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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the first tripartite meeting on joint gas ventures between Iran, Qatar and Russia said it is a great step towards the establishment of important activities throughout the region.

European Commission opposes the possible creation of a Russian and Iranian gas cartel.

Iran, Tehran, 19 October /TrendNews corr. E.Namdari/ Iranian Parliament reported that a group of country’s parliamentary representatives met with US parliamentarians within the meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF

US, Iranian Representatives Meet in Washington

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian parliament said that a group of the country's lawmakers had attended talks with their US counterparts on the sidelines of a recent meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington

Iran exposes pigeon-brained espionage plot, literally

Security forces arrest suspected 'spy pigeons,' near Natanz reactor.

China blocking Iran sanctions

China is blocking talks on how to further isolate Iran, according to reports

Iran's Economy Runs Out Of Steam
On Oct. 11, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared, "The claim that the free market manages all things is a huge lie and benefits only thieves and criminals

Argentina's chief prosecutor has accepted a demand for an embargo against the Islamic Republic, made by a survivor of the 1994 AMIA bombing.

Negin Sheikholeslami (f), human rights defender, journalist, aged 34

According to the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan (HROK), Negin Sheikholeslami, a human rights activist from the Kurdish minority in Iran, was arrested at her home in Tehran by members of the security forces at about midnight on 4 October. She is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment and needs medical attention for her respiratory problems.

Juvenile offender Mohammad Reza Haddadi, who was scheduled to be executed on 9 October, has had his execution postponed. The spokesperson of the judiciary told the press at his weekly press conference on 7 October that Haddadi's death sentence had been confirmed, but his execution had been halted. He did not give a new execution date.

International Save Humanity Committee (ISHC)

Stop the Torture and the Death Penalty Worldwide

10th October is the International Day against the Death Penalty. Still people live under the barbaric laws during the Stone Age. Discrimination, torture, violent fights with the guns and knifes among various gangs has been normalized in society, more and more powerless people around countrys show their disappointment with politicians and policymakers in different ways. But nothing happens!

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Russia says no plans to sell missile systems to Iran

MOSCOW, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Russia has no plans to provide Iran with the S-300 anti-aircraft missile defense systems, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

Iran says OPEC eyeing early meeting

Iran's official news agency says OPEC members are discussing holding an emergency meeting in November over the decline in oil prices

39th day of Geneva sit-in to guarantee Ashraf protection

Iran insists Iraq parliament speaker still welcome

Iran insisted that Iraqi parliament speaker Mahmud Mashhadani was still welcome to visit after his plane was refused permission to land in Tehran on Monday.

Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili has written a letter to European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana, the official IRNA news agency reported here Monday.

Iranians see Obama as a moderate who may bring thaw

How much change is realistic? Not as much as you'd think

A British businessman has been arrested after being named in a plot to supply Iran with weapons of mass destruction, while two more at the centre of an international manhunt are accused of smuggling military parts to Tehran.

Nazanin Afshin-Jam, an international human rights activist and former Miss World Canada, will lead off the line up of the 'Wall of Shame' by asking: "Ahmadinejad, why are you executing children?"

Sarkozy has stern words at UN for Russia, Iran

Peres: If Iran isn't stopped, future of the world is in danger

No war=No money=No funny=No honey !

Argentina urges Iran to cooperate on 1994 bombing

Iran has no reason to pursue nuclear enrichment-US

Russia defies West over nuclear Iran

Amnesty_Azerbaijan

The nine Azerbaijani activists named above have been held incommunicado since their arrest on 10 September. They are being held in solitary confinement in the Ministry of Intelligence-run Section 209 of Evin prison in Tehran, and are at risk of torture and other ill treatment.

Nazanin Afshin-Jam, an international human rights activist and former Miss World Canada,

President Ahmadinejad Will Face "Wall of Shame" at the UN Headquarters via Stop Child Executions

Organizing the event, Nazanin Afshin-Jam, an international human rights activist  will lead off the line up of the "Wall of Shame" by asking: "Ahmadinejad why are you executing children?"

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Russia ratchets up US tensions with arms sales to Iran and Venezuela

Christianity is a recognized religion in Iran, but evangelical Christians, some of whom have converted from Islam, often face harassment by the authorities

Mahmoud Matin and Arash Basirat were arrested on 15 May 2008 by Ministry of Intelligence officials in Shiraz, south-west Iran, where they were having a meeting with 13 other people, who were also interrogated but released.

Iran’s President Defends Official on Israel Comments

Iran's Ahmadinejad Dismisses Sanction Talk as Weak.

Ahmadinejad to address UN on 23 September
Ahmadinejad (photo) made the announcement on the seventh anniversary of Al-Qaeda's deadly 11 September 2001 attacks on US cities, which killed nearly 3,000 people.

