24/1/08

China urges “creative efforts” to end Iran standoff
Reuters UK – UK
BEIJING (Reuters) – China urged all sides in Iran’s nuclear standoff with the West to be creative and find a new way towards a diplomatic solution.…
uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKPEK11152020080124

Iran receives 6th shipment of Russian nuclear fuel
Jerusalem Post – Israel
By AP Iran received a sixth shipment of nuclear fuel Thursday from Russia, destined for a power plant being constructed in the southern port of Bushehr, …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=120107077965
4&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Senior Bush administration officials are in Israel to discuss …
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – New York,NY,USA
Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns, Washington’s point man in efforts to contain Iran through economic sanctions, came to Israel …
www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106576.html

Galp says no natural gas E&P deal signed with Iran state oil co
Forbes – NY,USA
LISBON (Thomson Financial) – Galp Energia SGPS has not signed any deal with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) to enter Iran’s natural gas exploration …
www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx
/2008/01/24/afx4567725.html

Iran & Iraq: A comparison (Part 1)
Yemen Times – Sana',Yemen
As an independent nation, weapons manufacture is one area to which Iran pays much attention; however, this actually astonishes other countries, …
yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1123&p=community&a=1

Iran rejects US message over word usage
By etpayne
(CNN) — The continuing back-and-forth between Iran and the United States over an encounter between the countries’ naval forces was kicked up a notch Wednesday when the Islamic state rejected a message from Washington because it …
cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/24/iran
-rejects-us-message-over-word-usage/

Study: Europeans think America worse than Iran, North Korea
Surprise! Most Europeans do not like America, and actually see the US as a threat to world peace.
digg.com/political_opinion/Study_Europeans_
think_America_worse_than_Iran_North_Korea_2

Diplomacy can work between US, Iran: Rice
ABC Online – Australia
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the dispute with Iran over its nuclear program can be resolved diplomatically. Iran insists the program is for …
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/
01/24/2145787.htm?section=world

Russia: New UN resolution on Iran drops harsh sanctions
Houston Chronicle – United States
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV AP MOSCOW — A draft UN resolution on Iran’s nuclear program does not call for any harsh sanctions, Russia said Wednesday, …
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5480545.html

Iran Reformers Barred From Vote
The Associated Press –
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — More than 2000 reformers seeking democratic changes within Iran’s hard-line ruling establishment have been disqualified from running in …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hr64hb-7K
0IuxPwi1xyu5oSWzYPgD8UC08V01

Iran, Russia, China
By Asher Abrams
From a strategic view flying by at 20000 feet, it is indicative of Iran and Russia’s deepening common alignment against the United States. It’s an alignment – an allied partnership beyond nuclear cooperation – that also includes China. …
asher813.typepad.com/dreams_into_
lightning/2008/01/iran-russia-chi.html

Iranian people fear new wave of sanctions
Independent – London,England,UK
Since the first wave was imposed on Iran in December 2006, there has been a visible impact on his printing business. It has made doing business directly …
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iranian
-people-fear-new-wave-of-sanctions-773164.html

Iran brushes off new sanctions threat
Africasia – London,UK
Iran described as illegal and ineffective on Wednesday the threat of new UN sanctions and said it would clear up any remaining questions about its nuclear …
www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?
area=mideast&item=080123205045.2l9b65nd.php

The China-Russia-Iran Axis: All seek to weaken the US
By SERENDIP(SERENDIP)
Iran seeks greater power and regional dominance and enjoys the support of both Russia and China in its pursuits. Both afford Iran the protection of cover and interference at the UN Security Council and other diplomatic endeavors, …
fleetingperusal.blogspot.com/2008/01/
china-russia-iran-axis-all-seek-to.html

Subversive Politics via SMS in Iran
By CorinneRamey
If you’re a young person in Iran you probably have. Political jokes are spreading like wildfire in Iran, reports Parisa Dezfoulian in an article on texting in Iran in Middle East Online. According to Desfoulian, SMS has become a way for …
mobileactive.org/sms-jokes-iran

Iran vows to follow nuclear path despite sanctions
Swissinfo – Switzerland
By Zahra Hosseinian TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian leaders vowed on Wednesday to press on with Tehran’s disputed nuclear work regardless of any new UN sanctions …
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Iran_vows_to_follow
_nuclear_path_despite_sanctions.html?siteSect=143&sid=
8649828&cKey=1201128253000&ty=ti

