31 May, 2009

Israel tests response to ‘doomsday’
Aljazeera.net – Qatar
The five-day national exercise got under way on Sunday, with defence officials playing down any connection to recent and growing tensions with Iran. …
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2009/05/200953165125459420.html

Bomb found in toilet on Iran plane
BBC News – UK
The incident comes at a time of rising tension in the run up to Iran’s presidential elections on 12 June. The plane turned back to Ahvaz for an emergency …
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8075699.stm

Israel begins its biggest civil defense drill
The Associated Press
Israel believes Iran is developing nuclear weapons and has not ruled out a military strike. Iran says its nuclear program is only for energy production. …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM
5g1zcsgCESqD7i3alxb5v9Xnq1aMgD98H38S00

Iran defuses homemade bomb on plane – report
Reuters – USA
TEHRAN, May 31 (Reuters) – Security personnel defused a homemade bomb found on an airplane during a domestic flight in Iran late on Saturday, …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSHOS119300

Iran Think Tank Slams Ahmadinejad for Distorting Facts on Nuclear …
By Jason Ditz
Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the Prime Minister of Iran for most of the 1980's, is seen as Ahmadinejad’s primary challenger. A reformist candidate, Mousavi has expressed willingness to negotiate with the US and has based his campaign around …
news.antiwar.com/2009/05/30/iran-think-tank-slams
-ahmadinejad-for-distorting-facts-on-nuclear-program/

Iran hopeful backs women’s rights | News Logging
By BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
Iran hopeful backs women’s rights. A leading reformist candidate in Iran’s presidential election, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, vows to back women’s rights if elected. By BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition in BBC News | News Front Page …
www.newslogging.com/general-news/
iran-hopeful-backs-womens-rights

Flashback: ABC News Exclusive: The Secret War Against Iran | adroha
By admin
A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials.
www.adroha.com/2009/05/flashback-abc-
news-exclusive-the-secret-war-against-iran/

Change in the Air in Iran
Washington Post – United States
By David Ignatius As Iran heads toward its presidential election on June 12, there are signs that Iranian voters are embracing their own version of“Change …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2009/05/29/AR2009052902672.html

Turkey made to pay Iran $704 million for unused natural gas
Tehran Times – Iran
Turkey has paid Iran some $704 million for natural gas it failed to buy from the country in 2008, Today’s Zaman has learned from sources close to the …
www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=195716

Half of Israelis Back Immediate Strike on Iran | Mostly Water
By blackandred
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Just over half of Israelis back an immediate attack on the nuclear facilities of arch-foe Iran but the rest want to wait and see the results of US diplomacy, according to a poll released on Sunday. …
mostlywater.org/half_israelis_back_immediate_strike_iran

Ahmadinejad Campaign Office Attacked in SE Iran — News from …
By Jason Ditz
Jundallah is a Sunni militant group made up of Baloch separatists, carrying out attacks principally in Iran but having operations on the Pakistani side of the border as well. The group has reportedly been encouraged and advised by the …
news.antiwar.com/2009/05/29/ahmadinejad
-campaign-office-attacked-in-se-iran/

CHN | News
Smuggled Tiles to Be Returned to Iran. Smuggled Iranian Tiles. Tehran, May 30, 2009: Dozens of historic decorative tiles which had been smuggled out of Iran have been handed over to the Iranian embassy in London. …
www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=8577

Iran president’s rivals slam his foreign policy
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
Mehdi Karroubi, another liberal challenger, took on the president’s handling of the nuclear program, which Iran says is aimed at civilian energy production …
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/
la-fg-iran-foreign31-2009may31,0,972854.story

Iran candidate Mousavi backs women’s rights
BBC News – UK
Presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi has vowed to review laws that discriminate against women in Iran if he wins an upcoming election. …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8075603.stm

Report: Hezbollah, Iran plotted Baku embassy bombing
Ha’aretz – Tel Aviv,Israel
By Yossi Melman Iran and Hezbollah were behind a plot to attack the Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan a year ago, according to a report published yesterday in …
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1089204.html

Joho the Blog “ The YouTube election … in Iran
By davidw
The YouTube election … in Iran. Posted on May 30th, 2009. Hamid Tehrani at GlobalVoices posts about how Iranian candidates for the presidency are using YouTube…including controversies about jokes and ad hoc footage……
www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/05/30/the-youtube-election-in-iran/

Journalist freed from Iran welcomed home – TwinCities.com
By By DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press
Saberi, who lived in Iran for six years and has dual citizenship, was arrested Jan. 31 and charged with spying for the United States. She was sentenced to eight years in prison, but an appeals court reduced that to a two-year suspended …
www.twincities.com/news/ci_12485566?source=rss

