Tuesday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 2.28.2006:

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• Vital Perspective published the full text of the embargoed IAEA Report on Iran's Nuclear Program.

Iran fails to divide the west.

• The Financial Times reported that France, Germany and Britain dismissed Tehran’s announcement that it had reached a “basic agreement” with Russia. German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said “The Iranian position is an attempt to split the international community. It will not succeed.”
• Itar-Tass reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Russian proposal "is not isolated, being a component of the possible package, with which all the members of the IAEA board of governors will have to agree."

Iran warns journalists ahead of the March 6th IAEA meeting.

• Rooz Online reported that with the upcoming March 6 meeting of the IAEA coming soon, journalists are being summoned to the Ministry of Islamic Guidance and threatened on what they write.

Akbar Ganji "free in just 20 days?"

• Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that Iranian dissident and opposition leader Akbar Ganji is scheduled to be released from Evin Prison in about 20 days.

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

• Scott Macleod, Time Magazine published part one of an interview with Ali Larijani, Iran's foreign policy chief and top nuclear negotiator.
• The National Press Club will host a lecture, March 1st, with Reza Pahlavi, who will discuss "The Current Situation in Iran."
• The Los Angeles Times argued that Iran's case is significantly different than the case made against Iraq saying the IAEA has credibility internationally as an impartial analyst.
• Iran Focus published a list of 20 terrorist camps and centres run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
• BBC News reported that two bombs have exploded in the southern Iranian cities of Dezful and Abadan, planted in the governor's offices.
• BBC News reported that Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has arrived in Tokyo for talks about Iran's nuclear program.
• And finally, Michael Rubin, The Wall Street Journal provided evidence that Iran's Iraq strategy is a repeat of its successful Hezbollah strategy in Lebanon.