Thursday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 4.7.2005:

The U.S. and the EU should "get used to the idea of a nuclear Iran."

The Middle East Media Research Institute has just published an excellent review of the EU3/Iran negotiations, including statements by Iran's military leaders, such as:

"...Iran's military command has taken into account the possibility of a disruption of [communications] between military posts and the central command... As a precautionary measure, the command has ordered all military and Revolutionary Guards sectors to respond swiftly - within no more than an hour and without waiting for orders - against pre-selected targets, [in light of anticipated] international political pressures that might force Iran to not respond. READ MORE

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

• Ron Strom of WorldNetDaily.com today published an article about yesterday's post on the The 70 million people of Iran who released a letter warning world governments that as of June 16th all contracts with Iran will be considered "null and void." The article credits this blog as the source of the story and adds a statement by Dr. Jerome Corsi.
• The Washington Times thinks the Mullahs of Iran are "on the run."
• Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi has rebuffed calls from Ottawa for an independent inquiry into the death in custody here of an Iranian-Canadian journalist.
• SMCCDI reported violent clashes rocked, yesterday, several western Iranian cities.
• Dr. Jerome Corsi says that Iran is playing the world for a fool.
• Iranian security forces have been blamed for the deaths of seven people in a post-match crush following last month’s World Cup qualifier with Japan.
• SMCCDI reported several protesting workers were beaten and rounded up as the Islamic regime forces intervened to put a brutal end to their peaceful demo.
• Canada will not participate in a "Doing Business with Iran" conference in light of new and damning evidence in the Zahra Kazemi case.
• France says "The talks are very fragile but we are progressing."
• Mark Hosenbal of Newsweek discussed the administrations mixed signals regarding the MEK.
• Xinhua News Agency reported that Iranian Supreme Leader Seyed Ali Khamenei criticized the Greater Middle East plan proposed by the United States, calling on all Muslims to resist it.
• And finally, Bill Gertz of The Washington Times claims the Iranians paid $49.5 million for Ukrainian Missiles.