October, 2006

• 23 October

  Fair Suspension Liable to Negotiation

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hoseini said that as with the other issues, suspension can also be put to discussion during Iran-West nuclear negotiations if only fair and just conditions are provided.

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• 23 October

  Empty pockets promise grim Eid for Gazans

  GAZA CITY — In Gaza City’s Firas market the stalls are laden with gift items and toys, fireworks and new clothes, cooking utensils and fish, as people crowd around, looking, touching and walking on. As the fasting month of Ramadan draws to an end and people look ahead to the …

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• 23 October

  Israel Humiliated by Hezbollah’s Victory

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hoseini said that the victory of Hezbollah in the 33-day war against the Zionist army ruined the forged awe of the Israeli regime.

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• 23 October

  Lebanon sees revival of pre-Islamic environmentalism

  KFAR ZABAD, Lebanon — It was born in the Arabian desert more than 1,500 years ago and is now being revived in the battle-scarred greenery of Lebanon. Already its success is heralding a regional renaissance. The pre-Islamic system of environmental protection known as “hima” — Arabic for protected area — …

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• 23 October

  Israeli activists help Palestinians harvest olive crop

  JIT, West Bank — Fearful that radical Jewish settlers will swoop and steal their olives, Palestinians are turning to an unlikely source of protection to secure this year’s desperately needed harvest. Several hundred Israelis, from left-wing activists to moderate Jewish settlers, regularly volunteer to help Palestinians pick olives, believing that …

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• 23 October

  Ahmadinejad Views US Battleships in Persian Gulf as Worn out

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, responding to the recent military moves by the US in the region, said that Americans have brought just two worn out and shabby battleships to the Persian Gulf.

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• 23 October

  Dissident returns to Tunisia, shrugs off legal threat

  TUNIS (Reuters) — Veteran dissident Moncef Marzouki returned to Tunisia on Saturday and vowed to campaign for democracy, shrugging off government plans to prosecute him for allegedly inciting Tunisians to commit violence. “I come here to carry out my struggle peacefully,” the human rights campaigner told reporters after a flight …

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• 23 October

  Israel a Permanent Blow to Middle-East Tranquility

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Ambassador to Russia said that as long as the Zionist regime exists in the region, the Middle-East may not experience peace and tranquility.

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• 23 October

  $2.2 b Petrol Import Bill Approved

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An Iranian MP said that the parliament’s Budget and Planning Commission has approved USD 2.2 billion of the government’s proposed USD 3.5 billion for the imports of petrol in the current (Iranian) year.

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• 23 October

  Palestinian students in danger of losing school year over open-ended teachers’ strike

  RAMALLAH — Eighth-grader Thaer Shweikiyeh, who dreams of being a doctor one day, was excited about going back to school after the summer vacation. Instead, he’s been selling onions in the local farmers’ market for the past two months, and his new schoolbag remains untouched. Thaer is one of 800,000 …

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