Wednesday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 3.01.2006:

Iran's "Order of Battle" to close the Strait of Hormuz, Revealed?

• Ken Timmerman, NewsMax published details of a 30-page contingency plan, reportedly from the Strategic Studies Center of the Iranian Navy which outlines the order of battle for shutting down the Strait of Hormuz.

Striking bus workers just released from prison, protest again.

• Iran Focus reported that close to a hundred bus drivers and conductors, who have been released recently from Evin Prison, gathered on Monday outside the Tehran Bus Company headquarters to protest against the government’s handling of their case.

Iranian Dissidents.

• Iran Press News reported that the Iranian regime's agents in Iranian Kurdistan are threatening to slaughter political activists.
• Iran Press News reported that Iranian political prisoners condemned the Nobel Prize winning Shirin Ebadi for not standing with them in their struggle.
• Iran Press News reported that imprisoned journalist; Mostafa Jowkar was released from prison.

Demonstrators in Iran threatened Christian Armenians.

• Iran Press News reported on an unprecedented violent demonstration in front of a local Armenian church, chanting anti-Armenian and anti-Christian slogans in the city of Tabriz.

Nuclear Update.

• CNN News reported that Iran's foreign minister Mottaki said his country's "final target" is to enrich uranium on its own soil, adding: "We are talking about moving together from where we are now and there is no going back."
• Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting reported that Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Ali Larijani will travel to Moscow on Wednesday.
• The Jerusalem Post argued that even if Iran agrees to the Russian proposal: Does any nation seriously believe that Iran has given up its quest for nuclear weapons?

Hamas: Iran will fund us.

• Reuters reported that a senior Hamas official said: Iran has agreed to provide a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority with enough money to make up for any cuts in foreign aid.

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

• Scott Macleod, Time Magazine published part two of his interview with Ali Larijani, head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.
• Peter Kohanloo, Iran va Jahan argued that President Bush to make regime change in Iran the official policy of the US government.
• And finally, Iran Press News published a humorous photo of an Iranian Missile Seen Over Germany.