Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 A passenger bus collided with a truck on a highway in central Iran leaving 27 people dead and five others injured, the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Sunday.
Bus, truck collision leaves 27 dead in central Iran
Bus, truck collision leaves 27 dead in central Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 A passenger bus collided with a truck on a highway in central Iran leaving 27 people dead and five others injured, the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Sunday.
Annan questions Iran Holocaust exhibit
AP: U.N. Secretary of State Kofi Annan, visiting Iran Saturday, raised concerns with officials over an exhibition of cartoons about the Holocaust that opened in response to Muslim outrage over the Prophet Muhammad caricatures.
Germany’s Merkel urges diplomacy, not force, in Iran dispute
Bloomberg: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the European Union and the U.S. must use diplomatic rather than military pressure on Iran, two days after it defied a United Nations deadline for the suspension of uranium enrichment.
EU gives Iran two more weeks in nuclear standoff
Reuters: The European Union agreed on Saturday to try to clarify Iran’s stance on halting uranium enrichment within two weeks and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan held talks in Tehran to try and settle the standoff.
Annan to press Iran to help shore up Lebanon truce
Reuters: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is expected to press Iran on Saturday to help shore up the Hizbollah-Israel ceasefire, but diplomats say the talks will also cover Iran’s nuclear standoff with the West.
UN hints at talks, not sanctions, as Iran nuclear deadline passes
The Times: Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, begins a controversial visit to Iran today as European powers appeared to back away from immediate sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear programme.
Ahmadinejad vows Iran will defend nuclear aims
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday vowed that Iran would defend the aims of its nuclear programme “with firmness” during any negotiations on the issue.
Iran sees no OPEC quota change at September meeting
AFP: Iran on Saturday predicted OPEC would not change its output quota at its next meeting in September, saying the cartel would keep the market well supplied in order to quash criticism it wanted to keep prices high.
Iran plane catches fire, 28 dead: TV
Reuters: An Iranian airliner caught fire after a tire burst on landing at an airport in the northeast of the country on Friday, killing 28 of the 148 people aboard, state television reported.
