Iranian authorities imprison human rights lawyer

Mohammad Oliayifard, Iranian human rights lawyer and top court attorney was arrested on the morning of March 8 after being summoned by the Revolutionary court. Oliayifard, former organizer of Human Rights Activists Collective, was arrested by security forces in Tehran. Jaras reports that the officers announced that he was arrested in order to ... Read More

US changing focus of Iran policy

Reporting from Washington - After keeping a careful distance for the last year, the Obama administration has concluded that the Iranian opposition movement has staying power and has embraced it as a central element in the U.S.-led campaign to pressure the country's clerical government. Administration officials and some allied governments believe ... Read More

French court delays ruling on ex-Iran PM's killer

A French court has postponed a decision on whether to free a man convicted of assassinating former Iranian Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar outside Paris in 1991. The decision on Ali Vakili Rad has been set for May 18. Tuesday's postponement came after judges indicated in February that they favored freeing him. A special terrorism court convicted ... Read More

Iran's denial of justice is an offence to Canada, Kazemi family's lawyer says

A Quebec Superior Court should reject an Iranian request to quash a civil law suit against it for its role in the alleged torture and death of photojournalist Zahra Kazemi in Tehran, the family’s lawyer argued Thursday. “Their demand for justice and the denial of justice (by Iran) is an offence to Canada itself, and to international law,” ... Read More

World's biggest oil trader ends supplies to Iran: company

The largest oil trader in the world, Vitol, said Monday it had stopped dealing with Iran, following a report that traders were pulling out of the country as sanctions and US pressure took their toll. The Financial Times said Vitol and its fellow trading giants Glencore and Trafigura had stopped supplying petrol to Iran. A spokesman for Vitol told ... Read More

Former president reportedly barred from leaving Iran

Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami was barred from leaving the country, Fars news agency reported Tuesday. Fars quoted an unnamed intelligence official as saying in "a private gathering" that the reformist cleric had been barred from travelling outside Iran. The official was quoted as saying that Khatami had planned to leave, but gave no ... Read More

Empress Farah Pahlavi, on book tour, criticises Iran rule

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U.S. Enriches Companies Defying Its Policy on Iran

By JO BECKER and RON NIXON -The federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in contract payments, grants and other benefits over the past decade to foreign and multinational American companies while they were doing business in Iran, despite Washington's efforts to discourage investment there, records show.
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Iran prevents renowned poet from attending Women's Day in France

Iran on Monday barred renowned poet Simin Behbahani from leaving the country to attend an event marking International Women's Day in Paris, an opposition website reported. The website Kalame, which belongs to Green Movement leader Mir- Hossein Moussavi, said she was held for several hours by two intelligence officers at IKA airport in Tehran after ... Read More

Role Of Iran's Revolutionary Guards

For decades, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, has been extending its power and reach. Founded in 1979 to defend Iran's Islamic revolutionary principles at home and export them abroad, the IRGC now controls Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, its foreign terror operations, the repression of the Iranian populace, and ... Read More

Treasury Adjusts Rules To Help People In Iran, Sudan, Cuba

The Treasury Department is allowing the export of Internet communications services such as instant messaging, e-mail and Web browsing to Iran, Sudan and Cuba to help people in those countries communicate.

Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin said Monday that the change to existing trade sanctions Monday is intended to help people, ... Read More

Petraeus warns Iran becoming 'thugocracy'

General David Petraeus, the head of US Central Command, warned Sunday that Iran is becoming a "thugocracy" in attempts to suppress popular anger over last year's contested presidential vote results. "I think you've heard it said by pundits that Iran has gone from being a theocracy to a thugocracy," Petraeus, whose command stretches from Egypt to ... Read More

Enmity with God, latest charge of former Tehran University president

Mohmmad Maleki, former president of Tehran University, has been accused of "enmity with God" (Moharebeh) according to his lawyer, Mohammad Sharif. Reportedly, he is accused of "insulting Imam Khomeini and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei as well as propaganda against the regime." Mohammad Maleki was released on bail Monday night after 191 days in ... Read More

Iran's Ahmadinejad: Sept. 11 attacks a 'big lie'

Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a "big lie" used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported. Ahmadinejad's comments, made during an address to Intelligence Ministry staff, come amid escalating tensions between the West and Tehran over its ... Read More

Differences Emerging Between Israel And US Over Iran

The intelligence communities of Israel and the United States differ over Iran’s progress toward nuclear weapons. "I think that beyond that there is, of course, a certain difference in perspective and difference in judgment, difference in the internal clocks and difference in capabilities,” Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said. In a Feb. 26 ... Read More

The aim of Iran sanctions: regime squeeze

The cynical (and usually correct) critique of economic sanctions was summed up this way by a retired US diplomat named Douglas Paal: "Sanctions always accomplish their principal objective, which is to make those who impose them feel good." The Obama administration is now struggling to craft a new round of United Nations sanctions against Iran that ... Read More

Iran stops opposition leader's son flying to Britain: report

The Iranian authorities prevented a son of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi from travelling to London on Friday by seizing his passport at Tehran airport, Karroubi's website reported. "Today Mohammad Taghi Karroubi's passport was confiscated by security agents at Imam Khomeini International Airport," the website Sahamnews.org said. "He was ... Read More

The Mossad method

Did Mossad kill al-Mabhouh?
In keeping with its policy of ambiguity on intelligence matters, Israel has refused to confirm or deny any role in last month's killing of Hamas arms broker Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. There is no reason to think that it was the Israeli Mossad, was the Israeli foreign minister's carefully worded response. But ... Read More

Iran Defence And Security Report Q2 2010 - New Market Report Published

The Iranian economy has passed through the bottom of the economic cycle, although in line with our outlook for the global economy as a whole we expect the recovery to be relatively weak. The oil sector will remain the key - our recently upwardly revised oil price forecasts for the coming years inform our more optimistic outlook. After two years of ... Read More