Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 A university students death was described as suicide by the authorities in Malek Ashtar University in Shahin-Shahr, near the central Iranian city of Isfahan, but the mysterious circumstances of the death in a highly secretive research establishment jointly run by the Ministry of Defence and Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Coprs are raising serious questions.
Student dies mysteriously in Irans nuclear research facility
Student dies mysteriously in Irans nuclear research facility
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 A university students death was described as suicide by the authorities in Malek Ashtar University in Shahin-Shahr, near the central Iranian city of Isfahan, but the mysterious circumstances of the death in a highly secretive research establishment jointly run by the Ministry of Defence and Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Coprs are raising serious questions.
Iran VEVAK cell en route to France in new operation
Iran Terror Database: Iran Terror has learnt Irans Ministry of Intelligence and Security (VEVAK) is sending to Paris a cell that has been trained in Tehran to carry out a misinformation attack against the opposition National Council of Resistance. The new operation is aimed at diverting the current world focus on the past activities of Irans new ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is suspected of being among the interrogators of U.S. hostages in Tehran in 1979 and a key player in the assassination in Vienna of a prominent Kurdish dissident.
VEVAK cell en route to France in new operation
Iran Terror Database: Iran Terror has learnt Irans Ministry of Intelligence and Security (VEVAK) is sending to Paris a cell that has been trained in Tehran to carry out a misinformation attack against the opposition National Council of Resistance. The new operation is aimed at diverting the current world focus on the past activities of Irans new ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is suspected of being among the interrogators of U.S. hostages in Tehran in 1979 and a key player in the assassination in Vienna of a prominent Kurdish dissident.
Half of Irans nurses unemployed
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 09 Half of Irans 140,000-strong nurses are unemployed and searching for a job, according to the head of the Nurses Organisation of Iran. Speaking to local reporters on the sidelines of a nurses conference in the city of Semnan (eastern Iran), Qazanfar Mirzabaigi said, Half of them [140,000 nurses”> are employed and between 65,000 to 70,000 are unemployed and seeking employment.
Half of Irans nurses unemployed
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 09 Half of Irans 140,000-strong nurses are unemployed and searching for a job, according to the head of the Nurses Organisation of Iran. Speaking to local reporters on the sidelines of a nurses conference in the city of Semnan (eastern Iran), Qazanfar Mirzabaigi said, Half of them [140,000 nurses”> are employed and between 65,000 to 70,000 are unemployed and seeking employment.
Iran blamed for attempt on Kurdish dissident leader
Iran Focus: Baghdad, Jul. 08 A secret agents bid to assassinate an Iranian Kurdish dissident based in neighbouring Iraq was thwarted, according to a statement issued today by the group, the National Islamic Organisation of Iranian Kurdistan (KHABAT). On June 13, a terrorist attempt on the life of Kak-Baba Sheikh Hosseini, a member of KHABATs political bureau, was neutralised, the statement read.
Iran blamed for attempt on Kurdish dissident leader
Iran Focus: Baghdad, Jul. 08 A secret agents bid to assassinate an Iranian Kurdish dissident based in neighbouring Iraq was thwarted, according to a statement issued today by the group, the National Islamic Organisation of Iranian Kurdistan (KHABAT). On June 13, a terrorist attempt on the life of Kak-Baba Sheikh Hosseini, a member of KHABATs political bureau, was neutralised, the statement read.
Judiciary continues to stall in Kazemi case, two years after her death
Reporters Without Borders: “For two years now, Zahra Kazemi’s family has been waiting for her body to be exhumed and repatriated to Canada, and press freedom activists throughout the world have waiting for justice to be done, but the Iranian authorities have decided otherwise,” the organisation said. “The international community must support Canada’s initiatives and force Iran to give a full account of the circumstances of Kazemi’s death,” Reporters Without Borders added.
Chaos in Iran prison as riot breaks out
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 08 Rajai-Shahr Prison in
Karaj, west of the capital, was the scene of a major riot on Wednesday, after prison guards attempted to reshuffle prisoners in one of the wards, according to an informed source.
