Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 29 The spokesman for Irans judiciary said today that the head of the Islamic Republics Judiciary Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi would not grant hunger striking jailed journalist Akbar Ganji a pardon from prison despite an appeal from ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Irans judiciary refuses to pardon jailed journalist
Two Iranians arrested in Iraq for drug smuggling: Iran TV
Iran Focus: Iran, Tehran, Jul. 29 Irans state television reported last of the arrest of two Iranians in Iraq who were
found smuggling illegal drugs. The state-controlled television station Shabake-2 said that agents of Iraqs security forces had arrested two Iranians along with an Iraqi for smuggling illegal drugs.
Two Iranians arrested in Iraq for drug smuggling: Iran TV
Iran Focus: Iran, Tehran, Jul. 29 Irans state television reported last of the arrest of two Iranians in Iraq who were
found smuggling illegal drugs. The state-controlled television station Shabake-2 said that agents of Iraqs security forces had arrested two Iranians along with an Iraqi for smuggling illegal drugs.
Irans next cabinet to be made up exclusively of hard-liners
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 29 – A leading ally of Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the forthcoming cabinet of hard-line President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would be made up entirely of Islamic fundamentalists, newspapers reported on Friday. There will be no outsiders, he said.
Irans next cabinet to be made up exclusively of hard-liners
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 29 – A leading ally of Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the forthcoming cabinet of hard-line President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would be made up entirely of Islamic fundamentalists, newspapers reported on Friday. There will be no outsiders, he said.
Officials: European Union set to make deal with Iran
USA Today: The European Union will offer Iran next week a guaranteed supply of nuclear fuel for civilian nuclear power plants and expanded economic cooperation if Iran agrees to stop trying to make its own fuel, two European officials said Wednesday.
Turkey plans to cancel accord on importing natural gas from Iran
KUNA: Turkey is preparing to cancel an agreement to import natural gas from Iran signed in 1996 due to the Iranian insistence on not responding to Turkish request to decrease the Iranian gas’s price. The Turkish Jihan news agency said on Thursday that bilateral negotiations that kicked off after the Turkish premier’s visit to Tehran last year, aiming to modify the natural gas agreement, reached a dead end.
Iran’s president-elect was leader of movement behind 1979 hostage crisis – White House
AFP: The United States has concluded that Iran’s president-elect was a leader of the movement behind the 1979 hostage crisis at the US embassy in Tehran but is unsure whether he took part, the White House said Thursday. “In terms of the president, we’ve looked into the allegations that were made about his involvement in the 1979 hostage crisis…
U.S.: Iranian Cadre Training Hezbollah
AP: A top State Department official informed Congress on Thursday that Iranian cadre were training Hezbollah fighters
in Lebanon. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch told the House International Relations Committee the information was provided by “our own sources.”
White House: Iranian leader led movement
AP: The White House said Thursday that Iran’s incoming
president was a leader of the student movement that orchestrated the capture of the U.S. Embassy in 1979, but the United States still hasn’t determined whether he took hostages as alleged by some of those who were held.
Six former hostages have identified Iran’s ultraconservative president-elect, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as one of their captors during the 444 days they were held.
