Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 02 – Irans State Security Forces crashed in on a mixed-sex party in the oil-rich city of Ahwaz, southern Iran, and arrested 15 young men and women, a semi-official daily reported. The detainees have all been handed to the judicial authorities and will face conviction and sentences that would include flogging, the hard-line paper Kayhan wrote on Monday.
Iran anti-vice police arrest 15 in party raid
Ex-UN weapons chief Blix urges Iran to refrain from nuclear enrichment
AFP: Former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq Hans Blix on Tuesday urged Iran to refrain from resuming its uranium enrichment programme or risk further destablisation in the Middle East. “If Iran joins Israel in moving towards developing nuclear weapons it would exacerbate and make the situation (in the Middle East) more tense …”
Motorcycle gunman kills Iran judge
AP: A gunman on a motorcycle shot dead in Tehran on Tuesday an Iranian judge who tried the case of a prominent journalist now on hunger strike, a judiciary spokesman said.
EU issues warning to Iran over resumption of nuclear activities
AFP: The European Union issued a sharp warning to Iran Tuesday, saying it risked unspecified consequences if it makes good on its threat to resume sensitive nuclear activities in breach of a deal currently under negotiation. “Were Iran to resume currently suspended activities, our negotiations would be brought to an end, and we would have no option but to pursue other courses of action,” the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana wrote in a joint letter made public by French officials in Paris.
Germany’s Schroeder warns Iran over nuclear program, says West united
AFP: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder warned Iran on
Tuesday against resuming sensitive nuclear activities, saying the West would not be divided in its opposition to Tehran building an atomic bomb. Schroeder said the Iranian government could not pit European countries against each other over the issue and urged Iran not to make any “unilateral arrangements” during its ongoing negotiations with Germany and its EU partners Britain and France.
Iran risks major crisis over nuclear plans – France
Reuters: Iran could start a major international crisis if it does not back down on its decision to resume activities at a sensitive nuclear plant, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy
said on Tuesday.
“I think this Iranian affair is very serious and that it could be
the start of a major crisis,” Douste-Blazy told reporters after a cabinet meeting.
We defeated U.S., Iran leader tells Hezbollah
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 02 Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the visiting leader of Lebanese Hezbollah that the United States has been genuinely weakened in the region, as shown by its defeat in Iraq and the failure of their plans for Lebanon and Iran, the official Iranian news agency reported on Tuesday.
We defeated U.S., Iran leader tells Hezbollah
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 02 Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the visiting leader of Lebanese Hezbollah that the United States has been genuinely weakened in the region, as shown by its defeat in Iraq and the failure of their plans for Lebanon and Iran, the official Iranian news agency reported on Tuesday.
Police shoot dead protesters in northwest Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 02 Irans State Security Forces on Monday evening opened fire at a peaceful anti-government demonstration in the Kurdish town of Sanandaj, northwest Iran, killing several people including two children and starting riots throughout the town, eye-witnesses reported.
Police shoot dead protesters in northwest Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 02 Irans State Security Forces on Monday evening opened fire at a peaceful anti-government demonstration in the Kurdish town of Sanandaj, northwest Iran, killing several people including two children and starting riots throughout the town, eye-witnesses reported.
