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۱۳۸۶ مرداد ۲۸, یکشنبه
Iran to file lawsuit against Russia
Iran is to file a lawsuit against Russia at The Hague over its nuclear rights.
An Iranian MP says that Iran is to file a lawsuit against Russia at The Hague, because Russia has not fulfilled its undertakings towards Iran.
Rashid Jalali, a member of Foreign Policy and National Security Commission, said that Iran is to file the lawsuit at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in the next few days, according to the Aftabnews website.
"Russia has violated a treaty which obliges it to provide the nuclear fuel necessary for Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant."
Jalali pointed to the recent remarks made by Russian officials who have said no nuclear fuel will be sent to Iran unless Iran carries out the provisions of the UN Securoty Council sanctions and added that "our agreement with Russia should not be affected by political affairs since Iran's nuclear activities date back to some 35 years ago, but the West and Russia are politicizing Iran's nuclear programs."
"As far as nuclear activities are concerned, we have always maintained that Iran should not rely on the West and Russia and we should develop it ourselves," Jalali concluded.
۱۳۸۶ مرداد ۲۴, چهارشنبه
Iranian guards are terrorists, US to declare
Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Thursday August 16, 2007
The Guardian
The Bush administration is preparing to ramp up its confrontation with Iran by declaring part or all of the country's Revolutionary Guard a "global terrorist" organisation and targeting its extensive financial interests.
The move is extremely provocative, given that the 125,000-strong Revolutionary Guard Corps is an integral part of the state rather than a group outside the law. It has its own navy, air force, and ground troops, as well as specialist wings.
The Bush administration is trying to force Iran to abandon what the US claims is its ambition to build a nuclear bomb, and to end its support for Hizbullah, Hamas and other groups in the Middle East. "We are confronting Iranian behaviour across a variety of different fronts, on a number of different battlefields, if you will," said Sean McCormack, the state department spokesman. He would not comment on the Revolutionary Guard because he did not want to give them a heads-up, or advance notice, on any sanctions.
The plan is the first concrete illustration of a shift in balance from the "doves" in the Bush administration - Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, and Robert Gates, the defence secretary - to the "hawks" around Dick Cheney, the vice-president, who has expressed frustration over a lack of progress by diplomats and supports eventual military action. The labelling of the Revolutionary Guard is a concession by Ms Rice and Mr Gates to Mr Cheney.
The plan is at an advanced stage: Ms Rice has informed the foreign secretary, David Miliband, of the US intention.
White House, state department and Treasury officials refused to comment publicly yesterday. The Iranian foreign ministry dismissed the suggestion of sanctions as "propaganda and psychological operations".
Throughout the year the Bush administration has been intensifying its pressure on Iran, a policy that included the dispatch of a second carrier group to the Gulf. Iran's commander-in-chief, Yahya Rahim Safavi, shrugged off the US build-up yesterday, saying: "Our coast-to-sea missile systems can now reach the breadth and length of the Gulf and Oman Sea, and no warships can pass in the Gulf without being in range of our coast-to-sea missiles."
The Revolutionary Guard has an economic portfolio which includes ownership, or part-ownership, of oil companies, hotels, and other businesses.
The White House claims the Revolutionary Guard has been sending sophisticated explosives and other weapons to Iraq, and arming the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Ms Rice has still to formally approve the labelling of part or all the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation. The label could be applied solely to the Revolutionary Guard special unit, the Quds (Jerusalem) Force, which has been accused by Washington of involvement in Iraq, rather than the whole organisation.
The designation would mean the US regarding the Revolutionary Guard as having "committed" or posing "a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of US nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or the economy of the United States".
As well as putting pressure on Iran, the plan is aimed at influencing the United Nations security council, where China and to a lesser extent Russia are resisting further sanctions against Iran.
The Bush administration is warning the security council that, if it is not prepared to shift, then the US is prepared to act unilaterally. Ms Rice's delay in labelling the Revolutionary Guard is partly to give the security council an opportunity in which to act.
۱۳۸۶ مرداد ۲۲, دوشنبه
Cheney urging strikes on Iran
By Warren P. Strobel, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers Thu Aug 9 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush charged Thursday that Iran continues to arm and train insurgents who are killing U.S. soldiers in Iraq , and he threatened action if that continues.
