Iran is about 90% Shi’i Muslim. With Sunni Muslims, Jews, Christians, Zorastrians in the minority
According to the CIA Factbook, "Muslim 98% (Shi'a 89%, Sunni 9%), other (includes Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian, and Baha'i) 2%" https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ir.html
Friday, September 26, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
SOURCES and NOTES - Narration - Pt.1 - Hijab
We came across a mosque setting up for a first hijab ceremony for girls
COMMENT: the Mosque where these very hospitable people left us shoot was in Isfahan, not too far from the Imam Square.
Non-Muslim girls and women are not exempt. These girls in black are not Muslims but Armenian Christian students at an Armenian Christian School.
COMMENT: There are about 8,000 Armenians in Isfahan.
SOURCE: http://www.caucaz.com/home_eng/breve_contenu.php?id=158
This is Jolfa part of Isfahan.
We visited in May, before the peak summer heat, but it could get a little uncomfortable. This is our filmmaker.
COMMENT: Our filmmaker's website can be found at http://www.aliciacattoni.com/
(This was filmed in Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque, one of the more architecturally celebrated mosques in the Muslim world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Lotf_Allah_Mosque
COMMENT: the Mosque where these very hospitable people left us shoot was in Isfahan, not too far from the Imam Square.
Non-Muslim girls and women are not exempt. These girls in black are not Muslims but Armenian Christian students at an Armenian Christian School.
COMMENT: There are about 8,000 Armenians in Isfahan.
SOURCE: http://www.caucaz.com/home_eng/breve_contenu.php?id=158
This is Jolfa part of Isfahan.
We visited in May, before the peak summer heat, but it could get a little uncomfortable. This is our filmmaker.
COMMENT: Our filmmaker's website can be found at http://www.aliciacattoni.com/
(This was filmed in Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque, one of the more architecturally celebrated mosques in the Muslim world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Lotf_Allah_Mosque
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
SOURCES and NOTES - Narration - Pt.1 - Imam Khomeini
Khomeini was also noted for his sternness and belief that `there are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam.`
[SOURCE: from a meeting in Qom "Broadcast by radio Iran from Qom on 20 August 1979.")(Taheri, The Spirit of Allah (1985), p.259 ]
[SOURCE: from a meeting in Qom "Broadcast by radio Iran from Qom on 20 August 1979.")(Taheri, The Spirit of Allah (1985), p.259 ]
Sunday, September 21, 2008
SOURCES and NOTES - Narration - Pt.1, Some History
Part One
some history
"In 1953 CIA Agent Kermit Roosevelt organized a coup to overthrow Iran's popular nationalist-leftist prime minister Muhammed Moseddegh in favor of the Pahlavi Shah."
SOURCE: Kinzer, Stephen (2003). All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-26517-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=Wv4B6C-wTG8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=All+the+Shah%27s+Men:+An+American+Coup+and+the+Roots+of+Middle+East+Terror.&ei=qTK3SMb_KIuUiAHLioAx&sig=ACfU3U1g_SdriumGFc0ID4vzthkB3bXf9g
History lecture by our minder
Here's our minder being translated as he lays a hard-line Islamist-nationalist version of recent Iranian history on thick. Mixing legitimate grievances with conspiracy theories that …. weren’t very convincing.
COMMENT: When I first heard his spiel I assumed it was a "hard line version", the minder being a supporter of Ahmadinejad and the story seeming - to my Yankee ears - too crude and over the top to be the work of an actual government. But according to the book Guests of the Ayatollah, the most recent and thorough book on the hostage crisis, at least much of what he told us was IRI official history http://books.google.com/books?id=-nl2BhEZ9ykC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Guests+of+the+Ayatollah&ei=bHnWSO2YLJTsiQHN77TnDg&sig=ACfU3U33dlNfSf3ci5ATyzqkWAcKMUrcvA
- the history Iranian children are taught in school.
What annoyed me about our minders speech was not so much that it was propaganda (what do you expect?) but that it felt so obviously - even insultingly - untrue. Few people who watched TV at the time of the crisis (in America or in Iran), have forgotten the images of the hostages - hands bound, eyes blindfolded - being marched before angry crowds. This is "treated with respect and kindness"????
