Reuters: Iran’s central bank has eliminated a subsidized, cheaper rate for foreign currency and reported a weaker official rate in its place, according to Iranian media and the central bank’s website on Saturday.
Iran central bank eliminates cheaper dollar rate: reports
‘I had to tell my family’s story of the Iranian executions’
The Guardian: Sahar Delijani’s parents were jailed and her uncle was killed by Iran’s Islamic Republic in the 1980s. She tells how the painful episode became her first novel, Children of the Jacaranda Tree.
Iran’s clerics see a moral in Morsi’s fall
Wall Street Journal: The fall of Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi presents Iran with a new challenge: Establishing a relationship with an as-yet-undefined leadership while distancing itself from past efforts to court the Muslim Brotherhood.
Slovak paragliders held in Iran explorers, not spies: friends
AFP: Iran suspects them of spying, but friends of eight Slovak paragliders detained in May know them as freedom-loving adrenalin junkies who travel the world to film high-flying documentaries.
Fugitive Lebanon cleric in new audio message
AFP: Assir has gained notoriety for his fierce opposition to powerful Hezbollah militia, particularly in the wake of the group’s decision to back the Syrian regime against an uprising.
US quietly invites Iran to talks based on ‘mutual respect’
FoxNews: The U.S. State Department has quietly offered to enter into bilateral talks with Iran based on “mutual respect,” according to an interview an American diplomat gave to the Islamic republic’s state-run media.
Reactions to Morsi ouster reveal domestic politics
AP: Iran is disappointed at the fall of Morsi, with a prominent lawmaker saying the leader failed to reshape Egypt’s powerful military and other security agencies. After Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, the new leadership formed military and security forces loyal to the clerics and others.
Nations across Mideast welcome Morsi’s ouster
AFP: Governments across the Middle East on Thursday welcomed the ouster of Egypt’s Islamist president Mohamed Morsi with varying degrees of enthusiasm, with war-hit Syria calling it a “great achievement”.
Iran swimmer says record denied over unIslamic costume
AFP: An Iranian woman has claimed that the authorities in the Islamic republic have denied her a free water swimming record after saying that her costume failed to meet the standards of sharia law.
Russia worried by lack of progress towards Iran nuclear talks
Reuters: Russia voiced concern on Thursday that no progress has been made towards organizing new talks between Iran and six world powers on Tehran’s nuclear program, despite the election of a relative moderate as Iran’s president.
