Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 A seventeen-year-old
musician in Iran is facing imminent execution in public after his death sentence was upheld by Irans hard-line Supreme Court,
a state-owned daily reported on Wednesday.
The teenage boy, identified by his first name Sina, was found
guilty of murdering another individual after a dispute over
cannabis last October, the daily Etemaad reported.
17-year-old musician to be hanged in Iran capital
Iran to hang 16-year-old schoolboy
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 Irans clergy-dominated Supreme Court has given the green light for the hanging of a 16-year-old schoolboy in Tehran, a state-owned daily reported on Wednesday.
Iran to hang 16-year-old schoolboy
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 Irans clergy-dominated Supreme Court has given the green light for the hanging of a 16-year-old schoolboy in Tehran, a state-owned daily reported on Wednesday.
Top negotiator says Iran firm on nuclear enrichment
Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 24 The United States and the
Europeans will gain nothing from adopting a tough line
against Iran and taking it to the United Nations Security
Council, Irans new hard-line chief nuclear negotiator
warned in an interview that appeared on Wednesday on a
Persian-language website.
Top negotiator says Iran firm on nuclear enrichment
Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 24 The United States and the
Europeans will gain nothing from adopting a tough line
against Iran and taking it to the United Nations Security
Council, Irans new hard-line chief nuclear negotiator
warned in an interview that appeared on Wednesday on a
Persian-language website.
Halliburton-linked company stripped of Iran contract
AFP: A private Iranian oil company linked to the US oil giant Halliburton has lost a multi-million dollar contract to drill for natural gas amid accusations it won the deal through bribery, officials said Tuesday.
Iran hangs four men aged between 17 and 23
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 Four young men between the ages of 17 and 23 were hanged in public in the port city of Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, on Tuesday, according to the state-owned daily Kayhan. News of the hanging was posted on the ultra-Islamist dailys website late on Tuesday. The four were identified only by their initials. Two of them received 74 lashes in public before their execution, the daily reported.
Iran hangs four men aged between 17 and 23
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 Four young men between the ages of 17 and 23 were hanged in public in the port city of Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, on Tuesday, according to the state-owned daily Kayhan. News of the hanging was posted on the ultra-Islamist dailys website late on Tuesday. The four were identified only by their initials. Two of them received 74 lashes in public before their execution, the daily reported.
Irans ultra-Islamists burn French flags outside embassy
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 Several hundred radical Islamists from the para-military Bassij force of Irans Revolutionary Guards set fire to French flags outside the embassy of France in Tehran on Tuesday, amid chants of Death to France. The militants, who described themselves as members of student organisation of Bassij, later demonstrated outside the embassies of Britain and Germany, Frances two other European partners in the two-year talks with the Islamic Republic on Irans nuclear activities.
Irans ultra-Islamists burn French flags outside embassy
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 Several hundred radical Islamists from the para-military Bassij force of Irans Revolutionary Guards set fire to French flags outside the embassy of France in Tehran on Tuesday, amid chants of Death to France. The militants, who described themselves as members of student organisation of Bassij, later demonstrated outside the embassies of Britain and Germany, Frances two other European partners in the two-year talks with the Islamic Republic on Irans nuclear activities.
