Tuesday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 6.7.2005:

The Iranian Government is setting up voting booths in the US

The Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran has launched a U.S. based website (in Persian) to encourage Iranians to vote, June 17th, here in the U.S.. ...

A few days ago, before being shutdown, SMCCDI posted the following:

Officials of the Islamic Republic in New York, at the United Nations and in Washington DC (at Iran's Interest Section in the embassy of Pakistan) are prohibited to travel beyond a certain limited area (in New York no more than 12 miles and in Washington not past 25 miles of their offices).

According to the Islamic Republic's laws any ballot box has to be monitored by an IRI official representative. Therefore it is both against the United States regulations and the Islamic Republic of Iran's laws for any such voting stations to be set up throughout the United States. READ MORE

Four years ago, Iranian opposition groups located the voting centers in Los Angeles and with the help of the LAPD, shut them down.

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

• Free Ganji has published both an English language version of Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji's now famous Republican Manifesto II.
• Times Online reported that Iran's Tomb of the Unknown Assassin reveals a mission to kill Rushdie.
• BBC Monitoring Service reported an Iranian paper criticizes candidates of 'Limited Ability' Who Make 'Big Promises.'
• World Magazine reported Iran's reigning mullahs and the reformists who would mend the regime's theocratic ways finally have something in common: Iranians don't like either of them.
• The New York Times reported that Iran's rich mullahs want to dress Chic.
• The Age reported that an Iranian weblogger arrested in a crackdown against online dissent has been sentenced to two years behind bars for "insulting the supreme leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
• Roozonline reported that every 47 seconds one is jailed and another is freed in Iran. There are 130,000 left in prison.
• Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu writing for FrontPageMagazine.com discusses the Iran-North Korea connection.
• CNews reported that al-Qaida operatives in Iran have been handed over to their countries of origin.
• News24.com reported that three-quarters of the Iranian population want to see dialogue with the United States resume.
• The Courier Mail News reported that Iran is once again jamming TV channels.
• SMCCDI reported that their webhosting company is not going to put their site back up. We need to move it immediately.
• Radio Free Europe reported that Akbar Ganji remains defiant after having spent five years in prison -- including several months in solitary confinement. Ganji held a press conference at his home saying, Even if I have to spend the rest of my life in prison, I will not change my views.
• And finally, Reuters published a photo of Anti Rafsanjani grafitti.