Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 12 – Units of the State Security Force (SSF) and anti-riot guards are being deployed in the capital’s central areas, including Vali Asr, Enqelab, Azadi, Haft-e Tir and Ferdowsi squares.
Heavy police presence in central Tehran
Iran to start building new nuclear site by March
AP: Iran’s nuclear chief says his country will begin construction of a new uranium enrichment plant by March of next year, a defiant announcement days after the U.N. approved tougher sanctions.
Neda’s parents had rebuffed Ahmadinejad bribe offer
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 12 – From the Grapevine… Reports from Tehran indicate that following the fortieth day of Neda Agha Soltan’s murder last year, hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent two emissaries to her parent’s home with flowers and pastries.
Germany probes Russian shipments to Iran
Wall Street Journal: German prosecutors are investigating whether Russia’s main nuclear exporter broke European rules by routing Iran-bound cargo through Europe—an incident that diplomats say turned into a major battleground as world powers hashed out international sanctions against Iran.
In brief: Protests across Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 12 – A collection of reports from Tehran, Isfahan and Qazvin:
Across Iran, anger lies behind face of calm
New York Times: A young woman who worked for years as a volunteer helping disabled people said she now saw her volunteerism as a “tool of resistance” because it highlights a failure of the state to provide adequate care.
‘Death to the dictator’ chanted in central Iran city
Iran Focus: Isfahan, Jun. 11 – Residents of Isfahan chanted “death to the dictator” and “[Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei is a murder, his velayat (rule) is null and void” from their rooftops on Friday at 22:00 local time in Nazar Sharqi, Towhid and Shariati streets.
Putin says freezing missile sale to Iran: France
Reuters: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has told France that Moscow will freeze a delivery of S-300 missiles to Iran after passage of extended U.N. sanctions against Tehran, the French president’s office said Friday.
