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Wednesday, 19 October 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 19 –United States President George W. Bush has become “terrified” of Iran’s “divisions” of suicide bombers, according to Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator who was quoted by a hard-line Iranian weekly on Wednesday. |
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Sunday, 16 October 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 17 – Volunteers for suicide bombing operations will be honoured during a ceremony attended by senior Iranian government officials later this month, the spokesman for
the “Headquarters for Commemoration of Martyrs of Global Islamic Movement” said on Sunday. |
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Wednesday, 12 October 2005 |
 AP: Relatives of a former U.S. hostage held in Lebanon were awarded $91 million by a U.S. judge for emotional distress in
a lawsuit filed against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Thursday, 06 October 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Oct. 06 – United States President George W. Bush on Thursday blasted Iran and Syria for collaborating with terrorists during the war on terror. |
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Wednesday, 28 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 29 – Iran’s newly-installed Defence Minister announced that the Islamic Republic had volunteers for suicide bombing that enabled the country to stand up to foreign enemies, a state-run weekly reported. |
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Saturday, 24 September 2005 |
 DPA: Federal investigators in Germany have unearthed new evidence linking Iran to the 1985 bombing of a US military
base that injured 35 persons, according to a report on
Saturday. |
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Wednesday, 14 September 2005 |
 AFP: Several thousand Iranian exiles protested in front of the UN headquarters, denouncing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a "terrorist" as he attended the UN summit of world leaders. |
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Tuesday, 13 September 2005 |
 AP: An independent policy group urged the Bush
administration to remove an Iranian exile organization
opposed to Islamic rule in Tehran from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations. |
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Thursday, 08 September 2005 |
 AFP: The White House said Thursday that it had lingering suspicions about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's possible involvement in the 1979 hostage taking at the US embassy in Tehran. |
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Wednesday, 07 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Sep. 08 – A criminal appeals court in Yemen upheld a ruling against two individuals on terrorism charges and working on behalf of the Iranian regime to instigate havoc in the country. |
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Sunday, 04 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 05 – A brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps announced that dozens of “trained volunteers for martyrdom-seeking operations” will soon stage a manoeuvre in a mountainous area west of the Iranian capital to display their “readiness”. |
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Sunday, 04 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 04 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the jihad against Israel must continue and be strengthened, Iran’s semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami reported on Sunday. |
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Saturday, 03 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 03 – A radical Islamist weekly close to Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad praised suicide operations against the United States and Israel as the correct strategy to carry forward the message of the Islamic Republic, as advocated by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. |
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Thursday, 01 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Sep. 01 – Iranians in the United States reacted with evident joy to news that an inquiry by the U.S. State Department established that Iran’s new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a “terrorist”. The American television channel ABC News reported on Wednesday that the State Department had issued a legal finding showing that Ahmadinejad was ineligible for a U.S. visa because of section 212(a)3(b) of the Immigration and Naturalisation Act, which says anyone with terrorist ties cannot be granted a visa. |
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Thursday, 25 August 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Aug. 26 – Two former United States hostages held captive in Iran for 444 days when radical Islamists seized the American embassy in Tehran in 1979 told a Persian-language satellite channel that they have no doubts that Iran’s new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of the supervisors of their interrogators during their ordeal. |
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Thursday, 25 August 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 25 – An Iranian opposition activist was killed in the Swedish town of Lindsberg, on
Monday by unidentified assailants, a Kurdish opposition website reported on Thursday. |
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Wednesday, 24 August 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Aug. 24 – Manouchehr Mottaki, 52, who was
confirmed on Wednesday by Iran’s hard-line parliament (Majlis)
as the new Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran,
was involved in a series of terrorist attacks outside Iran,
according to Iranian exiles and defectors from the theocratic
regime. |
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Tuesday, 23 August 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Aug. 24 – The new commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Forces was involved in terrorist activities in Lebanon during the 1980s, analysts say. Revolutionary Guards brigadier general Ahmad Kazemi was appointed on Saturday by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to head the IRGC Ground Forces. Kazemi closely worked with the new Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar in Lebanon. |
