October, 2006

• 23 October

  Dissident returns to Tunisia, shrugs off legal threat

  TUNIS (Reuters) — Veteran dissident Moncef Marzouki returned to Tunisia on Saturday and vowed to campaign for democracy, shrugging off government plans to prosecute him for allegedly inciting Tunisians to commit violence. “I come here to carry out my struggle peacefully,” the human rights campaigner told reporters after a flight …

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• 23 October

  Israel a Permanent Blow to Middle-East Tranquility

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s Ambassador to Russia said that as long as the Zionist regime exists in the region, the Middle-East may not experience peace and tranquility.

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• 23 October

  $2.2 b Petrol Import Bill Approved

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An Iranian MP said that the parliament’s Budget and Planning Commission has approved USD 2.2 billion of the government’s proposed USD 3.5 billion for the imports of petrol in the current (Iranian) year.

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• 23 October

  Palestinian students in danger of losing school year over open-ended teachers’ strike

  RAMALLAH — Eighth-grader Thaer Shweikiyeh, who dreams of being a doctor one day, was excited about going back to school after the summer vacation. Instead, he’s been selling onions in the local farmers’ market for the past two months, and his new schoolbag remains untouched. Thaer is one of 800,000 …

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• 23 October

  Iran Launches First Private Mobile Network

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran has launched a new mobile phone network with SIM cards provided by the country’s first private operator.

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• 23 October

  Iran Suggests Talks with West

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran offered to talk with the West about its disputed nuclear program days before the US and its partners are expected to circulate a draft resolution providing for limited sanctions against Tehran.

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• 23 October

  Britain Calls for Talks with Iran and Syria on Iraq

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Frantic efforts are under way in Washington and London to find an exit strategy for Iraq as a renewed surge in violence led George Bush to admit Friday that tactics there might need to change. Diplomats and politicians in both capitals are desperately reviewing and debating …

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• 21 October

  FM Warns West not to Adopt a Hostile Approach

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here on Saturday called on Iran’s negotiating counterparties to refrain from referring Tehran’s nuclear case to the UN Security Council and to return the case to the IAEA Board of Governors.

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• 21 October

  Iran Supports Palestine, Lebanon with All Possibilities

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel stressed that his country supports the oppressed Palestinian and Lebanese nations with all its possibilities.

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• 21 October

  FM Warns EU Iran will not Remain Calm in case of Sanctions

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry, responding to a recent statement by the EU Ministerial Council, stressed that in case the EU opts for the path of sanctions and threats, Iran will not remain indifferent and it will not allow the other party to trespass its rights.

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