The Terrorist State Of Iran

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Ok, this surprises me a bit coming from Turkey:

Following years of investigations based on intelligence reports, a Turkish court declared on Friday that terrorism is the instrument of Iran’s foreign policy and that Teheran will not hesitate to use terrorism against its rivals in order to achieve its goals.

The Ankara court made public a key report detailing the parts played by nine Islamist militants in a long-running case over the murders of four prominent, pro-secular intellectual writers in the 1990s.

According to the report, neighboring Iran deliberately trained Turkish Islamist radicals and supported terrorist activities aimed at undermining Turkey’s strictly secular order.

“Terrorism, which is an instrument of Iran’s foreign policy, has been frequently used by that country against Turkey because Teheran sees Turkey as a major rival in the region,” the court document said.

The court said that following the Islamic revolution in 1979, Iran became the center of international terrorism while Teheran promoted itself as the natural and spiritual leader of global Islamist revolutionary activities.

According to Turkish intelligence sources, the main suspect in the murders of the writers, Ferhat Ozmen, went to Iran in 1988, joined the so-called “Jerusalem Army” and was trained in assassination, use of weapons, radio-controlled explosives and bomb making.

The Turkish prosecution has described the Jerusalem Army as a group within Iran’s Revolutionary Guards which works to export the Islamic revolution to neighboring countries.

Last month, Turkey’s key National Security Policy Document singled out Iran as a potential source of instability and uncertainty in the region.

The story implicating Iran in the murders provoked large headlines in the three Turkish mainstream newspapers – H rriyet, Milliyet and Radikal. The papers said that Teheran’s ongoing nuclear and ballistic missile activities are a severe threat to the entire region.

Not that this will surprise anyone. We have known for many many years that Iran is the center of terrorism. It’s good to see some in that region agree finally.

This news comes on the heels of the news that western music has been banned in Iran by it’s President.

TEHRAN, Iran – Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s ban on Western music fell on deaf ears Tuesday, as shop owners and music enthusiasts in the Iranian capital continued selling, buying and listening to everything from hip-hop to country rock.

The official IRAN Persian daily reported Monday that Ahmadinejad, as head of the Supreme Cultural Revolutionary Council, ordered the enactment of an October ruling by the council to ban all Western music, including classical music, on state broadcast outlets.

“This president speaks as if he is living in the Stone Age. This man has to understand that he can’t tell the people what to listen to and what not to listen to,” said Mohammed Reza Hosseinpour as he browsed through a Tehran music shop.

The shop’s owner said he did not expect the president’s ban to be implemented.

“Clerics and officials speak about imposing restrictions every other day. I don’t think it’s going to be enforced,” said Reza Sadeghi as he counted some bills he received from the sale of an Eric Clapton tape.

This is encouraging. The President issues a completely idiotic order and the people tell him to shove it. Maybe there is some hope for Iran after all.

[…]”Don’t take this man (Ahmadinejad) seriously,” said Pari Mahmoudi, a teen driving in the capital, as the Eagles’ “Hotel California” blared from the car speakers.

The expectation among many was that the new ban would fall by the wayside as others have recently. Iran’s government has banned the sale of music by female singers in the past and has forbidden women from wearing heavy makeup. Neither order has been enforced.

As the revolutionary fervor started to fade, some light classical music was allowed on Iranian radio and television, and some public concerts reappeared in the late 1980s. Since Khomeini’s death, pop music has been creeping into Iranian shops.

In the 1990s, particularly during the presidency of reformist Mohammad Khatami, authorities began relaxing restrictions further. These days in Iran, Western music, films and clothing are widely available. Bootleg videos and DVDs of films banned by the state can be found on the black market.

Also, Iranians with satellite dishes can get broadcasts originating outside the country. Satellite dishes are banned but the government currently does not harass citizens whose equipment can be seen on the rooftops.