AFP: Iran on Thursday dismissed demands by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac that it should renounce uranium enrichment. “We will not renounce our right,” said foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, quoted by official media.
Iran rejects EU demand to disavow enrichment
Iranian reporting contradictions not due to error – US
AFP: Contradictions in Iran’s reporting to the UN atomic agency on its nuclear program are too “pervasive” to be due to “inadvertent error,” US ambassador Jackie Sanders said Thursday. “These continuing contradictions between Iran’s declarations and the facts as they are uncovered cannot be explained by inadvertent error. They are simply too numerous and pervasive,” Sanders told a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency that had just heard on IAEA report on Iran.
Rafsanjanis publicity stunt turns into a flop
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 16 A publicity film produced for frontrunner candidate Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani by one of Irans most successful directors has backfired after being shown on national television, according to informal opinion polls taken in dozens of cities across the country.
Rafsanjanis publicity stunt turns into a flop
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 16 A publicity film produced for frontrunner candidate Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani by one of Irans most successful directors has backfired after being shown on national television, according to informal opinion polls taken in dozens of cities across the country.
Not Our Man in Iran
New York Times: If the polls and pundits can be believed, Ali Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will move a step closer to regaining the presidency of Iran in tomorrow’s national elections.
And while the Iranian people will view the results with a mixture of resignation and boredom (turnout is unlikely to top 30 percent), Mr. Rafsanjani’s rehabilitation will be welcomed in Paris, London, Berlin and, most unfortunately, Washington.
Iran election round-up
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 16
Poll: Election will result in run-off
Computer poll sees Rafsanjani-Moin in run-off
Iraqi President denies backing Rafsanjani
Vote with any form of ID okayed
Higher turnout will give President more bargaining power
Larijani: pointless to quit now
20,000 paramilitary policemen to guard Tehran polling booths
Iran election round-up
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 16
Poll: Election will result in run-off
Computer poll sees Rafsanjani-Moin in run-off
Iraqi President denies backing Rafsanjani
Vote with any form of ID okayed
Higher turnout will give President more bargaining power
Larijani: pointless to quit now
20,000 paramilitary policemen to guard Tehran polling booths
100,000 French citizens call for an end to pressure on Iran dissidents
Iran Focus: Paris, Jun. 16 An array of prominent jurists and human rights advocates in France joined 100,000 French citizens to call on their government to cease pressures on an Iranian opposition coalition, two years after a spectacular police raid on the offices of the National Council of Resistance of Iran north of Paris.
Bush denounces Iran elections as undemocratic
Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jun. 16 In a strongly-worded statement that is likely to have repercussions beyond tomorrows presidential election in Iran, United States President George W. Bush denounced the poll as undemocratic. Today, Iran is ruled by men who suppress liberty at home and spread terror across the world.
Bush denounces Iran elections as undemocratic
Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jun. 16 In a strongly-worded statement that is likely to have repercussions beyond tomorrows presidential election in Iran, United States President George W. Bush denounced the poll as undemocratic. Today, Iran is ruled by men who suppress liberty at home and spread terror across the world.