Overthrow of the Shah
The Shah is not so much an autocrat as a sort of naughty boy who is kicked out of Iran when he ignores once too often the warnings of the Imam Khomeini to behave.
COMMENT: The minder told how Khomeini didn't want to rule but was forced to when his repeated warnings to the Shah went unheeded. The idea here seems to be to suggest both powerlessness of the police and military power of the shah in the face of the Iranian people’s devotion to the Imam; and Khomeini's pious reluctance to take power – he could overthrow the Shah anytime he wanted, but was too holy and lacking in ambition for power to be bothered … until provoked beyond endurance.
The truth is that Khomeini did originally write (in 1942) that monarchy was OK provided the kings followed the Sharia, but later changed his mind (sometime on or before 1970) and started telling his followers that leading clergy needed to rule to save Islam. http://gemsofislamism.tripod.com/khomeini_works.html#answer_kashf_al-asrar
But the claim the Khomeini was reluctant to take power also seems directed at the widely agreed upon belief (fact) that he was deceptive in representing to Iranians (outside his circle of loyalists) what it was he wanted for Iran after the revolution. Anti-IRI folks point out Khomeini had given a series of lectures made into a book 9 years before the revolution calling for the Muslim world to be ruled by a leading Islamic jurist with no parliament or elections to assist this government, http://gemsofislamism.tripod.com/khomeini_works.html#answer_velayat
This theory seemed to be tailor-made for him (a leading jurist and the only one talking about the necessity of rule by jurist). However, it was not until revolutionaries had taken over and he had a solid grip on power that he and his followers let the general Iranian public know about this theory of Islamic government requiring rule by an Islamic jurist. http://gemsofislamism.tripod.com/khomeini_promises_kept.html#Islamic_Clerics
So the question is just when did Imam Khomeini decide he needed to take up the heavy burden of ruling Iran.
Womping the opposition
The post-revolutionary opposition to theocracy aren’t hapless civilians, their political parties banned and peaceful demonstrations crushed by Hezbollahi thugs. They’re villains ... repaying the regime’s offers of dialog and friendship with treachery and brutally - this brutality financed and controlled by the American embassy.
COMMENT: Were they victims not villains?
SOURCES: Khomeini warning opponents: "Those who are trying to bring corruption and destruction to our country in the name of democracy will be oppressed. They are worse than [[Banu Qurayza and Bani-Ghorizeh]] Jews, and they must be hanged. We will oppress them by God's order and God's call to prayer." (In a talk at the Fayzieah School in Qom, August 30, 1979, from: [http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2003/August/Khomeini/ "Democracy? I meant theocracy." By Dr. Jalal Matini, The Iranian, August 5, 2003 Khomeini defending forced closing of opposition newspapers and attacks on opposition protesters by club-wielding vigilantes:
`The club of the pen and the club of the tongue is the worst of clubs, whose corruption is a 100 times greater than other clubs.` [from: Shaul Bakhash, The Reign of the Ayatollahs, (1984), p.146]
Hostage Crisis
... All this led to the American embassy hostage-taking, but don't worry about the 444-day hostage of its employees, they were treated just fine.
Documents not withstanding, it turns out there all of three CIA agents at the embassy, none of whom spoke Farsi or had been in Iran longer than four months. They were not involved in sabotage and killing let alone its nerve center.
Actually, when the students took the Americans hostage, their demand was the return of the Shah to Iran for trial and execution – the Shah having just been allowed in the US for cancer treatment. When the Shah died a few months later the Americans were still kept hostage on grounds of beings spies, though countries usually deal with misbehavior by foreign diplomats by expelling them, hostage taking being against international law.
SOURCES: "On November 4, 1979, the students following the Line of the Imam (SFLI) attacked and seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took embassy personnel hostage and confiscated documents. The takeover, like an earlier one, would have been brief had it not got the support of Khomeini, who saw in it a chance to get rid of the liberal government, radicalize the revolution, and increase his power. After the SFLI refused Bazargan's order to evacuate the embassy, his government resigned."
