Reuters: U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush's funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing its leadership, according to a report in The New Yorker magazine published online on Sunday.
US escalating covert operations against Iran-report
Tens of thousands tell EU to lift ban on Iran opposition
Iran Focus: Villepinte, France, Jun. 28 – Tens of thousands of Iranians converged on a Paris exhibition centre on Saturday in support of the main Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), demanding that the European Union lift its ban on the group.
Tens of thousands tell EU to lift ban on Iran opposition
Iran Focus: Villepinte, France, Jun. 28 – Tens of thousands of Iranians converged on a Paris exhibition centre on Saturday in support of the main Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), demanding that the European Union lift its ban on the group.
EU urges Iran not to execute minors
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 28 – The European Union on Friday urged Iran to halt executions of juvenile offenders.
EU urges Iran not to execute minors
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 28 – The European Union on Friday urged Iran to halt executions of juvenile offenders.
Iran cleric calls West ‘inconsequential’
UPI: One of Iran's top clerics says that Western powers are "too inconsequential" to threaten Iran over its nuclear enrichment program.
Rebels in Iran execute two captive policemen: report
AFP: An Iranian Sunni rebel group has said it has executed two more of 16 Iranian border police it says it seized two weeks ago, Al-Arabiya television reported on Friday.
G8 urges Iran to suspend enrichment
AFP: Group of Eight foreign ministers urged Iran on Friday to suspend uranium enrichment and "act in a more responsible and constructive manner in the region," a call dismissed in Tehran as double-speak.
G8 urges Iran to respond to nuclear incentives
Reuters: The Group of Eight nations urged Iran on Friday to respond positively to the latest in a series of Western incentives that have so far failed to persuade Tehran to curb its nuclear activities.
G8 presses NKorea, Iran on nuclear disputes
AFP: Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight industrial powers called Friday on Iran and North Korea to end their nuclear programmes, officials said.
