7 May, 2009

Germany pressures firms to limit Iran trade-report
guardian.co.uk – UK
BERLIN, May 7 (Reuters) – The German government is increasing pressure on companies to curb business with Iran and even tried to stop a business conference …
www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8494238

Iran hangs 3 men, 1 woman convicted of murder
The Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state-owned newspaper says four people including a 30-year-old woman convicted of murder have been hanged. …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM
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Morgenthau: No time to waste in stopping Iran’s nuclear program …
By aorjoux
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The man who spearheaded financial investigations of Iran said Wednesday the Islamic republic is “deadly serious” about developing nuclear weapons and long-range missiles — and there’s not much time to stop it before …
cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/06/morgenthau-
no-time-to-waste-in-stopping-irans-nuclear-program/

Iran’s Ahmadinejad in new tirade against Israel
Ahmadinejad said Iran and Syria were standing together to “resist foreign intervention and the major powers trying to impose their hegemony over the region. …
www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9fb00f
626c815dbdf828c671ccf43420.eb1&show_article=1

When Iran Advocates Just Make It Up… – Michael Rubin – The …
By Michael Rubin
Afkhami tries to pain me as an advocate of military action on Iran—an action I have long opposed except as a last resort—when he says, “Rubin had argued as recently as 2007 that the US needed to ‘take on Iran’ to achieve victory in Iraq …
corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NzgwOTA0Y2I1Y
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Instapundit “ Blog Archive “ SHIMON PERES ON IRAN: Overreaction Is …
By Glenn Reynolds
May 6, 2009. SHIMON PERES ON IRAN: Overreaction Is Better Than Underreaction. Posted at by Glenn Reynolds at 8:10 pm. RSS Feed · Podcast RSS Feed · Email Instapundit. Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc! …
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Iran: Amnesty head condemns executions at Delara Darabi ‘flowers …
Speaking at a gathering of anti-death penalty protestors outside the Iranian embassy in London today, Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan said: “The earth on Delara Darabi’s grave has not dried yet as the Iranian …
www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/iran-amnesty
-head-condemns-executions-delara-darabi-%E2%80%98flower
s%E2%80%99-protest-20

Time running out to stop Iran nuclear pursuit, investigator says
CNN – USA
By Charley Keyes WASHINGTON (CNN) — A man who spearheaded financial investigations of Iran said Wednesday the Islamic republic is “deadly serious” about …
www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/06/iran.nuclear.program/

Nuclear talks get first breakthrough in 10 years
Reuters – USA
Washington tried to focus attention on the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs, while Iran condemned the failure to disarm and Egypt pointed to…
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN06281930

JURIST – Paper Chase: Iran stays execution of men sentenced to …
Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] called on Iran to halt the executions [AI press release] Tuesday. According to reports [Guardian report], Khaleqi was convicted of killing a man while drunk at the age of 16, while Angooti …
jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/05/iran
-stays-execution-of-men-sentenced.php

Global Voices Online “ Iran: Movement of 1000 bloggers supports …
By Hamid Tehrani
In this post, we look at Mousavi supporters as a first journey into Iran’s election cyber-battleground. Around 1000 bloggers have announced that they support Mir Hussein Mousavi. Their names and web addresses are published on…
globalvoicesonline.org/2009/05/06/iran-movement-of-
1000-bloggers-supports-mousavi-for-presidency/

News Headlines – Report: Foreign analysts cite Iran bomb progress …
Congressional investigators say some foreign intelligence analysts believe US intelligence is underestimating Iran’s progress toward designing a nuclear warhead before Tehran halted its program…
townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2009/05/06/
report_foreign_analysts_cite_iran_bomb_progress

Press Freedom In Iran
Voice of America – USA
Ms. Saberi was convicted of espionage on April 18 after a one-day closed-door trial, and her case is currently under appeal in Iran. President Barack Obama …
www.voanews.com/uspolicy/2009-05-06-voa5.cfm

Analysis: Israel sees no reason to sign ‘ineffective’ NPT
Jerusalem Post – Israel
Both Syria and Iran are signatories to the NPT. Syria was secretly building a nuclear reactor, in clear violation of the treaty, that was destroyed by an …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=12397108859
88&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

6 May, 2009

Peres won’t rule out “other options” against Iran
Reuters – USA
By Claudia Parsons NEW YORK (Reuters) – Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Wednesday other options remained open if US diplomatic engagement with Iran …
uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE5456WE20090506

US-Israeli “special relationship” damaged by Iran factor
Xinhua – China
The tension has increased with an apparent difference of opinion on linkage between the Palestinian issue and Iran’s nuclear program. …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/07/content_11325804.htm

Iran Juvenile Executions: Amnesty International Protests Death …
By The Huffington Post News Editors
A week after the execution of a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Delara Darabi, two more controversial cases have emerged to contribute to the country’s highly criticized record of illegal (by international law) juvenile executions: Amir …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/06/iran
-juvenile-executions_n_197781.html

Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive – Iran is “deadly serious” about …
By Eliza, AC360°
“I am not an expert on proliferation but we have consulted a lot of people who are and it comes out loud and clear — it is late in this game and we don’t have a lot of time to stop Iran from developing long-range missiles and nuclear …
ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/06/iran-is-deadly-serious-about-nukes/