"The Khomeinists prolonged the crisis in order to weaken moderates and non-Khomeinist senior ulama, pass the constitution, and consolidate power. Debate on the constitution was undermined by claims that such debate was treacherous. A selective release of U.S. embassy documents defamed the moderates, the only ones who were shown as meeting with Americans, though senior Khomeinists had also done so. The left, including the Mojahedin, joined this attack." (Keddie, Nikki, Modern Iran : Roots and Results of Revolution, Yale University Press, 2003, p.248-9)
"A few observations might be in order. The U.S.A. had roughly 5000 `sources of information` in Iran, ranging from paid CIA agent to voluntary informants. These `sources were recruited from all walks of life and included almost all the Shah's known non-clerical opponents over some 25 years.`" (Taheri, Emir, The Spirit of Allah, p.267)
The Iranians were convinced that the embassy staff “was engaged in a massive spy operation intent on stopping the revolution, killing Khomeini, and restoring the” Shah to power, writes Bowden. There were three CIA agents among the staff, engaged in “routine, prudent espionage conducted at diplomatic missions everywhere.” In fact, says the author, the CIA work in Iran at the time was notably ineffectual, gathering little information and hampered by the fact that none of the agents spoke the local language, Farsi. (from: http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/Default.aspx?oid=63&ocat=2
review of Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden, Atlantic Monthly 2006)
Iran Iraq War
Not a word about the about the Great Satan, slogans like “war, war until victory”
COMMENT: As for America never admitting Iran was invaded by Iraq, what's he talking about???
Yes, there was much anger in America with Iran over the holding of hostages, but there was no denial that Iraq invaded. Here's the first line of story on the war in the New York Times less than 2 weeks after the war started:
"Iraq's invasion of Iran appears to have come to a dead stop along most sectors of the front, according to reports reaching Western analysts." (October 2, 1980 p.A16)
And in any case how would he know? His English was .... very poor and he'd never been to America.
Taliban
The Taliban – Iran’s enemy - are not homegrown Afghan fundamentalists but a - quote - intelligence service that occupies Afghanistan, created by the U.S. government - which also controls Pakistan’s intelligence service.
COMMENT: The taliban did indeed get training, financing and equipment from Pakistan's ISI intelligence service, and their Pashtun ethnicity was resented in non-Pashtun areas, maybe even considered an occupation. But the Taliban fighters and leaders were predominately madrassa-educated, Afghan refugees from camps in Pakistan. They were extremely ignorant, and could in no way be called "an intelligence service." And had little or no contact with, let alone instruction from the U.S. government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
Bush-Bin Laden construction company
....But a Bush-bin Laden construction firm?
COMMENT: Most "information" on the internet dealing with Bush-bin Laden financial connections seems to be 9/11 denial stuff such as http://tvnewslies.org/html/bin_laden_ties.html
Wikipedia has a very short section http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Laden_family#Alleged_business_connections_of_the_Bush_and_bin_Laden_families ... but I found zero on a "Bush-Bin Laden construction company."
some history
"In 1953 CIA Agent Kermit Roosevelt organized a coup to overthrow Iran's popular nationalist-leftist prime minister Muhammed Moseddegh in favor of the Pahlavi Shah."
SOURCE: Kinzer, Stephen (2003). All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-26517-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=Wv4B6C-wTG8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=All+the+Shah%27s+Men:+An+American+Coup+and+the+Roots+of+Middle+East+Terror.&ei=qTK3SMb_KIuUiAHLioAx&sig=ACfU3U1g_SdriumGFc0ID4vzthkB3bXf9g
History lecture by our minder
Here's our minder being translated as he lays a hard-line Islamist-nationalist version of recent Iranian history on thick. Mixing legitimate grievances with conspiracy theories that …. weren’t very convincing.
