Reuters: Experts from the U.N. nuclear watchdog have inspected an underground uranium enrichment plant in Iran and verified that Tehran has kept its word by freezing all sensitive nuclear work there, diplomats said on Friday. A team from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) went to the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz in central Iran on Thursday and verified that no activities related to the production of uranium fuel were taking place.
Iran impedes inspectors’ access to nuke site – UN diplomats
Iran: Man sentenced to have eyes gouged out for teenage crime
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 10 Irans State Supreme Court has upheld a sentence for a young mans eyes to be gouged out and sprayed with acid, for blinding another man at the age of
16 some 12 years ago.
Iran: Man sentenced to have eyes gouged out for teenage crime
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 10 Irans State Supreme Court has upheld a sentence for a young mans eyes to be gouged out and sprayed with acid, for blinding another man at the age of
16 some 12 years ago.
Iran’s hardline cleric urges high turnout
Reuters: A leading hardline cleric urged Iranians on Friday to turn out in force for presidential elections next week, warning that a low turnout would be a defeat for the Islamic republic.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati refrained from endorsing any of the eight men vying for the job in June 17 polls, but called on people to defy Iran’s “enemies” by ensuring a high turnout.
UN nuclear chief faces Iran challenge in third term
Reuters: The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, has won the support of Washington but now faces the greater challenge of dealing with an Iranian atomic programme that many suspect is aimed at building weapons.
Iran voters look to end hand-to-mouth daily grind
Reuters: When Reza finishes work at his military base around 2:30 in the afternoon, he rushes to his boxy, old car, flings his uniform into the trunk and heads out into Tehran’s crowded, noisy streets. It is often 10 at night or later when the 44-year old army lieutenant finally gets home after hours of moonlighting as a driver for a telephone-taxi agency.
Iranian reformist injured in campaign attack by mob
AFP: A top Iranian reformist said Friday he suffered a fractured skull and facial bruising when he was attacked by an extremist mob after a campaign speech in the central city of Qom. “About 30 people tried to disturb the speech from the beginning, but they failed … After the speech, I was told by police that …
Euro-MPs reject Irans Rafsanjani as return to ominous past
Iran Focus: Strasbourg, Jun. 10 Dozens of Euro-MPs agreed at a meeting at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday that the forthcoming presidential election in Iran offered no hope for moving the country away from the policies that have hampered relations with the West and caused
anxiety among Irans neighbours.
Euro-MPs reject Irans Rafsanjani as return to ominous past
Iran Focus: Strasbourg, Jun. 10 Dozens of Euro-MPs agreed at a meeting at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday that the forthcoming presidential election in Iran offered no hope for moving the country away from the policies that have hampered relations with the West and caused
anxiety among Irans neighbours.
Iran city spends turbulent night after football match
Iran Focus: Tabriz, Jun. 09 The city of Tabriz in northwest Iran was the scene of mass anti-government demonstrations last night after the Irans 1-0 victory over Bahrain in the football World Cup qualifying match. Young people poured into the streets following the match and, when security forces tried to disperse them by force, celebrations quickly turned into anti-government protests, an Iran Focus correspondent in Tabriz reported.
