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Iran to set up new Metro Police

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Iran Focus: Iran, Tehran, Nov. 11 – Iran will soon set up a “Metro Police” for underground train stations in the Iranian capital, a Tehran Metro official said in an interview with a state-run news agency on Friday.

Iran to set up new Metro Police

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Iran Focus: Iran, Tehran, Nov. 11 – Iran will soon set up a “Metro Police” for underground train stations in the Iranian capital, a Tehran Metro official said in an interview with a state-run news agency on Friday.

Freed Iran hostages tell of ‘mental torture’

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Press Association: A Welsh author and her husband held without charge for 13 days by Iranian authorities said today they were subjected to “mental torture”.

Nuclear compromise offer to Iran

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The Times: Syria and Iran: what should we now do about them? Relations with Syria took a long step backwards yesterday, after a blast of hostility from its President, Bashar Assad. Those with Iran took maybe a tiny step forward, with Russia joining the US and Europe in trying to find a way to cool its nuclear ambitions.

US, EU tentatively back Russian atom plan for Iran

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Reuters: A Russian plan aimed at satisfying the world that Tehran’s atomic aims are peaceful has won tentative backing from the United States and the European Union’s top powers, diplomats said on Thursday.

Iran intelligence turn UK into breeding ground – interview

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Iran Focus: London, Nov. 10 – Iran’s notorious secret police, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), is expanding its operations in Britain, an Iranian opposition figure said on Thursday.

Exiles warn of new offensive by Iran’s secret police

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Iran Focus: London, Nov. 10 – Iran’s notorious secret police, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), is expanding its operations in Britain, an Iranian opposition figure said on Thursday.

Bush extends Iran sanctions

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AFP: US President George W. Bush on Thursday extended for one year a range of financial sanctions first imposed on Iran in November 1979, the White House announced.

Rice denies U.S. – EU Iran nuclear proposal

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Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on
Thursday denied Washington and its European allies had a proposal that would let Iran pursue limited nuclear activities to try and avoid a confrontation with Iran.

The return of Ahmad Chalabi

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New York Times – Editorial: It might have been awkward for President Bush to have told Ahmad Chalabi, a deputy prime minister in Iraq, that he would receive no official welcome in Washington this week. Mr. Chalabi does not easily take no for an answer, and he seems to have no inhibitions about embarrassing his former friends with impolitic remarks, especially if they help him in next month’s Iraqi elections. But it is disgraceful to hand this multiply discredited schemer the prestige he will surely milk from his meetings with Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the national security adviser, Stephen Hadley.