President Obama’s inaction and indifference!

9 prisoners in Shiraz and Arak prison were executed and hanged on Tuesday, May 19, 2015.

Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran; presented his report on human rights situation in Iran to U.N human rights council. According to this report 753 were executed in Iran during 2014. Only in first 10 weeks of 2015 also 252 were hanged. Also at least 13 prisoners under 18 were executed during 2014.The majority of these individuals were condemned to death, while they did not deserve such a punishment since their crime was not as hardcore according to international laws.

Six U.S. senators (Ted Cruz, Mike Enzi, Johnny Isakson, Mark Kirk, David Perdue, and Marco Rubio) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, saying: “We write to express strong concern over the ongoing postponement of the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, in particular the Iran Human Rights Report. As you are aware, the Department of State is required by law to issue this report every year in a timely manner. Yet after missing the February 25, 2015 deadline, the Department of State announced on April 16th that there would be a further delay. More than two weeks have now passed, and we still have no indication of when this critical document will be available.

In the context of the Obama Administration's ongoing negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran over that country's nuclear program, we believe it is imperative this report be published as quickly as possible. Although we appreciate your guarantee that human rights sanctions will be exempt from a list of phased-out sanctions in any final deal with Iran, we are concerned the Obama Administration is failing to recognize the inherentdanger of engaging in nuclear negotiations with this particular regime given their appalling record on human rights. That is why we are so eager for this report as it would, for example, be of particular interest to see if the disturbing increase in human rights abuses under President Hassan Rouhani is a continuing trend over the last twelve months……”

34 million cars that use Takata airbags have been recalled for fatal defects in them

For more than a decade, the Japanese company Takata, one of the largest suppliers of airbags, denied that its products were defective even as motorists were killed by exploding airbags and automakers around the world recalled millions of cars equipped with its products.

But on Tuesday Takata admitted that its airbags were defective and agreed to double the number of vehicles recalled in the United States, to nearly 34 million — or about one in seven of the more than 250 million vehicles on American roads — making it the largest automotive recall in American history. The airbags can explode violently when they deploy, sending shrapnel flying into a car’s passenger compartment. Six deaths and more than 100 injuries have been linked to the flaw.

Danger in the Steering Wheel

Airbags made by the Takata Corporation have a potential defect when they deploy. Some have ruptured, sending metal fragments into the car.

But since the appointment of a new administrator, Mark R. Rosekind, the agency has shown greater assertiveness toward companies like Takata.

Takata, in a statement, said that the announcement was the culmination of a year of work with automakers and the safety agency.

“We are committed to continuing to work closely with N.H.T.S.A. and our automaker customers to do everything we can to advance the safety of drivers,” said Shigehisa Takada, Takata’s chairman and chief executive.

Despite the sweeping nature of the announcement, the agency said it would not know exactly which models of cars would be recalled until it coordinated with automakers, which could be several days. The final number may change as more tests are performed, Mr. Rosekind said. Ten automakers, including Honda, Chrysler and Nissan, have recalled cars in the United States because of the defect.

Honda, the automaker that has been most affected by the Takata airbag recalls, said that it was reviewing the announcement to determine what fresh recall measures might be required. Honda already said that it was looking to other suppliers to provide replacement airbags.

Nissan, Chrysler, Toyota and BMW also said they needed to review the announcement before taking any further action. None of the automakers would say whether they expected to have access to enough replacement parts to repair all the cars potentially carrying defective airbags.

Officials at other affected automakers, including Ford, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Even now, Takata and automakers continue to search for the root cause of the defect. But in new filings with the safety agency, Takata went beyond its previous statements that there had been some errors in manufacturing and admitted to flaws in the airbags’ design and components.

For example, Takata said that the propellant in the inflaters — the explosive material that generates the gases to inflate the airbag — could degrade over time if exposed to high humidity and changes in temperature, making it prone to “overaggressive combustion.”

Former Takata engineers told The New York Times last year that they had raised concerns over a decade ago that ammonium nitrate, the explosive material Takata uses, was sensitive to moisture and temperature swings. But those concerns went unheeded, they said.

