AFP: Iran’s cyber police force is poised to launch a new crackdown on software that lets many Iranians circumvent the regime’s Internet censorship, media reported on Sunday.
Iran to crack down on web censor-beating software
Iran ex-Guards commander Rezai to run in 2013 Race, ILNA says
Bloomberg: Mohsen Rezai, the secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council, announced his candidacy for next year’s presidential election, the Iranian Labour News Agency reported.
Iran says cyber attacks boost atomic resolve, Asia Times reports
Bloomberg: Cyber attacks will only increase Iran’s resolve to pursue its nuclear work, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, the country’s envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, said according to the Asia Times.
Iran urges world powers to ‘accept our demands’
AFP: “The only path” for world powers holding talks with Iran on its nuclear activities is to accept Tehran’s position, a top military representative for the country’s supreme leader said on Sunday, according to the Mehr news agency.
U.S. “disappointed” by Iran-IAEA atom talks failure
Reuters: Lack of progress in talks between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency is disappointing and it shows Tehran’s continued failure to abide by its commitment to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, a U.S. envoy said on Saturday.
Iran may award Russian Rails new $250 million contract, RIA says
Bloomberg: Iran may award OAO Russian Railways, the country’s rail monopoly a new contract worth about $250 million after the state-run company completed a link between Tebriz and Azarshah.
Iran hits out at oil quota ‘violators’
AFP: Sanctions-hit Iran on Saturday blasted fellow OPEC members Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates as oil quota “violators”, accusing them of depressing global crude prices by over-pumping.
US attorney general investigates newspaper leaks
AFP: US Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed prosecutors to lead two criminal investigations of high-profile leaks of classified national security information to the media.
Empowering Iran’s opposition
Haaretz: To facilitate regime change from within Iran, it is critical to remove the terrorist designation from the MEK, and to protect and resettle its members.
IAEA disappointed as Iran fails to agree to wider atom probe
Bloomberg: The United Nations nuclear agency said it was disappointed that Iran failed to agree on a deal that would allow wider inspections of alleged nuclear facilities inside the Persian Gulf nation.
