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Peaceful demo: Protesters holding a candlelight vigil in the central German city of Frankfurt am Main on Saturday. The vigil was held to remember the victims of recent demonstrations in Iran. — AFP
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N. Korea lose match but win tournament
DOHA: North Korea continued their 2010 World Cup preparations by winning a fourteam invitational tournament in Qatar despite losing their final match 1-0 to Iran. A draw between the hosts and Mali in the earlier match meant North Korea could afford to lose to Iran on Saturday having recorded victories in their opening two games. Mehrzad Madanchi scored the winner for Iran, lobbing a shot home in the 42nd minute to give his side a timely boost ahead of a key Asian Cup qualifier against Singapore on Wednesday. North Korea finished on six points from three matches ahead of Qatar on four, then Mali (4) and Iran (3). The North Koreans will head to Sri Lanka next month for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Challenge Cup where the winners of the region’s second-tier tournament qualify for the 2011 Asian Cup. North Korea have been drawn with Brazil, Portugal and Ivory Coast for only their second World Cup campaign. — Reuters
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Iran issues ‘ultimatum’
TEHERAN: Iran, already at risk of fresh UN sanctions over its atomic drive, has given the West an “ultimatum” to accept a uranium swap deal or see Teheran produce its own nuclear fuel. However, the United States and Germany shrugged off Saturday’s move, which the US said amounted to Iran “standing in its own way.” Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted as saying on state television: “The international community has just one month left to decide” whether or not it will accept Iran’s conditions. This is an ultimatum.” Reacting to the statement, US National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer appeared nonplussed by Iran’s demand, saying that an existing International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) proposal already offered to Teheran was sufficient. “The IAEA has a balanced proposal on the table that would fulfill Iran’s own request for fuel, and has the backing of the international community,” Hammer said. “If getting access to fuel is Iran’s objective, then there is absolutely no reason why
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Vilaggazdasag | 2010-01-04 | Hungary | Page: 16
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Go home, Elin
ix months have passed since the presidential elections in Iran, and they have been as turbulent as the polls themselves. The standoff between the government and those opposing the contentious re-election of incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has shown no signs of winding down. There may have been an interregnum in which the government seemed to have quelled the broad-based protests called the green movement, but the past month has shown this to be just an illusion. The protests may yet fizzle out, but as matters stand, Iran teeters on the brink; far-reaching changes in its power structures are a real, if still distant, possibility. What invests the protest movement with particular significance is that it goes beyond issues of constitutional legality and vote-counting. By all accounts, the movement sees the ayatollahs – the ultimate temporal and spiritual arbiters in Iran’s hierarchy – as the primary antagonists, not the president they are propping up. Slogans calling for the death of supreme leader Ali
Times of India New Delhi Edition | 2010-01-04 | India | Page: 16
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Saudi Arabia asks Iran to free Osama’s daughter:
Saudi Arabia has asked Iran to repatriate one of the daughters of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden to the kingdom after she fled house arrest and sought refuge at its embassy in Tehran. Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said his country considered it to be a “humanitarian issue”. Sri
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Lidové noviny | 2010-01-04 | Czech Republic | Page: 18
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Molitan proti pendrekům. „Mnozí z Italů měli na sobě baseballové helmy a obaleni byli molitanem, aby je rána pendrekem nebolela. Demonstranti po policii stříleli kovové matice z praků,“ vzpomíná Kvíčala na protesty proti summitu Mezinárodního měnového fondu v Praze.
