Iran Focus: Isfahan, Jun. 16 – Security agents in Isfahan Airport on Wednesday attacked and beat up a number of women.
Police attack women at Isfahan airport
Anti-government chants from rooftops in Iran capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun 16 – From the Grapevine… Residents of Imam Hossein, Rah-e Ahan, Vanak and Toopkhaneh districts in west and south Tehran late on Tuesday chanted anti-government slogans from their rooftops.
Arrests made during Tehran Uni. protest
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 16 – Students at the University of Tehran clashed with security forces on Tuesday, according to students and eye-witnesses, who reported at least 17 arrests.
Iran parliament backs 20% uranium enrichment
AFP: Parliament speaker Ali Larijani on Wednesday called on Iran’s government to push ahead with its controversial programme to enrich uranium to 20 percent, despite being slapped with fresh UN sanctions.
U.S. claims victory after Iran rebuked at U.N. rights body
Reuters: Iran was rebuked at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday for its violent crackdown on unrest after the 2009 presidential election, in what the United States called a victory for the Iranian people.
500 rally in Tehran cemetery
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 15 – Some 500 opposition supporters gathered in Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery in southern Tehran on Tuesday afternoon despite measures by authorities to disperse the crowd.
Clashes in central Tehran as opposition stage protest
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 15 – Renewed clashes erupted Tuesday between plain-clothes security forces and several dozen opposition supporters in central Tehran, with anti-government protestors chanting “death” to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
30 arrested at Tehran cemetery
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 15 – At least 30 people were arrested in clashes between security forces and opposition supporters on Tuesday afternoon in Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra cemetery.
Students plan to gather on anniversary of Neda’s murder
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 15 – A handwritten statement has been distributed widely in Tehran University urging students to gather on 20 June at the intersection of Khosravi and Salehi streets, where Neda Agha Soltan was killed by security forces last year, to pay tribute to her and others killed on that day.
