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Clashes Between Residents of Gajin & Security Forces

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Clashes Between Residents of Gajin & Security Forces

 

HRANA News Agency – On Sunday, November 13, 2011, there were clashes between the residents of Gajin and security forces. During these clashes, several individuals were injured and taken to hospital. The city of Gajin is in Bandar-Abbas County on the southern coast of Iran.

According to a report by Sunni News, security forces opened fired at the residents in the city of Gajin and injured many people around noon on Sunday. Prior to these clashes, security forces shot a local retailer at the beach in the city of Gajin. When other residents attempt to rescue this retailer, police opened fire at the crowd and injured four people. Some of the injured have refused to go to hospital, fearing repercussions from Iranian security forces.

 

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Journalist Hassan Fathi Arrested

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Journalist Hassan Fathi Arrested

 

HRANA News Agency – Journalist Hassan Fathi was arrested by Iranian security forces for being affiliated with BBC Persian.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the Fars state media released the news of Hassan Fathi’s arrest. This journalist has been detained after interviewing with BBC Persian a few days ago. Hassan Fathi has been charge with publishing falsehoods and inciting public opinion.

Fars News Agency reported, “BBC Persian has contacted Hassan Fathi in Tehran during the last few days. According to the available information, Hassan Fathi is affiliated with BBC Persian and works as a reporter for this illegal news media.”

It must be noted that BBC Persian doesn’t have an office in Tehran and doesn’t employ any Iranian journalists inside the country.

 

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Journalist and Kurdish activist Saeed Saedi sentenced to 3 years in prison

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Journalist and Kurdish activist Saeed Saedi sentenced to 3 years in prison

 

Branch 2 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court handed down a 3-year prison sentence to activist Saeed Saedi.

The Campaign for the Defense of Civil and Political Prisoners reported that Branch 2 of the Sanandaj Revolutionary Court sentenced activist Saeed Saedi to two years behind bars for “illegal gathering and collusion against the regime”, and one year for “propaganda against the regime.”

On December 22, 2010 this journalist was arrested along with 26 other Sanandaj activists who included family members of death row Kurdish political prisoner Habib Latifi. Saeed Saedi was held behind bars in solitary confinement at the detention center of the Sanandaj Intelligence Ministry for 74 days after which he was released on bail.

In the past year Saeed Saedi has served as the editor of several non-governmental publications. At the time of his arrest he was the editor of the monthly publication Rovbar and was the spokesperson for the Kurdistan Reconciliation Front.

 

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Baha’i Citizen Anvar Moslemi Began Serving Prison Sentence

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Baha’i Citizen Anvar Moslemi Began Serving Prison Sentence

 

Anvar Moslemi has begun serving his one year prison sentence in Sari Prison.

He had been detained and interrogated twice before.

According to the Human Rights House of Iran, he had been sentenced to one year in prison for anti-regime propaganda.

Possession of books and CDs related to the Baha’i faith had been stated as the evidence for anti-regime propaganda.

 

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CONTROLLING NEWS AND INFORMATION TO CONTROL THE COUNTRY

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CONTROLLING NEWS AND INFORMATION TO CONTROL THE COUNTRY

 

Three journalists have been arrested in Iran in the past three days: first Kuwaiti TV reporter Adel Al-Yahya and cameraman Raed Al-Majed in the southern city of Abadan on 11 November, on charges of spying and entering the country illegally, then Iranian journalist and documentary film-maker Hassan Fathi the next day in Tehran, for giving an interview to BBC Persian.

Reporters Without Borders condemns these arrests as well as the systematic harassment of detained journalists’ families. The Iranian authorities regard journalists as the enemy, as people to be silenced, whether they work for Iranian or for international media. “We call for the immediate release of all imprisoned journalists and netizens and an end to the harassment of the families of those detained,” the organization said.

Fathi was arrested a few hours after giving an interview to BBC Persian about the local population’s fears as a result of a mysterious explosion earlier that day at a military base near Tehran, which left a toll of 17 dead and 18 wounded.

