Iran in the World Press 11 Jan 2010 #Iranelection

China is said to have gotten firm to sell nuke parts to Iran A Taiwanese firm al l egedly sold equipment that can be used to make nuclear weapons to Iran under a request from China, a Taipei-based magazine said. The firm received an online order from China last year to buy pressure transducers on behalf of an Iranian oil company for pipeline construction, Next Magazine reported this week. The firm l ater shipped 108 pressure transducers it had acquired from a Swiss firm to Iran as exporting was not illegal in Switzerland or Taiwan, the report said, citing a Taiwanese trade official.  The China Post | 2010-01-10 | Taiwan | Page: 11 PRESENTAMOS LA PELEA DE 68 KILOS FRENTE A 3.032 Seis balas seis encima de la mesa. Al lado, un revólver sin munición. Un magnum del 44. De los que no se encasquillan. Enfrente, un niño. Jairo Miguel. De los que pasan la tarde junto a la PlayStation y acentúan el game over de su adolescencia con juegos imposibles. Todo sea por aparecer en los créditos de la historia. Por encerrarse con seis toros en Cáceres la tarde del próximo 6 de febrero. A sus 16 años. El Mundo Madrid Edition | 2010-01-10 | Spain | Page: 74 Newspaper Page tánamo a unos 50 activistas de Greenpeace que levantan y nos ovacionan mientras atravesamos el pasillo entre sus celdas. Nos emocionan esos aplausos, que serán el único gesto de cariño externo que recibimos durante más de veinte días. TIMBRE PARA EL BAÑO. Son aproximadamente las 11.00 horas de la noche y nos trasladan a una comisaría en algún lugar de Copenhague. Nos meten a cada uno en un calabozo con una cámara de televisión en el techo y una luz encendida veinticuatro horas.  El Mundo Madrid Edition | 2010-01-10 | Spain | Page: 73 Viene más frío, más nieve y más hielo Alerta por nieve. La Agencia Estatal de Meteorología pronostica que esta tarde la capital se vestirá con un manto blanco que podría llegar a alcanzar cinco centímetros de grosor. En la sierra los copos caerán con más fuerza e irán acompañados además de fuertes rachas de viento. El ambiente gélido podría situar el mercurio de algunos termómetros de la región en 11 grados bajo cero.  El Mundo Madrid Edition | 2010-01-10 | Spain | Page: 53 Iran probe blames ex-prosecutor over jail deaths of protesters TEHRAN – An Iranian investigation found a former Tehran prosecutor responsible of sending post-election protesters to a notorious jail where youths were killed and called for punishments to be meted out. A parliamentary committee described incidents of abuse at Kahrizak prison as a “disgrace”, news agencies reported.  South China Morning Post | 2010-01-11 | China | Page: 7 Security forces arrest 30 ‘mournful mothers’ in park TEHERAN: Iranian security forces have arrested 30 so-called ‘‘mournful mothers’’ who were protesting in a Teheran park over the death or disappearance of their children in post-election unrest, an opposition website said yesterday. Kaleme.org, quoting witnesses, said the women were rounded up on Saturday afternoon in Laleh park. ‘‘Around 4pm we were in Laleh park and there were more than 100 police who were not allowing the mothers to sit on the benches or gather in groups,’’ a witness told Kaleme.org. ‘‘There were around 70 mothers in the park and the security chased them out. A number of them escaped but around 30 were arrested and were forcefully taken into police vans.’’ The women were driven to a police station, the website said without giving more information. ‘‘Mournful mothers’’ are a group of mothers whose children have gone either missing or killed in the aftermath of protests unleashed following the contested re-election in June of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The women, who dress in black Bangkok Post | 2010-01-11 | Thailand | Page: 5 Spari contro l’auto di Karroubi: illeso Nuovamente profanata la tomba di Neda, la studentessa uccisa il 20 giugno TEHERAN - Assalto e colpi di arma da fuoco, l’altra notte, contro la vettura su cui viaggiava uno dei leader dell’opposizione iraniana, Mehdi Karroubi, rimasto illeso. Lo riferisce il sito vicino al suo partito, “SahamNews”, spiegando che l’attacco si è verificato nella città settentrionale di Qazvin, dove Karroubi si era recato per partecipare a una cerimonia commemorativa dei manifestanti morti nelle recenti proteste di piazza, organizzata da un ex deputato riformista.  