Associated Press: An American envoy repeated US allegations Monday about an Iranian nuclear weapons program and said Israel might attack Iran’s nuclear sites because the Jewish state has “a history” of such actions. John Bolton, the State Department’s top international security official, was referring to Israel’s 1981 bombing raid on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor.
Bolton: US ‘very concerned’ Israel might attack Iran
Top Intel Analyst Warns About Nuclear Iran
AP: The head of the advisory National Intelligence Council says he is not optimistic the United States and its allies can change Iran’s intention of building a nuclear capacity. “I am somewhat more optimistic – somewhat, I emphasize – that we can, through diplomacy and a combination of pressure and inducements, keep them on track,” council Chairman Robert Hutchings said in an interview Monday, his last day on the job.
Legitimate resistance can prevail
South Florida Sun-Sentinel: On Dec. 20, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning human rights abuses in Iran, citing the crackdown on media, use of torture and discrimination against women. The resolution further demonstrates the international community’s awareness of the Iranian regime’s atrocities. This fundamentalist government’s violations of human rights have been well-documented over 50 times by the United Nations and other groups.
Iran to resume uranium enrichment
Al-Jazeera: Irans senior nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, said that Tehran will continue uranium enrichment and that its freeze on the process will not last long. The Hamshari newspaper quoted Rowhani as saying that “The length of the suspension will not be very long and will be valid for the duration of the negotiations and only on the condition that the negotiations make progress.”
Iran says seized boats belong in museum
Reuters: Three British naval boats confiscated by Iran’s military last June must go to Iran’s war museum, rather than be returned as London has demanded, a senior military official has said. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized the three boats last June and arrested eight British crewmen, accusing them
of straying into Iranian waters in the Shatt al-Arab waterway which divides southwestern Iran from Iraq.
Iran worker hangs self amid government crackdown
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 31 A worker from Iran’s “Foumanat Textiles” factory attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself inside the factory but was prevented when a fellow worker cut the rope around
his neck.
Ahmad Agahi, the spokesperson for workers in the factory based in
the town of Fouman (northern Gilan province), told a state-run news agency yesterday that poverty and social pressures were what
brought the man to commit suicide.
Iran worker hangs self amid government crackdown
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 31 A worker from Iran’s “Foumanat Textiles” factory attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself inside the factory but was prevented when a fellow worker cut the rope around
his neck.
Ahmad Agahi, the spokesperson for workers in the factory based in
the town of Fouman (northern Gilan province), told a state-run news agency yesterday that poverty and social pressures were what
brought the man to commit suicide.
Bam prosecutor files charges against daily in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 30 – In a letter to Tehrans prosecutor, his counterpart in the earthquake-stricken city of Bam
(southern Iran) filed a complaint against Sharq daily for publishing an article about the spread of corruption in the ancient city following the December 26, 2003 earthquake
which took more than 70,000 lives and left survivors to pick up the pieces of their wrecked lives.
Bam prosecutor files charges against daily in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 30 – In a letter to Tehrans prosecutor, his counterpart in the earthquake-stricken city of Bam
(southern Iran) filed a complaint against Sharq daily for publishing an article about the spread of corruption in the ancient city following the December 26, 2003 earthquake …
At polls in Iran, voters hope for victory for Islam
USA TODAY: Here in the theological hub of Shiite Islam for the past quarter-century, thousands of Iraqis who fled the regime
of Saddam Hussein voted Sunday for candidates who they hope will make Iraq a more Islamic state. “I’m very happy if Islam gets the biggest victory,” said Zohour Aziz Ansar, 56, who came to Qom from the Iraqi Shiite city of Karbala 23 years ago.
