Reuters: A former Iranian prosecutor linked to the deaths of anti-government protesters was arrested on Tuesday as a public showdown between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his big political rival, Ali Larijani, gathers pace.
Iranian ex-prosecutor arrested as power struggle flares
Ahmadinejad in Cairo at start of historic Egypt visit
AFP: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Cairo on Tuesday, marking the first visit to Egypt by an Iranian president since Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, Egyptian television footage showed.
US: Bulgaria likely to link Hezbollah to bus bomb
AP: U.S. officials are expecting Bulgarian investigators to link the militant group Hezbollah to a bomb attack last year that killed five Israeli tourists in the coastal city of Burgas.
Analysis: Diplomatic window closing on Iran
AP: Judging by its expanding nuclear program, harsh sanctions against Iran have done little but impose hardship on its people, while diplomacy has also failed to slow the Islamic Republic’s atomic progress.
Iran arrests official implicated in prison deaths
AP: A senior Iranian government official and former Tehran prosecutor general has been arrested, two years after a parliamentary probe found him responsible for deaths by torture of at least three jailed anti-government protesters, state media reported.
Iran nuclear talks set for February 26
Reuters: Iran and world powers announced new talks on Tehran’s nuclear program on February 26, but hopes of progress after Tuesday’s announcement were tempered when an Iranian official said the West’s goal in talking was to undermine the Islamic republic.
Top Iranian politicians exchange accusations
New York Times: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad escalated a bitter political fight this week with Iran’s most influential political family by disclosing secret film recordings of what he purported were fraudulent business deals.
Responding to Iran’s latest nuclear ploy
Bloomberg: Iran’s tentative agreement to resume talks over its nuclear program is a hopeful sign. More distressing — and more demanding of a U.S. response — is Iran’s plan to speed up that program.
Israel will ‘regret aggression against Syria’: Iran
AFP: Israel will regret its latest “aggression against Syria”, Iran’s security chief Saeed Jalili told reporters during a visit to Damascus on Monday.
Ahmadinejad ready to be Iran’s first spaceman
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday he is ready “to be the first man in space” under Iran’s ambitious programme which aims to send a human being into orbit by 2020.
