Monday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 5.9.2005:

A Third Option for Iran

FrontPageMag.com:

I have long been a reader of David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com. So I was surprised today their editors appear to have taken a wrong turn on Iran.

I was shocked to read the "third option" involved support for an organization that the U.S. State Department has designated a "terrorist" organization, the MEK. The article was blatantly slanted towards the MEK, in exclusion of all other options.
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The MEK is seeking U.S. backing as the leader of "the Iranian opposition" and this would be disastrous. I explain why. I hope the editors of TPM will reconsider.

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

• Dan Darling of Winds of Change.net has weighed in on FrontPageMag.com's article this weekend entitled: A Third Option for Iran, which support the MEK. We hope that the editors of FrontPageMag.com will rethink their position.
• The Scotsman is reporting Iran confirmed for the first time today it converted 37 tons of raw uranium into gas... before it suspended all such activities in November under international pressure. ... and added Iran has decided to resume some uranium reprocessing activities perhaps in the next two or three days.
• Al Bawaba reports that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said "The capitalists have forged dominance over the mass media and the press and there is no real democracy in the Western states."
• Iran Mania reports that an Iranian Presidential candidate, Mehdi Karroubi, was forced to cut short a speech when participants started to shout “It’s a lie“ when Karroubi repeated his pledge to pay those that vote in the coming election.
• Khaleej Times Online reports from Tehran's book fair and interviews the Hamas and Hezbollah reps.
• Dow Jones Newswires reports that Iranian hard-liners called for an end to nuclear negotiations with European powers.
• RIA Novosti reports that Iran is distancing itself from the scandal surrounding Russia's ex-nuclear energy minister.
• And finally, The Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal published a report on the current review of the NPT being held in NY City and concludes its current direction is "nuclear nonsense."