Reuters: Heavy rain and floods in southwestern Iran killed at least 10 people and injured at least 18, the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday. In one incident in the Bushehr province, a bus fell off a bridge into a ravine
Floods in south Iran kill 10 people, injure 18-IRNA
Reuters: Heavy rain and floods in southwestern Iran killed at least 10 people and injured at least 18, the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday. In one incident in the Bushehr province, a bus fell off a bridge into a ravine
EU3, Iran to Start Nuclear Talks on Monday
Reuters: Foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany and the European Union's foreign policy chief will meet a top Iranian official in Brussels on Monday to launch talks on long-term nuclear cooperation, diplomats said. The said Hassan Rohani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, would meet Jack Straw, Michel Barnier, Joschka Fischer and Javier Solana to begin negotiations promised when ...
Woman deported from B.C. awaits trial in Iran
CTV Canada: An Iranian women's rights activist who was deported from Vancouver recently, despite telling immigration officials that she could be sentenced to death, is awaiting a court date.
Haleh Sahba was detained and released in Iran after being forced to leave Canada Tuesday, according to her sister.
UN concern over Iran's nuclear technology
Financial Times: The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has suggested that Iran's nuclear technology represents an effective deterrent that should be dealt with through a security dialogue as well as inspections.
Irans Judiciary Arrests Three Cultural Officials
Reuters: Iran's judiciary has arrested three cultural officials for organising a festival containing a brief display of dancing by a male and female theatre group, the government-run Iran newspaper reported on Thursday.
Iran Rejects Accusations Over Iraq Vote
AP: Iran on Thursday rejected accusations it was trying to influence January elections in Iraq, saying that Iraqis have made it clear they won't take orders from abroad, state media reported.
Iraqi officials know Iran considers the right of Iraqis to determine their own fate a step toward stability and tranquility
in Iraq, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told state-run radio.
Iran Rejects Accusations Over Iraq Vote
AP: Iran on Thursday rejected accusations it was trying to influence January elections in Iraq, saying that Iraqis have made it clear they won't take orders from abroad, state media reported.
Iraqi officials know Iran considers the right of Iraqis to determine their own fate a step toward stability and tranquility in Iraq, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told state-run radio.
Iran officials held over theater festival
UPI: Three officials in the province of Khosestan in southern Iran have been arrested on charges of encouraging corruption by sponsoring a theater festival. The Iranian News Agency said Wednesday that Ali Reza Ajnak, director of the Department of Culture and Islamic Guidance in the province, and two of his colleagues were arrested at the behest of the president of a committee that overlooks the strict application of Islamic rules.Iranian asylum seekers begin hunger strike in Australian detention centre
AFP: Six Iranians held at an outback immigration detention centre north of here have begun a hunger strike, some with their lips sewn together, in an attempt to have their plea for asylum reviewed, officials said Wednesday. The six are members of a group of 70 Iranian men who have been held, some for years, at the Baxter detention centre, near Port ...Iran's intelligence chief denies Al-Qaeda members sentenced
AFP: Iran's Intelligence Minister Ali Younessi has denied claims by the judiciary that members of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network have been tried and sentenced. "Probably the judiciary in Tehran was speaking about the sentencing of Al-Qaeda sympathisers and not their principal members," Younessi was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA. Iraq, Jordan See Threat To Election From Iran
Washington Post: The leaders of Iraq and Jordan warned yesterday that Iran is trying to influence the Iraqi elections scheduled for Jan. 30 to create an Islamic government that would dramatically shift the geopolitical balance between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in the Middle East. Iraqi President Ghazi Yawar charged that Iran is coaching candidates and political parties sympathetic to Tehran and pouring "huge amounts of money" into the campaign to produce a Shiite-dominated government similar to Iran's. Bush administration planning to increase pressure on Iran
Knight Ridder Newspapers: As 150,000 U.S. troops battle to stabilize Iraq, some officials in the Bush administration are already planning to turn up the heat on another member of the president's axis of evil. Officials in the White House and the Defense Department are developing plans to increase public criticism of Iran's human rights record, offer stronger backingto exiles and other opponents of Tehran's repressive ...
