AFP: Iran is abandoning a project to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG) as part of a policy review that will see Tehran focusing more on exporting gas through pipelines, a top oil official said.
Iran drops LNG project under energy policy review
Ahmadinejad aide ‘in new row with Iran conservatives’
AFP: A controversial close aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has incurred the wrath of Iranian conservatives who accused him of making “pagan” remarks about religion, media reported on Saturday.
Price of goods increasing in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 07 – Prices for basic necessities have increased dramatically in Tehran, including for public transportation and food.
Teachers protest lack of pay in south-west Iran
Iran Focus: Izeh, Iran, Aug. 07 – More than 3,000 teachers and civic employees at Khuzestan province’s city of Izeh who have not been paid since they were hired as long as three years ago are petitioning for the back wages.
Iranian facing stoning speaks: ‘It’s because I’m a woman’
The Guardian: In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the woman whose sentence of death by stoning triggered an international outcry has accused the Iranian authorities of lying about the charges against her to pave the way to execute her in secret.
Lembit Opik gets a job on Ahmadinejad’s favourite television station
Daily Telegraph: Unseated at the general election as a Lib Dem MP, Lembit Opik has landed a new job working for Press TV, the controversial satellite channel owned by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Iran meddling to fill void in Iraq government: poll
AFP: Iran more than any other foreign state is meddling to fill a void in Iraqi politics five months after a general election left the war-wracked nation without a new government, a poll said Saturday.
Iran starts more efficient uranium enrichment – ISIS
Reuters: Iran has begun using extra equipment installed earlier this year to enrich uranium more efficiently, stepping up its nuclear work despite U.N. sanctions, a Western think-tank said on Friday.
Iran political prisoner facing execution – Amnesty
Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 06 – Iranian political prisoner, Jaafar Kazemi, is at risk of execution at any time, according to Amnesty International.
China pledges Iran cooperation as oil minister visits
AFP: Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang met Iran’s oil minister in Beijing on Friday, pledging continued cooperation with Tehran to “protect global security”, state television reported.
