AFP: A huge majority of MPs in Iran’s conservative-controlled parliament wants the country to resume uranium enrichment and will soon begin discussing a bill that would force the reformist government to do so, a senior deputy said Sunday.
“The plan to oblige the government to resume enrichment has the support of 238 deputies” out of a total 290 …
Iran’s hardline parliament supports resuming uranium enrichment
Iran’s Parliament Impeaches Transport Minister
VOA News: Iran’s conservative-dominated parliament has impeached the country’s transport minister, accusing him of corruption and mismanagement.
Ahmad Khorram was stripped of his post in President Mohammed Khatami’s reformist government Sunday by a
vote of 188 to 58.
Twenty killed as bus crashes in Iran
AFP: Twenty people were killed and 21 others injured when a bus packed with Iraqi nationals on a pilgrimage to Iran collided with a truck in the northeast of the Islamic republic, press reports said on Sunday. According to the Iran newspaper, all or most of the dead and injured were Iraqis.
Iran Rejects Kerry Nuclear Proposal
Reuters: Iran on Sunday rejected a proposal by U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry who has suggested supplying the Islamic state with nuclear fuel for power reactors if Tehran agrees to give up its own fuel-making capability.
Foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said it would be “irrational” for Iran to put its nuclear program in jeopardy by relying on supplies from abroad.
Two Iranian smugglers sentenced to death
AP: Two Iranians have been sentenced to death for smuggling thousands of antiques to the United States, Europe and Asia, State-run Tehran radio reported Saturday.
Hossein Marashi, Iran’s head of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization, said the men smuggled unique antiques found in Jiroft, the site of an ancient civilization dating back about 5,000 years in southern Iran’s Kerman province, out of the country.
Top US official slams Germany over trade with Iran
AFP: The top US official for arms control, John Bolton, sharply criticized Germany for trading with Iran, which Washington suspects of covertly developing nuclear weapons, in remarks published this weekend.
“I can only speak from the American perspective. We do not trade with countries that seek to breach international nuclear agreements …”
Iranian protesters clash with security forces in Isfahan
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 2 – Violent clashes erupted between local residents and the security forces in the city of Isfahan, central Iran. Among the casualties is a 14 year-old schoolboy who was reportedly was shot and seriously wounded.
Iranian protesters clash with security forces in Isfahan
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 2 – Violent clashes erupted between local residents and the security forces in the city of Isfahan, central Iran. Among the casualties is a 14 year-old schoolboy who reportedly was shot and seriously wounded.
Prisoner hanged in public square in southern Iran city
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 2 A man was hanged in front of a crowd in one of the main squares in the southwestern city of Ahwaz on Wednesday, the daily Jomhuri Islami reported. The paper identified the executed prisoner as Hamid K.
More than 900 satellite dishes rounded up in Iranian province
Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 1 – The head of State Security Forces (SSF) in the southwestern Iranian province of Ilam announced that the Iranian regimes agents have confiscated more than 900 satellite dishes in the past 6 months.
Amir Darabi said his agents had been waging a vigorous crackdown on homes that had installed satellite dishes.
