AP: A Babylonian artifact sometimes described as the world’s first human rights charter is to go on display in Iran after the government threatened to cut ties with the British Museum if it did not loan the object.
Cyrus the Great artifact to be displayed in Iran
Dissidents claim Iran is building a new enrichment site
New York Times: A dissident group that had previously revealed the existence of several hidden nuclear sites in Iran claimed Thursday that it had evidence that the country was building another secret uranium enrichment plant.
Iran accused of building secret underground nuclear plant
Daily Telegraph: Iran has been secretly constructing a vast underground complex to hide a nuclear facility in the mountains east of Tehran in a development that would violate the UN sanctions regime, it has been claimed.
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New York Times – Editorial: Iran has spent the last four years ignoring the United Nations’ order to stop enriching uranium. And far too many of the world’s major players have spent the last four years ignoring Iran’s defiance.
Iran to release female American after 13 months
AP: Iran’s envoy to the United Nations has confirmed that a female American held for more than a year will be released.
Iran building secret nuclear enrichment site – opposition group
Iran Focus: Washington, Sep. 09 – Iran is secretly building a uranium enrichment site near Qazvin, 120 km west of Tehran, Iranian dissidents said on Thursday.
Iran says to free one detained American hiker
Reuters: Iran will release one of the three detained American hikers accused of espionage, an official told Reuters on Thursday.
Iran bans imports of 49 agriculture products, Donya reports
Bloomberg: Iran’s Agriculture Ministry banned the import of 49 agriculture products, Donya-e-Eqtesad reported.
Iran’s Ahmadinejad set to visit Lebanon in October
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Lebanon next month for the first time since taking office five years ago, a government source told AFP on Thursday.
Son asks Iran for proof mother’s adultery, murder case is ‘on hold’
CNN: The son of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning said he wants proof that his mother’s adultery and murder case has been put “on hold.”
