Washington Times – Editorial – In its coverage of the Iran nuclear crisis, The Washington Post has been providing yet another illustration of why many Americans distrust the mainstream media and believe it is determined to skew its news reporting against the Bush administration.
The Post’s dubious slant on Iran
UN inspectors to oversee Iran nuclear plant restart
Reuters: U.N. inspectors have arrived at a uranium conversion plant in Iran to install surveillance equipment and oversee the removal of seals as Tehran prepared to resume work there, a senior Iranian official said on Monday. Such a move would lead the Islamic state into direct confrontation with the European Union, which has warned Iran it faces being referred to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions if it resumes work at the plant near the central Iranian city of Isfahan.
Women not permitted in cabinet of Irans new president
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 Women will not be included in the cabinet of Irans new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a leading ultra-conservative figure said on Sunday.
Hamid-Reza Taraghi, a central committee member of the Motalefeh Party, told a state-run news agency, The circumstances for women to be ministers in the cabinet do not exist, but probably they can become deputies.
Women not permitted in cabinet of Irans new president
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 Women will not be included in the cabinet of Irans new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a leading ultra-conservative figure said on Sunday.
Hamid-Reza Taraghi, a central committee member of the Motalefeh Party, told a state-run news agency, The circumstances for women to be ministers in the cabinet do not exist, but probably they can become deputies.
Syria president in Iran for talks with new counterpart
AFP: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iran’s leading Arab
ally, arrived in Tehran Sunday for talks with his newly sworn-in counterpart Mahmood Ahmadinejad, state radio said.
It was the first visit by a foreign leader since Ahmadinejad took the oath of office Saturday.
Iranian woman barred from work following husband’s complaint
AFP: A Tehran court has barred a young woman from working after her estranged husband complained she was only
allowed to be a housewife, local media reported Sunday. The female half of the unnamed couple left her husband and started working two years ago because he “deceived me and treated me badly”, she told the court.
Security tight at Kurdish town on strike in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 Irans State Security Forces and agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security have been on heightened alert on Sunday in the Kurdish town of Bukan, northwest Iran, following a general strike in the central bazaar and in many shops, residents reported. The general strike was in protest to authorities violent crackdown on the restive Kurdish population in western Iran. Over the past month, there have been continuous anti-government protests in Irans Kurdish region.
Security tight at Kurdish town on strike in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 Irans State Security Forces and agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security have been on heightened alert on Sunday in the Kurdish town of Bukan, northwest Iran, following a general strike in the central bazaar and in many shops, residents reported. The general strike was in protest to authorities violent crackdown on the restive Kurdish population in western Iran. Over the past month, there have been continuous anti-government protests in Irans Kurdish region.
Iran unconcerned about Security Council referral
Reuters: Iran on Sunday reiterated plans to resume uranium conversion this week and said it was unconcerned about referral of its nuclear case to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. “Although we think referral of Iran’s case
to the Security Council would be unlawful and politically motivated, if one day they refer Iran’s case…we won’t be
worried in the least,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi.
EU won’t intimidate us over uranium, says Iranian leader
Sunday Telegraph: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed that Iran would not be intimidated by the West over its nuclear
ambitions as he was formally sworn in as the country’s president yesterday. Hopes of finding a diplomatic solution to the crisis were dashed when Iran rejected a European Union package of incentives in return for scrapping its uranium enrichment programme.
