AFP: German investigators probing the possible illegal sale of lorries to Iran have searched offices at giant automaker DaimlerChrysler, the company said on Saturday. A DaimlerChrysler spokeswoman confirmed a report set to be published on Monday in German weekly Focus. DaimlerChrysler drawn into probe over illegal truck sales to Iran
AFP: German investigators probing the possible illegal sale of lorries to Iran have searched offices at giant automaker DaimlerChrysler, the company said on Saturday. A DaimlerChrysler spokeswoman confirmed a report set to be published on Monday in German weekly Focus. Iran to resume nuclear talks with EU under new cloud of suspicion
AFP: Iran goes into crucial nuclear talks with the EU Monday under a new cloud of suspicion that it is bent on developing an atomic bomb, after diplomats said it was conducting secret high-energy neutron experiments that could have a dual use. The diplomats told AFP there was concern since the experiments are allegedly taking place under military supervision, in a country which claims its nuclear program is a strictly civilian peaceful endeavor. Iran expects WTO success after nuclear deal
AFP: Iran will be looking for concrete EU support and a slight softening of United States policy when the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meets Monday to consider the Islamic republic’s membership application. The question has been raised at the WTO’s General Council meetings since May2001 and repeatedly rejected by Washington, which broke off diplomatic ties with Tehran after the 1979 seizure of US …
Fifteen killed in Iran road pile-up
AFP: A crash involving four cars in southeastern Iran has killed 15 people and left three others injured, the state news agency IRNA reported Saturday. Local traffic police chief Ardavan Ghasemi said the accident occurred between Zahedan and Khash in Sistan-Baluchestan province.‘I was tortured for saying the flogging must end in Iran’
The Independent: The treatment of Arash Nassouri was brutal. “They hung me upside down and handcuffed me with a bar under my knees,” he says. “They started kicking and punching me … beating me in every part of my back, my stomach, face, everywhere. My backbone was broken. But the pain was worst when they hit my face. My nose was already broken, … High-energy neutron experiments in Iran raise suspicions: diplomats
AFP: High-energy neutron experiments in Iran that could be either civilian oriented or related to making an atomic bomb have raised suspicions since they are allegedly conducted under military supervision, diplomats told AFP Friday and in recent interviews. The experiments, carried out with a neutron generator, are thought to be taking place at an alleged base of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards. Persecution Of Baha’is Continues In Iran
Radio Free Europe: Baha’is are Iran’s largest religiousminority, but their faith is not recognized in the country’s constitution and they have long faced harassment and persecution. The European Union recently lodged a formal complaint with Iranian authorities over the arrest and harassment of journalists as well as members of religious minorities such as the Baha’is.
German firm ends ties with Iran
Gulf Daily News: German steel and engineering group ThyssenKrupp has ended a 30-year relationship with Iran, appearing to bow to pressure from the US in a move which could lead Tehran to sell its remaining shares. ThyssenKrupp will not nominate an Iranian representative to its … Iranian Kurd refugees leave for Sweden; hundreds remain in no man’s land
UN High Commissioner for Refugees: For more than a year and a half, they had lived under tents in the inhospitable desert of the no man’s land between Jordan and Iraq. In the early hours of Thursday, waiting for the plane that was to take them to theirnew life in Sweden, the group of 185 Iranian Kurd refugees at Amman airport could hardly believe their luck.
Substantive Iran, EU nuclear talks to start next week: Tehran
AFP: Substantive talks on a nuclear, political and trade cooperation pact between Iran and the European Union will begin next week with a ministerial meeting in Brussels, an Iranian official said Friday. “After an agreement at the ministerial level, I believe we can start the working groups immediately on December 14 or 15,” said Hossein Moussavian, an aid to Iran’s nuclear negotiator Hassan Rohani. 