27 Jun 2009

Mebane: Signs of Fraud on Iran Presidential Election

A report by a Michigan Professor

Walter R. Mebane Jr, the election forensics expert who continues to wade through the official vote count from the Iranian elections, has his starkest conclusion yet: that there was "extensive ballot box stuffing on Ahmadinejad's behalf."

The title of the report is "Note on the presidential election in Iran", and you can find it in 27 pages here.

22 Jun 2009

Survey of official Iran results casts serious doubt on victory claims


a report by Chatham House
21 June 2009
Authors:
Ali Ansari, Daniel Berman and Thomas Rintoul,

A survey of Iran's election results, published today by Chatham House and the University of St Andrews, raises serious questions about the plausibility of the claimed victory and demonstrates irregularities in the official results.

According to this report:
Even the official statistics - obtained from the Ministry of the Interior - indicate that:

30 May 2009

CSIS report: An Israeli strike against Iran would lack any success


A report by CSIS in Washington

During the last several months, the Burke Chair has carried out a detailed examination of Iran’s programs involving missiles and weapons of mass destruction. The key drafts involved are available on the CSIS website at:
http://www.csis.org/burke/reports/
A final comprehensive report will be published this summer as a CSIS book by the Praeger Press.

3 Apr 2009

In Search of female prisoner 650 in the US custody

Press release:
Press TV Exclusive: First TV interview with Binyam Mohammed on The Agenda show, Thursday 2 April.

Torture victim, Binyam Mohammed has given his very first TV interview since his release from Guantanamo in February. In the interview with Press TV, he makes sensational claims about the plight of female detainees caught up in the war on terror.

His dramatic eyewitness account was aired this week on The Agenda, a lively political discussion show hosted by journalist Yvonne Ridley.

18 Jan 2009

British Jewish MP denounces Israelis war criminals

Sir Gerald Kaufmann, a Jewish MP, denounces Israeli leaders as war criminals



In his speech at the British parliament recently, he said: "Israel was born out of Jewish Terrorism" Tzipi Livni's Father was a Terrorist. Astonishing claims in the House of Parliament. SIR Gerald Kaufman, the veteran Labour MP, yesterday compared the actions of Israeli troops in Gaza to the Nazis who forced his family to flee Poland.

12 Jan 2009

Majority of Gazans are refugees of Israel occupation


Majority of the 1.5 million Gazans are refugees of Israel occupation

Rashid Khalidi
New York Times
7 January 2009,


NEARLY everything you’ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Below are a few essential points that seem to be missing from the conversation, much of which has taken place in the press, about Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip.


Most of the people living in Gaza are not there by choice. The majority of the 1.5 million people crammed into the roughly 140 square miles of the Gaza Strip belong to families that came from towns and villages outside Gaza like Ashkelon and Beersheba. They were driven to Gaza by the Israeli Army in 1948.