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Iran’s upcoming 11th Presidential election is scheduled to be held on June 14, 2013. This will be an opportunity for Iranian voters to elect country’s 7th president for the next four year. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Islamic Republic has six presidents – Abolhassan Banisadr (elected on January 25, 1980 but impeached after 17 months), Mohammad Ali Rajaei (martyred on August 30, 1981 by US-Israel supported MEK terrorist group),  Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei (1981-89), Ayatullah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1989-97), Ayatullah Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005) and Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005-2013).

Iranian Constitution doesn’t allow the current president Ahmadinejad to run for the third term, but he still seems to be the most popular Iranian leader after the Spiritual Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenie. On April 8, 2013, Associated Press’ Ali Akbar Daraeni and Brian Murphy wrote an article in The Orange County Register newspaper, titled “People’s President”.

“A pro-Ahmadinejad candidate will have a good number of votes,” said Abolfazl Zahei, a pro-reform activist. “There are 2,000 villages in South Khorasan province, and most people in those villages have benefited from Ahmadinejad’s government. People care about making their ends meet and welfare, not politics.”

According to Iranian Constitution, the winning candidate must receive 50% of the total vote cast – otherwise a second ballot will be held between the winner and the runner-up, as was the case between Dr. Ahmadinejad and former president Ayatullah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani during 2005 presidential election. In the second round, Ahmadinejad received 17,248,782 votes, out of total 27,958,931 votes cast.

Nearly 500 Iranian have filled nomination papers to run for the presidential election. They’re being scrutinized by the powerful Guardian Council for not hypocrite Muslims or anti-Islamic Islamic Revolutionaries (pro-USrael). With the exception of a dozen, the rest of the candidates are expected to be weed out by the Council. Notable among the presidential hopeful are; Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad’s chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, former Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, former parliament Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel, former Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, former vice president Mohammad Reza Aref and former commander of the Revolutionary Guard Mohsen Rezai. All of them have claimed that they intend to follow the Rehbar Ayatullah Ali Khameie’s foreign policy regarding the US, Israel and Palestinian resistance against the Jewish occupation. However, as a practice, Khamenie has not thrown his support behind any of the hopeful.

Ayatullah Mohammad Khatami, a “moderate” by the Zionist-controlled western media, has decided not to face Iranian voters. He, along with Reformists has thrown his support behind Rafsanjani – hoping not to face political humilation during the 2009 when Ahmadinejad was re-elected by securing 62.63% votes by defeating his main rival, Western-supported former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi. The 2009 election also marked the highest turnout (85%).

Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei is already in trouble with the Council which has lodged a legal complaint against president Ahmadinejad for accompanying Mashaei to the interior ministry to register his name.

Alex Vatanka, an Iranian expert at Washington-based Middle East Institute, a neocon think tank, headed by former US ambassador in Pakistan, Wendy J. Chamberlin, in an article posted at Lobe Log, has claimed that Rafsanjani’s victory in the upcoming presidential election would be good for both the US and Israel.

“Rafsanjani has already started with a bomb. Last week, he effectively impugned Tehran’s stance on Israel and offered the view that Iran should not be in the business of confronting Israel. “If the Arabs end up in a war with Israel, Iran can provide material support to the Arabs”, but that is it and no more. In other words, Ayatollah Rafsanjani, who has for a long time argued for better relations between Iran and the US, is raising the ante and even challenging the regime’s long-held immovable enmity toward Israel,” wrote Vatanka.

Ali Mamouri at pro-Israel Jewish website, Al-Monitor (May 13), also bet on Rafsanjani’s victory.

The Zionist regime is very affraid of a military retalition from Syria or Lebanese Islamic Resistance Hizbullah in response to Israel’s two unprovoked airstrikes over Damascus early this month. The Zionist regime has called upon its American Hasbara media to blackmail its adversaries in Syria and Lebanon.

On May, 15, the New York Times’ White House Jewish correspondent Mark Aurel Landler quoted a senior official of Netanyahu regime, as saying: “Israel has so far refrained from intervening in Syria’s civil war and will maintain this policy as long as Assad refrains from attacking Israel directly or indirectly. If Syrian President Assad reacts by attacking Israel, or tries to strike Israel through his terrorist proxies, he will risk forfeiting his regime, for Israel will retaliate“.

The NYT story came at the heel of Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah’s statement that Hizbullah is ready to receive any game-changing weapons the Syrian government offer, stressing that Hizbullah stands by the side of Syrian popular resistance until liberating the occupied Golan Heights.

The NYT has a history of pathetic reporting when it comes to occupied Palestine and the Muslim world at large.

Israel has a long history of interfering in its neighboring countries, such as, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. Jewish army invaded Lebanon three times and kept South Lebanon under its occupation for 20 years until it was forced by Hizbullah to withdraw in 2000. Then the Jewish army invaded Lebanon in 2006, but received an humilating defeat at the hands of Hizbullah resistance fighters.

In 1981, eight F-16s under the protection of six F-15 Israeli jets (all donated by Washington) bombed and destroyed a nuclear facility under construction at Osirak near Baghdad. In 2003, Israeli agents convinced Bush administration to invade and occupy Iraq for Israel over Baghdad’s non-existent WMDs.

