Death Penalty News: Reports from Iran indicate that the death sentence of the 26 year old Iranian woman Reyhaneh Jabbari can be carried out on Tuesday April 15. Reyhaneh Jabbari, aged 26, was arrested in 2007 for the murder of a former employee of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence.
Iranian woman Reyhaneh Jabbari at imminent danger of execution
American’s wish for Iranian burial riles hard-liners
New York Times: Richard Nelson Frye, a renowned American scholar of Iran who died last month in Boston at 94, wanted to be buried at a spot in this country where songbirds sing and dry desert breezes cool the slow afternoons.
Iran needs 30,000 new centrifuges for fuel: official
AFP – Iran will need 30,000 of its new generation centrifuges to meet domestic fuel demands, far more than the current number, its nuclear chief said Sunday. Ali Akbar Salehi’s comments came just days after the latest round of talks in Vienna aimed at securing a long-term deal over Iran’s disputed nuclear programme.
Row over Iran UN pick not impacting nuclear talks: US
AFP – The United States’ refusal to issue a visa to Iran’s pick for UN ambassador is not impacting talks over the country’s disputed nuclear program, Washington’s envoy to the United Nations said Sunday. Washington has said it won’t issue a visa to Hamid Aboutalebi, who has been linked to the 1979 US hostage crisis.
Iran scraps plan to send warships to Atlantic: Fars
Reuters: Iran has called off a deployment of warships to the Atlantic Ocean, the semi-official Fars news agency said on Sunday, shelving plans for its vessels to approach U.S. maritime borders in response to the U.S. navy’s presence in the Gulf.
Iran talking to EU businesses about future investment, Seif says
Bloomberg: Iran, whose economy has been crippled by penalties imposed by the West over its refusal to halt uranium enrichment, has maintained a dialog with investors and is confident it could attract investment in the automobile, steel and heavy machinery industries, central bank governor Valiollah Seif said.
Iran’s leaders still touting nuclear progress
Wall Street Journal: A senior cleric delivering a nationally televised sermon urged a crowd that included former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the head of Iran’s nuclear energy organization to observe sexual piety, aid the poor and support Iran’s development of nuclear power.
Former U.S. Marine’s family asks Iran to reconsider prison term
Reuters: The family of an Iranian-American former U.S. Marine held in Iran since 2011 called on Saturday for senior Iranian officials to review his conviction and 10-year prison sentence on charges of collaborating with the U.S. government and to free him.
Iran rejects U.S. ban on pick for U.N. envoy, vows legal action
Reuters: Iran on Saturday rejected a U.S. decision to deny a visa for its newly appointed ambassador to the United Nations, pledging to take up the case directly with the world body in a dispute that has reopened old wounds dating to the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Suicide rate among Iranian youth on the rise
Daily Sabah: Every day 11 people committed suicide in Iran, according to country’s official statistics. Around 3,125 people committed suicide in Iran last eight months, among them 982 women and 2,143 men. Statistics show that in Iran suicide among young people aged 18-24 years is growing.
