Iran Focus: Paris, (France), Apr. 16 A key Iranian opposition leader called on the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to send a fact-finding mission to the south-eastern city of Ahwaz to investigate events there on a day that she described as Bloody Friday”.Anti-government protests erupted yesterday through the night in the city of Ahwaz, in Khuzestan province, leaving at least six
people dead and hundreds injured or arrested.


AFP: European diplomats say the EU is “rock-solid” in its insistence that Iran cease uranium enrichment, ahead of crucial talks next week designed to win guarantees from Tehran that it will not make nuclear weapons. European Union negotiators Britain, France and Germany are studying an Iranian proposal that would allow some enrichment, and there have been hints of a crack in their unity over this issue.
U.S. Newswire: On Thursday, April 14, state delegations of Iranian-Americans across the U.S. held their 2005 National Convention for a Democratic, Secular Republic in Iran, declaring their resounding support for democratic change in Iran, in Washington’s Constitution Hall. In its U.S. policy platform, the Convention called for “third option” in policy toward Tehran, first introduced by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, in her address to the European parliament last December.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 16 – Anti-government protests erupted yesterday through the night in the city of Ahwaz, southwest Khuzestan province in Iran, leaving at least six people dead and hundreds injured or arrested. Ahwaz, close to the Iraqi border, is a major hub of Iranian ethnic minority groups, and its largely Arab population has faced brutal repression undere clerical rule.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 15 Irans former president Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani accused Mohammad Khatamis government of having a hand in the 1998 dissident serial murders. Speaking to a gathering of students north of Tehran, Rafsanjani said, A crime occurred for which the present government is responsible. They should have answered for it.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 15 – A teenager was sentenced to death for a crime he is alleged to have committed when he