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- Baha'is facing persecution in Iran
- Letter to the Head of the Judiciary to Release Osanloo - Iran: Political Prisoner’s Life in Danger - Nobel laureate's aide charged - The cost of religious conversion in Iran - AmirKabir University student: "We were tortured 4 times a day"
- Iran: Human Rights Defenders Prevented from Leaving Iran; Women’s Rights Advocates Arrested
- Iranian Women’s Movement Supports Women of Afghanistan - Freedom of two women activists was rejected - The Liberation Movement of Iranian Women – Year Zero“ - The Simone de Beauvoir prize for Women’s freedom 2009 is awarded to the Iranian campaign “One Million Signatures”
- The Iranian regime's real boss
- There's No Room for Partisanship on Iran - Israel and Iran: What Next? - Why Washington is Waiting for Mussavi - The Pharaoh Strikes Back: Egypt vs. Hezbollah - As the U.S. Retreats, Iran Fills the Void
- The Iranian regime is a growing threat in Latin America
- Will Egypt name Hezbollah chief in its indictment? - Ties Between Venezuela, the Iranian regime and Hezbollah - The Iranian Regime's New Target: Egypt - Nasrallah: Between the Guide and the Professor - Egypt foils plot and arrests 49 'Hizbollah suspects'
- Iran Has Centrifuge Capacity for Nuclear Arms, Report Says
- Tracking the world's efforts to punish Iranian proliferators - Iranian Regime could have enough material for nuke in months - Is Netanyahu bringing Israel closer to a 'second Holocaust'? - Where Did the Lavizan Site Disappear to? - Aghazadeh is a Liar  |
Sunday 07 June 2009
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Obama says must be "tough" with Iran, N.Korea
 CAEN, France (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama underlined on Saturday the need for "tough diplomacy" in dealing with Iran's nuclear program and said he would be firm with North Korea as well after its second atomic bomb explosion. ... Read more ...22:37 »
Iran Hangs 2 Sunni Militants Convicted In Deadly Mosque Bombing
 TEHRAN - Iran's state TV says authorities have hanged two members of a Sunni militant group behind a mosque bombing last month that killed 25 people. The report says the two men were hanged Saturday at a prison in the ... Read more ...21:39 »
The Iranian regime gets closer to nuclear weapon capacity
 The Washington Times : Ignoring overtures for talks from the Obama administration, Iran has continued to build a stockpile of low-enriched uranium and could, within three to six months, convert the material into a nuclear weapon, according to nuclear specialists. ... Read more ...21:33 »
Iran Has Centrifuge Capacity for Nuclear Arms, Report Says
 The New York Times : A week before Iran’s presidential election, atomic inspectors reported Friday that the country has sped up its production of nuclear fuel and increased its number of installed centrifuges to 7,200 — more than enough, weapon ... Read more ...21:24 »
Israel warns Belarus over Iran ties
 The Press Association : Israel's foreign minister has strongly cautioned Belarus against developing relations with Iran. Avigdor Lieberman said that Iran poses a major threat to stability in the entire Middle East. He told reporters that Israel expects Belarusian officials ... Read more ...21:21 »
Ahmadinejad lashes out at Iran's ex-presidents
 TEHRAN - CNN - It's a first for Iran: a series of debates televised live ahead of the upcoming presidential elections next week. And Wednesday's was one to remember. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, known for his fiery attacks on his foes, ... Read more ...21:02 »
Sarkozy warns Iran after nuclear talks in Paris
 PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Iran on Wednesday that it risked deepening its international isolation if it did not agree to talks with the world's biggest powers on Tehran's nuclear program. Sarkozy agreed to a meeting with ... Read more ...20:40 »
Baha'is facing persecution in Iran
 Summerland Review : As practitioners of the Baha’i faith in Iran are being imprisoned for their beliefs, members of the Summerland Baha’i community are watching closely. Emily Unger, a local member of the faith, says the news of persecution in ... Read more ...20:26 »
Obama Says Iran Nuclear Showdown At Decisive Point
 CAIRO (AFP) — US President Barack Obama said on Thursday that the nuclear showdown with Iran had reached a decisive point but that Tehran had the right to peaceful nuclear power if it abided by international treaties. Obama, who broke ... Read more ...20:21 »
Khamenei issues veiled criticism of moderates
 TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme leader said on Thursday the Islamic Republic's "honor" in the world should not be questioned, in an apparent criticism of reformers challenging President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in this month's election. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke ... Read more ...20:18 »