Iran Hangs for Mosque Blast : One News Page
Front Page News on One News Page on Saturday, 30 May 2009: Iran publicly hanged three men today in connection with the bombing of a Shi’ite mosque last week that killed at … more.
www.onenewspage.com/news/Front+Page
/20090530/2441258/Iran-Hangs-for-Mosque-Blast.htm

RealClearWorld – There’s No Room for Partisanship on Iran
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that it is imperative that the world prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. She pledged that the Obama administration’s …
www.realclearworld.com/2009/05/30/theres_
no_room_for_partisanship_on_iran_101193.html

Iran hangs 3 over mosque bombing… | Euronews 24
By Tom
01:20 Iran hangs 3 over mosque bombing TEHRAN, Iran – Three people convicted of involvement in a mosque bombing in southeastern Iran that k.
www.euronews24.org/world/iran-hangs-3-over-mosque-bombing/

‘Just World News’ with Helena Cobban: Israel’s horse in Iran’s race?
By Scott H
And we also should add that Israelis, particularly those analysts who follow Iran matters closely, might disagree considerably. So let’s narrow the question to refer to the current Israeli prime minister. :-} …
justworldnews.org/archives/003583.html

30 May, 2009

Iran’s Mousavi vows to review ‘unfair’ women laws
AFP
Over the past few years, such patrols have strictly enforced the Islamic dress code on women in Iran and especially in Tehran. …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article
/ALeqM5iIgkK-_nv3oHRnbBFfAx3Ax4ZVWw

Iran Mosque Bombing: 3 Hanged
By The Huffington Post News Editors
TEHRAN, Iran — Three people convicted of involvement in a mosque bombing in southeastern Iran that killed 25 were hanged Saturday, Iran’s official news agency reported. The three men supplied explosives to the perpetrators who carried …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/30/
iran-mosque-bombing-3-han_n_209367.html

Middle East News | Iran hangs three over deadly mosque bombing
Iran executed in public on Saturday three men convicted of involvement in a bomb attack on a mosque that killed 25 people, the official IRNA news agency reported. The bombing in a crowded Shiite mosque on Thursday evening wounded more …
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/05/30/74267.html

Global Voices Online “ Iran: YouTube, Broadway music and the Election
By Hamid Tehrani
As Tehran Post once noted, the most popular genre of jokes in Iran is the ethnic joke. The main protagonists of most ethnic jokes are Azeri Turks. In this video Khatami tells [fa] a joke about a naive (Azeri) cleric in Ardebil who did …
globalvoicesonline.org/2009/05/30/iran-you
tube-broadway-music-and-the-election/

Justice: Iran Style – Baltimore Sun talk forum
By AttackPlanR
Justice: Iran Style National/World News. … Iran has blamed the U.S. and Israel for trying to stoke sectarian tension with the Sunni Muslim minority. Mossad operatives strike again… . smithie on Israeli settlements in the West Bank: …
talk.baltimoresun.com/showthread.php?t=200832

Can Iran’s Minorities Help Oust Ahmadinejad?… | Euronews 24
By Tom
09:17 Can Iran’s Minorities Help Oust Ahmadinejad? The presidential candidate was greeted last Monday at the airport by a jubilant throng, chanting Aze.
www.euronews24.org/world/can-
irans-minorities-help-oust-ahmadinejad/

War-mongers war-monger, seek to influence public opinion in Iran …
By monkeysmashesheaven
According to a recent poll, over half of all Israelis favor an immediate attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Fifty-one percent favored an immediate strike. Forty-nine percent favored awaiting the outcome of talks between the U$ and …
monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/war-monger
s-war-monger-seek-to-influence-public-opinion-in-iran/

Etisalat Still Interested in Iran Mobile Licence | Emirates …
Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, the United Arab Emirates’ biggest phone company, said the global economic crisis is creating acquisition opportunities and it is “still” interested in the Iranian market.“Iran is a big market …
www.gulfbase.com/site/interface/NewsArchiveDetails.aspx?n=98347

Iran Hangs 3 (US Hirelings) For Bombing | Sweetness & Light
By Steve
From those defenders of the faith at Reuters: Iran hangs three over deadly mosque bombing: report Sat May 30 TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran executed.
sweetness-light.com/archive/iran-hangs-3-us-hirelings-for-mosque-attack

Iran: The U.S. Needs a New Strategy | Security Debrief – a blog of …
By Akram Elias
We find the national security community in Washington generally divided into two groups: those advocating a much tougher stance on Iran that includes the use of preemptive military force to destroy Iranian nuclear and military strategic …
securitydebrief.adfero.com/iran-the-us-needs-a-new-strategy/

