Reuters: Fourteen people were killed and 15 injured in northwest Iran when a gas cylinder on a bus toppled over and burst into flames, state television reported on Friday. The bus was travelling to Tehran from the western province of Kurdistan on Thursday when the fuel canister fell over and exploded. Fire on bus kills 14 in northwest Iran
Reuters: Fourteen people were killed and 15 injured in northwest Iran when a gas cylinder on a bus toppled over and burst into flames, state television reported on Friday. The bus was travelling to Tehran from the western province of Kurdistan on Thursday when the fuel canister fell over and exploded. Iranian Exiles Protest Against Tehran
Los Angeles Times: More than 2,000 Iranian exiles from across Europe rallied in Berlin today to protest against Tehran’s conservative Islamic government and criticize its nuclear ambitions as a dangerous ploy that could lead to U.S. military intervention. The demonstration quickly spun into a tale of legal maneuverings and conspiracy theories. Before it was to begin at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin authorities canceled the rally, claiming it was partly organized by an Iranian opposition group linked to terrorism. A German court overturned the ban, and protesters, detained for hours at airports and train stations, streamed through rainy streets. Iran exiles defy bans to hold rally, call for end to clerical rule
Iran Focus: Berlin, Feb. 10 Thousands of Iranian exiles braved cold and rain, and defied bans by two European governments, to hold a rally in the heart of the German capital on the twenty-sixth anniversary of the revolution that ended monarchy in Iran. Iran exiles defy bans to hold rally, call for end to clerical rule
Iran Focus: Berlin, Feb. 10 Thousands of Iranian exiles braved cold and rain, and defied bans by two European governments, to hold a rally in the heart of the German capital on the twenty-sixth anniversary of the revolution that ended monarchy in Iran. Scots Tory to speak against Iran at Berlin demonstration
The Scotsman: A SCOTS Conservative MEP is to address a gathering of 40,000 exiled Iranians in Germany at a demonstration against the fundamentalist regime in Tehran. Struan Stevenson will tell the crowd at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin today that “the days of the brutal fascist regime are numbered”.
The demonstration has been organised by the National Council for Resistance in Iran.
Germany bans Iranian opposition protest in Berlin
DPA: Police in the German capital on Thursday banned a demonstration called by an Iranian opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Officials said the group – which seeks the ouster of the Teheran government – planned to use the rally to build support for the Iranian People’s Mujahedin-e Khalq which has been declared a terrorist organisation by the European Union. Austrian arms manufacturer sold 800 rifles to Iran
AFP: The Austrian government authorised the sale of 800 rifles classified as war weapons to Iran for use by that country’s police, the Austrian interior ministry said Wednesday after a local newspaper reported that Washington had tried to stop the deal. Bush: World must speak with one voice on Iran nukes
Reuters: President George W. Bush said on Wednesday Iran with a nuclear weapon would be a “very destabilizing” forceand that it was important for the world to speak with one voice against Tehran’s program. “The Iranians just need to know
that the free world is working together to send a very clear message: Don’t develop a nuclear weapon,” Bush said.
Iran Will Never Give Up Nuclear Technology – Khatami
Reuters: No Iranian government, present or future, will give up the country’s drive to master peaceful nuclear technology, including uranium enrichment, President Mohammad Khatami said on Wednesday. In a toughly worded speech to foreign ambassadors in Tehran, Khatami also warned Iran could adopt “a new policy” which would have “massive consequences” if Iran’s nuclear talks with the European Union did not prosper.
Rice attacks EU countries over Iran nuclear drive
AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday took a swipe at European countries negotiating to halt Iran’s nuclear drive, saying they had failed to make sufficiently clear the threat of UN sanctions. Rice made her remarks concerning the negotiations led by Britain, France and Germany in an interview with Fox News to be broadcast a day after she made a major appeal for transatlantic unity following the divisions over the Iraq war. 