Saturday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 10.15.2005:

Bolton Says Iran Lying About Nuclear Weapons

ABC News:

US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton has accused Iran of spending 18 years trying to develop nuclear weapons, while lying to the world about its intentions. Tehran insists that its nuclear programs are designed to generate energy purely for civil purposes. Mr Bolton says diplomatic pressure is needed to stop Iran from achieving its alleged nuclear ambitions.

"The real issue is whether the international community is going to accept an Iran that violates its treaty commitments under the non-proliferation treaty," he said. READ MORE

Is Condi finally letting Bolton loose on Iran?

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

• Iran Focus reported that ten Iranian agents have been arrested in Iraq. The agents were arrested along with 88 other insurgents.
• Reuters reported that in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, two bombs set off minutes apart killed four people and wounded dozens of others.
• SMCCDI reported that students of Najaf-Abad University protested, today, against the increase of Gender Apartheid policy.
• The Economist reported that since Ahmadinejad took office in August, parliament, influential unelected bodies and even members of his own cabinet have set out to blunt his egalitarian instincts and revolutionary zeal.
• TheStar reported that an Iranian woman has been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
• Gulf Times, Reuters reported that Iran’s new police chief has vowed to crack down on illicit alcohol, music CDs and parties where people of the opposite sex mingle, months after promising a policy which would respect people’s privacy.
• And finally, Reuters reported that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice courted Russian support saying: We and Russia have found common cause in our attempts to help the Europeans and other countries to get the Iranians to first of all remove the many questions ... about their programs.