Sunday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 11.6.2005:

Mullahs' Threat Not Sinking In

Alan Peters, FrontPageMagazine.com:

Indications of radical changes in the dynamics of the 3-month-old Iranian government, politically, philosophically and in their potential to do irreparable global damage without flinching or concern has begun sending shivers down some analysts' spines. However, this has yet to reach policy decision makers or the mass media. ...

The 27-year, overtly hostile but comparatively "reasoned" approach toward the Western world and foreigners by the previous generation of senior Iranian Mullahs, with their accumulated overseas personal financial interests – even overflowing bank accounts outside Iran, has clearly ended. This has yet to permeate onto the desks of leaders in the Western world. READ MORE

A important analysis of the leadership changes in Iran and its increasingly radical nature, although I disagree with his military solution. A must read.

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

• Iran Press News reported that another student publication has been banned.
• Iran Press News reported that the regime's military and disciplinary forces attacked and beat the residents of the town of Mahaabad.
• Iran Press News reported that the regime's previous IAEA rep, said: We're starting enriching uranium in the Natanz plant.
• Iran Press News reported on a major drop in foreign investment.
• Iran Press News reported that former President Khatami illegally handed out official state decoration & insignia. Arrests coming?
  
• Iran Focus reported that dozens of people protested in the Arab-dominated city of Ahwaz.
• Monster and Critics reported that Berlin has warned that missile- builders in Iran and Syria are obtaining sophisticated German equipment via Moscow.
• Iran Focus reported that the U.S. said that Iran had refused to answer queries on the suspected role of its hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
• Iranian blogger, ET, View for Iran said: No one in Iran wants sanctions, almost.
• Kathryn Jean Lopez, The National Review published an interview with Rich Miniter author of Disinformation : 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror.
• Iran Focus reported that Iran is seeking clarification why one of its international networks, Jam-e Jam, has stopped broadcasting into the United States.
• CNN.com reported that Kofi Annan has canceled his trip to Iran in response to increasing tension over the Iranian president's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
• Reuters reported that Royal Marines Major General James Dutton claimed that Iran is supplying the insurgents weapons used in Iraq.
• Arash Mahdavi, Rooz Online reported on the man behind the President of Iran: Mojataba Hashemi Samareh. A must read.
  
• And finally, Maryam Kashani, Rooz Online reported on the fearful response of Europeans at the Iranian president's sacking of the country’s senior ambassadors.