Iran Focus: London, Jul. 10 Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed a top commander of Irans Revolutionary Guards as the countrys new police chief, the state-run news agency reported. In a decree that was read out on the state radio, Ayatollah Khamenei said the police forces’ top priority was “to create security all over the country at a level worthy of the Islamic Republic”. Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, the number two in the paramilitary Bassij and commander of the force in Greater Tehran, is a long-time ally of President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Iran puts police under Revolutionary Guards control
Iran puts police under Revolutionary Guards control
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 10 Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed a top commander of Irans Revolutionary Guards as the countrys new police chief, the state-run news agency reported. In a decree that was read out on the state radio, Ayatollah Khamenei said the police forces’ top priority was “to create security all over the country at a level worthy of the Islamic Republic”. Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, the number two in the paramilitary Bassij and commander of the force in Greater Tehran, is a long-time ally of President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Female students clash with Iran security forces on campus
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 Female students clashed with security agents in a Tehran university after a heated dispute over Irans austere dress regulations for women. The students from Tehrans Industrial Aeronautic University defied agents of the State Security Forces when the latter harassed them on campus and tried to arrest them for violating the dress
regulations.
Female students clash with Iran security forces on campus
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 Female students clashed with security agents in a Tehran university after a heated dispute over Irans austere dress regulations for women. The students from Tehrans Industrial Aeronautic University defied agents of the State Security Forces when the latter harassed them on campus and tried to arrest them for violating the dress
regulations.
Student dies mysteriously in Irans nuclear research facility
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 A university students death was described as suicide by the authorities in Malek Ashtar University in Shahin-Shahr, near the central Iranian city of Isfahan, but the mysterious circumstances of the death in a highly secretive research establishment jointly run by the Ministry of Defence and Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Coprs are raising serious questions.
Student dies mysteriously in Irans nuclear research facility
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 A university students death was described as suicide by the authorities in Malek Ashtar University in Shahin-Shahr, near the central Iranian city of Isfahan, but the mysterious circumstances of the death in a highly secretive research establishment jointly run by the Ministry of Defence and Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Coprs are raising serious questions.
Iran VEVAK cell en route to France in new operation
Iran Terror Database: Iran Terror has learnt Irans Ministry of Intelligence and Security (VEVAK) is sending to Paris a cell that has been trained in Tehran to carry out a misinformation attack against the opposition National Council of Resistance. The new operation is aimed at diverting the current world focus on the past activities of Irans new ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is suspected of being among the interrogators of U.S. hostages in Tehran in 1979 and a key player in the assassination in Vienna of a prominent Kurdish dissident.
VEVAK cell en route to France in new operation
Iran Terror Database: Iran Terror has learnt Irans Ministry of Intelligence and Security (VEVAK) is sending to Paris a cell that has been trained in Tehran to carry out a misinformation attack against the opposition National Council of Resistance. The new operation is aimed at diverting the current world focus on the past activities of Irans new ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is suspected of being among the interrogators of U.S. hostages in Tehran in 1979 and a key player in the assassination in Vienna of a prominent Kurdish dissident.
Half of Irans nurses unemployed
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 09 Half of Irans 140,000-strong nurses are unemployed and searching for a job, according to the head of the Nurses Organisation of Iran. Speaking to local reporters on the sidelines of a nurses conference in the city of Semnan (eastern Iran), Qazanfar Mirzabaigi said, Half of them [140,000 nurses”> are employed and between 65,000 to 70,000 are unemployed and seeking employment.
Half of Irans nurses unemployed
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 09 Half of Irans 140,000-strong nurses are unemployed and searching for a job, according to the head of the Nurses Organisation of Iran. Speaking to local reporters on the sidelines of a nurses conference in the city of Semnan (eastern Iran), Qazanfar Mirzabaigi said, Half of them [140,000 nurses”> are employed and between 65,000 to 70,000 are unemployed and seeking employment.
