
ABOVE: The black spray paint reads: “Death to Karoubi, “Death to Khatami”. The yellow, red and blue sign reads: “Karoubi, congrats on your alliance with the BBC”
ABOVE: One of the regime’s typical teenage protesters-for-hire, holds a sign that reads: “Illiterate and uneducated Karoubi is a puppet of the Mossad” and in yellow underneath it is [...]

March 14, 2010
Below: Part one of a very important video series (in Persian with English subtitles), interviews with Hassan Dai, founder of Reports on Mullahs Lobby in the U.S. and co-founder of Progressive American-Iranian Committee, both excellent sites dedicated to exposing the lobbyists of the Iranian regime at work in Washington DC.
This is part [...]

By R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer
Source: The Washington Post
March 14, 2010
The father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program has written an official account that details an Iranian attempt to buy atomic bombs from Pakistan at the end of the 1980s.
Bombmaker Abdul Qadeer Khan states in documents obtained by [...]

Source: Agence France Press (AFP)
March 13, 2010
ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates will respect any sanctions imposed by the United Nations on key trading partner Iran, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan said on Saturday.
“The Emirates will respect any international sanctions that could be imposed by the UN [...]

Source: Agence France Presse (AFP)
March 13, 2010
SAARISELKA, Finland — The European Union will unilaterally impose new sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme if there is no consensus at the UN, Finland’s foreign minister said on Saturday.
“I think we’ll be able to convince China and Russia and I’m confident that [...]

By Ardalan Sayami
Source: Rooz Online
March 13, 2010
Yesterday ended with a Majlis no vote to the administration’s request to spend 40 billion Toman (40 million USD) of funds derived from the subsidy reform plan, but analysts noted last night that this was just perhaps the beginning of the story. It all began [...]

Source: CNN
March 13, 2010
Washington – The State Department condemned Iran’s persecution of religious minorities on Friday following the Iranian authorities’ detention of Baha’is and Christians in recent months.
Iranian authorities have detained more than 45 Baha’is in the last four months, and as many as 60 Baha’is are imprisoned in Iran [...]

Join Planet Iran’s Chaharshanbeh Souri live blogging of the next wave 0f protests in Iran: March 16th and 17th.
* * Asr’eh Iran website reports: On Saturday, March 13th an ad hoc meeting of the Iranian National and Foreign Affairs Security Commission took place in Tehran. The meeting was attended by some of the [...]

David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, will press the case of tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme during a trip to China.
by Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Source: Telegraph
12 March 2010
Beijing holds the stance that further engagement with the Iranians should take priority over imposition of new sanctions.
However, a senior British [...]

* Iran will be high on Miliband’s agenda
* Miliband to warn of dangers of protectionism
By Jim Drury
Source: Reuters
March 12, 2010
LONDON – Britain’s ambassador to China said on Friday that Beijing risks isolation if it fails to join international efforts to impose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.
Speaking via videolink from [...]