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A man was hanged in public in south-eastern Iran, the semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami reported on Monday.
The man, identified as Touraj Siahkamari, was hanged in the town of Iranshahr. The report did not state the date of the execution.He was accused of drug trafficking.
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Iranian authorities hanged four men in a prison in the restive city of Ahwaz, south-west Iran, on Wednesday, the state-run news agency ISNA reported.The unnamed men were accused of involvement in the twin bombing in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan in January 2006.
The province, which borders Iraq, has a large Arab population.Dissident Arab activists in Khuzestan have accused the government of setting up trump charges against Arab activists fighting against Tehran’s “repressive policies”.A string of top Iranian officials, including hard-line President Ahmadinejad, have accused Britain and Canada of being behind the bombings in Ahwaz.
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According to the Associated Press the Iranian regime said on Monday it has barred 38 members of a U.N. nuclear inspection team from entering the country, in what appeared to be retaliation for sanctions imposed last month over its contentious atomic program. The head of the parliamentary committee of national security and foreign policy, Alaeddin Borojerdi, had been quoted by a state run “students' news agency” as saying Iranian regime had barred 38 inspectors. Last month, the U.N. Security Council imposed limited trade sanctions on Iranian regime because of its refusal to cease uranium enrichment, a process that produces the material for nuclear reactors or bombs.
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Associated Press reported that the Iranian regime plans to start installing thousands of centrifuges in an underground facility next month, U.N. officials said Friday, paving the way to large-scale uranium enrichment, a potential way of making nuclear weapons. This news agency added: The officials, who demanded anonymity because the information was confidential, emphasized that Iranian officials had not officially said the country would embark on the assembly of what will initially be 3,000 centrifuges at Natanz. But they said senior officials have informally told the International Atomic Energy Agency the work would start next month.
Sunday, January 21, 2007
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A man was hanged in Iran on Wednesday for a crime he allegedly committed some 27 years ago.The 47-year-old man identified only by his first name Houshang was hanged at dawn in a prison in the city of Isfahan, central Iran, the government-run news agency Fars reported.He was accused of murdering the relatives of his step brother 27 years ago when he was only 20 years old.
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A young man was hanged in central Iran, state media reported.The 21-year-old man only identified by his first name Arash was accused of murder, the government-run news agency Fars reported on Tuesday.Arash was a teenager when he purportedly stabbed a student at a high school in the town of Mobarakeh.On Saturday, Fars reported that two men were hanged in a prison in the south-western province of Khuzestan.The two men, who were not identified by name, were hanged in Karoon Prison in the restive city of Ahwaz.They were accused of murder and armed robbery.
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Aassociated France Press reported on Wed. that one of five Iranians arrested by US forces in Iraq last week is the suspected leader of a commando team that assassinated three Iranian Kurds in Vienna in 1989, Austrian public radio has reported. Austria's Oe1 radio said Tuesday that one of the arrested Iranians is Mohammad Jafari-Sahroudi, implicated in the assassination of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, then head of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran, his assistant and another Kurdish exile. The US military arrested the five Iranians last week at an office in the northern city of Arbil, suspecting them of being agents for the Iranian government who had been arming militias and inciting anti-American attacks in Iraq. Jafari-Sahroudi and two suspected accomplices took refuge in the Iranian embassy after the 1989 killings, and managed to get out of the country without ever being questioned by the Austrian authorities.
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Germany is proposing that the European Union step up sanctions on Iran to more than that required of it by a resolution adopted at the United Nations Security Council late last year, Britain’s Financial Times said on Friday.Germany which currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency is proposing the 27-nation block ban individuals linked to Iran’s nuclear and missile programs from visiting EU states and reaffirm its opposition to selling arms to Tehran, according to a document seen by the Financial Times.Last month the Security Council passed a resolution requiring UN member states to prevent the transfer of nuclear and missile technology to Tehran and to stop all financing for a number of companies linked to the nuclear and missile programs. The resolution also requires UN states to freeze the assets of 12 people connected with the programs.The EU proposals, put forward ahead of a foreign ministers meeting on Monday, would also ban travel to the EU of the individuals on the UN list and take steps to restrict Iranians studying proliferation-sensitive subjects within the EU.
A man was hanged in Iran on Wednesday for a crime he allegedly committed some 27 years ago.The 47-year-old man identified only by his first name Houshang was hanged at dawn in a prison in the city of Isfahan, central Iran, the government-run news agency Fars reported.He was accused of murdering the relatives of his step brother 27 years ago when he was only 20 years old.
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A young man was hanged in central Iran, state media reported.The 21-year-old man only identified by his first name Arash was accused of murder, the government-run news agency Fars reported on Tuesday.Arash was a teenager when he purportedly stabbed a student at a high school in the town of Mobarakeh.On Saturday, Fars reported that two men were hanged in a prison in the south-western province of Khuzestan.The two men, who were not identified by name, were hanged in Karoon Prison in the restive city of Ahwaz.They were accused of murder and armed robbery.
