حزب مردم بلوچستان Balochistan People’s Party بلوچستانءِ اُستمانءِ گــَل
Iran rejects economic incentives in exchange for halting uranium enrichment
The Associated Press; April 5, 2008
TEHRAN, Iran: Iran rejected recent European
overtures to halt its uranium enrichment program in return for incentives,
saying it will continue to expand, not halt, its nuclear program, the
government spokesman told reporters Saturday.
The European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said last month that
his bloc was open for further talks with Tehran to resolve the standoff over
Iran's nuclear ambitions despite U.N. Security Council approval of a third
round of sanctions.
"Iran does not trade its rights in return for incentives," government
spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters. "The Islamic Republic of Iran
doesn't need incentives from Europe to obtain its rights."
Though the U.N. Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Iran
last month for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, the foreign
ministers of the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France, along with
Germany, also pledged to enhance a 2006 package of political, security and
economic incentives to Iran in return for a halt on uranium enrichment.
But Iran has refused, dismissing a third round of sanctions imposed March 3
as "worthless" and "based on political motivations."
Elham, however, said Iran will still talk to Europe about its nuclear
program.
"Iran has always stated that the door to dialogue and interaction with the
outside world, European or non-European is open," he told reporters, while
making it clear that the six nations can't replace the U.N.'s International
Atomic Energy Agency in dealing with Iran's nuclear rights and obligations.
"Dialogue doesn't mean creating new institutions to replace legal bodies. We
do not accept replacing the IAEA (with some countries which themselves
possess nuclear weapons)," he said.
Iran has repeatedly said its right to enrich uranium under the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty was "nonnegotiable."
The United States, the European Union, Israel and others suspect Iran's goal
is to produce nuclear weapons. But Iran insists its program is aimed solely
at producing nuclear energy.
Iran says a report released by the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency
in February vindicated Iran's nuclear program and left no justification for
any Security Council sanctions.
The 11-page report by IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said all major past
issues surrounding Iran's nuclear activities had been fully resolved or are
"no longer outstanding at this stage," repeatedly saying the IAEA's findings
are consistent with information available to the agency and explanations
provided by Iran.
Diplomats in Vienna told The Associated Press Thursday that Iran has
assembled hundreds of advanced machines reflecting a possible intention to
speed up uranium enrichment.
One diplomat said more than 300 of the centrifuges have been linked up in
two separate units in Iran's underground enrichment plant and a third was
being assembled. He said the machines apparently are more advanced than the
thousands already running underground.
The location is significant, since the aboveground site at Natanz is for
experimental work and the underground facility is the working enrichment
plant.
Elham said the government hoped to offer "good news" to the nation on Iran's
"achievements" on April 8, declared as the National Day of Nuclear
Technology.
It refers to April 8, 2006 when Iran for the first time enriched uranium at
Natanz.
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Two Baloch
religious leaders were executed in Iran
By Reza Hossein Borr ; 11-04-2008 ; Baloch Culture Yahoo Group
The two religious leaders, Moulavi Mohammad Yousuf Sohrabi and Moulavi Abdol
Qoddoos Mollazehi, who were forced to confess on television for the crimes
they had not committed were executed in the early morning of 9th April 08.
The Islamic regime broadcast their forced and false confessions in three
consecutive nights to prepare the public opinion for their execution and
justifying their demise. The news of the execution was broadcast not in the
conventional ways in which the regime usually vilified the accused of
corruption, armed struggle or drug trafficking. Their executions were
announced in a religious philosophical statement in which the ruling "Shia
nation" was portrayed as the victim of the Sunni people who are a minority
in Iran and are constitutionally excluded from all positions. The Sunni and
Baluch people of Iran are constitutionally banned from assuming the
positions of supreme leader, president, ministers, ambassadors, governors,
deputy ministers and army generals. Such people are not in the position of
victimizing the ruling “Shia nation of Iran”
Few days before the executions, comprehensive security measures were
implemented all over the province of Baluchistan and the neighboring Sunni
areas to prevent any protest after their execution. The regime arrested in
the last seven days more than 2000 Baluch and killed 37 Baluch and Sunnis to
create sufficient fear to prevent demonstrations after the execution of the
two teachers.
These teachers were arrested at the aftermath of the attacked by the
security forces on a base of People's Resistance Movement of Iran (PRMI),
Jondollah on13 December 07. Even though the Islamic regime was capable of
extracting false confessions from them, the Iranian people still believe
that they were innocent teachers that did not commit any crime. The show on
television completely failed in convincing anybody that they were involved
in armed struggle or in supporting the Jondollah. Their faces and movements
clearly showed the marks of tortures. Those who saw the confessions on
television noticed that what they said was dictated to them for television
show.
