Sampai bila nak biarkan Rosmah perintah Malaysia?

"...the reason the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia were able to overthrow their presidents is the fact that neither had a leader".Saya yakin, di Malaysia juga boleh berlaku kebangkitan tanpa pemimpin. Slogan "asal bukan Umno" saya yakin akan akan mencetuskan kebangkitan tanpa pemimpin di negara ini. Tunggulah!

people dying and MB worried about traffic jams!! MB made it crystal clear which side they're on (Petikan dari Twitter Hani Sabra berdasarkan laporan bertajuk "Brotherhood vows not to participate in any more demonstrations". MB ialah Muslim Brotherhood atau Ikhwan Muslimin)Bila perhimpunan dan tunjuk perasaan Mesir pada awal tahun ini dulu berjaya menumbangkan kerajaan Hosni Mubarak, ramai penceramah PAS yang mendakwa Ikhwan Musliminlah yang mencetuskan kebangkitan rakyat Mesir itu. Saya tak tau sama ada mereka mereka-reka cerita atau mereka gelapkan hakikat bahawa Ikhwan Muslimin pada mulanya secara rasmi tidak mengambil bahagian dalam demonstrasi 25/1/11 itu malahan menasihati aktivis-aktivis mudanya supaya jangan mengambil bahagian dalam protes yang akhirnya menumbangkan Mubarak.
The Ikhwan leadership was famously slow to involve itself in the anti-Mubarak rebellion that began in Tahrir Square on January 25. Even as their young brethren, in tandem with secularists and Coptic Christians, manned the barricades that kept regime thugs from clearing the area, senior Brotherhood members were loath to join a movement that was antithetical to the Ikhwan’s near-sacred embrace of gradualism. Only when it was clear Mubarak was on his way out, say dissident Ikhwanists, did Badie and other group elders officially endorse the movement. Even worse, critics say, it broke ranks with a coalition of opposition leaders by negotiating with Omar Suleiman, Mubarak’s intelligence chief and unofficial chamberlain, who briefly became Egypt’s de facto head of state after the president stepped down.Supaya tidak ada lagi penceramah temberang yang kelentong mengenai apa yang berlaku di Mesir, berikut ialah beberapa laporan mengenai apa yang berlaku di Mesir kini:
When the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) established a transitional government in response to popular demands for order in the chaotic aftermath of Mubarak’s departure, it entered into a tacit partnership with senior Brotherhood leaders to restore order. At the time, military leaders told reporters that it was only natural that it would leverage the group’s sizable network to clear the streets. That has not stopped a drumbeat of speculation that the two sides had cut a less prosaic deal: in exchange for the release from prison of Ikhwan members, it was argued, the leadership would keep silent about the military’s preponderant and profoundly undemocratic role in Egyptian industry, from textile milling to the tourism trade, just as it had agreed to support a dynastic transfer of presidential power eighteen months earlier. "They brokered a deal," said an industrialist with close ties to the military who spoke on the strictest condition of anonymity. "The army said we’ll get your guys out of jail so long as you don’t challenge the new regime at a time of great instability."
Elijah Zarwan, the Egyptian representative of the International Crisis Group, said the evidence of Ikhwan–military complicity is empirical. "It’s no great secret," he said. "Just look at the facts. From the military’s side, they got the Muslim Brotherhood’s vast network to take people off the streets when there was no alternative. It was a way to end the bloodshed. So what did the Brotherhood get? They got their members out of prison, a political party that is allowed to campaign in the open and direct involvement in the drafting of the post-Mubarak Constitution..." (lihat "Fault Lines in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood")
Gambar di atas ihsan AFP.Why Egypt's MB did not participate in National Salvation demonstration?
(Islam Online 22/11/11): Thousands of protesters have filled Cairo's central Tahrir Square calling for the military to spell out and hand over power to a civilian government. At least 33 protesters have been killed in clashes with security forces over the past three days.
Meanwhile, Egyptian political forces behind the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's former president, called for a mass rally on Tuesday 22 Nov to demand the army cede power to a civilian government.The Coalition of Revolution Youth and the April 6 movement, among others, called for the protest at 4:00pm local time (14:00 GMT) on Tuesday in Tahrir Square.
"Muslim" Brothers, unlike Amnesty, blamed the interior ministry and instead linked the Tahrir clashes to "desperate attempts made for months to halt the process of handing power over to the people through the parliamentary elections".
However MB failed to mention who stands behind the claimed attempts, most likely they meant the most important activist movements, April 6 Movement, who "announced they will continue their sit-ins in Cairo's Tahrir Square and in other governorates, demanding the ruling military junta transfer power to a civilian presidential council."
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party issued a statement on Monday announcing that it will not participate "in any sit-in or protest that may lead to more confrontations and congestion," the party wrote in a statement it issued to reporters. "In the meantime, we will be striving along with other parties to abort the sedition that the interior ministry has instigated in the country," the statement said.
The party demanded that the ones responsible for the killing of potesters be brought to justice. In the meantime, it linked the Tahrir clashes to "desperate attempts made for months to halt the process of handing power over to the people through the parliamentary elections.
