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Thursday, 12 May 2005 |
 The Times: A Former Iranian diplomat has been charged in absentia with the murder of an Iranian opposition leader shot dead in Rome 12 years ago. Italian prosecutors said that Amir Mansur Assl Bozorgian was responsible for the killing in 1993 of Mohammed Hossein Naghdi, 42, who had joined the exiled National Council of Resistance of Iran in 1981. |
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Wednesday, 11 May 2005 |
 Reuters: An Iranian man accused of organizing the 1993 murder of an Iranian opposition leader on behalf of Tehran's secret services went on trial in absentia in an Italian court on Wednesday. Amir Mansur Bozorgian, whose whereabouts are unknown, is being represented by a court-appointed lawyer. The prosecution says Bozorgian was behind the shooting of Mohammed Hossein Naqdi, a leading member of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which wants to oust Iran's clerical rulers.
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Wednesday, 11 May 2005 |
 AP: The trial began on Wednesday of an Iranian accused of the 1993 slaying of an Iranian dissident who died in a hail of automatic gunfire
as he was being driven along a Rome street.
Lawyers for the victim's family allege that the defendant, Amir Mansur Assl Bozorgian, who is being tried in absentia, was an Iranian killer
sent by his country's leadership to murder dissident Mohammed
Hussein Naghdi. |
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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, 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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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 |
 UPI: The Supreme Court is taking a close look at a case against Iran involving an assassination in Paris, inviting the Justice Department Monday to "express the views of the United States" before the justices decide what to do with the dispute. How the Supreme Court handles the case -- whether it accepts or rejects the case for argument, and if it hands down a decision -- could give the U.S. courts some guidance on ... |
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Sunday, 24 April 2005 |
 AFP: A Swiss magistrate said this weekend that he was pressing ahead with an investigation into the assassination of exiled
Iranian opposition leader Kazem Rajavi in Switzerland exactly 15 years ago on Sunday.
"It is a case that is still being dealt with as a priority matter. The investigation will be pursued to the end," Jacques Antenen, an investigating magistrate in the western Swiss canton of Vaud,
told Swiss television TSR. |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
 AFP: Around 400 Iranian men and women met in Tehran on Wednesday to declare their readiness to carry out suicide operations against Israel.
Some 250 men and 150 women, all members of Islamist militias, responded to an appeal by two non-governmental organisations urging them to support Palestinian suicide bombers and declare their own readiness to become "martyrs".
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Sunday, 03 April 2005 |
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The Sunday Times: PALESTINIAN fighters have revealed that Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese group backed by Iran, is offering to pay for attacks aimed at shattering the fragile truce with Israel. Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, has made it clear that one suicide bomber in Tel Aviv could prompt him to abandon negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, and may ... |
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Saturday, 02 April 2005 |
 The Globe and Mail: Once Dr. Shahram Azam left Iran to tell his story of how Zahra Kazemi was brutally raped and tortured inside a Tehran prison, he knew it wouldn't take long for Iranian agents to track him down. That made his asylum request to Canada all the more urgent. "We took his case very seriously," said a Canadian official who worked on the file. "The Iranians were almost on his track and the life of Dr. Azam was becoming highly endangered and he could not have stayed in Sweden for much longer without witness protection." |
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Sunday, 27 March 2005 |
 AFP: An Egyptian was jailed for 35 years by an emergency tribunal Sunday for spying for Iran and plotting to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in a sentence that cannot be appealed. The court also sentenced former Iranian diplomat Mohammed Reza Doust to 25 years' imprisonment in absentia for being Egyptian Mahmud Aid Dabbus's handler. |
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Sunday, 27 March 2005 |
 Reuters: A Cairo court sentenced an Egyptian to 35 years in prison Sunday after finding him guilty of spying for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and planning to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. |
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Saturday, 26 March 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 26 – The European Union must immediately abandon “its failed and counterproductive policy
of appeasement" towards Iran and instead support the democratic aspirations of the Iranian people and their resistance, according to a London-based legal expert. |
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Tuesday, 22 March 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 22 – Dozens of British parliamentarians and prominent international law experts called today on Whitehall to remove Iran's main opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), from the UK list of proscribed organisations.
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Tuesday, 22 March 2005 |
 AP: An Iranian opposition group on Tuesday called on the British government to remove the People's Mujahedeen militia from a list of terrorist organizations. The Mujahedeen regard themselves as legitimate opposition to the hardline clerical regime in Tehran and claim that Britain, along with the European Union and the United States, classify them as terrorists to appease the Iranian government. British officials deny the allegation. |
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Thursday, 03 March 2005 |
 Reuters: The United States kept up the pressure on Iran and Syria on Wednesday as a senior White House security official urged the international community to demand that Tehran and Damascus stop supporting terrorism.