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Žít na Šumavě: stát na to připlatí
VIMPERK Většina šumavských starostů vítá průlomové rozhodnutí, které v souvislosti s ochranou přírody na Šumavě přijala vláda. Kabinet totiž poprvé od pádu komunismu uznal, že lidé žijící v chráněných přírodních oblastech mají těžší životní podmínky, a stát by jim proto měl finančně kompenzovat určité nevýhody. Ty jsou spojené s bydlením uvnitř nebo na okraji rezervací. V rámci pilotního projektu tak budou od Nového roku všichni žadatelé o dotace z operačních programů v oblasti Šumavy mimo jiné zvýhodněni oproti jiným žadatelům desetiprocentní bonifikací. V praxi to tedy znamená, že když například požádá šumavská obec o dotaci na čističku odpadních vod a projekt bude stejně kvalitní jako třeba u středočeské vesnice, přednost dostanou Šumavané. „Je to samozřejmě první kamínek do očekávané mozaiky. Pro nás je ale důležité, že vláda po dvaceti letech konečně uznala, že ochrana přírody něco stojí a lidé, kteří v této přírodě žijí, jsou v mnoha ohledech znevýhodněni oproti dalším obyvatelům republiky,“ řekl LN p
Lidové noviny | 2010-01-04 | Czech Republic | Page: 6
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Sebevražedné pojištění pro vysokoškoláky
roč je stále tolik sebevražedných atentátů? Tahle otázka napadne každého po minulém týdnu, kdy proběhlo několik obzvláště krvavých útoků. Podle některých ekonomů a expertů na náboženství to ale není správná otázka. Měli bychom se spíše ptát na to, proč je sebevražedných útoků tak málo a proč jsou koncentrovány v určitých zemích? Ochota zemřít za své přesvědčení, víru, kamarády či rodinu, základní předpoklad sebevražedných atentátů, přitom není rozšířena jen v převážně muslimských zemích, ze kterých atentátnici pocházejí, ale doslova po celém světě. Oslava hrdinství a téměř sebevražedného obětování je silná i v Evropě či Spojených státech a umřít za „svou pravdu“ je bráno jako klad. V Čechách oslavujeme demonstrativní sebevraždu Jana Palacha v roce 1969. Současně v západním světě existuje spousta radikálních organizací včetně náboženských sekt, což je druhý předpoklad pro vznik sebevražedných útoků. Jen v USA jsou radikálních kultů tisíce a přitom k útokům proti státní moci, které skončily sebevraždou útočník
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Bisnis Indonesia | 2010-01-04 | Indonesia | Page: 6
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Saudis urge Iran to let Osama’s daughter go
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has urged Iran to allow a daughter of Osama bin Laden, who fled house arrest and sought refuge in the Saudi embassy in Teheran, to leave the country if she wishes. Iman bin Laden and five siblings had been held in Teheran since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported last month. Iman, 17, escaped during a rare trip in November and made her way to the embassy, the paper said. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal told a news conference in Riyadh that Iman should be allowed to leave Iran. “We consider this to be a purely humanitarian issue,” he said. The Saudi Embassy has issued Iman with a temporary travel permit to allow her to return to Saudi Arabia, reported the newspaper. Iman’s father, Osama, was born into a wealthy Saudi family but had his nationality revoked. The Al-Qaeda head is believed to be hiding in the mountainous border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. There has also been an influx to Yemen of at least 200,000 refugees from
The Straits Times | 2010-01-04 | Singapore | Page: 14
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The electric car is revving up
IS 2010 the start of a new era in road transport as electricity increasingly takes over from petrol and diesel as the source of power for cars and other vehicles, reducing global warming emissions and dependence on foreign oil? Some signs are certainly promising in established motor vehicle markets in the United States and Europe, as well as in Asia, where demand for cars is growing fastest. If small, low-cost electric vehicles catch on in Asia, their success is likely to be assured and global demand for oil in future will be less than forecast. General Motors (GM) of the US and India’s Reva Electric will begin joint production of a “highly affordable” battery-powered car in India in the second half of this year, while China is actively promoting production of both electricity-powered vehicles and the batteries that store their on-board electricity. Such vehicles range from all-electric models to the more widely available hybrids like those from Japanese manufacturers Toyota and Honda that use rechargeabl
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Iran reiterates ultimatum
TEHERAN: Iran said yesterday the West had agreed to wait two months on a proposal to exchange enriched uranium and that a month has now passed, reiterating that it will produce its own fuel for a nuclear reactor if there is no deal. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said this a day after Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki gave the West a one-month “ultimatum” to accept a uranium swop, the state news agency reported. Iran, which had rejected a Dec 31 deadline to accept a United Nations-brokered deal, said last Tuesday it is ready to swop abroad its low-enriched uranium for nuclear fuel, insisting however that the exchange should happen in stages.
