Bloomberg: Iran’s central bank Governor Valiollah Seif said he’s reversing policies introduced under former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that led to a surge in money supply, to curb one of the world’s highest inflation rates.
Iran Central Banker says he’s undoing Ahmadinejad policy
U.S. delegation to Iran talks includes sanctions expert
Reuters: The U.S. delegation to next week’s talks about Iran’s nuclear program includes one of the U.S. government’s leading sanctions experts, a hint that Washington may be giving greater thought to how it might ease sanctions on Tehran.
Lawmakers urge the U.S. to save 7 Camp Ashraf hostages
PRNewswire – In a Congressional briefing, a bipartisan group of lawmakers called on the United States Government to accept a significant number of the residents of Camp Liberty, members of the main Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI), as political refugees.
Iran’s defiant nuclear expansion raises bar for Geneva talks
Reuters: When the U.N. Security Council first imposed sanctions on Iran in 2006 to try to make it halt its nuclear activity, the Islamic state had a nascent uranium enrichment program with a couple of hundred centrifuges it was testing.
Hassan Rouhani is not a moderate
The Independent: Recent reports of the Iranian Parliament passing a bill including a clause that will legalise and permit men to marry 13 year old girls is shocking and deplorable. It is a serious breach of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
France will stay ‘tough’ on Iran, Hollande soothes Netanyahu
AFP: France will remain “tough” with Iran on its controversial nuclear programme, President Francois Hollande reassured Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday after the Israeli premier warned Paris against succumbing to Tehran’s charms.
UN calls Iraq death penalty ‘obscene and inhuman’
AP: Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, says mass executions of this sort “are not only obscene and inhuman, they are most probably in contravention of international law.”
Hunger strike for Ashraf
Church Times: Hundreds of people attended a rally in Trafalgar Square on Sunday to draw attention to seven former residents of Camp Ashraf, in Iraq, who have been missing since an attack on 1 September which left at least 52 dead.
MEPs urge Tehran to free US-Iranian pastor
AFP: The European Parliament called on Tehran on Thursday to free an American-Iranian pastor jailed for eight years for his role in establishing underground churches in Iran.
Hezbollah ‘execution’ video sparks online outrage
AFP: A gory online video that appears to show Hezbollah fighters executing gravely wounded Syrian rebels has sparked outrage and threatens to worsen sectarian tensions in Lebanon.
