AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi on Wednesday rejected any talks with the United States on the standoff over its nuclear programme because of Washington’s hostile attitude towards the Islamic republic. Iran rejects negotiations with US on nuclear issue
AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi on Wednesday rejected any talks with the United States on the standoff over its nuclear programme because of Washington’s hostile attitude towards the Islamic republic. Minister Says Iran Is Open to U.S. Talks
New York Times: Iran is willing to talk with the United States about its nuclear program if Washington treats it as an equal partner, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Tuesday. “If negotiations are on the basis of equality and mutual respect in the same way we are talking to Europeans now, there is no reason not to talk to others,” Mr. Kharrazi said in response to a question at a joint news conference with South Africa’s visiting foreign minister, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Iraq’s defense minister describes Iran as ‘number one enemy,’ key to terrorism in his nation
AP: Iraq’s defense minister on Wednesday accused neighboring Iran and Syria of supporting terrorists in his war-ravaged country. Hazem Shaalan also accused Iran of backing the al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist group headed by Jordanianmilitant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and said his country’s opponents want ”turbaned clerics to rule in Iraq.”
Iran nuclear chief says Tehran will not accept lengthy talks with EU
AFP: Iran’s top nuclear official Hassan Rowhani said Wednesday his country would not accept long drawn-out negotiations with the Europeans over a nuclear deal, the state news agency IRNA reported. “I must say that the duration of the negotiations constitutes a red line. Iraqi minister blasts Iran as source of ‘terrorism’
AFP: Iraq’s Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan accused Iran Wednesday of orchestrating terrorist attacks in Iraq, saying its neighbor was the “most dangerous enemy of Iraq”. “Iran is the most dangerous enemy of Iraq and all Arabs,”
Shaalan said. “The source of terrorism in Iraq is Iran.”
Iran to Execute Mentally Disabled Woman
Associated Press: Amnesty International said Tuesday that Iran planned to execute a mentally disabled 19-year-old woman for “acts contrary to chastity,” referring to alleged crimes stemming from her having been forced into prostitution as a child. Iran’s former conservative FM to run for presidency
AFP: Iran’s former conservative foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati, now a top advisor to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has announced he will compete in the presidential elections scheduled for mid-2005, the student news agency ISNA reported on Tuesday. “I believe it is my duty to enter the electoral competition and the voters can evaluate each candidate’s capabilities”, Velayati said. Death toll from Iran floods rises to 29
AFP: The number of people who have died as a result offloods and heavy rain in Iran’s southern province of Bushehr has risen to 29, student news agency ISNA reported Tuesday.
Iran Open to U.S. Involvement in N-Talks — Minister
Reuters: Iran would not object to Washington joining negotiations with the European Union over its nuclear program provided the United States treated Tehran with respect, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Tuesday. Britain, France and Germany began talks in Brussels on Monday with Iran aimedat brokering a long-term agreement over Tehran’s nuclear activities, which Washington says are geared to building atomic arms.
Iran hangs convict
AFP: A 26-year-old Iranian man, convicted of murdering a woman, was hanged in prison in the northern city of Semnan, the conservative daily Jomhuri Eslami reported on Tuesday. Quoting local judiciary officials, the paper indentified the man, who was hanged on Monday, as Qadir Zamaemi-Fard andsaid he had a history of repeated theft.
