Sunday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 7.17.2005:

Iran police chief authorizes use of bullets

Iran Focus:

Iran’s new police chief today called on the forces under his command to deal “decisively with criminals” and use live bullets if necessary.

“When a policeman is sent on a mission, his mind must be focused entirely on getting the job done”, Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam said in the first flag-raising ceremony he attended after moving to his new command last week. “Using bullets is not the first way of dealing with criminals, but sometimes it is inevitable. If it becomes necessary, policemen must act in this way”. READ MORE

There is a point where excessive use of force will cause others in power to turn from the regime. This will only hasten the end of the regime.

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

• Islamic Republic News Agency reported that the EU3 will present its comprehensive package to Iran in August. But the next round of EU-Iran human rights dialogue is foreseen for September.
• Tehran Times reported that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in Tehran said terrorism does not emanate from any particular religion or ideology and we all must agree how to define it and adopt a comprehensive convention outlawing it. Still no comment on Ganji.
• Iran Focus reported that a senior paramilitary police commander was killed last night in the course of clashes between anti-government demonstrators and security forces in Iran’s Kurdish town of Mahabad.
• Iran Focus reported that Iran’s security forces have arrested dozens of Kurds in the town of Bukan, northwest Iran, in clashes that have been going on for three days.
• Iran Focus reported that an Iranian man arrested for taking part in an anti-government demonstration in Tehran on Tuesday died as he was trying to escape.
• Saul Singer, The Jerusalem Post lamented that Bush has yet to publicly meet with a single Iranian dissident or declare that regime change in Tehran is a goal of the US government.
• IranMania reported that Iran's hard-line poll watchdog insisted that the outcome of last month's presidential election was final saying, There is no reason for a recount.
• Reuters reported that Iran on Sunday accused U.S. and Israeli agents of tricking Iranian nuclear scientists abroad into giving away crucial information.
• Iranian blogger, Shahram Kholdi, S'CAN-IRANIC produced a Wanted poster for Saeed Mortazavi, the infamous Tehran Prosecutor.
• Michael Ignatieff, The New York Times said, The political task ahead for the liberal thinkers of Iran is to find a program that links human rights and democracy to the poor's economic grievances. I responded.
• Victor Davis Hanson, National Review said, Ever since September 11, there has been an alternative narrative about this war embraced by the Left. In this mythology, the attack on September 11 had in some vague way something to do with American culpability.
• Iranian blogger, Farah Karimi, Roozonline reported that a seminar in Berlin on the situation in Iran after the recent presidential elections in which some progressive thinkers proposed that regardless of who governs Iran, nuclear weapons are necessary for Iran’s national security.
• And finally, an Iranian blogger, Farideh Nicknazar, Iran Scan writing about Ganji, asked Why can‘t the student have sit-ins in front of Evin every day? Where are the thousands of students in Tehran? A friend responded.