Reuters: Iranian lawmakers urged the government on Sunday to prevent a U.N. investigator from coming to the country to look into allegations of human rights abuses.
Lawmakers want U.N. rights auditor barred from Iran
Iran nuclear plant link-up to grid in August: report
AFP: Iran’s first nuclear power plant, built by Russia, is to be connected to the national grid in early August, the Iranian ambassador to Moscow, Reza Sajjadi, said in media reports on Sunday.
Iran plane makes Tehran emergency landing on foam
AFP: An Iranian Mahan Air plane made an emergency landing on foam at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport due to faulty landing gear, without causing any casualties, Mehr news agency said on Sunday.
Gates: Iran supplying arms to Iraqi Shiite groups
AP: Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Shiite extremists, not al-Qaida terrorists, are to blame for most of the recent U.S. military deaths in Iraq, and they’re “clearly getting some fairly sophisticated and powerful weapons” from Iran.
Iran FM threatened with impeachment
AFP: A number of Iranian MPs threatened on Sunday to impeach Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi for appointing an aide to the president’s underfire chief of staff as one of his deputies.
Officials fire Iranian governor after divination
AP: A newly appointed governor in northern Iran has been dismissed after officials asked for guidance from God through divination, according to a media report Saturday.
Iran defense chief in Kabul as Afghans eye security
Reuters: Iran’s defense minister made a landmark visit to Afghanistan on Saturday to bolster ties as Kabul prepares to assume security control from NATO-led forces and Washington seeks to wind down its almost decade-old tenure.
UN rights investigator on Iran named
Reuters: A former foreign minister of the Maldives, Ahmed Shaheed, was named United Nations human rights investigator on Iran on Friday, the first in nearly a decade.
Iran warns China over South Pars gas deal-report
Reuters: China should fulfil its duties in developing a phase of Iran’s South Pars gas field or the contract would be cancelled, the semi-official Mehr news agency on Friday quoted the country’s top oil company as saying.
Jailed Iran brothers win global health prize
AFP: Two Iranian doctors who were jailed three years ago for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government were awarded a global health prize on Thursday for their efforts to treat patients with HIV.
