Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 10 More than 1,000 residents of an Iranian village in the suburbs of the city of Shiraz yesterday took part in anti-government demonstrations, setting fires to tyres and blockading roads in the area. Residents in Darivan put rocks in the main route 35 kilometres from Shiraz to the town of Kharameh, blocking all traffic for more than five hours.
Cemetery dispute leads to riot in southern Iran
Iran says will never give up uranium enrichment
Reuters: Iran will not abandon uranium enrichment, despite its negotiations with the European Union on its nuclear programme, a senior official said on Sunday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Iran would never renounce its right to carry out the process, but was hopeful about the outcome of the talks with Europe.
Iran’s Khatami “strongly denies” meeting Israeli president
AFP: Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has “strongly denied” Israeli media reports that he shook hands with Israeli President Moshe Katzav and spoke with him at Pope John Paul II’s funeral at the Vatican, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported Saturday.
13-year-old boy killed by Iran security forces during clashes
Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 09 – The city of Mahabad (western Iranian province of Kurdistan) was placed under de facto martial law after three days of social unrest and numerous clashes between residents and agents of Irans State Security Forces, leaving one 13-year-old boy dead.
13-year-old boy killed by Iran security forces during clashes
Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 09 – The city of Mahabad (western Iranian province of Kurdistan) was placed under de facto martial law after three days of social unrest and numerous clashes between residents and agents of Irans State Security Forces, leaving one 13-year-old boy dead.
Political prisoner facing imminent execution in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 09 Irans Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence against a longtime political prisoner in Iran, making his execution imminent.
Hojjat Zamani, 29 years old, has been imprisoned in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran since the year 2000 for being a member of the main Iranian opposition group, the Peoples Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI).
Political prisoner facing imminent execution in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 09 Irans Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence against a longtime political prisoner in Iran, making his execution imminent.
Hojjat Zamani, 29 years old, has been imprisoned in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran since the year 2000 for being a member of the main Iranian opposition group, the Peoples Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI).
Iraqi terror networks supported by Iran
Iran Focus: Baghdad, Apr. 09 Two organised gangs responsible for a number of kidnappings and violent operations are run by a branch of Irans Revolutionary Guards Corps, according to information obtained by sources close to the Iranian opposition Peoples Mojahedin.
Iraqi terror networks supported by Iran
Iran Focus: Baghdad, Apr. 09 Two organised gangs responsible for a number of kidnappings and violent operations are run by a branch of Irans Revolutionary Guards Corps, according to information obtained by sources close to the Iranian opposition Peoples Mojahedin.
Iraq: 4 tons of drugs imported from Iran
Iran Focus: Baghdad, Apr. 08 Some four tons of illicit drugs imported from Iran were confiscated in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, according to an Iraqi daily. The Al-Mashreq daily wrote yesterday, On Wednesday authorities in the southern Iraqi city of Basra announced that security forces had rounded up four tons of cannabis which had been smuggled from Iran.
