Saturday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 5.14.2005:

US Citizen wants to become Iran's President?

MPG:

Hooshang Amirahmadi is leaving the U.S. for Iran to register as a candidate in Islamic Republic's upcoming presidential elections, according to an academic source.

Amirahmadi is the president of the American Iranian Council, which has tried to improve relations between Islamic Republic and the U.S.

Mr. Amirahamadi who holds American passport in an interview with Farda Radio mentioned, there is no reason for Guardian council to reject his candidacy since he has never done anything against Islamic Republic. READ MORE

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

• The Economist reports that Iran's threat to restart its uranium enrichment is no longer a threat, it is now a promise.
• The Guardian UK believes that an imagined U.S. war against Iran is a greater threat to world security than a nuclear Iran.
• The Washington Institute reported Iran appears to be fomenting a crisis over its nuclear program as the campaign for the June 17 presidential elections gets underway.
  
• BBC News guesses about Iran's threat to restart the process of enriching uranium.
• The Jerusalem Post reports that as Iran appears to move closer to resuming nuclear activities, support has been quietly building in Congress for new US sanctions.
• The Financial Times reports that Iranian and European officials are trying to arrange a high-level ministerial meeting in the hope of defusing the crisis.
• The Economist says that if Iran is faced with credible economic threats at the same time as being offered the right sort of security assurances by the United States, the nuclear genie might yet be pushed back into the bottle.
• Reuters reports that Iran will have the technological know-how within six to nine months to build a nuclear bomb.
• The Gulf Times reports that Iran will shift its domestic economy to gas, and save oil for exports.
• And finally, the Pennisula reports that Iran has freed a leading political prisoner jailed for publishing a survey suggesting Iranians favoured resuming dialogue with their supposed arch-foe the United States.