Iran Focus: Berlin, Germany, Feb. 07 Iranians are planning a massive rally in Berlin on the twenty-sixth anniversary of the 1979 Iranian revolution to call for an end to theocratic rule in their country. The announcement comes after the barring of a similar rally on Iran which was scheduled for the same day in Paris. Organisers are expecting a huge turnout in the event scheduled for February 10 at the Brandenburger-Tor in central Berlin, despite the originalParis demonstration having been barred by French authorities,
days before the event.
U.S. Newswire – News Advisory: Iran Policy Committee (IPC) is holding a press conference on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005 at 10 a.m. in the West Room of the National Press Club of Washington, to release its report on U.S. policy options on Iran. IPC is comprised of former officials from the White House, State Department, Pentagon, intelligence agencies, the Congress, and experts from think tanks and universities. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 07 One out of every ten people living in the streets in Iran are university-educated, according to the head of Social Affairs in the Tehran Governor’s Office. Zahra Nejadbahram said, “9.4 percent of street-sleepers attending Tehran’s four day-care centres are university graduates”. 
Washington Post: Top U.S. officials expressed confidence yesterday that no Iran-style Islamic government would take hold in Iraq despite the expected rise to power there of religious Shiite parties following last week’s elections. With the Shiites widely predicted to dominate a new constitutional assembly, Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld played down reports that leading Shiite clerics … 
The Guardian: Condoleezza Rice turned Washington’s rhetoric on Iran up another notch yesterday, telling Iranians they would have to “live up to their international obligations” to avoid a conflict with Israel. But back in Washington, the secretary of defence, Donald Rumsfeld, struck a more dovish note, saying the estimates he had seen said Iran was “years away” from building a nuclear bomb, and that the White House had meanwhile opted for diplomacy. 
Daily Telegraph: Iran dared America to attack it yesterday as
AFP: Iran’s judiciary has shut down a cosmetics and personal hygiene exhibition in the northeastern holy city of Mashhad after a judge apparently decided that only women should operate the stalls. “This judge came to the exhibition and grabbed some posters from the stalls and said that only women could run the booths,” an informed official was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency on Sunday. 