Thursday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 5.19.2005:

Iran Won't Give Up Nuke Program

Ali Akbar Dareini, The Associated Press:

Iran will endure U.N. economic sanctions rather than give up nuclear fuel development, the vice president said Wednesday ahead of a new round of meetings with European countries trying to rein in its nuclear program.

"We don't want to be subject to sanctions. We don't want to go to the U.N. Security Council," Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh told state-run television. "But if it happens, our leaders and our people will resist as necessary. They will pay the price of sanctions, but I don't believe they will give up these activities." READ MORE

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

• LittleGreenFootballs published MemriTV's: Iranian Television Blood Libel.
• Iran va Jahan says "Mullah Rafsanjani is the living personification of Hutzpah!"
• The New York Times report that Rafsanjani said he wanted to repair relations with the United States. But the U.S. has to do the repairing.
• The Washington Institute for Near East Policy reports on "Nuclear Dangers in the Middle East: Threats and Responses."
• The Jerusalem Post reports that Israeli FM urges Germany to move Iranian issue to the UN.
• Washington Times reports on Hooshang Amirahmadi. Hooshang is a U.S. citizen, president of the American Iranian Council, and now a Iranian presidential candidate. Iranian opposition groups claim "the AIC has been accommodating the Iranian theocracy."
• Islamic Republic News Agency reports Kharrazi said, "Iran ready to share experience on democracy with Iraq."
• Newsweek reports that the MEK hurts its dissident members.
• Iranian Student News Agency published photos of an Iranian student protest.
• Anjomane Padeshahi launched Operation Thunder One in Brussels, a protest operation designed to shame the European governments support for Iran. I have included an update with photos.
• And finally, Cox and Forkum just released another cartoon: Bibliocide.