The honeymoon
Since March of this year, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) appeared to have had a behind-the-scenes deal, agreement or accommodation, from which both sides would benefit. That, at least, has been the conclusion drawn by many in the democratic/secular camp in the country’s post-revolutionary political space.
Some argue that a SCAF/MB agreement is still in place, while others argue that whatever deal they might have had has been called off lately, due to sharp disagreements between the two. Leading Brotherhood figures, however, vehemently deny ever having had an agreement with SCAF.
Those who accuse the Brotherhood of having struck a deal with SCAF point to the group’s recurrent withdrawal, even condemnation of protest actions aimed at achieving the Egyptian revolution’s basic objectives in democracy and social justice. Concerned solely with winning the lion’s share of political power in the country after the popular uprising, Brotherhood critics charge the group is working towards a power-sharing deal with the military.
Towards this objective, the Brotherhood’s critics argue, the group has committed itself to help the military rulers control public opinion and deter recurring post-revolution nationwide demonstrations, strikes and sit-ins by neither endorsing nor taking part in any of them, and on occasion condemning such actions outright.
Some explanations
Despite the decision of the party not participate, many young members of MB are expected to join the mass rally on Tuesday evening in Tahrir Square in solidarity with their mates. These groups is believed to have their vision and act according to what they think right.
Some analyst think that MB views what is going on in Tahrir Square as a conspiracy by some libral parties to make some kind of coalition with Military Council in order to secure a distinctive position in the political scene and stop the advance of MB to sweep the coming elections.
The MB according to some other analysts distance themselves from Tahrir Square so as not be blamed should there be any violence and bloodshed because they would be the main group in the Square. Others observers think MB do not want to see the historical polarization between them and the Military Council i.e. the State since they do not have true allies within what is so called the democratic alliance. MB will not benefit of this situation and it will not be in the interest of the country now and hence not to participate was a painful decision to take.
Another reason of the decision of the MB not to participate is the possible confrontation with other forces occupying the Square. These forces considered themselves the real owners of the Square and may seek to initiate troubles with MB and this is notability what they want at this time.
Salafi Presence
Just after the statement of the MB not to participate in Tuesday mass rally the Salafi political party El Benaa wa Tanmeya(Construction & Development) announced that it is going to participate in the mass rally .
Asim Abdul Majed the spokesperson of the salfi party pointed out that what happened in Tahrir Squre on Monday was a massacre against Egyptian people and he added that because of the absence of prompt justice the old regime’s party, National Party is coming back in politics but in disguised political slogan and parties.
According to many analysts and observers of the stance of the Salfi parties, they were much more courageous and daring than the one of the MB. It is worth mentioning that this new stance of the Salafi towards what is going on in Tahrir Square came after the previous awkward position they took concerning demonstration against the Military Council.
This in turn shows that the Salafi parties are learning day by day how to respond to the political development in Egypt and take the right decisions. The decision of Salafis to participate in the Tuesday’s mass rally will give them a favorable position compared to the one of Muslims Brotherhoods and of course will add to their legitimacy and refute the common perceptions held by many analysts that they live on gains of the MB.
Decision making within MB
The Muslims Brotherhood" or "MB" is the world's oldest and one of the largest Islamist parties, and is the largest political opposition organization in many Arab states. It was founded in 1928 in Egypt by the Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna and by the late 1940 had an estimated two million members. Its ideas had gained its supporters throughout the Arab world and influenced other Islamist groups with its "model of political activism combined with Islamic charity work". Its most famous slogan, used worldwide, is "Islam is the solution."
To understand how decisions are taken within MB one has to know the structure of the “Maktab al Ershad” i.e. Guidance Office. This office composed of very homogeneous group of people and this group had experienced the historical crisis with the Egyptian military apparatus and they do not want to repeat this unpleasant experience. According they avoid any confrontation with military. However this fear of confrontation crippled the party decision makers to articulate a new relation with the military apparatus.
The composition of the Guidance office of old generation with a classical thinking will explain the irresponsiveness of the party to the rapid political developments in Egypt. Things have changed dramatically and half solutions no longer fit the rebellious youth who demand massive changes in the political life in the country.
Finally, the methodological differences between the MB and the rebellious youth explain to a great degree why MB decide not participate in the mass rally. The youth demands radical changes while the MB adopts conservative manner to bring changes orderly. Although sometimes it tends to act in a revolutionary style however it prefer to come back quickly to its well known conservative manner to realize its objectives.
Concern grows over military’s intentions in Egypt(Excerpt) The military had pledged in formal communiqués last March to hold presidential elections by September. But the generals have changed their mind. More accurately, they revealed the plan they had harbored all along. They now say that the presidential election will come only after the election of a parliament, the formation of a constitutional assembly and the ratification of a new constitution — a process that could stretch well beyond 2013. Regrettably, a number of political parties, among them al-Ikhwan al-Muslimoon (Muslim Brotherhood), have also acquiesced in this extended process. This reflects both their lack of political courage as well as detachment from the aspirations of the people that yearn for fundamental change, not three years down the line, but now (Crescent International, November 2011)
Brotherhood vows not to participate in any more demonstrations
(Al-Masry Al-Youm 21/11/11): The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party issued a statement on Monday announcing that it will not participate "in any sit-in or protest that may lead to more confrontations and congestion," the party wrote in a statement it issued to reporters.
