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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
 Reuters: Five people were killed and 21 others injured when
a cluster-bomb left over from the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war exploded in the western city of Ilam, the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday. The bomb exploded on Tuesday night when a group of young boys playing soccer
were using it as a goal post, IRNA said. |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
 Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders has protested against the unfair closure of satellite TV al-Jazeera's Tehran bureau for "incitement to disorder" after it reported on clashes in Khuzistan in south west Iran. It urged the authorities to review its 18 April decision. "We condemn the decision of the Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry to suspend al-Jazeera's operations in Iran," it said. |
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Tuesday, 19 April 2005 |
 New York Times: As it faces the threat of global sanctions from the United States and Europe because of suspicions that it is turning its nuclear program to weapons production, Iran is fighting back with a powerful weapon of its own: its vast oil and gas resources.
Iran's ruling clerics are meticulously arranging energy sales and building partnerships with influential countries, including China and India, as a way to win stronger friendships around the world. |
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Monday, 18 April 2005 |
 AFP: Some 10,265 people in Iran are infected with the HIV virus and another 390 have full-blown AIDS, according to health ministry figures reported in the press on Monday. According to the statistics, intravenous drug use is still the main cause of infection, narrowly followed by sexual contact. |
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Monday, 18 April 2005 |
 AFP: Iran on Monday ordered the Arabic satellite television Al-Jazeera to "temporarily close" its Tehran bureau after controversy over its coverage of ethnic clashes, officials said. "We have ordered the temporary closure of the Al-Jazeera bureau," Mohammad Hossein Khoshvaght, director general of the culture and Islamic guidance ministry, told AFP.
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Sunday, 17 April 2005 |
 AFP: Iran will never recognise Israel even if there is a peace deal with the Palestinians and they have their own state, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said on Sunday. "Even if you envisage this impossible hypothesis, (and) to recognise a state is part of Iran's diplomatic right, in absolutely no case will Iran recognise the Zionist regime," he told journalists. |
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Saturday, 16 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Paris, Apr. 16 – A key Iranian opposition leader called on the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to send a fact-finding mission to the south-eastern city of Ahwaz to investigate events there on a day that she described as “Bloody Friday".
Anti-government protests erupted yesterday through the night in the city of Ahwaz, in Khuzestan province, leaving at least six
people dead and hundreds injured or arrested. |
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Saturday, 16 April 2005 |
 U.S. Newswire: On Thursday, April 14, state delegations of Iranian-Americans across the U.S. held their 2005 National Convention for a Democratic, Secular Republic in Iran, declaring their resounding support for democratic change in Iran, in Washington's Constitution Hall. In its U.S. policy platform, the Convention called for "third option" in policy toward Tehran, first introduced by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, in her address to the European parliament last December. |
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Saturday, 16 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 16 - Anti-government protests erupted yesterday through the night in the city of Ahwaz, southwest Khuzestan province in Iran, leaving at least six people dead and hundreds injured or arrested. Ahwaz, close to the Iraqi border, is a major hub of Iranian ethnic minority groups, and its largely Arab population has faced brutal repression undere clerical rule.
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Friday, 15 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 15 – Iran’s former president Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani accused Mohammad Khatami’s government of having a hand in the 1998 dissident serial murders. Speaking to a gathering of students north of Tehran, Rafsanjani said, “A crime occurred for which the present government is responsible. They should have answered for it”. |
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Friday, 15 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Washington, D.C., Apr. 14 - Iranians from across the United States gathered in the Constitution Hall here today
to take part in what they called Iranian-American National Convention for Democratic Change in Iran. |
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Thursday, 14 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 14 – Nearly a quarter of the more than 825 people discovered sleeping in the streets of Tehran who had been rounded up during the last four months had received good education according to the Director of Social Risks Department of Tehran’s Governorship. |
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Thursday, 14 April 2005 |
 U.S. Newswire: State delegations of Iranian-Americans across the U.S. are converging on Washington, DC, to participate in
the 2005 National Convention for a Democratic, Secular Republic in Iran. The historic event is scheduled for Thursday, April 14, at 1 p.m. at DAR Constitution Hall, Washington D.C. |
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Thursday, 14 April 2005 |
 Voice of America: A U.S. congressional committee has approved legislation seeking to strengthen existing U.S. sanctions on Iran and put more pressure on Iran's government on the issue of weapons of mass destruction, while providing greater support for Iranian democracy groups. The Iran Freedom Support Act declares it should be U.S. policy to support human rights and pro-democracy forces in the United States and abroad opposing what it calls the non-democratic government of Iran. |
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Thursday, 14 April 2005 |
 Washington Post: Federal agents operating undercover in Maryland snared an Iranian citizen who sought to buy and export fighter planes and other restricted equipment for use by the Iranian military, authorities said yesterday. Abbas Tavakolian, 58, of Tehran admitted in federal court in Baltimore yesterday that he attempted to acquire components for a rapid-fire aircraft gunnery system and other equipment.
