... role. arrest for more than a decade, and was closely watched by the Iranian government, but he was allowed to hold religious classes in his home and to receive visits The Iranian government detained a number of his supporters in 1998, according to Amnesty ...

... Iraq and North Korea, seeking to threaten the world with weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them One Iranian government spokesman accused the US of behaving like a Roman gladiator. The former Iranian president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ...

... putting forward another candidate. Sources also indicated the matter had been raised by Tony Blair and Mr Straw with the Iranian government but there had been no change of heart. Relations have been steadily improving since 1998 when the Iranian authorities ...

... Iran’s vast oil and gas industry. Other mission participants intend to explore business from planned investment by the Iranian government in infrastructural improvements. Iran also possesses enormous mineral resources, including coal, copper, iron, zinc ...

... by some Muslims, was threatened with death by Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini in a 1989 fatwa, or edict. While the Iranian government has since said the edict had ended, hardline groups have renewed calls for Rushdie to be killed. According to Air Canada ...

... the Oxford crew to wictory as the first woman cox 10 take part in the annual Oxdord and Cambridge Boat Race 1994: The iranian government banned television satellite dishes Pcture Poppertolc © GRAPHIC NEWS B 1581 Queen Elizabeth I knighted Francis Drake ...

... his name, according to a forthcoming book by Iranian author Dr Mir Montazam. = - - - Montazam, ‘a former senior the Iranian government, eager ini’s death approached, invented am the last eight months of Khomeini was a “physical and mental wreck”. He had ...

... icated to the overthrowofthe country’s Islamic fundamentalist regime and is the military arm of the femaledominated Iranian government in exile, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). While women make up 30 per cent of the estimated 30,000 ...

... WA battalions and brigades. She argues that misogyny is the mainstay of the current Iranian government, so who better. to strike atthe heartofitthanwomen?Many of her recruits have been tortured and imprisoned in Iran’s jails and all are tired of the harsh ...

... Questions, the Ulster Unionist said that MP's on all sides wished to know what recent representation has been made to the Iranian Government about the continuing abuse of human rights by the regime of “repressive, fundamentalist Islamic mullahs, which brutalises ...

... Investigations into the country’s worst attack, in Menem vehemently dismissed the allegations as “a vile lie”, as did the Iranian government. “This smacks of a conspiracy by government officials,” said Adrian Menem, a Peronist deputy who is the former president’s ...

... allow suicide bombers the luxury of a “political” cause. European Union countries and banks are working on underwriting Iranian government bonds. Multilateralism and multiculturalism, not to mention anti- Semitism, exert too strong an influence for Europe ...