Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 29 Comments by French Foreign Minister Philippe Doust-Blazy on Irans nuclear program have been greeted with joy by a state-run website, which described them as a retreat by France.
Iran website trumpets French retreat over nuclear program
Iran’s Ahmadinejad hopes to spread ‘new Islamic revolution’
AFP: Iran’s president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad hailed his election win as a new Islamic revolution which he said he hoped would now spread its way throughout the world. “Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 (the current Iranian year) will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world,” the IRNA agency quoted the ultra-conservative as saying.
Veteran UK journalist: Irans Ahmadinejad was 1979 hostage-taker
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 29 A veteran British journalist said that he had interviewed the newly-elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad back in 1979, when he was a leading activist who took over the United States embassy in Tehran, holding American diplomats hostage for 444 days.
Veteran UK journalist: Irans Ahmadinejad was 1979 hostage-taker
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 29 A veteran British journalist said that he had interviewed the newly-elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad back in 1979, when he was a leading activist who took over the United States embassy in Tehran, holding American diplomats hostage for 444 days.
Iran official cancels Rome visit over rigged election charges
Iran Focus: Rome, Jun. 29 Iran reacted sharply to Italian governments criticism of the recent presidential elections and cancelled a visit to Rome by the speaker of the clerical regimes parliament.
The decision came after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi indicated that he would not receive Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali
Haddad Adel.
Iran official cancels Rome visit over rigged election charges
Iran Focus: Rome, Jun. 29 Iran reacted sharply to Italian governments criticism of the recent presidential elections and cancelled a visit to Rome by the speaker of the clerical regimes parliament.
The decision came after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi indicated that he would not receive Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali
Haddad Adel.
AP Photo shows Irans Ahmadinejad as 1979 US hostage-taker
Iran Focus: London, UK, Jun. 29 – Iran Focus has learnt that the photograph of Irans newly-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, holding the arm of a blindfolded American hostage on the premises of the United States embassy in Tehran was taken by an Associated Press photographer in November 1979.
AP Photo shows Irans new President as 1979 US hostage-taker
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 29 – Iran Focus has learnt that the photograph of Irans newly-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, holding the arm of a blindfolded American hostage on the premises of the United States embassy in Tehran was taken by an Associated Press photographer in November 1979.
AP Photo shows Irans new President as 1979 US hostage-taker
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 29 – Iran Focus has learnt that the photograph of Irans newly-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, holding the arm of a blindfolded American hostage on the premises of the United States embassy in Tehran was taken by an Associated Press photographer in November 1979.
Regime change in Iran
Washington Times: “The most radical portion of the population with the most dangerous Islamic fundamentalist ideas are
now in charge. Bad days to come.” Those words come from Mr. Behi, an Iranian online diarist or Web logger, or blogger. The Bush administration has been talking about regime change in Iran for some time but the mullahs in Tehran beat him to it. Granted, it was not the change Mr. Bush, or many Iranians, expected.
