Nazanin also said intelligence officials told her that her husband is “awaiting his trial and his death sentence,” reported FCNN on Thursday. Issavi is accused of converting Muslims to Christianity and performing their baptisms
An Iranian evangelical pastor who was suddenly arrested and then imprisoned has visible marks of torture, his wife said after she visited him. Pastor Wilson Issavi of the Assyrian Evangelical Church in Kermanshah, a remote city in western Iran, is living in dreadful condition and appears to have been tortured while in prison, his wife Medline ......
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As the United States steps up its push for tough new sanctions against Iran, a top American diplomat said Thursday that hopes of a deal with Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions are fading.
"What's happening is that Iran is headed in the direction of further provocation, further enrichment," U.S. Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Glyn Davies told CNN's Christiane Amanpour......
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The authorities have called on the Mosaddegh family and the councilors of Ahmadabad to officially announce the cancellation. However, the family has announced that the ceremony has a personal nature and thus refused to follow the instructions of the
The commemoration ceremony for Mohammad Mosaddegh, the late Iranian Prime Minister responsible for nationalizing the Iranian oil industry in 1951, has been canceled by Iranian authorities. Mizan Khabar, website connected with the Freedom Movement Organization reports that they have been impeded from holding any events at the Ahmadabad castle where ...
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He was planning to fly to London for university related work, including the re-publication of his book 'Just or Unjust War?' and the completion of another book related to international law.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 ...
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Will Not 'Bow Down' To US Despite Clinton VisitBrazil rebuffed a U.S. appeal for new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, vowing during a visit from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton not to "bow down" to gathering international pressure.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pre-empted Clinton even before she could make the case for new United Nations Security Council penalties. Silva is an outspoken opponent of sanctions, and his country currently sits on the Security Council, which will be asked to approve its toughest-ever penalties on Iran later this year....
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