AP: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan sent a letter to Iran’s president Friday seeking the release of a jailed investigative reporter who has been on a hunger strike for more than a month, a U.N. official said. Akbar Ganji, jailed in 2000 for reporting that intelligence officials had killed five Iranian dissidents, is believed to be in critical condition.
Annan asks Iran to release journalist
Irans new Justice Minister vows harsher crackdown on women
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 The man designated by Irans hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as his Minister of Justice vowed on Saturday that improperly-veiled women will be treated as if they had no Islamic veil at all.
Jamal Karimi-Rad told the local press, Being improperly veiled and not wearing a veil are no different. When it is clear from the appearance of a woman that she has violated the law, then the crime is obvious and law enforcement agents can take legal measures against her.
Irans new Justice Minister vows harsher crackdown on women
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 The man designated by Irans hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as his Minister of Justice vowed on Saturday that improperly-veiled women will be treated as if they had no Islamic veil at all.
Jamal Karimi-Rad told the local press, Being improperly veiled
and not wearing a veil are no different. When it is clear from the appearance of a woman that she has violated the law, then the crime is obvious and law enforcement agents can take legal measures against her.
Rumsfeld says Iran is arming Iraqi insurgents
The Washington Times: Iran is continuing to supply weapons to insurgents in Iraq with the goal of creating an Islamist government, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said. “I see intelligence reports and we know that we’re finding Iranian weapons inside the country,” Mr. Rumsfeld told reporters on his way to visit Paraguay earlier this week. “They don’t just get there by accident. They don’t fly there.
Residents of Iran city claim new Interior Minister ordered massacre
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 19 In a letter to the United Nations human rights office in Geneva, a copy of which was sent to Iran Focus, residents in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbass accused the countrys new Minister of the Interior-designate of ordering the summary execution of dozens of young people in the city to put down an anti-government riot in 1981 and demanded an international inquiry into the incident. The letter named 48 of the victims of executions.
Residents of Iran city claim new Interior Minister ordered massacre
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 19 In a letter to the United Nations human rights office in Geneva, a copy of which was sent to Iran Focus, residents in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbass accused the countrys new Minister of the Interior-designate of ordering the summary execution of dozens of young people in the city to put down an anti-government riot in 1981 and demanded an international inquiry into the incident. The letter named 48 of the victims of executions.
Iran forges ahead with plutonium project – exiles
Reuters: Iran is forging ahead with a program to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons while the European Union focuses its energy on shutting down Tehran’s uranium enrichment activities, an Iranian exile said on Friday.
Iran regime ‘solid’ in pursuing nuclear drive: Khamenei
AFP: Iran’s Islamic regime is as “solid as a mountain” and can easily stand up to international pressure for it to abandon sensitive nuclear activities, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday. In a sermon at Tehran University, Iran’s top cleric accused the West of trying to bully the Islamic
republic into abandoning atomic energy technology but said its campaign did not have the backing of the wider international community.
Spokesman: Iran not afraid of UN Security Council
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 19 Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman in an interview with a Saudi newspaper on Friday stated that Tehran is not afraid of its [nuclear”> file being sent to [the United Nations”> Security Council.
Hamid-Reza Asefi told the daily Okaz, Sending Irans case to the Security Council will not make us abandon our peaceful nuclear activities.
Spokesman: Iran not afraid of UN Security Council
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 19 Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman in an interview with a Saudi newspaper on Friday stated that Tehran is not afraid of its [nuclear”> file being sent to [the United Nations”> Security Council.
Hamid-Reza Asefi told the daily Okaz, Sending Irans case to the Security Council will not make us abandon our peaceful nuclear activities.
