Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 19 The losing candidate in Irans recent presidential elections, Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, strongly condemned the way ballots were swapped and the gross irregularities in the recent elections in this weeks meeting of a top arbitration body that he heads, according to Iranian officials. Rafsanjanis comments first surfaced in an article by Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, a cleric who was outgoing President Mohammad Khatamis deputy for legislative affairs before he resigned in October.
Irans Rafsanjani renews firestorm over election fraud
Irans Rafsanjani renews firestorm over election fraud
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 19 The losing candidate in Irans recent presidential elections, Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, strongly condemned the way ballots were swapped and the gross irregularities in the recent elections in this weeks meeting of a top arbitration body that he heads, according to Iranian officials. Rafsanjanis comments first surfaced in an article by Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, a cleric who was outgoing President Mohammad Khatamis deputy for legislative affairs before he resigned in October.
Iran rejects reports on jailed dissident as “propaganda”
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 19 Irans Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel on Monday rejected propagandist reports on the failing conditions of Akbar Ganji, a dissident journalist currently on day 39 of a hunger strike hoping to gain his freedom from a six-year prison sentence which he is currently serving in Evin Prison. Haddad Adel told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar in the Iranian capital that Ganjis case was unlikely to turn into a plight and reach the point that satellite networks and Mr. Bush are talking about.
Iran rejects reports on jailed dissident as “propaganda”
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 19 Irans Majlis (Parliament) Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel on Monday rejected propagandist reports on the failing conditions of Akbar Ganji, a dissident journalist currently on day 39 of a hunger strike hoping to gain his freedom from a six-year prison sentence which he is currently serving in Evin Prison. Haddad Adel told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar in the Iranian capital that Ganjis case was unlikely to turn into a plight and reach the point that satellite networks and Mr. Bush are talking about.
Iraq’s dangerous new friend
Los Angeles Times: On sunday, George W. Bush’s war
against terror was turned upside down and this time the president might even notice. That’s because when “our guys”
in Iraq start firmly allying with an “axis of evil” nation, its got to ring some warning bells, no? I am referring to the joint declaration issued in Tehran by the leaders of Iraq and Iran …
Iran leader tells Iraq PM US troops harming his country
AFP: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari Monday that US troops were harming his country, in a reminder of Tehran’s opposition to the foreign military presence in its former foe. It was the first time that US military support for Jaafari’s government had been brought up since his arrival on Saturday amid clear efforts by both Iran and Iraq to turn the page on their devastating 1980-88 war.
Iran says will act quickly if unhappy with EU nuclear offer
AFP: Iran warned Monday it would decide quickly on any resumption of sensitive nuclear activities if it is not satisfied with EU proposals aimed at resolving the standoff. “(The European proposals) will be unacceptable if they do not acknowledge Iran’s right to (uranium) enrichment and Iran will not wait long before taking other decisions,” foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said.
Iranian dissident hospitalised after hunger strike
AFP: Jailed dissident Iranian writer Akbar Ganji has been admitted to hospital after being on hunger strike for more
than a month, his wife said on Monday.
Ganji was taken to a hospital outside his Tehran prison on Sunday, the 37th day of his hunger strike, said Massoumeh Shafiie.
Qods Force commander slain in Iran capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 18 A colonel in the elite Qods (Jerusalem) Force of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was killed in a fashionable neighbourhood of Tehran on Thursday, according to the state-sponsored website Baztab. Colonel Morteza Moinfar was a commander in the Qods Force, the extraterritorial arm of the Revolutionary Guards whose stated mission is to export the Islamic revolution to other
Muslim countries.
Qods Force commander slain in Iran capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 18 A colonel in the elite Qods (Jerusalem) Force of Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was killed in a fashionable neighbourhood of Tehran on Thursday, according to the state-sponsored website Baztab. Colonel Morteza Moinfar was a commander in the Qods Force, the extraterritorial arm of the Revolutionary Guards whose stated mission is to export the Islamic
revolution to other Muslim countries.
