Iran Focus: Tehran, May 08 – Iran hanged six men in a prison in the city of Karaj, west of the capital, on Saturday.
Six hanged in Iran prison
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Iran steps up gas field pressure on foreign firms
Reuters: Iran plans to replace foreign companies which have “dragged their feet for years” with domestic firms in developing its giant South Pars natural gas field, the oil minister was quoted as saying on Saturday.
US Schools Receiving Iran-linked Money from Alavi Foundation
Iran Focus: Washington, DC, 07. May – The New York-based Alavi Foundation, accused by federal prosecutors of acting as a front to provide money and services to Iran, donated $3.1 million to U.S. universities and other schools in North America from 2000 to 2008, an investigation by Iran Focus has found.
Iran obtains nuclear material under the guise of university research
Iran Focus – Exclusive: London, May. 07 – Iran Focus has learnt that Tehran obtained material for nuclear testing from a key Western country under the guise of providing research material for one of Iran’s universities. Iran also obtained powerful laser devices from Ukraine under the same pretext. The full report will appear on Iran Focus on Sunday.
Iraq vote winner asserts right to form government
AP: The leader of the top vote-getting coalition in Iraq’s inconclusive March 7 elections insisted his bloc still has the right to form the next government despite an alliance forged this week between two rival Shiite groups.
Iran detains 80 youths for illegal “pleasure seeking”
Reuters: Iranian police detained 80 young men and women for “lustful pleasure-seeking” activities at an illegal concert, Tehran’s chief prosecutor was quoted as saying on Friday.
US renews calls for release of Americans held in Iran
AFP: The United States said Friday that a senior US diplomat renewed calls for the release of all Americans held in Iran, when he met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki at a dinner in New York.
Iran belongs to world’s “nuclear club,”: cleric
Reuters: Iran has entered the world’s “nuclear club” and major powers should accept it, an influential cleric told worshippers on Friday, underlining Tehran’s defiance in a dispute with the West over its atomic activities.
Kremlin links Iran sanctions support with U.S. move
Reuters: Russia expects the United States to lift bans on trade with four Russian companies if Moscow backs new sanctions against Iran, a senior Kremlin official said on Friday.
