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Tuesday, 19 July 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Istanbul, Jul. 19 - The Turkish authorities released one of the chief suspects in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Argentina that killed 87 people and injured 200 others and sent him back to Iran, a Turkish security official said on Tuesday.
The decision was taken by the Turkish government after intense pressure from Iran, the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Iran Focus. |
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Tuesday, 12 July 2005 |
 AFP: Iran could be behind the suicide attack at a shopping mall in Israel that killed at least four and injured dozens, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday. "I wouldn't want to suggest that I know about the attack today, but clearly that's been one of the stated and continuous purposes of Iran, to harm Israel," said Rumsfeld, speaking at a press conference with his Italian counterpart Antonio Martino.
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Saturday, 09 July 2005 |
 Iran Terror Database: Iran Terror has learnt Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (VEVAK) is sending to Paris a cell that has been trained in Tehran to carry out a misinformation attack against the opposition National Council of Resistance. The new operation is aimed at diverting the current world focus on the past activities of Iran’s new ultra-conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is suspected of being among the interrogators of U.S. hostages in Tehran in 1979 and a key player in the assassination in Vienna of a prominent Kurdish dissident. |
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Friday, 08 July 2005 |
 Scottish Press Association: The London bombings underline the need to tackle the "beating heart" of Islamic
fundamentalism in Tehran, Iranian exiles said today.
Hossein Abedini, a leading member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), urged western nations to take a tougher line and end "appeasement" towards the mullah's regime.
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Thursday, 07 July 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 08 – The Friday Prayers’ Sermon leader addressing worshipers in Tehran today laid the blame of yesterday’s simultaneous bombings in London on the West.
Yesterday’s multiple fatal bombings in London’s underground railways and a city bus left at least 50 people dead and close to 1,000 people injured. |
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Monday, 04 July 2005 |
 Reuters: Austrian prosecutors have launched an investigation into whether Iran's president-elect was involved in the 1989 assassination of a Kurdish leader in Vienna, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. A ministry spokesman confirmed that prosecutors had started a probe by asking the ministry's anti-terrorism task force to investigate the case, but declined to provide any details. |
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Monday, 04 July 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jul. 05 – A number of Austrian corporations have called on their government not to pursue the case against Iran’s new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, following revelations that he took part in the assassination of prominent Kurdish exiles, on the grounds that it would undermine their multi-million dollar business deals with the Islamic Republic, according to a state-run Persian website.
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Monday, 04 July 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jul. 5 – Iran Focus has obtained the photograph of Iran’s President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with Ayatollah Khomeini’s Chief Representative in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the 1980s. The photograph was taken from footage on Iran’s state-run news television channel, Shabakeh Khabar. Ayatollah Fazlollah Mahallati was the Islamic Chief Commissar of the Revolutionary Guards. |
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Monday, 04 July 2005 |
 AFP: Iranian president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad was directly involved in plotting the 1989 assassination of a Kurdish rebel leader in Vienna, an official of the banned Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran charged Monday. "According to our information, the Iranian government formed three committees for the assassination" of then KDPI leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, party offical Hassan Ashrafi told AFP at his base in neighbouring Iraq.
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Saturday, 02 July 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jul. 2 - An Austrian newspaper reported on Saturday that Austrian authorities have classified documents showing that Iran's new president may have played a key role in the 1989 slaying of a prominent Iranian dissident in Vienna. The information comes after Iran Focus revealed last month in a detailed biography of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that he had been involved in the assassination of Iranian Kurdish leader Abdorrahman Ghassemlou in Vienna. |
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Tuesday, 28 June 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Paris, Jun. 29 – A principal French daily reported that newly-elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in charge of security at the United States embassy in Tehran after he and fellow radical students loyal to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took over the compound by force in November 1979. |
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Tuesday, 28 June 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jun. 29 – A veteran British journalist said that he had interviewed the newly-elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad back in 1979, when he was a leading activist who took over the United States embassy in Tehran, holding American diplomats hostage for 444 days.
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Tuesday, 28 June 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jun. 29 - Iran Focus has learnt that the photograph of Iran’s newly-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, holding the arm of a blindfolded American hostage on the premises of the United States embassy in Tehran was taken by an Associated Press photographer in November 1979.
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Tuesday, 28 June 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jun. 29 – Iran Focus has obtained a photograph of Iran’s newly-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, holding the arm of a blindfolded American hostage on the premises of the United States embassy in Tehran in 1979. Prior to the first round of the presidential elections on June 17, Iran Focus was the first news service to reveal Ahmadinejad’s role in the seizure of the U.S. embassy
in Tehran.
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Thursday, 16 June 2005 |
 Washington Times: It was 15 years ago, but still seems like yesterday. In mid-afternoon on March 14, 1990, I was sitting next to the driver taking me to the Istanbul airport, when we hit a traffic jam caused by an accident. Suddenly, a car carrying four men blocked our path. Another car pinned us in from behind. |
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Monday, 13 June 2005 |
 Washington Times: Some within the U.S. intelligence community think Osama bin Laden is in eastern Iran, instead of the rugged tribal areas of Pakistan's northwestern frontier, where most American officials think he is still on the run. U.S. officials said in interviews that the Iran theory, which is held by a minority, is based on bits of intelligence information and the fact that months of CIA intelligence operations, along with ... |
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Sunday, 12 June 2005 |
 AFP: Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who has been the subject of a worldwide manhunt after carrying out the 9/11 terror attacks, has been in and out of Iran several times over the past few years, a US lawmaker said Sunday. |
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Thursday, 09 June 2005 |
 Washington Post: Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.), whose flair for drama has included lugging around a replica of a suitcase-size nuclear bomb, alleges in a new book that Iran is hiding Osama bin Laden, is preparing terrorist attacks against the United States, has a crash program to build an atomic bomb and, as a Shiite country, is the chief sponsor of what is a largely Sunni-directed insurgency in Iraq. |
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Wednesday, 08 June 2005 |
 The Times: A simple grey slab in Tehran’s Behesht Zahra cemetery, resting place to thousands of Iranian soldiers killed in the war with Iraq, holds the clue to a conundrum. The symbolic empty shrine bears the words: “Mustafa Mahmoud Mazeh, born Conakry, Guinea. Martyred in London, August 3, 1989. The first martyr to die on a mission to kill Salman Rushdie.”
