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Woman, man stoned to death in Iran – report

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Iran Focus: London, Jun. 05 – Iranian authorities have stoned a man and a woman to death, according to a report that has surfaced in Persian-language websites.

Woman, man stoned to death in Iran – report

Iran Focus: London, Jun. 05 – Iranian authorities have stoned a man and a woman to death, according to a report that has surfaced in Persian-language websites.

Iran’s nuclear ambition hits piggy banks

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Washington Times: Threats of an international financial squeeze stemming from the showdown over Iran’s nuclear program have sent Iranians scrambling to get their savings out of the country, or if that won’t work, to convert them into gold.

Tehran’s useful idiots?

Washington Times – Editorial: During its 20th-century struggles for world domination, international communism periodically benefited from the naivete and willful ignorance of some in the Western media, who foolishly portrayed totalitarians as agrarian reformers and social democrats.

Iraqi leaders fail to name security ministers

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Knight Ridder Newspapers: The Iraqi government failed Sunday to name its three top security officials because a powerful Shiite party with close ties to Iran is insisting on its candidate for interior minister over the choice of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and virtually every other political faction, senior Western diplomats and Iraqi politicians said.

A way out for Iran?

Washington Times: French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy welcomed U.S. willingness to join in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear issue. Could it be the European’s political maneuvering has managed to convince the Bush administration to follow the peaceful road to negotiations rather than carry a big stick?

Rice says Iran incentives not open-ended

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AP: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice put Iran on notice Sunday that the incentives offered by the West to end its nuclear program are not open-ended, although she declined to say Tehran had a firm deadline to respond.

New evidence against Iran?

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TIME: Bush’s diplomatic gambit has helped build consensus on how to deal with Iran, but new findings of uranium enrichment at a military site may really increase the pressure.

Iran’s Supreme Leader threatens West’s oil supply if U.S. acts

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 04 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened on Sunday that the Islamic Republic may disrupt oil supplies in the region if the United States continued to pressure it to abandon its nuclear activities.

Iran’s Supreme Leader threatens West’s oil supply if U.S. acts

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 04 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatened on Sunday that the Islamic Republic may disrupt oil supplies in the region if the United States continued to pressure it to abandon its nuclear activities.