AP: The trial began on Wednesday of an Iranian accused of the 1993 slaying of an Iranian dissident who died in a hail of automatic gunfire
Iran Focus: Rome, May 11 – Romes Criminal Court started this morning the trial in absentia of an official of the Iranian government accused of taking part in the killing of the representative of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Italy. Mohammad Hossein Naghdi, who defected to the NCRI when he was the Iranian charge d’affaires in Italy in 1981, was murdered by a gunmen allegedly working for Iran’s notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), on March 16, 1993. Iran Focus: Rome, May 11 – Romes Criminal Court started this morning the trial in absentia of an official of the Iranian government accused of taking part in the killing of the representative of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Italy. Mohammad Hossein Naghdi, who defected to the NCRI when he
Iran Focus: Washington, May 11 A briefing was held in the United States Congress yesterday entitled Iraq’s Future: The Iranian Impact on the initiative of the Iran Human Rights and Democracy Caucus in the House of Representatives, co-chaired by Congressman Thomas Tancredo (R-Col) and Congressman Bob Filner (D-Cal). The panel included, Dr. Iran Focus: Washington, May 11 A briefing was held in the United States Congress yesterday entitled Iraq’s Future: The Iranian Impact on the initiative of the Iran Human Rights and Democracy Caucus in the House of Representatives, co-chaired by Congressman Thomas Tancredo (R-Col) and Congressman Bob Filner (D-Cal). The panel included, Dr. 
The Guardian: The Iranian government threatened to provoke a full-blown international crisis yesterday by confirming that it is to resume its suspended nuclear programme. A British Foreign Office spokesman said such a move would automatically halt two years of negotiations between Tehran and the European trio – Britain, France and Germany – and see immediate referral to the United Nations security council. 
Washington Times – Op-Ed, By Ali Safavi: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi’s defiant proclamation at the United Nations that Iran will press on with its nuclear-enrichment program is yet another ominous sign that ruling mullacracy is hellbent on obtaining the A-bomb. In early April, the Iranian National Council of Resistance revealed Tehran had been digging tunnels close to the Parchin military facility, a suspected nuclear site northeast of the capital, to disguise its nuclear-enrichment activities. 
Finanacial Times: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani announced on Tuesday he would stand in the June 17 Iranian presidential election for the post he previously held between 1989 and 1997. In a written statement, Mr Rafsanjani called the decision “one of the most difficult of all my years of political activity”, … 
Human Rights Watch: The Iranian government should immediately release Yusuf Azizi Banitaraf, an Iranian journalist of Arab descent, and allow independent journalists and human rights monitors to report on a government crackdown on protests in the southern province of Khuzistan, Human Rights Watch said today. Plainclothes agents arrested Banitaraf, who has written 20 books on ethnic minorities in Iran, in Tehran on April 25 during a press conference held by the nongovernmental Center for the Defense of Human Rights. 
Reuters: France urged Iran on Tuesday not to carry out a threat to resume uranium enrichment-related activities, which the European Union and the United States fear could be a step towards developing nuclear weapons. Fellow EU member Britain said that any resumption would spell an end to European negotiations with Tehran over the long-term future
