New York Times: Iran’s Parliament approved all but three of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s 21 nominees for his cabinet on Thursday, handing a victory to the beleaguered president, who now has close allies overseeing the crucial oil, interior and intelligence ministries. Ahmadinejad wins approval of key cabinet slots
New York Times: Iran’s Parliament approved all but three of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s 21 nominees for his cabinet on Thursday, handing a victory to the beleaguered president, who now has close allies overseeing the crucial oil, interior and intelligence ministries. Top Tehran TV journalist wanted by FBI for 1980 murder in the US
The Times: An American fugitive, accused of murdering an aide to the late Shah of Iran in the United States, was made an editor of Iran’s English-language television network in Tehran.
Iran’s list of approved Cabinet ministers
AP: The members of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's new government and their portfolios, after a vote in Iran's parliament Thursday on his nominees:
Iran assembly approves most of hard-line Cabinet
AP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a broad mandate Thursday as parliament backed his main Cabinet choices — naming the first woman minister since the 1979 Islamic Revolution but showing international defiance by supporting a suspected mastermind in the bombing of an Argentine Jewish center that killed 85 people. Defiant Ahmadinejad says Iran ready for more sanctions
AFP: A defiant President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday Iran is ready for more sanctions over its nuclear programme and will not bow to pressure in meeting any deadline set by world powers. Iran would not discuss nuclear work with powers: TV
Reuters: A senior Iranian official was quoted by a state-run television website on Thursday as suggesting any talks with world powers would not address the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. Iran MPs approve minister wanted by Argentina: media
Reuters: Iran's parliament approved on Thursday the president's choice of new defense minister, Iranian media reported, a man Argentina says was involved in the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center that killed 85 people. Iran opposition says 72 killed in vote protests
AFP: An aide to Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said in a website report posted Thursday that 72 people died in post-election violence, upping an earlier toll of 69. Belgian held in US plot to sell Iran fighter jet parts
AFP: US officials have arrested an alleged Belgian arms dealer and charged him with plotting to export illegally to Iran F-5 fighter jet engines and parts, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Iranian hunger striker has heart attack outside US embassy
Evening Standard: A woman on hunger strike outside the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square for more than a month has suffered a heart attack.
