Iran Focus: Tehran/Paris, Oct. 04 Irans Majlis Speaker cancelled at the last minute a trip to the Council of Europe (COE) in the French city of Strasbourg in protest to a visit there earlier this week by the clerical theocracys main foe, state media reported on Thursday. Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel was scheduled to address the Council at 3 p.m. Parisian time.
Irans Majlis Speaker cancels trip to Europe in protest
Irans Majlis Speaker cancels trip to Europe in protest
Iran Focus: Tehran/Paris, Oct. 04 Irans Majlis Speaker cancelled at the last minute a trip to the Council of Europe (COE) in the French city of Strasbourg in protest to a visit there earlier this week by the clerical theocracys main foe, state media reported on Thursday. Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel was scheduled to address the Council at 3 p.m. Parisian time.
Iran says will go ahead with disputed atomic work
Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the world could not stop the Islamic state’s nuclear program, which the West fears is a cover to build a nuclear bomb, the official IRNA news agency said on Thursday.
Security forces detain extremist tied to Iran in southern Iraq
Iran Focus: London, Oct. 04 – Iraqi security forces detained a suspected “Special Groups” operative in southern Iraq with links to an Iranian explosively formed penetrator ring, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
Security forces detain extremist tied to Iran in southern Iraq
Iran Focus: London, Oct. 04 – Iraqi security forces detained a suspected “Special Groups” operative in southern Iraq with links to an Iranian explosively formed penetrator ring, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
Hold Iran accountable
Washington Times: On Oct. 23, 1983, the government of Iran sent a truck bomb into the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, destroying the building like a child smashing play-doh. Two hundred and forty-one men were killed, and countless others were wounded. It was mass murder.
IAEA chief says Iran must come clean or face ‘backfire’
RFE/RL: Muhammad el-Baradei, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, has warned Iran that it must “come clean” about its controversial uranium-enrichment activities or face new UN sanctions.
Iran to shut Bandar Abbas crude units in Jan, May
Reuters: Iran will shut a crude unit at its Bandar Abbas refinery in January and a second in May to boost capacity by 40 percent, part of its multi-billion dollar move to cut dependence on gasoline imports, a National Iranian Oil Co source said on Thursday.
Cholera spreads from Iraq to Iran: WHO expert
Reuters: Cholera has jumped the border from Iraq to Iran, highlighting the need for neighboring countries to boost their defenses against the deadly disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: Quds force
Daily Telegraph: The Quds Force is a special paramilitary unit attached to Irans Revolutionary Guards whose mission is to help organise, train and equip militia in the Middle East.