Kamyar and Arash Alaii under torture in 209

Iran Sept 10, 2008

Both Kamyar and Arash Alaii were arrested on 23 June 2008 by security forces, and are still in detention after 2 months under going interrogation and torture.

The Alaii brothers have been vanguards in combating Aids in Iran.

IAEA head not running for new term

VIENNA, Austria (AP) 10 sept 2008

The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, whose handling of Iran's nuclear defiance has provoked occasional U.S. displeasure, plans to step down later this year, according to a confidential document obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.

Israeli Attack on Lebanon Depends on Iran, Syria

Qaeda chief says Iran and US collaborating: reportDUBAI (AFP) 8 sept 2008 — Al-Qaeda number two Ayman Al-Zawahiri has launched a vitriolic attack on Iran, accusing it in a video message broadcast by Al-Jazeera on Monday of collaborating with the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Report: Iran to hold three-day war games
Reuters
TEHRAN - Iran's armed forces will begin three days of war games on Monday involving anti-aircraft defense systems, Iranian media said on Sunday.

French Committee for a Democratic Iran stressed on Ashraf protection by MNF-I

The Wire, Amnesty International's monthly newsletter.sep2008

Amnesty

UA 242/08    Penalty                               

IRAN _ Bahman Salimian, now aged 27; juvenile offender

UN urges Iran not to impose death penalty on juveniles

2 September 2008 – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has urged Iran not to impose the death penalty on juvenile offenders, following reports that two minors were recently put to death, in violation of the country’s obligations under international law

Shops not open in support of Kurdish political prisoners
Iran Monday 1 Sept 2008
 

Joe Biden’s spokesman vehemently denied a report in an Israeli newspaper Monday that said the Delaware senator was quoted saying: Israel would have to “reconcile” itself with a nuclear Iran

Bolivian President Visits Iran for Investment Talks

During a visit to Bolivia last year, Mr. Ahmadinejad pledged more than $1 billion in investments to help develop Bolivia's oil and gas industry.
 

An Open Letter from the Iranian Writers Association (in Exile) to the International PEN

Kurdish Women Victims of ‘Honor Killings’ in First Half of 1387 (2008

Iran : the Presidency of the Council of the European Union is deeply concerned by the announcement of the imminent execution of Bahman Soleimanian (August 28, 2008)

On 26 August, Behnam Zare` was hanged in Adelabad prison, in the south-western city of Shiraz. Neither his parents nor his lawyer were notified prior to his execution being implemented, as required under Iranian law.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

PUBLIC STATEMENT

AI Index: MDE 13/127/2008

26 August 2008

Iran: End pressure on women’s rights defenders campaigning

for an end to discrimination

Street Children Population Doubled in Iran

More than 1,000 city railway workers walk out

Russian,Swiss,Canadian Firms Bidding on Iran Reactor Projects

Iran: Amnesty International condemns the execution of juvenile offender Reza Hejazi

USA Rejects Israeli Aid Request for Iran Attack.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Public Statement

AI Index: MDE 13/xxx/2008    (Public)

19 August 2008

Iran: Amnesty International condemns the execution of juvenile offender Reza Hejazi

This summer, thousands of bereaved families will defy the Iranian government and gather at the mass graves in Tehran’s Khavaran cemetery to mark the twentieth anniversary of the 1988 (1) massacre of Iranian political prisoners. If you have forgotten this grim anniversary, then you are not alone. In fact, you are not alone if you did not even know that such a massacre ever occurred.

( Kaveh Shahrooz)

Stop the execution of teacher unionist Farzad Kamangar in Iran

Dear colleagues,

Farzad Kamangar, a 33-year old teacher and former trade unionist from the Kurdistan Province of Iran, is at risk of execution following the ruling issued at an unfair trial.( Education International)

Further Information on UA 212/08 (MDE 13/104/2008, 31 July 2008) Arbitrary arrests/fear of torture and ill treatment/prisoners of conscience

Shamemeh Ghorbani has been sentenced to 100 lashes, after being found guilty of adultery at a retrial. Her sentence could be carried out at any time.

Shamemeh Ghorbani was sentenced to execution by stoning for adultery at her first trial in June 2006 (see UA 257/06, MDE 13/113/2006, 28 September 2006, and follow-ups).

Iran : the European Union is deeply concerned of Mr Amir Amrollahi’s situation (August 12, 2008)

China and Russia reap the benefits of sanctions

Iranian Parliamentary Deputy Alaeddin Borujerdi says imposing new EU sanctions against the Islamic Republic will ‘damage’ the West.

Iran not to change nuclear stance in face of sanctions

The European Union has approved new sanctions against Iran

Brothers Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei, both of whom are doctors specialising in the prevention and management of HIV and AIDS, were arrested in June. They are believed to be held without charge in Tehran's Evin Prison.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release: 6 August 2008

Amnesty International welcomed the announcement by the spokesperson for Iran’s judiciary that execution by stoning has been suspended, as a result of which several women have had their sentences commuted.

