Iran holding foreign journalists on charges of 'unauthorized reporting'
Tehran -- Iranian officials arrested a Japanese journalist and two Canadians during anti-government Protests this week and charged them with "unauthorized reporting," the semiofficial Fars news agency reported Friday. It did not identify the reporters or their news organizations. The three report...

Journalists union: Danish student jailed in Iran
Copenhagen -- Denmark's journalists union says one of its members is being held in a jail in Tehran. The Danish Union of Journalists says Niels Krogsgaard "apparently was arrested in connection with a demonstration on Wednesday." The union said Friday that Krogsgaard is a Danish journalism student who went to Iran to work on an academic paper on Iranian politics. It didn't give his age. The union said it located Krogsgaard in an Iranian jail with the help of the Brussels-based International...

Iran says over 100 people detained at anti-U.S. rally
Tehran (Reuters) - Iranian police detained more than 100 people for "disturbing public order" during a rally this week to mark the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. Security forces clashed with supporters of Iran's opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi in Tehran on Wednesday when an annual state-organised rally marking the 30th anniversary of the storming of the U.S. embassy turned violent. "Police arrested 109 people who created...

Three foreign journalists released by Iran: PHOTO
Tehran: The Iranian authorities have released two German nationals and a Canadian arrested on the sidelines of rallies in Tehran this week, state-run IRNA news agency reported on Friday. IRNA, quoting Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jaffari Doulatabadi, said Iran was also examining the cases of AFP journalist Farhad Pouladi and a Danish journalist who were also detained after Wednesday's rallies. Fars news agency reported earlier that a Japanese and two Canadian journalists had been arrested along...

Iran blasts U.S. economy
Tehran, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Washington is using the alleged threat to National Security from Iran as an excuse to increase its Military spending programs, Iranian Military officials said. U.S. President Barack Obama signed a $680 million defense measure in October that meets the majority of the funding request by the U.S. Defense Department for the 2010 fiscal year. Maj.Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi, the commander of Iran's joint armed forces, sought to link defense spending to the fiscal Crisis gripping...

Iran Guards say Pakistan released Jundallah leader: PHOTO
Tehran: The deputy head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards charged on Friday that Pakistan arrested and then released the leader of Jundallah a few days before a Suicide bombing claimed by the Sunni rebel group. 'We have precise information about the movement and places where terrorists are hiding,' the Fars news agency quoted Brigadier General Hossein Salami as saying. 'On September 26, Abdolmalek Rigi was arrested in one of the streets of Quetta but after one hour he was released following...

AFP reporter may be freed at weekend-Iran official
Tehran (Reuters) - An Agence France Presse (AFP) reporter arrested while covering Wednesday's rally marking the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy may be released at the weekend, an Iranian official said Thursday. "I have been told that he will certainly not be released today or tomorrow. His case is being investigated. He will perhaps be released Saturday or Sunday," an official from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance told AFP. Foreign media have been banned from covering...

Danish student arrested for Iran protest
Tehran, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A 31-year-old student from Denmark was arrested by Iranian police in Tehran for attending a recent protest, a Danish journalists group said Friday. The Danish Union of Journalists said University of Southern Denmark student Niels Krogsgard, who disappeared Thursday, was arrested in the Iranian capital after police officers clashed with anti-government protesters, The Copenhagen (Denmark) Post reported. The union said it obtained its information about Krogsgard from the...

Moscow expects positive Iran response to fuel deal soon
Moscow, November 6 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow expects Tehran to accept the UN-sponsored Nuclear Fuel deal soon, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday. "We are counting on Tehran to make a positive response to the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] in the very near future," Andrei Nesterenko said. "Any technical details that are bound to arise during the deal's implementation can be addressed as it moves along." Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States have been...

Sheda Vasseghi: Profiles in Courage From the Streets of Iran for Hollywood's Gutless Wonders: PHOTO
Sheda Vasseghi in today’s World Tribune : “The mainstream Hollywood crowd, an apologist group that enjoys traveling to Taliban-run countries such as Iran spreading their holier-than-thou “cultural understanding” of rogue regimes, has been effectively censored by Moslem clerics. Filmmaker Roland Emmerich chose not to blow up the Kaaba at Mecca in his film 2012 for fear of a fatwa (death sentence issued by Moslem clerics) being placed on his head. “Yet, in 2005, actor Sean...

-Iran tested sophisticated nuclear warhead design': PHOTO
LONDON: The UN nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence that it has experimented with highly advanced nuclear warhead designs, a British newspaper reported Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) believes Iranian scientists may have tested components of the sophisticated technology, known as a -two-point implosion' device, the Guardian reported. This technology

Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead - report
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting the Islamic Republic's scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian reported in its Friday edition. The newspaper, citing what it describes as "previously unpublished documentation" from an International Atomic Energy Agency compiled dossier, said Iranian scientists may have tested high-explosive components of a "two-point implosion" device. The IAEA said in September...

Report: Iran will not ship uranium out of the country
A senior Iranian politician said Saturday the country would not ship low-Enriched Uranium out of the country, which is a major part of a pending nuclear deal between Iran and international powers, according to semiofficial state media.

Report: Iran Experimented with Advanced Nuclear Warhead: PHOTO
(CBS/iStockphoto) Iran has experimented with a nuclear warhead design so advanced, it's still a secret in both the U.S. and Britain, according to a report in Friday's Guardian . The British newspaper reports that intelligence suggesting the isolated Islamic regime tested components of a "two-point implosion" warhead has been handed over to Iran by the U.N. nuclear watchdog as part of a dossier of matters requiring explanation. Parts of the International Atomic Energy Agency's dossier has been...

Timing 'key' to Iran nuclear deal
The outgoing head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said a question of timing is the top issue delaying a nuclear deal between Iran and international powers.

Mahmoud Vahidnia, Student, Stuns Iran By Criticizing Supreme Leader
BEIRUT — An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country's most powerful man to his face. Mahmoud Vahidnia has received an outpouring of support from government opponents for the challenge – unprecedented in a country where insulting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a crime punishable by Prison. Perhaps most surprising, the young math whiz has so far suffered no repercussions from the confrontation at a...

Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead - report
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting the Islamic Republic's scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian reported in its Friday edition. The newspaper, citing what it describes as "previously unpublished documentation" from an International Atomic Energy Agency compiled dossier, said Iranian scientists may have tested high-explosive components of a "two-point implosion" device. The IAEA said in September...

The Question Of Sanctions: PHOTO
Drum doesn't get it : I don't quite get what the sanctions crowd is after.  We have no diplomatic relations with Iran.  Trade is embargoed and imports are prohibited.  (Except for Persian rugs!)  We sanction foreign companies who do business with Iran.  Investment in Iran is prohibited.  The Treasury Departments forbids banks from processing even indirect financial transactions with Iran.  There's a little more we could do, but not...