At a news conference Thursday, Bush said Iran had been warned of unspecified consequences if it continued its alleged support for anti-American forces in Iraq . U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker had conveyed the warning in meetings with his Iranian counterpart in Baghdad , the president said.
Bush wasn't specific, and a State Department official refused to elaborate on the warning.
Behind the scenes, however, the president's top aides have been engaged in an intensive internal debate over how to respond to Iran's support for Shiite Muslim groups in Iraq and its nuclear program. Vice President Dick Cheney several weeks ago proposed launching airstrikes at suspected training camps in Iran run by the Quds force, a special unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps , according to two U.S. officials who are involved in Iran policy.
The debate has been accompanied by a growing drumbeat of allegations about Iranian meddling in Iraq from U.S. military officers, administration officials and administration allies outside government and in the news media. It isn't clear whether the media campaign is intended to build support for limited military action against Iran , to pressure the Iranians to curb their support for Shiite groups in Iraq or both.
Nor is it clear from the evidence the administration has presented whether Iran , which has long-standing ties to several Iraqi Shiite groups, including the Mahdi Army of radical cleric Muqtada al Sadr and the Badr Organization , which is allied with the U.S.-backed government of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki , is a major cause of the anti-American and sectarian violence in Iraq or merely one of many. At other times, administration officials have blamed the Sunni Muslim group al Qaida in Iraq for much of the violence.
For now, however, the president appears to have settled on a policy of stepped-up military operations in Iraq aimed at the suspected Iranian networks there, combined with direct American-Iranian talks in Baghdad to try to persuade Tehran to halt its alleged meddling.
The U.S. military launched one such raid Wednesday in Baghdad's predominantly Shiite Sadr City district.
But so far that course has failed to halt what American military officials say is a flow of sophisticated roadside bombs, known as explosively formed penetrators, into Iraq . Last month they accounted for a third of the combat deaths among U.S.-led forces, according to the military.
Cheney, who's long been skeptical of diplomacy with Iran , argued for military action if hard new evidence emerges of Iran's complicity in supporting anti-American forces in Iraq ; for example, catching a truckload of fighters or weapons crossing into Iraq from Iran , one official said.
The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to talk publicly about internal government deliberations.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opposes this idea, the officials said. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has stated publicly that "we think we can handle this inside the borders of Iraq ."
Lea Anne McBride , a Cheney spokeswoman, said only that "the vice president is right where the president is" on Iran policy.
Bush left no doubt at his news conference that he intended to get tough with Iran .
"One of the main reasons that I asked Ambassador Crocker to meet with Iranians inside Iraq was to send the message that there will be consequences for . . . people transporting, delivering EFPs, highly sophisticated IEDs (improvised explosive devices), that kill Americans in Iraq ," he said.
He also appeared to call on the Iranian people to change their government.
"My message to the Iranian people is, you can do better than this current government," he said. "You don't have to be isolated. You don't have to be in a position where you can't realize your full economic potential."
The Bush administration has launched what appears to be a coordinated campaign to pin more of Iraq's security troubles on Iran .
Last week, Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno , the No. 2 U.S. military commander in Iraq , said Shiite militiamen had launched 73 percent of the attacks that had killed or wounded American troops in July. U.S. officials think that majority Shiite Iran is providing militiamen with EFPs, which pierce armored vehicles and explode once inside.
Last month, Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner , a multinational force spokesman, said members of the Quds force had helped plan a January attack in the holy Shiite city of Karbala , which lead to the deaths of five American soldiers. Bergner said the military had evidence that some of the attackers had trained at Quds camps near Tehran .
Bush's efforts to pressure Iran are complicated by the fact that the leaders of U.S.-supported governments in Iraq and Afghanistan have a more nuanced view of their neighbor.
Maliki is on a three-day visit to Tehran , during which he was photographed Wednesday hand in hand with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . Unconfirmed media reports said Maliki had told Iranian officials they'd played a constructive role in the region.
Asked about that, Bush said he hadn't been briefed on the meeting. "Now if the signal is that Iran is constructive, I will have to have a heart-to-heart with my friend the prime minister, because I don't believe they are constructive. I don't think he in his heart of hearts thinks they're constructive either," he said.
Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai differed on Iran's role when they met last weekend, with Karzai saying in a TV interview that Iran was "a helper" and Bush challenging that view.
The toughening U.S. position on Iran puts Karzai and Iraqi leaders such as Maliki in a difficult spot between Iran , their longtime ally, and the United States , which is spending lives and treasure to secure their newly formed government.
A senior Iraqi official in Baghdad said the Iraqi government received regular intelligence briefings from the United States about suspected Iranian activities. He refused to discuss details, but said the American position worried him.
The United States is "becoming more focused on Iranian influence inside Iraq ," said the official, who requested anonymity to discuss private talks with the Americans. "And we don't want Iraq to become a zone of conflict between Iran and the U.S."
Proposals to use force against Iran over its actions in Iraq mark a new phase in the Bush administration's long internal war over Iran policy.
Until now, some hawks within the administration— including Cheney— are said to have favored military strikes to stop Iran from furthering its suspected ambitions for nuclear weapons.
Rice has championed a diplomatic strategy, but that, too, has failed to deter Iran so far.
Patrick Clawson , an Iran specialist at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy , said a strike on the Quds camps in Iran could make the nuclear diplomacy more difficult.
Before launching such a strike, "We better be prepared to go public with very detailed and very convincing intelligence," Clawson said.
(e-mail: wstrobel(at)mcclatchydc.com, jwalcott(at)mcclatchydc.com, nyoussef(at)mcclatchydc.com)
۱۳۸۶ مرداد ۲۱, یکشنبه
نصرالله: امام خميني پيروزي را پيشبيني كردهبود
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۱۳۸۶ مرداد ۱۹, جمعه
احمدي نژاد: زورگويان عالم با اعمال خود آبروي شيطان را هم بردهاند
دكتر "محمود احمدي نژاد" رييس جمهوري اسلامي ايران گفت: كشورهاي زورگو در جهان با اعمال خود و ادعاهايي چون آزادي و دمكراسي آبروي شيطان را هم بردهاند.
به گزارش خبرنگار سياسي ايرنا ، احمدينژاد عصر جمعه در آيين آغاز به كار بيست و چهارمين دوره مسابقات بينالمللي قرآن كريم در سالن اجلاس سران در تهران افزود: مردم در كشور زورگويان حتي نميتوانند با اطمينان از تلفن استفاده كنند يا به يكديگر نامه بنويسند.
رييس جمهوري با اشاره به اين كه مردم كشور زورگو حتي نميتوانند در بازار بدون تسلط و ديد دوربينها حركت كنند، افزود: اين چه نوع آزادي و دمكراسي است؟
احمدي نژاد با بيان اينكه "اي كاش مدعيان و كساني كهخود را پدر و مادر دمكراسي ميدانند توبه كرده و راست ميگفتند" ، افزود: اينان همزمان با اين ادعاهاي خود از شاخص زورگوييها ، تجاوز بهحقوق انسانها يعني رژيم صهيونيستي حمايت ميكنند و با اين وجود مردم در دنيا بايد چه چيزي را باور كنند.
وي با اشاره به اينكه مدعيان مزبور خيال ميكنند كه مردم جهان مانند آنها نميفهمند، افزود: آنان به ملتهاي خود هم رحم نميكنند و سرمايههاي ملت خود را نيز صرف لشكركشي و پركردن جيب بيته خود ميكنند.
رييس جمهوري با بيان اينكهدر اردوگاه ستمگران از رايحه مهر ، محبت ، عدالت با حفظ حقوق انساني چيزي به مشام نميرسد، تاكيد كرد: در اين اردوگاه هر چه هست خودخواهي ، تجاوز ، اشغالگري ،دروغ و نيرنگ است.
احمدي نژاد با اشاره به رفتار امروز كشورهاي زورگو در فلسطين اشغالي ، عراق، لبنان و افغانستان افزود: پرونده سياه استعمارگران در افريقا و آسيا حكايت از اسارت ميليونها انسان بيگناه و كشتن آنان و غارت منابع و هستي مردم اين دو قاره دارد.
وي قرآن كريم را چراغ هدايت براي قدم نهادن در صراط مستقيم دانست و تصريح كرد: امروز هم نابسامانيها ، ظلمها و رنجهاي بشريت از ناحيه كساني است كه از خداوند دور هستند، از حقيقت فاصله دارند و در بند شيطان نفس مي باشند.
