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Hassan Rouhani`s `Twitter Message to Jews` at Centre of Iran Power Struggle

Hassan Rouhani, Iran's president, appeared to be at the centre of a regime power struggle thanks to a happy new year Twitter message to the world's Jews.

(TEHRAN The Independent) - The greeting on a Twitter account believed to be run with Mr Rouhani's blessing caused a stir on social media by announcing: "As the sun is about to set here in #Tehran I wish all Jews, especially Iranian Jews, a blessed Rosh Hashanah [the Jewish new year]."

It was accompanied by a picture of an Iranian Jew praying at a Tehran synagogue.

Iran: A Human Rights Agenda for New President

William Gomes asks the new leader of Iran to implement changes for the good of all people.

(YORK, UK) - Iran’s incoming government should take concrete steps to improve the country’s dreadful human rights record, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to President-elect Hassan Rouhani.

The letter identified key reform areas, ranging from freeing political prisoners to cooperating with UN rights bodies, that Rouhani and his new administration should take on during their next four years in office.

Could the West Partner with Iran to Bring Peace to the Middle East?

Iran and the Shiite alliance (extended in this case to include Alawites – centred in Syria) may be the last remaining safeguard in the powder keg that is the Middle East.

(PARIS) - EUROPE and the United States have an opportunity to consider Iran as an ally for peace in the Middle East as its new ‘moderate’ leader, Hassan Rouhani, prepares to take over its presidency.

Dr Rouhani will be inaugurated on August 3, 2013, as the 11th president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Dr Rouhani is considered a moderate - a centrist, half-way between conservatives, whose allegiance is to the ayatollahs, and reformists.

UK Government Still Won`t Come Clean on Israel`s Nukes

Politicians like Alistair Burt insult the intelligence of Parliament and the British public.

(LONDON) - The British government leads the charge to impose and tighten sanctions on Iran and makes other dire threats on the mere suspicion that the Islamic Republic may have nuclear weapons ambitions.

But its ministers continue to sidestep simple questions about Israel’s unsafeguarded nukes.

Please Help Defeat Anti-Iran Bills in Rhode Island

If you live in RI and are willing to send a short email in opposition to bills 521A and 5620, here is a list of email addresses for the members of House Finance Committee and Speaker Fox. You can copy the list into the “To” line or the “Bcc” line.

(RICHMOND, RI) - The RI House Finance Committee is scheduled to vote on two anti-Iran bills (521 Sub A and 5620) tomorrow, June 28. They would establish Rhode Island sanctions on Iran.

For the latest on the bills (including their texts) go to http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/ On the line labeled “bills” type 521,5620 and click on the word “Enter”.

UK`s Jack Straw Says Israel has Nuclear Weapons, Steals Palestinian Land

"Look, Israel has made statements in the past. Israeli ambassadors to the UN like myself have said that Israel won’t be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East." - Dr. Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador

(LONDON) - A tradition has developed in the West whereby politicians speak common sense and the truth, but only when they are no longer in power. Witness, for example, the former US president, Jimmy Carter.

Now Jack Straw, who was Britain’s foreign secretary at the time of the Anglo-American aggression against Iraq, has stepped forward to keep the tradition alive.

Iran Election is a Competition Between Clerical Favorites

Ahmadinejad’s successor is supposed to be chosen by the people, not guardians...

(BEIRUT) - Hand-picked to a man. That’s what you can say about the “candidates” for Iran’s presidential election this week.

The Guardian Council have ensured that the eight men – all are indeed men, of course – have the approval of the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. Power remains with the clique of clergymen, which was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s intention.

US Discloses Israel`s Top-Secret Military Base Outraging Tel-Aviv

According to the bid requests, the Arrow 3 system will include six interceptor missiles in vertical launch positions to be placed at the base, with a gantry crane to be erected for further missiles.

(MOSCOW RT) - The US government has inadvertently revealed the details of a top-secret Israeli missile base in published bid requests, leaving military officials in Tel-Aviv in the state of shock.

Israel has turned to the US government with its plans to build a state-of-the-art facility to host the new ballistic-missile defense system, the Arrow 3, McClatchy's Washington Bureau reports.

CIA and Mossad Killed in Iran

It is reported that the men had leaked information about Iran’s nuclear and missile programs in the last ten years.

(LONDON) - The Iranian government caught two "spies" who worked for the CIA and Mossad recently.

The two men were hanged Sunday morning, the information of the capture and hanging came from the Iranian state news Press TV.

U.S. Senators Could Destroy America by Attacking Iran

There aren't enough prison cells to house the Americans who will rise up against an attack on Iran.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - If an elected official uses their power to force Americans into a war with Iran on behalf of Israel, they are not working in the American interest.

They are in fact committing treason; a crime or extreme act against one's sovereign or nation.