AFP: Iran’s outgoing reformist President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday criticised the “obstinacy” of dissident jailed journalist Akbar Ganji in continuing a one-and-a-half month hunger strike. “We are truly awaiting for Mr Ganji to stop his hunger strike and put himself forward to the judicial authorities so that he can use his prerogatives but he has refused to halt his hunger strike,” Khatami told reporters.
Khatami criticises dissident’s hunger strike
EU set to offer Iran limited nuclear incentives
Reuters: Three European Union powers plan to offer Iran a limited package of nuclear, economic and political incentives next week to give up suspect nuclear work amid growing pessimism that Tehran’s leaders will take the bait. Diplomats from Britain, France and Germany are due to hand over the proposals to the Iranian government after new hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad takes office next Wednesday, but signs are growing that they will get a dismissive reception.
AP: Iran achieves solid fuel technology
AP: Iran said for the first time Wednesday it has fully developed solid-fuel technology in producing missiles, a major breakthrough that increases the accuracy of missiles hitting targets. Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani told The Associated Press that Iran has made an “important step forward” in developing the technology, which provides the Islamic
Republic with the ability to fire solid-fuel ballistic missiles like the Shahab-3.
Three Iran police die in ethnic clashes in W.Iran
Reuters: Three Iranian policemen have died fighting Kurdish insurgents, an official said on Wednesday, as security forces crack down on unrest along the Islamic Republic’s ethnically volatile western borders. Interior Ministry spokesman Jahanbakhsh Khanjani said the men were killed fighting Pezhak forces, an Iranian wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) whose separatist campaign is flaring up in southeastern Turkey after a relative lull.
Iran judiciary backtracks on torture report
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 26 Irans judiciary backtracked on Tuesday on a report published last week revealing that torture and inhumane punishments were widespread inside Irans prisons. In a move to limit the damage caused by the release of the report, judiciary spokesman, Jamal Karimi-Rad, told reporters that the report by the judiciary review committee in Tehran was merely the minutes of the [committees”> meeting, adding that the Tehran Justice Department had
acted “carelessly and tactlessly” in publishing it.
Iran judiciary backtracks on torture report
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 26 Irans judiciary backtracked on Tuesday on a report published last week revealing that torture and inhumane punishments were widespread inside Irans prisons. In a move to limit the damage caused by the release of the report, judiciary spokesman, Jamal Karimi-Rad, told reporters that the report by the judiciary review committee in Tehran was merely the minutes of the [committees”> meeting, adding that the Tehran Justice Department had
acted “carelessly and tactlessly” in publishing it.
Man hanged in Irans southern port city
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 27 An Iranian man was hanged at dawn on Tuesday in a prison in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, the state-run daily Aftab Yazd wrote today. The man only identified as Farshid F. was convicted of murdering five drivers between the years 1998 to 2000 in an attempt to steal their belongings.
Man hanged in Irans southern port city
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 27 An Iranian man was hanged at dawn on Tuesday in a prison in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, the state-run daily Aftab Yazd wrote today. The man only identified as Farshid F. was convicted of murdering five drivers between the years 1998 to 2000 in an attempt to steal their belongings.
A Tipping Point for Tehran
Wall Street Journal: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s “elected” president, will officially assume his post next month. The elections, no doubt, were a sham and the controversy about voting irregularities is far from settled. Iran’s opposition sources revealed that the national ID cards of about five million dead people were provided to regime supporters, enabling them to vote multiple times at multiple locations.
Iran says will resume key atomic work despite EU
Reuters: Iran will resume some key work on its nuclear fuel cycle regardless of what European diplomats might propose to defuse a dispute over its atomic ambitions, Iran’s president said on Wednesday. “Whether Europeans mention our right to resume activities at (the uranium conversion facility at) Isfahan or not, we will definitely resume it regardless,” Mohammad Khatami told reporters.
