AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sacked the head of Iran’s National Youth Organisation on Monday and appointed a woman to the cabinet post, official media reported.
Ahmadinejad appoints fourth woman to cabinet
11 militant Sunnis hanged in south-eastern Iran
DPA: Eleven members of the Sunni Muslim militant group Jundollah were hanged Monday in Iran’s south-eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, the Khabar news network reported.
Iran filmmaker Panahi gets six years in jail: lawyer
AFP: Celebrated Iranian filmmaker and vocal backer of the opposition movement, Jafar Panahi, has been handed six years in jail and banned from making films and leaving Iran for 20 years, his lawyer said Monday.
Ahmadinejad, Turkey to discuss economic cooperation, Sabah says
Bloomberg: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will discuss deepening economic ties with Turkey during a visit to the country this week, Sabah said.
Magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits southern Iran – TV
Reuters: An earthquake of 6.5 magnitude jolted southeastern Iran on Monday, Iranian state television reported, but a local official said there were no initial reports of casualties.
Iran’s Khamenei dismisses Hariri tribunal
AFP: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday dismissed as “null and void” imminent rulings by the UN court probing the 2005 murder of ex-Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri, state television reported.
Last Italian bank suspends Iran oil deals
Reuters: Intesa SanPaolo has suspended financing Iranian oil trading deals, becoming the last Italian bank to bow to pressure from the United States to cut ties with the Islamic Republic, trading sources told Reuters.
Former homeland officials: De-list Iranian opposition group
CQ: Two top homeland security officials in the George W. Bush adminstration last week criticized the Obama administration’s engagement strategy with Iran, as well as the State Department’s decision to keep the resistance group know as Mujahedin-e Khalq on a list of foreign terrorist organizations since 1997.
Iran gasoline use drops 16.6 pct after price hike
Reuters: Iranian gasoline useage dropped by 16.6 percent on the first day after the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad implemented a deeply unpopular four-fold price rise, the oil ministry website said on Monday.
Iran increases gas prices in overhaul of subsidies
Washington Post: Police patrolled the streets of Tehran and other cities as Iran on Sunday started a politically sensitive overhaul of the way state subsidies are handed out.
