|
|
Friday, 21 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 21 An explosion in the central
prison in the town of Zahedan (southeast Iran) left at least
eight wounded.
Officials announced that the explosion was due to a malfunctioning air capsule. |
|
|
Friday, 21 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Baghdad, Jan. 21 An underground armed group operating in Iraq's Diyala province was discovered and several of its members detained by Coalition Forces, according to well-informed sources in the area. U.S. forces arrested an Iraqi by the name of Fakhri along with an agent of Iran's Qods Force (Jerusalem Force) in the Qareh Tapeh region near the Iraqi town of Kifri. |
|
|
Thursday, 20 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Baghdad, Jan. 20 Iraq's Minister for Provincial Affairs accused Iran of spreading its "sphere of influence" throughout Iraq, in preparation for the January 30th elections. "Many Iranians are producing fake Iraqi identity cards to be
able to take part in the elections", Wa'el Abdol-Latif said, speaking to the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (Middle East) daily yesterday. |
|
|
Thursday, 20 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 20 There are currently "200,000 sufferers of the Hepatitis C virus in Iran", according to the head of the Iranian Medical Association. Speaking to a state-run news agency, Dr. Iraj Khosronia warned, "One of the most dangerous viruses affecting human society is Hepatitis C
but people's awareness about this disease is very limited". |
|
|
Thursday, 20 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 20 - A young man who was accused of killing a member of Irans security forces when he was a minor was hanged in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran.
Iman Farrokhi who was 17 at the time of the offence was on death row in the Tehran Centre for Reform and Education (Juvenile Prison). |
|
|
Thursday, 20 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 20 Homes in the city of Mashad (northeast Iran) were raided over the past few days by State Security Forces for "illegal satellite dishes". The SSF Public Relations Office announced that two individuals were arrested, on charges of installing satellite dishes, during the raids. Some 45 satellite dishes and receivers were confiscated thus far. |
|
|
Wednesday, 19 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 19 - Fourteen people were killed yesterday and eleven others left injured when a bus and a
truck collided in Fars province (southern Iran), according to the
state-run news agency IRNA. |
|
|
Wednesday, 19 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Paris, France, Jan. 18 Iranians are planning a massive rally in Paris on the twenty-sixth anniversary of the 1979 Iranian revolution to call for an end to theocratic rule in their country. Organisers are expecting a huge turnout in the event scheduled for February 10 at Place Trocadero in central Paris.
We are going to call every man and woman of conscience in the world to join us on February 10, said Elham Parsafar of the Paris-based Committee in Defense of Human Rights in Iran. |
|
|
Tuesday, 18 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 17 At a conference in Baghdad today, some 3,230 eminent Iraqi law experts and lawyers released a statement on the legal status of the main Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran, calling it a legitimate movement. The conference in the Babylon Hotel was attended by more than 1,000 Iraqi law experts and political and social figures in support of the Iranian opposition, and by over 50 different media organisations. |
|
|
Tuesday, 18 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Baghdad, Jan. 17 At a conference in Baghdad today, some 3,230 eminent Iraqi law experts and lawyers released a statement on the legal status of the main Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran, calling it a legitimate movement. The conference in the Babylon Hotel was attended by more than 1,000 Iraqi law experts and political and social figures in support of the Iranian opposition, and by over 50 different media organisations. |
|
|
Monday, 17 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 17 Young doctors in Iran are living under the poverty line with many of them forced to find alternative work to earn enough to get by, according to head of Iranian Doctors' Society. |
|
|
Monday, 17 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Baghdad, Jan. 17 - The Iraqi Defence Minister, Hazem al-Shaalan today accused Iran of interference, saying, "Iran has spent more than $1 billion on meddling in the internal affairs of Iraq". In a telephone interview with the Arab language Ilaf website, al-Shaalan also accused candidates on the opposition list of Shiite figures led by Abdol Aziz Hakim as a group trying to invite sectarian and religious strife among the people of Iraq. |
|
|
Monday, 17 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 17 Two teenage students hanged themselves in the town of Sirjan (southern Iran) on Friday. Mohammad-Javad Maki-Abadi, a second year high school student, and Asghar Maki-Abadi, a third year high school student, were cousins. They committed suicide in Mohammad-Javad's house when all of their relatives were out. The exact motive has yet to be confirmed. |
|
|
Monday, 17 January 2005 |
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 17 The Head of Iran's Addiction Prevention Office said that the drug addiction rate had surpassed the population increase rate by three times.
"Based on statistics obtained over the last 30 years, drug addiction has increased by eight percent, which is the equivalent of three times the growth of the population", ... |
|
|
Monday, 17 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 17 Eighty-nine percent of unemployed women in Iran are highly educated, with many in universities, according to a senior government expert. "About 88.7 percent of unemployed women in Iranian cities and 59.4 percent of unemployed women in rural areas are highly educated", Ladan Nowrouzi said, in an interview with ... |
|
|
Sunday, 16 January 2005 |
|
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 16 At least 30 juveniles are on death row in Tehran and Rajai-Shahr (40km west of the Iranian capital) for offences they have been alleged to have committed under the age of 18. "There are some 30 juveniles under the age of 18 in Tehran's Centre for Reform and Education (Juvenile Prison) and in Rajai-Shahr currently sentenced to ... |
|
|
Sunday, 16 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 16 Sources within the Iranian opposition have confirmed to Iran Focus that they were able to obtain a classified document from within Iran's intelligence and security apparatus showing Iran's connections to insurgents carrying out attacks in Iraq.