Successive Zionist regimes have been trying to install an Israeli-puppet regime in Baghdad for decades.

In 2007, Israeli jets attacked Syria’s al-Kibar nuclear research facility. Early this month, Israel carried two unprovoked airstrikes over Damascus airport. Some analysts even believe that Israel used a US-supplied nuclear bunker buster bomb in the recent airstrikes. Several such bombs were given to Israel by the Bush administration, to be used against Iran’s underground nuclear facilities.

For over two years, the US-Israel-Saudi Axis of Evil have been trying desperately to install an anti-Resistance regime in Baghdad. Syrian president Bashar Assad has kept his father’s (Hafiz Assad) policy of “no war with Israel” so far. However, lately, he has joined Iran’s led Hizbullah-Hamas-Syria-Iraqi Axis of Resistance against the Zionist entity.

Spencer Ackerman, a Zionist Jewish journalist wrote in the WIRED Danger Room, on May 2, 2013 that even Obama’s arms supply to Syrian rebel would not succeed in bringing Assad regime down. He also quoted Christopher Harmer, a former US Navy officer and analyst with the Institute for the Study of War, a pro-Israel think tank, saying: “The Syrian regime is not collapsing, nor is it on the verge of collapse. Everyone has been saying that for about 18 months. It has contracted, and may be forced to contract further; as long as they have control of their chemical weapons, I don’t think there is a collapse scenario.”

Last week, Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Zionist-controlled mass media praised Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for agreeing to “forget and forgive” the Zionist entity for murdering nine Turk aid workers on Mavi Marmara bound for Gaza Strip at international waters – and exchange ambassadors between Ankara and Tel Aviv. But as the saying goes: Jewish vengeance is endless, Erdogan is now being hounded by Zionist media for calling beer drinking “unkosher”.

Speaking at a Global Alcohol Policies Symposium in Ankara on April 26, 2013, Erdogan said: “But beer is not our drink. It was forced upon us by westerners. Indeed, our national drink is Ayran (Yogart drink or Lassi in Punjabi)”

These remarks set up anti-Islamist storm within the secular Kemalist and pro-Israel communities. Jewish Al-Monitor called Erdogan’s statement as an assault on private lives of Turks.

Someone who has read Henry Ford, Sr’s 1921 book, The International Jew, will understand the Zionist whining over Erdogan’s remarks.

“It will come to many people as new knowledge that the liquor business of the world has been in the hands of Jews. In the United States the liquor business was almost exclusively in the hands of Jews for almost 25 years previous to Prohibition…In general, the Jews are on the side of liquor and always have been…

The Jewish Encyclopedia states that ‘The establishment of the government liquor monopoly (in Russia in 1896) deprived thousands of Jewish families of a livelihood.’ They controlled the liquor traffic, the vodka business which undermined Russia. The government made the liquor business a national monopoly in order to abolish it, which was done. Liquor in Russia was Jewish, as the Encyclopedia testifies. Anyone reading carefully the article on Russia, especially pages 527 and 559 in the Jewish Encyclopedia, will be in no doubt as to the fact. In Rumania the whole ‘Jewish Question’ was the liquor question. The land of the peasants came into control of the liquor sellers, and the business of handling liquors was a strict Jewish monopoly for years. In Poland the same was true. It is not surprising, therefore, that in the United States whiskey also became Jewish.

In the volume, The Conquering Jew, published by Funk & Wagnalls Company in 1916, John Foster Fraser writes: ‘The Jews are masters of the whiskey trade in the United States. Eighty per cent of the members of the National Liquor Dealers’ Association are Jews. It has been shown that 60 percent of the business of distilling and wholesale trade in whiskey is in the hands of the Jews…,” wrote Henry Ford.

Interestingly, last year when Netanyahu urged French Jews to emigrate to the Zionist entity or when a Jew-headed American evangelist group offered $10,000 to each Iranian Jew who emigrate to the Zionist entity - none of these anti-Muslim Jewish squad questioned the moral bankruptcy of these Zionist Jewish leaders.

The World Health Organization (WHO) in its 2011 report said that the harmful use of alcohol results in the death of 2.5 million people annually including 320,000 young people aged 15-29 years. According to Elliott R. Morss, Ph.D, alcohol is far more harmful than smoking. WHO reported in 2005 that Mali top annual consumption (male litres/year) in the world followed by Bosnia and Comoros.

Alcohol is prohibited by all three Abrahamic religions. However, later, the commandment was changed in Jewish and Christian scriptures. There were several good reasons for prohibiting alcohol in the religious texts. Alcohol, like smoking is not only bad for health but drunk drivers account for approximately 41% of all automobile fatalities. This means that drunk drivers almost double your chances of dying whenever you go out on the road.

Erdogan who has played his “Zionist card” in Libya, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt – is being painted as “anti-Zionist” by Jewish lobby groups and media. In his so-called “anti-Israel” Viena speech – Erdogan had condemned antisemitism as a crime against humanity. However, professor Necemettin Erbakan (died 2011), the first Islamist prime minister of Turkey (1996-97), once told a visitor that Tayyip Erdogan was a very pro-Zionist.