Shimon Peres on Iran: Overreaction Is Better Than Underreaction …
Shimon Peres, the President of Israel, was in town this week, and I went to his hotel to talk to him about Iran and Israel and Obama and the Sunni-Shiite split and the future of the Jews; all the good stuff, in other words. …
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/05/peres.php

Iran: ‘Woman and three men hanged’ – Adnkronos Security
By webinfo@adnkronos.com
(AKI) – One woman and three men were hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison on Wednesday, the Iran Human Rights website reported. The woman, identified as Zeynab Nazarzadeh, 28, was convicted…
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3283936735

Islam In Action: Iran: US is State Sponsor of Terrorism
By Christopher Logan
Just seven days ago the US State Department stated that Iran remains the most active state sponsor of terrorism. In return Iran who is lead by their madman President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has labeled the US a state sponsor of terrorism. …
islaminaction08.blogspot.com/2009/05/iran
us-is-state-sponsor-of-terrorism.html

Jordan says new approach to Mideast peace emerging
The Associated Press
Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet President Barack Obama on May 18 to push for a tough US stance on Iran. Israel argues that progress in peace with the …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM
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US Arab allies wary over Iran overtures | Iran news | Jerusalem Post
Concerns raised by Arab leaders sound strikingly similar to those coming from Israeli officials.
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/
JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1239710880573

Fargo journalist jailed in Iran ends hunger strike – TwinCities.com
By By Ali Akbar Dareini Associated Press
Iran’s judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi denied on Tuesday that Saberi was ever on a hunger strike or that she was briefly hospitalized on Friday in Evin prison, where she has been held since her arrest in January. …
www.twincities.com/news/ci_12306248?source=rss
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Reporters sans frontières – Iran
Iran6 May 2009. Roxana Saberi ends her hunger strike. Reporters Without Borders is extremely relieved to learn that Roxana Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist who is in a Tehran jail on a spying charge, has ended her hunger strike. …
www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=31217

Soccer Dad: US To Israel: No Nukes For Iran? You First!
By daledamos
“What the Israelis sense, rightly, is that Obama wants to do something new on Iran and this may very well involve doing something new about Israel’s program,” said Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nuclear Nonproliferation …
soccerdad.baltiblogs.com/archives/2009/05/06
/us_to_israel_no_nukes_for_iran_you_first.html

A man stoned to death again in Iran – The Atheist News
By jaskaw
Stoning as practiced in modern Iran is the most evil way of killing people there is, as it is carefully.
atheistnews.blogs.fi/2009/05/06/a-man
-stoned-to-death-again-in-iran-6068016/

Matthew Yglesias “ Israel, Iran, and Nuclear Proliferation
By myglesias
And at the same time, Israel’s nuclear deterrent is so overwhelmingly important that it can’t be bargained about for any purpose, and yet its existence gives the Israelis no confidence whatsoever that a nuclear Iran could be deterred. …
yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/05/
israel-iran-and-nuclear-proliferation.php

Gates Calls Prospect of Breakthrough With Iran ‘Very Remote’ – Jim …
By jiminturkey@gmail.com
“The question is whether circumstances in Iran have changed in such a way that with the administration offering an opportunity for contact that the Iranians are willing to take advantage of that opportunity.” You know, Mr. Secretary, …
campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGM0
ZTM0OTdjOTI3MWUwODNjOTliNDkxMjg1MjQ1M2M=

Israeli president: U.S. outreach to Iran OK for now – Kansas City Star
Israeli President Shimon Peres cautiously endorsed new US outreach to Iran following a longer-than-expected visit with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, telling The Associated Press that the American leader should be given a chance to …
www.kansascity.com/811/story/1179403.html

Iran: Stop Wednesday’s execution of two juvenile offenders …
The Iranian authorities must halt the execution of two juvenile offenders due to be executed on Wednesday, five days after the execution of Delara Darabi who had been convicted of a crime she was alleged to have committed while still …
www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/iran-stop -wedn
esday%E2%80%99s-execution-two-juvenile-offenders-20090505

US will not abandon Arab allies to Iran, Robert Gates says
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
America offered assurances to its closest Arab allies on Wednesday that President Barack Obama’s overtures towards Iran will not damage their interests. …
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/528 5936
/US-will-not-abandon-Arab-allies-to-Iran-Robert-Gates-says.html

Morgenthau: Iran Threat ‘Deadly Serious’ to US
FOXNews – USA
By Micah Morrison Famed Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau warned Congress on Wednesday that Iran’s efforts to build nuclear weapons and …
www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/06/morgenthau-iran-threat-world/

Israel brushes off call to sign nuclear arms pact
Reuters – USA
Arab countries and Iran see a double-standard in the US-sanctioned reticence. Speaking Tuesday during a meeting at the United Nations of the 189 NPT …
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5453TD20090506

AL concerns over Iran’s shelling on Iraqi Kurd villages
Xinhua – China
CAIRO, May 6 (Xinhua) — The Arab League (AL) expressed Wednesday its concerns about the Iran’s shelling on Kurd villages in northern Iraq. …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/06/content_11324352.htm

Iran ‘continues PJAK bombings in Iraq’
PRESS TV – Tehran,Iran
Iran’s armed forces bombed Kurdish rebel positions in Banjawin district, east of Sulaimaniya, on Tuesday, which have had no reported casualties, …
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=93751&sectionid=351020101