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۱۳۸۶ آبان ۳, پنجشنبه
۱۳۸۶ آبان ۲, چهارشنبه
Nuclear split emerges in Iran
Robert Tait in Tehran
Wednesday October 24, 2007
The Guardian
Ali Akbar Velayati, foreign policy adviser to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, praised Mr Larijani and said his resignation should not have happened. His comments coincided with a letter of support for Mr Larijani signed by 200 MPs in Iran's parliament. The parliament's foreign and national security committee wrote to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, complaining that Mr Larijani's departure "put the country in danger".
Mr Larijani quit last Saturday after complaining that Mr Ahmadinejad had undermined his negotiating strategy. The resignation was seen as evidence that Mr Khamenei had handed greater control to the president, who has declared the nuclear case "closed" and replaced Mr Larijani with a close ally, Saeed Jalili.
However, that interpretation was cast in doubt by Mr Velayati's intervention.
Meanwhile a spokesman for the Armenian president, Robert Kocharyan, yesterday said Mr Ahmadinejad had been forced to cut short a trip there because of unspecified developments.
۱۳۸۶ مهر ۲۳, دوشنبه
مهار تورم را از تركيه بياموزيد
اين مرجع تقليد خطاب به دولتمردان و مسئولان گفت: اخباري از اقتصاد تركيه به ما مي‌رسد كه در آنجا تورم 70درصدي را به 7درصد كاهش داده‌اند؛ مسئولان بايد ببينند آنها چه فرمول و محاسباتي انجام داده‌اند، تا از اين تجربه استفاده كنند؛ چرا ما نمي‌توانيم تورم مثلا 15درصدي را به 10درصد كاهش دهيم؟
علت چيست؟
اظهارات آقاي مكارم شيرازي در حالي صورت گرفته است كه نرخ تورم ايران در سال گذشته نسبت به نرخ 1/12درصدي سال 84 باز هم افزايش يافت و به 6/13درصد رسيد.
1ـ نرخ بهره واقعي مثبت براي كنترل نقدينگي:واقعيت آن است كه مهار رشد بالاي نقدينگي فقط و فقط با سياست‌هاي انقباضي پولي امكان‌پذير است كه با نرخ بهره واقعي مثبت امكان‌پذير است و نرخ بهره واقعي مثبت به مفهوم بالاتر بودن نرخ بهره اسمي از نرخ تورم رسمي است.
5ـ تشويق سرمايه‌گذاري خارجي: مهمترين معيار براي تصميم‌گيري سرمايه‌گذاران خارجي براي سرمايه‌گذاري در يك كشور، وضعيت سرمايه‌گذاران و فعالان داخلي به همراه گزارش‌هاي بين‌المللي از اقتصاد آن كشور است. در اين زمينه ارائه توضيح اضافه‌اي لازم نيست و به هر حال نبايد فراموش كرد كه بدون افزايش عرضه كل كه در گروي رشد بالاي اقتصادي است، مهار پايدار تورم، آرزويي بيش نخواهد بود و لازمه اين اتفاق نيز جذب سرمايه‌هاي خارجي است.
۱۳۸۶ مهر ۱۷, سه‌شنبه
طرح و پیگیری مطالبات اقدامی تحسین برانگیز و وظیفه دانشجویان است
| رهبر معظم انقلاب : | |
| طرح و پیگیری مطالبات اقدامی تحسین برانگیز و وظیفه دانشجویان است | |
| رهبر معظم انقلاب عصر امروز در دیدار صدها نفر از دانشجویان نخبه کشور، طرح و پیگیری مطالبات گوناگون دانشگاهی، سیاسی و اجتماعی را اقدامی تحسین برانگیز و تکلیف و وظیفه دانشجویان خواندند. | |
حضرت آیت الله خامنه ای رهبر معظم انقلاب اسلامی عصر امروز در دیدار صدها نفر از دانشجویان نخبه، برترینهای کنکور و فعالان تشکلهای سیاسی – فرهنگی دانشگاهها، طرح و پیگیری مطالبات گوناگون دانشگاهی، سیاسی و اجتماعی را اقدامی تحسین برانگیز و تکلیف و وظیفه دانشجویان خواندند و تأکید کردند: پیگیری "مستمر، عاقلانه و منطقی" مطالبات و آرمانها، آینده روشن محیط های دانشجویی و دانشگاهی را تضمین خواهد کرد. ایشان با تمجید از انگیزه جوانان دانشجو برای طرح دیدگاهها و خواسته های مختلف خود در این دیدار افزودند: همیشه گفته ام که باید از روزی بترسیم که جوان و دانشجوی ما انگیزه طرح مسئله و سئوال نداشته باشد که به یاری پروردگار امروز این چنین نیست و همه باید توان و تلاش خود را به کارگیریم تا روحیه خواستن و مطالبه درنسل جوان و به ویژه جوانان علمی و دانشگاهی هرچه بیشتر گسترش یابد. رهبر انقلاب اسلامی با توجه به محدود بودن ظرفیتها و امکانات، پاسخگویی به همه مطالبات را در کوتاه مدت ناممکن دانستند و خاطرنشان کردند: آرمانهای بزرگ در کوتاه مدت محقق نمی شود اما طرح به دور از افراط و تفریط خواسته ها و پیگیری همراه با عقلانیت و اعتدال، یقیناً افق روشنی را برای دانشگاههای ما رقم خواهد زد. حضرت آیت الله خامنه ای خطاب به جوانان و دانشجویان افزودند: بدانید که مطالبات و پیگیریهای شما، ثمربخش و سودمند خواهد بود همچنانکه اگرجوانان مؤمن و مسئولیت شناس دانشگاهی درسالهای گذشته، پرچم عدالتخواهی را درجامعه بلند نمی کردندمسیر حوادث و جهت گیریهای انتخاباتی مردم