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Thursday, 12 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, May 12 - Three Iranian men were hanged in public yesterday in the southern town of Susangerd, in the Iranian province of Khuzestan, according to the state-run news agency. The young men, who were identified as Nasser Ch., Aref S. and Ali S., were accused of abducting and murdering a six-year-old boy in February 2002. |
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Wednesday, 11 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, May 11 – The prayer leader of the central prison of Karaj, west of Tehran, was killed by an unidentified person, according to a state-run daily.
The hard-line Jomhouri Islami reported today that Hojatoleslam Tamjidi was killed by a blow to the head last night. |
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Wednesday, 11 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Rome, May 11 - Rome’s Criminal Court started this morning the trial in absentia of an official of the Iranian government accused of taking part in the killing of the representative of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Italy. Mohammad Hossein Naghdi, who defected to the NCRI when he was the Iranian charge d'affaires in Italy in 1981, was murdered by a gunmen allegedly working for Iran's notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), on March 16, 1993. |
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Wednesday, 11 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Washington, May 11 – A briefing was held in the United States Congress yesterday entitled “Iraq's Future: The Iranian Impact” on the initiative of the Iran Human Rights and Democracy Caucus in the House of Representatives, co-chaired by Congressman Thomas Tancredo (R-Col) and Congressman Bob Filner (D-Cal). The panel included, Dr.
Sa'd Abdullah Al-Jabouri, the former governor of Iraq’s Diyala province, which borders Iran and is where the main Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin (PMOI) are based. |
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Monday, 09 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Berlin, May 09 – Thousands of Iranians from
across Germany held their first-ever major convention in Berlin this afternoon, in which they rejected the policy of appeasement and a foreign war in dealing with the Tehran regime. The participants, who represented various Iranian communities throughout the country, declared their support for the “Third Option”, introduced by Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of
the National Council of Resistance of Iran. |
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Friday, 06 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, May 06 - One of the presidential candidates for the June 17 elections in Iran was forced to cut his speech short during a gathering in the Iranian holy city of Qom. Mehdi Karroubi, a presidential candidate and former Speaker of the Iranian regime’s Majlis (parliament), was speaking to the gathering Wednesday evening when a crowd of some 30 ... |
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Friday, 06 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus Special Report – Part 1: Berlin, May 06 – Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) is ranked by experts as one of the largest and most active intelligence agencies in the Middle East, having masterminded 450 acts of terrorism throughout the world since the 1980s, yet it has been ... |
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Thursday, 05 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Baghdad, May 05 – Some 30 individuals arrested
in the Iraqi province of Diyala have admitted to acting on the orders of Iran’s notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) to spur sectarian violence to destabilise the region, according to a senior Iraqi police official. |
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Wednesday, 04 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, May 04 - In an interview with a government-run website, Ali-Akbar Velayati, Iran’s former Foreign Minister and a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is also a candidate in the forthcoming June 17 presidential elections, hinted at official responsibility for terrorist operations abroad against its opponents. |
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Wednesday, 04 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, May 04 – One man was publicly hanged in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz, while four other prisoners were executed in the Iranian capital today, charged with armed robbery or murder. Reza H. was hanged in public in Ahwaz in the early hours of the day, accused of stabbing to death a man identified only as Hossein A. |
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Wednesday, 04 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, May 03 – The British Royal Navy gunboats which were seized last June by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards
are to be put on display in the Iranian capital from May 20, authorities in the port city of Khorramshahr announced today. One informed source said that the three boats would go on display in the Imam Khomeini Prayer Hall in Tehran on May 20, marking the anniversary of the 1982 liberation of Khorramshahr
from Iraqi forces. |
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Tuesday, 03 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, May 03 – A young man was injured when Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) opened fire on residents in the Kurdish city of Mahabad (Western Iran) late Saturday evening. The incident took place in the city centre and Ash-Mam Ahmad district, where officials of the SSF were seen to be pursuing unknown people. Rahmat Khakpour, a 23-year-old first year Electronics university student, was injured after being shot at as he was returning home. |
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Monday, 02 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, May 02 – A young man was hanged in public in the northeastern Iranian town of Bojnourd for “acting against the state”, according to the state-run daily Iran.
