Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 24 A demonstration erupted in Tehrans Melat Park last night against the second round of the presidential elections. The protest began at about 9:30 p.m. by youths and women who started chanting slogans calling the election a sham and inviting people to participate in a nationwide boycott.
Hundreds of youths demonstrate against elections in Iran capital
Hundreds of youths demonstrate against elections in Iran capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 24 A demonstration erupted in Tehrans Melat Park last night against the second round of the presidential elections. The protest began at about 9:30 p.m. by youths and women who started chanting slogans calling the election a sham and inviting people to participate in a nationwide boycott.
Iran says it will enrich uranium, whatever the election result
AFP: Iran will eventually resume its controversial uranium enrichment activities regardless of the result of the Islamic republic’s presidential election, the foreign ministry insisted Friday. “Whoever is the next president, a permanent suspension is not on the cards,” foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters. “Decisions on the nuclear question are taken in a collective way and at the highest levels of the regime,” he commented, even though he said the …
Iran election roundup
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 23
Iran MP: Certain people will try anything to influence the vote
Rafsanjani approves confinement of political prisoners
Irans run-off election will not be held in Canada
Student group calls on government to refrain from supporting particular candidate
Iran election roundup
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 23
Iran MP: Certain people will try anything to influence the vote
Rafsanjani approves confinement of political prisoners
Irans run-off election will not be held in Canada
Student group calls on government to refrain from supporting particular candidate
Student activist arrested at home in Iran capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 23 Irans State Security Forces raided the home of a student activist in Tehran and arrested him less than 24 hours before the start of the second round of the presidential elections.
SSF agents raided the home of Kianoush Sanjari and took him to an unknown location a few hours ago, according to the Student Committee for the Defence of Political Prisoners.
Student activist arrested at home in Iran capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 23 Irans State Security Forces raided the home of a student activist in Tehran and arrested him less than 24 hours before the start of the second round of the presidential elections.
SSF agents raided the home of Kianoush Sanjari and took him to an unknown location a few hours ago, according to the Student Committee for the Defence of Political Prisoners.
G8 foreign ministers put Iran, Syria on notice
AFP: Group of Eight foreign ministers told Iran on Thursday to keep its nuclear programme on ice, and urged Syria to stop meddling in Lebanon, as they paved the way for next month’s summit of the G8 world powers.
Rice urges Iran to respect agreement on nuclear suspension
AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday urged
Iran to abide by a nuclear suspension agreement signed in Paris
and not to engage in nuclear enrichment activities.
Speaking after a one-day meeting of foreign ministers of the Group
of Eight (G8) world powers in London, Rice said: “We call upon the Iranians to adhere to the Paris agreement to its letter and to not engage in any activities associated with the fuel cycle.”
Iranian travesty
Boston Globe – GLOBE EDITORIAL: Iran’s presidential elections, which are scheduled to culminate in a decisive second round of voting tomorrow, are being denounced by some of the candidates themselves as a travesty of electoral politics. The manipulations attributed to hardline forces in the military and the clerical establishment reflect a determined drive by those archconservatives to monopolize all power centers in Iran.
