AFP: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Sunday that Washington was “not trustworthy”, after former US officials and lawmakers urged diplomacy with the Islamic republic’s incoming president Hassan Rowhani.
Iran’s Khamenei says US can not be trusted
Iran bars captain’s UAE transfer over Gulf name
AFP: Iran has barred national football team captain Javad Nekounam’s lucrative transfer to a club in neighbouring UAE because of a dispute over a name, media reports said on Sunday.
Gunmen kidnap Iranian diplomat in Yemen capital
AP: Gunmen on Sunday kidnapped an Iranian diplomat who was driving his car in the capital, Sanaa, a Yemeni official said. Iran condemned the abduction. The official said armed men stopped the diplomat’s car and forced him into their vehicle before speeding away.
Iran invites Western leaders to inauguration
AP: Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Araghchi was quoted by the semiofficial ISNA news agency as saying Sunday that American and European leaders and officials were among those invited to the swearing-in of Hasan Rouhani.
Britain’s part in the UN’s disgraceful act of betrayal
Sunday Telegraph: Last week, before the UN Security Council in New York, there unfolded the latest bizarre chapter in one of the most extraordinary stories I have ever followed in this column. Testifying to the council was Martin Kobler, who has just retired after two years as the special representative of the UN’s Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, in Iraq.
Syria war widens rift between Shi’ite clergy in Iraq, Iran
Reuters: The civil war in Syria is widening a rift between top Shi’ite Muslim clergy in Iraq and Iran who have taken opposing stands on whether or not to send followers into combat on President Bashar al-Assad’s side.
Group strives for a safe and prosperous Iran
Albuquerque Journal: This annual conference is the largest political event of the Iranian people in opposition to the ruling religious dictatorship in Iran. Hosted by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, or NCRI, over 100,000 Iranians, world leaders and elected officials come together singing the same tune of democracy, human rights and free and fair elections.
Venezuela ‘ends’ rapprochement with US
AFP: Venezuela said it has “ended” its rapprochement with the United States due to a statement by Samantha Power, nominated to become the US envoy to UN. Power said at a Senate confirmation hearing that if she got the job she would stand up to “repressive regimes” and challenge the “crackdown on civil society being carried out in countries like Cuba, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela.”
No security in Camp Liberty
IPS: Approximately 300 supporters of Camp Liberty inmates gathered outside the United Nations on Tuesday to protest the conduct of Martin Kobler, the Special Representative of the U. N. Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI).
Eight Christians in Iran sent to prison for threatening ‘national security’
Morning Star News: Eight Iranian Christians received heavy jail sentences on Tuesday (July 16) after being found guilty of “action against the national security” and “propaganda against the system” – charges typically leveled against Muslim converts to Christianity in Iran.