According to Fars, a government news agency linked to the Revolutionary Guards, he has been charged with spreading false information and upsetting public opinion. Fars accused him of being “an Iran-based collaborator with the British TV station who, in his interview, supported the comments of enemy countries.”

No law bans journalists from giving interviews to foreign media. But, in December 2008, then minister of culture and Islamic guidance Mohammad Hossein Safar-Harandi announced that the newly-launched BBC Persian was banned in Iran. At the same time, he announced that Iranian journalists were forbidden to work for any foreign media.

Finally, police chief Gen. Esmail Ahmadi Moghadam warned on 21 October that “collaborating with VOA and the BBC is regarded as helping enemy intelligence services.”

The two Kuwaiti journalists, Al-Yahya and Al-Majed, work for Al-Adalah, a Kuwaiti TV station owned by Mahmoud Haider, a Kuwaiti Shiite businessman who is a regarded as a supporter of Iran.

According to the Iranian Arabic-language TV station Al-Alam, they were arrested for “espionage activities” but this was denied by a Kuwaiti official reached by Agence France-Presse. “The two men work for a privately-owned TV station and were making a programme of a social nature,” he said, stressing that they had entered Iran on a visa. Contacts were under way with the Iranian authorities with a view to obtaining their release, he added.

The families of imprisoned journalists meanwhile continue to be threatened. Relatives of detainees are often victims of physical and verbal attacks and insults by court officials and prison officers. These premeditated acts are an extension of the pressure that is put on the prisoners themselves.

The journalist Jila Bani Yaghoob, who is the wife of the detained journalist Bahaman Ahamadi Amoee, and fellow journalist Mahssa Amrabadi, the wife of the detained journalist Masoud Bastani,have repeatedly been harassed by intelligence ministry officials and various revolutionary courts.

Both have been sentenced to a year in prison for various activities including “being in contact with the families of other prisoners,” and are likely to be arrested at any time to begin serving their sentences.

 

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Challengers of 2009 election banned from parliamentary elections

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Challengers of 2009 election banned from parliamentary elections

 

Iran’s Guardian Council announced that anyone who was actively involved in the post-election protests of 2009 will be barred from participating in the coming parliamentary elections.

ISNA reports that Abbasali Kadkhodayi, spokesman for the Guardian Council told a press conference today: “We have a strict ban in our eligibility criteria against those who were seriously involved in the sedition.”

The Islamic Republic establishment uses the term “sedition” to refer to the protests against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed victory in 2009.

Kadkhodayi added the Council has no specific criteria for assessing reformist candidates, and the usual “elections laws and the actions of the individuals” will be the basis for determining eligibility.

Iran’s Guardian Council decides the eligibility of election candidates and it has often been accused of disqualifying individuals that do not conform to its conservative bias.

Just last week, IRNA quoted the head of Iran’s Elections Headquarters, Solat Mortazavi, saying members of currently banned reformist organizations — the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution and the Freedom Movement of Iran — will not be allowed to run in the elections.

He claimed these groups have been disbanded, as far as the Interior Ministry is concerned, and they will not be allowed to present a list of candidates.

Iran will hold parliamentary elections next March, and the participation of reformist candidates has been a topic of hot debate because of the widespread protests that hit the country over allegations of fraud in the 2009 presidential elections. The reformist candidates, Mehdi Karroubi and MirHosein Mousavi, challenged Ahmadinejad’s victory, which led to the government crackdown on protesters and the house arrest of Mousavi, his wife Zahra Rahnavard and Karroubi, who remain under arrest since last February.

 

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One Prisoner; Jamaleddin Khanjani, One of the Seven; by Mojtaba Samienejad

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One Prisoner; Jamaleddin Khanjani, One of the Seven; by Mojtaba Samienejad

 

The story began when life took the color of blood and prison; the 1979 Revolution in which the execution ropes were dancing in the skies to the death song and the sound of bullets were heard in every ear. Two years after the so called “glorious” revolution, 9 members of the Spiritual Assembly who thought of eliminating the republic disappeared when thinking of eliminating the Republic which was supposed to become Islamic. To this day, their bodies have not been found and no information has been heard. Those who went to the 8 year long Iran-Iraq War and never returned, were considered “missing” but what is the right name to call the 9 Baha’is who never returned.

