Daily Telegraph: The UN Security Council should this week be discussing how to punish Iran for refusing to halt its uranium-enrichment programme. Instead, the world’s leading powers are trying to bring a halt to the escalating violence in Israel and Lebanon, and Iran’s nuclear programme has fallen off the international agenda.
Meanwhile, Iran gets on with its bomb
Two men in their 20s hanged in public in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 20 Iranian authorities hanged two young men in public in the western city of Boroujerd, a semi-official daily wrote on Thursday.
Two men in their 20s hanged in public in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 20 Iranian authorities hanged two young men in public in the western city of Boroujerd, a semi-official daily wrote on Thursday.
French President meets Irans new envoy to Paris
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 20 French President Jacques Chirac has met and held talks with Irans new ambassador to France, state television reported on Wednesday.
French President meets Irans new envoy to Paris
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 20 French President Jacques Chirac has met and held talks with Irans new ambassador to France, state television reported on Wednesday.
Three European powers circulate revised draft on Iran nuclear issue
AFP: Britain, France and Germany on Thursday circulated a revised draft resolution in the UN Security Council that legally requires Iran to suspend all uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities.
Kurdish official says Iran shells Kurds in Iraq
Reuters: A senior Iraqi-Kurdish official accused Iranian forces on Thursday of shelling Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq.
US accuses Iran over North Korean missile tests
Reuters: Iran accused the United States on Thursday of trying to obstruct talks to end a standoff over Tehran’s nuclear programme, while Washington said its fears had risen because Iranians had witnessed North Korean missile tests.
Iran: Suicide bombers joined Hezbollah in Lebanon, militant says
AKI: A spokesman for an Iranian militant group which claims to have 55,000 would-be suicide bombers among its members said on Thursday that 27 of its men have joined Hezbollah militias in Lebanon to fight against Israel.
Russia backs UN deadline on Iran: Lavrov
Reuters: Russia is prepared to back a United Nations resolution giving Iran a deadline to respond to a package of incentives on its nuclear program, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Thursday.
