The Washington Times – Editorial: Anyone looking for insights about the performance of U.S. intelligence agencies in assessing the threats from Iran and North Korea will be disappointed by the report issued Thursday by presidential commission on U.S. intelligence capabilities. The panel concluded that its information about those regimes is so sensitive that it must remain classified.
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Shell and BASF risk US anger as Iranians near deal to buy Basell
The Independent: Iran’s National Petrochemical Company (NPC) is close to sealing a politically sensitive $4.4bn (£2.3bn) deal to buy Basell, the polymer business jointly owned by Shell and BASF, the German chemical giant. The state-owned Iranian company’s highest bid is causing extra complications
in the sale process, which Shell, BASF and their advisers, CSFB and Lazards, are attempting to iron out.
Starving workers in Iran forced to search waste-bins for food
Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 03 Workers in Iran are living far below the minimum wage after a recent government decision to hold the minimum wage line at 122,000 Toumans (the equivalent of 1.22 million Rials or $120) per month, according to an Iranian labour expert. Saeid Keyani, speaking to a state-run news agency, said, Workers in provinces such as Bandar Abbas, the economical hubs of the country, not only are unable to see the colour of meat year by year, but just so as to get their family by they are forced to look for food in city waste-bins.
Starving workers in Iran forced to search waste-bins for food
Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 03 Workers in Iran are living far below the minimum wage after a recent government decision to hold the minimum wage line at 122,000 Toumans (the equivalent of 1.22 million Rials or $120) per month, according to an Iranian labour expert. Saeid Keyani, speaking to a state-run news agency, said, Workers in provinces such as Bandar Abbas, the economical hubs of the country, not only are unable to see the colour of meat year by year, but just so as to get their family by they are forced to look for food in city waste-bins.
Moderate earthquake injures 24 in Iran
AP: A moderate earthquake shook southeastern Iran early Sunday, injuring at least 24 people, state-run television reported. The broadcast said the 4.1 magnitude earthquake jolted Ravar, 560 miles southeast of the capital, Tehran, at about 3 a.m. local time.
Iran offers cash for bombs to break Palestinian truce
The Sunday Times: PALESTINIAN fighters have revealed that Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese group backed by Iran, is offering to pay for attacks aimed at shattering the fragile truce with Israel. Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, has made it clear that one suicide bomber in Tel Aviv could prompt him to abandon negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, and may …
Rally in Canada against state murder in Iran
Iran Focus: Ottawa, Apr. 02 Iranians residing in Canada held a rally in front of the Foreign Ministry headquarters yesterday in response to an expatriate Iranian doctors testimony which has shed new light on the 2003 state murder of Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist. Demonstrators who were rallied by the Committee for Defence of Human Rights in Iran called for an end to Canadas diplomatic relations with the …
Rally in Canada against state murder in Iran
Iran Focus: Ottawa, Apr. 02 Iranians residing in Canada held a rally in front of the Foreign Ministry headquarters yesterday in response to an expatriate Iranian doctors testimony which has shed new light on the 2003 state murder of Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist. Demonstrators who were rallied by the Committee for Defence of Human Rights in Iran called for an end to Canadas diplomatic relations with the …
Martin says Iran must be held to account
Canadian Press: Iran must be held to account by the international community based on the strength of a doctor’s account of the injuries he found on Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Friday. “I think there’s no doubt whether
you are talking about international courts or whether you are talking about the UN Commission on Human Rights,” he said, “I would certainly think the details of what happened to her now in the testimony that has been brought has got to make the world aware
of just what Iran is all about and that they have got to be held to account.”
Eyewitness feared retribution
The Globe and Mail: Once Dr. Shahram Azam left Iran to tell his story of how Zahra Kazemi was brutally raped and tortured inside a Tehran prison, he knew it wouldn’t take long for Iranian agents to track him down. That made his asylum request to Canada all the more urgent. “We took his case very seriously,” said a Canadian official who worked on the file. “The Iranians were almost on his track and the life of Dr. Azam was becoming highly endangered and he could not have stayed in Sweden for much longer without witness protection.”