"In the meantime, we will be striving along with other parties to abort the sedition that the interior ministry has instigated in the country," the statement said.
Cairo police on Monday fought protesters demanding an end to army rule for a third day on Monday and the death toll rose to at least 33, with many victims shot, in the worst violence since the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.
The party demanded that the ones repsonsible for the killing of potesters be brought to justice. In the meantime, it linked the Tahrir clashes to "desperate attempts made for months to halt the process of handing power over to the peoeple through the parliamentary elections."
As night fell, thousands of people packed Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the anti-Mubarak revolt in January and February. The clashes threaten to disrupt Egypt's first free parliamentary election in decades, due to start next Monday.
"The people want the fall of the marshal," they chanted, referring to Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Mubarak's defense minister for two decades and head of the army council.
Clashes flared in side-streets near Tahrir. Witnesses said looters, not necessarily connected to the protests, had attacked the American University in Cairo and other buildings.
Protesters have brandished bullet casings in the square, where police moved in with batons and tear gas on Saturday against a protest then dominated by Islamists but since driven by young people with secular aims. Police deny using live fire.
Medical sources at Cairo's main morgue said 33 corpses had been received since Saturday, most with bullet wounds. One source at the morgue said the toll had risen to 46. At least 1,250 people have been wounded, a Health Ministry source said.
Muslim Brotherhood will not participate in Tuesday “Million Man” march
CAIRO (Bikya Masr 22/11/11): While Egyptians are converging on Cairo’s Tahrir Square in response to a call for a million-man march to protest against the country’s military rulers, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood officially declared it will not take part in the march.
The group says the decision stems from a desire “not to drag the people into new bloody clashes.”
“The blood of the martyrs will not be lost – but will continue to be a curse on the heads of those who contributed to the bloody events – and out of our commitment not to lure people to more bloody confrontations, we call for reason and wisdom of all honest, patriotic Egyptians, and hereby declare that we will not participate in any protests or demonstrations that may lead to more confrontations and tensions,” read a statement released by the group on Tuesday.
As the country’s largest and best-organized political group, many have see the move as motivated by a desire not to get involved in anything that could disturb parliamentary elections that are due to start next Monday. Analysts believe that the Freedom and Justice party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood affiliated party will perform well in elections, as they wield a significant grassroots capacity.
“We don’t need them,” Zeinab Kheir, a lawyer and an activist, said referring to the Brotherhood, vilified by many activists as an opportunistic, self-serving group.
But the Brotherhood may have underestimated the appeal of the secular-minded activists and the depth of anger over the military rulers’ failings.
The offer of Egypt’s civilian Cabinet to resign Monday after three days of violent clashes between demonstrators and security forces in Tahrir Square, failed to satisfy protesters deeply frustrated with the military.
While millions are merging at Tahrir, the Muslim Brotherhood focuses on calling “for the rapid prosecution of all those who caused the heinous crimes that took place and were reported to the Attorney General.”
They also “urgently call the government to stop the bloodshed by withdrawing the security forces from the bloody confrontation.”
“We will constantly endeavor, together with all parties, to end the strife sparked by the Interior Ministry in the whole country, which left lawlessness prevail in many governorates, while striking demonstrators with an iron fist.


Bekas-bekas pegawai tentera mendedahkan bahawa amalan rasuah di Kementerian Pertahanan mengakibatkan anggota-anggota tentera kudung kaki mereka dan ramai yang menderita dalam diam.

Kajian itu menunjukkan bahawa PAS tidak menjuarai kepentingan memandangkan parti Islam tersebut tidak memberikan kesan di hati pengundi Melayu.Orang PAS boleh kata, rakyat anggap PAS boneka DAP akibat fitnah Umno. Ok, saya terima Umno salah kerana kempennya itu. Umno ja yang salah? PAS tak salah? Sikit pun tak salah?
Malah menurut kajian itu, kehadiran PAS tidak dilihat sebagai pembela Melayu-Islam manakala tokoh-tokoh dan kepimpinanya kurang dikenali oleh pengundi berbanding tokoh-tokoh Umno.
“Pada pengamatan Ilham, ini kerana PAS di bawah Pesuruhjaya (PAS) Salleh Man terlalu lemah dan gagal meletakkan PAS dikenali dan disegani oleh pengundi sama ada dari segi kebajikan, program kemasyarakatan, dakwah semuanya tidak membekas di hati orang Melayu,” katanya lagi.
Mengenai kepimpinan Timbalan Presiden PAS Mohamad Sabu dan ahli jawatankuasa PAS pusat Dr. Mujahid Yusof, kedua-duanya berasal dari Pulau Pinang, ternyata dilihat jauh daripada politik Pulau Pinang dan mereka dikatakan tidak berminat untuk membela nasib orang Melayu Pulau Pinang.
“PAS pula dikaitkan sebagai boneka DAP.
“PKR tidak dilihat boleh membela Melayu walaupun Datuk Mansor dan Exco Abdul Malik Abul Kasim merupakan tokoh Melayu berjawatan tinggi dalam kerajaan negeri,” kata kajian ini.
