Iran Focus: Paris, Jan. 13 – Nobel Peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said today she had been summoned by Iran’s hardline judiciary, risking arrest if she did not attend. “I have received a summons to a revolutionary court,” she told the French news agency, AFP. The summons says Ebadi must present herself to courts within the next three days to explain herself, otherwise she would be arrested.
Iran’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner summoned by hardline judiciary
Iran’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner summoned by hardline judiciary
Iran Focus: Paris, Jan. 13 – Nobel Peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said today she had been summoned by Iran’s hardline judiciary, risking arrest if she did not attend. “I have received a summons to a revolutionary court,” she told the French news agency, AFP. The summons says Ebadi must present herself to courts within the next three days to explain herself, otherwise she would be arrested.
16 students die in Iran school fire
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 Sixteen Iranian students were killed when a fire broke out in a school in western Iran at midday. Reports confirm that the fire broke out in Safilan village’s local school in Chahar Mahale Bakhtiari province (west Iran) after a schoolteacher attempted to turn on a gas heater which was near flammable liquids which caught fire upon contact.
16 students die in Iran school fire
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 Sixteen Iranian students were killed when a fire broke out in a school in western Iran at midday. Reports confirm that the fire broke out in Safilan village’s local school in Chahar Mahale Bakhtiari province (west Iran) after a schoolteacher attempted to turn on a gas heater which was near flammable liquids which caught fire upon contact.
Iran-EU trade talks recommence
Associated Press: The European Union resumed trade talks with Iran on Wednesday, more than 18 months after they were frozen because of concerns over Tehran’s nuclear program. The EU agreed to reopen talks on a trade deal after Iran agreed last year to suspend uranium enrichment and related activities that had sparked fears it was seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
IAEA to have partial access to Iran military base
Reuters: U.N. inspectors will visit a military base in Iran on Thursday which Washington says may be part of a covert atomic arms bid, but they will have only partial access to the site, a senior Iranian official said.
The team of the inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived in Iran on Wednesday to conduct a programme of inspections which include the Parchin military facility southeast of Tehran.
Victim’s family pardons Iranian woman, seeks blood money
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 12 – A woman sentenced to death for killing a senior police officer who tried to rape her has been pardoned by the victim’s family according to a judiciary official, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Afsaneh Nowrouzi was ordered to pay the family of Colonel Behzad Moghaddam $62,500 as blood money in order to escape the execution.
Victim’s family pardons Iranian woman, seeks blood money
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 12 – A woman sentenced to death for killing a senior police officer who tried to rape her has been pardoned by the victim’s family according to a judiciary official, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Afsaneh Nowrouzi was ordered to pay the family of Colonel Behzad Moghaddam $62,500 as blood money in order to escape the execution.
Iran to start uranium enrichment in near future: Rowhani
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 12 In a meeting with Japan’s ambassador to Tehran, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) secretary said, “Iran will start enriching uranium in the near future”. Hassan Rowhani, Iran’s nuclear point-man in negotiations with the European Union’s big three added, “Iran will not allow other countries to pursue a halt in its (nuclear) enrichment”.
Iran to start uranium enrichment in near future: Rowhani
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 12 In a meeting with Japan’s ambassador to Tehran, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) secretary said, “Iran will start enriching uranium in the near future”. Hassan Rowhani, Iran’s nuclear point-man in negotiations with the European Union’s big three added, “Iran will not allow other countries to pursue a halt in its (nuclear) enrichment”.
