Iran ( Analyst: Iran’s Behavior Litmus Test for US Sincerity )

September 30, 2013 - 19:14                                

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s mild tone and its new attitude towards interaction with the West have put the onus on the White House to prove its sincerity, said a political analyst and former diplomat.

He said that the West had in its anti-Iranian psychological campaign created the idea in world public opinion that the US confrontational policies and sanction against Iran were entirely due to the hardline stands of Tehran.
“In that visit a rare event in international relations occurred, because if a country wishes to have a meeting with the US president it needs to negotiate for a long time and even give some concession to do so, but the reverse happened this time as the US president asked for a meeting with (President) Rouhani,” Iran’s former ambassador to Mexico and Australia Mohammad Hassan Qadiri Abyaneh told Tasnim on Monday.
But the mild language and a shift in approach of Iran's president did not convince the US toany of its tough sanctions on Iran, rather it is pressing ahead with more stringent ones, said Qadiri Abyaneh who predicts that “The US behaviors will show in the near future that this country's antagonist stands against Iran are all due to its expansionist and hegemonic attitudes, and not the mild or harsh tone of Iranian officials."
Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq Amoli Larijani, too, had on September 25 described President Rouhani’s recent remarks at the United Nations General Assembly as “graceful and logical,"  adding that it’s now Washington’s turn to drop hostility and turn words into action.
“Indeed, this is the Iranian nation which awaits sincere behavior from the Americans and westerners,” Ayatollah Larijani said in a gathering of senior judicial authorities here in Tehran on Wednesday, and added that the White House should prove in practice it is committed to its word and drop “hostile and contradictory behavior” towards Iranians.
In his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Rouhani said the Iranian nation was ready for cooperation with the international community and all rational players based on equal footing and mutual respect.
In his hotly anticipated address at the United Nations, Iran's president offered immediate negotiations aimed at removing any reasonable concerns over his country's nuclear program.

Syria ( Syrian Photographer Working for Agence France Press Dies in Deir al Zur )

 A Syrian photographer who worked for Agence France Press died on the weekend in the bombardment of the eastern town of Deir al Zur, the Syrian National Coalition, the country’s main opposition alliance, said.

In a communique, the Coalition said that journalist Morhaf al Modahi, known as Abu Shuga, was killed while on assignment in Deir al Zur.

According to the Coalition, Al Modahi began photographing the first demonstrations in that city and continued documenting events there amid the violence.

Meanwhile, AFP confirmed the death of the photographer and cited one of his companions who said that Al Modahi died in fighting between opposition forces and troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al Assad.

The organization Reporters Without Borders on several occasions expressed its concern regarding the fate of local and foreign journalists covering the war in Syria given that “the different protagonists” in the conflict target them specifically and use them as a type of currency.

Since the conflict broke out in March 2011, at least 24 journalists and 60 “citizen-journalists” have been killed in Syria by the forces

Brazil ( Russian Student Found shot and killed in Brazil - shot 3 times in the head )

RIO DE JANEIRO – A 17-year-old Russian tourist was found dead on the outskirts of Marica, a resort city near Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian police said.

Danshin Sergey Petrovich’s body was discovered Saturday morning on the banks of the Canal da Costa, a stream outside Marica.

The Russian tourist was shot at least three times in the head, police said.

Petrovich, a student, arrived in Brazil with four friends and a teacher on Thursday for a vacation and was staying at a house belonging to some friends in Marica.

The teenager went to a bar with his friends on Friday night, police said.

The group returned to the house, but Petrovich decided to go back alone to the bar, where he was last seen alive.

Investigators have not ruled out robbery as a motive for the killing even though the teenager’s backpack containing his cell phone, credit card, cigarettes and lighter was found, police said.

Petrovich’s body was taken to the coroner’s office in the nearby city of Itaborai, where an autopsy will be performed, and the Russian Consulate in Rio de Janeiro was informed of his killing, police said.

Iran ( No news about Davoud Aqamirzaie, the arrested political activist )

HRANA News Agency – Davoud Aqamirzaie the political activist from Tehran has been arrested since 15 days ago at home and till now he has not contacted his family.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Davoud Aqamirzaie of the political activists has been arrested on September 11, 2013 at home by intelligence plainclothes. 

Despite of inspecting his entire home, confiscated his personal belongings.

One of his relatives told HRANA reporter “Davoud Aqamirzaie is actually the person who takes care of his old and sick parents that his arrest made the parents’ situation worse.”

This political prisoner has not contacted his family yet and there is no news of his arresting intentions either the accusations he has been faced with.

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Nigeria ( Terrorists kill 50 students at College - Most of them Muslim students )

Islamic terrorists dressed in Nigerian military uniforms assaulted a college inside the country Sunday, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in their dorms and shot others trying to flee, witnesses say.
"They started gathering students into groups outside, then they opened fire and killed one group and then moved onto the next group and killed them. It was so terrible," one surviving student, who would only give his first name of Idris, told Reuters.


As many as 50 students may have been killed in the attack, which began at about 1 a.m. in rural Gujba, Provost Molima Idi Mato of Yobe State College of Agriculture, told The Associated Press.
"They attacked our students while they were sleeping in their hostels, they opened fire at them," he said. The extremists also torched classrooms.

Nigeria State Police Commissioner Sanusi Rufai told Reuters that he suspected that the terrorist group Boko Haram was behind the attack, but declined to elaborate.
Boko Haram is aiming to establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria and has intensified attacks on civilians in revenge for a Nigerian military offensive against the group, Reuters reports.
Idi Mato said he could not give an exact death toll as security forces still are recovering bodies of students mostly aged between 18 and 22.
The Nigerian military has collected 42 bodies and transported 18 wounded students to Damaturu Specialist Hospital, 25 miles north, said a military intelligence official, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.
The extremists rode into the college in two double-cabin pickup all-terrain vehicles and on motorcycles, some dressed in Nigerian military camouflage uniforms, a surviving student, Ibrahim Mohammed, told the AP. He said they appeared to know the layout of the college, attacking the four male hostels but avoiding the one hostel reserved for women.
"We ran into the bush, nobody is left in the school now," Mohammed said.
Almost all those killed were Muslims, as is the college's student body, said Adamu Usman, a survivor from Gujba who was helping the wounded at the hospital.
Wailing relatives gathered outside the hospital morgue, where rescue workers laid out bloody bodies in an orderly row on the lawn for family members to identify their loved ones

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