Posted on 08/14/2005 6:58:34 PM PDT by DoctorZIn
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- IranMania.com reported that the wife of leading Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji pleaded to be allowed to see him on his hunger strike for a 64th day.
- Xinhuanet reported that four more inspectors from the IAEA arrived in Iran to monitor Iran's nuclear activities.
- Rancher, RedState.org said in light of Bush's promise to stand with the Iranian people, Don't the Kurds in Iran count as Iranian people?
- MosNews reported Moscow supported the decision of the IAEA, urging Iran to resume its moratorium on nuclear fuel production.
- Iran Focus reported that more than a dozen protestors arrested in Ahwaz, southern Iran, during a demonstration in July were sentenced to serve prison time and will be flogged in public.
- World Peace Herald reported on the U.S. Helsinki Commission, which just held a hearing titled, "The Iran Crisis: A Transatlantic Response."
- The Associated Press reported that the Iranians are pushing ahead on the construction of a heavy-water reactor.
- CNN claimed a CIA report has determined with "relative certainty" that Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was not involved in the taking of U.S. hostages.
- Victor Davis Hanson reminds us that we need to listen to the words of radical Islamists. He quotes them directly and lets them speak for themselves.
- Iranian blog, Rooz Online remembers that Ayatollah Khomeini once told of a fable that they see parallels to Iran's current regime.
- Iranian blogger, Omid Memarian, Rooz Online discusses the new administration's war on the NGO's.
- Iranian blog Rooz Online reports that many political leaders are refusing to join the Ahmadinejad administration, including Rafsanjani's sons.
- Iranian blog Rooz Online reported that Iranian lawyers are threatening a protest.
- BBC News reported that German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has warned the US to back away from the possibility of military action against Iran.
- And finally, another Cox & Forkum cartoon on Iran's nuclear crisis.
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didn't come from the New York Slimes ;-)
It is a possible theory!
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