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
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 …
Iranian reformists fear era of repression
The Guardian: With bone-cracking brutality, the waves of
baton-wielding police seemed to confirm what the already demoralised Iranian reform movement had been dreading:
the dawn of a new era of political repression.
Dutch diplomat sheds light on notorious Iran prison
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 21 A diplomat from the Dutch embassy in Tehran has revealed that political prisoners
locked up in one of Irans most notorious prisons were being systematically tortured and deliberately harassed for their opposition to Irans clerical leadership.
Dutch diplomat sheds light on notorious Iran prison
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 21 A diplomat from the Dutch embassy in Tehran has revealed that political prisoners
locked up in one of Irans most notorious prisons were being systematically tortured and deliberately harassed for their opposition to Irans clerical leadership.
Iran to resume uranium enrichment on August 1 daily
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 21 Iran will resume uranium enrichment activities in the uranium conversion facilities near the central city of Isfahan on August 1, the countrys semi-official daily, Jomhouri Islami, wrote in its Thursday editorial. Irans unambiguous message to Britain, Germany and France in the talks that were conducted [in London”> yesterday was that at the end of the deadline on August 1, Iran will resume …
Iran to resume uranium enrichment on August 1 daily
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 21 Iran will resume uranium enrichment activities in the uranium conversion facilities near the central city of Isfahan on August 1, the countrys semi-official daily, Jomhouri Islami, wrote in its Thursday editorial. Irans unambiguous message to Britain, Germany and France in the talks that were conducted [in London”> yesterday was that at the end of the deadline on August 1, Iran will resume …
An interview with Irans new nuclear chief
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 21 Unlike his fellow hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ali Ardeshir Larijani does not perfectly fit the stereotype mould of an Iranian ultra-conservative. His expensive suit, well-groomed hair, gentle manners and soft-spoken words are a world apart from the scruffy looks, brusque behaviour and coarse language of most other scions of the Islamic Republics hard-line camp.
He has a reputation for being imperturbable.
An interview with Irans new nuclear chief
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 21 Unlike his fellow hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ali Ardeshir Larijani does not perfectly fit the stereotype mould of an Iranian ultra-conservative. His expensive suit, well-groomed hair, gentle manners and soft-spoken words are a world apart from the scruffy looks, brusque behaviour and coarse language of most other scions of the Islamic Republics hard-line camp.
He has a reputation for being imperturbable.
Irans President-elect sues official news agency chief
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 21 The head of Irans state-run news agency was summoned to court for questioning after ultra-conservative President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejads campaign team filed a complaint against the agency for
biased reporting.
