Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 12 A man was publicly hanged in
Canadian Press: With less than a week to go before what they call a sham presidential election in their homeland, dozens of Iranian-Canadians gathered at the Ontario legislature Saturday to call for a boycott. Organizers said the rally was staged to call attention to human rights abuses and the lack of democracy in Iran. 
AFP: The mood in Iran’s universities has plunged to a new low, with students who once voted in droves for reform staying away from next week’s presidential election after a string of hammer blows to their hopes. Despite providing a crucial support base for President Mohammad Khatami’s two election victories, the slow pace of reform, arrests and continued crackdowns by vigilantes have left many students in a state of indifferent fury. 
AP: Several people were killed and more injured by three bombs that exploded Sunday morning near government buildings in southwestern Iran, officials and an eyewitness said. The explosions, which come ahead of presidential elections set for Friday, rocked Ahvaz, capital of Khuzestan province bordering Iraq, and damaged several buildings, an eyewitness told The Associated Press by telephone. An official in the regional governor’s office said several people were killed. 
Reuters: At least three bombs exploded in the southwestern Iranian oil town of Ahvaz on Sunday, killing three people, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. The semi-official Fars news agency said five people had been killed and 25 wounded in the blasts at about 9 a.m. (4:30 a.m. British time). State television put the number of wounded at 30, but did not say how many had been killed. 
AFP: At least three people were killed Sunday when a series of bomb attacks targetting public buildings rocked Iran’s restive southwestern city of Ahvaz, an interior ministry official said. 
Sunday Telegraph: Iran is secretly negotiating with North Korea to build a network of underground bunkers to conceal its clandestine nuclear weapons project. A team of construction experts has arrived in Teheran to conduct a survey of Iranian requirements. It included a senior North Korean specialist in underground construction who helped to design the bunkers that contain Pyongyang’s illegal weapons programme. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 11 Irans former paramilitary police chief and presidential hopeful said in an interview with a state-run daily that he supported Internet censorship and state control over satellite channels. Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, until recently commander of the State Security Forces and a top brass in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, told the daily Keyhan, We support the principle of Internet filtering and its the right thing to do. Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 11 Irans former paramilitary police chief and presidential hopeful said in an interview with a state-run daily that he supported Internet censorship and state control over satellite channels. Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, until recently commander of the State Security Forces and a top brass in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, told the daily Keyhan, We support the principle of Internet filtering and its the right thing to do. 
Knight Ridder Newspapers: A dizzying array of campaign posters across this sprawling city promises Iranian voters a brighter, freer future in the most contested presidential race in Islamic Republic history. But it’s unlikely that any of the eight candidates vying in June 17 elections to replace President Mohammad Khatami, who can’t run for a third term, will win the kind of victory that swept Khatami to office in 1997 and 2001 with hopes of political and social change.
