Wednesday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 12.28.2005:

Iran’s Ahmadinejad wants committee to investigate Holocaust

Iran Focus: a pro-MEK website

Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who recently called for the destruction of Israel and termed the Holocaust a “myth” has asked for a committee to be set up to prove that the massacre of some six million Jews in Nazi Germany never took place. READ MORE

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

• Iran Focus reported that Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel said the Islamic Republic wanted Islamic nations to unite.
• DW-World.de published an interview with German arms expert Oliver Meier about the chances of a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff.
• Reuters reported that Moscow's tensions with the West over Iran's nuclear program and its patchy record on democracy will test Russia's year at the helm of the G8.
• MEMRI reported that Iraqi reformist Dr. Abd Al-Khaleq Hussein criticized the Iranian and Syrian regimes and their actions in Iraq and Lebanon. He wrote that these regimes were fascist.
• The Jerusalem Post reported that Mossad Chief Meir Dagan said: "Iran is one to two years away, at the latest, from having enriched uranium."
• China Daily reported that a Frenchman was in good health after being picked up along with a German man in the Straits of Hormuz.
• The Peninsula reported that the managers of a reformist-funded satellite television channel are to take legal action against Iranian authorities for allegedly banning their activities and broadcast funded by Mehdi Karoubi, a reformist cleric.
• Arab Monitor reported that Turkeys Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul dismissed reports about an alleged US offer to permit Turkey to take out PKK bases in Iran in exchange for Turkeys support of US military strikes against Iran.
• Rooz Online reported on the Iranian government's battle over Azad University.
• Radio Free Europe published an excerpt from "Tehran Blues," a new book by Kaveh Basmenji. An interesting read.
• Shahram Rafiizadeh, Rooz Online reported that this past week's union strike of Bus drivers in Tehran is the most serious confrontation between workers and government officials during the last two decades.
• Radio Free Europe reported that Tehran's prayer leader recently said: "we consider ourselves pioneers of human rights."
• Rooz Online reported that in a public letter, Ms Shafiee, the wife of imprisoned journalist and writer Akbar Ganji has called the recent statements of Mahmud Salarkia, the deputy prosecutor of Tehran to be laughable.
• Bill Gertz, The Washington Times reported that several Chinese companies involved in selling missile goods and chemical-arms materials to Iran have been hit with U.S. sanctions.
• And finally, The Intelligence Summit published: The Extraction Of The Stone Of Iranian Madness. (I wish dealing with Ahmadinejad were this easy)