Editorial

The Washington Post - Is it a sign of increased wisdom -- or is it a sign of increased desperation? If the Bush administration had announced its intention to spend $75 million on promoting democracy, student exchanges and independent media in Iran several years ago, as part of a wider policy of promoting democracy in the broader Middle East, the policy would have seemed unquestionably wise.

Iranian Resistance warns of Tehran regime's concealment and deception

NCRI - According to news agencies, Seyyed-Ali Hosseini-Tash, Deputy Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, arrived in Moscow Sunday night to negotiate with Russian officials about the uranium enrichment plan on Russian soil. The day before, Tehran's officials had insisted on enriching uranium inside Iran.

NCRI - Iranian Resistance urges all human rights organizations to condemn systematic discrimination and injustice against religious minorities

Following the takeover and demolition of the center and the mosque of the Nematollahi dervishes in Qom, the mullahs' regime, plans to expand the crackdown on the dervishes to other parts of the country.

Reuters - The American ambassador to Iraq accused Iran on Monday of training and providing weapons to militias operating in Iraq.

"Iran has another policy as well: to work with militias, provide training and provide weapons to extremist groups, direct and indirectly," Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters after a news conference.

By Jubin Afshar

Global Politician - Iran figures to be the most urgent foreign policy crisis on the agenda for the international community in 2006. With the rise of an overtly belligerent foreign policy under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian regime has quickly made a carefully calculated move to project its virulent Islamic fundamentalist ideology to Muslim countries throughout the Middle East and beyond. If successful, this would have perilous repercussions for regional as well as global peace and security.

By Colin Freeman and Philip Sherwell in Washington

The Sunday Telegraph - Iran's hardline spiritual leaders have issued an unprecedented new fatwa, or holy order, sanctioning the use of atomic weapons against its enemies.

The Iranian Resistance deplores the European Union officials' receiving of clerical regime's Foreign Minister, Manuchehr Mottaki. It calls on the Belgian government and the EU to cancel the Brussels visit.

Mottaki is not only the Foreign Minister of a religious, terrorist dictatorship that has undermined regional and global peace and tranquility, but he has also been involved in murder, suppression, and terrorism against dissidents. Instead of being welcomed in Europe, he should  be prosecuted in an international tribunal for his crimes against humanity.

By NASSER KARIMI

The Associated Press - An Iranian group that claims its members are dedicated to becoming suicide bombers warned the United States and Britain on Saturday that they will strike coalition military bases in Iraq if Tehran's nuclear facilities are attacked.

Mohammad Ali Samadi, spokesman for Esteshadion, or Martyrdom Seekers, boasted of having hundreds of potential bombers in his talk at a seminar on suicide-bombings tactics at Tehran's Khajeh Nasir University.

The Washington Times - It is easy to damn the 1930s appeasers of Adolf Hitler -- such as Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain in England and Edouard Daladier in France -- given what the Nazis ultimately did when unleashed.

But history demands not merely recognizing the truth post facto but trying to reconstruct the rationale of something that in hindsight seems inexplicable.