AFP: An Iranian youth was hanged for rape in the city of Kermanshah despite his victims withdrawing their complaint and a judicial decree quashing his death sentence, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
Iranian hanged despite court order quashing sentence
Iran denies senior IRGC official steps down from Gov post
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 06 Irans state-run press denied on Thursday reports that a senior Revolutionary Guards commander staunchly allied to hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had stepped down from the influential post of Deputy Interior Minister.
Iran denies senior IRGC official steps down from Gov post
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 06 Irans state-run press denied on Thursday reports that a senior Revolutionary Guards commander staunchly allied to hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had stepped down from the influential post of Deputy Interior Minister.
Merkel, Sarkozy say Iran still poses a threat
Reuters: Germany and France said on Thursday Iran’s nuclear programme was still a threat and the search for more U.N. sanctions should go on despite a U.S. intelligence report that Tehran was no longer trying to build an atomic bomb.
The NIE in doubt?
The Atlantic: Yesterdays revelations about Irans nuclear weapons program turns the last four years of speculation and suspicion on its head. What once seemed certain that Iran was building nuclear weapons is now in doubt. But a close reading of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) summary and sources within the Iranian opposition in fact leaves little conviction that the NIE is correct.
Iran to launch police stations for women in capital: report
AFP: Iran plans to set up police stations run by women officers in the Islamic republic’s capital to deal only with offences committed by women, the Tehran Emrouz newspaper reported on Thursday.
World War III: cancelled
The Times – The new Iran intelligence report is not an excuse for a peace in our time’ moment
This just in: the Third World War has been cancelled. Iran, a founder member of the Axis of Evil, once deemed to be bent on world domination at the point of a nuclear weapon, turns out to have been about as threatening as a teddy bear. Well, an inoffensively named, non-Sudanese teddy bear, I should quickly emphasise.
Rice wins support for Iran sanctions
AP: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice won support Thursday on Iran from two key European allies, France and Germany, whose leaders urged continued pressure on Tehran because of its nuclear program, saying the country remains a danger.
Don’t ask the CIA what’s going on in Teheran
Daily Telegraph: If generals are fated to prepare for the last war, intelligence agencies always bear in mind the last time they were proved wrong. The ghosts of Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction haunt America’s latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear programme.
Intelligence may change, but Iran still a threat
Daily Telegraph – Leaders: Seldom can a single document have caused quite such a stir. The National Intelligence Estimate, compiled by the US government’s 16 intelligence agencies, has stood the conventional wisdom on Iran’s nuclear weapons programme on its head.
