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UN “deeply concerned” at Iran’s treatment of women activists |
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Wednesday, 11 April 2007 |
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NCRI - According to a statement posted on the website of the United Nations office at Geneva on Tuesday, the UN Human Rights Council's special rapporteur on violence against women, special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the rights to freedom of expression and opinion, and the Special Representative of the Secretary General on the situation of human rights expressed deep concern about the arrest of four women and one man on April 3 in Laleh Park in Tehran, where the five had been collecting signatures for a campaign to change Iranian laws that discriminate against women. |
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Supporters of Iranian Resistance demonstrate in Sydney, Australia |
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Tuesday, 10 April 2007 |
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NCRI - Supporters of the Iranian Resistance in Sydney, Australia held a picket line on Saturday, April 7 to denounce the European Council for ignoring the ruling by the Court of First Instance of the European Communities. The ruling annulled the PMOI terror label designation on December 12 2006. |
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U.S. professional groups cut Iran links |
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Tuesday, 10 April 2007 |
United Press International -- U.S. professional associations are putting the screws to Iran by suspending collaborative and other ties with their Iranian counterparts.
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Now, two nuclear deadlines |
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Tuesday, 10 April 2007 |
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Chicago Tribune - Editorial - For years now, the Iranians have ignored deadlines to stop their nuclear program. They've been masterful at playing for time, stringing along the Europeans, the Russians and the United Nations Security Council with negotiations that went nowhere, threats of retaliation about the country's "right" to nuclear energy. The most recent example of Iranian misdirection: the British hostage crisis. |
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Iran raises stakes with claim of nuclear leap |
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Tuesday, 10 April 2007 |
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Guardian - Iran claimed yesterday to have made a dramatic leap forward in its nuclear programme by enriching uranium "on an industrial scale", a move likely to accelerate a collision with the US and strengthen calls in Washington for military action. |
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International disapproval for Iran's nuclear upscaling |
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Tuesday, 10 April 2007 |
EuroNews - Iran's announcement that it can now produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale has drawn condemnation from the international community. The UN urged Tehran to abide by Security Council resolutions, while the EU renewed calls for uranium enrichment to be suspended completely.
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Arrest of Hamadan’s teachers to prevent spread of unrest |
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Monday, 09 April 2007 |
NCRI - Yesterday, the State Security Forces (SSF) raided the weekly meeting of teachers and arrested forty-five participants there in the western city of Hamadan, the state-run website Aftab reported.
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Iran's Ahmadinejad set to announce nuclear plans |
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Monday, 09 April 2007 |
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Reuters - Iran’s president has promised to disclose news about Iran’s nuclear program when he visits its uranium enrichment facility on Monday where the West says Tehran is mastering the skills needed to make atomic bombs. |
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Bush sees no swap for British sailors in Iran |
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Tuesday, 03 April 2007 |
WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Tuesday his administration was consulting with Britain on Iran's seizure of 15 British sailors and marines but that there would be no swap of the Britons for Iranians held in Iraq.
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Blair says Iran row at critical stage |
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Tuesday, 03 April 2007 |
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday the way was open for diplomatic efforts to secure the release of 15 British sailors and marines seized by Iran, and the next 48 hours would be critical. |
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Demonstration outside the British embassy organized by the Iranian regime |
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Monday, 02 April 2007 |
Press Association - The stone-throwing demonstration outside the British embassy in Teheran yesterday was organized by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) claimed today.
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 |
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The Sunday Telegraph – If anything sent "the wrong message to our young people", it was the Iranian video showing the casual, shambolic way in which our boarding party came over the side of a dhow they had been inspecting. Everything about this affair showed a complete collapse of professional discipline, which brought shame on the Navy. But if the result has been to land our Government and the Foreign Office in an unholy mess, it must also be said they have asked for it. |
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Day 8 of Protest in London |
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 |
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NCRI – For the eighth day, Iranians in London, sympathizers of the Iranian Resistance gathered in front of the UK Foreign Office to condemn the illegal position of the British government in insisting on maintaining the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran on the terror list, while the European Court of Justice ruled on 12 December that it had to be removed from the black list. |
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In The Hague, Iranians still demonstrate |
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 |
NCRI – On the afternoon of Thursday 29 March, dozens of Iranians in The Hague gathered in front of the Dutch Parliament to protest against the maintaining of the Iranian opposition movement on the black list.
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