Sunday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 4.3.2005:

Canada deported a record 43 Iranian refugees back to Iran last year.

Mr. Kurland, a Canadian immigration attorney, said he no longer takes Iranian cases because of the emotional anguish arising from the forced deportation of his client Mohsen Mofidi to Iran.

Mr. Mofidi had been sentenced to 100 lashes for illegal possession of a satellite dish and allowing two of his young sisters to "have boyfriends." He died several days later.

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

• SMCCDI reports a major explosion rocks factory near Tehran.
• India Daily calls on Iran to return illegally obtained nuke capable X-55 cruise missiles.
• A new documentary, Coming Out: The Youth of Iran , provides a look at the youth of Iran and the politics of sexuality. View it here.
• Controversial Iranian dissident Mohsen Sazegara joins The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
• Iran has deployed a network of anti-aircraft batteries around its declared uranium enrichment plant in Natanz.
• Canadian Tory Leader Stephen Harper accused the government of whitewashing the Kazemi murder in Iran.
• Zvi Bar'el, writing for Haartez, takes a look at the anti-Americanism among those who promote democracy in the Middle East.
• Iran is paying for the Palestinian attacks aimed at shattering the fragile truce with Israel.
• Robert Tait, of the Sunday Herald, found a couple of young Iranians who still support the regime.
• Iran says the Doctor, who claimed to have attended Kazemi, is lying.
• And finally, a cartoon.