AFP: UN Human Rights Commissioner Louise Arbour on Tuesday condemned the stoning to death of an Iranian man for adultery, and urged Tehran to spare his partner the same fate.
UN rights chief urges Iran to stop stonings
Norway summons Iran’s ambassador to protest stoning
AFP: Norway summoned the Iranian ambassador in Oslo on Tuesday to protest against the “barbaric” stoning to death of a man convicted of adultery in northwestern Iran.
Iran says man stoned to death for adultery
AFP: Iran said on Tuesday that a man convicted of adultery had been stoned to death in a village in northwestern Iran, the first time it has confirmed such an execution in five years.
Imam accused in JFK plot wanted help from Iran
New York Sun: A Shiite imam accused of plotting to blow up fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport wanted to seek Iranian backing for the terrorist plot.
Dubai dhow captains defy U.S. sanctions with shipments to Iran
Bloomberg: Sailors with skin baked to leather by the Persian Gulf sun stack Hewlett-Packard Co. laser-jet printers alongside a 40-foot wooden dhow in Dubai Creek as Ali Reza, an Iranian merchant, watches them sweat.
Beverly Hills may join push for Iran divestment
Los Angeles Times: Beverly Hills’ Iranian-born Mayor Jimmy Delshad plans to call today for the city to eliminate its pension fund investments in foreign companies operating in Iran. The largely symbolic action is intended to rally support for a movement in California and other states to isolate the Middle Eastern nation.
Italy Premier: Iran must not get weapons
AP: Italian Premier Romano Prodi said Monday that Iran must be prevented from acquiring nuclear weapons and called on Gaza’s Hamas rulers to release a captured Israeli soldier.
In Brief: Man hanged in eastern Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 09 Authorities hanged a man in the eastern Iranian city of Birjend, the official news agency IRNA reported on Monday.
In Brief: Man hanged in eastern Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 09 Authorities hanged a man in the eastern Iranian city of Birjend, the official news agency IRNA reported on Monday.
Iran hangs man in public
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 09 A man was hanged in public in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz.
