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Sunday, 14 August 2005 |
 Washington Times: Two tough guys will meet next month at the opening of the United Nations. These diplomatic ruffians will wrestle over the U.S.-Iranian cold war as Iran restarts uranium processing and denies American charges that it is trafficking weapons into Iraq. |
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Sunday, 14 August 2005 |
 Sunday Telegraph: The failure of the EU's attempts to persuade Iran not to manufacture nuclear weapons has been even more humiliating than is generally realised. The purpose of the two-year joint mission by British, French and German diplomats was to talk the Iranians into not producing enriched uranium. According to a Reuters report in the US DefenseNews, however, based on a government document smuggled out of Iran by the National Council for the Resistance of Iran, the mullahs have used that time to assemble thousands of the necessary centrifuges, which can conveniently be hidden across the country. |
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Sunday, 14 August 2005 |
 Sunday Telegraph: They smuggle arms to kill our troops, they encourage Shi'ite Muslim clerics in Iraq to set up their own independent state, and now they want to build an atom bomb. More than 25 years after the ayatollahs first seized power in Teheran, the Islamic Republic of Iran continues to pose a
grave threat to Western security. |
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Friday, 12 August 2005 |
 Washington Times - Editorial - This week, Iran broke the protective seals at the Isfahan nuclear facility and resumed uranium-conversion activities. It then scoffed at the International Atomic Energy Agency and international negotiators. In sum, it bankrupted the EU 3 negotiations. This effectively ends the possibility that the negotiations could succeed. It should open the doors to a radically tougher approach, one that ends the kowtowing.
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Thursday, 11 August 2005 |
 The Washington Times: Iran, it seems, is playing with fire -- and on two fronts. The first is the Islamic republic's recent decision to pursue its nuclear ambitions despite being urged by the European Union and threatened by the United States not to restart its uranium conversion program.
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Wednesday, 10 August 2005 |
 The Times - Leading Article: Two conclusions, one grim and the other potentially more encouraging, can be drawn from Iran’s resumption of uranium conversion at its Isfahan plant. The first is that the regime has no intention of dismantling what it euphemistically calls its “national nuclear industry” — an industry that includes facilities, clandestinely constructed and hidden from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which
have no plausible non-military purpose. |
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Tuesday, 09 August 2005 |
 The Globe and Mail - Editorial: Iran's defiance is even beginning to frustrate its nuclear ally, Russia. That may be a good thing. Moscow's intervention may help resolve the latest standoff between Tehran and the European Union over Iran's nuclear activities, which Washington and others worry are intended to produce weapons-grade uranium. They have ample reason to fret. |
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Tuesday, 09 August 2005 |
 The Baltimore Sun - Opinion: THE TIME for diplomacy with Tehran may be over. Iran has flatly rejected an offer from European negotiators to ensure a steady supply of nuclear energy to meet its civilian needs and head off development of new nuclear weapons. Despite the claims of its new president, Iran can't be truly interested in continued bargaining - not unless some international pressure can be brought to bear. |
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Monday, 08 August 2005 |
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Washington Post - Editorial: LAST FRIDAY, Britain, France and Germany -- the three European nations that had been negotiating the future of the Iranian nuclear program -- put their final proposal on the table. Among other things, they offered Iran a role in the discussion of regional security issues, a trade and cooperation agreement, and technical advice on everything from seismology to aircraft safety. |
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Sunday, 07 August 2005 |
Washington Times - Editorial - In its coverage of the Iran nuclear crisis, The Washington Post has been providing yet another illustration of why many Americans distrust the mainstream media and believe it is determined to skew its news reporting against the Bush administration.
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Wednesday, 03 August 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Aug. 04 – Newspapers around the world expressed alarm in their Thursday editorials at the threat posed by a nuclear-armed Iran and dangers of postponing the referral of Iran’s nuclear file to the United Nations Security Council following the rise to power of Iran’s new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. |
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Wednesday, 03 August 2005 |
 The Times - Leading articles: All the ingredients are now in place for the perfect diplomatic storm: a new US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, who has made no secret of his support for a much tougher, if not openly interventionist, American policy towards Iran; a new hardline Islamist President in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has promised to press ahead with Iran’s nuclear programme; and a group of frustrated European nations almost ready to abandon apparently pointless talks with Tehran. |
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Wednesday, 03 August 2005 |
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Washington Times - EDITORIAL: As the new Iranian president prepares to be sworn into office, the Islamist regime in Tehran has been stepping up its campaign of threats and brinksmanship directed at the European Union. |
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Tuesday, 26 July 2005 |
 Wall Street Journal: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's "elected" president, will officially assume his post next month. The elections, no doubt, were a sham and the controversy about voting irregularities is far from settled. Iran's opposition sources revealed that the national ID cards of about five million dead people were provided to regime supporters, enabling them to vote multiple times at multiple locations. |
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Tuesday, 19 July 2005 |
 Christian Science Monitor: Over the phone from Paris, in heavily accented English, Maryam Rajavi says: "I hope one day we can meet in Tehran." Then, in apology for her command of English, she says "we'll continue this interview [through an interpreter"> in Persian." But in whatever language it is offered, her message is one of frustration with a turn toward extremism in her Iranian homeland, and hope that what she sees as the "appeasement"
of Iran by more aggressive action. |
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Monday, 18 July 2005 |
 Los Angeles Times: On sunday, George W. Bush's war
against terror was turned upside down — and this time the president might even notice. That's because when "our guys"
in Iraq start firmly allying with an "axis of evil" nation, its got to ring some warning bells, no? I am referring to the joint declaration issued in Tehran by the leaders of Iraq and Iran ... |
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Sunday, 17 July 2005 |
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Arab News - Amir Taheri: To classical historians nothing could be said to have happened unless someone took enough notice to narrate it. To modern semiologists, however, an event could be regarded as having really happened only when someone interprets it. Last week's terrorist attack in London qualifies as a real event by both definitions. |
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Friday, 15 July 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jul. 15 – A recent survey conducted by a research and studies website run in the United Arab Emirates found that the majority of Arabs believe that the rise of ultra-conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Iran’s presidency will have a negative impact on stability in the Middle East, the prominent UK-based Arabic-language website Elaph reported
yesterday.
