Iran Focus: Tehran, Nov. 6 – Officials in the city of Masjid Soleiman (southwestern Iran) have admitted for the first time that harmful gases polluted the area, leaving behind
Iran Focus: Tehran, Nov. 6 A 26-year-old female student committed suicide by jumping off a bridge over the Tajrish river, in the suburbs of the Iranian capital of Tehran on Wednesday.
Iran Focus: Tehran, Nov. 6 Hundreds of students at the Teachers Training College staged a protest Wednesday over poor quality of food and administrative mismanagement in the institution.
Associated Press: European countries have rejected an
Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders today called on women’s media and women’s rights groups around the world to rally to the defence of two Iraqi women journalists who have been arrested in the past eight days in connection with their work for pro-reform websites. 
AFP: Iran and European Union officials are sticking to their positions on key questions in negotiations on the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme which were underway on Saturday in Paris, a top Iranian official said. “The two sides are sticking to their positions on the fundamental questions,” Hassan Rowhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme … 
AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi dismissed on Saturday fresh allegations of interference in neighbouring Iraq, asserting that the Islamic republic was playing a “positive role” and not fuelling unrest. “Iran is playing a positive role in Iraq, and if anyone thinks that Iran is interfering in Iraq’s internal affairs they had better show their evidence,” Kharazi said in a joint press conference with his Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing. 
AFP: Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi Friday urged the European Union to use its influence with Syria and Iran to stop them from “fuelling violence” in his country. “We need your help in persuading Iraq’s neighbours that fuelling violence in Iraq will only damage their own security in the long term,” he told European Union leaders in a speech made available to the press. 
AFP: Iran wants China to replace Japan as its biggest importer of oil and gas, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh was reported as saying here Saturday. “Japan is our number one energy importer due to historical reasons … but we would like to give preference to exports to China,” Zanganeh was quoted as saying the China Business Weekly magazine. 
Iran Focus: Tehran, Nov. 6 – Security forces have raided and arrested three webloggers in Tehran, according to reports
