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U.S. Targets Iranian Aid to Militants on all SidesU.S. Special Forces are intensifying their efforts to root out Iranian agents who are said to be working in Iraq to further destabilize the fractured nation, a leading U.S. analyst and a top Iraqi diplomat said. Gen. Jack Keane, a retired four-star general who advises senior U.S. defense officials on Iraq, said Iran is so intent on pushing the United States out of the country that it is now aiding all enemy factions. more By The Washington Time>
Posted 11/7/2007 @ 8:30:15 GMTU.N. Team in Iran Over Nuclear TransparencyTEHRAN -- A team from the U.N. nuclear watchdog led by its second-in-command arrived in Tehran on Wednesday seeking details about Iran's offer to answer unresolved questions about its disputed nuclear programme. more By Reuters>
Posted 10/7/2007 @ 22:13:18 GMTIranian FM Receives French Envoy TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki received Tuesday French envoy Jean-Claude Cousseran and discussed regional developments, especially situation in Lebanon. more By Kuwait News Agency>
Posted 10/7/2007 @ 22:12:53 GMTOsanloo Kidnapped from Tehran BusThe ITF has received word from our affiliate that Mansour Osanloo was kidnapped on 10th July in Tehran by unknown persons at approximately 7pm local time. more By International Transport Workers' Federation>
Posted 9/7/2007 @ 21:26:50 GMTDark Days for WomenJudicial authorities in Iran have sentenced two women activists who participated in a peaceful protest against discriminatory laws in June 2006 to more than 30 months in jail and ten lashes. The harsh sentences come amid the recent arrests of more than a dozen student activists, the government closure of the popular Hammihan newspaper, and pressure on Iran's Labour News Agency to stop its activities, in another sweeping crackdown on the Islamic Republic's civil society. more By Inter Press Service>
Posted 10/7/2007 @ 15:20:40 GMTThe Lieberman OptionThe news from Iran is of a harsh crackdown. The Associated Press yesterday picked up a report from the government controlled news agency there that Iran "has arrested 20 people — including some foreigners — near the border with Iraq and accused them of belonging to a spy network." Also yesterday, the AP reported that "Iranian police and plainclothes security agents broke up a sit-in marking Monday's anniversary of a bloody raid on a Tehran university dormitory, then stormed the offices of the country's main pro-democracy student group, student leaders said. Fifteen students and a mother were beaten and detained, they said." more By New York Sun >
Posted 10/7/2007 @ 15:14:24 GMTUnleash the Iranian Opposition[, the Mujahedeen-e Khalq]Navigating the fractious currents of émigré politics is never easy, and especially for the Iranian opposition group known as the Mujahedeen-e Khalq or the People's Mujahedeen of Iran. Simply put, the rogue oil state regime it opposes terrifies one half the West and tempts the other, and the MEK is itself accused of being a superannuated Marxist-Islamist terrorist cult. more By The New York Sun>
Posted 10/7/2007 @ 9:13:35 GMTLet's Undo the Concessions to IranLet it be said once and with precision: whether George W. Bush recovers his political clout is much less important than many other problems we face. Those who are charting paths for his recovery are just reprocessing the conservative principles that the president has spent the last six years rejecting. more By Human Events>
Posted 10/7/2007 @ 14:58:26 GMTIran and the HourglassThe Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance accused Iranian newspapers of plotting a so-called “soft revolution” to overthrow the regime. The problem with the relationship between the government and the press in Iran starts with the ministry’s name itself as the ministry of "culture and Islamic guidance," as the concepts of guidance and culture are diametrically opposed. more By Asharq Al-Awsat>
Posted 10/7/2007 @ 14:48:48 GMTUS Navy Sends Third Carrier to Gulf WatersManama, Bahrain -- The United States navy has sent a third aircraft carrier to its Fifth Fleet area of operations, which includes [Persian] Gulf waters close to Iran, the navy said on Tuesday. more By Reuters>
Posted 10/7/2007 @ 14:40:7 GMTSham Trial in Iran for Canadian Photojournalist July 10 marks the fourth anniversary of the death of Zahra “Ziba“ Kazemi, a Canadian photojournalist arrested after photographing a demonstration outside Evin prison in Iran following the student uprisings of 2003. Ziba was killed while in the custody of the Iranian judiciary. Shahrzad Arshadi, a founder of the Kazemi Foundation, celebrates Ziba’s life and legacy and provides an update on her son Stephan Hachemi’s legal case against the Islamic Republic. more By New America Media>