COMMENT: When I first heard his spiel I assumed it was a "hard line version", the minder being a supporter of Ahmadinejad and the story seeming - to my Yankee ears - too crude and over the top to be the work of an actual government. But according to the book Guests of the Ayatollah, the most recent and thorough book on the hostage crisis, at least much of what he told us was IRI official history http://books.google.com/books?id=-nl2BhEZ9ykC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Guests+of+the+Ayatollah&ei=bHnWSO2YLJTsiQHN77TnDg&sig=ACfU3U33dlNfSf3ci5ATyzqkWAcKMUrcvA
- the history Iranian children are taught in school.
What annoyed me about our minders speech was not so much that it was propaganda (what do you expect?) but that it felt so obviously - even insultingly - untrue. Few people who watched TV at the time of the crisis (in America or in Iran), have forgotten the images of the hostages - hands bound, eyes blindfolded - being marched before angry crowds. This is "treated with respect and kindness"????
Overthrow of the Shah
The Shah is not so much an autocrat as a sort of naughty boy who is kicked out of Iran when he ignores once too often the warnings of the Imam Khomeini to behave.
COMMENT: The minder told how Khomeini didn't want to rule but was forced to when his repeated warnings to the Shah went unheeded. The idea here seems to be to suggest both powerlessness of the police and military power of the shah in the face of the Iranian people’s devotion to the Imam; and Khomeini's pious reluctance to take power – he could overthrow the Shah anytime he wanted, but was too holy and lacking in ambition for power to be bothered … until provoked beyond endurance.
The truth is that Khomeini did originally write (in 1942) that monarchy was OK provided the kings followed the Sharia, but later changed his mind (sometime on or before 1970) and started telling his followers that leading clergy needed to rule to save Islam. http://gemsofislamism.tripod.com/khomeini_works.html#answer_kashf_al-asrar
But the claim the Khomeini was reluctant to take power also seems directed at the widely agreed upon belief (fact) that he was deceptive in representing to Iranians (outside his circle of loyalists) what it was he wanted for Iran after the revolution. Anti-IRI folks point out Khomeini had given a series of lectures made into a book 9 years before the revolution calling for the Muslim world to be ruled by a leading Islamic jurist with no parliament or elections to assist this government, http://gemsofislamism.tripod.com/khomeini_works.html#answer_velayat
This theory seemed to be tailor-made for him (a leading jurist and the only one talking about the necessity of rule by jurist). However, it was not until revolutionaries had taken over and he had a solid grip on power that he and his followers let the general Iranian public know about this theory of Islamic government requiring rule by an Islamic jurist. http://gemsofislamism.tripod.com/khomeini_promises_kept.html#Islamic_Clerics
So the question is just when did Imam Khomeini decide he needed to take up the heavy burden of ruling Iran.
Womping the opposition
The post-revolutionary opposition to theocracy aren’t hapless civilians, their political parties banned and peaceful demonstrations crushed by Hezbollahi thugs. They’re villains ... repaying the regime’s offers of dialog and friendship with treachery and brutally - this brutality financed and controlled by the American embassy.
COMMENT: Were they victims not villains?
SOURCES: Khomeini warning opponents: "Those who are trying to bring corruption and destruction to our country in the name of democracy will be oppressed. They are worse than [[Banu Qurayza and Bani-Ghorizeh]] Jews, and they must be hanged. We will oppress them by God's order and God's call to prayer." (In a talk at the Fayzieah School in Qom, August 30, 1979, from: [http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2003/August/Khomeini/ "Democracy? I meant theocracy." By Dr. Jalal Matini, The Iranian, August 5, 2003 Khomeini defending forced closing of opposition newspapers and attacks on opposition protesters by club-wielding vigilantes:
`The club of the pen and the club of the tongue is the worst of clubs, whose corruption is a 100 times greater than other clubs.` [from: Shaul Bakhash, The Reign of the Ayatollahs, (1984), p.146]
Hostage Crisis
... All this led to the American embassy hostage-taking, but don't worry about the 444-day hostage of its employees, they were treated just fine.
Documents not withstanding, it turns out there all of three CIA agents at the embassy, none of whom spoke Farsi or had been in Iran longer than four months. They were not involved in sabotage and killing let alone its nerve center.
