Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 – An Iranian agent was arrested in Kuwait in connection with the latest spate of Al-Qaeda-related attacks in the Middle East. Sawa Radio reported that the unnamed individual was arrested by Kuwaiti security forces after recent intelligence implicated him as a cell in communication with the Al-Qaeda network with prior information on the attacks in Saudi Arabia.
Iran Al-Qaeda link arrested in Kuwait: Radio
European Parliament resolution censures Iran rights violations
Iran Focus: Strasbourg, Jan. 13 – The European Parliament adopted a resolution by majority vote today condemning human rights violations in Iran in the second such move over the past six months. The toughly-worded resolution denounced practices such as execution of juveniles and stoning carried
out by the Iranian regime.
European Parliament resolution censures Iran rights violations
Iran Focus: Strasbourg, Jan. 13 – The European Parliament adopted a resolution by majority vote today condemning human rights violations in Iran in the second such move over the past six months. The toughly-worded resolution denounced practices such as execution of juveniles and stoning carried
out by the Iranian regime.
Iran Revolutionary Guards Commander: US presence a threat
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 – In an apparent reference to the presence of US troops in Iraq, a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Corps (IRGC) official called for Iran to mobilize its troops against the “dangerous Zionist threat”.
Speaking to Revolutionary Guards and Iran’s Bassij (paramilitary police) forces in Khuzestan on Tuesday Deputy IRGC Commander Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr said, “The Islamic Republic will not tolerate American presence in the region”.
Iran Revolutionary Guards Commander: US presence a threat
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 – In an apparent reference to the presence of US troops in Iraq, a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Corps (IRGC) official called for Iran to mobilize its troops against the “dangerous Zionist threat”.
Speaking to Revolutionary Guards and Iran’s Bassij (paramilitary police) forces in Khuzestan on Tuesday Deputy IRGC Commander Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr said, “The Islamic Republic will not tolerate American presence in the region”.
Australia deports Iranian man to Tehran
AP: An Iranian man who sought asylum in Australia after converting from Islam to Christianity has been deported to Tehran – where rights activists say his change of religion could endanger his life, a refugee advocacy group said Wednesday. The man, in his 30s, was placed on a flight late Tuesday from Sydney to Dubai, from where he would be transported to Iran, said Ian Rental, a spokesman for the Refugee Action Coalition.
Iran’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner summoned by hardline judiciary
Iran Focus: Paris, Jan. 13 – Nobel Peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said today she had been summoned by Iran’s hardline judiciary, risking arrest if she did not attend. “I have received a summons to a revolutionary court,” she told the French news agency, AFP. The summons says Ebadi must present herself to courts within the next three days to explain herself, otherwise she would be arrested.
Iran’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner summoned by hardline judiciary
Iran Focus: Paris, Jan. 13 – Nobel Peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said today she had been summoned by Iran’s hardline judiciary, risking arrest if she did not attend. “I have received a summons to a revolutionary court,” she told the French news agency, AFP. The summons says Ebadi must present herself to courts within the next three days to explain herself, otherwise she would be arrested.
16 students die in Iran school fire
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 Sixteen Iranian students were killed when a fire broke out in a school in western Iran at midday. Reports confirm that the fire broke out in Safilan village’s local school in Chahar Mahale Bakhtiari province (west Iran) after a schoolteacher attempted to turn on a gas heater which was near flammable liquids which caught fire upon contact.
16 students die in Iran school fire
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 Sixteen Iranian students were killed when a fire broke out in a school in western Iran at midday. Reports confirm that the fire broke out in Safilan village’s local school in Chahar Mahale Bakhtiari province (west Iran) after a schoolteacher attempted to turn on a gas heater which was near flammable liquids which caught fire upon contact.
