Pro-Israel protest in Rome
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Iran to present Mideast peace plan
Iranian foreign minister says Teheran plans to submit comprehensive peace plan to U.N.; initiative calls for referendum among ‘all genuine Palestinians’
Iran is planning to submit to the United Nations a plan for comprehensive Middle East peace that will put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki declared Monday.
The announcement comes several weeks after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad touched off an international storm by calling to wipe Israel off the map.
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“Iran intends to submit to the U.N. a global plan for peace in the Middle East,” Mottaki said during a convention dealing with Asian nations and the Caucuses. He stressed that the plan was in fact presented in the past by Iran’s spiritual leader, Ali Khamenei, and will now be resubmitted.
The Iranian imitative includes a plan for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by “holding a referendum among all genuine Palestinians, whether they are Muslims, Jews, or Christians, including Palestinian refugees across the world.”
Protest in Los Angeles
On Friday, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan cancelled his planned trip to Iran in the wake of Ahmadinejad’s harsh anti-Israeli comments, which also drew worldwide protests, with the biggest one held in Rome and attended by about 15,000 people.
On Sunday, about 1,800 people demonstrated against the Iranian remarks in central Los Angeles. The protestors held up Israeli and American flags and signs reading “Free Iran.”
