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Iran’s “morality police” flog student in public square

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 17 – Agents of Iran’s morality police flogged a young man outside the Open University in the southern town of Behbahan, a student from the university reported in an email to Iran Focus.

Iran’s “morality police” flog student in public square

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 17 – Agents of Iran’s morality police flogged a young man outside the Open University in the southern town of Behbahan, a student from the university reported in an email to Iran Focus.

Iran a growing nuclear threat – U.S. expert

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Iran Focus: London, Nov. 17 – An American expert on Iran affairs warned the United States government that the world was facing a real threat of a nuclear-armed Iran hostile to the U.S. and urged the Bush Administration to consider a policy of regime change.

Iran a growing nuclear threat – U.S. expert

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Iran Focus: London, Nov. 17 – An American expert on Iran affairs warned the United States government that the world was facing a real threat of a nuclear-armed Iran hostile to the U.S. and urged the Bush Administration to consider a policy of regime change.

Iran signs up 50,000 “volunteers” for suicide attacks

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 17 – Fifty thousand Iranians have signed up for “martyrdom-seeking operations” and 1,000 of them have already been organised into operational units, Mohammad-Ali Samadi, the spokesman for a government-orchestrated campaign to recruit suicide bombers told an Iranian news agency.

Iran signs up 50,000 “volunteers” for suicide attacks

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 17 – Fifty thousand Iranians have signed up for “martyrdom-seeking operations” and 1,000 of them have already been organised into operational units, Mohammad-Ali Samadi, the spokesman for a government-orchestrated campaign to recruit suicide bombers told an Iranian news agency.

Iran’s Rafasanjani criticises purge of officials

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Reuters: A purge of former Iranian government officials is damaging unity in the country and could exacerbate foreign pressure on the Islamic state, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Wednesday.

Relatives clamour to find loved ones held in clandestine prison

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The Times: Scores of families flocked to the offices of Iraq’s main Sunni party yesterday in the hope that their missing relatives could be among the prisoners found in a secret underground jail raided this weekend.

Iran acquittal in journalist murder upheld

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AP: An appeals court has upheld the acquittal of an Iranian secret agent in the killing a Canadian-Iranian journalist, whose death in detention two years ago led to a diplomatic row between Canada and Iran, defense counsel said Wednesday.

Iran now says satellite can spy on Israel

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AP: Iran said the satellite would be purely scientific. But a month after its launch – and only weeks after the president said Israel should be wiped off the map – the head of Tehran’s space program now says the Sina-1 is capable of spying on the Jewish state.