رييس شوراي عالي انقلاب فرهنگي تنها راه نجات در برابر چنين رفتارهايي را بازگشت به سوي خدا و تعاليم انبياي الهي دانست و خاطرنشان كرد: اي ملتهاي آزاده جهان، اين نداي قرآن كريم از زبان پيامبر به همه عالميان و همه اعصار است كه از ظلمت ها، جهلها و هواها و شيطان به سوي خداوند بازگرديد.
احمدي نژاد با بيان اينكه قرآن نسخه درمان دردها و هدايت انسانها در هر سطح و مرتبهاي است، گفت : هدف از نزول قرآن هدايت ، تعليم و تربيت انسانها ساختن انسان كامل و برپايي جامعه سراسر عدل و قسط است و انسان كامل تجسم قرآن كريم است .
وي افزود: تنها راه نجات و سعادت در عبوديت خداست ، پايبندي به ارزشها و احكام خدايي و تسليم در برابر عدالت است.
حجتالاسلام و المسلمين " حيدر مصلحي " نماينده ولي فقيه و سرپرست سازمان اوقاف و امور خيريه نيز در مراسم آغاز بهكار بيست و چهارمين دوره مسابقات بينالمللي قرآن كريم با ارايه گزارشي از روند برگزاري اين مسابقات گفت:
مسابقات قرآن تنها در چند كشور اسلامي برگزار ميشود و از اينرو درخواست ميشود تا با حمايتهاي لازم مقدمات برگزاري اين مسابقات در همه كشورهاي اسلامي فراهم شود.
وي افزود: براي گسترش فرهنگ و معارف قرآني نيز لازم است تا دانشگاه علوم قرآني در كشور ايجاد شود.
۱۳۸۶ مرداد ۱۷, چهارشنبه
اثر رفتار انسانها در حوادث غیر مترقبه
۱۷ مرداد ۱۳۸۶ - بعد از ظهر ۱۷:۲۳ | تعداد بازديد: 18 | كد خبر: ۷۲۹۰۵ |
رييسجمهور با بيان اينكه " زندگي مادي، ملازم با حوادث مترقبه و غيرمترقبه است" گفت: برخورد با حوادث غيرمترقبه از آنجايي كه زمان، مكان، ابعاد و تبعات آن مشخص نيست، اين ضرورت را ايجاب ميكند كه آمادگي براي برخورد با آنها وجود داشته باشد و روند اداري معمولي جوابگوي آن نيست؛ چراكه در شرايط بحراني، بنيانهاي مديريت سست ميشود و روي هيچ چيز نميشود، حساب كرد.
به گزارش ايسنا دكتر محمود احمدينژاد طي سخناني در جمع مديران ستادهاي حوادث غيرمترقبه كشور همچنين افزود: كشور ما حادثهخيز است و با وجود اينكه اقليمهاي زيادي را در آن داريم، شاهد حوادث زيادي هم هستيم.
وي با اشاره به بررسي لايحه مديريت بحران در مجلس ادامه داد: اين اولين كار در ساختار اداري است، اما كافي نيست. ميتوان هر سال در بخشهاي مختلف كشور مانور مقابله با حوادث ايجاد كرد.
رييسجمهور با اشاره به توفان گونو در چابهار نيز گفت: ما پيش از اين با اين پديده روبهرو نبوديم و اين حادثه در نوع خود در كشور ما اتفاق نيفتاده بود اما مركز فرماندهي ميتواند با تمريناتي كه انجام ميدهد، در چنين حوادثي به موقع كار خود را انجام دهد.
احمدينژاد خاطرنشان كرد: زلزله و سيل دو پديدهاي است كه در كشور ما زياد اتفاق ميافتد. براي زلزله بايد ساختمانها را مقاوم كنيم؛ چراكه تخريب ساختمان منجر به تلفات ميشود. براي اين منظور لازم است كه خانههاي روستايي و شهري و بافتهاي فرسوده در آنها بازسازي شود. در شهرها، شهرداريها بايد ساز و كار نظارتي خود را بر ساخت و سازها تقويت كنند تا بتوان مقاومسازي را انجام داد. اين كار زمان زيادي ميبرد اما بالاخره بايد انجام شود.
