Saturday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 4.2.2005:

Shame on ABC: An Iranian Student Responds to ABC's Nightline report by Bob Woodruff

The other night ABC's Nightline broadcast an interview from inside of Iran. I received a number of emails about the broadcast. I did not see it, but my readers follow the events in Iran closely they told me they were amazed at the questions in the interview and the naivete or deceit of the interviewer, Bob Woodruff. They were concerned that the American public was given a false understanding of what is happening in Iran. Many said the broadcast appeared to be shameful propaganda for the Iranian regime.

One of those angered by the broadcast was a student who just escaped Iran for supporting its pro-democracy forces there. This student wrote the following public statement to ABC News, Bob Woodruff and the Nightline staff, and asked me to publish it here.

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

• SMCCDI reports Iranians break Islamist taboos today in massive outdoor event.
• Canada's PM considers new action against Iran for the murder of Canadian reporter Kazemi.
• Charles Krauthammer, says it's time to break the true Axis Of Evil (Syrian and Iran).
• French president Jacques Chirac is to meet next Tuesday with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.
• Dr. Jerome Corsi warns that an atomic Iran is imminent and that mullahs may have bomb by June.
• Victor Davis Hanson counsels the President not to stop now with his efforts to bring democracy to the Middle East, dispute the dangers.
• Lebanon's The Daily Star makes a compelling argument why the US is unlikely to deal militarily with Iran.
• Eli Lake reports that Iranian dissidents are asking for aid from President Bush, not just words.
• Michael Evans reminds us that April Fools' Day in Iran was the birth of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the horrors that followed.
• And finally, Iran Press News tells the story of the Canadian reporter gang-raped and murdered - Mullahs' style.