Iran Focus: Tehran, May 25 A young man was hanged in public in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz, accused of armed robbery and disturbing the peace.
Washington Times: The main Iranian opposition group, in exile and based in France, yesterday condemned the European Union’s “betrayal” for negotiations with Tehran on its nuclear program. “Negotiating with the mullahs’ regime constitutes a betrayal,” Mohammed Mohaddessin, an official of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said at a press conference. He accused Tehran of human rights violations. 
Washington Post: European officials who met with Iranian negotiators yesterday to discuss the country’s nuclear program went further than the Bush administration had wanted by leaving open the possibility that Tehran could conduct preliminary work with uranium in the future, said diplomats from several countries involved in the talks in Brussels. 
New York Times: It is an election as contradictory as Iran itself: the front-runner is a pillar of the Islamic Revolution now cast as the man who can curb the excesses of hard-line clerics and improve relations with the country’s bogeyman, the United States. 
AFP: The world community must “do everything” to stop Iran from one day gaining access to nuclear weapons, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, whose country currently 
Financial Times: The US warned European ministers on Tuesday to stand firm in negotiations with Iran and reject any proposal that could allow the partial resumption of Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme. 
AFP: Iran has warned of the danger of deadlock in decisive talks over its controversial nuclear programme, as the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany prepare to meet in Geneva on Wednesday with Iran’s top negotiator Hassan Rowhani. “The negotiations are so far not entirely satisfactory, but I don’t think they have been negative either,” Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said in Tehran. 
Daily Telegraph: Make-or-break talks between Europe and Iran are doomed to failure and US military action will only delay, not halt, Teheran’s suspected nuclear weapons programme, a leading think-tank predicted yesterday. In a gloomy assessment, the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies said America had no simple military way of stopping Iran going nuclear. 
AFP: The United States on Tuesday shrugged off Iran’s move 
AFP: Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi has said she won’t be voting in next month’s presidential election because of the disqualification of large numbers of candidates. “I do not see these elections as free. It is not a