Iran ready for energy, security cooperation with EU
Tehran Times – Iran
BRUSSELS – Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, has called for energy cooperation between Iran and the European Union, saying, “Iran’s great …
www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=161862

Iran, Russia eying European energy market: FM
Tehran Times – Iran
TEHRAN, – Iran and Russia aims to seize the largest energy market in Europe, Iranian foreign minister announced during his recent visit to Bulgaria on …
www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=161873

Iran considers Matthaeus for national team
Tehran Times – Iran
TEHRAN (EARTHtimes.org) The Iranian Football Federation (FFI) is looking for a German coach for its national football team and the first option is Lothar …
www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=161923

23/1/08

Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb Iran?
Leading neoconservative thinker Norman Podhoretz is back, and so is the campaign to bomb Iran. Podhoretz has a followup to his 2007 Commentary article, The Case for Bombing Iran, in a lengthy Wall Street Journal piece Wednesday arguing …
time-blog.com/middle_east/2008/01/
bombbombbomb_bombbomb_iran.html

Effectiveness of Sanctions Resolution Text
By Carah Ong(Carah Ong)
13382 (June 28, 2005), or any other blocking of property or prohibition on transactions with respect to Iran that is imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 USC 1701 et seq.).
irannuclearwatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/
effectiveness-of-sanctions-resolution.html

US still seeks diplomatic resolution of Iran row: Rice
AFP –
DAVOS, Switzerland (AFP) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that the nuclear stand-off with Iran could still be resolved diplomatically …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iM3BxJ_2G4wDWgbS497cnlloQItg

Iran brushes off new sanctions threat
AFP –
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran described as illegal and ineffective on Wednesday the threat of new UN sanctions and said it would clear up any remaining questions …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j2WKrbQe3RgXbDitLywx2H8jE-3w

Most Reformists Appear Purged From Iran Ballot
New York Times – United States
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN and NAZILA FATHI TEHRAN, Iran — When voters go to the polls March 14 to select members of parliament, they may only be able to choose …
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/world/
middleeast/24iran.html?ref=world

Iran refuses to receive US protest over ship incident
Xinhua – China
23 (Xinhua) — Iran has refused to receive Washington’s protest over the recent incident between Iranian and US naval ships because it used the term“Gulf” …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/24/content_7483064.htm

UN resolution to name 2 Iran banks-diplomats
Reuters South Africa – Johannesburg,South Africa
By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Six world powers have agreed that a new UN sanctions resolution on Iran would name two more Iranian …
africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnN23649754.html

Iraqi president invites his Iranian counterpart to visit Baghdad
Xinhua – China
23 (Xinhua) — Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has extended an invitation of visit to his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an Iraqi official said on …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/24/content_7483063.htm

Framing Iran?
By Cernig(Cernig)
Based on these interviews and the documentary record of the investigation, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the case against Iran over the AMIA bombing has been driven from the beginning by US enmity toward Iran, …
cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2008/01/by-
cernig-my-thanks-to-regular-reader.html

Showdown with Iran: GAO deals Blow to Bush’s anti-Iran Sanctions …
By dandelionsalad
If the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report hammered a nail into the coffin of the Bush-Cheney Iran war policy, a new report may do similar damage to the same duo’s anti-Iran sanctions policy. Just as the NIE stated that Iran has …
dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/showdown-with
-iran-gao-deals-blow-to-bushs-anti-iran-sanctions-policy-
by-muriel-mirak-weissbach/

Iran, Russia and China: The New Troika
By John
Over the weekend, FrontPage Magazine asked for an interview regarding the cooperative and protective relationship that both Russia and China have undertaken with regard to Iran. Both Russia and China are pursuing their own goals and …
truediscernment.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/
iran-russia-and-china-the-new-troika/

Report: Iranian, Iraqi trade officials to meet in Iran
By gcarter
Mohammad-Hossein Cheraghi, the head of the Khuzestan Commerce Organization, said Iranian and Iraqi leaders of provincial commercial groups will meet in Khuzestan province in western Iran, bordering Iraq. …
cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/23/repor
t-iranian-iraqi-trade-officials-to-meet-in-iran/

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator wants dialogue with EU on co-op
Xinhua – China
23 (Xinhua) — Iranian top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili expressed here on Wednesday his wish for a dialogue to create groundwork for cooperation between …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/24/content_7482981.htm