Saturday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 8.27.2005:

Drone crashes in Iran

Yahoo News:

An unmanned single-engined plane has crashed in a mountainous area of western Iran and the wreckage has been recovered by the Iranian armed forces.

It was not clear if the plane was Iranian or foreign, although the influential Kayhan newspaper pointed out that "usually these sort of planes are used for spying on other countries".

The reports quoted Ali Asgar Ahmadi, deputy head of security in the interior ministry, as saying the plane went down on Thursday in the Alashtar mountains near the city of Khorramabad, the capital of Lorestan province, 350 kilometres (220 miles) southwest of Tehran. READ MORE

Kuwait News Agency:

The Air force will knock enemies down if Iran is attacked, warned Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi.

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

• Haaretz reported the latest rockets fired from Lebanon are Iranian-made Fajr 3 models, marking the first time shells imported from Iran were used against Israel.
• The Scotsman reported that Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said his country would not support any military action against Iran.
• The Committee to Protect Bloggers has a petition calling on Iran to free Iranian blogger, Mojtaba Saminejad!
• Nooredin Abedian, Jewish Journal reported on Iran's New Export - Suicide Bombers.
• Dow Jones Newswires reported that Russia believes the format in which the EU3 has been negotiating with Iran "has proved its usefulness."
• Islamic Republic News Agency reported that an Iranian daily here Saturday questioned the role of Britain, Germany and France in Iran's nuclear issue saying: The negotiations ought to be between Iran and the IAEA governing board that represents all its member states.
• And finally, Sean Penn, The San Francisco Chronicle, a conversation with an Iranian student not afraid to mock the mullahs.