Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 Women will not be included in the cabinet of Irans new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a leading ultra-conservative figure said on Sunday. Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 Women will not be included in the cabinet of Irans new hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a leading ultra-conservative figure said on Sunday. 
AFP: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iran’s leading Arab
AFP: A Tehran court has barred a young woman from working after her estranged husband complained she was only
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 Irans State Security Forces and agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security have been on heightened alert on Sunday in the Kurdish town of Bukan, northwest Iran, following a general strike in the central bazaar and in many shops, residents reported. The general strike was in protest to authorities violent crackdown on the restive Kurdish population in western Iran. Over the past month, there have been continuous anti-government protests in Irans Kurdish region. Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 Irans State Security Forces and agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security have been on heightened alert on Sunday in the Kurdish town of Bukan, northwest Iran, following a general strike in the central bazaar and in many shops, residents reported. The general strike was in protest to authorities violent crackdown on the restive Kurdish population in western Iran. Over the past month, there have been continuous anti-government protests in Irans Kurdish region. 
Reuters: Iran on Sunday reiterated plans to resume uranium conversion this week and said it was unconcerned about referral of its nuclear case to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. “Although we think referral of Iran’s case 
Sunday Telegraph: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed that Iran would not be intimidated by the West over its nuclear
Reuters: French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy urged Iran on Saturday to study carefully the European Union’s offer 
AFP: More than 400 Iraqi Kurds gathered Saturday to protest recent clashes in neighbouring Iran’s northwest Kurdish region as police opened fire to disperse the crowd, an AFP correspondent reported. Carrying anti-Iran banners and shouting slogans condemning the Islamic republic, the demonstrators gathered in the centre of the northern Kurdish town of Suleimaniyah, 330 kilometers (205 miles) north of Baghdad. 
