AP: Amnesty International says the lawyer defending a woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran has been released from a detention center in Istanbul.
Amnesty: Lawyer in Iranian stoning case released
Cambodia to sign cooperation deal with Iran on oil
Reuters: Officials from Cambodia are to travel to Iran next week and the two countries will sign agreements covering cooperation in the oil sector, the foreign minister of the Southeast Asian state said on Friday.
Turkey doesn’t plan to curb Iran petroleum-products trade, minister says
Bloomberg: Turkey sees no reason to curb a trade in petroleum products with neighbor Iran, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said.
‘Terror blast’ hit Japanese tanker in Gulf strait
AFP: An explosives-laden boat carried out a “terrorist attack” that damaged a Japanese oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz last week, the United Arab Emirates, where the ship docked for repairs, said on Friday.
Iranian film-maker Panahi to present film in Venice
AFP: Celebrated Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi, who was freed on bail in May after three months in jail, is to attend the world premiere of his latest work “The Accordion”, the Venice Film festival said Friday.
Slogans mark Iran’s Constitutional Movement
Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 06 – From the Grapevine… Simultaneous with the anniversary of Iran’s Constitutional Movement of 1906, pro-democracy activists in Tehran’s Charsad Dastgah and Jalalieh districts wrote a series of slogans on public walls.
Protest in Tehran cinema
Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 06 – From the Grapevine… As the lights came on at the end of a movie in Tehran’s Esteghlal cinema on Wednesday evening, those in the theatre saw extensive graffiti on seats, walls and corridors, eyewitnesses claim.
S.Korea mulls sanctions on Iran; crude, trade at stake
Reuters: South Korea is weighing the impact of a move against Iranian entities as part of U.S.-led pressure to force Tehran to drop its nuclear ambitions, and whether shutting the door on them will endanger a major source of oil.
Obama’s briefing on Iran: It’s about pressure, not diplomacy
Washington Post: The White House called in a small group of journalists this week to listen to President Obama and his top advisers give a briefing on the state of the sanctions regime against Iran.
Iranian lawyer, seeking asylum, surfaces in Turkey
Wall Street Journal: A prominent Iranian human-rights lawyer, Mohamad Mostafaei, has fled to Turkey and applied for asylum after Iranian authorities issued a warrant last week for his arrest and detained his wife and brother-in-law.