به روی کار آمدن دولتی عدالتخواه و حاکمیت گفتمان عدالت طلبی در جامعه، منجر نمی شد. رهبر انقلاب اسلامی توجه جوانان دانشجو را به "اندیشیدن و پخته کردن خواسته ها، مطرح کردن مسائل با مراکز دست اندرکار، جستجوی راهکارهای اجرایی و کمک به تحقق ایده ها و انتظارات " جلب کردند و افزودند: اینهامکمل مطالبات دانشجویی است وجوانان ما باید در کنار داعیه های سیاسی – اجتماعی – علمی و دانشگاهی به این مسائل نیز توجه کنند و آنها را جزو وظایف خود بدانند. ایشان تحقق آرمانهای بزرگ را محتاج پیگیری امیدوارانه و استمرار عمل دانستند و افزودند: وفادار ماندن دانشجویان به مطالبات و آرمانها حتی پس از پایان دوران دانشجویی، و ساماندهی صحیح فعالیتها و محیط های دانشگاهی، در استمرار فضای مطالبات و تحقق آنها، کاملاً مؤثر خواهد بود. حضرت آیت الله خامنه ای نخبه پروری سیاسی را یکی از راههای استمرار فضای مطالبه در دانشگاهها برشمردند و افزودند: رسانه ها باید به طور جدی به معرفی نخبگان علمی و اجتماعی و سیاسی بپردازند اما تشکل های دانشجویی نیز باید با پرورش نخبه های سیاسی، فضای مباحثه و استدلال را گسترش دهند و با محکم کردن پایه های "فکری – سیاسیِ" دانشجویان و تقویت روحیه و امید در آنان، محیط را به گونه ای شکل دهند که مجموعه دانشجویی در سالهای آینده نیز همواره در این فضا تنفس و در جهت اهداف بلند و آرمانهای والا حرکت کند. رهبر انقلاب اسلامی در بخش دیگری از سخنانشان انتقاد کردن و مطالبه از همه مسئولان را، امری طبیعی دانستند و افزودند: البته نباید با مسئولان معارضه و دشمنی کرد اما این حرف به معنای انتقاد نکردن و مطالبه نکردن از مسئولان مختلف از جمله رهبری نیست چرا که می توان در عین صفا و دوستی، انتقاد هم کرد. ایشان در پاسخ به سئوال یک دانشجو درباره تبیین حدود ضدولایت فقیه افزودند: ضدیت یعنی دشمنی کردن اما اگر کسی معتقد به مسئله ای نبود ضد آن نیست. حضرت آیت الله خامنه ای درباره برخی مسائل که در زمینه سخنان رهبری در دیدارهای خصوصی مطرح می شود افزودند: اگر به دلایلی از جمله آگاه شدن دشمن، مصلحت نباشد که سخنی بیان شود، طبعاً نه آن حرف و نه خلاف آن گفته نخواهد شد، بنابراین حرفهای بنده، همان مسائلی است که در دیدارهای مختلف با مردم و مسئولان بیان می کنم و ایجاد این شائبه که رهبری در جلسات خصوصی، مطلبی خلاف حرفهای عمومی خود بیان کرده است، صحیح نیست. حضرت آیت الله خامنه ای حمایت از دولت را به معنای تایید همه کارهای آن ندانستند و افزودند: دولت کنونی، انصافاً خدمتگزار، پرکار، با ارزش و صددرصد مورد اعتماد است اما این مسائل به معنای اطلاع رهبری از جزئیات همه فعالیتهای دولت و تأیید آنها نمی باشد و حمایت از دولت به معنای مخالفت با انتقاد از آن نیست. ایشان افزودند: اطلاع داشتن رهبری از همه رویدادها و جزئیات فعالیت همه دستگاهها و وزارتخانه ها نه لازم و نه ممکن است و دلیلی ندارد رهبری وارد محیط های اجرایی شود چرا که مسئولیتها مشخص است. رهبر انقلاب اسلامی درپایان سخنانشان پیشرفت علم و اندیشه سیاسی، تعمیق" اندیشه و ایمان و معرفت دینی"، گسترش روشن بینی دینی و دست یافتن به قلمروهای جدید در عرصه علم و سیاست و معرفت را انتظار مردم و رهبری از دانشجو و دانشگاه خواندند وتأکید کردند: سنت آفرینش الهی برپیروزی حق استواراست و هرجا ایمان و مجاهدت باشد پیشرفت و پیروزی نیزخواهد بود و به همین علت ما به آینده دانشگاهها کاملاً امیدواریم. در آغاز این دیدار، 11 نفر از دانشجویان برتر و نمایندگان تشکلهای مختلف دانشجویی، به بیان دیدگاههای خود درباره مسائل دانشگاهی – علمی – فرهنگی – اجتماعی و سیاسی پرداختند. آقایان و خانمها : - مهدی امامقلی، نماینده اتحادیه انجمن های اسلامی دانشجویان مستقل دانشگاهها - احسان کاوندکار، دانشجوی مهندسی صنایع و پژوهشگر برتر نامبردگان در سخنان خود بر این نکات تأکید کردند: - استفاده جدی تر از دانشگاه و دانشگاهیان برای دستیابی به اهداف علمی سند چشم انداز 20 ساله - لزوم استقلال تشکلهای دانشجویی از جریانها و جناحهای سیاسی - استفاده بیشتر از نخبگان دانشگاهی در تصمیم سازیها و تصمیم گیریها - نفوذ روزافزون آرمانها و ایده های پرطراوت انقلاب اسلامی در میان ملتها - توجه کامل به نقشه جامع علمی کشور و جنبش نرم افزاری - گسترش و تقویت انجمن های علمی دانشجویی در دانشگاهها - ایجاد شبکه دانش پایی برای مدیریت روند تولید، انتقال و توسعه دانش - ضرورت توجه بیشتر استادان به شاگردپروری از طریق فعال کردن دانشجویان در مأموریتهای علمی - پیشنهاد تشکیل کریدور علم و فناوری در نظام آموزش عالی وبنیادهای کار آفرینی - توجه به پویایی و افزایش قدرت تحلیل دانشجویان و دانشگاهیان - پیوند میان مدیران اجرایی و نظریه پردازان حوزه و دانشگاه - تشکیل شبکه تحقیقات دانشگاهی و ترویج رویکرد تحقیق محور در نظام تدریس