Reuters: Recent intelligence reports accuse North Korea of secretly helping Iran develop its nuclear programme, raising fresh concerns about Pyongyang’s nuclear proliferation and Tehran’s atomic intentions. The United States and the European Union fear Iran is using its nuclear energy programme as a front to develop nuclear weapons and have called on Iran to cease all sensitive atomic work.
N.Korea provides nuclear aid to Iran – intel reports
Iran’s new president snubs Kurds
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 06 Irans President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad harshly turned down demands by Kurdish members of the Majlis (Parliament) to include Iranian Kurds in his cabinet, a Kurdish deputy said after meeting Ahmadinejad. Mohammad Karimian, a deputy from the Kurdish region of Sardasht and Piranshahr in western Iran, was …
Iran’s new president snubs Kurds
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 06 Irans President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad harshly turned down demands by Kurdish members of the Majlis (Parliament) to include Iranian Kurds in his cabinet, a Kurdish deputy said after meeting Ahmadinejad. Mohammad Karimian, a deputy from the Kurdish region of Sardasht and Piranshahr in western Iran, was …
Three men publicly hanged in northeast Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 06 Three men accused of armed robbery were hanged in public this morning in the
north-eastern Iranian city of Mashad, the state-run news
agency reported.
The three, identified as Ali Adelzadeh, Arash Gholamian-Khorrasani, and Davoud Daliran, were accused of robbery.
Three men publicly hanged in northeast Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 06 Three men accused of armed robbery were hanged in public this morning in the
north-eastern Iranian city of Mashad, the state-run news
agency reported.
The three, identified as Ali Adelzadeh, Arash Gholamian-Khorrasani, and Davoud Daliran, were accused of robbery.
Irans Revolutionary Guards rally to beleaguered President-elect
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 6 The top brass of Irans elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps vowed to defend the countrys newly-elected ultra-conservative President in the face of smear campaigns, calling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a model Islamist. “It’s necessary to declare the readiness of the green-uniform Guards and capable Bassijis … to support and cooperate with Your Excellency’s serving government,” Major General Rahim Safavi, Commandant General of the …
Irans Revolutionary Guards rally to beleaguered President-elect
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 6 The top brass of Irans elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps vowed to defend the countrys newly-elected ultra-conservative President in the face of smear campaigns, calling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a model Islamist. “It’s necessary to declare the readiness of the green-uniform Guards and capable Bassijis … to support and cooperate with Your Excellency’s serving government,” Major General Rahim Safavi, Commandant General of the …
Violent raid on Irans political prisoners reported
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 06 Guards in Tehrans notorious Evin Prison, where political prisoners are held, carried out a raid on cells in Ward 350 on Tuesday, injuring prisoners and confiscating personal belongings and written materials. The raid was carried out at 6 a.m., when prison guards led by an officer called Abbasi charged into the ward.
Violent raid on Irans political prisoners reported
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 06 Guards in Tehrans notorious Evin Prison, where political prisoners are held, carried out a raid on cells in Ward 350 on Tuesday, injuring prisoners and confiscating personal belongings and written materials. The raid was carried out at 6 a.m., when prison guards led by an officer called Abbasi charged into the ward.
Austrian probe of Irans Ahmadinejad angers Tehran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 6 – Irans clergy-dominated
regime reacted angrily to Austria’s announcement on Tuesday that it was investigating claims that the newly-elected ultraconservative president was involved in the assassination of an Iranian Kurdish dissident. Foreign Ministry officials summoned Austria’s ambassador in Tehran to lodge a strongly-worded protest against the investigation.
