Reuters: Iranian police will crack down on women in Tehran flouting Islamic dress codes with winter fashions deemed immodest, such as tight trousers tucked into long boots, an officer was quoted as saying on Saturday.
Tight trousers targeted in Iran clothing crackdown
Quake jolts western Iran province
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 01 An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale shook parts of Kermanshah Province, western Iran, on Saturday, state media reported.
Quake jolts western Iran province
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 01 An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale shook parts of Kermanshah Province, western Iran, on Saturday, state media reported.
World powers meet on Iran nuclear programme
AFP: Representatives of the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany were to meet Saturday to discuss Iran’s contested nuclear programme after last-ditch talks failed to produce a breakthrough.
British ban on ‘terrorist’ group reversed
Los Angeles Times: In a victory for British politicians pushing to promote regime change in Iran, an appeals tribunal ruled today that their government had no authority to ban Iran’s best-organized opposition group as a terrorist organization.
EU-Iranian talks break up; no compromise
AP: An 18-month attempt to persuade Iran to mothball uranium enrichment collapsed Friday after a senior European Union envoy failed to dent Tehran’s resolve to expand the technology, despite the threat of new U.N. sanctions.
US hopes Iran will bend on nuclear issue
AFP: The United States said Friday it hoped Iran would bow to pressure to freeze sensitive nuclear work, amid talks seen as a last chance before a possible new round of sanctions against Tehran.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards patrol Persian Gulf, U.S. says
CNN: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has taken command of Iranian naval operations in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. military has revealed.
Iran offers no concessions in nuclear talks
New York Times: Negotiators for Iran and the European Union held a new round of talks today on Irans uranium enrichment program, but the meeting ended with indications that the Iranians had offered no new concessions to ease Western concerns that Iran plans to develop nuclear weapons.
On nuclear seesaw, the balance seems to shift to Iran
New York Times: Irans president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is known for overheated, boastful pronouncements. So it was hardly a surprise earlier this month when he declared that despite demands from the United States and other countries that Iran stop enriching uranium, Tehran was pressing ahead and negotiations were out of the question.
