Sunday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 8.21.2005:

Iranian secularist forces prepare Ahmadi-Nejad's 'welcoming' to US

SMCCDI (Information Service):

Iranian secularist opposition groups are preparing a kind of 'welcoming' ceremony for the Islamic republic's appointed president on US soil. Ahamdi-Nejad is to speak on September 14th at the UN General Assembly in New York.

Groups are preparing to stage a peaceful protest rally, at the UN, on the days of September 14th and 15th. They intend to denounce, in a common voice, the presence of the Islamist president as the 'symbol of Iranian Nation' and the persistent human rights' abuses by his illegitimate and unpopular regime. READ MORE

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

• Rooz Online reported that after UN Secretary General Kofi Annan sent a letter to Iranian leaders over the case of Akbar Ganji, the prisoner has ended his hunger strike and that his file will be closed soon.
• Khaleej Times reported that German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer voiced alarm at the risk of military conflict over Iran's nuclear research and called on Teheran to be reasonable.
• Iranian blogger, Kamal Tehrani, Rooz Online reported that one month after the presidential elections, statistics have been released that not only confirm the widespread irregularities in the voting, but even corroborate the suspicions that the outcome of the elections would have been different if the rigging were prevented.
• San Francisco Chronicle reported the United States says it faces another enemy in Iraq: Iran.
• The Guardian UK reported that Iran's hard-line president scolded Europeans, accusing them of being willing to sell their goods to Iranians while at the same time trying to strangle Tehran's nuclear program.
• The New York Times reported that Iran's new conservative president faced his first challenge today in Parliament when skeptical lawmakers put him on the defensive about his recommendations for 21 cabinet ministers.
• SMCCDI reported the death of the Governor of the northwestern City of Bookan in what has been declared as a 'car accident'.
• SMCCDI reported that the Islamic regime is planning to submerge part of Iran's historic sites in order to avoid facing more nationalistic problems with future generations.
• SMCCDI reported the Islamic regime is tightening its control over its military forces.
• And finally, Rooz Online published another cartoon: From Stone Age to Reactionary Age.