Report casts doubt on Iran’s nuclear claims
Financial Times: Nuclear inspectors have cast doubt on Iran’s claim that components found at sites in the country were contaminated by enriched uranium before being imported, raising the suspicion that Iran’s enrichment programme may have been more widespread than it previously admitted.
Watchdog Blasts Iran On Nuclear Program
Washington Post: Iran repeatedly misstated details about its nuclear program and pursued uranium enrichment technology more aggressively than it initially admitted, the International Atomic Energy Agency concluded yesterday in a sharply critical assessment.
Iraq’s Top Cleric Gives Govt Conditional Approval
Reuters: Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s most influential Muslim cleric, gave his conditional approval to the interim government on Thursday but said it had “mammoth tasks” ahead.
Pachachi says he may seek Iraq presidency
Associated Press: Adnan Pachachi, passed over for the post of Iraq’s interim president, said he may run for the office when his country’s transition from U.S. occupation to democracy is complete.
Iran cracks down on summer dress
BBC: Iran’s government has launched a crackdown on women who flout the strict Islamic dress codes during the hot summer months. Iran’s Sex Slaves Suffer Hideously Under Mullahs
Insight on the News – By Donna M. Hughes: A measure of Islamic fundamentalists’ success in controlling society is the depth and totality with which they suppress the freedom and rights of women. In Iran for 25 years, the ruling mullahs have enforced humiliating and sadistic rules and punishments on women and girls, enslaving them in a gender apartheid system of segregation, forced veiling, second-class status, lashing and stoning to death.
Iran: Torture Used to Suppress Dissent
Human Rights Watch: The Iranian government has intensified its campaign of torture, arbitrary arrests, and detentions against political critics, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Three prisoners publicly hanged in Iran
AFP: Three Iranians convicted of rape, kidnapping and extortion have been hanged publicly in the western city of Khoramabad, the conservative Jaam-e Jam newspaper reported Tuesday.
Iran’s world-famous pistachio under cloud of EU ban over cancer fears
AFP: Iran’s pistachio industry had been in turmoil, with its product close to being slapped with a ban in the the European Union.
4 Iranians Challenge Detention
Los Angeles Times: 4 Brothers have been held since 2001 in what their lawyer calls ‘post-9/11 hysteria.’ U.S. officials cite support for a group on terrorist list.
