Washington Times: President Bush yesterday criticized a vow by Iran’s president-elect to restart Tehran’s nuclear-energy program, warning it could lead to the development of a nuclear weapon. “The development of a nuclear weapon is unacceptable,” Mr. Bush said during an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. “And a process which would enable Iran to develop a nuclear weapon is unacceptable.”
Bush, Schroeder agree on Iran nukes
Iranian Revolution Is Thriving in Iraq
Los Angeles Times: Did those wily ayatollahs give us the purple finger again? It sure looks like it after the smashing defeat Iran’s religious fanatics dealt reformers in the presidential election Friday. It was a replay of the election in Iraq, in which candidates groomed by Tehran’s theocracy herded loyal Shiite followers to the polls to dip their fingers in purple election ink. Only this time the sight of lines of shuffling, chador-clad women voting away their human rights was not applauded by the White House.
Rethinking Iran
Washington Post – Editorial: Iranians once again have voted for change in their authoritarian and corrupt Islamic regime. Their choice for president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, differs dramatically from the liberalizing reformer voters backed in two previous elections, but Mr. Ahmadinejad, a religious hard-liner, is no more likely to satisfy restless Iranians than his failed predecessor. He should instead prompt the West to rethink its own strategy for promoting freedom inside Iran, and for containing Iran’s nuclear program and support for terrorism.
Secret memo says Irans new president fired coups de grace
Iran Terror Database: A secret memorandum made available to Iran Terror by a source in the Iranian government sheds light on the mysterious past of Irans newly-elected ultra-conservative president. Information provided by this source has proven reliable in the past. The memorandum, from a senior official of Irans Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) to the minister, Hojjatol-Islam Ali Younessi, makes detailed references to some of the activities of President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his 26-year career in the service of the Islamic Republic.
Secret memo says Irans new president fired coups de grace
Iran Terror Database: A secret memorandum made available to Iran Terror by a source in the Iranian government sheds light on the mysterious past of Irans newly-elected ultra-conservative president. Information provided by this source has proven reliable in the past. The memorandum, from a senior official of Irans Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) to the minister, Hojjatol-Islam Ali Younessi, makes detailed references to some of the activities of President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his 26-year career in the service of the Islamic Republic.
Bush firm on Iranian nuclear program
AFP: US President George W. Bush said Monday that Iranian elections had not changed his view that it would be “unacceptable” for Tehran to obtain a nuclear weapon or the ability to make one. “The development of a nuclear weapon is unacceptable, and a process that which would enable Iran to develop a nuclear weapon is unacceptable,” Bush said as he met with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
US still skeptical of Iran nuclear talks
AFP: The United States supports European diplomacy to ensure Tehran does not develop nuclear weapons but is “skeptical” that it will succeed, the White House said Monday after Iran elected a hardline president. “We continue to support the efforts of the European three,” Britain, France and Germany, spokesman Scott McClellan said after ultra-conservative Mahmood Ahmadinejad said the Islamic Republic would pursue talks on its nuclear program.
Blair says world won’t ‘go soft’ on Iran
AFP: Iran’s president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad would be wrong to think that the international community will “go soft” on Tehran’s nuclear policy, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday.
“We expect Iran to honour its obligations, and we have tried to find
a way through the impasse over nuclear capabilities,” Blair told a press conference after ultra-conservative Ahmadinejad swept Iran’s presidential elections.
Straw urges Iran not to renege on nuclear talks
Reuters: The government called on Iran’s new government on Monday not to resume nuclear activities that western powers fear could be a front for making atomic weapons. “We are working on the basis that any incoming government in Iran will honour the commitments made by the outgoing government,” Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told reporters after talks with his Indian counterpart.
Iran’s new leader: a familiar face?
BBC: As soon as I saw a picture of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s new president, I knew there was something faintly familiar about him. And it was not because he was mayor of Tehran, because, like many other Western journalists, I have been barred from visiting Iran in recent years. Then, when I read a profile of him in the English-language Tehran Times, I realised where I must have seen him: in the former American embassy in Tehran.
