(Compiled with the assistance of Ali Alfoneh)
NUCLEAR ISSUE
- Spokesman of former parliamentary chairman Mehdi Karrubi’s National Trust party: “Our progress in the nuclear field is due to the efforts of presidents Rafsanjani and Khatami.”
- Demanding domestic enrichment rather than provision of enriched fuel from overseas.
DIPLOMACY
- Army commander in chief: “The U.S. will flee from Iraq in the same manner that England fled Basra.”
- Head of Iranian judiciary: “Behind the thick layer of make up, the ugly face of the U.S. is shown in recent sanctions against our banking system.”
- Bolstering outreach to Afghanistan.
- Qom University hold conference on U.S.-Iran relations.
- Our challenges with the United States at the international scene has in addition to severing the hands of Washington off the national interests of the Iranian nation inside Iran, but has had manifestations beyond our border in such countries as Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Africa and Latin America, as well.”
- “Whenever the enemy feels there is a weak point in us, it gets more aggressive, but observing the spirit of resistance makes it hesitate and begin reviewing the costs of any encounter again.”
- Re-implementing the 1975 Algiers Accords?
POLITICAL
- Former IRGC chief, Mohsen Rezai: “Political movements and groupings should accept clerical supremacy.”
ECONOMY AND TRADE
- Iran and Siemens sign a memorandum of understanding concerning a €560 million monorail in Tehran.
- National Bank of the Islamic Republic no longer believes it is possible to reduce inflation to a single digit figure.
SOCIETY, RELIGION, AND CULTURE
- Friday Prayers Leader of Mashhad condemns sports for women, holds the government responsible for “propagation of immorality.”
- Entekhab publishes a letter from an obscure pre-revolutionary Iranian bureaucrat who warns of “Baha‘i spies in every branch of government.”
MILITARY
- IRGC chief, Mohammad-Ali Ja’fari: “Extra regional powers dare not even think about attacking Iran.”
- “The Revolutionary Guards is one of the strongest military institutions in the world.”
- Enemy troops flee Iran’s borders after stern warning.
HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR
- Iran’s first independent trade union condemns sentencing, imprisonment of its leadership.
- Appeasing the Ayatollahs: Bush and Rice refuse to issue any comment, condemnation of labor crackdown.
PHOTO OF THE DAY
- National Student Day.
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