Iran Focus: London, Apr. 04 Irans hard-line leaders are setting up a secret government in Iraq, according to a prominent Arabic language news outlet. The Saudi-affiliated Elaph website wrote in its Friday issue, The Iranian Intelligence Ministry is creating a secret government in Iraq. Arabic news outlet accuses Iran of recruiting spies in Iraq
Iran Focus: London, Apr. 04 Irans hard-line leaders are setting up a secret government in Iraq, according to a prominent Arabic language news outlet. The Saudi-affiliated Elaph website wrote in its Friday issue, The Iranian Intelligence Ministry is creating a secret government in Iraq. Save the Women, Save Ourselves
National Review Online: Two summers ago, a middle-aged Iranian-Canadian journalist named Zahra Kazemi was arrested in Tehran while taking photographs of regime hoodlums beating up young people who were demonstrating for freedom. A few days later she turned up dead in a local military hospital. Iran’s hardline press denounces John Paul II for compromise with Jews
AFP: Iran’s hardline press on Monday accused the late pope John Paul II of compromising with Jews, pointing out that the Jewish state was not only an arch enemy of the Islamic republic. “Not only did the pope never condemn the crimes of the Zionist regime in the territories, the Vatican officially recognised its existence,” the Jomhuri Islami newspaper complained. Khatami visits Austria
AP: Iranian President Mohammad Khatami was scheduled Monday to meet his counterpart and other leaders of Austria during a one-day visit focusing on bilateral themes but also likely to touch on international concerns about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
How dangerous are Iran, North Korea?
The Washington Times – Editorial: Anyone looking for insights about the performance of U.S. intelligence agencies in assessing the threats from Iran and North Korea will be disappointed by the report issued Thursday by presidential commission on U.S. intelligence capabilities. The panel concluded that its information about those regimes is so sensitive that it must remain classified. Shell and BASF risk US anger as Iranians near deal to buy Basell
The Independent: Iran’s National Petrochemical Company (NPC) is close to sealing a politically sensitive $4.4bn (£2.3bn) deal to buy Basell, the polymer business jointly owned by Shell and BASF, the German chemical giant. The state-owned Iranian company’s highest bid is causing extra complications in the sale process, which Shell, BASF and their advisers, CSFB and Lazards, are attempting to iron out.
Starving workers in Iran forced to search waste-bins for food
Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 03 Workers in Iran are living far below the minimum wage after a recent government decision to hold the minimum wage line at 122,000 Toumans (the equivalent of 1.22 million Rials or $120) per month, according to an Iranian labour expert. Saeid Keyani, speaking to a state-run news agency, said, Workers in provinces such as Bandar Abbas, the economical hubs of the country, not only are unable to see the colour of meat year by year, but just so as to get their family by they are forced to look for food in city waste-bins. Starving workers in Iran forced to search waste-bins for food
Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 03 Workers in Iran are living far below the minimum wage after a recent government decision to hold the minimum wage line at 122,000 Toumans (the equivalent of 1.22 million Rials or $120) per month, according to an Iranian labour expert. Saeid Keyani, speaking to a state-run news agency, said, Workers in provinces such as Bandar Abbas, the economical hubs of the country, not only are unable to see the colour of meat year by year, but just so as to get their family by they are forced to look for food in city waste-bins. Moderate earthquake injures 24 in Iran
AP: A moderate earthquake shook southeastern Iran early Sunday, injuring at least 24 people, state-run television reported. The broadcast said the 4.1 magnitude earthquake jolted Ravar, 560 miles southeast of the capital, Tehran, at about 3 a.m. local time. Iran offers cash for bombs to break Palestinian truce
The Sunday Times: PALESTINIAN fighters have revealed that Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese group backed by Iran, is offering to pay for attacks aimed at shattering the fragile truce with Israel. Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, has made it clear that one suicide bomber in Tel Aviv could prompt him to abandon negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, and may … 