AP: Opponents of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have failed to muster enough support to bring him down in a vote of no confidence, Iraq’s president said in a statement posted on his website Sunday.
Iraq president: PM’s critics didn’t get majority
Iran lashes EU over nuclear talks
AFP: Iran on Sunday hit out at a perceived lack of willingness by world powers to engage it ahead of crucial nuclear talks to take place in Moscow on June 18 and 19, according to reports.
Iran bans women from Euro 2012 screenings
AFP: Women in Iran are being banned from watching live public screenings of Euro 2012 football games because of an “inappropriate” environment where men could become rowdy, a deputy police commander said Sunday.
Iran to crack down on web censor-beating software
AFP: Iran’s cyber police force is poised to launch a new crackdown on software that lets many Iranians circumvent the regime’s Internet censorship, media reported on Sunday.
Iran ex-Guards commander Rezai to run in 2013 Race, ILNA says
Bloomberg: Mohsen Rezai, the secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council, announced his candidacy for next year’s presidential election, the Iranian Labour News Agency reported.
Iran says cyber attacks boost atomic resolve, Asia Times reports
Bloomberg: Cyber attacks will only increase Iran’s resolve to pursue its nuclear work, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, the country’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, said according to the Asia Times.
Iran urges world powers to ‘accept our demands’
AFP: “The only path” for world powers holding talks with Iran on its nuclear activities is to accept Tehran’s position, a top military representative for the country’s supreme leader said on Sunday, according to the Mehr news agency.
U.S. “disappointed” by Iran-IAEA atom talks failure
Reuters: Lack of progress in talks between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency is disappointing and it shows Tehran’s continued failure to abide by its commitment to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, a U.S. envoy said on Saturday.
Iran may award Russian Rails new $250 million contract, RIA says
Bloomberg: Iran may award OAO Russian Railways, the country’s rail monopoly a new contract worth about $250 million after the state-run company completed a link between Tebriz and Azarshah.
Iran hits out at oil quota ‘violators’
AFP: Sanctions-hit Iran on Saturday blasted fellow OPEC members Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates as oil quota “violators”, accusing them of depressing global crude prices by over-pumping.