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Iran coach brimming with confidence
ALTHOUGH Iran’s qualification for the 2011 Asian Cup Finals is not assured yet, such is the team’s confidence of reaching the tournament in Qatar that they even played in a friendly quadrangular in Doha last month in preparation for the real thing next year. “The goal was to prepare for the Asian Cup one year ahead,” Iran national coach Afshin Ghotbi told The Straits Times at the team’s base at the Amara Hotel. “I wanted the players to experience the climate there and to play in front of the Qatari crowd. “I am confident in reaching the Finals. I have a very motivated team. Tactically, we are organised and we are here to win and to play attractive football.” The Lionhearts, as the Iranian national team are known back home, arrived yesterday afternoon from Doha, where they had played Qatar, Mali and North Korea. Although Ghotbi’s side are top of Group E in the Asian Cup qualifiers on seven points, the passage to next year’s Finals is by no means secured yet as Singapore lie second on six points with two m
The Straits Times | 2010-01-04 | Singapore | Page: 30
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Only air strikes can stop Iran’s nuke ambitions
AMERICAN President Barack Obama should not lament but sigh in relief that Iran has rejected his nuclear deal, which was ill-conceived from the start. Under the deal, which was formally offered through the United Nations, Iran was to surrender some 2,600 pounds of lightly enriched uranium (some three-quarters of its known stockpile) to Russia, and get back a supply of uranium fuel sufficient to run its Teheran research reactor for three decades. The proposal did not require Iran to halt its enrichment programme, despite several United Nations Security Council resolutions demanding such a moratorium. Iran was thus to be rewarded with much-coveted reactor fuel despite violating international law. Within a year or sooner, in the light of its expanding enrichment programme, Iran would almost certainly have replenished and augmented its stockpile of enriched uranium, nullifying any ostensible non-proliferation benefit of the deal. Moreover, by providing reactor fuel, the plan would have fostered proliferation in
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With Yemen in turmoil, Al Qaeda gains
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has rapidly evolved into an expanding and ambitious regional terrorist network thanks in part to a weakened, impoverished and distracted Yemeni government. While Yemen has been chasing two homegrown rebellions, Al Qaeda’s cell here has begun sharing resources across borders over the past year and has been spurred on to more ambitious attacks by a leadership strengthened by prisoners released from the U.S. jail at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and by fighters returning from Iraq. Al Qaeda has flourished in the large and rugged tribal territories of Yemen, creating training camps, attacking Western targets and receiving increasing popular sympathy, Yemeni and U.S. officials say. Al Qaeda’s growing profile in Yemen became clear after a Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, was allegedly able to overstay his visa here by several months, connect with militants from Al Qaeda and leave the country with a bomb sewn into his underwear to try to blow up an airliner headed from Amster
International Herald Tribune | 2010-01-04 | Austria | Page: 4
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U.S. sees Iran as more vulnerable to sanctions
As President Barack Obama faces pressure to back up his year-end ultimatum for diplomatic progress with Iran, the administration says that domestic unrest and signs of trouble in Tehran’s nuclear program make its leaders vulnerable to strong and immediate new sanctions. The long-discussed sanctions would initiate the latest phase in a strategy to force Iran to comply with U.N. demands to halt production of nuclear fuel. Mr. Obama’s strategists said in interviews that Iran’s top political and military leaders remained determined to develop nuclear weapons but that they were distracted by turmoil in the streets and political infighting and that the drive to produce nuclear fuel appeared to have faltered in recent months. The White House wants to focus the new sanctions on the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the military force believed to run the nuclear weapons effort. That force has also played a crucial role in the repression of anti-government demonstrators since the disputed presidential election in
International Herald Tribune | 2010-01-04 | Austria | Page: 1
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Iran givesWest an ‘ultimatum’ on nuclear enrichment
The Iranian foreign minister has warned the West that it has one month to accept a counterproposal to a deal brokered by the United Nations aimed at slowing the Tehran’s nuclear program, or Iran will begin further enriching its nuclear fuel stockpile on its own. The comments by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki were broadcast Saturday on state television and presented as an ‘‘ultimatum’’ to the West two days after Iran missed a deadline set by the United States and its allies to accept a deal that was offered in October in Geneva. If the Iranian deadline is not met, Mr. Mottaki said, Iran will enrich its stockpile of low-enriched uranium to 20 percent, though it was unclear whether it had the ability to accomplish the task. At the 20 percent level, Iran could, in theory, make an extremely crude nuclear weapon. The bigger threat would be that Iran’s enrichment could quickly accelerate to the much higher grade of fuel typically used in modern nuclear warheads. Analysts on Iran have said that the country’s