The second Spiritual Assembly was established in 1981 and blood could still be smelled. The 9 members joined the destiny of those that the 1980s reminds us of.  The story continued and the third Assembly was created one year later. Their establishment was forbidden and only two of the 9 members survived execution. Jamaleddin Khanjani is one of the two individuals who survived.

Although Khanjani escaped death in the 80s, he was unable to escape the limitations placed on his minority religious group in Iran. He and his family were victims of discrimination for three decades. As a former employee of the Pepsi-Cola Company, he established a brick company after the revolution and employed hundreds of individuals which was confiscated by the Islamic regime.  He became a farmer afterwards and was still put under pressure by the Islamic regime.

The Spiritual Assembly refers to elected councils that govern the Baha’i Faith. Because the Baha’i Faith has no clergy, they carry out the affairs of the community.    After the execution of the members of the Spiritual Assembly, the “Friends of Iran” Council was formed by the two surviving members for governing the 300,000 Baha’is living in Iran.  Khanjani was one of its well-known members and the 7 members of the council have done nothing but serving their community and country based on the stories described by other Baha’is.

In addition to Jamaleddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaei, Behrouz Tavakoli, Vahid Tizfahm, Fariba Kamalabadi and Mahvash Sabet were the members of the last “Friends of Iran” Council.  Their arrest began in May of 2008 and they were eventually sentenced to 20 years in prison for the charge of espionage.

In May of 2008, six security forces enter his house in his absence by threatening his wife. Khanjani who was on his way to Semnan, returns after receiving a phone call from his home. The security forces search the house from 6 am until 4 pm and confiscate many of his belongings.  He was then taken to Ward 209 and put under temporary arrest for 814 days along with the other 6 members of the Council.

Their legal rights were violated all along and their first trial took place 635 days or 21 months later. Their charges were the typical ones given by the Islamic regime; espionage by Israel, blasphemy and anti-regime propaganda. The court verdict was not issued on that day and it was postponed to 5 months later after several delays in June of 2010.

The trial was not a trial for Khanjani and 6 other members of the Council. It was a prosecution for an entire community; a community who has been deprived of education, employment, citizenship and religious rights or in another word of human rights. A community which has 300,000 members and the regime has deprived them of all the basic rights. The 7 members who were sentenced to a total of 140 years of imprisonment represented the 300,000 Baha’is living in Iran.

Three months later, the appeals court informed them that their sentence has been reduced to 10 years verbally but the written verdict later given to the 78 year old Khanjani and 6 others stated the 20 years.

It took 814 days for them to transfer Khanjani to the Rajaei Shahr Prison which is even in a more appalling condition.

The God who he believes in should bless him; otherwise, God forbid, he will be in prison until he is 98 years old.  His wife Ashraf Sobhani passed away during his temporary arrest and he was not allowed to visit her for the last time and to say goodbye after all those years of marriage.

Jamalledin Khanjani is one of the 9 Baha’is who survived executions of the 80s, one of the seven Baha’is imprisoned and one of the 300,000 individuals of the Baha’i community and the Iranian community who at the age of 78, when many suffer from medical problems which accompany old age, is deprived of regular phone calls, prison visits and medical attention. A man who at this age is supposed to live comfortably at his home and to enjoy the company of his children and grandchildren after what the regime has put him through. Alas that Islamic Republic has deprived him of that.

Yes, Jamalledin Khanjani is one of the prisoners of Rajaei Shahr Prison with a 20 year long imprisonment sentence and without a single day of furlough.

 

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West Threatens Iran With New Sanctions; Khamenei Warns Against Attack

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West Threatens Iran With New Sanctions; Khamenei Warns Against Attack

 

By RFE/RL
Western countries say they are considering how to raise pressure on Iran over its nuclear program in light of a new report by the UN atomic watchdog strongly suggesting Tehran is engaged in nuclear weapons development.

