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Iran hangs man in public square

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 14 – A young Iranian man was hanged in public in the town of Poldokhtar, in Lorestan province (western Iran), yesterday for killing a security officer in Iran’s State Security Forces, according to a state-run daily. The hard-line daily Kayhan wrote today that 20-year-old Ali Saffarpour Rajabi was publicly hanged in Bassij Square after a court found him guilty of murdering Hamid Enshadi in Poldokhtar.

Iran’s new dark side

The Washington Times: Officially, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the incoming Iranian “elected” president, will assume his post next month — but his presence is already felt in the political circles and the streets of Tehran. Since his election, under the banner of a renewed Islamic revolution, the clerical regime hanged six people and sentenced another to death in the past week alone.

Iran’s top general: U.S. in delirium after blows from Iran

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 13 – The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces said today that the United States was “in delirium after receiving blows from Iran”. Major General Hassan Firuzabadi, speaking at the inauguration ceremony for Iran’s newly-appointed police chief, said, “America’s comments about lack of democracy in Iran are the result of the blow that the Iranian people dealt to the Americans and they are now talking in delirium”.

Iran’s top general: U.S. in delirium after blows from Iran

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 13 – The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces said today that the United States was “in delirium after receiving blows from Iran”. Major General Hassan Firuzabadi, speaking at the inauguration ceremony for Iran’s newly-appointed police chief, said, “America’s comments about lack of democracy in Iran are the result of the blow that the Iranian people dealt to the Americans and they are now talking in delirium”.

“Iran is close to a nuclear bomb”: Iranian scientist

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Iran Focus: Paris, Jul. 13 – An interview with a defector from Iran’s secretive nuclear establishment

He is a violin virtuoso, a genius physicist, and a former senior nuclear consultant to the Iranian military’s top brass.
Read Iran Focus’s exclusive interview with Dr. Alireza Assar.

“Iran is close to a nuclear bomb”: Iranian scientist

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Iran Focus: Paris, Jul. 13 – An interview with a defector from Iran’s secretive nuclear establishment

He is a violin virtuoso, a genius physicist, and a former senior nuclear consultant to the Iranian military’s top brass.
Read Iran Focus’s exclusive interview with Dr. Alireza Assar.

Iran could see change in nuclear policy: Rowhani

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AFP: Iran could change its nuclear policy, particularly its commitment to a freeze of ultra-sensitive uranium enrichment activities, top negotiator Hassan Rowhani was quoted as saying Wednesday. “I think that nobody is hostile to the continuation of negotiations but differences are possible on
the question of the suspension, and it is possible that these differences are implemented,” Rowhani told the Shargh newspaper.

US warns Iran must not interfere in Iraqi affairs

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AFP: The United States said Wednesday that Iran should not exploit its improving ties with Iraq to interfere in the affairs of
the fledgling government in Baghdad. Zalmay Khalilzad, about to take up his post as the new US ambassador to Iraq, said however, that Washington did want the once warring neighbours to get along.

US warns Iran on nuclear program

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AFP: The United States warned Iran Wednesday not to resume enriching uranium, which could feed a nuclear weapon, but said it was not ready yet to break off Europe-led talks on Tehran’s atomic programs. “We continue to support the negotiations that are being led by our European friends to get Iran to abandon any nuclear ambitions that they have.

Iran jamming exile satellite TV

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Iran Focus: London, Jul. 13 – The Iranian government has jammed the signals of a major Persian-language satellite television, a spokesman for the channel, Simaye Azadi, said. “In Blatant violation of ITU [International Telecommunication Union”> regulations, the Iranian regime is sending out illegal jamming signals to censor our broadcasts from Iranians inside and outside Iran”, spokesman Behruz Pirhosseini said.