Posted on 11/29/2006 9:41:44 AM PST by DoctorZIn
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Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader: US Troops must leave Iraq.
- Adnkronos International reported that Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei told Iraqi president Jalal Talabani on Tuesday that US-led forces must leave Iraq for violence to end in the country.
Hezbollah Training Mahdi Army Members.
- The New York Times reported that a senior American intelligence official said Monday that the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah had been training members of the Mahdi Army, the Iraqi Shiite militia led by Moktada al-Sadr.
Mofaz: Arafat agreed to house secret Iranian bases inside PA.
- Haaretz reported that Iran and the Palestinian Authority, then headed by Yasser Arafat, reached a secret agreement in 2002, which called for the creation of branch Iranian revolutionary guard corps bases in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in exchange for military aid to the Palestinian Authority.
Bush Rules Out Talks with Iran. But...
- USA Today reported that U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday ruled out any talks with Iran until it suspends its uranium enrichment program, and said Iran and Syria should not destabilize the fledgling democracy in neighboring Iraq.
- Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that a December 7 summit at Riyadh may be the first venue for the Bush administration to negotiate directly with Iran and Syria in an effort to reduce the bloodshed in Iraq.
Bolton: Future of Mideast 'may well be decided' in days.
- The World Tribune reported that U.S. envoy to the United Nations John Bolton said: "The future of the Middle East, certainly the future of Lebanon may well be decided in the next several days."
IAEA Tells Iran to Stop Dodging Probe with Legal Excuses.
- Reuters reported that the IAEA said Iran needs to do more than simply comply with its legal obligations if it wants to gain international trust about its nuclear ambitions.
Europe Has Prepared UN Resolution On Iran Sanctions.
- Playfuls.com reported that France, Britain and Germany have drawn up a UN Security Council resolution regarding sanctions against Tehran.
More student unrest in Tehran.
- Iran Press News reported that the regime’s agents and disciplinary guards attacked university students who had been prohibited from entering the Amir Kabir Polytechnic campus.
- Rooz Online reported that following a few weeks of attacks by Ahmadinejad and his administration directed at Azad University, Hashemi Rafsanjani, who serves on the university’s board of trustees, called on all Azad officials to resists attempts to subjugate the university.
Updates on Rebel Tehran Union Leader.
- Iran Press News reported that Mansour Osanlou, director of the greater Tehran bus drivers’ union and labor activist was transported from Evin prison where he has been held since his re-arrest last week to the revolutionary prosecutor’s interrogatory branch 14 for questioning.
- Iran Press News reported that lawyers for Tehran Bus drivers union leader, Mansour Osanlou’s responded to the Islamic regime’s justice minister and Judiciary spokesman’s charge against Osanlou.
Here are a few other news items you may have missed.
- Newt Gingrich, Human Events suggested eleven key tests for the Baker-Hamilton Iraq report.
- SFGate.com reported that the day after the 9/11 attacks, MIT professor Noam Chomsky wrote of the need "to understand what may have led to the crimes, which means making an effort to enter the minds of the likely perpetrators." What struck Daveed Gartenstein-Ross about Chomsky's response was that "Chomsky made no real effort to enter the minds of the perpetrators. Instead he simply projected his own grievances against the United States onto them."
- Mike Shelton, Townhall published a cartoon: We Should Talk with Iran?
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Everyday I'm just so thankful that we taught 'those republicans' a lesson a few weeks ago.
THAT was sooooooooo worth it. /sarc
Everythings gone to shit since that Tuesday.
With the Liberals taking over, we can look forward to all our enemies pushing us around. Sit back and get your Prozac ready; we're not going to like what's coming. Thank you brain-dead American voters.
The Iranians want the US to leave so they can declare victory and begin the takeover.
Thank you SO MUCH DoctorZin, for your reports. Without your efforts we'd never know what is going on in Iran.
Our media is more concerned with what Britney Spears is wearing today.
Our media won't report on any instability in Iran until and unless it can give the Democrats credit for it. Right now, it doesn't fit the agenda so it's not reported.
Iran wouldn't do any better. They have enough problems already with their own country headed straight to the dumpster, and adding Iraq to the list o' woes would merely accelerate history.
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