AFP: An Iranian journalist working on the political pages of two reformist dailies has been arrested, his wife told the student news agency ISNA Tuesday.
The report quoted her as saying Rozbeh Mir-Ebrahimi, a writer with the Etemad and banned Jomhuriat papers, “was arrested by people who said they were from the police” on Monday morning.
“They searched the house and asked him questions about his work with different internet sites …”
Journalist Arrested In Iran
2 men hanged in northern Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 28 – Iranian officials announced on Tuesday that 2 Afghans were executed. The pair were hanged in prison on Monday in the city of Saveh (northern Iran).
Police sources have identified the men as Jomeh Arab and Mohammad Tajik.
The two men who had been arrested more than 3 years ago …
Iran’s hardline lawmakers want withdrawal from NPT
Reuters: Iran’s hardline lawmakers could try to force President Mohammad Khatami’s government to follow North Korea’s example and quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the official IRNA news agency said on Tuesday.
Leading conservative parliamentarian Hassan Kamran has prepared a bill for submission to parliament that would force the government to set a November deadline for the U.N. nuclear watchdog to take Iran
off the agency’s agenda, IRNA said.
Iran’s ‘sanitized’ site causes controversy
Reuters: The analysis of soil samples taken by U.N. inspectors
at Lavizan, a site in Tehran that U.S. officials suspect may be linked to an atomic weapons programme, shows no sign of nuclear activity, Western diplomats said.
Satellite photos of Lavizan taken between August 2003 and May 2004 showed that Iran had completely razed Lavizan, a site
which Iran said was a former military research laboratory and
had nothing to do with atomic-related activities.
Iranian spy nabbed in Baghdad as Tehran steps up meddling in Iraq
Iran Focus: Baghdad, Sep. 28 – Iraqi security forces have arrested a spy working for Iranian intelligence, a Baghdad newspaper reported Tuesday.
A senior Iraqi intelligence official identified the arrested man as Nashaat Abd Ali Al-Hussaini, adding that he had confessed to serious things that would incriminate the Iranian intelligence and its interference in Iraq’s internal affairs, Al-Furat reported.
Iranian spy nabbed in Baghdad as Tehran steps up meddling in Iraq
Iran Focus: Baghdad, Sep. 28 – Iraqi security forces have arrested a spy working for Iranian intelligence, a Baghdad newspaper reported Tuesday.
A senior Iraqi intelligence official identified the arrested man as Nashaat Abd Ali Al-Hussaini, adding that he had confessed to serious things that would incriminate the Iranian intelligence and its interference in Iraq’s internal affairs, Al-Furat reported.
Spend on nukes? Iran should tend to its poor first
The Straits Times: Is Iran – with oil-export revenues of more than US$30 billion (S$51 billion) expected this year – on its way to producing nuclear weapons that would threaten not only neighbouring Middle East enemies such as Israel but also European nations?
Indeed, should it be allowed to do so? With growing unemployment among its young, and rising social tensions, can
Iran afford to pursue the development of a nuclear arsenal?
Bush hopes diplomacy can persuade Iran away from nuclear weapons
AP: President Bush, preparing for this week’s much-anticipated campaign debate on foreign policy, is insisting Iran will not develop a nuclear weapon on his watch.
“My hope is that we can solve this diplomatically,” Bush said in a TV interview broadcast Monday. “We are working our hearts out so that they don’t develop a nuclear weapon, and the best way to do so is to continue to keep international pressure on them.”
Iran threatens to withdraw from nuclear NPT
Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 27 – A senior member of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the highest decision-making body on military and security issues, threatened that Iran might pull out of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that it had signed. Ali Larijani threatened action if Iran was put under pressure by Europe and the United States to curb its nuclear program.
Iran threatens to withdraw from nuclear NPT
Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 27 – A senior member of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the highest decision-making body on military and security issues, threatened that Iran might pull out of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that it had signed. Ali Larijani threatened action if Iran was put under pressure by Europe and the United States to curb its nuclear program.
