CNN: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and his counterparts from France and Germany will meet an Iranian delegation next week to try to break the impasse over Tehran’s nuclear program, Straw said Tuesday. “I hope, but I can’t predict, that the negotiations at the beginning of next week will be fruitful,” Straw told reporters at a joint news conference with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
New bid to break Iran nuke impasse
Iran sees little hope for deal in nuclear meeting
AFP: Iran said Tuesday it had little hope of reaching an agreement in emergency nuclear talks with Britain, France and Germany, saying the Europeans were hostage to the hardline US position. “There is not a very big chance for an agreement,” nuclear negotiator Cyrus Nasseri told AFP.
Reporters Without Borders calls on the international community to support the Canadian government’s
Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders congratulates the Canadian government’s decision to limit its’ diplomatic relations with Iranian authorities to back demands for justice in the case of the murdered Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi. “We call upon the international community and especially the European Union, to support Canada’s actions” declared Reporters Without Borders.
Iran: Woman sentenced to stoning, man to execution
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 18 An Iranian woman was sentenced yesterday to death by stoning in Tehran, according to a state-run daily.
The young woman, only identified by her first name Fatemeh, 25 years old, was given two death sentences, for murder and having an affair.
Iran: Woman sentenced to stoning, man to execution
Iran Focus: Tehran, May 18 An Iranian woman was sentenced yesterday to death by stoning in Tehran, according to a state-run daily.
The young woman, only identified by her first name Fatemeh, 25 years old, was given two death sentences, for murder and having an affair.
Minister Pettigrew Announces New Restrictions on Canadas Engagement with Iran
Foreign Affairs Canada: Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre Pettigrew issued the following statement in response to yesterdays court proceedings in Iran: Yesterdays events illustrate once again that the Iranian justice system has neither the capacity nor the will to confront the perpetrators of the brutal murder of Zahra Kazemi. Canada will not accept justice being denied.
Zahra Kazemi supporters protest in Toronto
Canadian Press: About 60 Iranian-Canadians staged a raucous rally outside a downtown courthouse Monday to protest the Iranian government’s handling of the case of slain Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi. Waving Iranian flags and holding Kazemi’s cardboard portrait, the group gathered in front of Toronto’s Old City Hall to protest the Iranian government and its perceived role in the death of Kazemi, who died two years ago while in Iranian custody.
Britain Sees Iran’s Threats to Resume Nuclear Activity as ‘Serious’
New York Times: Britain, one of the three European Union nations negotiating with Iran over its nuclear project, has concluded that Iran is “quite serious” in its threats to resume uranium enrichment activities that would be likely to lead to
punitive international countermeasures, a senior British official
said Monday.
Imprisoned blogger goes on hunger-strike
Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders today called on bloggers throughout the world to post messages in support of Iranian blogger Mojtaba Saminejad, who has been in prison since 12 February and who began a hunger-strike on 14 May. “The life of this young blogger is in danger as he is being held in a prison where several detainees have died or have been injured in violence between inmates,” the press freedom organization said.
Europeans Agree to Meeting With Iran on Nuclear Program
Washington Post: The foreign ministers of France, Britain and Germany agreed yesterday to meet with a senior Iranian official next week in an effort to pull Tehran back from threats to resume its nuclear program, diplomats representing all four countries said. Iranian officials characterized the meeting as a last chance at avoiding crisis and said it will be held May 23 in Brussels. European officials said it probably will take place
one day later and might be moved to Paris or Geneva to accommodate travel schedules.