Il Messaggero | 2010-01-09 | Italy | Page: 12 Iranian protests erupt into violence killing at least five TEHRAN, Iran (The Associated Press) — Iranian security forces fired on stonethrowing protesters in the centre of the capital Sunday in one of the bloodiest confrontations in months, opposition Web sites and witnesses said. At least five people were killed. Some accounts of the violence in Tehran were vivid and detailed, but they could not be independently confirmed because of government restrictions on media coverage.  Moose Jaw Times Herald | 2009-12-28 | Canada | Page: 16 Shots fired at Iranian opposition figure TEHERAN (AP) – Pro-government demonstrators opened fire on the car of one of Iran’s opposition leaders and shattered his windows, but he escaped unharmed from the rare armed attack on a top reformist, his Web site reported on Friday. Hard-liners called last week for the execution of opposition leaders, raising tensions that could spark a cycle of political violence beyond the government’s control. Mahdi Karroubi blamed authorities after shots were fired at his car late on Thursday from a crowd of about 500 government supporters surrounded by police in the town of Qazvin, some 140 km. west of Teheran. Jerusalem Post | 2010-01-10 | Israel | Page: 5 Ahmadinejad: Iran will not back down one iota A soldier was shot dead by an intoxicated friend in Kiryat Haim, north of Haifa, on Friday night in what police suspect is a firearms accident. Emergency services were called to an address in Kiryat Haim by a man who told an operator that his friend had been shot. The caller, a security guard under the influence of alcohol, called paramedics and police twice to ensure they were on their way to the address, before fleeing the scene. He then stopped approximately 100 meters from his home, where he was arrested by police. Jerusalem Post | 2010-01-10 | Israel | Page: 4 Elite force’s growing role in Iran may limit U. S. options tehran — A major expansion in the role played by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps is giving the elite force new economic and political clout, but it could also complicate efforts by the United States and its allies to put pressure on the Iranian regime, according to U. S. officials and outside analysts. Commanders of the Revolutionary Guard say its growth represents a logical expansion for an organization that is not a military force but a popular movement that protects the ideals of the 1979 Islamic revolution The Washington Post Sunday | 2010-01-10 | USA | Page: 10 Inside Osama bin Laden’s family It’s not easy when dad’s called Osama WITH a book written by one of Osama bin Laden’s sons, and news of a daughter sheltering in the Saudi Embassy in Iran, some of the blanks are being filled in on the life of the September 11, 2001 mastermind’s large family, including details of his harsh parenting style. Recently, the son, Omar bin Laden, revealed that many of the children who had been with their father in Afghanistan escaped to Iran following the 2001 US-led invasion, and were still together in a walled compound under Iranian guard. Sunday Territorian | 2010-01-10 | Australia | Page: 1 Iran executes six Iran has executed six men found guilty of drug smuggling, the semi-official Fars news agency reported yesterday. Murder, adultery, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and apostasy – the renouncing of religion, in this case Islam – are all punishable by death under Iranian sharia law, practised since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Fars said the six all had long criminal records. The Press | 2010-01-11 | New Zealand | Page: 16 Papers point to arms for Iran Legal documents have emerged showing North Korean arms and explosives on a plane chartered by an Auckland company were bound for Iran. They also reveal the banking method used by SP Trading Ltd of Queen St, Auckland, providing evidence that money went through a New York bank account. North Korea and Iran are both subject to American economic sanctions and the documents will help build the US Justice Department’s case against SP Trading.  The Press | 2010-01-11 | New Zealand | Page: 5 Un soldado español muere en Afganistán arrollado por un vehículo 89 muertos El ministerio de Defensa investiga la muerte de Christian Quishpe Aguirre, el soldado español de 24 años que perdió la vida ayer tras ser arrollado por el vehículo blindado que estaba reparando en la base de la OTAN en Herat, al oeste de Afganistán.  