International Herald Tribune | 2010-01-04 | Austria | Page: 4
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U.S. sees troubles in Iran as opening for sanctions
ministration has told allies that the longer time frame would allow the sanctions to have an effect before Iran could develop its nuclear ability. Another administration official said that Israeli officials, while still publicly hinting that they might take military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities, ‘‘now feel that what’s happening in Iran makes the country vulnerable to real sanctions’’ and might give Mr. Obama more time to persuade China and Russia to go along. A senior Israeli diplomat inWashington said that in back-channel conversations ‘‘Obama has convinced us that it’s worth trying the sanctions, at least for a few months.’’ Sanctions will be a difficult balancing act for the United States, since it acknowledges that three previous rounds of sanctions have failed to deter Iran, and it also wants to avoid angering Iranians protesting in the streets by depriving them of Western goods. That is why the administration is focusing on the Revolutionary Guards, who are increasingly detested by the pro
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Wirtschaftsblatt | 2010-01-04 | Austria | Page: 9
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Borsen Dagblad | 2010-01-04 | Denmark | Page: 16
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USA TODAY International Edition | 2010-01-04 | USA | Page: 16
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Israel acting like ‘spoiled brat’
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA: The Saudi foreign minister on Saturday criticised Israel’s settlement construction and said the country acts like a ‘‘spoiled child’’ because the international community is not tough enough in pressuring it to make concessions. Prince Saud al-Faisal said Washington and other players in Middle East peace efforts should take a ‘‘firm and serious’’ stand to put an end to Israeli construction on land Palestinians want for a future state. Israel’s announcement on Monday that it is building nearly 700 new apartments for Jews in east Jerusalem is ‘‘a source of worry, which we strongly condemn’’, he said. The Palestinians want east Jerusalem as their capital and say each expansion of Jewish housing there is making partition as part of a future peace deal more difficult. The US, the Palestinians and the European Union condemned the new Israeli building plan. Israeli-Palestinian talks broke off a year ago, and the Palestinians refuse to restart talks until all Israeli construction in the West B
Bangkok Post | 2010-01-04 | Thailand | Page: 7
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North Korea victorious
MADRID: Barcelona dropped their first home points of the season on Saturday in a disappointing 1-1 home draw with Villarreal as the Spanish league season resumed after its winter break. Pedro put Barca ahead after just seven minutes but David Fuster equalised five minutes after the break to prevent the champions from making it a perfect eight wins at Camp Nou. Real Madrid, three points behind in second, could have moved level on points with victory at Osasuna yesterday. ‘‘We are having a good season and have to continue what we are doing,’’ said Barca captain Carles Puyol. ‘‘We didn’t get the three points but we were up against one of the best teams in the league. We have to rest now because we have another game very soon.’’ Barcelona host Sevilla tomorrow night in the first leg of the Kings Cup last 16. The Kings Cup was one of six trophies Barca won in 2009 and they presented their silverware to the Camp Nou fans in a pre-match ceremony. The players were also given a guard of honour by Villarreal bef
Bangkok Post | 2010-01-04 | Thailand | Page: 12
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Dangerous delusion
Re ‘‘Trouble brewing for the New Year’’ (‘‘Soul Searching’’, Jan 3. Mr Muqbil, as usual, has many insightful thoughts to consider. Those who took his recommendation to read the article in the New York Times written by Alan J Kuperman will understand where Mr Muqbil is coming from. When will the public get it — it is not all about if Iran acquired a nuclear arsenal, it could become a neighbourhood bully or provide terrorists with the ultimate weapon, an atomic bomb; but rather the US and Israel’s opposition to Iran having any influence or playing any major role in the region. The learned director of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Programme at the University of Texas at Austin seems to attest to that reality when he states the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown the United States military can oust regimes in weeks if it wants to. Besides, either the US or Israel can degrade and deter Iran’s bomb programme at relatively little cost or risk, and what the heck, therefore is worth a try! Indeed! I fi
Bangkok Post | 2010-01-04 | Thailand | Page: 8
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Smugglers kill police
