Remember how fast the "arms shipment" story went away when Iran showed the evidence was FAKED? Well guess what? More fakery against Iran?
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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:05:33 GMT
Iran says labels reading 'Ministry of Sepah', a body that no
longer exists, are enough to prove that the photos released
by Israel are forged.
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After Israel released photos it said proved that a huge
shipment of weapons for Hezbollah came from Tehran, Iranian
news agencies publish evidence showing that the photos are
forged.
Israeli naval sources recently claimed that they found a
large cache of Iranian-made arms when they stormed a vessel
near Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea.
They claimed that the ship was heading for the Hezbollah
resistance movement, either in Lebanon or Syria.
Iran instantly dismissed the claims, issuing a statement
with which it condemned Israel's many acts of piracy in
international waters.
But the Israeli government persisted in its accusations,
releasing what it claimed to be photos and documents in an
effort to implicate the Iranian government in the matter.
The photos and documents were carried by a number of leading
newspapers in the West, including The Los Angeles Times.
"The Israeli regime has made a fool of itself with regards
to what it claims to be evidence that Iran was sending
weapons to Hezbollah," IRNA news agency said on Monday.
"Take a close look at the photos, one of which merely shows
a couple of boxes labeled 'Ministry of Sepah' without
providing corroborative evidence that they came from Iran,
and you will see the huge gaffe committed by Israel," it
added.
The article explained that Iran's Ministry of Sepah gave its
place to the Defense Ministry more than twenty years ago.
"So this begs the question of what the emblem of a
nonexistent body was doing on the cargo?"
"It seems the American daily has failed to get its facts
straight, or on the other hand, maybe it is getting its cue
from the Israeli leadership," said the news agency.
"In any case, the newspaper should know that if a country
plans to send a secret arms cargo to another, it will not
brand the shipment with a full description of the batch."
"Tel Aviv's baseless claims [about Iran providing Hezbollah
with military] are evidently designed to justify another
Israeli attack on Lebanon."
Yadollah Javani, the Director of the Political Bureau of the
Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), said last week that
the claims were intended to divert attention from a UN
report detailing Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
"These accusations are nothing but an Israeli ruse to
deflect international attention from the Goldstone report as
they move closer to the war crimes tribunal [at the
International Criminal Court (ICC)]," noted Brigadier
General Javani.
He was referring to the 575-page report headed by Jewish
South African judge Richard Goldstone, which detailed
numerous acts of war crimes and human rights violations
committed by Israeli soldiers during their incursion into
Gaza.
"Israeli officials have a longstanding tendency to level
baseless accusations against others when they are in serious
trouble," he added.
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri also dismissed the
charges, questioning why the Israelis had failed to detain
the crew, if the ship was supposedly carrying weapons.
Berri said that while Hezbollah has the right to obtain arms
from "anywhere in the world," it is pretty obvious that
Israel made the claims to fudge the issue of its war crimes
in Gaza.
SBB/DT
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Israel says photos prove weapons ship came from Iran
Israel released documents and pictures on Wednesday which it
said provided proof that a massive arms shipment seized at
sea last week came from Iran.
Israeli commandos intercepted the Antigua-flagged "Francop"
near the coast of Cyprus, claiming it was taking the weapons
to Syria en route to the Lebanese Hezbollah militia.
Israel immediately accused arch-foe Iran of sending the
cargo, but on Wednesday offered for the first time evidence
to back up the charges and detailed the extent of the cache.
"Hidden among the dozens of other containers on board, and
disguised as civilian goods, the ship contained a
consignment of 36 shipping containers with 500 tones of arms
en route via Syria to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation
in Lebanon," the army and foreign ministry said in a
statement.
"A total of about 9,000 mortar bombs of different types were
seized, along with about 3,000 Katyusha artillery rockets,
3,000 recoilless gun shells, 20,000 grenades and over half a
million rounds of small arms ammunition," the statement
said.
It was accompanied by photos showing the ship's manifest,
containers bearing the logo of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Shipping Lines and cargo with Iranian armed forces customs
labels.