...orang Melayu tidak melihat dahulunya negeri tersebut ditadbir oleh pemimpin dari keturunan Cina, sebaliknya dipimpin perikatan diketuai Umno.Sampai dah merempat lagu tu berpuluh tahun dikerjakan Cina Gerakan masih lagi dimabukkan dengan perasan kononnya "dipimpin perikatan diketuai Umno"?

Orang dulu dulu ada kata 'tak kan hilang Melayu di dunia' memang ada kebenarannya. Selagi wujud World Wildlife Fund (WWF) selagi itulah Melayu akan wujud dan tidak di pupuskan seperti Panda China, Orang Utan, Orang Kampong dan Ikan Paus Biru. Jangan lah di risaukan Melayu amat maju berdaya saing jauh lebih baik dari bangsa Masai di benua Afrika. Bangsa Masai amat terpelihara, kemungkinan besar bangsa Melayu juga akan dijaga baik setanding Orang Utan di Sepilok (Anonymous 1)Di bawah posting "Nak termuntah aku tengok blog Kelantan puja sultan depa!", banyak kecaman yang saya terima. Antaranya ialah:
kau jangan hina sulatan aku...kalau x suka x payah kutuk..bersepai kepala kau aku kerjakannnnn (Anonymous 59)Tetapi, tak boleh lawan la kutukan yang saya terima ketika mendedahkan kisah berkendak dalam gelap dengan Umno. Berkandaq aku kena maki masa tu. Takkan masa tu saya nak habaq bahawa bila saya tulis apa-apa, saya ada latar belakangnya. Tak kisahlah. Apa terjadi selepas itu terakam dalam sejarah. Sebab itulah macam sesuai ja komen Anonymous 43:
Teringat pada Sultan Perak dan Raja Muda Perak yg dipuji melangit suatu ketika dulu.
Bila berlaku nya rampasan kuasa di Perak, tengok apa jadi.
Tunggu la. Tulisan di dinding - writing on the wall dah mula kelihatan.
Siapa la yg bagi hadis tentang Nabi, tolong la bertaubat. Satu, Nabi bukan raja. Dua, dia maksum. Hadis yang diberi pun pada masa Baginda adalah pendakwah dan belum lagi menjadi pemimpin negara. Kalau nak ambil Qiyas sekalipun, baik aku pergi cium kaki orang tabligh yg pergi berdakwah di kampung2. Tapi itu pun aku tak nak sebab Nabi ajer yg maksum, yg lain tidak.
Mudahan Allah jauh kan dari saya sifat menganggungkan sesiapa. Saya memohon pada Nya!


Khazanahs' business philosophies(Gambar diatas dari blog Rafizi Ramli)
(1) if the businesses are making good money, merge the entities . Thus the Sime Darby,Golden Hope & Guthrie merger. Results = the GREAT SIME declare BIG losses 1 year after the merger !
(2) if the business is losing money, merge it with the competitor. Thus, MAS- Air Asia merger ! Results = monopoly of air travel handed over 2 private enterprenuers !
(3) if the business is making very good money break it up = thus Telekom M'sia - Axiata demerger ! Results = both shares values combine is less than Digi or Maxis !
(4) if the business is a monopoly, create more contractors that make more money than the monopoly = thus TNB & the IPPs. Results = TNB losing money, IPP laughing all the way to the bank !
(5) If the business is small but niche merge it up with a bigger entity. Thus, Avenue Assets morph into ECM Libra. Results =

Macam-macam la kami bersembang bab tu. Tapi saya tak ingat. Dah tak ingat, takkan nak mereka-reka pulak. Namun yang saya tak lupa ialah kesimpulan kami bersama terhadap penjelasan Jamil Khir itu. Lebih kurang kami bersetuju "kalau penjelasan hang fasal rumah hang pun kami tak percaya, takkan penjelasan hang fasal Twitter Najib di musim haji tu kami nak percaya!"
Orang Melayu ni begitulah, dia dengar sangat Hang Tuah. Hang Tuah kata Melayu tidak akan menderhaka kepada raja. Jadi raja buat apa, bunuh orang pun tak apa.Allah Maha Menyaksikan bahawa saya memang tak suka malah meluat sangat pada kelaku Datuk Ibrahim Ali. Tetapi saya tak malu sedikit pun untuk menyatakan saya adalah penyokong tegar kepada kata-kata beliau di bawah. Sama, maksud saya yang pengertian zahir sahaja kerana saya tahu maksud tersirat ialah kepentingan Umno yang saya benci:
Inilah nasib orang Melayu kalau kita tak berani menderhaka, bila patut, bukan selalu.
Bila rakyat sudah tidak berdaya mengurus raja, mereka tidak lagi menghabiskan masa meminda perlembagaan. Sebaliknya, seluruh sistem itu dilemparkan di dalam bungkusan sejarah.Berikut ialah sikit cerita mengenai raja:
Ada besok pasti ada suria
Aku akan pergi dengan seribu Jebat si anak tani
Sekian lama kita mati dalam setia
Kali ini kita hidup dalam durhaka

Anda mahu mengenali raja-raja Melayu dan mahu tahu khidmat mereka kepada siapa? Kalau anda boleh faham Bahasa Inggeris sikit-sikit pun jadilah, pergi baca komen-komen bawah artikel yang ditulis oeh Raja Petra Kamaruddin bertajuk "Feudalism rules".
