20 April, 2009

Iran president urges full defense for US reporter – Democratic …
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president said Sunday that an American journalist convicted of spying for the U.S. should be allowed to offer a full defense during her appeal, a day after she was sentenced to eight years in prison. …
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/
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Scoop: Campbell: Plans to bomb Iran’s nuclear facities
During the election campaign last year, Joe Biden caused a mini-flap by suggesting that within his first six months in office, Presaident Barack Obama would be tested in an international crisis by one of America’s enemies.
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0904/S00193.htm

Iran sentences American Journalist to 8 years for spying | Video Cafe
By scarce
This is one of those stories where an individual’s predicament has a direct effect on international relations, and at a time which could not be worse for Iran. Perhaps sensing the ramifications, Iran’s President Ahmadinejad just …
videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/
iran-sentences-american-journalist-8-years

JURIST – Paper Chase: Iran president orders prosecutor to …
By Devin Montgomery
Last year, the Committee to Protect Journalists [advocacy website] reported that Iran ranked sixth in the world [report] for total number of imprisoned journalists. In the past two years, Iran has arrested several journalists and …
jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/04/
iran-president-orders-prosecutor-to.php

U.S., others boycotting, Iran starring, at U.N. racism meeting …
The United Nations opens its first global racism conference in eight years on Monday with the US and at least…
www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/us-others
-boycotting-iran-starring-at-un-racism-meeting

Iran president ensure US-Iranian reporter’s rights | WORLD
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on the judiciary to ensure that an Iranian-American journalist jailed for espionage enjoys her legal right to defend herself.
tvnz.co.nz/world-news/iran-president
-ensure-reporters-rights-2656095

‘Iran is like a train with no brakes’ | Iran news | Jerusalem Post
Ahmadinejad claims country front-runner in scientific, cultural, moral, political and economic fields.
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/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1239710726629

19 April, 2009

Iran president urges full defense for US reporter
Iran’s president said Sunday that an American journalist convicted of spying for the US should be allowed to offer a full defense during her appeal, …
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090419/ap_
on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_us_journalist

Jailed American Gets Support From Obama and Iran’s President – The …
By By Robert Mackey
Earlier on Sunday, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had sent a letter to Tehran’s chief prosecutor instructing him to ensure that Ms. Saberi is given the opportunity to present a full …
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/jailed-american
-gets-support-from-obama-and-irans-president/

Riehl World View: Iran: Let The Games Begin
By Dan
Which of these two stories out of Iran is true? Both Which one accurately reveals Ahmadinejad’s intentions? Both It’s called rope a dope and I’m afraid we all know who the dope is here. It isn’t Ahmadinejad. He’s been doing…
www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative
/2009/04/iran-let-the-games-begin.html

Islam In Action: Iran President Urges Full Defense for US Reporter
By Christopher Logan
This is a follow up to the “Iran:American Journalist Gets 8 Years!! Obama is “Deeply Disappointed” story. The madman of Iran wants us to believe that he is all of a sudden concerned with the American reporter. …
islaminaction08.blogspot.com/2009/04/
iran-president-urges-full-defense-for.html

Global Voices Online “ Iran: 19 year old blogger was released
By Hamid Tehrani
Amir Kabir News site says [fa] that Ali Reza Firouzi, 19 year old blogger and student activist was released from jail in Iran.Read more here. #. Bahraini blogger Hussein Nasser explains why an Arabic-interfaced phone needs to be told if …
globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/19/iran
-19-year-old-blogger-was-released/

Iran’s president makes rare intervention in US reporter’s case …
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells Iran’s judiciary to uphold Roxana Saberi’s legal rights.
www.csmonitor.com/2009/0419/p06s07-wome.html

Iran’s Leader Calls For Reporter’s Rights – Democratic Underground
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Ahmadinejad: ‘No country would dare attack Iran’ | Trends Updates
By GSerrano
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in his speech during the celebration of the Armed Forces in Tehran that no nation would dare attack his country.
trendsupdates.com/ahmadinejad-no-country-would-dare-attack-iran/

Klein: Israel ‘preparing massive strike on Iran’. Defense …
By Procrustes
The Israel Defense Forces is carrying out drills to practice for a possible massive aerial assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities within days – or even hours – of being given the go-ahead by its new government, according to a report April …
therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/klein-israel-
preparing-massive-strike-on-iran-defense-officials-say-country
-holding-drills-to-be-ready-within-hours-of-decision-to-act/

