iran has constantly worked with the Ansarullah movement. They have reached this state through our constant support, training and sustenance and intelligence. Moreover, the QF has supported them through Hezbollah and other Arab groups. Ansarullah is completely under Iran’s command.”

7. Following the initiation of operation “Decisive Storm”, a classified QF document stipulated that it is two years now that the IRGC has transferred all sorts of weaponry to the Houthis in Yemen, including a large number of surface-to-surface and surface-to-sea missiles, and thus they have no problem of shortage of missiles and weaponry (this document is in the possession of the Iranian Resistance).

8. Up until the Arab coalition, injured Houthis were regularly transferred to Iran. Including on March 23, the QF airlifted 52 injured members of Ansarullah to IRGC Baqiyatollah Hospital in Tehran. IRGC General Qa’ani personally paid a visit to them at the hospital.

9. Mahan airliner (affiliated with the IRGC) that was forced to turn back from Sanaa on April 29 was carrying to Yemen a number of Ansarullah commanders who had been in Tehran and Lebanon. This same airliner was to transfer a number of Houthis to Tehran under the pretext that they are wounded. For the purpose, a section of Baqiyatollah Hospital had been cleared of other patients.

10. For many years, Yemen’s file was being followed by the QF, but since last year, Khamenei is directly following this file through the QF. The QF employs other governmental organs for this purpose as well. Houthi representatives in Tehran have regular meetings at Khamenei’s Office and Shabankari is responsible for the Houthis affairs in this office.

11. Since the beginning of operation Decisive Storm, regime’s leaders are constantly meeting at the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) to follow this issue. Saeid Iravani, the political and international assistant of SNSC secretariat, is responsible for coordinating Yemen’s affairs.

12. In this time span, IRGC Major General Qasem Soleimani, QF brutal commander, is following up the war in Yemen from Tehran as QF’s main mission. IRGC Brigadier General Amirian, a Soleimani deputy responsible for the Arabian Peninsula in the QF, is regime’s direct commander in the war in Yemen. He holds the daily staff meetings on this war in Tehran.

13. The QF has also set up a headquarters in Lebanon to intervene in the war in Yemen with cooperation from the Hezbollah. An IRGC classified report reads: “Hassan Nasrallah is wholly behind the war in Yemen and a large section of the work is followed through in Lebanon. He meets with the Houthi commanders and officials in Lebanon… Hassan Nasrallah works with Houthis under Qasem Soleimani’s supervision. They have their headquarters in southern Beirut and QF commanders follow on Yemen through Lebanon.”

14. Once operation “Decisive Storm” began and the routes of sending assistance to Houthis were closed, Tehran continued assisting the Houthis in the following three aspects:
- The presence of some QF commanders on the ground who practically do the planning and direct the Houthis;

- Establishment of essential communication systems so that the Houthis and the IRGC elements in Yemen could be in direct contact with the QF in Tehran to receive guidance;

- Dispatch of further forces and commanders from the Lebanese Hezbollah to help the Ansarullah. Since entry of IRGC elements to Yemen is proving more difficult, regime is dispatching Hezbollah commanders to Yemen through various routes. Some are pulled out of the front in Iraq and transferred to Yemen.

15. Some factions within the regime, especially at the foreign ministry, consider the “Decisive Storm” as a heavy and strategic blow to the regime. A classified report emphasis on several points:

- We just went too far in Yemen. Taking over Sanaa was a good move, but advancing towards Aden was a mistake. When foreign minister of Jordan brought a message of peace from Saudis to Iran and urged Iran not to interfere in Yemen, the QF miscalculated and planned Yemen’s occupation, much like Syria and Iraq.

- This is a strategic defeat in the region… similar to the case in Tikrit, Iraq where forces aligned with Iran were pushed back and U.S. threatened that it would not carry out airstrikes unless the militias are pulled back.

- IRGC cannot takeover all of Yemen with the Houthis. Had the Houthis remained in Sanaa, Saudis wanted to negotiate and we were in a better position. The move to takeover Yemen was a mistake and premature and it led to this confrontation with Iran unprecedented in the past few decades.

