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Summary of Iran Stories in Today's BroadcastsBehnam NateghiMonday, June 16, 2003 US Offers Moral, Rhetorical Support to Iranian Protesters • The United State's involvement in the anti-regime demonstrations in Iran is limited to “expressing our moral support, our rhetorical support, our solidarity with the demonstrators,” US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told a news conference in Washington on Monday. He added that the Bush administration stands with the students and other demonstrators who are asking for more rights and freedoms. Mr. Boucher rejected the Islamic regime's charge that the US has helped incite the week-long, nationwide protests against Iran's clerical leadership. He said, “The demonstrations are not about the US. These are Iranians protesting Iranian policy.” He added that by offering support and encouragement the US “has made it clear which side we stand on.” (Bijan Farhoodi, Washington) Ant-Regime Protests Spread in Tehran and Major Cities • A week after residents of the neighborhoods surrounding the Tehran University campus jointed the students in all-night demonstrations against the regime, the protests spread to other neighborhoods of Tehran, as well as other major cities, where police and plainclothes security forces clashed violently with demonstrators. A resident of Tehran-Pars, a crowded residential suburb east of Tehran, tells Radio Farda that forces of the armed Basij unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps attacked the crowd, that was larger than previous nights, and arrested some 150 people. (Leyli Sadr, Washington) • Scores of women took off their Islamic head scarves as a sign of protest during nightly street demonstrations in Shriza. In the street protests, which began around 10 PM on Thursday night, people shouted slogans against dictatorship, but heavy-handed plainclothes security forces put down the unrest by 2:40 AM, a Shiraz resident tells Radio Farda. (Fereydoun Zargegar, Prauge) • Tehran police chief Morteza Talai said 30 demonstrators were arrested last night, bringing the number of detainees since last Monday to 140. (Jean Khakzad, Prague) • Students staged a peaceful demonstration in Tabriz, shouting slogans against the Supreme Leader and President Khatami. (Jamshid Zand, Prague) • In a letter to the heads of the three branches of the government, the nationalist-religious coalition members Habibollah Peyman, Ezatollah Sahabi and Mohammad Maleki protested against the arrest of three of its members and condemned the violent suppression of student demonstrations by plainclothes security forces. (Camellia Entekhabi-Fard) • In a statement issued today, the nationalist, foreign-based political group Nehzat-e Moqavemat-e Melli-ye Iran (National Resistance Movement of Iran) blamed the Supreme Leader for what it called “assault on the nation's rights,” but warned that the Los Angeles-based satellite broadcasters may be misleading the peaceful demonstrators by encouraging people to take violent actions. (Camellia Entekhabi Fard, Washington) • A Los Angeles Iranian demonstrating along other exiles in front of the Federal Building, tells Radio Farda that in their rallies during the past four nights, Los Angeles Iranians want the students in Iran to know that they have heard the sound of their protest. (Firouzeh Khatibi, Los Angeles) • Italy's social democrat party said Europe must respond to Iranians' cry for freedom. (Ahmad Ra'fat, Rome) • Young Iranians believe that the ruling clerics have taken the place of the former monarch, writes the Frankfurter Allgemeine. The German newspaper quotes a young girl in Tehran who said everyone knows that Iran's government is made of a big lie. (Shahram Mirian, Cologne) • Contrary to Washington's belief, the Iraq war may turn into a tool for the regime against the youth movement, Guido Rampoldi writes in Rome's La Republica. He adds that Iranian students and the people who joined them aim to rid Iran of Khomeinism, which, like Communism, resists reform. Khatami's failure is also the failure of the EU's policy on Iran, which centered on supporting Khatami. (Ahmad Ra'fat, Rome) • In an article from Tehran, Paris daily Liberation</i) quotes a university professor who said protestors aim at the regime itself. A student told Libe that the demonstrations are disorganized and lack leaders. (Jean Khakzad, Prague) Judiciary Arrests Regime's Outspoken Critics • The recently appointed Tehran Islamic revolutionary prosecutor Said Mortazvi issued arrest warrants for a number of outspoken critics of the regime. Soheila Hamidnia, wife of constitutional reform activist and reformist newspaper publisher Mohammad-Mehdi Sazegara tells Radio Farda that police agents took away her husband after searching their home, and locked her inside. (Bahman Bastani, Prague) IAEA Chief Warns Iran on Violations • International Atomic Energy Agency's inspectors told the Vienna-based UN agency that Iran had failed to inform the UN about some of its advanced nuclear programs. IAEA chief Muhammad Elbaradei urged Iran to sign on the additional safeguard protocol that would allow