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.
Iran election feuding: fake photo of election candidate surfaces
Iran police alert before World Cup qualifier match
Reuters: Security was tight at Tehran’s Azadi stadium on Wednesday ahead of a World Cup soccer qualifier against Bahrain which could spark wild street celebrations if the Iranian team wins. Iran needs a draw to repeat its feats of 1978 and 1998 by joining the world’s soccer elite at the World Cup Finals in Germany next summer.
Iran cleric: Voter discontent must not drive elections into second round
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 08 Apathy among the populations must not be allowed to drive Irans upcoming presidential elections into a second round a senior cleric in the holy city of Qom warned on Monday. Days before the upcoming June 17 presidential elections, a number of Iranian officials have voiced their concern about the high level of public apathy towards …
Iran cleric: Voter discontent must not drive elections into second round
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 08 Apathy among the populations must not be allowed to drive Irans upcoming presidential elections into a second round a senior cleric in the holy city of Qom warned on Monday. Days before the upcoming June 17 presidential elections, a number of Iranian officials have voiced their concern about the high level of public apathy towards …
Iran Guardian Council: Women incompetent to become president
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 08 – A member of Irans powerful Guardian Council said that women were rejected from standing as candidates in the upcoming June 17 presidential elections because they were incompetent to take up presidential responsibilities. Women lack the intellectual capacity and understanding to stand as candidates in the [presidential”> elections, and for this reason they were disapproved en mass, the non-cleric GC member said.
Iran Guardian Council: Women incompetent to become president
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 08 – A member of Irans powerful Guardian Council said that women were rejected from standing as candidates in the upcoming June 17 presidential elections because they were incompetent to take up presidential responsibilities. Women lack the intellectual capacity and understanding to stand as candidates in the [presidential”> elections, and for this reason they were disapproved en mass, the non-cleric GC member said.
Tomb of the unknown assassin reveals mission to kill Rushdie
The Times: A simple grey slab in Tehrans Behesht Zahra cemetery, resting place to thousands of Iranian soldiers killed in the war with Iraq, holds the clue to a conundrum. The symbolic empty shrine bears the words: Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh, born Conakry, Guinea. Martyred in London, August 3, 1989. The first martyr to die on a mission to kill Salman Rushdie.
VEVAK steps up anti-dissident activities in Europe
Iran Terror Website: London, Jun. 08 – The Ministry of Intelligence and Security (VEVAK), Irans dreaded secret police, has stepped up intimidation of Iranian dissidents abroad amid signs of renewed preparations for assassination of exiles based in Europe. At least one suspicious murder in Paris and dozens of cases of intimidation through telephone calls and letters are being attributed to VEVAK agents. Several VEVAK hitmen have been sighted in the past few days in European capitals.
VEVAK steps up anti-dissident activities in Europe
Iran Terror Website: London, Jun. 08 – The Ministry of Intelligence and Security (VEVAK), Irans dreaded secret police, has stepped up intimidation of Iranian dissidents abroad amid signs of renewed preparations for assassination of exiles based in Europe. At least one suspicious murder in Paris and dozens of cases of intimidation through telephone calls and letters are being attributed to VEVAK agents. Several VEVAK hitmen have been sighted in the past few days in European capitals.
Rare Video Footage of Public Hanging in Iran & Recent Human Rights Watch Report Under Scrutiny
U.S. Newswire: On Thursday June 9, 2005, the Iranian-American Community of Northern California (IACNC) will hold a press conference at 10:30 a.m. (PST) in Hilton San Francisco. The briefing will feature the first Bay Area screening of a video showing footage of three young men hanged in public in western Iran. At least 109 persons have been either publicly hanged or sentenced to death in Iran since January 2005.
