AP: European-led talks aimed at getting Iran to abandon nuclear activities are “very fragile,” with negotiators discussing economic, technical and political cooperation, France’s foreign minister said Monday. Michel Barnier would not elaborate on the proposals in an interview with The Associated Press. France Calls Iran Nuclear Talks ‘Fragile’
AP: European-led talks aimed at getting Iran to abandon nuclear activities are “very fragile,” with negotiators discussing economic, technical and political cooperation, France’s foreign minister said Monday. Michel Barnier would not elaborate on the proposals in an interview with The Associated Press. US counsel for Iran exile group chides HRW report
Iran Focus: Washington, D.C., May 20 A report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch on an Iranian opposition group was factually erroneous, politically motivated, and the result of an investigative process so flawed as to call into serious question the honesty and integrity of those who issued it, the groups counsel in the United States said. US counsel for Iran exile group chides HRW report
Iran Focus: Washington, D.C., May 20 A report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch on an Iranian opposition group was factually erroneous, politically motivated, and the result of an investigative process so flawed as to call into serious question the honesty and integrity of those who issued it, the groups counsel in the United States said. Ronald G. Precup, U.S. Counsel for the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) said, The cited sources for the report are all operatives of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, experts in planting false information about the PMOI around the world”. Dissident cleric rails again Iran’s system
Reuters: Iran’s Islamic system has been abused to deny the president real power, sapping public interest in next month’s election, the country’s top dissident cleric says. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, an architect of the Islamic revolution, told Reuters Iranians would not vote in large numbers on June 17 because real authority lay not with the president but with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
British parliamentary group: Irans mullahs fooled HRW
Iran Focus: London, May 20 A British parliamentary group expressed its profound concern at the publication of a report by Human Rights Watch containing unsubstantiated allegations against the Iranian Resistance and the Peoples Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) and called on the rights group to retract the report, which it said does not stand to scrutiny. British parliamentary group: Irans mullahs fooled HRW
Iran Focus: London, May 20 A British parliamentary group expressed its profound concern at the publication of a report by Human Rights Watch containing unsubstantiated allegations against the Iranian Resistance and the Peoples Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) and called on the rights group to retract the report, which it said does not stand to scrutiny. Rice: Iran out of step with Mideast change
AP: As political change takes hold in several Middle Eastern countries, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that Iran’s leaders “should not consider themselves immune” from such developments. The United States and other nations have complaints about Iran’s government that go beyond the current international effort to stop Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon, Rice said. Iran legal expert rips outrageous defamation in HRW report
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.
Iran legal expert rips outrageous defamation in HRW report
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.
US will set a high bar for EU-Iran nuclear deal: State Department
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” 