AP: U.S. intelligence and foreign allies have growing evidence that wanted terrorists have been residing in Iran despite repeated American warnings to Tehran not to harbor them. The evidence, which stretches over several years, includes communications by a fugitive mastermind of the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing and the capture of a Saudi militant who appeared in a video in which Osama bin Laden confirmed he ordered the Sept. 11 attacks, according to U.S. and foreign officials.
AP: Intelligence Sees Terrorists in Iran
Iran university students call for boycott of elections
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 03 Skirmishes broke out at Khoy University (north-western Iran) yesterday between students and security forces, when the latter attempted to quell a protest against the upcoming June 17 presidential elections. Student protestors gathering on campus called for a mass boycott of the elections.
Iran university students call for boycott of elections
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 03 Skirmishes broke out at Khoy University (north-western Iran) yesterday between students and security forces, when the latter attempted to quell a protest against the upcoming June 17 presidential elections. Student protestors gathering on campus called for a mass boycott of the elections.
Iran: Tehran students protest against paramilitary forces
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 03 Artillery, Tanks, Machine guns
are no longer effective, students in Tehrans Amir Kabir University chanted, during a gathering yesterday against the presence of paramilitary Bassij forces on campus. One student leader speaking at the podium said that the Bassij were interfering in the way the university was being run.
Iran: Tehran students protest against paramilitary forces
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 03 Artillery, Tanks, Machine guns
are no longer effective, students in Tehrans Amir Kabir University chanted, during a gathering yesterday against the presence of paramilitary Bassij forces on campus. One student leader speaking at the podium said that the Bassij were interfering in the way the university was being run.
Students disrupt speech of Iran presidential candidate
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 03 Students in the University of Ilam (western Iran) disrupted a speech by presidential candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Wednesday afternoon. Qalibaf, former head of Irans dreaded State Security Forces, is competing in Irans upcoming June 17 presidential elections. During his speech in the university, students shouted, Killer of the university dorms, where is your conscience, where is your conscience?
Students disrupt speech of Iran presidential candidate
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 03 Students in the University of Ilam (western Iran) disrupted a speech by presidential candidate Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Wednesday afternoon. Qalibaf, former head of Irans dreaded State Security Forces, is competing in Irans upcoming June 17 presidential elections. During his speech in the university, students shouted, Killer of the university dorms, where is your conscience, where is your conscience?
Members push tougher line on Iran
The Hill: Key members of Congress are girding to take a tougher line on Iran by tightening sanctions and taking a high-profile stance against the Iranian government.
But despite President Bush’s calls for democratic reform in the Middle East, the administration is urging Congress to hold off on legislation out of concern that it might disrupt sensitive negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program.
Iran remains a study in contrasts
MSNBC: Tehran is a city of great contrasts in a land with a split personality. Is the future of Iran young men with long hair talking on cell phones or is it masses gathered for prayer? Is Iran a country prepared for the 21st century or one stuck in the last 30 years? It pretends to be a democracy, with presidential elections in two weeks. But in Iranian politics, there’s a higher power. Whichever candidate wins the presidential election on June 17, one man still will have all the power.
Luxembourg Invites Iran to Iraq Summit
AP: The United States didn’t invite Iran to an international conference on Iraq reconstruction, which became awkwardly clear Thursday when a European diplomat said Iran is welcome in spite of long-standing enmity between Washington and the Islamic regime in Tehran.
