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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 25 – The head of the coordination center of Iran’s security forces yesterday revealed that 1,152 murders have been recorded in the past six months. |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 25 - At least 150 people have been arrested over the past two days in the southern city of Shiraz in the latest crackdown by agents of the State Security Forces (SSF), local residents reported. Eyewitnesses said that dozens of people, mostly youth, were arrested on the streets for their
“un-Islamic attire”. |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
 Reuters: The nuclear technology the European Union has offered Iran could help it make an atomic bomb, not prevent it,
a Washington-based think-tank warned.
The EU's "Big Three" -- France, Britain and Germany -- have offered Iran reactor fuel and help developing light-water reactor (LWR) technology if Tehran stops uranium enrichment, a process which can be used to make nuclear arms. |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
 PA News: The international community will not accept Iran developing nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Tony Blair
warned today. At his monthly Downing Street press conference, Mr Blair stressed that dialogue with Tehran over its suspected weapons development efforts was not over.
Mr Blair insisted that he was not aware of any American plans to take military action against Iran. |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran's top security official on Monday warned the European Union not to cross Tehran's red lines in
negotiations over its nuclear programme.The EU's "big three" powers, Britain, France and Germany, have offered Iran a deal whereby it would scrap activities related to producing nuclear fuel in return for help with civilian nuclear technology and a resumption of trade talks. |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
 New York Times: Iran on Sunday rejected a proposal by Britain, Germany and France to suspend its uranium enrichment program and urged those countries to offer a "more balanced" proposal. During a meeting on Thursday in Vienna, the three European countries asked Iran to give up its uranium enrichment program in return for a guarantee to help Iran build a light-water power reactor and to provide a supply of reactor fuel.
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
 The Guardian: Iran refused yesterday to agree to suspend indefinitely its uranium enrichment activities although it would continue talks with Britain, France and Germany on a package of incentives. The foreign ministry said in a statement: "Indefinite suspension of nuclear enrichment activities is not acceptable ... and it is not a subject of the talks." |
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Monday, 25 October 2004 |
 AP: They are the shock troops of Iran's Islamic Revolution, the men who helped seize the U.S. embassy a generation ago
and bore the brunt of their country's eight-year war with Iraq.
The vast and well-funded Revolutionary Guards are still the most potent force available to the regime. |
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Sunday, 24 October 2004 |
 AFP: A uranium conversion facility in the Iranian city of Isfahan, whose activities European states want to suspend, is now "70 percent" operational, an official from the country's nuclear agency said on Sunday.
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Sunday, 24 October 2004 |
 AFP: Iranian women have been barred from standing in next year's presidential election after a powerful conservative body stood by its literal interpretation of a single but ambiguous
word in the constitution. |
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Sunday, 24 October 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran on Sunday rejected a European Union proposal that it stop enriching uranium in return for nuclear technology, increasing the likelihood that it will be reported to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. |
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Sunday, 24 October 2004 |
 The Sunday Times: IRAN is to resist international demands to abandon a nuclear programme that has alarmed the West and worsened the risk of instability in the Middle East.
Secret intelligence seen by Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, reveals that Iran will not give up production of nuclear material that could be used in weapons. |
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Sunday, 24 October 2004 |
 AFP: Iran on Sunday described a European proposal aimed at ending a nuclear standoff as "unbalanced" and rejected demands that the Islamic republic halt all uranium enrichment activities.
"The European proposal is their preliminary proposition and is not definitive but it is unbalanced," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said. |
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Sunday, 24 October 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 23 - Students from the University of Hormozgan (southern Iran) are continuing their demonstration in the university campus which started Thursday afternoon in protest against lack of food hygiene and service.
The students have complained of a poor food and below minimum standards of hygiene as well as insufficient accommodation in their dormitories. |
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Sunday, 24 October 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 23 - A member of the welfare society
of the department of education in the Iranian province of Khorrasan (northeastern Iran) has reportedly ‘disappeared’ after being summoned to court.
