London, May 19 A recent report by Human Rights Watch against the main Iranian opposition group would not stand to scrutiny in a court of law, according to a London-based legal expert. Masoud Zabeti, President of the Committee of Anglo-Iranian Lawyers, which has organised a number of seminars of parliamentarians and jurists in the past, told Iran Focus that much of the HRW report was a copycat of statements by agents of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) that appear daily on Irandidban, an internet website run by the MOIS.
AFP: The United States welcomes European efforts to convince Iran to abandon its alleged nuclear weapons program, but will set a high bar to verify Iran’s compliance, a senior US State Department official said Thursday. Nicholas Burns, the State Department’s undersecretary for political affairs, said in congressional testimony that the United States was grateful for the “patient, principled diplomacy” by the “European Union Three” 
AP: A senior State Department official ruled out on Thursday the possibility of providing Iran with fresh economic incentives as a means of curbing its nuclear ambitions. 
AFP: An exiled Iranian opposition group Thursday denied charges by a leading human rights organisation that it had tortured dissident members and said the allegations were politically inspired. The People’s Mujahedeen Organisation said in a statement in Paris that the report by the US-based group Human Rights Watch was nothing more than “a highly 
Iran Focus: Brussels, May 19 – A parliamentary group in the European Parliament rejected today a report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch on alleged human rights abuses in an Iranian opposition camp in Iraq and called on the organization to retract the controversial report. 
U.S.Newswire: In a press release, Human Rights Watch announced that it has released a 28-page report titled, “No Exit: Human Rights Abuses Inside the MKO Camps.” The report contains telephone interviews with 12 “former…(Mujahedin e-Khalq Organization-MEK)) members.” It considers their statements as “credible claims that they were subjected to imprisonment as well as physical and psychological abuses.” 
Iran Focus: Paris, May 19 Irans main opposition group, the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MeK) rejected a report released by New York-based Human Rights Watch on alleged human rights abuses in MeK camps in Iraq as a rehash of trite accusations by agents of Irans secret police, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security. 