Iran News – Iranian Cleric: British Embassy Staff to Be Tried (FOX 61 Chattanooga)
Iranian Cleric: British Embassy Staff to Be Tried (FOX 61 Chattanooga)
A top Iranian cleric says some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who is close to Iran’s supreme leader, has made the announcement in a Friday prayer sermon. He says the detained staffers “made confessions.”
Iran Pursuing Doctor Who Helped Neda, But Interpol Denies Knowledge (Payvand Iran News)
Iran’s police chief says a doctor who was present at the death of a young Iranian woman during opposition street protests in Tehran is under investigation by both Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and by the international policy agency Interpol.
Iran will put British Embassy staffers on trial (Los Angeles Times)
Ahmad Jannati, head of the Guardian Council, says Iran’s enemies ‘made an effort to poison the people’ during postelection unrest. European Union nations consider pulling ambassadors from Tehran. A senior Iranian cleric said Friday that the British Embassy employees arrested in Tehran in recent days would be put on trial on unspecified charges of acting against Iran’s national security, a move …
Zakaria: Iran regime has become a ‘naked dictatorship’ – CNN
Editor’s note: Fareed Zakaria is an author and foreign affairs analyst who hosts “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN on Sundays at 1 and 5 p.m. ET. Fareed Zakaria says we still have a problem with Iran, and we have to have a strategy in dealing with the …
No sign Iran seeks nuclear arms: new IAEA head – Yahoo News
VIENNA (Reuters) – The incoming head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday he did not see any hard evidence Iran was trying to gain the ability to develop nuclear arms. “I don’t see any evidence in IAEA official documents about this,” Yukiya …
Embassy staff in Iran ‘to be tried’ – The Guardian
Some of the British Embassy’s Iranian staff held in Tehran will be put on trial, ruling clerics have said. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati made the announcement in a prayer sermon. Downing Street said it was “concerned” about the reports. Prime Minister …
How Should Europe Respond to Iran? (Time Magazine)
In the wake of Iran’s disputed elections, Tehran has turned on Europe. Now the E.U. has a decision to make: Get tough or keep talking?
Iran: British embassy staff to ’stand trial’ in Tehran (Adnkronos)
Iran: British embassy staff to ’stand trial’ in Tehran (AKI) – British embassy staff detained in the Iranian capital Tehran will stand trial for inciting protests, the head of the country’s top legislative body said on Friday. The British foreign office said it was urgently seeking confirmation from Iran about the claim.Nine embassy staff were held in Tehran last week and the British government …
EU resolve hardens as British workers face Iran show trial – Times Online
Iranian employees of the British Embassy in Tehran face the prospect of a show trial after the regime said that they had admitted conspiring against the Islamic Republic. The announcement, made by Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, 83, the head of Iran’s …
Iran: IAEA chief should dare to visit Israel – Presstv
A senior Iranian dignitary has expressed hope that the new IAEA chief would ‘have the courage’ to visit Israel’s nuclear facilities. “At the time Mohamed ElBaradei was the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Israel did not allow him to …
In Iran today, generation must speak to generation – The Guardian
Iran is a land of recurrence. In the Middle East, it is a unique country. In 1905, Iran was the first country in the region where a revolution for democracy and freedom, the constitutional revolution, took place. Yet, in the aftermath of that …
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