Reuters: German investigators have seized four special motors they suspect were about to be illegally exported to an Iranian nuclear power plant and hope to intercept another shipment en route to Iran, prosecutors say. Customs officers found the high-voltage engines, each weighing around seven tonnes and imported from South Korea, when they raided an unnamed trading company in Hanover on Wednesday. Parts bound for Iran nuclear plant seized
Reuters: German investigators have seized four special motors they suspect were about to be illegally exported to an Iranian nuclear power plant and hope to intercept another shipment en route to Iran, prosecutors say. Customs officers found the high-voltage engines, each weighing around seven tonnes and imported from South Korea, when they raided an unnamed trading company in Hanover on Wednesday. European Parliament adopts Iran resolution to review EU terror list
Iran Focus: Strasbourg, Jan. 14 After a debate in which a number of Euro-MPs spoke out against the terror-tag placed upon the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), the European Parliament yesterday adopted a resolution on Iran calling for a review of the European Union’s list of terrorist organisations. European Parliament adopts Iran resolution to review EU terror list
Iran Focus: Strasbourg, Jan. 14 After a debate in which a number of Euro-MPs spoke out against the terror-tag placed upon the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), the European Parliament yesterday adopted a resolution on Iran calling for a review of the European Union’s list of terrorist organisations. Human Rights Watch annual report condemns violations in Iran
Iran Focus: Paris, Jan. 14 – In its annual report on human rights practices around the globe Human Rights Watch said that “basic human rights in Iran, especially freedom of expression and opinion, deteriorated in 2004”. “Torture and ill-treatment in detention, including indefinite solitary confinement, are used routinely to punish dissidents
Abuses are carried out by what Iranians call ‘parallel institutions’: … Human Rights Watch annual report condemns violations in Iran
Iran Focus: Paris, Jan. 14 – In its annual report on human rights practices around the globe Human Rights Watch said that “basic human rights in Iran, especially freedom of expression and opinion, deteriorated in 2004”. “Torture and ill-treatment in detention, including indefinite solitary confinement, are used routinely to punish dissidents
Abuses are carried out by what Iranians call ‘parallel institutions’: … Nearly 1,500 guns rounded up in western Iran province in past 9 months
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 14 Some 1,459 guns have been confiscated over the past nine months in Kermanshah province (western Iran), according to the province’s chief of State Security Forces (SSF). “The confiscated weapons along with those caught smuggling them have been apprehended and will be … Nearly 1,500 guns rounded up in western Iran province in past 9 months
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 14 Some 1,459 guns have been confiscated over the past nine months in Kermanshah province (western Iran), according to the province’s chief of State Security Forces (SSF). “The confiscated weapons along with those caught smuggling them have been apprehended and will be … 50,000 drug addicts rounded up in Iran capital in past 9 months
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 14 – More than 50,000 people have been arrested in Greater Tehran in the past nine months, according to the head of the Office to Combat Narcotics in Greater Tehran. “A large proportion of those in custody, who comprise people from different sectors of society, are between 25 and 30 years of age”, Major Ghodratollah Mahmoudi said in an interview with a state-run news agencyon Wednesday.
50,000 drug addicts rounded up in Iran capital in past 9 months
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 14 – More than 50,000 people have been arrested in Greater Tehran in the past nine months, according to the head of the Office to Combat Narcotics in Greater Tehran. “A large proportion of those in custody, who comprise people from different sectors of society, are between 25 and 30 years of age”, Major Ghodratollah Mahmoudi said in an interview with a state-run news agencyon Wednesday.
150,000 drug addicts in northeast Iran city
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 – There are at least 150,000 drug addicts in the city of Mashad (northeast Iran), according to the head of the city’s Central Medical Bureau.“According to recent statistics there are 150,000 drug addicts
at present in Mashad”, Rajab Hedayatnia said.
