AFP: Students from one of the Iranian capital’s main universities staged a sit-in on Tuesday for the first time in months to protest at human rights violations and the jailing of political activists, witnesses said. The gathering in Amir Kabir university, one of the most active centres of political dissent in the Islamic republic in recent years, totalled some 200 peaceful demonstrators amid tight security and there was no sign of violence. Iranian students stage protest for first time in months
AFP: Students from one of the Iranian capital’s main universities staged a sit-in on Tuesday for the first time in months to protest at human rights violations and the jailing of political activists, witnesses said. The gathering in Amir Kabir university, one of the most active centres of political dissent in the Islamic republic in recent years, totalled some 200 peaceful demonstrators amid tight security and there was no sign of violence. Dutch FM summons Iranian ambassador after Dutch MP allegedly harassed in Iran
AFP: The Iranian ambassador to the Netherlands was summoned to the foreign ministry here Tuesday after a Dutch member of parliament of Iranian descent charged that she had been harassed while on a trip to Teheran. “The minister has summoned the Iranian ambassador to the ministry and he will write a letter to his Iranian counterpart to demand information about what happend,” Foreign Minister Ben Bot’s spokesman Bart Jochems said. UN watchdog fears imminent Iran resumption of nuclear activity: diplomats
AFP: The international nuclear energy watchdog fears that a resumption by Iran of sensitive nuclear activity is inevitable, diplomats in Vienna said Tuesday. Earlier Tehran said it would decide within days whether to resume some such activities, despite fresh warnings that the move could bring talks with the European Union to an end and result in possible UN sanctions. Iran says resumption of some nuclear work imminent
Reuters: Iran shrugged off U.S. and EU warnings that it could be hauled before the U.N. Security Council and confirmed on Tuesday it would resume some sensitive nuclear work very soon. “The decision to resume some activities has been taken and now we are discussing the timing for resuming. But this decision is imminent as well,” Mohammad Saeedi, deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, told Reuters. Europeans braced for Iran crisis meeting
Financial Times: European governments intend to call a crisis meeting of the United Nations nuclear watchdog’s governing board next week if Iran carries out its threat to resume sensitive nuclear processes, western diplomats in Vienna said on Tuesday. The meeting at the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency would discuss the prospects of a referral of the Iran nuclear dispute to the UN Security Council, where the US would lobby for sanctions. Iran nuclear case to be referred to IAEA if talks with EU fail: Solana
AFP: European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said he favors transferring the case of Iran’s nuclear activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) if talks break down between Iran and the EU, the Russian news agency Interfax reported Tuesday. Iran no-hopers rile officials with presidency bids
Reuters: Schoolgirls, factory workers and wizened clerics flowed into Iran’s Interior Ministry on Tuesday to register to stand for president in an election next month, annoying officials who said they were time-wasters.
The Interior Ministry has flung open its doors for five days of registration for the June 17 poll.
Convicted murderer hanged in Iran
AFP: An Iranian man convicted of murder has been hanged in prison in the Caspian Sea town of Noshahr, the Jomhuri Eslami newspaper reported on Tuesday. Quoted by the paper, a judiciary official in the port city said 23-year-old Majid Alghosi was executed for killing Siavosh Abassian in a family feud some four years ago. No further details were given.
Iran just days away from deciding next nuclear step
AFP: Iran will decide within the next few days on whether to resume some sensitive nuclear activities that were suspended as part of a deal with the European Union, a senior official told AFP on Tuesday. “It (the decision) will come at the end of the week (Friday), at the latest,” said Ali Agha Mohammadi, a spokesman for the Islamic republic’s Supreme National Security Council. Iran nuclear talks near collapse, UK warns
Financial Times: Senior British officials warned last night that talks with Iran over its nuclear ambitions were on the point of collapse and that it risked referral to the United Nations Security Council. 