NCRI - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the Iranian regime, once again threatened the world community and engaged in obfuscation about the regime's nuclear projects on Saturday, February 11, on the anniversary of the Iranian revolution. Speaking to a crowd that was bussed to Tehran from various cities by the regime, he said that the Iranian regime's policy "has until now been the peaceful use of nuclear technology and has been within the framework of the NPT. But if the Iranian nation's right is denied based on these same regulations, we will revise our policies regarding the NPT."

By Nick Cohen

The Observer - For three weeks, there have been demonstrations across the planet about a great injustice done to Muslims. After baton-wielding cops inflicted dozens of injuries, the fear of death is in the air. George W Bush's State Department has warned of 'systematic oppression', while secularists and fundamentalists have revealed their mutually incompatible values. Since you ask, I am not talking about the global menace of Scandinavian cartoonists that has so terrified our fearless free press, but mass arrests in Iran.

The Associated Presse - Denmark has temporarily withdrawn its ambassadors from Syria, Iran and Indonesia because their safety was at risk in the wake of a Danish newspaper's publication of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday.

Agence France Presse - The Austrian presidency of the EU firmly condemned the repeated claim by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Holocaust is a "myth", in a news release Saturday.

A number of political prisoners, among them supporters of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), who have been imprisoned by the Iranian regime for years, have disappeared, according to their families and other prisoners.

Following the referral of the clerical regime's nuclear file to the UN Security Council, prison guards had threatened Mojahedin prisoners that they would all be executed. Meanwhile, there are reports that Mr. Hojjat Zamani, a Mojahedin prisoner, imprisoned since 2001, has disappeared.

NCRI - In a parliamentary debate on Iran at the House of Lords on February 9, several members of the House called for removal of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran from the list of terrorist organizations to pave the way for democratic change in Iran. Lord Waddingtion, QC, was particularly keen to see the PMOI removed from the list and the following are excerpts of his remarks in the debate:

NCRI - In a major seminar in the Hague on February 3, it was announced that some 700 Dutch lawyers and jurists had called for immediate removal of terror label from the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, main democratic opposition to fundamentalist regime in that country.

Reuters - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, days after calling Iran the world's top state sponsor of terrorism, ratcheted up the pressure on Tehran on Friday with fresh accusations of interference in Iraq.

The United Press International -- Iran's leading opposition grouping in exile Friday accused the hardline clerical regime of inflaming Muslim anger towards the west over cartoons of Mohammed.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice directed a similar claim against the Iranian and Syrian governments Wednesday.

In a statement on its website, The Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran condemned the caricatures of the Prophet --which were originally published in a Danish daily -- for insulting Muslims' religious beliefs and playing into the hands of the mullahs in Tehran.