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Originally posted by curedby432
First off if you watch the video, you see that Iranians agree that religion and politics should not be mixed.
they send us their love!
The UN atomic agency said Wednesday that “intensive efforts” by its team visiting Iran on the way forward failed, and that they were denied access to a key military site.
Iran has performed actions with their nuclear program that have violated the NPT / IAEA requirements / guidelines.
Originally posted by casenately
reply to post by seabag
that is not proof of funding, just ranting and rheotric. I know he is capable of this and does it daily. But did he fund them? where, how much, when?
Obama made allot of promises but I dont expect him to do anything though.
Hezbollah has also received Iranian-supplied weaponry, including 11,500 missiles already in place in southern Lebanon. 3,000 Hezbollah militants have undergone training in Iran, which included guerrilla warfare, firing missiles and rocket artillery, operating unmanned drones, marine warfare, and conventional war operations.[18]
Mahmoud Ali Suleiman, the Hezbollah operative captured in August 2006 by the IDF for his role in the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12, admitted during his interrogation that he received weapons-training and religious instruction in Iran. He told his interrogators that he rode in a civilian car to Damascus, from where he flew to Iran. Other than the Russian-made Katyusha, Hezbollah's reported artillery cache is entirely Iranian-made.
It is estimated that yearly, over 1.5 trillion dollars are spent on military expenditures worldwide (2.7% of World GDP).[1
WASHINGTON - A grand jury in Philadelphia indicted four men Tuesday for an alleged plot to support the Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah through illegal schemes, including buying the group more than a thousand machine guns.
the 2009 elections were a sham because the real elected president was a reformist and wanted to do just that.,
it's what the people want. They will eventually succeed.
Originally posted by casenately
reply to post by Xcathdra
Minister Stresses Iran's Respect for All Religious Minorities
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Seyed Mohammad Hosseini underlined the Islamic Republic's respect and support for the rights of all religious minorities living in Iran.
Hosseini referred to the rights of religious minorities in Iran, and added that in Iran, the religious minorities have representatives at the parliament.
He further underlined that commonalties of different religions should be identified and introduced.
Hosseini made the remarks in a meeting with followers of monotheist religions in Tehran on Saturday night, stressing that the amicable and cordial relations among the followers of monotheistic religions in Islamic Iran is one of the honors of the sacred Islamic Republic.
In relevant remarks in 2010, Vice-Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Hassan Aboutorabi Fard had also reiterated the Islamic Republic's respect for religious minorities, and said that minorities in Iran enjoy the same rights that Muslims have even in legislating laws for the country.
"Representatives of the religious minorities enjoy equal rights with other lawmakers in the Islamic Consultative Assembly (parliament) in Iran," Aboutorabi Fard said in a meeting here in Tehran at the time with the Patriarch Cardinal of the Chaldean and Assyrian Catholic Church of Iraq.
He said that based on Islamic guidelines, all religious minorities in Iran are free to observe their religious duties, and they also enjoy the right to choose their own favorite MPs from among their own religious brethrens.
english.farsnews.com...
that inlcudes Jews.edit on 25-2-2012 by casenately because: (no reason given)
they give them weapons...ok....
that is not funding but rather weapon sales.
The funding of Hezbollah partly occurs through donations. Lebanese Shias often make zakat contributions directly after prayers, leaving change in the two-handed Hezbollah collection tins.
Also Hezbollah receives financial and political assistance, as well as weapons and training, from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The US estimates that Iran was giving Hezbollah about $60–$100 million per year in financial assistance but that assistance declined as other funding was secured, primarily from South America.
Some estimates of Iran's aid are as high as $200-million annually.
Some people have fallen victims of confusing Iran with Shia. They try to
imply that Shia were persians who hated Arabs and that is why they oppose
Umar and some other companions.
Iran is a country and Shia is a belief, they are two different entities!
Many people are Shia but they are NOT Iranian. There are Shia in Iraq,
Hijaz (Arabian Peninsula), Syria, Lebanon, and all of them are Arabs. In
addition to that, there are Shia in Pakistan, India, Africa, America, and
all of them are neither Arabs nor Persians.
More over all of the 12 Imams of Shia are Arabs, from Quraish and from Bani
Hashim. If Persians were prejudice and hated Arabs, as some people claim,
they would have chosen Salman al-Farsi as their Imam since he was a great
companion of the Prophet, and respected by both Shi'its and Sunnits.
en.wikipedia.org...
Hezbollah[1] (Arabic: حزب الله ḥizbu-llāh(i), literally "Party of God") is a Shi'a Muslim militant group and political party based in Lebanon.[2][3][4] It receives financial and political support from Iran and Syria, and its paramilitary wing is regarded as a resistance movement throughout much of the Arab and Muslim worlds.[2] The United States, the Netherlands,[5] the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and Israel classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, in whole or in part.[6]
Hezbollah first emerged in response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, during the Lebanese civil war.
Hezbollah, which started with only a small militia, has grown to an organization with seats in the Lebanese government, a radio and a satellite television-station, and programs for social development.[10]
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Due to its tightly regulated financial system and the highest gold reserve in the Middle East, Lebanese banks largely avoided the financial crisis of 2007–2010. In 2009, despite a global recession, Lebanon enjoyed 9% economic growth and hosted the largest number of tourists in its history; however, by 2011, economic growth had slowed to below average for the region.[14]
Lebanon is known for its unique efforts in the Middle East to guarantee civil rights and freedom to its citizens, ranking first in the Middle East and 26th worldwide (out of 66 countries) in the The World Justice Project's Rule of Law Index 2011.[15]
Over 900,000 refugees are being catered for by many organizations and volunteers. Yet there is still a serious shortage of clothing and hygiene, especially for the children.
These refugees left their homes with nothing except what they were wearing. Three weeks have passed while they are in schools where only minimum hygiene is available. Children as well as adults need a change of clothes. But before that they need a HOT BATH. Schools are not equipped with bathrooms, they only have toilets and wash basins and no hot water. SPNL intends, starting immediately, to install portable bathrooms in the schools where the displaced are being housed temporarily. Temporarily, in certain cases, could be several months!!
www.bbc.co.uk...
Lebanon opens bank account for donations to equip army Lebanon's army uses US equipment, such as these M-60 tanks Continue reading the main story
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Originally posted by casenately
reply to post by nenothtu
by they, you mean the regime fighting for its survival over the Iranian dissident movement.
again, not my tax dollars or our militaries problem
Originally posted by Shark_Feeder
From the bit of research I just did, I see that fast-neutron reactors require at least 20% enrichment of the U.
Originally posted by Shark_Feeder
Also worth noting that naval reactors use around 40-45% enrichment...I have a friend in the Norfolk shipyards, he refuels these suckers.edit on 25-2-2012 by Shark_Feeder because: (no reason given)