9 May, 2009

Iran court to review US reporter’s case
Washington Post – United States
Saberi was jailed on April 18 on charges of spying for the United States, Iran’s arch foe. Her father said the 32-year-old reporter started a hunger strike …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2009/05/09/AR2009050900257.html

Iran’s former parliament speaker registers for presidential race
Xinhua – China
TEHRAN, May 9 (Xinhua) — Iran’s former parliament speaker Mehdi Karroubi formally registered his candidacy on Saturday for the upcoming presidential…
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/09/content_11341431.htm

“friday-lunch-club”: Belarus denies plans to sell Syria, Iran weapons
By G, Z, & or B
Earlier this month some Russian and foreign media reported Belarus was planning to sell S-300 surface-to-air missiles and Iskander tactical missile systems to Iran, and said that Tehran had arranged to transfer some of the systems to …
friday-lunch-club.blogspot.com/2009/05/
belarus-denies-plans-to-sell-syria-iran.html

CHN | News
The 82-minute film received the event+s Best Feature Film award and Iran+s Roya Nonahali won the festival+s Best Actress award for her performance in Gemayel+s 2008 production. Co-produced by France, Iran and Lebanon, Niloufar recounts …
www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=8325

Beyond “Violent Extremism” | Marc Lynch
Hamas and Hezbollah are two of the most popular forces in the Arab world— why “give” them to Iran? Treat Hezbollah as a Lebanese issue, Hamas as a Palestinian issue, and resolve them on their own terms. …
lynch.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/05/08/beyond_violent_extremism

Amitai Etzioni Notes: “Regional peace” — A New Idea for the …
By Amitai Etzioni
Many Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, are very keen for Iran not to have nuclear bombs. They also favor the two state solution. In short, the regional peace plan has a ready-made, significant political constituency …
blog.amitaietzioni.org/2009/05/regional-
peace-a-new-idea-for-the-middle-east.html

Iran’s ex-parliament speaker bids for presidency
AFP
TEHRAN (AFP) — Mehdi Karroubi, the ex-parliament speaker of Iran, has formally registered to stand in the June 12 presidential election, according to an AFP …
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US defense chief appeases Egypt over olive branch to Iran
Xinhua – China
“Some kind of grand bargain (with Iran) developed in secret is completely unrealistic and I would say, is not going to happen,” Gates said at a press…
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/06/content_11319717.htm

The Iranian Revolution and the Rise of Militant Islam
New York Times – United States
In the book’s second section, Coughlin sets out to catalog revolutionary Iran’s dirty business from 1979 down to the present, drawing a neat line from …
www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/books/review/Moaveni-t.html

Israpundit “ Blog Archive “ SELF-DESTRUCT IRAN-PALESTINIAN LINKAGE
By Ted Belman
In order to pressure Israel, the Administration contends an ostensible linkage between the stop-Iran-campaign and the Palestinian issue. Just like its 1949 predecessor, the 2009 linkage aims at misrepresenting Israel as a peace …
www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=13215

My Right Word: Peres On Iran And Jewish History
By YMedad
Peres On Iran And Jewish History. JG: Is there a chance that Israel is over-reacting to the language that comes out of Tehran? Let me ask this another way: Is it possible to over-learn the lessons of Jewish history?…
myrightword.blogspot.com/2009/05/peres
-on-iran-and-jewish-history.html

Doc’s Talk: Obama’s green light to attack Iran
By GS Don Morris, Ph.D.
As Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel made clear in his closed-door briefing to senior AIPAC officials this week, the administration is holding Israel indirectly responsible for Iran’s nuclear program. It does this by claiming that …
docstalk.blogspot.com/2009/05/obamas-green-light-to-attack-iran.html

www.washingtonexaminer.com Beltway Confidential Opinion …
Not if Iran attacks Israel, notice, but if Israel attacks Iran, presumably to take out its nuclear weapons program that threatens Israel with annihilation. There’s a tension here between public opinon on the one hand and, …
www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-
confidential/Public-opinion-favors-Israel-over-Iran-44605607.html

Report: Iran could have enough material for nuke in months
CNN – USA
By Charley Keyes WASHINGTON (CNN) — A US Senate report released Thursday says some experts predict Iran could have enough material for a nuclear bomb in …
www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/07/iran.nuclear/

8 May, 2009

Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Iran’s “Iowa Presidential Caucuses”
By Amb. Marc Ginsberg
As President Obama calibrates his engagement policy with Iran and plans his next steps with the vexing Islamic Republic, that nation will go to the polls on June 12 to elect a president. The election will have important implications for …
www.huffingtonpost.com/amb-marc-ginsberg/
irans-iowa-presidential-c_b_200386.html

“Iran and the bomb: Israel’s analogies Middle East Strategy at …
By MESH
President Shimon Peres: “As Jews, after being subjected to the Holocaust, we cannot close our eyes in light of the grave danger emerging from Iran… If Europe had dealt seriously with Hitler at that time, the terrible Holocaust and the …
blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/05/iran
-and-the-bomb-israels-analogies/

Delara Darabi commemorated at actions against the death penalty in …
The demonstrations also highlighted the scheduled execution in Iran of two people – Amir Khaleqi and Safar Angooti – who faced execution in the early hours of 6 May, despite having been convicted of offences that occurred when they were …
www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/delara-darabi-
commemorated-actions-against-death-penalty-iran-20090508

