Reuters: Iran has invited Turkey to cooperate in work on the Islamic Republic’s space programme, which aims to put a man in space by 2017, the Turkish newspaper Haberturk said on Saturday.
Iran invites Turkey into space programme-report
Iran activist jailed for six years
Reuters: Iran sentenced a female human rights activist to six years in prison on Saturday, the latest sign of its determination to punish those the state views as “seditionists” for protesting last year’s presidential election.
Iran leads nuclear drive in the Middle East
AFP: Egypt’s plan to build four nuclear powerplants by 2025 underscores the emerging interest in atomic energy across the Middle East, where even oil-rich nations such as Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are eyeing fossil fuel alternatives to satisfy growing demand.
Ahmadinejad leaves for Syria, Algeria, US
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left Saturday for a three-nation trip which includes the United States where he is to attend next week’s UN General Assembly meeting, state media said.
Carter: Iran rescue effort should have worked
AP: Former President Jimmy Carter felt his efforts to rescue U.S. diplomats held hostage by Iran should have worked but were thwarted by a “strange series of mishaps,” and the mission’s failure played a major role in his 1980 re-election defeat, the Georgia Democrat writes in a new book assembled from diary entries.
Hostage killed and five freed in Iran shootout – report
Reuters: Two people including a hostage were killed during an operation to free six Iranians taken captive in a restive region of southeastern Iran, Mehr news agency reported Saturday.
Iran troops seized in raid claimed by Sunni rebels
AFP: Gunmen attacked a bus and seized five Iranian soldiers in the country’s restive southeast, media reports said on Saturday, as Sunni militants claimed responsibility for the raid.
Iranian, Syrian presidents meet after Assad-U.S. talks
Reuters: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met in Damascus on Saturday, two days after Assad held talks with a U.S. envoy about the prospects of renewing peace negotiations with Israel.
Iran’s Ahmadinejad to visit Syria on Saturday: diplomat
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Syria briefly on Saturday where he will meet his Syrian counterpart and close ally Bashar al-Assad, a diplomatic source in Damascus said on Friday.
US must free Iranians in return for freed hiker: Ahmadinejad
AFP: The United States must free Iranians it is holding after Tehran freed American woman hiker Sarah Shourd, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday.
