AFP: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday that the international community must keep a close eye on Iran’s nuclear activities to ensure it does not violate a hard-won deal to suspend uranium enrichment. He told French television that while the United States accepted the accord struck by Iran and the European Union, it would not drop its guard.Powell urges close eye on Iranian nuclear activities
AFP: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday that the international community must keep a close eye on Iran’s nuclear activities to ensure it does not violate a hard-won deal to suspend uranium enrichment. He told French television that while the United States accepted the accord struck by Iran and the European Union, it would not drop its guard.IAEA head warns of Iran’s nuke program
UPI: The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog is warning Iran’s nuclear program remains a danger to world security. But Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also says there is no alternative to dialogue between Tehran and the IAEA plus credible inspections, the Financial Times reported Friday.Floods in south Iran kill 10 people, injure 18-IRNA
Reuters: Heavy rain and floods in southwestern Iran killed at least 10 people and injured at least 18, the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday. In one incident in the Bushehr province, a bus fell off a bridge into a ravineEU3, Iran to Start Nuclear Talks on Monday
Reuters: Foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany and the European Union’s foreign policy chief will meet a top Iranian official in Brussels on Monday to launch talks on long-term nuclear cooperation, diplomats said. The said Hassan Rohani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, would meet Jack Straw, Michel Barnier, Joschka Fischer and Javier Solana to begin negotiations promised when … Woman deported from B.C. awaits trial in Iran
CTV Canada: An Iranian women’s rights activist who was deported from Vancouver recently, despite telling immigration officials that she could be sentenced to death, is awaiting a court date.Haleh Sahba was detained and released in Iran after being forced to leave Canada Tuesday, according to her sister.
UN concern over Iran’s nuclear technology
Financial Times: The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has suggested that Iran’s nuclear technology represents an effective deterrent that should be dealt with through a security dialogue as well as inspections.Irans Judiciary Arrests Three Cultural Officials
Reuters: Iran’s judiciary has arrested three cultural officials for organising a festival containing a brief display of dancing by a male and female theatre group, the government-run Iran newspaper reported on Thursday.Iran Rejects Accusations Over Iraq Vote
AP: Iran on Thursday rejected accusations it was trying to influence January elections in Iraq, saying that Iraqis have made it clear they won’t take orders from abroad, state media reported. Iraqi officials know Iran considers the right of Iraqis to determine their own fate a step toward stability and tranquility
in Iraq, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told state-run radio.
Iran Rejects Accusations Over Iraq Vote
AP: Iran on Thursday rejected accusations it was trying to influence January elections in Iraq, saying that Iraqis have made it clear they won’t take orders from abroad, state media reported. Iraqi officials know Iran considers the right of Iraqis to determine their own fate a step toward stability and tranquility in Iraq, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told state-run radio.
Iran officials held over theater festival
UPI: Three officials in the province of Khosestan in southern Iran have been arrested on charges of encouraging corruption by sponsoring a theater festival. The Iranian News Agency said Wednesday that Ali Reza Ajnak, director of the Department of Culture and Islamic Guidance in the province, and two of his colleagues were arrested at the behest of the president of a committee that overlooks the strict application of Islamic rules. 