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NYT: "The United Nations Security Council leveled its
fourth round of sanctions against Iran's nuclear program on Wednesday, but the
measures did little to overcome widespread doubts that they - or even the
additional steps pledged by American and European officials - would accomplish
the Council's longstanding goal: halting Iran's production of nuclear fuel." http://nyti.ms/9V4oXv
AP: "China said Thursday its support for new U.N. nuclear
sanctions against Iran should not block efforts to find a diplomatic solution,
and called for renewed negotiations. China
is a key ally of Iran and could have vetoed the resolution approved Wednesday
that targets Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, ballistic missiles and
nuclear-related investments." http://bit.ly/9XZQiE
NYT: "Reaching out to the two countries that voted
against new sanctions on Iran, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said
Wednesday that she thought Brazil and Turkey would continue to play an
important role in diplomatic efforts with the Iranian government." http://nyti.ms/95Mfzu
Nuclear Program
AP: "Iran's president is dismissing the latest U.N.
Security Council resolution imposing tougher sanctions against Iran, saying
they are 'like a used tissue.' Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad says 'we do not recognize sanctions.'" http://bit.ly/cDA0jG
AP: "Iran's state TV says the country's parliament plans
to revise relations with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency in response to the
latest round of U.N. sanctions. The
announcement Thursday by parliament National Security and Foreign Policy
Committee head Alaeddin Boroujerdi comes after the U.N. Security Council
approved a fourth round of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program." http://bit.ly/dfqA0X
AP: "Remarks by President Barack Obama at the White House
on Wednesday about new sanctions against Iran, as transcribed by the White
House." http://bit.ly/a4bvtt
Human Rights
NYT: "A factory in Iran has been closed down after trying
to mass-produce statuettes of people who were killed in the protests that
followed last year's disputed presidential election, among them Neda
Agha-Soltan, the 26-year-old who became an icon of the opposition when a video
of her shooting was broadcast around the world." http://nyti.ms/aDBaqs
Domestic Politics
WSJ Interactive Graphic: "Iran's Checks and Balances." http://bit.ly/csfMW7
Foreign Affairs
AP: "Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki narrowly
avoided being pelted with eggs during a Dublin appearance overshadowed by angry
clashes with several Iranian dissidents. Mottaki's security guards roughed up two protesters who interrupted his
appearance Wednesday at Dublin's Institute of International and European
Affairs." http://bit.ly/a8oPPy
AP: "An Iranian state-owned newspaper says three
policemen in western Iran have been killed by a roadside bomb detonated by
Kurdish rebels. The Thursday report by
the Iran daily says Gen. Faramarz Hosseinzadeh, the local chief of border
police, and two other policemen were killed after members of the Party for Free
Life in Kurdistan, or PEJAK, detonated a roadside bomb near the town of
Piranshahr, some 560 miles (900 kilometers) west of Tehran." http://bit.ly/byllKq
Opinion
NYT Editorial Board: "They were too long in coming and do
not go far enough, but the United Nations Security Council finally imposed a
new round, the fourth, of sanctions on Iran. The penalties take aim at military, trade and financial transactions by
the Revolutionary Guards Corps, which runs the country's illicit nuclear
program." http://nyti.ms/cIm6oc
LAT Editorial Board: "The Obama administration says the
new economic sanctions against Iran adopted by the U.N. Security Council on
Wednesday are the toughest ever against that country's military and financial
interests, and demonstrate a consensus among the major powers that Tehran must
not develop a nuclear weapon. Though this may be accurate, it is also true that
the sanctions are far from crippling and are unlikely to be much more effective
than the previous three rounds in persuading Iran to suspend its uranium
enrichment program." http://bit.ly/aJrL7X
Roula Khalaf in FT: "The timing of the UN vote, just days
ahead of the one-year anniversary of the rigged presidential election that
returned Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad to power, was auspicious. Although not intended
as such, it delivers a deserved blow to a regime that has been oppressing the
reformist opposition. The
self-satisfaction in Washington, however, may be shortlived. If more sanctions
are being imposed - and this is the fourth series of UN penalties - it is
because engagement with Tehran, the big policy shift under President Barack
Obama, was essentially stillborn." http://bit.ly/aRLpUB
Timothy Garton Ash in LAT: "Do not forget Iran. Remember
Neda. If there are green-clad protests in Tehran this weekend - to mark the
first anniversary of the election that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole -
they will doubtless again be crushed with casual brutality by the thugs of the
Basij militia, the secret police and the Revolutionary Guard." http://bit.ly/bhykk0
Michael Adler in
Politico: "Yet all this does little to change the fact that Washington and its
allies may be unable to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon - if Tehran
wants one. The West may yet have to face
the choice that diplomacy is designed to avoid - namely bomb Iran or accept
Iran with a bomb. Or we may be heading
to a scenario of containment - a Middle East version of the Cold War deterrence
against the Soviet Union." http://politi.co/ca9wHe
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