Iran: A teenage girl to be executed

Monday, 02 January 2006

NCRI - A 19-year-old girl is to be executed in Iran according to Aftab state-run daily. Delara Darabi has been alleged to have murdered a woman when she was 17. Her death sentence was issued by a clerical court in the city of Rasht (northern Iran) and endorsed by mullahs' high court despite her denial of committing the crime. She is a painter and engaged to a man who is sentenced to imprisonment for his involvement in the alleged crime.

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Iran regime insists on enriching uranium on Iranian soil

Monday, 02 January 2006

NCRI - Iranian regime rejected any plans denying its will to enrich uranium in the country. "As we said before we want to have enrichment inside Iran. Any proposal which is based on this principle will be studied," Spokesman to Ahmadinejad's government, Gholam Hossein Elham, said on Monday. This is considered a clear rejection of the Russian proposal to enrich uranium for the regime on Russian soil. "We are studying the Russian proposal based on this framework, the government will never give up its principles," the spokesman declared.

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Iran president in new diatribe against Israel

Sunday, 01 January 2006

Agence France Presse - Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a new diatribe against archfoe Israel Sunday saying that the Jewish state was "anti-Islamic in nature" and the result of European "ethnic cleansing."

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Pope uses message to attack hardline Iran

Sunday, 01 January 2006

The Sunday Times - The Pope has used his inaugural new year message to launch a veiled attack on Iran’s hardline leadership. Pope Benedict’s comments follow calls by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for Israel to be “wiped off” the global map and his recent dismissal of the Holocaust.

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Iran regime presses again for uranium enrichment at home

Friday, 30 December 2005

NCRI - Iranian regime's agreement to discuss Moscow's plan to enrich uranium in Russia does not mean that Tehran has abandoned its drive to enrich uranium on its own soil, said Javad Vaeedi, deputy of the mullahs' Supreme National Security Council on Friday. Russian proposal which is backed by Washington and the European Union, involves the creation of a joint Iranian-Russian company to enrich uranium in Russia. The plan has been put forward by Moscow to try to allay international concerns that Iranian regime could manufacture highly enriched uranium on its own soil to build atomic weapons.

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Sherman makes Iran his mission

Friday, 30 December 2005

By Lisa Friedman, Washington Bureau LA Daily News - When U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman found a moment alone with President George W. Bush at a recent White House holiday party, the Sherman Oaks Democrat homed in on the probability of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. A few weeks later, at an Oval Office bill signing, Sherman again raised the issue, handing Bush a five-page memo detailing the steps he believes the administration should be taking.

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Iran: Rising popular discontent

Friday, 30 December 2005

NCRI - More than 550 demonstrations, rallies and acts of protest throughout Iran were recorded during the last month. According to figures, anti-government rallies in Iran grew by 74% in the period of November 11 to December 10. The above figures are based on information gathered by the Iranian Resistance’s headquarters for activities inside Iran through its network in the country and the regime’s own official reports.

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Iran's nuclear plans - a ticking time bomb

Thursday, 29 December 2005

WORLD MUST TAKE STRONGER STAND AGAINST THREAT Miami Herald - If nothing else, the rantings of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have erased whatever doubt may have existed about the dangers posed by a nuclear-armed Iran. Ever since the former mayor of Tehran was elected to head the country in mid-2005, he has repeatedly displayed open hostility toward the West, and Israel in particular. It's time for other nations to join the United States in a campaign to block Iran's drive to speed up its nuclear-development program.

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Iran-Iraq: Torture jails force ouster of Iraq chief

Tuesday, 27 December 2005

By Paul Martin Washington Times - Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr, whose ministry is accused of operating clandestine prisons where some detainees were tortured, will vacate his job shortly, security and political sources in Baghdad said yesterday.

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