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酒食节与澳洲邮政200年庆典

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Burwood公园纪念军人服役；Chatswood 中学乐队达令港展示风华

斐济社区悉尼集会 要求斐济结束军政 统治，回归民主

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时事经纬
02-08-09

阿富汗塔利班加紧破坏选举

阿富汗官员说，塔利班激进分子嫌疑人伏击了阿富汗总统卡尔扎伊竞选工作人员的
一个车队。袭击造成一名保安被打死，另有两人受伤。卡尔扎伊竞选工作人员的车
队星期六返回喀布尔的途中，在加兹尼省受到5次袭击。其中一名伤者是省级选举的
候选人。卡尔扎伊没有在车队里。

被控策划阴谋的伊朗改革派人士受审

100多名被控企图推翻伊朗政府的伊朗改革派人士受到审判，引发伊朗国内对法院采
取的手段发出强烈批评。最新的批评来自伊朗前总统哈塔米。他星期天批评审判违
反宪法，因为法庭以通过不正当手段获得的口供为依据。检察官指控抗议示威者策
划“天鹅绒革命”，企图推翻伊朗政府。被告包括前副总统阿卜塔布、前国会副议
长纳巴维、以及前政府发言人拉米赞拉德。

卡斯特罗对美国说：古巴不会变

卡斯特罗说，古巴不会为迎合美国而改变古巴的制度。他说，自己被选举担任国务
委员会主席就是要“捍卫、坚持和继续完善社会主义，而不是要摧毁它”，或者复
辟资本主义。他的这段话赢得古巴议员们的起立鼓掌。美国国务卿希拉里 克林顿早
前表示，华盛顿希望在采取更多的措施促进美古关系之前，看到古巴出现更多经济
和社会改革。

南奥塞梯受到炮击

南奥塞梯分离分子说，格鲁吉亚军队用迫击炮轰击了这个脱离格鲁吉亚的地区的一
个观察哨。星期四，格鲁吉亚内政部长说，尼科兹村的警察哨卡受到火力袭击。南
奥塞梯官员说，这是对来自村子里炮火做出的反应。

俄称可能使用武力保卫南奥塞梯

俄罗斯称，如果格鲁吉亚继续对脱离格鲁吉亚的南奥塞梯采取“挑衅”行为，俄罗
斯可能使用军事力量保卫南奥塞梯。

布什敦促对北韩采取联合行动

美国前总统布什敦促参与北韩核谈判的五国向平壤发出明确讯息，北韩必须停止核
武器计划。布什是星期六在韩国济州岛参加一个经济论坛时作上述表述的。他说，
美国、韩国、中国、日本和俄罗斯必须明确表示，如果北韩继续无视联合国的决议，
它将面临后果。布什还强调了在无核化进程中保持透明与核查的重要性。

印度拟再添125舰艇

印度计划在未来十年内为其海军增加125艘战舰和潜水艇，并努力实现海军现代化和
发展低成本造船实力。过去十年，印度的军事开支增加了一倍至每年大约300亿美元。
分析家指出，如果印度军事开支可以跟得上其预计的经济增长，印度将在20年内成
为世界第三大军事强国。印度舰队共有120艘军舰。中国的战舰数目是印度的三倍，
军事人员则比印度多四倍。印度对于邻国巴基斯坦和斯里兰卡向中国开放港口，允
许中国战舰靠岸也保持警惕，担心这可能扩大中国在印度洋和阿拉伯海的控制权。

中石油获伊朗阿扎德甘油田70%权益 日本遭受打击
 
中石油将获得伊朗西南部阿扎德甘油田70%的权益。该油田是中东最大级别的油田之
一。此前由于受伊朗核问题的影响，日本“国际石油开发”公司2006年10月主动将
该油田的权益从75%降低为10%，并将开发权交还给伊朗方面。日本原本计划待伊朗
核问题有所改善后恢复原有权益，但却被中国抢占了先机。今年3月奥巴马政府延长
了对伊朗的经济制裁，并对日欧企业施加压力要求主动控制在伊朗的新投资。为此
日本在伊朗一直不能伸展自如。

Iranian Dissidents’ Fate in Iraq Shows Limits of U.S. Sway

Last September, Gen. David H. Petraeus told reporters in Baghdad that the United States had been assured by the Iraqi government that the 3,400 Iranian dissidents in a camp in eastern Iraq would continue to be protected after the Americans turned over responsibility for the camp to Iraqi forces.

Last week’s bloody melee between Iraqi police officers and the residents of the camp has not only raised fresh doubts in Washington about the worth of these assurances, but has also exposed just how little leverage American officials now have in a country they largely controlled for almost six years.

It has also forced the Obama administration to confront some of the thorny issues that bedeviled its predecessor: how to prevent Iraq from falling deeper under Tehran’s influence, and how to fashion a tough Iran policy amid delicate negotiations to dismantle the country’s burgeoning nuclear program.

Officials in Washington have wrestled for years over the fate of residents of the camp, known as Camp Ashraf. The Iranians are followers of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, a group that vehemently opposes Iran’s theocracy. The group remains on the State Department’s list of terrorist groups, but it has given United States intelligence agencies a stream of information about Iran’s nuclear program, American officials say.

From 2003 until the beginning of this year, American troops provided protection for Camp Ashraf, and American diplomats blocked Tehran’s demands for the dissidents to be sent back to Iran.

Some Bush administration officials feared that the government in Baghdad might crack down on the Iranian dissidents in Iraq once Iraqi troops assumed control of the country at the beginning of this year. Through the years, Iranian officials have continually demanded that the dissidents be returned to Iran, where many could be imprisoned, and aides to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq have publicly hinted that they would comply with Iran’s demands.

