|
|
Iran forms special group for opening talks with America
|
|
Iran Press Service
Paris -- Iran has decided to form a special group mandated to look at "ways and means" to open talks with the great US "Stan", breaking a 23 years of taboo, according to well informed sources.
"The formation of the group has been approved by Ayatollah Ali Khameneh'i who has charged Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to supervise the delicate and highly complex, controversial
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Iran: Expediency council denies contact with USA
|
|
BBC Monitoring Service
Political desk: An informed source at the Expediency Council denied the news about the council's involvement in Cyprus-gate.
On Sunday [14 April] an MP had told parliamentary reporters that a number of MPs were trying to find out about an event in the area of the country's foreign policy. An episode which has been named Cyprus-gate.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Iran to start teaching AIDS awareness, rapid increase in HIV is cited
|
|
The Boston Globe
Tehran -- Iranian children will be taught for the first time about AIDS and how to avoid it, the head of the country's AIDS program said yesterday.
In an Islamic nation where talk of anything related to sex is largely taboo, the Education Ministry had shunned proposals to include AIDS awareness in schools, on grounds that it promotes the corruption of young people.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Iran's envoy says reports on Caspian sharing "unfounded"
|
|
IRNA
Tehran -- Iran's Envoy for the Caspian Sea Affairs
Mehdi Safari dismissed Monday as "unsubstantiated" rumors and reports
on the sharing of the energy-rich Caspian Sea.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Flash floods kill three in Iran
|
|
Disaster Relief
Flash floods caused by several days of heavy rain have left three people dead in the central Iranian town of Tabas, according to news reports.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Funeral of Iranian politician grows into protest action
|
|
PRIMA News Agency
Los Angeles, CA, USA. Several dozens people were arrested yesterday in Tehran at the funeral ceremony of the prominent Iranian politician, Yadaollah Sahabi.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Defiant Hizbullah pledges continued resistance, support for Palestinians
|
|
The Daily Star
Hizbullah reaffirmed Monday that the resistance movement would not succumb to US “pressure and threats” and would continue to “carry out its duty” to liberate Lebanese territory still under Israeli occupation.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Turkey says Iran hosts PKK
|
|
MENL
Ankara -- Iran has become host to another group listed on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist organizations.
Turkish officials said Teheran has allowed the Kurdish Workers Party to resettle in Iran. They said this includes the transfer of PKK assets to banks in Iran.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Afghanistan urges Iran to cooperate in drugs fight
|
|
BBC Monitoring Service
The head of the interim Afghan administration's Anti-Drug Commission has praised Iran's constant fight against international criminal groups dealing in drugs.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Karzai heads to Rome to bring home Afghan ex-king
|
|
Reuters
Kabul -- Afghan leader Hamid Karzai left Kabul for Rome Tuesday to accompany ex-King Mohammad Zahir Shah home from exile in the Italian capital where he has lived since 1973.
Karzai and other supporters hope the frail, 87-year-old former king can help unite rival ethnic groups under a single national banner once he is back.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Afghan ex-king assures Iran of good neighbourliness
|
|
Iran Mania
Rome -- The return to Afghanistan of the exiled former monarch Mohammed Zahir Shah, who is expected to fly home this week, poses no threat to the regime in neighboring Tehran, his spokemsan Hamid Sidiq said Tuesday.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
The ex-king tries again
|
|
The International Herald Tribune
Kabul -- Mohammed Zahir Shah, who has lived in Rome since being deposed as king in 1973, plans to return to Afghani-stan this week, despite continuing instability and concerns about his safety. Hundreds of Afghan police and international peacekeeping troops have been tightening security in Kabul in the past few days for his return.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Iran-backed Afghan leader says no to monarchy
|
|
Reuters
Herat, Afghanistan -- West Afghanistan's top warlord Ismail Khan, a close ally of Iran, said on Monday ex-King Zahir Shah was welcome home as a private citizen but there was no place in the new Afghanistan for a monarchy.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Security preparations for former Afghan king's return
|
|
Associated Press
Kabul -- When Afghanistan's last king returns home this week after nearly three decades in exile, he'll be staying in a house surrounded by barbed wire, armored cars and 100 specially trained police.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Afghan pamphlets on women warn of reprisals
|
|
Reuters