Saya hanya hendak tulis dua perkara dan tanya satu perkara.
Pertama yang saya hendak tulis ialah untuk membatalkan apa yang saya tulis beberapa kali sebelum ini. Masa tu saya kata, di kalangan raja-raja Melayu, hanya kepada Sultan Kedan dan Sultan Terengganu yang ada perasaan hormat dalam hati saya. Itu dulu. Sekarang tidak ada walau secebis pun lagi perasaan itu dalam hati saya.
Saya tidak boleh menentang sistem raja berperlembagaan kerana ia bertentangan dengan Perlembagaan Negara yang direka oleh hakim Orang Putih, hakim India dengan nama Islam yang berfikir dan hidup macam Orang Putih dan hakim Pakistan yang juga hidup dan berfikir macam Orang Putih. Walau bagaimanapun, tidak ada lagi sama sekali perasaan hormat dalam hati tidak bermakna menentang sistem yang hakim-hakim common law itu tulis.
Kedua yang saya hendak tulis ialah untuk menyatakan rasa syukur tidak terhingga kepada Allah s.w.t. kerana sejak saya di sekolah menengah lagi, saya tidak angkat tangan setiap kali jemaah sembahyang Jumaat berdoa untuk raja. Hari ini, saya akan bersujud syukur sungguh-sungguh kepada Allah s.w.t. atas apa yang tidak saya lakukan sejak sekolah menengah itu.
Dan hari ini (12/11/11), dengan jasa berita berita mStar Online di atas juga, kalau saya solat Jumaat di Kelantan, saya memohon perlindungan Allah dari mengangkat tangan mengaminkan doa untuk raja! Sekuat mana pun pendirian saya, saya manusia lemah. Saya sungguh-sungguh merayu perlindungan Allah s.w.t. dari melakukan perbuatan khurafat dan hina seperti menyembah sesama manusia. Sungguh-sungguh, tolonglah lindungi dan pelihara saya ya Allah! Tolonglah sangat-sangat ya Allah!!!!!

HarryFreakingPorter: Keep an eye out for this Indian man. He may end up in the morgue soon. I dont think our arrogant, illiterate ********* likes to be humiliated nationwide in this manner. Being clannish, I am quite positive this man will be covertly punished. Physically. **** has got a good track record of retaliation, necessary or not.Saya pun ingin meminta perkara yang sama. Kalau Hindu itu salah, bicarakanlah dia. Hukum mengikut peruntukan undang-undang. Tolong jangan siksa atau bunuh Hindu itu!!
PrivateEye: Whoever friends of this driver, keep a close watch on him and report to third party immediately should something fishy happen to him. These guys will not let him go and he is easily tracked down. They will come in hidden disguise. Seriously watch out. It has touched their nerves and screwed up their ketuanan ego. We have seen such revenge time and again under the carpet. Our advice is seriously watch out.

Iran will respond to any attack with ‘iron fist’: Leader
TEHRAN -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei warned on Thursday that if any country attacks Iran, it must ready itself to “receive a strong slap and iron fist” from the Iranian Armed Forces.
“If the thought of invasion against the Islamic Republic of Iran crosses anybody’s mind, he must ready himself to receive a strong slap and iron fist from the Army, Sepah (IRGC), and Basij, and in one word from the great Iranian nation,” Ayatollah Khamenei asserted.
The United States has repeatedly said that all options including military attack are open to stop Iran’s nuclear program. Israel has also threatened to launch attacks on Iranian nuclear sites.
The Leader said, “The enemies, especially the United States and its puppets and the Zionist regime, should be aware that the Iranian nation will not invade any country or nation, but it will respond to any invasion or threat with full force in a way that it will break up invaders from within.”
The Leader added the Iranians are “not a kind of nation that just sit idly by and look at threats of the fake materialistic powers, which are worm-eaten.”
IAEA report unbalanced, politically motivated: Iran envoyTEHRAN – The International Atomic Energy Agency’s latest report on Iran’s nuclear program is unbalanced, unprofessional, and politically motivated, the Iranian ambassador to the agency has said.
Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh made the remarks in an interview with the Fars News Agency published on Wednesday after IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano released a report on Iran’s nuclear activities on Tuesday, in which it said that Iran appears to have worked on designing an atomic bomb and may still be conducting secret research, according to Reuters.
Citing what it called “credible” information from member states and elsewhere, the agency listed a series of activities applicable to developing nuclear weapons, such as high explosives testing and development of an atomic bomb trigger.
Some of the cited research and development work by Iran have both civilian and military applications, but “others are specific to nuclear weapons,” said the report.
The IAEA “has serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear program,” the UN body said in the report, which included an unusual 13-page annex with technical descriptions of research with explosives and computer simulations applicable to nuclear detonations.