وي به سيل استان گلستان نيز اشاره كرد و گفت:با توجه به اينكه چند سال است كه ما در گلستان شاهد سيل هستيم، به نظر من اگر سيل اخير در استان گلستان بهتر مديريت ميشد، اين حادثه خسارات كمتري به بار ميآورد.
وي با اشاره به بروز حوادث در شهرهاي بزرگ از جمله تهران گفت: در شهر تهران محلات گوناگون، بافتهاي فرسوده و پلهاي حساسي وجود دارد. اميدواريم كه در تهران اتفاقي نيفتد. اما بايد خود را براي مقابله با حوادث احتمالي آماده كنيم. پيشنهاد وزير كشور مبني بر ايجاد سولههاي امدادي در محلات شهرهاي بزرگ پيشنهاد بسيار خوبي است. حتي ميتوان در اين سولهها، اطلاعات مربوط به آن محله را اعم از تعداد خانوار و ميزان تعداد افراد هر خانه را نگهداري كرد تا در شرايط اضطراري، امدادگران بدانند كه در هر قسمت آن محله بايد به دنبال چه تعداد افرادي بگردند. حتي ميتوان تقسيم ماموريت سرزميني براي گروههاي امدادي انجام داد تا آنها با محلاتي كه قرار است براي آن امداد انجام دهند آشنا شوند.
رييسجمهور با اشاره به نقش مردم در مقابله با حوادث گفت: در همه مسايل، نقش مردم، نقش اوليه و تعيينكننده است. اگر مردم در پيشگيري و امداد و نجات حضور داشته باشند، همه اين كارها با هزينه كمتر و سرعت بيشتري انجام ميشود. بايد در بين مردم، آمادگي مقابله با حوادث را ايجاد كنيم. مثلا در حوادثي مثل سيل ميتوان مردم را آموزش داد تا طبيعت را به نوعي حفظ كنند كه سيل جاري نشود. مثلا جنگلها به دست خود مردم حفظ شود. به هر حال نقش مردم در امداد و نجات بيبديل است و آنها ميتوانند اولين كساني باشند كه به آسيبديدگان امداد دهند.
احمدينژاد گفت: برنامههاي آموزش ملي براي امداد و نجات را ميتوان در محلات برپا كرد و خانمها نيز در اين جلسات شركت كنند؛ چراكه خانمها نقش مهمي در آموزش خانواده براي امداد و نجات دارند.
وي با تاكيد بر تلاش نيروهاي امدادي براي نجات تك تك افراد جامعه گفت: اگر تمام ساختار اداري بسيج شوند كه يك نفر را هم نجات دهيم ارزش اين كار را دارد.
رييسجمهور با خوب توصيف كردن بازسازي در استان لرستان، از دستگاههاي اجرايي خواست كه بازسازي در اين استان را به عنوان يك الگو و تجربه در نظر داشته باشند.
احمدينژاد در بخش ديگري از سخنان خود، با تاكيد بر تاثير اعمال و رفتار انسانها در حوادث و بلاياي طبيعي گفت: زمين نميتواند بر سر جايي كه همه افراد آن مومن هستند بلرزد و آن را خراب كند. نميخواهم بگويم ساير مسايل تاثير ندارد. ما بايد از تمام علوم تجربي مانند زمينشناسي براي بررسي حركتهاي زمين و پيشبيني حوادث غيرمترقبه استفاده كنيم اما بايد آن سوي قضيه را هم در نظر بگيريم. اگر هر لقمهاي پاك باشد و هر نگاه و دست و قلمي پاك باشد، طبيعت نميتواند با اين دلهاي پاك همراهي نكند؛ چرا كه مسخر اين دلهاست و برخي از حوادث با رفتار انسانها ارتباط دارد.
رييسجمهور از متخصصان علوم مرتبط با حوادث غيرمترقبه خواست كه در نوشتن جزوات مانند سكولارها عمل نكنند؛ چراكه خدا و پيغمبر و معنويت در زندگي انسانها تاثير دارد.
