Student Committee of Human Rights Reporters

On Sunday night, July 30th, imprisoned student activist Akbar Mohammadi, who was on his 9th day of a hunger strike died of a massive coronary while in the prison shower. The prison doctors were not able to revive him. He passed away in the late hours of the night, in prison.

His body has been transferred to the coroners office at a hospital in the Saadatabad area of Tehran.

On Sunday, members of the Islamic parliament visited Evin prison, where Mohammadi was being detained. Mohammadi had just been returned to his cell in ward 350 after a brutal torture session where he was black and blue, swollen and bleeding from cuts he had sustained under torture; the jailors had chained him to his bed and his mouth had been gagged.

The Student Committee of Human Rights Reporters condemns this inhumane and barbarous act and while offering condolences to the freedom loving people of Iran, holds the judiciary of the Islamic regime directly responsible for the death of this patriot.

and calls for an international fact-finding mission

Yesterday, the mullahs’ henchmen tied Mohammadi, taped his mouth and tortured him

NCRI - The Iranian Resistance expresses its condolences over the suspicious death of Mr. Akbar Mohammadi, who spent six years in prison, and holds the mullahs' henchmen fully responsible for his gruesome death in the notorious Evin Prison. On Sunday, a number of prison guards tied him up, taped his mouth and tortured him. Mr. Mohammadi had been on hunger strike since a few days earlier. Subsequent to his death, the prison authorities cut the phone lines to prevent the news of his death from spreading.

In an interview with the state-run new agency ISNA, the director of the regime's prisons in Tehran Province, Sohrab Soleimani, said, "Yesterday, Akbar Mohammadi … was in perfect condition and upon his request and after the doctor’s check, he was released from the prison hospital and taken back to his ward."

Killing dissidents and prisoners is common practice by the mullahs' regime. This is a medieval regime which has executed more than 120,000 political prisoners in its dreadful dungeons and torture chambers.

The Iranian Resistance expresses its condolences to the family of Mr. Mohammadi and other political prisoners and calls on international human rights organizations to form a fact-finding mission to investigate the cause of his death as well as the present status of other political prisoners in Iran. A great number of political prisoners are faced with similar plots and conspiracies against their lives. In February, the mullahs' inhuman regime executed Mr. Hojjat Zamani, a member of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, who spent four years in prison before his execution.

Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, Jul. 31 – The Supreme Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps described United States President George W. Bush as a “Zionist”.

“For the past four years, the United States and Britain have been busy killing Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan”, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi said on Sunday. His remarks were reported by the state-run news agency ISNA.

“Should the U.S. President, the British Prime Minister, and the Israeli President not be prosecuted for war crimes? Are the U.S., Britain, and Israel not the biggest state-sponsors of international terrorism? Are they not the real Axis of Evil?” he said.

He called for the swift arrival of the day of the “destruction” of Israel.

“The U.S. is under the influence and penetration of Israel. It is not inconceivable that Bush is also a Zionist”, Safavi said.

“We ask God for the fervour of Muslims to come to a climax and the heads of states dependent on the Zionists and the U.S. to be destroyed”, he added.

IRBIL, July 31 (KUNA) -- Four Peshmergas were killed and 10 others injured when a suicide bomber drove his car into a security checkpoint in southern Dahouk in northern Iraq, said a security source Monday.

The source added that the explosion is the first of its kind in the area and added that it occurred in a nearby Peshmergas military base in Kurdistan.

In Mosul city, masked gunmen shot dead an Iraqi reporter while an explosion injured two citizens, said a police source today.

The source told KUNA that the reporter was a member of the Talafar daily newspaper. Regarding the explosion which injured four people, the source said that it coincided with the passage of a Multi-National Force (MNF) and a patrol of Iraqi troops in Mosul. No damage was reported to the military convoy, stated the source.

On the other hand, Police sources in Baghdad stated that members of the Iraq-US chamber of commerce and several reporters were among the 25 people who were abducted by a group of unidentified gunmen.

A security source told KUNA that the gunmen stormed the free trade building in Midtown Baghdad today. 11 members of the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce, a number of Iraqi journalists and a group of media workers were abducted.

The source stated that 14 employees from the Al-Rawi telecommunications company were also abducted during the operation.

