Here’s a Sample.
IAEA report: Iran installs more centrifuges at Fordow enrichment plant
Iran has rapidly installed extra uranium-enriching centrifuges at its Fordow site and begun setting up others, a U.N. nuclear watchdog report said in what diplomats described as limited retaliation to a resolution by the watchdog's board. (Reuters. June 13, 2024)
Iran expanding enrichment capacity after IAEA resolution, diplomats say
Iran is responding to last week's U.N. nuclear watchdog board resolution against it by expanding its uranium-enrichment capacity at two underground sites, but the escalation is not as big as many had feared, diplomats said on Wednesday. (Reuters. June 12, 2024)
Europeans detail Iran's nuclear violations in diplomatic gambit
Three European powers have written to the U.N. Security Council detailing Iran's violations of its 2015 nuclear deal, a step diplomats said on Thursday aimed to pressure Tehran to resolve the issue diplomatically and to avoid reimposing U.N. sanctions. (Reuters. June 6, 2024)
Struggle for gender equality in Iran began generations before the latest protests
For nearly two months, Iranians have been protesting following the death of a woman in the custody of Iran's morality police. She was detained for allegedly wearing her hijab inappropriately. And her name was Mahsa Amini. She's also known by her Kurdish name, Jina Amini. (National Public Radio. November 10, 2022.)
Variety of Iranian Hijab Styles
Iranian women and girls face further violations of their rights under compulsory veiling bill
Armita Garawand, a 16-year-old schoolgirl, remains in a coma after falling unconscious on 1 October 2023 at a Tehran metro amid reports that a confrontation with somebody enforcing Iran’s degrading and discriminatory compulsory veiling laws led to her hospitalization. Her hospitalisation comes against a backdrop of Iranian authorities’ intensified oppression against women and girls in recent months. (Amnesty International. October 25, 2023.)
Iranian Woman Dress Designer & Musician at Tehran Trade Exhibition (Photo: J. Michael Springmann)
Every day, they face danger’: An Iranian Christian’s account of life in his home country, and his eventual escape to Canada
Cyrus Abdullahi (not his real name) became a Christian in his 20s. After a few initial visits to an underground church a friend invited him to in Tehran, he says he felt a hint of something when the group prayed for him the first time but didn’t believe it meant anything real. It wasn’t until several months later—when he had a life-changing dream—that he believed for the first time. But that belief would prove to be a problem for the same reason Abdullahi asked not to be identified by his real name: because apostasy from Islam—including converting to Christianity—carries the death penalty in Iran. As a result, that conversion led to a chain of grueling events that eventually brought Abdullahi to Canada as a refugee. (Anglican Journal. June 13, 2024.)
Iran Is Not a ‘Normal’ Country
Hours after Hamas’s horrific attack on Israeli civilians on October 7, all of Iran’s parliamentarians rose from their seats to chant “Death to Israel!” and “Palestine is victorious; Israel will be destroyed!” Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and other top Iranian officials, including the former head of the country’s military forces, expressed their support for Hamas, declaring that Iran “will stay with the Palestinian freedom fighters until the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem.” (The Atlantic. February 2, 2024.)
Electronics Shop in Upscale Shopping Center, Tehran. (Photo J. Michael Springmann.)
Still More!
Iran Among Top Hackers in 300 Million Daily Cyberattacks on Microsoft Users
…Over the past several years, Iranian cyber-attacks, mainly from Revolutionary Guard-affiliated individuals or entities, have targeted critical infrastructure, financial institutions, election websites, and water plants in the US.
Following the Israel-Hamas conflict, Iran-backed hackers have intensified their activities. According to CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity company, during the latter half of 2023, there was a noticeable increase in cyber operations by Iran-related groups and Middle East hacktivists, aligning with the events of the conflict… (American Iranian Council. June 14, 2024.)
Iran installing and starting cascades of advanced centrifuges
Iran has started up new cascades of advanced centrifuges and plans to install others in the coming weeks after facing criticism over its nuclear program, the United Nations' atomic watchdog said Friday. The U.S. called the moves “nuclear escalations.”… (American Iranian Council. June 14, 2024.)