Among the weapons seized were 2,124 Iranian-made 107mm
artillery rockets and thousands of AZ111-A2 fuses
manufactured only in Iran, the statement said.
Pictures also showed boxes of rockets labelled as "parts of
bulldozers," a suggestion of attempts to disguise the
shipment.
Iran and Hezbollah have both denied any link to the ship.
Israel, which was hit by thousands of rockets fired by
Hezbollah during the 2006 war in Lebanon, has said the
captured ship proved Iran was helping Hezbollah to prepare
for another round of fighting.
A UN Security Council resolution which brought an end to the
2006 war demanded the disarmament of all militias in Lebanon
and imposed a ban on all arms exports to them.
Israel views Iran as its main strategic threat because of
Tehran's support for Hezbollah and Palestinian militants,
its leader's frequent predictions of the demise of the
Jewish state and its nuclear programme.
Israel, which has the region's sole if undeclared nuclear
arsenal, believes Iran's programme is aimed at developing a
bomb, a charge denied by Tehran.
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'Video of Tehran unrest vehicle assault probably fake'
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:21:31 GMT
The Iranian police say they have launched an investigation
into a "probably fake" video, which seems to show a police
vehicle running into a group of protesters in Tehran.
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The footage, allegedly shot on Sunday, seems to show one
police vehicle speeding right at the protesters before a
second vehicle runs over a protester lying on the ground.
The police issued a statement on Thursday saying that the
only deadly car accident connected with the unrest on Sunday
was an incident in which a private car hit some of the
rioters on Azadi Street in western Tehran.
Two people were killed in the car crash.
The police say they have found the car and they are
conducting an investigation of the case.
There were no reports of deaths on Vali-e-Asr Square in
central Tehran, where the video was allegedly shot, the
police statement said.
The video shown on foreign television networks was "probably
a fake and part of the schemes being implemented by foreign
media outlets and counter-revolutionaries" to harm Iran's
image, the statement added.
Protesters took to the streets in downtown Tehran on Sunday,
during the ceremonies for the day of Ashura, which is the
anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (PBUH) and his
72 companions.
The protesters chanted slogans against top government
officials and vandalized public property.
When the situation turned violent, the anti-riot police used
tear gas to disperse the crowds.
The authorities have confirmed that seven people died during
the unrest.
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Mahathir: US preparing for attack on Iran
Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:53:43 GMT
Mahathir Mohamad
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The former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has
warned that the US is preparing to launch an attack on Iran
with the help of Israel.
"Obama is preparing for a (military) offensive on Iran with
the help of his ally, the Israeli regime," IRNA quoted
Mohamad as writing on his weblog.
Mahathir said that President Barack Obama, who had received
the Nobel Peace Prize, did not fulfill his promises
regarding withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as a pledge to close the Guantanamo prison.
Obama "has not even fulfilled one word of his promises," he
said.
Mahathir went on to say that the US is expected to launch
the war on Iran on the pretext that the Islamic Republic was
seeking to build a nuclear bomb.
He said that the US will introduce "forged evidences"
showing Iran aims to "start a nuclear war against the
world."
Tel Aviv and Washington have never ruled out the possibility
of a military strike against Iran, which is accused by the
US, Israel and some European countries of aiming to develop
nuclear weapons under the cover of its civilian nuclear
program.
While categorically denying the allegations, Iran says it
has the capability to ward off any attack on the country and
has stressed that an Israeli or US strike would meet a
'decisive' response from Tehran.
Iran says its nuclear program is meant to meet the civilian
needs of its people and is being pursued within the
framework of international atomic agency regulations.
Mahathir also referred to Iraq that came under the
occupation of the US and its allies on the pretext that the
country has weapons of mass destruction - a claim which
proved to be untrue.
He questioned "whether we could believe that the war against
Iran will be because of its potential nuclear strike against
the world?"
