AFP: Iran’s embattled President Mohammad Khatami, isolated as one of the few reformists left in office, has admitted that he cannot wait until his second and final term in office ends next year. “I am counting the moments for my involvment in political affairs to be over,” he was quoted as saying during a meeting Saturday with staff from the student news agency ISNA. Iran’s embattled Khatami admits he’s wishing the days away
AFP: Iran’s embattled President Mohammad Khatami, isolated as one of the few reformists left in office, has admitted that he cannot wait until his second and final term in office ends next year. “I am counting the moments for my involvment in political affairs to be over,” he was quoted as saying during a meeting Saturday with staff from the student news agency ISNA. Iran voices ‘concern’ over human rights in Netherlands, EU
AFP: Iran responded to fresh EU criticism of its human rights situation by saying it was concerned by what it alleged were violations in Europe and a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in the Netherlands. “We are seriously concerned about the human rights situation in Europe,” foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters. Bam’s earthquake emergency is still not over a year after 32,000 died
Sunday Telegraph: Sekineh stumbled over the white-shrouded corpses that lined the roadside as she tried to find her way to the hospital. Minutes later, her wanderings vain, she lay down in the rubble and gave birth, her cries indistinguishable from the wails of those mourning their dead. UN nuclear chief angrily denies charges of collaboration with Iran
AFP: UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei angrily denied Saturday charges he had collaborated with Iran ahead of publishing written reports on his investigation of the Islamic Republic’s controversial nuclear program. Watchdog ‘bowed to pressure from Iran’ on bomb materials
Sunday Telegraph: The world nuclear watchdog dropped a claim that Iran bought large quantities of a metal used to trigger explosions in atomic weapons after bowing to objections from Teheran. The International Atomic Energy Agency at first accepted Western intelligence reports that the Islamic republic had bought “huge amounts” of beryllium from “a number of nations”, but removed the claim from its final report on Iranian compliance with nuclear non-proliferation rules, published 10 days ago.Iran signals military sites off limits to UN nuclear inspectors
AFP: Iran said Sunday it was not obliged to allow UN atomic energy agency inspectors to visit military sites alleged to be involved in secret nuclear weapons work, but that it was willing to discuss the issue. Released Iranian reformist journalists write letters of repentance: report
AFP: Three Iranian reformist journalists released in the past days have written letters of repentance, saying they were “brainwashed” by foreigners and “counter-revolutionaries”, press reports said Saturday. Newspapers have carried the letters of repentance allegedly written by Omid Memarian, Shahram Rafizadeh and Roozbeh Mir-Ebrahimi to the head of Iran’s hardline judiciary. Emboldening Tehran
Washington Times – Editorials: As the West has tried in vain over the past year and a half to rein in Iran’s nuclear-weapons program, the Islamist regime in Tehran has grown increasingly brazen in supporting terrorism. On Sunday, the Associated Press reported that in Tehran, an organization was registering men to train for terrorist attacks. “Women went to war” in ancient Iran
Reuters: These days Iranian women are not even allowed to watch men compete on the football field, but 2,000 years ago they could have been carving the boys to pieces on the battlefield. DNA tests on the 2,000-year-old bones of a sword-wielding Iranian warrior have revealed the broad-framed skeleton belonged to woman, an archaeologist working in the northwestern city of Tabriz said on Saturday.Students clash with State Security Forces in western Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 3 – Heavy clashes erupted between Irans State Security Forces (SSF) and students from the University of Qazvin (western Iran), after SSF agents raided university buildings and attempted to bring to an end a hunger strike that had been organized in protest to poor university conditions. 