Presenter, Woman #1
Things are not going as the Iranian opposition would like them to. Iranian authorities made two major announcements in Tehran, the first one said that Ahmadinejad will be sworn in for a second term on June 26Th and the new government will be sworn in on August 19. The second announcement was the decision of the Guardian Council to reject the demands of the two losing candidates, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karrubi to nullify the presidential elections results. The spokesman of the Council, Abbas Ali Kadkhodai announced the decision, saying that there was no forgery or violations in the elections. He said that the Council’s investigations have revealed that the number of regions where the number of the voting cards exceeded the number of the voters were only 50 regions, not 170 regions.

Guest, Male # 1
Luckily, we have evidence to show that no significant violations have taken place during the latest presidential elections. Therefore there are no reasons to nullify the elections results.

Presenter, Woman #1
The ban on public gathering in all Iranian cities not only applies to those who oppose the authority, but also on Ahmadinejad’s supporters. The Interior Ministry said that it has not issued a license for the demonstration that was called for by Students Unions, today outside the British Embassy in Tehran to protest London’s position towards the recent events in the Islamic republic. This comes as the Iranian Foreign Ministry denied what was announced by a representative in the Iranian parliament that Tehran will call in its ambassador to London to protest what it considers British interventions in Iran’s national affairs. Joining us, our correspondent, Redha Basha. Redah, the Gaurdian council refused to nullify the results of the elections and Ahmadinejad will be sworn in three days. Are there reactions from conservatives? What options remain for the reformers to take?

Correspondent, Male #2
Of course, the reformers will not agree to the Guardian council’s decision which was evident in the statement that was released by the Mujahedeen Council of Scholars which includes former president, Muhammad Khatami. This council said that they will not accept the results of the elections and reiterated their demand that the elections must be held again. One can conclude from this statement that the reformers will not accept what was announced by the Guardian council, especially considering that they have Casted doubts about the neutrality of this council and its transparency in dealing with Iranian elections. I think that the reformers have no options but to form an opposition in Tehran. They have no other choice. However, the decision that was made by the Guardian Council is not the final response pertaining to the elections appeals that were submitted by the reformers. We are waiting for the final statement that the council will release tomorrow. There are predictions, however, that the Guardian Council will not call for repeating the elections and that elections results will remain valid.

Presenter, Woman #1
Assuming that the Guardian council will reject demands to nullify the elections, and considering that Khatami has refused the elections results. Does this mean that there will be more demonstrations? And have the warnings of the revolutionary Guards impacted the demonstrations?

Correspondent, Male #2
It’s hard to predict if the demonstrations will increase or disappear completely. However, after the warnings of the Revolutionary Guards, the demonstrations have decreased dramatically. Only dozens of people are now in the streets, they gather in some areas Tehran. We saw this yesterday and last Sunday. We have not seen huge demonstrations like the ones that took place on Saturday and previous days.

Presenter, Male #1:
Navi Pillay, the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, called on Iran to control the Bisij militia, which is being accused of using violence against the Iranian protestors. She warned that the security situation in the country could deteriorate further. Pillay also expressed her concern over the increasing number of human rights activists and opposition members, who have been arrested since the presidential elections. She urged the Iranian authorities to abide by the law.

Reporter, Female #1:
Behind the scenes, hundreds of people have been arrested since the start of the demonstrations in Iran. Human Rights Watch called for ending, what it described, as a government crackdown campaign against peaceful demonstrators. The organization provided names of many of those arrested, confirming that it has not been able to determine the circumstances of all of these arrests, which include political and religious leaders in the reformist branch of the Iranian political landscape. In some of the cases that the group examined, the Iranian authorities did not provide any document or warrant at the time of the arrests. Until today, their families do not know where the detainees are being held. On the ground, any form of confrontation has become permissible. Members of the military unit Baseej and government security forces use batons, tear gas, water hoses, and even live gunfire to suppress the demonstrators, at times or to provoke them, at other times. The UN Commissioner on Human Rights held the Iranian government responsible for ensuring that militia members and regular law enforcement agencies do not resort to illegal acts of violence. She called for an investigation into the circumstances of the deaths that occurred. Until now, there has been no official report about the number of people killed or wounded. The national television station indicated that about ten people have been killed. A source from the opposition says that the number of those killed is much higher, in the hundreds. As for the injured, they got their numbers from human rights organizations, especially since they are afraid of being arrested once entering the hospital after a rumor that spread in the country that the Iranian authorities ordered medical personnel to inform them of all the patients that enter the hospital. No one in foreign embassies has announced that they will be opening their doors to take in the injured. Perhaps this scene of the arrest of a citizen of Khormabad, the capital Miristan by the security forces explains why citizens and the wounded are afraid of being arrested. What is known is that Iran is a party to the International Convention on Human Rights, including the international treaty relating to civil and political rights, which it signed in 1975. According to the treaty, it must provide and guarantee basic human rights, including the right for peaceful assembly. In response, the Iranian authorities stated that the victims were killed by so-called unknown terrorists. They tried, by all means, to ban any images of physical and psychological abuse, which were committed against the demonstrators. But the few leaks that have come out are enough to clearly show that peaceful demonstrations in Iran have claimed some people’s lives. Hasina Usham. Al Arabiya.

