Friday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 12.23.2005:

Americans demand the US Senate schedule hearings on Iran.

DoctorZin:

So after receiving yesterday'’s report on the situation, several Iranian satellite broadcasters (NITV and SOS Iran) asked their listeners, which include millions of Iranians, to call Chairman Lugar'’s office and their own Senator'’s office demanding hearings on the Iran Freedom and Support Act.

Blog Update:

The Corner warned that Senate democrats were playing politics with the future of the people of Iran.

Dean'’s World called "“deplorable"” the US Senate's "“betraying democratic values."

Ed Driscoll appeared shocked, saying: Regime Change Iran? I'm In Favor.

Atlas Shrugs asked her readers to call Lugar'’s office demanding hearings.

The blogosphere can join the effort to support real democracy in Iran here.

This report has been posted at Pajamas Media.

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

• Nancy A. Youssef, Knight Ridder Newspapers reported that many Iraqi Sunni Muslims are now diverting their anger from Israel to Iran.
• Robert Zarate, The National Review reported that the West must get on with that next step of slowing down the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
• SMCCDI reported that dozens of Iranian women closed the highway by setting up barricades and setting car tyres' ablaze in protest to the bad conditions there.
• Iran.org reported that Iran's the nuclear "negotiations" with the European Union are now being guided in Tehran by Revolutionary Guards Corps political director Yadollah Javani, a Rev. Guards general.
• Amnesty International wrote the head of Iran’s Judiciary to express concern at continuing abuses committed against the country’s Baha’i community and they were greatly saddened by the death in custody of a Baha’i prisoner of conscience who had been detained for 10 years solely on account of his faith.
• Expatica reported that Berlin on Thursday has called on the Iranian government to release a German citizen arrested for fishing illegally in Iran's territorial waters.
• The New York Times reported that representatives of three European countries and Iran met Wednesday for five hours of closed-door meetings in Vienna; the delegates said the two sides had agreed to hold further talks in January.
• The Associated Press reported that despite Ahmadinejads recent western music ban, music still plays in Iran. But not on TV or radio.
• Farshad Ghorbanpour Sheikhani, Rooz Online reported that despite the numerous government hurdles, a recent Tehran seminar took place at Tehran University where academicians debated the role of the University.
• Omid Memarian, Rooz Online reported Iran’s new ultra-conservative Minister of Culture declared that to get a licence to start a publication would require the applicants to show that their publication is different from existing ones and is thus unique.
• Meysam Tavvab, Rooz Online reported that IRGC personnel and commanders continue their take over of the government, now focusing on the law enforcement agencies.
• DNA India reported that at eight o’ clock each evening, Iran grinds to a halt and tunes into a ground-breaking television comedy about a little village of Barareh, with its corrupt councillors, rigged elections and vocal women’s rights groups, a microcosm of Iran today.
• Seyed Ibrahim Nabavi, Rooz Online developed a creative idea: How About Transferring Israel to Iran? A satire.
• And finally, Cox & Forkum published another cartoon: Ahmadinejad's Final Solution.