Iran Focus: Tehran, May 02 A young man was hanged in public in the northeastern Iranian town of Bojnourd for acting against the state, according to the state-run daily Iran.
AFP: A resumption of Iran’s uranium enrichment activities would lead to an end of its nuclear talks with the European Union, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Monday. “This would lead to a collapse of the talks,” Fischer told reporters on the sidelines of a conference on non-proliferation at the United Nations in New York. 
AFP: Four Iranian webloggers arrested during a crackdown last year have written to the judiciary head to complain of having been subjected to “physical and moral pressure” that forced them to confess, the official news agency IRNA said Monday. “During our detention, (we were) subjected to physical and moral pressure and all of our confessions were false and have no legal value,” wrote Mahbubeh Abbas-Golizadeh, Fereshteh Ghazi, Massud Ghoreyshi and Hanif Mazruwi. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 02 – A man accused of murdering a Iran Focus: Tehran, May 02 – A man accused of murdering a 
The Wall Street Journal: With world attention focused on Iran’s steady progress toward a nuclear bomb, it has been easy to miss the Islamic Republic’s initiatives on another front — South Asia, where Tehran has been busy cultivating India as an ally. Iran’s relationship with India is not new. Strong cultural and political ties date back many centuries and include periods of both tension and friendship. Now that relationship is entering a new stage that should be of particular concern to the U.S. 
Washington Post: Iran is planning to mount a staunch defense of its nuclear energy program at an international conference beginning today and will insist on rights to the same technology afforded to all members of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a senior Iranian official said in an interview yesterday. 
Financial Times: European officials have warned of a managed crisis in Europe’s dialogue with Iran over the country’s nuclear ambitions, after Iranian negotiators said they would consider resuming part of the uranium enrichment process suspended since 2003. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 01 A packed Azadi Stadium in Tehran was today the scene of angry anti-government protests, forcing Irans powerful ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to call off his scheduled speech at the May Day gathering. Eye witnesses said that some 20,000 workers gathered in and around the 12,000-seat stadium to mark … Iran Focus: Tehran, May 01 A packed Azadi Stadium in Tehran was today the scene of angry anti-government protests, forcing Irans powerful ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to call off his scheduled speech at the May Day gathering. Eye witnesses said that some 20,000 workers gathered in and around the 12,000-seat stadium to mark … 