unannounced inspections of its nuclear facilities. IAEA spokesman Melissa Fleming tells Radio Farda that the EU foreign ministers' “putting a big political push” for Iran to sign the additional protocol would be useful. Elberadei said he will continue to ask Iran to permit UN inspection to visit the sites it has so far refused to open for inspection. Iran's representative to the IAEA Ali-Akbar Salehi said without pressure from Washington, IAEA would have issued a resolution with which Iran could comply. (Camellia Entekhabi Fard, Washington) • The US has pressured IAEA to accuse Iran of violating the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, London's daily Guardian writes. (Fariba Mavedat, Prague) • At EU foreign ministers' conference today in Luxemburg, German foreign minister Joschka Fischer expressed concern about Iran's nuclear programs, and asked Iran to join the additional safeguard protocol of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty without delay. (Shahram Mirian, Cologne) • Foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi said Iran would sign the additional protocol after the IAEA member countries clarify to Iran the ways they will assist in its peaceful nuclear energy program. (Fariba Mavedat, Prague) Anti-regime Demonstrations: Views and Analysis • London-based author and historian William Shawcross, who penned a history of the early days of the 1979 revolution in The Shah's Last Days, tells Radio Farda that after the failure of the Ayatollahs' revolution, and the six years' futile attempts of the democratic forces to reform the theocratic regime, another revolution is blossoming in Iran that will, by default, lead to democracy. (Shahran Tabari, London) • The protests show Iranians' frustration and their political, social and economic discontent, and should be taken seriously, says Columbia University professor Gary Sick. “However,” he tells Radio Farda, the unrest will not last long, since it lacks organization. (Amir-Mosaddegh Katouzian, Washington) Unrest Leads to Capital Fligth • The flow of capital from Iran to Dubai increased, as a reaction to the student protests of the past week. (Fereydoun Khavand, Paris) . بيژن فرهودي: (راديو فردا):سخنگوي وزارت امور خارجه آمريكا بار ديگر حمايت واشنگتن را از تظاهر كنندگان خواهان دموكراسي در ايران ابراز داشت. خبرنگاري از آقاي باوچر، سخنگوي وزارت امور خارجه آمريكا پرسيد دولت ايران مي گويد ايالات متحده به دانشجويان ايراني كمك مي كند. آقاي باوچرگفت: در وهله اول اين تظاهرات درباره ايالات متحده نيست. اين تظاهرات درباره وضع ايران است و توسط ايرانيها و درباره سياست جمهوري اسلامي صورت گرفته است. اينها هيچ ربطي به ايالات متحده ندارد. ما از آن حمايت كرده و آنرا تشويق مي كنيم. ما صراحتا گفته ايم كه از كدام طرف حمايت مي كنيم. اينها ايرانياني هستند كه به سياست جمهوري اسلامي ايران معترضند. به اين تظاهرات فقط بايد به اين ديده نگريست و علت آنرا نبايد چيز ديگري دانست و آنرا مورد سرزنش قرار داد. سخنگوي وزارت امور خارجه آمريكا در پاسخ به خبرنگار ديگري گفت: حمايت ما از تظاهركنندگان ايراني، حمايتي معنوي و لفظي است. وي اظهار داشت كه دولت بوش هيچ موضعي در قبال لايحه پيشنهادي سناتور سم براون بك براي حمايت از برقراري دموكراسي درايران اتخاذ نكرده است. خبرنگار ديگري از سخنگوي وزارت امور خارجه آمريكا پرسيد ممكن است به ما بگوييد كه واشنگتن تا چه حد نگران برنامه هسته اي ايران است؟ آقاي باوچرگفت: نمي دانم كه دقيقا چگونه براي نگراني خود حد و اندازه اي تعيين كنم. ما سالها است كه بسيار نگران برنامه هسته اي ايران بوده ايم. ما از دولتهاي ديگر خواسته ايم كه با آن همكاري نكنند. ما كوشيده ايم تا نوع برنامه اي را كه ايران به اجراي آن مشغول است، يادآور شويم و بگوييم كه برنامه غيرنظامي ايران درواقع پوششي براي فعاليتهاي ديگر است. سخنگوي وزارت امور خارجه آمريكا افزود اكنون به اهتمام سازمان بين المللي انرژي اتمي در وين، ما گزارشي از مدير كل اين سازمان داريم كه ايران، همانطور كه ما مي گفتيم يك برنامه گسترده هسته اي داشته و درواقع ايرانيها به اجراي يك برنامه چرخش كامل هسته اي مشغول بودند، كه اين خود باعث نگراني بسياري از كشورها شده است. سخنگوي وزارت امور خارجه آمريكا گفت مسئله برنامه هسته اي ايران در اين هفته در هيئت مديره آژانس بين المللي مطرح خواهد شد و ما معتقديم كه نه تنها دولتهاي عضو، بلكه هيئت مديره آژانس، نگرانيهاي خود را از برنامه هسته اي ايران ابراز دارند و از ايران بخواهند مشكلات آنرا برطرف نمايد، به تمام سئوالات موجود پاسخ دهد و بدون هرگونه تاخير پروتكلهاي الحاقي را امضا كند. آقاي باوچرگفت: ما نگرانيهاي خود را به اطلاع هيئت مديره رسانده ايم و هيئت مديره سرگرم رسيدگي به اين مسائل است و سعي دارد كه به ايران بگويد كه براي رفع اين نگرانيها چه اقداماتي بايد به عمل آورد. ريچارد باوچر، سخنگوي وزارت امور خارجه آمريكا گفت: حمايت واشنگتن از تظاهر كنندگان خواهان دموكراسي در ايران حمايتي معنوي و لفظي است. وي در پاسخ به خبرنگاري در باره كمك و دخالت آمريكا در اين ناآرامي ها گفت: اين تظاهرات درباره ايالات متحده نيست، بلكه درباره ايران و سياست جمهوري اسلامي صورت گرفته است. اينها هيچ ربطي به ايالات متحده ندارد. ما از آن حمايت مي كنيم و صراحتا هم گفته ايم كه از كدام طرف حمايت مي كنيم. اينها ايرانياني هستند كه به سياست جمهوري اسلامي ايران معترضند. به اين تظاهرات فقط بايد به اين ديده نگريست و علت آنرا نبايد چيز ديگري دانست و آنرا مورد سرزنش قرار داد. وي گفت: دولت بوش تاكنون هيچ موضعي درباره طرح سناتو سم براون بگ براي پشتيباني از برقراري دموكراسي در ايران اتخاذ نكرده است.