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Seventh participant in the demonstration in Ferdows dies
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PRIMA News Agency
Los Angeles -- Clashes took place in the town of Ferdows, east of Iran, on April 20 between police and locals who came on to the streets because authorities had not allowed that a participant in the April 17 protest action be buried at a local cemetery.
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Heads of government branches urge thorough examination of Petropars case
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Tehran Times
Tehran -- During a coordinating session of the Anti-Corruption Campaign Headquarters, the heads of the three branches of government stressed the need for a more thorough examination of the Petropars case.
President Khatami, Majlis Speaker Mehdi Karroubi and Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi expressed support for the Petropars projects which would lead to the development of oil fields and create job ... more
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Iran nets major drugs haul
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BBC
Iranian police have seized four tonnes of opium after clashes with drug traffickers near the border with Afghanistan, Iranian security officials have said.
Several smugglers were killed and two were arrested in the operation in south eastern Kerman province, according to Iranian sources.
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EU And Iran officials meet to discuss pistachio trade
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Asia Pulse
Brussels - A delegation of Iranian trade officials and experts met with European Union trade officials in Brussels Friday to discuss the issue of Iranian pistachio exports.
The two sides exchanged views on how to remove some hurdles and to offer facilities to boost Iran's Pistachio exports to Europe.
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US used Islamists to arm Croatia
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The Guardian
Official Dutch report says that Pentagon broke UN embargo
US intelligence agencies secretly broke a UN arms embargo during the 1991-1995 war in Croatia by channelling arms through Islamist jihad groups that Washington is now hunting down across Europe and Asia, according to evidence from the Netherlands.
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Iran's opponent warns of risk of social unrest
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Reuters
Tehran -- Years of pent-up demands for political and social changes in Iran have left the population expecting too much, too soon from the reformist movement led by President Mohammad Khatami, a top opposition leader said.
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Iran -- more moderate media muzzled
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The Strategy Page
April 20, 2002; The courts (controlled by the religious minority) have continued to shut down reformist media and jail journalists that oppose them. In the last year, these courts have shut down 20 daily publications, and some 30 periodicals. At least 15 journalists have been jailed.
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Majlis debates increasing supervision over foreign oil contracts
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Tehran Times
Tehran -- The Majlis Energy Commission plans to augment its supervision over foreign oil contracts.
The Majlis has decided to increase its supervisory function when it discovered that there was no supervision stipulated for foreign oil contracts during the examination of the budget bill for the current year.
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U.N. rights body rejects bid to condemn Iran
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Reuters
Geneva -- The U.N.'s top human rights body on Monday narrowly rejected a bid by the European Union and the United States to condemn alleged rights abuses in Iran, reversing an 18-year-old policy of criticising Tehran.
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Mirdamadi explains Iran's foreign policy in "talks" with US
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IRNA
Tehran -- Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy
Commission Chairman Mohsen Mirdamadi here on Sunday gave a briefing
on the discussions which took place during a recent commission
session on the subject of holding negotiations with the United
States on a number of unresolved issues.
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Oman, Iran discuss development of joint gas field
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Platts
Omani oil minister Mohammed al-Rumhy said Sunday he discussed with visiting Iranian oil minister Bijan Zanganeh the development of a gas field straddling their maritime border with Oman seeking to move quickly as part of its capacity expansion plans. "We want to develop it. For us it is an important field but for Iran it is a bit small," Rumhy told reporters
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Iranian newspaper highlights
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IRNA
IRAN DAILY
- President Mohammad Khatami on Saturday said Tehran is keen on strengthening its relations with Beijing in all domains as cooperation between the two capitals would lead to a more enhanced status of Asia in global equations.
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US tries to oust chemical panel head
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The Associated Press
The Hague, Netherlands –– The United States again tried to oust the head of the world's chemical weapons regulatory body Sunday, accusing him of gross misconduct before calling for a vote to force the Brazilian diplomat out, the embattled leader said.
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Iraq News Wire: No. 1
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MEMRI
In this Wire:
I. Iraqi Claims on Dismantling its Weapons of Mass Destruction [WMD]
II. Ansar Al-Islam: The new terrorist organization which connects Saddam Hussein, Al-Qa'ida, and bin Laden
III. Considering a Change of the Iraqi Regime
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Middle East: The diplomacy
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The Christian Science Monitor
(C.S.M.)
Washington -– Locked in seemingly endless violence, Israelis and Palestinians confront an even more deadly enemy: time. The longer the conflict continues, the greater the sense that it will not end in our lifetime.
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Middle East: The history
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The Christian Science Monitor
Athens – Rarely, if ever, since President Truman hastened to recognize the new state of Israel in 1948, have American prestige and leverage been lower in the Middle East.
The seeming weakness of US muscle perceived by its friends and allies in the area comes from years of disuse.
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Middle East: The hope
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The Christian Science Monitor
Tel Aviv – A little house is going up in the heart of the flowering Galilee, its mud packed and patted by the hands of Arab and Israeli teenagers working side by side.
The "House of Earth" at the Givat Haviva center is being fabricated entirely from local soil. "Land is the source of the conflict," says Mike Flax, an American who directs program development, "so earth also can be
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For Wolfowitz, a busy life being a lightning rod for Bush
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New York Times
Washington -— Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz got a call 10 days ago from Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, dispatching him to a big rally here in support of Israel. The White House was stung by criticism from conservative Republicans over its policies toward Israel.
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The new French left
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The Weekly Standard
Paris -- The Monday morning newspapers were already on the streets at midnight Sunday, and so was the French left. Both were describing National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen's runner-up finish in the first round of the presidential elections as "A shock!" and "A political earthquake!" Le Pen, who bested 14 other candidates, now gets to face incumbent president Jacques Chirac head-to-head in the general election on May 5. Most everyone in France had expected a barren reprise of the 1995 elections, with Chirac facing Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin. Instead, Le Pen got 17.5 percent to Jospin's 16.3, trailing only
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