Wednesday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 4.27.2005:

Rafsanjani a "radical moderate?"

Arnaud de Borchgrave of The Washington Times calls Iran's
newest Iranian presidential candidate, Rafsanjani a "radical moderate." The main stream media wants to believe he is a "pragmatic moderate."

Here are a few more interesting quotes from the "moderate" Rafsanjani:
"We have some scores with America that must be settled one day." The NY Post.

"The Islamic Republic must get ready for confrontation against the enemy’s attack by answering its offensive right in its heartland." Iran Press Service. READ MORE

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

• Iran Press Service reports on Iran's Presidential campaign.
• Kuwait Times reports that the Syrian regime has suffered a serious blow by bowing to the UN demand to withdraw from Lebanon.
• The Financial Times reports that the Bush administration has proposed providing Israel with 100 “bunker-buster” bombs capable of destroying underground targets.
• Dow Jones Newswires reports that the Council of Europe Tuesday called on Iran to abide by the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
• Reporters Without Borders called for the immediate release of reformist Iranian Arab journalist Yosef Azizi Banitrouf.
• National Iranian American Council, have been promoting a "poll" claiming that 4 out of 5 Iranian/Americans oppose House Resolution 282 and S.333. Iranian expatriate disputes it.
• Tehran Times, a mouth piece of the Iranian regime is worried about the possibility of John Bolton becoming the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
• Iranian.ws reports that the Islamic Republic is the biggest threat to Iran's territorial integrity.
• IranMania reports Iran's parliament voted to suspend a law passed by their reformist predecessors that was aimed at giving journalists fairer trials.
• And finally, BBC News, On This Day In History: 1980,Tehran hostage rescue mission fails. Plus more reflections on the day: WorldNetDaily.com and American Forces Press Service.