Top Stories
AP: "Top diplomats from the world's leading economies are
ramping up pressure on Iran to prove its nuclear ambitions are peaceful,
renewing calls for the country to be hit with new international sanctions if it
fails to comply." http://bit.ly/d9T2pG
Radio Farda: "A group of prisoners at Tehran's Evin prison
have written an open letter in which they reject government allegations of them
having links with foreign countries or political parties, RFE/RL's Radio Farda
reports." http://bit.ly/b1icp1
Bloomberg: "Iran executed more people last year than any
other country except China, according to a report by Amnesty
International. The Islamic
Republic accounted for 388 of at least 714 executions worldwide, excluding
China, Amnesty said in its Death Sentences and Executions 2009 report published
today." http://bit.ly/9cr1xM
Nuclear Program
AP: "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said
Monday that China agrees Iran must not become a nuclear weapons power and that
the fellow Security Council member will play a role in forging sanctions
against the Islamic republic at the United Nations." http://bit.ly/bClSf5
Human Rights
ABC News: "In "Between Two Worlds," Saberi
chronicles her experiences from being captured, to solidary confinement,
interrogations, sentenced to eight years in prison and finally reuniting with
her family. Check out an excerpt
of the book below." http://bit.ly/bWLXKu
Foreign Affairs
Reuters: "Iran said Tuesday that its intelligence agents had
rescued an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Pakistan in 2008 and returned him to
the Islamic Republic."
http://nyti.ms/9hy0ZH
Culture
Reuters: "As Iran's regime continues to stir world concerns,
films about Iranian history take on added interest. Director Shirin Neshat was
born in Iran, but her controversial photographs and experimental videos have
made it impossible for her to return; she now lives in New York. Neshat's first
feature, 'Women Without Men,' looks back at the crucial moment in 1953 when
democratically elected President Mohammed Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup
engineered by England and the U.S." http://bit.ly/bsYZdw
Opinion
Jack David in WSJ: "So long as countries threaten to use
nuclear arms, others will require a nuclear answer. Even suspicion of nuclear
blackmail will precipitate demands for a countervailing deterrent. As a senior
official of a Middle East country told me in 2006, 'If Iran develops a nuclear
weapon, someone else in the region will become nuclear capable too.'" http://bit.ly/9va0QR
Kenneth Timmerman in WT: "Interpol has issued 50 red notices
for Iranian opposition activists, mainly on terrorism-related charges...It is a
travesty of justice and the whole notion of international police cooperation
for Interpol to allow itself to be used as an enforcement arm of the Iranian
regime to track down and destroy peaceful opponents living overseas. American
taxpayers fund a good chunk of Interpol's operating budget." http://bit.ly/au3ugR
Golnaz Esfandiari for Radio Farda: "Even jokes have changed.
Many of the jokes that are popular among Iranians are about Iran's ethnic
minorities. In recent months, however, jokes about members of the Basij militia
have been gaining popularity. Some
Iranians have suggested replacing the jokes about Iran's ethnic minorities with
jokes about members of the Basij, while others have called the new Iranian year
that began on March 21 'the year of Basij jokes.'" http://bit.ly/9cNkYN
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