Sunday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 6.5.2005:
Update on our blogosphere campaign

Our blogosphere campaign is growing. More slowly than I would like, but we are picking up steam. This weekend we had a brief mention by MSNBC, Andrew Sullivan noticed us, and many bloggers have begun to spread the news.

We have not yet heard from some of the major bloggers that have supported us in the past. I assume this is due to a perceived lull in the news coverage in Iran prior to the June 17th elections. But if you are a reader of these blogs and notice they have yet to join, you might send them a note asking them to consider it.

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

• MEHR.org asks us not to legitimize Iran by allowing it to join the WTO. A petition.
• Clifford D. May asks, What If We Don't Win in Iraq?
• Free Inquiry magazine asks will Iran be the next secular revolution?
• The Financial Times reports that Japanese investors back Iran oil venture.
• Khaleej Times reports that for many Iranians the burning question is not who their next president will be, but rather if Iran can score a place in the 2006 World Cup.
• The American Thinker thinks it is absolutely ludicrous that we would expect results from nations that risk losing billions of Euros and Rubles in contracts to develop the very same nuclear capabilities that we are trying to forestall.
• Persian Journal reports that Interior Minister mullah Lari said that presence of the military in elections and use of public facilities for the purpose will be detrimental to healthy elections.
• Rigzone.com reports that oil majors are unconcerned by Iran's nuclear crisis.
• IranMania reports that Iranian film director of the hugely popular Iranian movie "The Lizard" which pokes fun at the Islamic republic's turbaned establishment, is now using his big-screen talents to help Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
• Xinhua reports that the Kuwaiti National Assembly Speaker criticized US Ambassador to Kuwait Richard LeBaron for uttering remarks against Iran.
• Agence France Presse reports that a senior Iranian official said they conditionally agreed to EU demands it maintain a suspension of sensitive nuclear activities until the end of July.
• The American Thinker's Stefania Lapenna thinks Europe is terrified by the idea of a liberated Iran.
• Committee to Protect Bloggers has an anonymous blogging WIKI.
• And finally, a photo of a recent demonstration in Azerbaijan. Worth seeing.