Hundreds of Women Protest Sex Discrimination in Iran
New York Times: Hundreds of women staged an unauthorized demonstration in Tehran today, protesting sex discrimination under Iran’s Islamic leadership just days before the June 17 presidential elections. The protest was the first public display of dissent by women since the 1979 revolution, when the new regime enforced obligatory veiling. “We are women, we are the children of this land, but we have no rights,” they chanted.
A hollow vote
The Times – Leader Article: When Iran votes for a new President on Friday, the real question is not whether the winning candidate will be a pragmatist or a hardliner, but whether the election has democratic validity at all. After a call last week by the conservative head of Irans Council of Guardians for a huge turnout to declare death to America, most Iranians, and especially a restless younger generation, regard the contest as mired in the clichés of the past and a device by which a clerical coterie hopes to perpetuate its power.
Main Iran rebel group denies hand in bombings
AFP: Iran’s main armed opposition group denied Sunday that it had any hand in a wave of deadly bombings that rocked Tehran and the southwestern city of Ahvaz just days before a presidential election. The Iraq-based People’s Mujahedeen “strongly condemned” what it described as “efforts by the Iranian regime and its agents to blame” it for the blasts, in a statement received by AFP in Nicosia.
Murky motives seen behind Iran blasts
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 12 An hour after a state-run news agency reported a second explosion in Tehran, eye-witnesses reported that the blast near the capitals Vali-Asr Square seemed to have been an accidental fire in the basement of a computer shop. A
local police chiefs account seemed to confirm suspicions that mysterious hands within Irans clerical regime wanted to present the incident as the latest in a series of bombings that took place in Tehran and the provincial city of Ahwaz, claiming eight lives in a single day and wounding 75 others, according to official statements.
Murky motives seen behind Iran blasts
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 12 An hour after a state-run news agency reported a second explosion in Tehran, eye-witnesses reported that the blast near the capitals Vali-Asr Square seemed to have been an accidental fire in the basement of a computer shop. A
local police chiefs account seemed to confirm suspicions that mysterious hands within Irans clerical regime wanted to present the incident as the latest in a series of bombings that took place in Tehran and the provincial city of Ahwaz, claiming eight lives in a single day and wounding 75 others, according to official statements.
Osama bin Laden ‘in and out’ of Iran: US lawmaker
AFP: Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who has been the subject of a worldwide manhunt after carrying out the 9/11 terror attacks, has been in and out of Iran several times over the past few years, a US lawmaker said Sunday.
Iran: Explosion in Tehran square kills 1
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 12 – Minutes ago an explosion was heard in the Iranian capital Tehran.
The blast occured near Imam Hossein Square at 08:30 pm Tehran time.
Iran: Explosion in Tehran square kills 1
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 12 – Minutes ago an explosion was heard in the Iranian capital Tehran.
The blast occured near Imam Hossein Square at 08:30 pm Tehran time.
Iran: Explosion in Tehran square kills 1
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 12 – Minutes ago an explosion was heard in the Iranian capital Tehran.
The blast occured near Imam Hossein Square at 08:30 pm Tehran time.
