Iran Focus: Iran, Tehran, Jul. 22 Irans former President Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani used the pulpit of Tehrans Friday prayers today to call on Irans new administration to stand firm in securing the Islamic Republics right to obtain nuclear capability. Rafsanjani, the upset candidate in the recent presidential elections, criticised the monopolist Western nations for trying to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear capability.
Giving in on nuclear rights would be Irans historic shame – Rafsanjani
Chirac warns Iran that Security Council could get involved in nuclear issue
AFP: French President Jacques Chirac warned Tehran on Friday that the UN Security Council will have to become
involved if agreement cannot be reached on Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In comments published in the Israeli daily Haaretz on Friday, Chirac said that he could not predict the results of ongoing talks between Iran and the European troika of Britain, France and Germany.
Iran steps up war of words against Israel
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 22 A news agency run by the office of Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that Israel was behind the assassination of 7,000
Iraqi officials since the end of the 2003 U.S.-led war on Iraq.
Fars News Agency used as its source several unnamed Iraqi security officials, who claimed that the Iraqi security had uncovered a terrorist network with ties to Israel.
Iran steps up war of words against Israel
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 22 A news agency run by the office of Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that Israel was behind the assassination of 7,000
Iraqi officials since the end of the 2003 U.S.-led war on Iraq.
Fars News Agency used as its source several unnamed Iraqi security officials, who claimed that the Iraqi security had uncovered a terrorist network with ties to Israel.
Chirac: Iran could be hit with sanctions over nuclear threat
Haaretz: French President Jacques Chirac has told Haaretz that if European negotiations with Iran fail to eliminate the threat of nuclear proliferation, then the issue will have to be moved to the UN Security Council. Chirac’s statements regarding the possibility of imposing sanctions on Iran, which, according to observers, is the first time he has taken that position, came in an interview with Haaretz on the eve of …
Iranian reformists fear era of repression
The Guardian: With bone-cracking brutality, the waves of
baton-wielding police seemed to confirm what the already demoralised Iranian reform movement had been dreading:
the dawn of a new era of political repression.
Dutch diplomat sheds light on notorious Iran prison
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 21 A diplomat from the Dutch embassy in Tehran has revealed that political prisoners
locked up in one of Irans most notorious prisons were being systematically tortured and deliberately harassed for their opposition to Irans clerical leadership.
Dutch diplomat sheds light on notorious Iran prison
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 21 A diplomat from the Dutch embassy in Tehran has revealed that political prisoners
locked up in one of Irans most notorious prisons were being systematically tortured and deliberately harassed for their opposition to Irans clerical leadership.
Iran to resume uranium enrichment on August 1 daily
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 21 Iran will resume uranium enrichment activities in the uranium conversion facilities near the central city of Isfahan on August 1, the countrys semi-official daily, Jomhouri Islami, wrote in its Thursday editorial. Irans unambiguous message to Britain, Germany and France in the talks that were conducted [in London”> yesterday was that at the end of the deadline on August 1, Iran will resume …
Iran to resume uranium enrichment on August 1 daily
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 21 Iran will resume uranium enrichment activities in the uranium conversion facilities near the central city of Isfahan on August 1, the countrys semi-official daily, Jomhouri Islami, wrote in its Thursday editorial. Irans unambiguous message to Britain, Germany and France in the talks that were conducted [in London”> yesterday was that at the end of the deadline on August 1, Iran will resume …
