Iran

TEHRAN — Mohammad Quchani has worked for 11 newspapers that were closed by the Iranian authorities and most never reopened. So he won’t predict how long the daily which he launched last month as editor will survive.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Iran gives political and material support to President Hamid Karzai’s Western-backed government, but it also may be aiding the Taliban as a way of hedging its bets in neighboring Afghanistan, NATO’s top general here said Monday.

NCRI – In mid-June, the defense committee of Iranian regime’s Supreme National Security Council held meetings with some commanders of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).

NCRI – In the past 4 years the mullahs’ regime has tried hard to impose its full control on the Iraqi Diala province which has 240 kilometers of common border with Iran and said to be the entrance to Baghdad. Using the Quds force the Iranian regime has mobilized its …

Europolitics – Under pressure from Iran and to keep open the nuclear talks with Tehran, the EU is said to be violating the fundamental rights of one of the leading exiled organisations opposed to the Mollah regime by keeping it on the list of terrorist groups in spite of an …

The Observer – A British company has been closed down after being caught in an apparent attempt to sell black-market weapons-grade uranium to Iran and Sudan, The Observer can reveal.

Belgium- (VRT Television) – A man is arrested in Tehran streets and is brutally tortured by masked men in public.

VIENNA (Reuters) — Iran faces heightened criticism over its escalating nuclear activity at a UN watchdog meeting this week that will provide a barometer of sentiment for broader sanctions against Tehran.

TEHRAN (AP)— Iran’s confirmation Sunday that it has detained a fourth Iranian-American — this one a peace activist from California — seems certain to further rile relations between the two countries, already tense over Iran’s nuclear programme.

GAZA (Reuters) – Rival Palestinian factions battled in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, raising the weekend death toll to at least three and 39 injured in the fiercest internal fighting since a ceasefire was declared nearly a month ago.