International – Radio Netherlands Worldwide – International Justice
Iran has hanged three men in public accused of involvement in a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in the southeastern town of Zahedan on Thursday. The hanging took place close to the mosque. Tehran claims the three were mercenaries …
www.rnw.nl/internationaljustice/news/international
/6321765/Iran-hangs-three-for-mosque-bombing

The Iran Push Backfires
Newsweek – USA
The reason is that by pushing too hard on Iran, Netanyahu may have set himself up for failure. Iran may not want the bomb, and other unexpected truths. …
www.newsweek.com/id/200057

North Korea, Iran victims of propaganda
Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada
So it is with the Western portrayal of two members of Bush ii’s infamous“axis of evil” – North Korea and Iran. North Korea earned international ire with …
www.thestar.com/opinion/article/642793

NewsDaily: Iran hangs three over deadly mosque bombing: report
Iran executed in public on Saturday three men convicted of involvement in a bomb attack on a mosque that killed 25 people, the official IRNA news agency reported.
www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54t0mw-us-iran-explosion/

Middle East News | Iran hangs three over deadly mosque bombing …
By Buffoon
Middle East News | Iran hangs three over deadly mosque bombing.
dequalss.com/2009/05/30/middle-east-news
-iran-hangs-three-over-deadly-mosque-bombing/

“ Iran-Pakistan pipeline: Iran’s new lifeline Middle East Strategy …
By MESH
While the world’s eyes are focused on Iran and Pakistan, little attention has been paid to the two countries’ decision from last week to move ahead with their plans to connect their economies via a natural gas pipeline. …
blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/05/
iran-pakistan-pipeline-irans-new-lifeline/

Iran mosque blast blamed on US, Israel
By Director
… and Israel for the “cowardly terrorist attack,” stating that the bombing was “carried out by the ‘evil Salafists” but the U.S. and Israel ‘undoubtedly’ masterminded the incident” to undermine Iran’s upcoming presidential election. …
homelandsecurityus.com/?p=2781

Weasel Zippers: Nasrallah Says if Hezbollah Wins Lebanese …
By ZIP
For whatever reason, Hezbollah’s near certain takeover of the Lebanese government hasn’t been getting much media attention (Shawarma has been on top of it). This is huge news, makes Hamas’ takeover of Gaza look minuscule in comparison.
www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/05/nasrallah-says-if-hezbollah
-wins-lebanese-elections-iran-will-gladly-supply-the-army-with
-weapons.html

Iran hangs three over deadly mosque bombing: report – Reuters
By admin
Indian ExpressIran hangs three over deadly mosque bombing: reportReutersTEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran executed in public on Saturday three men convicted of.
jinanrailway.com/hot-topics/hollywood/iran-hangs
-three-over-deadly-mosque-bombing-report-reuters-8/

Iran: US, Israel Behind Mosque Bombing | Sweetness & Light
By Steve
From the always trustworthy Islamic Republic News Agency: Cleric: Clues of US, Israel’s involvement in Zahedan bombing discernable Tehran, May 29,
sweetness-light.com/archive/iran-us-israel-behind-mosque-bombing

What Would Happen if Israel Attacked Iran? Asharq Alawsat …
However, the first question is: Does Israel actually intend to attack Iran, or is it merely political saber rattling? I think that this time the threats are more serious than at any previous time. I do not exclude that the war might …
www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=16897

International – Radio Netherlands Worldwide – International Justice
Zahedan is the capital of Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province and the city is close to the borders of both Pakistan and Afghanistan. Local Iranian police are often caught up in clashes with drugs smugglers and extremists. International …
www.rnw.nl/internationaljustice/news/international/
6320621/Iran-accuses-US-of-involvement-in-bomb-attack

Conservative Compendium “ Shocker: Iran Lies About Obama Lead …
By Brian Garst
Jalal Sayyah, of the governor’s office in Sistan-Baluchestan province, said three people had been arrested in connection with blast on Thursday in a crowded Shi’ite mosque in the city of Zahedan, in a region where many of Iran’s …
conservative-compendium.com/wordpress/2009
/05/shocker-iran-lies-about-obama-lead-america-too/

The Daily Star: Internet Edition
Mosque bombing kills 23 in Iran. Afp, Tehran. A bomb blast at a Shia mosque in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday killed at least 23 worshippers and wounded 80 others, the official IRNA news agency reported.…
www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=90423

RealClearPolitics – Israel and the Axis of Evil
By Caroline Glick
The Shihab-3 missile, for instance, which forms the backbone of Iran’s strategic arm threatening to Israel and its Arab neighbors, is simply an Iranian adaptation of North Korea’s Nodong missile technology. Since at least the early …
www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05
/29/israel_and_the_axis_of_evil_96735.html