دانشگاهها - ارتباط بیشتر مسئولان آموزش عالی با دانشجویان - افزایش امید و نشاط ملی در پرتو حاکمیت گفتمان مبتنی بر ارزشهای انقلاب اسلامی درجامعه - توجه بیشتر مسئولان به عدالت اجتماعی و مشکلات معیشتی - ضرورت افزایش کارآمدی فارغ التحصیلان دانشگاهها - ضرورت تسریع دستگاه قضایی در رسیدگی به پرونده های دانشجویی - ایجاد تعادل در ظرفیت رشته های مختلف دانشگاهی - ضرورت حاکمیت گفتمان «آزاداندیشی، عقلانیت و عدالت محوری» در دانشگاهها - دقت در اجرای کامل و منطقی سیاستهای اصل 44 - پیگیری طرح «وحدت فرهنگی» در دانشگاههای جهان اسلام - توجه به ماهیت «ذاتاً فکری و فرهنگی» تشکلهای دانشجویی و پرهیز از نگاه ابزاری و سیاسی به این تشکلها - تقویت روحیه نقدپذیری و پاسخگویی در مسئولان - استفاده از ظرفیتهای همه نیروهای معتقد به انقلاب و امام - افزایش تولیدات فرهنگی و هویت ساز برای تقویت اتحاد ملی - رسیدگی به مسائل و مشکلات صنفی دانشجویان - و توجه رسانه ها به ترویج الگوهای علمی و دانشگاهی به جای توجه صرف به الگوهای هنری و ورزشی در پایان این دیدار نماز جماعت مغرب و عشا به امامت حضرت آیت الله خامنه ای اقامه شد و سپس دانشجویان روزه خود را همراه با رهبر معظم انقلاب اسلامی افطار کردند. |
۱۳۸۶ مهر ۱۶, دوشنبه
Fabricating the Pretext for Another War
Ahmadinejad is Not My Enemy
By JOHN V. WALSH
I had any number of Yossarian moments this last week as the entire apparatus of respectable opinion unleashed everything they had at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. But what has Ahmadinejad done to me or anyone in the U.S.? Nothing that I know of.
On the other hand Israel and its Lobby, whose hand was very much in evidence at the Columbia demonstrations against Ahmadinejad, is very much my enemy. Along with the industrial/Congressional wing of the military industrial Congressional complex, Israel and its fifth column in the U.S. (aka the Lobby) drove us into war in Iraq, killing thousands of American soldiers and 1 million Iraqis. So there is the Yossarian moment. Ahmadinejad is not trying to get Americans killed, but these other guys sure are--and they have been remarkably successful. So who is our Colonel Cathcart, the commanding officer in Catch-22 trying to drive Yossarian into ever more life-threatening missions? Not Ahmadinejad, that's for sure. (It is striking that Bush and the Democratic Congress are literally latter day Cathcarts, cruelly extending the length of combat missions and multiplying them endlessly based on fine print. Catch-22 is not lost on our rulers.)
And now the Lobby and its allies want to kill Iranians too. In fact they would like to destroy Iran, its army and its infrastructure. Why? Because Iran wants nuclear power? That is hardly believable. At that rate we should be pouring into the streets the next time Sarkozy who presides over a densely nuclear France bares his chest in the U.S. again. And if Iran has nuclear power, so what?
Now do not tell me, as radicals (of both Libertarian and Leftist stripe) are being duly advised by liberals these days, that we are making the classical mistake of identifying the enemy of my enemies as my friend. For I am not saying that Ahmadinejad is my friend. In fact I know very little about the man--except what I hear through the filters of pundocratic respectability and the spin put on his words by the chorus of neocons. He apparently feels that historical Palestine should have room for Arabs and Jews both, as Iran apparently does. That is fine with me. A modern secular state for Arabs and Jews together in historic Palestine is inevitable in the long term anyway, so why not get on with it? (I would differ with Ahmadinejad that Iran should remain an Islamic state and I would like to tell him so. But I find that those who would argue for a Jewish state, or more accurately a Jewish apartheid state, are on thin ice when arguing this point with my non-enemy Ahmadinejad.) He says he wants to study the Holocaust more--and he may even be a genocide denier. But so what? Freedom to discuss things should be open ended. And Abe Foxman and company deny the Armenian genocide, but their praises are sung far and wide, high and low. So Ahmadinejad may not be my friend--but he is not my enemy.
