Iran Focus: London, May 29 A British Parliamentarian called on the United Kingdom government to change its current policy vis-à-vis Iran and instead support the main Iranian opposition group and its leader. David Amess, Conservative Member of Parliament from Southend West, during a debate in parliament Thursday, said, It is to the Government’s shame that the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran, which, as far as I am concerned, is doing nothing but good, is still on the proscribed list.


Iran Focus: Tehran, May 29 More than 300 workers in Pakdasht (suburbs of Tehran) gathered outside the offices of the Ministry of Labour, demanding they authorities take action for them to retrieve their overdue wages.
Sunday Times: Iraq’s most wanted terrorist has fled the country for emergency surgery after an American airstrike left him with shrapnel lodged in his chest, according to a senior insurgent commander in close contact with his group. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has a $25m bounty on his head after being blamed for suicide bombings, assassinations and the beheadings of western hostages including Ken Bigley, the
Iran Focus: Ottawa, May 28 A former translator for the Red Cross (ICRC) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iraq, in a letter addressed to U.S.-based Human Rights Watch, accused the rights group of released flawed torture allegations against Irans main opposition group.
AP: Iran’s hard-line Guardian Council on Saturday approved a law that puts pressure on the government to develop nuclear technology that could be used to build atomic weapons, state run radio reported. Parliament had passed the bill on May 15 and sent it to the Guardian Council for approval. The council must vet all bills before they become law.
AFP: Iran is very anxious to obtain a nuclear bomb, Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview published Saturday, while stating his opposition to any preventive attack on the fellow-Muslim nation.
Iran Focus: Washington, DC, May 27 A recent report by New York-based Human Rights watch on Irans main opposition group has drawn the ire of United States Congressman Ed Towns, (D-NY). 