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Saturday, 10 December 2005 |
 NCRI - The UN Security Council on Friday joined the growing international furor over revolting remarks by clerical regime's president Ahmadinejad, questioning the Holocaust and suggesting that the "tumour" of the state of Israel be relocated to Europe.
A statement released by Britain's UN envoy Emyr Jones Parry, the current council president, said the body's 15 members "condemn the remarks about Israel and the denial of the Holocaust attributed to Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."
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Saturday, 10 December 2005 |
 Associated Press - Iran is closing in on production of nuclear weapons
and even U.N. sanctions may not deter the aggressive government in
Tehran, a top State Department official said Friday.
Describing the Iranian government as "very aggressive, very determined
to develop nuclear weapons," Robert Joseph, undersecretary for arms
control and international security, dismissed Iran's contention that it
seeks only civilian nuclear power.
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Friday, 09 December 2005 |
 The clerical regime hanged three prisoners on December 7. According to
reports by state-run media, a woman was hanged in Shirvan (northeast
Iran) and two men named Abdulreza Akbaridiba, 28, and Farhad
Akbaridiba, 22, from Asadabad in Hamedan, were executed in the
Arak-Khomein (western Iran) highway.
The state-run daily, Kayhan, reported on December 6 that Rostam Tajik,
20, was going to be hanged in public on December 10. He has been in
prison for nearly five years. He was less than 15 at the time of the
alleged crime, and 16 when sentenced to death. The Supreme Court
recently upheld the death sentence for Mr. Tajik.
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Friday, 09 December 2005 |
 NCRI – The Rt. Hon. The Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, QC, former Minister
of State at the Department of Trade and Industry, who previously
supported engagement with the clerical regime told the Symposium of
Parliamentarians & Jurists London on November 29: “I think there is
absolutely no point whatsoever in trying to constructively engage with
this regime or in any sense to appease it. I have changed my mind quite
a difficult confession for a politician to make. But nevertheless I
have and what I want to do is to persuade others, as you do to change
their minds as well..”
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Friday, 09 December 2005 |
 NCRI - The German Foreign Ministry said on Friday it had summoned
mullahs’ ambassador to protest against suggestions by Ahmadinejad that
the Holocaust might not have happened and that Israel should be moved
to Europe.
Ministry spokesman Martin Jaeger said at a government news conference
the decision to deliver a formal protest to mullahs’ envoy in Berlin
was meant to show that Berlin was taking the Ahmadinejad’s comments
very seriously.
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Friday, 09 December 2005 |
 NCRI - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Thursday expressed shock over
Ahmadinejad's remarks questioning the Holocaust and suggesting that the
state of Israel be moved to Europe.
"The Secretary General was shocked to see the remarks attributed to the
president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in which he reportedly cast
doubt on the truth of the Holocaust and suggested that the State of
Israel should be moved from the Middle East to Europe," a UN statement
said.
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Friday, 09 December 2005 |
 NCRI - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday said that mullahs’
President Ahmadinejad's combative suggestion that Israel should be
relocated to Austria or Germany was "totally unacceptable".
"The remarks of the Iranian president are totally unacceptable, and as
chancellor of Germany, which has a historical responsibility in this
regard, I reject them with the greatest firmness," she said at a
meeting with French President Jacques Chirac.
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Friday, 09 December 2005 |
 NCRI - The White House said Thursday that Ahmadinejad's suggestion that
Israel be moved to Europe underlined Washington's concerns about the
regime in Iran.
"It just further underscores our concerns about the regime in Iran. And
it's all the more reason why it's so important that the regime not have
the ability to develop nuclear weapons," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan.
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Friday, 09 December 2005 |
NCRI - The former Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry
denounced remarks by clerical regime’s President Ahmadinejad
questioning the Holocaust and suggesting that Israel should be
relocated to Austria or Germany.
"For the leader of any country to question whether the Holocaust
happened and suggest Israel be moved to Europe is beyond unacceptable,"
Kerry said in a statement on Thursday.
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