14 April, 2009

Roxana Saberi Tried Behind Closed Doors: Iran
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Roxana Saberi Tried Behind Closed Doors: Iran – The Huffington Post.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/roxana
-saberi-tried-behin_n_186561.html

Iran puts US Reporter on Trial for Spying Asharq Alawsat Newspaper …
TEHRAN (AFP) – US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been detained in a Tehran jail since January, has been put on trial on charges of spying for Iran’s arch-foe the United States, an official said on Tuesday. …
www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=16391

Iran says US journalist tried behind closed doors | Home Other …
TEHRAN (AP) – A jailed American journalist charged by Iran with espionage stood trial behind closed doors and a verdict is expected within weeks, Iran’s judiciary spokesman said Tuesday.
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=457565&publicationSubCategoryId=200

IRAN: New Israeli government reignites war talk “ Pak Alert Press
By pakalert
Iran has long denied it is seeking nuclear weapons and insists its drive toward mastering the production of nuclear fuel is aimed at advancing the country’s industrial and technological capacity. The U.S., Israel and Western European …
pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/iran-new
-israeli-government-reignites-war-talk/

Pragmatism Returning to Our Iran Policy? | The Agonist
The US, our allies and Iran seem to be making some genuine progress. Remember, when you want something from your adversary you have to give them something. And I don’t see this as too much of a giveaway. …
agonist.org/sean_paul_kelley/20090414/
pragmatism_returning_to_our_iran_policy

‘Obama considering Iran policy shift’ | Iran news | Jerusalem Post
New York Times: US may drop insistence Teheran cease all uranium enrichment before negotiating.
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=
JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1239633078567

Israpundit “ Blog Archive “ What Iran Really Thinks About Talks
By Andrew Jaffee
What Iran Really Thinks About Talks. Michael Rubin: … Thus our president fulfills a pattern in which new administrations place blame for the failure of diplomacy on predecessors rather than on adversaries. The Islamic Republic is not a …
www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=12390

U.S. may shift Iran strategy: US newspaper – GEO.tv
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration and its European allies are preparing proposals that would shift strategy toward Iran by dropping a longstanding American insistence that Tehran rapidly shut down.
www.geo.tv/4-14-2009/39807.htm

Gates: Strike on Iran would create backlash – Army News, news from …
Read late breaking, exclusive Army News from Iraq and Afghanistan. – Army Times.
www.armytimes.com/news/2009/04/military_iran_gates_041309/

Solomonia: What Iran Really Thinks About Talks
Both remain committed to Iran’s nuclear program. Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, for example, called for a Dialogue of Civilizations. The European Union (EU) took the bait and, between 2000 and 2005, nearly tripled trade with …
www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2009/
04/what-iran-really-thinks-about-talks/

Why I’d be very surprised if Israel bombed Iran’s nuclear …
By Thomas E. Ricks
I’d be very surprised if Israel bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities anytime soon, despite what a guy over at ForeignPolicy.com’s cousin (or step-parent?) Slate is saying. He offers all sorts of complicated political analyses about why such …
ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/13/why_slate_is
_probably_wrong_about_israel_bombing_iran_soon

netwmd – What Iran Really Thinks About Talks
By publisher
With Washington embracing dialogue without accountability and Tehran embracing diplomacy without sincerity, it appears the Iranian government is right.
netwmd.com/blog/2009/04/13/3899

13 April, 2009

Will Israel Attack Iran? | Mother Jones
By Roane Carey
A message to Obama from an observer in Israel: Don’t flash the yellow light—not even once.
www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/will-israel-attack-iran

Israel’s Peres: Clash Between Iran, Sunni Arabs ‘Inevitable’
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Israel’s Peres: Clash Between Iran, Sunni Arabs ‘Inevitable’ – The Huffington Post.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/13/
israels-peres-clash-betwe_n_186145.html

Iran: EU trade increases despite sanctions – Adnkronos Business
By webinfo@adnkronos.com
(AKI) – Trade between Iran and the European Union rose by 10 percent last year, despite ongoing economic sanctions, an Iranian foreign ministry official said on Monday. Houshang Karimi,…
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Business/?id=3.0.3211709262

Chats With Iran Won’t Work – Daily Nexus
For those of you who haven’t heard, Iran has turned its nuclear power plant program — established, ironically, by the US in the 1950s — into a nuclear bomb program. The country had concealed its nuclear activities for 18 years in …
www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=18660

Emptywheel “ Louis Freeh Defending Iran-Contra Type Arms Deals …
By emptywheel
5 Responses to “Louis Freeh Defending Iran-Contra Type Arms Deals Along with Bandar”. earlofhuntingdon April 13th, 2009 at 11:12 am. 1. Implied blackmail, Mr. Freeh? Would such an upstanding member of the bar be so crass? …
emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/04/13/louis-freeh-
defending-iran-contra-type-arms-deals-along-with-bandar/