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Iran: Israel out to sidetrack UN with ship claim
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:53:34 GMT
Former war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone
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Tehran says Tel Aviv spread 'false' claims about seizing a
ship with Iranian ammunition to sway attention away from the
Goldstone report on Israeli war crimes.
"We strongly reject such claims. Israel has made this
accusation to distract the international community's
attention away from the investigating committee's report on
atrocities it committed in Gaza," Iran's UN mission said in
a statement.
On Wednesday, Israel alleged that it had seized a huge cache
of weapons when raiding an Antigua-flagged vessel around 100
nautical miles from its shores.
Tel Aviv said the "hundreds of kilograms of Iranian-made
arms" were destined either for Hezbollah or Syria, a claim
that quickly drew rejections from Iran, Syria and Hezbollah.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said that contrary
to Israel's claims, "the ship was not carrying Iranian-made
weaponry for Syria or Lebanon", but was in fact carrying
Syrian-made items for consumption in Iran.
As the UN general assembly was busy reviewing the Goldstone
report, Israel's UN mission submitted a letter to the
Security Council accusing Iran of violating Resolution 1701,
which was issued to stop Tel Aviv's 2006 offensive against
Lebanon.
Iran's responded to the allegation by reminding the Zionist
regime that Tel Aviv has breached "not one but several" UN
Security Council resolutions, including that very same
motion.
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Hezbollah denies link to arms seized by Israel
Lebanon's Hezbollah on Thursday vehemently denied Israeli
accusations that a huge shipment of arms seized by the
Jewish state was destined for the militant group.
"Hezbollah staunchly denies any link to the weapons that the
Zionist enemy has seized from the Francop ship," the group,
which fought a devastating war with Israel in 2006, said in
a brief statement.
"At the same time Hezbollah denounces Israel's piracy in
international waters," it added.
The shipment intercepted on Wednesday was among the largest
ever seized by Israel, which said the weapons were bound for
Hezbollah from Iran.
The Israeli military said it had seized the 137-metre (450-
foot) Antigua-flagged vessel Francop before dawn on
Wednesday around 100 nautical miles from the Israeli coast.
Iran and Syria, staunch allies of Hezbollah, have both
rejected Israel's accusations about the ship's destination
and direction of passage.
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Hezbollah denies Israel's arms ship claims
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:30:27 GMT
Lebanon's Hezbollah has strongly rejected Israeli
allegations that a huge shipment of arms seized by Tel Aviv
forces was bound to reach the resistance movement.
"Hezbollah staunchly denies any link to the weapons that the
Zionist enemy has seized from the Francop ship," Hezbollah
said in a statement released on Thursday.
"At the same time, Hezbollah denounces Israel's piracy in
international waters," it added.
The statement comes a day after Israel claimed to have
seized a huge cache of weapons after storming the Antigua-
flagged vessel Francop around 100 nautical miles from the
occupied Palestine.
Tel Aviv asserted the arms shipment was destined either for
Hezbollah or Syria, indicating the vessel was carrying
'hundreds of kilograms of Iranian-made arms' to Israel's
archenemy, which parried its offensive on southern Lebanon
in 2006.
"We found dozens of containers, with hundreds of tons of
arms bound for Hezbollah from Iran," Israel's deputy naval
commander, Rani Ben Yehuda, told reporters on Wednesday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, in a joint
press conference with his Syrian counterpart Walid al-
Muallem on Wednesday, dismissed the allegations on the
cargo's destination and its direction of passage.
His remarks were backed by al-Muallem, who asserted that
contrary to Israeli claims, 'the ship was not carrying
Iranian-made weaponry for Syria or Lebanon', but was in fact
carrying Syrian-made items for consumption in Iran.
The new accusations follow a report by UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-moon to the Security Council on Israeli allegations
about weapons smuggling to Hezbollah.
Ban's report said the claims could not independently verify
the information, adding that the Lebanese government had not
informed the UN of a single incident of weapons smuggling to
its territory, whether by land, sea or air.
The UN Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 summer war on
Lebanon, limits the delivery of weapons to the Lebanese
government only.
MRS/AKM
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