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Reuters: "The United States, Britain, France and Germany
continued talks on Thursday with China and Russia on a U.S.-drafted proposal
for a new round of U.N. sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program." http://bit.ly/bHgHRD
WSJ: "A Chinese company denied any role in an alleged
supply chain that-according to officials familiar with the matter-allowed an
Iranian company with links to Tehran's nuclear program to gain access to
special hardware for enriching uranium." http://bit.ly/cIWfYN
AP:"There is an 'affinity' between Brazil's opposition
to new sanctions on Iran and the positions of China and India, the Brazilian
foreign minister said as leaders of those nations met Thursday." http://bit.ly/adtQb3
Nuclear Program
AFP: "Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed that
his country has cut off gasoline supplies to Iran, warning Tehran it was close
to facing new international sanctions over its controversial nuclear program." http://bit.ly/dttOkE
CNN International: "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
has penned a letter to President Obama, telling his American counterpart that
Iran is Obama's only option for success, state-run media reported. 'Obama has only one way to remain in power
and be successful. This way is Iran,' Ahmadinejad said in a nationally
televised speech Tuesday, according to the Iranian Republic News Agency (IRNA)."
http://bit.ly/bmnYtr
Human Rights
AP:"One of the senior leaders of Iran's opposition
reform movement, former President Mohammad Khatami, has been barred from
traveling abroad to attend a nuclear disarmament conference in Japan, one of
his aides said Friday. The ban against
Khatami is part of an ongoing crackdown to eradicate opposition and muzzle
dissent against Iran's clerical rule." http://nyti.ms/cNRENl
Radio Farda:"In Koshan, along western Afghanistan's
border with Iran, Arbab Zarif has just buried his brother. 'Look how they hurt us,' he says. 'Look what
is happening to us.' Zarif's brother was
executed in Iran for allegedly trafficking drugs. He says he had no defense
lawyer and that Iranian authorities then added insult to tragedy. '[The Iranians] asked for [$100] to get the
body back,' he tells RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan. 'So I borrowed [$100] and
we gave it to get my brother's body back.'" http://bit.ly/9gpl4T
Foreign Affairs
AP:"The Sunni-backed secular coalition that came in
first in Iraqi elections tried Thursday to improve relations with powerful
Shiite neighbor Iran, assuring Tehran that if it heads the new government, it
would not let Iraq be used as a launching pad for an invasion." http://bit.ly/c8A3nu
Culture
NYT: "And of course circumstances for iconoclastic,
bohemian young people in Iran are not what they are elsewhere. Both the pathos
and the buoyant energy of 'No One Knows About Persian Cats,' Bahman Ghobadi's
bouncy, seething new film, come from the sense that Negar, Ashkan and their
friends are bravely laying claim to creativity, idealism and free expression in
defiance of an authoritarian state that seeks to deny them those universal
birthrights of modern youth." http://nyti.ms/crmiAW
Opinion
The Guardian Editorial Board: "From every conceivable
viewpoint except Tehran's, the International Atomic Energy Agency is no closer
to defusing the crisis over Iran's continued enrichment of uranium. President
Obama's deadline has come and gone. The offer to process the majority of Iran's
enriched uranium in Russia and France is still on the table, but as Iran does
not trust a US-backed process to deliver the reactor fuel it says it needs, it
has begun its own production of 20% enriched uranium." http://bit.ly/9tGMI0
Charles Krauthammer in WP:"What was this great
convocation about? To prevent the spread of nuclear material into the hands of
terrorists. A worthy goal, no doubt. Unfortunately, the two greatest such
threats were not even on the agenda. The
first is Iran, which is frantically enriching uranium to make a bomb, and which
our own State Department identifies as the greatest exporter of terrorism in
the world." http://bit.ly/buMTz8
Benny Morris in LAT:"I take it personally: Iran's
president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wants to murder me, my family and my people.
Day in, day out, he announces the imminent demise of the 'Zionist regime,' by
which he means Israel. And day in, day out, his scientists and technicians are
advancing toward the atomic weaponry that will enable him to bring this about."
http://bit.ly/dnXbPU
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