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Iranian dissident fires Ukraine, Iran charges on Tehran’s nuclear program

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AFP: A prominent Iranian dissident claimed Tehran had mastered the design of nuclear capable cruise missiles secretly sold to the Islamic Republic by Ukraine and was
on the verge of producing copies.

Iran said not worried about U.N. action

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AP: Iran hopes talks with Europe on easing tensions over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions are not dead, but it does not fear the threat of U.N. Security Council action if it continues activities linked to uranium enrichment, the country’s top negotiator said Friday.
Ali Larijani also said he hoped Iran would present new ideas within a month aimed at reducing suspicions about its nuclear agenda, which Tehran insists is to produce power for peaceful purposes.

Senior Iran cleric hails “Islamic state of Iraq”

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 26 – A senior Iranian cleric welcomed on Friday the establishment of an Islamic
republic in Iraq and hailed the country’s new constitution as one based on “Islamic precepts”.

Senior Iran cleric hails “Islamic state of Iraq”

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 26 – A senior Iranian cleric welcomed on Friday the establishment of an Islamic
republic in Iraq and hailed the country’s new constitution as one based on “Islamic precepts”.

Three buses pile up in Iran, killing 22 – TV

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Reuters: Three coaches crashed in northwestern Iran on Friday, killing 22 people and injuring 38, state television reported.

Iran: In Brief

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Iran Focus: The news in Tehran and elsewhere in Iran on Friday, Aug. 26 – Ban on Music Day
Brothers Esmaeili
Ahmadinejad shuns journalists
“19-year-old girl kidnapped my 21-year-old son”
New crackdown in Tehran
14,205 street children rounded up in Tehran

In Brief

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Iran Focus: The news in Tehran and elsewhere in Iran on Friday, Aug. 26 – Ban on Music Day
Brothers Esmaeili
Ahmadinejad shuns journalists
“19-year-old girl kidnapped my 21-year-old son”
New crackdown in Tehran
14,205 street children rounded up in Tehran

Murder, kidnapping of Iranian refugees in Iraq raise alarm

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Iran Focus: London, Aug. 26 – The cold-blooded murder of three Iranian Kurds in a refugee camp west of the Iraqi capital and the abduction of two Iranian dissidents in recent days have led to speculations that the new hard-line government in Tehran is taking advantage of the worsening security situation in Iraq to liquidate its opponents who have taken refuge in the neighbouring country.

Murder, kidnapping of Iranian refugees in Iraq raise alarm

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Iran Focus: London, Aug. 26 – The cold-blooded murder of three Iranian Kurds in a refugee camp west of the Iraqi capital and the abduction of two Iranian dissidents in recent days have led to speculations that the new hard-line government in Tehran is taking advantage of the worsening security situation in Iraq to liquidate its opponents who have taken refuge in the neighbouring country.

Ex U.S. hostages confirm Iran president’s role in embassy siege

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Iran Focus: London, Aug. 26 – Two former United States hostages held captive in Iran for 444 days when radical Islamists seized the American embassy in Tehran in 1979 told a Persian-language satellite channel that they have no doubts that Iran’s new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of the supervisors of their interrogators during their ordeal.