A Daily Briefing on Iran: Thursday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 9.15.2005:

Iran offers atomic know-how to Islamic states

Iran is ready to share its nuclear technology with other Islamic countries, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying on Thursday.

"The Islamic Republic never seeks weapons of mass destruction and with respect to the needs of Islamic countries, we are ready to transfer nuclear know-how to these countries," the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. READ MORE

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

Time Magazine reported Chinese President Hu Jintao's talks with President Bush this week have shown just how far apart the two countries remain on the goal of depriving "Axis of Evil" states of nuclear programs.
The Telegraph UK reported on the fear of nuclear weapons proliferation in the Middle East should alarm the west after Iran's president said they would provide Muslim nations with nuclear technology for free
ABC News published the U.S PowerPoint presentation being used as a Briefing on Iran Alleges Pattern of Concealment, Deception.
Iran Watch Canada translated recent Iranian news reports on Ganji and Zahra Kazemi's court file.
Amir Taheri, Morocco Times reported that at a recent Friday prayer session in a mosque in London the “imam” delivering the sermon said believers were to pray that "no harm comes to Iran's nuclear bomb."
The Financial Times reported that the presence at the United Nations of Iran's new hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, has galvanized the exiled opposition into action. Several thousand demonstrated his presence in NYC.
IranMania reported that the wife of jailed Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji complained that she had had no news of the dissident for three weeks.
The Dawn reported that Iranian forces opened indiscriminate fire on three Pakistanis who wanted to go to Dubai through Chabar, killing them.
The Guardian UK reported that Britain will lead a drive to have Iran referred to the UN Security Council.
The White House published President Bush's speech at the UN.
Itar-Tass reported that Ahmadinejad, at his meeting of Putin, said: Powerful Russia is Iran’s best friend and powerful Iran is one of the best friends of Russia.
The Guardian reported that in Iran an ancient poet, Hafez, already popular is gaining rock star status among those unhappy with the regime. Hafez was a scourge of the clerical establishment, which he saw a two-faced and hypocritical.
The Associated Press reported that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice indicated the Bush administration was prepared to delay again a showdown with Iran saying: the world is not perfect in international politics. You cannot always get a 100 percent solution.
The Washington Times reported that French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin threatened to refer Iran's nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council, saying: If a state fails in its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, it is legitimate, once dialogue has been exhausted, to refer it to the Security Council.
Deutsche Welle reported that the EU3 were seeking to arrange a meeting Thursday with the Iranian delegation.
The New York Times reported that there were no senior American diplomats were in the room when Ahmadinejad spoke but a U.S. official denied a walkout.