1,152 murders and 1,600 suicides recorded in first half of Iranian year

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 25 – The head of the coordination center of Iran’s security forces yesterday revealed that 1,152 murders have been recorded in the past six months.

Over 150 people arrested in the past 48 hours in the Iranian city of Shiraz

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 25 – At least 150 people have been arrested over the past two days in the southern city of Shiraz in the latest crackdown by agents of the State Security Forces (SSF), local residents reported. Eyewitnesses said that dozens of people, mostly youth, were arrested on the streets for their
“un-Islamic attire”.

EU nuke offer could help Iran get arms – think-tank

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Reuters: The nuclear technology the European Union has offered Iran could help it make an atomic bomb, not prevent it,
a Washington-based think-tank warned.
The EU’s “Big Three” — France, Britain and Germany — have offered Iran reactor fuel and help developing light-water reactor (LWR) technology if Tehran stops uranium enrichment, a process which can be used to make nuclear arms.

Iran Must Not Develop Nuclear Weapons, Says Blair

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PA News: The international community will not accept Iran developing nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Tony Blair
warned today. At his monthly Downing Street press conference, Mr Blair stressed that dialogue with Tehran over its suspected weapons development efforts was not over.
Mr Blair insisted that he was not aware of any American plans to take military action against Iran.

Iran warns EU not to cross red lines in nuke talks

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Reuters: Iran’s top security official on Monday warned the European Union not to cross Tehran’s red lines in
negotiations over its nuclear programme.The EU’s “big three” powers, Britain, France and Germany, have offered Iran a deal whereby it would scrap activities related to producing nuclear fuel in return for help with civilian nuclear technology and a resumption of trade talks.

Iran Rejects Nuclear Plan as Imbalanced, Europe Is Told

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New York Times: Iran on Sunday rejected a proposal by Britain, Germany and France to suspend its uranium enrichment program and urged those countries to offer a “more balanced” proposal. During a meeting on Thursday in Vienna, the three European countries asked Iran to give up its uranium enrichment program in return for a guarantee to help Iran build a light-water power reactor and to provide a supply of reactor fuel.

Iran will not halt uranium project

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The Guardian: Iran refused yesterday to agree to suspend indefinitely its uranium enrichment activities although it would continue talks with Britain, France and Germany on a package of incentives. The foreign ministry said in a statement: “Indefinite suspension of nuclear enrichment activities is not acceptable … and it is not a subject of the talks.”

Iran’s Guard may be gaining clout

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AP: They are the shock troops of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, the men who helped seize the U.S. embassy a generation ago
and bore the brunt of their country’s eight-year war with Iraq.
The vast and well-funded Revolutionary Guards are still the most potent force available to the regime.

Iranian uranium facility ’70 percent’ operational: official

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AFP: A uranium conversion facility in the Iranian city of Isfahan, whose activities European states want to suspend, is now “70 percent” operational, an official from the country’s nuclear agency said on Sunday.

Iranian women barred from standing in presidential vote

AFP: Iranian women have been barred from standing in next year’s presidential election after a powerful conservative body stood by its literal interpretation of a single but ambiguous
word in the constitution.