Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 08 Several Kurdish towns in northwest Iran have come to a standstill after people launched a mass strike against the crackdown by authorities on anti-government protests that had erupted in the provinces of Kurdistan and Western Azerbaijan over the past month.
Mass strike brings Irans Kurdish provinces to a standstill
Mass strike brings Irans Kurdish provinces to a standstill
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 08 Several Kurdish towns in northwest Iran have come to a standstill after people launched a mass strike against the crackdown by authorities on anti-government protests that had erupted in the provinces of Kurdistan and Western Azerbaijan over the past month.
Inspectors need time to set up safeguards at Iranian nuclear plant: IAEA
AFP: UN nuclear inspectors still need a few days to set up surveillance cameras at a sensitive nuclear facility where Iran was hoping to resume fuel cycle work as of Monday, a UN atomic agency spokeswoman said in Vienna. “Nothing’s changed. The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) team still needs until the middle of this week to get the inspection system set up and in place before the facility could be restarted,” Melissa Fleming told AFP.
The Post’s dubious slant on Iran
Washington Times – Editorial – In its coverage of the Iran nuclear crisis, The Washington Post has been providing yet another illustration of why many Americans distrust the mainstream media and believe it is determined to skew its news reporting against the Bush administration.
UN inspectors to oversee Iran nuclear plant restart
Reuters: U.N. inspectors have arrived at a uranium conversion plant in Iran to install surveillance equipment and oversee the removal of seals as Tehran prepared to resume work there, a senior Iranian official said on Monday. Such a move would lead the Islamic state into direct confrontation with the European Union, which has warned Iran it faces being referred to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions if it resumes work at the plant near the central Iranian city of Isfahan.
Women not permitted in cabinet of Irans new president
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 Women will not be included in the cabinet of Irans new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a leading ultra-conservative figure said on Sunday.
Hamid-Reza Taraghi, a central committee member of the Motalefeh Party, told a state-run news agency, The circumstances for women to be ministers in the cabinet do not exist, but probably they can become deputies.
Women not permitted in cabinet of Irans new president
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 Women will not be included in the cabinet of Irans new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a leading ultra-conservative figure said on Sunday.
Hamid-Reza Taraghi, a central committee member of the Motalefeh Party, told a state-run news agency, The circumstances for women to be ministers in the cabinet do not exist, but probably they can become deputies.
Syria president in Iran for talks with new counterpart
AFP: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iran’s leading Arab
ally, arrived in Tehran Sunday for talks with his newly sworn-in counterpart Mahmood Ahmadinejad, state radio said.
It was the first visit by a foreign leader since Ahmadinejad took the oath of office Saturday.
Iranian woman barred from work following husband’s complaint
AFP: A Tehran court has barred a young woman from working after her estranged husband complained she was only
allowed to be a housewife, local media reported Sunday. The female half of the unnamed couple left her husband and started working two years ago because he “deceived me and treated me badly”, she told the court.
Security tight at Kurdish town on strike in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 Irans State Security Forces and agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security have been on heightened alert on Sunday in the Kurdish town of Bukan, northwest Iran, following a general strike in the central bazaar and in many shops, residents reported. The general strike was in protest to authorities violent crackdown on the restive Kurdish population in western Iran. Over the past month, there have been continuous anti-government protests in Irans Kurdish region.
