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Reuters: "Iran's
president said on Wednesday his country was under constant threat of
military action from 'uncivilized Zionists' and called for a new world
order not dominated by Western powers in the service of 'the devil.' In
his eighth and likely final address to the U.N. General Assembly's annual
gathering of world leaders, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad painted a gloomy picture
of a world driven by greed rather than morality. 'The current abysmal
situation of the world and the bitter incidents of history are due mainly
to the wrong management of the world and the self-proclaimed centers of
power who have entrusted themselves to the devil,' Ahmadinejad said.
Iran's president did not reiterate his comments to journalists in New
York on Monday that Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be
'eliminated.' However, he complained that nations were being forced to
accept a new era of hegemony and added, in a clear reference to Israel:
'Continued threat by the uncivilized Zionists to resort to military
action against our great nation is a clear example of this bitter
reality.'" http://t.uani.com/TGyx6b
NY Daily News:
"After Ahmadinejad returned to the hotel late Tuesday afternoon in a
black luxury car, protesters ran over to yell at him as he walked into a
side entrance under tight security. A protest group called United Against
Nuclear Iran rented an 11th floor room for Ahmadinejad's stay. One
member, Nathan Carleton, said the hotel manager [Drew Schlesinger] barred
him on Tuesday from carrying an anti-Ahmadinejad poster. 'If you call
9/11 a big lie and say you hate America you get turndown service, but a
sign gets you accosted?' said Carleton." http://t.uani.com/So5bSE
Times of Israel:
"The Warwick Hotel doesn't want trouble. But as host for the second
year in a row to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose entourage
took up all or part of at least three floors of the small Midtown hotel
this week, it is starting to feel the blowback. On Tuesday, while the
Iranian president was at meetings in the UN, bicyclists with specially
outfitted posters rode around the hotel calling to boycott it... Inside,
the Iranian president's aides and security detail dominated the small
lobby, with walkie-talkies in hand and a penchant for joining in the
elevator anyone they deemed suspicious, including this reporter.
Journalists who were not cleared long before - the hotel would not
discuss the clearance process - were denied entrance to the hotel, though
many successfully entered as guests of United Against a Nuclear Iran, a
New York-based activist organization that has committed itself to making
the Holocaust-denying Iranian president's time in New York as miserable
as possible... It seemed to be succeeding. UANI rented a room in the
hotel and its activists spent the week walking in and out of the building
sporting anti-Ahmadinejad posters and wearing shirts emblazoned with
Ahmadinejad's face under a red circle-and-bar 'no' logo." http://t.uani.com/PGXGs4
Inside
Edition Video: UANI Warwick Protest http://t.uani.com/VO1Alq
BTR
Pulse Video: Ahmadinejad in NYC http://t.uani.com/OrJ3w9
NY
Daily News Video: Ahmadinejad UN-Welcome http://t.uani.com/QeWvyz
 UN
General Assembly
Daily Mail:
"An Iranian diplomat was escorted from a Manhattan street by New
York police after he was surrounded and threatened by an angry mob of
protesters near the United Nations. Deputy Foreign Ministry spokesman
Ramin Mehmanparast was walking near the United Nations yesterday when he
was noticed and confronted by the angry mob on Second Avenue near East
48th Street, said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne. He flagged down police
officers, who helped him get to a safe spot. Browne said the threats were
believed to have been verbal." http://t.uani.com/VNSt49
WashPost:
"Free parking is hard to find in Washington - but not, apparently,
for the Boeing 747 that ferried Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to
this week's United Nations General Assembly gathering in New York. That
plane, emblazoned with the 'Iran Air' logo, was parked Wednesday at Joint
Base Andrews - the same air field where Air Force One is stored. In fact,
President Obama taxied past the Iranian jet on his way to two campaign
events in Ohio. It is common for foreign heads of state to park their
aircraft at Joint Base Andrews when visiting the U.S., according to Major
Michelle Lai, a spokeswoman for the 89th Airlift Wing." http://t.uani.com/NTebDa
Nuclear
Program
CNN: "Former U.S. President Bill
Clinton said Tuesday he does not trust Tehran's assertions that it is not
pursuing a nuclear weapon, and he urged the international community to
pressure Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to allow inspectors to
verify his claims. 'What they're really saying is, in spite of the fact
that we deny the Holocaust, that we threaten Israel, and we demonize the
United States, and we do all this stuff, we want you to trust us,'
Clinton told CNN's Piers Morgan in an interview to air Tuesday night.
