Iran Focus: Baghdad, Jan. 11 – Twelve Iranians were arrested by Iraqi police yesterday in the city of al-Kut, south of Baghdad. The individuals who crossed the Iran-Iraq border travelled without valid visas.
Iraqi authorities had demanded in recent weeks that Tehran shut down illegal crossings between the 1500km border.
12 caught crossing from Iran into Iraq
12 caught crossing from Iran into Iraq
Iran Focus: Baghdad, Jan. 11 – Twelve Iranians were arrested by Iraqi police yesterday in the city of al-Kut, south of Baghdad. The individuals who crossed the Iran-Iraq border travelled without valid visas.
Iraqi authorities had demanded in recent weeks that Tehran shut down illegal crossings between the 1500km border.
Iran Plays a Role in Iraq Vote
Los Angeles Times: As Iraq lurches toward elections this month, its neighbor Iran is emerging as one of the hottest campaign issues. Iraq’s outspoken defense minister fired one of the first salvos last month, charging that the front-running slate, the Shiite Muslim-dominated United Iraqi Alliance, was controlled by Tehran and was determined to “build an Islamic dictatorship and have turbaned clerics rule in Iraq.” The minister, Hazem Shaalan, is a Shiite, but is running on a rival, more secular slate.
Friday Prayers Leader denounces mal-veiling in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 10 – Irans Friday Prayers Leader for the city of Urumiyeh (northwest Iran) demanded a harsher crackdown on mal-veiling in the Islamic republic.
Hojatolislam Gholamreza Hassani speaking to a state-run news agency accused security forces of acting too softly on women who do not fully cover their hair, calling the issue the root of Irans social problems.
Friday Prayers Leader denounces mal-veiling in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 10 – Irans Friday Prayers Leader for the city of Urumiyeh (northwest Iran) demanded a harsher crackdown on mal-veiling in the Islamic republic.
Hojatolislam Gholamreza Hassani speaking to a state-run news agency accused security forces of acting too softly on women who do not fully cover their hair, calling the issue the root of Irans social problems.
Iranian fights deportation from Canada
CBC News: Supporters of an Iranian man scheduled for deportation from Canada continued their hunger strike outside a government immigration office Saturday. Ali Reza Monemi, 28, says he will face further danger if he’s sent back to Iran, but last March, an Immigration Canada ruling concluded he would not face unusual treatment or punishment if returned to Iran, and ordered him deported.
Protests rock governors office in western Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 10 Angry residents from the town of Baneh in Kurdistan province (Western Iran) attacked the governors office with stones and sticks at the start of the New Year after hearing of the murder of an individual by State Security Forces (SSF). Eyewitnesses reported seeing
shattered glass from the windows of the governors office scattered nearby.
Protests rock governors office in western Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 10 Angry residents from the town of Baneh in Kurdistan province (Western Iran) attacked the governors office with stones and sticks at the start of the New Year after hearing of the murder of an individual by State Security Forces (SSF). Eyewitnesses reported seeing
shattered glass from the windows of the governors office scattered nearby.
Politics & Policies: The Iran dossier
UPI: As soon as President George W. Bush brushes the confetti off his lapels and returns to the Oval Office from his second inaugural parade on Jan. 20, he will find a series of “presidential papers” on Iran, requiring his immediate attention, waiting for him. Well-informed Washington insiders say the nation’s top think tanks have been scurrying over the last several weeks to put the finishing touches on comprehensive policy papers, or presidential directives that would help the Bush administration formulate a policy on Iran for the next four years.
Iran may resume uranium enrichment in March
Reuters: Iran may resume uranium enrichment — which can
be used to make atomic bombs — in March if talks with the European Union fail to yield satisfactory progress, a senior Iranian security official said on Monday. Even if the talks go well, Hossein Mousavian told Reuters Tehran was only prepared to extend until June the enrichment freeze it began in late November in an effort to disprove U.S. accusations it is seeking nuclear weapons.
