CNN: Iranian judicial authorities say a final verdict in the case of a woman sentenced to death by stoning has not yet been made and defended the country’s legal process amid an outcry over the pending execution, Iranian media reported Saturday.
Iran: Final verdict not in yet on stoning case
Iran says probe on detained U.S. hikers to end soon
Reuters: Investigations into spying allegations against three American hikers detained in Iran will be completed soon, Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said in a news report on Saturday.
In Iran, shackling the Bahai torchbearers
Washington Post – By Roxana Saberi: For several weeks last year, I shared a cell in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison with Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, two leaders of Iran’s minority Bahai faith.
Moqtada Sadr moving to Beirut?
UPI: Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr is considering relocating from Iran to Lebanon to escape political pressure from officials in Tehran, sources said.
Moderate quake kills 3 in Iran’s remote northeast
AP: Iranian state TV is reporting that three people died in the 5.9 magnitude earthquake that shook the country’s remote northeast overnight. Forty others were injured.
Factbox: Iraq after U.S. troops end combat operations
Reuters: The Iraq that U.S. soldiers are leaving behind as they end a 7-1/2-year combat mission and prepare to withdraw fully by end-2011 is far from stable or secure.
Leaving Iraq
New York Times – Editorial: On Tuesday the American combat mission in Iraq — a war that should never have been fought — officially ends. President Obama deserves credit for promising the withdrawal and for sticking to it. But America’s responsibilities in Iraq will not end now.
Hardliners split over appointment of Presidential envoys
Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 28 – From the Grapevine… Members of the Motalefeh Party, close to former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, have criticised the appointment of special envoys by the government of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
IRAN: Three aviation incidents in 24 hours highlight hazards of flying
Los Angeles Times: As many as 600 people aboard three different planes owned by Iranian airline companies were endangered when two of the aircraft made emergency landings after the engines caught fire and another ran off the runway, all within a 24-hour period.
Iran sentences opposition leader’s aide to 5 years
AP: An Iranian reformist website says a top aide to the country’s opposition leader has been convicted and sentenced to five years in prison.
