The Iranian government’s last-minute decision to ration monthly fuel allotments, as well as increase the price of gas, triggered protests and riots — a rarity in the Islamic republic — according to Iranian media reports.
Read More »Iranians Attack Gas Stations in Protest
Angry Iranians attacked several gas stations in protest after the government suddenly began long-threatened fuel rationing, while many others rushed to fill their tanks.
Read More »Amnesty calls on Iran to stop child executions
Amnesty International appealed for Iran to stop executing children and those who committed their crimes before they turned 18, in a report published Wednesday.
Read More »Syria’s alliance with Iran in balance
Syria has expressed readiness to help curb Middle East instability in exchange for peace with Israel but will not easily give up its alliance with Iran as demanded by the Jewish state.
Read More »Tehran invites IAEA team to clear up suspicion
Acting on a request from Iran, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says it will send a team to Tehran as soon as possible to work jointly on a plan meant to clear up suspicions about the Islamic republic’s nuclear activities.
Read More »UN nuclear inspectors to go to Iran
Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are to go to Iran “as early as practicable” to resolve issues over Tehran’s nuclear programme, the UN nuclear watchdog said Monday.
Read More »Inciting Genocide – Absolutely—- but What about Crimes Against Humanity?
On Wednesday June 20th, 2007 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution demanding from the United Nations to charge the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with violating the 1948 Convention on Genocide, as he has called for destruction of Israel.
Read More »Japan’s Banks Restrict Loans to Iran
Japan’s private sector banks have restricted loans to Iran and rejected a request to pay for oil imports in currencies other than dollars, the Financial Times quoted banking and official sources as saying.
Read More »FOFI Warns against the EU Council’s defiance of court ruling on Iranian Mojahedin
Friends of Free Iran inter-parliamentary group in a statement today warned against maintaining the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) on the terror list by the Council of Ministers of Environment, describing it as a legal catastrophe and a political scandal.
Read More »STARVING THE MULLAHS
THE conventional wisdom says that we have two choices in confronting and containing Iranian nuclear ambitions – United Na tions sanctions and diplomacy, or a military strike to knock out key nuclear sites.
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