Khamenei Says U.S. 'Deeply Hated' in Mideast
 Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday the United States was "deeply hated" in the Middle East and that Israel is a "cancerous tumor in the heart" of the Muslim world. Khamenei, speaking on the same day President ... Read more ...19:50 »
India's Reliance halts petrol sales to Iran - report
 NEW DELHI - Reuters - India's Reliance Industries Ltd has stopped gasoline exports to Iran, to help avoid possible restrictions on sales of its fuel to the U.S. market, the Economic Times reported on Thursday. The newspaper cited an identified ... Read more ...19:39 »
All Israeli options against Iran on table - Barak
 WASHINGTON - Reuters - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak refused on Wednesday to rule out a military strike on Iran, his comment came just hours after Israel's foreign minister said the Jewish state would not do so. "I repeat what ... Read more ...19:30 »
Sarkozy slams Iranian leader for Holocaust remark
PARIS (AFP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy issued Wednesday a strong condemnation of new remarks from Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denying the Holocaust. "The president of the republic condemned the remarks made today by the Iranian president questioning the reality ... Read more ...19:25 »
Ahmadinejad says Holocaust a 'big deception'
 TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is seeking a second term in office, reiterated on Wednesday his anti-Israel stance by calling the Holocaust a "big deception". Ahmadinejad also said liberal democracies of the world have degraded "human ... Read more ...19:20 »
Israel 'does not intend to bomb Iran': Lieberman
MOSCOW (AFP) — Israel "does not intend to bomb" Iran, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday, after repeated warnings from the Jewish state that Tehran is courting danger over its nuclear drive. "We are not intending to bomb ... Read more ... Tuesday 02 June 2009
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Sarkozy to meet Iranian FM on nuclear standoff
French president's office says meeting aimed at addressing possibility of restarting talks with Iran on nuclear proliferation. AFP : France's President Nicolas Sarkozy will meet Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Wednesday in Paris to try to revive international talks ... Read more ...23:55 »
Letter to the Head of the Judiciary to Release Osanloo
 International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: I am writing on behalf of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran to express our alarm about threats to the health and safety of imprisoned labor leader Mansour Osanloo, and to ... Read more ...23:52 »
Israel's Barak urges more sanctions against Iran
JERUSALEM - Reuters - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak called on Monday for further world economic sanctions to force Iran to halt its nuclear programme, insisting that "no option" should be ruled out, an official statement said. A ministry statement ... Read more ...23:49 »
Dozens arrested in restive Iranian city
 TEHRAN (AFP) — Dozens of people have been arrested over deadly sectarian unrest in the Iranian city of Zahedan which erupted shortly before the country goes to the polls in 10 days, a judicial official said on Tuesday. Ten people ... Read more ...23:45 »
U.S. NGO urges Iran to free jailed employee
 WASHINGTON - Reuters - A U.S.-based nongovernmental group urged Tehran on Monday to release an employee jailed for nearly a year, appealing for the same "fairness" it showed by freeing Iranian-American reporter Roxana Saberi last month. Silva Harotonian, 34, an ... Read more ...23:40 »
State Dept. July 4 Parties: Hot Dogs, Iran Envoys
 NPR.org, June 2, 2009 · In a new overture to Iran, the Obama administration has authorized U.S. embassies around the world to invite Iranian officials to Independence Day parties they host on or around July 4th. A State Department cable ... Read more ...22:21 »
Arson attack in restive Iranian city kills 5
 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Associated Press : An arson attack on a bank killed five people Monday in an Iranian city bordering Pakistan where authorities have struggled to quell unrest since a deadly mosque bombing last week claimed ... Read more ...22:17 »
Israel: The Iranian regime could have nuke this year
JERUSALEM - (UPI) -- Iran could produce enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon by the end of this year, an Israeli intelligence official says. Brig. Gen. Yossi Baidatz, head of the research division of Israeli Military Intelligence, told a ... Read more ...22:07 »
The Iranian regime holds air exercises, launches ships
 BANDAR ABBAS, Iran - (UPI) -- The Iranian air force has launched a large military exercise dubbed "Thunder 88" over its regional waters, official media indicated Monday. Iranian TV said the Air Force carried out maneuvers using various types of ... Read more ...21:59 »
