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Plot for revenge attacks on WestIRAN’S president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attended a meeting in Syria earlier this year with one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, according to intelligence experts and a former national security official in Washington. US officials and Israel intelligence sources believe Imad Mugniyeh, the Lebanese commander of Hezbollah’s overseas operations, has taken charge of plotting Iran’s retaliation against western targets should President George W Bush order a strike on Iranian nuclear sites. Mugniyeh is on the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists” list for his role in a series of high-profile attacks against the West, including the 1985 hijacking...

Iran: Top Ministers Implicated in Serious Abuses (New York, December 15, 2005) – Iran’s new Minister of Interior is implicated in grave human rights violations over the past two decades, possibly including crimes against humanity in connection with the massacre of thousands of political prisoners, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released today. Human Rights Watch also said that the new Minister of Information should be investigated for his possible involvement in a dissident’s killing. The briefing paper, Ministers of Murder: Iran’s New Security Cabinet, details credible allegations that Minister of Interior Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi and Minister of Information...

Iran Judge Bites the Press Representative May 25, 2004 Iran va Jahan Potkin Azarmehr In a weekly meeting between Islamic Republic judiciary and the country's press representatives, Judge Mohseni-Ezhei physically attacked Isa Saharkhiz from the press, by throwing two glass bowls at his head and then biting him on the lower abdomen. An argument broke out in the meeting after reviewing an article printed in one of the Iranian magazines on the relationship between boys and girls. Isa Saharkhiz defended the article while judge Mohseni Ezhei hurled insults at him. Saharkhiz took offence and said the judge's remarks were an...