Reuters: Iran on Thursday accused the European Parliamentof "supporting terrorism" by hosting a speech by the leader of an exiled opposition group dedicated to overthrowing the Islamic state's clerical leadership.
Iran criticises EU for hosting exile leader speech
Reuters: Iran on Thursday accused the European Parliamentof "supporting terrorism" by hosting a speech by the leader of an exiled opposition group dedicated to overthrowing the Islamic state's clerical leadership.
Iraqi minister accuses Iran of orchestrating insurgency to undermine democracy
The Scotsman: Iraq's national election campaign kicked off yesterday with angry accusations that Iran was masterminding the continuing insurgency in an effort to undermine democracy and bring about clerical rule. The Iraqi interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, had earlier declared his candidacy in conciliatory fashion, saying he would work to unify the country and bring an end to the multinational occupation. Iranian exile group critical of EU nuclear talks with Iran
AP: The leader of an Iranian exile group on Wednesday criticized the European Union's decision to negotiate a long-term agreement with Tehran on stopping its alleged nuclear weapons program, saying it would not deter Iranian authorities. Speaking to EU lawmakers at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Maryam Rajavi, co-leader of the exile ...Iran Exile Leader Accuses EU of Appeasing Tehran
Reuters: An exiled Iranian opposition leader accused European Union states on Wednesday of appeasing Tehran and urged them to support regime change in Iran. Maryam Rajavi, the self-styled president-elect of the National Councilof Resistance of Iran, the political wing of the People's ...
Exile Iranian opposition leader urges EU to change Iran policy
Iran Focus: Strasbourg, Dec. 15 The Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi was the keynote speaker at a meeting of the members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Rajavi addressed some 200 MEPs, their assistants and other political personalities during a session, entitled The Future of Iran: Oppression or Democracy, that was organised by Friends of a Free Iran.
Iraqi Campaign Raises Question of Iran's Sway
New York Times: On a list of 228 candidates submitted by a powerful Shiite-led political alliance to Iraq's electoral commission last week, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim's name was entered as No. 1. It was the clearest indication yet that in the Jan. 30 election, with Iraq's Shiite majority likely to heavily outnumber Sunni voters, Mr. Hakim may emerge as the country's most powerful political figure. Bush warns Iran, Syria against "meddling" in Iraq
AFP: US President George W. Bush warned Iran and Syria Wednesday against "meddling" in Iraq after that country's defense minister accused them of helping insurgents and terrorists spread deadly chaos. "We will continue to make it clear, to both Syria and Iran, that -- as will other nations in our coalition, including our friends the Italians -- that meddling ...Iran rejects negotiations with US on nuclear issue
AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi on Wednesday rejected any talks with the United States on the standoff over its nuclear programme because of Washington's hostile attitude towards the Islamic republic.Minister Says Iran Is Open to U.S. Talks
New York Times: Iran is willing to talk with the United States about its nuclear program if Washington treats it as an equal partner, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Tuesday. "If negotiations are on the basis of equality and mutual respect in the same way we are talking to Europeans now, there is no reason not to talk to others," Mr. Kharrazi said in response to a question at a joint news conference with South Africa's visiting foreign minister, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Iraq's defense minister describes Iran as 'number one enemy,' key to terrorism in his nation
AP: Iraq's defense minister on Wednesday accused neighboring Iran and Syria of supporting terrorists in his war-ravaged country. Hazem Shaalan also accused Iran of backing the al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist group headed by Jordanianmilitant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and said his country's opponents want ''turbaned clerics to rule in Iraq.''
Iran nuclear chief says Tehran will not accept lengthy talks with EU
AFP: Iran's top nuclear official Hassan Rowhani said Wednesday his country would not accept long drawn-out negotiations with the Europeans over a nuclear deal, the state news agency IRNA reported. "I must say that the duration of the negotiations constitutes a red line. Iraqi minister blasts Iran as source of 'terrorism'
AFP: Iraq's Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan accused Iran Wednesday of orchestrating terrorist attacks in Iraq, saying its neighbor was the "most dangerous enemy of Iraq".