Israel Matzav: Obama’s embarrassing outreach to Iran
By Carl in Jerusalem
One has to wonder what President Obama thinks he is going to accomplish by his outreach to Iran. This past week, Iran smacked him twice: once regarding its nuclear program and a second time regarding civil liberties in Iran. …
israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas
-embarrassing-outreach-to-iran.html

Power Line – Iran’s new hostage
By Scott
While President Obama has been extending a hand of friendship to the“Islamic Republc of Iran” — the mullahs who hold the Iranian people in bondage — the mullahs have yet to reciprocate. Among Obama’s symbolic acts was his video …
www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/04/023364.php

Jailed American Gets Support From Iran’s President – Democratic …
Roxana Saberi working as a reporter in Iran in 2004.One day after Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist, was sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage, following a one-day trial behind closed doors in Tehran, Iran’s state …
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U.S. Journalist Convicted of Spying in Iran| Christianpost.com
By Aaron J. Leichman
An American journalist detained in Iran has been convicted of spying and sentenced to eight years in prison, her lawyer reported Saturday.
christianpost.com/Intl/Overseas/2009/04/u-s-
journalist-convicted-of-spying-in-iran-19/index.html

Espionage: Iran’s New Word for, ‘We Got Nothing’ – Bright Hall
By Matt Negrin
But such is the perplexing case of Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American reporter who was convicted of spying by Iran’s shady court this week. The prosecutors accused the 31-year-old journalist of passing along secret information to U.S. …
brighthall.aol.com/2009/04/19/espionage
-irans-new-word-for-we-got-nothing/

Roxana Saberi: Iran’s Ahmadinejad Urges Full Defense | The Seferm Post
By Seferm Post
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said an American journalist sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of spying for the US should be allowed to offer a full defense during her appeal, the state news agency reported Sunday.
www.sefermpost.com/sefermpost/2009/04/roxana-
saberi-iran-ahmadinejad-urges-full-defense.html

Global Voices Online “ Iran: Ahmadinejad says jailed blogger must …
By Hamid Tehrani
Iran: Ahmadinejad says jailed blogger must have right of defense … Full Category List. Cyber-Activism · Governance · Human Rights · Iran· Middle East & North Africa · Politics · Protest · Roundups …
globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/19/iran-ahmadinejad
-says-jailed-blogger-must-have-right-of-defense/

Global Voices Advocacy “ Iran: A Christian Blogger arrested
By Hamid Tehrani
According to several sources an Iranian Christian blogger was arrested in the city of Isfahan in Iran about one month ago. He is a convert from Islam and he used to write about Bible in his blog. Posted by Hamid Tehrani on Apr 19, 2009 …
advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/
19/iran-a-christian-blogger-arrested/

U.S. ‘deeply disappointed’ as Iran convicts reporter › Japan Today …
Iran convicted an American journalist of spying for the United States and sentenced her to eight years in prison, her…
www.japantoday.com/category/world/view/us-
deeply-disappointed-as-iran-convicts-reporter

Middle East Analysis: US ‘Deeply Disappointed’ as Iran Convicts …
By News Service
Obviously, if the US wants to do business with Iran, it will have to accept the legitimacy of Islamic justice. This was a great gesture of peace to the Americans, since ordinarily Saberi would have been raped before being murdered, …
middle-east-analysis.blogspot.com/2009/04/
us-deeply-disappointed-as-iran-convicts.html

China Confidential: Iran’s Allies Share Hatred of US, Not Love of …
By Confidential Reporter
While U.S. President Barack Obama reaches out and apologizes to “the Muslim world” in the context of his so-called engagement of nuclear-arming, Islamist Iran, not one member of the adoring liberal medioacracy has observed that the …
chinaconfidential.blogspot.com/2009/04/
liberal-media-overlook-obvious.html

World News Australia – US leads chorus criticising Iran after …
US President Barack Obama was disappointed at news of the eight-year jail sentence given US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi by an Iranian court that accused her of being a spy, his spokesman said Saturday.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1015996/US-leads
-chorus-criticising-Iran-after-reporter-jailed