Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 01 – Irans new ambassador to Afghanistan submitted his credentials to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, state media reported on Thursday.
In Brief: Iran appoints new envoy to Afghanistan
Fadel: Baghdad Sunni citadel against ‘Iranian invaders’
AFP: Life is slowly returning to normal in the miserable grimy streets of Baghdad’s Fadel district, heartland of Iraq’s Sunni “resistance.”
Bush: Don’t show Iran US is ‘paper tiger’
AFP: US President George W. Bush on Thursday warned that a hasty pull-out from Iraq would ruin fragile progress there and convince extremists and Iran that the United States is a “paper tiger.”
Media watchdog says Iran must stop hounding journalists
Iran Focus: London, Jan. 31 – A prominent press freedoms organisation condemned on Wednesday a decision by Iranian authorities to suspend a feminist monthly for “publishing information detrimental to society’s psychological tranquillity.”
Media watchdog says Iran must stop hounding journalists
Iran Focus: London, Jan. 31 – A prominent press freedoms organisation condemned on Wednesday a decision by Iranian authorities to suspend a feminist monthly for “publishing information detrimental to society’s psychological tranquillity.”
In Brief: Iran appoints new envoy to Afghanistan
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 01 – Irans new ambassador to Afghanistan submitted his credentials to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, state media reported on Thursday.
Iran: Young ‘alcoholic’ faces death penalty
AKI: A young Iranian man is facing execution after a court judged him a ‘hardened and incorrigible drinker,” Iranian daily Etemad Melli reported. A section of Tehran’s criminal court is currently deciding whether the 22-year-old man, known as Mohsen, should be executed.
As the enrichment machines spin on
The Economist: If you are locked eyeball to eyeball with an adversary as wily as Iran, it does not make much sense to do something that emboldens your opponent and sows defeatism among your friends. But that, it is now clear, is precisely what America’s spies achieved when they said in December that, contrary to their own previous assessments, Iran stopped its secret nuclear-weapons programme in 2003.
Five men hanged in Irans notorious prison
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 31 Five men were hanged in Tehrans notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday.
Five men hanged in Irans notorious prison
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 31 Five men were hanged in Tehrans notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday.