"Iran is the most dangerous enemy of Iraq and all Arabs,"
Shaalan said. "The source of terrorism in Iraq is Iran."
Iran to Execute Mentally Disabled Woman
Associated Press: Amnesty International said Tuesday that Iran planned to execute a mentally disabled 19-year-old woman for "acts contrary to chastity,'' referring to alleged crimes stemming from her having been forced into prostitution as a child.Iran's former conservative FM to run for presidency
AFP: Iran's former conservative foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati, now a top advisor to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has announced he will compete in the presidential elections scheduled for mid-2005, the student news agency ISNA reported on Tuesday. "I believe it is my duty to enter the electoral competition and the voters can evaluate each candidate's capabilities", Velayati said. Death toll from Iran floods rises to 29
AFP: The number of people who have died as a result offloods and heavy rain in Iran's southern province of Bushehr has risen to 29, student news agency ISNA reported Tuesday.
Iran Open to U.S. Involvement in N-Talks -- Minister
Reuters: Iran would not object to Washington joining negotiations with the European Union over its nuclear program provided the United States treated Tehran with respect, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Tuesday. Britain, France and Germany began talks in Brussels on Monday with Iran aimedat brokering a long-term agreement over Tehran's nuclear activities, which Washington says are geared to building atomic arms.
Iran hangs convict
AFP: A 26-year-old Iranian man, convicted of murdering a woman, was hanged in prison in the northern city of Semnan, the conservative daily Jomhuri Eslami reported on Tuesday. Quoting local judiciary officials, the paper indentified the man, who was hanged on Monday, as Qadir Zamaemi-Fard andsaid he had a history of repeated theft.
Iran and Europeans Open a New Round of Negotiations
New York Times: Iran and its European partners pledged Monday to work to overcome their differences and lingering suspicions as they began negotiations for a long-term agreement on nuclear, economic and security cooperation.
Mentally-ill girl who was sold for sex faces death penalty in Iran
The Independent: A teenage girl with a mental age of eight is facing the death penalty for prostitution in Iran. The trial comes only four months after the hanging of another mentally ill girl for sex before marriage in a case that has prompted a human rights lawyer to prepare a charge of wrongful execution against the presiding judge.Teenage sex slave sentenced to death
Daily Telegraph: A 19-year-old Iranian girl with a mental age of eight who was forced into prostitution by her mother has been sentenced to be flogged and executed for 'morality-related' offences, Amnesty International said yesterday. The human rights pressure group has asked Iran's supreme court to stay the execution. The girl, named only as Leyla M, had suffered a "litany of abuse", it said.Hardliners cement power in Iran, nuclear ambitions worry world
AFP: Iran's Islamic regime remained at the centre of international concerns in 2004 by pressing on with a suspect nuclear programme, testing new ballistic missiles, ousting reformists from office and clamping down on dissent. After an often turbulent experiment with reforms, powerful hardliners marked the Islamic republic's 25th anniversary by barring allies of President Mohammad Khatami from standing in February's parliamentary elections on the grounds of their questionable loyalty to the regime.Clashes in northern Iran leave scores injured, security vehicles destroyed
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 13 - Workers and local residents in the northern Iranian city of Amol clashed with the security forces, leaving scores injured and a number of security vehicles destroyed. Workers from Amol's Textile Factory demonstrated outside the local governor's office after the factory claimed bankruptcy whilst owing the workers back-pay ...Iran nuke talks launched
Reuters: Three European powers and Iran have begun talkson a long-term agreement on nuclear, economic and security cooperation with both sides seeking to build trust amid continuing suspicion over Tehran's atomic programme. The meeting between Iranian negotiator Hassan Rohani, the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana followed Iran's agreement last month to suspend activities that could help make a
nuclear bomb.
Iran: Girl With Mental Age of Eight Given Death Sentence After Mother Forced Her Into Prostitution F
Amnesty International: A 19-year old girl, Leyla M, who has a mentalage of eight, reportedly faces imminent execution for morality-related offences after being forced into prostitution by her mother as a child. According to a Tehran newspaper report of 28 November, she was sentenced to death by a court in the central Iranian city of Arak and the sentence has now been passed to the Supreme Court for confirmation.
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