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Iran Says U.S., Britain Encouraging Unrest
2005-08-15
The Guardian version of the story Fred is posting from al-Jizz. Funny, they aren't much different.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP)- Iran accused the United States and Britain on Sunday of stoking the unrest that has broken out among its Kurdish and Arab minorities.
I certainly hope we have.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi offered little evidence for his allegations, but he suggested that Washington and London were giving encouragement to Arabs and Kurds who have rioted in western and northwestern Iran. ``This is not acceptable at all,'' Asefi told a news conference.

Under U.S. protection, Iraq's Kurds have enjoyed autonomy and a booming economy, fueled partly by trade with Iran. Iraq's ascendant Kurds engage in contacts - including lucrative exports of illegal liquor and other goods - with their kin across the border.
The Iranian Kurds are beginning to ask such important questions as, "why do my cousins in Iraq have all the luck?" and "why can't we have what they have?"
On Thursday, Human Rights Watch said at least 17 people had been killed and hundreds more injured and arrested in anti-government protests in Iran's Kurdish northwest. The New York-based rights group blamed the killings on Iranian security forces and said their indiscriminate shooting had also wounded hundreds of people.

Asefi also said April riots in Iran's western Khuzestan province that left at least one protester dead were encouraged by the British presence in Iraq. Khuzestan borders southern Iraq, where security is under the control of British troops in the multinational force. ``Some provocateurs were trained in a part of Iraq which is under control of Britain,'' Asefi said. ``We have made objections and warned Britain about the repercussions of such behavior.''
"Youse guys better quit it! Dat stuff only goes one direction, see!?"
In Kurdistan, the unrest rocked several towns over the past month. The killings and arrests led to more protests, with shopkeepers shuttering their businesses and the government closing down two newspapers and detaining journalists and activists. Security forces were also said to be among those hurt and killed in the unrest.

Residents have said undeclared martial law is in force. ``Peace has returned to the area but security is tight. Dozens of activists are still in jail,'' said Kurdish activist Vahed Qaribian.

Human Rights Watch said the security forces wounded hundreds when they opened fire in Mahabad on demonstrators who were protesting the police's killing of a young Kurdish activist, Shivan Qaderi, on July 9. Iranian media have suggested the protests were rooted in the poverty that remains prevalent in the Iranian Kurdish areas.
Yes, poverty is the cause. And lack of human rights. And political repression. And ...
Posted by:Steve White

#3  
he suggested that Washington and London were giving encouragement to Arabs and Kurds who have rioted in western and northwestern Iran. "This is not acceptable at all"
Damn straight it's not acceptable!

Mere riots? Hell, we're not encouraging riots, we're encouraging all-out revolution. And your sorry ass dangling from the nearest lamppost at the earliest opportunity.

Loser.

Freedom and democracy for the Persian people!
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-08-15 16:23  

#2  What's the complaint here? Do the mullahs honestly believe they can promote and support terrorism and that their intended victims will simply bend over?

Not this victim.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-08-15 12:32  

#1  According to various mil forums, the purpose of Russia-China's recently announc MILEX is to test the nations' cability at combined opers, for when a foreign nation requests milfor assistance due to Terror-induced domestic anarchies and destabilzns. And, since 9-11, Commie Asia has directly or indirectly belabeled the USA the world's greatest terrorist state and instigator of terror, we all know what Texan-led Global hyperpower is intended - methinks the USDOD had better prep for nuclearized battlefield confrontations with the Commie Airborne and other elites, ala "Local/War Zone" strategems and Nuclearized "Active Defense", read "SEIZE, HOLD, and NUKE [nuclearize]"! The PLA reportedly held recent brigade-sized milex's in the Mongolian desert, read IRAN-MIDDLE EAST, while the exercise areas for the combined Russo-Chicom milex is more similar to NORAM-ALCAN than North Korea, read US MilTech-minimizing high mountains/ridges, deep forests, Riverine Valleys, Cold Seas and Cold Weather. Where China is concerned, North Korea can be sacrificed as a bloody diversionary holding front while the PLA focuses on Taiwan, Japan and ALCAN,espec Taiwan and ALCAN, i.e. "attacking where US forces ain't". It behooves the Commies to successfully war ags America before GMD becomes fully operational - right now the USN needs a minima of SIX CVBG's in the WESTPAC asuming limited tactical nuke war breaks out, the US does not yet have a draft, while the Canadians can barely afford their own armed forces or best units let alone help Dubya defend NORAM andor Alaska. For now the Commies don't have to nuke Washington, they only have to frighten American politicians and voters about the propects of conventional combat escalating to limited nuke war, and how GOP-led, Fascist-for-Communism Fascist America's policies on the WOT is to blame!? THE REAL BATTLE FOR AMERICA IS TO BE FOUGHT IN THE HALLS OF CONGRESS AND BIG MEDIA/MSM. NO MATTER WHAT OCCURS IN IRAN, NK, ETC.HILLARY WANTS TO BE POTUS, AND SHE WANTS TO BE POTUS O'ERA 1990's-style AMERICA, NOT THE LEADER OF A WAR-/NUKE-DAMAGED LAND!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2005-08-15 02:37  

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