Washington Post: Speaking last October at a Tehran conference on “The World Without Zionism,” Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, referred to Israel as a “disgraceful blot” and called for it to be “wiped off the map.” This was not an isolated or idle threat. In the same speech, he defended Iran’s determination to press ahead with its nuclear program — which would give it the practical ability to achieve this result.
A legal case against Iran
EU’s Solana arrives in Iran with incentives offer
Reuters: European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana arrived in Iran on Monday to offer incentives agreed by six world powers that aim to persuade Tehran to halt making nuclear fuel.
Solana to hand Iran incentives package
Reuters: European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana will hand Iran a package of incentives on Tuesday that aim to persuade Tehran to abandon its plan to make nuclear fuel, a spokeswoman for Solana said on Monday.
Woman, man stoned to death in Iran report
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 05 Iranian authorities have stoned a man and a woman to death, according to a report that has surfaced in Persian-language websites.
Woman, man stoned to death in Iran report
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 05 Iranian authorities have stoned a man and a woman to death, according to a report that has surfaced in Persian-language websites.
Iran’s nuclear ambition hits piggy banks
Washington Times: Threats of an international financial squeeze stemming from the showdown over Iran’s nuclear program have sent Iranians scrambling to get their savings out of the country, or if that won’t work, to convert them into gold.
Tehran’s useful idiots?
Washington Times – Editorial: During its 20th-century struggles for world domination, international communism periodically benefited from the naivete and willful ignorance of some in the Western media, who foolishly portrayed totalitarians as agrarian reformers and social democrats.
Iraqi leaders fail to name security ministers
Knight Ridder Newspapers: The Iraqi government failed Sunday to name its three top security officials because a powerful Shiite party with close ties to Iran is insisting on its candidate for interior minister over the choice of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and virtually every other political faction, senior Western diplomats and Iraqi politicians said.
A way out for Iran?
Washington Times: French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy welcomed U.S. willingness to join in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear issue. Could it be the European’s political maneuvering has managed to convince the Bush administration to follow the peaceful road to negotiations rather than carry a big stick?
Rice says Iran incentives not open-ended
AP: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice put Iran on notice Sunday that the incentives offered by the West to end its nuclear program are not open-ended, although she declined to say Tehran had a firm deadline to respond.
