Top Stories
AP: "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader,
sharply denounced the United States on Sunday, accusing it of plotting to
overthrow the clerical leadership in a chilly response to an overture by
President Obama for better cultural ties." http://nyti.ms/cCVhxS
Reuters: "European Union foreign ministers urged Iran on
Monday to stop jamming European satellite transmissions and said they were
prepared to take action to end the interference." http://nyti.ms/aW34Qa
NYT: "One year after President Obama used the Web to
send a video greeting to the Iranian
people on the occasion of the Persian New Year, Nowruz, the first couple of
Iran's opposition have posted defiant messages on Facebook to mark the holiday."
http://nyti.ms/cbvi1Q
Nuclear Program
AP: "Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is vowing
that the Obama administration will not accept a nuclear armed Iran and is
working on sanctions 'that will bite' to press it to come clean about its
suspect atomic program." http://bit.ly/byqXJX
Commerce
Reuters: "Customs data released today by Beijing shows
China's imports of Iranian crude oil shrank by nearly 40 percent during January
and February compared to the same months a year earlier. The drop comes despite China's expanding
hunger for foreign oil." http://bit.ly/bGVA5S
Domestic Politics
Reuters: "Iran's parliament could finally accede to
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's demands for radical subsidy cuts after blocking
the plan for months, a senior lawmaker said on Sunday." http://bit.ly/cGa1tl
Human Rights
WSJ: "In Iran's controversial election last June, the job
of certifying absentee ballots in Norway fell to Mohammed Reza Heydari. The
senior diplomat had always considered himself a loyal official of the Islamic
Republic of Iran." http://bit.ly/a9Lqul
AP: "Iranian authorities detained the grandson of former
president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the most powerful opposition supporter
inside the country's clerical leadership, a news agency reported Monday." http://nyti.ms/arz75o
Culture
Washington Post: "Jamshid Goshtasbi got the call at 1:25
p.m. Saturday from his younger brother in Kerman, a city in southeastern Iran. Were he and his family ready? Was the 'haft-seen'
table set up, with its mirror, its goldfish, its seven items starting with the
letter S? Only seven minutes remained until Nowruz, the spring equinox holiday
celebrated in Iran, Central Asia, the Caucasus and surrounding regions. It is
also the first day of the Iranian year." http://bit.ly/cE221i
Washington Post: "It might not seem that remarkable for a
ragtag group of friends to come up with a computer game in a dusty back office. But the Iranian engineering students,
programmers and fantasy animators who created 'Garshasp, the Monster Slayer'
have not only impressed foreign companies with their product. They have also
proved that young Iranians can carve out opportunities for themselves against a
backdrop of international sanctions, domestic deterrents and anti-government
demonstrations." http://bit.ly/ad7Seh
Opinion
Doyle McManus in LAT: "'It is not this calendar
year" that the world will face a nuclear-capable Iran, Army Gen. David H.
Petraeus told a Senate committee last week. He was being conservative: Most
experts now estimate that Iran needs about 18 months to complete a nuclear
device and a missile to carry it." http://bit.ly/deqQKs
Howard L. Berman in IHT: "Iran is rapidly acquiring the
capability to produce nuclear weapons, and the prospects for preventing this
nightmare scenario are shrinking by the day. The United States must act
urgently to intensify pressure on the Iranian regime - with the cooperation of
the international community if at all possible, but on our own if necessary." http://nyti.ms/bdOFeK
News Analysis
David Sanger in NYT: "It was Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton who, nearly a year ago, fired the Obama administration's first
warning shots about imposing 'crippling sanctions' against Iran." http://nyti.ms/bzaUxN
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