Iran Focus: Tehran, Mar. 07 – The ending ceremony of the sixth national student newspaper festival turned into a demonstration yesterday as over 1,000 students from universities across the city of Mashad (northeast Iran) heckled the regime’s Minister of Health, forcing him to flee the event. Students took the podium and jeered the government minister, shouting slogans and demanding the release of political prisoners and an end to the crackdown on students in Iran’s universities.

AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday there was plenty of reason to be concerned over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, downplaying press reports that US intelligence on Iran was inadequate. “I believe that there is enough evidence that there are problems with Iran’s civilian nuclear power ambitions,” Rice said in an interview with Univision television, the largest Spanish-language network in the United States.

AFP: Polish police have detained a British citizen of Iranian origin wanted on an international arrest warrant on suspicion
of trying to bring an experimental US plane to Iran, authorities said here Wednesday. Ali Asghar Manzarpour “is accused of trying to export to Iran in 2004 an experimental Berkut 360 plane bought in the United States,” Maciej Kujawski, spokesman at the Warsaw prosecutor’s office, told AFP.

New York Times: An American scholar who was instrumental in getting the head of the Library of Congress invited to Iran for an official conference in November has suspended his own five-year effort to build bridges between the two countries after he and a colleague were turned away at the Tehran airport in separate incidents last month.

AP: Federal authorities have launched an investigation into allegations that a guard beat one of four Iranian brothers who have been detained for more than three years at an
immigration detention center, authorities said.