'They don't have a tenable position.' If Tehran were to obtain a nuclear
weapon, 'the retaliation would be incomprehensible,' and others in the
region would attempt to join the elite club of nuclear powers, Clinton
said." http://t.uani.com/UKRuUp
Reuters:
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will set out, in his
speech at the United Nations on Thursday, an ultimatum for Iran to halt
its disputed nuclear drive or risk coming under military attack, an
Israeli official said. Netanyahu faces the world body after U.S.
President Barack Obama disappointed some Israelis, in his own address to
the annual assembly, by not calling for a deadline to be imposed on
Tehran - though he did say time for diplomacy 'is not unlimited' ... 'The
prime minister will set a clear red line in his speech that will not
contradict Obama's remarks. Obama said Iran won't have nuclear weapons.
The prime minister will clarify the way in which Iran won't have nuclear
arms,' a senior Israeli official said en route to New York, without
elaborating." http://t.uani.com/QyPn3f
Sanctions
The Forward:
"A group of activists are leading a drive to ban Iranian companies
involved in the country's nuclear program from accessing the Internet - a
move that would essentially cut them off from the global information
network. The activists, from a bipartisan group called United Against
Nuclear Iran, have appealed to the international providers of Internet
domains to deny sanctioned individuals and organizations the right to
connect to the Web. Thus far, the companies have not been responsive. But
these attempts could prove superfluous, as Tehran itself has embarked on
a move to shut off Internet access and revert to an internal Web that can
be accessed only in Iran... In two separate letters, dated September 7,
UANI demanded that the two major suppliers of Internet domain names in
the United States and in Europe immediately stop providing services to
Iranian entities subject to sanctions by the U.S. Departments of State
and Treasury, or by the European Union." http://t.uani.com/QeKcm1
Reuters:
"Japan's customs-cleared imports of crude oil from Iran fell 67.1
percent in August from a year earlier to 418,203 kilolitres (84,852
barrels per day), the lowest since September 1988, Ministry of Finance
data showed on Thursday. Crude importers can seek customs clearance
within three months of a cargo's arrival or apply to have the load
categorised as 'import for storage' and held for up to two years before
being cleared." http://t.uani.com/PrMO0c
Reuters:
"India's oil imports from Iran fell nearly 5 percent in August from
July, tanker discharge data made available to Reuters showed on Thursday,
in a third straight monthly drop that supports the country's case for
renewal of a waiver from U.S. sanctions. Imports rose by about a fifth
from a year ago, however, when Iran cut supplies to its second-biggest
market as Indian firms had still not found a stable way to pay for oil
after New Delhi ended a clearing mechanism under U.S. pressure in
December 2010... One of Tehran's biggest Indian clients, MRPL, has not
been able to import all its contracted volumes since July, when European
sanctions banning shipping and insurance cover for Iranian vessels took
effect." http://t.uani.com/QHSuTN
WSJ:
"Surely some mistake? This month, the in-house magazine of Iran's
oil ministry is calling for an end to Tehran's reliance on petroleum.
'Dependence on oil, self deception,' reads the front page headline. Was
there a columnist short of copy or inspiration at the 'Iran Petroleum'
review? Not at all. This view comes from no other than Iran's Supreme
Leader Ali Khamenei. The article was written by a staff member of the
magazine but quotes the Supreme Leader at length. In the lead story,
Ayatollah Khamenei says 'the crude oil sales is a legacy of long years
before [the 1979 Islamic] revolution.' 'Unfortunately, the country has
fallen into this trap and efforts are needed to help the Iranian nation
get out,' he added." http://t.uani.com/Snr0WT
MarketWatch:
"The Vitol Group on Wednesday said it ceased all sales of refined
product to Iran ahead of sanctions imposed on July 1 by the European
Union. Vitol's comments came after a Reuters report said the world's
largest oil trader is buying and selling Iranian crude oil. In a statement
on its Web site, Vitol said a Bahraini subsidiary purchased a spot cargo
of fuel oil from a non-Iranian counterparty in July and that the fuel
delivered under the contract was of Iranian origin. 'Vitol Group
companies no longer purchase any product of Iranian origin,' the company
said." http://t.uani.com/QyQ9gS
Human
Rights
Detroit Free
Press: "The sister of a former U.S. Marine from
Michigan imprisoned in Iran on espionage charges said Wednesday that
she's worried and shocked that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said
he's not familiar with her brother's case. Sarah Hekmati said she
believes it would be 'impossible' for Ahmadinejad not to know about Amir
Hekmati, who was arrested while visiting his grandmothers in Iran in
August 2011. Hekmati, whom Iran accuses of being a CIA spy, was tried,
