Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 17 The court hearing for a university student from the town of Kerman, central Iran, is scheduled to begin on Wednesday. Hossein Khodayari, a student from Kerman’s Bahonar University, is to be charged with “acting against national security”, a vague term which encompasses virtually all forms of social protests or actions against the ruling clerical authorities.
Iran student on trial for “acting against national security”
Iran civil servants protest for overdue wages
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 17 Workers from the city of Abadan, southwest Iran, gathered outside the town hall on Wednesday demanding their overdue wages. The protestors, who were all civil servants, said that they had not received their salaries for several months.
Iran civil servants protest for overdue wages
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 17 Workers from the city of Abadan, southwest Iran, gathered outside the town hall on Wednesday demanding their overdue wages. The protestors, who were all civil servants, said that they had not received their salaries for several months.
Iran warns EU over nuclear pressure
AFP: A top Iranian nuclear official warned Wednesday that the European Union’s mounting pressure on the Islamic republic to limit its nuclear activities would only be counter-productive. “The rougher and faster these countries make the game, the more decisive we become to operate the rest of our nuclear facilities,” the deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, Mohammad Saidi, told the student agency ISNA.
More than one Iranian weapons cache found in Iraq: Rumsfeld
AFP: US forces have found Iranian weapons inside Iraq on more than one occasion over the past couple of months, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday. Rumsfeld, who was here for talks with Paraguayan leaders, told reporters on the flight from Washington that “no one ought to be surprised” by the arms smuggling since Iran would like to replicate its own Islamic regime in Iraq.
French flag burnt outside Tehran embassy in nuclear protest
AFP: A group of some 30 Islamist protesters Tuesday burnt the French flag outside France’s embassy in Tehran in protest at its stand on Iran’s controversial nuclear programme. “England, France, two Satans, two Lucifers,” chanted the demonstrators, as security agents tried in vain to stop the flag burning. “Death to France, death to England, death to Germany,” they cried.
Iran nuclear chief vows to press on with fuel work
AFP: Iran’s new nuclear policy chief, the hardliner Ali Larijani, said Tehran will press on with ultra-sensitive fuel cyle work while continuing talks with the European Union, in comments published Tuesday. Larijani signaled in his first interview since being named Monday as Supreme National Security Council head that Iran would not roll back its August 8 resumption of uranium conversion, despite the move triggering a new crisis with the international community.
2 Iranian dissidents abducted in capital
Washington Times: U.S. officials said yesterday that two members of an Iranian dissident group living under American protection in Iraq have been kidnapped, and organization members said they fear the men will be turned over to Tehran for execution. The members of the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) were grabbed while they were purchasing supplies in Baghdad’s Karrada shopping district on Aug. 4, said the U.S.-led military coalition in Iraq.
Iran accuses human rights lawyer of spying
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 15 Tehrans Islamic Revolutionary Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi announced on Monday that a human rights lawyer who had been representing the family of a slain Canadian-Iranian photojournalist was a spy and that the Revolutionary Court had issued a decree stating that it was lawful for him to be imprisoned until his eventual trial.
Iran accuses human rights lawyer of spying
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 15 Tehrans Islamic Revolutionary Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi announced on Monday that a human rights lawyer who had been representing the family of a slain Canadian-Iranian photojournalist was a spy and that the Revolutionary Court had issued a decree stating that it was lawful for him to be imprisoned until his eventual trial.
