Posted on 06/05/2006 10:31:58 PM PDT by DoctorZIn
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Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji is in Moscow.
- Moscow Times reported that Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji arrived in Moscow to receive this year's Golden Pen of Freedom award.
Iran's Supreme threatens to cut off the world's oil supply.
- The Herald reported that the Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said attempts to punish Tehran would jeopardize the world's oil supply.
- Yahoo News reported that Iran's top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned: "If you make any mistake (and invade Iran), definitely shipment of energy from this region will be seriously jeopardized."
- Yahoo News reported that Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has declared that the Islamic republic must not give up its "scientific goals" in the face of "threats and bribes".
- CNN News reported that oil prices have surged above $73 after Iran's supreme leader warned the United States that any "misbehavior" directed at his country could endanger oil movements in the Persian Gulf.
New Evidence Against Iran?
- Time reported that an IAEA report on Iran's activities is expected next week will include "potentially incriminating" details about traces of highly enriched uranium recently found by inspectors.
Here are a few other news items you may have missed.
- The Chicago Tribune reported the debate inside of Iran over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his nuclear ambitions.
- The Jerusalem Post reported that Japan is considering imposing sanctions on Iran if it continues to reject international calls to scrap its nuclear program.
- Hindu Times reported that the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have backed global efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the standoff between Tehran and Western countries over its controversial nuclear program.
- Times Online reported that President Ahmadinejad has jangled German nerves by announcing that he may cheer on his country’s team in person at the World Cup.
- Aryamehr reported on a video clip of the recent massive anti-regime demonstrations in Tabriz.
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---"If you make any mistake (and invade Iran), definitely shipment of energy from this region will be seriously jeopardized."---
Oh, wait! I thought they were just going to blow us away if we dared raise a hand against them.
Interesting development. Will Admadinejad ignore or will he have a tantrum?
"The Game Is Over"
- GEORGE BUSH
The Iranians can hurt us merely by making such statements.
They dpn't really have to do ANYTHING.
Such statements raise the price of energy beyond even last weeks already inflated rates and threaten us with recession or worse.
They know what they are doing.
We, apparently, do not.
Delendi sunt Ayatollahs.
"The package is aimed at encouraging Iran to return to a freeze of its nuclear activities,"
You'd have to first believe that they ever "froze" it to begin with.
This is from RegimeChangeIran:
"Russia's Guild of Press Publishers, a professional organization associated with the newspaper conference, invited Ganji to Moscow. He received his passport only on May 16.
"We were worried that he would not be given his passport in time and would not come to Moscow," said Yevgeny Abov, a vice president of the guild. "To help him with the visa, we wrote an extraordinary request to the Russian Foreign Ministry, and it was honored." Ganji arrived in Moscow over the weekend."
Perhaps the Russian press and the Iranian dissidents have a lot in common; both are in danger of suppression by an authoritarian government, for Putin is cracking down on criticism of his regime much like the Iranian theocracy is seeking to punish dissent. I can certainly see a common cause here, and I am glad that the advocates of a free press in one country were able to help an advocate of liberty from another.
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