Xinhua: Head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization Gholam-Reza Jalali said Saturday that Iran plans to stage cyber exercises in the near future, semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Iran plans to stage cyber drills
Iran: Egypt military overthrow of Morsi ‘improper’
AP: Iran, in its first official reaction to the toppling of Egypt’s democratically elected president by the military, is calling the move “improper.”
Iran to exempt foreign investors from taxes, Tehran Times says
Bloomberg: Iran will try to lure foreign investors with tax exemptions ranging as high as 100 percent, Iranian Deputy Economy Minister Behrouz Alishiri said.
What will Iran’s new president do? His memoir offers some clues.
Washington Post: For Western officials trying to determine what kind of leader they’ll face in Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, his thoughtful 2011 memoir reveals much about the man who will lead the Islamic republic.
Iran central bank eliminates cheaper dollar rate: reports
Reuters: Iran’s central bank has eliminated a subsidized, cheaper rate for foreign currency and reported a weaker official rate in its place, according to Iranian media and the central bank’s website on Saturday.
‘I had to tell my family’s story of the Iranian executions’
The Guardian: Sahar Delijani’s parents were jailed and her uncle was killed by Iran’s Islamic Republic in the 1980s. She tells how the painful episode became her first novel, Children of the Jacaranda Tree.
Iran’s clerics see a moral in Morsi’s fall
Wall Street Journal: The fall of Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi presents Iran with a new challenge: Establishing a relationship with an as-yet-undefined leadership while distancing itself from past efforts to court the Muslim Brotherhood.
Slovak paragliders held in Iran explorers, not spies: friends
AFP: Iran suspects them of spying, but friends of eight Slovak paragliders detained in May know them as freedom-loving adrenalin junkies who travel the world to film high-flying documentaries.
Fugitive Lebanon cleric in new audio message
AFP: Assir has gained notoriety for his fierce opposition to powerful Hezbollah militia, particularly in the wake of the group’s decision to back the Syrian regime against an uprising.
US quietly invites Iran to talks based on ‘mutual respect’
FoxNews: The U.S. State Department has quietly offered to enter into bilateral talks with Iran based on “mutual respect,” according to an interview an American diplomat gave to the Islamic republic’s state-run media.
