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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 04 Political prisoners in Tehrans notorious Evin Prison announced yesterday in a joint