AFP: A senior Israeli official dismissed as “absurd” a report in The Sunday Times that the Jewish state had drawn up plans to destroy arch-foe Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities in a tactical nuclear strike.
Report on planned Israeli strike on Iran ‘absurd’
Iran man flogged in public for making home-made porn film
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – A man was flogged in public in the town of Behshahr, northern Iran, for producing home-made pornographic videos, state media reported on Sunday.
Iran man flogged in public for making home-made porn film
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – A man was flogged in public in the town of Behshahr, northern Iran, for producing home-made pornographic videos, state media reported on Sunday.
Iran arrests journalist after meeting abroad
AFP: An Iranian journalist who worked for the now banned reformist Yas-e No and the centrist Shargh newspapers has been arrested after returning from a conference abroad, an official said Saturday.
U.S. puts squeeze on Iran’s oil fields
Los Angeles Times: As Washington wages a very public battle against Iran’s quest for nuclear power, it is quietly gaining ground on another energy front: the oil fields that are the Islamic Republic’s lifeblood.
A giant and scary leap
Sunday Times – Leading articles: It was one of the most daring raids of all time and it led to the destruction of Iraqs early ambitions to acquire a nuclear bomb. In 1981, Israeli aircraft attacked the nuclear testing reactor at Osirak, south of Baghdad, crippling their plant. It was finally destroyed in the Iraq war a decade later when the United States retaliated for the invasion of Kuwait.
Saudis, France urge compliance from Iran
AP: Saudi Arabia and France called Saturday on Iran to accept international demands to halt uranium enrichment, saying the Mideast should be free of weapons of mass destruction.
Focus: Mission Iran
Sunday Times: Israel will not tolerate Iran going nuclear and military sources say it will use tactical strikes unless Iran abandons its programme. Is Israel bluffing or might it really push the button?
Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran
Sunday Times: Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Irans uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear bunker-busters, according to several Israeli military sources.
Iran reformists slam government’s nuclear policy
Reuters: Iranian reformist parliamentarians on Saturday blamed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government for failing to prevent United Nations sanctions.
