Iran News – IAEA chief: Iran nuclear investigation at ‘dead end’; let down by Tehran on enrichment deal (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

IAEA chief: Iran nuclear investigation at ‘dead end’; let down by Tehran on enrichment deal (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
VIENNA – The outgoing head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday his probe of Iran’s nuclear program is at “a dead end” and that trust in Tehran’s credibility is shrinking after its belated revelation that it was secretly building a nuclear facility.

IAEA Chief: Iran Nuclear Investigation at ‘a Dead End’ – FOX News
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday his probe of allegations that Iran tried to make nuclear arms is at “a dead end” because the government is not cooperating. Mohamed ElBaradei warned that confidence in Tehran had shrunk …

Imprisoned Iranian-American scholar faces new charges of espionage in Iran (Sun-Sentinel)
CAIRO (AP) — Iran brought new espionage charges against an Iranian-American scholar who was already convicted of spying and sentenced to 15 years in prison in the country’s crackdown following June’s disputed presidential election, a human rights group said Thursday.

IAEA chief: Iran nuclear investigation at ‘dead end’; let down by Tehran on enrichment deal (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
VIENNA, Austria – The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday that his probe of allegations that Iran tried to make nuclear arms is at “a dead end” because Tehran is not co-operating, and he warned that confidence in Tehran had shrunk in the wake of its belated revelation of a previously secret nuclear facility.

IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei: Iran nuclear program investigation at ‘dead end’; Tehran uncooperative (New York Daily News)
The International Atomic Energy Agency probe of Iran ’s nuclear program is at a dead end because Tehran is not cooperating, the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Thursday in an unusually blunt expression of frustration four days before he leaves offi.

Iran vows to fight imperialism (Daily News)
VENEZUELA: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Wednesday next to President Hugo Chavez that Iran and Venezuela would “stand together until the end” in the face of US “imperialism.”

Senegal supports Iran’s stance in nuclear dispute (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade on Thursday said he supports Iran’s right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes and stressed that those accusing Tehran of other intentions should provide proof.

Iran: Amnesty International and Others Urge an Independent Investigation into the Mysterious Death of an Iranian Doctor (Amnesty International)
Amnesty International, together with Physicians for Human Rights and the International campaign for Human Rights in Iran, today issued an open letter to the Speaker of Iran?s Parliament Ali Larijani and the Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi are urging that an investigation into the death of 26-year-old physician Ramin Pourandarjani be independent and transparent.

Iranian authorities confiscate medal from 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi (Kitchener – Waterloo Record)
TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent.

Iranian clerics starting to take control of public schools (The Durango Herald)
TEHRAN, Iran – Islamic religious authorities have begun tightening their grip on Iranian public schools, a report said Wednesday, as hard-liners expand an ideological “soft war” against Western influence.

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