BBC: Iran’s state owned TV has denied a report from the semi-official Fars news agency that Iranian forces had detained seven US troops trying to enter the country.
Iran denies report on US arrests
Clinton urges Iran to reject military expansion
AP: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is urging the people of Iran to reject what she says is an expansion of the Iranian military’s role and power.
Algerian Culture Minister welcomes Iran’s First Lady
Iran Focus: London, Sep. 19 – The following picture ran on the front page of the London-based Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday.
Iranian, Algerian presidents meet for talks in Algiers
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held two hours of talks with his Algerian counterpart Abdelaziz Bouteflika Saturday during a stopover in Algiers on route to New York for the UN General Assembly.
US hiker freed by Iran is on her way home
AFP: The American hiker freed by Iran left for home on Saturday from the Gulf state of Oman which mediated in her release, asking people to pray for her two colleagues still being held by the Islamic republic.
Iran invites Turkey into space programme-report
Reuters: Iran has invited Turkey to cooperate in work on the Islamic Republic’s space programme, which aims to put a man in space by 2017, the Turkish newspaper Haberturk said on Saturday.
Iran activist jailed for six years
Reuters: Iran sentenced a female human rights activist to six years in prison on Saturday, the latest sign of its determination to punish those the state views as “seditionists” for protesting last year’s presidential election.
Iran leads nuclear drive in the Middle East
AFP: Egypt’s plan to build four nuclear powerplants by 2025 underscores the emerging interest in atomic energy across the Middle East, where even oil-rich nations such as Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are eyeing fossil fuel alternatives to satisfy growing demand.
Ahmadinejad leaves for Syria, Algeria, US
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left Saturday for a three-nation trip which includes the United States where he is to attend next week’s UN General Assembly meeting, state media said.
Carter: Iran rescue effort should have worked
AP: Former President Jimmy Carter felt his efforts to rescue U.S. diplomats held hostage by Iran should have worked but were thwarted by a “strange series of mishaps,” and the mission’s failure played a major role in his 1980 re-election defeat, the Georgia Democrat writes in a new book assembled from diary entries.
