Iran Focus: London, Feb. 04 In a conference in Whitehall with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, the newly-appointed United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice criticised Iran’s human rights violations and accused the clerical state of running a nuclear weapons program under the guise of civilian nuclear activities.
Rice blasts Iran’s nuclear weapons program and rights violations
Rice blasts Iran’s nuclear weapons program and rights violations
Iran Focus: London, Feb. 04 In a conference in Whitehall with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, the newly-appointed United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice criticised Iran’s human rights violations and accused the clerical state of running a nuclear weapons program under the guise of civilian nuclear activities.
16 trucks carrying weapons en route from Iran discovered in Iraq
Iran Focus: Baghdad, Feb. 04 16 trucks carrying weapons and large sums of money from Iran were discovered over the past few days en route to Iraq, according to an Iraqi Defence Ministry source. Speaking to the Iraqi daily Al-Mashreq, the source said that the weapons included rifles, mortar rounds, and explosives.
16 trucks carrying weapons en route from Iran discovered in Iraq
Iran Focus: Baghdad, Feb. 04 16 trucks carrying weapons and large sums of money from Iran were discovered over the past few days en route to Iraq, according to an Iraqi Defence Ministry source. Speaking to the Iraqi daily Al-Mashreq, the source said that the weapons included rifles, mortar rounds, and explosives.
Iran: woman sentenced to stoning, man to execution
Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 04 A Tehran court has sentenced a couple to death by stoning and hanging, according to the state-run daily Etemad. Iran’s Supreme Court has reportedly upheld the verdicts and has confirmed that the woman only identified by her first name Massoumeh will be stoned to death and her husband identified by his first name Ismaeil will be hanged to death.
Iran: woman sentenced to stoning, man to execution
Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 04 A Tehran court has sentenced a couple to death by stoning and hanging, according to the state-run daily Etemad. Iran’s Supreme Court has reportedly upheld the verdicts and has confirmed that the woman only identified by her first name Massoumeh will be stoned to death and her husband identified by his first name Ismaeil will be hanged to death.
Rice Says U.S. Won’t Join Europe in Iran Nuclear Talks
Washington Post: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that the United States would rebuff European efforts to bring it into negotiations with Iran aimed at preventing the Islamic state from developing nuclear weapons. Flying to Europe for her first trip abroad as secretary, she told reporters that the United States was confronting the theocratic …
Rice Says U.S. Won’t Aid Europe on Plans for Incentives to Iran
New York Times: Less than a day after President Bush declared he was “working with European allies” to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear program, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States would continue to rebuff European requests to participate directly in offering incentives for Iran to drop what is suspected of being a nuclear arms program.
Iran Has Nuclear Detonator, Opposition Group Says
Bloomberg: Iran has made a nuclear detonator in defiance of international commitments not to develop atomic weapons, the exiled opposition National Council for Resistance in Iran said. Iranian scientists are now trying to set up serial production of detonators — which are designed to set off a chain reaction of uranium fuel — and have enough material to produce detonators for about 12 nuclear bombs, Mohammad Mohaddessin, chairman of the council’s foreign affairs committee, said at a news conference in Paris today.
Capitol Hill Mulls ‘Regime Change’ in Iran
Fox News: Though the Bush administration denies it has any designs on changing Iran’s theocracy, members of Congress are planning ways to assist in a possible “regime change.” Movements are afoot in both the House and Senate to pass legislation that would enable the U.S. government to support foreign and domestic pro-democracy groups opposed to the current Islamic republic of Iran.
