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يك مقام آلماني گفت : در مذاكره شخصي خود با "جرج بوش" متقاعد شده است كه آمريكا در حال حاضر قصد اتخاذ هيچگونه گزينه نظامي را عليه ايران ندارد.

"ولفگانگ شويبله" معاون فراكسيون حزب دمكرات مسيحي در پارلمان آلمان، روز پنجشنبه در گفتوگويي با روزنامه فرانكفورتر روندشاو گفت: من بعد از خواندن برخي اخبار در اين زمينه، شخصا با رييس جمهوري آمريكا صحبت كردم و او به من گفت اين معضل بايد از طريق ابزار ديپلماتيك حل بشود.

بوش در گفتوگويي با تلويزيون اسرائيل كه جمعه گذشته پخش شد، كاربرد زور را آخرين گزينه براي حل پرونده هستهاي ايران دانست. اين اظهارنظر انتقادهايي را در آمريكا و ساير كشورها برانگيخت.

"گرهارد شرودر" صدراعظم آلمان در اظهارنظري در اين ارتباط در يك اجتماع انتخاباتي گفت:" گزينه نظامي درباره ايران نبايد مطرح شود زيرا مناسب نيست."
شويبله در گفتوگوي خود با فرانكفورتر روندشاو همچنين گفت: اروپا و آمريكا همچنان درخصوص ادامه مذاكرات درباره برنامه هستهاي ايران اتفاق نظر دارند، همانگونه كه در زمان سفر بوش به اروپا در فوريه گذشته و نيز اعلاميههاي مشترك صادره، آمريكا از طرح اروپا در اين زمينه حمايت كرد.

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محمود سروش, رييس اداره بيماريهاي منتقله از آب و مواد غذايي وزارت بهداشت، اعلام گرد: در حال حاضر تعداد موارد ابتلا به وبا 717 مورد گزارش شده است.
محمود سروش, رييس اداره بيماريهاي منتقله از آب و مواد غذايي وزارت بهداشت، درمان و آموزش پزشگي، گفت: بر اساس آخرين اطلاعات، تعداد موارد ابتلا به وبا در همدان 104 مورد, مرگزي 12 مورد, لرستان 2 مورد, گيلان 32 مورد, گلستان 99 مورد, گرمانشاه 8 مورد, گردستان 8 مورد, گاشان 36 مورد, قم 147 مورد, قزوين 72 مورد, شاهرود 3 مورد, زنجان 17 مورد, , بابل يگ مورد, بوشهر يگ مورد، اصفهان 3 مورد, سيستان و بلوچستان 2 مورد, ساري 2 مورد, سمنان 3 مورد, زابل 2 مورد گزارش شده است .
سروش گفت: دانشگاه علوم پزشگي تهران 5 مورد، دانشگاه علوم پزشگي ايران 130 مورد و دانشگاه علوم پزشگي شهيد بهشتي 25 مورد ابتلا به وبا را گزارش داده است. گفتني است؛ تعداد موارد فوت شدگان نيز به 8 مورد رسيده است.

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Iranian dissident journalist out of intensive care !!!

TEHRAN - Iranian dissident journalist Akbar Ganji is out of intensive care after being reported to have officially ended a lengthy hunger strike.

Cyrus Tabesh, a spokesman at Milad hospital to where Ganji had been shifted from prison, told the IRNA state news agency that the jailed writer had been moved to a general ward and that his "his general condition is better now he is cooperating with his physicians."

Three days ago, Tehran's deputy public prosecutor Mahmood Salarkia said that Ganji has "officially" ended his hunger strike. He began refusing food on June 11 in a bid to secure his unconditional release.

The 46-year-old dissident was sentenced to six years in prison in 2001 after he wrote articles implicating several regime officials in the murders of opposition intellectuals and writers.

The Paris-based press rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) also said in a statement that it had received a report of an improvement in Ganji's health.

"This is positive news after more than 65 days of anxiety," the press freedom organisation said.

"We hope it will be confirmed by Ganji's family and lawyers, who are still waiting to be granted the right to visit him. Only a visit would allow us to definitively confirm that he has called off his hunger strike," RSF said.

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Iran says open to new EU nuclear proposals, but will not resume freeze

TEHRAN - Iran is ready to examine any new European Union proposals aimed at resolving a row over the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions but will not return to a full freeze of its activities, the foreign ministry said.

"It is natural that if they change their proposals, and in those new proposals they recognize the Islamic republic's rights, then we will look at it," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.