Presenter, Male #1:
To comment on what is happening, with us in the studio is Camilia Intikhabifard, a writer and researcher on Iranian affairs. Camillia, you are concerned and afraid about what is going on. Are the current events in Tehran reminding you of the past? Specifically, you were imprisoned for expressing your views in 1999 in Tehran.

Guest, Female #2:
Yes, I am very upset and I speak as an independent reporter. However, those who are being arrested in Tehran are touching my heart. Yes, these images take me back to 1999 after my newspaper was closed and I was arrested. Surprisingly, I was the first woman to be arrested in Iran at the time. I spent three months in solitary confinement. Until today I have not been tried for the accusations made against me. This is the reality facing journalists who want to talk about the freedom of expression and want to conduct the good investigative reporting in the country. Today, there is no difference between the way men and women from the opposition are treated. The only difference is that the treatment of women is much harsher now than it was when I was imprisoned.

[Summary]

Iranian lawmakers have met to discuss relations with Britain. Parliament is re-considering ties with Britain. Iranians official have blamed Britain and some other Western countries for interfering in post-election incidents in Tehran.

Iran has rejected U.N. Secretary General’s comments on recent protests over the country’s presidential election. The UN chief has called for arrests and use of threat against civilians in Iran.

Iran’s judiciary will form a tribunal to look into the charges of those arrested at recent protests. The cases will be dealt with precisely and thoroughly.

Iran’s Air force has launched a second stage of its aerial maneuvers. This exercise is expected to include electronic war fare tests and wireless audio signal transmission trial. Iran’s Air Force Commander says the drill is purely defensive in nature.

[Summary]

Reports indicate that Netanyahu will push Rome and Paris tomorrow to toughen sanctions against Tehran. Netanyahu said the current situation in Iran could mark a turning point.

There will be no new presidential election in Iran. A spokesman for Iran’s top electoral body said they found no major fraud in the voting.

Presenter, Woman #1
The Israeli authorities released the Palestinian Legislative Council President, Aziz Duwaik after jailing him for three years. The release became possible after the Israeli military court in Ofer Base rejected military prosecutors’ demands to extend Duwaik’s prison term. As soon as Aziz Duwaik was freed he received a congratulation letter from the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmud Abbas. Sources from Fatah and Hamas movements say that there is an agreement for Abbas and Duwaik to meet as soon as possible. He is also expected to make a speech in meetings of the Legislative Council in Ramallah when he arrives there.

Reporter, Woman #1
Dr. Aziz Salem Murtadah Duwaik, for anyone who knows him, is a superior character both academically and politically. Not only does he hold three masters degrees and a PH.D in city planning as well as countless published works, but he is also an experienced politician. He is considered one of the most important thinkers and leaders of Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement. Abu Basham, as Duwaik is called, was born on January 12, 1948 to an Egyptian mother and a Palestinian father in Khalil City. He joined the Hamas movement in his early years, and spent his free time in Islamic preaching, as well as ideological and political work. He has upset the Israeli occupation, which explains why he was thrown in Israeli prisons several times before he was exiled to Marjazuhur in southern Lebanon in 1992, accompanied by more than four hundred Hamas leaders headed by his friend and fighting comrade, the late leader Abdu al Aziz Rantisi. Aziz Duwaik was very happy to be called “Rantisi Al Difah”, or Rantisi of the West Bank, to show his admiration for Rantisi. In Marjazuhur, while Rantisi spoke in the name of the Palestinian refugees in Arabic, Duwaik spoke in his name in English. In 2006 Duwaik was elected by an overwhelming majority of votes to be the president of the Palestinian Legislative Council. In August, the same year, the Israeli occupation arrested him at his home in Khalil. This was done during a series of arrests that extended to forty-six representatives in response to the Movement’s capturing of an Israeli hostage. In December of the previous year, the Ofer court issued an arrest warrant to jail Duwaik for three years. The main accusation against him was belonging to a banned organization: the change and reform party that represents the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas in the Palestinian Legislative Council. Israel defined this party as a banned organization. Duwaik was released after his prison term. Last week, Israeli Court rejected military prosecutors’ demand to extend his jailing time to six months longer, for lack of evidence.

