Iran Focus: Tehran, May 11 The prayer leader of the central prison of Karaj, west of Tehran, was killed by an unidentified person, according to a state-run daily.
The hard-line Jomhouri Islami reported today that Hojatoleslam Tamjidi was killed by a blow to the head last night.
Prayer leader killed in Iran prison
Iran to tell U.N. soon of nuclear work – Europe envoy
Reuters: Iran is expected to notify the United Nations by the end of the week that it is resuming sensitive nuclear work, almost certainly killing off Tehran’s negotiations with the European Union, a European diplomat said on Wednesday. The collapse of the talks likely would bring the controversy over Iran’s nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions or other actions.
Trial of Iranian official accused of dissident assassination begins in Rome
AP: The trial began on Wednesday of an Iranian accused of the 1993 slaying of an Iranian dissident who died in a hail of automatic gunfire
as he was being driven along a Rome street.
Lawyers for the victim’s family allege that the defendant, Amir Mansur Assl Bozorgian, who is being tried in absentia, was an Iranian killer
sent by his country’s leadership to murder dissident Mohammed
Hussein Naghdi.
Italy puts Iranian on trial for opposition murder
Reuters: An Iranian man accused of organizing the 1993 murder of an Iranian opposition leader on behalf of Tehran’s secret services went on trial in absentia in an Italian court on Wednesday. Amir Mansur Bozorgian, whose whereabouts are unknown, is being represented by a court-appointed lawyer. The prosecution says Bozorgian was behind the shooting of Mohammed Hossein Naqdi, a leading member of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which wants to oust Iran’s clerical rulers.
Trial of Iranian official accused of dissident assassination begins in Rome
AP: The trial began on Wednesday of an Iranian accused of the 1993 slaying of an Iranian dissident who died in a hail of automatic gunfire
as he was being driven along a Rome street.
Lawyers for the victim’s family allege that the defendant, Amir Mansur Assl Bozorgian, who is being tried in absentia, was an Iranian killer
sent by his country’s leadership to murder dissident Mohammed
Hussein Naghdi.
Rome: Trial begins for Iran official in dissident assassination
Iran Focus: Rome, May 11 – Romes Criminal Court started this morning the trial in absentia of an official of the Iranian government accused of taking part in the killing of the representative of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Italy. Mohammad Hossein Naghdi, who defected to the NCRI when he was the Iranian charge d’affaires in Italy in 1981, was murdered by a gunmen allegedly working for Iran’s notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), on March 16, 1993.
Rome: Trial begins for Iran official in dissident assassination
Iran Focus: Rome, May 11 – Romes Criminal Court started this morning the trial in absentia of an official of the Iranian government accused of taking part in the killing of the representative of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Italy. Mohammad Hossein Naghdi, who defected to the NCRI when he
was the Iranian charge d’affaires in Italy in 1981, was murdered
by a gunmen allegedly working for Iran’s notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), on March 16, 1993.
US Capitol Hill briefing denounces Irans meddling in Iraq
Iran Focus: Washington, May 11 A briefing was held in the United States Congress yesterday entitled Iraq’s Future: The Iranian Impact on the initiative of the Iran Human Rights and Democracy Caucus in the House of Representatives, co-chaired by Congressman Thomas Tancredo (R-Col) and Congressman Bob Filner (D-Cal). The panel included, Dr.
Sa’d Abdullah Al-Jabouri, the former governor of Iraqs Diyala province, which borders Iran and is where the main Iranian opposition Peoples Mojahedin (PMOI) are based.
US Capitol Hill briefing denounces Irans meddling in Iraq
Iran Focus: Washington, May 11 A briefing was held in the United States Congress yesterday entitled Iraq’s Future: The Iranian Impact on the initiative of the Iran Human Rights and Democracy Caucus in the House of Representatives, co-chaired by Congressman Thomas Tancredo (R-Col) and Congressman Bob Filner (D-Cal). The panel included, Dr.
Sa’d Abdullah Al-Jabouri, the former governor of Iraqs Diyala province, which borders Iran and is where the main Iranian opposition Peoples Mojahedin (PMOI) are based.
Defiant Iran plans nuclear revival
The Guardian: The Iranian government threatened to provoke a full-blown international crisis yesterday by confirming that it is to resume its suspended nuclear programme. A British Foreign Office spokesman said such a move would automatically halt two years of negotiations between Tehran and the European trio – Britain, France and Germany – and see immediate referral to the United Nations security council.