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Wednesday, 13 April 2005 |
 The Globe and Mail: Iran's judicial authorities have formally rejected Ottawa's renewed request for a forensic examination of Zahra Kazemi's remains, saying her dual citizenship makes any Canadian claims spurious. |
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Wednesday, 13 April 2005 |
 Washington Times - Embassy Row: Iranian exiles plan to hold a constitutional convention in Washington tomorrow, inspired by the stirring words of President Bush from his State of the Union speech and from America's own such convention more than 200 years ago. |
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Tuesday, 12 April 2005 |
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Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Apr. 12 – Thousands of members of the Iranian Diaspora across the United States are expected to convene at Washington's Constitution Hall to voice support for a democratic, secular republic in Iran, organisers said. The political convention will be held with the support of leading American and international figures calling for a firm policy against the theocratic regime in Iran, according to organisers. |
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Tuesday, 12 April 2005 |
 AP: Iran rejected Tuesday a Canadian demand for an international team of forensic scientists to examine the corpse of an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist who died in its custody. Zahra Kazemi, a 54-year-old Canadian photographer of Iranian origin, died in July 2003, several days after being arrested for taking photos of a demonstration outside a Tehran prison. |
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Tuesday, 12 April 2005 |
 Fox News Channel - Your World with Neil Cavuto: Now if you don’t fight them, coerce them. The Bush administration thinks there is a lot to be said to saying a lot about democracy period in of all places, Iran. Even if it can appear illegal. Megyn
Kendall fills us in from Washington, Megyn.
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Monday, 11 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 11 – Iran’s state-run media and press reacted harshly to a recent meeting held in the United States Congress by an Iran policy group in Washington, at the invitation of the newly-formed Iran Human Rights and Democracy Caucus of the U.S. House of Representative. Iran’s state-run radio said in a commentary yesterday, “A number of U.S. personalities and groups have for some time attempted to beautify this organisation and remove its name from the list of terrorist organisations, so as to put pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran... |
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Monday, 11 April 2005 |
 The Globe and Mail: Even as Iran's Foreign Ministry accused Canada of taking the "wrong approach" in the Zahra Kazemi case, Ottawa released documentary evidence yesterday bolstering recent claims that the 54-year-old Canadian photojournalist was tortured and raped by Iranian security police before she died.Ten days ago, Shahram Azam, an Iranian military doctor and former Tehran emergency-room physician who examined Ms. Kazemi before she died, released gruesome details of the abuse she suffered while in Iranian custody.
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Monday, 11 April 2005 |
Canadian Press: Iran on Sunday said Canada was following the "wrong approach" in the case of an Iranian-born Canadian photojournalist who died while in Iranian custody. Canada has demanded an international forensic examination to determine the cause of Zahra Kazemi's death.
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Monday, 11 April 2005 |
 USA TODAY: For the first time in a quarter-century of estrangement from Iran, the Bush administration is openly preparing to spend government funds in that country to promote democracy. Congress has appropriated $3 million, and the State Department is inviting proposals from "educational institutions, humanitarian groups, non-governmental organizations and individuals inside Iran to support the advancement of democracy and human rights," ... |
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Sunday, 10 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 10 – More than 1,000 residents of an Iranian village in the suburbs of the city of Shiraz yesterday took part in anti-government demonstrations, setting fires to tyres and blockading roads in the area. Residents in Darivan put rocks in the main route 35 kilometres from Shiraz to the town of Kharameh, blocking all traffic for more than five hours.
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Saturday, 09 April 2005 |
 AFP: Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has "strongly denied" Israeli media reports that he shook hands with Israeli President Moshe Katzav and spoke with him at Pope John Paul II's funeral at the Vatican, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported Saturday.
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Saturday, 09 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 09 - The city of Mahabad (western Iranian province of Kurdistan) was placed under de facto martial law after three days of social unrest and numerous clashes between residents and agents of Iran’s State Security Forces, leaving one 13-year-old boy dead. |
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Friday, 08 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 08 – At least 1,500 anti-government protests, strikes, and clashes took place in Iran during the year that ended on March 20. More than 450 strikes, demonstrations, and gatherings by white- and blue-collar workers, were reported in state-run and opposition media. |
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Thursday, 07 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Washington, Apr. 07 – A leading Iran-policy group
in Washington discussed U.S. policy options towards the clerical state, in a conference on Capitol Hill yesterday, at the invitation of the Iran Human Rights and Democracy Caucus of the U.S. House of Representative. |
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Thursday, 07 April 2005 |
 AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi has rebuffed calls from Ottawa for an independent inquiry into the death in custody here of an Iranian-Canadian journalist, Tehran newspapers said Thursday. Kharazi insisted the case was a matter for Iran's hardline judiciary and not his government, and dismissed testimony advanced by Canada to support its charge that journalist Zahra Kazemi had been tortured, saying the doctor cited was an imposter. |
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