Iran MPs Pass Bill Backing Nuclear Energy Drive

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Reuters: To cries of “Death to America” and “God is Greatest” Iran’s hardline-dominated parliament passed a bill on Sunday obliging the government to continue efforts to develop a civilian nuclear energy program.
The proposal, backed by 247 of parliament’s 290 lawmakers …

Gender equality is tyranny against men, says Iranian woman MP

AFP: An Iranian woman lawmaker is backing the removal of
the concept of gender equality from a state development plan
in order to prevent the “bullying” of men, the state news
agency IRNA reported on Saturday.
“Bringing up the issue of gender justice is a case of bullying men,” the female deputy, Eshrat Shayeghi told the agency.

13 year old schoolgirl facing death by stoning flogged 55 times

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 30 – Zhila Izadyar, the 13-year-old schoolgirl from the Iranian town of Marivan (north-western Iran) who is sentenced to be stoned to death is reported to be in poor health after she was lashed 55 times in prison.
Azad Zamani of the Society for the Protection of Children’s Rights has said that Zhila’s health has been rapidly deteriorating. Zamani has managed to visit Zhila although under close supervision of the Iranian regime’s agents.

13 year old schoolgirl facing death by stoning flogged 55 times

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 30 – Zhila Izadyar, the 13-year-old schoolgirl from the Iranian town of Marivan (north-western Iran) who is sentenced to be stoned to death is reported to be in poor health after she was lashed 55 times in prison.
Azad Zamani of the Society for the Protection of Children’s Rights has said that Zhila’s health has been rapidly deteriorating. Zamani has managed to visit Zhila although under close supervision of the Iranian regime’s agents.

Union leader: Mass protests and strikes only solution forward

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 30 – The head of the Iranian Nurses Union accused the Iranian regime of failing to see to the demands and needs of Iran’s nurses and threatened nationwide strikes and protests. Mohammad Sharafi Moghadam said that the administration directorate for the country’s nurses is “run by a corrupt mafia”, and cannot manage and coordinate in an acceptable manner.

In Brief

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Iran Focus:
Clashes in bazaar
Main oil pipeline on fire
Gunfight in governor’s office
University staff protest
Water protest

UN offers to guarantee nuke fuel for Iran-diplomats

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Reuters: The U.N. nuclear watchdog has offered to guarantee Iran a supply of fuel for its nuclear power plants so that Tehran would not need to enrich its own uranium, Western diplomats said on Friday.

Iran Sees Small Chance of UN Economic Sanctions

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Reuters: Iran believes there is only a 10 percent chance the U.N. Security Council will impose economic sanctions on it if Washington succeeds in sending its nuclear case there, a senior security official said on Friday.

US says ‘time running out’ for Iran to comply with nuclear demands

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AFP: The United States said Friday that “time is running out”
for Iran to avoid being hauled before the UN Security Council
for possible sanctions by complying with international demands to halt uranium enrichment activities and come
clean on its suspect nuclear program.

EU considering concession to Iran ahead of nuclear meeting next week

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AFP: The European Union is considering making concessions to Iran ahead of a nuclear meeting next week in order to get it to abandon uranium enrichment but the hardline United States is unhappy with such a compromise, a Western diplomat told AFP Friday.