Meanwhile, a source at the Ministry of Defense revealed that a total number of 19 people and 625 insurgents were killed in different military operations in the past two weeks. The source also said new techniques were used to discover the areas in which mortars were fired. A meeting between tribal leaders and military officials was conducted according to the military source. The meeting urged the leaders to share information with the Special Forces to help them fight insurgency in Iraq.

By Evelyn Leopold

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council was poised on Monday to adopt a resolution demanding Iran suspend its nuclear activities by the end of August or face the threat of sanctions.

Barring last-minute delays, the council has scheduled a vote on the document that demands Iran "suspend all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, including research and development."

If Tehran does not comply by August 31, the council would consider adopting "appropriate measures" under Article 41 of Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which pertains to economic sanctions, says the draft.

The resolution is the first on Iran with legally binding demands and a threat to consider sanctions. The United States and its allies suspect Iran is developing a nuclear bomb and accuse it of hiding research over 18 years.

On the eve of the anticipated vote, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a news conference the resolution was unacceptable and his country had the right "to take advantage of peaceful nuclear technology."

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi also warned on Sunday the resolution would create what he called a deeper crisis in the Middle East, but he did not elaborate.

Germany and the council's five permanent members with veto power -- the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain -- reached broad agreement on Friday and no major changes were made over the weekend.

But Russia and China are reluctant to impose sanctions and Moscow's U.N. ambassador, Valery Churkin, told reporters on Friday the sanctions provision meant the council would have "a discussion" only on punitive measures.

Churkin also said the August 31 date was to meet Iran's request that it be given until August 22 to respond to an offer in June from the six nations of an energy, commercial and technological package if Tehran suspended its nuclear work.

But U.S. Ambassador John Bolton told reporters that "if Iran fails to comply with this mandatory obligation, we will move to sanctions in the Security Council."

Iran's Asefi said Tehran would stop considering the incentives if the resolution were adopted.

Asefi said Tehran could still reply to the incentive package if the Security Council held its fire.

The resolution is drafted under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, Article 40, which says the council, before taking any action, can call on the those concerned to "comply with such provisional measures as it deems necessary."

Chapter 7 makes a resolution mandatory and provides options for enforcement. The document excludes any military action.

Qana (Lebanon), July 30: Fifty-one people were killed, half of them children, in an Israeli air blitz on the Lebanese village of Qana on Sunday, triggering outrage around the world and warnings of retribution for Israel?s "war crime". The police said the death toll was at least 51, including 25 children.

by Hiedeh Farmani

TEHRAN (AFP) -Iran's president signaled that Israeli attacks against the Palestinian territories and Lebanon were causing Iran to harden its stance in the international row over its nuclear programme.

"We are examining the package, considering our interests and definitive legitimate rights and will announce our views at the appointed date," Mahoud Ahmadinejad said of an international offer of incentives in exchange for a halt to sensitive atomic work.

"But the incidents in Lebanon and Palestine have influenced our examination," said the president, whose country is a major supporter of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement as well as the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Ahmadinejad also asserted that "the government is determined to fully exploit the rights of the Iranian nation," signalling Tehran's continued unwillingness to freeze its controversial uranium enrichment programme.

Iran says it only wants to enrich uranium to the levels needed for reactor fuel and that this is a right enshrined by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

"Nuclear energy is clean and renewable, and all nations have the right to use it," said Ahmadinejad, who was speaking at a joint news conference with visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Enrichment can also be extended to make weapons, and lingering questions over the nature of Iran's work has prompted a series of demands for a moratorium.

Iran had also threatened Sunday to bin the international proposal -- which was drawn up by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany -- if the UN Security Council passes a draft resolution demanding that Tehran freeze enrichment by the end of August.

Iran had said it will take until August 22 to reply the offer that was handed to Tehran on June 6, prompting the Security Council to reinforce demands for an enrichment freeze.

Foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Tehran could "revise" its policies, implicitly warning that future access for UN inspectors could end. He also said the proposed UN resolution would "worsen the crisis in the region".

"By putting pressure and trying to intimidate Iran, no country will achieve anything. On the contrary, the situation will worsen," Asefi said.

"If tomorrow they pass a resolution against Iran, the package will not be on the agenda any more," he said of the proposal, which offers Iran the prospect of multilateral talks on trade, diplomatic and technology incentives if it complies.

