Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 12 Anti-riot police used live ammunition to put down a prison riot in a southern Iranian city on the border with Iraq, according to residents reached by telephone. At least five prisoners escaped from the main prison in the city of Abadan after a full-scale riot broke out on Wednesday night. Riot in southern Iran prison leaves dozens injured
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 12 Anti-riot police used live ammunition to put down a prison riot in a southern Iranian city on the border with Iraq, according to residents reached by telephone. At least five prisoners escaped from the main prison in the city of Abadan after a full-scale riot broke out on Wednesday night. Iran Revolutionary Guards chief: nuclear capability ensures our survival
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 12 The commander of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Friday that nuclear capabilities will guarantee the survival of the Islamic Republic. Referring to Tehrans nuclear pursuits, Major General Rahim Safavi told a gathering of members of the paramilitary Bassij in universities, Technology is a vital factor for political regimes in defending themselves. Technological superiority has been and will continue to be the strategic cornerstone for the defence of nations. Iran Revolutionary Guards chief: nuclear capability ensures our survival
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 12 The commander of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Friday that nuclear capabilities will guarantee the survival of the Islamic Republic. Referring to Tehrans nuclear pursuits, Major General Rahim Safavi told a gathering of members of the paramilitary Bassij in universities, Technology is a vital factor for political regimes in defending themselves. Technological superiority has been and will continue to be the strategic cornerstone for the defence of nations. Rafsanjani: Iran will never turn back on nuclear decision
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 12 – Irans influential former President Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani termed Thursdays resolution adopted unanimously by the International Atomic Energy Agencys Board of Governors as very cruel and said that Tehrans nuclear decision was irreversible. Rafsanjani: Iran will never turn back on nuclear decision
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 12 – Irans influential former President Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani termed Thursdays resolution adopted unanimously by the International Atomic Energy Agencys Board of Governors as very cruel and said that Tehrans nuclear decision was irreversible. Annan throws his weight behind UN atomic agency in nuclear standoff with Iran
AFP: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Thursday backed a resolution by the UN nuclear watchdog agency calling on Iranto halt nuclear fuel work, a demand Tehran has dismissed as absurd. “The (International Atomic Energy Agency) has spoken with one voice and the secretary general expects its resolution to be implemented,” Annan said in a statement through his spokesman Stephane Dujarric.
Iran leader to be granted US visa
BBC News: President George Bush has said Iran’s new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be allowed into the US to attend a UN meeting in New York next month. There was speculation Mr Ahmadinejad may be refused a visa becauseof claims he was involved in the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Iran.
IAEA orders Iran to halt uranium enrichment
The Guardian: The main European powers last night pressured the UN nuclear authority into ordering Iran to freeze its nuclear activities as Tehran appeared to be winning a high-stakes diplomatic battle in the long-running dispute. After days of behind-the-scenes fighting over a form of words censuring Iran for resuming uranium conversion this week, Britain, France and Germany gained backing for a resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna demanding an Iranian reversal.
Playing with fire
The Washington Times: Iran, it seems, is playing with fire — and on two fronts. The first is the Islamic republic’s recent decision to pursue its nuclear ambitions despite being urged by the European Union and threatened by the United States not to restart its uranium conversion program. Bush calls IAEA Iran demand ‘positive first step”
Reuters: President George W. Bush said on Thursday the decision of the U.N. nuclear watchdog to call on Iran to halt sensitive atomic work was “a positive first step.” “The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) today issued a report that expressed serious concerns about Iranian decisions and that’s a positive first step,” Bush told reporters at his Texas ranch. 