AP: An Iranian asylum seeker faces death after being forcibly removed from a detention centre in preparation for deportation, refugee advocates said. The 27-year-old Ahwaz Iranian man had been in the Baxter detention centre in South Australia’s north for the past five years. He was forcibly removed from the centre in readiness to be deported to Iran, advocates said. Deportation risks life of Iranian: claim
AP: An Iranian asylum seeker faces death after being forcibly removed from a detention centre in preparation for deportation, refugee advocates said. The 27-year-old Ahwaz Iranian man had been in the Baxter detention centre in South Australia’s north for the past five years. He was forcibly removed from the centre in readiness to be deported to Iran, advocates said. Iranian hard-liners say nuclear talks with Europeans futile, dismiss any compromises
AP: Iranian hard-liners on Sunday called for an end to nuclear negotiations with European powers and said they opposed any deal imposing limitations on Iran’s nuclear program. But Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Iran will remain committed to talks with Europeans despite a lack of progress.
Iran dismisses airport safety concerns as ‘propaganda’
AFP: Iran on Sunday dismissed foreign warnings over the safety of Tehran’s controversial new airport as “obsessive propaganda”. “Above all we see these issues as an obsession or unfriendly propaganda,” said foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi.
Iran prepares to resume sensitive nuclear work
Reuters: Iran said on Sunday it was getting ready to resume some uranium enrichment-related work, despite warnings from Washington and the European Union that doing so would see its nuclear case sent to the U.N. Security Council.
Saudi journalists denied visa to cover soccer match in Iran
AFP: Nine Saudi journalists who wanted to accompany a local football team to an Asian Champions League game in Isfahan were denied entry visas by the Iranian embassy in Riyadh, a team spokesman said Saturday. The Saudi Al-Shabab Club “forwarded the applications of the nine journalists, who were to accompany the football team to Isfahan for a match with … Iran no longer interested in Rover purchase: minister
AFP: Iran has decided against making an offer for bankrupt British car manufacturer MG Rover, because Chinese firm Shanghai Auto already has the right to manufacture the Rover 75 and Rover 25, Industry Minister Eshagh Jahangiri said in comments published Saturday. Iran warns its nuclear threats not empty
Reuters: Iran warned on Saturday it could pull out of nuclear negotiations with the European Union if progress is not made soon and said its threat to resume some enrichment-related work was not an empty one. “The Iranian nation will never give up its rights … we cannot accept any more time killing,” Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi told state television from New York. Iran threatens to break negotiations with EU
AFP: Iran threatened Saturday the possibility that it might break off negotiations with the European Union over its sensitive nuclear activities if the talks do not bear fruit. “We told the Europeans that, if the negotiations did not bear the expected results, their continuation was useless,” Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi was quoted by state television as saying. Pakistan will send centrifuge parts to UN watchdog for Iran tests: PM
AFP: Pakistan will, under certain conditions, send centrifuge parts for tests by the UN’s atomic agency to help establish whether Iran has been secretly developing nuclear weapons, Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Friday. The parts could allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna to determine whether highly enriched uranium contamination found in Iran had originated there, or if it hadcome from Pakistan.
The need to confront Iran’s nuclear will
The Globe and Mail: When it comes to global theatrics, Iran’s leaders certainly know how to grab the spotlight. They chose the first week of a month-long United Nations review of the 35-year-old Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to drop thebombshell that they intend to resume most of their nuclear activities.