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Monday, 22 August 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 – The commander of Iran’s “Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison” – who is a general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) – vowed that his suicide volunteers will destroy United States’ interests all over the world in retaliation to any attempt by the U.S. to hit Iran’s nuclear installations. |
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Monday, 15 August 2005 |
 Washington Times: U.S. officials said yesterday that two members of an Iranian dissident group living under American protection in Iraq have been kidnapped, and organization members said they fear the men will be turned over to Tehran for execution. The members of the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) were grabbed while they were purchasing supplies in Baghdad's Karrada shopping district on Aug. 4, said the U.S.-led military coalition in Iraq. |
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Sunday, 14 August 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Aug. 14 - The nomination of a veteran commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as the new defence minister has been greeted with calls for an investigation into his possible ties to the suicide bombing of the U.S. Marines compound in Beirut airport in October 1983, which killed 241 Americans. Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, a senior commander in the Revolutionary Guards, was in command of the IRGC expeditionary force in Lebanon when on October 23, 1983,
at 6:22 a.m., a suicide bomber drove a large water delivery truck ... |
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Wednesday, 10 August 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Aug. 10 – Two members of Iran’s main opposition group have been kidnapped in Baghdad by Iraqi security forces, the Associated Press reported from Baghdad on Monday. The People’s Mujahedeen Organisation of Iran, or Mujahedeen Khalq (MeK), identified the two as Hossein Pouyan and Mohammad-Ali Zahedi and said they were abducted by Iraq’s Interior Ministry Special Forces on ... |
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Wednesday, 03 August 2005 |
 AFP: An advertisement appeared in a conservative-radical Iranian weekly Wednesday seeking people to register for "martyrdom seeking operations" against Islam's foes. "Central command of martyrdom lovers is to prepare one division from every province among the martyrdom seekers to receive specialized training, making them ready against the enemies of Islam and the sacred regime of the Islamic republic," the advertisement in Parto Shokhan (Light of speech) read. |
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Thursday, 28 July 2005 |
 AP: A top State Department official informed Congress on Thursday that Iranian cadre were training Hezbollah fighters
in Lebanon. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch told the House International Relations Committee the information was provided by "our own sources."
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Saturday, 23 July 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Iran, Tehran, Jul. 23 – Iran’s Foreign Ministry today hinted at Israeli involvement in Saturday’s early-hours bombings in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, as well as Thursday’s attacks in London. Iran also accused Israel of being behind 90 percent of the insurgencies in Iraq. |
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Saturday, 23 July 2005 |
 Iran Focus: The following report appeared in Iran’s influential daily Kayhan on December 1, 2004:
A memorial plaque commemorating the man who carried out the largest martyrdom-seeking operation against Global Arrogance [the United States and its allies"> will be unveiled tomorrow in Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery in Tehran. |
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Friday, 22 July 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 23 – The following is the translation of the text of an advertisement that appears regularly in the hard-line weekly Parto Sokhan as part of a recruitment drive for suicide operation volunteers.
Click to see both original advert and text of English translation. |
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Friday, 22 July 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 22 – A military garrison has been opened in Iran to recruit and train volunteers for “martyrdom-seeking operations”, according to the garrison’s commander, Mohammad-Reza Jaafari. Jaafari, a senior officer in the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), told a hard-line weekly close to Iran’s ultra-conservative President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the new “Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison” (Gharargahe Asheghane Shahadat, in Persian) ... |
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Wednesday, 20 July 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Berlin, Jul. 20 – A diplomatic spat between Tehran and Berlin over the new ultra-conservative President-elect’s alleged involvement in terrorism became more acrimonious
on Wednesday, as Berlin responded to the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s charges that it was playing a role “in a Zionist conspiracy against the Islamic Republic of Iran”. |
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Tuesday, 19 July 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 19 – Iran reacted sharply on Tuesday
to a statement by German Interior Minister Otto Schily linking President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with terrorism.
“Such unfounded accusations against the President-elect are an affront to the Iranian people’s vote”, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Assefi told journalists during a briefing. |
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