Iran Focus: Strasbourg, Jun. 10 Dozens of Euro-MPs agreed at a meeting at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday that the forthcoming presidential election in Iran offered no hope for moving the country away from the policies that have hampered relations with the West and caused Iran Focus: Strasbourg, Jun. 10 Dozens of Euro-MPs agreed at a meeting at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday that the forthcoming presidential election in Iran offered no hope for moving the country away from the policies that have hampered relations with the West and caused 
Iran Focus: Tabriz, Jun. 09 The city of Tabriz in northwest Iran was the scene of mass anti-government demonstrations last night after the Irans 1-0 victory over Bahrain in the football World Cup qualifying match. Young people poured into the streets following the match and, when security forces tried to disperse them by force, celebrations quickly turned into anti-government protests, an Iran Focus correspondent in Tabriz reported. Iran Focus: Tabriz, Jun. 09 The city of Tabriz in northwest Iran was the scene of mass anti-government demonstrations last night after the Irans 1-0 victory over Bahrain in the football World Cup qualifying match. Young people poured into the streets following the match and, when security forces tried to disperse them by force, celebrations quickly turned into anti-government protests, an Iran Focus correspondent in Tabriz reported. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 09 Student Union members from the both Medical Sciences University and the University of Shiraz (Western Iran) plan to hold a demonstration on Saturday to protest the new wave of pressure on the student movement Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 09 Student Union members from the both Medical Sciences University and the University of Shiraz (Western Iran) plan to hold a demonstration on Saturday to protest the new wave of pressure on the student movement 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 09 Some 40 students gathered outside the governorate in Chahar Mahal Bakhtiyari (central Iran) on Tuesday in protest to hard-line presidential candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. The students, who were from Shahr-e Kord Open University, had with them a large white banner reading, Mr. Qalibaf, they beat us up for asking a question. Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 09 Some 40 students gathered outside the governorate in Chahar Mahal Bakhtiyari (central Iran) on Tuesday in protest to hard-line presidential candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. The students, who were from Shahr-e Kord Open University, had with them a large white banner reading, Mr. Qalibaf, they beat us up for asking a question. 
Financial Times: Iran will not reform its foreign investment policy in the oil sector if Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is elected president next week. Mohammad-Baqer Nobakht, a spokesman for Mr Rafsanjani, president between 1989 and 1997 and a frontrunner in the presidential race, told the FT there were “no specific problems” with the “buy back” system. Under this system, Iran gives payment in kind to oil companies that develop its oilfields. It was introduced to attract foreign capital to boost oil production. 
Los Angeles Times: Iran has plans to install tens of thousands of advanced centrifuges at its huge underground nuclear plant near the central city of Natanz, which eventually would enable the nation to enrich uranium nearly twice as fast as anticipated, Western intelligence officials say. The officials say there is no hard evidence that Iran is currently manufacturing the updated centrifuges and that the timetable for installation remains unknown. 
