Saturday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 8.13.2005:

Unrest in Iran's Kurdish Region Has Left 17 Dead; Hundreds Wounded

The NY Times:

Unrest has rocked Iran's northwestern region of Kurdistan in recent weeks leading to the deaths of more than a dozen civilians and several members of the country's security forces. READ MORE

Finally, the NY Times notices the Kurdish unrest.

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

• IranMania.com reported that the wife of leading Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji pleaded to be allowed to see him on his hunger strike for a 64th day.
• Xinhuanet reported that four more inspectors from the IAEA arrived in Iran to monitor Iran's nuclear activities.
• Rancher, RedState.org said in light of Bush's promise to stand with the Iranian people, Don't the Kurds in Iran count as Iranian people?
• MosNews reported Moscow supported the decision of the IAEA, urging Iran to resume its moratorium on nuclear fuel production.
• Iran Focus reported that more than a dozen protestors arrested in Ahwaz, southern Iran, during a demonstration in July were sentenced to serve prison time and will be flogged in public.
• World Peace Herald reported on the U.S. Helsinki Commission, which just held a hearing titled, "The Iran Crisis: A Transatlantic Response."
• The Associated Press reported that the Iranians are pushing ahead on the construction of a heavy-water reactor.
• CNN claimed a CIA report has determined with "relative certainty" that Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was not involved in the taking of U.S. hostages.
• Victor Davis Hanson reminds us that we need to listen to the words of radical Islamists. He quotes them directly and lets them speak for themselves.
• Iranian blog, Rooz Online remembers that Ayatollah Khomeini once told of a fable that they see parallels to Iran's current regime.
• Iranian blogger, Omid Memarian, Rooz Online discusses the new administration's war on the NGO's.
• Iranian blog Rooz Online reports that many political leaders are refusing to join the Ahmadinejad administration, including Rafsanjani's sons.
• Iranian blog Rooz Online reported that Iranian lawyers are threatening a protest.
• BBC News reported that German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has warned the US to back away from the possibility of military action against Iran.
• And finally, another The Arizona Republic cartoon on Iran's nuclear crisis.