Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 01 Iranian State Security Forces raided a home in Karaj (central Iran), host to a coed party, arresting nine young men and women yesterday. Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 01 Iranian State Security Forces raided a home in Karaj (central Iran), host to a coed party, arresting nine young men and women yesterday. 
New York Sun: The new chairman of the Helsinki Commission says he plans to use the Cold War institution to highlight Iranian human rights issues with Europe. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 01 Two teenagers aged 15 and 18 separately committed suicide in desperation, by jumping off the top of their houses. Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 01 Two teenagers aged 15 and 18 separately committed suicide in desperation, by jumping off the top of their houses. 
Associated Press: An American envoy repeated US allegations Monday about an Iranian nuclear weapons program and said Israel might attack Iran’s nuclear sites because the Jewish state has “a history” of such actions. John Bolton, the State Department’s top international security official, was referring to Israel’s 1981 bombing raid on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor. 
AP: The head of the advisory National Intelligence Council says he is not optimistic the United States and its allies can change Iran’s intention of building a nuclear capacity. “I am somewhat more optimistic – somewhat, I emphasize – that we can, through diplomacy and a combination of pressure and inducements, keep them on track,” council Chairman Robert Hutchings said in an interview Monday, his last day on the job. 
South Florida Sun-Sentinel: On Dec. 20, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning human rights abuses in Iran, citing the crackdown on media, use of torture and discrimination against women. The resolution further demonstrates the international community’s awareness of the Iranian regime’s atrocities. This fundamentalist government’s violations of human rights have been well-documented over 50 times by the United Nations and other groups. 
Al-Jazeera: Irans senior nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, said that Tehran will continue uranium enrichment and that its freeze on the process will not last long. The Hamshari newspaper quoted Rowhani as saying that “The length of the suspension will not be very long and will be valid for the duration of the negotiations and only on the condition that the negotiations make progress.” 
Reuters: Three British naval boats confiscated by Iran’s military last June must go to Iran’s war museum, rather than be returned as London has demanded, a senior military official has said. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized the three boats last June and arrested eight British crewmen, accusing them
