Washington Times – Embassy Row: Iranian exiles plan to hold a constitutional convention in Washington tomorrow, inspired by the stirring words of President Bush from his State of the Union speech and from America’s own such convention more than 200 years ago.

Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Apr. 12 – Thousands of members of the Iranian Diaspora across the United States are expected to convene at Washington’s Constitution Hall to voice support for a democratic, secular republic in Iran, organisers said. The political convention will be held with the support of leading American and international figures calling for a firm policy against the theocratic regime in Iran, according to organisers.

AP: Iran rejected Tuesday a Canadian demand for an international team of forensic scientists to examine the corpse of an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist who died in its custody. Zahra Kazemi, a 54-year-old Canadian photographer of Iranian origin, died in July 2003, several days after being arrested for taking photos of a demonstration outside a Tehran prison.

Fox News Channel – Your World with Neil Cavuto: Now if you don’t fight them, coerce them. The Bush administration thinks there is a lot to be said to saying a lot about democracy period in of all places, Iran. Even if it can appear illegal. Megyn
Kendall fills us in from Washington, Megyn.

Iran Focus: London, Apr. 11 – Iran’s state-run media and press reacted harshly to a recent meeting held in the United States Congress by an Iran policy group in Washington, at the invitation of the newly-formed Iran Human Rights and Democracy Caucus of the U.S. House of Representative. Iran’s state-run radio said in a commentary yesterday, “A number of U.S. personalities and groups have for some time attempted to beautify this organisation and remove its name from the list of terrorist organisations, so as to put pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran…