Mercury News – Editorial: The U.S. visit earlier this week by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was met with an uproar over the Iranian president’s outrageous views on everything from homosexuality to the Holocaust, not to mention his country’s nuclear aspirations and its link to global terrorism.
Editorial: Governor’s divestment plan sends strong message to Iran
France flips while Congress shifts
Washington Post: Ahmadinejad at Columbia provided the entertainment, but Sarkozy at the United Nations provided the substance. On the largest possible stage — the U.N. General Assembly — President Nicolas Sarkozy put Iran on notice. His predecessor, Jacques Chirac, had said that France could live with an Iranian nuclear bomb. Sarkozy said that France cannot.
Iran invites Bush to speak at university
AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad invited President Bush to speak at an Iranian university if the American leader ever traveled to the Islamic Republic, state-run television reported Friday.
Full text of major nations statement on Irans nuclear activities
Iran Focus: London, Sep. 28 The following is the text of a joint statement by the foreign ministers of the five permanent member states of the United Nations Security Council Britain, China, France, Russia, and the U.S. – and Germany with the support of the High Representative of the European Union issued today in New York:
Full text of major nations statement on Irans nuclear activities
Iran Focus: London, Sep. 28 The following is the text of a joint statement by the foreign ministers of the five permanent member states of the United Nations Security Council Britain, China, France, Russia, and the U.S. – and Germany with the support of the High Representative of the European Union issued today in New York:
Threat of more sanctions on Iran
CNN: Representatives of world powers Friday announced that unless a November report shows a “positive outcome” of talks with Iran about its uranium enrichment program, they will move ahead with plans for a resolution imposing additional sanctions on the country.
Democrats and Iran
Wall Street Journal – REVIEW & OUTLOOK: Kudos to Hillary Clinton — yes, you read that right — for her Senate vote this week urging the U.S. to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization. That’s more than can be said for her primary competition of Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson and John Edwards, who assailed her on this score at Wednesday’s Democratic Presidential candidates debate at Dartmouth.
World powers seek to narrow differences on Iran
Reuters: The world’s major powers will try to narrow their differences on tougher sanctions against Iran when they meet on Friday in New York, seeking to keep up pressure on Tehran to curb its nuclear program.
Britain cautious on new Iran sanctions
Daily Telegraph: Britain is resisting American-led efforts to impose tougher sanctions on Iran, as the international community struggles to formulate its next move to prevent the Islamic state building a nuclear bomb.
Iran hangs three men in public during holy Muslim month
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 27 Iranian authorities hanged three men in public in the northern city of Babol on Thursday halfway through the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, state media reported.