Senior Iranian Official Touts Violent Hijab Crackdown ‘Great Achievement’
Iran's Minister of Interior praised the brutal enforcement of the radical hijab regulation under the recent 'Noor' plan as one of the police's "greatest honors."… (American Iranian Council. June 14, 2024.)
Any More Would Gag a Maggot on a Gut Wagon.
So, What’s the Purpose of All These Lie, Half-Truths and Evasions of Fact? Real simple. They hide reality. They misdirect the reader. They serve as poorly done propaganda. They conceal history. They might be working to justify another regional war.
Does the Esteemed Reader see any attacks by the nuclear-armed United Kingdom on the United States? Didn’t that “country” fight two wars with its colony in English America?
Has the Esteemed Reader come across the Second or Third German Empire’s attacks on the United States? Wasn’t it really the other way ‘round?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Does the Esteemed Reader remember Peace President for Life Franklin D. Roosevelt’s assaults on Germany and Japan in the 1930s and 1940s? Former President Herbert Hoover remarked that Roosevelt’s policy was like sticking pins in a rattlesnake.
Does the Esteemed Reader recall the illegitimate and terrorist Israeli attacks on U.S. Information Service Libraries as well as an American Consulate in Egypt in 1954? Think the Lavon Affair.
Lavon Affair
How about the deliberate Israeli attack on the USS Liberty? 34 dead; 171 wounded.
Does the Esteemed Reader recollect terrorist Israel’s attacks on the several Gaza Aid Flotillas in 2008, 2009, and 2010? And the number of demonstrators murdered in the later? And the one blocked in 2011? Will there be another in 2024?
What about Emily Henochowicz, a 21-year-old Jewish American, blinded by Zionist forces during a demonstration against the attack on the 2010 flotilla?
What about U.S. Citizen Rachel Corrie, run over twice by an Israeli bulldozer because she attempted to protect a Palestinian’s home from being demolished?
Did the Esteemed Reader see any strong words about the foregoing? How much ink was devoted to Israel being America’s oldest enemy and greatest debtor?
As for invading another country, according to the Guardian, Iran has not gone across the border of another land in 214 years.
COMMENT. I have been to the Islamic Republic of Iran twice. I have not seen or heard of any of the above malarkey about the evil Iranians. I have not seen or heard of any verbal attacks on Americans. But I did hear complimentary things said about United States citizens.
I saw no mistreatment of women and, after I queried an Arab woman, who had lived many years in Iran, about reinforced hijab rules, she told me that the concept was a fiction of Western news media.
Remember that it was the U.S. government which forced Iran into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, (JCPOA), limiting the country’s holdings of and enrichment levels of nuclear materials. And that it was the United States which unilaterally abrogated this agreement. And which repeatedly sanctioned that country and its citizens. And which demanded limits on Iran’s missiles’ range and payload.
Remember that Iran has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—and the organization calling itself Israel hasn’t. And it’s Israel that has from 100 to 400 nuclear weapons, some of which might be hydrogen bombs.
American and European media have been bad enough in the past. Now that they and their governments are under the control of the Zionist Entity, shouldn’t we demand a deep cleaning of the biased Jews controlling them? Blocking Iran from the Community of Nations is astonishingly stupid. And fighting a war against Iran won’t be like fighting a war against the Vatican.
For an incisive group of articles about my visits to Iran, please see my posts on Substack.
J. Michael Springmann is an attorney, author, political commentator, and former diplomat, with postings to Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View, recounting how the U.S. created and used Islamic Terrorism. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area. Internationally recognized as a knowledgeable pundit, he is a frequent commentator on Arab, Iranian, and Russian news programs.
Blacklisted by the US news media, he is also on the Ukraine’s “Enemies List”, having questioned, inter alia, that country’s refusal to honor the Minsk Accords and for stating that its government is Nazified.