AFP: A crash involving four cars in southeastern Iran has killed 15 people and left three others injured, the state news agency IRNA reported Saturday. Local traffic police chief Ardavan Ghasemi said the accident occurred between Zahedan and Khash in Sistan-Baluchestan province.
Fifteen killed in Iran road pile-up
‘I was tortured for saying the flogging must end in Iran’
The Independent: The treatment of Arash Nassouri was brutal. “They hung me upside down and handcuffed me with a bar under my knees,” he says. “They started kicking and punching me … beating me in every part of my back, my stomach, face, everywhere. My backbone was broken. But the pain was worst when they hit my face. My nose was already broken, …
High-energy neutron experiments in Iran raise suspicions: diplomats
AFP: High-energy neutron experiments in Iran that could be either civilian oriented or related to making an atomic bomb have raised suspicions since they are allegedly conducted under military supervision, diplomats told AFP Friday and in recent interviews. The experiments, carried out with a neutron generator, are thought to be taking place at an alleged base of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards.
Persecution Of Baha’is Continues In Iran
Radio Free Europe: Baha’is are Iran’s largest religious
minority, but their faith is not recognized in the country’s constitution and they have long faced harassment and persecution. The European Union recently lodged a formal complaint with Iranian authorities over the arrest and harassment of journalists as well as members of religious minorities such as the Baha’is.
German firm ends ties with Iran
Gulf Daily News: German steel and engineering group ThyssenKrupp has ended a 30-year relationship with Iran, appearing to bow to pressure from the US in a move which could lead Tehran to sell its remaining shares. ThyssenKrupp will not nominate an Iranian representative to its …
Iranian Kurd refugees leave for Sweden; hundreds remain in no man’s land
UN High Commissioner for Refugees: For more than a year and a half, they had lived under tents in the inhospitable desert of the no man’s land between Jordan and Iraq. In the early hours of Thursday, waiting for the plane that was to take them to their
new life in Sweden, the group of 185 Iranian Kurd refugees at Amman airport could hardly believe their luck.
Substantive Iran, EU nuclear talks to start next week: Tehran
AFP: Substantive talks on a nuclear, political and trade cooperation pact between Iran and the European Union will begin next week with a ministerial meeting in Brussels, an Iranian official said Friday. “After an agreement at the ministerial level, I believe we can start the working groups immediately on December 14 or 15,” said Hossein Moussavian, an aid to Iran’s nuclear negotiator Hassan Rohani.
Powell urges close eye on Iranian nuclear activities
AFP: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday that the international community must keep a close eye on Iran’s nuclear activities to ensure it does not violate a hard-won deal to suspend uranium enrichment. He told French television that while the United States accepted the accord struck by Iran and the European Union, it would not drop its guard.
IAEA head warns of Iran’s nuke program
UPI: The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog is warning Iran’s nuclear program remains a danger to world security. But Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also says there is no alternative to dialogue between Tehran and the IAEA plus credible inspections, the Financial Times reported Friday.
Floods in south Iran kill 10 people, injure 18-IRNA
Reuters: Heavy rain and floods in southwestern Iran killed at least 10 people and injured at least 18, the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday. In one incident in the Bushehr province, a bus fell off a bridge into a ravine