TEHERAN: Drug traffickers have killed 11 policemen in eastern Iran. The confrontation occurred on Friday in a desert area of eastern Iran, which lies on a major narcotics route from neighbouring Afghanistan and Pakistan. ‘‘In clashes between police and a narcotics convoy headed from south to north, seven policemen were killed and four others were injured who died later of their severe injuries,’’ local police Colonel Kazem Hashemabadi said. AFP
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Saudi Arabia says bin Laden’s daughter should be free to leave Iran
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia urged Iran on Saturday to allow a daughter of Osama bin Laden, who fled house arrest and sought refuge in the Saudi embassy in Teheran, to leave the country. Iman bin Laden and five siblings had been held in Teheran since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported last month. Iman, 17, escaped during a rare trip outside in November and made her way to the embassy, according to the report in Asharq al-Awsat. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said in Riyadh that Iman should be allowed to leave Iran. ‘‘We consider this to be a purely humanitarian issue and we are in talks with the Iranian government to treat it as such and leave the choice of leaving to the girl,’’ he said. Asharq al-Awsat, owned by a cousin of Prince Saud, has reported that the Saudi embassy has issued Iman with a temporary travel permit to allow her to return to Saudi Arabia. Relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran have been marked by regional rivalry and mutual mis
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Yeni Safak | 2010-01-04 | Turkey | Page: 9
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Orlando Sentinel | 2010-01-03 | USA | Page: 3
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Hamas looks flush with cash
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Gaza’s Hamas Parliament approved a government budget of $540 million for 2010, legislators said Saturday, suggesting that a tight border blockade isn’t stopping the cash flow to the Islamic militants. Up to $60 million stems from local taxes and the rest from “gifts and outside assistance,” said legislator Jamal Nassar. Iran is believed to be one of Hamas’ main financial backers, with cash assistance hauled through smuggling tunnels under Gaza’s border with Egypt. Nassar and fellow lawmaker Yahia Moussa refused to provide a detailed breakdown of the spending plan, and it was impossible to verify that Hamas indeed has $540 million at its disposal. However, a border blockade by Israel and Egypt — first imposed in 2006 and tightened after Hamas overran Gaza a year later — has not weakened the militants. With only humanitarian aid and a few basic items entering Gaza through border crossings, the tunnels are the main supply line for cash, weapons and a wide range of goods. Egypt is inst
Orlando Sentinel | 2010-01-03 | USA | Page: 2
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Iran threatens West with 1-month nuclear deadline
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran set a one-month deadline Saturday for the West to accept its counterproposal to a U.N.-drafted nuclear plan and warned that otherwise it will produce reactor fuel at a higher level of enrichment on its own. The warning was a show of defiance and a hardening of Iran’s stance over its nuclear program, which the West fears masks an effort to develop a nuclear weapons capability. Tehran insists its program is only for peaceful purposes, such as electricity production, and says it has no intention of making a bomb. “We have given them an ultimatum. There is one month left and that is by the end of January,” Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.
Orlando Sentinel | 2010-01-03 | USA | Page: 2
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Financial issues to watch out for
2010 is going to be a tough year. If 2009 was the year of the unexpected, 2010 may turn out to be a year of the unwanted — all ghosts that we feared may actually return to haunt us. But it will also not be a year without optimism. Markets and men have triumphed over much worse and while the New Year may end up being a year full of challenges, it will also stimulate a combative spirit and end leaving behind a feeling of accomplishment and exhilaration. So what all should we look out for in 2010? My list of 10: 1. Domestic consumption This factor has been the most important in seeing us through 2008 and 2009. No doubt-backed by the award of the 6th Pay Commission which released Rs 50,000 crore in two tranches and a stimulus package which left a targeted fiscal deficit of 6.8% in FY11. The Pay Commission arrears have been disbursed and have had their impact on demand. In the absence of demand from the private sector, a 22% rise in government expenditure provided a necessary substitute. With employment and wa
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The Australian | 2010-01-04 | Australia | Page: 2
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Secret dancer’s flight to freedom
