China wants the Iran conflict to be solved through dialogue. Nothing new here as it’s something that’s been assumed. As I said before, I believe in the dialogue route, just with the Iranian people and not the current Iranian Regime.

(Beijing) - China said again on Tuesday that it hoped the Iran nuclear standoff with the West could be resolved through dialogue.

“We have consistently stood for the resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue through negotiation and dialogue,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Qin Gang told a regular news conference.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan shares the same opinion as China.

(Hindustan Times) “The international community should not isolate Iran,” Annan told the Madrid daily El Pais in an interview during his stop in Doha, Qatar, after visiting Iran over the weekend.

Annan has made clear he wants a negotiated solution to the impasse, which deepened after Iran ignored an August 31 UN Security Council deadline to stop its uranium enrichment programme. That set the stage for possible UN economic and political sanctions.

Annan said confrontation with the Security Council “will not be in Iran’s favour or that of the region.”

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El Presidente of Iran has called for liberal teachers to be removed from their jobs immediately. Earlier this year that was a similar call from conservatives in our own nation. They too wanted the liberalism that is being taught in the school to cease to exist. I’m more realistic on the matter, I don’t believe you can have a yin without a yang. While I might disagree with liberal teachings I believe there is a place for them in our schools. The purpose of college is to take on new ideas and challenge those ideas. If students kept that perspective in mind I doubt this would be an issue in our schools. Too much yang is unhealthy.

(Canoe) “Today, students should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities,” the agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying during a meeting with a group of students.

Ahmadinejad complained that changes in the country’s universities were difficult to accomplish and that the country’s educational system had been affected by secularism for the last 150 years, but said “such a change has begun.”

Earlier this year, Iran retired dozens of liberal university professors and teachers. And last November, Ahmadinejad’s administration for the first time named a cleric to head the country’s oldest university in Tehran amid protests by students over the appointment.