convicted and sentenced to death. His conviction was overturned in
January, but he has remained in prison with limited contact with his
family. No new trial has been scheduled." http://t.uani.com/Q3IdlN
Domestic
Politics
AP:
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top press adviser was taken
into custody to begin serving a six-month jail sentence after being
convicted of publishing material deemed insulting to the country's
supreme leader. Ali Akbar Javanfekr, who is also the head of the
state-run IRNA news agency, is one of dozens of Ahmadinejad's allies
detained since April 2011 in the fallout from a political feud between
the president and the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran's hardline political establishment slapped down Ahmadinejad and his
supporters after the president briefly challenged an order from the
country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over the choice of
intelligence chief. The semiofficial Fars news agency said judicial
agents detained Javanfekr late Wednesday. IRNA said Javanfekr was
arrested as Ahmadinejad, who had shielded his press adviser in the past
from arrest, began his speech at the U.N. General Assembly in New
York." http://t.uani.com/SbURhn
WSJ:
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's farewell appearance at the
United Nations General Assembly exposed the deepening political fissures
inside Tehran, in a surprising finale to eight annual U.S. speeches
better known for his insults and threats. As Mr. Ahmadinejad began his
U.N. speech on Wednesday morning, Iranian security forces jailed for six
months his top media adviser after convicting him of publicly insulting
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Later, Mr. Ahmadinejad voiced
disapproval of his government's economic policies, an unexpected
criticism that came during a meeting with reporters. The political
discord played out as Mr. Ahmadinejad wrapped up his final trip to New
York as president under Iran's term limits. His second four-year term
ends in June." http://t.uani.com/Snr8WC
FT:
"Authorities in Iran have shut down Shargh, a leading reformist
daily newspaper, and detained its managing director for publishing a
cartoon which allegedly insulted the volunteer fighters during the
country's war with Iraq. Shargh published a cartoon on Tuesday, depicting
men in plainclothes who line up, each blindfolding the one in front. The
cartoon comes at a time Iran is marking the 32nd anniversary of the war
with Iraq - in Iran called the 'holy defence' - during which volunteer
troops wore headbands on which holy words were printed." http://t.uani.com/QeT375
Opinion
& Analysis
Andrew
Davenport & Ilan Berman in WashPost:
"Recent revelations from the International Atomic Energy Agency that
Iran has both continued and expanded its uranium enrichment activities
have focused attention anew on U.S. policy toward the Islamic Republic -
and what more can be done to stop Iran's march toward the bomb. This is,
necessarily, a conversation about sanctions. Given the advanced state of
Iran's nuclear program and the growing possibility that third parties -
namely, Israel - might resort to force to stop it, it stands to reason
that the full arsenal of U.S. economic and financial sanctions would be
deployed against the Iranian threat. Yet it has not been. The reality is
that current sanctions policy is simultaneously extensive and flimsy. It
amounts, in large part, to labeling a broad array of business activity as
'sanctionable.' But with the exception of a handful of cases, the actual
sanctioning of violators has been markedly absent. Reporters and pundits
alike have been complicit in ignoring this important distinction.
Accordingly, it may come as a surprise to many that just about every
piece of sanctions legislation and every executive order adopted over the
past 16 years and advertised as 'tightening the screws' on Iran has offered
an escape hatch that gives the president discretion over which violators
are targeted and whether they are named and penalized. The result is that
very few 'sanctionable' companies are ever actually penalized - or even
identified. Instead, successive administrations of both parties have
opted against the strict application of economic penalties on countries
and companies that do business with Iran. President Obama takes great
pride in pointing out that his administration has levied the most extensive
sanctions to date against the Iranian regime. Indeed it has; much more
than its predecessors, the Obama administration has actively targeted
Iran's energy sector. The centerpiece of the administration's sanctions
effort, the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment
Act of 2010, known as CISADA, focused on one of Iran's major economic
vulnerabilities: its need to import refined petroleum from foreign
sources. But enforcement has lagged far behind. In the rare instances
when the White House has chosen to enforce CISADA and other measures, it
has penalized only obscure violators and those with the most minimal
impact on the global - and the Iranian - economy." http://t.uani.com/V0fgdH
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