Eye On Iran: US Hopes for Iran Sanctions Vote at UN Next Week

For continuing coverage follow us on Twitter and join our Facebook group. Top Stories AFP: "The White House said Thursday it was confident the UN Security Council would back toughened sanctions on Iran in the next week, despite the furor over Israel's Gaza flotilla raid." http://bit.ly/aux1dq The National: "Iran is seeking foreign investment in its refining sector even as it dumps western and, reportedly, Turkish oil companies from its biggest gas project. 'We are asking investors and joint ventures to invest in new refineries," Shahnazi Zadeh, the Iranian deputy oil minister, told an oil conference on Monday in Manama, Bahrain. "We have introduced new rules to make projects attractive.'" http://bit.ly/bbGIHj AP: "The Iranian president on Friday warned the country's opposition against straying from the path of the founder of the Islamic Revolution and slammed Israel for a deadly raid this week on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla." http://bit.ly/dpPDRR Nuclear Program Daily Times: "The formalities of the Pak-Iran gas pipeline have been completed and physical work on the project would start after a survey on the pipeline is completed, Petroleum and Natural Resources Minister Syed Naveed Qamar Shah said on Thursday." http://bit.ly/9v0PDR AP: "Iran's state television says the country has begun offering euro250 million ($305 million) in bonds in foreign markets to help finance the development of the huge South Pars Gas field." http://bit.ly/b9Ueaq Human Rights AFP: "A group of rights activists, including Nobel laureates and US actress Mia Farrow, have called for the release of three US hikers held in Iran on the occasion of Iranian Mother's Day." http://bit.ly/a7Ne9x Bloomberg:"Nokia-Siemens Networks on Wednesday (2 June) admitted its share of the blame for Iran's brutal crackdown on anti-government demonstrators last year after selling mobile phone surveillance to the authoritarian regime." http://bit.ly/9CIkhq BBC News: "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said opposition groups who worked against the regime would be 'banished by the people'. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also gave a warning to past leaders now considered opposition figures." http://bit.ly/9T8cXi Opinion The Economist: "Even usually truculent Iran endorsed a lengthy declaration upholding the NPT's goals: getting the nuclear powers to give up their bombs; preventing others from acquiring them; and promoting nuclear power for peaceful uses only. But the NPT's problems are no closer to solution." http://bit.ly/b1gyNZ James Woolsey in National Review Online: "In 1933, a totalitarian regime came to power in Germany with the consent of at least a substantial minority of the German people. Its Nazi ideology was rooted in fanatic racism and resentment over recent history. Hitler and those around him preached that it was the destiny of the German race to dominate Europe and exterminate the Jews." http://bit.ly/daaDVE Mark Dubowitz and Laura Grossman in Forbes: "Royal Dutch Shell resumed its gasoline shipments to Iran, International Oil Daily reported this morning. The company got back into business with the Iranian regime after a six-month hiatus. The move is a slap at the U.S. Congress, which has been working to develop energy sanctions that could curtail the regime's nuclear weapons program, human rights abuses, and support for terrorism." http://bit.ly/auXp0A Golnaz Esfandiari for Radio Farda: "Human rights activists and supporters of the opposition Green Movement in Iran are increasing their calls on the United States and other countries to help Iranians access an unfiltered Internet by lifting sanctions and sharing key software and technology." http://bit.ly/cuKvrQ Karim Sadjadpour for the Carnegie Endowment: "Among the numerous post-election casualties was the notion of Iran as an 'Islamic Republic.' As the late Grand Ayatollah Ali Montazeri put it, the regime's brutality towards its own people has rendered it 'neither Islamic nor a Republic.' Another casualty was the legitimacy of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. For two decades, Khamenei deceptively cultivated an image of an impartial and magnanimous guide, but his defiant public support for Ahmadinejad exposed him as a petty, partisan autocrat." http://bit.ly/96npZG Meir Javedanfar in The Guardian: "The takeover of the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmaris by Israeli commandos led to demonstrations in numerous places around the world. People in Baku, Istanbul, and as far away as Edmonton, Canada, marched on the streets to voice their opposition to Israel's actions. However, in Tehran and in other big cities in Iran, the streets have been eerily quiet." http://bit.ly/drN0Wj 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. 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