Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 19 – A young man and a minor were hanged in public on Tuesday in Irans second largest city, a government-funded news agency reported. The two, only identified by their initials M.A and A.M., were convicted of sexual assault on a 13-year-old boy by the Islamic Tribunal of Mashad, according to ISNA news agency.Iran hangs under-18 adolescent in public
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 19 – A young man and a minor were hanged in public on Tuesday in Irans second largest city, a government-funded news agency reported. The two, only identified by their initials M.A and A.M., were convicted of sexual assault on a 13-year-old boy by the Islamic Tribunal of Mashad, according to ISNA news agency.Khatami says Iran will not bargain on nuclear enrichment
AFP: Iran’s outgoing President Mohammad Khatami said Tuesday that Tehran would not bargain on its right to enrich uranium during talks with Europe on its nuclear activities. “Iran’s admission to the World Trade Organisation and the mastering of the fuel cycle are the rights of the Iranian people… and are not negotiable,” Khatami was quoted as saying by state television. British government protests at Iran claims over London bombings
AFP: Britain protested furiously on Tuesday to Iran over comments by a leading Iranian politician that the London bombings might have been deliberately carried out by the British government. One possible reason for the July 7 attacks, in which at least 56 people died, “is that the British government itself created this situation”, Ahmad Janati, a cleric who chairs the powerful Guardians Council, said Friday in a nationally broadcast sermon. Irans Rafsanjani renews firestorm over election fraud
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 19 The losing candidate in Irans recent presidential elections, Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, strongly condemned the way ballots were swapped and the gross irregularities in the recent elections in this weeks meeting of a top arbitration body that he heads, according to Iranian officials. Rafsanjanis comments first surfaced in an article by Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, a cleric who was outgoing President Mohammad Khatamis deputy for legislative affairs before he resigned in October. Irans Rafsanjani renews firestorm over election fraud
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 19 The losing candidate in Irans recent presidential elections, Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, strongly condemned the way ballots were swapped and the gross irregularities in the recent elections in this weeks meeting of a top arbitration body that he heads, according to Iranian officials. Rafsanjanis comments first surfaced in an article by Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, a cleric who was outgoing President Mohammad Khatamis deputy for legislative affairs before he resigned in October. Iran rejects reports on jailed dissident as “propaganda”
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 19 Irans Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel on Monday rejected propagandist reports on the failing conditions of Akbar Ganji, a dissident journalist currently on day 39 of a hunger strike hoping to gain his freedom from a six-year prison sentence which he is currently serving in Evin Prison. Haddad Adel told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar in the Iranian capital that Ganjis case was unlikely to turn into a plight and reach the point that satellite networks and Mr. Bush are talking about. Iran rejects reports on jailed dissident as “propaganda”
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 19 Irans Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel on Monday rejected propagandist reports on the failing conditions of Akbar Ganji, a dissident journalist currently on day 39 of a hunger strike hoping to gain his freedom from a six-year prison sentence which he is currently serving in Evin Prison. Haddad Adel told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar in the Iranian capital that Ganjis case was unlikely to turn into a plight and reach the point that satellite networks and Mr. Bush are talking about. Iraq’s dangerous new friend
Los Angeles Times: On sunday, George W. Bush’s war against terror was turned upside down and this time the president might even notice. That’s because when “our guys”
in Iraq start firmly allying with an “axis of evil” nation, its got to ring some warning bells, no? I am referring to the joint declaration issued in Tehran by the leaders of Iraq and Iran …
Iran leader tells Iraq PM US troops harming his country
AFP: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari Monday that US troops were harming his country, in a reminder of Tehran’s opposition to the foreign military presence in its former foe. It was the first time that US military support for Jaafari’s government had been brought up since his arrival on Saturday amid clear efforts by both Iran and Iraq to turn the page on their devastating 1980-88 war. Iran says will act quickly if unhappy with EU nuclear offer
AFP: Iran warned Monday it would decide quickly on any resumption of sensitive nuclear activities if it is not satisfied with EU proposals aimed at resolving the standoff. “(The European proposals) will be unacceptable if they do not acknowledge Iran’s right to (uranium) enrichment and Iran will not wait long before taking other decisions,” foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said. 