The statement in which their execution was announced was a mixture of
theological beliefs and revolutionary slogans. The statement accused these
two innocent teachers of shedding the blood of “Shia nation” while in fact
the opposite is true. It has been the Shia nation of Iran that has carried
out systematic massacre of the Baluch people as in the first week of April
37 Baluch and Sunnis were killed by the Shia regime of Iran. The statement
accused them as Shia killers who were determined to create discord among
Shia and Sunnis while the Shia government broadcasts anti-Sunni film and
news almost every day.
The Jondollah members who are struggling against the regime of Iran are
almost all from the northern part of Baluchistan and these two teachers were
from the Southern part of Baluchistan and there was not any relationship
between them. The regime also accused the PRMI for planning to explode the
school that these teachers were part of and then arrested the teachers who
were supposed to be exploded in the school. This is a very clear
contradiction. How the government could execute the teachers of the school
that Jondollah was supposed to demolish? And how demolishing the Sunni
school in a remote area of Baluchistan could have been the source of discord
among the Shia and Sunnis?
These teachers were also accused of preventing economic development of the
province. How two teachers who taught in a remote school were capable of
preventing the most ruthless regime in the world from implementing economic
projects in Baluchistan? So far there has not been even one single action
against economic projects. The Baluch people have struggled for years to
persuade the government to increase development budget and implement
sufficient economic projects to create jobs for the people of a province
that has the highest unemployment rate in the country and according to all
UN researches, is the poorest province of Iran. The development budget of
Baluchistan has ranged from £10 to £30 million per year. This figure is not
enough to build one single decent hospital and proves that there has not
been any intention or policy from the government's side to develop
Baluchistan. While Iran had more than $70 million dollars income only from
oil, the development budget of Baluchistan, the largest province of the
country, has been less than £50 million this year.
The fundamentalist Shia regime of Iran tries to cover its policies of
starving Baloch people and blames the Baluch for their own poverty.
According to a United Nations research, the Baluch children were found to
have the highest IQ in the country. Instead of helping such talented people
to develop their potentials, the regime has been trying to deprive them from
proper education. From 70,000 students in Balochistan universities, even
1000 of them are not Baloch.
The two innocent Baluch teachers are gone now but their legacy for a fair
and just society will motivate all human beings for campaigning for a better
world.
Reza Hossein Borr is a leadership consultant and can be contacted on:
balochfront@aol.com
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Baloch community of Bahrain expressed their deep condolences to Majid Asghar's family
Majid Asghar: Martyr in the line of duty
13-04-2008
Baloch
community of Bahrain was in a deep shock when the news of Majid's death
spread all over Bahrain on Wednesday, 9th April, night. Majid was brutally
beaten to death and two colleagues were injured when masked men attached
their patrol car with Molotov cocktails and stones in Karzakhan on Wednesday
night.
Majid sustained serious injuries to his head, face and left shoulder and bled from the ears, mouth and nose. His Majesty the King, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has condemned the crime and issued royal citation calling Majid Asghar Ali a martyr for having laid down his life in the line of duty. Martyr Majid's body was flown to Karachi on Thursday night after mourners offered final prayers in the Manama cemetery. On Friday the Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa visited his family and offered his condolences to his relatives and colleagues. The Crown Prince, who is deputising for His Majesty King Hamad, strongly condemned the killing.
The Interior Minister Shaikh Rashid bin
Abdulla Al Khalifa, Public Security chief Major General Abdullatif Al Zayani,
Youth and Sports Minister Shaikh Fowaz bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, MP Shaikh
Jasim Al Saeedi, MP Sami Bucherri, MP Abdulhaleem Murad Al Baloshi, MP
Mohammed Al Mahndi, Chairman of parliament Shaikh Khalifa Al-Zahrani and
other senior civil and security officials also visited the grieve family and
offered their condolences and condemned the killing. The whole Baloch
community of Bahrain expressed their deep condolences and attachment to the
victim family. Meanwhile, the number of suspects arrested in connection with
the attack reached 15 yesterday as imams condemned the killing during Friday
prayers, calling it an act of terrorism. The 24 years old rookie policeman,
Majid Asghar Ali Kareem Baksh was born in Karachi but brought up in Bahrain,
had joined Interior Ministry two years back. Majid is survived by his
60-year-old father, mother Salma, 55, brother Azeel, 14 and sisters Sanam,
25 and Zainab, 12.
