http://www.insideiran.org insideIRAN Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:59:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Arash Aramesh Brig Gen Mohammad-Reza Naghdi, the commander of Basij forces, said July 28 that his organization was going to build 7,000 new Basij bases throughout Iran. Naghdi said this was going to be an “unprecedented” expansion of the Basij and that the Iranian parliament had already appropriated sufficient funds for ... http://www.insideiran.org/media-analysis/basij-forces-plan-7000-new-bases/ Mahour S. Mohsen Kadivar, the exiled cleric, professor and activist, has written a forty-three page letter to the head of the Assembly of Experts, former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, citing the reasons why Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei should be impeached. By law, the Assembly of Experts can vote ... http://www.insideiran.org/media-analysis/kadivar-writes-letter-to-assembly-of-experts-%e2%80%98impeach-khamenei%e2%80%99/ Arash Aramesh Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the secretary of the Council of Guardians, said July 27 that he had evidence the United States offered $50 billion to leaders of the opposition in Iran, if they manage to topple the Islamic Republic. He claimed that the U.S. already paid $1 billion to opposition ... http://www.insideiran.org/media-analysis/jannati-the-u-s-paid-opposition-leaders-1-billion/ Shayan Ghajar The European Union approved the most hard-hitting sanctions against Iran to date July 26, in an attempt to compel Iran to accede to Western demands to halt its nuclear enrichment. The sanctions, more damaging than those passed by the United States as a result of Europe’s greater economic ... http://www.insideiran.org/critical-comments/sanctions-the-unexpected-losers-and-beneficiaries/ Arash Aramesh Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Press TV July 26 that the United States and Israel were planning to start new wars in the region and predicted an attack on “at least two countries in the region within the next three months.” President Ahmadinejad criticized the new round of sanctions ... http://www.insideiran.org/media-analysis/iran-warns-of-plans-by-the-united-states-and-israel-to-attack-middle-east/ Arash Aramesh Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters July 26 that Iran has informed the Vienna group, which is comprised of the United States, Russia, France, and the IAEA, that it is willing to sit down with the European Union at the “very first ... http://www.insideiran.org/media-analysis/iran-shows-signs-of-willingness-to-negotiate/ Shayan Ghajar The European Union implemented new sanctions July 26 against Iran in response to its nuclear program. The sanctions include measures freezing the assets of forty Iranian companies in Europe, as well as halting investments in Iran’s energy sector and banning the sale of certain kinds of scientific equipment relating ... http://www.insideiran.org/media-analysis/new-eu-sanctions-receive-frenzied-response-from-iranian-state-news-services/ Arash Aramesh Mohammad-Reza Rahimi, Iran’s first vice president, said July 23 that his country was considering replacing the Euro and the US dollar with the Chinese Yuan for future oil transactions. Rahimi did not specify when such a transition would take place, nor did he say whether the Iranian parliament has ... http://www.insideiran.org/media-analysis/iran-considers-replacing-dollar-and-euro-with-chinese-yuan/ Shayan Ghajar As Western nations wait to see if sanctions are having the desired effects on Iran’s economy and foreign policy, India’s Petroleum Secretary S. Sundareshan announced that recent U.S. sanctions would hamper state-controlled Indian firms’ attempts to invest in Iranian energy projects. Sanctions, thus far, have complicated the economic dealings ... http://www.insideiran.org/critical-comments/sanctions-open-iran-to-russian-chinese-firms/ Nejat Bahrami TEHRAN—Recent strikes in Tehran’s bazaar have made the unrest the center of political and economic discussions in Iran. The dispute between the government and the bazaar is more important than other political conflicts because in the eyes of most Iranians, the bazaar is the traditional ally of the Islamic ... http://www.insideiran.org/featured/bazaari-criticism-of-ahmadinejad-bursts-into-the-open/