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Iran claims double standard in Teresa Lewis case
Tehran , Iran (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has criticized Western media for having a Double Standard in reporting on the case of an American woman facing the death penalty, a news agency reported Tuesday. Ahmadinejad accused the West of launching a "heavy Propaganda" campaign against the case of an Iranian woman who had been sentenced to be stoned to death for Adultery but failing to react with outrage over the imminent execution of Teresa Lewis in Virginia, according to...

Iran Claims Double Standard in Death Penalty Cases
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 By Nasser Karimi, Associated Press Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, reaches for his Speech as he walks to the podium to address a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) Tehran, Iran (AP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has criticized Western media for having a Double Standard in reporting on the case of an American woman facing the death penalty, a news agency...

Iran's Ahmadinejad Harks Back To Koran, Cold War To Turn Tables On The West
Visiting New York this week for the annual opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, he has contrasted the extensive Western media coverage of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for Adultery, to that given to a Virginia woman, Teresa Lewis, who faces imminent execution for ordering the Murder of her husband and stepson. "A woman is being executed in the United States for Murder but nobody Protests against it," the...

But Wait! Ahmadinejad says we're hypocrites.
Should Governor McDonnell be expecting a call from the President or even the United Nations? According to the Richmond Times Dispatch , Iran’s President Mahmoud “Ahmadinejad accused the West of launching a ‘heavy Propaganda’ campaign against the case of an Iranian woman who had been sentenced to be stoned to death for Adultery but failing to react with outrage over the imminent execution of Teresa Lewis in Virginia.” Whatever your opinion of the death penalty and...

US decries sentence for Iran woman
AFP A US Human Rights group on Tuesday denounced the Prison sentence imposed in Iran on women's Rights Activist Shiva Nazar-Ahari and called for her immediate release. The group Freedom House said it "strongly condemns the unjust sentencing" and "calls upon Iranian authorities to reverse the sentence and immediately release Ms. Nazar-Ahari without harm". "Shiva Nazar-Ahari has been a lifelong peaceful advocate for Human Rights in Iran and because of this, she has continuously been a target of...

US says Iran sanctions are working, but experts doubt they will stop Iran's nuclear work
Washington — The Obama Administration says the latest round of sanctions appears to have succeeded in bringing additional pressure against Iran's Nuclear program. But private experts question whether the penalties will achieve their goal of compelling Tehran to give up any Nuclear ambitions. In a Speech Monday, the Treasury Department's point man on Iran sanctions, Stuart Levey, said U.S. and international sanctions are "dramatically isolating Iran financially and commercially." And he...

The Sakineh scandal: Everything we are told about the Iranian woman allegedly being stoned to death is false
French essayist Bernard-Henry Levy and President Nicolas Sarkozy have mobilized French Public Opinion to save an Iranian woman, accused of Adultery, from being stoned to death. Overcome with emotion, the French did not take the time to verify the allegations, until actor Dieudonn M'bala M'bala traveled to Teheran. Once in the Iranian Capital, everything turned out to be false. Thierry Meyssan addresses the spectacular and reckless manipulation that took place. The calls for Koran burnings by...

Virginia Could Execute 1st Woman in Nearly a Century
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 By Steve Szkotak, Associated Press This 2007 file photo provided by newsPRos shows Teresa Lewis, 41, is scheduled to die by injection Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 for trading sex and money in the hired killings of her husband and stepson in October 2002. (AP Photo/newsPRos, File) (AP) - A woman convicted of two hired killings is scheduled to die by injection Thursday and become the first woman put to death in Virginia in nearly a century, after the U.S. Supreme...

Virginia to Execute First Woman in Nearly a Century
Thursday, September 23, 2010 By Steve Szkotak, Associated Press This 2007 photo shows Teresa Lewis, 41, who is scheduled to die by Lethal Injection on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 for trading sex and money in the hired killings of her husband and stepson in October 2002. Virginia's Governor has rejected her Clemency request. (AP File Photo/newsPRos) Richmond, Va. (AP) - Virginia was moving forward Thursday with its first execution of a woman in nearly a century amid appeals from the...

Va. governor won't reconsider clemency request
RICHMOND, VA. — Virginia's Governor has rejected a request to reconsider Clemency for a woman convicted in two killings, leaving only the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the state's first execution of a woman in nearly a century. Teresa Lewis, 41, is scheduled to die by injection Thursday for trading sex and money in the hired killings of her husband and stepson in October 2002 for a quarter-million dollar Insurance pay out. Attorney James E. Rocap III appealed Monday to Gov. Bob...

Va. could execute 1st woman in nearly a century
RICHMOND, Va. — A woman convicted of two hired killings is scheduled to die by injection Thursday and become the first woman put to death in Virginia in nearly a century, after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block her execution. Teresa Lewis, 41, was sentenced to death for providing sex and money to two men to kill her husband and stepson in October 2002 so she could collect on a quarter-million dollar Insurance pay out. The nation's High Court refused Tuesday to intervene. Two of...

British media growing weary of Ahmadinejad
However, articles in The Times and The Independent have openly criticised the Iranian president, in particular over his handling of questions pertaining to Irans nuclear programme, the stoning case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, and the recent release of the American hiker Sarah Shourd, who was held for 13 months without charge. David Usborne, at The Independent, chose to focus his attention on Ahmadinejads denial of Irans nuclear ambitions. In Ahmadinejad back in town to...

