Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 06 Irans First Vice President Parviz Davoudi travelled to Damascus on Wednesday for a three-day trip to hold talks with top Syrian officials including the countrys leader Bashar al-Assad.
Iran VP in Syria for talks
Iran VP in Syria for talks
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 06 Irans First Vice President Parviz Davoudi travelled to Damascus on Wednesday for a three-day trip to hold talks with top Syrian officials including the countrys leader Bashar al-Assad.
Campaign starts for Iran parliament vote
AFP: Iranian political factions started campaigning on Thursday for next week’s legislative election, which is expected to see conservatives cement their grip on parliament.
Iran kicks out Swedish diplomat
The Local: Iran has expelled a Swedish diplomat from his post in Tehran, marking another move in a quiet diplomatic dispute that has been brewing for weeks.
A life or death decision
The Independent: Mehdi Kazemi is a gay teenager from Iran. He sought sanctuary in Britain after his boyfriend was hanged for homosexuality. So why is Britain so determined to send him back to Tehran to almost certain execution?
Brutal land where homosexuality is punishable by death
The Independent: The Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, did not bat an eyelid when he asserted at New York’s Columbia university that there were no homosexuals in Iran.
Iraq: Sunnis say Iran working to solidify economic control
RFE/RL: Even before his foot touched Iraqi soil, Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad had much to celebrate. His country has entrenched itself in the Iraqi economy, so much so that observers say Iraq is becoming economically, if not politically, subordinate to Iran.
Irans religious conservatives are expected to solidify power at polls
New York Times: With eight days before Irans parliamentary elections, there is little doubt that religious conservatives will tighten their grip on power, pushing aside some of the veteran politicians who helped found the Islamic Republic 29 years ago.
‘Filthy trick’: Iran targets 95-year-old mother of journalist
New York Sun: The Iranian government has presented an Iranian-American journalist working for an American-funded radio station with a choice between her 95-year-old mother and prison.
Iran inflation surges on Ahmadinejad subsidies, price controls
Bloomberg: On a deserted Tehran street, an ex- geologist named Reza was hawking black-market fuel from the back of a battered van — for about four times the legal price.