It added, “The information also indicates that prior to the end of 2003, these activities took place under a structured program, and that some activities may still be ongoing.”
The IAEA report included information from both before and after 2003. It voiced “particular concern” about information given by two member states that Iran had carried out computer modeling studies relevant to nuclear weapons in 2008-09.
“The application of such studies to anything other than a nuclear explosive is unclear to the agency,” the IAEA said.
The information also indicated that Iran had built a large explosives vessel at the Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran in which to conduct hydrodynamic experiments, which are “strong indicators of possible weapon development.”
IAEA report repetition of old claims
Ambassador Soltanieh said that the report “is the repetition of old claims, which Iran had proved baseless in a 117-page written reply.”
Amano released such a report despite the fact that “Iran had officially announced its readiness to engage in negotiations and study the issues expertly, and this shows that the move was unprofessional and political which has definitely damaged the agency’s credibility,” Soltanieh stated.
He added, “The agency’s director issued such a report despite efforts and warnings by Russia and China and the Non-Aligned Movement member states which illustrates that he ignores the expectations of the majority of countries. Besides, providing the five nuclear weapons states with those documents a week before their release has set a dangerous precedent at the agency.”
“The move has also met with protests from the majority of the agency’s member states,” the Iranian ambassador said.
He added, “Over the past eight years, Iran has repeatedly proven that claims made by the United States are unfounded, and, after eight years, no evidence of diversion of nuclear materials to military purposes has been found. The international community will judge these allegations politically motivated.”
U.S. orders have discredited IAEA
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that the U.S. orders have discredited the UN nuclear watchdog.
Ahmadinejad made the remarks in an address to a large gathering of people in the city of Shahr-e Kord, in the southern province of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, on Wednesday.
“Why do you sacrifice the credibility of the IAEA to carry out the U.S. orders?”
“It will be in your interests if you be a friend of the Iranian nation,” Ahmadinejad stated.
Russia criticizes report
Russia on Tuesday criticized the report, saying it would dim hopes for dialogue with Tehran on its nuclear ambitions and suggesting it was meant to scuttle chances for a diplomatic solution, Reuters reported.
“We have serious doubts about the justification for steps to reveal contents of the report to a broad public, primarily because it is precisely now that certain chances for the renewal of dialogue between the ‘sextet’ of international mediators and Tehran have begun to appear,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
According to Bloomberg, Russia also said that it suspects “political dishonesty” in the report.
Russia suspects the authors of some of the comments in the report of “political dishonesty and pursuing goals that have nothing to do with the task of eliminating the well-known concerns regarding Iran’s nuclear program,” according to an e- mailed statement sent by the Moscow-based ministry before the report was released late Tuesday.
Allegations contained in the report about a Russian scientist date back 10 years and amount to “nothing new or sensational,” the ministry said.
China warns of turmoil over Iran
China warned on Wednesday against turmoil in the Middle East from action over Iran’s nuclear program but declined to comment on the possibility of new sanctions (on Iran), Reuters reported.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said that Beijing was “studying” the IAEA report, and repeated a call to resolve the issue peacefully through talks.
“I’ve already pointed out that China has consistently advocating using dialogue and cooperation to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue,” he stated during a daily news briefing when asked about the possibility of new unilateral U.S. sanctions on Iran.
Iran provides 20 answers to clarify ambiguities about its nuclear programIran's envoy to the IAEA Ali-Asghar SoltaniehIran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali-Asghar Soltanieh has offered the (Non-Aligned Movement) NAM critical information about Iran's nuclear program amid a publicity hype by the Western media over the latest IAEA report on Tehran's nuclear case.
In an extraordinary session of the NAM, held upon Iran's request on Tuesday, Ali-Asghar Soltanieh answered 20 critical questions about Tehran's nuclear program and a host of related issues.
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano's latest report on Iran's nuclear activities was circulated among 35 members of the Board of Governors of the agency on Tuesday evening, almost 10 days ahead of the seasonal meeting of the board, due to take place in Vienna on November 17 and 18.
Amano has reportedly attached a 15-page annexation to his report, which focuses on the issue of Iran's alleged studies in the field of military nuclear activities.
According to some of the Western media speculations, the report makes three claims regarding Iran's nuclear activities, which purport that Tehran is pursuing a covert nuclear military program.
One of the claims has been made over satellite pictures of a steel container supposedly used for testing explosives that might be used to detonate fissile material.
The other claim revolves around Iran's hypothetical attempt to built computer models of a nuclear warhead, still another one conjectures that Tehran appears to have received foreign assistance in its experiments with nuclear material.
Soltanieh on Tuesday provided the NAM member states with detailed answers to 20 key questions about Iran's nuclear program.
Question 1: Has the IAEA detected, after 4000 days of most intensive inspection in the agency's history, even one gram of uranium being diverted for military purposes?
Response: No. Please study all of the reports by the agency's current and former director generals.
Question 2: With respect to nuclear activities and materials which are claimed to have not been declared until 2003, has the IAEA found out that they had been diverted towards military activities?
Response: No. All of these activities and materials were audited by the agency. Please study all the agency's reports to the Board of Governors between 2003 and 2004
Question 3: Was Iran ethically obliged to declare Natanz enrichment facility before 2003?
