Iran’s former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is urging the country’s leadership not to dismiss international sanctions against Tehran as a “joke.”
France’s foreign minister says European states could impose unilateral sanctions on Iran if the United Nations fails to pass its own sanctions. Bernard Kouchner told
Iran will put 16 opposition demonstrators on trial, Monday, and several are to be charged with “offending God and his prophet.” Sixty journalists and intellectuals