Thursday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 9.8.2005:

Regime reveals anxiety in the face of U.N. Security Council referral

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzzi

One of the regime's newspapers, belonging to Mullah Khamnei, attacked Mohammad El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, accusing him of purposefully targeting the Islamic regime. The newspapers protested that El Baradei's report could be the basis for the decision to refer the regime's dossier to the United Nations' Security Council.

Ali Zaadsar, one of the members of the Islamic Parliament expressing anxiety regarding this matter, said: "El Baradei's report to the General Assembly will set the stage for our condemnation. Our trust in El Baradei and the European troika was naive as El Baradei and the Europeans cannot truncate from the United States in order to take the side of the Islamic regime."

Zaadsar continued: "It appears that China and Russia will also abandon the regime in the face of our nuclear dossier's referral to the security council."

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

• Iran Press News reported on a statement issued by the Kurdish Democratic Front of Iran regarding the execution sentence of 3 other activists.
• Eli Lake, The NY Sun reported on U.S. rejection of Cuban Aid and 20 Million Barrels of Iranian Oil.
• Iranian blogger, Windsteed, Iran Hopes mentioned that a UN special rapporteur on human rights will soon be visiting Tehran for a meeting with Ganji and other political prisoners.
• SMCCDI reported that tens have been arrested and hundreds more investigated in Iranian cities in the frame of a new systematic crackdown.
• Bernard Gwertzman, The Council on Foreign Relations an interview with Ray Takeyh, the Council’s top expert on Iran.
• Sify.com reported that members of the United States Committee on International relations criticized India's stand on the Iranian nuclear issue.
• Nasser Rashidi, The Global Politician reminded us that the State Department says Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a terrorist, but will grant him a visa anyway.
• Media Line reported that Germany wants Iran to be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
• SMCCDI has obtained a permit for protest by the UN for the September 14th protests of Ahmadinejad in NYC. They need our support.
• Reporters Without Borders demanded the immediate release of four journalists who were arrested in the Kurdish part of Iran.
• MosNews reported a Russian oil company was forced to suspend its work in Iran due to the unstable political situation in the country.
• Iranian blogger, Farid Pouya, Webgardian provided the link to the Transatlantic Trends poll on European attitudes.
• SMCCDI released a public letter to John Bolton, the US Ambassador at the UN.
• And finally, Cox & Forkum published a cartoon: Confronting Terrorism IV.