AFP: The EU and the United States remain committed to Iran giving up uranium enrichment work that could be used to make atomic weapons and want to clear up any confusion over this with Tehran, diplomats said Saturday. A trio of European Union negotiators, Britain, France and Germany, are to try to clear up an apparent misunderstanding over the US position on uranium enrichment as explained by President George W. Bush on Tuesday, diplomats said.
EU, US stand firm on Iran abandoning nuclear fuel cycle work: diplomats
Prominent US lawyer censures Human Rights Watch for Iran dissidents report
Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jun. 04 A United States lawyer representing members of the main Iranian opposition group, the Iraq-based Peoples Mojahedin, censured New York-based Human Rights Watch for a report that alleged the group mistreated its members in a letter to its director. Professor Steven M. Schneebaum of Greenberg Traurig Law, who served on the Board of Directors of the International Human Rights Law Group, wrote, I must confess that I have never before had to censure a human rights organization for procedural flaws and substantively incorrect results in its work.
Prominent US lawyer censures Human Rights Watch for Iran dissidents report
Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jun. 04 A United States lawyer representing members of the main Iranian opposition group, the Iraq-based Peoples Mojahedin, censured New York-based Human Rights Watch for a report that alleged the group mistreated its members in a letter to its director. Professor Steven M. Schneebaum of Greenberg Traurig Law, who served on the Board of Directors of the International Human Rights Law Group, wrote, I must confess that I have never before had to censure a human rights organization for procedural flaws and substantively incorrect results in its work.
Senior mullah: Mecca riot work of Iran intelligence
Iran Terror Website: Tehran, Jun. 04 Iranian government agencies were responsible for planning the 1986 attack on Islam’s holiest site Mecca in Saudi Arabia and the 1987 riots which left some 500 Iranian pilgrims dead, an Iranian presidential candidate and former Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Mehdi Karroubi said.
Senior mullah: Mecca riot work of Iranian intelligence
Iran Terror Website: Tehran, Jun. 04 Iranian government agencies were responsible for planning the 1986 attack on Islam’s holiest site Mecca in Saudi Arabia and the 1987 riots which left some 500 Iranian pilgrims dead, an Iranian presidential candidate and former Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Mehdi Karroubi said.
Iran political prisoners plan hunger strike against undemocratic elections
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 04 Political prisoners in Tehrans notorious Evin Prison announced yesterday in a joint
statement that they were going to go on hunger strike to
protest what they called the sham undemocratic [June 17 presidential”> elections and the lack of respect for human rights in Iran.
Iran political prisoners plan hunger strike against undemocratic elections
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 04 Political prisoners in Tehrans notorious Evin Prison announced yesterday in a joint
statement that they were going to go on hunger strike to
protest what they called the sham undemocratic [June 17 presidential”> elections and the lack of respect for human rights in Iran.
AP: Intelligence Sees Terrorists in Iran
AP: U.S. intelligence and foreign allies have growing evidence that wanted terrorists have been residing in Iran despite repeated American warnings to Tehran not to harbor them. The evidence, which stretches over several years, includes communications by a fugitive mastermind of the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing and the capture of a Saudi militant who appeared in a video in which Osama bin Laden confirmed he ordered the Sept. 11 attacks, according to U.S. and foreign officials.
Iran university students call for boycott of elections
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 03 Skirmishes broke out at Khoy University (north-western Iran) yesterday between students and security forces, when the latter attempted to quell a protest against the upcoming June 17 presidential elections. Student protestors gathering on campus called for a mass boycott of the elections.
Iran university students call for boycott of elections
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 03 Skirmishes broke out at Khoy University (north-western Iran) yesterday between students and security forces, when the latter attempted to quell a protest against the upcoming June 17 presidential elections. Student protestors gathering on campus called for a mass boycott of the elections.
