Hassan Dai, October 31, 2013
The growing disenchantment with Rouhani has reached unprecedented levels with the closure of Bahar newspaper and the insults and attack on Mousavi’s daughters. The media and online reaction reveals the reformists’ anger and disappointment at Rouhani’s passivity and inaction.
From: Iran Media Focus, 31 October 2013
A new report by ISISshows that Iran isn’t idle while sitting at the negotiating table. On the contrary, it continues to expand the number of IR-1 centrifuges installed at both its Fordow and Natanz plants, and had also begun to install more advanced IR-2m centrifuges at Natanz.
Meanwhile, former International Atomic Energy Agency official Olli Heinonen suggests that Iran had passed the “point of no return” in its nuclear program, having installed centrifuges meant to enrich uranium to a percentage even higher than 20%. Heinonen estimates that Tehran could soon radically reduce its so-called “breakout time.”
Kayvan Kaboli, Oct 30, 2013
The head of the judiciary Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani has publicly defended Bahar newspaper ban. Bahar was accused of publishing an article insulting Muslim religious beliefs last week, according to hardliners. Bahar was close to reformists and Hassan Rouhani, the new regime’s elected president.
Eli Lake Oct 30, 201, Daily Beast
Western intelligence agencies have had great success in the past sleuthing out Iran’s undeclared nuclear facilities. But the Iranians have gotten better at hiding their tracks, according to some current and retired United States intelligence officers who say it could prove very difficult for the world to catch Iran again if it tries to build a nuclear weapon in secret.
Alana Goodman, Oct 21 2013, Washington Free Beacon
Hooman Majd, Iranian regime’s pundit in the US has called the anti-regime WSJ journalist Ahmari a “House Negro”. In 2012, Majd sent a tweet to human rights defender Nazanin Afshin-Jam, and wrote: “F***ing a Canadian minister doesn’t make you Canadian, azizam. Come back to papa.”
Iranian American Forum, Oct 13 2013
Mohamad Nourizad, a prominent dissident in Iran, who was scheduled to speak at the NIAC’s annual conference, responded to the Iranian-Americans’ demand and canceled his speech. He announced the cancellation on his website and Facebook page.
Iranian American Forum, 16 October 2013
Today, pro-engagement pundits praised nuclear negotiations as useful, candid and positive. But Tehran appeasers have always used the same language to praise past failed talks. Just a few examples:
Iranian American Forum, 12 October 2013
The last Friday prayer was used as a stage against the Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. The main speaker Ahmad Khatami, close to the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, asked Zarif to admit publicly that some mistakes were made during the New York trip
Iranian American Forum, July 28 2013
Bill Maher invited three guests for his Real Time panel on Friday, July 26 2013. All three participants in the show had one thing in common: history of pandering. Participation of three corrupt figures in a panel with the main topic of Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal brands Bill Maher’s Real Time last Friday an exceptional show.
Iranian American Forum, 30 May 2013
Argentine prosecutor’s warning about Iranian terrorist networks in South America undermines the PR campaign by Tehran apologists who constantly mask the threat posed by Iranian terrorism to US national security
