Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 04 A final-year university student died after setting himself on fire after a confrontation with a senior faculty staff member, sparking a series of protest demonstrations by students. Jaafar Khalilian, a final-year engineering student at the Open University in Salmas, western Iran, climbed atop the universitys water tower, set himself alight, and jumped off the tower moments later.
Iran student immolates self in protest
Iran student immolates self in protest
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 04 A final-year university student died after setting himself on fire after a confrontation with a senior faculty staff member, sparking a series of protest demonstrations by students. Jaafar Khalilian, a final-year engineering student at the Open University in Salmas, western Iran, climbed atop the universitys water tower, set himself alight, and jumped off the tower moments later.
Irans chief nuclear negotiator denies resignation
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 03 Irans secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and chief nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, denied through an unnamed official this afternoon earlier reports today that he was stepping down from his appointed posts.
Irans chief nuclear negotiator denies resignation
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 03 Irans secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and chief nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, denied through an unnamed official this afternoon earlier reports today that he was stepping down from his appointed posts.
Chirac, Putin, Schroeder meet on Iran nuclear issue, security
AFP: Russian President Vladimir Putin was meeting Sunday with French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Russia’s Baltic Sea resort of Svetlogorsk, with Iran’s nuclear programme and international security on the agenda. “A discussion on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, particularly as far as the Iranian nuclear programme is concerned, is expected in …
US agents probe past of Iran’s leader
The Sunday Times: The murders started in the 1980s. Kazem Sami, who was the first Iranian health minister after the 1979 Islamic revolution but fell out with the ayatollahs, was one of the first of dozens of dissidents to die. He was working in a Tehran clinic in November 1988 when an assailant posing as a patient stabbed him repeatedly. The following July, three gunmen
burst into a Vienna flat and opened fire on a meeting of Iranian Kurdish exiles.
Iran president-elects role in 1989 attack part of pattern
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 2 – An Austrian newspaper reported on Saturday that Austrian authorities have classified documents showing that Iran’s new president may have played a key role in the 1989 slaying of a prominent Iranian dissident in Vienna. The information comes after Iran Focus revealed last month in a detailed biography of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that he had been involved in the assassination of Iranian Kurdish leader Abdorrahman Ghassemlou in Vienna.
Iran president-elects role in 1989 attack part of pattern
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 2 – An Austrian newspaper reported on Saturday that Austrian authorities have classified documents showing that Iran’s new president may have played a key role in the 1989 slaying of a prominent Iranian dissident in Vienna. The information comes after Iran Focus revealed last month in a detailed biography of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that he had been involved in the assassination of Iranian Kurdish leader Abdorrahman Ghassemlou in Vienna.
Some inside Iran theocracy fear rising isolation
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 02 Irans defeated presidential contender and current head of the State Expediency Council, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, warned of serious dangers threatening the theocratic regime in his first Friday prayers sermon following last weeks election. “Let me tell you without any further elaboration that we are facing serious problems and if forces loyal to the Islamic Republic and the revolution become divided, serious dangers will threaten us,
Rafsanjani said.
Some inside Iran theocracy fear rising isolation
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 02 Irans defeated presidential contender and current head of the State Expediency Council, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, warned of serious dangers threatening the theocratic regime in his first Friday prayers sermon following last weeks election. “Let me tell you without any further elaboration that we are facing serious problems and if forces loyal to the Islamic Republic and the revolution become divided, serious dangers will threaten us,
Rafsanjani said.
