AFP: Iran’s hardline poll watchdog insisted Saturday that the outcome of last month’s presidential election was final after reformist Interior Minister Abdolvahed Moussavi-Lari said he was ready to order a partial recount. “The election is a finished matter,” Guardians Council spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told the student news agency ISNA. Iran election watchdog says result stands
AFP: Iran’s hardline poll watchdog insisted Saturday that the outcome of last month’s presidential election was final after reformist Interior Minister Abdolvahed Moussavi-Lari said he was ready to order a partial recount. “The election is a finished matter,” Guardians Council spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told the student news agency ISNA. Iran warns scientists against US, Israeli ‘traps’
AFP: Iran’s spy chief on Saturday warned the country’s nuclear scientists against “traps” laid by Israeli and American intelligence agencies. “Iranian scientists must beware of enemy plots,” Intelligence Minister Ali Yunessi was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency. “Americans and Israelis are trying to approach (them) through different means.”
Iran tells EU it will hold firm on nuclear fuel
Reuters: Iran warned the European Union on Saturday it would never surrender its right to nuclear fuel, talking tough only two weeks before EU diplomats are due to present final proposals to break Iran’s atomic impasse. No incentive will make Iran drop nuclear fuel programme
DPA: No incentive would make Iran drop its nuclear fuel programme, the spokesman for Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said Saturday. “Even if the West provided us with all economic, political and security incentives, Iran would not drop its nuclear fuel programme,” Ali Aqamohammadi told the Iranian Students’ News Agency. Iran: Clashes erupt in Mahabad, SSF vehicle set on fire
Iran Focus: Mahabad, Iran, Jul. 16 Unrest continued in the north-western town of Mahabad, Iranian Kurdistan province, last night, with clashes erupting between locals and State Security Forces, following a week of similar anti-government protests which flared up after news broke out of the brutal murder of a young Kurdish man by the SSF. Iran: Clashes erupt in Mahabad, SSF vehicle set on fire
Iran Focus: Mahabad, Iran, Jul. 16 Unrest continued in the north-western town of Mahabad, Iranian Kurdistan province, last night, with clashes erupting between locals and State Security Forces, following a week of similar anti-government protests which flared up after news broke out of the brutal murder of a young Kurdish man by the SSF. Man publicly hanged in northwest Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 16 A man accused of murder was publicly hanged in the town of Ardebil, northwest Iran, at dawn on Thursday, according to a state-run daily. The daily Etemaad reported that Eyvazali Hosseinzadeh was hanged in public in the towns Gaz Square foe killing a man in 1999.
Man publicly hanged in northwest Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 16 A man accused of murder was publicly hanged in the town of Ardebil, northwest Iran, at dawn on Thursday, according to a state-run daily. The daily Etemaad reported that Eyvazali Hosseinzadeh was hanged in public in the towns Gaz Square foe killing a man in 1999.
Iraq taps Iran for security, commerce
The Washington Times: The Iraqi government, frustrated with the slow pace of reconstruction, is increasingly turning to Iran for investment, refined oil products, electricity and other needs. Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari is to lead a top-level delegation to Iran today to boost security and economic relations between the two Shi’ite-majority nations. Shia neighbours improve ties
The Times: Baghdad’s increasingly close ties with Tehran accused by Washington of interference in Iraqs internal affairs will receive an important boost today when Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Iraqs interim Prime Minister, leads a high-level delegation to Iran. The visit by the conservative religious Shia leader and seven of his senior ministers is aimed at boosting trade and collaboration on water resources, as well as border security and military co-operation. 