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Detained Baha’i Payam Fanaian sentenced to six years in prison

Detained Baha’i Payam Fanaian sentenced to six years in prison

WongMixxMySpaceNetvouzNewsvineoneviewOnlyWirePlugIMPropellerRedditSegnaloShoutwireSimpySlashdotSurphaceSphinnSpurlS LiveYahoo!Email This to a Friend  Link HTML:  Permalink:  If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed or Email Feed.Powered by Bookmarkify™ More »Source: Persian2English March 30, 2010 Human Right Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Payam Fanaian, a Baha’i follower arrested in the wake [...]

Workers along Karaj Highway not paid in months

Workers along Karaj Highway not paid in months

Source: Persian2English March 30, 2010 His sign reads: Unemployment=Poverty & Hunger Iran News Agency- A labour activist from Tehran reported on Monday March 29th that majority of the factories along the Karaj Jaddeh Ghadim highway have not payed their workers in three or four months. Meanwhile, the workers of these factories, such as those of [...]

Prison Authorities to Behrooz Javid Tehrani: Stay in the “doghouse” or be transferred to cell occupied by murderers

Prison Authorities to Behrooz Javid Tehrani: Stay in the “doghouse” or be transferred to cell occupied by murderers

Source: Persian2English March 30, 2010 Behrooz Javid Tehrani given two options: remain in solitary confinement in the “doghouse” or get transferred to a cell occupied by murderers. According to reports received by Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran (HRDAI), on Monday March 29, 2010, political prisoner Behrooz Javid Tehrani was told he must choose [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Iran Nuclear Scientist Defects to U.S. In CIA ‘Intelligence Coup’

EXCLUSIVE: Iran Nuclear Scientist Defects to U.S. In CIA ‘Intelligence Coup’

Shahram Amiri Disappeared Last June in Saudi Arabia, Reportedly Now Resettled in the United States By Matthew Cole Source: ABC News March 30, 2010 An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist, who disappeared last year under mysterious circumstances, has defected to the CIA and been resettled in the United States, according to people briefed on the operation [...]

US and France vow to push for new sanctions on Iran

US and France vow to push for new sanctions on Iran

Source: BBC March 30, 2010 (Video) US President Barack Obama: “We said there was going to be a time limit” The US and France have vowed to work together to push for new UN sanctions over Iran’s nuclear programme. After talks in Washington with French leader Nicolas Sarkozy, US President Barack Obama said he hoped [...]

Iran ‘preventing’ Ayad Allawi from becoming Iraq’s prime minister

Iran ‘preventing’ Ayad Allawi from becoming Iraq’s prime minister

Former Iraqi premier Ayad Allawi accused neighbouring Iran on Tuesday of seeking to prevent him becoming prime minister again, after his bloc emerged strongest from national elections. Source: Telegraph March 30, 2010 Tehran was interfering in the election process in Iraq, where his Iraqiya bloc won 91 seats in the 325-member Council of Representatives, two [...]

Allawi Accuses Tehran of Interfering in Iraq

Allawi Accuses Tehran of Interfering in Iraq

Leader of Bloc That Won Parliamentary Vote Says Iran is Meddling in Fractiouis Negotiations to Form a Government By Margaret Coker Source: The Wall Street Journal March 30, 2010 BAGHDAD—Ayad Allawi, leader of the bloc that won the most seats in Iraq’s parliamentary election, lashed out at Iran on Tuesday, accusing Tehran of interfering in [...]

Liam Fox: ‘Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons’

Liam Fox: ‘Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons’

Liam Fox, the shadow defence secretary, has called for stronger sanctions against Iran, warning that the country must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. By Murray Wardrop Source: Telegraph March 30, 2010 Dr Fox said Iran is the “biggest single emerging threat that we face” but claimed not enough is being done to prevent [...]

Japan’s 2010 Iran crude imports set to hit 17-yr low

Japan’s 2010 Iran crude imports set to hit 17-yr low

Source: Reuters India March 30, 2010  *2010 imports seen down 11 pct y/y at 374,000 bpd -sources *Weak oil sales, high prices, political pressure, hit demand *Iran crude fall outpaced Japan’s overall drop in ’09 imports By James Topham TOKYO, March 30 (Reuters) – Japan’s imports of Iranian crude oil in 2010 look set to [...]

CIA: Iran capable of producing nukes

CIA: Iran capable of producing nukes

Report finds Tehran keeping options open By Bill Gertz Source: The Washington Times March 30, 2010 Iran is poised to begin producing nuclear weapons after its uranium program expansion in 2009, even though it has had problems with thousands of its centrifuges, according to a newly released CIA report. “Iran continues to develop a range [...]

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