Thursday, August 16, 2007

Iran News Round Up   [Michael Rubin]

• Iranian and Chinese presidents meet in Kyrgyzstan.
• Iran arrests two Chinese for photographing nuclear site.
• Belgian tourist kidnapped in southeastern Iran.
• (There was a wave of kidnapped foreigners there in 1998-2000).
• Iranian foreign ministry dismisses U.S. designation of IRGC as terrorists.
• Dismisses U.S. allegations of interference in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Meeting between Iranian paramilitary Basij and Lebanese Hezbollah.
• “Eventually, the US, too, will have to leave the region and there will no longer be any Israel at last.”
• Lauding Hezbollah for its defeat of Bush’s Middle East initiative.
• Iran-Iraq trade volume exceeds $2 billion.
• Japanese projects in Iran total almost $10 billion this year.
• Canadian company joins Iran-China auto venture (scroll down).
• Update on union protests, arrests in Iran.
• Demonstrating emptiness of their rhetoric, White House, State Department actively ignore.
• Rafsanjani: West is indebted to Iranian science.
• Celebrating installation of GPS technology in security vehicles.
• Picture of the Day: Fire decimates a Tehran bazaar.
• New Feature: Supreme Leader’s advice of the day:
• Question: Am I allowed to marry a Muslim woman who insists on not observing ḥijab and wearing short clothes in spite of the strong advice to stop that?
• Answer: There is no objection to marrying her, but you should forbid her from committing evil and enjoin her to good. However, if this marriage defame you or lead to vile consequences, it is impermissible.

08/16 06:39 AMShare