Nor is Iran my enemy--although the U.S. owes Iran a mighty big set of apologies, and Iran should certainly consider our government a power hostile to it. For consider what has been done to Iran with our tax dollars. "Our" CIA overthrew the democratically elected Iranian government of Mohammad Mossadegh in the 1950s because his social democratic party wanted Iran to control Iranian oil--in place of Anglo/American corporations. The U.S. installed the Shah and with the aid of Israel, according to Uri Avnery, trained his vicious secret police who tortured and killed untold numbers of Iranians to maintain his pro-U.S. rule. Then when the Shah was ousted, we supported Saddam Hussein in his vicious war on Iran with chemical weapons. A million people died in that war. Oh, the Iranians did hold a handful of Americans hostage at the time they overthrew our puppet, the Shah, certainly a hostile act but a pin prick compared to the death and destruction we and our Israeli ally have visited on Iran and plan to do again.
So I am really not impressed by the forces arrayed against Ahmadinejad at Columbia and in the neocon "think" tanks. From William Kristol to Michael Lerner (who has also gone after those in the wonderful Jewish Voice for Peace who advocate a one-state solution), they were all attacking the Iranian Pres and Iran itself last week. But the Iranians have not tried to kill Americans--in fact for hundreds of years they have a pretty good record of staying at home, avoiding aggression and defending themselves. They may have a thing or two to teach us on that score. Perhaps Ahmadinejad is right when he says he is just a teacher.
The Big Lie: "Iran is a Threat"
Iranian military capability reached its modern peak in the late 1970’s, during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlevi. The combined effects of institutional distrust on the part of the theocrats who currently govern the Islamic Republic of Iran concerning the conventional military institutions, leading as it did to the decay of the military through inadequate funding and the creation of a competing paramilitary organization, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Command (IRGC), and the disastrous impact of an eight-year conflict with Iraq, meant that Iran has never been able to build up conventional military power capable of significant regional power projection, let alone global power projection.
Where Iran has demonstrated the ability for global reach is in the spread of Shi’a Islamic fundamentalism, but even in this case the results have been mixed. Other than the expansive relations between Iran (via certain elements of the IRGC) and the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, Iranian success stories when it comes to exporting the Islamic revolution are virtually non-existent. Indeed, the efforts on the part of the IRGC to export Islamic revolution abroad, especially into Europe and other western nations, have produced the opposite effect desired. Based upon observations made by former and current IRGC officers, it appears that those operatives chosen to spread the revolution in fact more often than not returned to Iran noting that peaceful coexistence with the West was not only possible but preferable to the exportation of Islamic fundamentalism. Many of these IRGC officers began to push for moderation of the part of the ruling theocrats in Iran, both in terms of interfacing with the west and domestic policies.
The concept of an inherent incompatibility between Iran, even when governed by a theocratic ruling class, and the United States is fundamentally flawed, especially from the perspective of Iran. The Iran of today seeks to integrate itself responsibly with the nations of the world, clumsily so in some instances, but in any case a far cry from the crude attempts to export Islamic revolution in the early 1980’s. The United States claims that Iran is a real and present danger to the security of the US and the entire world, and cites Iranian efforts to acquire nuclear technology, Iran’s continued support of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran’s “status” as a state supporter of terror, and Iranian interference into the internal affairs of Iraq and Afghanistan as the prime examples of how this threat manifests itself.
The US claims concerning Iranian interference in both Iraq and Afghanistan ignore the reality that both nations border Iran, both nations were invaded and occupied by the United States, not Iran, and that Iran has a history of conflict with both nations that dictates a keen interest concerning the internal domestic affairs of both nations. The United States continues to exaggerate the nature of Iranian involvement in Iraq, arresting “intelligence operatives” who later turned out to be economic and diplomatic officials invited to Iraq by the Iraqi government itself. Most if not all the claims made by the United States concerning Iranian military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan have not been backed up with anything stronger than rhetoric, and more often than not are subsequently contradicted by other military and governmental officials, citing a lack of specific evidence.
The fact of the matter is that the “Iranian Threat” is derived solely from the rhetoric of those who appear to seek confrontation between the United States and Iran, and largely divorced from fact-based reality. A recent request on the part of Iran to allow President Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath at “ground zero” in Manhattan was rejected by New York City officials. The resulting public outcry condemned the Iranian initiative as an affront to all Americans, citing Iran’s alleged policies of supporting terrorism. This knee-jerk reaction ignores the reality that Iran was violently opposed to al-Qaeda’s presence in Afghanistan throughout the 1990’s leading up to 2001, and that Iran was one of the first Muslim nations to condemn the terror attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.
A careful fact-based assessment of Iran clearly demonstrates that it poses no threat to the legitimate national security interests of the United States. However, if the United States chooses to implement its own unilateral national security objectives concerning regime change in Iran, there will most likely be a reaction from Iran which produces an exceedingly detrimental impact on the national security interests of the United States, including military, political and economic. But the notion of claiming a nation like Iran to constitute a security threat simply because it retains the intent and capability to defend its sovereign territory in the face of unprovoked military aggression is absurd. In the end, however, such absurdity is trumping fact-based reality when it comes to shaping the opinion of the American public on the issue of the Iranian “threat.”
آمريكادر برابر منطق هسته‌يي ايران كم آورده وراهبرد آن‌هاديگر خاصيت ندارد
رييس‌جمهور بر اهميت علم و علم آموزي و اين‌كه عرصه رقابت در جهان امروز ميان عالمان و معلمان است، تاكيد كرد و با ابراز خوشحالي نسبت به حضور در دانشگاه تهران و در جمع دانشگاهيان گفت: حضور در دانشگاه براي من مغتنم است و در پاسخ به دوستان نيز گفته‌ام كه اگر از كار اجرايي فارغ شوم باز هم به دانشگاه مي‌روم.
