Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 03 Artillery, Tanks, Machine guns
are no longer effective, students in Tehrans Amir Kabir University chanted, during a gathering yesterday against the presence of paramilitary Bassij forces on campus. One student leader speaking at the podium said that the Bassij were interfering in the way the university was being run.
Iran: Tehran students protest against paramilitary forces
Iran: Tehran students protest against paramilitary forces
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 03 Artillery, Tanks, Machine guns
are no longer effective, students in Tehrans Amir Kabir University chanted, during a gathering yesterday against the presence of paramilitary Bassij forces on campus. One student leader speaking at the podium said that the Bassij were interfering in the way the university was being run.
Students disrupt speech of Iran presidential candidate
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 03 Students in the University of Ilam (western Iran) disrupted a speech by presidential candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Wednesday afternoon. Qalibaf, former head of Irans dreaded State Security Forces, is competing in Irans upcoming June 17 presidential elections. During his speech in the university, students shouted, Killer of the university dorms, where is your conscience, where is your conscience?
Students disrupt speech of Iran presidential candidate
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 03 Students in the University of Ilam (western Iran) disrupted a speech by presidential candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Wednesday afternoon. Qalibaf, former head of Irans dreaded State Security Forces, is competing in Irans upcoming June 17 presidential elections. During his speech in the university, students shouted, Killer of the university dorms, where is your conscience, where is your conscience?
Members push tougher line on Iran
The Hill: Key members of Congress are girding to take a tougher line on Iran by tightening sanctions and taking a high-profile stance against the Iranian government.
But despite President Bush’s calls for democratic reform in the Middle East, the administration is urging Congress to hold off on legislation out of concern that it might disrupt sensitive negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program.
Iran remains a study in contrasts
MSNBC: Tehran is a city of great contrasts in a land with a split personality. Is the future of Iran young men with long hair talking on cell phones or is it masses gathered for prayer? Is Iran a country prepared for the 21st century or one stuck in the last 30 years? It pretends to be a democracy, with presidential elections in two weeks. But in Iranian politics, there’s a higher power. Whichever candidate wins the presidential election on June 17, one man still will have all the power.
Luxembourg Invites Iran to Iraq Summit
AP: The United States didn’t invite Iran to an international conference on Iraq reconstruction, which became awkwardly clear Thursday when a European diplomat said Iran is welcome in spite of long-standing enmity between Washington and the Islamic regime in Tehran.
Rome: Trial of Iran official for dissident assassination hears testimonies
Iran Terror Website: Rome, Jun. 02 The second trial session in absentia of Amir Mansour Bozorgian, an Iranian government official, accused of masterminding the killing of the representative of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Italy continued on Monday, with witnesses giving testimonies to the Rome Criminal Court. Mohammad Hossein Naghdi, who defected to the NCRI when he was the Iranian charge d’affaires in Italy in 1981, was murdered on March 16, 1993 by gunmen on a motorcycle allegedly working for Iran’s notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS a.k.a. VEVAK).
Rome: Trial of Iran official for dissident assassination hears testimonies
Iran Terror Website: Rome, Jun. 02 The second trial session in absentia of Amir Mansour Bozorgian, an Iranian government official, accused of masterminding the killing of the representative of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Italy continued on Monday, with witnesses giving testimonies to the Rome Criminal Court. Mohammad Hossein Naghdi, who defected to the NCRI when he was the Iranian charge d’affaires in Italy in 1981, was murdered on March 16, 1993 by gunmen on a motorcycle allegedly working for Iran’s notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS a.k.a. VEVAK).
Smuggled film shows Iran public hangings
The Times: Horrific film of three public executions carried out in Iran was shown by exiled dissidents in London yesterday.
The ten-minute video, smuggled out of Iran in recent days by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, depicted the capital punishment of three young men for adultery.