EU Condemns Human Rights Violations Of Kurds In Iran

BRUSSELS 080806 (AFP)--The European Union presidency Wednesday condemned human rights violations committed against the Kurdish minority in Iran and urged Tehran to scrap the death penalty.

EU Presidency Calls On Iran To Free AIDS Doctors.

Bahrain's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Nizar al-Baharna insists on indispensability of

5+1Group's cooperation with Iran.
 

The Iranian ambassador to the IAEA says Iran is bothered by the double standards regarding nuclear activities with regard to India.

IRAN _ Zeynab Bayzeydi (f), women's rights activist.

Women's rights activist Zeynab Bayzeydi was arrested on 9 July, after the police ordered her to present herself for interrogation at a police station in the city of Mahabad, in the western province of Kordestan. She is in danger of torture or other ill-treatment.

UA 212/08 IRAN

Arbitrary arrests / Fear of Torture or ill-treatment /

prisoners of conscience

EU: Presidency rebukes Iran over recent executions

Brussels, 18 July (AKI) - The French Presidency of the European Union on Friday said it was "deeply concerned" to learn that ten Iranians were publicly executed between 7 and 14 July and urged Iran to immediately halt the practice.

Iranian court upholds death sentence against teacher trade unionist

Farzad Kamangar could face execution in the near future, according to the web site Human Rights Activists in Iran. On 11 July, the Iranian Supreme Court confirmed the death penalty against Kamangar, a 33-year-old Kurdish teacher and trade unionist

Iran: First public executions since January 2008 ban are

 a retrograde step

The Iranian freedom movement needs Your support Now!

Other previously  types of executions that the Iranian regime used in the services of the last 30 years against political prisoners in Iran, they have begun to implement a new type of execution, and this by a combination of slow bodily pain which leads to death
(Pia Atiabi)

Iran - 24 regional and international human rights organisations call on Iran to spare the lives of four youths‏

Iran challenge looms large for next U.S. president.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The next U.S. president will have no easy policy options on Iran -- attacking, accommodating or boxing it in are all fraught with risks and difficulties.

US commander keen for contact with Iran navy.

The top US naval commander in the Middle East says contacts between the navies of the US and Iran would be useful once Tehran stopped sponsoring violence inside Iraq.

PRESS RELEASE -  Washington, D.C., June 30, 2008 - Ahmad Batebi, a leader of the Iranian Student Movement and an activist for human rights in Iran, told the Voice of America's (VOA) Persian News Network (PNN) that, "torture, human rights violations, and abuses towards women still are prevalent in Iran."

propostal to Iran by China,France,Germany,

Russian,U K , USA,EU.

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Caretaker of Economic and Finance Ministry Hossein Samsami on Sunday held talks with Pakistani Minister of Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs and Statistics Syed Naveed Qamar on

broadening Tehran-Islamabad economic cooperation

Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar says the Israeli regime is no match for the organized and skilled armed forces of Iran.

EU Presidency statement on

 the imminent execution of Selah Taseh and other

juvenile offenders

G-8 Calls for Iran Diplomacy, Damping Speculation of Attack
 

Iran Promotes Gas Producers Bloc

TEHRAN (FNA)- An organization

of gas producing countries similar to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will contribute to diminish the production costs and prices to the consumers, a senior Iranian oil official said Thursday.

Iran says U.S. request for diplomatic office in Tehran a "deceitful move"

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Thursday that the proposal to establish a U.S. diplomatic interests section in Tehran is a "deceitful move".

Iran's Rice Farmers Ask Where's the Money.

Tehran bus union man arrested in new attack

Gholamhosseini, a member of the Vahed Syndicate Executive Board was arrested by police in Tehran while visiting Shirodi Stadium, where an event to marking Iran’s Women's Day was taking place.

Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand has been sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment by Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. Though his lawyers have not yet received written confirmation of the sentence, it apparently comprises 10 years’ imprisonment for “acting against state security by establishing the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan (HROK)” and one year’s imprisonment for “propaganda against the system”.  The verdict followed a closed trial session held in late May 2008

Iran denies pulling assets out

of Europe

Iran has rejected reports that it has withdrawn its assets from European banks due to UN sanctions over the country's nuclear program

Iran blames consumers for high oil price

Iran's Oil Minister has elaborated on the reasons for the soaring price of oil and his country's blueprint to stabilize the oil market.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned against the use of force on Iran, saying there is no proof it is trying to build nuclear weapons.

Mahboubeh Karami, journalist and women’s rights defender, was removed from a bus and arrested by plain clothed security forces on 13 June. The bus that Mahboubeh Karami was on travelled past Mellat Park, Tehran shortly after a demonstration had been held there. About 200 other people are known to have been arrested in connection to the demonstration.