The document is a report written by an Iraqi group mounting armed attacks on Iraqi civilians and U.S. and Coalition troops in Iraq. |
|
|
Sunday, 16 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 16 Iran's bookstore owners are complaining of the government's decision to ban 200 books, including political, social, cultural, religious, arts, music, scientific and historical literature. According to a Tehran bookshop owner who wanted to remain anonymous, Iran's government have recently sent a list of 200 books considered to be "immoral", "unIslamic", or "influencing acts against the state". |
|
|
Saturday, 15 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 15 The privatization of Iran's hospitals has led to people avoiding important surgeries for fear of rising hospital costs, according to a member of the Health Committee in Iran's Majlis (parliament). "With putting this plan into action in hospitals, people are afraid that they would face long periods of time hospitalized with hefty bills", Jahanbakhsh Amini said in an interview with a state-run news agency. |
|
|
Saturday, 15 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 15 More than 200 tons of narcotics have been discovered in Iran over the past nine months, according to a senior Iranian security official. Speaking to a gathering of reporters, the State Security Forces commander, Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, hinted today that such a large quantity of drugs in circulation might raise questions that drug smuggling has become institutionalized. |
|
|
Saturday, 15 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Paris, Jan. 15 A photo showing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian born mastermind behind the latest spate of bombings in Iraq, standing with senior commanders of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was seen by Jordan's King Abdullah II last month, according to an Algerian journalist. |
|
|
Saturday, 15 January 2005 |
|
Iran Focus: Baghdad, Jan. 15 A member of Iraq's interim parliament speaking on national television strongly criticized the Iranian regime for its meddling in Iraq. Hossein Sadr, a candidate from the election list of the current interim-Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, aired his comments on the Al-Iraqi network Thursday, saying that Iran should not be allowed to meddle in Iraq's internal affairs. |
|
|
Friday, 14 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Strasbourg, Jan. 14 After a debate in which a number of Euro-MPs spoke out against the terror-tag placed upon the main Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), the European Parliament yesterday adopted a resolution on Iran calling for a review of the European Union's list of terrorist organisations. |
|
|
Friday, 14 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Paris, Jan. 14 - In its annual report on human rights practices around the globe Human Rights Watch said that "basic human rights in Iran, especially freedom of expression and opinion, deteriorated in 2004". "Torture and ill-treatment in detention, including indefinite solitary confinement, are used routinely to punish dissidents
Abuses are carried out by what Iranians call 'parallel institutions': ... |
|
|
Friday, 14 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 14 Some 1,459 guns have been confiscated over the past nine months in Kermanshah province (western Iran), according to the province's chief of State Security Forces (SSF). "The confiscated weapons along with those caught smuggling them have been apprehended and will be ... |
|
|
Friday, 14 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 14 - More than 50,000 people have been arrested in Greater Tehran in the past nine months, according to the head of the Office to Combat Narcotics in Greater Tehran. "A large proportion of those in custody, who comprise people from different sectors of society, are between 25 and 30 years of age", Major Ghodratollah Mahmoudi said in an interview with a state-run news agency
on Wednesday. |
|
|
Thursday, 13 January 2005 |
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 - There are at least 150,000 drug addicts in the city of Mashad (northeast Iran), according to the head of the city's Central Medical Bureau.
"According to recent statistics there are 150,000 drug addicts
at present in Mashad", Rajab Hedayatnia said. |
|
|
Thursday, 13 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 - An Iranian agent was arrested in Kuwait in connection with the latest spate of Al-Qaeda-related attacks in the Middle East. Sawa Radio reported that the unnamed individual was arrested by Kuwaiti security forces after recent intelligence implicated him as a cell in communication with the Al-Qaeda network with prior information on the attacks in Saudi Arabia. |
|
|
Thursday, 13 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Strasbourg, Jan. 13 - The European Parliament adopted a resolution by majority vote today condemning human rights violations in Iran in the second such move over the past six months. The toughly-worded resolution denounced practices such as execution of juveniles and stoning carried
out by the Iranian regime. |
|
|
Thursday, 13 January 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 13 - In an apparent reference to the presence of US troops in Iraq, a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Corps (IRGC) official called for Iran to mobilize its troops against the "dangerous Zionist threat".
Speaking to Revolutionary Guards and Iran's Bassij (paramilitary police) forces in Khuzestan on Tuesday Deputy IRGC Commander Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr said, "The Islamic Republic will not tolerate American presence in the region". |
|
| << Start < Prev 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 Next > End >>
|
|
