Wall Street Journal: It’s no secret that Iranian authorities don’t trust or like the Internet. This week, the Islamic Republic inaugurated the national email. A government assigned email address linked to your social security number that makes it easy to trace users and monitor their communication.
Iran kicks off its internal internet with government email
U.S. to seek direct nuclear talks with Iran
Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration is preparing to communicate to Iran’s president-elect its desire to hold direct negotiations in the coming weeks over Tehran’s nuclear program, senior U.S. officials said.
UN is warned to act to prevent further attack on Iranian dissidents in Iraq
PRNewswire – In a press conference in New York it was announced that U.S. lawyers have petitioned the Security Council, Secretary-General, and High Commissioner of Human Rights on behalf of the Iranian dissidents in Iraq, demanding action to provide security for the over 3,000 members of the Iranian opposition in Camp Liberty.
Iran calls on UAE not to deport its nationals
AP: An Iranian news agency says the foreign minister has called on the United Arab Emirates not to deport its nationals. The Iranian media has reported that the UAE has repatriated an unspecified number of Iranians amid tensions between the two countries linked to Syria’s civil war.
Legal fights loom over state laws targeting Iran
Wall Street Journal: When Congress expanded U.S. sanctions on Iran in 2010, it authorized states to blacklist companies that have business interests with that country. But a legal fight over a highway bridge contract in New Jersey shows just how tricky it can be for states to manage their own sanctions policy.
Iran’s new ‘moderate’ president has duped the West
UPI: How easily the West allows itself to be repeatedly duped by the religious fascist rulers of Iran. Past-masters at the art of deception, they have defied world opinion for the past decade in their race to build nuclear weapons.
Syrian bid for U.N. rights body criticized, Iran withdrew
Reuters: Syrian plans to run for a spot on the U.N. Human Rights Council met with sharp criticism from the United States and Israel on Thursday, while Tehran announced it had withdrawn its candidacy for the world body’s rights watchdog.
Iran, Syria bid for UN rights council under attack
AFP: The United States and Israel on Thursday slammed a bid by Iran and Syria to get seats on the UN Human Rights Council. Acting US ambassador to the United Nations, Rosemary DiCarlo, called the campaigns “highly inappropriate” because of the two countries’ records on human rights.
Global powers to discuss Iran nuclear drive next week
AFP: European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will hold talks in Brussels next week on Iran’s contested nuclear drive with senior officials from six global powers, the first since Tehran elected a new president.
Exiled dissidents claim Iran building new nuclear site
Reuters: An exiled opposition group said on Thursday it had obtained information about a secret underground nuclear site under construction in Iran, without specifying what kind of atomic activity it believed would be carried out there.