And for the first time, Takata also acknowledged that its testing had uncovered leaks in some of its inflators that could allow moisture to seep into them over time. When that happens, the propellant breaks down, making it more susceptible to exploding violently.

Last week, a former Takata consultant said that tests he carried out on prototype Takata airbags in the early 2000s revealed leaks, and that he had urged the company to use a different leak testing method, one that he had devised and was offering to sell to the company. His advice also went unheeded, he said.

But in a statement on Tuesday, Takata argued that under industry-mandated testing, it could not have been expected to spot such complex problems.

“The potential for this long-term phenomenon to occur was not within the scope of the testing specifications prescribed by the vehicle manufacturers,” the supplier said in a statement.

Failure to curb Iran's pursuit to acquire nuclear bomb will have its consequences

Iranian regime's push to acquire nuclear weapons during past 20 years would have gone unnoticed, if it wasn't for the main Iranian opposition to bring that to the light in 2002. For past 13 years the National Council of Resistance of Iran, NCRI and its supporters and operatives in Iran have gone in length to expose the menace of the Iranian regime. But instead the west naive approach towards Iran followed the appeasement policy emboldening the mullahs. This policy would no doubt lead to a more dangerous Middle East with other nations wanting to follow the nuclear path. The former Saudi foreign minister said that whatever the Iranian regime gets, we would pursue as well. That is why, according to an article in the Sunday Times, the Saudis have made a "strategic decision" to acquire "off-the-shelf" nuclear weapons from Pakistan. 

Senior US officials say that Sunni Arab states are increasingly concerned of the repercussions of a deal currently being negotiated between world powers and Shi'ite rival Iran, which they fear may still be able to develop a nuclear bomb.

The deal being negotiated between Iran and the permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany would see the Shi'ite nation curb its sensitive nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

"For the Saudis the moment has come," a former US defense official told the Sunday Times last week.

"There has been a long-standing agreement in place with the Pakistanis and the House of Saud has now made the strategic decision to move forward."

'This stuff is available to them off the shelf'

Another US official working in intelligence told the paper that "hundreds of people at CIA headquarters in Langley" were working to establish whether Islamabad had already supplied the Gulf nation with nuclear technology or weaponry.

"We know this stuff is available to them off the shelf," the intelligence official said, adding that it "has to be the assumption" that the Saudis have decided to become a nuclear power. 

"We can't sit back and be nowhere as Iran is allowed to retain much of its capability and amass its research," an Arab leader preparing to meet Obama told the New York Times on Monday (11 May).

The sentiment was shared by former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki bin Faisal, who told a recent conference in South Korea: "whatever the Iranians have, we will have, too."

The right to enrich uranium

If inked the deal will leave 5,000 centrifuges and a research and development program in place — features that are highly contested by Israel and Arab states.

By allowing Iran to retain the right to enrich uranium, the deal may inadvertently increase nuclear proliferation in the region, by providing justification for other Middle Eastern countries to match Iran. 

Saudi Arabia has financed substantial amounts of Islamabad's nuclear program over the past three decades, providing Pakistan's government with billions of dollars of subsidized oil while taking delivery of Shaheen mobile ballistic missiles.

"Given their close relations and close military links, it's long been assumed that if the Saudis wanted, they would call in a commitment, moral or otherwise, for Pakistan to supply them immediately with nuclear warheads," former Foreign Secretary Lord David Owen told the Sunday Times. 

A senior British military officer also told the paper that Western military leaders "all assume the Saudis have made the decision to go nuclear."

"The fear is that other Middle Eastern powers — Turkey and Egypt — may feel compelled to do the same and we will see a new, even more dangerous, arms race."

A startling report on Monday revealed that during a gang clashes in a small Texas town of Waco, a few hundred motorcyclists clashed which resulted in at least 9 death and dozens of injured. Just imagine if a similar clash occurs with terrorist gangs having some kind of nuclear weapons, receive from the Iranian regime, the godfather of terrorism. That scenario is unimaginable with catastrophic consciences.

The current strategy the Obama administration pursues with Iran leaves one worrying about such scenario. The only way to assure that this would never happen anywhere in the world is to deny nuclear bomb to the godfather of all terrorist, the mullahs' regime ruling Iran.