Russia has ruled out supporting such a move, while Iran has rejected the document as baseless and its author, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director-general, as a tool of  U.S. machinations.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, meanwhile, responded to speculation of a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities on November 10, saying that “any kind of threat and attack or even thinking about any [military] action will be firmly responded to.”

State television also quoted Khamenei as saying the country would defend itself with “iron fists.”

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said the seriousness of the IAEA report warranted a meeting of the UN Security Council.

On top of existing UN, U.S., and EU sanctions, Juppe said Paris stood ready to adopt sanctions on “an unprecedented scale” if Iran refused to abide by the demands of the international community.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle issued a similar warning in Berlin.

“If Iran further refuses serious negotiations about its nuclear program, new and strict sanctions will be unavoidable,” Westerwelle said. “The way of definitive and broadly applied sanctions is the right way. We reject any discussion of military options.”

The comments were echoed by British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who told Parliament that Britain was “looking at additional measures against the Iranian financial sector, the oil and gas sector, and the designation of further entities and individuals” involved with Iran’s nuclear program.

In its leaked report on Iran, the IAEA said it had information indicating the Islamic republic has carried out tests “relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device.”

This was the first time that the UN agency has directly tied Iran’s nuclear program to weapons production.

Iran ‘Won’t Budge’

Iran has remained defiant, with President Mahmud Ahmadinejad saying his country “will not budge an iota” from its nuclear program.

In a speech addressing thousands of people in the central city of Shahr-e Kord and broadcast live on state television, Ahmadinejad said the UN’s nuclear watchdog discredited itself by siding with “empty” U.S. claims that Iran was seeking to develop nuclear weapons.

“Why do you damage the agency’s dignity because of America’s empty claims?” Ahmadinejad asked. “It will be in your interest to be a friend of the Iranian nation. History has shown that Iran’s enemies have not tasted glory and victory.”

In Brussels, Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman for EU foreign-policy chief Catherine Ashton, told RFE/RL that the IAEA’s report “seriously aggravates existing concerns on the nature of the Iranian nuclear program.”

Ashton represents six world powers — Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States — in stalled negotiations with Iran.

IAEA, U.S. Caution

A request for comment from the IAEA was declined. A spokesperson said Director-General Yukia Amano planned to speak to the press next week, when the report is released publicly.

In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney said almost nothing about the IAEA findings in his daily briefing to reporters, in keeping with the Obama administration’s decidedly muted response to the report’s release. Asked if President Barack Obama was considering additional sanctions against Iran, Carney downplayed White House discussions.

“He’s been briefed on it and it’s been discussed here,” Carney said. “I don’t have any other conversations to report or any predictions to make about steps that we might take in our efforts to further isolate and pressure Iran to change its behavior in regards to its nuclear program.”

The path to more UN sanctions on Iran could be complicated, however, with Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov saying, “Any additional sanctions against Iran will be seen in the international community as an instrument for regime change in Iran.”

Gatilov told Interfax news agency that such an approach was “unacceptable” to Moscow, and that dialogue was the only way forward.

Earlier, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Beijing was studying the report, adding that “avoiding fresh turmoil in the Middle Eastern security environment is important for both the region and for the international community.

“The IAEA should adopt an impartial and objective stance and actively work on clarifying certain issues with Iran through cooperation,” Hong said. “The Iranian side should also demonstrate flexibility and sincerity and engage in serious cooperation with the agency.”

Israeli Warning

In its first comments on the report, Israel urged the international community to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons.

A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, “The significance of the [IAEA] report is that the international community must bring about the cessation of Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, which endanger the peace of the world and of the Middle East.”

Earlier this week, Israel, which is widely believed to be the Middle East’s only nuclear power — though it has never acknowledged it — said all options to stop Iran were on the table, including a military strike.

Tzipi Livni, a former Israeli foreign minister and head of the main opposition Kadima party, said that Israel “expect[s] the international community, the free world, to stop Iran and prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon.”

“Now after the [IAEA] report, the facts are clear: the world knows where Iran is going and the world needs to stop Iran. Iran threatens not only the interests of the free world but the values of the free world.”