China Confidential: Hezbollah Helping Iran to Conquer Lebanon
By Confidential Reporter
Non-Arab Iran’s Islamist, Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, “seeks to destroy the foundations of the sectarian regime in Lebanon agreed upon in the National Pact of 1943 that has been preserved by the Lebanese state ever since. …
chinaconfidential.blogspot.com/2009/05/
hezbollah-helping-iran-to-conquer.html

UAE pipeline would duck Iran threat, bypass Straits of Hormuz
Thursday, May 7, 2009. UAE pipeline would duck Iran threat, bypass Straits of Hormuz. ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates has accelerated construction of a crude oil pipeline meant to operate throughout any attack by neighboring Iran. …
www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/
WTARC/2009/me_oil0367_05_07.asp

Iranian Court Will Review Prison Term for Journalist
New York Times – United States
Ms. Saberi, 32, was first arrested in late January on charges of buying alcohol, which is banned in Iran. But the charges against her increased,…
www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/world/middleeast/07iran.html?hpw

A Tiny Revolution: Cheney Confirms Iran-Contra Cover-Up
By Jonathan Schwarz
“I went through the Iran-contra hearings and watched the way administration officials ran for cover and left the little guys out to dry. And I was bound and determined that wasn’t going to happen this time.” …
www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/002952.html

Commentary “ Blog Archive “ Iran Back in Iraq?
By Abe Greenwald
If Iran is once again actively working to bring chaos to Iraq, that’s one more reason for Obama to abandon his hopeless kid gloves treatment of the mullahs — not that it will convince him to change course or anything. …
www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/65291

Israel, Iran and Nuclear Disambiguation | The Progressive Realist
By Tim Wilkie of TPR
Now, there’s no question that the legal issue raised by Sullivan’s reader is damning, as is the fundamental hypocrisy involved in holding Iran strictly accountable for its NPT obligations, while turning a blind eye to Israel’s flouting …
www.progressiverealist.org/blogpost/
israel-iran-and-nuclear-disambiguation

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
By Andrew Sullivan
Which is not to say that Hizballah is anything other than a group of
extremist thugs—but southern Lebanon and, more recently, Gaza are the battlefields where Israel’s rivalry with Iran has been playing out. (Add: Indeed, given the …
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/rivals.html

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : The Other Klein
By Philip Klein
How about the disproportionate bellicosity Israel visited upon Iran’s Hizballah surrogate in 2006? Which is not to say that Hizballah is anything other than a group of extremist thugs—but southern Lebanon and, more recently, …
spectator.org/blog/2009/05/08/the-other-klein1

Lavrov gives Russian foreign policy 101 | Politics from 2009-05-08 …
Whatever we sell to Iran or to any other country is not covered by any prohibitions internationally or nationally. In the Russian Federation we have one of the strictest export control legislation. And whatever we sell to Iran in …
www.russiatoday.ru/Politics/2009-05-08/
Lavrov_gives_Russian_foreign_policy_101.html

Iran has 1.2 million drug addicts
AFP
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran said on Friday it has 1.2 million drug addicts and the average age of victims is 32 years, the official IRNA news agency reported. …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5j4xwh4IfJDJ7qBgMOV1GoaJ6w6AQ

Biographical details about jailed reporter in Iran
The Associated Press
FAMILY — Saberi’s father was born in Iran and her mother is from Japan. HOMETOWN — Born in New Jersey and moved to Fargo, North Dakota, when she was 2. …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5
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Iran president seeks second term
BBC News – UK
Mr Ahmadinejad faces challenges from several quarters, including a former head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and leading reformist Mir-Hossein Mousavi. …
news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/2/hi/middle_east/8040092.stm

Rick’s Café American: Israel Matzav: Bolton: How Iran beats the …
By JR
So far, the Manhattan DA has struck a plea deal with a British bank and, separately, indicted a Chinese citizen and his company on charges related to Iran’s violations of international sanctions designed to block its acquisition of …
rickscafamerican.blogspot.com/2009/05/israe
l-matzav-bolton-how-iran-beats.html

Signs of the Times News for Thu, 07 May 2009
By Signs of the Times
Signs of the Times, featuring news and commentary on world events. Never wavering in our unending search for the light of truth in a pathocracy driven world!
www.sott.net/articles/show/183806-Iran-s-
president-vows-support-for-Palestinian-resistance-

Ex-Revolutionary Guards head seeks Iran presidency
Reuters – USA
TEHRAN (Reuters) – A former head of the elite Revolutionary Guards on Friday became the most prominent figure so far to register as a candidate in Iran’s …
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5472NG20090508

Russia: Toughening Iran sanctions unwise
Ynetnews – Israel
Sergey Lavrov expressed his government’s opposition to toughening Security Council sanctions against Iran, and criticized the United States for imposing …
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3712719,00.html

Conservative rival raps Iran president on economy
The Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A conservative challenger to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Friday to “save” Iran’s economy if elected, accusing the …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5
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Latest news
“I, like many among the international community, must condemn the appalling execution of Delara Darabi in Iran on Friday, for a crime she allegedly committed whilst aged only 17. I offer my sincere condolences to Delara’s family and …
www.fco.gov.uk/en/newsroom/latest-news/?view=News&id=17421314