Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 25 – Twenty students have been arrested at the Industrial University of Shahrood, northern Iran, in the course of a protest which has entered its sixth day, Iran Focus has learnt.
20 students arrested during protest in northern Iran
Mottaki: Iran will not halt uranium enrichment
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 25 – Irans Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday that Tehran will not halt its uranium enrichment activities, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Mottaki: Iran will not halt uranium enrichment
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 25 – Irans Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday that Tehran will not halt its uranium enrichment activities, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Iran reformists still weakened in parliamentary election
AFP: Iran’s embattled reformist forces can only compete in around 50 percent of seats in parliamentary elections despite the reinstatement of candidates disqualified in vetting, officials said on Monday.
Oil price helps Iran cope with sanctions: minister
Reuters: High oil prices will help Iran to cope with any new U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program, Iranian Economy and Finance Minister Davoud Danesh-Jafari was quoted on Monday as saying.
Explosion rocks Iranian city of Tabriz
AFP: A loud explosion shook Iran’s northern city of Tabriz on Monday, local officials said, without giving details of the cause of the blast.
Iran’s great missile leap
Washington Times: Leave it to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the erratic president of Iran, to antagonize his few international supporters. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his yes-men spent months attacking the U.S. plan to put missile defenses in Europe, claiming there was no missile threat from Iran. But now the Iranian leader has hosted a TV spectacular showing the world Iran is indeed developing long-range missiles.
Oil rises above $99 on Iran warnings, Turkish raids
Reuters: Oil extended gains to above $99 a barrel on Monday, bolstered by Iran’s warning that more U.N. sanctions would be “costly” to Western powers, and after Turkey’s incursion into northern Iraq.
Banks probed over dealings with Iran
New York Sun: Two British banks are under investigation for potential violations of American sanctions that forbid Iran and other state sponsors of terrorism from transferring money through New York.
Iran says construction work caused blast in Tabriz
Reuters: An Iranian official said on Monday construction work caused a blast in the northwestern city of Tabriz, but no casualties were reported.