"Issuing this resolution will worsen the crisis in the region."

When asked to elaborate on what specific measures Iran might take, Asefi replied: "They know what I am talking about."

Iranian leaders have already warned they could halt cooperation with inspectors from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and even quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

They have also played up Iran's regional clout and oil wealth.

A text of the proposed UN resolution was distributed to the 15 council nations on Friday, and US ambassador John Bolton told reporters that a vote could be held early in the week.

If Iran continues enriching uranium, "the next step will be the consideration of sanctions in the Security Council, and it would be our intention to move forcefully to get those sanctions adopted," Bolton said.

The first stage would be political and economic sanctions, diplomats stressed, pointing to a vote within a few days.

"My hope is that we will be able to adopt it by Monday," said French Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere, whose country holds the rotating council presidency for July.

The United States and its allies believe that Iran is seeking to build a nuclear bomb, and US President George W. Bush said Friday Tehran "will not be allowed" to achieve its wish.

Russia and China have led opposition to any mention of sanctions in the UN resolution.

Moscow's ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, stressed the new resolution would not threaten sanctions and that it was "an invitation to dialogue" with Iran.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The people of Iran are entitled to produce their own nuclear fuel, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday, rejecting the terms of a draft U.N. resolution that demands it give up its nuclear work.

"The people of Iran, in accordance with international norms and laws, have the right to take advantage of peaceful nuclear technology," he told a news conference in Tehran.

Diyarbakir, Turkey(Reuters) - Turkish police detained 130 people, most of them members of a pro-Kurdish political party, for holding an illegal meeting, police sources said.

Illegal publications and photographs of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan were on display at the meeting in the southeastern city of Sanliurfa, the sources said.

Those detained will appear in court today.

Most of them belonged to the Democratic Society Party (DTP), which favours more autonomy and cultural rights for Turkey's Kurdish minority. Ankara suspects it has separatist ambitions and ties with the PKK, which launched a campaign for a homeland in 1984.

The PKK is considered a terrorist organisation by Ankara, the United States and the European Union. But the EU, which Turkey wants to join, also urges Turkey to improve rights for the large Kurdish minority.

DTP politicians often come up against the law, and five cases have been launched against one DTP mayor in the mainly Kurdish southeast, one of which concerns comments about Turkey's ethnic minorities.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday it would stop considering international incentives aimed at ending its uranium enrichment programme if the U.N. Security Council passes a resolution against its atomic work.

"If they issue a resolution against Iran, the package will no longer be on our agenda," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told a news conference.

The United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and Germany approved a package of commercial and technical incentives aimed at getting Tehran to stop making nuclear fuel, which the West fears will be used in nuclear bombs.

But Iran, which insists it is enriching uranium only for use in power stations, gave itself until August 22 to reply. Western powers deemed this too long and hastened moves to haul Tehran before the U.N. Security Council.

France on Friday issued a draft resolution to the Security Council demanding Iran suspend nuclear activities by August 31 or face the threat of sanctions if it refuses.

The U.S. might still be able to head off a Turkish attack on Iraqi's Kurds.
By Henri J. Barkey, HENRI J. BARKEY, chairman of the International Relations Department at Lehigh University, is a former member of the State Department's policy planning staff.
July 30, 2006
LA Times

IF IRAN'S NUCLEAR ambitions, Iraq's low-level civil war and the Israeli-Hezbollah war were not enough, President Bush may face a new dilemma. The Turkish government has ordered its military to prepare for an attack on 3,000 Kurdistan Workers Party insurgents living in Kurdish-dominated northern Iraq. Although the incursion by Turkey, a U.S. ally of 50 years, would be mostly for show, it would severely embarrass the Bush administration. No wonder the president twice talked to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week.

But Erdogan's moderately Islamist government is cornered. This month, two insurgent attacks inside Turkey killed 15 Turkish soldiers, and the prime minister vowed to fight back. Meanwhile, the war in Iraq has intensified Ankara's biggest problem: the country's restless minority Kurds.

Throughout its modern existence, Turkey has battled Kurdish political activism — sometimes violently. After defeating the 15-year insurgency led by the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in 1999, the government failed to come up with a political solution to the social divisions and dismal living conditions of Turkey's Kurds in the southeast. The insurgents recently abandoned their unilateral cease-fire and resumed their fight for independence.

