Reuters: About 500 hardline vigilantes have taken to the streets of Tehran, demanding authorities crack down on women who wear colourful headscarves and figure-hugging coats which they denounce as “prostitution”.Iran hardliners demand clampdown on women’s dress
Reuters: About 500 hardline vigilantes have taken to the streets of Tehran, demanding authorities crack down on women who wear colourful headscarves and figure-hugging coats which they denounce as “prostitution”.Four forced to watch their fathers hanging
Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 3 – A man by the name of Mohammad N. was hanged in public in the city of Arak, (central Iran) on Sunday, August 29. Mohammads four young children were brought to the scene to watch the execution of their father.
EU anxious about Irans nuclear non-compliance
Iran Focus: Brussels, Sep. 3 – As he arrived in the Netherlands to attend a meeting of the EU three today, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the EU was concerned over Iran ignoring its nuclear obligations. We have all been perplexed and saddened that the Iranian government has not completed all the tasks it said it would, Straw noted. Straw says EU upset with Iran on nukes
Reuters: European Union foreign ministers, including Jack Straw, have voiced disenchantment at Iran’s failure to cooperate more fully with U.N. efforts to ensure its nuclear programme is not a front for developing atomic weapons.“We have all been perplexed and saddened that the Iranian government has not completed all the tasks it said it would,” Straw said on arrival for an EU meeting in the Netherlands.
Iran acknowledges plans to process uranium
Associated Press: Iran is acknowledging it’s planning to process tons of raw uranium that could be used to make nuclear weapons.A U-N report obtained Wednesday says Iran plans to enrich 40 tons of uranium which could be used to make nuclear warheads or to generate electricity. The report doesn’t specify what Iran plans to do with the processed uranium.
US to Pursue Referral of Iran’s Nuclear Program to UN
Voice of America: The United States confirmed Thursday it will press for a referral of Iran’s nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions against Tehran. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) begins a critical meeting on Iranian compliance with nuclear agreements September 13 in Vienna. EU: Patten Says Iran Entails One Of His ‘Biggest Regrets’
RFE/RL: The EU’s outgoing external relations commissioner, Chris Patten, has said Iran’s “backward movement” on human rights and unwillingness to fully meet UN nuclear demands constitute one of the biggest regrets of his career. Patten, who will step down at the end of October, made the remarks in a farewell talk to members of the European Parliament’s foreign relations committee in Brussels yesterday. Bam tremor toll revised upward to 31,000
Iran Focus: Paris – Iran on Wednesday revised upwards to 31,000 from an earlier estimate of 26,000 the number of people killed in a devastating tremor in the southern Iranian city of Bam last December.“Based on the latest statistics, 30,948 were killed in the catastrophic disaster in Bam,” Kerman Governor General Mohammad Ali Karimi was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying.
Man hanged in public in Arak
Iran Focus: Tehran – A man was hanged in public in the city of Arak, (central Iran) on Sunday, August 29. As the unnamed man was being taken to the gallows, the crowd on the scene called for his life to be spared. Officials, however, went ahead with the hanging.
Al-Qaida ‘explosive expert’ caught in Pakistan came from Iran: Sources
Associated Press: QUETTA, Pakistan – A suspected al-Qaida operative who was captured along with another man during raids in this southwestern city is an “explosives expert” who had arrived here from Iran, a security official said Thursday. The suspects, an Egyptian named Sharif al-Misri and another man of Middle Eastern origin identified as Abdul Hakeem, were caught Sunday when Pakistani intelligence agents acting on a tip raided a home in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province.
