Iran Focus: London, Nov. 29 A prominent international press freedoms watchdog released on Tuesday the names of dozens of journalists who were banned from practising their profession in Iran.
Press freedoms watchdog blasts Iran censorship
Iran and Syria aren’t our friends in Iraq
Los Angeles Times: Our enemies have no interest in bailing us out, unless they win major concessions.
IAEA chief in Japan to discuss North Korea, Iran
AFP: UN atomic agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei on Wednesday started a visit to Japan for talks on Iran and nearby North Korea, which last month tested a nuclear bomb.
British stance on Iranian regime ‘shameful’
Press Association: The British Governments attempt to appease the tyrannical Iranian regime by proscribing the main opposition movement was shocking and shameful, former Conservative Home Secretary Lord Waddington said today.
Bush asking Arab friends for Iraq help
New York Times: As they try to arrest the downward spiral in Iraq and Lebanon, President Bush and his top diplomats appear intent on their strategy of talking only to Arab friends, despite increasing calls inside and outside the administration for them to reach out to Iran and Syria as well.
Bush to discuss talking to Iran about Iraq – W.House
Reuters: The White House acknowledged on Monday that sectarian violence in Iraq had entered “a new phase” but denied it amounted to civil war.
Iran backs Venezuela car factory
BBC News: Senior Venezuelan and Iranian government officials have opened a joint car plant in central Venezuela.
Anbar picture grows clearer, and bleaker
Washington Post: The U.S. military is no longer able to defeat a bloody insurgency in western Iraq or counter al-Qaeda’s rising popularity there, according to newly disclosed details from a classified Marine Corps intelligence report that set off debate in recent months about the military’s mission in Anbar province.
Afghanistan rejects Iran’s call to oust “occupiers”
AFP: Afghanistan defended Monday the presence of the nearly 40,000 foreign troops on its soil, rejecting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s statement that they were “occupiers” and should be made to leave.
West must accept a nuclear Iran: Guards chief
AFP: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief General Yahya Rahim Safavi said on Monday the West should accept Tehran as a nuclear power in the Middle East, the Fars news agency reported.
