Concern Grows Over Fate Of Jailed Journalist

Iran's most prominent jailed investigative journalist, Akbar Ganji, has been jailed for the last five years because of his critical articles and his investigation into the murders of political dissidents and intellectuals -- murders in which, he says, top Iranian officials were involved. Now, Ganji’s wife says that he has been on hunger strike for a month as he demands to be released unconditionally from prison. On 12 July, a gathering is due to take place in Tehran in his support.

Austria probes Iran's Ahmadinejad

Austrian prosecutors are investigating allegations that Iran's president-elect was involved in the 1989 assassination of a Kurdish leader in Vienna.

Austrian politician Peter Pilz said there was "credible evidence" to link Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the murder of Iranian exile Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou.

Iran's terrorist president

If there is a silver lining in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election as president of Iran, it is that it will be more difficult for people in the West to delude themselves into thinking they are dealing with so-called pragmatists or reformers who want to end the clerical dictatorship that has brutalized the Iranian people. Such an exercise in self-deception will be far more difficult to engage in now that Americans taken hostage by Iranian students who invaded the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, say that Mr. Ahmadinejad played a central role in the takeover, interrogating American captives and demanding harsher treatment of the hostages...

Internet Filtering in Iran

Internet Filtering in Iran documents the degree and extent to which the Iranian government controls the information environment in which its citizens live, including websites, blogs, email, and online discussion forums.

CLAIMS AGAINST PRESIDENT

Five Americans who were involved in the Iranian embassy siege in 1979 have accused Iran's new hardline President-elect of being one of their captors.

Militant students seized the US Embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.

Five of those hostages now believe Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was involved in the incident.

"This is the guy. There's no question about it," said former hostage Chuck Scott, a retired Army colonel.

"You could make him a blond and shave his whiskers, put him in a zoot suit and I'd still spot him."

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China backs EU on Iran nuclear negotiations

06.28.2005, 10:52 AM

BEIJING (AFX) - China has given its backing to the European Union's policy of continuing to engage Iran over its controversial nuclear programme.

Foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said China is following negotiations closely and appreciates the two sides' 'constructive' approach.

'China has always closely followed and supported the negotiations between the EU and Iran on its nuclear programme,' Liu told a regular press briefing.

Iran tightens Web control

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Iranian government has tightened its control over the Internet, increasingly blocking content in its national language of Farsi and restricting what citizens can publish through Web journals, Western researchers say...