Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 19 An individual identified only as Mr. R. has amassed an enormous personal wealth by taking out the equivalent of 1.5 billion dollars in loans from Irans state banks, a semi-official daily close to Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote in its Tuesday edition.
Mr. R took 1.5 billion dollars from Irans state funds – daily
Mr. R took 1.5 billion dollars from Irans state funds – daily
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 19 An individual identified only as Mr. R. has amassed an enormous personal wealth by taking out the equivalent of 1.5 billion dollars in loans from Irans state banks, a semi-official daily close to Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote in its Tuesday edition.
Iran media name Tehrans new police chief
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 19 State media named on Wednesday a senior police official in the Iranian capital as Tehrans new chief of police.
Iran media name Tehrans new police chief
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 19 State media named on Wednesday a senior police official in the Iranian capital as Tehrans new chief of police.
Israel wants Russian help with Iran
AP: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appealed to Russia on Wednesday to help block Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, but Russian President Vladimir Putin offered the visiting Israeli leader no public reassurances.
Rice urges Japan to support sanctions on Iran, spokesman says
Bloomberg: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Japan to support sanctions against Iran for its uranium enrichment program, a Japanese government spokesman said.
Iran seems unmoved by specter of sanctions against North Korea
New York Times: For the most part, Irans leaders have offered silence on what lessons they draw from the sanctions that the United Nations Security Council adopted last weekend to punish North Korea for its nuclear test other than to say, as they have in the past, that they intend to continue what they call a peaceful nuclear program.
Iran, N.Korea top threats to world peace-Germany
Reuters: The nuclear programmes of Iran and North Korea pose the two greatest threats to world peace and could spark a nuclear arms race among their neighbours, Germany’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
Iran to EU: you will lose if you back U.N. sanctions
Reuters: Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator told European states on Wednesday they would be the losers if they joined the United States to push through a U.N. Security Council resolution punishing Tehran for its nuclear program.
Iran road deaths soar in first five months
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 18 Road accidents in Iran are all too common. The real scale of the cataclysmic carnage is evident in a new report released by the countrys Medical-Law Organisation which analysed road deaths in Iran over the past five months of the Iranian calendar year.