AS the protesters lay blindfolded in an Iranian paramilitary van, blows rained down on them. One, however, was singled out for particular punishment. Afshin Ghaffarian’s identity papers described him as an actor, a profession that was not to the liking of the Basij militia commander in charge of the operation. ‘‘If you’re an artist we’ll beat you artistically,’’ he said. What the commander did not know, and it would have sealed the 23-year-old’s fate if he had found out, was that acting was a cover. Ghaffarian is a dancer, and dancing is an activity banned by Iran’s Islamic rulers, punishable by long prison terms. ‘‘If he had known that he would have beaten me even harder,’’ Ghaffarian says. He recounted the incident that could have cost him his freedom, and perhaps his life, in an interview in Paris. His story illustrates the oppression under Iran’s regime, but also the courage and ingenuity of those opposing it. As a student in Tehran he would spend hours on his computer looking for videos of the West’s gre
The Australian | 2010-01-04 | Australia | Page: 11
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The Australian | 2010-01-04 | Australia | Page: 8
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Iran ‘vulnerable to new sanctions’
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration believes domestic unrest and signs of unexpected trouble in Iran’s nuclear program make the country’s leaders particularly vulnerable to strong and immediate new sanctions. As US President Barack Obama faces pressure to back up his year-end ultimatum for diplomatic progress with Iran, reports yesterday said strong and immediate new sanctions would initiate the latest phase in a strategy to force Iran to comply with UN demands to halt production of nuclear fuel. The sanctions proposal comes as the administration has completed a fresh review of Iran’s nuclear progress. Mr Obama’s strategists believe Iran’s top political and military leaders were distracted in recent months by turmoil in the streets and political infighting, and that their drive to produce nuclear fuel appears to have faltered, officials told The New York Times. The White House wants to focus the new sanctions on the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps believed to run the nuclear weapons effort. That force has
The Australian | 2010-01-04 | Australia | Page: 7
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Caxambu, enterra de contrastes
Como todo brasileiro, eu também tenho direito de gozar as férias, embora esteja cada mais difícil gozar com a minha idade. Todos os meus 17 leitores e meio (não esqueçam do anão que é o meu maior fã, quer dizer, menor fã) estão cansados de saber que eu sou um homem de idade avantajada, cansado e encanecido pela marcha inexorável do tempo. Por isso mesmo, mantenho o salutar hábito de tirar férias pelo menos 12 meses por ano, isso sem contar, é claro, os feriados enforcados e os dias em que não apareço no serviço. Normalmente, costumo passar os meus momentos de lazer e vagabundagem na minha propriedade al mare, que, como todos sabem, está localizada na Praia de Iguaba Média, região do Grandes Lábios Fluminenses, encravada entre as praias de Iguaba Grande e Iguabinha (que é o balneário preferido da colônia japonesa). Estávamos, eu e a Isaura, a minha patroa, assando nossos corpos ao sol escaldante de Iguaba, quando nos lembramos de que se avizinhava o aniversário do nosso casamento. Assim, para comemorar a data
O Globo | 2010-01-03 | Brazil | Page: 46
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Nichts Neues im Osten
Nun ist auch der Jemen offenkundig eine neue Kampfzone zwischen islamistischem Terror und dem Westen. Geht das jetzt immer so weiter? Man kann das Wort nicht mehr hören und lesen: Terror. Nach Jahren der Erhebung von Islamisten gegen „Kreuzritter“, aber auch arabischorientalische Regierungen, ist man das ständige Blutvergießen, die Drohungen bärtiger Männer mit Selbstmordattentätern und den permanenten Schatten über dem eigenen Leben leid. Man ist abgestumpft und nimmt die tägliche Taliban-Attacke hin wie den Wetterbericht. Am meisten nervt noch, wenn man wegen der Terrorkiste in die Mühlen der Flughafenkontrollen kommt und in Paris besorgten, besten Weichkäse im Handgepäck abgeben muss, weil der unter die unsägliche EU-Flugsicherheitskontrolle fällt. Danke auch, ihr Gotteskrieger! Und jetzt ein neues Schlachtfeld im Jemen, wo einander al-Qaida und die USA heimlich schon länger bekriegen. Der Westen will den Jemen gegen Gotteskrieger unterstützen, die erhalten sofort Hilfsbekundungen gleich Wahnsinniger aus
Die Presse | 2010-01-04 | Austria | Page: 23
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Iran stellt dem Westen ein Ultimatum
ISTANBUL. Nachdem die von USPräsident Barack Obama gesetzte Frist für Fortschritte im Atomstreit mit dem Iran zum Jahresende ausgelaufen ist, hat nun Teheran seinerseits mit einem Ultimatum geantwortet: Wenn der Westen Irans Bedingungen für den Import von Brennstäben für einen Versuchsreaktor bei Teheran nicht akzeptiere, werde man die Anreicherung selbst besorgen, sagte Irans Außenminister Manouchehr Mottaki. „Die internationale Gemeinschaft hat einen Monat Zeit, um zu entscheiden“, sagte Mottaki und fügte für den Fall, dass dies noch nicht deutlich genug wäre hinzu: „Dies ist ein Ultimatum.“ Es geht darum, dass der Iran Uran mit einem höheren Anreicherungsgrad als den bisher im Inland erzielten 3,5 Prozent (was für ein AKW ausreicht) für einen alten Forschungsreaktor in Teheran benötigt, der unter anderem Isotope für die Medizin erzeugt. Insgesamt wäre dieses Uran zwar noch nicht annähernd so stark angereichert, dass man damit eine Atombombe bauen könnte, käme aber dieser Marge mit rund 90 Prozent näher.
