Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 22 More than 10,000 trouble-makers have been arrested in Tehran over the past two months, according to the spokesman for the armed forces in the Iranian capital, state-run press reported on Thursday.
Thousands arrested in police crackdown in Iran capital
Talks with Iran on nuclear plans resume; little progress is seen
New York Times: Representatives of three European countries and Iran met Wednesday for the first time since negotiations over Iran’s nuclear development program were suspended four months ago in bitterness. After five hours of closed-door meetings in Vienna, the delegates said the two sides had agreed to hold further talks in January.
Iranians, Europeans agree to more talks
AP: Iranian and European negotiators tentatively agreed Wednesday to meet next month, signaling a possible new start to negotiations to restrain the Tehran regime’s nuclear program and reduce fears it is trying to make atomic bombs
U.S. terror victims’ families sue Italy
AP: The families of three Americans killed in Palestinian suicide bombings have accused the Italian government of siding with Iran in a legal battle to collect damages from the Islamic regime’s assets in Italy.
The non-music man
The Wall Street Journal – Review & Outlook: In recent weeks, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” and denied that the Holocaust ever happened, much to the dismay of the West and probably a silent majority of Iranians, too.
A fire alarm in Iran
Los Angeles Times – EDITORIAL: Iran’s president is a menace. In October, he said Israel should be “wiped off the map.” Last week he called the Holocaust a “myth.” A nation led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad needs to be kept as far from nuclear weapons as possible.
Three young men hanged in public in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 21 Iranian authorities publicly hanged three men all in their twenties in the town of Sabzevar, north-east Iran, the state-run Fars news agency reported late Tuesday.
Three young men hanged in public in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 21 Iranian authorities publicly hanged three men all in their twenties in the town of Sabzevar, north-east Iran, the state-run Fars news agency reported late Tuesday.
Iran hides nuclear facilities in tunnels, exiles say
Bloomberg: Iran has been concealing part of its nuclear program in purpose-built tunnels for several years, an Iranian opposition group said before talks resume in Vienna tomorrow between the Islamic Republic and the European Union.
Iran wants to enrich uranium on its soil: FM
AFP: Iran will insist on the right to enrich uranium on its own soil during key talks that opened in Vienna on Wednesday with the European Union, Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki said.