Response: No. Given that nuclear material had not been introduced into the facility until 2003, Iran was under no obligations to declare it. Particularly since Iran had not signed the Revised Code 3.1 of the Subsidiary Arrangements, as well as the additional Comprehensive Safeguards (CSA) and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) agreements.
Question 4: Was Iran legally obliged to declare the heavy water research reactor in Arak (IR40) before 2003?
Response: No. Iran was not under any obligation to declare it since no nuclear material had been introduced into it until 2003, particularly since Iran had not signed the Revised Code 3.1 of the Subsidiary Arrangements until 2003.
Question 5: Had Iran any obligation under the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement to report Arak's heavy water production plant to the IAEA before 2003?
Response: No, because heavy water and its products are not covered by the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement. Iran started implementing the Additional Protocol in 2003.
Question 6: Was Iran under any legal obligation until 2003 to declare uranium conversion Facilities (UCF)?
Response: No. Since no nuclear material had been introduced into the facility until 2003, Iran was not under any obligations to declare it, particularly given that Iran had not signed the Revised Code 3.1 of the Subsidiary Arrangements until 2003.
Question 7: Did Iran have any legal obligation to declare uranium mines including Gachin and Saghand mines?
Response: No, because Iran had not signed and implemented the Additional Protocol until 2003.
Question 8: Has the IAEA detected any nuclear material or activity including enrichment in Parchin and Lavizan-Shian, which are claimed to have been part of a nuclear weapons program after the UN agency carried out intensive inspections, including sampling and analyzing?
Response: No. The director general's press statement about Iran on March 6, 2006 reads, “On transparency, I think I mentioned in my report access to military sites, we have been given access to a number of military sites recently, to Parchin, Lavizan, Shian, to dual use equipment, to interview people. These are beyond the Additional Protocol, but they are essential for us to reconstruct the history of the program.”
On November 15, 2004, the director general reported that the agency had been provided access to the Lavizan-Shian military site where the agency took environmental samples. Finally, paragraph 102 of the director general (GOV/2004/83) says, “The vegetation and soil samples collected from the Lavizan-Shian site have been analyzed, and reveal no evidence of nuclear material.” Further information with respect to this issue is available in November 18, 2005 (GOV/2005/87) and February 27, 2006 (GOV/2006/15) documents.
Question 9: Did the IAEA, in its agreed Action Plan (INFOSIRC/711), announce that there is no other issue in addition to what was listed in 2007?
Response: Yes. The paragraph IV of the document (INFOSIRC/711) says that these modalities cover all the remaining issues, and the agency emphasizes that there will be no issues and ambiguities regarding Iran's previous nuclear programs and activities.
Question 10: Was the IAEA bound to submit the documents related to the “Alleged Studies” to the Islamic Republic based on its Action Plan?
Response: Yes. Paragraph III says, “Although the agency will submit the documents to the Islamic Republic, considering the Green Salt Project, experiments of high explosives and carrying missiles with returning abilities, it will also keep them with itself.
Question 11: Did the IAEA fulfill its obligations regarding the submitting of the evidence pertaining to the allegations to Iran?
Response: No. Please study the report by the former director general to the UN Board of Governors, where he correctly criticizes that the certain country that has provided the agency with the evidence on the allegations has not allowed the agency to submit the documents in question to Iran.
Question 12: Has the IAEA confirmed the authenticity of the content of the “Alleged Studies”?
Response: No. Please study the report by the former director general to the UN Board of Governors, where he correctly brought up the authentic problems with the documents. The director general also clearly explained that the nuclear materials and activities in the “Alleged Studies” are not relevant.
Question 13: What was Iran's obligation toward the document INFOSIRC/ 711 regarding the “Alleged Studies”?
Response: In Paragraph III of the document, which was discussed and agreed upon by the IAEA and Iran, and was to be approved by the Board of Governors specifies, “As a sign of the resolve to cooperate with the agency, based on all the related documents received, Iran will study the document and will inform the agency of its evaluation.”
Question 14: Did Iran, under the work plan, have any obligation to hold meetings, interviews or [allow] sampling regarding the “Alleged Studies”?
Response: No. As mentioned in Response 12, Iran was only obliged to inform of its evaluation. Iran has submitted its 117-page evaluation of the past three years. But the agency has not acted on its obligation to end the Action Plan. Accreting to Paragraph IV of the Action Plan, “The agency and Iran agreed that, following the implementation of the Action Plan and the agreed modalities for the negotiation of remaining issues, the implementation of the safeguards in Iran change to continue in the normal and conventional path.”
Notice: Instead of the Action Plan's conclusion, the secretariat introduced new allegations known as “Possible Military Aspects.” But in Paragraph IV of the Work Plan it is affirmed that “no issue has remained and there not any doubts about Iran's nuclear program and previous activities.”
Question 15: Has the Islamic Republic implemented the Additional Protocol?
Response: Yes. Please study the report by the former director general before 2006.
Question 16: Has Iran implemented the Modified Code 3.1 of the Subsidiary Arrangement of the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement?
Response: Yes. Please study the report by the former director general before 2006.