The Iranian regime's real boss
National Post : Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the grim ascetic who deposed Iran's 2,500-year-old monarchy and transformed the Islamic world, came to power through massive street protests and when he died, 20 years ago this week, was mourned by millions. ... Read more ...21:55 »
Suspicious Package Forces Return of Iranian Airliner
 FOX News : An Iranian airliner was forced to return to a southern airport minutes after takeoff because of a suspicious package on board, an incident a security official called a "sabotage operation." The contents of the package were still ... Read more ...21:40 »
Israel and the Axis of Evil
rightsidenews.com : North Korea is half a world away from Israel. Yet the nuclear test it conducted on Monday has the Israeli defense establishment up in arms and its Iranian nemesis smiling like the Cheshire Cat. Understanding why this is ... Read more ...21:32 »
Israeli foreign minister to press Russians on Iran
Israel's foreign minister will head to Moscow on Monday to air his nation's concerns over Iran's nuclear program in talks with Russian leaders. The trip is the tough-talking Avigdor Lieberman's first to Russia since taking office on March 31. ... Read more ...21:23 »
Iran to issue 1 bln euros in bonds to fund gas field
 financial24.org : TEHRAN - Iran plans to issue bonds worth 1 billion euros to help finance the development of its South Pars natural gas field in the Gulf, Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari said in remarks published on Sunday . Iran ... Read more ...21:19 »
Three men hanged in Iran for mosque bombing
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Three men who were involved in the recent bombing of a mosque in the city of Zahedan were hanged Saturday, only two days after the explosion that killed and injured dozens of worshippers, according to Iran's ... Read more ...21:08 »
There's No Room for Partisanship on Iran
 By JOSEPH I. LIEBERMAN, Wall Street Journal : An Iranian nuclear bomb would transform the strategic landscape of the Middle East. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that it is imperative that the world ... Read more ...21:02 »
Azerbaijan seen as new front in Mideast conflict
 Los Angeles Times : Officials say they foiled a plot by Hezbollah and Iran to bomb the Israeli Embassy in revenge for the 2008 slaying of Imad Mughniyah. Anti-terrorism officials fear a new militant hub. Reporting from Paris — It ... Read more ...20:55 »
The Iranian regime is a growing threat in Latin America
 Three separate news items here that indicate first, that Iran is proudly supporting both Hamas and Hizbollah, and all but admitting it trains and funds one or both; and second, that Iran is expanding it’s reach in Latin America and ... Read more ... Friday 29 May 2009
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Gun attack on the Iranian regime's election center
TEHRAN - Associated Press - Gunmen wounded three people at one of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's campaign offices in southeast Iran on Friday, a day after a bombing in a Shiite mosque in the same city killed 25 people, the official ... Read more ...23:52 »
Freed journalist Roxana Saberi tells of fearful jail time in Iran
 USA TODAY : An American journalist jailed in Iran for more than three months says she was under "severe psychological and mental pressure" and made a false confession hoping it would help her win freedom. In her first interview ... Read more ...23:50 »
Iran's political system
Los Angeles Times : The winner of Iran's June 12 presidential election will enjoy only limited power in the nation's complex system. How does the Islamic Republic's political system work? ... Read more ...21:47 »
Blast at mosque in Iran's Zahedan kills 30: report
TEHRAN - Reuters - An explosion at a prominent Shi'ite Muslim mosque in the southeast Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday killed 30 people and wounded 60, the semi-official news agency ILNA reported. The agency said the blast was a ... Read more ...21:43 »
Obama to visit Saudi Arabia to discuss peace, Iran
 WASHINGTON - Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama will meet Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in Riyadh next week to seek his support over the nuclear standoff with Iran and reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Obama will visit Riyadh on June ... Read more ...21:36 »
Ahmadinejad Boasts of Enhanced Nuclear Capability
FOX News : President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran has boosted its capacity to enrich uranium, another sign of anti-Western defiance by the leader seeking re-election in a vote next month. Ahmadinejad said last month that Iran had 7,000 centrifuges at ... Read more ...21:33 »
Miliband: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei must engage with West
