CBC News: Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi showed signs of being savagely beaten when she was brought to a Tehran hospital in 2003, said an emergency room doctor on duty at the time. Shahram Azam, a former staff physician in Iran’s defence ministry, said he examined Kazemi, 54, early on June 27, 2003, according to reports published in the Globe and Mail and Montreal’s La Presse.
Kazemi was tortured, Iranian doctor says
Exiles: Iran Seeks to Obtain Nuclear Warheads
Reuters: Iran allocated $2.5 billion to obtain three nuclear warheads last year, an exiled opposition group said Thursday, without saying whether Iran had secured any of the warheads.
The group, which has given accurate information in the past on some of Iran’s nuclear facilities, also said Iran was speeding up work on a reactor south of Tehran which could produce enough plutonium for an atomic bomb by 2007.
Opposition group says Iran has budget for nuclear warheads
AFP: The main Iranian opposition group charged here Thursday that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had allocated 2.5 billion dollars to acquire three nuclear warheads. Khamenei decided in mid-2004 that Tehran would “acquire the warheads by their own means or buy them abroad,” said Mohammed Mohaddessin, an official in the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
Opposition reveals new information on Irans nuclear weapons program
Iran Focus: Paris, Mar. 31 The Iranian regime is on a fast-track to obtain nuclear weapons, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the main opposition coalition, who made new revelations at a press conference in Paris today. Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the NCRI, told reporters that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had allocated 2.5 billion dollars to acquire three nuclear warheads.
Opposition reveals new information on Irans nuclear weapons program
Iran Focus: Paris, Mar. 31 The Iranian regime is on a fast-track to obtain nuclear weapons, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the main opposition coalition, who made new revelations at a press conference in Paris today. Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the NCRI, told reporters that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had allocated 2.5 billion dollars to acquire three nuclear warheads.
Widespread clashes in north-western Iran province
Iran Focus: Tehran, Mar. 30 Widespread clashes erupted between people and State Security Forces in the north-western Iranian town of Baneh (Kurdistan province) yesterday following two separate shootings by government agents which left at two people dead. Scores of people were injured or arrested, according to eye-witnesses who reported also that two security vehicles were set alight and government buildings ransacked during the outbreak.
Widespread clashes in north-western Iran province
Iran Focus: Tehran, Mar. 30 Widespread clashes erupted between people and State Security Forces in the north-western Iranian town of Baneh (Kurdistan province) yesterday following two separate shootings by government agents which left at two people dead. Scores of people were injured or arrested, according to eye-witnesses who reported also that two security vehicles were set alight and government buildings ransacked during the outbreak.
EU3 mull compromise in Iran nuke talks -diplomats
Reuters: France, Britain and Germany are considering letting Iran keep nuclear technology that could be used to make bombs, an apparent move towards a compromise with Tehran, diplomats said on Wednesday. However, they said such a step would lead to a clash with Washington, which has backed European Union talks with Iran on condition Tehran permanently renounce all activities that could produce nuclear fuel.
Iran open gap amid violence in Pyongyang
Reuters: Iran coach Branko Ivankovic claimed his players’ lives were in danger after their 2-0 World Cup qualifying win in North Korea on Wednesday.
Iran’s victory meant they took the outright lead in their Asian World Cup qualifying group but their joy was soured by a rare outbreak of crowd violence in Pyongyang.
Iran shows off centerpiece of nuclear drive, says impatient with freeze
AFP: Iran on Wednesday gave reporters a rare glimpse of the heavily-defended centerpiece of its controversial nuclear programme, sending another clear message that it was eager to resume sensitive enrichment activities. “The people involved in the project are frustrated by the suspension,” Mohammad Saeedi, the deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation, said after a group of some 50 journalists were allowed to …
