Home Blog Page 601

Le Bourget – Iran exiles in France Support Maryam Rajavi

Stop Fundamentalism – Saturday July 1, thousands rallied in support of National Council of Resistance of Iran, an Iranian dissident organization based in France, to call for a democratic change in Iran rather than an Iraqi style war to stop Iranian regime’s efforts to acquire nuclear weapons and spread violence and terror throughout the world.

"The solution to the nuclear crisis and to avert a war is democratic change in Iran," Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the NCRI told a crowd of 30,000 in Le Bourget exhibition hall north of Paris.

The NCRI is the main Iranian opposition group that has vowed to over through the Iranian theocratic regime. 

Iran rejects calls to give speedy response to nuclear package

UNITED NATIONS, June 29, 2006 (AFP) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Thursday rejected calls from major powers to give a speedy answer to proposals to end the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program.

Israeli planes attack Palestinian ministry as kidnap crisis deepens

GAZA CITY, June 30, 2006 (AFP) – Israel launched air raids in the Gaza Strip overnight in retaliation at the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier, setting the Palestinian interior ministry ablaze, witnesses and security sources said early Friday.

US ready to mute criticism of Russia if cooperation on Iran: report

MOSCOW, June 30, 2006 (AFP) – A meeting of G8 foreign ministers this week showed that the United States is ready to mute its criticism of Moscow on questions of democracy in exchange for Russian support on the Iranian nuclear issue, a leading broadsheet said Friday.

Iran will not talk with US on nuclear dispute: cleric

TEHRAN, June 30, 2006 (AFP) – A top Iranian cleric reiterated Friday that the Islamic republic will not hold negotiations with arch-foe the United States on its controversial nuclear programme.

Oil prices above 73 dollars on gasoline supply fears

LONDON, June 30, 2006 (AFP) – World oil prices continued to climb on Friday owing to jitters over motor fuel supplies before a long holiday weekend in the United States, dealers said.

New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in August, climbed 16 cents to 73.68 dollars per barrel in electronic deals before the official opening of the US market. The contract earlier hit 73.85 dollars — the highest point since May 11.

US presses Iran for response on nuclear offer

BRUSSELS, June 30, 2006 (AFP) – The United States "expects" Iran to respond next week to an international offer to defuse the nuclear standoff between Tehran and the West, the number three in the US State Department said Friday.

Black Pearl hoping Portuguese can rid themselves of 1966 and all that

Pirate Irwin

BERLIN, June 30, 2006 (AFP) – Portugal’s World Cup quarter-final with England may give Sven-Goran Eriksson the chance to avenge the Euro 2004 defeat but for Portuguese footballing legend Eusebio it represents a possibility of revenge 40 years on from his adopted country’s most crushing defeat.

Israel arrests third of Hamas cabinet in mass sweep

Nasser Abu Bakr and Hossam Ezzedine

RAMALLAH, West Bank, June 29, 2006 (AFP) – Israel arrested a third of the Hamas-led Palestinian cabinet along with scores of Islamists in a massive operation slammed by the governing party Thursday as a declaration of war.

Italian football match-fixing tribunal underway

ROME, June 29, 2006 (AFP) – Italian football went on trial Thursday at a sports tribunal hearing in Rome that will decide whether four of the country’s top clubs colluded to rig matches over a period of several years.