Daily News Digest: Saturday, August 29, 2009
Ahmadinejad calls for prosecution of Iran’s opposition leaders (LA TIMES) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanded the prosecution of opposition leaders today, raising the nation’s political temperature just a day and a half after supreme leader Ali Khamenei sought to cool tempers in a conciliatory speech.
IRAN: Proposed education minister accused of making up his degrees (LA TIMES) - Did President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s nominee as head of the nation’s higher education system fake his university degrees? According to an investigation by a reformist website, Mowjcamp.com, Kamran Daneshjoo, Ahmadinejad’s proposed minister of higher education, has lied about his academic credentials by claiming that he obtained British university degrees.
Interview: Prosecutor In 1994 Argentina Bombing Implicates Iran (RADIO FREE EUROPE) - RFE/RL’s Radio Farda correspondent Mohammad Reza Kazemi interviewed Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor handling the case of the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina. The prosecution asserts that the attack, which killed 85 people and wounded 300, can be traced to Hizbullah and Iran. Ahmed Vahidi, recently named to be Iranian defense minister, is alleged to have been involved in planning the attack.
Iran’s opposition leaders (LA TIMES) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanded the prosecution of opposition leaders today, raising the nation’s political temperature just a day and a half after supreme leader Ali Khamenei sought to cool tempers in a conciliatory speech.
IRAN: Proposed education minister accused of making up his degrees (LA TIMES) - Did President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s nominee as head of the nation’s higher education system fake his university degrees? According to an investigation by a reformist website, Mowjcamp.com, Kamran Daneshjoo, Ahmadinejad’s proposed minister of higher education, has lied about his academic credentials by claiming that he obtained British university degrees.
Interview: Prosecutor In 1994 Argentina Bombing Implicates Iran (RADIO FREE EUROPE) - RFE/RL’s Radio Farda correspondent Mohammad Reza Kazemi interviewed Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor handling the case of the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina. The prosecution asserts that the attack, which killed 85 people and wounded 300, can be traced to Hizbullah and Iran. Ahmed Vahidi, recently named to be Iranian defense minister, is alleged to have been involved in planning the attack.
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