The success of Iraqi Kurds in setting up a thriving autonomous state in northern Iraq has exacerbated matters. That example only emboldens Turkey's Kurds to strike out on their own. Even worse for Ankara is the possibility that an independent Kurdish state will emerge in northern Iraq as the rest of Iraq descends into civil war.

Turkey has focused its frustrations on Washington. It blames the Iraq war for rekindling Kurdish aspirations throughout the region. It is embittered by the refusal of the U.S. to take on the PKK insurgents in Iraq despite Washington's persistent declarations that their party is a terrorist organization. Many Turks believe that such hypocrisy can mean one of two things, equally nefarious: either that Washington is punishing Ankara for refusing to allow the U.S. to open a second front at the beginning of the Iraq war or that it is nurturing a pan-Kurdish state to be its proxy in the Middle East.

Turkey's internal politics also have put Erdogan on the defensive. His government's primary goal of deepening the country's ties to the European Union is in danger of hitting a brick wall of European opposition because of Cyprus. Defying an agreement with the EU, Turkey has refused to open up its ports to Greek Cypriot shipping because its Turkish Cypriot brethren are barred from trading with Europe and the rest of the world.

Meanwhile, relations between Turkey's civil and military authorities are at their lowest point since Erdogan became prime minister in late 2002. Suspicious that Erdogan has a hidden Islamist agenda, the generals have been exploring means by which to weaken him, if not force him out. They worry that either the prime minister or someone from his conservative religious entourage will ascend to the presidency — parliament, which elects the president, is controlled by Erdogan's party — one of the most important and last bastions of secularism in Turkey. Erdogan also has been the target of a nationalist backlash — not a majority movement yet — that accuses him of being too soft on Europe, Cyprus, the U.S., the PKK and Iraqi Kurds.

Yet, Iraq is Erdogan's Achilles' heel. He can bat away most criticisms, but when it comes to the PKK insurgents taking refuge in northern Iraq, he's trapped by his promise to retaliate for the deaths of the Turkish solders. The timing could not be worse. Israel's retaliation against Hezbollah in Lebanon, a move profoundly unpopular in Turkey, has raised the ante for Erdogan. If Israel can unleash a punishing attack on terrorists, how can he do any less?

It would be a win-win proposition for the Turkish prime minister, although inaction could bring down his government. By delivering on his promise of retaliation and standing up to the Americans, Erdogan would burnish his nationalist credentials. He also would inoculate himself against the meddlesome generals, who are eager to counter Kurdish gains in northern Iraq.

Although a Turkish cross-border military move would embarrass the Bush administration, the U.S. may be able to tolerate it, especially if it took the form of just artillery attacks or airstrikes. But an operation involving large numbers of ground troops backed by tanks could cause mayhem in northern Iraq. It would inevitably clash with Iraqi Kurds, destabilizing the only relatively quiet sector in Iraq.

None of this should be happening. But Ankara has treated Iraqi Kurds with disdain while making no attempt to improve the domestic conditions of Turkey's Kurds. The U.S., especially the Central Command, has shown little understanding of the political costs to Turks of the PKK's presence in Iraq. And the Iraqi Kurds have refused to cut off supplies to the insurgents because they regard the PKK as a Turkish problem. The most consequential misstep came last fall, when the Turkish intelligence chief, Emre Taner, began talking with Iraqi Kurds on how to dispose of the PKK. The Iraqi Kurds were genuinely interested in doing a deal. But neither the Turkish government nor its military was willing to take the chance, and Washington, distracted by its multitude of problems, did not use its considerable influence with Iraq's Kurds to push the negotiations forward.

The talks could be resuscitated if the U.S. gave them high-level attention. Bush has talked to Erdogan, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has talked to her counterpart in the Turkish government. There may still be enough time to avert a crisis.

AMMAN (IRIN) — A group of refugees stranded at the Jordan-Iraq border have ended their several-week hunger strike after a team representing the Jordanian government and the United Nations visited them, according to a statement released late Thursday.

The statement by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said eight of the 198 Iranian Kurdish refugees who have been stranded at the border since January 2005 ended their near one-month hunger strike on July 21.

