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Q: What are the strategic principles of the Defense Ministry for the future?

A: The Defense Ministry has six strategic principles to confront the threats. The Defense Ministry’s strategic principles are as follows:

(1) Self-sufficiency in weapons production: Producing military equipment is the main objective of the Defense Ministry, regarding weaponry strategy. That is to say, the ministry tries to produce equipment which can meet Iran’s security and defense requirements when needed.

(2) Modern Industrial Research and Development: In order to produce new equipment, we must develop our practical research. This task is being pursued by the Defense Industries Research and Educational Institute so that it may lead to the acquisition of technology to produce defense equipment.

(3) Preparation for a post-modern war: What is specifically considered by the military in the current situation is the production of military hardware for probable wars in the future. In the years since 2001, we have witnessed that post-modern wars have become operational. So, Iran’s defense and weapons strategy is aimed at producing military equipment which can respond in a post-modern war.

(4) Resisting surprise attacks: Our current defense strategy has discerned the potential for surprise attacks in the military behavior of certain countries. Therefore, strategic and security contingencies make it necessary for us to be sensitive toward the threats and to adopt measures in response to them.

(5) Mobilizing popular forces: The Defense Ministry’s economic, planning, and structural support for the armed forces can pave the way for civil defense preparedness. That is to say, we have tried to create a process through which we can make use of popular resistance to threats through developing defense capabilities.

(6) Waging asymmetrical warfare: Whenever the enemy’s threats are very serious, we will use the equipment for asymmetrical warfare to limit and hinder the enemies’ offensive power.

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Zitat:Abtreibungsgesetz im Iran gescheitert

Ein Gesetz, das Abtreibungen in bestimmten Fällen legalisiert hätte, ist im Iran am Wächterrat gescheitert.

Der von konservativen Klerikern dominierte Wächterrat in Iran hat am Montag ein Gesetz abgelehnt, das in bestimmten Fällen Abtreibungen erlaubt hätte. Der Rat entschied, dass das islamische Recht auch dann keine Abtreibung zulasse, wenn ein Kind voraussichtlich schwerbehindert zur Welt kommen würde. Das berichtete die studentische Nachrichtenagentur Isna.
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Zitat:Mercedes-Benz engine to be produced in Iran

LONDON, May 10 (IranMania) - Daimler-Chrysler’s country director said Iran will soon start production of sophisticated 900-class Mercedes-Benz engines, stressing that the company will export Iran-made engines to Germany.

Jurgen Kurtz told ISNA that Iran is already exporting C457 engines to Germany.

He said the company is determined to continue cooperation with Iran despite its strong partnership with the United States.
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Zitat:Top clerics blast Iran regime as vote nears

By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Thursday, May 12, 2005

QOM, Iran: Two of Iran's most senior dissident pro-reform Shiite clerics have hit out at the Islamic regime ahead of next month's presidential election, accusing hard-liners of failing to deliver on revolutionary promises of fundamental freedoms.Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri and Grand Ayatollah Yusef Saanei also voiced pessimism over the prospect for a free and fair poll on June 17.

"My point of view, and I cannot say more than this, is that things are not going in the right direction," said Montazeri, who is in his mid-80s and is one of the Islamic Republic's most prominent dissidents.

"At the beginning of the revolution the late Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] and I gave promises of liberty, and these promises have not been lived up to," he said in a rare interview at his home in Qom, Iran's clerical capital just south of Tehran.
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Zitat:Azeri defense minister to visit Iran

TEHRAN (IRNA) -- Azerbaijan's Minister of Defense Lieutenant General Safar Abiyev, heading a high-ranking delegation, is to visit Iran, it was announced here on Wednesday.
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Shamkhani and his Azeri counterpart are scheduled to review ways of expanding defense and military cooperation.

Abiyev and his accompanying delegation are also to inspect some defense facilities in Iran, according to the report.
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Zitat:Child prostitution ring run by Revolutionary Guards officers uncovered in Iran Mon. 11 Apr 2005

Neka, Apr. 11 – A number of government officials and security officers were arrested during raids on at least five houses used as brothels in and around the town of Neka (northern Iran).

The raids, conducted during the past two weeks, uncovered several organised child prostitution rings running the brothels.

Many runaway girls, some as young as 13, were being forced into prostitution by these gangs.

A number of officers from Iran’s notorious State Security Forces (SSF) and commanders in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps were also arrested in the brothels.

Zitat:Shahab3 postete
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Zitat:Iran, mulling over purchase of aircraft manufacturer Fokker

Tehran Times Economic Desk
TEHRAN – Iranian Minister of Roads and Transportations Mohammad Rahmati said here Saturday that Iran is negotiating with the Netherlands over the purchase of the Rekkof Aircraft Manufacturing Company, successor of the former Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker.
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When asked if the Dutch officials were ready to transfer the technical know-how of the airplane to Iran, the roads and transportation minister said they regarded the issue open to further negotiations and did not reject the idea.”

He also stated that the company manufacturing Fokker planes was bankrupted in 1996 and is currently operating under the name of Rekkof adding that, it is looking for an Iranian partner to produce Fokker in Iran.

Zitat:Rund 800 Bewerber für Präsidentschaftswahl im Iran
Frist für Registrierung abgelaufen

Rund 800 Bewerber haben sich am Samstag bis zum Ablauf der Frist für die Präsidentschaftswahl im Iran registrieren lassen. Kurz vor Schließung der Liste trug sich der islamistische Hardliner und frühere Chef des staatlichen Fernsehens, Ali Laridschani, als Kandidat ein. Auch der Oppositionspolitiker und Chef der verbotenen Befreiungsbewegung des Irans, Ibrahim Jasdi, ließ sich registrieren.

Als aussichtsreichster Kandidat bei der Wahl am 17. Juni gilt der frühere Staatschef Akbar Haschemi Rafsandschani, der sich als pragmatischer Konservativer präsentiert. Der derzeitige reformorientierte Präsident Mohammed Chatami darf gemäß der Verfassung nach zwei Amtszeiten nicht mehr kandidieren.
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Zitat:Iran candidates set poll record

A record 1,010 people have registered to run in Iran's presidential election next month, the interior ministry says.
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The candidates range in age from a 16-year-old boy to an 86-year-old man, AP news agency says.
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Ich denke genau diese Reaktionen, sollte die Streuung dieser Meldung verursachen

Zitat:Iran, Azerbaijan ink MoU on defense

Tehran, May 16 -- Iran and Azerbaijan signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on defense cooperation here on Monday.

The agreement was signed by Iran's defense Minister Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani and his Azeri counterpart Colonel General Safar Abiyev.

The MoU sets the framework for expansion of defense cooperation and consolidation of peace and stability in the region.
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Zitat:Azeri defense minister: We have not given any military base to Iran's enemies

Tehran, May 16 -- Azeri Defense Minister Safar Abiyev said here Monday, 'We have not given any military base to Iran's enemies.' The Azeri minister who is heading a high ranking delegates made the remarks after meeting with his Iranian counterpart Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani where the two ministers signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on defense cooperation.
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