به گزارش خبرنگار خبرگزاري دانشجويان ايران(ايسنا) دكتر محمود احمدي‌نژاد روز دوشنبه در مراسم آغاز سال تحصيلي 86 -87 دانشگاهها و موسسات آموزش عالي كشور ـ كه در تالار علامه اميني دانشگاه تهران برگزار شد ـ با بيان اين‌كه " ماه مهر براي ملت ما يك ماه برجسته و بسيار ويژه است و اتفاقاتي كه در آن مي‌افتد بنيادي و سرنوشت ساز است" افزود: ماه مهر ماه تلاش و شكوفايي و بالندگي و شور است. زماني كه ما در دانشگاه بوديم وقتي به دو ماه تعطيلي دانشگاه مي‌رسيديم عذا مي‌گرفتيم؛ چراكه دانشگاه به تعطيلي كشيده مي‌شد. وقتي اول مهر مي‌آمد انگار دانشگاه دوباره زنده مي‌شد و دوره تعالي كشور در تعطيلي دانشگاه كم مي‌شود و با آغاز اول مهر، جنبش و جوشي در شهر ايجاد مي‌شود. گويي خون در رگ هاي جامعه جاري مي‌شود
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احمدي نژاد گفت: صحنه‌هاي فراواني از شادي وغم ، تعالي و انحطاط و رقابت‌هاي سنگين و درگيري‌هاي خانمان‌برانداز، كشتار و جنگ، عشق و محبت و دوستي در صحنه دنيا وجود دارد. در طول تاريخ همواره دو جريان در مقابل هم قرار گرفته‌اند كه در همه عرصه‌ها با هم به رقابت مي‌پردازند. شايد به يك تعبير بتوان گفت كه تاريخ جهان تاريخ تقابل حق و باطل، خداپرستان و خودپرستان، زورگويان و عدالت طلبان است؛ به نظر مي‌رسد سياستمداران در عرصه سياست و تجار و صنعتگران در عرصه اقتصاد و همين طور ساير مشاغل در عرصه‌هاي ديگر در حال رقابتند اما وقتي دقيق‌تر به صحنه رقابت‌ها نگاه كنيم، تقابل اصلي بين عالمان و معلمان با هم است و دو نوع از اين‌ها با هم رقابت مي‌كنند. هر سياستمداري در مسير يك معلم حركت مي‌كند.عرصه جهان عرصه رقابت عالمان و معلمان است. علم به تنهايي تاثيرگذار نيست بلكه همراه با تعليم و تعلم اثر مي بخشد.
رييس‌جمهور در بخش ديگري از سخنان خود گفت: علم واقعي روشنايي بخش و حركت دهنده انسان به كمال است. اما عالمي كه خودساخته نباشد دريافت‌هايش از علم ناپاك مي‌شود و امروز مهمترين مشكل بشر اين است.
وي با اشاره به تجاوزگري امريكا گفت: خيال نكنيد كه تصميمات امريكا يك روزه گرفته مي‌شود بلكه عالماني اين تصميمات را مي‌سازند و ارايه مي‌دهند. تصور نكنيد كه جنايتكاران بزرگ عالم بدون علم حركت مي‌كنند. اگر دل‌ها پاكيزه نباشد دريافت‌ها غلط مي‌شود.
احمدي‌نژاد در بخش ديگري از سخنان خود گفت: قبل از پيروزي انقلاب دو بلوك به ظاهر قدرتمند در جهان وجود داشتند كه انسان‌ها را به اسارت خود در آوردند، اما انقلاب اسلامي يك فضا و زاويه جديد ايجاد و انسان‌ها را از اسارت خارج كرد.
به گزارش ايسنا رييس‌جمهور با اشاره به حوادث دانشگاه كلمبيا گفت: ما در دانشگاه كلمبيا مي‌ديديم كه تمام اقدامات‌شان طبق برنامه‌ريزي قبلي بود؛ سال گذشته يكي از اساتيد اين دانشگاه از من براي حضور در اين دانشگاه دعوت كرد كه قبول نكردم. بعد گفتند كه عده‌اي از دانشجويان مي‌خواهند پيام شما را بشنوند و نمي‌شد، نرفت. شب قبل از مراسم به من گفته بودند كه نمي‌توانيم امنيت مراسم را برقرار كنيم. چگونه است كه كشوري كه از آن سر دنيا آمده است در اين سوي دنيا، امنيت برقرار كند، نمي‌تواند امنيت يك سالن را برقرار كند، اين‌ها همه يك بهانه بود. آنها مي‌خواستند در وهله اول مرا منصرف كنند، در ثاني اعصاب ما را خرد كنند كه نتوانيم صحبت كنيم و يا فضاي مشوشي ايجاد كنند كه پيام منتقل نشود و همه جزييات را در اين بخش ديده بودم.
وي با بيان اين كه " بسياري از دانشجويان خواستار حضور در اين مراسم و شنيدن پيام ايران بودند اما به آنها اين امكان داده نشده بود" گفت: حتي سي ـ چهل دانشجوي ايراني به من مراجعه مي‌كردند كه مي‌خواهند حاضر شوند، ولي نمي‌شد. تلفن تماسي داده بودند كه هركس تماس مي‌گرفت نوار ضبط شده‌اي ده دقيقه عليه ملت ايران و مواضع ايران موضع‌گيري مي‌كرد.
