AFP: Iran has sentenced award-winning woman journalist Jila Baniyaghoob to jail for one year and banned her from writing for 30 years over post-election unrest, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Leading Iran journalist gets 30-year writing ban
Revolutionary Guard helicopter crash near Iran’s capital kills 4 during training
AP: Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard says one of its training helicopters has crashed near Tehran, killing four people.
Ahmadinejad ‘to snub’ Shanghai group meeting
AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to stay away from a meeting of the Shanghai group this week as ties between Moscow and Tehran fray over Iran’s nuclear programme, a high-ranking Russian source said.
Iran’s hushed-up civil war
Newsweek: The Supreme Leader was embarrassed when hardliners heckled the grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran’s founder.
Specifics determined for Iran sanctions
New York Times: The United Nations Security Council is expected to pass a new round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program on Wednesday, with the council’s permanent members agreeing to add 41 companies and one scientist to the blacklist.
New U.N. Iran steps target Isfahan atomic site chief
Reuters: The head of a nuclear technology center in the Iranian city of Isfahan is to be blacklisted under a new round of U.N. sanctions to be voted on this week, a Western diplomat said on Tuesday.
Six charged in Iran satellite technology case: US
AFP: One American and five Iranians have been charged with helping Iran acquire satellite technology that allowed Tehran to launch a camera-equipped satellite in 2005, justice officials said Tuesday.
New sanctions would be toughest yet on Iran – Clinton
Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday a fourth round of U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran due for a vote on Wednesday would be the toughest Tehran has faced.
Braving death: The last words of Arash Rahmanipour
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 08 – Arash Rahmanipour and Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani were hanged on 28 January 2010 after being convicted of Moharebeh (waging war on God) over their alleged role in anti-government protests last summer. Iran Focus has translated into English the text of a moving letter written by Rahmanipour while in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison and his final will.
UN council to vote Wednesday on Iran – envoy
Reuters: The U.N. Security Council will vote on Wednesday morning on a resolution imposing a fresh round of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, France’s U.N. Ambassador Gerard Araud said.
