Eye On Iran: Six Powers Hold Talks on New Iran Sanctions

For continuing coverage follow us on Twitter and join our Facebook group. Top Stories 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 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.

Email Marketing by United Against Nuclear Iran PO Box 1028 New York NY 10185