Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 31 A key member of Irans Majlis (Parliament) is set to take over the vacant post of Welfare Minister in Mahmoud Ahmadinejads hard-line cabinet.
Ex-prison official to take over Irans vacant cabinet post
Ex-prison official to take over Irans vacant cabinet post
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 31 A key member of Irans Majlis (Parliament) is set to take over the vacant post of Welfare Minister in Mahmoud Ahmadinejads hard-line cabinet.
Bolton faults Syria, Iran on Lebanon
AP: U.S. Ambassador John Bolton accused Syria and Iran on Monday of trying to destabilize Lebanon’s democratically elected government by violating a U.N. arms embargo.
Iran’s desperate kidney traders
BBC News: On streets and in town squares in Iran, young men and women can be seen holding signs offering their kidneys for sale.
U.S. seeks guarantees over Iran nuclear reactor
Reuters: The United States wants guarantees that a Russian-built nuclear reactor in Iran will not advance a weapons program but does not think differences over the issue will block a U.N. sanctions resolution against Tehran, a senior U.S. official said on Monday.
U.S., allies hold anti-WMD drill at Iran’s doorstep
Reuters: Twenty five nations took part in a U.S.-led naval exercise on Monday in waters not far from Iran aimed at training forces to block the transport of weapons of mass destruction and related equipment.
Iran nuclear plans still a “serious concern”: IAEA
Reuters: Iran has yet to satisfy U.N. watchdogs that its nuclear program seeks only to produce electric power and not bombs, the head of the U.N. nuclear agency told the General Assembly on Monday.
Food for thought: why is Iran so intransigent?
Iran Focus – Opinion: Is it ideological? Is it driven by factional infighting? Or may be its just suicidal? Whatever its cause, the Iranian leaderships repeated rejection of Western governments offers of compromise has confounded veteran pundits and Iran watchers around the world. No one seems to be sure what the clerical rulers of Iran are up to.
Food for thought: why is Iran so intransigent?
Iran Focus – Opinion: Is it ideological? Is it driven by factional infighting? Or may be its just suicidal? Whatever its cause, the Iranian leaderships repeated rejection of Western governments offers of compromise has confounded veteran pundits and Iran watchers around the world. No one seems to be sure what the clerical rulers of Iran are up to.
Will Russia ever learn its Iran lesson?
Iran Focus – Opinion: London, Oct. 29 From Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin, the history of Russo-Iranian relations can rightfully claim to be the worlds longest, if not the most heart-rending, tragedy; a painful, tortuous journey from icy domination to bitter estrangement, remarkably spanning over three centuries without a flickering moment of mutual love, let alone a lackluster honeymoon.
