Iran Terror Database: A secret memorandum made available to Iran Terror by a source in the Iranian government sheds light on the mysterious past of Irans newly-elected ultra-conservative president. Information provided by this source has proven reliable in the past. The memorandum, from a senior official of Irans Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) to the minister, Hojjatol-Islam Ali Younessi, makes detailed references to some of the activities of President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his 26-year career in the service of the Islamic Republic.
Secret memo says Irans new president fired coups de grace
Bush firm on Iranian nuclear program
AFP: US President George W. Bush said Monday that Iranian elections had not changed his view that it would be “unacceptable” for Tehran to obtain a nuclear weapon or the ability to make one. “The development of a nuclear weapon is unacceptable, and a process that which would enable Iran to develop a nuclear weapon is unacceptable,” Bush said as he met with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
US still skeptical of Iran nuclear talks
AFP: The United States supports European diplomacy to ensure Tehran does not develop nuclear weapons but is “skeptical” that it will succeed, the White House said Monday after Iran elected a hardline president. “We continue to support the efforts of the European three,” Britain, France and Germany, spokesman Scott McClellan said after ultra-conservative Mahmood Ahmadinejad said the Islamic Republic would pursue talks on its nuclear program.
Blair says world won’t ‘go soft’ on Iran
AFP: Iran’s president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad would be wrong to think that the international community will “go soft” on Tehran’s nuclear policy, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday.
“We expect Iran to honour its obligations, and we have tried to find
a way through the impasse over nuclear capabilities,” Blair told a press conference after ultra-conservative Ahmadinejad swept Iran’s presidential elections.
Straw urges Iran not to renege on nuclear talks
Reuters: The government called on Iran’s new government on Monday not to resume nuclear activities that western powers fear could be a front for making atomic weapons. “We are working on the basis that any incoming government in Iran will honour the commitments made by the outgoing government,” Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told reporters after talks with his Indian counterpart.
Iran’s new leader: a familiar face?
BBC: As soon as I saw a picture of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s new president, I knew there was something faintly familiar about him. And it was not because he was mayor of Tehran, because, like many other Western journalists, I have been barred from visiting Iran in recent years. Then, when I read a profile of him in the English-language Tehran Times, I realised where I must have seen him: in the former American embassy in Tehran.
Iranian vote makes world tension likelier, editorials say
AFP: European newspapers said Monday that new international tensions, particularly over nuclear issues, seem inevitable following the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Iranian presidency. Rome’s La Repubblica said the triumph of what it called “black Islam” and a return to the obscurantist past puts Iran at the heart of international tensions, with the risk of military strikes by the United States or Israel if Ahmadinejad goes ahead with an alleged project to built nuclear weapons.
Iran ultra-conservatives vying for new cabinet seats
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 27 With more than a month to go before Irans newly-elected president has to announce his cabinet, political factions in the ultra-conservative camp are waging a tough battle to win over the key posts in the incoming administration. Senior ultra-conservative figures close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have already made it clear that cabinet nominations will not be for Ahmadinejad alone to make.
Iran ultra-conservatives vying for new cabinet seats
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 27 With more than a month to go before Irans newly-elected president has to announce his cabinet, political factions in the ultra-conservative camp are waging a tough battle to win over the key posts in the incoming administration. Senior ultra-conservative figures close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have already made it clear that cabinet nominations will not be for Ahmadinejad alone to make.
Tehran Whispers
Iran Focus: Tehran (Iran) Jun. 27 – Decades of authoritarian
rule have forced Iranians to develop innovative ways of expressing themselves. Iran Focus reporters in the sprawling capital gauge the daily mood as seen or heard in graffiti, jokes, comments, and so on.