Expansion | 2010-01-09 | Spain | Page: 22 El año termina en 0, ¿qué hará la bolsa? Si hacemos caso de la evolución del Dow Jones, hay muchas probabilidades de que el ejercicio sea bajista, porque desde 1890 en la mayoría de los años terminados en cero la bolsa ha caído y sólo en cuatro ocasiones (1900, 1950, 1970 y 1980) se ha revalorizado. Quizás sea una tontería, pero también habríamos tildado de loco al que en enero de 2009 hubiera vaticinado para el pasado año una subida del 30%.  Expansion | 2010-01-09 | Spain | Page: 2 China flexing its growing muscle WASHINGTON — As though there had not been trouble enough in 2009, the year ended with a nasty spat between Britain and China, a tiff that might portend more trouble ahead as the world comes to terms with China’s new assertiveness. The proximate cause of rift was the execution in China of a Briton, Akmal Shaikh, for smuggling heroin into China. The family of the 53-year-old father of three say he was mentally unstable and was duped into carrying a suitcase stuffed with heroin.  Rome News-Tribune | 2010-01-10 | USA | Page: 19 Iran: UN observatory near border is a spy station TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran claimed Wednesday that a newly built U.N. station to detect nuclear explosions was built near its border to give the West a post to spy on the country. The construction of the seismic monitoring station was completed last week in neighboring Turkmenistan, a few miles from the Iranian border. It’s one of roughly 275 such stations that are operational worldwide and that can detect seismic activity set off by weak nuclear blasts and even shock waves from nuclear experiments. The Daily Home | 2009-12-10 | USA | Page: 6 Newspaper Page A crowd, some holding pictures of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, listens as he offers an unusual olive branch to his opponents in a speech in Tehran. He called for “relevant bodies” to respect the law. The photo was released by Khamenei’s office. Sun Sentinel Broward Edition | 2010-01-10 | USA | Page: 6 Iran supreme leader tells militia allies to obey law BEIRUT — Iran’s supreme leader Saturday cautioned shadowy pro-government militias not to interfere in the nation’s postelection unrest even as the head of the notorious Basiji militia warned that his forces would “jump into the fray” if authorities don’t act strongly against the opposition movement. In his first public comments since protests last month that coincided with a major religious holiday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made a rare attempt at easing tensions. Sun Sentinel Broward Edition | 2010-01-10 | USA | Page: 6 Iran supreme leader tells militia allies to obey law BEIRUT — Iran’s supreme leader Saturday cautioned shadowy pro-government militias not to interfere in the nation’s postelection unrest even as the head of the notorious Basiji militia warned that his forces would “jump into the fray” if authorities don’t act strongly against the opposition movement. In his first public comments since protests last month that coincided with a major religious holiday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made a rare attempt at easing tensions. Chicago Tribune | 2010-01-10 | USA | Page: 26 ¿ ISLAMOFOBIA? ¿ NO SERÁ CRISTIANOFOBIA? cuando en noviembre pasado en Suiza se desató una tempestad política por un referendo en el que se prohibió la construcción de más minaretes en la Confederación Helvética? Las denuncias de islamofobia fueron infinitas. ¿Fobia por oposición a qué filia? Esta misma semana hemos visto cómo siete cristianos coptos eran asesinados en Egipto cuando salían de celebrar la Navidad que su calendario ubica el 6 de enero. ABC | 2010-01-10 | Spain | Page: 32 Iran rebuffs threat of new sanctions TEHRAN: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that further UN Security Council sanction will not deter Tehran from pursuing its controversial nuclear program. He also vowed that Iran will not back down “one iota” in the face of international pressures over the atomic work, which the West fears may be a cover for weapons development despite Iran’s persistent denial. “They issued several resolutions and sanctioned Iran ... They think Iranians will fall on their knees over these things but they are mistaken”  Arab News | 2010-01-10 | Saudi Arabia | Page: 1

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