AP: A pro-reform Iranian website is reporting that acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and opposition supporter Jafar Panahi has gone on a hunger strike while in prison.Report: Jailed Iranian filmmaker on hunger strike
AP: A pro-reform Iranian website is reporting that acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and opposition supporter Jafar Panahi has gone on a hunger strike while in prison.Iran sanctions draft not legitimate-senior official
Reuters: A U.N. sanctions draft resolution against Iran has no legitimacy, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted a close ally of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying on Wednesday.Iran to unveil upgraded Zolfaqar tanks
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 19 – An Iranian army commander announced that Iran will unveil an improved version of the country’s chief battle tank, the Zolfaqar, next month.A tale of two lives
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 19 – When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office as President, he promised to take the oil revenues to the people’s dinner tables.
Iran’s cunning nuclear gamble
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 19 – The following is a translation of an editorial in the semi-official daily Kayhan regarding Iran’s trilateral agreement with Turkey and Brazil for a nuclear fuel “swap”. The editorial written by the paper’s editor-in-chief Hossein Shariatmadari reflects the position of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Parents of detained Kurdish students not aware of their whereabouts
Iran Focus: Marivan, Iran, May 19 – Security forces arrested 15 Kurd students in Marivan after protests in Kurdish regions following the 9 May execution of five Kurdish activists.
US says China, Russia back Iran sanctions
AFP: The United States said Tuesday that China and Russia had backed a tough draft UN sanctions resolution against Iran, even as Beijing offered support for a deal Tehran signed to stave off such a move.France releases Iranian assassin amid deal controversy
AFP: A French court on Tuesday freed an Iranian agent jailed for the murder of an exiled prime minister as controversy raged over whether the decision was tied to Iran’s release of a young French academic.
Four student activists banned from university in Tehran
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 18 – Four students of the University of Science and Industry in Tehran have had their sentences increased because of their political activity. 