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FT: "Tom Wethered, KPMG International's general counsel,
wrote to UANI on Thursday that the accountancy network had terminated the
membership of Bayat Rayan, one of Iran's biggest accountants. The announcement came three weeks after UANI
launched a campaign against KPMG, one of the Big Four accountancy firms,
accusing it of 'supporting this brutal regime and its illegal actions'." http://bit.ly/9KjR6K
WSJ: "An Iranian firm closely linked to Tehran's nuclear
program acquired special hardware for enriching uranium, despite sanctions
intended to keep such equipment out of Iran, according to officials with
knowledge of the matter." http://bit.ly/9vP6Iz
LAT: "Iranian scientists have submitted plans to start
work on at least one new nuclear facility by September, a top official was
quoted as saying Saturday, in a move that could inflame tensions with the West."
http://bit.ly/c4s7xu
Nuclear Program
Reuters: "Iran is still ready to negotiate a solution to
its nuclear stand-off with the West, but only on the condition that foreign
powers agree to a fuel swap on Iranian territory, the foreign ministry said on
Monday." http://nyti.ms/bMY4mU
AP: "Iran said Sunday it will host a nuclear disarmament
conference later this month, part of Tehran's efforts to show it is not seeking
to develop nuclear weapons." http://bit.ly/92WHlo
WSJ: "In its latest proposed set of tougher United Nations
sanctions on Iran, the U.S. is again relying on asset freezes as one tool to
pressure the country not to build nuclear weapons. But a close look at how much Iranian money
has been frozen to date in the U.S. under existing sanctions shows that the total
amount is surprisingly small, less than $43 million, or roughly a quarter of
what Iran earns in oil revenue in a single day." http://bit.ly/92W2hJ
Human Rights
AP: "Iran's state television says a former vice president
and prominent pro-reform activist convicted of spreading propaganda against the
ruling clerical establishment has returned to prison to serve his one-year
sentence." http://bit.ly/bk4BJc
NYT: "One month after he was arrested, Jafar Panahi, an
internationally celebrated Iranian director who openly sided with opposition
protesters last year, is still being held without charge and interrogated in a
Tehran prison, the opposition Web site Jaras reported on Friday." http://nyti.ms/dyVDre
AP: "Hesam Misaghi and Sepehr Atefi were joining what has
become an exodus of dissidents fleeing Iran's political turmoil. For them that
meant a harrowing journey through the country's rugged northwest in the dead of
winter, with the help of Kurdish smugglers." http://bit.ly/aPN3YG
Foreign Affairs
WSJ: "Iran's chief nuclear negotiator ended a visit to
Beijing with both countries calling for continued international negotiations
over the Iranian nuclear program despite growing pressure on China to back new
sanctions against Tehran." http://bit.ly/d3Ok8P
Culture
LAT: "It might not have been your typical party-time call
and response, but the sold-out crowd at Cinefamily last week was as enthused as
any frat house -- ready to thrust fists and shake hips in homage to Persia's
pop past. 'I say . . . 'Disco!' You say 'Iran'!'" http://bit.ly/bQ9FuE
Opinion
WSJ Editorial Board: "The U.S. can at this point do more
unilaterally by imposing and enforcing sanctions on companies that do business
in Iran's energy industry. But so far the Administration has shown considerably
less enthusiasm for these measures than has even a Democratic Congress. As for the potential threat of military
strikes to assist diplomacy, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has made his doubts
about their efficacy very public." http://bit.ly/9FJIyh
Tony Karon in The National: "But it is the Arabs on whose
behalf Washington hawks are urging that Iran be bombed, and it is the Arabs who
would suffer many of the disastrous consequences of such an act of war. That
should give them plenty of incentive to play a meaningful role in keeping the
peace." http://bit.ly/aesfN4
Omid Memarian and Roxana Saberi in WSJ: "As the three
Americans detained in Iran near the end of their eighth month in captivity, it
has become increasingly clear that their case, like those of so many other
prisoners in Iran, is not legal but political and a matter of human rights." http://bit.ly/c7EJgs
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