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MPs, jurists urge reaffirmation of PMOI refugee rights in Iraq |
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Tuesday, 30 January 2007 |
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NCRI - A conference was held on January 23 at Geneva Press Club to defend the political refugee rights of members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) in Ashraf City, Iraq. Members of the Swiss Federal and Geneva parliaments as well as human rights and political personalities, attended this conference and spoke about the situation at Ashraf. |
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Untold aspects of the Iranian regime’s meddling in Iraq |
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Tuesday, 30 January 2007 |
NCRI – On Friday 26, January, Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee of the NCRI, held a press conference in Paris to reveal new dimensions of the Iranian regime’s meddling in Iraq and the extent of its network in that country. Here is the text of his speech:
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Egypt press blames Iran for murder of diplomat |
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Sunday, 28 January 2007 |
Agence France Presse - Iranian intelligence services were responsible for kidnapping and killing Egypt's top diplomat in Iraq two years ago, the state-owned flagship daily Al-Ahram reported Sunday.
Ihab al-Sherif, Egypt's ambassador-designate to Iraq, was kidnapped and reported killed at the behest of Iranian intelligence on July 2005 in effort to "cut the legs" of Egypt's presence in Iraq, said unnamed diplomatic sources quoted by the newspaper.
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Bush vows to attack Iranian agents in Iraq |
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Saturday, 27 January 2007 |
The Daily Telegraph - President George W Bush escalated his rhetorical attacks on Iran today when he authorised American troops in Iraq to take all necessary steps to combat agents deployed by Teheran.
The Bush administration believes that Iran is fuelling the insurgency in Iraq by supplying Shia militias with weapons, cash, bomb-making equipment and expertise.
A list of 31,690 alleged Iranian agents active inside Iraq was released by an exiled opposition group. |
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Iran to install centrifuges with potential for nuke arms |
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Saturday, 27 January 2007 |
The Washington Times, Davos, Switzerland, January 27 - Iran expects to start installing thousands of centrifuges in an underground facility next month, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said yesterday.
The installation would pave the way to large-scale uranium enrichment, a potential way of making nuclear weapons. |
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Group claims Iran has agents in Iraq |
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Friday, 26 January 2007 |
Associated Press - Iran has thousands of paid operatives working in neighboring Iraq, an Iranian opposition group based in France claimed Friday.
The National Council of Resistance's allegations could not be independently verified. A press officer at the Iranian Embassy in Paris, speaking on condition of anonymity because of embassy policy, called the claims "completely false" and said Tehran supports stability in the region. |
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Lebanese PM blames Iran, Syria for deadly protest |
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Thursday, 25 January 2007 |
TOKYO, Jan 24, 2007 (AFP) - Lebanon's embattled premier has pinned the blame on Iran and Syria for a Hezbollah-backed nationwide opposition strike during which three people died, in remarks published here Wednesday.
Lebanon has "been paying the price of imposed decisions coming from outside countries, like Iran and Syria," Prime Minister Fuad Siniora told Japan's Kyodo News.
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US envoy says Iran's power boosted by turmoil in Iraq |
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Thursday, 25 January 2007 |
BAGHDAD, Jan 24, 2007 (AFP) - The turmoil in Iraq is boosting Iran's clout in the region, US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said on Wednesday.
"Historically, Iraq has played a balancing role vis-a-vis Iran. Now that Iraq is a weakened state, it is helping the rise of the relative power of Iran," Khalilzad told Western reporters in Baghdad. |
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Jordan king urges Iran to avoid 'rattling' stability in region |
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Thursday, 25 January 2007 |
AMMAN, Jan 24, 2007 (AFP) - Jordan's King Abdullah II called on Iran to avoid "rattling stability" in Iraq, the Palestinian territories and Lebanon, in an interview published Wednesday.
"We wish to see positive and balanced relations between Iraq and Iran, and between Arab countries and Iran," the monarch told the London-based Arabic daily Asharq Al-Awsat, also carried by Jordan's Petra news agency.
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Young woman sentenced to death attempts suicide |
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Wednesday, 24 January 2007 |
AKI - Delara Darabi, a 20-year-old Iranian woman sentenced to death on charges she killed a cousin when she was 17, tried to kill herself at Tehran's Evin prison. Her mother told Tehran daily Etemad that her daughter is clinically depressed and only weighs 35 kilos.
Dozens of petitions have been made worldwide since Delara's story caught the attention of the international media after a journalist who had been following her story organized a show with paintings Delara made during her imprisonment. Delara denies she killed her cousin. |
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Four prisoners were hanged and three others were sentenced to death in Isfahan, Ahwaz and Iran-Shahr |
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Monday, 22 January 2007 |
NCRI - The mullahs’ henchmen hanged a man identified as Hoshang in the central city of Isfahan. The prisoner had committee the pertinent crime 27 years ago, the state-run new agency Fars reported on January 17.
Over the weekend, three prisoners identified as M.H., S.S., and Toraj Seyah-Kamari were hanged in southwestern city of Ahwaz and southeastern city of Iran-Shahr respectively, the state-run dailies Resalat and Joumhori-Islami reported.
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EU calls for full implementation of Iran sanctions |
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Monday, 22 January 2007 |
Agence France Presse - The European Union deplored Monday Iran's lack of cooperation over Tehran's nuclear programme and called for the full implementation of United Nations sanctions.
In conclusions from their council talks in Brussels, EU foreign ministers agreed to halt trade in nuclear-related goods with the Islamic republic, freeze the assets of those linked to the programme and impose targeted travel bans.
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Iran on the defensive: top US official |
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Monday, 22 January 2007 |
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Agence France Presse - The pressure exerted by the United States and the international community on Iran over its nuclear programme has put the Islamic republic on the defensive, a senior US official said Sunday. |
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EU ministers discuss Iran |
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Monday, 22 January 2007 |
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Agence France Press - European Union foreign ministers will assess with discomfort Monday the results of weekend elections in Serbia, after a strong showing by the ultra-nationalists.EU ambassadors meet at 8:00 am (0700 GMT) to prepare a position for the ministers' debate over lunch, part of a day of talks that will also focus on Iran's nuclear ambitions and developments in Somalia, Sudan and Ukraine. |
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