IRANIAN RUN ANTI-JEWISH WEB SITE HOSTED IN U.S. TAKEN OFF LINE
By Jeremy Reynalds (11/15/05)
An Iranian administered anti-Zionist website formerly hosted in the United States is now off line.
The site was www.zionot.com. Its Internet Service Provider was the Fayetteville, NC-based Advanced Internet Technologies (www.aitcom.net/contactus.php).
Informed of his company's hosting of the site, Alex Lekas, Vice President of Corporate Communications for Advanced Internet Technologies said in a telephone interview, "We (have taken that domain down), in addition to the two mirrors that point to it. (www.321wwz.com and www.4-3-2-1-0.com).We will comply with the provision of the law that governs Internet connectivity(www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/rulings/ia060603.pdf), and we will also contact our regional FBI office in Raleigh to determine what other sorts of provisions we need to be aware of."
Lekas said the site(s) were probably "part of a resellers package, because (it) doesn't appear in our records as an independent account."
Later adding to his earlier comments, Lekas said by e-mail, "As a company founded by ex-Army members, AIT takes its legal responsibilities seriously and also has an acceptable use policy that restricts certain types of content."
There was a variety of anti-Jewish propaganda contained on the site. For example.
An article titled "A World without Zionists" read, "One day, the earth will be free of the influence and reign of the Zionists. One day, the oppressed will rule over the world. This is the promise of God and it will happen very soon ... our age is the age of Imam Khomeini. This great man of the recent ages taught us to enter rationalities and to open our eyes on the hidden realities of the world. In many countries of the world especially the Muslim countries; in Saudi Arabia where millions of Muslims gather every year for the Hajj congregation, in Lebanon, Sudan, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, India and wherever there is a trace of Islam, when they hear the name of Imam Khomeini, they smile and in different languages, talk of him in good terms and consider themselves indebted to him."
The writer said that he and others are not frightened by the Zionist name or network.
"For years, in many Muslim countries," he wrote, "when normal people talked about a political subject like the sudden appearance of the counterfeit Zionist government in the Middle East region, the more experienced and wise recommended them not to enter the domain of rationalities."
The writer continued by saying that it is said the "Zionist network" is powerful worldwide and supported by superpowers.
So powerful, he wrote, that "they say the famous powerful countries of the world do not drink water without the Zionists' permission. They say whoever looks at the Zionists left left will be damned by them. Such talks are babbled a lot, but the children of Imam Khomeini all over the world are waiting to see a world without the Zionists and are willing to put in all their effort for this aim."
Other articles on the site (www.zionot.com/Written.htm) included one titled, "Jewish Conspiracy."
It read in part, "The anti-human crimes, aggressions and murders committed by the Zionists and their inveterate rancor against Islam and Muslims are known to one and all. A boundless passion for usurpation and hegemony is typical of these professional criminals of history; a passion which they try to satisfy through their fickle logic of ‘From Nile to Euphrates.'"
Another article was called, Student Movement Mulls World without Zionism."
That reads in part, "The Student Movement last year concurrent with the World Qods Day and 13th of Aban (4 November) held a series of conferences titled "The World without the US" with the aim of triggering an anti-arrogance wave at national and international levels. Presently the Movement has pointed finger at the core of oppression and arrogance, considering a world free from Zionism."
One article was titled, "I wonder why Bush doesn't let Sharon run his press office," and read in part, "Put your flak jackets on, President George Bush has spoken. He wants a regime change in Palestine, just as he wants a regime change in Iraq. He reads the Israeli government press handouts and accurately quotes them to his American people."
The computer serving as home to the web sites (66.219.101.232) was hosting 386 Internet addresses. Some of those sites had names such as www.Tehranhack.com, www.Tehraniart.com, www.Tehranpack.com, www.Tehranramian.com, www.Teleitc.com and www.elmpub.com, none of which were accessible as this story was being prepared.
In other news about Iran, the London Guardian newspaper reported (www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1641995,00.html) that Iran was under renewed pressure Sun. over its nuclear program after reports that American officials had found information on a stolen laptop computer that they claimed proved Iran was attempting to develop a nuclear warhead.
The Guardian reported that U.S. American intelligence agents briefed senior officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency on the alleged evidence contained on the computer, according to the New York Times.
The agency is scheduled to meet in Vienna a week from Thursday to consider referring the Iranian case to the UN security council.
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