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United Against the Ruling Mullahs July 23, 2003 The Wall Street Journal Review & Outlook The pronouncements of America and Europe on the Middle East have sometimes seemed a tale of two policies. The U.S. brought freedom to Iraq even as Dominique de Villepin led France in Saddam's defense; the U.S. quarantined Yasser Arafat even as Brussels continued to have dealings with him; the U.S. attempted to isolate Iran even as Paris and sometimes even London pursued a fruitless policy of engagement. This history of disagreement makes it all the more encouraging that, at least on the question of how...

End of the road for EU engagement of Iran? Monday, July 14, 2003 - ©2003 IranMania.com TEHRAN, July 14 (AFP) - The US administration has been wielding the stick against Iran by lumping it into its "axis of evil" and following up with almost daily accusations of misconduct. The European Union has preferred to go for the carrot. Seeing negotiations as the way ahead, EU member states have been dangling what could be a lucrative trade and cooperation agreement in exchange for concessions in four areas of major concern: Iran's nuclear programme, contacts with groups deemed "terrorist", the Middle East...

Italians Are With Iranians too. ON 9 JULY, WE ALL SHALL BE IRANIAN" SAYS ITALIANS ROME 28 June (IPS) On the initiative of a group of Iranian intellectuals and journalists in Italy and in collaboration with "Il Riformista" newspaper, a hundred of leading Italian personalities of all walk announced their support for the Iranian student’s freedom seeking protest movement. "On 9 July, all of us we shall be Iranian", wrote Marco Follini, the General Secretary of the "Unione di Centro Democratice" (Union of Democratic Centre), referring to the fourth commemoration of the first major student’s protest revolt against the Islamic...

Thousands more protest in main US and European cities By SMCCDI (Information Service) Jul 9, 2003, 4:43pm Thousands more of members of Iranian Diaspora gathered, today, in order to protest against the illegitimate rule of the Islamic republic regime and to ask for its change into a Secular regime. Thousands of Iranians living in main US gathered in cities, such as, Washington DC, New York, Austin, Chicago, Phoenix, Atlanta, Dallas, Seattle and San Francisco; An thousands of others, living in Europe gathered in cities, such as, Paris, Hamburg, Stockholm, London, Den Hague, Oslo, Brussels and Barcelona. All of them asked...