Iran Focus: Paris, Jul. 27 – France cautioned Iran on Wednesday that there would be “negative” consequences if Tehran went ahead with its threat to resume its controversial nuclear activities that had been suspended for the past several months. French Foreign Ministry deputy spokeswoman, Cecile Pozzo di Borgo, said, “Iran knows the consequences if it …
France warns Iran not to resume nuclear activities
France warns Iran not to resume nuclear activities
Iran Focus: Paris, Jul. 27 – France cautioned Iran on Wednesday that there would be “negative” consequences if Tehran went ahead with its threat to resume its controversial nuclear activities that had been suspended for the past several months. French Foreign Ministry deputy spokeswoman, Cecile Pozzo di Borgo, said, “Iran knows the consequences if it …
Fresh unrest reported in Irans oil-rich province
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 27 Clashes continued for the fourth successive day between government forces and protesters in the southern city of Ahwaz, eye-witnesses reported.
The citys local state-run radio urged residents to stay at home as security forces imposed curfew on the areas of the city inhabited by ethnic Arabs.
Fresh unrest reported in Irans oil-rich province
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 27 Clashes continued for the fourth successive day between government forces and protesters in the southern city of Ahwaz, eye-witnesses reported.
The citys local state-run radio urged residents to stay at home as security forces imposed curfew on the areas of the city inhabited by ethnic Arabs.
Khatami criticises dissident’s hunger strike
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.
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.