Russia Accuses Georgia of Raising Tension After Report of Attack in South Ossetia

Russia’s Defense Ministry released a statement on Saturday accusing Georgia of trying to stoke violence in South Ossetia, and vowed to “use all means and resources available to protect the citizens of the republic of South Ossetia and the Russian servicemen.”

The strongly worded statement, one week before the first anniversary of the war in South Ossetia, came after the South Ossetian government reported two rounds of mortar fire coming from Georgian-controlled territory on Saturday morning.

It says that analogous events a year ago “led to Georgia’s unleashing of military aggression on South Ossetia and an attack on the Russian peacekeeping contingent.”

The statement warns that Russia will use all military means to protect South Ossetia “in case of further provocative steps.”

Controversial plans funded by US Jews

Renco Group Inc. founder Ira Rennert and bingo entrepreneur Irving Moskowitz are among US donors who have given $25.4 million in five years to build Jewish homes in Arab parts of Jerusalem - the same areas where President Barack Obama is pressing Israel to stop such construction.
The American contributions, detailed in Internal Revenue Service records, have gone to organizations such as Ateret Cohanim. The group says it bought at least 45 properties, most in the Muslim Quarter, to advance its goal of a Jewish majority in the predominantly Arab Old City.

The donations have also helped fund plans to build Jewish homes on the Shepherd Hotel site in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. The US State Department two weeks ago asked Israel to halt the project, which has been condemned as a threat to Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects by the French government, the European Union and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Assad: Golan will return to Arab hands

After the Saudi foreign minister flatly rejected the US request that his country make goodwill gestures toward Israel, Syrian President Bashar Assad was quoted repeating his refusal to resume negotiations with Israel unless the country first commits to ceding the Golan Heights.

Assad  repeated the Syrian position that "returning all occupied territories to the 4th of June [1967, prior to the Six Day War] borders is not up for negotiation or discussion." He insisted that Syria wanted "a fair peace, but there is a great difference between an honest invitation to lay the foundations for peace according to the legitimate international resolutions, and accepting Israel's demands," which, he said, "contradict the principles of peace. "peace and occupation are opposites that can never meet", he said. "The Syrian Golan will yet return to Arab hands," Assad promised.

Iran council questions reliability of trial confessions

After a mass trial session against detained Iranian opposition figures and protesters, influential cleric and official Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani questions the legitimacy of confessions made in the courtroom.

The first court session for opposition activists and protesters convened in Tehran on Saturday to determine the fate of those charged with acting against national security and conspiring with foreign powers to stage a "Velvet Revolution".

A leading Reformist, Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, who served as a deputy under former president Mohammad Khatami, accused the influential figure of having taken an "oath" with opposition leaders.

Abtahi, who has been in custody since June 16, also charged that Ayatollah Rafsanjani sought to avenge his 2005 presidential defeat to the incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2009 election.

Ayatollah Rafsanjani, who heads both the top political arbitration body called the Expediency Council as well as the Assembly of Experts -- the top clerical body which appoints the Leader of the Islamic Revolution --, was quick to deny the charges.

In a statement issued by the Expediency Council on Saturday, the two-time former president rejected Abtahi's claims as a "lie".

Rafsanjani having "taken an oath with Mr. Khatami and Mousavi to protect each other is a sheer lie," the statement said, the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) reported.

Rafsanjani "did not endorse any presidential candidates and has not had any part in the post-election unrest," it added.

The cleric, who has been under fire from the ruling elite, moved to question the reliability of the confessions.

"It is unclear that under which conditions and considerations these confessions have been made," the statement added.

In protesters trial, Rafsanjani accused of 'treason'

As the defiant Iranian opposition continues widespread street protests, influential cleric and official Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani comes under fire, allegedly for playing a role in the post-election developments.

In pre-election debates, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the heavyweight politician and his family of corruption as well as conspiring with former prime minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi against the incumbent.

Ayatollah Rafsanjani, himself a two-time former president, urged Ahmadinejad to issue an official apology for the corruption charges to prevent "legal actions".

Although the cleric did not endorse any candidate, some Principlists alleged that Rafsanjani and his family were financially supporting Mousavi.

On July 17, the influential cleric, in his first Friday prayers sermon since the June 12 election, urged officials to release opposition figures and those who protested the election result as a means to create national "unity".

The ruling elite, however, attacked him for not condemning the street riots and the opposition's defiance.

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the head of the top legislative body, on Friday accused Rafsanjani of orchestrating the post-election events after he lost the 9th presidential election in 2005.

"After defeat was inflicted on a certain figure four years ago, those who could not stand a young man in power colluded against him," Jannati was quoted by the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) as saying. "Since then, they have planned to avenge (their loss)."

Ahmadinejad defeated Rafsanjani by some 7 million votes in the run-off of the 2005 election.

On Saturday, as a mass trial against opposition figures and protesters opened in Tehran, Mohammad-Ali Abtahi -- a leading Reformist -- allegedly accused Rafsanjani of colluding against the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

Abtahi, according to a report carried by Fars News Agency, claimed Mousavi, former president Mohammad Khatami and Rafsanjani had taken an "oath" not to abandon each other as they prepared to stage a "Velvet Revolution".

Abtahi echoed Jannati's remarks that Rafsanjani, who currently heads both the top political arbitration body and the clerical body, sought to avenge his 2005 presidential defeat to Ahmadinejad.

Although the accounts of confessions made in the court were challenged by Reformist lawmakers and figures, Tehran Majlis representative Hamid Rasayi said the trial paved the way for officials to prosecute the "real" riot leaders.