The Times: Images of a French woman in an Iranian court confessing to spying for France sparked outrage in her homeland yesterday, with President Sarkozy coming under fire for allegedly neglecting her case.
French student Clotilde Reiss’s confession at Iran court sparks outrage
Claims of savage rape emerge from Iran’s prisons
AP: An Iranian opposition leader said Sunday that detained protesters are alleging male and female prisoners were savagely raped by their jailers to the point of physical and mental damage. Iran MP sees US hikers’ fate taking time to resolve
AFP: A leading lawmaker said it may take time to resolve the fate of the three American hikers arrested after apparently straying into Iran, state-owned Arabic language TV Al-Alam reported on Monday. Sarkozy working for release of Frenchwoman in Iran
AP: French President Nicolas Sarkozy is working to secure the release of a French academic who is among the accused in a mass trial in Iran, the president's office said Monday. Rafsanjani withdraws from Tehran Friday prayers
AFP: Powerful Iranian cleric and opposition supporter Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has decided not to lead Friday prayers this week to avoid "political abuse" of the event, an official said on Monday. Iran’s president purges Intelligence Ministry
Los Angeles Times: Iran's president has conducted a purge of the nation's Intelligence Ministry, sweeping aside ranking officials with decades of experience in favor of loyalists, said a lawmaker, several news websites and a former intelligence chief's son. Rice denounces Iran ‘show trials’
AFP: US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on Sunday condemned what she described as "show trials" for demonstrators in Iran who protested the results of June's disputed presidential election. Iran confirms arrest of three US hikers: Jones
AFP: Iran has officially confirmed that it has arrested three Americans who hiked into its territory from Iraq, White House national security adviser Jim Jones said Sunday. Iran military says opposition chiefs should face trial
AFP: A top official with Iran's Revolutionary Guards called on Sunday for the main opposition leaders to be put on trial for trying to orchestrate a "velvet coup" after the disputed presidential election. Ahmadinejad seeks revenge on interfering powers
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 09 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday vowed to “slam the heads” of those nations which he perceives as having “interfered” in Iran’s post-election unrest “into the ceiling”.
