|
|
JANUARY 16, 1979 - A DAY TO REMEMBER
|
January 16, 2002
Iran va Jahan
In his hastily written memoirs, Answer To History, the late Shah of Iran, described his painful journey towards oblivion:
I cannot nor am I willing to express fully the sentiments which I felt on January 16, 1979, when I took the road to the airport with the Empress and my children. I had in me a sinister foreboding for I knew all too well what could happen.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Clergy abducted in mysterious case reminds reformists of serial murders
|
January 15, 2002
BBC Monitoring Service
Political desk: In the streets of [the holy city of] Qom, at 1500 hours, an unidentified man taps a cleric on the shoulder from behind. Without introducing himself he takes the cleric into a Peugeot car. "Get in!" In the car, the cleric is blindfolded and then anaesthetized with an anaesthetic substance wrapped in a handkerchief.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Iranaian in Turkey, throws molotov cocktail at embassy
|
January 16, 2002
AFP
ANKARA, Jan 16 (AFP) - An Iranian refugee threw a molotov cocktail into the garden of the Iranian embassy here Wednesday to protest strict Islamic law in his homeland in an attack in which no one was hurt, Anatolia news agency reported.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Freed MP applauded on his return to parliament
|
January 16, 2002
AFP
TEHRAN, Jan 16 (AFP) - Reformist legislator freed from jail after the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, intervened in his case was warmly applauded when he returned to parliament Wednesday.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Iranian MP freed from prison in victory for reformers
|
January 16, 2002
Independent
A gathering political crisis in Iran appeared to have been averted after a member of parliament jailed for daring to criticise the hardline judiciary in a speech to parliament was pardoned and released from prison.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
How do we deal with those pesky Ayatollahs?
|
January 16, 2002
The Wall Street Journal
The recent seizure by Israeli forces of a Palestinian freighter loaded with weapons from Iran adds a new dimension to the battle against terrorism, demonstrating that the forces ranked behind the ruling clerics of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are gaining ground against the more moderate voices of the Muslim world.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
US-Israel talks to focus on Iran's missile program
|
January 16, 2002
The Jerusalem Post
WASHINGTON (January 16) - The US and Israel will hold high-level discussions on Iran's attempts to acquire nuclear technology and advanced conventional weaponry, primarily from Russia, in Tel Aviv tomorrow. The talks are a follow-up to discussions here in October.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Hamas, Jihad plan new wave of terror, Mofaz warns
|
January 16, 2002
Ha'aretz
Hamas and Islamic Jihad are planning a wave of terror attacks within the Green Line and in the territories, Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz warned yesterday.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Bill to make tribunal to "try" Israeli leaders passed
|
January 16, 2002
AFP
TEHRAN, Jan 16 (AFP) - Parliament approved a bill Wednesday that calls for the creation of a special tribunal to "try war criminals, notably Israeli leaders," including Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Push more vigorously for Mideast democracy
|
January 16, 2002
The Christian Science Monitor
SALT LAKE CITY - I was having a discussion with my small son the other day about the freedoms we enjoy in America - the freedom to worship as we wish, to choose where we live and travel and work, to enjoy a free press and the right to speak out, to vote for the government of our choice. He was startled to learn that none of these freedoms we so easily take for granted existed in some of the countries I have lived and worked in over the years.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Aftermath of Terror - Afghan Warlords Return to Their Old Ways After Helping to Oust Taliban With U.S. Aid
|
January 16, 2002
The Wall Street Journal
LAHORE, Pakistan -- In the 1980s, Washington backed anti-Soviet Afghan militias, which in victory produced the factionalism that brought the Taliban to power. Now, the same forces, which with U.S. backing ousted the Taliban, are threatening to return the country to warlordism all over again.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reaching the parts other empires could not reach
|
January 16, 2002
Guardian
The United States is engaged in a strategic power grab in central Asia of epic proportions. In previous eras, this sort of expansionism would have been called colonialism or imperialism. It would be portrayed as a dutiful mission to civilise the less fortunate of the world or as a legitimate expression, perhaps, of America's manifest destiny. Now it is simply called the "war against terrorism".
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Amid bloodshed, Burns, not Zinni, arrives for talks
|
January 16, 2002
HA'ARETZ
Amid sudden escalation in the terrirories, U.S. special envoy Anthony Zinni will remain at home this week, but U.S. assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs William Burns is to arrive in Israel Wednesday for talks.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Account of Spy Trip on Kabul PC - Matches Travels of Richard Reid
|
January 16, 2002
The Wall Street Journal
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Less than a month before hijacked airplanes slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, al Qaeda chieftains received a report spelling out "exceptionally good opportunities" for terrorism in Israel and Egypt. Among the suggested targets: tall buildings and planes.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
US hawks risk reviving phantom - War briefing
|
January 16, 2002
The Times
It is a coincidence, but appropriate, that Washington's sudden new hawkishness on Iran coincides with the death of Cyrus Vance, Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State, who resigned presciently in 1980 in protest at the ill-fated bid to rescue the hostages in Tehran.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
CIA Looks to Los Angeles for Would-Be Iranian Spies
|
January 15, 2002
The Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -- Dissatisfied with its intelligence gathering on Iran, the CIA disbanded a station in Germany in the mid-1990s that had been a key spying portal into the Islamic republic.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