Global Voices Online “ Iran: Environmentalists Campaign to Save …
By Hamid Tehrani
Ghomaar, an Iran based blog, writes [fa]that Alireza Firouzi, a 19 year old blogger and student activist was arrested in Zanjan. The blogger adds that Firouzi is among student activists who revealed a sex scandal in Zanjan University in …
globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/13/iran-
environmentalists-campaign-to-save-isfahan/

Hot Air “ Blog Archive “ Euro telecom building Iran’s wiretap …
By Ed Morrissey
It didn’t work out that way in the end, but the concept appears to be alive and well in Iran. Eli Lake reports that German-Finnish telecom Nokia Siemens has provided the Iranian mullahcracy with key wiretap capability that will allow …
hotair.com/archives/2009/04/13/euro-telecom
-building-irans-wiretap-capabilities/

Commentary “ Blog Archive “ Calling Out Europe on Iran
By Emanuele Ottolenghi
The U.S. government must “really crack down on companies doing business with Iran, to increase the cost of that business, to drive up the price of violating these sanctions on the part of the Iranians,” Mr. Bayh, Indiana Democrat, …
www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/ottolenghi/62091

Patterico’s Pontifications “ Unrealpolitk on Iran
By Karl
Bush for the IAEA’s manifest failure to detect, let alone control,
Iran’s covert nuclear weapons program. Cohen predictably argues that Pres. Obama must strike a “grand bargain” with the Iranian mullahs, which will necessarily means …
patterico.com/2009/04/13/unrealpolitk-on-iran/

Iran leads population growth decline in region | Middle East …
Turnaround attributed to better family planning, urbanization and empowerment of women.
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=
JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1239488121007

Israel Arming Russia to De-arm Iran – Robert Amsterdam
By James
Russia is well known to go back-and-forth in its relations with Iran, both in terms of delivering the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system as well as assisting on nuclear energy. One day it’s all green light, and the next,…
www.robertamsterdam.com/2009/04/
israel_arming_russia_to_de-arm_iran.htm

Iran: Nuclear Talks With West Welcomed
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Iran: Nuclear Talks With West Welcomed – The Huffington Post.
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/13/
iran-nuclear-talks-with-w_n_186144.html

Global Voices Online “ Kazakhstan: Great Success with Iran
By Adil Nurmakov
Kazakhstan: Great Success with Iran. Monday, April 13th, 2009 @ 06:52 UTC. by Adil Nurmakov. Regions and Countries, “ Americas, “ Central Asia& Caucasus, “ East Asia, “ Eastern & Central Europe, “ Middle East & North Africa, “ Oceania …
globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/13/
kazakhstan-great-success-with-iran/

US bases surrounding Iran despite overture
By PRESS TV
As part of its isolation tactics, the US is setting up military bases in areas surrounding Iran to create ‘strategic depth’, Iran’s Etemad daily wrote citing a report by the Parliament (Malijs) Research Center’s political studies bureau …
www.inteldaily.com/news/163/ARTICLE/10369/2009-04-13.html

Iran Welcomes Nuclear Dialogue with World Powers: Report Asharq …
Iran’s Saeed Jalili talked with Solana over the telephone, state television said. Last week, the United States and five other major powers said they would invite Tehran to a meeting to discuss its disputed nuclear program.…
www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=16385

Israpundit “ Blog Archive “ Realpolitik for Iran
By Jerry Gordon
“Israel would be utterly crazy to attack Iran,” ElBaradei said. “I worry about it. If you bomb, you will turn the region into a ball of fire and put Iran on a crash course for nuclear weapons with the support of the whole Muslim world.” …
www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=12338

Peres: Iran aspires to ‘control Mideast’ | Israel | Jerusalem Post
President comments on Egypt-Hizbullah row, says world will &quotsoon realize” group is an &quotIranian agent.”
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=
JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1239488124437

NewsDaily: Iran welcomes nuclear dialogue with world powers: report
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator told European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana that Tehran would welcome constructive dialogue with six world powers, state television said on Monday.
www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53c1j9-us-iran-nuclear/

Iran News – Iran says nuclear talks should concentrate on its …
Iranian Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani said Sunday that world powers should concentrate on Iran’s inalienable nuclear rights in the upcoming negotiations, the official IRNA news agency reported. …
globalnewsblog.com/blog/2009/04/13/iran-news-iran-says-
nuclear-talks-should-concentrate-on-its-inalienable-rights-peoples-daily/

Iran Welcomes Nuclear Dialogue With World Powers: Report …
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator told European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana that Tehran would welcome constructive dialogue with six world powers, state television said on Monday. Iran’s Saeed Jalili talked …
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/
duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3828705

Iran Quest | Iran News
After dying down for a few months amid U.S. elections rumors of an impending Israeli war against Irans nuclear facilities have resurfaced again and with a …
iranquest.com/blog/

Press TV
Iranian presidential hopeful MirHossein Mousavi says if elected he would… Iran is planning to join the countries possessing the technical ability to …
www.presstv.com/