احمدينژاد در پايان سخنان خود با ابراز تاسف از ايجاد خسارات و تلفات جاني در حوادث غيرمترقبه در سطح جهان گفت: ما در هر كجاي دنيا كه اين حوادث اتفاق بيافتد متاسف ميشويم و بهخصوص در كشور ما و اميدوارم كه چنين حوادثي با تدبير با كاهش خسارت و تلفات مواجه شود.
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۱۳۸۶ مرداد ۱۵, دوشنبه
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Iran to start jet fighter production (Azarakhsh)
![]() Iranian made fighter, Azarakhsh. |
Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said the fighter jet, Azarakhsh, would reach industrial production and join the country's air force soon.
Azarakhsh, which has been designed and built by Defense Ministry and Hesa Airplane Manufacturing industries' experts, conducted a successful test flight on Sunday in the central city of Isfahan, where it was built.
" The second generation of the homemade fighter jet will be ready for test flight in the not-so-distant future," the minister announced, adding that a national helicopter, designed by Iran's Defense Ministry would also be tested soon.
Najjar praised Iran's aviation achievements, underlining the country's self-sufficiency in designing and manufacturing different missiles and their components.
According to Najjar, Iran's Defense Ministry, is currently capable of repairing military fighters and passenger planes including Airbus 747.
"Many regional countries bring their airplanes and helicopters for repair to Iran."
Regarding the US decision to demolish F-14 Tomcat fighter jets to prevent the sale of its spare parts to Iran, Najjar noted that the country does not need the sale of F-14 spare parts from the US since 'we can make the spare parts at home'.
۱۳۸۶ مرداد ۱۱, پنجشنبه
Deep brain stimulation with electrical pulses may offer hope for patients trapped in a minimally conscious state.
![]() The electrodes were placed at specific points in the brain |
Treatment of a 38-year-old man with a severe brain injury enabled him to use words and gestures, chew and swallow and drink from a cup, say US doctors.
Before the stimulation, done through electrodes implanted in his brain, he could only make slight eye or finger movements, the team report in Nature.
Experts said more studies were needed to assess which patients may benefit.
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Deep brain stimulation is already used in the treatment of tremors associated with Parkinson's disease.
The procedure involves electrodes implanted with millimetre accuracy to specific areas of the brain.
Badly beaten
The man involved in the study was badly beaten six years ago, leaving him severely brain injured and in a minimally conscious state, in which patients show intermittent signs of awareness.
Over a period of six months the researchers alternated periods of electrical stimulation with fake stimulation to assess whether it was having an effect.
Within 48 hours of the first stimulation, the patient was able to keep his eyes open, turn his head, and utter words.
After several treatments he is now able to perform complex tasks such as brushing his hair, although with difficulty due to severe immobility caused by his condition.
And can chew and swallows his food where before he needed a feeding tube.
Further tests on 12 patients have gained FDA approval. The researchers say if these results are replicated, it could change the standard of care for such patients, most of whom have to be cared for in long-term nursing facilities.
Dr Ali Rezai, the neurosurgeon at Cleveland Clinic's Center for Neurological Restoration who carried out the procedure said the changes in the man had been "remarkable and sustained".
Study leader, Dr Nicholas Schiff, associate professor of neurology and neuroscience at Weill Cornell added: "The work challenges the existing practice of early treatment discontinuation and also changes the approach to assessment and evaluation."
Communicate
His mother, who does not wish to be identified said it had been very hard for her to see her son lying in the nursing home, unable to communicate with them.
"I'll never forget the words the doctor said to us: 'if your son recovers from this in the next 72 hours, and we don't know if he will, he will be a vegetable for the rest of his life.'
"Now, my son can eat, express himself and let us know if he is in pain. He enjoys a quality of life we never thought possible.
"And the most important part is he can say 'I love you mommy'."
Professor Paul Matthews, an expert in clinical neurosciences at Imperial College London, said the study offered hope.
"The causes and severity of brain injury vary between minimally conscious state patients," he said.
"More experience with the approach is needed to understand which patients may be expected to benefit."
Professor Tipu Aziz, expert in neurosurgery at the University of Oxford, added there had been cases of patients recovering spontaneously after being in a minimally conscious state for a long time and no firm conclusions could be made.
"Much more needs to be done into the research of the best management of such patients but there is little funding to do so."