This came a day after a joint team from the Ministry of Health (MoH) and UNICEF provided them with medical assistance and promised to visit them again within a month, said the group's spokesperson.

"We finally decided to stop our hunger strike after UNICEF came to assist us medically," said Khabat Mohammadi, a spokesperson for the refugees. "Also, more foreign journalists called us and promised to help us by reporting about our desperate situation."

The group of hunger strikers consisted of six men, aged between 20 and 45, and two women, aged 18 and 19. "As the team arrived, one of the men was in very poor condition," says Maha Homsi, UNICEF protection officer. "Because his blood pressure was dropping by the hour, he fainted several times."

According to a UNICEF statement, the mission's medical team also examined and vaccinated 193 refugees, including women and children. However, because some children could not be vaccinated during this visit, the UNICEF-MoH team says they will return to the camp within a month.

The Iranian Kurdish refugees arrived at the border between Iraq and Jordan after fleeing Al Tash refugee camp in Iraq's western Anbar Governorate, following clashes there between insurgents and US forces in January 2005.

Having been denied permission to enter the Kingdom, however, the refugees have remained on the Iraqi side of the border, an area prone to harsh weather conditions.

The group has systematically refused an offer by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, to relocate and join another group of Iranian Kurdish refugees in Kawa refugee camp, a safer location in northern Iraq's Arbil Governorate.

The refugees have demanded to be resettled in a third country but the UNCHR has repeatedly said that this was not a "right."

According to the agency, refugees can only be resettled in a third country if there is a clear need, if there is no alternative solution in the country of asylum and if the third country is willing to resettle the refugees.

Source: The Jordan Time

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Kuwait’s Al Seyassah newspaper reported that Hassan Nasrollah, the capo of Lebanon's Hezbollah traveled to Damascus to meet with Syrian leader Bashar al-Asad and the secretary of the supreme national security council of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Larijani. On Thursday, the Islamic regime’s news media announced Larijani’s trip to Syria. However, later they denied it.

Al Seyassah however wrote that Nasrollah was able to reach Syria with the assistance of Syrian security agents stationed in Lebanon. The topic of discussion between the 3 men will be about the ways Syria and the Islamic Republic of Iran can deliver weapons and ammunition to Hezbollah; Nasrollah intends to be consulting with his “big brothers”.

This newspaper reported that the Hezbollah capo appeared in plain clothes in Damascus without his usual clerical attire and rode in a bullet proof, Syrian Baathist security vehicle. Since the beginning of the war against Lebanese Hizbullah, this is the first time it is reported that Nasrolah has in fact traveled out of Lebanon.

The paper also reported that while Larijani has traveled to Damascus in order to deliver to Nasrollah his new set of orders from Tehran, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s radio and television had claimed that the true nature of his trip was "to achieve the humanitarian objectives".

Simultaneously, the Turkish press reported that Turkish border patrols and customs agents have begun conducting detailed searches of cargo trucks, passenger cars and airplanes originating from Iran that pass through Turkey on the way to Damascus; this is in order to prevent the delivery of any arms and ammunition from the Islamic Republic of Iran to Lebanon.

The organization for the defense of human rights in Kurdistan

Shamameh (Malak) Ghorbani, is a 34-year-old woman from the suburbs of the town of Naqdeh (province of Kurdistan); she is a mother of two children, a girl named Someyeh and a son, Ahmad; Shamameh was charged with in June of 2005 and was jailed. Within the recent weeks however the Islamic court in the city of Orumiyeh has re-sentenced her to execution through stoning.

Shamameh has been abandoned by her family and now alone and without anyone to turn to, has fallen victim to the barbarous and mysoginist Islamic laws. The organization for the defense of human rights in Kurdistan welcomes her as its honorary member and has begun a campaign to save her life. This organization calls upon the Islamic republic of Iran’s judiciary, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights as well as other human rights NGO’s to have this verdict overturned.

http://eastkurd.blog.co.uk/2006/07/28/to_the_secretary_general_of_the_united_n~996263

www.petitiononline.com/Malak/petition.html

By NASSER KARIMI
Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian state radio said Saturday that the government would reject a proposed U.N. resolution that would give it until Aug. 31 to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of international sanctions.

"Iranians will not accept unfair decisions, even in the framework of resolutions by the international bodies," the commentary on state-run radio said.

