Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 16 Irans new police chief today called on the forces under his command to deal decisively with criminals and use live bullets if necessary. When a policeman is sent on a mission, his mind must be focused entirely on getting the job done, Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam said in the first flag-raising ceremony he attended after moving to his new command last week.
Iran police chief authorises use of bullets
Minibus collides with lorry in north Iran, 17 dead
Reuters: Seventeen people were killed on Saturday when a minibus slammed head-on into a truck in northern Iran, a senior police officer said. Mohammad Rouyanian, head of
Iran’s road police, told state television the vehicles collided
after the minibus tried to overtake a tractor near Firouzkouh,
130 km east of Tehran.
100 arrested, 60 buses damaged in Iran city protests
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 16 At least 100 demonstrators were arrested and 60 buses damaged in clashes that erupted Saturday after a football match in Irans second largest city. Security forces and young people clashed over a large area of the city of Mashad after a football match between Saba Battery and Abu-Moslem football clubs.
100 arrested, 60 buses damaged in Iran city protests
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 16 At least 100 demonstrators were arrested and 60 buses damaged in clashes that erupted Saturday after a football match in Irans second largest city. Security forces and young people clashed over a large area of the city of Mashad after a football match between Saba Battery and Abu-Moslem football clubs.
Iran election watchdog says result stands
AFP: Iran’s hardline poll watchdog insisted Saturday that the outcome of last month’s presidential election was final after reformist Interior Minister Abdolvahed Moussavi-Lari said he was ready to order a partial recount. “The election is a finished matter,” Guardians Council spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told the student news agency ISNA.
Iran warns scientists against US, Israeli ‘traps’
AFP: Iran’s spy chief on Saturday warned the country’s nuclear scientists against “traps” laid by Israeli and American intelligence agencies.
“Iranian scientists must beware of enemy plots,” Intelligence Minister Ali Yunessi was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency. “Americans and Israelis are trying to approach (them) through different means.”
Iran tells EU it will hold firm on nuclear fuel
Reuters: Iran warned the European Union on Saturday it would never surrender its right to nuclear fuel, talking tough only two weeks before EU diplomats are due to present final proposals to break Iran’s atomic impasse.
No incentive will make Iran drop nuclear fuel programme
DPA: No incentive would make Iran drop its nuclear fuel programme, the spokesman for Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said Saturday. “Even if the West provided us with all economic, political and security incentives, Iran would not drop its nuclear fuel programme,” Ali Aqamohammadi told the Iranian Students’ News Agency.
Iran: Clashes erupt in Mahabad, SSF vehicle set on fire
Iran Focus: Mahabad, Iran, Jul. 16 Unrest continued in the north-western town of Mahabad, Iranian Kurdistan province, last night, with clashes erupting between locals and State Security Forces, following a week of similar anti-government protests which flared up after news broke out of the brutal murder of a young Kurdish man by the SSF.
Iran: Clashes erupt in Mahabad, SSF vehicle set on fire
Iran Focus: Mahabad, Iran, Jul. 16 Unrest continued in the north-western town of Mahabad, Iranian Kurdistan province, last night, with clashes erupting between locals and State Security Forces, following a week of similar anti-government protests which flared up after news broke out of the brutal murder of a young Kurdish man by the SSF.
