Iranian military sources told a Lebanese website that about 180,000 U.S. troops were within the range of Iran's fire, and that the resistance forces in Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan were ready to confront the U.S. and Israel.

In response to America's deployment of anti-missile defense systems in the Gulf states, Tehran IRGC commander Hossein Hamedani said that the message of the Revolution Day celebrations to the "Global Arrogance" (i.e., the West headed by the U.S.) is that the revolution's fourth generation would fight even more fiercely that the first.

Source: Mehr (Iran), Nowlebanon.com (Lebanon), January 30, 2010

Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi called on the Iranian public to participate in the Revolution Day marches on February 11, and complained that, even though most of the Iranian people support the regime, they are not granted the right to hold free elections.

Mousavi and Karroubi also condemned the statements of Ayatollah Jannati who called in a January 29 sermon to execute protesters. They stated that two individuals who were recently executed for their role in the protests were actually arrested months before the elections and sentenced to death in an expedited procedure in order to terrorize the public.

Tehran IRGC commander Hossein Hamedani said that the Green Movement supporters would not be allowed to demonstrate during the Revolution Day celebrations, and Hashemi Rafsanjani called on the Iranians to take part in the marches and refrain from violence.

Sources: Mehr, Saham News, Aftab (Iran), January 30, 2010

An Iranian court has imposed the death sentence on five more participants in the December 27, 2009 Ashura Day protests.

At a Majlis session, MP Hamid Rasaei, who is a supporter of Ahmadinejad, demanded to also take legal measures against the son and daughter of Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mehdi and Faezeh, for their role in organizing the protests.

Source: IRNA (Iran), January 31, 2010; Hammihan.com (Iran), January 30, 2010

The Tabnak website stated that the cessation of broadcasts of Iran's Al-'Aalam Arabic-language TV channel by Arabsat (Arabsat Stops Transmitting Al-'Aalam Broadcasts), and the trial of the channel's Israel correspondent, show that Israel and the Arabs have the same stance against the channel.

Source: Tabnak, Iran, January 28, 2009

Iranian Assembly of Experts head Hashemi Rafsanjani has threatened to release sensitive information about Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, who is also a member of the Assembly and an associate of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after Yazdi cast doubts on Rafsanjani's loyalty to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Assembly of Experts member Ahmad Khatami, another Ahmadinejad associate, entreated Rafsanjani not to make good on his threat, due to the need for unity in the country, but denied that he had told Rafsanjani that Yazdi had retracted his criticism.

According to Khatami, the two had agreed to settle their dispute between themselves, for the sake of regime unity.

Source: Safir News, Fars, Iran, January 28, 2010

In his Friday sermon, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, Guardian Council head and interim Friday prayer leader for Tehran called on Iran's judiciary to speedily implement the judicial rulings issued in the case of the post-election rioters and to make swift decisions in the matter.

Saying that the inaction about the cases would have severe consequences for the country, he urged Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani to deal firmly with "rioters of the recent unrest, and in particular the 'Ashura desecrators."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's deputy Mehrdad Bazerpash met privately with Hizbullah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah yesterday evening in Beirut, and also with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and other ministers.

Bazerpash also visited the tomb of Imad Mughniyeh, the senior Hizbullah official who was assassinated in February 2008.

Source: Parsine.com, Iran, January 29, 2010

According to Russia's state-run arms exporter, "nothing" would stop Russia from selling military equipment to Iran.

"Nothing prevents the continuation of military cooperation in those directions of interest to Russia and Iran," RIA Novosti quoted Anatoly Isaikin, the head of Rosoboronexport, as saying on January 28..

"Iran has never violated a single commitment it has undertaken with regards to military contracts," he said.

Isaikin also stressed that Russia would not back down on a deal to sell the sophisticated S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran.

Source: Press TV, Iran, January 28, 2010

In his meeting with outgoing Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Kazemi-Qomi, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani emphasized the need to develop and strengthen relations between the two friendly countries.

[Having lost most of its power base in Sulaymania to a splinter party from Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Talabani has been shifting gears in an attempt to appeal to Iran and its Shi'ite supporters in Iraq in an attempt to keep his job as president after the elections.]

Source: Al-Mada, Iraq, January 28, 2010

Iran has executed two people arrested during the unrest during 'Ashura, December 27, 2009.

The cases of nine more detainees sentenced to death are being appealed.

Source: Fararu, Iran, January 28, 2010