وي افزود: باور من اين است كه آنها طراحي كرده بودند كه بعد از اجراي موفقيت‌آميز پروژه شان تعرضاتي به حقوق ملت ايران بكنند و بستر اين كار را در افكار عمومي فراهم كنند. حتي بعد از مراسم در رسانه هاي‌شان مارش پيروزي مي‌زدند اما بعد از چند ساعت متوجه شدند كه چه اشتباهي مرتكب شده‌اند.
احمدي‌نژاد در بخش ديگري از سخنان خود گفت: علم قدرت آفرين است و اگر انسان‌ساخته‌نشده آن را به دست آورد مثل كودكي است كه ورزش‌هاي رزمي مي‌آموزد و از آن استفاده مي كند. بعضي از قدرت‌ها احساس مي‌كنند چون بمب اتم دارند خيلي قدرتمند شده‌اند.
رييس‌جمهور گفت: دنياي مادي امروز به پايان خط خود رسيده است و هيچ پيام اميدبخشي از نظام ليبرال دموكراسي به گوش نمي‌رسد و هيچ مشكلي از مشكلات بزرگ بشريت توسط اين نظام حل نشده است. پديده عراق، فلسطين، لبنان و همه پابرجا هستند و كسي نمي‌تواند آن را حل كند. آمريكا جلوي منطق هسته‌يي ايران كم آورده است و راهبرد آنها ديگر خاصيت ندارد.
وي در ادامه سخنان خود با اشاره به فوايد زياد انرژي هسته‌يي گفت: با انرژي هسته‌يي مي‌توان صدها زمينه شغلي ايجاد كرد اما برخي فقط بمب هسته‌يي آن را مي بينند.
رييس‌جمهور گفت: امروز مسووليت و ماموريت دانشگاهيان بسيار سنگين است، ساختن ايران و پاسخگويي به نياز بشريت مسووليت آن‌هاست. وجه غالب ملت ايران همواره علمي و فرهنگي بوده است و هيچ‌گاه قوت نظامي و اقتصادي سياست برتري اين ملت نبوده است. نام ايران در همه جاي جهان تداعي كننده علم، انسانيت و فرهنگ است و بايد علم و فرهنگ مفيد در دانشگاه‌هاي ما توليد و به جهان عرضه شود.
وي در ادامه سخنان خود به دانشگاهيان توصيه كرد كه " در علم آموزي حد و مرزي براي خودقائل نشويد" و گفت: مشكلات و كمبود امكانات وجود دارد، در كل عالم هستي اگر دو يا سه پزشك جهاني وجود داشته باشد، يكي از آنها ابن‌سيناست.نگاه‌تان در علم‌آموزي به افق‌هاي بلند باشد و مسووليت خود را در عرصه جهاني پيدا كنيد. ديگران امروز با تمام پيشرفت‌هايي كه كرده‌اند نيازمند شما هستند. وزراي محترم و مسوولان درها را باز كنند و با همه دنيا تعامل چندجانبه داشته باشند. همان‌طور كه قبلا گفته بودم. ما با تمام كشورهاي دنيا به جز اسرائيل كه آن را كشور نمي‌دانيم حاضريم تعامل كنيم. شما باب تعامل سطح بالا را در جهان ايجاد كنيد. در تعامل علم و انديشه هم بدانيد كه انديشه شما غالب خواهد بود.
وي افزود: اگر مي‌خواهيد دنيا اصلاح شود، راه آن علمي است. آن‌هايي كه فكر مي‌كنند با سلاح مي‌توان اصلاح كرد، در اشتباهند. امروز جوانان ايران پاكترين، مومن‌ترين، آرماني‌ترين، حق‌طلب‌ترين و هوشمندترين جوانان جهان هستند.
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* در پايان اين مراسم مدال يادبودي از سوي دانشگاه تهران و دانشگاه علوم پزشكي تهران در تقدير از مواضع رييس‌جمهور در دانشگاه كلمبيا به وي تقديم شد.
* همچنين پيش از سخنان رييس‌جمهور از سوي بسيج دانشجويي لوح يادبودي در تقدير از مواضع رييس‌جمهور در دانشگاه كلمبيا به وي اهدا شد.
* پس از سخنان رييس‌جمهور يكي از حضار طي سخناني به رفتارهاي برخي از اعضاي دانشگاه تهران اعتراض كرد و خواستار برخورد با برخي از كاركنان و اساتيد اين دانشگاه شد.
* آيت‌الله عميد زنجاني رييس دانشگاه تهران طي سخناني گفت: دانشگاه جاي ستايش كسي نيست اما شما كه يك دانشمند و استاد هستيد و اكثريت آراي ملت ايران را به دست آورده‌ايد، قابل تقدير هستيد.
وي همچنين در پايان مراسم و حين ارايه مدال تقدير به رييس‌جمهور گفت: اين مدال به خاطر شجاعت علمي و سياسي به شما اهدا مي‌شود.
رييس‌جمهور نيز پاسخ داد: من هيچ‌گاه حرفي كه به آن اعتقاد نداشتم نزدم، بهترين لوح‌ها را بايد به دانشگاهيان داد و من خاك پاي اين دانشگاهيان هستم.
انتهاي پيام
۱۳۸۶ مهر ۱۵, یکشنبه
U.S. General Says Iran’s Ambassador to Iraq Is in Elite Force
BAGHDAD, Oct. 7 — The American military command here increased its criticism of Iran on Sunday, accusing that country’s ambassador of undisclosed membership in a Revolutionary Guard force and announcing the arrests of three men it described as Iranian agents responsible for kidnappings and weapons smuggling.
The latest accusations came as a series of car bomb attacks in the capital killed at least nine people, apparently all civilians, including one blast near the Iranian Embassy that left three people dead, officials said.
