Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 11 One of Irans high profile clerics has warned the government that he would take matters into his own hands unless the authorities stamp out anti-government protests in the province of Kurdistan, northwest Iran.
Senior Iran cleric tells government to stamp out Kurdish unrest
Senior Iran cleric tells government to stamp out Kurdish unrest
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 11 One of Irans high profile clerics has warned the government that he would take matters into his own hands unless the authorities stamp out anti-government protests in the province of Kurdistan, northwest Iran.
Unrest continues in Irans Kurdish region
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 10 Sixty Iranian women activists made a public appeal on Thursday for the release of a Kurdish feminist campaigner who has been held incommunicado for more than a week after she protested against the Islamic governments repressive measures in Kurdish areas of Iran.
Unrest continues in Irans Kurdish region
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 10 Sixty Iranian women activists made a public appeal on Thursday for the release of a Kurdish feminist campaigner who has been held incommunicado for more than a week after she protested against the Islamic governments repressive measures in Kurdish areas of Iran.
Death toll in Iran floods rises to 32
KUNA: The death toll of the floods in the Iranian village of Galidagh in the northeastern province of Golestan rose Thursday to 32, with an additonl six people missing. The Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) quoted the city’s governor Ibrahim Karimi as saying that the rescue teams are still searching for the missing.
Britain and US warn Iran over links with Iraq rebels
Daily Telegraph: Britain formally protested to Iran yesterday over its growing interference in Iraq’s internal affairs, citing the smuggling of sophisticated explosives that threaten to send coalition casualties soaring. The move came after British and American intelligence officials said they uncovered evidence that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard was providing deadly “shaped” charges to Iraq’s insurgents. They are also thought to be providing training and other weapons.
Teheran’s nuclear defiance continues
Daily Telegraph: Iran completed the reactivation of its uranium conversion plant yesterday in defiance of international calls for it to suspend all work on nuclear fuel. Technicians cut away the remaining security seals on the production line at the Isfahan plant, meaning that the factory was back to full capacity.
Iranian arms intercepted at Iraqi border
The Guardian: Britain yesterday described as “unacceptable” the smuggling of weapons from Iran into Iraq after revealing that a consignment was intercepted at the border between the two countries.
While complaints have been made in the past, it is relatively rare to have concrete evidence of such smuggling.
Five against Iran
The Times – Leading Article: Two conclusions, one grim and the other potentially more encouraging, can be drawn from Irans resumption of uranium conversion at its Isfahan plant. The first is that the regime has no intention of dismantling what it euphemistically calls its national nuclear industry an industry that includes facilities, clandestinely constructed and hidden from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which
have no plausible non-military purpose.
Britain lobbies Iran over weapons smuggling into Iraq
AP: British authorities are telling Iran to better secure its border against weapons reportedly being smuggled into Iraq. They’ve lodged a complaint to the Iranian government, after a stash of bomb-making supplies was found in southern Iraq. A senior official says it included timers, detonators and other devices.
