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Vatican condemns Iran president’s anti-Israel comments

ImageVATICAN CITY, Oct 28 (AFP) – The Vatican condemned on Friday as "unacceptable" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s statement that Israel should be wiped off the map.

"The grave events of the past days in the Holy Land have caused great concern in the Holy See, which in unison with the international community strongly condemns all acts of violence: the terrorist attack in Hadera (in northern Israel), the reprisals which followed and particularly grave and unacceptable comments denying the right to existence of Israel," said a Vatican statement.

Bush calls Iran and Syria ‘outlaw regimes’

ImageNORFOLK, Va., Oct 28 (Reuters) – President George W. Bush on Friday called Iran and Syria "outlaw regimes" and said countries that support terrorism are just as guilty of murder as those who commit the violence.

"We’re determined to deny radical groups the support and sanctuary of outlaw regimes. State sponsors like Syria and Iran have a long history of collaboration with terrorists and they deserve no patience from the victims of terror," Bush said.

During the president’s speech on terrorism, a heckler yelled: "Mr. President, what is terrorism? What is terrorism? Step down now." The man was escorted out and others in the audience booed the heckler.

UN Security Council condemns Iran’s anti-Israel remarks

ImageUNITED NATIONS – The UN Security Council on Friday condemned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comment that Israel should be "wiped off the map", a move immediately welcomed by the Israeli ambassador.

"The Security Council condemns the remarks about Israel attributed to Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the Islamic republic of Iran," said a statement read by the president of the council for the month, Romanian ambassador Mihnea Motoc.

Council members expressed strong support for UN chief Kofi Annan’s statement Thursday that "under the United Nations Charter, all members have undertaken to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial or political independence of any state."

Iran fires 3 ambassadors, recalls 18 envoys after row over Israel

ImageTehran, Oct. 28 – Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has fired his country’s ambassadors to Britain, France, and Germany, and ordered 18 envoys to be recalled to Tehran, a government official in the Iranian capital told Iran Focus.

“Ahmadinejad has been angered by what he sees as the envoys’ meek reaction to the global condemnation of his Wednesday speech against Israel and the West”, the official, who requested anonymity, said. “He made the speech with the full blessing of the Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] and has his green light to stifle any dissenting voice within the government”.

Iran’s Supreme Court gives go-ahead for execution of woman

ImageTehran, Iran, Oct. 26 – Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld the death sentence against a 35-year-old woman, the Iran daily reported on Wednesday.

The woman, identified only by her first name Shahla, was accused of killing Leila Saharkhizan, the wife of Iran’s football star Nasser Mohammad-Khani in Tehran in October 2002.

Iran’s Ahmadinejad says Israel will be wiped off the earth

ImageTehran, Iran, Oct. 26 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad charted his government’s unyielding course vis-à-vis the state of Israel while totally rejecting the Middle East roadmap to peace as a diversion from the crusader wars between the Islamic world and World Arrogance, or the United States.

Speaking at a seminar entitled “World without Zionism”, Ahmadinejad said that Israel was the product of an ideological war between the “Arrogant World Order” and the “Islamic rule”, adding that the Jewish state had to be wiped off the face of the earth.

Friends of Humanity co-sponsors protest rally in San Francisco

Opponents of war and nuclear weapons rally in front of the Russian Consulate

On Tuesday 25th.Oct.2005 opponents of nuclear weapons and war in general assembled in a protest rally in San Francisco.

The protesters displayed placards condemning the Mullah regime’s attempts to manufacture nuclear weapons, and demanded a decisive policy from the international community, in particular ensuring the referral of the Iranian regime’s atomic programme to the United Nations.

Iran street-parades 22-year-old man

ImageTehran, Iran, Oct. 25 – A 22-year-old man from the town of Varamin, southern Tehran, was street-paraded and sentenced to lashes for instigating trouble, a semi-official daily wrote on Monday.

The young man, only identified as Hashem M. (a.k.a. Hashem Sagi), was accused of “causing trouble”, drinking alcohol, disrupting national security, and taking part in scuffles, the daily Kayhan wrote.

Friends of Humanity co-sponsors British – Iranian gathering in Birmingham

ImageA mixed gathering of Britons and Iranians gathered in Birmingham on Wednesday 19th.Oct, at the joint invitation of the Iranian community and the Friends of Humanity.
The meeting started with an interesting slide show of various cultural, natural and archaeological places of interest in Iran and continued with a film about fundamentalism, the new global threat.

Friends of Humanity co – sponsors a protest rally in Huston

Supporters of Friends of humanity and other opponents of war and nuclear weapons staged a protest rally on Monday 24th.Oct.2005, in front of Russian Consulate in Huston.
Participants stressed the demands of the Iranian people and of international community to refer the Iranian regime’s nuclear programme to the UN.  They also called for an end to the policy of appeasement with this inhuman regime.