It is amazing to me how naiive our hamvatans (myslef included) are when it comes to politics. I cried for Akbar Ganji when he was fasting in jail!!! guys - politics is a dirty game....especially these days being mixed with runaway media and mass mind control. My cynical side says Karoubi was never jailed or under house arrest......it was all a show. Green movement was real and as you may recall many tried to hijack it and place Karoubi and Moussavi as it's leaders.
Waits a minnute. What happened to people who cried Karubi dastgir beshe Iran ghiamat mishe. What did you expect him to do? No one really cared about Karubi and Mosavi from the begining. He was an excuse for people to protest. But It was for real when we saw he was beatten in parliament. The news says he is released. But we have not seen him yet. I think Khamenei has done alot ot get a confession from him.
Yeah, I forgot to post that piece of news. Rohani had promised to look into the health effects of satellite jamming and they just announced earlier today that a committee has been formed to look into it. I don't trust Rohani (or any akhund for that matter), but this may be the start of the end for IRGC's dominance on radio/TV signals in Iran and perhaps a small round about step for reformists and reforms to start getting some control back. How long it's going to last or how far it's going to remains to be seen since there's obviously a LOT OF resistance, but any step in the right direction is a good one.
Rouhanicare: Iran's president promises healthcare for all by 2018
Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, has promised healthcare for all Iranians in the next four years in a move reminiscent of Barack Obama's patient protection and affordable care act, dubbed Obamacare.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/ir...president-hassan-rouhani-healthcare-obamacare
Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, has promised healthcare for all Iranians in the next four years in a move reminiscent of Barack Obama's patient protection and affordable care act, dubbed Obamacare.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/ir...president-hassan-rouhani-healthcare-obamacare
Ambassador: Iraq Looking to Buy Arms from Iran
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Together with multi-billion dollar arms purchases from the United States and Russia, Iraq’s ambassador to Tehran said that Baghdad has also signed an arms agreement with its eastern neighbor, Iran.
“Iraq has signed an agreement with Iran to purchase weapons and military equipment because Iraq's defense ministry trusts the effectiveness of the Iranian weapons,” Muhammad Majid al-Sheikh, told the Iranian Tasnim news agency.
"It’s crucial for the Iraqi army to receive a part of its weapons from arms produced in Iran," he added.
- See more at: http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/05022014#sthash.c8AqHl6S.dpuf
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Together with multi-billion dollar arms purchases from the United States and Russia, Iraq’s ambassador to Tehran said that Baghdad has also signed an arms agreement with its eastern neighbor, Iran.
“Iraq has signed an agreement with Iran to purchase weapons and military equipment because Iraq's defense ministry trusts the effectiveness of the Iranian weapons,” Muhammad Majid al-Sheikh, told the Iranian Tasnim news agency.
"It’s crucial for the Iraqi army to receive a part of its weapons from arms produced in Iran," he added.
- See more at: http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/05022014#sthash.c8AqHl6S.dpuf
Great news. No chance they'll ever again occupy an inch of Iran with that crap! 
"How can the US congress approve the delivery F16's and Apache's knowing that Iranian military and intelligence officers are in Iraq working with the Iraqi army?"
They give Apaches to Iraq with Sepah watching across the tarmac but sweat over an AR-15 falling in the hands of Jihadists in Syria.
It seems like he knows about peoples problems. But admits the country has finantial proplems. He even admits the state may save the yarane. Typical mullah talk. Talks good but nothing will be done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTlfnroyCU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTlfnroyCU
Khodaish, US foreign policy is very khar too kahr these days, for lack of a better phrase. ME is going through a serious readjustment period and the current US administration is always two steps behind - not that the Bush administration did a lot of good by being two steps ahead either. You guys really need to find a FP balance down there.
There is no foreign policy. Anywhere. They get up in the morning and read the papers to figure out what to do. Of course, there are those that no matter what happens claim that it was all a plan., and it is working. You can't argue with that. As for Bush, for better or worse, he had an overarching vision and acted on it. But to succeed it needs a follow up which has not happened. As bad as Iraq is today I have yet to hear anyone say they wish Saddam was left in power. I have no doubt by now he would have joined up with IR. What is Obama's vision? Staying out? OK, but even that needs to be articulated. Staying out does not mean doing nothing.
