Monday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 12.26.2005:

Iran Denies Receiving Russian Nuke Offer

The Jerusalem Post:

Iran denied on Sunday that it had received from Russia a proposal for moving its uranium enrichment facilities to Russian territory, a compromise Europe is seeking to resolve controversy over Iran's nuclear program.

Russia announced a day earlier that it had formally put the proposal to Teheran. Iran has so far insisted it would not agree to moving enrichment abroad, and it was not clear if Teheran's denial was an attempt to gain time without directly rejecting a proposal from Moscow, a longtime ally.

"We have not received any particular plan yet," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters. " READ MORE

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

• Efraim Inbar, The Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies published a report: The Imperative to Use Force Against Iranian Nuclearization.
• Methan Demir, The Jerusalem Post reported that a Turkish court declared on that terrorism is the instrument of Iran's foreign policy and that Teheran will not hesitate to use terrorism against its rivals in order to achieve its goals.
• Dafna Linzer, Washington Post reported that the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC has begun to sharply criticize the White House over its handling of Iran's nuclear program.
• Azizullah Khan, Daily Times reported on the most recent reports on the Pakistan/Balouch military conflict. It appears that Iranian intelligence in also involved.
• The American Thinker reported that there’s no clue yet as to who induced the Dems to put the kibbosh on the portions of the Senate resolution supporting democracy in Iran.
• Morteza Mohseni, Rooz Online reported that the Saudi government has complained about the disregard for protocol by president Ahmadinejad of Iran during his recent trip to the Kingdom.
• Rooz Online reported that the Iran-EU talks ended before they even began.
• Sara Esfahani, Rooz Online reported that the cabinet of president Ahmadinejad has embarked on a policy of fundamentally altering the national organization that selects applicants to national universities as an effort to control student life and access to higher education.
• Rooz Online reported on the conflicting reports given by the regime on the assassination attempt on Iran's Presidents life.
• Rooz Online reported that Iranian satirist, Ebrahim Nabavi received the Prince Claus Award for Culture and Development in the Netherlands. Nabavi 58 is an accomplished writer with 31 published books, including his Prison Memoirs.
• Breaking News.ie reported that some of Tehran’s bus drivers stopped work today in protest, despite the arrest of their associates just days ago for a similar protest. Traffic in Tehran reportedly ground to a halt.
• And finally, The Iranian Labour News Agency published photos of the Tehran bus drivers on strike.