Washington Post: Federal and state financial regulators announced yesterday that they are levying $80 million in fines against ABN Amro Bank NV, a giant Dutch lender, for violating money-laundering laws and sanctions restricting dealings with Iran and Libya.
Dutch bank fined for Iran, Libya transactions
Iranian Bahai dies after 10 years in prison
Reuters: An Iranian of the Bahai faith has died in his jail cell of unknown causes, 10 years after being imprisoned by Tehran for abandoning Islam, the Bahai International Community said on Monday.
Little optimism ahead of EU-Iran nuclear talks
Reuters: France, Britain and Germany resume low-level talks with Iran this week about its nuclear programme, but EU diplomats expressed little optimism that talks with Iran’s hardline government would yield a breakthrough.
Iran’s president bans Western music
AP: Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has banned Western music from Iran’s radio and TV stations, reviving one of the harshest cultural decrees from the early days of 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Iran hangs young prisoner in capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 Authorities hanged a young man in Tehrans notorious Evin Prison, a state-run daily reported on Monday.
Iran hangs young prisoner in capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 Authorities hanged a young man in Tehrans notorious Evin Prison, a state-run daily reported on Monday.
Irans president honours martyred bodyguard
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, several of his ministers and senior military and government figures attended a special service at the Presidential Office in Tehran on Monday to honour a top presidential bodyguard, who died in an ambush during Ahmadinejads visit to south-eastern parts of the country, the government-owned ISNA news agency reported.
Irans president honours martyred bodyguard
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, several of his ministers and senior military and government figures attended a special service at the Presidential Office in Tehran on Monday to honour a top presidential bodyguard, who died in an ambush during Ahmadinejads visit to south-eastern parts of the country, the government-owned ISNA news agency reported.
Selection of Irans leader to remain a men-only domain
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 A powerful cleric rejected the notion of women taking up posts in the assembly of theologians who choose the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic.
Selection of Irans leader to remain a men-only domain
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 A powerful cleric rejected the notion of women taking up posts in the assembly of theologians who choose the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic.
