Posted on 10/09/2006 12:19:10 AM PDT by DoctorZIn
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Bush signs Iran Freedom and Support Act!
- The Washington Post reported that President Bush on Saturday signed legislation that would impose mandatory sanctions on entities that provide goods or services for Iran's weapons programs.
- The Associated Press reported that the US Senate finally passed the Iran Freedom and Support Act.
- The Library of Congress published the full text of the Iran Freedom and Support Act.
But does Condi support a change of regime in Iran?
- The Wall Street Journal reexamined their recent interview with Condi Rice in which he concludes: Her primary method for dealing with the Iranian regime, it seems, is to deal with the regime, not to seek to change it.
Iran reminds us again: it doesn't fear sanctions.
- Fars News Agency reported that US President George. W Bush is unable to push the EU and other countries to impose sanctions on Iran.
- The Jerusalem Post reported that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Saturday that Iran would not bow to US pressure to roll back its nuclear program.
Here are a few other news items you may have missed.
- Compass Direct News reported that Iranian secret police arrested a Christian couple in the northeastern city of Mashhad three days ago, forcing them to leave behind their 6-year-old daughter and holding them incommunicado ever since.
- American Forces Press Service reported that Army Maj. Gen. Richard Zahner, the deputy chief of staff for intelligence with Multinational Force Iraq, said labels on weapons stocks seized inside and outside Iraq point to Iranian government complicity in arming Shiite militias in Iraq.
- Amir Taheri, Arab News asked: Could Russian incompetence provide an unexpected way out of the impasse over Iran's nuclear program?
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This going to turn out like North Korea?
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