- Tehran Times: Qods Day wrap-up.
- Aftab-e Yazd advocating “Iran First”-policy despite desire to solve the “Qods [Jerusalem] problem.”
- Supreme Leader’s paper, Kayhan, features front page photo calling for Israel to be bombed; (headline calls for referendum on Israel’s existence).
- Abdullah Jasbi, head of the Azad University: “I doubt if the Iranian students are more political aware than before the revolution.”
- Member of the Planning and Budget Committee of the Iranian Parliament: Climb in oil prices only an advantage if there is correct management.
- Claiming credit for higher oil prices?
- India’s Minister of Oil: India obliged to participate in the “Peace” natural gas pipeline with Iran.
- Nuclear debate inside Iran:
- Speaker of Parliament: The enemy should not feel confident because of heterogeneity of thought in Iran with regard to the nuclear question.
- Ahmadinejad complaining about those who “negotiate [the Iranian nuclear case] with no authority.”
- Columbia University aftermath:
- Mohammad-Ali Najafi, member of Tehran City Council: “I wish Ahmadinejad had shown the same degree of tolerance at Amir Kabir University that he demonstrated at Columbia University. I also wish students who protested against him one and half years ago at Amir Kabir Unviversity where not paying the price of their protests even today”
- Javad Shamghadari, the cultural advisor of the Iranian president, asks the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting to produce a documentary on Ahmadinejad’s trip to New York and speech at Columbia University.
- Iranian army sponsoring rap and R&B concert.
- Iranian-Argentine spat over Iran’s terrorist bombing of Jewish community center in Buenos Aires accelerates.
- Tehran-Kabul defense committee.
- Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah calls Iran’s policies toward Palestine, “Brave and progressive.”
- Rafsanjani, whom Condoleezza Rice’s staff sees as a pragmatic partner, dismisses her Israeli-Palestinian Annapolis peace conference idea.
- Iranian client Abdul Aziz Hakim, leader of Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, to join Iraqis for Eid, as cancer treatment is finished.
- Hakim and Muqtada al-Sadr sign an agreement.
- Saudi Mufti Abdul-Hadi Abd al-Latif Al-Saleh’s latest fatwa [religious edict]: Meat slaughtered by Christians is religiously halal [ religiously sanctions] while meat slaughtered by Shi’as is haram [religiously impermissible]
- Photo of the Day: Dialogue of civilizations, Iranian-style.
(With thanks to Ali Alfoneh for his assistance in compiling)
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