Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 Analysts and defectors from Irans booming arms industry believe that the appointment as Defence Minister of an ultra-Islamist regarded as the father of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards operations beyond the countrys borders could have a direct impact on the supply of sophisticated weapons and bombs to terrorist groups operating in Iraq.
Irans new defence minister may impact Iraqi insurgency
17-year-old musician to be hanged in Iran capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 A seventeen-year-old
musician in Iran is facing imminent execution in public after his death sentence was upheld by Irans hard-line Supreme Court,
a state-owned daily reported on Wednesday.
The teenage boy, identified by his first name Sina, was found
guilty of murdering another individual after a dispute over
cannabis last October, the daily Etemaad reported.
17-year-old musician to be hanged in Iran capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 A seventeen-year-old
musician in Iran is facing imminent execution in public after his death sentence was upheld by Irans hard-line Supreme Court,
a state-owned daily reported on Wednesday.
The teenage boy, identified by his first name Sina, was found
guilty of murdering another individual after a dispute over
cannabis last October, the daily Etemaad reported.
Iran to hang 16-year-old schoolboy
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 Irans clergy-dominated Supreme Court has given the green light for the hanging of a 16-year-old schoolboy in Tehran, a state-owned daily reported on Wednesday.
Iran to hang 16-year-old schoolboy
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 Irans clergy-dominated Supreme Court has given the green light for the hanging of a 16-year-old schoolboy in Tehran, a state-owned daily reported on Wednesday.
Top negotiator says Iran firm on nuclear enrichment
Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 24 The United States and the
Europeans will gain nothing from adopting a tough line
against Iran and taking it to the United Nations Security
Council, Irans new hard-line chief nuclear negotiator
warned in an interview that appeared on Wednesday on a
Persian-language website.
Top negotiator says Iran firm on nuclear enrichment
Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 24 The United States and the
Europeans will gain nothing from adopting a tough line
against Iran and taking it to the United Nations Security
Council, Irans new hard-line chief nuclear negotiator
warned in an interview that appeared on Wednesday on a
Persian-language website.
Halliburton-linked company stripped of Iran contract
AFP: A private Iranian oil company linked to the US oil giant Halliburton has lost a multi-million dollar contract to drill for natural gas amid accusations it won the deal through bribery, officials said Tuesday.
Iran hangs four men aged between 17 and 23
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 Four young men between the ages of 17 and 23 were hanged in public in the port city of Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, on Tuesday, according to the state-owned daily Kayhan. News of the hanging was posted on the ultra-Islamist dailys website late on Tuesday. The four were identified only by their initials. Two of them received 74 lashes in public before their execution, the daily reported.
Iran hangs four men aged between 17 and 23
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 Four young men between the ages of 17 and 23 were hanged in public in the port city of Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, on Tuesday, according to the state-owned daily Kayhan. News of the hanging was posted on the ultra-Islamist dailys website late on Tuesday. The four were identified only by their initials. Two of them received 74 lashes in public before their execution, the daily reported.