Chaman, Pakistan -- Pamphlets, unsigned and handwritten, have appeared in the former bastion of Afghanistan's Taliban warning men not to send their daughters to school or their women to work, travelers said Tuesday.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Iran goes with the euro
|
|
Iran Reporter
Word among banking circles says the mandate for Iran’s first but much delayed foray into international capital markets since the 1979 Islamic revolution will be given to Commerzbank and BNP Paribas. That’s if Mohsen Nourbakhsh, governor of the central bank, believes the time is ripe, following President George W. Bush’s designation of Iran as forming part of an +axis of evil+ and while the flames of conflict spread in ... more
|
|
|
|
|
Saddam urges Iran to suspend its oil exports and to return detained planes
|
|
Associated Press
Baghdad, Iraq - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), who sends cash to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, reiterated his support for the attacks, Iraqi media reported Tuesday.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Students protests increase across Iran
|
|
SMCCDI
Students protests are increasing across Iran at the approach of key dates, such as, the International Work Day on May 1st, the Teachers Day on May 2nd, the May 27th (1997) and June 8th (2001) Elections and especially July 9th Student Uprising.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
It’s the war, stupid, someone remind Colin Powell
|
|
The National Review
The president ought to remind his secretary of state that we are at war, because Secretary Powell has had a very dangerous senior moment these past few weeks. He has forgotten the mission laid down so elegantly by W. last September, and again in the State of the Union: We will wage war against terrorists and those who harbor them until we have defeated them. The mission of this administration is to win that war.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Celebration and soul-searching: Israel must remove itself from the territories
|
|
Ha'aretz Daily
As it completes its 54th year, the State of Israel reverberates with the same existential problems imprinted on it at its birth. Although the state has come a long and impressive way in its development, it finds itself facing a security and political crisis that influences the entire fabric of life.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
The lunar landscape that was the Jenin refugee camp
|
|
The Guardian
A fortnight ago, before Israeli forces invaded, this was a crowded, bustling place. The narrow alleys between the cinderblock homes - spanning barely the width of outstretched arms - were packed with children.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Israel: Allow access to Jenin camp
|
|
Human Rights Watch
The Israeli government should immediately allow humanitarian and human rights organizations and journalists unfettered access to Jenin refugee camp, Human Rights Watch urged today. Camp inhabitants remain under curfew without access to food, water, and medical supplies.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Saddam is not the big problem
|
|
United Press International
Washington -- UPI takes a look at the policymaking of the parties in the escalating Israeli-Arab conflict.
President Saddam Hussein of Iraq has hovered on the fringes of the Israeli-Arab conflict for more than 20 years. Today, thanks in large part to U.S. policy, he is closer to the heart of it than ever before.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
The agency that failed
|
|
The Washington Times
With the possible exception of CIA Director George Tenet, few sentient people would deny that, aside from Pearl Harbor, the September 11 terrorist attacks were the most catastrophic intelligence failure in American history. In his new book, "See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism," Robert Baer, one of the agency's top field officers of the post-Vietnam era, shows that the horrors of that day did not occur in a vacuum and might have been prevented with the right kind of leadership in the CIA and the White House.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
The gang that couldn't shoot: Venezuelan coup leaders returns Chavez to power
|
|
The Washington Post
Caracas, Venezuela -- A jubilant Hugo Chavez reclaimed Venezuela's presidency before dawn today after two days under military arrest, dramatically escaping an attempt to overthrow his government that dissolved late Saturday when military officers reversed themselves under international and popular pressure.
... more
|
|
|
|
|
Who’s the victim? Arab bombast, European hysteria
|
|
National Review
The official news agency of the Palestinian Authority, WAFA, ran an editorial on March 31, 2002, that contained evocative language about the Israel Defense Forces' operations against the terrorist infrastructures of the PA: "They have brought back the Tatar, the Mongolians, the Nazis and all the invaders throughout the dark history of mankind… they are the descendants of Hulagu [grandson of Genghis Khan] and Hitler, therefore the practice of the occupying soldiers is programmed and not an individual
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
| | |