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Aassociated France Press reported on Wed. that one of five Iranians arrested by US forces in Iraq last week is the suspected leader of a commando team that assassinated three Iranian Kurds in Vienna in 1989, Austrian public radio has reported. Austria's Oe1 radio said Tuesday that one of the arrested Iranians is Mohammad Jafari-Sahroudi, implicated in the assassination of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, then head of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran, his assistant and another Kurdish exile. The US military arrested the five Iranians last week at an office in the northern city of Arbil, suspecting them of being agents for the Iranian government who had been arming militias and inciting anti-American attacks in Iraq. Jafari-Sahroudi and two suspected accomplices took refuge in the Iranian embassy after the 1989 killings, and managed to get out of the country without ever being questioned by the Austrian authorities.
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Germany is proposing that the European Union step up sanctions on Iran to more than that required of it by a resolution adopted at the United Nations Security Council late last year, Britain’s Financial Times said on Friday.Germany which currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency is proposing the 27-nation block ban individuals linked to Iran’s nuclear and missile programs from visiting EU states and reaffirm its opposition to selling arms to Tehran, according to a document seen by the Financial Times.Last month the Security Council passed a resolution requiring UN member states to prevent the transfer of nuclear and missile technology to Tehran and to stop all financing for a number of companies linked to the nuclear and missile programs. The resolution also requires UN states to freeze the assets of 12 people connected with the programs.The EU proposals, put forward ahead of a foreign ministers meeting on Monday, would also ban travel to the EU of the individuals on the UN list and take steps to restrict Iranians studying proliferation-sensitive subjects within the EU.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
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United States troops arrested at least five people in a raid on Iran's consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil on Thursday, state media reported.Those arrested were embassy staff, the report by the official news agency IRNA said, adding that the U.S. forces confiscated computers and documents from inside the consulate building.Tehran filed an official compliant with the Iraqi Foreign Ministry over the action.Washington and Iraqi officials routinely blame Tehran for aiding Shiite militias responsible for dozens of assassinations in Iraq on a daily basis.In December, U.S. forces arrested at least five Iranian agents in Baghdad, later handing them over to Iraqi authorities.
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A small earthquake shook parts of the south-west town of Haftgol on Thursday, the official news agency IRNA reported.The quake, measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale, occurred at 10:45 a.m. local time.No casualties or damages were reported.Haftgol is situated in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan.
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Associated France Press reported that Commerz bank, the second-biggest bank in Germany, is to join other European banks in curtailing its activities with Iran, a spokesman said on Wednesday, as the United States seeks to isolate Teheran economically. Commerz bank will stop handling dollar transactions for Iran its its New York branch by the end of this month, the spokesman said, confirming a corresponding report in the Wall Street Journal Europe on Wednesday. But the German bank would continue to handle euro transactions for Iranian clients, he added. A number of European banks, such as Credit Suisse and UBS, have already taken similar decisions, paring back or ceasing altogether their operations with Iran. The US says Iran's state-controlled banks support terrorism and Washington is also seeking to financially quarantine Iran because of Teheran's vows to press ahead with its nuclear programme in defiance of international will.
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Belgium has been appointed as the head of the United Nations Security Council committee to oversee the imposition of sanctions on Iran.The sanctions committee was established after the Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1737 on December 23 to slap sanctions on Tehran for its refusal to suspend its uranium enrichment activities.The Security Council's five permanent members – Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States – agreed on Thursday to appoint Belgium as head of the sanctions committee.On January 1, Belgium began a two-year term as one of the Security Council's 10 non-permanent members.
United States troops arrested at least five people in a raid on Iran's consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil on Thursday, state media reported.Those arrested were embassy staff, the report by the official news agency IRNA said, adding that the U.S. forces confiscated computers and documents from inside the consulate building.Tehran filed an official compliant with the Iraqi Foreign Ministry over the action.Washington and Iraqi officials routinely blame Tehran for aiding Shiite militias responsible for dozens of assassinations in Iraq on a daily basis.In December, U.S. forces arrested at least five Iranian agents in Baghdad, later handing them over to Iraqi authorities.
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A small earthquake shook parts of the south-west town of Haftgol on Thursday, the official news agency IRNA reported.The quake, measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale, occurred at 10:45 a.m. local time.No casualties or damages were reported.Haftgol is situated in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan.
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Associated France Press reported that Commerz bank, the second-biggest bank in Germany, is to join other European banks in curtailing its activities with Iran, a spokesman said on Wednesday, as the United States seeks to isolate Teheran economically. Commerz bank will stop handling dollar transactions for Iran its its New York branch by the end of this month, the spokesman said, confirming a corresponding report in the Wall Street Journal Europe on Wednesday. But the German bank would continue to handle euro transactions for Iranian clients, he added. A number of European banks, such as Credit Suisse and UBS, have already taken similar decisions, paring back or ceasing altogether their operations with Iran. The US says Iran's state-controlled banks support terrorism and Washington is also seeking to financially quarantine Iran because of Teheran's vows to press ahead with its nuclear programme in defiance of international will.