But he added that "of course we are ready to negotiate unconditionally. We will not go back on the UCF (uranium conversion facility) at Isfahan but we are ready to negotiate on Natanz (a uranium enrichment plant) and some other issues."

Iran is at loggerheads with the international community after resuming uranium ore conversion, the precursor to the process of enrichment, at a facility near Isfahan earlier this month.

The step ended a nine-month freeze agreed during talks with Britain, France and Germany -- which have been trying to convince Iran to give up a technology that could also be directed to producing a bomb.

Work at Isfahan was resumed after Iran rejected an offer from the EU-3 of trade and technology incentives in return for a halt to atomic energy fuel cycle activities -- the focus of widespread fears that Iran could also acquire nuclear weapons.

But new hardline President Mahmood Ahmadinejad insisted that talks with the EU could move forward, according to an interview published late Saturday.

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Dubai, Aug. 20, 2005 -- More than 400,000 Iranians are estimated to have moved Dh730 billion ($200 billion) of capital into Dubai recently, mostly invested in the UAE's burgeoning real estate sector, +Gulf News+ reported today quoting Iranian sources.

"Iran has been wishing for some time to transform its free zones into the business hub of the region, but then Dubai appeared on the scene and it was 'checkmate Iran'. Today, the country is sucking in Iranian capital both in real state and in business activities," a report released by Iran's Culture Heritage News (CHN) agency said yesterday.

The estimate appears to have been somewhat inflated based on the fact that Emaar Properties the largest developers in terms of deliveries have handed over 10,000 units so far. With an average face value of Dh1 million, this translates to only Dh10 billion worth of properties.

A similar number of deliveries is expected within the next 12 months, as the Palm Jumeirah villas will be up for handover in the second half of 2006.

Part cause of the increased funding flowing into the UAE may also be as a result of the changing political situation within Iran. Iranians have recently voted a conservative leader to power, ending two eight-year reigns by reformist leaders, Ali Akber Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami.

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Iranian Daredevil Dies in Motorcycle Stunt

TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian daredevil died while attempting to break the world record for jumping over buses on a motorcycle, state television reported Saturday.

Javad Palizbanian, 44, was trying to leap over 22 buses parked side-by-side when his motorbike came down on the 13th bus, the report said. He died instantly.

State TV broadcast the start of Palizbanian's attempt in Azadi Sports stadium Friday, but then cut away when the accident occurred.

"The crash scene was too disturbing to show publicly," the newscaster said.

Minutes beforehand, Palizbanian had told an audience of hundreds: "I am going to break the world record and do something for my country to be proud of."

Palizbanian was well known in Iran for his motorbike stunts. Last month, he roared his bike over a river more than 50 yards wide.

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Bush: Iran has right to civilian nuclear program

WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush on Tuesday said Iran had a right to a civilian nuclear program if it did not gain expertise or materials to build an atomic weapon.

The United States is concerned that Iran's nuclear program is aimed at producing weapons, and Bush said he would be "speaking candidly about Iran" with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who are gathering in New York for a United Nations world summit.

Iran says it has every right to develop nuclear technology to generate electricity, while the United States and the European Union want the U.N. Security Council to take up Iran's case after it resumed uranium processing last month.

"They have insisted that they have a civilian nuclear program, and I thought a rational approach to that would be to allow them to receive enriched uranium from a third party under the guise of international inspections that will enable them to have civilian nuclear power without learning how to make a bomb," Bush said at a press conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

The United States last month explicitly accepted for the first time that Iran could develop civilian nuclear programs, backing an EU proposal to allow Tehran to pursue atomic power in exchange for giving up fuel work.

That reflected a gradual shift in U.S. policy because Washington believes the EU offer has enough safeguards to prevent Iran from diverting its civilian work into making nuclear bombs.

"Some of us are wondering why they need civilian nuclear power anyway. They're awash with hydrocarbons," Bush said. "Nevertheless, it's a right of a government to want to have a civilian nuclear program."

But he said there ought to be guidelines. "And one such guideline would be in such a way that they don't gain the expertise necessary to be able to enrich," Bush said.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, elected in June, will attend this week's U.N. world summit and will make his case to avert referral to the Security Council.

Iran insists its nuclear ambitions are peaceful and has been lobbying Russia, China, India and others to fight against any referral to the Security Council which has the power to impose economic sanctions.

"It is very important for the world to understand that Iran with a nuclear weapon will be incredibly destabilizing," Bush said. "And therefore we must work together to prevent them from having the wherewithal to develop a nuclear weapon."

