Saturday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 4.16.2005:

Iran's second front

The American Thinker:

Iran's leaders are now implementing a course of action similar to one that Hitler adopted after the failure to win the Battle of Britain over 60 years ago: turn east and establish a Second Front. READ MORE

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

• Reuters reports that Iranian political "heavyweight" Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani says he is now "more definite" to run for president on June 17.
• People.com.cn (China) reports that a top Iranian nuclear negotiator said Saturday that Iran would not welcome coordination on Iran's nuclear issue between the European Union (EU) and the United States.
• The NY Sun reports that three hundred supporters of an Iranian opposition group characterized by the State Department as a terrorist organization gathered in Washington DC to pressure the Bush administration to lift the designation.
• Zaman.com claims that the US is now trying to control the region to influence the Ural region, Russia's industrial center.
• Iranian.ws reports that Shell will open Iran's Soroush field in just weeks.
• World Tribune.com reports that Yemen's military have routed Iranian-backed insurgents in an offensive near the Saudi border.
• The Baltimore Sun reports that Cheney reaffirmed the administration's support for diplomatic efforts by the EU3 to rein in Tehran. But he suggested that there is a limit to how long the United States will wait.
• MehrNews claims Rafsanjani said "If the future president is elected by a low voter turnout, one could hardly call him the people's representative."
• And finally, Iran Focus claims Iran's former president Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani accused Mohammad Khatami's government of having a hand in the 1998 dissident serial murders.