AFP: Iran’s top nuclear official Hassan Rowhani said Wednesday his country would not accept long drawn-out negotiations with the Europeans over a nuclear deal, the state news agency IRNA reported. “I must say that the duration of the negotiations constitutes a red line.
Iran nuclear chief says Tehran will not accept lengthy talks with EU
Iraqi minister blasts Iran as source of ‘terrorism’
AFP: Iraq’s Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan accused Iran Wednesday of orchestrating terrorist attacks in Iraq, saying its neighbor was the “most dangerous enemy of Iraq”.
“Iran is the most dangerous enemy of Iraq and all Arabs,”
Shaalan said. “The source of terrorism in Iraq is Iran.”
Iran to Execute Mentally Disabled Woman
Associated Press: Amnesty International said Tuesday that Iran planned to execute a mentally disabled 19-year-old woman for “acts contrary to chastity,” referring to alleged crimes stemming from her having been forced into prostitution as a child.
Iran’s former conservative FM to run for presidency
AFP: Iran’s former conservative foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati, now a top advisor to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has announced he will compete in the presidential elections scheduled for mid-2005, the student news agency ISNA reported on Tuesday. “I believe it is my duty to enter the electoral competition and the voters can evaluate each candidate’s capabilities”, Velayati said.
Death toll from Iran floods rises to 29
AFP: The number of people who have died as a result of
floods and heavy rain in Iran’s southern province of Bushehr has risen to 29, student news agency ISNA reported Tuesday.
Iran Open to U.S. Involvement in N-Talks — Minister
Reuters: Iran would not object to Washington joining negotiations with the European Union over its nuclear program provided the United States treated Tehran with respect, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Tuesday. Britain, France and Germany began talks in Brussels on Monday with Iran aimed
at brokering a long-term agreement over Tehran’s nuclear activities, which Washington says are geared to building atomic arms.
Iran hangs convict
AFP: A 26-year-old Iranian man, convicted of murdering a woman, was hanged in prison in the northern city of Semnan, the conservative daily Jomhuri Eslami reported on Tuesday. Quoting local judiciary officials, the paper indentified the man, who was hanged on Monday, as Qadir Zamaemi-Fard and
said he had a history of repeated theft.
Iran and Europeans Open a New Round of Negotiations
New York Times: Iran and its European partners pledged Monday to work to overcome their differences and lingering suspicions as they began negotiations for a long-term agreement on nuclear, economic and security cooperation.
Teenage sex slave sentenced to death
Daily Telegraph: A 19-year-old Iranian girl with a mental age of eight who was forced into prostitution by her mother has been sentenced to be flogged and executed for ‘morality-related’ offences, Amnesty International said yesterday. The human rights pressure group has asked Iran’s supreme court to stay the execution. The girl, named only as Leyla M, had suffered a “litany of abuse”, it said.
Iran: Girl With Mental Age of Eight Given Death Sentence After Mother Forced Her Into Prostitution F
Amnesty International: A 19-year old girl, Leyla M, who has a mental
age of eight, reportedly faces imminent execution for morality-related offences after being forced into prostitution by her mother as a child. According to a Tehran newspaper report of 28 November, she was sentenced to death by a court in the central Iranian city of Arak and the sentence has now been passed to the Supreme Court for confirmation.
