Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 04 A clique of 300 men with family ties have been running the Islamic Republic from the time of the 1979 Iranian revolution until present, according to
a prominent university professor.
300 men holding power in Iran since Islamic Revolution
Iran president-elect plotted dissident’s murder: Kurdish rebels
AFP: Iranian president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad was directly involved in plotting the 1989 assassination of a Kurdish rebel leader in Vienna, an official of the banned Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran charged Monday. “According to our information, the Iranian government formed three committees for the assassination” of then KDPI leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, party offical Hassan Ashrafi told AFP at his base in neighbouring Iraq.
Women not admitted to Iran hospital without chador
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 04 A hospital belonging to the Revolutionary Guards in the Iranian capital is refusing entry for women not wearing the head-to-toe covering known as chador, according to local residents.
Security guards outside the main entrance of Baqiyatollah Hospital were seen turning away women who were not wearing the chador.
Women not admitted to Iran hospital without chador
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 04 A hospital belonging to the Revolutionary Guards in the Iranian capital is refusing entry for women not wearing the head-to-toe covering known as chador, according to local residents.
Security guards outside the main entrance of Baqiyatollah Hospital were seen turning away women who were not wearing the chador.
Iran student immolates self in protest
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 04 A final-year university student died after setting himself on fire after a confrontation with a senior faculty staff member, sparking a series of protest demonstrations by students. Jaafar Khalilian, a final-year engineering student at the Open University in Salmas, western Iran, climbed atop the universitys water tower, set himself alight, and jumped off the tower moments later.
Iran student immolates self in protest
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 04 A final-year university student died after setting himself on fire after a confrontation with a senior faculty staff member, sparking a series of protest demonstrations by students. Jaafar Khalilian, a final-year engineering student at the Open University in Salmas, western Iran, climbed atop the universitys water tower, set himself alight, and jumped off the tower moments later.
Irans chief nuclear negotiator denies resignation
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 03 Irans secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and chief nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, denied through an unnamed official this afternoon earlier reports today that he was stepping down from his appointed posts.
Irans chief nuclear negotiator denies resignation
Iran Focus: London, Jul. 03 Irans secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and chief nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, denied through an unnamed official this afternoon earlier reports today that he was stepping down from his appointed posts.
Chirac, Putin, Schroeder meet on Iran nuclear issue, security
AFP: Russian President Vladimir Putin was meeting Sunday with French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Russia’s Baltic Sea resort of Svetlogorsk, with Iran’s nuclear programme and international security on the agenda. “A discussion on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, particularly as far as the Iranian nuclear programme is concerned, is expected in …
US agents probe past of Iran’s leader
The Sunday Times: The murders started in the 1980s. Kazem Sami, who was the first Iranian health minister after the 1979 Islamic revolution but fell out with the ayatollahs, was one of the first of dozens of dissidents to die. He was working in a Tehran clinic in November 1988 when an assailant posing as a patient stabbed him repeatedly. The following July, three gunmen
burst into a Vienna flat and opened fire on a meeting of Iranian Kurdish exiles.
