Saturday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 7.23.2005: SPECIAL REPORT

The Washington Post ignores Al Qaeda Leaders Iran connection

Craig Whitlock, Washington Post: Experts Say Radicals In London, Egypt May Have Followed Orders

The back-to-back nature of the deadly attacks in Egypt and London, as well as similarities in the methods used, suggests that the al Qaeda leadership may have given the orders for both operations and is a clear sign that Osama bin Laden and his deputies remain in control of the network, according to interviews with counterterrorism analysts and government officials in Europe and the Middle East. READ MORE

The Washington Post fails to mention the role Iran is playing as the base of operations for al Qaeda's leadership. Read my report here.

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

• Reuters reported that Iran told the European foreign ministers in London last week, telling them not to try to solve a nuclear dispute by asking Tehran to surrender atomic technology.
• Reuters reported that an unprecedented report from Iran's conservative judiciary acknowledged that human rights violations were widespread in prisons.
• The Washington Post reported that gunmen opened fire at the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad.
• Kurdish Media reported that demonstrations in Mahabad have resulted in the spread of the demonstrations to other cities in Iranian Kurdistan.
• The Globe and Mail reported that the Iranian capital, Tehran, has a street named after Bobby Sands, the Irish Republican Army militant who starved himself to death in a British prison in 1981. When hunger strikes are turned against Tehran, though, it seems the regime feels rather differently.
• And finally, Khaleej Times Online reported that Germany accused Teheran of impertinence on Wednesday for presuming to lecture it on democracy.