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Clashes rock oil-rich Iran city

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 05 – Clashes between people and State Security Forces (SSF) in the oil-rich city of Ahwaz, south-western Iran, erupted on Friday as police launched a crackdown on a peaceful demonstration by close to 1,000 ethnic Arabs.

Turkey’s Defence Minster wants ties with Iran reviewed

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 04 – Turkey’s Defence Minister General Hilmi Özkök has called for a review of Ankara’s ties with Iran citing Tehran’s nuclear threat, several dailies have reported.

Turkey’s Defence Minster wants ties with Iran reviewed

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 04 – Turkey’s Defence Minister General Hilmi Özkök has called for a review of Ankara’s ties with Iran citing Tehran’s nuclear threat, several dailies have reported.

EU ministers to review policy on Iran ahead of UN meet

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AFP: European Union foreign ministers will review the bloc’s policy on Iran next week, ahead of a meeting of the UN’s
atomic energy agency at the end of the month, officials said on Friday.

Annan cancels controversial trip to Iran

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 04 – United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has cancelled his planned trip to Iran which was scheduled to take place next week, a state-owned Iranian news agency announced on Friday.

Annan cancels controversial trip to Iran

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 04 – United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has cancelled his planned trip to Iran which was scheduled to take place next week, a state-owned Iranian news agency announced on Friday.

Bomb expertise, parts coming into Iraq from Iran: British General

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AFP: Expertise on new bomb-making techniques, that can pierce armor, and bomb parts have crossed Iraq’s border from Iran, but it remains unclear if Iran’s government is involved, a senior British commander said Friday.

Iran’s Supreme Leader defends 1979 U.S. embassy seizure

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 04 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a prayers ceremony in Tehran on Friday, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, said that the 1979 takeover of the United States embassy in the Iranian capital was an expression of Iran’s “innocence”.

Iran’s Supreme Leader defends 1979 U.S. embassy seizure

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 04 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a prayers ceremony in Tehran on Friday, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, said that the 1979 takeover of the United States embassy in the Iranian capital was an expression of Iran’s “innocence”.

U.S. says Iran refuses to answer queries on President’s past

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Iran Focus: London, Nov. 04 – The United States said on Thursday that Iran had refused to answer queries on the suspected role of its hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran.