Iran Focus: Amman, Jan. 07 At least 28 Jordanian lawmakers have signed a petition calling on the government to cut ties with Iran and Israel.
Jordanian lawmakers call for cut in ties with Iran, Israel
Jordanian lawmakers call for cut in ties with Iran, Israel
Iran Focus: Amman, Jan. 07 At least 28 Jordanian lawmakers have signed a petition calling on the government to cut ties with Iran and Israel.
Iran vows to hit back at any Israeli strike
AFP: Iran warned on Sunday it would make any foe “regret” an attack against the Islamic republic after a British newspaper reported Israel was planning a strike against its nuclear facilities.
Report on planned Israeli strike on Iran ‘absurd’
AFP: A senior Israeli official dismissed as “absurd” a report in The Sunday Times that the Jewish state had drawn up plans to destroy arch-foe Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities in a tactical nuclear strike.
Iran man flogged in public for making home-made porn film
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – A man was flogged in public in the town of Behshahr, northern Iran, for producing home-made pornographic videos, state media reported on Sunday.
Iran man flogged in public for making home-made porn film
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – A man was flogged in public in the town of Behshahr, northern Iran, for producing home-made pornographic videos, state media reported on Sunday.
Iran arrests journalist after meeting abroad
AFP: An Iranian journalist who worked for the now banned reformist Yas-e No and the centrist Shargh newspapers has been arrested after returning from a conference abroad, an official said Saturday.
U.S. puts squeeze on Iran’s oil fields
Los Angeles Times: As Washington wages a very public battle against Iran’s quest for nuclear power, it is quietly gaining ground on another energy front: the oil fields that are the Islamic Republic’s lifeblood.
A giant and scary leap
Sunday Times – Leading articles: It was one of the most daring raids of all time and it led to the destruction of Iraqs early ambitions to acquire a nuclear bomb. In 1981, Israeli aircraft attacked the nuclear testing reactor at Osirak, south of Baghdad, crippling their plant. It was finally destroyed in the Iraq war a decade later when the United States retaliated for the invasion of Kuwait.
Saudis, France urge compliance from Iran
AP: Saudi Arabia and France called Saturday on Iran to accept international demands to halt uranium enrichment, saying the Mideast should be free of weapons of mass destruction.