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FM: Active diplomacy will align with nation’s goals
China will shoulder its duties in global affairs in the new year, but will not assume responsibilities that are unaffordable, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has written in an article outlining the country’s diplomatic work in 2010. “ We should exert our unique constructive effects, shoulder duties and obligations that suit our national power and status, and will not do things that go beyond our national power and stage of development,” Yang wrote in an article published in the Qiushi (“Seeking Truth”) journal, the primary theoretical journal of the Communist Party of China, on the first day of 2010. Western countries demanded that China shoulder excessive duties in stopping climate change at the Copenhagen summit that wrapped up near year’s end, and even blamed China for the summit’s failure to reach a concrete plan of action. Beijing officials have said China has done what it can as a developing country. Yang also said his ministry will try its best to “ ensure comprehensive success of important multi-later
China Daily | 2010-01-04 | China | Page: 12
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Smugglers kill 11 police
Iran says a shootout with drug smugglers in an eastern desert region has left 11 policemen dead near the town of Birjand, about 800 km southeast of Teheran. Clashes between police and smugglers are common in the area.
China Daily | 2010-01-04 | China | Page: 11
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Der Standard | 2010-01-04 | Austria | Page: 22
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11 die in gunfight
TEHRAN: Drug traffickers killed 11 police officers in a shoot-out in eastern Iran, officers said yesterday. The confrontation occurred on Friday in a desert area that lies on a popular narcotics trafficking route from neighbouring Afghanistan and Pakistan. ‘‘ In clashes between police and a narcotics convoy headed from south to north, seven policemen were killed and four others who were wounded died later of their severe injuries,’’ Colonel Kazem Hashemabadi said. The UN estimates about 40 per cent of the 7700 tonnes of narcotics produced in Afghanistan in 2008 entered Iran, which has a serious drug problem.
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) | 2010-01-04 | Australia | Page: 14
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Poslovni Dnevnik | 2010-01-04 | Croatia | Page: 12
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Energy minister: Legal change not needed for renewable energy
The energy minister has lashed out at accusations that a delay in parliamentary deliberations over a draft concerning new policies, including tax incentives for renewable energy, means the ministry has given up on efforts to encourage the use of renewable energy in Turkey. “Changing the law is not required in most fields related to renewable energy sources in order to enable the utilization of the country’s promising potential. We have already been able to boost Turkey’s renewable energy sector without any legal incentives,” Energy Minister Taner Yıldız told Today’s Zaman on Saturday. Turkey currently meets 70 percent of its energy needs through imports from foreign countries, a situation that is likely to lead to a crisis if there is scarcity in the market or any disagreement with natural gas and/or petroleum exporting countries. Discussing the solar energy sector, the minister said tax incentives are immensely important to boost the sector, adding that cost-benefit analyses indicate generating electric
Today's Zaman | 2010-01-04 | Turkey | Page: 8
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Hamas says it is in final stage of Fatah reconciliation
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said on Sunday the Islamist group was in the final stages of achieving reconciliation with the rival Palestinian Fatah party after he met Saudi Arabian officials to try to narrow the rift. “We achieved great strides towards achieving reconciliation,” Meshaal told reporters at the Foreign Ministry during a visit to the Saudi capital. “We are in the final stages now.” An Egyptian proposal to promote reconciliation between Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah group has called for presidential and legislative elections to be held in the West Bank and Gaza Strip next June. Meshaal said Hamas still had some points to resolve in the Egyptian proposal. “We all agree that the signing of the [reconciliation] will take place in Cairo,” he said. Meshaal’s visit with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal was designed to help reconciliation of the feud, Saudi officials said. “We still hope that the kingdom plays a special role alongside Egypt and Arab countries to h
Today's Zaman | 2010-01-04 | Turkey | Page: 10
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İran Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki
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Iran warns West it will make its own nuclear fuel
Iran has set a one-month deadline for the West to accept its counterproposal to a UNdrafted nuclear plan and warned that otherwise it will produce reactor fuel at a higher level of enrichment on its own. The warning was a show of defiance and a hardening of Iran’s stance over its nuclear program, which the West fears masks an effort to develop a nuclear weapons capability. Tehran insists its program is only for peaceful purposes, such as electricity production, and says it has no intention of making a b
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