Hadi Safdari was accused of creating public disorder and acting against the state. |
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Monday, 02 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, May 02 - A man accused of murdering a
taxi driver was hanged in Karoon Prison in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz on Monday morning, according to the state-run news agency. The man, only identified as Yaqoub R., was executed in the city which has been the scene of mass social unrest and clashes between anti-government protesters and State Security Forces. |
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Sunday, 01 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, May 01 – A packed Azadi Stadium in Tehran was today the scene of angry anti-government protests, forcing Iran’s powerful ex-President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to call off his scheduled speech at the May Day gathering. Eye witnesses said that some 20,000 workers gathered in and around the 12,000-seat stadium to mark ... |
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Sunday, 01 May 2005 |
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Friday, 29 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Brussels, Apr. 29 – The European Parliament adopted a resolution yesterday, calling on Iran to end its increasing human rights violations. The EP resolution said
that it was “very concerned that the human rights situation has deteriorated in the last two years and calls on the Iranian authorities to make a serious commitment to reversing this trend”. |
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Friday, 29 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Washington, Apr. 29 – United States President George W. Bush said during a press conference yesterday that Iran could no be trusted with enriching uranium as part of its nuclear program, after he was questioned on Russia’s decision to sell nuclear fuel for Iranian reactors. “See, what they (Russia) recognize is that -- what America recognizes, and what Great Britain, France, and Germany recognize, is that we can't trust the Iranians when it comes to enriching uranium”, ... |
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Thursday, 28 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 27 – “Today’s world is suffering from the legitimising of fascism and I am astounded that the United Nation’s General Secretary is leading the way in this regard”, Mohammad Khatami, the Iranian regime’s president, said today. Khatami made the spiteful comments against Kofi Annan as he was receiving honorary international relations doctorate from Tehran University. |
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Thursday, 28 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Washington, Apr. 28 – Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism in 2004, according to the United States’ annual “Country Reports on Terrorism”, released yesterday by the State Department. The State Department report said that Iran’s “Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps and Ministry of Intelligence and Security were involved in the planning and support of terrorist acts and continued to exhort a variety of groups to use terrorism in pursuit of their goals”. |
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Tuesday, 26 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Brussels, Apr. 25 – Some 2,000 delegates from Iranian communities in the Benelux - Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg - today held their first-ever convention, in which they condemned the current policy of appeasement vis-à-vis Iran’s clerical regime and rejected the notion of a foreign war. |
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Saturday, 23 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Ahwaz, Apr. 23 – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards executed a number of teenage demonstrators in the streets of Ahwaz, southern Iran, according to eye-witnesses. Residents reported that Revolutionary Guards arrested demonstrators in the city streets and gunned them down to terrorise the local people and end a weeklong anti-government uprising that has spread throughout the oil-rich Khuzestan Province. |
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Saturday, 23 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 23 – There are presently four million drug addicts in Iran, according to a state-run news agency. The news agency also said that there are more than 2.5 million drug users, without offering much detail. “According to the latest official survey in the country, the number of drug addicts in Iran stands at four million, with more than 2.5 million current users”, it said. |
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Friday, 22 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 22 – The London-based Guardian newspaper drew an angry response from the Iranian embassy in London after it published a half-page advertisement containing statements by prominent British parliamentarians and jurists, who argued the case for the removal of the Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin (PMOI), from terrorism lists.
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Thursday, 21 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 21 – At least 62 people have been killed and over 1,000 arrested in the week-long clashes between people and security forces in Iran’s southern Khuzestan province, according to the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran. Fierce fighting has brought the province to a complete stand-still
since Friday, when State Security Forces (SSF) opened fire
on a 3,000-strong anti-government demonstration in the city
of Ahwaz. |
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Thursday, 21 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Paris, Apr. 21 – Iran’s Supreme Court upheld an execution sentence for a 38-year-old political prisoner from the western Iranian town of Boukan. Esmaeil Mohammadi was informed of the decision through a letter from the authorities, which indicated that his execution would be carried out within the next few days. Mohammadi, a father of five, has been imprisoned for the past two years in the city of Urumiya (northwest Iran), accused of being a supporter of the Kurdish Komala organisation. |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Rome, Apr. 20 – Italian lawmakers from both Houses of the Italian Parliament and legal experts today
called for the removal of the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) from the European Union’s list of terrorist organisations and support for the “Third Option”, during a seminar in parliament. |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Apr. 20 – Iran’s southern Khuzestan province was the scene of further chaos today as another round of fierce fighting erupted between people and government forces, following severe clashes several days ago which left dozens dead and hundreds wounded or arrested. The latest clashes broke out this morning between Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) and local residents in several districts of the city of Ahwaz, including Kut Abdullah, Kian and Khashayar. |
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Sunday, 17 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Baghdad, Apr. 17 – Leaders and representatives of 11 Iraqi political parties and groups unveiled a petition signed by 2.8 million Iraqis, sharply criticising neighbouring Iran’s rising meddling in Iraq and warning of the spectre of “Islamic fundamentalism’s stealthy domination” of their country. The announcement came in a conference yesterday in Baghdad’s Palestine Hotel in the presence of about 500 Iraqis representing political, social and cultural groups. |
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Saturday, 16 April 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Paris, (France), 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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