Top Stories
AP: "President Barack Obama says the United States will
continue to 'ratchet up the pressure' on Iran to reveal its nuclear intentions
to the rest of the world. In an
interview broadcast Friday on CBS's 'The Early Show,' Obama said 'all the
evidence' indicates that Tehran is trying to get a nuclear weapons capacity.
With such a capability, Obama said that Iran could 'destabilize' life in the
Mideast and trigger an arms race in the region." http://nyti.ms/dBK8XE
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
NYT: "Iran may seem an unlikely place to turn for guidance
when it comes to putting together a democratic government, but that is exactly
what most of Iraq's political class did immediately after last month's
parliamentary elections." http://nyti.ms/cnAg51
Nuclear Program
Reuters: "President Barack Obama urged his Chinese
counterpart Hu Jintao to help ratchet up pressure on Iran over its nuclear
activities, but Hu did not openly commit to new sanctions on Tehran, according
to official reports on Friday." http://nyti.ms/9qhL6s
Reuters: "International sanctions will not prevent Iran from
pursuing its nuclear activities, said the country's top nuclear negotiator on
Friday, the official IRNA news agency reported." http://nyti.ms/dkRwzw
AP: "Tehran's top nuclear envoy called for negotiations
without threat of sanctions on Friday, following meetings in Beijing in the
wake of U.S. reports saying China had dropped its opposition to possible new
U.N. measures against Iran." http://nyti.ms/8YYfTo
AP: "The leaders of Britain and Germany on Thursday backed
plans to push for tighter sanctions against Iran, which the United States hopes
can be agreed by the end of the month.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
met Thursday at Chequers, the prime minister's country residence northwest of
London, for talks on Iran's disputed nuclear program, global economic crisis
and climate change." http://bit.ly/baz0q4
Human Rights
WP: "Freedom is relative. But for Hassan, mother hen to a
gaggle of gay Iranians fleeing a nation where their sexuality is punishable by
death, relatively secular Turkey is one step closer to a life less
shackled. He is one of more than
300 gays who have fled Iran since the rise of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
who infamously proclaimed in 2007, to guffaws from his audience at Columbia
University, that there were no gays in Iran." http://bit.ly/94PPrG
Opinion
Gerald F. Seib in WSJ: "In a nation and a news media
obsessed with marking anniversaries, a sad one passed virtually unnoted this
week. Wednesday marked the
eight-month anniversary of the detention of three young American hikers being
held in Iran's Evin Prison. The three-Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh
Fattal-were detained by Iranian security officials as they hiked along the
Iraq-Iran border on July 31, and have been held without charges since then." http://bit.ly/aXa44n
Meir Javedanfar in The Guardian: "The fact that Beijing has
agreed to discuss these steps is bad news for Tehran. This is why Iran's
supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, dispatched the top nuclear negotiator,
Saeed Jalili, to hold talks with the Chinese government. His hope is that it is
not too late, and that he can find a way to persuade the Chinese to back away
from the new UN resolution. A new oil deal here, a new gas deal there just
might do the trick. It has worked before. It could do so again." http://bit.ly/awgJhj
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