Eye On Iran: Ayatollah Supports Bid to Sharply Cut Iran Subsidies

For continuing coverage follow us on Twitter and join our Facebook group. Top Stories NYT: "Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, offered a crucial gesture of public support Monday for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's effort to enact a sweeping economic reform plan that would sharply curtail the country's long-established system of state subsidies." http://nyti.ms/9I8Qoy CNBC: "South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds has signed into law a bill barring the investment of state tax dollars and pension funds in certain oil companies that do business in Iran." http://bit.ly/dBVVLt AP: "A top cleric with Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard has reiterated warnings that Tehran would strike archenemy Israel if the Jewish state and its Western allies attacked Iran." http://bit.ly/aOANLO Nuclear Program Reuters: "Iran urged Russia on Tuesday not to bow to Western pressure over the sale of a Russian missile defense system to the Islamic Republic which could protect its nuclear facilities from air strikes." http://nyti.ms/dq1w38 Reuters: "The idea of international sanctions on Iranian oil exports is a joke, a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday, adding Iran would not abandon its disputed nuclear work despite mounting international pressure." http://nyti.ms/aThSIl Human Rights Radio Farda: "Iranian Justice Minister Morteza Baktiari announced on April 3 that a special court will be established for Iranians living outside the country. He didn't give the reason for the move, but said that the head of Tehran's Justice Department and the head of the Revolutionary Court have announced their preparations to create the court." http://bit.ly/aM3pcu The Australian: "The Iranian embassy in Canberra has been accused of spying on Iranian democracy activists in Australia, collecting intelligence on their activities and reporting back to Tehran, where critics of the regime can face severe punishment." http://bit.ly/9ych7S Domestic Politics Bloomberg: "Iran's central bank forecast that the country's economy will grow 8 percent in the coming 12 months, almost four times faster than the International Monetary Fund's prediction, the bank's secretary-general said." http://bit.ly/dgExDl Foreign Affairs Reuters: "Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has voiced skepticism over the effectiveness of any further sanctions against Iran in the dispute over its nuclear program, saying he still supported a diplomatic solution." http://nyti.ms/breEGe Reuters: "China said on Tuesday it was considering whether or not to attend a nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran later this month, after Iran said the Chinese would take part." http://nyti.ms/adAPa0 Culture Reuters: "The Iranian girls' soccer team have been kicked out of this year's first Youth Olympics because of a FIFA ban on playing in Islamic head scarves. Iran's National Olympic Committee (NOC) had refused to let the team play at the August 14-26 Games in Singapore without the hijab and they have been replaced by Thailand, according to the Asian Football Confederation website (www.the-afc.com)." http://bit.ly/bscRna Opinion Rich Lowry in National Review: "Comedy routines in the inner sanctums of Tehran must begin, 'Did you hear the one about the asset freeze?' The rules of the great Iranian nuclear charade are simple: We pretend to punish the Iranians for the nuclear-weapons program that they pretend doesn't exist." http://bit.ly/bVDbdK 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. UANI is an issue-based coalition in which each coalition member will have its own interests as well as the collective goal of advancing an Iran free of nuclear weapons.

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