Friday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 4.22.2005:

Iran Hid Nuclear Plans for Nearly 2 Decades

Chris Wallace, Jonathan Hunt and Greg Palkot, FOX News:

This report provides a sneak peek at some of their finding that will appear on this Sunday night's Special Report. READ MORE

Here are a few other news items you may have missed.

• Reuters reports that thousands of people marched for peace in southwest Iran on Friday one week after bloody ethnic unrest in which at least five people were killed and more than 300 arrested. The march appears state sponsored.
• IranMania.com reports that Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary Hassan Rowhani says he may become a presidential candidate if Rafsanjani does not.
• Reuters reports that Tehran appears committed to safety at its Bushehr nuclear power plant, according to the IAEA.
• VOA News reports that Iranian officials say they have released 155 of some 350 people arrested during recent protests by Arab-Iranians in southwest Iran and more will released soon.
• Reuters is reporting that the European Union's three biggest powers appear to genuinely want an agreement with Iran, according to the Iranians.
• Al Jazeera reports that a joint statement by the Arab Commission for Human Rights in Paris and International Justice Organisation in The Hague has expressed concerns about the unrest in al-Ahwaz.
• WorldNetDaily.com reports that Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden is partly responsible for the growing threat the U.S. faces from the mullah regime.
• The Los Angeles Times is reporting that critical components and specialized tools destined for Libya's nuclear weapons program disappeared before arrival in 2003 and international investigators now suspect that they were diverted to another country.
• Radio Free Europe reports on Tehran's opposition to U.S. Democracy efforts.
• Fox News reports on the military options that the U.S. has towards a nuclear Iran.
• The Wall Street Journal criticizes the EU saying "in the name of promoting democracy and reforms (and against the pleading of Iranian dissidents), the EU improved its economic ties with yet another despotic regime."
• The Economist is reporting that Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, is calling on Lebanon's clerics to apply his fatwa to abstain from political office.
• Reporters Without Borders report that Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji, who has served his fifth year in Tehran's Evin prison tomorrow, is seriously ill.
• And finally, the Editors of the National Review Online write, "The attack on Bolton's temperament is an obvious misdirection anyway. Democrats simply object to his kind of multilateralism that aggressively pursues international support for the goals of President Bush's foreign policy. Bolton will "serve" the president rather than the U.N.