Times Online : Britain is looking to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to reach out to the West over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said yesterday, playing down the effect of a likely election victory ... Read more ...21:26 »
Argentina: Inquiry Into Bombing to Reopen
 Argentina’s Supreme Court ordered the reopening of the investigation into a deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, saying a man previously acquitted in the attack should be retried. The court ruled 4 to 2 that ... Read more ...21:22 »
A 100 Year Old Baha'i Cemetery is being Auctioned Off Near Sari
 Human Righs Activists In Iran : The Baha'i Cemetery of near the Village of Ayval on the Kiasar-Sari road has been placed for auction, in order to be converted to residential property. This cemetery is more than 100 years old, ... Read more ...21:17 »
Israel army chief wary of US dialogue with the Iranian regime
Israel's armed forces chief expressed scepticism over the US administration's plans for dialogue with Iran over its nuclear programme. "The dialogue between the US and Iran is unlikely to succeed," Lieutenant General Gaby Ashkenazi told parliament's foreign affairs and defence ... Read more ...21:04 »
France keeps an eye on Iran while opening U.A.E. base
The Wall Street Journal : French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived Monday in the United Arab Emirates, where he is set to inaugurate a French military base at a time of growing pressure on neighbor Iran to give up its nuclear ... Read more ...20:46 »
The Iranian regime arrests 104 "devil worshippers": Report
TEHRAN - Iranian security forces have arrested 104 "devil worshippers" and seized drugs and alcohol during a party in a southern city, a semi-official news agency reported on Monday. "Cutting (their own) skin and sucking up the blood was among ... Read more ...20:42 »
Ahmadinejad rejects Western nuclear proposal
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday rejected a Western proposal for it to "freeze" its nuclear work in return for no new sanctions and ruled out any talks with major powers on the issue. The comments by ... Read more ...20:39 »
Israel's Barak to US next week for Iran talks
JERUSALEM: Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak will fly to Washington next week for talks with his counterpart Robert Gates and senior officials set to focus on Iran's nuclear ambitions, an official said Monday. The defence minister was also planning to ... Read more ...20:25 »
Israeli document: Venezuela sends uranium to Iran
JERUSALEM (AP) — Venezuela and Bolivia are supplying Iran with uranium for its nuclear program, according to a secret Israeli government report obtained Monday by The Associated Press. The two South American countries are known to have close ties with ... Read more ... Sunday 24 May 2009
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Iran says powers agree to nuclear talks after vote
 TEHRAN - Reuters - Iran has told world powers including the United States talks on its nuclear program must wait until after the Islamic Republic's presidential election on June 12, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday. The United States, Russia, ... Read more ...20:25 »
Italy to send envoy to Iran
 AP : Italy's foreign minister said Saturday he is sending a representative to Tehran to sound out the possibility of a meeting with Iranian officials after he canceled a visit earlier this week. Franco Frattini said Italy considers talks on ... Read more ...20:17 »
Iran: Political Prisoner’s Life in Danger
 Human Rights Watch: (New York) -The Iranian government should immediately release ailing political prisoner Behrooz Javid-Tehrani, a human rights activist first arrested during 1999 nationwide student protests, and ensure he has access to adequate medical care, Human Rights Watch said ... Read more ...20:09 »
Iran-Iraq alcohol smugglers risk death or jail to supply banned drink
 The Times : Dying for a drink? Men and mules do so all the time in the hills along the Iran-Iraq frontier east of Bashmagh. Some are shot by Iranian security forces as they smuggle their illicit cargo of alcohol ... Read more ...19:55 »
Iran blocks Facebook over presidential hopeful
 TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has blocked access to Facebook ahead of June presidential polls, allegedly to prevent supporters of the leading opposition candidate from using the site for his campaign, Ilna news agency said on Saturday. ... Read more ...19:44 »
Nobel laureate's aide charged
 news24.com : Tehran - Iran's judiciary has charged an aide to Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi with "propagating" against the nation's Islamic system, the IRNA news agency reported on Friday. "Narges Mohammadi has been charged with propagating against the Islamic Republic ... Read more ...To access the previous news please click here |
