Iran

Triple-champions Iran survived a scare against the Uzbeks in Kuala Lumpur as they kicked off their drive for a first Asian Cup title in 31 years.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Mostafavi expressed the hope that the nuclear standoff between his country and the West would be ended during the current visit to Tehran by a delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here on Wednesday dismissed the Zionist regime’s invitation to the Iranian Jews to leave their homeland for the occupied territories.

Iranian Government Spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham said that the Zionist regime of Israel should take a lesson from its last year invasion of Lebanon, where it was not only defeated but also humiliated by Hezbollah.

An international journalist rights group is calling on Iran to re-open a trial into the murder of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi.

Aftenposten, the Norwegian daily reported today that Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre called the stoning on an Iranian man “inhumane and barbaric.”

Iranian mullahs’ persistence on uranium enrichment for the purpose of acquiring nuclear weapons created a folly today.  The mullahs denied nuclear enrichment activities slow down; but removed the report shortly after it was published.

Al-Jazeerah, July 3, 2007- The Iranian opposition coalition, in which the People’s Mojahedin organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has a leading role, organized a large gathering in the French capital, Paris.

Small majorities of Iranians say their country should develop nuclear weapons and they would feel safer if Tehran possessed such arms, according to a rare public opinion poll of Iranian citizens.

EuroNews, the European news channel, in a news report that was broadcasted repeatedly about the gathering of 50,000 Iranians in Paris on Saturday described the event as the one that rarley Paris has witnessed.