- Iran should have played the same way as it did with the Hezbollah in Lebanon. It should have let Mansour Hadi keep Aden. After the end of talks and overture in nuclear discussions, Iran could have gradually advanced in the region… Regrettably, IRGC brothers lack a logical and strategic viewpoint.

- IRGC commanders were surprised as they little expected this situation [the Decisive Storm]…

- Posting of reports and pictures of Haj Qassem [Soleimani] on the internet was a trap for the IRGC and got the region mobilized against Iran; weakening the forces loyal to Iran. Right now, Iran’s years of investment in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq has been hurt.

16. Reciprocally, a classified QF report says: “There is no plan for Houthis to retreat. They are to advance. They have good resources of weaponry and missiles and can withstand. They have 180,000 mobilized forces ready to fight. They have 20,000 strong suicidal elements. Thus the Houthis are the winners and Saudi Arabia will be the loser of this play. Most significant is that after 33 years a revolution similar to the Islamic Republic revolution with the leadership of the supreme leader is taking shape in Yemen.”

17. In the current circumstances and at a time when the Houthis are ruling in Sanaa, regime’s policy at the political scene is to stress on a swift ceasefire in order to have the upper hand in the negotiations. According to classified QF reports, “this situation is unsupportable for the Saudis and the more the situation in Yemen deteriorates, it will be to the detriment of Saudis and the coalition forces will step aside; Saudis cannot have hegemony. Therefore, Ansarullah should be patient”.

Another QF report states: “If a car explodes in the capital of one of the countries in the coalition, that country shall drop out of the coalition.” Some sources state that these reports are to boost the moral and give hope to regime’s forces.

18. In a fake muscle-flexing on April 17, Deputy IRGC Commander Salami noted: “Ansarullah can attack the Saudi navy and confront a Saudi ground assault… Ansarullah have missile and armored capabilities and they have artillery. They almost have a powerful army in the region… If Saudi attacks continue, they [Houthis] would certainly respond by attacking Saudi ground forces and enter the Saudi territory. Surely, the Ansarullah will not be hands tied in face of Saudi attacks.”

By stressing on the above points, as well as many other facts and details, the Security and Anti-terrorism Commission of the National Council of Resistance of Iran emphasizes on the fact that as long as this antihuman regime is ruling Iran, it shall not abandon export of terrorism and fundamentalism and warmongering in countries in the region. Therefore, the sole solution to attain peace and tranquility in the region is to evict the Iranian regime and the forces affiliated with it from the region, especially from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen and ultimately to topple this regime in Iran.

Security and Anti-terrorism Committee of National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 2, 2015

Two Dead During Exhibition of Prophet Mohammad Caricatures in Texas

WASHINGTON – Two men suspected of carrying explosives have been shot dead by the police in front of a cultural center hosting an exhibition of Prophet Mohammed’s caricatures, local media reported.

The incident occurred outside the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, a Dallas suburb, on Sunday night, NBC’s KXAS television station reported, citing police sources.

According to the channel, the two men pulled up in a car in front of the center and started shooting at a security guard before being shot down by Garland police officers.

The identities of the two men are yet to be confirmed, while the area around the center has been evacuated.

The nearly 50 people inside the center were taken to a nearby school while police checked the vehicles parked around the building for explosives.

Local television channel WFAA, an ABC-affiliated television station, reported that the two men were believed to have been “possibly” carrying explosives, citing sources from the SWAT police team.

Another local media reported that the injured security guard had been shot in the leg and taken to a hospital; however his injuries were not life-threatening.

The center was already under strict police vigilance, owing to the exhibition’s controversial nature, and the organizers had hired a special security agency for the event, according to media reports.

The exhibition and a Prophet Mohammed drawing contest had been organized by the American Freedom Defense Initiative group against what it called “violent Islamist intimidation.”

The ‘Draw the Prophet’ contest was organized in response to certain pro-Islamic activities in Dallas in January.

Publication of Mohammed’s images is prohibited in India and Muslim countries.

