New York Times: Iran’s educational authorities will send 1,000 religious clerics into schools in Tehran to tamp down Western influence and political opposition, newspapers reported on Sunday.
Clerics to work within schools of Iran’s capital
Iran claims to have produced 20kg of 20 per cent enriched uranium
Daily Telegraph: Iran has said it has produced around 20kg of 20 per cent enriched uranium, in defiance of the world powers who want them to suspend the controversial nuclear work.
Iran’s Grand Bazaar on strike in tax showdown
Reuters: With shops that sell everything from herbs and spices to carpets and gems now firmly closed, Tehran’s Grand Bazaar is on strike with merchants warning that higher taxes could force them to shut down for good.
Tehran Bazaar remains closed
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jul. 12 – The Tehran Bazaar remained closed on Sunday. The strike, which began last week against proposed tax hikes, will continue until Thursday, some bazaaris have told Iran Focus.
Iran halts woman’s stoning ‘for now’
AFP: Iran’s judiciary chief has temporarily halted the execution by stoning of a woman accused of adultery, state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday, quoting a judiciary official.
Iran clerics to fight West influence in classrooms
AP: The Iranian government said it will send hundreds of clerics into Tehran’s schools this fall to fight Western influence and the appeal of the political opposition, local newspapers reported Sunday.
Iraq Kurds say to crack down on fuel smuggling
Reuters: Iraq’s northern Kurdish region is cracking down on fuel oil smuggling through the area and across Iraq’s borders, the government of the semi-autonomous region said on Sunday.
Iran Guards profiting from sanctions: Karroubi
AFP: Opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has said Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards back sanctions against Tehran as they make “astronomical profits” from the punitive measures, a website said on Sunday.
IRAN: Hard-line official insists stoning penalty for adultery stands, but is under a required review
Los Angeles Times: The hard-line chief of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, the longtime political operator and insider Mohammad-Javad Larijani, says the sentence of stoning against an impoverished mother of two accused of adultery stands, even though it is under a required review.
IRAN: Merchants continue to protest government’s proposed tax hike
Los Angeles Times: All eyes in Iran are on the bazaar, the nation’s traditional marketplaces, where tensions have peaked over a proposed tax hike that has fused with other strains of discontent against the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
