AFP: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi plans to attend a summit in Iran this month, state media reported on Saturday, on the first such visit since Cairo severed ties with Tehran more than three decades ago.
Egypt’s Morsi to attend summit in Iran: state media
Obama urged to show strength against Iran
UPI: The best way for U.S. President Obama to prevent war with Iran is to provide credible support for Israel, a former Israeli intelligence chief said Saturday.
EU’s Ashton condemns “hateful” Iran remarks on Israel
Reuters: The EU foreign policy chief said on Saturday that comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called Israel a “cancerous tumour” with no place in a future Middle East, were “outrageous and hateful”.
Deutsche Bank investigated in U.S. over Iran
Reuters: U.S. prosecutors are investigating Deutsche Bank and several other global banks over business linked to Iran, Sudan and other nations currently under international sanctions, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
Iran exiles say will move group to new Iraq site
AFP: An Iranian opposition organisation said on Saturday it is ready to move another group of its Iraq-based members to a new site near Baghdad after a delay which has dragged on for several months.
Iran commander ‘welcomes’ possible Israeli strike
AP: A senior Iranian commander says a possible Israeli airstrike against his country’s nuclear facilities is “welcome” because it would give Iran a reason to retaliate and “get rid of” the Jewish state “forever.”
UN leader slams Iran president’s Israel comment
AFP: UN leader Ban Ki-moon is “dismayed” by the latest anti-Israel comments made by Iranian leaders, a spokesman said.
Iran: Israel’s existence ‘insult to all humanity’
AP: Israel’s existence is an “insult to all humanity,” Iran’s president said Friday in one of his sharpest attacks yet against the Jewish state, as Israel openly debates whether to attack Iran over its nuclear program.
What Obama isn’t saying about Iran
Wall Street Journal: The United States doesn’t want Israel taking military action against Iran’s nuclear program, and top officials have been traveling to Jerusalem this summer to make their case in person.
Iranians show little confidence in gov’t response to devastating earthquakes
FoxNews: Tensions are flaring between the Iranian government and the Iranian people, who are criticizing minimal rescue efforts in the aftermath of tandem magnitude 6.3 and 6.4 earthquakes that rattled Iran’s northwest East Azerbaijan province Saturday.
