Iran says nuclear talks should concentrate on its “inalienable” rights (People’s Daily)
Iranian Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani said Sunday that world powers should concentrate on Iran’s inalienable nuclear rights in the upcoming negotiations, the official IRNA news agency reported. In his speech at a formal session of the parliament, Larijani also rejected proposals made by certain members of the G5+1 to adopt intrusive inspections on Iran’s nuclear program. Such …
Ahmadinejad to U.S.: We are neither obstinate nor gullible (mehrnews.com)
TEHRAN, Apr. 12 (MNA) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke with SPIEGEL about what Iran expects from U.S. President Barack Obama.
IRAN TRIES CYBER-RATTLING (New York Post)
Chocolate, tulips, Heineken and now “sexual and moral perversion.” The Iranian government is trying to put the kibosh on a Dutch media program in the Middle Eastern nation. The cybercrimes unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard yesterday announced…
Iran declares itself a nuclear power (The Jamaica Observer)
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani said yesterday world powers must accept the Islamic republic as a nuclear power as top officials vowed no let-up in Tehran’s sensitive uranium enrichment drive.
World powers must accept a nuclear Iran: Larijani (Space War)
Tehran (AFP) April 12, 2009 – Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani said on Sunday world powers must accept the Islamic republic as a nuclear power as top officials vowed no let-up in Tehran’s sensitive uranium enrichment drive.
Will Washington break with George Bush’s Iran policy? (mehrnews.com)
TEHRAN, Apr. 12 (MNA) — On February 25, 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran celebrated another major milestone in its scientific and technological development, announcing that “successful tests” at its first nuclear reactor at Bushehr were carried out by the common efforts of the Iranians and their Russian partners in the project.
U.S. dealings with Iran remain on a slippery path (Journal Inquirer)
WASHINGTON — Efforts by the Obama administration to re-engage with Iran advanced a step and skidded backward this week, underscoring the difficulties the new president faces as he tries to improve U.S. relations with its longtime foe.
Talk examines sex changes in Iran – Daily Texan Online
Faegheh Shirazi, an associate Middle Eastern studies professor, discusses the history and current state of sex-change operations in Iran. Iran is second only to Thailand in the number of sex-change operations performed each year, though the fact …
Pope presses Blair over Iran – Independent
Share BRITISH PM Tony Blair was urged by the Pope yesterday to pursue diplomacy rather than conflict in Iran . It was Blair’s first private meeting with Benedict and it was clear that the meeting had been dominated by the discussion of both Iraq and …
(AFX UK Focus) 2009-04-13 06:45 CORRECTED-Iran replaces head of its largest car maker-media (Interactive Investor)
TEHRAN, April 7 (Reuters) – Iran has replaced the head of partly state-owned Iran Khodro, the Middle East’s largest car maker which has a joint venture with France’s Renault, Iranian media reported on Tuesday. The reports carried by several newspapers did not give a reason why managing director Manouchehr Manteghi was replaced by Javad Najmuddin, who previously headed a subsidiary of rival state …
Iranian female Taekwondo players take first place in Fajr cup (Payvand Iran News)
Iran came first in the international female Fajr Taekwondo cup held in Tehran. Russia, Azerbaijan, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Iraq as well as three teams from Iran attended the one-day tournaments in 8 weight classes.
Iran president dismisses demand to halt atom work (The Malaysian Insider)
TEHRAN, April 12 — Iran’s president expressed openness for talks with the United States but again dismissed demands to halt nuclear work the West fears is aimed at making bombs, in an interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel news magazine. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also called for “fundamental changes” in Washington’s policies, echoing comments by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior …