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Deadly blast strikes Iran mosque to be Accidental
BBC NEWS ; 13-04-2008
At least 12 people have been killed and 160
wounded in an explosion at a mosque in southern Iran, local media reported.
Authorities in the city of Shiraz were investigating the blast, which some
early reports had blamed on a bomb.
But a local police chief told Fars news agency that he had ruled out
sabotage, and that "negligence" involving old war munitions might be the
cause.
The explosion occurred at about 2100 (1630 GMT) on Saturday and was heard a
mile (1.5km) away, the agency reported.
"The incident could have happened as a result of negligence. A while ago at
this site there was an exhibition commemorating the [1980-1988] Iran-Iraq
war," Commander Ali Moayeri, police chief of Fars province, told Fars news
agency.
"The munitions left at the site could have the been the reason for this
explosion," he added. The agency said he ruled out any act of sabotage.
Weekly meeting
Most of those inside the Hoseyniyeh Shohada mosque when the explosion took
place were young boys and girls affiliated to the Rahpoyan-e Vesal
Association, which "holds weekly meetings every Saturday regarding misguided
groups, including Wahhabis and Bahais", Fars said.
The Irna news agency said the blast broke the windows of many nearby houses.
Members of the Law Enforcement Force and the
Basij militia placed a cordon around the mosque, while ambulance and fire
crews worked to help the victims.
Television channels urged people in Shiraz to donate blood for the injured,
adding that all nurses in the city had been called in on duty.
Shiraz, about 900km (560 miles) south of the capital Tehran, is a major
tourist destination because of its closeness to a number of important
ancient sites.
It has not been a target of the isolated bomb attacks which have occurred in
Iran in recent years.
The last major bombing, in the south-eastern city of Zahedan in February
last year, is believed to have been carried out by the Sunni Baluchi
militant group, Jundallah.
Thirteen members of the Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed when a car
bomb exploded next to the bus in which they were travelling.
The south-western city of Ahwaz, close to the Iraqi border, has seen
sporadic anti-government violence since 2005, allegedly by its ethnic
minority Arab population.
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DEMONSTRATION
Balochistan Action Committee is staging a demonstration to express strong
condemnation of Iranian regime for execution of Baloch Molavis and other
victims & to protest against its ongoing criminal executions and unlawful
detentions of innocent Baloch in Balochistan opposite BBC, Bush House,
Strand on Sunday 20th April 2008 in London.
Balochistan Action Committee appeals to all Baloch and other democratic
activists and people in UK to participate in the demonstration to make a
difference to the deplorable situation of Human Rights in Balochistan and to
the plight of civic activist Mr Yakob Mehrnehad and other innocent Baloch
victims and civic .
Balochistan Action Committee –UK
14-04-2008
Venue:
OPPOSITE BBC, BUSH HOUSE
STRAND, HOLBORN
LONDON WC2
TIME:
14.00 – 16.00 hrs SUNDAY 20TH APRIL 2008 IN LONDON
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Afghan, Iran guards
in deadly clash over land
22-04-2008
HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP) — An Afghan teacher was killed in a clash between
Afghan and Iranian border guards over a small piece of land on the frontier,
Afghanistan's interior ministry said.
Two Iranian guards were also wounded in the clash Saturday, it said, adding
the fighting started after Iranian border security forces entered the
western province of Nimroz.
"An Afghan civilian who was a teacher was killed in a clash between Afghan
and Iranian border guards. The fighting took place after the Iranians
entered and claimed a piece of land," the ministry said in a statement.
It did not say how much land the Iranians had claimed except that it was not
large and added that the Afghan owner, who was using it for farming, had
documents proving his ownership.
The Afghan troops sealed off the area and forced their Iranian counterparts
to "escape," the ministry said.
The Iranians had left behind a vehicle which was returned to them, it said.
The long border between the two countries is porous and difficult to police.
It has seen clashes before, sometimes related to the trafficking of
Afghanistan's mammoth drugs production across the frontier.
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Gates calls Iran
'hell bent' on getting nuclear arms
By ROBERT BURNS ; 22-04-2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he believes Iran is
"hell bent" on acquiring nuclear weapons, but he warned in strong terms of
the consequences of going to war over that.
"Another war in the Middle East is the last thing we need and, in fact, I
believe it would be disastrous on a number of levels," he said in a speech
he was delivering Monday evening at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point,
N.Y.
A copy of his prepared remarks was provided in advance by the Pentagon.
He said he favors keeping the military option against Iran on the table,
"given the destabilizing policies of the regime and the risks inherent in a
future Iranian nuclear threat — either directly or through proliferation."
Gates also said that if the war in Iraq is not finished on favorable terms
the consequences could be dire.
"It is a hard sell to say we must sustain the fight in Iraq right now, and
continue to absorb the high financial and human costs of this struggle, in
order to avoid an even uglier fight or even greater danger to our country in
the future," he said.
But he added that the U.S. experience with Afghanistan — helping the Afghans
oust Russian invaders in the 1980s only to abandon the country and see it
become a haven for Osama bin Laden's terrorist network — makes it clear to
him that a similar approach in Iraq would have similar results.
Gates said the U.S. military was not organized and equipped for the kind of
wars it finds itself in today.
"The current campaign has gone on longer, and has been more difficult, than
anyone expected or prepared for at the start," he said. "And so we've had to
scramble to position ourselves for success over the long haul, which I
believe we are doing."
He called a drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq "inevitable," with the debate
mainly over timing.
"But the kind of enemy we face today — violent jihadist networks — will not
allow us to remain at peace," he said. "What has been called the `long war'
is likely to be many years of persistent, engaged combat all around the
world in differing degrees of size and intensity. This generational
challenge cannot be wished away or put on a timetable. There are no exit
strategies."
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Twelve Baluch women were killed by a doctor in Iran
By Reza Hossein Borr ; Baloch Culture Yahoo
Group
London, 18 April, 08--A doctor who was closely related to the Iranian
security forces killed 12 Baluch women in a hospital by leaving medical and
surgical tools in their bodies after operation in Baluchistan. This doctor
who is a woman was related to a security officer that was killed in Tasooki
incident in which 20 officers were killed by the Peoples Resistance Movement
of Iran, Jondollah, in revenge for the execution of several Baloch youth.
The doctor whose name was not revealed used her status as a doctor and
planted equipments in the bodies of her victims after she operated on them
revealed a site that has access to Baluch political forces in Iran.
The matter came to the attention of the hospital authorities after every
Baluch women that were operated by this women doctor died mysteriously. When
suspicions grew the hospital authorities ordered an investigation and they
found out that the woman doctor was the source of the killings of innocent
people that happened to become her patients.
Yekensan33.blogspot.com claimed the authorities realised that she was
closely related to the security forces. The investigation and her
confessions revealed that she had killed 12 Baluch women. When the
authorities decided to refer the matter to the police, the security forces
intervened and stopped the course of justice by transferring her to another
city. This doctor is working safely now in another city without the new
hospital authorities knowing her criminal backgrounds.
The complaints of the relatives of the 12 Baluch women have been dismissed
by police and Iranian courts. Some of the relatives of the victims, who
insisted on pursuing the matter further, were arrested by the security
forces and tortured and threatened to be executed if they revealed this
cover up.
A serial killer that was captured on 16th April by a Baluch political group
confessed that he has kidnapped 20 Baluch women and handed them to the
security forces. He confessed that he had no information of what happened to
them after she delivered them to security forces. The bodies of three Baluch
women were found in plastic bags about two months ago and the bodies of two
more Baluch women were found a week ago in Zahedan, Balochistan. The serial
killer confessed that Baluch women have been the target of the security
forces as they were easy to kidnap. A Baluch vigilant group announced that
the confessions of this man have been recorded and they will be posted on
Internet very soon.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has used systematic policies and operations in
Baluchistan to subjugate the Baluch people who are racially Baluch and
religiously Sunnis. Iran is ruled by a fundamentalist Shia regime that
believes in Valayat Faghih but this idea does not exist in Sunni religion.
The present supreme leader of Iran, Khamenaee, lived in exile in Balochistan
before the revolution and Baluch people used their traditional generosity
value and took care of him while the Shia population of Baluchistan rejected
him completely.
As soon as Khamenaee became the supreme leader, he began a campaign against
those who supported him during his exile and ordered the killing of all of
them. This is the reward of Iran's Shia supreme leader to the Baluch Sunni
who supported him at a time that he needed support and help. The Islamic
regime of Iran has killed more Baluch than any other government in the
history of the region.
Reza Hossein Borr is a leadership consultant and the creator of 150 CDs and
14 Change management models. He is also the author of Manual Success, Manual
of Coaching and Mentoring, Motivational Stories that Can Change Your Life,
and a New Vision for the Islamic World. He can be contacted by email:
balochfront@aol.com