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Mob attacks UK Embassy in Tehran

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:50:30 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Britain has reacted sharply to the attack on its embassy in the Iranian capital of Iran Tuesday 29 November, by an angry crowd that police were unable to control. The embassy compound was over-run, including diplomats homes and offices. An emergency meeting of the UK government was called to deal with one [...]

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Iran says US creating “collision course”

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:38:27 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Iran Friday 4 November suggested the US is setting the countries on a collision course, as the US and Britain “advance contingency plans”, according to the Guardian, for an attack on Iran, should new fighting break out in the Middle East. Tensions are rising in the US and the UK over Iran’s [...]

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Iran never showed Swiss rep evidence about US hikers

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:30:03 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Livia Leu Agosti, Switzerland’s ambassador to Iran, has told Associated Press that she was never shown any evidence by Iran that a trio of American hikers held captive as spies had strayed across the border into Iran, as its government has claimed. Switzerland, which represents US interests in Iran, worked for the [...]

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Two US hikers jailed in Iran close to freedom (update)

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:29:36 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Update 17:05 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The two US men who were jailed by Iran after hiking in the Iranian border area are reported by the Iranian state news agency to be free and en route home, and AP is reporting that a convoy has left Evin Prison, with Swiss and Omani diplomats and police and [...]

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Iran tests 14 missiles, says it can reach 2,000 km

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:18:39 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Iran test-fired 14 short-, medium- and long-range missiles Tuesday as part of its Great Prophet 6 military drills, Iran’s English language news agency Mehr says. It quotes Aerospace commander of Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Amir Ali Hajizadeh as saying that Iran’s missiles have the range of 2,000 km and can reach US [...]

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World’s poorest nations are hosting 80% of refugees, UN report says

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:01:05 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The numbers alone are daunting: 43.7 million displaced persons worldwide, of which 15.4m are refugees, 27.5m are internally displaced refugees and nearly 850,000 are asylum seekers, with one-fifth of asylum seekers in South Africa alone. The world’s 49 least developed countries hosted some 2 million refugees last year. Just under 100,000 refugees [...]

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Iran says it will sue Swiss over oil companies’ refueling ban

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 24 May 2011 09:01:17 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Iranian officials said Tuesday 24 May that the country will take Switzerland to court at the United Nations over what the officials say is a recent decision not to allow Iranian aircraft to refuel in Geneva. The Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (Foca) told GenevaLunch that the Swiss government has not [...]

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Human Rights Commission to investigate Iran abuses

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:35:42 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The UN Human Rights Commission took a step in a new direction late Thursday when the Geneva-based body agreed to establish a special rapporteur for Iran. This is the first single-country investigation into human rights abuses since the organization was set up in 2006, although Iran has come under review in [...]

Teheran summons Swiss ambassador over US Bahrain “backing”

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:20:49 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Tehran Times reports Wednesday evening that Swiss Ambassador Livia Leu Agosti was summoned Tuesday, along with the Saudi Arabian ambassador to hear complaints about US support for Saudi troops going to Bahrain, at the latter’s request. Switzerland represents US interests in Iran. The ambassador promised to share Iran’s concerns with [...]

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US says unaware Saudi Arabia sending troops to Bahrain

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:18:02 +0000

GenevaLunch.com US officials at the Pentagon say that Robert Gates, the defense secretary, was not given any warning when he visited Bahrain last week that just two days later Saudi Arabia would send 1,000 troops to the small kingdom to help quell protests, Monday 14 March. Aljazeera reports that the UAE (United Arab Emirates) sent 500 [...]

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