[Rasputin]

محمود احمدی نژاد وارد نيويورک شد

محمود احمدی نژاد، رئيس جمهور ايران، بعد از ظهر روز سه شنبه 13 سپتامبر به وقت محلی وارد نيويورک شده است تا با حضور در شصتمين مجمع عمومی سازمان ملل متحد، نخستين سفر رسمی خود را در مقام رئيس جمهور ايران رقم بزند.
پس از محمدعلی رجائی، آيت الله علی خامنه ای و محمد خاتمی، او چهارمين رئيس جمهور ايران است که برای شرکت در مجمع عمومی سازمان ملل به نيويورک سفر می کند.

نشست مجمع عمومی سازمان ملل متحد از چهارشنبه چهاردهم سپتامبر به مدت سه روز با حضور سران يا نمايندگان ۱۹۱کشور جهان آغاز میشود و قرار است آقای احمدی نژاد در نخستين روز نشست سخنرانی کند.

اين هيئت کوچکترين هيئت همراه با رئيس جمهور برای سفر به مقر سازمان ملل توصيف شده اما ترکيب و تعداد آن انتقادها و مخالفتهايی حتی در محافل و نشريات هوادار او برانگيخته است.

سفر رئيس جمهور ايران به نيويورک در حالی انجام می گيرد که دولت آمريکا به غلامعلی حدادعادل، رئيس مجلس ايران که قرار بود هفته گذشته در نشست رؤسای مجالس کشورهای جهان شرکت کند رواديد سفر نداد و باعث شد سفر او به مقر سازمان ملل متحد لغو شود.

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Iran writer in 'jail quarantine'

Iranian dissident writer Akbar Ganji has been placed in solitary confinement after being transferred back to prison from hospital, his wife has said.
But Iran's judiciary later denied the claim, adding he was in "very good" health and was sharing a cell.

Mr Ganji, jailed in 2000 for writing articles in which he linked senior officials to the murder of dissidents, went on a hunger strike in June.

He resumed eating after allegedly being told he would be sent home.

'Broken promises'

But according to Massoumeh Shafii, his wife, he has now been put "in quarantine" for no apparent reason.

In an open letter published by the reformist website Emruz, she said there was no medical reason to keep him isolated from other prisoners.

She branded the decision "a two-way news quarantine or a political news blackout".

Ms Shafii, who has not been allowed to visit her husband for 18 days, said the decision to take him back to prison "went against some judicial officials' negotiations and agreements with Mr Ganji".

But Iranian Justice Minister Jamal Karimirad on Tuesday told journalists Mr Ganji had been returned to prison and was in a shared cell.

"His health condition is very good," he added.

Ganji ended his hunger strike last month while in hospital.

Ganji's lawyer, the Nobel prize-winner Shirin Ebadi, has said her client's release on parole is long overdue since he has already served almost all his six-year term.

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Iran nuclear crisis hangs on leader's UN speech Saturday

UNITED NATIONS - A growing crisis over Iran's nuclear program hung in suspense ahead of a crucial meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog in Vienna and a speech here by Iran that will determine where things go next.

Foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany met Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday and said they would decide how and whether to pursue talks with Tehran based on the views he articulates in a speech on Saturday.

Ahmadinejad's speech comes two days before a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, where the United States sought support to take Iran before the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.

Iran says its nuclear program is legal and restricted to civilian energy aims, a position backed by Russia, China and other countries. The United States suspects the program is a cover for development of nuclear weapons.

The three European Union states known as the EU-3 have been conducting laborious negotiations with Tehran to end the impasse, but France said they would "judge the facts" of Ahmadinejad's speech in deciding how to proceed.

"We will determine, based on the balance of their proposal, whether dialogue can be continued as we would like or whether we must now enter a tougher phase which would be referral to the Security Council," a French spokesman said.

The EU-3 have asked Iran to halt sensitive nuclear activities that could produce nuclear weapons material. At their urging, Tehran suspended uranium conversion work last year but restarted it again recently.

The European ministers -- Jack Straw of Britain, Philippe Douste-Blazy of France and Joschka Fischer of Germany -- have not offered clues on what new proposals Ahmadinejad could make in his speech that might help ease the crisis.

But the British business daily Financial Times, quoting an unnamed senior Iranian official, said the Iranian president would suggest opening Tehran's nuclear program to wider international participation as a security measure.

"Iran will suggest international co-operation for uranium enrichment and invite Europe, Russia, China and South Africa to joint ventures in which Iran keeps its nuclear fuel cycle while the international community can make sure there is no diversion," the daily quoted the official as saying.