Last week, Israeli President Shimon Peres warned that an attack on Iran was becoming “more and more likely.”

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Iranian lawmakers support IRGC’s elite unit

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Iranian lawmakers support IRGC’s elite unit

 240 Iranian lawmakers in a statement have underlined their support for the Ghods units, an elite force of the Islamic Republic’s Guard Corps, Khabar online reported Wednesday. The lawmakers say the Ghods unit has deep intelligence over the plots of the foreign enemies against the Islamic Republic, thus any attack against the force will cause higher support from the public for the unit. The MPs rejected US accusation Ghods unit was involved in the case of Mansoor Arabsiar, an US-Iranian national who allegedly planned a bomb attack against the Saudi Ambassador to Washington.

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Iranian Reactions to U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq

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Iranian Reactions to U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq
 
November 4, 2011

 

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei

October 30, 2011

In a meeting with President of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region Massoud Barzani, the Supreme Leader said “The united resistance of all peoples and religions of Iraq against the US pressures and their opposition to (granting) judicial immunity of the occupying army which eventually forced the US to leave Iraq is a golden page in the history of this country.”

“In spite of the military and political presence of America in Iraq, all Iraqi people – including Kurds and Arabs, Shia and Sunni – said ‘no’ to America and this is a very important point.”

“The current stability of Iraq is a source of delight for the Islamic Republic of Iran and all religious and ethnic groups of Iraq should join hands and make efforts to build a new Iraq.” (Fars News Agency [affiliated with Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)])

November 2, 2011

Addressing a gathering of students in Tehran, Khamenei said: “Today America has been defeated in Afghanistan and Iraq and it has no choice but [to] leave these two countries. And it has also been defeated in North Africa.” (Khamenei.ir)

 

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

October 23, 2011

[Excerpt from CNN interview with Ahmadinejad]:

Fareed Zakaria: President Obama has said that all American troops will be out of Iraq by the end of the year. In light of this announcement, will your government increase its efforts to train the Iraqi army, since there will be a need in Iraq for training and support. Will the Iranian government be providing greater support in that area?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: I think this is going to be a very good idea and it should have been done sooner, maybe seven or eight years ago, and they would avoid killing so many Iraqi people or Americans as well. I think they should have done it much earlier.

But the people in the Iraqi government did not accept the increased presence of the Americans. The Iraqi government is independent and sovereign. They should decide how to provide trainings for the military personnel. We should wait for the decision of the Iraqi government.

FZ: But do you expect that Iran’s engagement and involvement with the Iranian government will now increase as a result of the American withdrawal?

MA: I don’t think there is going to be any change. We have a special relationship with Iraq. There’s a historical relationship between the two governments. We have a very friendly and amicable relationship with the Iraqi people.

Although there was a war between the two nations under Saddam Hussein, but that was not able to disturb this relationship. (CNN)

 

Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi

October 30, 2011

Referring to U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s remarks that Iran should refrain from meddling in Iraq following the American troop withdrawal, Vahidi said the “occupiers of Iraq” have been forced to leave the country and that their “meddlesome remarks stem from their deep fear of seeing the two nations (Iraq and Iran) united.” (Press TV [English-language, state media agency])

November 2, 2011

“Proposing to strengthen [the] American military presence in the Persian Gulf [by Washington] is out of desperation and [is being proposed] only to compensate for the defeat resulting from its pullout from Iraq.” (Press TV)

 

Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Hassan Firouzabadi

October 26, 2011

“The American soldiers had no other choice than to leave Iraq, and this is the beginning of all American forces withdrawing from the region and the people’s intolerance of these ambassadors of death, colonialism, and plundering.”

