Reuters: Iran has suspended the death sentence for a computer programmer convicted on charges of running a pornographic website after he “repented for his actions,” his lawyer was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Iran suspends computer programmer’s death sentence: report
Iran pushes out Afghans as regional power-play heats up
Reuters: Ghaus worked in Iran for five years but has nothing to show for it. All he has are memories of being jailed, beaten and sent home to Afghanistan.
Iraq major weapons route to Syria: report
AFP: According to the paper, Iran appears to have been tipped off by Iraqi officials as to when plane inspections would be conducted, thus helping Tehran avoid detection.
Iran president reshuffles controversial aides
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shifted two of controversial aides into new jobs on Saturday, state news agency IRNA reported.
Iraq says it can’t search all Syria-bound planes
AP: Iraq’s prime minister says his country is unable to search all Syria-bound Iranian planes that fly through Iraqi airspace. But Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday that Iraq is committed to preventing weapons from being shipped through the country to Syria.
Iran sacks cyber police chief over blogger’s death
AFP: Tehran’s cyber police chief has been sacked for negligence in events leading to the death in custody of an Iranian blogger, Iran’s police said on its website on Saturday.
Nations may keep sanctions exemption for cutting Iran oil
Bloomberg: Oil-importing nations are continuing to cut back their purchases from Iran, making it likely those countries will earn a new round of exceptions from U.S. sanctions next week.
Clinton says U.S. open to bilateral talks if Iran is “ever ready”
Reuters: Responding to a question, Clinton called Iran the hardest issue she has dealt with as secretary of state “because of the dangers that its behavior already poses and the geometrically greater danger that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose.”
Outspoken Swedish Academy member, awarder of Nobel, dies
AFP: Swedish author Knut Ahnlund, a member of the Swedish Academy that awards the Nobel Literature Prize and who boycotted its workings over Iran’s fatwa against Salman Rushdie, has died aged 89, the Academy said Friday.
Iranian channel reports bomb outside its office in Damascus
New York Times: Iran’s state-owned satellite channel Press TV reports that a bomb destroyed six vehicles, including a satellite news truck near the broadcaster’s office in Damascus early on Friday.
