Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 20 Homes in the city of Mashad (northeast Iran) were raided over the past few days by State Security Forces for “illegal satellite dishes”. The SSF Public Relations Office announced that two individuals were arrested, on charges of installing satellite dishes, during the raids. Some 45 satellite dishes and receivers were confiscated thus far.
Homes raided in northeast Iran for illegal satellites dishes
Iran’s supreme leader labels Rushdie an apostate who can be killed
AFP: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has labelled British author Salman Rushdie an apostate whose killing would be authorised by Islam, according to message carried by Iranian media Wednesday. Khamenei’s reference to Rushdie was made in a message to Muslims making the annnual pilgrimage to Mecca, and was part of a lengthy tirade against “Western and Zionist capitalists” and the US-led “war on terror”.
Condoleezza Rice Voices Tough Line on Iran
Reuters: Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice articulated a firm U.S. line against Iran’s ruling mullahs, whose nuclear ambitions the Bush administration considers a major threat, in testimony at her Senate confirmation hearings. In two days of Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings that ended on Wednesday, Rice repeatedly emphasized differences with Tehran’s clerical leaders, saying: “It’s really hard to find common ground with a government that thinks Israel should be extinguished.”
Straw says Iran nuke talks the only way forward
Reuters: Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says there is no alternative to Europe’s approach of using diplomacy to try to persuade Iran to give up any technology that could be used make nuclear weapons. In an interview with the Financial Times, Straw defended the policy of Britain, France and Germany to talk to Iran rather adopt Washington’s more hardline stance.
14 dead, 11 injured in latest Iran road carnage
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 19 – Fourteen people were killed yesterday and eleven others left injured when a bus and a
truck collided in Fars province (southern Iran), according to the
state-run news agency IRNA.
14 dead, 11 injured in latest Iran road carnage
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 19 – Fourteen people were killed yesterday and eleven others left injured when a bus and a
truck collided in Fars province (southern Iran), according to the
state-run news agency IRNA.
Iran, Calling Bush’s Words ‘Threats,’ Says It Is Not Intimidated
New York Times: A number of Iranian officials declared Tuesday that Iran would not be intimidated by threats, a day after President Bush refused to rule out military action against Iran if it continued to pursue nuclear weapons.
Pro-democracy Iran rally in Paris to highlight abuses
Iran Focus: Paris, France, Jan. 18 Iranians are planning a massive rally in Paris on the twenty-sixth anniversary of the 1979 Iranian revolution to call for an end to theocratic rule in their country. Organisers are expecting a huge turnout in the event scheduled for February 10 at Place Trocadero in central Paris.
We are going to call every man and woman of conscience in the world to join us on February 10, said Elham Parsafar of the Paris-based Committee in Defense of Human Rights in Iran.
Iran Democracy Rally Planned in Paris
Iran Focus: Paris, Jan. 18 Iranians are planning a massive rally in Paris on the twenty-sixth anniversary of the 1979 Iranian revolution to call for an end to theocratic rule in their country. Organisers are expecting a huge turnout in the event scheduled for February 10 at Place Trocadero in central Paris.
We are going to call every man and woman of conscience in the world to join us on February 10, said Elham Parsafar of the Paris-based Committee in Defense of Human Rights in Iran.
Iran Democracy Rally Planned in Paris
Iran Focus: Paris, Jan. 18 Iranians are planning a massive rally in Paris on the twenty-sixth anniversary of the 1979 Iranian revolution to call for an end to theocratic rule in their country. Organisers are expecting a huge turnout in the event scheduled for February 10 at Place Trocadero in central Paris.
We are going to call every man and woman of conscience in the world to join us on February 10, said Elham Parsafar of the Paris-based Committee in Defense of Human Rights in Iran.
