Iran Focus – Editorial: In 1988, Iranian prisons saw perhaps the most heinous case of state-organised mass murder since the end of the Second World War.
A massacre gone unpunished
Iran militia murder baker for calling Supreme Leader a dog
Iran Focus: Isfahan, Aug. 02 – From the Grapevine… Witnesses have told Iran Focus that on Sunday members of the paramilitary Bassij and plainclothes security agents murdered a baker in cold blood in the central Iranian city of Isfahan before the eyes of bewildered bystanders after he likened Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to a dog of one his customers.
Iran’s president Ahmadinejad to direct IRNA
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 02 – Iran’s official news agency announced over the week-end that it was giving full editorial discretion to the Islamic Republic’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over all its reporting.
Music fails to chime with Islamic values, says Iran’s supreme leader
The Guardian: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claims the promotion and teaching of the artform is not compatible with country’s sacred regime
US backs Brazil asylum offer for Iran woman facing stoning
AFP: The United States urged Iran Monday to accept an asylum offer from Brazil for a Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
IAEA chief says Iran fuel swap talks could start soon
Reuters: Talks to revive a stalled plan for Iran to swap some nuclear material for fuel could start within months, the U.N. atomic watchdog chief said on Monday, and there had been some positive signals from the countries involved.
Danish Maersk pays US for breaching Iran, Sudan embargoes
AFP: Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moeller-Maersk said Monday it had paid a 3.1-million-dollar (2.3-million-euro) fine to the United States for having violated its embargo on Iran and Sudan.
Iran’s Ahmadinejad calls for TV debate with Obama
Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday to face him in a televised one-on-one debate to see who has the best solutions for the world’s problems.
Iran opposition leaders lash out at powerful hardline cleric
AFP: Iranian opposition leaders lashed out on Monday at powerful hardline cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati over his accusations they had been paid by the United States to topple the Islamic regime.
Iran’s gasoline imports decline 50% after sanctions, EMC says
Bloomberg: Iran’s gasoline imports fell 50 percent last month as sanctions over the nation’s nuclear program spurred traders to halt supplies, according to Energy Market Consultants Ltd.