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Wednesday, 08 June 2005 |
 Iran Terror Website: London, Jun. 08 - The Ministry of Intelligence and Security (VEVAK), Iran’s dreaded secret police, has stepped up intimidation of Iranian dissidents abroad amid signs of renewed preparations for assassination of exiles based in Europe. At least one suspicious murder in Paris and dozens of cases of intimidation through telephone calls and letters are being attributed to VEVAK agents. Several VEVAK “hitmen” have been sighted in the past few days in European capitals. |
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Saturday, 04 June 2005 |
 Iran Terror Website: Tehran, Jun. 04 – Iranian government agencies were responsible for planning the 1986 attack on Islam's holiest site Mecca in Saudi Arabia and the 1987 riots which left some 500 Iranian pilgrims dead, an Iranian presidential candidate and former Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Mehdi Karroubi said. |
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Friday, 03 June 2005 |
AP: U.S. intelligence and foreign allies have growing evidence that wanted terrorists have been residing in Iran despite repeated American warnings to Tehran not to harbor them. The evidence, which stretches over several years, includes communications by a fugitive mastermind of the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing and the capture of a Saudi militant who appeared in a video in which Osama bin Laden confirmed he ordered the Sept. 11 attacks, according to U.S. and foreign officials.
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Thursday, 02 June 2005 |
 Iran Terror Website: Rome, Jun. 02 – The second trial session in absentia of Amir Mansour Bozorgian, an Iranian government official, accused of masterminding the killing of the representative of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Italy continued on Monday, with witnesses giving testimonies to the Rome Criminal Court. Mohammad Hossein Naghdi, who defected to the NCRI when he was the Iranian charge d'affaires in Italy in 1981, was murdered on March 16, 1993 by gunmen on a motorcycle allegedly working for Iran's notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS a.k.a. VEVAK). |
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Thursday, 02 June 2005 |
 Northwest Arkansas Times: Removing Mujahedeen e-Khalq from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations is the best option for bringing democracy to Iran, the founder of the Iran Policy Committee said Wednesday at the Clarion Inn during a panel discussion of the Iranian presidential elections and the U.S. policy options for Iran.
The panel was organized by Hooshang Nazarali, a Madison County Justice of the Peace and business owner. |
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Wednesday, 01 June 2005 |
Iran Terror: Controversy over a report by New York-based Human Rights Watch is taking a new turn with speculation that Iranian intelligence might have exerted influence on the group through surreptitious agents. Human Rights Watch issued a 28-page report on May 18 alleging that the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MeK) opposition group mistreated its “dissident members” in Iraq. Iran Terror has learnt of two secret emails distributed by a senior figure in Human Rights Watch, which Iranian exiles opposed to the clerical regime in Iran are using as evidence of sinister political motives, and possible interference activity by
Iranian intelligence. |
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Sunday, 29 May 2005 |
 Sunday Times: Iraq's most wanted terrorist has fled the country for emergency surgery after an American airstrike left him with shrapnel lodged in his chest, according to a senior insurgent commander in close contact with his group. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has a $25m bounty on his head after being blamed for suicide bombings, assassinations and the beheadings of western hostages — including Ken Bigley, the
Liverpool engineer — is now believed to be in Iran. |
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Friday, 27 May 2005 |
 Iran’s sophisticated intelligence operations abroad are led by a shadowy figure at the helm of VEVAK: Berlin, May 27 (Iran Terror Website) - Hojjatol-Islam Ali Younessi, the Shiite cleric who runs Iran’s dreaded secret police, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (known more commonly by its Persian acronym, VEVAK), did not try to conceal his anger and minced no words. Appearing on Iran’s state-run television on the evening of March 25, he warned Iran’s main opposition group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK) with severe consequences for their continuing “mischief-making”. |
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Sunday, 22 May 2005 |
 Iran Terror Website: M.H. Sobhani, kingpin of Human Rights Watch’s new report, is veteran Iranian intelligence agent. An internal memorandum of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, known as MOIS or VEVAK, obtained by the Iranian opposition’s sources in Iran and published in August 2002, identifies Mohammad Hossein Sobhani as a team leader and a veteran agent of VEVAK. |
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Friday, 13 May 2005 |
AP: More than 200 young men and women presented themselves Thursday as volunteers to carry out suicide bomb attacks against Americans in Iraq and against Israelis. The meeting was organized at Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery, south
of Tehran, by the Headquarters for Commemorating Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement, a shadowy group that has sought volunteers for attacks in Iraq and Israel since last year. |
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Thursday, 12 May 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Paris, May 12 – European lawmakers and jurists called on French authorities to drop charges against officials of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran and put an end to what they described as harassment of opponents of Iran’s clerical regime in France. The call came from hundreds of parliamentary, legal and political figures who attended a seminar in Paris on Tuesday entitled, "Two years after June 17, 2003, Justice for the National Council of Resistance of Iran".
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