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Belgium has been appointed as the head of the United Nations Security Council committee to oversee the imposition of sanctions on Iran.The sanctions committee was established after the Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1737 on December 23 to slap sanctions on Tehran for its refusal to suspend its uranium enrichment activities.The Security Council's five permanent members – Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States – agreed on Thursday to appoint Belgium as head of the sanctions committee.On January 1, Belgium began a two-year term as one of the Security Council's 10 non-permanent members.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
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A man was hanged in public in the south-eastern town of Saravan, a semi-official daily reported on Saturday.The man, identified only by his first name Amanollah, was accused of armed robbery, the hard-line Jomhouri Islami wrote.Amanollah was hanged in public on Thursday.He was sentenced to death by a court in the nearby city of Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province.On Monday, Iranian authorities executed two men identified as Youssef H. and Pordel B. in Zahedan.Sistan-va-Baluchistan has been a hotbed of anti-government activities since 2005.
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A senior official in the north-western province of East Azerbaijan has acknowledged the existence of a staggeringly-high number of illiterate people in the province.Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, the representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in East Azerbaijan, announced that there existed close to half a million illiterate people in the province.“The existence of 470,000 illiterates in the province is extremely shameful”, Shabestari told a group of educational officials. His remarks were reported on Thursday by the government-run news agency Fars.
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The chief of the State Security Forces (SSF) in Iran's south-eastern city of Iranshahr was killed during armed clashes with "bandits", the official news agency reported on Thursday.The report quoted an anonymous SSF official as saying that Colonel Gholam-Hossein Jafari was shot and killed during a skirmish in the suburbs of the village of Delgan, close to Iranshahr.One of the bandits was also killed, it said.Iranshahr is situated in the impoverished province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan which has been a hotbed of anti-government activities since 2005.
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A man was hanged in prison in the central city of Isfahan, the official news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday.The man, identified as 43-year-old Ali Sh., was convicted of drug smuggling, the report said.
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Three men were hanged at dawn on Wednesday in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, the official daily Iran reported.One of the men was identified by his first name Qadir. Two of the men were accused of murder, while the third was accused of rape.Evin Prison was built by the Shah’s regime as a maximum security prison to house political dissidents, but it became the Islamic Republic’s most dreaded gulag and the site of thousands of political executions.
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Iranian authorities have hanged a man near the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, a state-run news agency reported on Saturday.The man, identified only by his initials H. A., was hanged in a village prison on Thursday, ISNA said.He was accused of murder.
A man was hanged in public in the south-eastern town of Saravan, a semi-official daily reported on Saturday.The man, identified only by his first name Amanollah, was accused of armed robbery, the hard-line Jomhouri Islami wrote.Amanollah was hanged in public on Thursday.He was sentenced to death by a court in the nearby city of Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province.On Monday, Iranian authorities executed two men identified as Youssef H. and Pordel B. in Zahedan.Sistan-va-Baluchistan has been a hotbed of anti-government activities since 2005.
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A senior official in the north-western province of East Azerbaijan has acknowledged the existence of a staggeringly-high number of illiterate people in the province.Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, the representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in East Azerbaijan, announced that there existed close to half a million illiterate people in the province.“The existence of 470,000 illiterates in the province is extremely shameful”, Shabestari told a group of educational officials. His remarks were reported on Thursday by the government-run news agency Fars.
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The chief of the State Security Forces (SSF) in Iran's south-eastern city of Iranshahr was killed during armed clashes with "bandits", the official news agency reported on Thursday.The report quoted an anonymous SSF official as saying that Colonel Gholam-Hossein Jafari was shot and killed during a skirmish in the suburbs of the village of Delgan, close to Iranshahr.One of the bandits was also killed, it said.Iranshahr is situated in the impoverished province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan which has been a hotbed of anti-government activities since 2005.
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A man was hanged in prison in the central city of Isfahan, the official news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday.The man, identified as 43-year-old Ali Sh., was convicted of drug smuggling, the report said.
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Three men were hanged at dawn on Wednesday in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, the official daily Iran reported.One of the men was identified by his first name Qadir. Two of the men were accused of murder, while the third was accused of rape.Evin Prison was built by the Shah’s regime as a maximum security prison to house political dissidents, but it became the Islamic Republic’s most dreaded gulag and the site of thousands of political executions.
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Iranian authorities have hanged a man near the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, a state-run news agency reported on Saturday.The man, identified only by his initials H. A., was hanged in a village prison on Thursday, ISNA said.He was accused of murder.
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