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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...

On Iran, US Opts for Peer Pressure July 10, 2003 The Christian Science Monitor Howard LaFranchi WASHINGTON -– Despite fresh evidence that Iran is accelerating and diversifying its suspected development of nuclear weapons, the Bush administration appears willing to wait and see - at least for now - if international pressure short of force can persuade the Tehran regime to give up its nuclear program. The explanation can be found in the increasingly unified voice with which the international community is telling the Iranian government, in effect: "Forget the nukes, or face isolation." The growing unity is prompting the US...

Senators urge US support of Iran's democracy movement Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - ©2003 IranMania.com WASHINGTON, July 8 (AFP) - As Iran prepares to mark Wednesday's fourth anniversary of bloody student riots, US lawmakers said Washington should do more to support students agitating for the regime's reform or ouster. "America must make it clear that we see the difference between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people, and we support the people," said Senator Sam Brownback, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who has held several hearings on the political and social situation in Iran. "We must do...

During his radio interview last Thursday, Secretary of State Colin Powell, in an unusual departure from his careful and measured manner of speech, seems to have created major confusion and dismay among the Iranians opposed to "Mullaharchy" in Iran. The timing of these particular remarks are most unfortunate because they fall on the eve of July 9th when on the occasion of the annual commemoration of the bloody suppression of the student uprising of 1997, there will be renewal of massive protests inside and outside of Iran. On the other hand, the same unfortunate remarks, according to Reuters has created...

Iran is the Root of Islamic Terrorism July 05, 2003 Capitalism Magazine Joseph Kellard Iran is the root of Islamic terrorism, and destroying its theocracy would be a major victory in the war on terrorists. But in this war the Bush administration takes an inverted, appeasing approach. Bush not only fails to declare that the US will us force to topple Iran's regime; he's busy appeasing Palestinian terrorists that are mere heads of the Iranian hydra. Following an overwhelming military victory in Iraq, the Bush administration has renewed its pursuit of creating a Palestinian terrorist state, instead of focusing on...

Rice Warns of 'Made in America' Solution in Iran Friday, June 27, 2003 - ©2003 IranMania.com LONDON, June 27 (AFP) - US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has indicated that the United States is ready to act alone against Iran and North Korea if European countries do not cooperate in stopping them from developing nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph reported Friday. "If we do not want a 'Made in America' solution, let's find out how to resolve the issues of North Korea and Iran," the paper quoted Rice as saying during a visit to London Thursday. Rice sought to play...

Iran Must be Tackled June 27, 2003 Daily Telegraph "Do something about Iran - or we will have to act" was Condoleezza Rice's message to the international community when she addressed the International Institute for Strategic Studies yesterday. Curiously, the American National Security Adviser's words triggered less controversy than might have been expected. There were a number of reasons for this. First, she did not close the door on multilateral action as the first resort for the administration. She was seeking to give multilateralism some real teeth and thus to rescue it, rather than to bury it. Second, compared with...

Iranian Exiles Sow Change Via Satellite Islamic Government's Foes Tap TV, Web and Phones to Encourage Protests (Excerpted article) By Michael Dobbs Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, June 26, 2003; Page A01 LOS ANGELES -- "Good morning, Iran," says Zia Atabay, a former Iranian pop star who fled Iran after the 1979 Islamic revolution. "And good evening, America." It is 9 a.m. in Tehran, 9 p.m. in Los Angeles. The previous evening, Iranian demonstrators roamed the streets of Tehran, shouting, "Down with the mullahs." From a makeshift television studio halfway around the world, Atabay is urging people to join the...

Bush's Ugly Choices in Iran By Sol Sanders SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM June 24, 2003 The Iraq kick-the-can search for WMD notwithstanding, evidence for another nuclear threat to world peace is growing in Iran. Only part of the problem is Iran building nukes under the pretence of an oil rich economy needing nuclear power while rejecting UN International Atomic Energy monitoring. But Tehran has moved to enrichment after apparently discovering domestic uranium. The only question appears to be “how long?” Given repeated failures to appreciate the speed of such developments in Iraq and North Korea, alarm is justified.