Independent: An Iranian man known as the “vampire of the desert” was facing the death sentence yesterday following the gruesome murders of 17 children and three adults in the slums of Pakdasht, near the capital, Tehran.Iran’s ‘vampire of the desert’ faces death penalty after murdering 17 children in brickwork slums
Independent: An Iranian man known as the “vampire of the desert” was facing the death sentence yesterday following the gruesome murders of 17 children and three adults in the slums of Pakdasht, near the capital, Tehran.Iran: Journalist Detained in Internet Crackdown
Human Rights Watch: The arrest of journalist and internet writer Omid Memarian continues a disturbing crackdown on journalists and internet writers in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. Memarian, a well-known figure in Irans nongovernmental organization community, has been detained without charge since his arrest on Sunday, Oct. 10. The Iranian Students News Agency, citing family members, reported that agents of Irans Judiciary … Iran ‘in control of terrorism in Israel’
Daily Telegraph: Iran has taken control of many Palestinian terrorist cells from Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement, giving them funds and orders to attack Israeli targets, and even rewarding successful missions with “bonuses”, according to a senior Israeli security source.For many years, Iran has given money and ideological support to radical Palestinian groups, especially Hamas and …
Tokyo Executives Exported Missile Components to Iran
Press Association: A Japanese court today convicted two executives of a Tokyo machinery-maker of illegally exporting equipment to Iran that could be used to make missile fuel.The Tokyo District Court gave Haruhiko Ueda, 70, president
of Tokyo-based Seishin Enterprise, a two-and-a-half-year suspended prison sentence. Akira Kamiya, 42, Seishins former South Korea branch manager, was given a suspended 18-month prison term.
G-8 Nations to Meet on Iran
Washington Post: After weeks of behind-the-scenesdiplomacy, the United States will meet here today with the world’s wealthiest countries to determine a strategy for giving Iran one last chance to abandon its alleged nuclear arms program or face new international pressures. Both Democrats and Republicans increasingly believe that Iran will be the next big foreign policy flash point …
Would-be Iranian organ donor goes to hospital to commit suicide
AFP: An Iranian man has attempted to commit suicide at a hospital in the southern city of Shiraz in a bid to give up his organs to needy patients, a hospital official said Thursday. Abdolreza B., 30, turned up at the hospital and then “shot himself with a Kalashnikov outside the operating theatre,” said the official.
Russia Finishes Building Iran Nuclear Plant
Reuters: Russia and Iran said Thursday they had finished construction of an atomic power plant in the Islamic Republic — a project the United States fears Tehran could use to make nuclear arms. Diplomats in Moscow said the announcement, made after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Iran, reflected Russia’s readiness to press ahead with the project in return for Tehran’s increased cooperation with the U.N. … Iraq’s spy chief accuses Iranian embassy of killing agents
AFP: Iraq’s national intelligence chief Mohammed al-Shahwani has accused Iran’s Baghdad embassy of masterminding an assassination campaign that has seen 18 intelligence agents killed since mid-September. Shahwani told AFP a series of raids on three Iranian “safe houses” in Baghdad on September 29 had uncovered a treasure trove of documents linking Iran to plots to kill
members of the intelligence service …
Iran threatens to bar IAEA inspectors
AFP: A top Iranian lawmaker said here Thursday that Iran would bar international nuclear inspections in its country if debate on its nuclear program is taken up in the UN Security Council. If the issue goes to the Security Council “there will be no place for any kind of inspections, no continuation of our openness” with IAEA inspectors, Aladdin Broujerdi …
Rights Group: Human Rights Violations on the Rise in Iran
Voice of America: An Iranian-American human rights group says the Iranian government has stepped up its campaign against pro-democracy dissidents, women and minorities with the staging of some 120 public hangings, and the arrest and imprisonment of more than 40 journalists. 