Actually, when the students took the Americans hostage, their demand was the return of the Shah to Iran for trial and execution – the Shah having just been allowed in the US for cancer treatment. When the Shah died a few months later the Americans were still kept hostage on grounds of beings spies, though countries usually deal with misbehavior by foreign diplomats by expelling them, hostage taking being against international law.
SOURCES: "On November 4, 1979, the students following the Line of the Imam (SFLI) attacked and seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took embassy personnel hostage and confiscated documents. The takeover, like an earlier one, would have been brief had it not got the support of Khomeini, who saw in it a chance to get rid of the liberal government, radicalize the revolution, and increase his power. After the SFLI refused Bazargan's order to evacuate the embassy, his government resigned."
"The Khomeinists prolonged the crisis in order to weaken moderates and non-Khomeinist senior ulama, pass the constitution, and consolidate power. Debate on the constitution was undermined by claims that such debate was treacherous. A selective release of U.S. embassy documents defamed the moderates, the only ones who were shown as meeting with Americans, though senior Khomeinists had also done so. The left, including the Mojahedin, joined this attack." (Keddie, Nikki, Modern Iran : Roots and Results of Revolution, Yale University Press, 2003, p.248-9)
"A few observations might be in order. The U.S.A. had roughly 5000 `sources of information` in Iran, ranging from paid CIA agent to voluntary informants. These `sources were recruited from all walks of life and included almost all the Shah's known non-clerical opponents over some 25 years.`" (Taheri, Emir, The Spirit of Allah, p.267)
The Iranians were convinced that the embassy staff “was engaged in a massive spy operation intent on stopping the revolution, killing Khomeini, and restoring the” Shah to power, writes Bowden. There were three CIA agents among the staff, engaged in “routine, prudent espionage conducted at diplomatic missions everywhere.” In fact, says the author, the CIA work in Iran at the time was notably ineffectual, gathering little information and hampered by the fact that none of the agents spoke the local language, Farsi. (from: http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/Default.aspx?oid=63&ocat=2
review of Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden, Atlantic Monthly 2006)
Iran Iraq War
Not a word about the about the Great Satan, slogans like “war, war until victory”
COMMENT: As for America never admitting Iran was invaded by Iraq, what's he talking about???
Yes, there was much anger in America with Iran over the holding of hostages, but there was no denial that Iraq invaded. Here's the first line of story on the war in the New York Times less than 2 weeks after the war started:
"Iraq's invasion of Iran appears to have come to a dead stop along most sectors of the front, according to reports reaching Western analysts." (October 2, 1980 p.A16)
And in any case how would he know? His English was .... very poor and he'd never been to America.
Taliban
The Taliban – Iran’s enemy - are not homegrown Afghan fundamentalists but a - quote - intelligence service that occupies Afghanistan, created by the U.S. government - which also controls Pakistan’s intelligence service.
COMMENT: The taliban did indeed get training, financing and equipment from Pakistan's ISI intelligence service, and their Pashtun ethnicity was resented in non-Pashtun areas, maybe even considered an occupation. But the Taliban fighters and leaders were predominately madrassa-educated, Afghan refugees from camps in Pakistan. They were extremely ignorant, and could in no way be called "an intelligence service." And had little or no contact with, let alone instruction from the U.S. government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
Bush-Bin Laden construction company
....But a Bush-bin Laden construction firm?
COMMENT: Most "information" on the internet dealing with Bush-bin Laden financial connections seems to be 9/11 denial stuff such as http://tvnewslies.org/html/bin_laden_ties.html
Wikipedia has a very short section http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Laden_family#Alleged_business_connections_of_the_Bush_and_bin_Laden_families ... but I found zero on a "Bush-Bin Laden construction company."
Thursday, September 11, 2008
SOURCES and NOTES - Narration - Intro
The video has a great deal of voiceover. This is in part due to my lack of a good microphone to get good sound from speakers I was filming, and in part because I didn't get many interviews, (which is in part because I didn't have much film and had to be careful what I filmed), in part due because I had a lot I wanted to say about Iran. Again my apologies for the poor quality of the sound and narration and hope you find the content interesting.
