PRNewswire: Hundreds of Iranian Americans in California attended a convention at the Anaheim Convention Center sponsored by California Society for Democracy in Iran, where several former senior US Government officials and sitting members of congress spoke.
House Members reject myth of Rouhani’s moderation
CIA admits 1953 Iran coup: document
AFP: The CIA has admitted orchestrating the August 1953 coup that toppled Iran’s prime minister after he tried to nationalize his country’s oil wealth from Britain, according to a declassified document.
Iran’s President Rouhani is anything but a moderate
Conservative Home: Many in the western press and beyond have praised the recently-elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as a moderate, suggesting he will make life better for his people and extend an olive branch to the rest of the world. So let’s look at his record.
Rouhani says Iran has no true political parties
Trend: Iranian president Hassan Rouhani expressed sorrow about country not having any true political parties, ISNA news agency reported. Rouhani made the remarks during the ceremony of presenting Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli as Iran’s new Interior Minister.
Iran to teach drone-hunting to school students
AP: An Iranian newspaper is reporting that the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guards paramilitary units plan to teach drone-hunting to school students. Iranian hardliners have long sought a larger role for the military in the country’s education system.
South Africa’s Sasol disposes of Iranian unit
Reuters: South African petrochemicals group Sasol said on Monday it had disposed of its Iranian joint-venture Arya Sasol Polymer for an undisclosed sum. The company has said the value of Sasol’s investment in Arya was written down to 2.3 billion rand, according to an August 1 trading statement.
Iran, Hezbollah now running Syria: opposition
AFP: Opposition leader Ahmad Jarba said Syria is now being run by regime allies Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, with President Bashar al-Assad out of the picture, in an interview published Sunday.
Ex-official: Iran is world’s 6th missile power
AP: The semi-official Fars news agency quoted Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi on Sunday as saying that Iran reached this level of manufacturing by “attaining domestic technology for building solid fuel missiles, as well as designing and manufacturing surface-to-surface long-range missiles.”
The West is deluded about the Middle East – just look at Iran
Sunday Telegraph: Nowhere is the West’s inability to grasp the realities of Middle Eastern politics more obvious than in its self-deceiving attitude to the most powerful and menacing regime of all, the theocratic dictatorship that rules over Iran.
EU’s Ashton urges Iran’s new FM to resume nuclear talks
AFP: The EU’s top diplomat Catherine Ashton, who leads global talks with Tehran on its disputed nuclear drive, called for a resumption of the talks in a phone conversation Saturday with Iran’s new foreign minister.
