Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 29 They left their village before
dawn to be at the gates of the complex housing the judiciary in Tehran before it opened. They were more than a hundred; all men, their lean faces tanned and their large hands callused and rough. Most looked young, some middle-aged, and a handful very old.
Men over 80 among dozens flogged in public in Iran village
Men over 80 among dozens flogged in public in Iran village
Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 29 They left their village before
dawn to be at the gates of the complex housing the judiciary in Tehran before it opened. They were more than a hundred; all men, their lean faces tanned and their large hands callused and rough. Most looked young, some middle-aged, and a handful very old.
US to keep pushing for Security Council debate on Iran: Bolton
AFP: The United States will keep pushing the UN Security Council to consider whether Iran’s nuclear ambitions are out
of bounds, John Bolton, US undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, said.
“The reason we favor taking it to the Security Council is, we want to put Iran in the international spotlight …”
Iran clashes leave 7 dead
Iran Focus: Bandar Abbas, Sep. 28 – Widespread clashes have erupted between people and security forces in Nour-Abad region of Mamasani, Bandar Abbas and Miandoab
At least seven people have been killed and hundreds more were reportedly wounded and a vast number of people have been detained.
Iran clashes leave 7 dead
Iran Focus: Bandar Abbas, Sep. 28 – Widespread clashes have erupted between people and security forces in Nour-Abad region of Mamasani, Bandar Abbas and Miandoab
At least seven people have been killed and hundreds more were reportedly wounded and a vast number of people have been detained.
Journalist Arrested In Iran
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 …”
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.
