QANDIL, Iraq (AFP)--Turkish warplanes and Iranian artillery bombarded Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq on Monday, a Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, spokesman said.

Israel, while supposedly observing an ironclad boycott of all things Iranian, is happily buying Iranian oil

Latest News of the Imprisonment of Mohsen Hakimi and Bijan Amiri

Mohsen Hakimi are propagandizing against the Islamic Regime and they asked for more than $100,000 surety.  Mohsen Hakimi did not accept such a deal and asked his family to not accept this surety. 

Discovery of the body of a teacher along the banks of Dez River in Dezful

His relatives allege that, on the day of the incident, he had met with a senior city official to discuss the problems surrounding education in the city and his pay.   This has compounded their suspicion that his unexpected death was not simply an accident.

From Communist Party of Israel

The killing in Gaza continues. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, thousands injured, air-strikes have caused utter devastation and entire families are left homeless. Civilians in the south of Israel are being held captive by a government which lies to them and abuses them.

Iran's Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mohammad Hosseini announced Tehran's readiness to grant scholarship to the Iraqi shoe-throwing journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi.

New US leader Barack Obama may bring Iran detente.December 27, 2008

SINCE its Islamist revolution of 1979, Iran's hardline leadership has relentlessly painted the US as a racist, bloodthirsty power bent on oppressing Muslims worldwide.

Russia is seeking strong political relations not only with Iran and Syria, but also with Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey - which have long been close allies of the United States, notes Jacques Lévesque.

The Arrest and Detention of Two Worker-Activists

On the morning of December 22nd, 2008, Bijan Amiri, an auto-worker and a prominent member of the Worker Mountain-Climbing Board, after having had a confrontation with the factory Security Guard, he was then handed over to the Iranian Security Forces by the Security Guard of the Iran Khodro (Car) Factory in front of one of  its main gates. 

Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei told reporters here on Wednesday that Iran is ready to increase security cooperation with regional countries.

Iran Human Rights, December 24: One woman and 9 men were hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison early this morning, reported the state run Iranian news agancy

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Iran: Enforced closure of human rights centre an ominous development

Rafsanjani meets Afghan parliamentary delegation

Chief of Expediency Council and Afghan parliamentary delegation met in Tehran on Tuesday to discuss Afghanistan’s condition and bilateral ties of the two countries

Iran has sent a warship to the Gulf of Aden to protect its merchant shipping from attacks by Somali pirates, Iranian state media has reported.

Student activist Dariush Hatemi was released in late November, on bail of 50 million rials (approximately US$50,000). He and the other student activists named above are now all free on bail, awaiting trial on charges of "establishing and membership of illegal groups in order to disrupt national security" and "propaganda against the state".

Iran plans $300 mln share market injection-newspaper

Iran's government plans to inject about $300 million in to the Islamic Republic's stock market after sharp falls over the last few months, an Iranian newspaper reported in an unsourced article on Tuesday.

The Iranian Oil Ministry says Iran is proposing a cut in OPEC's production of up to 2 million barrels per day.

Iranian delegates to a conference on the security situation in Afghanistan, boycotted the event on Sunday to protest recent remarks by French President Nicolas Sarkozy

Substitute Friday prayers leader of Tehran Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami here Friday dismissed recent “uncalculated” anti-Iran claims of the U.S.’ “nouveau de rich” President-Elect Barack Obama.

Shanghai Cooperation Organization opposes unilateralism: chief

Shanghai Cooperation Organization Secretary General Bolat Nurgaliyev said here on Tuesday the SCO apposes unilateralism in international affairs.
 

Iranian supreme court has approved "stoning" sentence of a woman

Friday 28 November 2008