There has been no official comment to the draft resolution, but state radio often is thought to provide the Iranian government line.

The resolution was formally circulated to the full 15-member U.N. Security Council late Friday and likely will be adopted next week.

"Ultimatum and deadline cannot be acceptable to us," the commentary said, accusing the United States and its allies of making what it called an illegal demand.

The commentary also said the draft might not be approved because of opposition by China.

Tehran said last week it would reply Aug. 22 to a Western incentive package, but the council decided to go ahead with a resolution and not wait for Iran's response.

The incentive package includes economic incentives and a provision for the United States to offer Iran some nuclear technology, lift some sanctions and join direct negotiations. The proposal also calls for Iran to impose a long-term moratorium on uranium enrichment - which can produce peaceful reactor fuel or fissile bomb material.

The U.S. and some of its allies accuse Iran of seeking nuclear weapons. Tehran maintains its program is purely peaceful and aimed at generating electricity.

Iran has said it will never give up its right under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to enrich uranium and produce nuclear fuel but has indicated it may temporarily suspend large-scale activities to ease tensions.

July 29, 2006
The Wall Street Journal
Hot Topic

After more than two weeks of war between Israel and Hezbollah, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a diplomatic foray into the region, visiting Lebanon and attending talks in Rome.

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But to call the trip a peace mission would be a misnomer. In contrast to her predecessors who have shuttled to the region during past conflicts, Ms. Rice resisted calls for an immediate cease-fire. She instead said the Bush administration doesn't want a halt in the fighting if it only returns the region to the "status quo ante."

On Friday, President Bush called for a United Nations multinational force to end hostilities in the region, and said he would send Ms. Rice back Saturday. But he still didn't call for an immediate cease-fire, putting him at odds with European and Arab allies.

The violence in Lebanon erupted shortly after the July 12 kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah militants who crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory. Israel responded with a bombing campaign in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah in turn launched waves of rockets into Israel. About 400 Lebanese civilians and about 20 Israeli civilians have been killed.

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· Timetable 'could lead to ceasefire by next week'
· Iran nuclear plan will lead to 'confrontation' - Blair

Patrick Wintour and Julian Borger in Washington and Ewen MacAskill

Tony Blair and George Bush delivered yesterday their sharpest warning yet to Iran over its involvement in Lebanon and its suspected nuclear weapons programme.

As they set out a vague plan for bringing a cessation of violence in the Israel-Lebanon conflict at a joint press conference in the White House, they repeatedly referred to the threat posed by Iran and Syria, and their links with Hizbullah.

Mr Blair said events such as the conflict in Lebanon underscored the "simple choice" faced by Iran and Syria. "They can either come in and participate as proper and responsible members of the international community, or they will face the risk of increasing confrontation," he said.

Tehran, and to a lesser extent Syria, are alleged to have supplied weapons and money to Hizbullah and are due next month to deliver a response to a UN security council demand over their alleged ambition to secure a nuclear weapons capability. Mr Blair said Iran and Syria were making a "strategic miscalculation" if they thought the US and UK would be "indifferent" to their actions because of the pressure of events.

Speaking of their plan for a peace deal in Lebanon, Mr Blair and Mr Bush set out a timetable that the prime minister said could lead to a ceasefire by next week. Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, is to return to the Middle East today to present the plan to Israel and Lebanon.

Her aim is to tempt Israel with a pledge to install the Lebanese army, backed by an international force, in southern Lebanon to stop Hizbullah rocket attacks and to tempt Hizbullah with the return of the disputed Sheba'a Farms area. Hizbullah will not have to disarm immediately.

The details of who will join the international force will be discussed at the UN on Monday.

Mr Bush and Mr Blair have been resisting calls for an immediate ceasefire in every international forum for the past fortnight. This has been seen by their critics in Europe and the Middle East as an implicit green light to Israel to carry on its military offensive against Hizbullah.

The Foreign Office has been pressing Mr Blair for days to adopt a more critical policy towards the Israel even if it meant a rift with Mr Bush, but he ignored the civil servants' pleas. Some cabinet members fear Mr Blair, with his references to the "arc of extremism", is misreading the crisis as the next phase in the war between terrorism and democracy across the Middle East.

Although there was no change in policy, Mr Blair's tone changed, emphasising the suffering in Lebanon in a way he had not before.