Islamist extremist groups consider such publications to be provocative and have carried out terror attacks against it.

However, Western countries defend such instances under the right to freedom of expression. 

Drugs Valued at $1.5 Million Found on Bus in Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Police acting on a tip from the public found 44 kilos of methamphetamine and heroin with a street value of more than $1.5 million hidden on a bus headed to Tijuana, a border city in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California, federal prosecutors said.

Two suspects were arrested for smuggling the drugs, which were hidden in the floorboards of the bus, the federal Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.

Criminal Investigations Agency, or AIC, agents stopped the bus on the Chihuahua City-Nuevo Casas Grandes federal highway near Los Sauces, the AG’s office said.

A drug-sniffing dog detected the drugs hidden under the floorboards, which were removed, revealing a secret compartment that contained several packages of three different illegal substances.

AIC agents discovered 56 packages of methamphetamine weighing 37.2 kilos, 4.4 kilos of white heroin in four packages and 1.4 kilos of black heroin.

The white heroin has an estimated street value in the United States of $150,000 per kilo, while the black heroin is worth $50,000 to $80,000 and the methamphetamine has a street value of about $25,000, putting the total value of the seizure at more than $1.5 million, the AG’s office said.

The suspects, the drugs and the bus were turned over to federal prosecutors, who will conduct the investigation, the AG’s office said.

Iran - Mother talks to son " once in jail , since 1999", ? (Justice) ?

Interview with Saeid Zeinali’s Mother

Posted on: 25th April, 2015

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HRANA News Agency – Saeid Zeinali’s mother has announced that she is going to start a sit-in in front of Supreme Leader’s domicile or the Assembly of Experts, insisting to pursue the complaint against the leadership until the final result.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), family of Saeid Zeinali, Iranian citizen who was arrested and disappeared a few days after the attack on the University campus in 1999, has recently made a complaint against the leadership to the Assembly of Experts.

Zainali’s family has been told that their complaint is being investigated and they should be waiting for Assembly of Experts to contact them: “We went to the Assembly of Experts, on Wednesday, as we had an appointment but president of the Assembly, Mr. Yazdi, was in Qom city and did not arrive and we are waiting for investigation and their call.”

Akram Neghabi told HRANA’s reporter about reason of complaints from the leadership to Assembly of Experts: “In the past few years we went everywhere which were inconclusive and all of them were subsets of leadership House. We have had no results from leadership House, so we had to make a complaint to the Assembly of Experts, this is the last chance and if we do not get a proper response, I will sit-in in front of the Assembly of Experts or leadership House to get the answer.”

Said Zainali, graduate of Tehran University in computer, was arrested on 14th July 1999 at home and since then, there is no news about him except a short phone call. This family’s repeated visits of various institutions have had no results yet.

According to HRANA, Saeid Zainali’s family has been summoned and arrested several times so far for pursuing their child’s fate, including his sister’s arrest in 2010. His brother has been repeatedly summoned and interrogated, too.

Iranian regime still actively buying nuclear materials

Britain has informed a United Nations sanctions panel that the Iranian regime is still actively purchasing nuclear materials via a network linked to two blacklisted firms, according to a confidential report by the panel seen by Reuters.

"The UK government informed the Panel on 20 April 2015 that it 'is aware of an active Iranian nuclear procurement network which has been associated with Iran's Centrifuge Technology Company (TESA) and Kalay Electric Company (KEC)'," the Panel of Experts said in its annual report. The panel monitors the Iranian regime’s compliance with the UN sanctions regime.

The UN panel said that "some member states informed the panel that according to their assessment, the Islamic Republic of Iran's procurement trends and (sanctions) circumvention techniques remain basically unchanged."

Iran Resistance issues May Day call to workers to topple regime

  The Iranian Resistance has issued a May Day call to all workers in Iran to rise and topple the mullahs ruling the regime.

