Reuters: Iran will complain to world soccer’s governing body FIFA after its women’s team were banned from a qualifying game for next year’s Olympics due to their Islamic dress, the ISNA news agency reported on Sunday.
Soccer-Iran to complain to FIFA over women’s ban
“Dozens arrested” at service for Iran activist: report
Reuters: Dozens of people were arrested at a commemoration service Saturday for an Iranian activist who died at her father’s funeral earlier in the week after a scuffle with security forces, an opposition website reported.
Man in Pa. gets prison for shipping items to Iran
AP: An Iranian man who lives near Philadelphia has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for shipping banned products and equipment to his native country.
Khamenei calls for calm among conservatives
AFP: Iran’s supreme leader called on the ruling conservatives to end their divisions, in a speech on Saturday marking 22 years since the death of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Iran protest dispersed by force: witnesses
AFP: Iranian security forces on Saturday fired in the air to disperse several hundred people protesting against the death at her father’s funeral of political and social activist Haleh Sahabi, witnesses said.
Iran rebuffs UN atom body on military-linked queries
Reuters: Iran has rebuffed a request by the U.N. nuclear chief for prompt cooperation with a probe into possible military aspects of Tehran’s atomic activities, in a defiant letter underlining increasingly strained ties.
U.S. backs Caspian gas pipe to Europe, no Iran supply
Reuters: The Obama administration told Congress on Thursday it strongly supported a Southern Corridor pipeline to bring natural gas from the Caspian region to Europe, which would reduce the role of Russian supplies.
Israel tycoon with firm at heart of Iran scandal dead: media
AFP: Israeli businessman Sammy Ofer, whose company Ofer Brothers is embroiled in a scandal over illegal trade with Iran, was found dead at his Tel Aviv home on Friday, media reports said. He was 89.
Iran oil minister nominee “worst choice” -lawmaker
Reuters: The man President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has appointed oil minister is the “worst choice” who will damage Iran’s vital energy sector, the head of parliament’s energy committee said on Friday.
Iran gets the hump over camel price link to accident payouts
The Guardian: Iran’s judiciary causes national row by doubling compensation for fatal road accidents to the price of 100 camels.