Question 17: Since when Iran has halted its voluntary implementation of the Additional Protocol and the Modified Code 3.1? Why?
Response: Iran's Majlis (parliament) voted to stop the voluntary implementation of the Additional Protocol and the Modified Code 3.1 (after two years and half) regarding the unfair reference of Iran's technical nuclear case to the United Nations Security Council in 2006. The important point is that the Additional Protocol is not a binding legal tool and the Modified Code 3.1 was merely a suggestion by the Board of Governors and is not part of the legal provisions of the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement (CSA).
Question 18: Have all Iran's nuclear materials been measured, and are under the complete supervision of the safeguards and remained peaceful?
Response: Yes. Please study the annual Safeguards Implementation Report (SIR).
Question 19: Did Iran itself provide the possibility of unannounced inspections?
Response: Yes. The agency conducted more than 100 unannounced inspections in Iran. The advance-notice for some of them were issued only two hours before the inspection.
Question 20: Why does Iran deem the resolutions by the Board of Governors and the UN Security Council as illegal?
Response: A. In accordance with Article 12 C under the IAEA statute, if the inspectors notice any “non-compliance,” they should report the same to the director general and the later should report to the Board of Governors thereafter. Followingly, the Board will notify the report to the United Nations. None of these procedures have been applied with regard to Iran.
After three years elapsed since 2003, when the issue was raised at the Board of Governors, some members of the Board claimed that there had been “non-compliance” prior to 2003. Nonetheless, the director general did not use the legal term “non-compliance” and instead used the word “failure,” which has also been used with regard to the other countries, which implement the CSA. Based on this agreement, the issue will be considered as concluded after corrective measures are adopted. The former director general clearly confirmed in his report that Iran took all the corrective measures.
B. Article 12 C mentioned in the Board's resolutions speak of “recipient member states,” which have misused the nuclear materials delivered from the Agency. Iran has never received the nuclear materials mentioned in the relevant provisions under the Statute.
C. According to the Statute and the CSA, if the Agency discovers that the nuclear materials have been diverted to military purposes, it will notify the UN Security Council of the same. All the reports submitted by the incumbent and former dire generals so far contain no evidence of nuclear diversion.
D. Based on the CSA, if a member state does not allow the inspectors to enter the country and as a result the IAEA cannot conduct its verification activities, the Agency will notify the UN Security Council of the issue. All the reports by the director general since 2003 have explicitly announced that the Agency is able to continue its verification activities in Iran.
E. The resolutions by three EU member states against Iran from 2003 to 2006 have recognized Iran's move to suspend its uranium enrichment activities as a non-binding, voluntary and trust-building measure. Therefore, the Board of Governors 's resolutions which referred Iran's nuclear issue to the UN Security Council, after Iran decided to suspend its UCF activities voluntarily, are totally in contradiction with the Board's previous resolutions.
It should be mentioned that when the three EU member states proposed the anti-Iran resolutions at the Board of Governors in 2006 with political motives and in an attempt to involve the UN Security Council in an IAEA-related technical issue, enrichment activities in Natanz were still suspended voluntarily.
The last question from peace-seeking nations:
Based on the abovementioned facts, should we allow the IAEA, as the only international body tasked with promotion of peaceful use of nuclear energy for the achievement of peace and prosperity, to be manipulated as a tool by a number of countries which seek to turn the Agency into a watchdog utterly malleable into the hands of the UN Security Council and deprive the developing countries of their “absolute right” to use peaceful nuclear energy as stipulated in the IAEA Statute?
Deepening ties with the USNST (12/11/11): SIDELINES Meeting between Najib and Obama in Bali to explore new areas of cooperation
Ties between Malaysia and the United States are set to move to a higher level with bilateral talks between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and US president Barack Obama in Bali next Friday on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit, diplomatic sources said.
"The one-on-one meeting is a major step forward for the bilateral trade and economic ties between the two major trading partners," one Malaysian diplomat said.
"Both leaders will explore new areas of cooperation."
Both Najib and Obama are due to attend the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) leaders' summit in Hawaii this weekend before heading to the Indonesian resort island for the East Asia Summit.
Two leading Malaysian and US think-tanks have recommended that Obama embark on a state visit to Malaysia next year to sustain and deepen ties between Kuala Lumpur and Washington, which they said were at "an all-time high".
Institute for Strategic and International Studies chief executive Datuk Dr Mahani Zainal Abidin and Ernest Bower, senior adviser and director of the Southeast Asia Programme at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, presented the recommendations to Najib on Thursday.
Other recommendations include:
Create a high-level bilateral strategic dialogue between the two governments, including a track two channel featuring policy leaders;
Expand military ties through enhanced integration, training and exchange programmes of senior officers;
Create a high-level competitiveness council featuring business leaders from both countries who would provide suggestions to enhance trade and investment;
Develop specific pathfinder initiatives to expand science and technology cooperation, including creating counterpart ties between leading Malaysian and US institutions;
Create a joint cyber security task force; and,
Invest in a Malaysia-US education foundation that would support the doubling of Malaysian students in the US by 2020 and expand the number of US students studying in Malaysia.
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