Iranian President Urges Arab leaders to endorse the reform (AFP)

TEHRAN (AFP)-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Arab Governments to heed popular demands of the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu reform at a meeting with the President's website said on Tuesday.

"Today, the area of the equal rights of citizens is essential, voting, security and human dignity, the right to, and none of the Government may deprive them of freedom and justice to the demands of the peoples they refused," Ahmadinejad played as saying.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran believes that all the regional Governments of the countries of their peoples, their integration requirements and to enable the reforms," he added Monday evening discussions.

Ahmadinejad did not expressly mention of Iran's closest Arab ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has faced unprecedented protests against the iron fisted rule since his March to the mid-point.

But the Iranian media reported was to remain in the conflict between security forces and by Syria, the rapporteurs on the top of the agenda of the meeting.

A joint press conference with Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Davutoglu Sunday, Salehi said that Syrian problems can be solved, "family."

"Iran, Syria and Turkey are in the family and, if any, are facing a problem in the family as a whole should resolve it," Salehi said.

"The Negotiations among the members of the family, the path should lead to the people entitled" requests and prevent the disturbance of inappropriate "," he added.

Ahmadinejad accused Washington, even the confessional in the territory of the rivalries, including the Sunni Muslim majority in Syria and Assad, is part of the minority Alawite community, stirring occasionally.

"The countries of the region should play to American hands on the" presidential network quoted him as saying.

"They are looking for is through the creation of unfair fight Shiites and Sunnis,, and Alawites and Turkish Alawites, and to have access to their primary objective, which will save the Zionist regime among the Kurds."

Iran, 2009 presidential election, which saw Ahmadinejad, because another massive fraud alleged in the period down to the financial problems. protests

 

Clinton urges immediate dialogue on the Middle East (AFP)

WASHINGTON (AFP)-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on Israel and the Palestinians to resume dialogue without delay, even as turmoil roils region.

The two parties "are trying to analyse what this means for their future position," Clinton told PBS television.

But "I hope--and President (Barack) Obama has stated that he will continue to press both sides, which is what we think we have to do--that all would realize that the negotiations are the only way, but more than is an immediate need."

Clinton stressed that "it is in both the isrælerne and the Palestinians, even in the midst of everything happening in the region, to try to turn off the hard work in the best interests of" negotiate a solution.

The last U.S. effort to jumpstart isrælsk-Palestinian dialogue on a two-State solution have been deadlocked since September as Israel refuses to freeze new settlements in the occupied territories.

But "we do not support any unilateral action by the Palestinians to go to the UNITED NATIONS to try to achieve some permit or approval voting with regard to the State, because we believe that we can only achieve the two State solution, which we strongly favour through negotiations," Clinton added.

 

Iran's Khamenei urges Jihad budget new year (AFP)

TEHRAN (AFP)-the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday called for the "economic Jihad" space in front of the enemy, the Supreme Leader of the plot foil Iranians Celebrate Nowruz, the Persian new year.

"These sanctions, that Iran's enemies have been designed or implemented is intended to strike the slogan of our progress in the development of the improved," Khamenei said on State television to send the message.

In his speech became so in front of the Iranian family, traditional table Haft seen, with seven products that begin with the letter "," Welcome to the happiness, health and welfare, the purpose of the new year.

"However, (the enemies) was not able to achieve a desired had become such penalties ... our policies and of officials of the nation, thanks to the cooperation objective," Khamenei said.

"For this reason, I declare this year, the year economic Jihad," he said, adding that he expected the officials and people to do so.

Nowruz, i.e., the "new day" in Farsi, marks the transition from winter to the spring and the Iranians celebrate the very moment that became 0250 local time (2320 GMT) this year.

Vacation stops almost all political activities in the April 3, and newspapers are not published in its first week.

Nowruz marks the renewal of nature and the Iranians also use it to breathe a new life, family relationships and friendships.

The two-week vacation travel also offers the opportunity, missing in the nearly 50 million people out of 74 million inhabitants, in order to be able to travel around the country with the authorities.

In the capital Tehran shows the lifeless as tourist destinations, such as Isfahan, Shiraz, Yazd, around the Caspian Sea and the religious cities of Mashhad and Qom seaside areas are filled with visitors.

Ayatollah Khamenei during his speech, also esitelmässä Arab uprisings.

"This year's celebrations are not so refreshing because the bitter events takes place in Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, against the people. I hope that God bring immediately to the relief of these Nations, and the punishment of their enemies, "he said.

In an earlier message broadcast Sunday of Nowruz, the US President Barack Obama criticized Tehran for what he called its "campaign of intimidation and abuse" against its opponents.

He also expressed solidarity among young people in Iran, saying "I'm with you."

US urges restraint in Bahrain tekstombrydningsfunktionen Middle East turmoil (AP)

WASHINGTON — the Obama administration expressed alarm over a violent punishment on government demonstrators in Central U.S. ally Bahrain on Thursday as a wave of political upheaval moved across the Middle East.

U.S. chiefs by the Pentagon and State Department known as their counterparts in Bahrain, his home to U.S. Navys 5th fleet and an anchor in U.S. defense strategy in the Middle East.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Bahrain Foreign Minister to track Washington's "deep concern" about overnight developments in which the army patrols and tanks locked in the capital of small Gulf Kingdom after riot police fired tear gas and beat demonstrators demanding political reforms. At least four people were killed.

Clinton spoke with the Minister for Foreign Affairs about how to respond to the demands of the protesters, Foreign Ministry said.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spoke by telephone Thursday morning with Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain, Deputy Head of the Bahrain Defence, said Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell.

Morrell gave no information on what Gates said, except that he "discussed the current security situation" with the Prince.

Navy officials in the Pentagon 5th fleet headquarters in Bahrain have said they shall monitor developments in Bahrain to sailors and civilian staff and family members who have been informed to avoid protest sites. Officials have not reported any impact on their operations from the turmoil.

5Th fleet operating at least one aircraft carrier in the region Persian Gulf, at all times, together with a "amfibie ready group" of ships with Marines on board. Their presence is central to a long-standing U.S. commitment to ensure a free flow of oil through the Gulf, while keeping an eye on a hostile Iran and seek to deter piracy in the region.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, thousands of Yemeni protesters defied appeal to calm from the military and the country's most influential Islamic cleric and marched through the capital city on Thursday. Libyan protesters seeking to oust his leader Moammar Gadhafi defied a punishment and took to the streets in four cities.