The United States has increasingly accused Iran of involvement in planning and executing attacks against Iraq’s government and American military operations in Iraq — accusations that the Iranian government has repeatedly denied.
On several occasions American military commanders have said the elite Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran was responsible for supplying anti-American militia forces here with particularly lethal bombs that have been used to kill American troops. The Bush administration has been considering whether to classify the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group.
But Sunday appeared to be the first instance in which the Americans had publicly asserted that Iran’s top diplomat in Iraq was himself a member of the Revolutionary Guard.
The accusation was made by Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American military commander, who made the remarks to CNN while he was traveling with a small group of reporters to a military base on the Iranian border. He said, “We have absolute assurance” that a number of Iranians detained by the Americans in Iraq were members of the Quds Force.
“The Quds Force controls the policy for Iraq; there should be no confusion about that either,” General Petraeus said. “The ambassador is a Quds Force member. Now he has diplomatic immunity and therefore he is obviously not subject — and he is acting as a diplomat.”
General Petraeus did not provide details on how he knew that the ambassador, Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, who has held talks with the American ambassador, Ryan C. Crocker, belonged to the Quds Force. Iranian Embassy officials could not be reached Sunday night to comment on the general’s assertions.
The American military command also said it had arrested three men with ties to Iran who were responsible for the kidnapping of five British citizens in Baghdad in May. The arrests were made by soldiers from the 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division in a Saturday morning raid in Baghdad, according to a statement released Sunday. The three men, the statement said, were members of an Iran-backed network, the Special Groups militia, that engaged in kidnapping and smuggling weapons into Iraq.
The five British hostages have not been heard from, and their fate remains unclear.
Last week, Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, a spokesman for the American military, told reporters that an Iranian man arrested by American forces in Iraqi Kurdistan on Sept. 20 was a “very senior member of the Quds Force” posing as a trade representative. General Bergner said the man, whom he identified as Mahmoud Farhadi, helped transport weapons across Iraq’s border.
Iran protested Mr. Farhadi’s arrest and, as retaliation four days later, closed several border crossings in Iraqi Kurdistan to commercial traffic.
۱۳۸۶ مهر ۱۱, چهارشنبه
EU envoy warns Iran on nuclear progress
By CONSTANT BRAND, Associated Press Writer
Wed Oct 3, 11:32 AM ET
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union's top envoy warned Iran on Wednesday that the EU wanted to see progress in international negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program or risk new sanctions by the end of the year.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, speaking to EU lawmakers at the European Parliament, said negotiations with the U.N. nuclear watchdog in Vienna and talks that he is conducting with a top Iranian official needed to move ahead.
"We can't wait forever, and we have to see those negotiations are moving ahead. ... There is a risk of more sanctions and it is a real risk, we have to get that across," Solana said.
He said he was trying to arrange new talks with Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, "as soon as possible, and then to have a couple of other meetings as many as are necessary."
The EU foreign policy chief and International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei are to present reports in mid-November to the U.N. Security Council as to whether Tehran has cooperated to answer questions about its disputed nuclear program, which the EU, U.S. and others allege is being used to develop nuclear weapons. Iran insists its nuclear program is only for the generation of electricity.
"The situation is not good as you know, it's very difficult," Solana said. "There is a lot of pressure from different quarters, from the EU and elsewhere" for action on Iran.
Solana also questioned why South and Central American leaders would try to forge closer ties with Tehran after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the regions last week.
"I would not say they are the greatest buddies, if I can put it like that, him and Latin American leaders," Solana said. "I don't think there is any great advantage for Nicaragua, Venezuela or Bolivia in building a special relationship with a country that is subject to U.N. sanctions, which is the case for Iran."
The United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, with EU support, agreed last week they would delay until November a new U.N. resolution to toughen sanctions against Iran, giving it more time to answer to questions.
Several EU members led by Britain and France have been pushing for new sanctions to pressure Iran to suspend uranium enrichment. France has proposed widening economic sanctions such as the freezing of more assets and visa travel bans on government officials.
ElBaradei and Iranian officials agreed in July that Tehran would answer questions from agency experts by December on more than two decades of nuclear activity — most of it secret until revealed more than four years ago. Technical officials from the IAEA returned to Tehran this week to start probing outstanding questions, some with possible weapons applications.
Meanwhile, Solana is trying to get Larijani to suspend enrichment. The group of six nations, plus the EU has offered Iran a package of economic and political incentives to Iran and a suspension of U.N. sanctions if it ends its enrichment program.
Shifting Targets
The Administration’s plan for Iran
by Seymour M. Hersh October 8, 2007
In a series of public statements in recent months, President Bush and members of his Administration have redefined the war in
The President’s position, and its corollary—that, if many of America’s problems in Iraq are the responsibility of Tehran, then the solution to them is to confront the Iranians—have taken firm hold in the Administration. This summer, the White House, pushed by the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney, requested that the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw long-standing plans for a possible attack on
The shift in targeting reflects three developments. First, the President and his senior advisers have concluded that their campaign to convince the American public that
During a secure videoconference that took place early this summer, the President told Ryan Crocker, the U.S. Ambassador to
At a White House meeting with Cheney this summer, according to a former senior intelligence official, it was agreed that, if limited strikes on Iran were carried out, the Administration could fend off criticism by arguing that they were a defensive action to save soldiers in Iraq. If Democrats objected, the Administration could say, “Bill Clinton did the same thing; he conducted limited strikes in
Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said, “The President has made it clear that the United States government remains committed to a diplomatic solution with respect to Iran. The State Department is working diligently along with the international community to address our broad range of concerns.” (The White House declined to comment.)
