Iran Focus: A religious court in Tehran sentenced two men to execution, bringing to more than 110 the number of people hanged since January 2004. Thet two were identified only by their first names as Mohammad and Fereidoon.
Chicago Sun Times: A leading human rights group on Tuesday denounced Iran’s reported public execution of a teen girl in a controversial chastity case.
Washington Times: Since the battle of Najaf suddenly erupted about two weeks ago, with fierce fighting raging between followers of Shi’ite maverick cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and the U.S. military, the question often arose as to why this battle was taking place. 
Voice of America: Iran says its first nuclear reactor, being built with the help of Russia, will not go on line until October 2006, a year later than planned. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s governing body will be discussing the question of Iran’s nuclear program at a meeting in September, amid international concern about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. 
Sunday Times: IRAN has warned British officials that it could produce enough enriched uranium in a year for a nuclear weapon significantly raising the stakes in its stand-off with the West. 
Daily Telegraph: The past fortnight in Najaf marks the end of the affair between Britain and Iran.
Iran Focus
On Sunday, August 15, a 16-year-old girl in the town of Neka, northern Iran, was executed. Atefeh Sahaleh was hanged in public on Simetry Street off Rah Ahan Street at the city center.
Reuters: Iran has hanged three drug smugglers in a public square in the southern province of Kerman, the Jomhuri-ye Eslami newspaper reported on Saturday. 
Daily Telegraph: Iran yesterday stepped up its defiance of the outside world by threatening to destroy Israel’s nuclear reactor at Dimona. General Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr of the Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying that this would be the consequence of any Israeli strike on the nuclear plant being built in the southern Iranian town of Bushehr. 
