Washington Times – Editorial: French pharmaceutical company Ipsen objects to The Washington Times focusing a spotlight on their well-documented relationship with the University of Tehran and Pasteur Institute, both of which are on the U.S. and British lists of organizations with suspected links to terrorism.
The Ipsen-Iran connection
Japan says shares concerns on Iran nuclear drive
AFP: Japan said on Saturday it shared the concerns of world powers over Iran's controversial nuclear programme and urged the Islamic republic to take "positive" steps towards resolving the dispute.
Iran helicopters strike Iraq Kurd villages
AFP: Iranian helicopters attacked three Iraqi Kurdish villages in a cross-border raid on Saturday, a border guard official said, the first time Iran has used aircraft against Kurdish rebels.
Clinton frets over Chinese, Iranian inroads in Americas
AFP: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday defended new moves to engage anti-US leaders in Latin America as a way to check what she calls "quite disturbing" Iranian and Chinese inroads in the region.
US bill would bar firms selling gasoline to Iran
Reuters: Foreign companies that sell refined petroleum products like gasoline to Iran would be barred from doing business in the United States, under a bill introduced this week in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Obama ‘concerned’ over US reporters held in Iran, NKorea
AFP: US President Barack Obama said Friday his administration was "especially concerned" about the detention of two US journalists in North Korea and one in Iran.
Group besieged in Iraq
Washington Times: Trouble is brewing at Camp Ashraf in Iraq, where 3,500 members of the main Iranian opposition group the PMOI – the People's Mujahideen of Iran – are based.
Iran hangs young woman for teenage crime she denied
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 1 – A young Iranian woman, who was accused of a committing a crime when she was 17 and whose sentencing had been condemned by international human rights organisations, was hanged earlier today, Iran Focus has learnt.
Iran hangs young woman for teenage crime she denied
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 1 – A young Iranian woman, who was accused of a committing a crime when she was 17 and whose sentencing had been condemned by international human rights organisations, was hanged earlier today, Iran Focus has learnt.
Iranians and others outwit net censors
New York Times: The Iranian government, more than almost any other, censors what citizens can read online, using elaborate technology to block millions of Web sites offering news, commentary, videos, music and, until recently, Facebook and YouTube.
