AP: An Iranian semi-official news agency is reporting that the country’s navy has started an exercise in the Caspian Sea. A Fars story Monday quotes Adm. Khordad Hakimi, chief of the northern naval fleet, as saying that the maneuver in Iran’s territorial waters will end Thursday.
Iran starts 5-day naval exercise in Caspian Sea
Government to assign email addresses to all Iranians
Reuters: Iran is to assign all citizens an individual email address which the communications minister said on Monday would aid interaction between state authorities and the people.
Iran involved in $3.5 billion of hydro water works, Times says
Bloomberg: Iran is implementing hydropower project water works abroad valued at $3.5 billion, Tehran Times reported, citing Iranian Deputy Energy Minister Alireza Daemi.
U.N. nuclear agency and Iran may meet in August: diplomats
Reuters: The U.N. atomic agency and Iran may hold a new round of nuclear talks in August, diplomats said on Monday, in what would be their first meeting since last month’s election of a relative moderate as the Islamic state’s president.
Iran not to import wheat from India on disease concern
Indiatimes: Iran will not import wheat from India on apprehensions over presence of a fungal disease in the grain. Iran has informed the Indian authorities about their concern over the disease called Karnal bunt and its inability to purchase wheat.
Iraqi Kurdistan chief in Baghdad for talks on disputes
AFP: The president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, Massud Barzani, held landmark talks in Baghdad on Sunday with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on an array of disputes plaguing relations between the two sides.
Iran plans to stage cyber drills
Xinhua: Head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization Gholam-Reza Jalali said Saturday that Iran plans to stage cyber exercises in the near future, semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Iran: Egypt military overthrow of Morsi ‘improper’
AP: Iran, in its first official reaction to the toppling of Egypt’s democratically elected president by the military, is calling the move “improper.”
Iran to exempt foreign investors from taxes, Tehran Times says
Bloomberg: Iran will try to lure foreign investors with tax exemptions ranging as high as 100 percent, Iranian Deputy Economy Minister Behrouz Alishiri said.
What will Iran’s new president do? His memoir offers some clues.
Washington Post: For Western officials trying to determine what kind of leader they’ll face in Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, his thoughtful 2011 memoir reveals much about the man who will lead the Islamic republic.