Iran acts to calm student revolt

Thousands of students have forced an Iranian university to close after accusing a senior official-responsible for upholding moral values - of sexually harassing a female student.

By Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran

Published: June 18 2008 03:00

Human rights: Burma, Somalia, Iran

In its three human rights resolutions adopted on Thursday in Strasbourg, the European Parliament criticises the Burmese government's treatment of its own people, voices concern at the high civilian death toll in Somalia's civil war and condemns the executions of juveniles in Iran.

Nuclear find raises the ante against Iran
In the case of Iran, the nuanced use of carrot and stick is intermittently present, with a constant and unambiguous iteration of the mantra that all options are on the table. That, in essence, is what America's nuclear brinkmanship against Iran is all about.

Bank official: Iran not to withdraw assets from EU banks

An Iranian banking official said on Tuesday that his country is not planning to withdraw assets from European banks, Iran's Mehr news agency reported.

EU _Iran.

Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the execution of Mohammad Hassanzadeh.

Juvenile offender Mohammad Feda’i was granted a one-month reprieve on 10 June, the day before he was scheduled to be executed, to allow time for his family to negotiate with the family of the boy he was convicted of killing, and to agree on financial compensation in exchange for pardoning him.

Reports from Iran say a boy aged 17 has been hanged, in violation of UN charters signed by Tehran and official pledges not to execute minors.

Wednesday 11th June 2008

The Report of 12 Days Protest in Tarbiat Moalem University of Karaj

The hunger strike of the students of Tarbiat Moalem University of Karaj started in 29^th May in protest to the educational and welfare problems, bad condition of student’s food and the pressures of security guard of the university on students.  In Saturday, 31th May the students continued their protest in the University campus in Karaj.

TEHRAN, June 11 (MNA) – Mahmud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday the West has failed to achieve the “evil goal” of depriving Iran from its nuclear rights.

Addressing a rally in the western city of Shahr-e Kord, Ahmadinejad said, “Today the Iranian nation is standing on the nuclear height” despite all “sanctions and psychological operations to divert the Iranian nation from its path.”

Bush to press Europe on Iran sanctions

US President George W. Bush will push Europe to step up financial sanctions against Iran when he travels to the continent on Monday in what is likely to be his last extended presidential visit to the region.

Iraq will not become a platform for harming Iran: Maliki

TEHRAN, June 8 (MNA) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said here on Sunday that Iraq will not allow its territory to be used as base to harm Iran.

Student Nahid Kalhor was arrested on 1 June by officers of the Ministry of Intelligence (Ettela’at).

 She is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. Her whereabouts are unknown, and she has had no contact with her family or lawyers.

TEHRAN, (AFP): Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday warned Iranian youths that the nation’s Western enemies were seeking to weaken them with plots aimed at spreading sexual depravity and drug addiction.

Iran challenge looms large for next U.S. president.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The next U.S. president will have no easy policy options on Iran -- attacking, accommodating or boxing it in are all fraught with risks and difficulties.

US commander keen for contact with Iran navy.

The top US naval commander in the Middle East says contacts between the navies of the US and Iran would be useful once Tehran stopped sponsoring violence inside Iraq.

Iran says to pursue atomic drive despite trade offer.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran ruled out halting its disputed nuclear program on Tuesday, days before world powers were expected to offer trade and other benefits to coax Tehran into stopping atomic work they fear is aimed at making bombs.

Ahmadinejad says Israel will "disappear".Iran's president said on Monday Israel would soon disappear off the map and that the "satanic power" of the United States faced destruction, in his latest verbal attack on the Islamic Republic's arch-enemies

McCain attacks Obama over Iran policy

By Daniel Dombey and Andrew Ward in Washington .

 John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, on Monday intensified his attack on Barack Obama’s backing for high level talks with Iran, calling instead for sanctions to be imposed on Tehran outside the framework of the United Nations

A Sensible Path on Iran.

A successful approach to Iran has to accommodate its security interests and ours. Neither a U.S. air attack on Iranian nuclear facilities nor a less effective Israeli one could do more than merely set back Iran's nuclear program. In either case, the United States would be held accountable and would have to pay the price resulting from likely Iranian reactions.

Kurdish student Farshad Dousipour was arrested on 15 May by plainclothes Revolutionary Guards officers.  It is not known where he was taken, and he is at risk of torture.

Farshad Dousipour is suffering from a lung condition contracted while he was held in Evin Prison, Tehran.

In the latest developments in the Haft Tapeh strike the workers and their supporters have clashed with the Iranian Military and police.

Behrouz Karimizadeh and Peyman Piran have been released on bail, but Ali Kantouri is still detained, and is not receiving the medication he needs. All three student activists were detained for their alleged role in demonstrations around the time of Iran's National University Students' Day, on 7 December 2007.