I was repeatedly cautioned, in interviews, that the President has yet to issue the “execute order” that would be required for a military operation inside
“They’re moving everybody to the
That theme was echoed by Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former national-security adviser, who said that he had heard discussions of the White House’s more limited bombing plans for
In a speech at the United Nations last week,
“A lot depends on how stupid the Iranians will be,” Brzezinski told me. “Will they cool off Ahmadinejad and tone down their language?” The Bush Administration, by charging that
General David Petraeus, the commander of the multinational forces in
Vali Nasr, a professor of international politics at
In the Shiite view, the White House “only looks at
Many of those who support the President’s policy argue that
In early August, Army Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno, the second-ranking
Questions remain, however, about the provenance of weapons in
“I thought Petraeus went way beyond what
Another element of the Administration’s case against
Patrick Clawson, an expert on
“If you want to attack, you have to prepare the groundwork, and you have to be prepared to show the evidence,”
A senior European diplomat, who works closely with American intelligence, told me that there is evidence that
In interviews with current and former officials, there were repeated complaints about the paucity of reliable information. A former high-level C.I.A. official said that the intelligence about who is doing what inside
The difficulty of determining who is responsible for the chaos in
A June, 2007, report by the International Crisis Group found, however, that
Earlier this year, before the surge in U.S. troops, the American command in Baghdad changed what had been a confrontational policy in western Iraq, the Sunni heartland (and the base of the Baathist regime), and began working with the Sunni tribes, including some tied to the insurgency. Tribal leaders are now getting combat support as well as money, intelligence, and arms, ostensibly to fight Al Qaeda in
“The American policy of supporting the Sunnis in western
Nasr went on, “The United States is trying to fight on all sides—Sunni and Shia—and be friends with all sides.” In the Shiite view, “It’s clear that the
The revised bombing plan for a possible attack, with its tightened focus on counterterrorism, is gathering support among generals and admirals in the Pentagon. The strategy calls for the use of sea-launched cruise missiles and more precisely targeted ground attacks and bombing strikes, including plans to destroy the most important Revolutionary Guard training camps, supply depots, and command and control facilities.
“Cheney’s option is now for a fast in and out—for surgical strikes,” the former senior American intelligence official told me. The Joint Chiefs have turned to the Navy, he said, which had been chafing over its role in the Air Force-dominated air war in
A Pentagon consultant on counterterrorism told me that, if the bombing campaign took place, it would be accompanied by a series of what he called “short, sharp incursions” by American Special Forces units into suspected Iranian training sites. He said, “Cheney is devoted to this, no question.”
A limited bombing attack of this sort “only makes sense if the intelligence is good,” the consultant said. If the targets are not clearly defined, the bombing “will start as limited, but then there will be an ‘escalation special.’ Planners will say that we have to deal with Hezbollah here and
The surgical-strike plan has been shared with some of
An Israeli official said, “Our main focus has been the Iranian nuclear facilities, not because other things aren’t important. We’ve worked on missile technology and terrorism, but we see the Iranian nuclear issue as one that cuts across everything.”
The bombing plan has had its most positive reception from the newly elected government of
There were four possible responses to this Iranian activity, the European official said: to do nothing (“There would be no retaliation to the Iranians for their attacks; this would be sending the wrong signal”); to publicize the Iranian actions (“There is one great difficulty with this option—the widespread lack of faith in American intelligence assessments”); to attack the Iranians operating inside Iraq (“We’ve been taking action since last December, and it does have an effect”); or, finally, to attack inside Iran.
The European official continued, “A major air strike against
A retired American four-star general with close ties to the British military told me that there was another reason for Britain’s interest—shame over the failure of the Royal Navy to protect the sailors and Royal Marines who were seized by Iran on March 23rd, in the Persian Gulf. “The professional guys are saying that British honor is at stake, and if there’s another event like that in the water off
The revised bombing plan “could work—if it’s in response to an Iranian attack,” the retired four-star general said. “The British may want to do it to get even, but the more reasonable people are saying, ‘Let’s do it if the Iranians stage a cross-border attack inside
The French government shares the Administration’s sense of urgency about
A European intelligence official made a similar point. “If you attack
Ahmadinejad, in his speech at the United Nations, said that
The director general of the I.A.E.A., Mohamed ElBaradei, has for years been in an often bitter public dispute with the Bush Administration; the agency’s most recent report found that
The diplomat expressed the bitterness that has marked the I.A.E.A.’s dealings with the Bush Administration since the buildup to the 2003 invasion of
Hans Blix, a former head of the I.A.E.A., questioned the Bush Administration’s commitment to diplomacy. “There are important cards that
The Iranian leadership is feeling the pressure. In the press conference after his U.N. speech, Ahmadinejad was asked about a possible attack. “They want to hurt us,” he said, “but, with the will of God, they won’t be able to do it.” According to a former State Department adviser on
The adviser said that he had heard from a source in Iran that the Revolutionary Guards have been telling religious leaders that they can stand up to an American attack. “The Guards are claiming that they can infiltrate American security,” the adviser said. “They are bragging that they have spray-painted an American warship—to signal the Americans that they can get close to them.” (I was told by the former senior intelligence official that there was an unexplained incident, this spring, in which an American warship was spray-painted with a bull’s-eye while docked in
“Do you think those crazies in
Another recent incident, in
Vincent Cannistraro, a retired C.I.A. officer who has worked closely with his counterparts in
The retired four-star general confirmed that British intelligence “was worried” about passing the information along. “The Brits don’t trust the Iranians,” the retired general said, “but they also don’t trust Bush and Cheney.”