The director of the Khorrasan’s welfare society announced that “Saeid Hashem Khastar was summoned to court without any explanation as to what he was accused of”. |
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Saturday, 23 October 2004 |
 AFP: The United States has seen no sign Iran will comply with international demands on its suspect nuclear program and will push next month for the matter to be sent to the UN Security Council unless Tehran reverses its course, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Saturday. Powell said Washington believed it could get support from the International Atomic Energy Agency to refer Iran to the Security Council ... |
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Saturday, 23 October 2004 |
 AFP: Conservative MPs in Iran on Saturday denounced Europe's call for Iran to halt all uranium enrichment activities if
it wants to avoid the threat of UN sanctions over its nuclear activities. "The European proposal is an excessive demand
that is contrary to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and unacceptable," Alaeddin Brujerdi, the influential head ... |
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Friday, 22 October 2004 |
 AP: An Iranian exile group bristled Friday at a European offer of incentives aimed at getting the Tehran regime to stop uranium enrichment, saying it included a promise that the EU would continue viewing one of its key members as a terrorist organization. In a statement made available to The Associated Press, the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran said the text - formally presented to Iran this week by Britain, France and Germany - "makes a mockery of the war against terrorism." |
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Friday, 22 October 2004 |
 AFP: Officials from Britain, France and Germany were in talks with their Iranian counterparts Thursday in Vienna at a meeting to give Tehran a final chance to reassure the world that it is not secretly developing atomic weapons. The European nations are reported to be offering Iran valuable technology for peaceful nuclear energy if Iran complies, but possible UN sanctions if it does not. |
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Friday, 22 October 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 22 – This morning an earthquake measuring 3.7 degrees on the Richer scale shook the area surrounding the city of Nourabad in the Iranian province of Lorestan (Western Iran). |
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Friday, 22 October 2004 |
 The Economist: A saga of murder that highlights the vulnerability of Iran's urban poorest. A young man develops a taste for raping and killing people, mostly small boys, and hiding their corpses in the wasteland of the open-air brick factories that he inhabits. The police are indifferent to the pleas of distraught parents, who are mostly rural migrants and Afghan refugees; by the time the murderer is brought to book, the death toll stands at 20. |
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Friday, 22 October 2004 |
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IRIN: Twenty European news websites have expressed their concern at the recent imprisonment of five Iranian online journalists. They made their stand in a Reporters Without Borders (RSF) appeal over the crackdown against online media in Iran. "We are always concerned when there are negative effects on journalists when they do their jobs," ... |
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Friday, 22 October 2004 |
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AFP: Iran still has room for diplomatic maneuvering and will certainly wait until after the November 2 US elections to respond to a European offer to avoid possible UN sanctions and receive nuclear technology by indefinitely suspending uranium enrichment, analysts said Friday. |
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Friday, 22 October 2004 |
 AP: Iran is unlikely to accept European incentives aimed at getting it to suspend uranium enrichment, diplomats said today, raising the likelihood of a showdown with the UN nuclear watchdog agency next month. Envoys from Britain, France and Germany offered civilian nuclear technology and a trade deal to the Iranians in a private meeting at the French mission to international organisations in Vienna. But Western diplomats said they doubt the Tehran regime will back down easily. |
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Friday, 22 October 2004 |
 Washington Times: The Bush administration has imposed sanctions on two Indian scientists for selling nuclear technology to Iran and is planning additional arms-related sanctions, U.S. officials said.
The two scientists were identified by the Bush administration as Shri Ch. Surendar and Y. Sivaraman Prasad, both former directors of the Nuclear Power Corp. of India, the state-run utility. |
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Friday, 22 October 2004 |
 The Guardian - Leader Article: No one knows exactly how Iran will react to the latest European proposals for reining in its nuclear ambitions and no one should underestimate the importance of its response. |
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Friday, 22 October 2004 |
 New York Times - EDITORIAL: One of the most serious questions raised by the debacle in Iraq is whether it has crippled the ability of the world's leading powers to contain dangerous states. Iran's nuclear program is a prime case in point: so far, neither threats nor inducements have persuaded its leaders to suspend their uranium enrichment program.
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Thursday, 21 October 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 21 - At least 14 people have been killed and 24 others left injured in a road accident in Iran, state-run television reported. The incident occurred when two buses had a head on collision on the road between Ahwaz and Khoramabad, about 520 km south-west of the Iranian capital, Tehran. |
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AP: Iranian scientists have developed technology to produce zirconium, a key metal used in the heart of a nuclear reactor to produce nuclear fuel, a top nuclear official said Monday.