They described the plunder, looting, cruelty and tyranny of the workforce carried out by inhumane religious dictatorship over the past 36 years as 'unprecedented in contemporary history'.A statement by the Labor Commission of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said: "This regime and its leaders have used the work of laborers and Iranian people’s wealth for the purpose of suppression, for anti-nationalistic nuclear projects, and for spilling the blood of the deprived people of Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon, or have plundered this wealth in billions of dollars."

This had caused rampant unemployment of almost a third of the 64 million strong workforce, the Resistance said.

It added: "The closing down of the factories and production units continues and adds to the large number of unemployed."

The statement said Sahlabadi, head of Chamber of Industry, Mines and Trade, stated: "Only 40% of country’s industrial and production units are working. 38 cotton cleaning factories closed down with the land used for production of cotton in Golestan Province dwindling by a large percentage. The land used to grow cotton in this province dropped from 180,000 hectares to 10,000 hectares."

It quoted the head of the Tea Farmers Union as saying: "Much of the land to grow tea has been abandoned and turned into jungle with the tea industry about to be destroyed."

And Hassan Hefdahtan, Rouhani’s Deputy Minister of Labor, stated in a shocking admission: "Between 1997 and 2011, the percentage of cost of the wages in the total cost of production has plummeted from 13% to 5%"

The statement continued: "In the mullahs’ regime, workers lack the least legal protection and employers who are mostly regime’s officials and revolutionary guards, have no restrictions in firing them from their jobs or aggression against their rights.

"According to the Ministry of Labor statistics, only 7% of the workers are employed with ‘official contracts’ and 93% are working based on temporary contracts.” The great majority of Iranian workers are working in workshops with less than 10 laborers and thus they are not covered by the Labor Laws.

"Moreover, safety rules for workers are not observed. In 2013 alone, more than three thousand workers lost their lives to accidents. Every week nearly 40 workers die in work related accidents. One million construction workers do not have social security insurances. Most of them work in the IRGC construction and dam building companies and most of the work related injuries are related to these workers.

"In such circumstances, according to government reports, some young people, including girls, want to sell their kidneys… due to unemployment or debt. In 2010, 1690 kidney transplants were performed from cases who volunteered to sell their kidneys. The price of a kidney in unofficial market reaches even 10 million toman.

"In Tehran's Darvazeh-Ghar District, children are traded anywhere from 100,000 toman to five million tomans.

"Three million children are deprived of schooling due to poverty. The state media have reported that the gap between social strata in Iran has increased 30 fold and Iran has the largest class differences in the world.

"The situation is so dire that the American and Arab media write about the huge wealth of a small minority in Iran with great awe. The $500 billion in oil revenues over five years has had an important role in the development of this phenomenon.

"According to regime's own media, there are people who are living in legendary palaces and houses. This legendary wealth and this unprecedented poverty is caused by the theft, corruption and bribery in the mullahs' regime in which all regime's leaders are involved. Khamenei, the chief crook, is the criminal leader of this regime who controls the Executive Committee of Imam's Order worth $95 billion.

"The assets of this financial empire are obtained through the confiscation of properties of millions of Iranian citizens, including families of PMOI and their supporters, as well as other dissidents and religious minorities.

"In addition, a large section of the vital arteries of country’s economy is in the hands of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and such foundations as the Foundation of the Oppressed that is under Khamenei’s direct control and exempt of taxes, like all other property affiliated with him."

It added: "In 2014, through thousands of strikes and protests you showed that you have arisen to end the suffering of the large majority of the Iranian people. All this pain and suffering is caused by the anti-human regime of the mullahs that has employed all of Iran’s national wealth and all your toil in order to buttress its shameful rule and survive.

"As long as they are in power, our people and especially the workers and toilers become poorer every day and their pain and suffering grows. While with each passing day the regime's cart of exporting terrorism to Yemen, Syria and Iraq plunges deeper aground and its nuclear projects that were supposed to rescue this regime have become its noose, the regime is on its way to its demise.

"Thus, the time for the realization of the will of the Iranian people, i.e. the overthrow of this regime, and for the uprising of the workers, toilers and the youth to eradicate mullahs' oppression and tyranny and their astronomical plundering, and for establishment of freedom, democracy and social justice, has come."