Iran Focus: Washington, Apr. 28 Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism in 2004, according to the United States annual Country Reports on Terrorism, released yesterday by the State Department. The State Department report said that Irans Islamic Revolutionary Iran Focus: Washington, Apr. 28 Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism in 2004, according to the United States annual Country Reports on Terrorism, released yesterday by the State Department. The State Department report said that Irans Islamic Revolutionary 
Reuters: Celebrated Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, the subject of a major retrospective in Britain, would never get the same treatment at home, where he says authorities have not shown his work for the past 10 years. The winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s coveted Palme d’Or in 1997, and regarded by the film industry as one of the most important
DPA: The European Union ‘big three’ of Germany, France and Britain are to ask Iran to postpone the resumption of nuclear talks until after presidential elections in the country slated for
Reuters: Iran is ratcheting up the pressure on EU giants France, Britain and Germany to accept its plan to join the world’s nuclear club, European diplomats said on Wednesday. Sharing Washington’s suspicions that Iran is trying to develop the capability to produce atomic weapons, the European Union has demanded that Iran give up its nuclear fuel programme in exchange for economic and political incentives.
AFP: Police in the Iranian capital are poised to launch a fresh crackdown targeting “models of corruption”, or in other words poorly-veiled women, press reports said Wednesday. “The police will act against the models of corruption out in public places and against those who may not be ladies of the street but whose conduct does not respect Islam,” Tehran province’s police chief, General Reza Zareie, was quoted as saying. 
Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders called today for the immediate release of reformist Iranian Arab journalist Yosef Azizi Banitrouf, who was arrested in a raid on his home on 25 April. It also demanded the release of dissident journalist Reza Alijani, expressing “great concern” about his deteriorating health after two years in prison. “We strongly deplore the arrest of Banitrouf, who was simply expressing his personal opinion in articles and in interviews given to other newspapers,” it said. 
AP: The Council of Europe called Tuesday on Iran to abide by the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and fully cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency. In a resolution adopted three days before Iran is to restart its talks with Germany, Britain and France on its nuclear programs, the Council urged Iranian authorities to allow free access to the country’s nuclear sites and research facilities, but also said Tehran should be … 
Iran Focus: Brussels, Apr. 25 Some 2,000 delegates from Iranian communities in the Benelux – Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg – today held their first-ever convention, in which they condemned the current policy of appeasement vis-à-vis Irans clerical regime and rejected the notion of a foreign war. 
AFP: An Iranian student detained for taking part in anti-regime demonstrations has been sentenced to 18 months behind bars and 76 lashes, his lawyer told the ISNA news agency Tuesday. The lawyer said an Islamic revolutionary court had found Farab Samimi guilty of “propagating against the regime” and “disturbing public order” for taking part in an illegal gathering on July 9, 2003. 
