AFP: Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili could hold talks with EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton in Turkey, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.Iran’s nuclear chief could meet EU’s Ashton in Turkey
AFP: Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili could hold talks with EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton in Turkey, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.IRGC’s dominance over Iran’s politics and economy – Part 1
Iran Focus: London, May 11 – The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps constitutes the backbone of clerical rule in Iran and is controlled directly by supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Most trade and oil contracts signed by
Bank agrees to forfeit $500 million to US
AP: A bank formerly known as ABN Amro Bank N.V. agreed on Monday to pay the government $500 million for facilitating the movement of illegal funds through the U.S. financial system, the Justice Department announced.
EU’s Ashton says U.N. plan for Iran sanctions likely soon
Reuters: A new round of United Nations sanctions against Iran could be adopted very rapidly, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Monday.
Iran officials fear backlash over execution of Kurdish activists
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 10 – The execution of five Kurdish activists over the weekend has touched off protests in Tehran and in Iran’s Kurdistan Province, terrifying local officials of the backlash that has been created, Iran Focus has learnt.
Iran to grant visas to mothers of held US hikers: minister
AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Monday that the mothers of three US hikers held in the Islamic republic were able to apply for visas to meet their children, state television reported.
Exclusive: What Iran’s nuclear expert who defected knows
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 10 – When Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri went missing during a pilgrimage to Mecca last summer, Ministry of Defence intelligence officials promptly warned his relatives not to alert anyone to his disappearance.
Hundreds protest in Tehran over political executions
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 10 – Hundreds of people are protesting in central Tehran in apparent condemnation of the execution on Sunday of five Kurdish political prisoners.
Toughen up on Tehran
Iran Focus: On May 3, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at the United Nations in New York. Having the number one violator of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at a conference designed to strengthen the treaty is indeed baffling.
Iran war games continue with home-built torpedo test
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 10 – Iran’s navy has test-fired a domestically built anti-submarine torpedo over the weekend as part of war games taking place in the Gulf.