Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 30 A man was hanged in public in the south-eastern town of Saravan, a semi-official daily reported on Saturday.
Man hanged in public in south-east Iran town
Man hanged in public in south-east Iran town
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 30 A man was hanged in public in the south-eastern town of Saravan, a semi-official daily reported on Saturday.
Weaker than advertised
The Washington Times: The Iraq Study Group, prominent U.S. senators and realist diplomats all want America to hold formal talks with the government of Iran. They think Tehran might help the United States disengage from Iraq and the general Middle East mess with dignity. That would be a grave error for a variety of reasons — the most important being that Iran is far shakier than we are.
U.S. and Iraq dispute role of Iranians but free them
The New York Times: Under heavy American pressure, the Iraqi government ordered two Iranians who had been detained in an American military raid to leave the country, Iraqi officials said Friday, ending a bitter, nine-day political standoff.
US panel to review China-Iran deal, decide on potential sanctions
AFP: A US congressional committee will review a Chinese-Iranian deal to determine if US sanctions are called for against the Chinese company involved in the 16-billion-dollar gas deal, a US lawmaker said Friday.
Iran warns pilgrims to beware ‘the enemy’s mercenaries’
AFP: Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has told pilgrims on the annual hajj to Mecca that those who sow discord among Muslims are “mercenaries of the treacherous enemy”, Iranian media reported Friday.
Two Iranians held by US in Iraq freed: Iranian television
AFP: Two Iranians being held by US forces in Iraq were released early Friday, Iranian state television reported without quoting a source.
Iran defense industry unharmed by sanctions: minister
Reuters: Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar on Friday dismissed U.N. sanctions imposed on Iran as “psychological warfare” and suggested they would not affect Iran’s missile production capability.
Iran, terror and the Clinton ‘legacy’
Washington Times – Editorial: U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth’s ruling that the Iranian government is to blame for the killing of 19 members of the U.S. Air Force in a 1996 bombing in Saudi Arabia highlights again the weak U.S. response to Islamist terror during the Clinton administration.
Group: Iranians were part of elite force
AP: Two Iranians detained by U.S. forces in Iraq were senior members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards and had coordinated attacks against coalition troops and Iraqi civilians, the head of an Iranian opposition group said Thursday.