All voiceover appears in italics like this
Islamic Revolution
"in its Gorbachev phase"
see: Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- , The ends of the earth : a journey at the dawn of the 21st century / Robert D. Kaplan. New York : Random House, c1996.
The video illustrating the "Gorbacheve phase" of the Islamic Republic was part of the “18 Tir uprising” in July 1999 for more information see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_student_protests,_July_1999
All voiceover appears in italics like this
Islamic Revolution
"in its Gorbachev phase"
see: Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- , The ends of the earth : a journey at the dawn of the 21st century / Robert D. Kaplan. New York : Random House, c1996.
The video illustrating the "Gorbacheve phase" of the Islamic Republic was part of the “18 Tir uprising” in July 1999 for more information see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_student_protests,_July_1999
SOURCES - images
Carter toast with shah
from www.presidentsrus.com/wp-content/uploads/2007...
Nixon with Shah
from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:NIXONSandshah.gif2Bof%2Biran%2Bnixon%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den
Kermit Roosevelt in chair smiling
from cryptome.org/fdr-astor.htm
Armenian genocide
from sourcedorks.blogspot.com bibleprobe.com/christianmartyrs-armenia.htm (dead children)
www.bitsofnews.com (emaciated childs body)
davidderrick.wordpress.com (marching refugees)
Ancient Babylon and Jerusalem from
from http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/babylonia/images/babylonia-3.jpg
Painting The Feast of Esther (about 1625-26) Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
from North Carolina Museum of Art Depicts Queen Ester,
http://www.ncartmuseum.org/collections/highlights/european/dutch/before1650/012_lrg.shtml
Ahasuerus (Xerxes), king of the Persians, took Esther as his queen, not knowing she was a Jew.
Haman, the king's evil minister, plotted to annihilate the Jews by issuing a decree of execution in the king's name.
Esther invited both men to a banquet in order to reveal Haman's plot to Ahasuerus and to plead for the life of her people.
The king's anger is seen in his clenched fists; soon, Haman would meet his fate on the gallows.
Rafsanjani from globalsecurity.org
Council of Guardians from BBC
from www.presidentsrus.com/wp-content/uploads/2007...
Nixon with Shah
from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:NIXONSandshah.gif2Bof%2Biran%2Bnixon%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den
Kermit Roosevelt in chair smiling
from cryptome.org/fdr-astor.htm
Armenian genocide
from sourcedorks.blogspot.com bibleprobe.com/christianmartyrs-armenia.htm (dead children)
www.bitsofnews.com (emaciated childs body)
davidderrick.wordpress.com (marching refugees)
Ancient Babylon and Jerusalem from
from http://karenswhimsy.com/public-domain-images/babylonia/images/babylonia-3.jpg
Painting The Feast of Esther (about 1625-26) Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
from North Carolina Museum of Art Depicts Queen Ester,
http://www.ncartmuseum.org/collections/highlights/european/dutch/before1650/012_lrg.shtml
Ahasuerus (Xerxes), king of the Persians, took Esther as his queen, not knowing she was a Jew.
Haman, the king's evil minister, plotted to annihilate the Jews by issuing a decree of execution in the king's name.
Esther invited both men to a banquet in order to reveal Haman's plot to Ahasuerus and to plead for the life of her people.
The king's anger is seen in his clenched fists; soon, Haman would meet his fate on the gallows.
Rafsanjani from globalsecurity.org
Council of Guardians from BBC
SOURCES - videos
Videos
"Fox attacks Iran"
http://foxattacks.com/iran/
“Forewarned Is Forearmed: Bush On Iran”
http://www.eidelsonconsulting.com/blog/2007/10/forewarned_is_forearmed_bush_o.html
"UN Inspector Scott Ritter: Fools would Bomb Iran" 10/16/2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XQan1qo8T4
Student mob at gates
“18 Tir uprising”
http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/18-tir-uprising
“July 8, 1999: Student demonstrators break front gates of Interior Ministry in Tehran This clip was filmed by someone inside the building and released for the first time.”
