Sunday, September 25, 2005

Sunday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 9.25.2005:

Canada: Iran Violates Human Rights

Rooz Online:
While the pro hardline government media in Iran called the meeting between the Iranian and Canadian foreign ministers successful, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, said, after meeting with his Iranian counterpart that his country had prepared a new resolution to condemn human rights violations in Iran and would propose it to the United Nations General Assembly. READ MORE
This is great news!

Here are a few other news items you may have missed.
  • Iran Press News reported that Al Arabiya Television in a report announced: Ahmadinejad has demanded that the authorities of the previous team of nuclear negotiators of the regime, headed by Mullah Hasan Rowhani be prosecuted.
  • Iran Press News reported that activist & political prisoner, Arjang Davoodi is to be exiled to Bandar-Abbass prison,
  • Iran Press News reported a leading Iranian newspaper saying: Referral of the regime's dossier to the U.N. Security Council will take place with a delay and that way, our 'trigger mechanism' will become operational.
  • Iran Press News reported that more than 1600 workers and retirees from the city of Qazveen's thread company gathered in front of the gates of the factory to protest non-receipt of their wages.
  • Iran Press News reported that the regime's representative at the Islamic Parliamentary Assembly said: The British are in the process of putting other operations in action to weaken the Islamic Republic of Iran however what they don't seem to comprehend is that they cannot do a damn thing.
  • Iran Press News reported that the Austrian Newspaper, DER STANDARD, thinks a showdown between the European Union and Tehran's regime is inevitable.
  • Amir Taheri, The NY Post thinks that Ilan Berman new book was so well written that it is as if Berman already knew what was going on in the minds of the new ruling elite in Tehran..
  • News Max reported that the Bush administration said the United Nations Security Council must review Iran's nuclear record.
  • The Sunday Herald reported that Iran’s quest to become a nuclear power may involve the Balkan mafias, after security sources discovered potentially lethal nuclear enrichment material in the region.
  • Al Mendhar reportef that more than 4000 of the Iranian National Guard, Al Quds Corps and the Intelligence Ministry are in Iraq.
  • Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post argued that North Korea and Iran are getting aid from unexpected allies in the international negotiations over their illicit nuclear weapons programs. Meet the new superpowers of diplomacy: Katrina and Rita.
  • Iranian blogger, Mehdrad Sheibani, Rooz Online reported that Iranian parliament member from Tabriz cleric Mohammad Reza Mir-Tajeddini said That Britain is leading this effort, makes it even more suspect in our eyes, because it follows the US, while both have been the long-time enemies of the Iranian people.”
  • Iranian blogger, Arash Motamed, Rooz Online reported that Iran was hoping that Russia, China or India who has appeared sympathetic to Iran’s position and reasoning, would stop the resolution from passage.
  • Iranian blogger, Masoud Behnoud, Rooz Online reported that The Iranian nuclear issue is getting more complex and that Iranian rulers cannot live without creating a crisis.
  • Shirin Ebadi, Rooz Online argues that Iranian women deserve better laws!
  • Yahoo News reported that Canada's Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew launched a new warning to the Iranian government not to try to produce enriched uranium.
  • IAEA released the text of the resolution of the IAEA Board of Governors on Iran.
  • VOA News reported that Iran is calling an international resolution on its nuclear program politically motivated and illegal.
  • The Times of India reported the overt and transparent shift in alignment in support of the U.S. regarding Iran's nuclear program.
  • The New York Times reported that a Western diplomat said: The fact that Peru, Singapore, Ghana, India and Ecuador voted to support this resolution undercuts Iran's argument that this is purely Western political pressure.
  • Louis Charbonneau, Reuters reported background information on the UN Nuclear Watchdog meeting on Iran.
  • Islamic Republic News Agency reported that Iran's Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Davoud Danesh-Jaafari and his Chinese counterpart in a meeting on Sunday examined ways of bolstering economic collaboration.
  • And finally, Iranian Student News Agency published photos of American Muslim Woman in Tehran.