Iran Focus: Tehran, Nov. 6 Hundreds of students at the Teachers Training College staged a protest Wednesday over poor quality of food and administrative mismanagement in the institution.
Students also complained of a lack of proper tutorials and insufficient academic facilities.
Students protest insufficient university services
Europeans reject Iran nuclear offer
Associated Press: European countries have rejected an
Iranian offer to suspend its nuclear activities for six months, state-run television reported as China’s visiting foreign minister sought to resolve the dispute without formal UN security council involvement.
Women’s media, rights groups urged to take action after second woman arrested on Internet-related ch
Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders today called on women’s media and women’s rights groups around the world to rally to the defence of two Iraqi women journalists who have been arrested in the past eight days in connection with their work for pro-reform websites.
Iran, EU sticking to positions in nuclear talks: Rowhani
AFP: Iran and European Union officials are sticking to their positions on key questions in negotiations on the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme which were underway on Saturday in Paris, a top Iranian official said. “The two sides are sticking to their positions on the fundamental questions,” Hassan Rowhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme …
Iran is playing ‘positive role’ in Iraq: Kharazi
AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi dismissed on Saturday fresh allegations of interference in neighbouring Iraq, asserting that the Islamic republic was playing a “positive role” and not fuelling unrest. “Iran is playing a positive role in Iraq, and if anyone thinks that Iran is interfering in Iraq’s internal affairs they had better show their evidence,” Kharazi said in a joint press conference with his Chinese counterpart Li Zhaoxing.
Iraqi PM urges EU to persuade Syria, Iran against ‘fuelling violence’
AFP: Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi Friday urged the European Union to use its influence with Syria and Iran to stop them from “fuelling violence” in his country. “We need your help in persuading Iraq’s neighbours that fuelling violence in Iraq will only damage their own security in the long term,” he told European Union leaders in a speech made available to the press.
Iran wants China to replace Japan as top oil importer: report
AFP: Iran wants China to replace Japan as its biggest importer of oil and gas, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh was reported as saying here Saturday. “Japan is our number one energy importer due to historical reasons … but we would like to give preference to exports to China,” Zanganeh was quoted as saying the China Business Weekly magazine.
Tehran Webloggers arrested in midnight raids
Iran Focus: Tehran, Nov. 6 – Security forces have raided and arrested three webloggers in Tehran, according to reports
from the Iranian capital.
The three, identified by their first names as Dariush, Omid
and Payvand, were arrested in midnight raids on their homes on Thursday.
Iran and Europe Locked in Nuclear Talks
New York Times: In an effort to stop Iran from producing a nuclear bomb, the 25 leaders of the European Union on Friday offered Iran economic and political incentives if it suspended its production of enriched uranium. The proposal, issued in a statement at the end of a two-day summit meeting in Brussels, coincided with negotiations that opened here in which Iran
was seeking concessions from France, Germany, Britain and the European Union to allow it to produce enriched uranium.
President may turn attention to Iran
Daily Telegraph: With Iran believed to be coming ever closer to developing nuclear weapons, President Bush may have to decide in the next four years whether to order pre-emptive military action against another “rogue” state. As with Iraq, the debate would revolve around the quality of intelligence on weapons of mass destruction and what constitutes “active” co-operation by Iran with weapons inspections.