Video : "There Won't Be Any War! It's All Propaganda!* Ahmadinejad
BBC world news on missile launch
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5738442423272546548&q=ahmadinejad&ei=r717SLOsIo-E4gKRyYGTCw&hl=en
From: VOTERSTHINKdotORG
TITLE: “test fire of Iranian Shahab-3 missile”
"Iran's Ahmadinejad on Holocaust"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykd-syzZ4ZY
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is asked by MSNBC anchor Brian Williams to clarify his statements about the
Holocaust. (September 2006)
Interview with Ahmadinejad by Brian Williams.
Is from a Sept. 19 [2006] interview in New York, “Brian Williams sat down with
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for an exclusive interview.”
The transcript at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14912050/
TITLE in this video: “NBC anchor Brian Williams interviewing Ahmadinejad on the Holocaust”
BBC News Iranian missile launch
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5738442423272546548&q=ahmadinejad&ei=r717SLOsIo-E4gKRyYGTCw&hl=en
“There Won't Be Any War! It's All Propaganda!* Ahmadinejad” youtube from http://cspanjunkie.org/
July 09, 2008 BBC World
TITLE in this video: “test fire of Iranian Shahab-3 missile”
Iranian TV on Hijab
“Iranian Police Enforces 'Islamic Dress Code' on Women”
video from youtube on VerusX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH9pH3542YQ
TITLE in this video:
“Iranian TV showing morality police warning women about their hair and dress”
Women being arrested
“Hijab In Iran An Iranian women is being arrested by the IRI police. “
video from pouyanb on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PGw2sfwiTo
TITLE in this video: “UTube video of Iranian women being arrested for bad hijab”
“Arrest of Iranian girl for HIJAB !!!
April 2007 Tehran” video from jaylondoner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zYKlSeIbrw
"Fox attacks Iran"
http://foxattacks.com/iran/
“Forewarned Is Forearmed: Bush On Iran”
http://www.eidelsonconsulting.com/blog/2007/10/forewarned_is_forearmed_bush_o.html
"UN Inspector Scott Ritter: Fools would Bomb Iran" 10/16/2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XQan1qo8T4
Student mob at gates
“18 Tir uprising”
http://www.iranian.com/main/singlepage/2008/18-tir-uprising
“July 8, 1999: Student demonstrators break front gates of Interior Ministry in Tehran This clip was filmed by someone inside the building and released for the first time.”
Video : "There Won't Be Any War! It's All Propaganda!* Ahmadinejad
BBC world news on missile launch
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5738442423272546548&q=ahmadinejad&ei=r717SLOsIo-E4gKRyYGTCw&hl=en
From: VOTERSTHINKdotORG
TITLE: “test fire of Iranian Shahab-3 missile”
"Iran's Ahmadinejad on Holocaust"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykd-syzZ4ZY
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is asked by MSNBC anchor Brian Williams to clarify his statements about the
Holocaust. (September 2006)
Interview with Ahmadinejad by Brian Williams.
Is from a Sept. 19 [2006] interview in New York, “Brian Williams sat down with
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for an exclusive interview.”
The transcript at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14912050/
TITLE in this video: “NBC anchor Brian Williams interviewing Ahmadinejad on the Holocaust”
BBC News Iranian missile launch
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5738442423272546548&q=ahmadinejad&ei=r717SLOsIo-E4gKRyYGTCw&hl=en
“There Won't Be Any War! It's All Propaganda!* Ahmadinejad” youtube from http://cspanjunkie.org/
July 09, 2008 BBC World
TITLE in this video: “test fire of Iranian Shahab-3 missile”
Iranian TV on Hijab
“Iranian Police Enforces 'Islamic Dress Code' on Women”
video from youtube on VerusX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH9pH3542YQ
TITLE in this video:
“Iranian TV showing morality police warning women about their hair and dress”
Women being arrested
“Hijab In Iran An Iranian women is being arrested by the IRI police. “
video from pouyanb on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PGw2sfwiTo
TITLE in this video: “UTube video of Iranian women being arrested for bad hijab”
“Arrest of Iranian girl for HIJAB !!!