Ahmadinejad's Food Stinks Up Hotel
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad doesn't need Nuclear Weapons -- his food stinks so bad, he's practically cleared out the Hilton Manhattan East. The finicky fascist brought his own personal chef to prepare his meals while he's in town for the UN General Assembly, a source told The Post's Helen Freund. Unfortunately, his meals "make the whole hotel stink like hell," said the source. The Hilton did not return a call for comment. Read The Full Article -->

Ahmadinejad's Star Losing Luster
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is visiting New York this week to address the United Nations General Assembly. In what has become an annual ritual, Mr Ahmadinejads arrival has stirred a media circus. Many outlets are jockeying to interview him. The New York Post will be challenged to find a more striking headline than one they employed when Mr Amadinejad visited in 2008: Ranting loon gets his 15 minutes of blame.

Meals for Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stink up the Hilton
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad doesn't need Nuclear Weapons -- his food stinks so bad, he's practically cleared out the Hilton Manhattan East. The finicky fascist brought his own personal chef to prepare his meals while he's in town for the UN General Assembly, a source told The Post's Helen Freund . Unfortunately, his meals "make the whole hotel stink like hell," said the source. The Hilton did not return a call for comment. Getty Images Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad see...

Who Paid Sarah Shourd's $500,000 Bail?
One of the three Americans arrested in Iran, accused of Espionage, and held there for over a year was released Tuesday . Sarah Shourd, 32, is returning home via Oman following a week of contradictory statements from Iran about her possible release. Among the central issues was Iran's demand for a half-million dollar bail payment. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad initially promised to release Shourd without condition as a goodwill gesture tied to the end of the holy month of Ramadan. ...

Nuclear talks: Iran's Ahmadinejad sees 'good chance' talks may resume
NEW YORK — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that he saw a "good chance" that talks will resume soon with the United States over Iran's disputed nuclear program because "there is no other alternative." Ahmadinejad, visiting New York this week to take part in the United Nations General Assembly , denied that newly imposed international sanctions were inflicting pain on Iran's economy and dismissed talk of a possible attack to take out Iran's nuclear installations as...

As unlikely as it seems, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is America's best option for an Iranian negotiating partner.
Tehran, IranWhile Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in New York for the annual U.N. General Assembly, he will no doubt give his usual quota of TV interviews. Angered by what many regard as "dubious assertions" in earlier encounters with the press,

US Officials 'Urge' Iran to Return to Nuclear Talks
In so much as they are not generally part of official US Foreign Policy, it is entirely possible that they simply hadn’t kept track of the issue, but US Energy Secretary Steven Chu and his deputy Daniel Poneman sounded off on the Iran issue today, “urging” Iran to return to nuclear talks with the US . The most recent offer of talks on the issue actually came from Iran, and was angrily rejected by US State Department officials and later the White House, who insisted that they...

Ahmadinejad says there's a 'good chance' talks may resume over Iran's nuclear program
NEW YORK - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday he saw a "good chance" that talks will soon resume with the United States and its allies over Iran's disputed nuclear program because "there is no other alternative." Ahmadinejad, visiting New York to take part in the United Nations General Assembly meetings, denied that Iran has been hurt by Economic Sanctions that have been imposed in the past three months to pressure Tehran to negotiate away its nuclear program. He also...

Blast in Iranian city kills 12, injures dozens
By Robin Pomeroy Tehran | Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:01am EDT Tehran (Reuters) - Twelve people were killed and dozens injured when a bomb exploded among a crowd watching a Military parade in northwestern Iran on Wednesday that a local official blamed on "anti-revolutionary" Militants. Some 35 people were wounded, 15 critically, in the blast in the city of Mahabad, in a predominantly Kurdish area near the borders of Iraq and Turkey, the ISNA news agency reported. There was no immediate claim of...

Ahmadinejad Optimistic on Dialogue
Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad stated on Tuesday that he was optimistic about the renewal of dialogue between the United States and Iran. "We are ready for dialogue. I think it is probable that the talks will begin in the near future," Ahmadinejad told a small group of United States reporters at a breakfast meeting.

Why Ahmadinejad May Be the West's Best Bet
As unlikely as it seems, he is America's best option for an Iranian negotiating partner.

Iran to hit back at US ‘kidnaps’
Iran is threatening to retaliate in Europe for what it claims is a daring undercover operation by western intelligence services to kidnap senior officers in its Revolutionary Guard. According to Iranian sources, several officers have been abducted in the past three months and the United States has drawn up a list of other targets to be seized with the aim of destabilising Tehran’s Military command. In an article in Subhi Sadek, the Revolutionary Guard’s weekly paper, Reza Faker, a...

Iran says US captives can be freed
Mahmoud  Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has said that there was a chance that two American citizens still held in Iran could be freed, but cautioned it was in the hands of the judge. The Iranian leader told CNN on Wednesday that Sarah Shourd had been released "because of mercy, compassion, and as a humanitarian gesture." "As for the others, yes there is a chance. But the judge has to take care of the case," Ahmadinejad said, adding that he had no sway...