Posted 10/7/2007 @ 14:25:24 GMTIsraeli Hardliner Slams 'European Appeasement' on IranJERUSALEM -- Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Liberman slammed the European Union on Tuesday for what he termed its appeasement attitude over Iran's nuclear programme. "The wind of Chamberlain is blowing over Europe," the noted hardliner told army radio, referring to former British premier Neville Chamberlain, known for his appeasement policy towards Germany's Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. more By AFPa>
Posted 10/7/2007 @ 13:43:2 GMTIran Expands Investigation of American PrisonersIran announced today that it had uncovered new evidence against two imprisoned Americans and had launched an expanded investigation into their alleged activities against the Islamic republic. more By The Washington Post>
Posted 10/7/2007 @ 13:37:1 GMTImam Accused in JFK Plot Wanted Help From IranA Shiite imam accused of plotting to blow up fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport wanted to seek Iranian backing for the terrorist plot. more By New York Sun>
Posted 10/7/2007 @ 9:21:13 GMTDubai Dhow Captains Defy U.S. Sanctions With Shipments to Iran Sailors with skin baked to leather by the Persian Gulf sun stack Hewlett-Packard Co. laser-jet printers alongside a 40-foot wooden dhow in Dubai Creek as Ali Reza, an Iranian merchant, watches them sweat. more By Bloomberg>
Posted 10/7/2007 @ 9:6:1 GMTPoll: Iranians Support Nuclear WeaponsWASHINGTON -- Small majorities of Iranians say their country should develop nuclear weapons and they would feel safer if Tehran possessed such arms, according to a rare public opinion poll of that nation's citizens. more By The Washington Post>
Posted 10/7/2007 @ 8:55:30 GMTIran Resumes Practice of Stoning to DeathA man convicted of adultery has been stoned to death in a village in northwestern Iran, the first time such an execution is confirmed in five years. “This case has been recently executed in the village that was mentioned,” judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi said in Tehran about the stoning of the man, Jafar Kiani, in a village in Qazvin province. more By Agence France-Presse>
Posted 10/7/2007 @ 8:51:37 GMTBeverly Hills May Join Push for Iran DivestmentBeverly Hills' Iranian-born Mayor Jimmy Delshad plans to call today for the city to eliminate its pension fund investments in foreign companies operating in Iran. The largely symbolic action is intended to rally support for a movement in California and other states to isolate the Middle Eastern nation. more By Los Angeles Times>
Posted 9/7/2007 @ 21:52:47 GMTIran Won't Allow Extra Gasoline BuyingTEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's hard-line leader made clear Monday that drivers who use their fuel rations won't be allowed to buy more gasoline at higher prices, calling suggestions to do so a "killer poison" that would worsen inflation, the official IRNA news agency said. more By The Associated Press>
Posted 9/7/2007 @ 21:49:3 GMTYouth: Iran Police Target Pro-democracy GroupsTEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian police and plainclothes security agents broke up a sit-in marking Monday’s anniversary of a bloody raid on a Tehran university dormitory, then stormed the offices of the country’s main pro-democracy student group, student leaders said. Fifteen students and a mother were beaten and detained, they said. There was no confirmation by the government, which rarely comments on such arrests. more By The Associated Press
Posted 9/7/2007 @ 21:7:37 GMTIsraeli Hasbara to Say it in PersianWhile American and Israeli leaders vow that all options remain on the table in dealing with Iran's race to acquire nuclear weapons, it seems that all options are being kept open on the desktop as well. The Foreign Ministry unveiled a Persian-language version of its Web site on Monday that it hopes will speak "above the heads" of the regime in Teheran, directly to Iran's younger generation. more By The Jerusalem Post>
Posted 9/7/2007 @ 12:54:53 GMTElBaradei says Iran Slowing Enrichment WorkVIENNA -- Iran has slowed the installation of centrifuge machines that enrich uranium for its controversial nuclear programme, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday. more By Reuters >
Posted 9/7/2007 @ 9:56:1 GMTMore Student Activists Detained In Iran Six members of Iran's largest reformist student group have been detained in Tehran, Radio Farda reported. The activists, from the Office to Consolidate Unity (DTV), were staging a picket today in front of the capital's Polytechnic University to protest the continued imprisonment of eight of their colleagues. more By Radio Free Europe>
Posted 9/7/2007 @ 9:32:48 GMTSanctions with SenseTougher financial penalties against Iran are essential, but Congress' approach is ham-handed. more By Los Angeles Times>
Posted 9/7/2007 @ 9:5:41 GMTTunneling Near Iranian Nuclear Site Stirs WorryThe sudden flurry of digging seen in recent satellite photos of a mountainside in central Iran might have passed for ordinary road tunneling. But the site is the back yard of Iran's most ambitious and controversial nuclear facility, leading U.S. officials and independent experts to reach another conclusion: It appears to be the start of a major tunnel complex inside the mountain. more By The Washington Post