“Even if the Americans retreat from Iraq and Afghanistan, their problems will not be pushed aside, and the American people will force their government to retreat from the region completely and permanently.” (Javan Online [affiliated with IRGC Political Bureau])

 

IRGC deputy commander Brigadier General Hossein Salami

November 1, 2011

“There is no [longer] any secure place for the U.S. and its puppets and allies…They do not dare to be present in the Islamic territories and they are forced to travel secretly.” (Mehr News [state media agency, owned by the Islamic Propagation Office])

 

Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani

October 24, 2011

“The Americans must not believe that they can deceive the people of Iraq…. Some have warned that the American pull-out will perhaps create security problems, but the problem with this is that the occupation and terrorism help one another. When the occupation came into being, terrorism was attracted [to the region].”

“If the Americans leave Iraq, the problem of terrorism will be solved, and the people of Iraq can assault terrorism with one fist.” (Javan Online [affiliated with IRGC Political Bureau])

 

Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi

October 31, 2011

Salehi told reporters in Baghdad following a meeting with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari: “Iraq does not need anyone to meddle in its internal affairs. Iraqis know better than anyone else how to run their country.”

Asked about reports of U.S. plans to station more troops in the Middle East, Salehi said, “The Americans always have a deficit, unfortunately, in rationality and prudence.”

“So what I expect is that it is about time for the Americans to be more provident, to be more prudent and wise in their approach, because the region is really going into troubles, and … the consequences of these developments are not yet known to anybody. So one has to be cautious. Everybody has to be cautious, including the U.S.” (Associated Press)

 

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast

October 24, 2011

[Quoting Fars News Agency report]: “Speaking to Iran’s state-run TV, Mehmanparast said the US decided to pull out its troops from Iraq due to the resistance and opposition of the country’s people, government and religious authorities, otherwise it would never retreat from Iraq and the region.

“If the US could deploy its troops in several parts of the world, it would not withdraw from Iraq…. But now it has no more room to continue its presence neither in Iraq, nor in the entire region due to the growing spread of Islamic awakening among nations.” (Fars News Agency [affiliated with the IRGC])

 

Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah

October 25, 2011

[Quoting Press TV Report]: “Hassan Nasrallah has described the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq as a historic defeat for the US and a true victory for Iraqis.”

“In a televised interview, Nasrallah said on Monday that Iraqis owe this remarkable achievement to the resistance groups, adding that US troops would have stayed in the country if they had felt secure.”

“He also compared US pullout from Iraq to the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon.” (Press TV [English-language, state media agency])

 

Statement from Iran’s IRGC Basij Forces

October 26, 2011

[Quoting Fars News Agency’s press release]: “Iran’s Basij forces…welcomed the US announcement on its pullout from Iraq, saying that the US has no way out but to retreat from the region as the Middle-East has become an exhibition of its failures.”

[Statement text] ‘The great Islamic Middle-East has been shaped and this sensitive and strategic region has turned into an exhibition of the US and its allies’ failures and defeats.’

“Basij forces in their statement described the formation of the great Islamic Middle-East as a good opportunity for the Muslim leaders and politicians to distance themselves from bankrupt powers and clean the stain of dependence on the world arrogance [the United States] from their face.” (Fars News Agency [affiliated with the IRGC])

 
Statement signed by 240 of 290 Iranian representatives of parliament

October 25, 2011

“The graph of the power of the U.S. shows a descending trend, and, with the failure of the policies of this superpower in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Middle East, despite hundreds of billion dollars being spent, crisis has engulfed the U.S. society, and today we are witnessing the Wall Street movement, which is the loud voice of the protest of the people of the United States against the unjust governing system of the country.” (Tehran Times [English-language, state media agency])

 

Media Report by Al Ahd TV

October 31, 2011

Announcer-read report over video: “The Islamic resistance [group] has inflicted painful blows on the occupation bases and equipment in order to make the occupation subject to the Iraqi people’s will, force it to withdraw from the land of the holy sites, and admit complete defeat. The Asa’ib Ahl al-Haqq [Iranian proxy militia] claimed responsibility for damaging a US occupation tanker in Shu’lat al-Sadrayn area, northeastern Baghdad, and launching four Grad rockets at Al-Dujayl Base, affiliated with the occupation forces.” (Al Ahd TV [supportive of Sadr Trend, Iranian proxy in Iraq, satellite channel based in Baghdad])

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