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| Iran: Cracking Down On Terrorism. Really. |
| 2002-07-11 |
| Iran has sent hundreds of soldiers to guard its porous borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, and it plans tough new anti-terrorism laws in response to the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, a top Iranian diplomat said. And here it is only July 11th of the following year... In a report to a U.N. Security Council committee circulated Wednesday, Mohammed Fadaifard, Iran's deputy U.N. ambassador, said Iran has deployed 15 additional battalions to the Pakistani border and reinforced the Afghan border to prevent illegal border crossings. Fadaifard said new visa requirements for visitors from Arab countries are in place to prevent potential terrorists from using Iran as a transit point to and from Afghanistan. "Iran is intent on stopping the expansion of their control and violence as part of the United Nations effort to help bring back conciliation and normalcy to Afghanistan," Fadaifard said in the report. He also said surveillance has been increased at hotels and residential units in border provinces and the capital, Tehran. Careful with that feather! The Iranian report was a response to a Security Council resolution adopted in January requiring all 189 U.N. member states to freeze the finances and impose arms embargoes and travel bans on anyone associated with Osama bin Laden, his al-Qaida network and the Taliban. About 160 Afghans and Arabs have been arrested due to increased surveillance and security measures in border areas, Fadaifard said. Most sympathized with or were connected to al-Qaida or the Taliban, he said. More than 20,000 Pakistanis and Afghans have been prevented from entering Iran. Fadaifard said legislation on money laundering and a counterterrorism bill were in the process of being introduced in the Iranian Parliament. These are probably legitimate and honest measures being taken by the Iranian left hand, even as the right hand arms and controls Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad. "I am Iran. I have a split personality!" "I do not!" "I do, too!" "Shuddup!" "Make me shuddup!..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 Kinda smacks of the Soviets calling in the Fraternal Forces of the Warsaw Pact as the regime was breaking up, doesn't it? And it'll be just about as effective as that would have been. |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-07-11 16:23:54 |
| #2 Via Instapundit, here's a link: http://www.strategypage.com/strategypolitics/articles/20020709.asp Apparently the mullahs are hiring Paleostininans and Iraqis for a new Regards, |
| Posted by: Steve White 2002-07-11 14:52:14 |
| #1 I have a feeling that the "terrorists" they will be arresting will be carrying more CDs and DVDs than Kalashnikovs and C4. |
| Posted by: Hermetic 2002-07-11 12:16:51 |