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Times: "Taliban commanders have revealed that hundreds of
insurgents have been trained in Iran to kill NATO forces in Afghanistan. The accounts of two commanders, in interviews
with The Sunday Times, are the first descriptions of training of the Taliban in
Iran. According to the commanders,
Iranian officials paid them to attend three-month courses during the winter." http://bit.ly/a8pw0L
AP: "President Barack Obama's attempts to reach out to
Iran are hitting a closed door in Tehran, but they could be helping him in
building an international consensus for more sanctions and pressure on Iran's
ruling clerics. Obama's latest approach
to Iran over the weekend went very much according to expectations: Washington
offered another chance for dialogue and it was quickly batted away by Iran's
supreme leader." http://bit.ly/9cUAqU
Reuters: "Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday that Russia could sign up to a
sanctions resolution on Iran, Russian news agencies quoted a senior Putin aide
as saying." http://bit.ly/bKlefq
Nuclear Program
CS Monitor: "The United States and Iran are throwing more
rhetorical brickbats, blaming each other at the start of the Persian New Year
for failure to embrace engagement initiatives, and reviving language drawn from
decades of mutual demonization." http://bit.ly/96QSCz
Domestic Politics
LAT: "Conservative rivals of Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad stood firm Monday in their fight to prevent him from rapidly
cutting government subsidies for basic staples and taking control of the
billions in savings. Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said lawmakers would not revise
their decision to cut subsidies by $20 billion, half of what Ahmadinejad
demanded." http://bit.ly/aifkw5
BBC News: "Hassan Lahouti was arrested as he arrived in
Iran from London on Sunday.
Mr. Lahouti is the son of opposition supporter Faezeh
Hashemi, who was herself detained briefly after opposition protests erupted in
June. Mr. Rafsanjani currently holds
powerful posts in Iran's government, but backed a reform candidate in the 2009
polls." http://bit.ly/9fRdfK
Foreign Affairs
Radio Farda: "For 16-year-old Jandarshah Nabizada, a
villager from Afghanistan's northern Takhar Province, life has become a waiting
game. He's a foreigner sitting on death row in a land known for its unstinting
use of the ultimate sentence. Speaking
by telephone to RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan, Nabizada explains how he ended
up in a fortified prison in Yazd, central Iran." http://bit.ly/b7Xw8z
NYT: "Osama bin Laden's teenage daughter, Iman, has
reportedly left Iran - where she had lived under house arrest for eight years
with several of her siblings - and is now in Syria, according to a report in
Asharq Al-Awsat, a Saudi-owned newspaper newspaper based in London." http://nyti.ms/cSzFwr
Culture
NYT: "In 1956, the Austrian-born photographer Inge Morath
traveled to Iran on assignment for Holiday magazine. She wanted to photograph
the entire Silk Road, from southern Europe to the South China Sea, and thought
of Iran as "a good start." The resulting images - which reveal the Shah
celebrating the Iranian New Year, herders resting in the mountains near Shiraz,
and the ruins of Persepolis - are captured in "Inge Morath: Iran" (Steidl,
$60)." http://nyti.ms/avYhOl
LAT: "As far as the average listener's perception is
concerned, Iraq and Iran may rank just below Greenland in terms of enjoying a
rich jazz tradition. Yet this record's cross-cultural collaboration between
Iraqi American trumpeter ElSaffar and Iranian American tenor saxophonist
Modirzadeh could change all that." http://bit.ly/ahPZfH
Opinion
Alan Dershowitz in WSJ: "The gravest threat faced by the
world today is a nuclear-armed Iran. Of all the nations capable of producing
nuclear weapons, Iran is the only one that might use them to attack an enemy." http://bit.ly/anT64a
Roger Cohen in NYT: "First Negar Azizmoradi contacted me
and then I read about Mohammed Reza Heydari: two Iranians, two exiles, one
truth of a people defrauded and denied." http://nyti.ms/bTGGd4
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