Bloomberg: Iran is using a summit of non- aligned nations as a platform to challenge U.S. and European attempts to isolate the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program, looking to build support among a largely sympathetic bloc of countries as it contends with sanctions.
Iran challenges isolation imposed by sanctions at meeting
Saudi Deputy Minister to attend summit in Iran
Bloomberg: Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Prince Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah will head the kingdom’s delegation to the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement this week in Tehran, Arab News said, citing Alauddin al-Askary, deputy foreign minister for protocol affairs.
Iran’s nuclear quest
New York Times: Iran appears to have installed a few hundred more centrifuges at its deep underground site known as Fordow, thus enhancing its ability to produce uranium enriched to 20 percent, a purity that can be converted relatively quickly to bomb-grade fuel.
Visit by Egypt’s Morsi to Iran reflects foreign policy shift
Washington Post: A decision by Egypt’s new president to travel to Tehran for a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement this week reflects a major foreign policy shift for the Arab world’s most populous nation, after decades of subservience to Washington.
Iran said to send troops to bolster Syria
Wall Street Journal: Iran is sending commanders from its elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and hundreds of foot soldiers to Syria, according to current and former members of the corps.
Lord Maginnis: Freedom or oppression – defining responsibility
Epolitix: Writing for PoliticsHome, Lord Maginnis calls on the US to remove the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran from the Foreign Terrorist Organisation list.
Report: Iran could open military site to visits
AP: Iran could allow representatives from nonaligned nations to visit a military site that the U.N. nuclear watchdog suspects has housed nuclear experiments.
Gaza PM Haniya won’t attend Tehran NAM summit
AFP: Gaza’s Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya will not attend an upcoming Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran, Taher al-Nunu, a spokesman for the Hamas government, said on Sunday.
Egypt defends Syria contact group that includes Iran
AFP: Egypt on Sunday defended its idea of forming a regional contact group on Syria which would include Iran, a staunch Damascus ally, insisting that Tehran could “be part of the solution” to the Syrian crisis.
Iran to show atomic sites at Tehran Non-Aligned summit
Bloomberg: Iran will allow officials from the 120-member Non-Aligned Movement to visit nuclear facilities during a summit in Tehran this month, the Foreign Ministry said.
