Xinhuanet: Iran said on Monday that it was well-prepared for “any scenario” over nuclear issue, the official IRNA news agency reported. “I believes that Iran’s case will not be referred to the UN Security Council. But, Iran is also well-prepared beforehand for any scenario in this respect,” government spokesman Abdollah Ramezanzadeh was quoted as saying.
Iran well-prepared for “any scenario” over nuclear issue: official
Spain’s Repsol YPF to prospect in Iran: report
AFP: Spain’s leading energy group Repsol YPF has signed a 27-million-dollar (21.6-million-euro) deal with Iran to obtain prospection rights in two fields over the next 30 months, the financial newspaper Expansion reported on Monday. A Repsol YPF statement confirmed the firm would prospect at Mehr and Foruz, near Kish Island off the port of Bushir in the southern Persian Gulf, with the total project covering 14,600 square kilometres (5,000 square miles).
Hardline Iranian militia wants observers at US election
AFP: Iran’s hardline Basij militia has written to UN secretary general Kofi Annan to ask if the Islamic republic can send observers to the US presidential election in November, a government newspaper said on Monday.
“By this symbolic request, we want to ridicule the so-called democratic slogans of the American leaders,” a Basij official …
Minister Who Converted From Islam Risks Death Penalty in Iran
Asia News: Hamid Pourmand is a Protestant minister of the Assemblies of God Church. He converted from Islam several years ago. Since September he has been held in prison at an undisclosed location and under Iranian law he can be put to death for “apostasy against Islam”. He was arrested on September 9 in Karaj, a town 30 km west of the capital Tehran during a police raid against the annual General Council of the Assemblies of God Church.
3 teenage boys sentenced to execution
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 18 – The Supreme Court has
approved and upheld the execution sentence of 3 teenage boys. The boys who were aged between 15 and 16 years
when they were charged are currently in the Center for Reform and Education (Juvenile Prison) until they turn 18 when they shall be executed.
3 teenage boys sentenced to execution
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 18 – The Supreme Court has
approved and upheld the execution sentence of 3 teenage boys. The boys who were aged between 15 and 16 years
when they were charged are currently in the Center for Reform and Education (Juvenile Prison) until they turn 18 when they shall be executed.
Iran Wants Right to Enrich Uranium
Associated Press: Iran won’t permit its diplomats to negotiate with European nations over its nuclear program if the goal of talks is to deprive Iran of the right to enrich uranium, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator said Monday.
Fourteen dead in Iran road crash
AFP: Fourteen people were killed and six others injured when
a minibus colided with two trucks in southern Iran, the state news agency IRNA reported Monday.
According to a provincial police official, Rasoul Dehghani, the accident occurred Sunday when the minibus veered out of its lane and crashed into two heavy vehicles on a road between the towns of Bandar Abbas and Minab.
People Power, Iranian-Style
Wall Street Journal – PAULO CASACA: Last April, on a tour of Iraq, I spent several days in a camp north-east of Baghdad populated by several thousand Iranians. They were members of Iranian People’s Mujahedeen, an organization the regime in Tehran considers as its enemy number one, with America and Israel. Arriving at Camp Ashraf after traveling around Iraq felt like reaching an oasis. Traffic police who imposed fines on speeding; Ashraf was the only place I found in Iraq where
traffic rules were respected and enforced.
Iran wary of European nuclear incentive plan
Financial Times: Iranian officials reacted cautiously to plans
by Britain, France and Germany for a new incentive package to win Tehran’s agreement to complete suspension of its
nuclear programme before a meeting on November 25 of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
