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Iran: Khatami says Israeli attacks "crimes against the entire mankind"
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BBC Monitoring Service
Tehran, 30 March, President Mohammad Khatami said on Friday evening [29 March] that the Iranian government and nation have always been beside the oppressed Palestinian nation.
The Iranian president made the remark during a telephone contact with his Lebanese counterpart and Chairman of the Arab League Emile Lahud.
He called on the Islamic states to spare no efforts in prevention of the massacre of the oppressed Palestinian nation.
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'Axis of evil': Bush says 'I meant it'
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DAWN
CRAWFORD, Texas, March 28: President George W. Bush said Thursday he has a message for critics unhappy that he lumped North Korea, Iran and Iraq in an "axis of evil" that may face the United States' wrath: "I meant it."
"For the good of our children and our grandchildren, we must deny the world's most dangerous leaders from having and harbouring the world's most dangerous weapons," the president said.
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Iran Accuses Arabs For "Outrageous Generosity" With Israel
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Iran Press Service
TEHRAN 29 Mar. (IPS) Iran slammed Friday the Saudi Arabia-initiated "Beirut Declaration" that offers full recognition to the Jewish State by all Arab governments against Israeli withdrawal from all the Arab territories in still occupy, accusing the Arabs of "outrageous generosity" for "offering 80 per cent of the Palestinian lands to the Israeli usurpers".
Speaking at the traditional Friday prayers, the influential Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the Iranian Islamic regime's number two man termed the last proposals to Israel as one of the Arabs "most strange decision".
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Leader warns against extremism in campaign against financial corruption
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IRNA
Tehran,Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution
Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in an address in Dokouheh Barracks near
Iran's southwest border with Iraq on Friday warned the authorities
involved in the national campaign against financial corruption not to
be entrapped in extremism.
He also called the current US
administration "a monarchical regime."
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Iran: News director of state radio and TV dies in car accident
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BBC Monitoring Service
General-director of the news department of Voice and Vision Organization [state radio and television] has died in a car accident.
The accident happened 35 km from Jolfa in East Azarbayjan Province [northwest of Iran].
Mr Abdolhoseyn Farhudi and his family had left Tehran in their car. Farhudi was the only person killed in the collision between his Paykan and a Nissan Patrol van...
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Iran rejected Arabs Support of Sheikhs Claim on its Islands
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IRNA
Iranian FM, Annan talk on the phone on Mideast crisis
Tehran-- Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs Kamal
Kharrazi called the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on the phone
on Friday night and conferred with him on the sensitive ongoing Middle
East crisis.
Kharrazi told Annan that by rejecting the peace proposal of the
Arab League Summit, or the Beirut Declaration, and launching a brutal
military attack against Ramallah
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Indian junior foreign minister leaves for "crucial" visit to Iran
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BBC Monitoring Service
New Delhi: India's Junior Minister for External Affairs Omar Abdullah Saturday [30 March] left for Tehran on a crucial visit aimed at reaffirming Indo-Iran bilateral ties especially in the context of the prevailing situation in Afghanistan.
Abdullah is carrying with him a special message from Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to Iranian President Seyyed Mohammad Khatami.
The two-day visit comes in the wake of the United States accusing Iran of keeping its borders with Afghanistan open and allowing Al Qa'idah and Taleban leaders to escape from the war-ravaged nation.
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Donna Leon: I lost my heart in Esfahan
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The Guardian
Why? It's thought to be the most beautiful city in Iran, which means it is probably the most beautiful city in the Middle East. It's certainly one of the most exquisite cities in the world. I lived there for four very happy years until 1976. I found the place and the people to be quite wonderful.
The best thing: The visual beauty of the city. The Masjid-I-shah, or Imperial Mosque, has a dome of vivid blue tiles and there is a 40-arch arcaded bridge which is one of the most remarkable I have ever seen. It also has ruined gardens, and one of the biggest bazaars in the Middle East. And the ancient city is steeped in history.
My ideal day: I'd head off to the bazaar to look up two old friends who I know are still there. One sells carpets and the other antiques. I'd spend my time with them and as we talked, we would drink endless cups of tea. We'd also eat well, which they do in Iran.
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