April 2007 Tehran” video from jaylondoner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zYKlSeIbrw
SPECIAL THANKS TO ...
... those without whose help this video could not have been made
Alicia Cattoni for her bean bag tripod and advice
Foxattacks Iran
http://foxattacks.com/iran/
Dr. Roy Eidelson and his video “Forewarned Is Forearmed: Bush On Iran”
http://www.eidelsonconsulting.com/blog/2007/10/forewarned_is_forearmed_bush_o.html
MSNBC for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is asked by MSNBC anchor Brian Williams to clarify his statements about the
Holocaust. (September 2006)
Forrest Cahoun for his technical help
ParkTV.org for help with equipment
NBC TV
BBC News
Iranian.com
Associated Press
www.presidentsrus.com
wikimedia.org
Memri.org
cryptome.org
www.ncartmuseum.org
student.britannica.com
commons.wikimedia.org
www.ncartmuseum.org
.... And most of all John McHugh for his editing advice and patience.
Alicia Cattoni for her bean bag tripod and advice
Foxattacks Iran
http://foxattacks.com/iran/
Dr. Roy Eidelson and his video “Forewarned Is Forearmed: Bush On Iran”
http://www.eidelsonconsulting.com/blog/2007/10/forewarned_is_forearmed_bush_o.html
MSNBC for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is asked by MSNBC anchor Brian Williams to clarify his statements about the
Holocaust. (September 2006)
Forrest Cahoun for his technical help
ParkTV.org for help with equipment
NBC TV
BBC News
Iranian.com
Associated Press
www.presidentsrus.com
wikimedia.org
Memri.org
cryptome.org
www.ncartmuseum.org
student.britannica.com
commons.wikimedia.org
www.ncartmuseum.org
.... And most of all John McHugh for his editing advice and patience.
Think Before You Bomb (Inside Iran with a Peace delegation, May 2008)
Think Before You Bomb
...is a video about traveling in Iran filmed and edited by Mark McHugh, with a lot of help from many people, particularly John McHugh, his brother.
The comments made by the maker of the film do not in any way reflect the views or opinions of others quoted or shown in the video.
Copyright
This video uses video clips and images under fair use copyright doctrine.
The purpose and character of this video is for educational use and not for profit.
All the video clips used in the video have been shortened from or use poorer resolution than the original. The effect of the use of the images and video clips should have virtually no impact on the potential market for the originals, it should not in any way lessen the value of the original.
Apology
I would also like to apologize for the poor quality of the video - I have never made one before and despite dozens of hours of work over months it may be unwatchable in its entirety for all except those with a great interest in Iran. I would be working on it still but I wanted to get on TV before the 2008 election.
The voiceover was done in what I thought would be a calm, melodious tone. (By the time I understood how sleepy and somnolent it sounded, it was too late to change it.) There are also some mispronounciations of Persian names (Pres. Ahmedinajad and Khatami) and I humbly ask the forgiveness of viewers.
...is a video about traveling in Iran filmed and edited by Mark McHugh, with a lot of help from many people, particularly John McHugh, his brother.
The comments made by the maker of the film do not in any way reflect the views or opinions of others quoted or shown in the video.
Copyright
This video uses video clips and images under fair use copyright doctrine.
The purpose and character of this video is for educational use and not for profit.
All the video clips used in the video have been shortened from or use poorer resolution than the original. The effect of the use of the images and video clips should have virtually no impact on the potential market for the originals, it should not in any way lessen the value of the original.
Apology
I would also like to apologize for the poor quality of the video - I have never made one before and despite dozens of hours of work over months it may be unwatchable in its entirety for all except those with a great interest in Iran. I would be working on it still but I wanted to get on TV before the 2008 election.
The voiceover was done in what I thought would be a calm, melodious tone. (By the time I understood how sleepy and somnolent it sounded, it was too late to change it.) There are also some mispronounciations of Persian names (Pres. Ahmedinajad and Khatami) and I humbly ask the forgiveness of viewers.
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