AP: Two strong earthquakes shook different parts of Iran in less than 24 hours, injuring more than 200 people and damaging hundreds of homes, Iranian media reported Saturday.
2 strong earthquakes hit Iran, injuring hundreds
China invests $40 bln in Iran oil, gas: minister
AFP: Iran’s main economic partner China has invested around 40 billion dollars in the Islamic republic’s oil and gas sector, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday.
Iran mother facing stoning pleads to see children
AFP: An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in Iran pleaded to be allowed to hug her children, in a letter attributed to her released by human rights activists in London on Saturday.
Obama urges Iran to ‘immediately release’ three US hikers
AFP: President Barack Obama called on Iran Friday to “immediately release” three American hikers being held by the Islamic republic, saying they had never worked for the US government and committed “absolutely no crime.”
Cannon says Iran hides nuclear plans; G-8 will review sanctions
Bloomberg: Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said Iran is “hiding” the truth about its nuclear program and added that the effectiveness of new sanctions will be reviewed by Group of Eight officials when they next meet in September.
EXCLUSIVE: Firms contracting with U.S. government flout Iran sanctions law, watchdog says
Fox News: Two multinational corporations that have earned millions of dollars in U.S. government contracts are conducting business with Iran in violation of the recently signed sanctions law, according to an Iran watchdog group that has provided its research to FoxNews.com.
Clinton renews appeal to Iran to free US hikers
AFP: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the mothers of three young US nationals detained without charge in Iran for 12 months renewed appeals Friday for the trio’s release.
Iran talks gas transit with Iraq
UPI: A working group from Iran has left for neighboring Iraq to discuss a possible natural gas transit deal, Iran’s deputy oil minister said.
Lack of Iraq government ’embarrassing’: FM
AFP: The lack of a government in Iraq nearly five months after general elections is “embarrassing” and is impeding any long-term decision-making, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told AFP on Thursday.
Iran starts feeling heat
Washington Post: President Ahmadinejad has a penchant for the somewhat loony, as when last weekend he denounced Paul the Octopus, omniscient predictor of eight consecutive World Cup matches, as a symbol of decadence and purveyor of “Western propaganda and superstition.”
