Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 22 A military garrison has been opened in Iran to recruit and train volunteers for martyrdom-seeking operations, according to the garrisons commander, Mohammad-Reza Jaafari. Jaafari, a senior officer in the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), told a hard-line weekly close to Irans ultra-conservative President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the new Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison (Gharargahe Asheghane Shahadat, in Persian) …
Iran opens garrison to recruit suicide bombers against West
Public execution for the teenagers convicted of rape
The Times: Iran has publicly hanged two male teenagers convicted of raping a 13-year-old boy at knifepoint. After the Supreme Court upheld the verdict of child rape, they were executed on Tuesday in Edalat (Justice) Square in the city of Mashhad. The British gay rights group Outrage! has accused Iran of torturing the two into confessing that they had homosexual sex. It believes that the assault charges were a smokescreen to justify killing homosexuals.
Rights group censures Iran for execution of minors
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 22 The human rights group Amnesty International today urged the Iranian government to put a halt to the execution of minors and individuals sentenced to death for crimes they committed as children. The international rights group pointed to the execution of three such youths in the Islamic Republic in the past week despite the country being a signatory to the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which stipulate that individuals who committed offences while below the age of 18 should be spared from the death penalty.
Rights group censures Iran for execution of minors
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 22 The human rights group Amnesty International today urged the Iranian government to put a halt to the execution of minors and individuals sentenced to death for crimes they committed as children. The international rights group pointed to the execution of three such youths in the Islamic Republic in the past week despite the country being a signatory to the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which stipulate that individuals who committed offences while below the age of 18 should be spared from the death penalty.
Giving in on nuclear rights would be Irans historic shame – Rafsanjani
Iran Focus: Iran, Tehran, Jul. 22 Irans former President Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani used the pulpit of Tehrans Friday prayers today to call on Irans new administration to stand firm in securing the Islamic Republics right to obtain nuclear capability. Rafsanjani, the upset candidate in the recent presidential elections, criticised the monopolist Western nations for trying to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear capability.
Giving in on nuclear rights would be Irans historic shame – Rafsanjani
Iran Focus: Iran, Tehran, Jul. 22 Irans former President Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani used the pulpit of Tehrans Friday prayers today to call on Irans new administration to stand firm in securing the Islamic Republics right to obtain nuclear capability. Rafsanjani, the upset candidate in the recent presidential elections, criticised the monopolist Western nations for trying to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear capability.
Chirac warns Iran that Security Council could get involved in nuclear issue
AFP: French President Jacques Chirac warned Tehran on Friday that the UN Security Council will have to become
involved if agreement cannot be reached on Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In comments published in the Israeli daily Haaretz on Friday, Chirac said that he could not predict the results of ongoing talks between Iran and the European troika of Britain, France and Germany.
Iran steps up war of words against Israel
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 22 A news agency run by the office of Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that Israel was behind the assassination of 7,000
Iraqi officials since the end of the 2003 U.S.-led war on Iraq.
Fars News Agency used as its source several unnamed Iraqi security officials, who claimed that the Iraqi security had uncovered a terrorist network with ties to Israel.
Iran steps up war of words against Israel
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 22 A news agency run by the office of Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that Israel was behind the assassination of 7,000
Iraqi officials since the end of the 2003 U.S.-led war on Iraq.
Fars News Agency used as its source several unnamed Iraqi security officials, who claimed that the Iraqi security had uncovered a terrorist network with ties to Israel.
Chirac: Iran could be hit with sanctions over nuclear threat
Haaretz: French President Jacques Chirac has told Haaretz that if European negotiations with Iran fail to eliminate the threat of nuclear proliferation, then the issue will have to be moved to the UN Security Council. Chirac’s statements regarding the possibility of imposing sanctions on Iran, which, according to observers, is the first time he has taken that position, came in an interview with Haaretz on the eve of …
