Iranian authorities have launched a ferocious crackdown on dissent, targeting labor leaders, universities, the press, women’s rights advocates and Iranian-Americans, The New York Times reported on its website late Saturday.
Read More »Rice cool to any partial nuclear suspension by Iran
The United States dismissed on Sunday the idea of a partial suspension of uranium enrichment by Iran, saying that Washington and its allies still insisted on a full suspension.
Read More »Iran supplied missile that hit UK helicopter
A ROYAL NAVY helicopter that crashed in flames in Basra last year, killing all five on board, was shot down by a sophisticated surface-to-air missile supplied to Iraqi militants by Iran, according to US officials.
Read More »Palestinian Intelligence : Iran played big role in Gaza Seizure
Iran played a “big role” in Hamas’s seizure of Gaza from Palestinian security forces earlier this month, Palestinian intelligence chief Tawfiq al-Tirawi charged on Sunday.
Read More »Professor of law: You can’t call people terrorists without evidence
One of the difficulties in formulating an internationally agreed definition of terrorism is that the term is so slippery. All the actions carried out by terrorists are already crimes under existing laws.
Read More »Paris Conference – 4 years after June 17th, 2003 attack on Iranian Resistance
Paris based “Human Rights League†held a conference Thursday titled “4 Years after June 17th, 2003.†Speakers talked about the violation of human rights of Iranian Resistance members and refugees by the 17 June raid on the office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and a number of …
Read More »Iranian opposition claims EU for compensation
An Iranian opposition group PMOI claims millions for compensation from the European Union because the union has not accepted to remove organisation from the terrorist list as the court of European Community has decided.
Read More »Canadian-based filmmaker barred from leaving Iran
France’s Foreign Ministry is expressing concern about the fate of a Montreal-based filmmaker who is barred from leaving Iran.
Read More »US, British officials draft stronger sanctions on Iran
The United States and Britain are preparing drafts for a punishing new UN resolution against Iran that could impose sweeping travel bans on the country’s top military and security officials, require inspections on its cargo flights and ships, forbid all import and export of arms shipments, and freeze the assets …
Read More »Outsiders pull strings
The failure of the latest Arab League mission to get Lebanon’s Western-backed government and the Iran- and Syria-supported opposition to talk together shows that outsiders control the country’s destiny, analysts said on Saturday.
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