Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 24 The Mayor of Tehran travelled to Switzerland on Thursday to attend the annual session of the World Economic Forum.
Tehran Mayor in Switzerland
NATO chief urges cooperation with Gulf over Iran
Reuters: NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer called on Thursday for more security cooperation between Gulf Arab states and the 26-nation alliance to address Iran’s nuclear program and Islamist militancy.
U.S. deeply concerned at student death in Iran jail
Iran Focus: London, Jan. 24 The United States said on Wednesday that it was deeply concerned at the death in prison of a Kurdish Iranian student who had been arrested by the countrys secret police in Sanandaj, western Iran.
U.S. deeply concerned at student death in Iran jail
Iran Focus: London, Jan. 24 The United States said on Wednesday that it was deeply concerned at the death in prison of a Kurdish Iranian student who had been arrested by the countrys secret police in Sanandaj, western Iran.
EU’s Solana to meet Iranian nuclear negotiator Wednesday
AFP: Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said Wednesday that he would meet later in the day with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana to discuss Iran’s nuclear programme.
Galp in talks with Iran on exploration deal-minister
Reuters: Portuguese energy company Galp is in talks to explore for oil in Iran, Foreign Minister Luis Amado said on Wednesday.
Ahmadinejad to make landmark visit to Iraq-ministry
Reuters: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accepted an invitation to visit Baghdad, Iraq’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, a landmark trip that would make him the first leader of Iran to visit its former foe.
IAEA makes 1st visit to advanced Iran centrifuge site
Reuters: Iran has allowed top U.N. nuclear monitors to visit an advanced centrifuge development site for the first time in a gesture of transparency about its disputed atomic drive, diplomats familiar with the matter said.
Iran reformers barred from vote
AP: More than 2,000 reformers seeking democratic changes within Iran’s hard-line ruling establishment have been disqualified from running in the upcoming parliamentary elections, a top interior ministry official said Wednesday.
Most reformists appear purged from Iran ballot
New York Times: When voters go to the polls on March 14 to select members of Parliament, they may be able to choose only between conservative candidates and other conservative candidates, leaders of Irans main reform party said Wednesday.
