Monday, January 01, 2007

Zionist entity probes failure, Big Satan overhauls Iranian planes, Muslim davening good for memory

Some interesting items from the Iranian Press--the Zionist Entity always gets some headlines:

IRIB Radio: "Zionist Entity Surveys Reasons for Defeat"
Military officials of the illegal Zionist entity are to survey the report by the special team probing the reasons for Israel’s disgraceful defeat in the 33-day war it launched against Lebanon’s Islamic resistance.

According to AFP the meeting is to be chaired by Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Halotz and attended by more than 600 high-ranking officers.

The report, presented to Halotz in September speaks of the shortcomings of commanders, lack of preparedness of the troops and wrong methods used in the invasion.
Is the US really going to help the Iranian aviation industry? I hope this is not true:

Fars News: "US Due to Overhaul Iranian Planes":
The shortage of spare parts beleaguering the Iranian aviation industry may soon be improved through a breakthrough deal with the United States.

In October, the US Commerce and State departments approved a temporary suspension of the US-led embargo that has impeded Iran's access to American and Western aircraft parts.

The deal will allow the servicing and supplying of parts to American-made engines on a limited number of Iran Air jets produced by Airbus.

The recommendation, now under consideration by the US Department of Treasury, was made after American aviation officials warned the engines were in need of immediate overhaul.

The airplane engine parts would not be shipped to Iran. Instead, the components would be exported to unidentified third countries, which would conduct the repairs for Iran Air.

The cooperation appears to be the first between the two countries in the aviation sector since the Iranian Revolution, when bilateral ties were cut and Washington placed trade sanctions on Tehran.

H.R. Behzadian, a former parliamentarian and former president of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce said the spare parts embargo was tantamount to crimes against humanity because it placed Iranian civilians at risk.

However, IATA said recent crashes that have marred Iran's air safety record were to eastern-built aircraft, meaning there is most likely not a relationship to the western-built parts issue.

Iran's 13 carriers have a fleet of 120 planes, averaging about 16 years old.

Iranian carriers operate a number of American aircraft purchased during the time of the former Pahlavi regime, as well as Airbus planes with engines from American firm GE.

Iran has been banned from purchasing Boeing planes and has had difficulty procuring European planes made with American-made components. As a result, Iran has been forced to purchase Russian aircraft.
They may have to purchase Russian aircraft, but they will never forget where they park them since the Muslim version of davening is good for the memory. Does this also apply to Jewish davening? Maybe not--the study stresses the "physical posture" of the person praying:

Fars News: "Islamic Prayers Increase Memory Span":
The research findings at a Malaysian university have recently revealed that Muslims' daily prayers 'Namaz' have many positive physical effects on the worshippers.

The research conducted by the biomedical engineering group of the University of Malaysia (U.M.) suggests that the physical posture of the worshippers at the time of Namaz has a positively meaningful relationship with his or her health status.

According to the research findings, Muslims' prayers are much useful for the spine and heart of the worshipper and increase his or her memory span.

Regular observation of Namaz for five times a day reinvigorates the worshipper's power of concentration, it also added.

According to the Islamic injunctions, Muslims should perform Namaz at dawn, noon, afternoon, evening and night.

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