US wants Iraq, Afghanistan in WTO but not Iran
AFP: The United States said Tuesday it was backing Iraq's and Afghanistan's bids to join the World Trade Organization but said there was no consensus on Iran's effort to join. Baghdad and Kabul were expected to present their candidacies December 13 to join the multilateral organization, which must make a unanimous recommendation. Yawar warns of Iran's interference in Iraq
UPI: Iraqi Interim President Ghazi Yawar warned Iran Tuesday against meddling in Iraqi politics ahead of the Jan. 30elections in Iraq. In an interview with the Washington Post, Yawar, a U.S.-educated civil engineer and Sunni Muslim tribal leader, said he was disappointed by political interference from Iran aimed at influencing the outcome of the Iraqi elections.
Egypt to try Iranian and Egyptian on spy charges
Reuters: Egypt will try an Iranian diplomat in absentia and a captured Egyptian on charges of spying and plotting to carryout attacks at home and abroad, the public prosecutor said
on Tuesday.
Iranian diplomat, Egyptian charged in Egypt over assassination plot
AFP: Egypt said on Tuesday it has charged an Iraniandiplomat and an Egyptian national over a plot to assassinate an unidentified public figure.
Egyptian Mahmud Aid Dabbus is accused of being paid
50,000 dollars by Iran's Revolutionary Guards to kill the unnamed target and of spying for the Islamic republic,
charges that carry a possible 25-year prison term.
FEATURE - Young Iranian criminals fear execution day
Reuters: Instead of celebrating his 18th birthday at home with friends and family this month, Ali Torabi will be wondering if it will be his last. Torabi is one of at least 12 juvenile offenders sentenced to death by Iran's hardline courts and held in detention centres until they are deemed old enough to be executed without attracting international criticism, humanrights activists say.
Seven drug traffickers hanged publicly in Iran
AFP: Seven drug traffickers were hanged publicly on Tuesdayin a park in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan, the Kayhan evening newspaper reported. It said the men had
been found guilty of involvement in international narcotics trafficking and attacks on security forces. They were hanged in Zahedan's Laleh Park.
Iran sentences Al-Qaeda members after secret trial
AFP: Iran confirmed Tuesday that it has tried and sentenced fugitive members of Al-Qaeda detained on its soil, but maintained a tight secrecy over which members of Osama bin Laden's network were in the Islamic republic.
Iran, EU nuclear talks to begin next week: official
AFP: Negotiations between officials from Iran and Britain, France and Germany aimed at building on the Islamic republic's agreement to freeze sensitive nuclear work are to start next week, a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday. Iran's top national security official and nuclear negotiator Hassan Rowhani said the first round of the dialogue was likely to involve himself, the foreign ministers of the EU's "big three" ...Iran: Torture Used to Obtain Confessions
Human Rights Watch: Secret squads operating under the authority of the Iranian judiciary have used torture to force detained Internet journalists and civil society activists to write self-incriminatory confession letters, Human Rights Watch said today. Iranian squads accused of using torture
AFP: Human Rights Watch said Monday that secret squads operating under the Iranian judiciary have used torture to force detained Internet journalists and activists to write self-incriminatory "confession letters." Students heckle Iranian president
BBC: Iranian students have interrupted a speech byPresident Mohammad Khatami to mark Student Day at
Tehran university.
Students chanted "Shame on you" and "Where are your promised freedoms?" to express their frustration with the failure of Iran's reform movement.
Iran denies returning Egyptian militant
Reuters: Iran denied on Monday it had handed over to Egypt prominent militant Mustafa Hamza, leader of the Gama'a al-Islamiya group that tried to overthrow the Egyptian government in the 1990s. Hani el-Sibai, head of Egypt's Maqrizi Centre for Historical Studies, told Reuters on Sunday Tehran handedover Hamza to Cairo in October in exchange for information about members of an Iranian exiled group living in Egypt.
