UPI: The U.S. dollar’s strength against the Iranian rial drew criticism from Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday.
Iran rebukes ‘enemy’ on falling rial
Iran’s Ahmadinejad says Syria crisis may engulf region
Reuters: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday warned that hostilities in Syria could engulf the region and accused some Syrians of trying to use their country’s conflict to settle scores with Tehran.
Muffling the drums of war with Iran
Washington Post: Netanyahu insists that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon to most likely use against Israel. He points to the repellent anti-Semitic and anti-Zionistic statements of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and, most chillingly, to analogous statements made by Adolf Hitler. For a time, few took Hitler seriously, either.
Family of Iranian who defected is out of Iran, hiding for safety, attorney says
CNN: A cameraman who accompanied Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to New York for the U.N. General Assembly has applied for asylum in the United States, and “he’s afraid to return to Iran,” his attorney said Monday.
Iran workers’ petition shows rising economic worries as sanctions bite
AP: For weeks, a manifesto complaining about Iran’s stumbling economy circulated in secret among factories and workshops. Organizers asked for signatures and the pages began to fill up.
A new sign of distress as Iran’s currency falls
Los Angeles Times: While the value of the rial has eroded for the past few years as Iran’s economic isolation has deepened, the severity of the drop worsened with surprising speed in recent days as Iranians rushed to sell rials for dollars.
Iranian-American to publish Holocaust history online for Iranians
FoxNews: It’s not hard for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to insist that the Holocaust never took place when there’s virtually no Persian-language record of it, but an Iranian-American author is making it his mission to correct the historical record in his homeland.
Iran rial plunges as Western sanctions bite
Reuters: Iran’s rial plunged against the U.S. dollar in open-market trade on Monday, taking its loss in value over the past week to more than a quarter in further evidence that Western sanctions are shattering the economy.
Iran unblocks access to Gmail
AFP: Iran on Monday removed online blocks on Gmail but a government Internet filtering committee official said other, additional censorship was being prepared against YouTube, according to reports.
NYC lawyer: Iranian cameraman seeks US asylum
AP: A lawyer for a cameraman who was accompanying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE’-neh-zhahd) to the U.S. for the United Nations General Assembly in New York says his client has defected.