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Wednesday, 13 July 2005 |
 The Washington Times: Officially, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the incoming Iranian "elected" president, will assume his post next month — but his presence is already felt in the political circles and the streets of Tehran. Since his election, under the banner of a renewed Islamic revolution, the clerical regime hanged six people and sentenced another to death in the past week alone.
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Friday, 01 July 2005 |
 Washington Times - Editorial: If there is a silver lining in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election as president of Iran, it is that it will be more difficult for people in the West to delude themselves into thinking they are dealing with so-called pragmatists or reformers who want to end the clerical dictatorship that has brutalized the Iranian people. Such an exercise in self-deception will be far more difficult to engage in now that Americans taken hostage by Iranian students who invaded the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, say that Mr. Ahmadinejad played a central role in the takeover, interrogating American captives and demanding harsher treatment of the hostages. |
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Thursday, 30 June 2005 |
 Daily Telegraph: The prospects for European Union mediation over Iran look ever grimmer as controversy over its president-elect mounts. Several Americans held hostage in the seizure
of the US embassy in Teheran in 1979 yesterday accused Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of being one of the ringleaders. The White House said it was taking their claims very seriously.
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Tuesday, 28 June 2005 |
 Washington Times: "The most radical portion of the population with the most dangerous Islamic fundamentalist ideas are
now in charge. Bad days to come." Those words come from Mr. Behi, an Iranian online diarist or Web logger, or blogger. The Bush administration has been talking about regime change in Iran for some time but the mullahs in Tehran beat him to it. Granted, it was not the change Mr. Bush, or many Iranians, expected.
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Tuesday, 28 June 2005 |
 Boston Globe - GLOBE EDITORIAL: The election of Iran's new president, Tehran's Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, delivers to the reactionary forces around Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei the last power node that had been in the hands of reformists. Now that reformists have been excised from the Parliament, city councils, and the presidency, there is no longer any institutional opposition to Khamenei and his loyalists.
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Tuesday, 28 June 2005 |
 The Times: The recent Iranian presidential elections were a triumph for the principle of one man, one vote. And the man with the vote this time, as always, was the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran’s new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, may well be the choice of the urban poor, the anti-sleaze candidate and the favourite of the military. But ultimately, he’s the winner because he’s also the guy who did best with one key demographic — bearded sixtysomething clerics called Ali who enjoy wielding supreme power within theocratic republics. |
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Monday, 27 June 2005 |
 The Wall Street Journal - Review & Outlook: To gauge the radicalism of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's next president, consider that prior to Friday's run-off election Western media widely described him as a "hardliner," whereas rival candidate Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was a "moderate." |
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Monday, 27 June 2005 |
 Los Angeles Times: Did those wily ayatollahs give us the purple finger again? It sure looks like it after the smashing defeat Iran's religious fanatics dealt reformers in the presidential election Friday. It was a replay of the election in Iraq, in which candidates groomed by Tehran's theocracy herded loyal Shiite followers to the polls to dip their fingers in purple election ink. Only this time the sight of lines of shuffling, chador-clad women voting away their human rights was not applauded by the White House.
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Monday, 27 June 2005 |
 Washington Post - Editorial: Iranians once again have voted for change in their authoritarian and corrupt Islamic regime. Their choice for president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, differs dramatically from the liberalizing reformer voters backed in two previous elections, but Mr. Ahmadinejad, a religious hard-liner, is no more likely to satisfy restless Iranians than his failed predecessor. He should instead prompt the West to rethink its own strategy for promoting freedom inside Iran, and for containing Iran's nuclear program and support for terrorism. |
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Sunday, 26 June 2005 |
 AFP: European newspapers said Monday that new international tensions, particularly over nuclear issues, seem inevitable following the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Iranian presidency. Rome's La Repubblica said the triumph of what it called "black Islam" and a return to the obscurantist past puts Iran at the heart of international tensions, with the risk of military strikes by the United States or Israel if Ahmadinejad goes ahead with an alleged project to built nuclear weapons. |
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Sunday, 26 June 2005 |
 USA TODAY: The election of Tehran's mayor as Iran's president consolidates power under supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and will bolster those in the United States who argue against engagement with Iran's theocratic regime, some Iran analysts say. The victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "very much strengthens the sense here that there is no use dealing with Iran," said Shaul Bakhash, an Iran expert at George Mason University in Virginia. |
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Sunday, 26 June 2005 |
 Financial Times: The election of a new hardline president in Tehran is likely to complicate the Islamic Republic's engagement with the European Union just as the UK, France and Germany prepare to make a detailed offer to Iran on curbing its controversial nuclear programme. Although Iranian officials have quickly moved to ease concerns of a change in policy on the nuclear front, European officials yesterday warned that the victory of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, the ultra-conservative mayor of Tehran, had made the European policy of engagement, whether on the political, economic or nuclear
front, harder to pursue. |
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