Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 09 Student Union members from the both Medical Sciences University and the University of Shiraz (Western Iran) plan to hold a demonstration on Saturday to protest the new wave of pressure on the student movement
and in support of political prisoners.
Iran students plan protest against government crackdown
Iran presidential candidate draws students ire
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 09 Some 40 students gathered outside the governorate in Chahar Mahal Bakhtiyari (central Iran) on Tuesday in protest to hard-line presidential candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. The students, who were from Shahr-e Kord Open University, had with them a large white banner reading, Mr. Qalibaf, they beat us up for asking a question.
Iran presidential candidate draws students ire
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 09 Some 40 students gathered outside the governorate in Chahar Mahal Bakhtiyari (central Iran) on Tuesday in protest to hard-line presidential candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. The students, who were from Shahr-e Kord Open University, had with them a large white banner reading, Mr. Qalibaf, they beat us up for asking a question.
Rafsanjani rejects oil industry reform
Financial Times: Iran will not reform its foreign investment policy in the oil sector if Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is elected president next week. Mohammad-Baqer Nobakht, a spokesman for Mr Rafsanjani, president between 1989 and 1997 and a frontrunner in the presidential race, told the FT there were “no specific problems” with the “buy back” system. Under this system, Iran gives payment in kind to oil companies that develop its oilfields. It was introduced to attract foreign capital to boost oil production.
Iran Preparing for Advanced Nuclear Work, Officials Say
Los Angeles Times: Iran has plans to install tens of thousands of advanced centrifuges at its huge underground nuclear plant near the central city of Natanz, which eventually would enable the nation to enrich uranium nearly twice as fast as anticipated, Western intelligence officials say. The officials say there is no hard evidence that Iran is currently manufacturing the updated centrifuges and that the timetable for installation remains unknown.
Lawmaker’s Book Warns of Iran
Washington Post: Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), whose flair for drama has included lugging around a replica of a suitcase-size nuclear bomb, alleges in a new book that Iran is hiding Osama bin Laden, is preparing terrorist attacks against the United States, has a crash program to build an atomic bomb and, as a Shiite country, is the chief sponsor of what is a largely Sunni-directed insurgency in Iraq.
Iranians Cheer 1-0 Win and Trip to World Cup
New York Times: People across this city took to the streets in joy on Wednesday after the Iranian soccer team qualified for the World Cup finals by beating Bahrain, 1-0. Drivers poured onto the streets honking their horns and shouting, “Iran! Iran!” In Africa Street, thousands of people danced to loud music played over sound systems in cars as the police watched in silence.
Atmosphere tense around Iran World Cup qualifier match stadium
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 08 With only a draw needed against Bahrains football side for Iran to qualify for the 2006 World Cup, State Security Forces in their thousands have lined the perimeter in and around Tehrans 100,000-seater Azadi Stadium to prevent sporadic demonstrations against the state.
Atmosphere tense around Iran World Cup qualifier match stadium
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 08 With only a draw needed against Bahrains football side for Iran to qualify for the 2006 World Cup, State Security Forces in their thousands have lined the perimeter in and around Tehrans 100,000-seater Azadi Stadium to prevent sporadic demonstrations against the state.
Iran election feuding: fake photo of election candidate surfaces
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 08 – Fake campaign posters of one of the eight candidates running in the June 17 presidential elections are propping up across Tehrans walls, according to an Interior Ministry spokesman. The latest smear campaign has been directed against Irans hard-line former head of the State Security Forces, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf.
The posters feature a picture of Qalibaf wearing a tie, banned in the theocratic state on the grounds that it is too Western.
