Iran Focus: Baghdad, Aug. 11 An armed militia launched a massive raid on the offices of a prominent Iraqi Shiite cleric vehemently opposed to Iranian regime in the southern city of Basra days after a bomb went off in his office in the holy city of Karbala, Iraqi television reported.
Militia attack offices of anti-Iran cleric
Militia attack offices of anti-Iran cleric
Iran Focus: Baghdad, Aug. 11 An armed militia launched a massive raid on the offices of a prominent Iraqi Shiite cleric vehemently opposed to Iranian regime in the southern city of Basra days after a bomb went off in his office in the holy city of Karbala, Iraqi television reported.
Six die in helicopter crash near Iran’s highest peak
AFP: Six Iranians were killed in a helicopter crash Friday as they tried to resupply a mountaineers’ hut on Iran’s largest peak, the 5,670 metre (18,600 foot) Mount Damavand, state radio reported.
Iran vows to rein in media in new morality clampdown
AFP: Iran’s conservative Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Mohammad-Hossein Saffar-Harandi vowed Friday to rein in the media as part of a new clampdown on “wicked manifestations in society”.
Iran threatens life of young man for apostasy – report
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 11 An Iranian man from the northern city of Rasht is facing prison and may be executed for converting from Islam to Christianity, a Christian news agency reported.
Iran threatens life of young man for apostasy – report
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 11 An Iranian man from the northern city of Rasht is facing prison and may be executed for converting from Islam to Christianity, a Christian news agency reported.
Iran tells U.S. to leave Iraq after blast near holy shrine
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 11 Iran demanded that United States-led forces leave Iraq, after a suicide bomber blew himself up close to a revered Shiite shrine in the city of Najaf killing at least 35 people.
Iran tells U.S. to leave Iraq after blast near holy shrine
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 11 Iran demanded that United States-led forces leave Iraq, after a suicide bomber blew himself up close to a revered Shiite shrine in the city of Najaf killing at least 35 people.
Senators press China on Iran, N.Korea
Reuters: A group of U.S. senators pressed China on its ties with North Korea and Iran, they said on Friday as they neared the end of a visit that covered Washington’s often volatile trade and security links with the rising Asian power.
Iran says West dragging feet on Middle East truce
Reuters: Western nations are dragging their feet over halting hostilities between Israel and Lebanon because war helps their goals in the region, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in remarks published on Thursday.
