Colleague Thaddeus McCotter, 11th Michigan (R), spoke on the floor of the House this news cycle to bring to history the name and face of a young Iranian woman, 19 year-old Taraneh Mousavi, who was arrested and abducted on July 9th by Basij thugs in Tehran. There were witnesses to Taraneh Mousavi's abduction near the Ghoba Mosque.  Her crime? Wearing a green scarf for the protest against the illegitimate usurper Ahmadinejad. The report is that Taraneh Mousavi was later found beaten, raped, tortured. The report is that Taraneh Mousavi died in the hospital. What is reported also is that Taraneh Mousavi's body was taken from the hospital by the killers, and her body was found burned in order to prevent an autopsy that could identify the cause of death. Taraneh Mousavi was an only child of elderly parents. Her parents said to be under threat by the regime to keep silent. Best LA/Tehran source tells me bluntly, and told the congressman as well, "the reistance wants her story out." I spoke on air of Taraneh Mousavi's murder on Sunday 19 with Ardeshir Arian, Media Without Borders. Thaddeuus McCotter spoke on the Congressional Record the story of Taraneh Mousavi's murder on Monday 20.

Silence of the POTUS.

The puzzle of the ongoing turmoil in Tehran and throughout the Islamic Republic is how the continuing silence of the Obama administration is aiding the vast resistance to the usurper Ahmadinejad and his IRGC predators.  The DoD has consistently detailed the efforts of the IRGC to wreck the Iraq government and defeat the Coalition since 2003.  Ahmadinejad is voluble in his threats against Israel and the Jewish people.  The Supreme Leader Khamenei is a tyrant and provocateur of naked aggression.  All this, and since June the steady stream of reports of the brutality of the Basij militia against the Iranian people, and still neither POTUS nor significant representatives of the Obama administration speak in public to name Teheran as a rogue.  The silence does not improve the facts.  The well-sourced intelligence that the Obama administration aims to negotiate an expedient bargain with Tehran, to add to a similar bargain offered by the Bush administration, is said to explain POTUS silence.  Thaddeus McCotter speaks for the American people who have listened in disappointment for an honest, sturdy voice of liberty from the elected leader of "the citty on a hill."

Late report that journalist and lawyer Shadi Sadr was arrested last Friday 17 in Tehran enroute to the Rafsanjani sermon.  She was taken by the secret police, who are said not to have shown a warrant.  An LA blog reports that Shadi Sadr telephoned her husband to ask for a password to her mobile phone.  Why a password?  To unlock the phone so that the secret police can document her contacts.  Shadi Sadr's whereabouts are unknown at this time.