Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 Irans Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered on Saturday a key change in the high command of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in a move that will have far-reaching consequences for the countrys military strategy. Khamenei, acting in his capacity as the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, put Brigadier General Mohammad-Ali (Aziz) Jaafari in charge of forming the IRGC centre for strategy.
Iran leader makes key changes in Revolutionary Guards command
Iran leader makes key changes in Revolutionary Guards command
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 Irans Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered on Saturday a key change in the high command of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in a move that will have far-reaching consequences for the countrys military strategy. Khamenei, acting in his capacity as the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, put Brigadier General Mohammad-Ali (Aziz) Jaafari in charge of forming the IRGC centre for strategy.
Iran police hunt banned satellite dishes
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 Irans police forces have been instructed to use all means, including helicopters, to locate and confiscate privately-owned satellite dishes, which are illegal in Iran. A senior police commander in the north-eastern province of North Khorassan told local journalists in the provincial capital Mashad on Saturday that his forces have been using choppers to spot the satellite dishes and report them to ground units, which would then search the …
Iran police hunt banned satellite dishes
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 Irans police forces have been instructed to use all means, including helicopters, to locate and confiscate privately-owned satellite dishes, which are illegal in Iran. A senior police commander in the north-eastern province of North Khorassan told local journalists in the provincial capital Mashad on Saturday that his forces have been using choppers to spot the satellite dishes and report them to ground units, which would then search the …
New roundups in Iran as hard-liners crack down
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 Irans new police chief has ordered a new wave of arrests in the countrys capital by the para-military State Security Forces as part of a crackdown on young people harbouring anti-government sentiments.
New roundups in Iran as hard-liners crack down
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 Irans new police chief has ordered a new wave of arrests in the countrys capital by the para-military State Security Forces as part of a crackdown on young people harbouring anti-government sentiments.
Iran: Jailed former official requests review
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 The spokesman of Irans first post-revolutionary government requested on Saturday a review hearing after spending 26 years in prison.
Abbas Amir-Entezam, who received a three-month extended prison leave for medical treatment, told a state-run news agency that he never had a chance to make his defence case in a public court since his original sentencing.
Iran: Jailed former official requests review
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 The spokesman of Irans first post-revolutionary government requested on Saturday a review hearing after spending 26 years in prison.
Abbas Amir-Entezam, who received a three-month extended prison leave for medical treatment, told a state-run news agency that he never had a chance to make his defence case in a public court since his original sentencing.
Iran denies exile group’s claims it has made thousands of centrifuges
AP: Iran on Saturday rejected allegations by a dissident group that the country had manufactured thousand of centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to make nuclear weapons. Earlier this week the National Council of Resistance of Iran said Tehran was working round the clock to build centrifuges and was storing thousands of the devices that already were manufactured.
Iran’s new Interior Minister “ordered massacre”
Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 19 In a letter to the United Nations human rights office in Geneva, a copy of which was sent to Iran Focus, residents in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbass accused the countrys new Minister of the Interior-designate of ordering the summary execution of dozens of young people in the city to put down an anti-government riot in 1981 and demanded an international inquiry into the incident. The letter named 48 of the victims of executions.