"State sponsors of terrorism such as Iran and Syria are with
the terrorists and therefore against all of us," said Frances Townsend, homeland security adviser to President Bush. |
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Thursday, 17 February 2005 |
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Voice of America: Experts and other witnesses appearing before a congressional committee say Iran continues to support terrorist groups and is encouraging instability in Iraq. A hearing also included emotional testimony by individuals affected by Iranian-backed terrorism. From Israel and the Palestinian territories to Iraq and elsewhere, witnesses at Wednesday's hearing said Iran's ongoing sponsorship of terrorism is indisputable, and poses a direct and continuing threat to U.S. interests. |
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Wednesday, 16 February 2005 |
 AFP: Iran is stepping up efforts to build long range missiles and remains a "state sponsor" of terrorism, Central Intelligence Agency director Porter Goss told Congress on Wednesday.
"Iran continues its pursuit of long-range ballistic missiles," Goss said in testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on the main security threats to the United States.
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Saturday, 12 February 2005 |
 BBC: Iran's hard-line Revolutionary Guards have declared the death sentence on British author Salman Rushdie is still valid - 16 years after it was issued. The military organisation, loyal to Iran's supreme leader - said the order was "irrevocable" on the eve of the anniversary of the 1989 fatwa. The order was issued after publication of Mr Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses", condemned as blasphemous. |
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Tuesday, 08 February 2005 |
 AFP: British Prime Minister Tony Blair called Iran a state sponsor of terrorism on Tuesday, and urged the Islamic republic to meet EU demands to renounce its suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons. "It certainly does sponsor terrorism. There's no doubt about that at all," Blair told a parliamentary committee, agreeing with US President George W. Bush's view of Iran as a leading backer of terrorists.
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Tuesday, 08 February 2005 |
 CNN: British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called Iran a state sponsor of terrorism, and urged the Islamic republic to bow to EU demands to renounce its suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons. He also called on Tehran not to hamper peace efforts in the Middle East. Giving evidence to a UK parliamentary committee, Blair was asked if he shared U.S. President George W. Bush's assessment of Tehran as the "world's primary state sponsor of terror." |
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Thursday, 03 February 2005 |
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Reuters: An Egyptian accused of spying for Iran said Iranians paid him for information about a road often used by President Hosni Mubarak and he planned an assassination there, according to a video shown in court on Thursday. Mahmoud Eid Mohamed Dabbous said in the video he was going to plant bombs on the road in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh ... |
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Thursday, 03 February 2005 |
 Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush, who three years ago said Iran and North Korea were part of an "axis of evil," has emphasised diplomacy in dealing with the two countries.
Bush called Iran the "world's primary state sponsor of terror" and reiterated his accusations that the country is striving to develop nuclear weapons, a charge denied by Iran. He also promised to "stand with" the Iranian people in their quest for liberty, a veiled jab at the republic's ruling clerics. |
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Saturday, 29 January 2005 |
 BBC: A Cairo court has charged an Egyptian national with spying for Iran. Prosecutors said Mahmoud Eid Muhammad Dabbous was paid by the Revolutionary Guard to provide information about a number of locations in Egypt. Mr Dabbous pleaded not guilty and said Egyptian intelligence had tortured him while he was in detention. |
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Sunday, 23 January 2005 |
 Sunday Telegraph: Pakistan, one of America's most important allies in the war on terror, has blamed Iran for fuelling a growing insurgency in Baluchistan, the strategically sensitive province where militant tribesmen have recently launched a series of terrorist attacks.
Officials in Islamabad believe Iran is encouraging "intruders" from its own Bal-och community to cross the 550-mile |
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Thursday, 20 January 2005 |
 The Independent: The spiritual leader of Iran has reaffirmed
the fatwa against the writer Salman Rushdie in a message to Muslim pilgrims.
Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, declared that Rushdie was an "apostate" whose killing would be permitted
by Islam. He made the comment to crowds of pilgrims on their way to Mecca. |
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Wednesday, 19 January 2005 |
 AFP: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has labelled British author Salman Rushdie an apostate whose killing would be authorised by Islam, according to message carried by Iranian media Wednesday. Khamenei's reference to Rushdie was made in a message to Muslims making the annnual pilgrimage to Mecca, and was part of a lengthy tirade against "Western and Zionist capitalists" and the US-led "war on terror". |
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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.
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Thursday, 13 January 2005 |
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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. |
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