Iran Will Not be Cowed by Threats: Khatami

TEHRAN: Preacher of Eid al-Adha prayers in Tehran Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami condemned on Saturday the International Atomic Energy Agency’s anti-Iran resolution, saying the move was “political and non-technical.”

Ahmad Khatami, speaking at a Tehran University prayer service to mark the holiday of Eid al-Adha, warned world powers that Iran will not be cowed by threats or swayed by “bribery” to give up its right to nuclear technology.

He was responding to a resolution adopted on Friday by the IAEA demanding that Iran halt its nuclear programs.

Ayatollah Khatami said, “The IAEA resolution condemns the agency itself rather than the law-abiding Iran.”

The preacher of Eid al-Adha prayers in Tehran added, “such behaviours towards Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities will prevent other countries from cooperating with the IAEA.”

Iranian foreign ministry also dismissed the resolution as “theatrical and useless”.

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Iran Will Not be Cowed by Threats: Khatami was first posted on November 28, 2009 at 6:49 pm.

Iran Will Not be Cowed by Threats: Khatami

TEHRAN: Preacher of Eid al-Adha prayers in Tehran Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami condemned on Saturday the International Atomic Energy Agency’s anti-Iran resolution, saying the move was “political and non-technical.”

Ahmad Khatami, speaking at a Tehran University prayer service to mark the holiday of Eid al-Adha, warned world powers that Iran will not be cowed by threats or swayed by “bribery” to give up its right to nuclear technology.

He was responding to a resolution adopted on Friday by the IAEA demanding that Iran halt its nuclear programs.

Ayatollah Khatami said, “The IAEA resolution condemns the agency itself rather than the law-abiding Iran.”

The preacher of Eid al-Adha prayers in Tehran added, “such behaviours towards Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities will prevent other countries from cooperating with the IAEA.”

Iranian foreign ministry also dismissed the resolution as “theatrical and useless”.

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Iran Will Not be Cowed by Threats: Khatami was first posted on November 28, 2009 at 6:49 pm.

Balochistan High Court All Judges Resign

QUETTA: All the five judges of Balochistan High Court have resigned from their offices to avoid references against them in Supreme Judicial Council on taking oath on PCO of November 3, 2007.

Those who submitted their resignations on Tuesday include Chief Justice BHC Justice Amanullah Yaseenzai, Justice Ahmed Khan Lashari, Justice Akhtar Zaman Malgani, Justice Nadir Khan Durrani and Justice Mehta Kelash Nath.

Registrar BHC has confirmed the resignations, saying that all the five resignations have been sent to President for approval.

More resignations from the PCO judges of Supreme Court of Pakistan and the other three high courts are expected to avoid references in Supreme Judicial Council against them as was announced in a verdict by a full bench of SC on Friday.

After Tuesday’s resignations no judge is presently available in the high court to hear the cases. It is expected that President Asif Ali Zardari would soon carry out fresh appointments in the court on the advice of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and on the recommendations of Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.

CM Shahbaz Assured Full Investigation On Gojra Riots

GOJRA: Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that the government will not rest till the complete rehabilitation of inter-communal riots’ victims of the city.

Sharif was addressing the delegates of Christian community of Gojra after paying his condolence to the heirs of eight deceased burnt to death in recent riots.

The CM also visited the local church of the city and met the community leaders. He assured them of bringing the culprits of violence against Christians to justice as soon as possible, saying that the government will ensure safe and secure environment for the minorities.

Governor Punjab Salman Taseer is also scheduled to visit Gojra later today, says the channel.

Israel Must be Crash Zawahiri Warned to Obama

DUBAI: Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man Ayman al-Zawahiri took aim at US President Barack Obama in a new video, accusing him of continuing to spill the blood of Muslims and saying Israel was a ‘crime’ that must be wiped out, according to a US monitoring group.

He also dismissed Obama’s Middle East peace push as a “deception,” and accused Obama of seeking to create a “Palestinian state that works as a branch of the Israeli intelligence,” according to a transcript published by the SITE Intelligence Group.

“Israel is a crime that must be eliminated,” al Qaeda’s second-in-command said, according to SITE.

Zawahiri also rejected Obama’s overtures to the Muslim world as an illusion, pointing to raids in Pakistan’s tribal regions and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and speaking of “bloody massacres.”