Category Archives: Chicanery
The Persian Puzzle
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Taliban: Iran trained us in IEDs
TALIBAN commanders have revealed that hundreds of insurgents have been trained in Iran to kill Nato forces in Afghanistan… Continue reading
Khan: Iran tried to get Pak nukes
The father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program has written an official account that details an Iranian attempt to buy atomic bombs from Pakistan at the end of the 1980s… Continue reading
Our Shortest Interview Yet
Intrepid imahd.ca contributor Viz Bartolemy caught up with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad outside a movie theatre in downtown Tehran as he left a private screening of the Hollywood mega-blockbuster, Avatar… Continue reading
The Martyrdom of Mousavi
Iranian opposition leader and former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has declared that he is prepared for martyrdom in his quest to reform the Iranian political system. Essentially, he has invited the government to slay him, knowing that this will … Continue reading
Freedom Spotlight: IRAN
Here’s a quick look at how Iran is doing on several key freedom indices: Continue reading
Corruption Index 2009
Transparency International, a global anti-corruption group, has released the results of its 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) of 180 countries.
Leading the list of most trusted countries were… Continue reading
Chavez: Prepare for War Against U.S?
Chavez: “If the Yankee empire tries to use Colombia to attack Venezuela, the war of 100 years would begin,” he said. “The war would extend to other countries in the continent, from Mexico to Argentina. No one believes that a war against Venezuela would only be in Venezuela.” [...] Continue reading
IAEA to Iran: Explanation Required ASAP
As disclosed in VizReport in 2005, Iran has likely been working with small-scale nuclear weapon designs since shortly after they received them from the A.Q. Khan proliferation network in the 1990s, along with some advanced centrifuge designs.
The warhead schematics, probably for Soviet-era scalable-yield nuclear landmine configurations, were designed to be small enough to be hidden inconspicuously on the battlefield, even inside hollowed-out rocks or logs. This also makes them ideal for deployment on small- to medium-scale ballistic or cruise missiles… Continue reading
The Floating Cookie Jar
Paperwork aboard the German-owned, Antiguan-flagged vessel shows the origin of some of its arms containers to be the Iranian port of Bandar-Abbas, contradicting the Syrian Foreign Minister’s assertion that the ship was traveling from Syria to Iran… Continue reading
More Iran Nuke Secrets
PARIS (AP) — An exiled Iranian opposition group called on the U.N. nuclear agency Tuesday to waste no time in examining a hidden site near Tehran that it claims is used to help build nuclear detonators.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran, or NCRI, the political arm of the Mujahedeen Khalq, said the site is built under a hillside east of Tehran and comprises a series of interconnecting tunnels. “All activities related to the manufacture of detonators are done in this web of tunnels,” Mehdi Abrichamtchi told a news conference… Continue reading
Iraq seeks UN inquiry into blasts
(AlJazeera.net) Iraq’s foreign minister has called for a UN inquiry into Sunday’s twin suicide bombings in Baghdad which left at least 155 people dead and hundreds more injured… Continue reading