Diplomats close to the IAEA said the meeting Monday in Vienna appeared set to put off a decision to refer the case on Iran's nuclear program to the UN Security Council.

After piling on the pressure in the runup to this week's UN summit, the United States has in recent days also acknowledged that its drive to have Iran's case taken to the Security Council needs more time.

In an interview with the New York Post published Friday, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice explicitly acknowledged Tehran's right to a civilian nuclear program.

"What we don't want to do is give the impression that we don't think that Iran should be a technologically sophisticated state," Rice told the daily.

Washington has argued that, as a top oil producer, Iran did not need nuclear power. But Rice said, "There's a right to have this. It's a question of whether you exercise that right, given certain behavior in the past."

"What we don't want is for them to have technological sophistication that leads to a bomb. That's the issue."

Earlier in the week, Rice told a US television network that if the IAEA took a decision Monday to refer Iran to the Security Council, "that will be good, but I think the issue of a referral is something that we'll be working (on) for a while."

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BERLIN .

Conservative challenger Angela Merkel's party won the most votes in German elections Sunday but fell short of a clear mandate to govern, according to official results. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder staged a dramatic comeback and proclaimed that he should head the next government.

The vote heralded the end of Schroeder's seven-year tenure but left in doubt who will follow. The inconclusive results make it likely that Germany's next government would be weakened because of the narrow vote margin and difficulties in forming a coalition.

The vote centered on different visions of Germany's role in the world and how to fix its sputtering economy. Schroeder touted the country's role as a European leader and counterbalance to America, while Merkel pledged to reform the economy and strengthen relations with Washington.

But Merkel's move to become Germany's first female chancellor puts those finance reform plans in doubt. She must now find a majority in a coalition that would likely force her to water them down.

The result was a major setback for Merkel, whose party was at 42 percent in polls the week before the election.

She smiled but appeared uncomfortable as she argued that she had a mandate to be the next leader. "What is important now is to form a stable government for the people in Germany, and we ... quite clearly have the mandate to do that," Merkel said.

In contrast, Schroeder was exuberant and branded the performance of Merkel's party "disastrous."

"I do not understand how the (Christian Democratic) Union, which started off so confidently and arrogantly, takes a claim to political leadership from a disastrous election result," Schroeder said, adding defiantly that he could foresee four years of stable government "under my leadership."

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Iran's U.N. speech 'disappointing' - Straw


LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign Minister Jack Straw said on Sunday a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad affirming Tehran's plans to go ahead with making nuclear fuel was disappointing.

"This was a disappointing and unhelpful speech by President Ahmadinejad," Straw told BBC TV in an interview.

Ahmadinejad made his comments in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday, just two Advertisement

days before a critical meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N. nuclear watchdog in Vienna.

Washington and its allies in the European Union who fear Iran's nuclear program could be used to make atomic weapons would like the IAEA board of governors to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council on Monday to face punitive action.

But many non-Western countries such as Russia, China, India and South Africa are reluctant to back referral of Iran's case.

Straw said he would continue to pursue diplomatic means to resolve the row over Iran's nuclear ambitions but was dismissive of Ahmadinejad's offer to cooperate with the IAEA.

"Offering to be transparent now is simply saying you are going to be compliant and really accepting you have not been compliant (with IAEA demands) in the past," said Straw.

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German coalition struggle begins


G ermany's political rivals are making moves to build a coalition - but both main parties claim the right to lead after Sunday's inconclusive election. Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) got 35.2% - only three seats more than Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD).

Both he and Mrs Merkel say they have a mandate to be chancellor.

Coalition talks are to start later this month - but neither side wants to cede power in a joint "grand coalition".

Mrs Merkel urged the SPD on Monday to "accept that they are not the strongest party" and enter talks on forming a broad coalition under her leadership.

But SPD chairman Franz Muentefering insisted that Mr Schroeder had won the voters' trust and called on other parties - apart from the new Left - to build a new SPD-led coalition.

Pre-election opinion polls had suggested that Mrs Merkel would be the clear winner.



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PROVISIONAL ELECTION RESULTS

CDU/CSU: 35.2% (225 seats)
SPD: 34.3% (222)
Free Democrats: 9.8% (61)
Left Party: 8.7% (54)
Greens: 8.1% (51)


Now they want to come up with an big coalitation. But both sides are on a "Me"(I) course. One of the two big partys want to take over. I saw the discussion between Merkel and Schroeder on the television, and both was like vultures fell on the errors of the other one.

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