Zahir Muhsein, an executive committee member of the PLO confirmed that there is no such thing as a separate “Palestinian” people of Arab descent. In an interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw in March 31, 1977, he stated the following:
“The palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people ” to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan. “

Millions of Iranian activists want Iran/Persia to return to the people and descendants of ancient Persia likened to its status of a kingdom amongst its peoples.

Armen Saginian, is an Iranian activist and is one of the leaders of the Iranian people’s revolution which, includes ex-Savak agents (Iranian National Intelligence and Security Organization agents) and other influential Iranians inside and outside of Iran.

Armen Saginian is also the Executive Director and founder of New Horizons, and is the author of the book, “Mission for Mohammed and Islam “. He made an exclusive news-breaking announcement of the Iranian People’s ‘declaration of war’ against the Ahmadinejad government, whom they say, illegally crowned himself the winner of the Iranian national elections held last June of 2009. The Center for Inquiry-West is pleased to announce the creation of an Iranian outreach program. New Horizons aims to promote the ideals of secularism, democracy, and rational inquiry to people of Iranian origin in Southern California and ultimately, throughout the world.

There are nearly one million people of Iranian origin in the Greater Los Angeles area. Many are refugees from the repressive Islamic regime in Iran. The new project–sponsored by the Council for Secular Humanism is run by volunteer Armen Saginian from the Los Angeles offices of the Center for Inquiry-West.

On December 10, 2003, in her acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi evoked Cyrus, saying:  “I am an Iranian, a descendant of Cyrus the Great. This emperor proclaimed at the pinnacle of power 2,500 years ago that he ‘would not reign over the people if they did not wish it.’ He promised not to force any person to change his religion and faith and guaranteed freedom for all. The Charter of Cyrus the Great should be studied in the history of human rights.”

The Persian domination and kingdom in the Iranian plateau started by an extension of the Achaemenid dynasty, who expanded their earlier domination possibly from the 9th century BC onward. The eponymous founder of this dynasty was Achaemenes (from Old Persian Haxāmaniš). Achaemenids are “descendants of Achaemenes” as Darius the Great, the ninth king of the dynasty, traces his genealogy to him and declares “for this reason we are called Achaemenids”.

NASA’s new Kepler telescope and extensive new research from the competitive exoplanet field generated interest at the annual American Astronomical Society convention. Scientists are at “an incredible special place in history” and closer to answering a question that has dogged humanity since the beginning of civilization. Simon Worden, an astronomer who heads NASA’s Ames Research Center, stated there’s an optimism that each discovery involving so-called “exoplanets” - those outside our solar system - pointed to the same conclusion: Quiet planets like Earth where life could develop probably are plentiful, despite a violent universe of exploding stars, crushing black holes and colliding galaxies. Worden’s centre runs the Kepler telescope, which is making an intense planetary census of a small portion of the galaxy.

Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, which is a general instrument, Kepler is a specialized telescope just for planet-hunting. Its sole instrument is a light meter that measures the brightness of more than 100,000 stars simultaneously, watching for anything that causes a star to dim. That dimming is often a planet passing in front of the star. Any planet that could support life would need to be rocky rather than gaseous. And it would need to be in just the right location. Planets that are too close to their star will be too hot, and those too far away are too cold.

Planets are being found on almost a daily basis, thanks to the Kepler telescope. The number of discovered exoplanets is now well past 400. But none of those has the right components for life. Most of the early exoplanet candidates found by Kepler are turning out to be something other than a planet, such as another star crossing the telescope’s point of view, when double-and triple-checked. Kepler is concentrating on about one-four hundredth of the nighttime sky, scanning more than 100,000 stars, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand light years away. A light year is about 5.9 trillion miles. So such planets are too far to travel to, and they cannot be viewed directly like the planets in our solar system.

If there were an Earth-like body in the area Kepler is searching, the telescope would find it, but it can take three years to confirm a planet’s orbital path. What Kepler has confirmed so far keeps pointing to the idea that there are many other Earths. Before Kepler, those bodies were too small to be seen. But all those planets were too large and in the wrong place to be like Earth. When Kepler looked at 43,000 stars that are about the same size as our sun, it found that about two-thirds of them appeared to be as life-friendly and nonviolent as our nearest star.

Excited astronomers say they could find Earth-like planets in just a few years and state they are on the verge of finding NASA officials and other leading scientists state that within four or five years they should discover the first Earth-like planet where life could develop, or may have already. A planet close to the size of Earth could even be found sometime this year if preliminary hints from a new space telescope pan out. Planets like Earth orbiting other stars, a key step in determining if we are alone in the universe. A massive space telescope to scan Earth-like planets for oxygen, water, carbon dioxide - and even faint signs of industrial emissions from civilization - would cost about $5 billion. Once an Earth-like planet is found in the right place, determining if there are the ingredients for life there will pose another hurdle.

Even the Roman Catholic Church has held scientific conferences about the prospect of extraterrestrial life, including a meeting last November. The director of the Vatican Observatory, the Rev. Jose Funes stated these are big questions that reflect upon the meaning of the human race in the universe.

Further inforamtion can be found on the web: NASA’s Kepler Telescope: http://kepler.nasa.gov/ ; NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program: http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/ ; The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia: http://www.exoplanet.eu/ ; and American Astronomical Society: http://aas.org/