Reuters: OPEC oil producers may opt to raise output when they meet next week due to rising political pressure, although Iran will lobby the cartel to trim oversupply instead, the country’s OPEC governor told a newspaper. Bucking the trend of members looking to leave production unchanged on June 15, Hossein Kazempour Ardebili said it wanted the group to pull production back to official quota levels. OPEC may raise output, Iran against it
Reuters: OPEC oil producers may opt to raise output when they meet next week due to rising political pressure, although Iran will lobby the cartel to trim oversupply instead, the country’s OPEC governor told a newspaper. Bucking the trend of members looking to leave production unchanged on June 15, Hossein Kazempour Ardebili said it wanted the group to pull production back to official quota levels. Iran intelligence gaining a foothold in US?
Iran Terror: Controversy over a report by New York-based Human Rights Watch is taking a new turn with speculation that Iranian intelligence might have exerted influence on the group through surreptitious agents. Human Rights Watch issued a 28-page report on May 18 alleging that the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MeK) opposition group mistreated its dissident members in Iraq. Iran Terror has learnt of two secret emails distributed by a senior figure in Human Rights Watch, which Iranian exiles opposed to the clerical regime in Iran are using as evidence of sinister political motives, and possible interference activity by Iranian intelligence.
Iran: 500 former Iraq-based MeK members reject abuse claims
Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jun. 05 Over 500 former members and supporters of an Iranian opposition group, the Peoples Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI / MeK), signed an open letter to New York-based Human Rights Watch rejecting allegations of abuse by the group, the PMOIs Persian-language website reported. The petition was signed by former members who all now live in North America and Europe, and it was delivered to HRWs headquarters by a delegation from the signatories. Iran: 500 former Iraq-based MeK members reject abuse claims
Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jun. 05 Over 500 former members and supporters of an Iranian opposition group, the Peoples Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI / MeK), signed an open letter to New York-based Human Rights Watch rejecting allegations of abuse by the group, the PMOIs Persian-language website reported. The petition was signed by former members who all now live in North America and Europe, and it was delivered to HRWs headquarters by a delegation from the signatories. Iran sets new conditions on maintaining nuclear freeze
AFP: A senior Iranian official said Sunday that Tehran has only conditionally agreed to EU demands it maintain a suspension of sensitive nuclear activities until the end of July, the official news agency IRNA reported. “Iran has conditionally agreed to the EU offer, and Europe has until the end of July to provide a complete proposal with details,” Supreme National Security Council offical Ali Agha Mohammadi was quoted as saying. EU, US stand firm on Iran abandoning nuclear fuel cycle work: diplomats
AFP: The EU and the United States remain committed to Iran giving up uranium enrichment work that could be used to make atomic weapons and want to clear up any confusion over this with Tehran, diplomats said Saturday. A trio of European Union negotiators, Britain, France and Germany, are to try to clear up an apparent misunderstanding over the US position on uranium enrichment as explained by President George W. Bush on Tuesday, diplomats said. Prominent US lawyer censures Human Rights Watch for Iran dissidents report
Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jun. 04 A United States lawyer representing members of the main Iranian opposition group, the Iraq-based Peoples Mojahedin, censured New York-based Human Rights Watch for a report that alleged the group mistreated its members in a letter to its director. Professor Steven M. Schneebaum of Greenberg Traurig Law, who served on the Board of Directors of the International Human Rights Law Group, wrote, I must confess that I have never before had to censure a human rights organization for procedural flaws and substantively incorrect results in its work. Prominent US lawyer censures Human Rights Watch for Iran dissidents report
Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jun. 04 A United States lawyer representing members of the main Iranian opposition group, the Iraq-based Peoples Mojahedin, censured New York-based Human Rights Watch for a report that alleged the group mistreated its members in a letter to its director. Professor Steven M. Schneebaum of Greenberg Traurig Law, who served on the Board of Directors of the International Human Rights Law Group, wrote, I must confess that I have never before had to censure a human rights organization for procedural flaws and substantively incorrect results in its work. Senior mullah: Mecca riot work of Iran intelligence
Iran Terror Website: Tehran, Jun. 04 Iranian government agencies were responsible for planning the 1986 attack on Islam’s holiest site Mecca in Saudi Arabia and the 1987 riots which left some 500 Iranian pilgrims dead, an Iranian presidential candidate and former Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Mehdi Karroubi said. Senior mullah: Mecca riot work of Iranian intelligence
Iran Terror Website: Tehran, Jun. 04 Iranian government agencies were responsible for planning the 1986 attack on Islam’s holiest site Mecca in Saudi Arabia and the 1987 riots which left some 500 Iranian pilgrims dead, an Iranian presidential candidate and former Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Mehdi Karroubi said. 