Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, August 14 Iran’s new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presented a cabinet to the countrys Majlis (parliament) on Sunday that was dominated by prominent hard-liners earmarked for the key portfolios of foreign affairs, interior and security. Former commanders and officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and other radical Islamist institutions have swept the other ministries.
Revolutionary Guards and allies sweep Irans new cabinet
Revolutionary Guards and allies sweep Irans new cabinet
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, August 14 Iran’s new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presented a cabinet to the countrys Majlis (parliament) on Sunday that was dominated by prominent hard-liners earmarked for the key portfolios of foreign affairs, interior and security. Former commanders and officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and other radical Islamist institutions have swept the other ministries.
Iran ‘kept EU talking’ while it finished nuclear plant
Sunday Telegraph: An Iranian foreign policy official has boasted that the regime bought extra time over its stalled negotiations with Europe to complete a uranium conversion plant. In comments that will infuriate EU diplomats, Hosein Musavian said that Teheran took advantage of the nine months of talks, which collapsed last week, to finish work at its Isfahan enrichment facility.
Hard-liners dominate new Iran cabinet
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 13 Last-minute horse trading and political deals over ministerial appointments continued on Saturday among political factions within the ultra-conservative camp, as the newly-installed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put the final touches on his cabinet list. Aides to the president said he would formally present the list to the countrys hard-line parliament (Majlis) in the next 48 hours.
Hard-liners dominate new Iran cabinet
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 13 Last-minute horse trading and political deals over ministerial appointments continued on Saturday among political factions within the ultra-conservative camp, as the newly-installed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad put the final touches on his cabinet list. Aides to the president said he would formally present the list to the countrys hard-line parliament (Majlis) in the next 48 hours.
Irans new President snubs election rival Rafsanjani
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 13 In two public moves in less than 24 hours, Irans new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad snubbed former president Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and highlighted the simmering tensions between the two rivals in the recent presidential elections.
Irans new President snubs election rival Rafsanjani
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 13 In two public moves in less than 24 hours, Irans new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad snubbed former president Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and highlighted the simmering tensions between the two rivals in the recent presidential elections.
Germany’s Schroeder rejects military option on Iran
Reuters: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder rejected the threat
of military force against Iran on Saturday, hours after U.S. President George Bush said he would consider it as a last resort to press Tehran to give up its nuclear programme.
Schroeder, one of the most prominent European opponents of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, told an election rally in his home city of Hanover that the threat of force was not acceptable.
Iran deputy says enrichment to begin in nuclear plant
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 13 A member of Irans hard-line parliament said that Iran would never resume its past suspension of uranium enrichment despite European requests to do so in order to revive nuclear talks, the state-owned press reported on Saturday.
Iran deputy says enrichment to begin in nuclear plant
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 13 A member of Irans hard-line parliament said that Iran would never resume its past suspension of uranium enrichment despite European requests to do so in order to revive nuclear talks, the state-owned press reported on Saturday.
