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Medvedev against sanctions targeting Iran oil trade
12 Apr 2010 – Medya News — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview aired Monday that while he agreed sanctions were needed to halt Iran’s nuclear drive, they should not crack down on its oil trade.
Kurdish Media Suppressed in Iran
09-04-2010 – Rudaw – Kurdish journalists from Iranian Kurdistan think journalism is like “walking in a minefield”. They have no hope of a free media under the shadow of the Iranian regime. Many Kurdish journalist get arrested and Kurdish newspapers are banned.
Kurdish Man Charged With PKK Leadership Role in Germany
AP – 2010-04-10
German prosecutors say they have charged a 43-year-old Turkish Kurd on allegations he was a leader in Germany of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.
Maliki Accuses Neighbors of Meddling in Iraq’s Government Formation
By DAVID RISING (AP)
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s prime minister accused neighboring states Monday of meddling in his country’s internal affairs to try to influence the formation of the government after elections produced no clear winner and left his party in second place. 
The Need for an Inclusive Iranian Opposition
Map of Nation Groups in Iran: Courtesy of BBC
“it is the merging of the demands for the rights of the Kurdish people and democracy and secularism that the clerical regime perceives as a threat to itself. And rightly so, it should be added, because democracy is antithetical to the existing theocracy in Tehran.”
Ahmadinejad: Iran has ‘fully mastered’ nuclear technology
9 Apr 2010 – Medya News – Iran announced Friday it has advanced its nuclear technology, unveiling new, faster centrifuges and celebrating “giant steps” forward. 
Western sanctions limiting Iran’s aid: Hamas increasingly ‘desperate’
Thursday, April 8, 2010
ABU DHABI — Iran was said to have reduced the flow of aid to Hamas.
A Kuwaiti newspaper reported that Iran was struggling to maintain funding to the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip.
Low Turnout for Ahmadinejad’s Visit To Orumieh City
8 April 2010 – Medya News – The President of the Islamist Regime in Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his cabinet
Germany Charges Two Over Iran Equipment Deal
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
German federal prosecutors announced today that they had filed charges against two men suspected of illegally
Obama’s unserious Iran policy
It is utterly shameless, however, for the president to claim a nuclear-free world as his goal while doing nothing to confront the world’s principal nuclear threat: Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
