Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 12 Authorities have hanged a man in public in the northern Iranian city of Gorgan, state media reported.
In Brief: Man hanged in public in northern Iran
Iran ranks among worst human trafficking states U.S.
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 12 – The U.S. State Department accused Iran on Tuesday of being a major hub of human trafficking.
Iran ranks among worst human trafficking states U.S.
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 12 – The U.S. State Department accused Iran on Tuesday of being a major hub of human trafficking.
U.S.: Iran sending weapons to Taliban
AP: A senior U.S. diplomat accused Iran on Tuesday of transferring weapons to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan – the most direct comments yet on the issue by a ranking American official.
Iran to indict detained Americans
CNN: As Tehran presses for the release of five Iranians held by the U.S. military in Iraq, Iran’s top judiciary spokesman announced Tuesday that three detained Iranian-Americans will be formally indicted by the end of the week, according to Iranian media reports.
Iran cranking up uranium enrichment capability: diplomats
AFP: The UN atomic agency thinks Iran could have 8,000 centrifuges enriching uranium by December, a significant rise in nuclear capability likely to fuel fears that Tehran seeks nuclear weapons, diplomats said Tuesday.
Iran says judge to decide next week on U.S.-Iranians
Reuters: An Iranian judge will next week decide whether to indict or free three American-Iranians accused of acting against national security, a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday.
Reid says U.S. strike on Iran would be destabilizing
Reuters: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rejected on Monday another prominent senator’s call for a military strike against Iran, saying a U.S. attack would destabilize the Middle East.
U.N. monitor urges defusing of stalemate over Iran
New York Times: The director general of the United Nations nuclear inspection agency warned Tehran and Washington for the first time on Monday that their yearlong stalemate over Irans nuclear activities was turning into a brewing confrontation that he said urgently needs to be defused.
Ahmadinejad aims for a big hit with his ‘works and opinions’
The Guardian: He has provoked the west’s fury with his calls for Israel’s elimination, dismissal of the Holocaust as a “myth” and strident advocacy of Iran’s nuclear rights. Now Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has ordered his fiery polemics to be saved for posterity in preparation for commercial publication.
