Toronto Star: Canada’s foreign affairs minister will today demand that Iran take action to improve its record on human rights. “The human rights violations in Iran are serious and 
AP: President Bush’s national security adviser insisted Sunday the United States is not making concessions to Iran, even though Washington has softened its stance against the nation that Bush recently labeled “the world’s primary state sponsor of terror.” 
AFP: When behind the wheel, Iranian women have to put up with all sorts of verbal abuse from the testosterone-charged types that dominate the Islamic republic’s highways — such as being told to tend to a washing machine rather than a car. But Iran’s women drivers, most of whom are clearly ill at ease navigating the anarchic road network, now have a national idol: a young woman nicknamed “Little Schumacher”. 
AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice on Sunday said Washington has not backed a military strike by Israel against suspected Iranian nuclear sites, contrary to press reports. When asked by ABC television’s “This Week” program to respond to a report in the London Sunday Times that Israel 
AFP: Iran’s Intelligence Minister Ali Yunessi said Sunday that US President George W. Bush and his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice should be put on trial in an international court for “crimes against the people”. “Rice is a terrorist and a number of crimes were committed in Palestine and in Iraq with her support. Rice, Bush and their companions should be hauled before an international tribunal for their crimes against the people,” he told the student news agency ISNA. 
Reuters: Iran has put on display three British naval boats it captured last year, shrugging off protests by London which has demanded their return, the official IRNA news agency reports. The boats, seized along with their crews by Iranian Revolutionary Guards last June in the Shatt al-Arab waterway which divides southwestern Iran from Iraq, were included in an exhibition of memorabilia from Iran’s 1980-1988 war with Iraq. 
Reuters: Washington is “hallucinating” if it thinks Iran will 
AFP: The United States will pursue “stronger action” if Iran does not abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions, Vice President Dick Cheney said in an interview Friday. The statement comes as Washington announced it would drop objections to Iran joining the World Trade Organization to support efforts by Britain, France and Germany aimed at persuading Tehran to end its suspect nuclear program. 
New York Times: Europe’s leading nations, yielding to American demands for a tougher stance on Iran, warned
CNN: The United States has dropped its opposition to Iran’s application for membership in the World Trade Organization in an effort to bolster European negotiations with the Tehran regime over its nuclear program. The three European countries negotiating with Iran — Britain, Germany and France — had been pressing the Bush administration to drop American opposition to Iran trying to enter the WTO, which facilitates … 