Presenter, Female #1:
For the sake of becoming the head of the UN Education, Science and Cultural Organization, the Egyptian Cultural Minister, Farouk Hosni, turned things upside down and left the door wide open for cultural normalization. A special report by our colleague Muna Ashmawi.

Reporter, Female #2:
The Egyptian Cultural Minister made a decision that created a major uproar. At this time, the translation of Hebrew books into Arabic and placing them in the marketplace at the expense of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture raises many questions. This, especially after statements made by the Cultural Minister in May of last year, when he said that if he could burn all the Hebrew books in Egypt, he would. This statement angered many Jews in Israel and other parts of the world.

Guest, Male #1:
Certainly, this is a type of cultural normalization, which is aimed at promoting Israeli writers, their sayings, and the understanding of Israel. These books, which will be translated and put on the market for readers to buy, will certainly call for glorifying the role of the Zionist entity. They are books that talk about Israeli literature, which certainly have political aims. It is an attempt to present a different image of Zionists than their image of being rapists, who occupied a land and displaced a people. They want to present a new image of Israelis. Certainly, the Ministry of Culture resisted this for a long time. Now, it appears, the situation has changed not because of correct or principled positions, but because the Minister of Cultural is a candidate to take up the position of Director General of the UN UNESCO.

Reporter, Female #2:
The implementation of the translation project came after the Minister agreed to it in his capacity as the president of the National Center for Translation. The center intends to contract with French and British publishers before the start of July to translate the Israeli works, thus avoiding working directly with Jewish publishers.

Guest, Male #2:
The issue of reading what is written in Israel has nothing to do with normalization. Normalization is direct communication with the Israelis and working with them, whether in Egypt or outside of Egypt. Unfortunately, the intellectual monitoring of what is happening in Israel came late in recent years. It’s gotten to the point that today, when we hear that a book or two books are being translated from Hebrew; it stirs controversy and is questioned as normalization.

Reporter, Female #2:
If the beginning is the translation of two books by two Israeli authors, who are said to be culturally closer to the peace camp, then the rest of the books will be by authors from Israel, who completely believe that Arab blood is cheap. In the face of a Zionist idea, whether they like it or not, they will draw its features from the Nile to the Euphrates. Soon we will find that this book has been translated from Hebrew to Arabic and sold at various bookstores throughout Egypt regardless of its content or what its words call for. But this is not important. What is important is that the Jews are pleased; rather that Israel is pleased with the Egyptian Cultural Minister so as to guarantee his position as Director General of UNESCO. Muna Ashmawi. New TV. Cairo.

Presenter, Man #1
We now present this report of the latest security and political updates in Iraq.

Reporter, Woman #1
Every time the representative election approached, the situation got farther from getting better. This is how things have become in Iraq, not only in the field of security, but also on the level of political assassinations. Thus far, three parliament members have been killed, alerting the dangers that surround the political figures before the politics itself.

Guest, Man #1
We imagine that the assassinations and crimes that happen here and there are part of the assimilation process that numerous internal and external projects are pursuing, especially when this political crisis happens as the election approaches. Some parties wish that the political process would not last in even the least convincing form.

Reporter, Woman #1
The current tension coincides with the American troops getting ready to withdraw soon from the cities and markets. From here, Iraq will have to rely on the security agreement, which would defer to the people’s survey. But the politicians are worried about the increase of attacks after the tanks leave.

Guest, Man #1
We predict that the violent activity will come back from time to time, and the armed groups and organizations of Al Qaeda will operate here and there to prove their existence. The withdrawal of American troops and their suspension of combat missions in Iraq is the biggest question now, above the worry for Iraq’s true political power.

Reporter, Woman #1
If this prediction comes true, then maybe things in the coming legislative election will become clear. The Iraqi eye network is tightening its surveillance over the elections to make sure that the political parties follow the law, so as not to repeat the same mistake of changing the names but not the faces. The Council of Representatives is preparing to sanction the security agreement with UK in the next few days, while conflicts are happening between the powers inside the parliament and on the street outside of it. Who knows, maybe whoever remains in the end will be the strongest.

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