Reuters: A senior Iranian lawmaker hit out on Tuesday at a proposal by some fellow MPs to set up a “parliamentary friendship group” with the United States, the Islamic Republic’s arch-foe.
Rice calls on Iran to release jailed US-Iranian scholar
AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on Iran Tuesday to release immediately a US-Iranian scholar jailed in Tehran on charges of acting against Iran’s national security.
Iran leader brushes off nuclear sanctions
AFP: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed UN sanctions as “nothing new” on Tuesday as a new Security Council deadline loomed for Tehran to freeze its controversial nuclear work.
Iran journalist sentenced to three years jail
AFP: An Iranian journalist arrested last year after returning from a conference abroad has been sentenced to three years in jail, the judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday.
Iran amputates mans hand in public
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 15 Authorities have chopped off the hand of a man in public in the western city of Kermanshah, a state-run daily reported on Tuesday.
Iran amputates mans hand in public
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 15 Authorities have chopped off the hand of a man in public in the western city of Kermanshah, a state-run daily reported on Tuesday.
Irans Larijani, EUs Solana to meet on May 31
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 15 Irans chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani will meet EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on May 31 to discuss the standoff over Tehrans controversial nuclear program, the official news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday.
Irans Larijani, EUs Solana to meet on May 31
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 15 Irans chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani will meet EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on May 31 to discuss the standoff over Tehrans controversial nuclear program, the official news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday.
British ‘hold talks with Sunni rebel leaders’
Daily Telegraph: British military officers have held secret talks with leaders of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, according to the country’s president.
Iran invites Arab experts to inspect nuclear plant
Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday called on Gulf Arab neighbors to send experts to inspect his country’s nuclear power plant, in an apparent effort to ease fears over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