By calling for a meeting on Monday on the creation of an international stabilisation force, before a ceasefire resolution is passed, Washington and London hope to put pressure on other world leaders to back their calls for a ceasefire.

Among the possible troop contributors being discussed are Turkey, Indonesia, Germany, Italy, Brazil and Greece. But British and US officials hope to exert maximum pressure on France, which has historical ties with Lebanon and forces capable of rapid deployment.

If a multinational force is agreed, British officials have said they envisage its deployment in two phases: an initial small force on the border almost immediately after a ceasefire is agreed, and a bigger body of between 10,000 and 20,000 troops that would, as Mr Blair put it, allow Lebanese forces into the south, which has long been a Hizbullah fiefdom.

US officials privately shrugged at the suggestion, eagerly promoted by their British counterparts, that Mr Blair's visit had accelerated movement towards a ceasefire. A source in the White House described the notion as something that had been "cooked up" for political ends, and Mr Bush appeared to refer to it at yesterday's joint press conference when he said: "We share the same urgency of trying to stop the violence."

The US believes significant damage has been inflicted on Hizbullah and that prolonging the war would enhance the Shia group's standing in the Islamic world more than it hurt its capacity to fight.

Meanwhile, Israel said it killed 26 Hizbullah fighters near the town of Bint Jbail, while Hizbullah launched a new rocket, the Khaibar-1, at the northern Israeli town of Afula, in its deepest strike yet.

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranians should call helicopters "rotating wings" and pizzas "elastic loaves", according to a decree from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that seeks to rid Persian of European loan words.

The presidential decree carried in Saturday's newspapers said official documents, schoolbooks and newspapers should follow the rulings of the Farhangestan, Iran's linguistic policeman -- equivalent of the Academie Francaise.

"All the institutions named above should use the words created and agreed by the academy as a replacement to alien words," the decree said.

The words created by the Farhangestan as replacements to European loan words often sound cumbersome or comic to Iranians.

Although Iranians use many English and French words, the lion's share of foreign borrowings come from Arabic. The Farhangestan takes a far easier line on Arabic imports.

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - An explosion hit a military barracks in Turkey's southeastern province of Van on Saturday and injured a number of people, security officials said.

No further details on the explosion were available.

The barracks belonged to the paramilitary gendarmerie police force, which along with other security forces is often targeted by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has stepped up its violent campaign for autonomy in recent months.

Dozens of soldiers and PKK rebels have died this year in clashes in the southeast and Ankara has said it could go into northern Iraq in pursuit of rebels holed up there.

Local media also reported an explosion late on Friday in the port city of Izmir, which injured four people and which officials were quoted as saying could have been a bomb.

The PKK is blamed for more than 30,000 deaths in its two-decade campaign.

Iran Focus

Baghdad, Jul. 28 – Members of the Kurdish rebel group PKK have killed five Iranian soldiers in the northwest of the country, Kurdistan Television reported on Thursday.

The clashed took place near the town of Qal’eh Rash in Iranian Kurdistan Province.

Three other soldiers were injured, according to the report.

The PKK has announced that four of its members were also killed in the fighting.

Kurdistan Television also said that 10 Turkish soldiers were killed and fifteen others injured in separate clashes in the Kurdish region of Wan in Turkey.

To:  The Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan,The United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, Louise Arbour,The Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, and The Head of the Judiciary of IRI Ayatollah Mahmoud Has

We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned for 18-year-old Nazanin who faces execution by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

On January 3, 2006, 18-year-old Nazanin was sentenced to death for murder by court in Iran after she reportedly admitted fatally stabbing one of three men who attempted to rape her and her 16-year-old niece in a park in Karaj (a suburb of Tehran) in March 2005. She was seventeen at the time. Her sentence is subject to review by the Court of Appeal, and if upheld, to confirmation by the Supreme Court.

According to reports in the Iranian newspaper Etemaad, Nazanin told the court that three men had approached her and her niece, forced them to the ground and attempted to rape them. Seeking to defend her niece and herself, Nazanin stabbed one man in the hand with a knife that she possessed. As the men continued their attack, she stabbed another of the men in the chest, which eventually caused his death. She reportedly told the court I wanted to defend myself and my niece. I did not want to kill that boy. At the heat of the mome