Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 28 Iranian authorities hanged two men in public in the central province of Markazi on Monday, state media reported.
Two men hanged in central Iran
Two men hanged in central Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 28 Iranian authorities hanged two men in public in the central province of Markazi on Monday, state media reported.
U.N. takes up further Iran sanctions
UPI: Talks began Monday at U.N. headquarters with some Western representatives seeking further international sanctions on Iran for its alleged nuclear secrecy.
Iran raises concerns with US about Iraq talks: FM
AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Manochehr Mottaki said on Monday that Tehran had raised concerns with the United States over planned talks on the security of war-ravaged Iraq.
Iran says close to resuming ties with Egypt
Reuters: Iran is close to resuming full diplomatic relations with Egypt, its foreign minister said on Monday, but did not say when the ties that have been cut for almost three decades would be re-established.
Iranian leader to visit to Iraq
AP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will make a historic trip to Iraq sometime before March 19, state media reported Monday, the first such visit ever by an Iranian leader.
Iran gets last batch of Russian atomic fuel – agency
Reuters: Iran received the eighth and last consignment of nuclear fuel from Russia on Monday for the Islamic Republic’s first atomic power plant, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Iran’s uranium stance keeps a deal at bay
Wall Street Journal: Hashemi Samareh, chief adviser and lifelong confidant to Iran’s president, said his country could join a proposed international bank for enriched uranium that would provide countries with safe fuel for nuclear power stations — but only as a supplier.
Gasoline black market thrives in Iran
AP: Each day, the boulevard in this port city derisively dubbed “OPEC Street” is lined with dozens of vendors selling plastic jugs of black-market gasoline to desperate drivers who haggle over the price of a tankful.
Iran increases nuclear activity
Press Association: An Iranian official said that the Islamic republic has increased its production to more than 300 tons of a gas used for uranium enrichment, a semi-official news agency reported.
