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Iranian Primes Durban II to single out Israel while Discriminating against Jewish Civil Society
According to UN Watch, Iran was demonstrably acting in bad faith and applying a double standard by making invasive, repetitive and onerous demands of the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA), of the kind made of no other NGO. By their actions, Iran and its allies effectively rejected CIJA's application.
 
Marking Israel’s 60th Anniversary, Iran Levels War Rhetoric
Iranian parade in the shape of missiles, one of them pointing at a Star of DavidIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Israel is dying and that its 60th anniversary celebrations are an attempt to prevent its "annihilation". He stated, "The Zionist (Israeli) regime is dying," and that "The criminals assume that by holding celebrations ... they can save the sinister Zionist regime from death and annihilation." Ahmadinejad used an Arabic word, ismihlal, that can also be translated as destruction, death and collapse.
 
Al-Qaeda Accuses Iran of Spreading Israeli Conspiracy Theories
Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, accused Iran of trying to "discredit" al-Qaeda by spreading a conspiracy theory, widely held in the Middle East, that Israel—and not al-Qaeda—was behind the attacks on America in September 2001. Mr Zawahiri had previously accused Shia Iran of seeking to spread its influence in the Middle East at the expense of the Sunnis. Sourced from the Economist.
 
INTERPOL upholds Iranian arrest warrants for AMIA bombing
amia-bombing126Delegates at the 76th INTERPOL General Assembly have upheld the unanimous decision made by the organization’s Executive Committee to publish six out of nine Red Notices requested in connection with the 1994 bombing of the AMIA building in Buenos Aires. The General Assembly, INTERPOL’s supreme governing body, voted in favour of publishing the notices requested by the Argentinean National Central Bureau (NCB) for the following six individuals; Imad Fayez Moughnieh, Ali Fallahijan, Mohsen Rabbani, Ahmad Reza Asghari, Ahmad Vahidi and Mohsen Rezai.
 
Iran launches blame campaign on 'Zionist and Argentine Agents'
On the 13th anniversary of the terrorist attack against the AMIA-Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, published "The AMIA Case–From the Beginning to the present" in Spanish and English.  "Both the language and the content of this report show a conspiratorial approach which seems taken from the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the fabricated antisemitic libel of an alleged Jewish plan for world domination, and has become the Bible for contemporary Jew-hatred," said Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations of the Wiesenthal Center.
 
Hamas distributes Iranian anti-Semitic cartoons to Russia
Hamas' propagandaThe Russian version of Palestine-info carries a large number of anti-Semitic (and anti-Western) cartoons which do not appear on the portal's other language sites. The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center attributes this to Hamas' propaganda policy which calculates that Russian-speaking target audiences are ripe for anti-Semitic and anti-Western propaganda. It also stems from the expectation that such cartoons can promote the absorption and assimilation of other Hamas' messages of radical Islam, support for terrorism, hostility toward the United States.
 
Iran under fire at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East
world-economic-forumArab nations harshly criticized Iran's growing influence in the Middle East, telling the country's top diplomat at a high-level conference Saturday that it must stay out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and be more open about its nuclear ambitions. Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal scolded Iran, saying that the predominantly Persian country had little to do with Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. It's an Arab issue and should be resolved within the Arab fold."
 
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