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Former Iranian president Rafsanjani on using a nuclear bomb against Israel
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MEMRI
Every year, in a tradition introduced by the late Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomenei, Iran marks World Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day on the last Friday of the month of Ramadan to show its solidarity with the Palestinian people. Former Iranian president and "Expediency Council"
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Heavy security measures at main Iranian car maker plants
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SMCCDI
Heavy security measures have been instated inside and around the plants of "Iran Khodro" which is the main Iranian Car Maker company.
These measures follow the Hunger Strike made by hundreds of employees who intend to protest against their conditions and the
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Air force chief says Iran seeks no war but will defend itself against USA
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BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
The commander of the Air Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran has said: We are not war mongers but should there be a war the Air Force is prepared to act as a vanguard force and stand against America.
The commander, Brigadier-General Seyyed Reza Pardis, told an ISNA correspondent:
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Judiciary cracks down on reformists through questionable actions
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RFI/RL
As Iran's hard-liners continue cracking down on reformists, they have used their control of the courts to jail scores of journalists, intellectuals, and lawyers. But the legal proceedings can be filled with irregularities, including courts acting outside their
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Direct Iran-Afghanistan flights to start in May
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BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
Kabul -- Iran's Mahan Airlines is to launch direct flights between Tehran and Kabul as of 15 May 15 2002, it was announced here on Saturday [13 April].
Deputy to the Mahan Airlines managing director in charge of international affairs and development Mehdi Aliyari, who is accompanying Minister
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Iran caught in Middle-East bind
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The Economist
‘It would be awkward for us if America gets into the habit of changing regimes,’ says Reza Youssefi, a member of the Iranian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, wincing at his own understatement. Leaders of both sides of the reformist-conservative political divide are transfixed by the possibility that
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Iran sees U.S. behind Chavez's Venezuela ouster
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Reuters
Tehran -— Iran, which had built up friendly ties with deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said on Saturday the fiery populist's ouster by the military was in part hatched by the United States.
State television said Washington was concerned that Venezuela -- the world's No 4 oil exporter and a leading supplier of petroleum products to the U.S. --
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Police seize 100 kg of morphine in southern Iran
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BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom
Kerman -- Police in the Kerman Province, southeast of Iran, have seized 100 kg of morphine from drug traffickers in recent days, a provincial police head Karim Amini told IRNA Saturday [13 April].
The haul was made during a "skilfully planned" operation by special anti-drug police forces, based in the province. It was confiscated from a gang which was smuggling and distributing narcotics in southeastern provinces of Kerman, and Sistan va Baluchestan.
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Iran urges Hezbollah-Israeli calm on Lebanon border
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Dow Jones News Wires
LONDON -- Iran urged Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrilla group and Israel Friday to rein in their cross-border attacks, the BBC reported on its Web site.
Hezbollah militants began attacking Israeli positions in the disputed Shebaa Farms border zone a day after Israel's incursion into the West Bank at the end of March.
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Hezbollah attacks along border area
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The Associated Press
KHIAM, Lebanon - Hezbollah guerrillas shelled Israeli positions in a disputed border area on Friday, triggering Israeli airstrikes as Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) visited near the tense area.
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Lost in the wilderness
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The Weekly Standard
RIGHT NOW the Bush administration seems to be lost in the wilderness without a moral or strategic compass. This is a stunning development, for less than three months ago the president set forth a grand and clear vision for American foreign policy. We would fight terrorism and the regimes that support and harbor terrorists. We would press for freedom and democracy around the world, but especially in the Muslim world. Above all, when we saw evil, we would call it by its name. Now look how far we have moved away from those noble aspirations.
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Faction claims victories over rival in fighting west of Kabul
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The Associated Press
KHOJA KOTKAI, Afghanistan -- Plumes of smoke rose from rocky hills Saturday as two rival factions fought for control of an area just west of the Afghan capital of Kabul.
In a dusty valley, a government Soviet-era armored car fired short bursts from its 27 mm anti-aircraft guns at an identical vehicle in the hills, then changed positions as the other car fired back. Neither appeared to score any hits.
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It’s a mad, mad world
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National Review
Let us count the ways.
The Palestinian Authority and spokesmen from the Arab world are now advancing a new party line by comparing their own struggle to our American Revolution — with overt associations between the Founding Fathers and Mr. Arafat and his associates! This is a slur against our American heritage and should be noted as such.
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Muslim oil revenue could aid Palestinians
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The Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran - Muslim oil-producing nations could donate a month's worth of revenue to the Palestinians if they failed to unite behind an embargo to pressure for an end to the Israeli offensives, Iran's foreign minister suggested Saturday.
The proposal by Kamal Kharrazi brings forward another Iranian initiative to use oil as leverage in the Middle East conflict.
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