Eye On Iran: Gates to Discuss Iran With Emirates Leaders

For continuing coverage follow us on Twitter and join our Facebook group. Top Stories NYT: "Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here Thursday to consult with the United Arab Emirates about military defenses and the growing unease in the Persian Gulf over possible missile attacks by Iran." http://nyti.ms/bsRRV2 Radio Farda: "A third of the world's jailed journalists are imprisoned in Iran, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which says the number of reporters held in the Islamic republic rose to at least 52 in February." http://bit.ly/arvILg NYT: "The Iranian president visited Kabul on Wednesday and shot back at American allegations that Iran was providing support to Afghan insurgents, accusing the United States of playing its own 'double game.'" http://nyti.ms/dhxgZM UANI in the News NYT: "Ingersoll-Rand P.L.C., a multinational company that makes air compressors and cooling systems, said Monday that it would no longer allow its foreign subsidiaries to sell parts or products to Iran. The company announced its decision in a letter to United Against Nuclear Iran, a group based in New York that lobbies against companies that do business with Iran. The group was also instrumental in trying to get Shell to withdraw." http://nyti.ms/cxcC5j WSJ: "Ingersoll disclosed its new policy on sales to Iran in a letter to the lobbying group United Against Nuclear Iran. The group has also targeted Shell and other U.S. and European companies with business in Iran. It has written to Shell calling on it to disclose the full extent of its business in Iran and complained about the company to the Securities and Exchange Commission. UANI said that it applauded Shell's decision to stop gasoline sales to Iran but that Shell should sever all business ties with the Islamic Republic. 'This is an encouraging first step but they must do more,' said the group's head, Mark Wallace, who was an ambassador-level diplomat to the United Nations during the Bush administration. He said Shell's ties to Iran's hydrocarbon industry remained 'problematic' and made the company 'toxic for investors.'" http://bit.ly/bOcpiP Nuclear Program NYT: "Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told the royal family of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday that the United States wanted to help build up the kingdom's military defenses against the growing threat of Iran, but also needed its help in pressing for new United Nations sanctions on Tehran." http://nyti.ms/dCwmlR AFP: "Brazil and Germany differed sharply Wednesday on whether to threaten Iran with fresh United Nations sanctions in a bid to rein in its disputed nuclear program." http://bit.ly/cWTwfe Human Rights Radio Farda: "A group of Iranian women protested against what they described as gender and ethnic discrimination in the Islamic Republic by dancing in front of Tehran's embassy in Ottawa on International Women's Day. Iranian women have been banned from dancing in public since the 1979 revolution because dancing is considered un-Islamic." http://bit.ly/bPdedu AFP: "Iran has hanged two convicted drug traffickers in the Shiite shrine city of Qom, Iranian media reported on Thursday." http://bit.ly/9XKoQV AP: "An Iranian appeals court sentenced a university professor to six years in prison for suspected involvement in the country's postelection turmoil, local media reported Thursday." http://bit.ly/aS2pXe Domestic Politics LAT: "There's a new move afoot to get Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani back to the pulpit during Tehran's Friday prayers. According to a report Wednesday in the reformist daily newspaper Bahar (in Persian), the dean of Tehran's elite Imam Sadegh University (where many of the leaders of Iran's intelligence and security apparatus get trained) got the ball rolling in a speech last week." http://bit.ly/dn4OYp Bloomberg: "Iran, holder of the world's second- biggest oil and gas reserves, will add to its oil stabilization fund if crude prices remain over $65 in the coming 12 months, the deputy central bank governor said." http://bit.ly/94iTnj Foreign Affairs Reuters: "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Gulf countries on Thursday against the U.S. presence in the region, saying Washington aimed to dominate their energy resources in the name of fighting terrorism." http://nyti.ms/9Q6522 Opinion Mel Frykberg in the Asia Times: "Iran and Israel appear to be spoiling for a fight, going by recent belligerent statements emanating from several regional capitals. Military movement on the ground is also lending credence to the idea that the mutual loathing and major ideological differences between the two countries could lead to vortex of violence capable of sucking the entire region into a new war." http://bit.ly/ac3fMq Avigdor Haselkorn in Haaretz: "The central mystery in the Middle East nowadays has little to do with the hit on a Hamas agent in Dubai but with Iran's actions. On February 14, in the presence of IAEA inspectors, Iran moved nearly all its stockpile of low-enriched nuclear fuel to an above-ground plant that Tehran declared will be used to re-enrich the fuel to 20 percent purity. As a result roughly 4,300 pounds of low-enriched uranium now sits vulnerable to destruction from an air attack or even a fire." http://bit.ly/cLWXvy Lynn Westmoreland in The Hill: "In the years since, the international community has done almost nothing to stop Iran's march towards obtaining nuclear weapons. The failure to deal with Iran demonstrates the impotence of the international institutions established after World War II to ensure a collective response to tyranny." http://bit.ly/aUonPt Eye on Iran is a periodic news summary from United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) a program of the American Coalition Against Nuclear Iran, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Eye on Iran is not intended as a comprehensive media clips summary but rather a selection of media elements with discreet analysis in a PDA friendly format. For more information please email Press@UnitedAgainstNuclearIran.com United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a non-partisan, broad-based coalition that is united in a commitment to prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons. 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